I’m reading about more Mosaic Law stuff and I don’t understand why someone thinks they can follow everything. I can’t keep a single commandment without breaking it later! Indeed, it’s why Jesus came, so that we wouldn’t have to serve dead religion but work out of His love for others instead (Acts 15:10-11, also James 1:25). That’s what I want to do with my family each day like Joshua had promised in Joshua 24:15. It’s totally up to them if they want to do this or not… be warned, guys, you’ll have FOMO if you disregard this. Literally. This chapter is found in page 61 of the NKJV Bible I’m using for this four-translation project, pages 77-78 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament) pages 129-131 of my VOICE copy (along with all its notes) and pages 126-128 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
It’s cool how God touched on thanksgiving (verse 12) for this but He still wanted to keep it simple (like in Psalm 100), and I wish the stronghold of religion was broken off more people. I met a Jewish woman and her family last Monday and she was getting stuff for the Passover meal, since it’s coming up soon. I think that’s pretty cool, but she thinks certain foods are not good to eat even though Jesus had said in Mark 7:19 that food isn’t defiled, and Paul later mentioned this in 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 when he was exploring this topic about food offered to idols. Too bad I didn’t know that not everyone in the U.S. has this knowledge (see 1 Corinthians 8:7), but when he was writing these things down, he wasn’t saying he knew the truth about this yet was unwilling to believe it. Too many people have this attitude about setting aside good things to coddle the offended atheists/God-haters because they believe the Bible teaches this. That’s not what I’m wanting to do, ever, and I never will! I’ll explain what I believe as a result of not knowing that people in the U.S. believing all food was good later, though.
The Lord Jesus also never believed in banishment even though verse 21 prescribes this for those who violated what’s in this chapter, for again, I titled this “More Of What God Never Wanted.” I find it ironic that a church of some kind would actually believe that death and exile are good, since Jesus never wanted this for anyone (Ezekiel 18:32, 33:11). It’s also not good that most nations outside of North and South America don’t have birthright citizenship… I pray for forgiveness for the exiles of these nations, and that if they’re fleeing an Islamic regime, they’d find safer lodging 🏠🏡🏘🛖🏢⛺️🏕🏞😇😇😇😇 I’m sorry that most of the world’s leaders are actively opposing God this way 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Jesus came to put it away, and if I’m not mistaken, the U.S. started birthright citizenship when it broke up with Britain and fought them off. I can neither confirm nor deny this, however, and I want to believe that birthright citizenship is permanent. I think I saw a headline once (I didn’t read the article) that probably featured Millenials like me who might have believed they’d be exiled for being born after 1980. I don’t want that for anyone! I don’t want for my nieces to be banished because their mom is from the Philippines 🇵🇭 even though she and her family came here legally and all the girls were born here in Arizona 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 I have a huge fear that once the elections are over in less than eight months, they’ll be targeted even if Trump loses again, and since I don’t have a car, it’ll be too late by the time I get to their house…
As for the food vs. idolatry sort of thing, you don’t actually need to run an idolatry test on any items here, even if idolatry is enforced. You can buy a food without a controlled substance or human/wildlife DNA and thank God that He made this 🍇🍈🍉🍖🍗🥩🥓🍔🍕🌭🌮🌯🫔🥙🍓🍌🍍🍎🍏🍅🥬🥒🥦🥗🍿🥚🍳🥘🍲🍢🍣🦪🍤🍥🥮🍡🥟🥠🥡🍜🍝🍩🍪🎂🥧🍫🍵🫖☕️ it’s funny, though, because someone can turn away from Him when they see me eating any of the above foods… I don’t think that’s right, but unfortunately, they may have grown up with these convictions. I guess we’ll have to be careful who we share our food with and what we’re eating and who we’re discussing what with from now on… I don’t expect this to work, though… for last Thursday, I said. “Thank God!” in response to a coworker who was going on vacation this week, but I was happy she could relax from many difficult shifts we do every summer, and in each occasion the shopping carts 🛒 pile up in the store 🏬 parking lot… I hope she didn’t get offended… the Jewish family was black, too, so I don’t want anything adverse to happen to them, for I hate the way police treat those guys! And one time, I found out in 2022 that a grandmother had gotten her house raided and ransacked by the S.W.A.T. team because of an app’s inaccurate GPS information about a missing iPhone 📱📲📳📴 and even though I’m glad she won $4 million in a lawsuit, its not enough, for her son had made her a doll 30 years before and the enforcers tore it up! Those guys are going to Hell…
Bottom line: what we eat or drink, or anything we do should be to God’s glory (1 Corinthians 10:31). I think the “give no offence to others” thing in 1 Corinthians 10:32 means we’ll have to take caution in how we talk about food with whomever we’re speaking, and with what we’re eating, too… but you know what I don’t understand? Why does Islam observe conservative religious traditions that God seems to require? And how is this happening in the internet where the churches of the U.S. embrace religion instead of relationship? 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ Sometimes I’m just utterly amazed by the evilness the U.S. comes up with, just like in too many other countries where Christianity is more or less unpopular, and even if Jesus is legal, how there’s any hope… I’ll probably get canceled for this but I don’t think Jesus should be synonymous with dead tradition. The law of Moses is without faith, you know (Galatians 3:12). But I’ll see you in the next chapter, hopefully soon!
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