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God has been putting up with us and our sin for a very, very long time. One massive overarching theme that we can see in Scripture is that God has been slowly moving his people further away from sin and closer towards his ideal. In the New Testament, we see a massive jump forward with the arrival of Jesus. God came to us in the flesh to say, “enough is enough.” No more misinterpretations, no more accommodations, no more concessions.

In this first article of a series called “Enough is Enough,” we’ll be looking at animal sacrifice in the Old Testament and how God never wanted it in the first place.

ANIMAL SACRIFICE

The ancient Israelites had a barbaric and bizarre practice of killing animals and then burning their dead bodies. While many assume that God wanted animal sacrifices, a closer look at scripture reveals otherwise.

All Ancient Near Eastern people, not just the Israelites, sacrificed animals to appease the gods. Animal sacrificed was practiced long before the Hebrews were even a people, much less had written the Scriptures. In light of the almost universal religious practice of sacrificing animals, it seems reasonable to assume that the Israelites had been sacrificing animals a long time before God ever began instructing them. In fact, the way some Old Testament authors refer to the sacrifice as producing “a pleasing aroma to God” reflects the cultural indebtedness of this practice, for we find this same phrase used by other people long before the Israelites (Exodus 29:25, 41; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17).

ADAM AND EVE

Some claim that animal sacrifice has been a staple of human religion around the world from the start because of two stories in Genesis. The first is when Adam and Eve sinned and were expelled from the Garden of Eden, God made them animal skin clothes (Genesis 3:21). It is sometimes taught that God wanted to show Adam and Eve that there were consequences because of their sin, so he sacrificed an animal in front of them and used its skin to make clothes. Some even go as far as claiming this is an illustration that points to Penal Substitution Atonement Theory, saying that God should have killed them but killed an animal in their place.

All of this is a major stretch, though, because none of it is mentioned. All that the Scripture says is, “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.” The death of an animal and sacrifice are never mentioned. God simply made “garments of skin,” and he could have in the same way he made Adam and Eve and the world—out of nothing. So we shouldn’t read this story as proof that God invented animal sacrifice.

For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Jeremiah 7:22-23

CAIN AND ABEL

As we read in Genesis, chapter 4 tells us about something Adam and Eve’s children do to appease God. Cain and Abel each make an offering to God (Genesis 4:3-5). Interestingly enough, there’s no suggestion that God asked Cain and/or Able to offer anything. They just started doing this. Some have suggested that this reflects the fallen human sense that we are estranged from God and that he’s angry about it, so we instinctively want to do something to rectify this.

This story in Genesis makes absolutely no mention of commonly concluded claims: the killing of an animal or the sacrifice of an animal. Reread the story; there is no mention of sacrifice—only of offerings. Offerings were also ubiquitous in the ancient world. The common thought was that gods need to eat too, and so food offerings are made to feed them. Cain offered God fruit to eat, and Abel offered God “fat portions” to eat.

Remember, no mention of sacrificing an animal is made in Genesis 4, so the offering that Abel made was not a dead animal but rather a part of an animal to eat. Abel was offering God the “fat portions” of the firstborn of his flock. So Abel could have killed his animals for food and offered God the best part to eat, but there is another interpretation as well. The Hebrew word translated into “fat” shares the same consonant configuration for the word that gets translated into “milk.” Some early Jewish and Christian scholars understood this text to say that Abel offered milk to God. The Jewish historian Josephus is one such source, who wrote that “Cain brought the fruits of the earth, and of his husbandry; but Abel brought milk and the first-fruits of his flocks” (Antiquities 1.2.1).

Either way, no mention of sacrifice is made in the story of Cain and Abel.

ABRAHAM AND ISSAC

Most are familiar with the story of Abraham and Issac. God tells Abraham to go up a mountain and sacrifice his son, but at the last minute, he stops him (Genesis 22). Most read this story as God testing Abraham’s faith, but it is actually much more than just that. If you look closely, you can notice some interesting things about the story.

In Genesis 22:2-3, God says, “go kill your only son that you love,” and Abraham just sets out and doesn’t even question it. There isn’t a hint of Abraham being resistant to this idea. He lies to his son to keep him calm but doesn’t hesitate to tie up Issac and raise up his blade. Right before Abraham slaughters his child, an angel stops him and says, “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” (Genesis 22:12)

Without knowing the context of Abraham’s world, it is easy to overlook the most important lesson this story teaches us. In the time Abraham lived, there wasn’t a pagan god in the land that didn’t demand child sacrifice. Human sacrifice was commonplace, and the gods demanded firstborn children most often.

When Abraham heard God tell him to go sacrifice his son, this was no surprise. He expected it. But instead, God stays his hand. That is the story’s whole point: God is putting an end to the ritual of child sacrifice (Leviticus 18:21, 20:3; Deuteronomy 12:30-31, 18:10). Human sacrifice was the norm worldwide, but God was revealing that he is different from other gods. This was God’s first step in taking humankind away from sacrifices: moving from human to at least animal.

SUBVERTING PAGANISM

Since God must relate to people where they are in order to gradually lead them forward, just as a missionary must do when going to pagan cultures, it seems that God accepted this barbaric practice as an accommodation to his fallen, culturally conditioned people. In fact, one passage in Leviticus indicates that God commanded animal sacrifices as a way of helping his people to stop worshiping demons (Leviticus 17:7).

So while God accepted this practice, he changed its meaning. Instead of being used to appease God’s wrath, as pagans have always believed, these sacrifices were used to remind people that covenant-breaking with the God of life inevitably leads to death. Thus, animals were sacrificed not because God needed them to forgive people but because his people needed them to remember the death consequences of sin and to therefore repent when they’d broken covenant with God.

Origen, a 3rd-century theologian, put it this way:

Since the Jews loved sacrifices, being accustomed to them in Egypt, as the golden calf in the desert gives witness, God permits them to offer them to himself so as to curb their disordered tendency to polytheism and to turn them away from sacrificing to idols.¹

Like other Christian thinkers of the time, Origen did not believe that animal sacrifices were God’s idea. However, the Jews were already steeped in this ancient barbaric practice, and God saw that it was pulling them in the direction of pagan polytheistic idolatry. God thus choose the lesser of two evils when he decided to block the pull toward polytheistic idolatry by stooping to allow the Jews to make their sacrifices to him.

THE FINAL SACRIFICE

Later in Israel’s history, when people began sacrificing animals without repenting in their hearts, the Lord told them (through prophets like Isaiah, Hosea, and Amos) that he despised their sacrifices, for they are meaningless without a change in heart (Psalm 51:16-17; Isaiah 1:11-14; Micah 6:6-8: Amos 5:21-25; Hosea 6:6). Even Jesus quotes Hosea when speaking to the Pharisees, saying, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice” (Matthew 9:13).

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves… …those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire… with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.” …we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:1, 3-6, 10

In Hebrews 10:1-14, we are told that animal sacrifices were a reminder of sins but could never take the sins away. No matter how many times the Israelites killed animals, their sins were never taken away. “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (Hebrews 10:8). Jesus came to do away with sacrifices by becoming the final sacrifice, the first and only sacrifice that could actually set things right.

It is clear that once Jesus arrives, the sacrificial system that God had been accommodating is done away with.

On this side of Jesus, Christians don’t sacrifice animals. We don’t do it. We don’t because it’s been revealed to us that God never desired it, and Jesus is the only sacrifice that humankind would ever need. God never wanted animal sacrifices. He used them for a time, but now with Jesus, they are done away with once and for all. Enough is enough.

