Author: Ron Outland

I’m reading this passage in the VOICE right now and I’m reminded of how weird the world had gotten (refer to my previous post for an explanation of the Nephilim and the “sons of God”). I don’t think our world is as nuts as it must’ve been in Noah’s day five thousand years ago, but Jesus said, “As in the days of Noah, so it will be when the Son of Man comes” (Matthew 24:37). But we cannot predict this date (Matthew 24:36). Yet, our world is a bit similar to Noah’s time now. Also, I was wondering, “How thick was that layer of water in the Earth’s atmosphere?” That I cannot answer, but I don’t think it should’ve been translated that God regretted creating anybody. As a reminder, the English is translated awkwardly from the Hebrew across the Old Testament, like in Exodus 32:14 — the words are very bizarre in most translations! But now’s not the time to get to that.

Noah, at the age of 600, later saved his family from the flood, and I’m thinking, “Glad that disaster isn’t going to happen again!” (See Genesis 9:11-17.) I also just noticed the “afterward” part of verse 4 here — I think Nephilim were on the earth during that time (like in Moses’ day), but there might be some today, I don’t know if there are any. But to be frank, I do not believe they are actual demons, for demons cannot make more demons since the rebellion in Heaven happened (Isaiah 14:12-14, also Ezekiel 28:12-19, Revelation 12:7-8). It’s not possible that a human being can be hated by God (Job 36:5), for demons are repulsive. By the way, this passage is found in page 3 of my NKJV Bible, page 4 of my NASB Bible, pages 7-8 in my copy of the VOICE Bible (including two notes between some of the verses), and page 7 of my copy of the Amplified Bible (Classic Edition).

What I’m about to say might tick off a number of people, but I’m thoroughly disgusted with the thought that some of the women were probably raped by the demons that pretended to be human beings! It’s one of the worst forms of slavery, if not the worst form! Yeah, I’m thinking it was the absolute worst form of slavery that can happen, for a soul tie is created as a result, and healing is usually very difficult to find, for even though God is everywhere, people can warp others’ viewpoints about Him, and so He is given a bad name and spoken of falsely to the point that truth is taken as unforgivingly offensive. I know some of you may have seen statements like this before, but I find sexual violence more offensive than anything. God’s Name must never be used to promote rape or condemnation of the ones His enemies are oppressing. I can give a further explanation of what I know and believe hostility against Jesus is like, but for now (because Two Rivers Awaken starts in less than an hour), I’ll say that petty issues shouldn’t be exaggerated, and neither should anything else. But for those who have been raped or sexually harassed/assaulted, let me say, it’s not your fault. You don’t deserve these shameful things. If you want me to pray for healing and to move forward, and especially for justice for you (I mean restoration; see Amos 5:24), submit a request on Instagram (username: @ronnie.out1926) because I’m bad at checking my e-mails, and I’m on Instagram almost every day, if not daily, so I’ll definitely be praying for you there. I know that was unrelated to the passage, but I imagine that’s what happened in some parts of the world back then.

I also forgot to mention that the ocean probably wasn’t so deep in those days due to the water in the atmosphere God later released, but it is true that springs shot up in Noah’s lifetime. There’s also a movie called “Noah,” but I don’t agree with some of the parts I heard about. For instance, I heard about a moment when the actor’s character wanted to kill his family, but Jesus never believed in that kind of insanity, and neither do His followers. I know I don’t believe in death. By the way, only two people have avoided death: Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2:11), and though God can have someone avoid death entirely, we shouldn’t expect that to happen, although a resurrection is possible, but only by the Holy Spirit. I do want to make it to the Rapture that is to come before the start of the Great Tribulation (1 Thessalonians 4:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7), but we shouldn’t expect that to happen in our lifetimes — I’m already 28, but my niece will likely live to over 100, so I think if she becomes Christian, it’ll be easier for her to avoid death like this.

Well, I’m off, I’ve spent enough time on here for now. See you later!

