Supernatural
I was watching TBN (‘Behind the Scenes') and according to the hosts ‘supernatural miracles' are a dime a dozen. Happens all the time. The average believer experiences countless such instantaneous ‘supernatural miracles' in their lifetime. To many to really count. It is just that common. These instantaneous supernatural miracle cures can be differentiated from normal ‘natural' healings which take some time, while the ‘supernatural' miracle happens in a mere instant. Benny Hinn frequently joins the hosts of this show. I will assume that Benny Hinn is the source of this attempt to dismiss this reversal of the aging process (the experiment on my nose) as being ‘natural' and thus nothing anyone needs to be concerned about, since it was obviously ‘not from the Lord', because if it was, the aging process would be reversed ‘supernaturally' in an instant.
Now given the frequency of the occurrence of such amazing ‘supernatural miracles', these things being a dime a dozen, one wonders why it is the case that no scientific verification yet exists that would prove the existence of such miraculous powers. Instead we see religious people feuding with school boards over the science curriculum, when it would be a smarter strategy to fight science with science. Such ‘supernatural miracles', being the type that happen quite suddenly, in a mere instant, therefore require the most rigorous scientific investigation, for the opportunity to validate the occurrence of such an amazing miracle only lasts for a mere moment in time. In the image above we can see the subject hooked up to the scientific instruments, while the magic wand of supernatural miracles is employed, and as you can see, in a stunning display of using science to validate doctrine, the instrument begins to flash a green light, indicating that yes, the supernatural miracle did occur.
Matthew
Since no scientific verification is ever produced to demonstrate that ‘instantaneous supernatural miracles' do occur, we will assume that no such thing has been happening. We are justified in continuing to hold to this belief that such ‘supernatural miracles' are imaginary fictions, until such a time as we have evidence produced that such miracles do occur, and that they occur in the magically instantaneous supernatural way described. I have no problem with ‘supernatural miracles', and being an open minded person have no problem modifying my beliefs to accept such things, should there ever be a reason to do so. What I do have a problem with is the idea that somehow my mind is a type of garbage can designed to receive tossed dogmatic rubbish with the tossing of such speculative dogmatism then said to be some kind of ‘divine plan of salvation'.It is worth noting here that the doctrine of the ‘instant supernatural miracle' is a fiction produced by the redactor who was responsible for creating the Gospel of Matthew. The Matthew Gospel is a redacted (edited) version of the Gospel of Mark. The Matthew Gospel adds on a new beginning to the account given in Mark, and then from about chapter six onwards, the Matthew account follows the Mark account, while introducing small edits and little changes here and there, such editing revealing the ideological agenda of the redactor. You see, the redactor did not edit Mark's gospel without a reason. The redactor was offended by criticism of the Torah laws, and the hostile attitude towards the Jews in general found in Mark's gospel (the Jesus figure does not set foot in Jewish territory until the very end of the Mark account, only to be promptly crucified for having done so). Another of the small editorial revisions typical of the Matthew account is the use of the word ‘immediately' (meaning ‘instantly') which is tacked onto the Mark account whenever there was a miracle story. Certain miracle stories where the addition of this word ‘instant' would not work were simply deleted from the edited version being produced by Matthew (which is why you find a hole in the Mark account, which then picks up at a point following that missing miracle, which could not have happened ‘instantly', and therefore was simply tossed out by the editor).
It is important to understand that gospels are not historical documents but rather they are agenda driven documents produced by ideological evangelists who are attempting to interpret events and push a certain point of view. It is only by disposing of the agenda of the evangelist (which requires us to recognize it for what it is) that we have any hope of finding the ‘historical Jesus' which lies buried somewhere down below.
