Ron And His Stories

There are many things to take notes for here: the alter and a laver (I noticed a footnote on verse 7 in the first Amplified translation), the cloud of glory visible to everyone of Israel, the tent’s entrance facing the east, a pillar of fire each night (this probably inspired the shekinah glory we later see in 2 Chronicles 7:1 —- #worthit) —- but this is the last chapter of the second book of the Bible. It is found in pages 56-57 of the NKJV I have for this, pages 72-73 of the NASB I have for this, pages 120-122 of my VOICE copy, and pages 117-119 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I don’t know how much I’ll actually be able to cover but no one can get the complete and unabridged anything in an absolute sense… but we don’t have to ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️ indeed, the tent entrance was facing east because God knew Jesus would someday return from that direction (see Revelation 19:11-16), but that’s at least seven years away. Indeed, we shouldn’t try to figure out when that will happen… but this was part of a grand plan God has had for all people, especially those who believe (see 1 Timothy 4:10). The tabernacle was complete, and soon, Moses would start writing the rest of his law, which takes a month to compose.

I should add that, unfortunately, everything in these next three books will be difficult to understand, and it’s unlikely mercy actually happens (but see Numbers 6:24-26). These parts of the Bible have been used far too often throughout time to shove the people who listen to this —- it’s the word of God, of course —- into compliance. As a result, because they’ve used it as a weapon, no one really feels free to do the good they may have wanted since birth. Even for the believers, they want to obey from the heart (see Romans 6:17) but aren’t given any chances, and feel stuck. The Lord Jesus rescues everyone who loves Him but the head can be screwed up because of the hypocrites among us (or rather, we’re among them), and not enough people actually notice, so we run into one roadblock after another… at least, though, this madness will end one day. For the promise of Christ’s return still stands, and nothing He says can be muted (Isaiah 55:11, also John 10:35). Man, would I love to see Him one day! 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💖💘💌💗💓💞💕💋💋💋💋💋❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💅🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👰🏼‍♂️👰🏼‍♀️👰🏼🧚🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️💃🏼👯🏼‍♀️🚴🏼‍♂️🚵🏼‍♂️👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽👭🏻👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏽👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏽👩🏻‍❤️‍👩🏻🫂

And you might be thinking, “Dude, what’s with all the emojis here?” Haha I’m just feeling excited for Jesus in an unusual way haha 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 I also heard about this NYC queen 👑 someone I follow on Instagram follows, but I pray I have the right attitude concerning these humans. For it’s tempting to flirt with disaster… sorry lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😄😆 I hope I can be innovative like them 🤭

But anyways… there was no electricity in Moses’ time, and it would be nearly 34 centuries until the invention of the light bulb 💡 which Tesla was actually responsible for, and Edison took credit, stealing his work. I was scared to death of the plagiarism police in college… but right now I can look at 1 Corinthians 9:24-10:13 and go from there. I was thinking of that passage when I was at the mental hospital 🏥 back in 2014 —- I didn’t know I’d soon be going back to my mom’s place, but at least I’m in Gilbert, now. Where I am exactly I can’t actually disclose, but I’ll need to keep it private, I had a messy arrangement.

Come what may, though, because eternity is good for all who love Jesus (see Matthew 24:13-14), well party with Him forever! I’m talking endless Mexican 🇲🇽 food 🥑🍅🌮🌯🫔🥙🧆🫕🥣 Chinese 🇨🇳 cuisine of all kinds 🍊🍍🥭🍄🍖🍗🥩🥘🍲🥗🍱🍘🍙🍚🍛🍠🍢🍣🦪🍤🍥🥮🍡🥟🥠🥡 North and South Korea becoming one 🇰🇵🇰🇷 the U.S. 🇺🇲 no longer being war-obsessed, parties with instruments like Caribbean steel drums 🥁 and fish, just to name a few. There’s also endless watermelon 🍉 fields and countless apple trees 🍎🍏 and every day feels like Christmas 🎄 (though there’s no night in New Jerusalem) —- and Jesus will be worshiped forever 🎆🎇✨️🎉🎊🛐✝️🆓️🆕️🆙️

I pray we approach the rest of the Pentateuch carefully, and that I talk to others concerning this, but I don’t want to be a loose cannon, ever. Hopefully I can elaborate this in the next 27+36+34 chapters. But if you need prayer, you can email 📧 me at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you in the first chapter of the remaining 97 of this section of the Bible… this is going to be interesting.