Many have wondered why this has happened. A lot of people have probably never heard of this one, and most who know of it are either happy that so many drowned in the Flood or they mock God for it, seeing that there isn’t much clarity between the English and Hebrew here — lost in translation? 🤣 — Anyway, this controversial story is found in pages 3-5 of my NKJV Bible, pages 4-6 of my NASB Bible, and pages 7-11 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies. But before I get into this, I want to say that God did not kill anybody with the water. I know many who read this will get very angry and probably hostile to my comments on this, saying, “This was God’s judgment! Of course He killed them!” Well, I don’t think so, so if you don’t like this opinion, too bad.

While everyone but Noah and, what I imagine, his family rejected Jesus (for He was preaching through Noah — I did a study on 1 Peter 3:18-20 and found this answer), it says in 2 Samuel 14:14 that God does not take away life. In my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy of footnote e in chapter 4 (page 5 there), the commentator said God cursed the ground and that Cain could not argue with Him because He loved Abel more — that’s heresy. So is the idea that God takes pleasure in retribution, and those ideas are not right. The commentator’s name? A.W. Pink. He was (and still is) a well-known Calvinist who had died long ago in his sins (I don’t know when it was), and people either love or hate him. I don’t believe it’s right to hate anyone, by the way. Yet I know the commentator on footnote e deserved God’s wrath defeating him in the end. Like I said in chapter three, he’s in Hell paying for his sins, and so have all who preached and believed the same. It doesn’t discriminate between generations, but I’m glad to see this number drop per capita. From what I’ve heard and read in the past, my generation (Millenials) is actually pretty high on authenticity, and I think that’s a good thing. But now’s not the time to comment any further on that…

I’ve also read on a link that chapter 6 has Noah with perfection, but he had perfect DNA, not a perfect life. That’s impossible. The Nephilim (giants of the earth; see verse 4) actually came from women whom demons had seduced, too. God also prophesied that man would live a maximum of 120 years (verse 3)… but it would be a long time before that would happen. I think God was unwilling to limit life too much, but I also believe that the water from the Earth’s atmosphere that it had at the time was part of the Flood that would transpire in chapters 7 and 8. When it landed on the Earth, the UV rays would greatly shorten life, which I find unfortunate, and so would many diseases multiplying across the earth over many centuries up to this point. Thank God for better healthcare than what they had three thousand years ago or even just the previous century! Also, I forgot to mention that the gifts of the Spirit I mentioned last night — 1 Corinthians 12 is the basis of my beliefs concerning these.

The Hebrew is very awkward in translating Genesis 6:6 into English, too, I’m sorry… I believe that a more accurate translation (without deviating from the original meaning) would be, “And God was sorry of what the human race had become, and it pained His heart just thinking about what they were doing” (going off of verse 5) — even though He loved all creation from before the beginning. You know how I said that there are believers in every generation? Well, Isaiah 51:8 is the basis for my beliefs concerning this, too. Also, contrary to popular belief, there were actually nine of each species that Noah took in his ark (Genesis 7:2-3). Now that’s what I call a zoo!

Chapter 9 has a beautiful promise of no worldwide floods after that, with a rainbow God sets in the sky to remember His covenant with the whole human race (verses 11-17), and I’m very glad for it. Many large floods have happened across the world since then, but at least there’s never been a promise broken by God. But I think the floods come from demonic activity. Noah also makes a vineyard and gets drunk from it later on there, but Ham (one of his sons) sees it, his brothers cover his naked body (they didn’t look at him), and very weirdly, Noah pronounces a curse on Canaan, the land which would later be Israel (9:24-27) — he didn’t curse any actual people, I don’t think, but he prophesied that the land would be a slave of slaves to their brothers/sisters nearby. I don’t know what to think on Noah’s strange words — he had sobered up, it says there. I don’t know why he got hammered on his own grapes, where the wine comes from. And yes, I do mean grapes that you eat from the vine, like the green seedless ones you find in the store.