FOOTNOTES

How did I survive the scamdemic? I knew it was a bio arm from the Communist people party and that the vaccination would not stop until they destroyed our freedom from the West and all around the world.

That was 2020 but I not only survived I grew stronger!

Since then, I refused to be monitored and cared for by the medical system. They close the gyms, isolated older people and destroyed all business that did not rely on their controlled internet networks. They sent us to stores that only profited those causing all the fear for profit. They destroy countless lives and the dreams of our children and grand children.

I was at war because I knew this was no pandemic but a war and at first I was looking for an enemy to fight. I was ready to leave my wife. I had made the choice to leave the USA and become a Canadian and now I could no longer leave my prison without losing my wife who I married for “better or worse” I was the only one with an American passport and could leave when ever I wanted but never come home to Canada!

I started doing push ups on my fists. I am now 69 going on 70 and I am in great shape. I continue today to train in my basement and made my own Gym to be in shape because the enemies were hoping to get rid of me and our generation of gray haired wisdom of experience. I knew that so I decided to prepare for the war.

I started lifting 20 to 30 lbs dumbbell with a bench I would religiously carry to all my hotels as I was still working as a QA steel inspector. I would get away from my wife to have some freedom to evangelize. She is not on the same page yet and I had to have these projects just to be away in another town place tracts and being a Jesus Freak and I am proud of it.

But somewhere through all the trials I was changed to become stronger, more loving and more like Christ. I had some major bouts with not a person but my own demons. I had to die to my plans and when I sacrificed I found more strength and power of the Holy spirit in me.

I refused to be vaccinated and my wife did not support me at all. I went to see my family, my three daughters and 6 grandchildren in new England and then my sister and family in new jersey. I did a two week trip and had to do all these apps and tests to be in a quarantine imprisoned in a hotel for 2 weeks with the risk of jail of ONE MILLION DOLLAR fines, but I did it and got closer to God. I was in the room (one of my favorite suites I had when working) and it was like a spiritual retreat for me. I did a lot of praying and that was May 2021.

I had planned to use the excuse of seeing my children when I was more interested in scuba diving one more time in Los Cabos Mexico. I had broke my depth record at 100 ft in nov 2019, But I was redirect by God. He closed that door. I was too tired and stressed to arrange all he hotels and flights. But after a day of grief feeling like a part of me died a moved on and saw the real reason unfold. I was there to minister to all my family the love of God. I saw miracle and was moved around by the holy spirit to be in the right places and the right time.

But I was still learning to become stronger in love and less in love with myself. It was a painful process. I realized coming back I may never see my family in the USA again. I still wanted to leave Canada and hated the tyrrany of the socialist government so bad I could not stand it. I was so ready to leave my wife to find my freedom. She seemed happy to be with her family and I was never going to see mine! I was full of resentment and anger. It took a lot to surrender to His will but I was learning that every time I sacrificed for Love, love made my faith stronger.

I had been a resident for about 10 years and carried one travel document to re-enter Canada. But on Dec 20 I was called to a zoom meeting Citizenship ceremony to find I had to cut my card and lose my right to re-enter Canada until I had a Canadian passport. I had to apply and I am still waiting. The Lord willing I will have that in a few weeks. But the day I won my Canadian citizenship evey one congradulated me. All I could say was “thanks Comrads” because now I felt like nothing achieved. I had less freedom than when I was a permament resident. I was cynical and depressed because it looked like I chose the wrong country to finish my days in.

I had almost up and left my wife once a few months back after a disagreement between who is your master? Trudeau or Jesus? And I could not leave my wife then. I cried and died and realized love bears and endures all things ALL! I could not leave because I did realize I could not leave my wife and doggie behind. And this time when I got my Citizenship I bough a bottle of brandy and drank myself drunk, blanked out and got possessed by the devil I think.

I fell but I keep getting up, I had a brother in Christ in New York and I called him, He exhorted me in strong words and I realized I needed it. So I changed my course ate a lot of humble pie and apologized to my wife.

I am still working out in my basement and writing a lot, I am concentrate on praying and winning my unsaved love ones, like my wife, our two grand-daughers and their family. I am being like Christ and showing them not with words so much but self sacrificing love as Christ would. When I go out though I am doing all I can to spread Jesus to ever one I can, even at my steel jobs. I have learned Spanish for Mexico but Canada hires lots of Mexicans and Columbians so I can talk now with them about EL Senor where ever I go to work. Let the will of the Lord be done is my prayer ever day.

I also pass my time with my mineral collection in my photography studio. Yes my passion is prospecting for minerals to photograph and share on the internet such as my group on facebook :https://www.facebook.com/groups/search/groups_home/?q=Pure%20Minerology

And an international mineral data base called Mindat.org https://www.mindat.org/

I want to share my personal way of dealing with the oppressors. I refuse to let them cause bitterness in me and I forgive my wife and family for being such good little “Conrades” I forgive more and more and pray for love more and more. Because Love never fails and if I do all without love I am nothing. I want to be as big as God a be filled with His love. I want my life to count while I am here and leave an impact for His Kingdom, not myself. But doing that I am getting more mature and stronger

When I was supposed to be in lock down with the socialist lock downs I would find a new way to amuse myself. I would take my 8 pound Chihuahua with me on all these prospecting trips looking to document new mines and prospects. This is why I call myself the Truthprospector. I have two passions in life. One is scuba diving and the life in the Ocean. The other is minerals and geology. So in 2020 I spent most of my time making trips all around my area of Quebec looking for mines and minerals with my little dog dauther Molly

I became so close to this dog. No one can tell me she will not be in Paradise with me when the Lord returns to restore the world back to what it is supposed to be. She was given to me and Guylaine my wife when Covid just started and she is the cement that saved me and my marriage time and time again. She sleeps with us, and although the devil has tried destroying our love for each other over politics and religion, she kept us together. We both have grown to love her as our baby and there is no child custody over the board in time of war. So we had to stay together through all the times we hated each other we still loved our dog daughter and made our relation work for her little home. Crazy as it seem it worked she was a gift from God in his good providence.

She still is the thing we can always agree on. But after I gave up trying to run away from muy new family in Canada I began to realize this is where God wants me. I was learning more of what surrender to His will means and meekness. But there is power when you are meekness because when you give up and surrender to God’s will, who can be against you? No one can go against Gods plans!

Even though we could no longer go to Wildwood NJ like every summer I took my WIfe and dog daugther Molly on trips in Quebec and learned to love shoveling snow!

So I do not thank the New world Chaos, or Fauci or the corrupt socialist communistic take over. But I thank God that He is alive and powerful to allow me at 69 not to survive but thrive and grow in spite of all of them! God is Greater in every situation!

2 Samuel 7 begins with an account of David remarking on his guilt that he lives in such a lavish palace, but the Ark of the Covenant remains in a tent (the Tabernacle). The origin of the idea to build God a temple starts here. David’s prophet, Nathan, tells David, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.” But that night the Lord spoke to Nathan in a dream, explicitly telling him to warn David that he was “not the one to build me a house to dwell in” (1 Chronicles 17:4). God says that a temple is not needed and that he has never asked for such a thing.

Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling. Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”
2 Samuel 7:5-7

What comes next is key. God goes on to say that it is his desire that he himself build a house [temple] and that it will be his son, Jesus.

