This is the second-longest chapter in the Bible, behind Psalm 119, which is 176 verses long (this chapter’s just 89 verses long), and the content every six verses, starting from verse 12, is the exact same, going to verse 83 (different translations render each section with some tweaks into it, but I guess the VOICE version decided to do that here so they don’t lose the readers halfway through the chapter). This should look like a boring premise, like how Leviticus doesn’t have a lot worth mentioning, but Jesus tells Moses to write all this down so it can eventually be made known that love-based deeds is a better payoff than fear-based anything. Indeed, this chapter is found in pages 81-83 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation work, now being more than seven years long, pages 104-106 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 166-169 of my VOICE copy, and pages 169-172 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I know I sound like a broken record by this point, but fear-based everything is too common where I work, and I don’t want to encounter any again. Indeed, this is in Gilbert, the safest place in Arizona, never being far from #1 in the country in this category… but the U.S. is dropping like a rock in safety levels, which are already too low to begin with 🙄🙄🙄🙄 yet most of the world’s greatest needs are in nations like Chad 🇹🇩 and Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 only 20 nations have about 85-90% of the world’s deepest needs being unmet. But we’re not doing enough… I don’t know if you have the power to be Jesus to the least of these like He had commanded in Matthew 25:34-40 to alleviate ant suffering, though… but if you have a debt you didnt ask for, that’s actually understandable 😰😰 I’m sorry that I can’t do much about it, though, for I have bills to pay that are due in just two weeks, and I’ve spent too much already. I’m grateful I’ve gotten more hours for work this week, starting at 🕒 this afternoon (I may need to stay later to push in the shopping carts 🛒 again 😅😅 that’s often what happens to me after closing time when I get to work so late), but even if I get more hours this week (I’ve already gotten extra time for not one, but THREE shifts this week as of yesterday afternoon; I guess God told the manager I should get my bills paid since there’s no other way to do it besides SurveyJunkie.com), I’ll need to utilize ALL my wages to put towards either feeding myself or paying my rent… and I’ve bought enough food and lemonade already, but I don’t know how long it will last me — even if I spend NOTHING today, I’ll need to bet on getting even more hours just to get my rent paid without using my savings 💸💸💸💸💸 and I want to do it ASAP so I don’t become neglectful later. But if I’m honest, I think anything else I say about others’ attitudes concerning me will only put me in hot water, for I guess my livelihood depends on if people actually like me, and people can change faster than lightning 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ I wish being honest didn’t get me put in mortal peril…
But that’s not what God wants. For being honest with Him never offends Him, and He won’t ever punish someone who asks Him anything, no matter how challenging or bizarre. If being honest with Him about anything ever provoked Him to offence or renouncing love, He wouldn’t be God, and Jesus’ words about forgiveness wouldn’t have worked. Again, if someone makes fear-based obedience popular, the Lord Jesus is always #devastated 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 and I’ve seen people try and erase the love of God in my life in the past. Now, they’re trying to enforce hateful content and the idea that God doesn’t do forgiveness, and whoever embraces it will never be saved. Indeed, we were ALL warned against this atheism being triumphant, and I know I’ve actually cried once or twice concerning the fact that they wanted to erase all good progress here, for I was saying to Jesus, “DO SOMETHING!!” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 But I had yet to know they had known what they were doing, Trump and his supporters, and I recently came to the conclusion that, in spite of God ending the pandemic a few years ago, corruption going down a bit here, and even many loans being forgiven, such as some of mine, I guess no act of God is ever without criticism!
The love of God should NEVER be attacked by His own church, and I’ve met great people who worship Him in spirit and truth, but it’s an abomination from Hell that even the best of churches can follow false prophets and false messiahs like Muhammed, Buddha, and that one guy who claims Jesus worships him you’ve probably seen. But Trump’s more of a false messiah than all of them, though I’m not convinced he’s the antichrist… I won’t be surprised if he is, though. Indeed, I used to rate heretics on a scale of one to John Calvin when I had first found out about him and how he’d deceived most of the global Church into believing hateful teachings that sound more biblical than anything else. But now, because Trump had made the AI video of himself as a huge golden statue in Gaza a year ago, he’s broken thst scale. And I hate Trump’s ideas now more than I hated John Calvin’s ideas over a decade ago when I was fighting Calvinism and trying to warn others about it. I didn’t actually think it was possible, honestly, even during and after Trump’s first term in office several years back. It’s something I should’ve seen coming… and I don’t claim to be an expert on this, either. But Jesus may be the only way to resist all that… yet they’ll claim we’re resisting Jesus, and they’ll paint Trump as if he were naked on a cross like Jesus had been… this cursed image Moses may have warned about in Deuteronomy, which I’ll get to eventually, if God wills — the church has rejected this truth, just as Stephen was right to assertively mention that those who’d then stone him to death, making him the Christian Church’s first martyr ever (read Acts 7 for the message and what happens as a result), were also following idols as their ancestors had been. And the U.S. churches have followed these idols of power, money, and total control for too long. I don’t think this should be happening. Shouldn’t we be faithful to Jesus as He is to all mankind? But I guess I may end up like Stephen because he had spoken the truth — for those who don’t know, Stephen had been slandered against by godless men who claimed he was speaking blasphemies against Moses and God (read the second half of Acts 6), and they may tell me the same thing, but this time, they’ll accuse me of speaking blasphemous words against Trump and God. I think they had Proverbs 24:21-22 in mind when they were doing this to Stephen… and they’ll weaponize this passage to curse the Lord Jesus with when they decide I’m sitting on a throne of lies. The trial was illegal in Stephen’s time, yet Saul (who was also called Paul from Acts 13:9 onwards) was thrilled about the whole thing (see Acts 8:1 (Amplified Bible (Classic Edition))) — he must’ve supervised it. The trials and harm ICE does is illegal in my time, too, and I’m heartbroken about the chaos in Minnesota right now, for I know ICE is occupying that part of the Midwest and many others, but Renee Nicole (not someone I knew) was murdered by them a week and a half ago there, and I wish that state could be released from there. It may seem nice and safe when I step into Gilbert to run an errand or go to work (remember, it’s actually safe there compared to at least 95% of the other places in the U.S.), but ICE’s terrorism reign looms here in Arizona, too, and I remember hearing there was an ICE raid last summer/fall in a town along the 69, which you can take by getting off I-17 at exit 262 (or exit 263, if you’re going south). I do hope my nieces were safe there when they and their mom and maybe some other family members went there last Christmas, though.