In verses 10-13 in this chapter (by the way, this chapter is found in pages 55-56 of my NKJV Bible, pages 71-72 of my NASB Bible, pages 119-120 of my VOICE copy, and pages 116-117 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy), we notice the twelve stones of Israel’s tribes 🇮🇱 and it reminded me of Revelation 21 where the stones were mentioned again. Man, it’ll be great when we party with Jesus forever! I don’t want to beat you over the head with this truth, though, and it’s obvious that eternity has been ruined for many people, but to clear a few things up, it won’t be an endless music-by-the-harp-wearing-wings-and-a-dress sort of thing. That’s not biblical. But more of that in the next post, where we end Exodus and I write a forewarning about how to read the next three books. For now, though, I can’t help but thank God for the fact this project (read from chapter 25) was done with excellence (Exodus 39:43, VOICE)!

The only other thing I can say today (I have work at 🕕 am tomorrow and it’s after 🕘 pm right now in Arizona) is that this was the start of something great for the Israelites. Of course, it tanked, but Jesus was and still is able to make anyone a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). But more than 1,400 years would elapse between this and Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Still, I’ll see you in the next post! Ciao!

Here we find more details about how the tabernacle is supposed to be set up (Exodus 25:40, also Hebrews 9:2). I want to make a curtain in my room but I don’t know where to get one that would hold up from the ceiling, for the purpose of a prayer tent or something, but I need to be careful on how I spend anything. Indeed, food is very important and I don’t want to reveal my location for privacy’s sake. Maybe I’ll just have some chili or corn (maybe with some tortilla strips) tonight… but this chapter is found in page 55 of the NKJV Bible I’m using for this, pages 70-71 of the NASB Bible here (Old Testament), pages 118-119 of my VOICE copy, and pages 114-116 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’m sorry I don’t have a lot of creative ideas right now for notes like this —- I think it’s because there’s not much worth mentioning for like the next book and a half 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ but I will say this: I found out I’m pre-diabetic last month so I’m doing my best to cut down on sugary stuff. I don’t often eat sweets, though, so that’s nice, and it took like a million cans of soda to get to this point 😅😄😆 but I am enjoying life, I mean, I went to my nieces’ birthday party a few days ago, so that I loved 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 I noticed Bee was grumpy but she just woke up too early 😅😅😅😅 I think I would’ve been a little irate myself, since I worked 47 hours between the last two Thursdays, and I was full-time two weeks ago, not to mention getting an extra hour again on Friday last week. I got extra time on each shift, actually… but for now, I need to take it easy and rest. I hope I have better words to say in the next post, but we’re almost done with Exodus! Maybe I’ll complete it by Ela’s birth? We’ll see 👀 🤭 😏 (I wouldn’t be a creepo though haha). Later, people 😁😁😁😁😁

I’ve had quite the year (this is why I didn’t make many posts, and also I didn’t make a Christmas post this week, either, sorry…) —- there’s a lot of gold the Israelites used for this project, so we should remember we might need a lot of resources to honor Christ with by giving to those in need. This chapter is found in pages 54-55 of my NKJV Bible, page 70 of my NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 117-118 of my VOICE copy, and pages 113-114 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Six people I knew died this year (the first was done in by police, and this happened around MLK Day, which is thoroughly outrageous, indeed, she was black ‼️ and another friend killed herself 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 I don’t want anyone else to relive these nightmarish scenarios) —- only one made it past 32! Weird, huh? But I learned in February that the Greek for Revelation 12:11 actually says the believers literally exposed themselves to death… all of us in Christ might have to do the same. Of course, not everyone will be martyred, but even though it’s absolutely tragic when someone gets killed for doing good in the world, the Lord Jesus very handsomely rewards those who die for Him. Indeed, I looked over the laws going into effect tomorrow morning here in AZ, and while I haven’t seen restrictions on Christianity here yet, even after reading the article just now, I’m always nervous about the Christian faith getting clobbered by those in power… yet I think the people have more interest in actually trying to make Jesus obey them. 1 Corinthians 10:9 says that we should never put Jesus to the test, as some of the wilderness wanderers did, and were destroyed by serpents (Numbers 21:4-9). One law will soon allow everyone at least 21 years old to publicly drink but only at Tempe Marketplace and Desert Ridge, the 101 being near both. Maybe it’ll help reduce alcoholism? I don’t know, but even though I don’t drink, too many restrictions on something are bad. Still, we’ll see what happens 👀