Beware of the Yeast of the Scribes
You might recall the interesting parable which compares ‘the Kingdom of God' to a ‘buried pearl' which someone had buried in a hole out in the middle of a field somewhere. This was a ‘pearl of great price' which, according to this prediction, would wind up buried out in a field (a very strange way to treat such a valuable pearl). This parable is a commentary upon religion, and the way in which the truth is made subservient to the requirements of dogmatic ideology. The ‘pearl' in this case would be the ‘historical Jesus' and the field in which this pearl is found hidden is what today is referred to as ‘sacred scripture'.The edited version of the Gospel of Mark which was then called ‘Matthew' is one interesting example of just how such a burial of a pearl takes place over time (with both Matthew and Mark then being subject to further editing to produce ‘Luke', with the result being that the pearl winds up buried even deeper in that hole in the ground as part of this ideologically driven process).
Now before we go any further in our critique of the yeast of those book scribbling scribes, we should pause for a moment to consider the ridiculous claims of those yeast peddlers. Here I am referring to the alleged ‘divine plan of God', which was to hire a bunch of those scribes to scribble up books, which would then be voted upon by pharisees in the first and then again in the fourth century, since apparently getting pharisees involved with that project right along with those scribes was an important component element in God's unfolding divine plan.
Now once you have had scribes at work, and once the work of those scribes has been approved by the vote of confidence given to those works by the pharisee, it then becomes possible for God to vacate the premises, for God, according to that theory concerning the salvation of the world, only needs to show up long enough to give the scribes some ideas about what to scribble. Having left us with only scribbles, God was then never seen again, for apparently God thinks that the scribbles of scribes are just as good as the real thing, and with that thought in mind, who needs God when they can have the equally worthwhile scribbles of those scribes. This is especially true when you get those pharisees involved as well, for the pharisees gave their vote of confidence to the scribbles produced by those scribes, thus resulting in the production of ‘sacred scripture', AKA ‘the word of God', and since that is just as good as having God, since that time God was never seen again, for you see the scribbles of scribes are as powerful as any two edged sword and every bit as alive as God in person, so we really haven't lost much.
We can clearly see the central importance granted to both scribe and pharisee in the unfolding of the divine plans of God, for it was God's sacred plan to give us books scribbled up by scribes and then leave us in the trustworthy hands of the pharisees who would spend the next few thousand years bullying everyone else in the darkness. It turns out that when God, in glorious wisdom and wonderful grace, first granted us the blessed gift of scribes, it only logically follows that everyone must be bullied by pharisees who will ensure that everyone listens to the orders given by those scribes. You see, not everyone is so easily convinced that having the scribbles of a scribe is just as good as having God, and given the absence of God and the presence of scribes and pharisees to fill the gap (God's glorious plan yet again) it therefore follows from this some people will get doomed and damned and go to hell for not having developed the personal relationship with the scribes and pharisees. Typically people will demand that you have a personal relationship with God, but that would not be possible, given the bitterness of the long exile, and in any case what some people call a ‘relationship with God' is actually a relationship with some scribe approved by some pharisee, since we all know that we relate to God only through books scribbled up by some scribes.
Therefore we must all become ‘saved' by means of the scribes and the pharisees, since this was obviously God's plan, or so we have been told. Well, it must have been God's plan to give us scribes and pharisees, for otherwise we must assume that atheism is the correct philosophy, since we have no gods here. Therefore since there are people who are not fond of atheism it is no surprise that they develop a compensating fondness for scribes and pharisees.
It seems quite obvious to some people that God must be saving the world. The way that this glorious plan works is that God gives us scribes, and then requires us to toss the sacred nickel of salvation while being locked into some pitch dark closet by some pharisee. There we will be required to guess the right answer to the tossed nickel of salvation, without being able to actually look at the nickel to see if we guessed the right result of that random coin toss (remember this is a pitch black closet). Since it is obvious that this a piss poor plan of salvation, and most times will never work, for this reason God gave us the pharisees as a back up plan for giving us scribes in the first place, with the idea being that the pharisees will constantly bully and terrorize everyone into playing the coin toss game of salvation, while at the same time making damn sure that they guess the dogmatically correct answer to that coin toss, so very important to the salvation of everyone, for if you guess wrong, you burn in hell..