The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you: When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son.
2 Samuel 7:11-14

The Lord here is talking about his son, Jesus, and his Kingdom (Luke 1:31-33; Acts 2:29-31; Hebrews 1:5). Notice four key details: God himself will build the “house”. After David has already died, someone in David’s line will be raised up to establish his kingdom. This person will reign on a throne in an eternal kingdom. This person will be God’s son.

The word “house” is referring to a dwelling place for God. The Lord indeed built a dwelling place for himself: the Church. All over the New Testament, we are told that the Church, the people in Christ, are God’s temple and therefore his dwelling place (1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 6:19; 1 Peter 2:5, Ephesians 2:19-22). Long after David died, just like in Nathan’s prophesy, his descendant established an eternal kingdom. The descendant of David was Jesus, God’s son, and he indeed established an eternal kingdom—the Kingdom of God.

Unfortunately, David makes several key misinterpretations (1 Chronicles 28:5-7). Instead of God allowing himself to build the “house”, David and Solomon build one. Instead of waiting for God to raise up one of his descendants after he died, David appointed his already living son, Solomon, to build a temple. Instead of letting God use his son to build a “house”, David appoints his own son to build a temple (1 Chronicles 22:7-10). God never called Solomon, a man who worshiped pagan gods, His son. David, who already had his mind up before any of this, thought that “house” meant a cedar and stone temple, much like all the other pagan cultures had for their gods to dwell in. Finally, Solomon’s kingdom would not be an eternal one—his kingdom ended spectacularly when the Israelites were thrown into Babylonian exile.

Even though God clearly tells David not to build a temple (1 Chronicles 17:4), he does it anyway.

“PLANNING”

David reports that he is forbidden from building a house to God because “he is a warrior and has shed blood“ (1 Chronicles 28:2-3).¹ Despite a temple not being God’s will, and being forbidden from building it, David really wanted to. So knowing he was forbidden from building a temple, instead, he made “extensive preparations” (1 Chronicles 22:5, 14; 29:2-3). What started in David’s heart as his idea, took root and became an obsession. Scripture seems to indicate that David possibly had insomnia over it (Psalm 132:1-5).

The contents of David’s preparations for the temple are extensive (1 Chronicles 22:2-19). David planned out every detail down to the exact weight of every decorative item. He funded the entire construction project, created the exact blueprints, and even gathered all the materials needed (1 Chronicles 28:11-18). Finally, David also picked out the exact location that his temple would be built (1 Chronicles 21:24-26). David knew that God forbade him from building a temple, but because he mistakenly believed that his son would be able to build it, he prepared so extensively that Solomon could carry out David’s will exactly as he envisioned it.

Despite the fact that today we call the building “Solomon’s Temple”, Solomon really had nothing to do with it. Even though David was told that a “house” would be built by God’s son, not David’s son, and that it wouldn’t be built until after his “days are over and he rests with his ancestors,” David wasn’t able to wait—he himself gave the order to start construction of the temple (1 Chronicles 22:19).

The first temple was not God’s will but was the product of David’s flesh.

THE TEMPLES DESTROYED

David’s temple, being the result of his flesh and misunderstandings, did not enjoy the protection of God. Roughly 30 years after it was built it was completely ransacked by a foreign king (1 Kings 14:25-26). Foreign gods were worshipped and child sacrifices were made in the temple (2 Kings 21:3-6). It was completely destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC and rebuilt 70 years later. Jesus prophesied that the temple would once again meet its destruction sometime within a generation and he was correct. Clearly, God does not care about a temple building.

Scripture says that the Law (including the Old Covenant and the Temple) was “weak” and “useless“, made “obsolete” and would soon “disappear” (Hebrews 7:18, 8:13). Jesus brought on the New Covenant which replaced the Old. The temple, part of God’s Old Testament concessions, would meet its fate in a few decades, but God clearly wanted to make a statement sooner than that. In the temple was a curtain that separated the “Holy of Holies” (the former place of God’s presence) from the rest of the building. At the moment of Christ’s death, that curtain was torn in two from top to bottom. Now the way into the Holy of Holies was open for all people, for all time. When Jesus died, the curtain was torn, and God moved out of that place never again to dwell in a temple made with human hands (Acts 17:24). God was through with temples and their religious system.

NEVER WANTED IT

The book of Hebrews explains how Jesus is now our only way to God’s presence (Hebrews 10:19-20). The author of Hebrews makes great pains to link Jesus back to the Old Testament but he never uses the Temple to do this, instead, he always uses the Tabernacle (8 times), saying, “the true tabernacle [is] set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being” (Hebrews 8:1-2). The prophet Amos is quoted by James where he says that it would be the Tabernacle that would be rebuilt, not David’s temple (Acts 15:15-18).²

Stephen, while preaching to the Israelites, moments before he was murdered by them, said that the Temple was David’s idea, that it was a result of resisting the Holy Spirit, and that God “does not live in houses made by human hands” (Acts 7:44-51). Today there is no Jewish Temple in existence. God allowed for the existence of a temple building but now we know, through the New and the Old Testament, that God wanted to build his own Temple. That Temple, we are told, is Jesus Christ and his body of believers (John 2:19-22; Matthew 12:6; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; Ephesians 2:19-22; Revelation 21:22). If Jesus himself and his followers are the True Temple of God, then that means that the Israelite building, modeled after pagan worship, was the False Temple.

The promise that God made to David all those centuries ago was fulfilled in Jesus. David didn’t listen to God, but Jesus came anyway and established his true Temple. God never wanted a Temple building. He put up with it for a time, but now with Jesus, it is done away with once and for all. Enough is enough.

FOOTNOTES

1. This illustrates another sin that God accommodated for a time but is now abolished with Jesus: violence.
2. “Amos here plainly, spoke of the temple of Solomon as a condition “fallen” from the tabernacle of David. He also viewed the temple of Solomon as “the ruins” of that tabernacle, and he included a promise that “in that day,” that is, in the times of the Messiah, the tabernacle would be rebuilt. Amos wrote these words in the eighth century, and yet at that time when Solomon’s temple had been standing more than a century, he said, “The tabernacle of David is fallen.” That cannot mean that God had replaced it with Solomon’s temple.” James Burton Coffman, The James Burton Coffman Commentary Series: The Historical Books, Commentary on 2 Samuel 7 (Abilene Christian University Press, 1974)

Je savais qu’il s’agissait d’un bras biologique du parti communiste populaire et que la vaccination ne s’arrêterait pas tant qu’ils n’auraient pas détruit notre liberté en Occident et dans le monde entier.

C’était en 2020 mais je n’ai pas seulement survécu, je suis devenu plus fort !

Depuis lors, j’ai refusé d’être suivi et soigné par le système médical. Ils ont fermé les salles de sport, isolé les personnes âgées et détruit toutes les entreprises qui ne dépendaient pas de leurs réseaux Internet contrôlés. Ils nous ont envoyés dans des magasins qui ne profitent qu’à ceux qui provoquent toutes les peurs pour le profit. Ils ont détruit d’innombrables vies et les rêves de nos enfants et petits-enfants.

J’étais en guerre car je savais qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’une pandémie mais d’une guerre et, au début, je cherchais un ennemi à combattre. J’étais prêt à quitter ma femme. J’avais fait le choix de quitter les États-Unis et de devenir Canadien et maintenant je ne pouvais plus quitter ma prison sans perdre ma femme que j’avais épousée pour “le meilleur et pour le pire”. J’étais le seul à avoir un passeport américain et je pouvais partir quand je le voulais sans jamais revenir au Canada !