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I’ve wanted to release this for a while, but I guess I find it hard to be consistent with things. But I’m glad everyone in Israel was consistent with all this… but I notice Bezalel and Oholiab aren’t included in the conquest of Canaan (sorry for the spoilers haha) even though they were noted for their skills. There are many unsung heroes in the Christian faith today, including the woman who lost her family in Afghanistan after they had moved there from the U.S. when 9/11 had happened. They were martyred because of their faith one day late in November some years back. So I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone to lose both spouse and kids in a moment… but this chapter is found in pages 53-54 of the NKJV Bible I’m using for this, pages 69-70 of the NASB Bible I’m using, pages 116-117 of my VOICE copy, and pages 112-113 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy (but there, it’s spelled Aholiab for some reason).

I say these things because the two men here had to have been at least 2️⃣0️⃣ years old at that point, given their skills, generally speaking. Of course, sometimes I hear of people having skipped a grade or two (I’ve had friends do this, but I’ve never done it) but I pray my nieces never get held back any grades… and that school is fun for all of them —- I really hope they don’t get hurt because of someone any of them can trust 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I guess my outlook on life isn’t very good, but if overgenerosity can make it so that promises happen and are actually kept word for word, then great. Otherwise —- and I don’t think I’m exaggerating here —- there won’t be a Kingdom to even think about. Hopefully, though, healing happens for each people group. And speaking of my nieces, I’m having a third one come in 3-4 months! I’m sorry if I hadn’t said it on the last post, but I hope she is loved by others, too 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝 I can’t ever think my nieces should be opposed by anyone 💔💔💔💔💔 but with a growing family like mine, Satan is sure to target them… I do pray we withstand him, though. Also, someone made a really messed up joke about loving Satan instead of Santa Claus 🎅🏻 🤶🏻 on TV recently, but I understand someone was going for something weird… still, I don’t think we should make jokes like these… someone might get the impression Christmas is not good, and that NOTHING brilliant should happen, as if Heaven weren’t supposed to be replicated in this life (Matthew 6:10). Indeed, the legalistic people are the epitome of ridiculous 🙄 people will also turn Christmas into a political statement, and that’s like so unfair. I do hope I can listen to the people of this generation, just as I’m sure they might listen to me… indeed, we’ve had enough moralism that people have made from the Bible even though Scripture never gave such a commandment. People have started blogs about things Jesus never said, too 😩😩😩😩😩😩😜🤪 and I don’t blame them! One thing I can add to the list is the idea that God wouldn’t make anyone do some funny stuff. I mean, Isaiah preached naked for three years 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (see Isaiah 20), Hosea actually married a prostitute (Hosea 1:2-3), and Ezekiel literally had to refuse to mourn his wife’s death (Ezekiel 24:15-24). Hopefully, though, you don’t have to do any of these things, for I’m just giving some examples of how much it will cost to serve God. But if He led Jesus to endure being crucified with no clothes on in front of every one in Jerusalem, and it worked, He can do good things through you, too, even if one should suffer and endure public reproach outside the city (Hebrews 13:13).

I do need to inform you, however, that even though I had been praying for Josh’s sister-in-law to be rescued from cancer, unfortunately, she passed away last Monday morning 😭😭😭😭😭😭 six months had passed since a fourth friend had died between New Year’s Day and that point, less than five months later (I’m still not over this), and that human being had died, too 💔💔💔💔 both women were legendary in Christ, and each had married different men (yet I regret to say the friend who died in May was murdered by her own husband). That friend was only 2️⃣5️⃣ —- I hope none of my three nieces could be tricked into dating evil men like him…. better for me to stand in the gap instead, you know?

