I’m going to be honest with you guys, while I don’t think God’s Name deserves to be blasphemed (some dude does this in verse 11), it’s not right that this is the basis of discrediting Jesus’ words in Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:28, and Luke 12:10 concerning forgiveness for blasphemy against Him or anything else but the Holy Spirit. But more of that section of this chapter later; the whole chapter can be found in pages 72-73 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 93-94 of the NASB Bible I have (the 1995 version, Old Testament), pages 152-153 of my VOICE copy, and pages 151-152 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I love how olive oil can be used to light a lamp π―οΈπ‘ or make a flame π₯ given the words of verse 2 here. This may be what the bridesmaids had in mind in Matthew 25:14-30 when five of them had foresight to prepare for the bridegroom by using oil to trim their lamps, and they said to their ill-prepared friends that they should wake up a dealer to get some to trim theirs. Nowadays, we use tungsten to light a bulb to turn on the lights, and there’s LED-lights to preserve the environment a little better. But back then, in the 15th century B.C., when Moses lived and when he and Aaron were leading Israel together to the promise land, they didn’t have the technology to make a light bulb π‘π€ so this is what everyone did until the light bulb was invented after the Civil War. Indeed, industrial stuff exploded in usage after that, but that’s beside the point. We should look to Jesus as our Supplier of oil for our faith…
…and we should look to Him on what to do if someone references verses 13-22 to override His words on not being violent in Matthew 5:38-48.
What I’m about to write down here is what too many people in the U.S. hate a lot, more than they love life, I think β they want unforgiving content to be enforced. I think I’ve said this before, but I don’t remember if I wrote this down in this blog π€ it’s really not cool that Satanism began to circulate widely in the media beginning in 1960, and the U.S. was already pretty unsafe, because they were dealing with Cuba’s warheads and loving violence even against Vietnam, where they didn’t need to invade, but sadly, because they had put their greasy nose in their business, it became Communist in 1975. They had already done this with Korea, so that it would be divided, now, and people even in the two Koreas are losing hope that it would ever be unified again. But if it does, I want it to be on Christ’s terms. Even when I talked with Jonathan about turning the other cheek (for that was and still is the way of Jesus, hence the Matthew 5 passage), he tried to trick me into the whole “stand your ground” thing. He was an Air Force veteran, and was in his right mind when he had said this, for it was 2017, and the pandemic wouldn’t start until the beginning of this decade. The end of the pandemic, though, shattered my heart in various ways, most notably in seven people dying in one year, all being unrelated to one another. I mentioned this to a coworker who was in my store (she’s probably since left to resume teaching exclusively at a school somewhere), and she was like, “Who have you been hanging out with?” Indeed, I didn’t know a lot as to why these things happened. I’m still clueless about most of it. But two people I’ve known so far have passed away this year, and both were probably in their 60s. So while I thank God no one below 45 passed away this time, I’m scared my one homeless friend, Kevin, is no longer with us πππππππ for he mentioned to me late in June, almost two months ago, that he was dying of heart failure, and we thought he had only a week left to live, but he lived for a while after that! π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³ππΌππΌππΌππΌ I haven’t seen him since I gave him two gift cards for food, though, one for In-N-Out and one for Raising Cane’s. So I hope to see him again soon… I remember he said to me he’s got plenty of life left in him after the first announcement in late June this year, but I’m not sure where he is… I hope the dude’s OK. He’s 40 years old, and I want him to live to be at least 80 like my grandmother had been.