J’ai commencé à faire des pompes sur mes poings. J’ai maintenant 69 ans, bientôt 70, et je suis en pleine forme. Je continue aujourd’hui à m’entraîner dans mon sous-sol et j’ai créé mon propre gymnase pour être en forme parce que les ennemis espéraient se débarrasser de moi et de notre génération de sagesse aux cheveux gris et d’expérience. Je le savais et j’ai donc décidé de me préparer à la guerre.

J’ai commencé à soulever des haltères de 20 à 30 livres à l’aide d’un banc que je transportais religieusement dans tous mes hôtels, car je travaillais encore comme inspecteur de l’assurance qualité de l’acier. Je m’éloignais de ma femme pour avoir un peu de liberté pour évangéliser. Elle n’est pas encore sur la même longueur d’onde que moi et je devais avoir ces projets juste pour être loin dans une autre ville, placer des tracts et être un fou de Jésus et j’en suis fier.

Mais quelque part, à travers toutes ces épreuves, j’ai été changé pour devenir plus fort, plus aimant et plus semblable au Christ. J’ai eu des combats importants avec non pas une personne mais mes propres démons. J’ai dû mourir à mes projets et lorsque je me suis sacrifiée, j’ai trouvé plus de force et de puissance du Saint-Esprit en moi.

J’ai refusé d’être vacciné et ma femme ne m’a pas du tout soutenu. Je suis allé voir ma famille, mes trois filles et mes six petits-enfants en Nouvelle-Angleterre, puis ma sœur et sa famille dans le New Jersey. J’ai fait un voyage de deux semaines et j’ai dû faire toutes ces applications et tests pour être en quarantaine emprisonné dans un hôtel pendant 2 semaines avec le risque de prison d’une amende de UN MILLION DE DOLLARS, mais je l’ai fait et je me suis rapproché de Dieu. J’étais dans la chambre (une de mes suites préférées que j’avais quand je travaillais) et c’était comme une retraite spirituelle pour moi. J’ai beaucoup prié et c’était en mai 2021.

J’avais prévu d’utiliser l’excuse de voir mes enfants alors que j’étais plus intéressé par la plongée sous-marine une fois de plus à Los Cabos au Mexique. J’avais battu mon record de profondeur à 100 pieds en nov 2019, Mais j’ai été redirigé par Dieu. Il a fermé cette porte. J’étais trop fatigué et stressé pour organiser tous les hôtels et les vols. Mais après une journée de chagrin, avec l’impression qu’une partie de moi était morte, j’ai avancé et j’ai vu la vraie raison se dérouler. J’étais là pour transmettre à toute ma famille l’amour de Dieu. J’ai vu des miracles et j’ai été déplacée par l’esprit saint pour être au bon endroit et au bon moment.

Mais j’apprenais encore à devenir plus forte en amour et moins amoureuse de moi-même. C’était un processus douloureux. J’ai réalisé qu’en revenant, je ne reverrais peut-être jamais ma famille aux États-Unis. Je voulais toujours quitter le Canada et je détestais tellement la tyrannie du gouvernement socialiste que je ne pouvais pas la supporter. J’étais tellement prêt à quitter ma femme pour retrouver ma liberté. Elle semblait heureuse d’être avec sa famille et je n’allais jamais voir la mienne ! J’étais plein de ressentiment et de colère. Il m’a fallu beaucoup de temps pour m’abandonner à Sa volonté, mais j’apprenais que chaque fois que je me sacrifiais pour l’amour, l’amour rendait ma foi plus forte.

J’avais été résidente pendant environ 10 ans et j’avais un document de voyage pour rentrer au Canada. Mais le 20 décembre, j’ai été convoquée à une cérémonie de citoyenneté lors d’une réunion zoom pour apprendre que je devais couper ma carte et perdre mon droit de rentrer au Canada jusqu’à ce que j’aie un passeport canadien. J’ai dû faire une demande et j’attends toujours. Si le Seigneur le veut, je l’aurai dans quelques semaines.  Mais le jour où j’ai obtenu ma citoyenneté canadienne, tout le monde m’a félicité. Tout ce que j’ai pu dire, c’est “merci, camarades”, car j’avais l’impression de n’avoir rien accompli. J’avais moins de liberté que lorsque j’étais résident permanent. J’étais cynique et déprimé car il semblait que j’avais choisi le mauvais pays pour y finir mes jours.

Il y a quelques mois, j’ai failli quitter ma femme après un désaccord sur la question de savoir qui est votre maître ? Trudeau ou Jésus ? Et je n’ai pas pu quitter ma femme à ce moment-là. J’ai pleuré et je suis mort et j’ai réalisé que l’amour supporte et endure toutes choses ! Je n’ai pas pu partir parce que j’ai réalisé que je ne pouvais pas laisser ma femme et mon chien derrière moi. Et cette fois-ci, lorsque j’ai obtenu ma citoyenneté, j’ai acheté une bouteille de brandy et je me sJ’ai un frère en Christ à New York et je l’ai appelé, il m’a exhorté avec des mots forts et j’ai réalisé que j’en avais besoin. J’ai donc changé de cap, j’ai mangé beaucoup de tarte à l’humilité et je me suis excusé auprès de ma femme.

Je continue à m’entraîner dans mon sous-sol et à écrire beaucoup, je me concentre sur la prière et le gain de mes proches non sauvés, comme ma femme, nos deux petites-filles et leur famille. Je suis comme le Christ et je leur montre, non pas avec des mots, mais avec un amour qui se sacrifie comme le ferait le Christ. Quand je sors, je fais tout ce que je peux pour annoncer Jésus à tous ceux que je peux, même dans mes emplois dans l’acier. J’ai appris l’espagnol pour le Mexique, mais le Canada embauche beaucoup de Mexicains et de Colombiens, alors je peux maintenant leur parler de EL Senor partout où je vais travailler. Que la volonté du Seigneur soit faite est ma prière de tous les jours.

Je veux partager ma façon personnelle de traiter avec les oppresseurs. Je refuse de les laisser causer de l’amertume en moi et je pardonne à ma femme et à ma famille d’avoir été de si bons petits “camarades”. Je pardonne de plus en plus et je prie pour l’amour de plus en plus. Parce que l’amour n’échoue jamais et que si je fais tout sans amour, je ne suis rien. Je veux être aussi grand que Dieu et être rempli de son amour. Je veux que ma vie compte tant que je suis là et qu’elle ait un impact sur son royaume, pas sur moi-même. Mais en faisant cela, je deviens plus mature et plus fort.

Lorsque j’étais censé être enfermé dans les locaux des socialistes, je trouvais une nouvelle façon de m’amuser. J’emmenais mon Chihuahua de 2,5 kg avec moi dans tous ces voyages de prospection, à la recherche de nouvelles mines et de nouveaux prospects. C’est pourquoi je m’appelle le Truthprospector. J’ai deux passions dans la vie. La première est la plongée sous-marine et la vie dans l’océan. L’autre est les minéraux et la géologie. En 2020, j’ai donc passé la plupart de mon temps à faire des voyages dans ma région du Québec à la recherche de mines et de minéraux avec mon petit chien Molly.