The tent mentioned in more detail in this chapter is particularly daunting and arduous, and I hope I don’t languish in serving God like this. I found out last week that the World Cup in Qatar is in a stadium in which THOUSANDS had died building. I don’t think that’s ever happened since its inception, not even remotely close. Indeed, they weren’t even fed or given water, and no one really got paid anything 😒 those who watch the games happen are supporting slavery. That’s all I can say… but it’s interesting how the U.S. 🇺🇲 not only qualified for the World Cup, but beat Iran 🇮🇷 1-0 something I didn’t actually think was possible. I feel for the guy who cried in Iran’s defeat though… I hope we can love them well. Maybe then, their leader wouldn’t want to blow us up. We’ve failed Jesus too much, and for too long. I don’t want any weird conjecture to overtake the earth… but I’ll see you in the next post. Later!

I’m spending this afternoon/evening at home, since I just got done riding my bike close to the southern edge of Gilbert and back, riding alongside the edge of Chandler for a short time (I’m still recovering —- it was a looooooong ride, about 28 miles in all) —- unfortunately, though, it’s Halloween, and the idolatry of creepy stuff needs to end. Good thing that’s forgivable, but idolatry is ALWAYS unchristian. I’ve heard of Boo grams at places like my mental health clinic, but what I actually find great is the fact you can share the Gospel with the trick-or-treaters tonight. I don’t tend to celebrate Halloween, though. I personally believe it’s supposed to celebrate the believers of Jesus who have gone before us (indeed, tomorrow’s the Day of the Dead, and Mexico 🇲🇽 celebrates it… which, I understand; I don’t know how though, but I’d rather not jump to any conclusions), but instead, death is worshiped waaaaaaaayy too much. Glad I’m getting rest today, though… it’s my day off, so that’s why I trekked the southeast Valley today. Indeed, Moses laid out what he wanted the Israelites to pull off each Saturday (verses 1-3), but some time later, someone violates it one day and they actually killed the one guilty of this (Numbers 15:32-36). Even though Jesus never loved the death penalty or even wanted it to happen to anyone (indeed, He actually got a death He doesn’t deserve but thank God He rose again) that was what they wanted, and since God knew they wouldn’t repent from this, He gave them several hundred laws, 613 in all —- and they were plundered (Ezekiel 20:25-26). There were tabernacle offerings, though… this chapter is found in page 53 of my NKJV Bible, pages 68-69 of my NASB Bible, pages 115-116 of my VOICE copy, and pages 111-112 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

It’s interesting to note that only Bezalel and Oholiab were mentioned, but I don’t know if they actually let Jesus guide them when the nation later ran into the people of Canaan (Numbers 13). And speaking of which, I wouldn’t be surprised if the U.S. wanted to borrow from Canaan the Halloween practices they’ve had millions upon millions follow here and abroad. I think that’s largely the government’s fault, like with that one time many years back, when the bison were abundant here, and the leaders duped the people into getting meat from them so they’d be endangered (it might not be endangered nowadays but people still hunt them down —- eventually, we’re going to run out, since I don’t think they ever stopped all bison meat sales, but I wouldn’t mind eating some if there were at least 🔟 million of them in this country alone; it’d be great if everyone followed my procedure, since God will destroy anyone who destroys any species; see Revelation 11:18). It’s tempting for me to buy some buffalo meat but I think I should explain this to some church friends and show them this post. Wow… that was very off-topic 😴 I don’t know why I often lose my train of thought when I’m writing these posts… I apologize, people.

On the plus side ➕ nothing good is prohibited 🚫 from being offered to God even when a lawmaker tries to criminalize it. It’s weird that guns are worshiped, though. I think the second amendment is a mistake, actually, since they didn’t have protecting yourself against the government militia in mind even when they are dispatched to kill the peaceful and violent alike. Hopefully that doesn’t happen again though… but I have a feeling the time the U.S. military was sent to do this because of George Floyd’s unjust death won’t be the last time here… but even so, I’ll see you in chapter 36! Ciao!

