I felt pressed by the Holy Spirit this morning to study this scripture for Matthew 6:33. What I'm finding is that we think that we have the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus), but a lot of it has been intentionally changed to keep the majority in darkness.
It is very likely that Matthew 6:33 is one of those scriptures. But, more importantly, from today, I'm beginning to think that any Bible or Bible commentary that you might find will still fall short if you do not know the original languages.
At first, I did not find anything interesting. I could not find anything in the Hebrew and Greek Lexicon. I couldn't even find the resource page I used to access all the time from Scripturetext.com; thank you Google.
But, then I visited http://www.peshitta.org/ and http://aramaicnewtestament.org/gospel/matthew_6.htm. I tried the Google translator tool since no translation was offered on the second website. The results are very interesting...
Peshitta Aramaic/English Interlinear New Testament: not therefore be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be added these (things) and all and His righteousness of God the kingdom all these things require you.
Direct Greek Translation: and first seek ye the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things were added unto you (Oddly enough, there were no alternate translations for "were added").
Was it an error in translation, as is common with the Google translator tool, or has something been lost in translation or intentionally changed by translators? I'm having trouble deciding. Do your study Bibles ever question the translations? In your daily devotional, you should.
Because the second translation is more exciting I wanted so share it. In light of who God is, the current faith training I have been going through, I believe that the translators must have thought that they needed to correct the tense in the sentence. But, they lost the original meaning.
Don't toil. Lilies don't toil. God has taken care of everything that you need already. He cares more for you than flowers.
However, The Son of Man shall come, and will he then find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8b
I found too many instances of overlap when I was watching the Fullness of Christ faith training and Graham Cooke's interview with Patricia King. Graham said, "Everything is about relationship because God is making you in His image. There are no accidents; everything's planned for that precise purpose." And, what I see is how the Fullness of Christ faith training is taking the randomness of becoming more like God out of the process.
Graham spoke of God saying that He would show him His kindness and another time His peace. And, in the faith training we choose to pursue and experience God's nature, be love, joy, peace, patience, self-control, etc. I see this as a beautiful step closer to going deeper in relationship with God--to really see Him.
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He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.
-Psalm 1:3
I understand that the natural mirrors the spiritual world. I understand that everything starts as seed. And, yet, I still have been pressing more for the impossible nature of God, the miraculous, when it comes to, well every thing I can imagine.
And, not only this. I have been comparing my personal progress to that of Jean Miller. But, she operates at such a baffling level of faith because she is more in union with God. And, she stands solidly on this one truth:God Is Good. She does not accuse Him of being anything that He isn't when she does not immediately see the fruit she desires, and she recognizes and accepts the process of death to germination to sprout to fruit.
She's compared looking at our life's circumstances, which we have faith to turn around, like looking at a baby in a womb or a house under construction. IT LOOKS MESSY! And, sometimes to build our faith, God, in His infinite goodness, allows for things to get worse, much worse, so that we experience the fullness of overcoming.
When things look messy, there is the tendency to abort. There is the tendency to abandon the mission of bringing the Kingdom of God to earth. We even forget that God is always with us and for us. But, with the realization that it is perfectly normal to experience the extreme opposite in order to enjoy the fullness of God's nature, we can remain in peace.
Here is an entry from my journal yesterday: In reality, I was behaving like a farmer who had planted seed and went daily to the field looking for the fruit and mid-season became angry because it was not the time of the fruit. And, I cursed the fruit, shook my fist at God, calling Him unfair, unloving, and then, left the field and all the fruit to perish. Leia Mais…
I'm excited about this prophecy training update that Jean Miller just made.
This is for the training and equipping of the body of Christ. In about three minutes you can learn how to see and hear in the Spirit. You were born with the ability to hear from God an communicate with God, but you may not have been aware of it. So, this is more like an activation of your senses that you have not been using.
After you watch this prophecy training and learn how to exercise your spiritual senses, you will find it easy to train others. We are setting the Gospel free. God has declared the knowledge of Him to be free for all. It's free in all other places of creation except for with televangelists that need to fund a kingdom (not God' Kingdom).
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no
money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price."
This training is a part of the Fullness of Christ Discipleship, and organization dedicated to training every believer to do everything that Christ did and more. Trainings like this are conducted weekly over Skype. All are welcome to join, practice, and spread the teachings as they desire. Manuals (and practice assignments) are available for each of the trainings.
If Adam Young didn't have a major case of insomnia, perhaps this song would never have been made.
I can't think of a better way of spreading the "Good News" or a better example of world missions today. Galaxiesby Owl City
Call back the cap-com,
Tick off the time-bomb,
Let felicity fly!