Je suis devenu très proche de cette chienne. Personne ne peut me dire qu’elle ne sera pas au Paradis avec moi lorsque le Seigneur reviendra pour rétablir le monde tel qu’il est censé être. On nous l’a donnée à moi et à Guylaine, ma femme, lorsque Covid venait de commencer et elle est le ciment qui a sauvé mon mariage à maintes reprises. Elle dort avec nous, et bien que le diable ait essayé de détruire notre amour pour la politique et la religion, elle nous a gardés ensemble. Nous avons tous deux appris à l’aimer comme notre bébé et il n’y a pas de garde d’enfants en temps de guerre. Nous avons donc dû rester ensemble, malgré toutes les fois où nous nous sommes détestés, nous aimions toujours notre fille chien et nous avons fait en sorte que notre relation fonctionne pour son petit foyer. Aussi fou que cela puisse paraître, ça a marché, elle était un cadeau de Dieu dans sa bonne providence.

Elle est toujours la chose sur laquelle nous sommes toujours d’accord. Mais après avoir renoncé à fuir ma nouvelle famille au Canada, j’ai commencé à réaliser que c’est là que Dieu me veut. J’ai appris à mieux connaître ce que signifie l’abandon à sa volonté et la douceur. Mais il y a de la puissance quand on est doux, car quand on abandonne et qu’on se soumet à la volonté de Dieu, qui peut être contre vous ? Personne ne peut aller à l’encontre des plans de Dieu !

Je ne remercie donc pas le Nouveau Chaos mondial, ni Fauci, ni la prise de pouvoir socialiste et communiste corrompue. Mais je remercie Dieu d’être vivant et puissant pour me permettre, à 69 ans, non pas de survivre mais de prospérer et de grandir en dépit de tout cela ! Dieu est plus grand dans toutes les situations !uis saoulé, j’ai perdu la mémoire et j’ai été possédé par le diable, je pense.

There is much concern about the vaccinations being the mark because you can’t really move, or buy or sell without it. But that is not what its is really about. It is about your God. IS your God always pouring his wrath on people who are not good enough? OR is you God always pouiring His love and every one? And the god of this world is always trying to steal from you all God gave you. OR trying to kill Christians or trying to keep the masses away from Christ by teaching lies at church. WHich is your God? How can you worship a God that pours wrath? HE does not but He did His best to keep us out of the devils hands and still is!
I believe if we know God, we worship Him for His Goodness and that is the God I have no trouble worshiping. if you thing God is the God of the Apocalypse and you forgot Jesus you have confused the devil for God and I would not worship Him either.
SO the mark? it is not just an outside thing that any one can force on you. We are sealed with the Holy spirit and we can know God is Good all the time.
We who worship the God came in the form ofJesus. We are sealed, signeed and hermetically protected from the “wrath” or absense of God.
But we are seeing who knows this God and those who need to be shown that GOD is not the God of the Book of Apocalypse but the God. No He is the God in the life of Jesus Christ in Mat, Mar, Luke and John!
Those who know Him will worship a good God. Those who do not know and are kept in the dark will worship their governments, covid, vaccination programs, government sancitoned religiion and they need to be shown JESUS!!!!!!!! OR THEY WILL BE LOST!!!
That is my opinion,. WHat is yours?

On s’inquiète beaucoup du fait que les vaccins soient la marque, car on ne peut pas vraiment se déplacer, acheter ou vendre sans elle. Mais ce n’est pas ce dont il s’agit vraiment. Il s’agit de votre Dieu. Votre Dieu déverse-t-il toujours sa colère sur les gens qui ne sont pas assez bons ? Ou votre Dieu déverse-t-il toujours son amour sur tout le monde ?

Et le dieu de ce monde essaie toujours de vous voler tout ce que Dieu vous a donné. Ou il essaie de tuer les chrétiens ou d’éloigner les masses du Christ en enseignant des mensonges à l’église.

Quel est votre Dieu ? Comment pouvez-vous adorer un Dieu qui déverse sa colère ? Il ne le fait pas mais il a fait de son mieux pour nous garder hors des mains du diable et il le fait encore !
Je crois que si nous connaissons Dieu, nous l’adorons pour sa bonté et c’est le Dieu que je n’ai aucun problème à adorer, mais si vous pensez que Dieu est le Dieu de l’Apocalypse et que vous avez oublié Jésus, vous avez confondu le diable avec Dieu et je ne l’adorerai pas non plus.
Et la marque ? Ce n’est pas une chose extérieure que quelqu’un peut vous imposer. Nous sommes scellés par le Saint-Esprit et nous pouvons savoir que Dieu est bon à tout moment.
Nous qui adorons le Dieu que Jésus est venu montrer sommes scellés, marqués et hermétiquement protégés de la “colère” ou de l’absence de Dieu.
Mais nous voyons qui connaît ce Dieu et ceux qui ont besoin qu’on leur montre que DIEU n’est pas le Dieu du livre de l’Apocalypse mais le Dieu de la vie de Jésus-Christ dans Mat, Mar, Luc et Jean.
Ceux qui le connaissent adorent un Dieu bon. Ceux qui ne le connaissent pas et qui sont maintenus dans l’obscurité vont adorer leurs gouvernements, les covidies, les programmes de vaccination, la religion sanctifiée par le gouvernement et ils ont besoin qu’on leur montre JESUS !!!!!!!!. OU ILS SERONT PERDUS ! !!
C’est mon opinion,. Quelle est la vôtre ?

Jésus était un révolutionnaire radical non-violent. Il fréquentait les lépreux, les prostituées, les escrocs, il n’était pas américain et n’a jamais parlé anglais. Il était contre la richesse, contre la peine de mort, contre la prière publique (Mt6:5), mais il n’a jamais été contre les homosexuels, il n’a jamais mentionné l’avortement ou le contrôle des naissances, il n’a jamais traité les pauvres de paresseux ou les sans-abri de drogués, il n’a jamais justifié la torture, il n’a jamais lutté pour des réductions d’impôts pour les Nazaréens les plus riches, il n’a jamais demandé à un lépreux de payer sa quote-part. C’était un juif du Moyen-Orient aux cheveux longs, à la peau brune, sans domicile fixe, organisateur de communauté, qui ne faisait pas honte aux salopes !

C’est mon ami et mon sauveur

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Jesus was a radical non-violent revolutionary. HE hung around with leper, prostitutes,  crooks, He was not American and never spoke English. He was anti-wealth, anti-death penalty, anti-public prayer, (Mt6:5) But was never anti-gay, never mentioned abortion, or birth control, never called the poor lazy or the homeless drugies, He never justified torture, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes, never asked a Leper for co-pay. He was a long haired, brown skinned, homeless, community organizing, anti-slut shaming middle eastern Jew!

That is my friend and savior

systems that God never wanted so Jesus abolished.

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God has been putting up with our sin for a very, very long time. One massive overarching theme that we can see in Scripture is that God has been slowly moving his people further away from sin and closer towards his ideal.

In the New Testament, we see a massive jump forward with the arrival of Jesus. At the time of Christ’s birth, the Romans had built the most sophisticated system of roads the ancient world had ever seen. The timing of his arrival wasn’t arbitrary. The teachings of Jesus were able to spread quickly throughout the civilized world because of the over 50,000 miles of road that Rome had built.

God came to us in the flesh to say, “enough is enough.” No more misinterpretations, no more accommodations, no more concessions. And while there were quite a few things Jesus set the record straight on, we’ll be looking at three major ones and how they were foreshadowed in the Old Testament. It turns out; God never wanted any of them in the first place.