I’m on my phone typing this again —- I’m not gonna lie, I waited until now to write this down, since I want to release at least one post per month, and I didn’t have anything to say until this point 🙃 but I do like that a small thing of gold (roughly 75 pounds, found in one of these chapters) is used. And in today’s value, that can cost nearly two million bucks 🤯🤯🤯🤯💵💲💰📈 there are a lot bigger amounts of gold 🥇 silver 🥈 and bronze 🥉 for the tabernacle, so this says you can use incredible everything for worship and an offering to Jesus, even if it’s at least worth a billion dollars 💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸 this section of Exodus is found in pages 53-57 of my NKJV Bible, pages 68-73 of my NASB Bible, pages 115-122 of my VOICE copy, and pages 111-119 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I noticed chapter 35 here, as the NASB puts it, is entitled The Sabbath Emphasized. I think they were trying to emphasize you don’t need to work too hard and border on the worship of labor to get what you need from God, just as it says in Psalm 127:2. But I’ll explain this next time I write on here… hopefully I can do it soon. I’ll see you in chapter 35!

Last time I wrote something in this website, I said I was having problems with the Internet connection and that my phone was deleting stuff. This happened twice, and it sucked. But I’m glad I was able to write something down two weeks ago, so that I could get the Lord’s teachings, if at all possible, more widespread across the earth. Obviously, though, not many are reading this but I’m glad I have any followers on here lol 😅😄😆 but anyway, I pray I can get a second job somehow and buy a tablet as a result, for my laptop is like seven years old, and I might need to get a new piece of technology, even though it might record stuff that I’m saying… oh, man, someone I know will have a cow 💩🐮 but if they’re trying to stop me from preaching the Word on here or anywhere else, Jesus might have the whole barn 🏡🤷🏼‍♂️ anything else, though, I can’t say… but I pray I can move forward in Christ, and that I don’t sin against Him… if you want to do the same, that’ll be great. This will be posted shortly, but I might be at work. I have tomorrow off, though, and since I went to Prescott last weekend but realized someone might be able to derail me if I’m not careful, even with the knowledge I’ve been given over the last 8 years, so… yeah. Later!

I know it seems surprising I’m actually writing two notes in one month for the first time since like a year ago, but here the covenant is renewed. But as I was writing things down here, my data got deleted… TWICE! I really don’t think my phone is safe to use for writing anything… my only hope is to get new technology, but it will likely contain a hidden camera 📷📸📹📺👀😓😓😓😓😓 and in each device… also, I don’t have good Internet and my laptop isn’t working well, plus, getting a tablet is expensive… I really feel I can’t be safe because I can’t select everything, then restore accordingly… other things are happening, too, but I can’t mention them here… but this chapter is found in pages 52-53 of the NKJV Bible, pages 67-68 of the NASB Bible, pages 114-115 of my VOICE copy, and pages 109-111 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy… buy I guess I’ll be ok… I don’t actually know if God will stop the devil from deleting anything I’m writing again… I want to see His faithfulness 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝 that’ll be awesome.

Maybe I just tried to publish everything too fast, but I do think I need better technology, but sadly, good technology probably will never be available for me, whether I can afford it or not. Maybe I’m just very moody from what’s happened today, but if God wants perfection rather than for us to live out our God-given identities, who can worship Him? Good thing that’s not what He wants, though. It’s what the Bible teaches, and I want to finish these notes 📝📋📑📄📃📜📕📙📔📗📘📓📖📚🖋🖊 lest if this gets criminalized because I believe in God, I lose everything… I don’t believe anything good should be illegal, but I guess I can’t get the lawmakers to honor God 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞 but thank Jesus His promises are always true, I just don’t know where to find any, even when thinking about Lamentations 3:23 about His mercies being afresh every morning… but I hope love wins soon.