Out of all the possible means of world salvation, God chose this particularly brainless and stupid methodology. Or so it would seem. The alternative conclusion would be to assume that God was not saving the world, but instead God decided to send everyone into cruel exile in a land as dark as death, with only scribes and pharisees for company. The only other alternative conclusion would be that the atheists are right all along, and there is no God. So when it comes to interpreting the nature of our reality our clear choices are 1) brainless and brutally stupid plan of salvation 2) we are in exile with the scribes and the pharisees 3) atheism.
The Yeast of the Scribes
Now we have already been told to beware of the yeast of those scribes, and I find myself wondering why people are not more cautious. In saying this the Jesus character was only repeating, in the form of a parable, what the former Jewish prophets had been saying all along in the past.One of my favorite warnings concerning the yeast of those scribes is found in the book of Jeremiah, where we read, ‘burn your whole offerings and eat the flesh yourselves, for on the day I brought your ancestors out of Egypt I gave them no instructions or commands concerning whole offerings and sacrifices. But you do not listen, you pay no heed, and carry on with your own practices with the most stubbornly evil hearts. Now truth has perished from their lips and it is no longer heard in the land.'. This is from the seventh chapter of Jeremiah, the 21st verse. Here Jeremiah is summarizing the main problem with that yeast of the scribes. It causes truth to perish and is replaced with some fictional lie cooked up by scribes and then voted upon by Pharisees.
We can see a similar problem today in that for close to two thousand years God has not spoken one word or done one single thing for everyone. God has not been saving the world, but rather the world has been cast into the outer darkness of exile, there to weep and grind their teeth, with only the morphine supplied by dope peddling pharisees as a source of comfort in the midst of their distress. Nevertheless the lie is produced, courtesy of the latest version of those scribes, that God is hard at work saving the world, for today God only works through people and never does a damn thing in person, which is to say that these days God only works through the scribes and pharisees. This deluded belief is handy if you happen to be a scribe or a pharisee, but isn't much for any other purpose.
This then leads to a flood tide of false prophets, for while it is true that God has not spoken nevertheless such prophecies spread like cancer, with the claim being that God is speaking from far away up in heaven. God is doing nothing, at least nothing to amaze anyone. Yes, those were the good old days, one must assume. But even a do nothing god can speak from heaven. Really, it is the least such a god of the dead could do and therefore it was better than nothing at all.
As Jeremiah put it, ‘they say, ‘God is with us'. They have lied...The prophets prophecy the delusions of their own minds. They say, ‘thus saith the Lord God' even though I have not spoken to them. I did not speak to them nor did I send them yet they ran with their messages. These people keep repeating the slogan, ‘this is the temple of God, the temple of God, the temple of God.' But they gain nothing for themselves by their dogmatic repetition of this meaningless slogan.'
Jeremiah continues his attack on the yeast of the scribes in the eight chapter. ‘Now people do not know the requirements of God. How can you say, ‘we are wise for we have the Torah (the so called laws of God brought down by Moses), when, actually the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. Now their leaders will be dismayed, they will be trapped and snared, for they rejected the word of God, so what kind of wisdom did they really have.'
Here we can see quite clearly that the term ‘yeast of the scribes' is a description of so called ‘sacred scripture' found in the so called ‘holy bible'. This critique of the scribes is also found in the book of Isaiah, where the behavior of dogmatics quoting sacred scripture one line a time is given, which once again clearly points us to the Bible as being the yeast of those scribes. We read, that the whole religion has degenerated into book quoting dogmatism and has become, ‘just rule upon rule, line upon line, precept upon precept, a little here, a little there, so that as they walk they will fall backwards, they will be injured, trapped and snared.'