In this third article of a series called “Enough is Enough,” we’ll be looking at governments throughout the Bible and how God never wanted them in the first place.

WHAT IS GOVERNMENT?

A government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group of people. Governments have been in existence for thousands of years, long before the people of Israel. They have taken many forms, but almost all of them involve some people ruling over the masses. This can look like a monarchy, a democracy, or an oligarchy, it doesn’t matter.

All forms of human government go against God’s desires.

It was never God’s plan to have humans ruling over one another. From the start of human history, God wanted to be our direct “King.” Governments only arose as a result of the fall as sin entered into the world. They were never God’s ideal. The Lord’s disapproval of government and worldly power can be traced throughout the Bible, from the first book to the last.

BEFORE GOVERNMENTS

The first time in Biblical history that we see government is in the story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9). Curiously, the word gets translated into English as “Babel,” though it gets translated as “Babylon” every other time it appears in the Bible. The Tower of Babylon was more than just a tower; it was a consolidation of human power and self-exaltation. It was the first government. The author here shows us that this Tower of Babylon is the climax of human rebellion against God during the first stages of human history. In response, God confuses the people’s language and scatters them across the lands.

In the next chapter of the Bible, a man named Abraham gets called out of this scattering to start a new nation. He is told by God to leave the country he resided in and start a new nation that would look very different from all the other nations. This people group would come to be known as Israel.

The ancient people called Israel had no government and no king. This was in stark contrast to all the other pagan nations surrounding them. Instead, for Israel, God was their only King. From time to time, a slight exception would be made when the situation became disastrous through famine, through social disorder, or through idolatry and a return to pagan religions. God then chose a man or a woman who had no specific authority, but whom he inspired, to lead the people back to reverence for God, that is, to resolve the crisis. These people were called “judges.” When the judges had played their part, they rejoined the people. This was obviously a flexible system. God did not necessarily choose people of distinguished family or health. They had no permanent power. God alone could be considered the supreme authority.

KING YAHWEH GETS DEMOTED

The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
Zechariah 14:9

For generations, the faith of Israel allowed them to trust in God as their sole King. Relatively speaking, this wouldn’t last long. Eventually, their faith wavered, and they asked for a human king “to be like other nations,” to rule over them and to “go out before [them] and fight [their] battles.” (1 Samuel 8:19-20). In other words, the people felt that having a king would make living easier and make them more secure against enemies. They wanted a worldly king “such as all the other nations have” (1 Samuel 8:5). To the Israelite’s plea for a human king, God replied, “they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods” (1 Samuel 8:7-8).

God wanted to give his people one last chance to repent and turn away from this wickedness, so he gave them a “solemn warning.” A human king would take their sons and make soldiers of them, forcing them to kill and be killed (1 Samuel 8:11). He would force them to work his lands and create weapons of war (1 Samuel 8:12). He would take their daughters for his harem or as domestic servants (1 Samuel 8:13). Finally, he would impose evil and oppressive taxes and confiscate the best lands, and thus, according to God, the people would be the king’s slaves (1 Samuel 8:14-17).

The people replied, however, that they did not care. They wanted a king. God warned them again that they would cry out against this king (Judges 3:9,15; 4:3; 6:7), but nothing could be done.

We see that people want human rulers only because they no longer trust God to rule. It suggests that the very existence of governments is evidence of human rebellion. God pleaded with his people not to go down this path. He warned them that giving a person power over them would wreak havoc in their lives. Fallen humans simply can’t handle having power over other people. What God knew— but what the people seemed incapable of accepting— was that when fallen humans are given power, they use it in sinful ways. Exceptions to this are very rare, as history readily testifies. But the people would not listen. They demanded a king. So God reluctantly gave them what they wanted.

You have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your disasters and calamities. And you have said, ‘No, appoint a king over us.’ You will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.
1 Samuel 10:19, 12:17

Thus, a human king was chosen. His name was Saul. He became mad, committed all kinds of abuses of power, and was finally killed in battle against the Philistines. This was the beginning of the end for Israel.

ISRAEL’S SAD DOWNWARD SPIRAL

After King Saul, the next king was David, the most famous of all Israelite kings. While David is often praised as being a “man after God’s heart” (Acts 13:22), not even he could resist the evil of having power over other people. David used his power to take “many” wives and sex slaves (2 Samuel 5:13). He used his power to murder and slaughter thousands of people. He used his power to forcibly take a married woman into his bed,  while murdering her husband. In the end, God would scorn David for “shedding much blood and fighting in many wars” (1 Chronicles 22:8).¹

After David came his son, Solomon. Solomon took his kingdom from a city to an empire. As his kingdom grew, so did his wickedness. The people of Israel were freed from their bondage of slavery in Egypt in order to become God’s nation, a light to the world. They were supposed to be different. They were supposed to be the anti-Egypt, the anti-empire with God alone as their king. But, instead, Israel became Egypt.

In order to build his empire and the Temple, Solomon enslaved 30,000 of his own countrymen (1 Kings 5:13), with the aid of roughly 3,300 slave masters.² For the slaves it took 7 years to build the Temple (1 Kings 6:38), and then it took 13 years to build king Solomon’s palace (1 Kings 7:1). His slaves constructed many other buildings, including another palace for the Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married (1 Kings 7:8). The very burden that Pharaoh placed on the Israelites was now put on them by Solomon.

The oppressed had become the oppressor.Deuteronomy 17:16-17

 reads, “The king must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them.” Solomon had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, all imported from Egypt (1 Kings 10:26-29). “He must not take many wives.” Solomon had 700 wives and 300 sex slaves (1 Kings 11:3). “He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.” Solomon received around 25 tons of gold every year and made silver “as common as stone” (1 Kings 10:14, 27). Solomon began to worship all sorts of other gods and build structures for them (1 Kings 11:5-8). By the time he died, he was hated by everyone.

THE MINORITY PROPHETIC VOICE

After Solomon, the kingdom was split into two and both parts suffered under dozens of horribly evil kings.³ But, for every king there was a prophet. The prophets weren’t fortune tellers in the way modern readers might assume, rather, they were mediators for God. The prophets were most often a severe critics of royal acts. Prophets were sent by God with warnings. These messages were always in opposition to royal power and worldly government. Naturally, the prophets were often expelled: they were obliged to flee, they were put in prison, they were threatened with death. However, this did not make any difference.

The prophets were a counterforce, representing God’s disapproval with rulers and government.

Israel would suffer under 40 kings, and according to the Biblical record, only eight were ever portrayed in an even somewhat positive light. All of them led their nation into further sin and turmoil. Eventually, the sin of human government would lead to their destruction.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? So in my anger I gave you a king, and in my wrath I took him away.
Hosea 13:9-11

Despite the many warnings, the two kingdoms of God’s people would meet their end. The northern kingdom of Israel was overrun by the Assyrians. The southern kingdom of Judah was conquered by Babylon. These were God’s chosen people, and even they couldn’t resist the sin of power over people. They couldn’t resist the lure of kingship and government. The worldly form of power they wielded led them to complete ruin and captivity. For hundreds of years until the time of Christ, they wouldn’t have another king.

GOVERNMENTS BELONG TO SATAN

Right before Jesus started his ministry, he went into the wilderness to fast. There he faced three temptations by the devil. In the book of Matthew, the final temptation was the one that the Israelites failed most miserably at.