I’ll make more notes on these four chapters over the next few weeks… or months. I don’t know when I’ll get to chapter 10, but I’ll concentrate on these four chapters, so bear with me. Please? 🔜

Ever since I first read this passage and several others like it, I’ve become fascinated with avoiding death entirely and/or several other major complications by means of the Holy Spirit’s blessing. It’s been about nine and a half years since I became Christian, and I can tell you that the Bible has a lot of trippy stuff in it. I’ve always wanted to exalt God in ways people could get excited about (since my conversion in 2009, of course), such as do many miraculous works, heal the sick, raise the dead, and even with some of the most far-out prophetic powers imaginable… all by the Holy Spirit’s power and not my own. Yep, you guess it, though I’m non-denominational by default, I’m pretty huge into the miraculous and to eliminate the ugliness of cessationism. Don’t get me wrong, I think medicine can be good, but there needs to be more of the Holy Spirit’s power transpiring even the best of medical clinics and their good works. Indeed, it is my belief that the gifts of the Spirit (teaching, tongues, prophecy, healings, mercy, words of knowledge, justice (restoration according to what an afflicted one deserves), etc.) are not practiced or preached often enough. Oh, this passage is found in page 3 of my NKJV Bible, page 4 of my NASB Bible, and page 7 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies.

I’ve also wanted to not deal with the complications of aging, whether I eat organic food or not, and also, the reality of exemplifying kindness that can’t be destroyed, not to mention being in good circumstances at least once in each scenario I’m in. I want to make it to the Rapture — I mean that I want to be a catalyst to get so many people saved that we won’t need to experience death (for the Rapture is Jesus taking up His people to shield them from worldwide disaster according to Revelation 6-19), but I have more confidence that my niece, Bee, can make it, for she was born just last February, and I’ve discovered that she has the genes to live for more than 100 years. My brother and I, though, we men can’t survive that long, especially since our dad passed seven years ago next May at 55. I just turned 28 last month, and I want to be there for her in everything before I leave this world. The women in my mom’s family live a long time (her grandmother is still alive and kickin’ at 103). Enoch’s story inspires me, and so does Ezekiel’s mind-blowing passages (i.e. chapter 14 about Noah, Daniel, and Job). But I have no intention to freak anyone out with whatever I might say, either in this website or outside of it. Still, I’ve heard stories in which people can feel as young as I am in their 90s in this day and age. And that’s pretty cool! Also, Enoch prophesied something that is now in Jude 14-15, and it’s sorta related to Christ’s Second Coming. But it’s going to be a long time before I get there.

Onwards to Noah’s story… dear God…

Many years pass. Ten generations elapse between Adam and Noah. I just looked up some interesting information of the names between the two. Chuck Missler laid it pretty well on his post about these names. But to give you some brief information, I’ll list out the ten names and their English meanings from the Hebrew:

Adam = man
Seth = [has] appointed
Enosh = mortal
Kenan = sorrow
Mahalalel = [but] the blessed God
Jared = shall come down
Enoch = teaching
Methuselah = [and] His death shall bring
Lamech = the despairing
Noah = rest.

Isn’t it cool? Whether intentionally or not, the first ten generations of human history have the Gospel embedded in their names, especially Noah’s! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Oh, I should mention that this chapter is found in page 3 of my NKJV Bible, pages 3-4 of my NASB Bible I bought less than two years ago, page 7 of my VOICE copy, and pages 6-7 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’ll get to explaining my desire to be with Jesus as Enoch probably wanted in his time (5:22-24), but not on this post. See you soon!

I’m sure if you’ve read a Bible for a short time, you’re probably already aware of what unfolds here in this fourth chapter of Genesis. But in 2009, when I first became Christian, I had no idea this story existed. I didn’t know, like, anything that had transpired in Bible times… except for Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for all mankind. I had yet to discover it was even for each person! Thank God I never believed otherwise. This chapter is found in pages 2-3 of my NKJV Bible someone had given me two or three years ago, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and pages 5-6 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies I bought about three years apart. Also, I put two dates on the title for this post because it’s almost midnight as I write this, and I haven’t written anything in nearly two weeks.