There are two ways that we can interpret this snaring operation. First, we can make note of the fact that the scribes will look like deluded liars, for the people will go into godforsaken exile, lest God seem to be approving of that devious scribble. At this time people will begin to notice just how deluded the scribble of the scribes appears to be, for you cannot help but compare godless reality with those fanciful stories of just how busy and supernatural some god was behaving so very long ago. The second snare must wait for the long passage of time, and the introduction of the true plan of God, which had nothing to do with dogmatic doctrines scribbled up by scribes and peddled by pharisees, for the true plan of God was simply the living resurrection. No scribe would ever be found touching such a doctrine with a ten foot pole, for scribes only invent that which cannot be proven or disproven, because that strategy is much safer, and pharisees are not about to make idiots out of themselves by preaching a Living Resurrection or a Living God in the Land of the Living, and so therefore pharisees will remain on much safer turf by preaching about ghost heaven and some god of the dead. Therefore when the time comes for the revelation of the Living Resurrection the wisdom of the wise men will perish and they will be injured, trapped and snared. This is only just for scribes and pharisees had already spent all their time injuring humanity with that form of bullying called ‘evangelism' consisting of a kind of hunting operation where someone plots to snare a rabbit, so therefore snaring scribes and injuring pharisees would be an example of turn about being fair play.
Cainite Religion
According to the yeasty writings Christian scribe known as ‘Paul' everyone has sinfully sexy flesh and therefore all must die for all have been sinfully sexy, and so therefore God must condemn the sinful flesh, while at the same time being the God of salvation, for God will save the spiritual type ghost that pops out of that sinful flesh when people die and go to ghost heaven.We can see here that this scribe knew nothing about the Living Resurrection. Indeed, thanks to the handful of yeast tossed by that scribe, the Living Resurrection is now a damnable heresy. No one ever considered the Living Resurrection, and instead they allowed the curse of death to be pronounced over their lives by some ignorant know nothing scribe.
In the past I have spent some time dueling with words and attempting to undo the damage done by that yeast chucking scribe. Today I continue my work, although I feel that I have less need for words. For you see I will not allow some yeast chucking scribe to introduce words of cursing over my life. The result this produces is the earliest evidence of the Living Resurrection. First I will raise my nose from the dead. Now since there is really no difference between the Living Resurrection of some dead nostril and the remainder of the human body, I will then continue on with my damnable heresy, and rather than having my body condemned for possessing genitalia, I will just go ahead and skip the step of dying first, for it turns out that this erroneous scribble is completely redundant, and not some required step.
Now we know that when Cain's religious offering was rejected, and Cain then crucified Able in a great rage, Cain then left the presence of God and went into godforsaken exile in the land of Nod, somewhere east of Eden. There Cain was free to practice the Cainite religion, and since the god of Nod was the god of the dead living in ghost heaven, Cain was also free to pretend that his rejected religious offering was not rejected but rather was very acceptable. It was accepted as a religious offering by the god of the dead living in ghost heaven, and we have this on no less an authority than Cain himself.
It would seem to me that it would be appropriate to practice religious tolerance when it comes to the various followers of Cainite religion in all its various manifest forms on this planet. The followers of Cainite religion must be condemned and die for their sinful flesh, as described in that yeasty book of Romans. Having had such words of cursing placed on their life they must wither away and die as good dogmatic doctrine requires, for to do otherwise would be heresy for such people. I understand that. I am prepared to practice religious tolerance and split the planet with the followers of Cainite religion, temporarily, until they are all dead.