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the nations of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’”
Luke 4:5-8

According to these texts, all powers, all the power and glory of the nations, all that has to do with politics and political authority, belongs to the devil. It has been given to him, and he gives it to whom he pleases. Those who hold political power receive it from him and depend upon him for gain and expansion. This is supported by the overarching theme in scripture and by it being stated directly many times (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; Ephesians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4). Scripture says that the whole world is under the devil’s power (1 John 5:19).

Notice that Jesus does not say to the devil, “It is not true. You do not have power over nations and states.” He does not dispute this claim. He refuses the offer of worldly power because the devil demands that he has to worship him to obtain it. This means that in some way, no matter what, all those in political and governmental power, have to, and do, whether they know it or not, worship the devil. We know this because this is the condition until which the devil grants humans the power to run nations. Read more about this here. This is why God has been opposed to human government from the beginning.

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KING JESUS

For Christians, the one true king is Jesus Christ (Isaiah 9:6). You see, Jesus wasn’t crucified by Rome because he was teaching people how to go to heaven when they die. Jesus was put to death because he challenged the political authority of Caesar. In the time of Jesus, there was absolutely no difference between religion and politics so everything Jesus said was political. Everything Jesus taught challenged the ways of government and worldly power. Jesus came to establish his nation, which would rule with a different kind of power. His nation is called the Kingdom of God. His nation is upside-down, shaming the way that worldly governments use power.

Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials exercise their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant.”
Matthew 20:25-26

Note that Jesus makes no distinction or reservation. All national rulers, no matter what the nation or the political regime, lord it over their people. There can be no political power without tyranny. This is plain and certain for Jesus. When there are human rulers and leaders, there can be no such thing as good political power. Here again, the world’s version of power is called into question. Power corrupts. This is supported by the claim that the devil holds all governmental power.

This is prophetic in a sense when we consider what became of the church when it entered the political field and began to play politics. It was immediately corrupted by the relation to power and by the creation of its own authorities. The church’s sad history has been extensively recorded and is heartbreaking to learn about (read more about it here).

THE REVELATION

From Genesis to historical narratives, to the prophets, to the Gospels, human government is challenged. But there is no other book of the Bible that is more overtly opposed to government and empire than the book of Revelation. The whole book is a challenge to political power. Throughout the book, there is radical opposition between the majesty of God and the powers and dominions of the earth. This shows how mistaken those who find continuity between the divine power and the worldly powers are.

Written in a literary form common in the ancient near east called apocalyptic, poetic imagery is used to send a message to its readers. In the book, the dragon, which is the devil, has given all authority to one of two beasts. It is given this first beast “all authority and power over every tribe, every people, every tongue, and every nation” (13:7). Created by the dragon, the beast comes from a theme of the later prophets who depicted the political powers of their time as beasts. The second beast we find is an exact description of propaganda in support of nationalism. The beast makes speeches that induce people to obey the state, and to worship it (13:12-15).

Lastly, there is the symbol of Babylon the Great, which represents Rome and all other forms of empire and national power— past, present, and in the future (Revelation 17). What is promised, is the pure and simple destruction of political government, power, and dominion in every worldly form. These things are specifically stated to be enemies of God. God judges political power, calling it the great harlot. In chapter 18 the symbol of empire is destroyed, crumbling under the weight of its own violence. Victory is complete for the Lamb of God, his followers, and the Kingdom of God.

THE NATION OF GOD

The majority of the Bible was written by the poor, the oppressed, the enslaved, the conquered, the occupied, the defeated. The majority of the Bible is a condemnation of the superpower: the Egypts, the Babylons, the Romes. It is very difficult for American Christians to see this overarching Biblical critique and rebuke of government and empire because American Christians are very often the beneficiary of such power. This is the very same struggle that the first-century citizens of Rome had. The apostles had to remind the citizens of Rome (and also us) that they were no longer citizens but now foreigners, strangers, and aliens in the nation they lived in (Hebrews 11:13, 1 Peter 1:17, 2:11).

Those not under the Lordship of Christ put their faith in the power and security of their worldly nation. Citizens of the Kingdom of God, on the other hand, put their trust in God as their sole ruler. Kingdom people are therefore to place no more trust or confidence in governments than Jesus did— which is none. If a government’s laws happen to be consistent with the rule of God, we obey them. If they’re not, we follow the example of Jesus and disobey them. But either way, it’s clear that our behavior isn’t to be dictated by what government says, but by what God says.

Kingdom people have one Master and serve one Kingdom. In light of this, the lords/presidents of the earth and kingdoms/nations of the world are irrelevant to us. Our job is to build his Kingdom by doing what Jesus did. Nothing must distract us from this one task. Jesus came to announce his own government. God never wanted human governments. They are a rebellion against God. He used them for a time, but now with Jesus, they are done away with once and for all. Enough is enough.

Regardez le mot ” enduo ” Le mot grec traduit par ” mettre “.

Son sens vient de ” en ” qui signifie ” dans ” et de ” duo ” qui signifie entrer, s’enfoncer, plonger.

Ici, enduo a fini par signifier ” mettre ou porter “.

Comme il a été utilisé dans le contexte des vêtements

Mar 15:17

Ils le revêtirent de pourpre, lui posèrent une couronne d’épines et la lui mirent sur la tête,

Maintenant, après le don du Christ ou du Saint-Esprit à la Pentecôte, nous sommes censés revêtir le Christ et enlever le vieil homme et ses habitudes.

Rom 13:12

La nuit est loin, le jour est proche : rejetons donc les oeuvres des ténèbres, et revêtons les armes de la lumière.

Il est la Lumière du monde, mais nous devons la revêtir. Et c’est une armure parce que les ténèbres vont essayer de la voler. Nous devons donc nous débarrasser de ces œuvres et recevoir davantage de grâce.

Rom 13:14

Revêtez-vous du Seigneur Jésus-Christ, et ne faites pas provision pour la chair, pour en satisfaire les convoitises.

C’est comme si un pauvre mendiant habitué à vivre en haillons recevait un nouveau cadeau. Que veut-il faire lorsque quelqu’un vient lui donner des vêtements tout neufs, propres et attrayants ?

Est-ce qu’il lambine et dit : “Je crois que je préfère mes chiffons parce qu’ils sont si confortables et sales” ? Peut-être. Mais le mendiant ferait mieux de se débarrasser de ses vieilles guenilles pleines de poux et d’insectes, de se nettoyer et de s’habiller avec le don de la grâce.

en Jean 4, le don de Dieu était les eaux vives de l’Esprit Saint.

dans Actes 2 :38 c’est ” recevez le don du Saint-Esprit. “

Rom 5 :16 il s’appelle ” le don gratuit de nombreuses offenses pour la justification. “

Rom 5 :18 ” Le don gratuit est arrivé à tous les hommes pour la justification de la vie. “

Rom 6 :23 ” Mais le don de Dieu, c’est la vie éternelle en Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur. “

2Co 9:15 ” Grâces soient rendues à Dieu pour son don ineffable. “

Eph 2:8 même notre foi salvatrice est un don.

Eph 4:7 Le Christ est notre don. Nous n’avons rien fait pour mériter ce don, sinon il n’aurait pas été un don mais un salaire.

” Mais à chacun de nous est donnée la grâce selon la mesure du don de Christ. “

Nous avons reçu un cadeau gratuitement !  Nous avons donc ” le don de Dieu ” qui est ” la foi ” qui est ” la grâce ” qui est ” l’esprit saint ” ” qui est le Christ “.