Anyway, we see that Cain murders his only brother at the time, and that’s not right, what he did. God later promises that anyone who purposely kills a human being will also meet a violent death by a human being themselves, intentionally or otherwise (Genesis 9:6). But before I say anything else about this, let me first comment about how lovemaking was apparently discovered after banishment from Eden (3:23-4:1). Do you think Adam and Eve would’ve done it if no one had eaten off of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (3:6)? I think they would. It says in Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply,” right? But I think it’s pretty cool how Cain was the firstborn meant for glory in his own calling that God had given him. Funny how he didn’t think God and him were on the rocks, but at least Abel (his brother) gave to Him by faith, as we see in Hebrews 11:4.

Cain had a shot to love God by faith, too, thus pleasing Him (for we cannot please Him without faith; see Hebrews 11:6), yet for some reason, he chose a bad road — he was the world’s first murderer, and I really wish he hadn’t done that. Funny enough, murder can be forgiven, for Jesus died to transform even the most wicked hearts to come alive in Him. I find it interesting that the VOICE commentators mentioned that Cain was jealous of Abel’s offering (found on a brief note between verses 7 and 8). I think he had no interest after he believed his offerings could never be accepted. At the end of the dialogue (verses 9-15), God tells Cain anyone who kills him would experience His vengeance (I almost said “suffer” 😫🤐). Yet, his descendant, Lamech, arrogantly boasted that if Cain was avenged seven times, then he was to be avenged 77 times. Also, don’t worry about who Cain’s wife (verse 17) was; it was one of his sisters that Adam and Eve had brought into the world. We don’t know how much time passes between these events across this chapter, but I know they all live for several hundred years each, for there was water in the air blocking the harmful UV (ultraviolet) rays that give us sunburns. This didn’t get disposed until the Flood, but more of that later.

Also, I once read or heard that Lamech’s boast in verse 24, Jesus reversed in Matthew 18:22 with forgiveness. I think forgiveness is a lot better than vengeance and being out for blood. It even says in Hebrews 12:24 that His blood speaks a better world than the blood of Abel. There’s the “Nod” thing in verse 16 that’s worth mentioning: it’s east of Eden, and one time, the Eagles released an album titled “East of Eden.” I’ve never heard anything from that one, as far as I can remember, but I did like their 70’s music. Hopefully, the frontman had accepted Christ before he died in 2016. I pray for the rest of the band members to become Christians, too.

The final two verses tell of a third boy born to Adam and Eve named Seth. It’s a pretty common name nowadays, too, and after many years, Seth fathered a boy named Enosh, and we see that people began to worship God during that time. Hopefully, there were some honest people. I think there always were in each generation since Adam and Eve’s creation. Also, I should say that Adam and Eve were created without belly buttons, but because everyone else (including me, you, your best friend, your brothers/sisters, obviously) was born of a woman, we all have belly buttons. In the U.S. and many other nations of the world, the umbilical cord is cut as soon as each boy or girl is born. But now’s not the time for me to speak of anatomy, for it can get TMI, and I want this blog to be appropriate for those at the age of 12 and under. Of course, there’s some graphic incidents that the Bible records, but I do not wish to get into that. Yet I can’t not get pissed off at the abominations of rape and sexual harassment/assault — thankfully, I won’t need to go there today. I also want to be careful with whom I’m sharing this information to, and I know that the truth can fall into the wrong hands, plus, it’s awhile away from the Sodom and Gomorrah story, so bear with me, now.

Look forward to chapter five with you!

This finishes the story of how Eden became paradise lost. This passage is found in page 2 of my NKJV Bible, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and page 5 of both my VOICE Bible copy and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) text. I noticed that the VOICE didn’t line up with the Hebrew of how this passage was originally written. I thought it was interesting, but I don’t like how humans forfeited Eden and we’re now stuck in multiple cultures in which work is more valued than relationships are. To hopefully bring people together, though, I talked to a friend of mine about going up to northern Arizona to chill on a boat for a day or two. I also want to invite about eight other people to do this. But neither of us have a boat. Someone in our church might, but if no one has one, my words just show how badly I suck at planning. And I plan to have the ten of us go on an entourage of some parts of northern Arizona next May; indeed, I think it’s a good time to submit my vacation request for that. (It’s early/mid-January at the time I write this 😅) I still work at Fry’s, and I’ve been there for a year, now, so I am able to submit my request for one, now. Thank God for unions that still exist!