The Revelation of the Living Resurrection
In the past I have recommended that anyone who is interested in ‘last days end times prophecies' would do best to pay particular attention to so called ‘second Isaiah', which starts at chapter 40 in the book. You see, the ‘key to prophecy' in this case is a profound understanding of the Living Resurrection which informs all the prophecy in this section of the book. It is for this reason that Jewish prophecy reaches its highest form in this particular document.One example of this is the prophecy of the downfall of Cainite religion, which is found in the 48thchapter. The cause of this downfall was the revelation of the secret of the ages which had been locked away in a lock box for thousands of years. Cainite religion knew nothing about the Living Resurrection and this was the very first time they had heard about the matter. The wisdom of their wise men perished. The theology of their most revered theologians was instantly cast into the dust of the earth.
1 ¶ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.The prophecy then gives a description of the end of the long exile of the rejected religious offering of the Cainite religion practiced away from the presence of God in the land of Nod, somewhere east of Eden.
2 For they call themselves after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.
3 The former things I declared long ago, they went out from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
4 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
5 I declared them to you from long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, so that you would not say, "My idol did them, my carved image and my cast image commanded them."
6 You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.
7 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, so that you could not say, "I already knew them."
8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.
9 ¶ For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, so that I may not cut you off.
10 See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
12 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
13 My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand at attention.
14 Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
16 ¶ Draw near to me, hear this! From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there. And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his spirit.
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go.
18 O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea;
19 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.
20 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split open the rock and the water gushed out.
22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."
End Times Prophecy
"I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and I shall restore yours at the same time. When you bring them comfort you will bear your shame and feel disgraced for what you have done. After your sister Sodom becomes what she was of old, then you yourself will be restored likewise. Did you not speak contemptuously of your sister Sodom in the days of your arrogant pride, before your own wickedness was exposed? Even know you are finding out what it is like to be despised by all your neighbours. Now you must bear the consequences of your lewd and abominable conduct. I shall treat you as you deserve for you have violated the terms of your covenant. You will remember your past conduct and feel ashamed and humiliated so that you will never open your mouth again. This is the Word of Yahweh God." (Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 53)
In the past I was in the habit of mocking the ‘end times prophets' and their ‘last days prophecies'. I used to tell them that for some damnable reason those prophecies were always missing that all important part about the restored faggot.
Sometimes you will hear about the ‘latter rain movement'. This was some so called ‘restoration', a real genuine ‘fresh move of the ghost'.
Now if you were to check with your neglected and rejected ‘last times prophecy' you will see that there can be no ‘latter rain' on no church until there has first been a latter rain on some queer. First things first.
If someone has the last days prophecy on VHS, you might want to tape over it by recording your kids next baseball game. If you have those end times prophecies in book form, you might want to practice recycling and have those books turned into something useful, such as egg cartons. Unfortunately they never release end times prophecies on DVD-RW, and since this cannot be erased and replaced with something useful, I would like to suggest that such DVDs be used as beer coasters.
The Downfall of the Oppressors
It was my conclusion that first we must destroy the wall of oppression and then, and only then, would it be safe to proceed with the Living Resurrection. However, God's thoughts are not my thoughts, and God's plans are not my plans. According to God Almighty we should do both at the same time. I can understand this concept. The oppressors will make the fatal mistake of oppressing the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time and it will prove to their absolute ruin. You see, we live in an Orwellian world where black must be called white, and an oppressor must look good, and that will prove to impossible when you oppress the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word, and put your trust in oppression and deceit, and rely on them;
13 therefore this sin shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;
14 its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found that is big enough for taking fire from the hearth, or dipping water out of the cistern.
15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you refused.
Isaiah 30:12
1 ¶ Ah, the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of those bloated with rich food, of those overcome with wine!
2 See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters; with his hand he will hurl them down to the earth.
3 Trampled under foot will be the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim.
4 And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of those bloated with rich food, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer; whoever sees it, eats it up as soon as it comes to hand.
5 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a garland of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people;
6 and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
8 All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.
9 ¶ "Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."
11 Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.
13 Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little;" in order that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 ¶ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";
16 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: "One who trusts will not panic."
17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.
18 Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.
19 As often as it passes through, it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.
20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.
21 For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!
22 Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.
Isaiah chapter 28