Le jour de la Pentecôte et depuis ce jour, tout nous a été donné car le Christ s’est envoyé pour vivre dans nos vies par ce ” don indicible ” du ” Christ en vous ” ou du ” Saint-Esprit “.

Alors maintenant, c’est à nous de porter le nouveau costume de Lumière et de revêtir le Christ dans notre esprit et dans notre action. Mais même si nous ne le revêtons pas, nous ne le perdons jamais. C’est un don de la grâce.

Mais ne serait-il pas triste pour le mendiant de décider de garder ses minables haillons parce qu’il pensait ne pas être assez bon ? Même lorsque Dieu lui avait donné le pardon, une nouvelle raison de vivre, un nouveau métier et un costume pour le faire ? Ce serait triste pour le mendiant et tous ceux qu’il aurait pu aider.  Nous devons revêtir le Christ, il ne le fera pas pour nous. Nous avons le Christ, alors revêtons-le !

Portons Christ à la surface pour que tous puissent voir sa lumière et ne pas le cacher sous un tas de chiffons !

Eph 4:22

Que vous vous débarrassiez, en ce qui concerne l’ancienne conversation, du vieil homme corrompu par les convoitises trompeuses ;

Eph 4:24

et que vous revêtiez l’homme nouveau, créé selon Dieu dans la justice et la vraie sainteté.

Dieu nous a fait ce don du Christ, il ne le mettra pas sur nous. Lorsque nous sortons du stade des couches, nos parents nous ont appris à le faire nous-mêmes. Si nous lisons Éphésiens 4, c’est exactement ce que Dieu nous encourage à faire

Eph 4:23

Et soyez renouvelés dans l’esprit de votre intelligence ;

Lorsque nous avons reçu le don du Saint-Esprit ou du Christ, nous avons été rendus parfaits. Mais cette partie est l’esprit. L’esprit et les habitudes doivent grandir et mûrir. C’est un processus qui consiste à revêtir ce qui est à l’intérieur (Christ) sur l’homme extérieur où les gens vous voient. Un tas de haillons de luxure ou de mordant n’attirera pas les gens vers la lumière. Continuons donc à revêtir le Christ dans notre esprit.

Eph 4:25

C’est pourquoi, renonçant au mensonge, dites chacun la vérité à votre prochain, car nous sommes membres les uns des autres.

Hé les mendiants, vous avez le don innommable, alors que voulez-vous faire ? Vous accrocher aux haillons du vieil homme qui ment et blesse ou revêtir le nouveau costume du Christ ?

Et puisque nous sommes dans un monde de ténèbres qui nous convainc qu’il vaut mieux garder les haillons du monde que la robe royale du Christ, nous devons nous battre. C’est une bataille quotidienne jusqu’à ce que nous rencontrions le Christ face à face. C’est pourquoi Dieu a préparé avec amour ses enfants à résister à ces ténèbres en nous revêtant de cette armure de lumière qui nous protège.

Ce n’est pas facile, mais la vie est une lutte pour garder le terrain que Dieu nous a donné. Il y a un prince des ténèbres, mais il doit fuir dès que nous revêtons l’armure de lumière. Ici, dans Ephésien 6, Dieu explique en détail comment fonctionne cette armure que nous devons revêtir,

Eph 6:10

Enfin, mes frères, soyez forts dans le Seigneur, et dans la puissance de sa force.

C’est réel et nous avons besoin de force dans la bataille. Nous sommes en sécurité, mais il se peut que nous n’en ayons pas l’air. Les mendiants ont du mal à gagner les autres pour le Royaume s’ils ne revêtent pas leurs robes royales et ne deviennent pas des ambassadeurs de ce Royaume.

On nous dit de ne pas nous battre pour notre salut. C’est l’usure beaucoup de chrétiens enseignés des œuvres par la religion trébuchent et tombent. Non, ils ne peuvent pas perdre leur vie éternelle ou leur sécurité avec Dieu, mais ils peuvent penser qu’ils sont perdus même s’ils sont en sécurité. Le combat consiste à gagner les autres et à penser aux autres parce que vous savez que vous êtes bien.  Dans cette bataille, il faut garder le plastron de la justice. Et nous gardons cette vérité comme notre centre de gravité et notre équilibre. La Vérité est ce qui nous tient ensemble et il n’y a qu’une seule Vérité….. Son nom est Jésus. Il est l’armure complète de DIEU !

Eph 6:11

Revêtez-vous de toute l’armure de Dieu, afin de pouvoir résister aux ruses du diable.

Eph 6:13

Prenez donc toute l’armure de Dieu, afin de pouvoir résister au jour mauvais, et, après avoir tout fait, de tenir ferme.

Nous devons rester debout dans cette bataille, pas pour nous-mêmes ! Nous sommes en sécurité dans ses bras pour toujours. Mais pourquoi ne voulons-nous pas partager avec les autres ? Nous l’avons.  Ce mendiant reçoit une nouvelle profession. C’est d’être les ambassadeurs d’un nouveau Royaume, le Royaume du Christ !

Nous devrions donc avoir le but de nous tenir debout et de gagner les autres. L’amour envers tous les hommes et non l’amertume de la guerre. Notre défi n’est pas de combattre les nations incroyantes pour protéger notre personne ou toute autre personne malveillante. Notre défi est de laisser Dieu mettre Jésus et son amour dans nos esprits et nos habitudes. Notre combat contre le diable n’est pas avec d’autres personnes. C’est avec nos propres haillons. Nos propres habitudes que nous avons portées toute notre vie et qui se renouvellent dans notre pensée. Et c’est une bataille que les démons vont défier, mais Dieu vous aidera à grandir dans la grâce.

Eph 6:15

Et vos pieds chaussés de la préparation de l’évangile de paix ;

Notre défi est de sortir de notre protection et de nous battre pour tous les perdus. Apporter la paix et l’amour à ceux qui vous détestent est un défi.  Mais Jésus sait tout cela et il a gagné ! Il est en vous pour vous montrer comment faire dans toutes les situations.

Eph 6:16

Prenez surtout le bouclier de la foi, avec lequel vous pourrez éteindre tous les traits enflammés des méchants.

Lorsque nous sommes mis au défi de nous mettre en colère, enlevez ce chiffon et mettez l’amour. Lorsque nous sommes mis au défi d’être amers, jetez cette couche minable à la poubelle et mettez le pardon parce qu’il vous a pardonné.

Mais dans le feu de cette bataille, chaque jour, c’est à nous de garder notre extérieur aussi propre que notre intérieur. Dieu a fait sa part mais il ne peut pas contrôler votre esprit. Nous devons le lui confier pour qu’il y travaille. Nous devons prendre l’habitude de revêtir le Christ chaque jour en renouvelant notre armoire avec les paroles de Dieu et la prière. La prière et la conversation par le biais de l’esprit qu’Il a mis en nous. Nous devons parler avec Dieu chaque jour afin de savoir ce qu’il veut que nous mettions pour chaque nouveau jour. Alors nous pouvons briller et gagner les autres par l’amour.

Eph 6:18

Faites toujours toutes sortes de prières et de supplications dans l’Esprit, et veillez-y avec toute la persévérance et la supplication nécessaires pour tous les saints ;

Rom 12:2

Et ne vous conformez pas au monde présent, mais soyez transformés par le renouvellement de votre intelligence, afin que vous puissiez éprouver quelle est la volonté de Dieu, bonne, agréable et parfaite.