On another note, I once heard that Adam and Eve weren’t sent away from Eden as punishment, but to avert a tragedy of living forever and knowing good and evil without God present lest none go to Heaven until the Last Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), however, I don’t think God was interested in withholding good from anyone. It’s not as though He hands out a prize only to make you crash into a wall or something. But now that I mention it, someone may be saying among the teachers that God did this both to protect and withhold… I don’t think that’s true. If God were to protect someone from life, He’d be anything but good. Why it seems like a good getaway is elusive to everyone, I don’t know, but one thing I know is sure: it shouldn’t be elusive to anybody. Also, I should mention that God intentionally left the sentence in verse 22 unfinished — I think He was unwilling to picture a world in which humans could live forever but sin without stopping. But it does remind me of what Voldemort did in the Harry Potter series to try to avert death for himself — weird how he killed enough people to make an army of Inferi (Dark creatures in the fantasy world). Harry Potter himself did deliver Voldemort over to his own defeat by simply blocking his spells… for the Elder Wand didn’t work for him, seeing that Harry Potter owned it… none of us knew.

It’s pretty cool if we can see the end from the beginning, but since most of the world doesn’t know the end of the Bible story (and anyone of us who does know it can be brutalized into thinking of something else and be fixated on it), anything that tries to help seems like random chance, and it’s also as though we can’t get an answer on time. If God’s timing is planned in a certain way, and if I can see it, it would be fine, but I simply cannot think about sovereignty. There’s a teaching in the Church that speaks multiple theories about it, and it is the reason why the global church community is, for the most part, apostate (with few exceptions, but apostate means “one who turns from a faith or religion”). I don’t want to say too much, but I can mention that sooner or later, Satan strikes back with his own teaching whenever a saying of freedom is (re)discovered. Jesus said that the truth makes free (John 8:32), but Satan is so successful that we feel as though nothing can work… will Jesus ever be glorified again? Well, the good news is, though, I heard about a billion-soul harvest in which a billion people across the world get saved almost simultaneously, but I don’t know when that’s going to happen. I do believe it’s part of Bible prophecy, though. When will the Rapture happen? We don’t know…

See you in chapter four!

I loved Christmas this year, for I got to experience it with my niece, who encountered Christmas for the first time ever! She considered my gift of some Mega-Blocks her favourite, out of many! How blessed of a man am I?! 🤩😍❤ We went to her great-grandmother’s house again this evening for dinner, and while she was pretty overwhelmed with the whole thing, she was at least comfortable on her mom’s lap. (Her dad is my brother.) My mom was in Tucson, but I didn’t mind because I was able to enjoy some good gifts from her, both for today and tomorrow, when I turn 28. (Fun fact: I was born at 11:11 a.m. that day.) We also saw some Christmas lights in some of the neighborhoods near Bee’s house (that’s my niece’s name), and it was very fun, but she was asleep the whole time, so while she’ll be able to see some more for another two or three weeks, she’s not very impressionable, so she isn’t able to remember a lot right now. But not many infants are. I know I don’t remember anything about my infancy.

We also made a gingerbread house (though Bee didn’t take part in it; she’s still learning how to use her arms and legs), and it took a while, but we got it done. I was going to watch The Last Jedi for the first time at their house (Bee and her parents), but we knew that traffic would be high after Christmas, but really, I didn’t want to smell bad around Bee because I didn’t bring a change of clothes, I have work tomorrow, and I sweat badly while I sleep. I want to keep the gravy train of good memories going. Indeed, it was already after 10 p.m. when I found the movie on Netflix. But while we were driving home where I’m writing this now, we took the 202 eastbound in northern Mesa, and a live version of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town” was playing on the radio. Needless to say, I think I saw God in that moment, for my brother and I understood that life is really about a journey, and never really a destination. Once we took our exit from there, we traveled south for several miles, and it had no median the whole time… until we got close. I truly believe that we should enjoy the journey to where we’re going in life. My brother is 22, and so someone can criticize both of us for being Millenials, but I think God is on the move with our generation, and I think my niece can understand and love these truths we’ve learned one day, too. I also told him about a theory I discovered about Smash Bros., the Nintendo-exclusive fighters genre franchise. You can find the video that came our recently on YouTube… or better yet, just click the link here!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this one. Merry Christmas, friends!