I also think the attacks the U.S. loves to pull off on Matthew 5:38-48 (as though this chapter were grounds for this, and as if Jesus had contradicted the Scriptures) β the ones doing this show how hateful, spoiled, and unforgiving they are. Even though I don’t want any of us to pull off what God speaks against in verses 14-22, it’s like He had commanded the Church to be more hateful than Satan is. And no one can top that… indeed, it’s like God commanded unforgiveness for even ordinary offences like accidentally knocking over a bottle of shampoo at your local grocery store, whether anything came out or not. I do this FREQUENTLY, and I don’t like that I can be accident prone. The craziest part is, I work in northern Gilbert, so I wonder how the other Arizonans feel right now… I’m sorry that the Church has abused this chapter πππππππππππππππππ Jesus cannot accept any of that π€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈπ€¦πΌββοΈ again, I have a dreadful feeling that forgiveness will be criminalized, so that the penalty for it would be death. They already do this with those who destroy Teslas… this atheism, prohibiting destruction of even one’s own Nazi product (for Elon Musk runs Tesla, and he gave the Nazi salute, with all his fans excusing him as if he had autism and actually praising him for his reprobate actions) β this is unforgivable. I mentioned on Facebook in January that if Trump thinks he can do what he wants, he’s surely going to be surprised when God sshowd up to rescue his victims and judge him and his men for everything the politicians have done, with or without Trump’s help. But when they make more atheist laws attacking the basic freedoms we need, no Bible verse will save us from them. For I have a feeling that Trump’s president again because of Bible prophecy. Indeed, why do you think the guy’s staging a peace deal with Russia about Ukraine? For if he had actually wanted peace, he wouldn’t even be a politician, let alone support Russian aggression against them πππππ he even said once on Twitter over a decade ago that a leader must never meet with a tyrant like Putin, yet they met together anyway recently. Don’t ask me how I know this; I never followed him there… I don’t even have Twitter anymore. Unfortunately, though, we’ll probably never be rid of him, even after three hundred years pass by. The man’s already in our gold coins, so I know that’s cursed. They even enforce atheism in the Alligator Alcatraz prison they built in Florida for July 4th, but thankfully, I heard it was shutting down, or they’re at least trying to. Yet I know they’ll build more prisons like these where Bibles and everything else are not allowed. Even Sudan’s prisons aren’t THAT foolish. And I’ve read about some of them from a Czech pastor last year when he was falsely charged with something there and then imprisoned with ISIS cellmates. But spoiler alert, he’s forgiven by the Sudanese president in early 2017 and was soon allowed to return home. I’ve told some of my friends this at work before, and so far, no one’s discredited me on this.
But what could be the reason for the slander of Matthew 5:38-48? Could it be that people think Jesus is encouraging people to be wimpy like that one kid who has no friends, eats lunch all by himself in the school cafeteria, and has Crohn’s disease so that he’s extremely careful what to eat? I don’t think so! Another thing I think is inappropriate is that the U.S. military claims to be Christian, yet warmongering is enforced for all the military members, and no one can raise any questions. I also pray against conscription here, if they ever try and enforce it again after 52 years of no military drafts (there were too many volunteers who signed up to obliterate the Middle Easterners when the 9/11 attacks happened and then-president Bush Jr. declared war against the nations who had done this), and likewise over all the other nations that have it, including Mexico π²π½ Sweden πΈπͺ Austria π¦πΉ BOTH Koreas, etc. I also pray against the dust storm happening as I write this down, for a HUGE tree branch near where I live snapped off because of it. There’s also going to be a powerful thunderstorm tonight in the Valley, so I pray all my family and our friends are safe ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌπ¨βπ§βπ§π¨βπ©βπ§π¨βπ§π«ππΌπ©πΌββ€οΈβπ©πΌπ―ββοΈπ§πΌββοΈπ§πΌββοΈπ°πΌπ°πΌββοΈπ°πΌββοΈ especially the little humans we have in our lives ππππππππππππππππππππππππβ£οΈβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ©Ήβ€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈβπ₯β€οΈπ§‘πππ©΅πππ©·π€π©Άπ€π€ I also pray my friend Hailey can be safe as she goes to Celebrate Recovery tonight to lead people to healing (although I can’t make it because of the powerful dust storm and subsequent monsoon π«οΈπͺοΈβοΈπ§οΈπ¦οΈπ©οΈβ‘ I could likely get injured or even killed on the way to church where this will happen) β I’ll have to wait until next week to resume attendance.
Also, people would mention that Trump’s a man of peace, even without all I wrote about throughout this post, but I know there’s none to be found, and that the pattern of Jeremiah 6:14 has repeated itself again. Even if I were in Iceland, the dude would rip us off, and even the safest countries would get angry and lose their footing, knowing Jesus had been subjugated to him, so to speak. But I pray against the U.S. government in their next move(s), for as Christians, our citizenship is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20). So we serve Jesus first and our countries second. So don’t think I wouldn’t pray against the regime until it’s gone! I’d even pray God’s angels obliterate the leaders while they’re sleeping, even in D.C., where nationalism dressed as Christianity burns the hottest. I also bet He would eliminate every building in the city due to its corruption exceeding even that of North Korea, seeing that they fuel the cartels past the U.S.-Mexico border and keep going until they reach the tip of South America. And their wealth should be distributed to all the bottom half of the world’s poor, however little they make, so that they may be able to outsmart their leaders in whichever nations they’re from, too. For a wicked ruler over a poor population is like a roaring lion or a charging bear (Proverbs 28:15). I pray God keeps the vulnerable safe and that many of them can find hope in Jesus π―π―π―π―π―π―π―π―π―π―πππππππ
I don’t think I have anything else to say, so I’ll leave you with this: if you want me to pray for you about something, you can email π§ me your requests at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape it to my bedroom walls! I hope you can be safe this week, and I’ll see you in the next chapter! Maybe I’ll be done with this book by Labor Day? We don’t know… but I pray I’m able to do that ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