The note in the VOICE translation of this chapter mentions that it was an age of diversity, tolerance, and equality at the time it was written and translated from the original languages, as a result of the NKJV and the 1980s Amplified Bible, I guess 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ I note that it was an age of diversity and acceptance, but sadly, the “Christian” church has created an age of sin and discord, and this chapter is worshiped, as if “purity of race” should be “upheld” to “honour” a “chosen one” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 this mega-crap is against the love of Jesus and all of Scripture! But this chapter, before I elaborate on this further, is found in page 95 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 121 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 192-193 of my VOICE copy, and pages 195-196 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
People are going to say the work of Jesus didn’t age well because of the satans that polluted the Christian faith with their heresies… one of the first was the ridiculous Judaizer heresy, as if the laws of Moses were necessary to follow Jesus 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ when that didn’t work, Gnosticism came out, and John reported on this in his letters. Later on, cessationism came out shortly after Scripture was completed, and a couple centuries later, the Church started crawling into bed with the Roman Empire, so since then, the Church has been held captive by them, and the denominations that sprang up from them have misled the world further and further until eventually, atheism started springing up all over the world like weeds in a fine garden. But Jesus had answered that, too, in that false prophets and other children of the devil would occupy the kingdom of God and the world (see Matthew 13:24-30; Jesus explains this parable in verses 37-43 there). However, there are a lot of people who are good at upholding an image of paradise that looks presentable — in other words, these spawns of wickedness are professionals at playing God.
When it comes to God’s kingdom or what He does, He isn’t afraid to look stupid to defend the poor and vulnerable and marginalised among us. Yet many of the specimen I spoke of in that last paragraph claim to be the world’s best Christians 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ as if Jesus actually needed enforcers or policemen — this wasn’t what Romans 13 was going for. Indeed, that chapter is the world’s mechanisms of authority, and Jesus said those who lead the world lord it over everyone and act like tyrants, for so they are (Matthew 20:25). They’d even use a Bible verse or two and couch their statements in religious language to hypnotise their followers and everyone else hearing them into spiritual death! (They have no love in their accursed and damned souls; see 1 John 3:14.) But Jesus doesn’t play their game, for He has prophesied their end like in Psalm 73:17-20. However, these enemies of the Lord have retranslated the Scriptures so that it would suit them, hoping I don’t discover their real motives and the original words in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, along with their meanings. But really, what’s your opinion on all this?
Verses 16-18 testify that God tells Moses to be an enemy to the Midianites, too, as the Hebrew literally translates to in plain English. There must’ve been a lot of Midianite involvement in the unnecessary affair that Balaam had instigated (see Numbers 23:28). It’s too bad, for we can be sexual in anything if we’re foolish enough. I know I’m not above sin; indeed, no one is. The good news is, though, Jesus came to set us free from that, but it’s hard to hear Him when anyone harps on even one sin long enough to run it into the ground, like how Eminem, in the second half of the 2000s or so, had run his weird accent into the ground with most of his songs in the records he released (I had only played some of them as they came out; I no longer play those tracks) — yeah, how bold of me to mention that lol 😅😅😂😂🤣🤣 haha sorry everyone 😄😄😄😅😅 — anyone who harps on a particular sin can make it cliché for all the people, even those who love the speakers enough to hear their every word no matter how much it sucks. Indeed, they can actually be convinced that God never loved them, and they’ll probably want to die if they were convinced of that satanic heresy… or become an atheist… whichever of the two. I think all these “preachers” proclaim a different Jesus — Galatians 1:8-9 has very strong words for those who do this. Indeed, the anathema is the strongest swear word in Greek, not just in the Bible, but what they had in those days, I guess 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️ and we shouldn’t be people-pleasers, either (Galatians 1:10). But it does say in Galatians 6:10, “Let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are in the household of faith” (NASB), so that’s nice. This is irrespective of those of different ethnicities, nationalities, age groups, religions, gender, even sexual orientation and the like. I do pray hope for those who don’t know Jesus, though, and if you don’t know Him, now’s the time to start, for we don’t know when He’ll come back to take the Invisible Church from the world, and when that happens, the saying in Matthew 25:10 will indeed happen: “While they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut” (NASB). I’m not sure what it’ll look like for you, but I hope you can enjoy Him 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💖💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗💗💓💞💕💘❣️❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍🩶🖤🤎 I can’t promise I know everything about the next steps in extraneous detail, but maybe if a church pastor explains it correctly, he/she can help you with that. In the meantime, I’ll see you in chapter 26!
In Christ,
Ron Outland
Ron And His Stories 