It’s Christmas Eve as I write this, and I won’t make it long, but let me just say that many of us never think too much about this account of a covering being akin to Jesus on the cross for all people. I don’t have much of a clue why, but I know that a lot of people who claim to know the Bible don’t know any of the books’ names. Even so, it is refreshing to go to church this Christmas Eve night. It was about Jesus’ birth as usual, but I heard nothing concerning anything non-traditional, yet it was good for me to take communion (with bread and grape juice… yeah, our church doesn’t serve alcohol 😅) for a change. I’ve had a lot of hard feelings about church in general for several months; in fact, if it weren’t for the Two Rivers Awaken ministry, I wouldn’t even be going to one! I think it’s because I’ve heard things I can find in churches where Calvinism and other loveless doctrines are preached and encouraged. I don’t know how to react. I hold nothing against them; I just wish I could focus on Jesus and enjoy Him while hearing ANYTHING from a speaker. It’s also made it hard for me to read many Bible passages — note of irony: I’m writing on a difficult chapter that for some reason is easy for many to accept 😂😂😂— I actually feel sick sometimes just thinking about it.

What we don’t tend to think about is what many other people around the world are going through this Christmas time, from intense persecution in nations where Jesus is declared “illegal,” to poverty-stricken communities, to prosperous but expectation-driven regions of the world — the list is endless. I heard Band-Aid 1984’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” song many times before, but it wasn’t until nine days ago that I heard the lyrics for myself, so it became a favourite for me. (Yes, I spelled “favourite” like how it’s spelled in other English-speaking nations around the world, don’t judge me 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣) I’ll leave you this video for the song to get there from this post 😊

Anyway, it’s pretty cool how God not only spoke a promise of humanity’s redemption, but almost in the same breath, gave Adam and Eve clothing to wear so they wouldn’t be embarrassed. I think everyone who accepts Jesus as Lord and Saviour will have clothing in Heaven and New Jerusalem so no one sees them naked. I don’t think pornography is a good idea; too much abuse happens as a result. Thank God for Fight The New Drug!

Of course, the holidays can be hard for many people, but it doesn’t have to be a difficult season. I do wonder why expectations haven’t really decreased in my culture, though… but all insanity explanations aside, merry Christmas from me and my roommates to you!

P.S. I forgot to mention that this passage is found in page 2 of my NKJV Bible, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and page 5 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) translations I have.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this: the explanation of an unfortunate curse of what man and woman did to everything once they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (see verse 6). As a result, none of us can live a life that honors God if we don’t have the Holy Spirit living in us. And I do mean “living” as like having a permanent address, you know, living in a house or an apartment or college dorm. But the Holy Spirit doesn’t charge you anything to abide in Jesus. I don’t think we should charge God anything, for He does what He wants, right? But all gifts are good that come from Him (James 1:17). And He won’t break your heart, either. We shouldn’t do anything to break His heart ourselves.

The six-verse passage is found in page 2 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 2-3 of my NASB Bible I bought last year, page 5 of the VOICE copy I bought 23 months ago (January 2017), and in pages 4-5 of my Amplified Bible that I’ve had for a few years, now. In verse 15, we find the first promise of Jesus Christ, the Anointed One to save the earth, when God said, “He will bruise and tread your head underfoot” (AMPC) to Satan. I also just noticed the content of the verse before He said that; I think God put enmity between all demons and all humans. And it’s crucial we see it as such. But in verses 16-19, there are some brutally painful predictions of what every human being goes through without Jesus, at least in marriage and work. Thank God I never have been married yet, nor had I been employed nine years ago last July when I became Christian (my first job I received June 2017, though my start date wasn’t for another two months). I don’t want to be a dominant dirtbag to my wife, single or otherwise. Unfortunately (and you’ll find this often both in and out of the churches), women are told to submit to men, and a man can actually forget what he’s in a marriage for. Shouldn’t we give ourselves to our wives? But it would be much appreciated if they did the same for us. I won’t make mine do it — I’m still a single bachelor anyway 😅 — I just hope there’s mutual love between us both in the future. As it stands now, though, I don’t have a lot of good finances in my life. I want to bless my wife one day, and I want to be free of debts by the time I even ask her out. I also want to oppose abuse in every way, shape, or form, even the ones I don’t know about yet.