I realize I went off on a huge tangent about terrorism in the U.S., so I hope you can forgive my rambling 😅😅😅 but this is a huge issue that must never be ignored. Indeed, we actually saw a net loss 📉 of those who came here from foreign countries to live here last year, and this hadn’t happened since 1975. But that was because of the stuff I had reported on here… I still remember they once suspended immigration throughout the country for several months claiming to be safe during COVID-19 — Trump had made the largest monetary contribution to the science lab in China where they cooked it, larger than all the other world leaders, over 200 in all. The dude even denied it! But I guess this won’t work on many countries anymore… a bunch have embraced Trumpism, the false teaching that Trump’s the face of the Christian Church — the Lord decided to give this country up to this heretical content they’d been pushing since the mid-70s, about 50 years ago. I’m surprised Project 2025 wasn’t thoroughly set up by now, but they had crossed the halfway point already, yet they hadn’t made a lot of progress since last May. But they will continue from where they’ve left off… and when they finish, God’s love will be spoken of as if it had enabled entitlement and laziness. When this happens, weaponisation of opinionated content disguised as Christianity will be enforced, and forgiveness of every kind will be illegal, including for trivial things like accidentally bumping into a table and a piece of wrapped chocolate 🍫 falls to the ground. But if we can, we may be able to undo at least some of the atheist process before it happens ⏪️🔀 I pray we’re able to.
And you may be asking, “What does all this have to do with fear-based obedience?” Well, if they can, they’d enforce fear-based leadership and criminalise love-based everything, and God doesn’t want this to happen. Indeed, fear-based commands shouldn’t be even remotely legal, but I guess they want to treat righteousness as if it were under attack by good people! This is called the “persecution complex,” and it has been popularised by the media for ages here and in many other places. The churches in the country follow this, too, which is weird, because it says in 1 John 2:15, “Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of God is not in him” (author’s translation). Indeed, the people here pretend God’s Name is under attack when someone who loves money is arrested for fraud or even if a rapist is jailed up for life because of what they did 🙄🙄🙄 this sickening abomination from Hell, God says, will never be forgiven. Indeed, He also says these sins will stay with them, even after they pass away, and there will be no end date for their punishment from Him… ever.
Avoiding fear-based obedience is possible, though… but it’s because of the reign of terror the “Christians” are directing that this is becoming impossible, divine intervention or no divine intervention. And I can’t tell when God will resolve anything… I guess that’s part of what Jesus had said in Acts 1:7 about the times and the seasons that God had set for the ages like in Deuteronomy 29:29… I don’t know 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ but at least Jesus knows how to shatter the idea that fear-based leadership, obedience, or commands should be mandatory 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇 I’m not sure how He does it, so I guess we’ll have to spend a lot of time in the Word of God and enough prayer so that we can’t be broken by the world. I know, for my part, that I was reminded in the last 36 hours that the law of Moses wasn’t meant to be what God had intended for life, and that many later Old Testament passages echoed a ton of these commands God hated (see also Ezekiel 20:25-26). Paul reiterates this in Romans 7:7-13 when he talks about his own experience with the Mosaic Law and his sins, which, we can’t avoid at least half the time… I know I don’t think I’m very good at it, and whenever I want to do what’s right, either a sin or even a hateful human being is always there to trip me up. Even though I want only what’s right, we’re trapped in a fallen world that can’t accept good things of any kind, even if corruption goes down in Babylon, of all places… when will Jesus come back?! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 But it’s nice to know people from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be saved, first (Matthew 24:14). Yet the waiting is driving me nuts… but until then, I’ll keep writing Bible notes and hopefully get to Numbers 8, if I can.
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