Armour the airlock,
Blanket the bedrock,
And kiss the planet goodbye!
Dear God, I was terribly lost,
When the galaxies crossed,
And the Sun went dark.
Dear God, You're the only North Star,
I would follow this far.
Fight back the flight deck,
Bring on the breakneck,
Cue the solar eclipse!
Summit the sunset,
Dubtail the dragnet,
And blow your backbone to bits!
Dear God, I was terribly lost,
When the galaxies crossed,
And the Sun went dark.
Dear God, You're the only North Star,
I would follow this far.
Oh telescope, keep an eye on my only hope,
Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road.
Hercules, you've got nothing to say to me,
'Cause you're not the blinding light that I need.
For He is the saving grace of the Galaxies!
He is the saving grace of the Galaxies!
Dear God, I was terribly lost,
When the galaxies crossed,
And the Sun went dark.
(Went dark)
Dear God, You're the only North Star,
I would follow this far.
I would follow this far.
(Galaxies, galaxies, through the galaxies, through the galaxies)
I know he does collaborations with Reliant K, but honestly, he outshines them. (Sorry Reliant K fans).
I secretly think that he knows something about the Jewish feasts being dress rehearsals for God dealing with Creation on Earth (end time prophecy). Only those ignorant of the times will be caught by surprise when Jesus returns.
Adam Young's song "Fireflies" went quadruple platinum. That gave him quite a platform and funding to create his art.
This sort of reminds of Kanye's last cry, "Jesus Walks," before he plunged headlong into the wicked side of the music industry.
The music industry can be a dark and harrowing place for an artist. I hope he keeps his faith in his Creator and continues to make songs that are the Truth, the Way, and the Life.
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,-Ephesians 4:11
Okay, I have to share two things: I just listened to this dude, Kris Vallotton talking about apostles. He was calling people on their junk man! He was like, "Apostles reform culture; it doesn't matter if you have a bunch of churches under you, if you are not seeing culture molded by your influence, you're not an apostle." That's a loose paraphrase. And, I was just like, Yes! Preach it man!
And, I'd like you to meet my new dad Rock Mcilvain. I say dad because, obviously, I already have a dad, but Rock treats me the way I wish my dad did, and he's brave and focused on advancing the Kingdom of God. Actually, the genuine love the the Heaven Father which he's shown me has revived me. I was in a little bit of a funk for about two weeks. Prayer, words of encouragement, etc. did not help. But, for some reason, Rock telling the Fullness of Christ Group on a Skype call that he loves us made feel better.
Love Heals
Besides Rock going to the Dominican Republic and Haiti and releasing the Kingdom of God down there, healing hundreds with his small team and translator, Victor Rodriguez, the soul of it remains -- compassion. What is the Kingdom of God about? What is World Missions about? The love of the Father God.
Hayward Lee Hurst
Today, an announcement was made. A young man named Hayward Lee Hurst was ordained as the group's official prophet/seer because he had a heavenly visitation and now sees deeply into the spirit realm, so he can give very accurate prophetic words to people. It usually takes years for a person to get to his level of accuracy, but this is his calling.
There are two responses that a person usually has to someone like Hayward. Mine was a bit of aversion because people like him can see the good, the bad and the ugly about you. And, the other response was like Jean Miller, which was asking him a barrage of questions because you know that he can answer them with ease. Basically, psychics have nothing on him.
Hmmm...I'm wondering if I covered everything. I'm a trainer with the Fullness of Christ Discipleship group, and I can truly see that Jean Miller is an apostle. We're going to transform cities in Nigeria in February, and cities in the country of Israel will follow.
Just to make a few funny comparisons: Jean Miller is like Jean Grey with her ability to transform the mind and reality; Rock Mcilvain is like Wolverine in strength and ferocity with the ability to heal (except in this case, it's not just himself); and Hayward is like...Professor X, except he's not so serious. I felt like he must have been reading my mail from the last five years when he told me about myself.
The Prophecy of the Last Pope
Oh, I also saw another interesting video about the last Pope today. Most of it didn't really interest me because I have been reading about how certain Feasts of the Lord (which some call Jewish Holidays) coincide with solar and lunar eclipse patterns which were intended to inform us of what God is up to.
But...the part that did interest me was the commentary at around (29:00-31:33) about the Mayan calendar, and a prophecy by Jonathan Edwards which just happens to coincide with the year predicted for the return of Christ in this post - End Time Prophecy: When is Christ Returning?
The Mayans believed that on December 21, 2012 their Kukulcan, a dragon with the power of air, would return.
The Aztec believed in 2012 their flying dragon god, Quetzalcoatl, would return.