I notice that what God said to Adam in verses 17-19 is the same for everyone else, for even though He didn’t curse the ground or anything to make any human’s life miserable here (nor did He curse Eve; I think Satan has wanted to indoctrinate as many guys as he could), reality bites harder than a hundred thousand piranhas on your skin while you’re swimming in the Amazon River. I actually don’t think anger is something I can accept when it’s about anything but injustice. And even then, I don’t think it’s worth it to hurl insults at someone.

On anger itself, though… I don’t think that’s part of being a human being, even if you’re male. I know someone can declare this heresy, but I disagree with them completely. (A heresy is a teaching that knowingly contradicts something truthful.) I’m a man myself, and I’ve never liked the whole “to be a man is to be angry” thing. But I don’t want to talk about this — instead, I’m rather shocked that gender division is still happening. It’s 2018, this should’ve been put far behind everyone when Christianity was becoming more and more popular in the world. Yet for some reason, people crept in unnoticed and started twisting the truth in greater and greater capacities. I feel like we’re at a point where the Church could lose its meaning forever. It was written in the Scriptures that we are the light of the world as Christians, not bearers of darkness pretending to be light!

(Awhile later…) Wow, sorry, I just realized I was still writing this post! I was on Facebook 😂😂😂 — I have many things to say against godlessness being encouraged in the Church at large and outside of it, but I can’t fit it all into this post, so I’ll speak later. But tomorrow night, get ready for the first story of God’s provision for humans after the Fall of Man, as this chapter is traditionally called.

This note on the VOICE is pretty straightforward (it’s found on pages 4-5 in my copy), and since many of you probably already know about this (even though I don’t think a lot of people will read this over the next several months), I don’t need to explain a whole lot about them. But I will say this: a lot of things written in the Old Testament actually bear fruit for death, just as Paul said in Romans 7 — yet he did soon write that these writings aren’t even sin (verse 7), which is pretty funny, because I didn’t know that something giving awareness could be both good for you and make lots of craziness happen at the same time. I hope not to spend a lot of time in the Old Testament anyway, since I find that there are lots of good things to write about once I reach the New Testament. But I am doing the notes in canonical order (from Genesis to Revelation without going backwards even one verse), and, spoiler alert: this will take a long, long time, probably ten to fifteen years… I don’t know. It could take more than 20 or even 30-50 years. I could reach my 80s without having finished this. But I won’t get into any particular timeline or anything beyond this chapter now…

However, what I think is problematic is when someone uses a Scripture like Ezekiel 23 to preach death and condemnation in every form one can imagine. I get that there’s a lot wrong with the world and there are probably some nations that won’t survive the next ten to fifteen years, even with God’s help in trillions of butt-loads of provisions (for He never fuels anyone’s greed), but no one needs to say that God’s going to condemn someone. It’s despicable. It’s heinous. It’s unbiblical, dare I say. I do enjoy going more in-depth into something, though.

Finally, I should mention that I’m writing on this note before I make another note about a Bible passage because I want to remind whomever’s reading this that Jesus isn’t the Author of death (Satan is the author of death, yet he’s been disarmed by a longshot; see Hebrews 2:14), but He is the Author of life, and His eternal life is to everyone who accepts Him (for He died and rose again for each person); plus, it is stronger than anything Satan is able to do. Even offence doesn’t stop Him indefinitely. But it can be a huge stumbling block to anyone who crosses its path.

See you later in Genesis 3! (Don’t worry, I’ll speak of a good provisional message on Christmas Eve tomorrow night.)