One thing I do like about today is that it’s been ten years since I started writing Bible notes 🔟📶🆒️🆓️✝️🛐 and it’s also the beginning of the Christmas season in the Philippines 🇵🇭 as of tomorrow! Of course, it’s already morning over there, and it’s almost 2 pm here in Arizona 🕑 but they keep it going from September 1 through the first Sunday of January, which I love. My nieces are part-Filipina, for their mom is from that country, so I’d like to do this for their sake. I strongly believe it’s a good thing to welcome people regardless of where they’re from, especially into the Church of Christ 💒🏩⛲ and the Israelites didnt actually see God here… I should mention there isn’t much from here through the end of Deuteronomy worth mentioning, I might say, but all parts of the Bible are useful… I just don’t know where I’ll find a good discovery next. But I hope I can get the Word of Christ into all the earth 🌎🌏🌍🌐🗺🧭🚅🚆🛫🛬 before the heretics have their way… I don’t actually know if I’ll be able to stop anyone from turning someone away from Jesus, and I fear I won’t win a single human being they’re trying to hypnotize into their delusions. But I pray good things happen… maybe people will believe Jesus and His promises for a change. Whatever happens, though, I’ll see you in the final six chapters of Exodus! Later, guys!

As I read this chapter, I’m met with a dilemma: it says Moses and God spoke face-to-face in verse 11 here, but less than ten verses later, God says to him, “No one can see Me and live” (verse 20) —- because of the holiness that would literally crush all of us since all of us have sin (see Romans 3:23) —- I think Moses wrote metaphorically, as when someone says, “so to speak.” Indeed, I read something years back about Moses seeing God’s back, apparently… I think he wrote this down as a metaphor, too, for that was what the Father was getting at. Indeed, John later says in chapter 1 of his gospel, “No one has ever seen God.” But this chapter is found in pages 51-52 of the NKJV Bible I’m using, pages 66-67 of the NASB Bible I’m using, pages 112-114 of my VOICE copy, and pages 108-109 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

There’s more to unpack for this, since first of all, the golden calf incident had created a rift between God and His people —- here’s something you might not know: you know the phrase “cash cow”? I think the golden calf incident is where this strange terminology comes from. I still remember vividly the super-ridiculous Trump statue made out of gold that someone had set up in the White House some time ago… I think it was during the insurrection over a year and a half ago… but that’s another story for another time. But even so, I remember this one guy exposing the idolatry that the businesses were practicing in that one scene in a movie I saw in a college class once. 😳 I wish the unfaithfulness never happened, but unfortunately, it’s been happening for a very long time ⏳ but soon, time will run out for the unrepentant ⌛ just see Acts 17:30-31… but I’ll speak/write about how the day of accountability is too often idolized in all the environments in the future.

Anyway, God says to head for the land but He wouldn’t travel with them, since they had vomited on Him 🤮🤮🤮🤮 so to speak (Exodus 33:1-3). A lot of translations have ridiculous renderings for verses 4 and 5, but the words should be translated “dreadful news” (verse 4, VOICE) and “decide” for “know” (verse 5). I know I don’t want the Father’s heart to be forgotten. Indeed, that’s actually why I’m writing all these Bible notes nowadays. Oh, fun fact, I started writing Bible notes on a regular basis ten years ago around this time of this month. Crazy how time flies… but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to write as many notes as I would’ve loved to for almost a year, now… but for security reasons, I’ll keep my reasons offline unless God tells me otherwise. But unfortunately, I’m not sure I have the chance to keep a low profile about it 🔒🔐🔑🗝✋🏼🛑🚧 nor can I expect to do some other godly thing in the future without somehow causing offence, even if I did. Still, it’s nice that I didn’t get in trouble for godliness as if it weren’t worth pursuing, and I’m glad I was able to work at Café Rio last Monday (they didn’t offer pushing back any training days so I could make it to Fry’s some more, and I had worked there five days in a row before then, plus, it was five days of training as a cashier in a row, and 10+ days of work without a single day off is brutal, so I left, but it was fun, thank God —- I’d like to try this again sometime 😃 I hope I can find a good supplemental income method though) —- but I need to believe hardship isn’t the only possible method growth in Christ actually happens. I don’t know where it says that in the Bible, though, and I’ve feared in the past that misery is actually necessary for getting closer to God. It really shouldn’t be that way… but I’ll use the bathroom real quick 🚻🚽🪠 and then I’ll look up the Greek for James 4:9… (some minutes later) so I looked up the two words for mourn and dejection (NASB) —- for some reason I didn’t check the Greek for lament 😅 I’ll do this now… (later) it means to realize ones own misery… but I notice Matthew 5:4 as a cross-reference when I use the NkJV study Bible I have, so I think it’s about one’s sins… but I see no other such commandment anywhere in the New Testament… I might be missing something, though. I’ll have to show this to Josh and Tim, my young adult pastor. But even so, it’s not like someone whom im living with (neither of them are single, and both have a wife each 👫🏼 so I’m living with someone else, but I’ll have to mention this much, much, much later, if God wills) should dictate how I walk with Jesus (see 1 John 2:6). Not to be insubordinate in anything, but if anyone is trying to give me unbiblical commandments while they disobey God, that’s hypocrisy. It’s one thing if it’s a mental health condition, but I can’t be entirely sure.