The Cherokee indians' calendar ends in 2012 with the return of their flying rattlesnake god.
Could it be that on December 21, 2012, when everyone thinks the world is going to end, Satan is going to be released from the pit where he has been bound?
Revelations 20:2-3 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that
he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years
were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
I have to say, this Rosh Hashanah was eventful. I observed it for the first time with the prayers and explanation of the food and everything with the Fullness of Christ Discipleship group. And, immediately after the group founder, Jean Miller, shared the link to this video outlining the prophecy in the book of Daniel and the exact 48 hour period and year to look for Christ's return.
She said that we might not want to watch it, but I feel like we have come to this blessed day to know when to look for His coming. I would love to expound on the topic more, but I'll just let you watch the video.
People hate it. But, prophecy is not to become angry over, it is to observe. I have printed out many prophecies of judgement on America and different earthquakes that were to happen and stuff, and I simply waited. If God has spoken it, it will be. Prophets just echo the I AM.
I won't add anything except. It seems that the pre-tribulation rapture theology is totally debunked in this video. And, the theology taught at International House of Prayer, Kansas City is true though challenging.
Following the Bible, if the time of mankind's creation was approximately 6000 years ago, we are in the final age before HIS return. The last millenium before the Sabbath millennial reign of Christ. If you have no idea what the Sabbath means, please do yourself a favor and study how it was built into our calendar in Genesis.
Peace.
Yes, popular Jewish culture/context teacher Mark Biltz taught that Rosh Hashanah was called "the feast when no man knows the day or the hour," there are the verses:
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command,
with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of
God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. - 1 Thessalonians 4:16, ESV
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed. - 1 Corinthians 15:52, KJV
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in
heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” - Revelation 11:15, ESV
Remember the full title of the final book in the canon is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." "...you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: "A day is like a
thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." - 2 Peter 3:8, NLT We are in the 6th day or age of man, and we know to look for Messiah on Rosh Hashanah, but we are not quite sure exactly what year it is, but the stars tell us because they were given for signs...
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for
seasons, and for days and years,"- Genesis 1:14, ESV
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth
distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and
the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken." - Luke 21:25-26, ESV
HOW MANY BLOOD MOONS WERE THERE LAST YEAR? If you think having that many in one years time, occurring during the feasts of the LORD (aka Jewish holidays), is normal, do some research. The word lampstand in Revelation 1:12 translates to menorah. The temple menorah given in Exodus 25:31-32, ESV, has 7 total stands for candles.
The Golden Lampstand 31 “You
shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of
hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its
flowers shall be of one piece with it.32 And
there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of
the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand
out of the other side of it; I saw a depiction of a priest hold a similar lampstand with his face all full of glory when I went looking for an image. I navigated to the page. The image was not displayed, and it was missing from the search results when I went back to the results page...and now that I wasted 30 minutes or so trying to locate it elsewhere, let me finish this:
Yahshua (your Jesus) said, "I go to prepare a place for you (John 14:3)" and "no man knows the day or the hour (Matthew 24:36)" of his return, but with an understanding of Jewish weddings where the bridegroom leaves to prepare a place for his bride in his father's house after he is betrothed and his father deciding when it is ready for the bride, we can understand this riddle. We are given a time to look for him a wise virgin with oil watching for the sighting of the moon for Rosh Hashanah (which can be a 48 hour window) "the feast where no man knows the day or the hour" is indeed the time of year for the Bridgegrooms return, but on which Rosh Hashanah He will return, we must keep reading, watching and learn.
Eleven years ago today, two kingdoms clashed that brought down the World Trade Center and shook the world. In a matter of minutes, more lives were lost on American soil as a result of that singular momentous clash than ever before.
As we remember what may have been the darkest day in U.S. history, let's not forget what we risk as the kingdoms of dark and light clash in our daily lives.
In moments when selfish motives overcome loving ones, we might not seeskyscrapers crumble to the ground in a ball of flames, but life has been lost. Lights have been dimmed. Lines have been moved giving territory to the wicked.
There is a battle that continually rages in our workplaces, schools, communities, and homes--in government halls, financial centers, media channels, and neighborhood streets.
We are all called to hold the line and fight the good fight. Young and old, male and female, rich and poor, high and low, wherever you find yourself, there you are on the front line.
Today, as we remember those who have fallen at the hands of dark forces, pray for God's love to overcome. Pray for goodness, mercy, light, and love to prevail. Pray for grace to abound.
There is no force more powerful on the face of the earth than prayer.
We can do more than hold the line--we can advance the Kingdom and take back whatever territory has been stolen. Join with me today in declaring, "Let there be light"--and move out today in God's love.
Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
