So it’s really cool to see what happens here… Abraham puts Isaac on an altar and, thank God, doesn’t try to kill him, contrary to popular opinion. I’ve heard it from friends before, but I never really believed it would make sense to kill your own son, especially if you had been found righteous before God beforehand (compare with Genesis 15:6). And that’ll last forever, so no one born again will commit murder 😌😌😌😌😌 anyway, I’m going to watch a movie (Jonathan had asked about seeing one here at home as I began writing this)…
An hour’s passed because Jonathan didn’t want to finish the movie at this point — he wanted to go to sleep. But that’s ok 😊 also, I found this image online to make a hilarious translation, for I don’t own the SpongeBob imagery or media.
This six-verse passage can be found in page 12 of my NKJV Bible, page 15 of my NASB Bible, and page 26 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies.
Upon reading this, and hearing the explanation of John 10:9 on my state’s K-LOVE station (I normally tune to Air1 when I have it on, and Jonathan was driving me so I could deposit something in my bank, and when the speaker mentioned how we can get our needs met in Christ Jesus, because this verse and explanation exists, I’m honestly relieved to a pretty good extent. But I don’t think most of the African people are hypocrites at all; I know it’s got many places of poverty, so I’m thinking Satan ravaged the continent really bad, but I pray many blessings for them 😎😎😎 and also a sidenote: the VOICE translation rendered verse 10 at the part of the knife, “It would’ve killed Isaac.” This isn’t an exact rendering, but it doesn’t seem to indicate anything in terms of killing anyone preemptively or something. In fact, when we look at 1 John 3:15 and the other several verses like it in that letter (most notably in chapter 4), we see that Abraham loved God, and didn’t hate anyone as a result — it truly is difficult to find any answers that fix the problem of apparent contradictions in the Scriptures, even though there is no double-mindedness in it (John 10:35).
But provision is helpful, if not necessary, for we need a lot of things from God, don’t we? But the hypocritical churches have made it so that we can’t get anything we need unless we rely on it and the government. It’s extortion, that’s what it is! Yet they would call it God’s method… I can argue that His provision can come through even them, but I don’t think we should seek help from them because they bully others. If it was bad several years ago during the rise of evangelicalism (and though I didn’t know it could be coined in such a term), and I was very angry at the church that tried to mislead me from Jesus by preaching Pharisaical doctrine, imagine how bad it is now, seeing that the worship of what Jesus warned against in Mark 8:15 is actually trending on social media sites like Twitter sometimes (though I did check just now and #NationalCoffeeDay is trending at this moment). But thank God that freedom of concept is still legal, though it might as well be outlawed, since people like you and me can be hated in such an extremely vile manner by our own parents, even to the point in which such an evil system is actually sovereign so that no one follows Jesus, and that even some of the most prolific warriors of God (obviously not in a violent way) tend to stay put and keep all comments to themselves, just as Amos 5:13 says, “Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time” (NASB).
But for now, at least I can motivate people to seek the Lord, though not in obvious ways, to some of the customers and even the staff at Fry’s right now. For instance, when I was having a conversation with a cashier yesterday (she was one of the friendlier ones), as I was mentioning my thoughts about what the Brazilian president is trying to do to the Amazon rainforest (it had to do with the book of Revelation), she was like, “Second Coming stuff, right?” But I wasn’t surprised at such a reply, I wasn’t even mad, actually 😂😂😂 so I mentioned that we don’t need to spook people with these truths. It actually kind of ties to both the climate strike the kids took and what Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old girl from Sweden, have said and done lately. You’ve probably heard of this before, but I don’t want to mention anything else about this right now because it’s usually used for politics instead of trying to fix what we’ve broken over the centuries, forests and all. But I actually wouldn’t mind if, when I’m dead, my remains grow into trees.
Anyway, it was really cool how God gave Abraham a goat to offer up to Him instead of his own son! I’ve mentioned the Isaac thing at the beginning of this note (though I don’t really think we need to eat goats today), but the goat had been caught in a thicket, whatever that is. I’d rather keep the goats alive than sacrifice them or anything, but that’s another subject for another time. Instead, I’ll mention that this passage is too often used by prosperity preachers to deceive whomever hears them. I’m going to warn you again (if I haven’t done so already), you’re going to hear a lot of heretical statements by numerous speakers if you don’t discern in the Spirit who to listen to. The extreme that’s still pretty popular is the “health and wealth” thing. But the other extreme is that poverty is God’s will — and that can never be true. With the two existing, the people who preach either can find common ground (and sometimes even work together) to derail each of us as if Jesus could be killed all over again. They know He has risen again, but by their religious babble and shocking deeds they deny Him, and you might as well stay away from all the churches in certain states and/or nations if you want to seek God.
Any prayer requests? Leave them in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, and then tape what I wrote to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you in the final ten verses of this chapter! Sayonara!
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