The meeting tent ⛺ I think is an interesting phenomenon, and I’d like to see more of it when power fails —- this probably won’t happen much in the U.S., but I pray for more working power and light bulbs 💡 in this world, especially in places like Burundi 🇧🇮 where less than 10% of the population have any power 🔋 and I pray for much love there, too, and in all of Africa 🌍 —- I’ve been to a meeting tent before, but even though I would love to get some fresh air when I’m not working more often 🌤⛅🌫🌬 it’s nice to have cool air in a stadium 🏟 if people gather there to hear the word of Christ ✝️ = 💖 but I don’t think anyone should do this for selfish reasons. Funny how many are drawing away from that and into false humility, though… it’s about as messed up as assuming black people are bad, and that’s stupid. I don’t think it’s bad to have any kind of skin color! We need more lovers of humans in this world… but instead, there’s too many people who try and wreck everyone’s dreams and lie about it. I should say this to someone at work, too, maybe they might understand if we’re of similar beliefs. I guess people think it’s so obvious it doesn’t need to be spoken 🙄 and you know what else? I heard there’s been a bit of a sharp drop in people among churchgoers who believe sharing faith is important over the last 30 years (credits to Barna Research Group) —- at 64% nowadays, a 25% drop from 1992. I think the people only believe you can do this in a safe environment, but I guess most of us didn’t factor that we’d face opposition even from the U.S., government eventually, for on top of other evil things that are openly hostile to Jesus, the Trump administration had tried to stop Bible-believing Christians from giving life-saving aid to migrants from countries like Mexico 🇲🇽 and they knew God hated this but they told Him that He was delusional 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️😒 —- no one has addressed it since. I guess they don’t believe in God.

There’s only about 70% of people in the U.S. (it slightly varies by state) that identify as Christian, too, and the number seems to be decreasing (but people are getting saved all over the world), so I bet less than half of the people here actually believe in sharing one’s faith, especially in a considerate and loving sense. Thank God that might increase, though, if life plays out like God’s Not Dead 3 (I wonder if you’ve seen the movie) —- oops, sorry for the spoilers 😅😆😄 but hopefully being real increases here, too… but there’s still a huge number of people around the world, especially the 10/40 window (everything between these latitudes in the northern hemisphere that’s not in 🇺🇲🇲🇽 —- you get the idea, I hope) that have never been saved or have heard the Gospel of Christ before. It doesn’t help that many people in the U.S. are still trying to silence everyone who wants good for all humans, and that too many churches don’t teach the Bible and/or are trying to deceive everyone with their use of it… and before we know it, my notes might be criminalized soon, because they feature biblical material. Something like this should never happen.

I’ll share this with Josh and Tim. In the meantime, if you want me to pray about anything, you can let me know via email 📧 at ron.outland4727@gmail.com. I’ll read each one (I still haven’t gotten any messages), write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you next week, I hope, in chapter 34! ¡Hasta luego!