My apologies for being a beast.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5
“meek” – praus / prah-ooce’ [G4239] mild, i.e. (by implication) humble:–meek.
The weak are not humble, they are weak. It is someone that is strong, that chooses not to use the strength they have, that can be humble.
Men have a great capacity for evil – it has taken civilization thousands of years to temper this natural instinct on a national level.
Religion did not temper man – some of the bloodiest wars ever fought were ‘religiously’ motivated. Religion is still the cause of much terrorism and suffering in the world (godliness is an inward working – religion is an outer façade)
Temperance reached its apex when the Constitution was drafted. We had just fought a very bloody war of independence and our founding fathers wanted to curb man’s natural tendency to despotism. Checks on anyone’s ability to gain too much power were codified and were generally successful for about 100 years.
We are now witnessing the final collapse of our governmental foundation as ‘elites’ within the administration and the bureaucracy have corrupted the system to wield power and line their pockets. A change in the leadership may delay the collapse, but the corruption is too far-reaching to change the final outcome.
Faith is the only means of survival in an increasingly corrupt world. Faith is the humbling of ourselves (who are capable of great evil) to the will of the one who can save us from ourselves and reward us with life in a new body, a new heaven, and a new earth (Revelation 21:1-4)
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:9-10
Did you confess? Did you humble yourself (who is capable of great evil) to the Savior and the Word of Yahweh? What is the evidence of your humility?
- Do you still steal (8th Commandment)?
- Do you still commit adultery (7th Commandment)?
- Do you still murder (6th Commandment)?
- Do you still dishonor your parents (5th Commandment)?
- Do you honor the Sabbath (4th Commandment)?
- Do you walk as your confessed Lord instructed you to walk?
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
1John 2:3-7
Christ followed the Law . . . his Father’s will for all mankind. “… not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42b)
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 6:38
Yeshua had demonstrated great power and, as a human, had great capacity for evil, had he not humbled himself to his Father’s will. He honored his Father.
Are you humbling yourself to Christ’s will? Are you deluding yourself into believing that you can bend his will to match your own? The Christian church specializes in subverting the Word of God – you hear them tell you that ‘Christ loves you just the way you are’.
He loves the sinner (consisting of the entire population), and communed with sinners, but he never told them it was okay to continue sinning. “Sin no more” – John 5:14; 8:11,34. He demands that we become more faithful to his will.
The Church did away with Sabbath observance in the 4th Century – how many other Laws are they willing to sacrifice? The churches bow to governmental directives in order to maintain their tax-free status – they are a business, and your salvation is not necessarily a byproduct of their ‘works’.
The Catholic Church tells us to act a certain way or we will burn for eternity (salvation through works). The Christian churches tell us we can do whatever we want because Christ died for all sins . . . no caveat. Both lead down the broad path to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). Seek the narrow path that few find.
You must go to the Word and discover for yourself what the will of Christ (and his Father) is. You also need to seek out others (https://www.119ministries.com/resources/fellowship-finder/) who will not bend to the modern heresy – you need them to speak truth into your life and you into theirs (“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” – Proverbs 27:17)
Humbling yourself to the government is not going to save you (do not comply). Humbling yourself to the church is not going to save you (do not be deceived).
Humbling your great capacity for evil to the Word of God is the only path to salvation.
I trained myself (not literally, but when you repeat things often, you are training yourself to do it more often) to be a beast. I have a great capacity for evil – many of you have seen manifestations of it, for which I am sorry.
I humbled myself to the government to extent that I didn’t go to prison and deluded myself into thinking I was doing great service. I humbled myself to different churches to the extent that they let me occupy a pew and delude myself into thinking I was on the narrow path. I humbled myself to the extent that my wife and children didn’t leave me.
It wasn’t until I humbled myself to the dictates of the Savior that I knew peace and felt an actual purpose. Killing my country’s enemies so that the leaders could enrich themselves was not a noble purpose. Fostering adherence to a religion that teaches (and therefore encourages) guilt-free misbehavior and denies the will of Yahweh was not a noble purpose.
Training my wife and children to be as willfully ignorant of the Truth as I had chosen to be was not a noble purpose. My wife and I have made a commitment to stand on the whole Word – I pray it is not too late for my grown children to do the same.
The government is not going to save us.
The church is not going to save us.
My apologies for being a beast – for things I have done that may have hindered you in your search for the Truth.
Blessed are the meek [those that have chosen to humble themselves to the Word of Yahweh]: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5