Re: Revelation
SECFORT24,
You've done alot of research in order to make your sincere beliefs make sense. That's very admirable, but it is based on MAN'S wisdom. I'm not an intellectual at all, what I write is based on what God has taught me, it is not based on man's intellectual wisdom.
Mankind has a "religious" and self serving understanding of how to be spiritual (a PARTISAN/mechanical understanding that consists of gestures, rituals, etc.), but "God is LOVE", not the kind of worldly "romantic" or "bleeding heart" do-gooder or cute compassion love,...God's love for us is a PARENTAL love and we should have regard for each other's human rights (we're all His children/offspring).
Man's understanding of what it means to be spiritual toward God has always been based on ego, money (it's a business just like the Pharisees did) and the human need to feel comfortable (safety...a "security blanket"), but God is unseen reality ("invisible nature", Romans 1:20), He is the origin of all existence, but man tries to understand Him according to TEXT (what can be seen).
Mankind has always imagined itself as having the ability to "BECOME GODWORTHY" (how utterly ridiculous!!) and perform works/deeds (instead of realize that God did all of the "works of God", John 6:28 and 9:3 because we are unable to actually be "Godworthy"). Ultimately, "religion" is simply meant to be a businees for the "moneychangers", but it is also structured to be attractive to the ego of man.
God is "generic", yet the truth is the truth, Jesus is the Messiah/savior that the creator sent to purify our flesh (Hebrews 9:14). He is not the savior of a culture (Jewish culture), He is the savior of the whole human race...
Luke 3:6
"all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
It is only those who genuinely have a peaceful and just spirit/demeanor/nature who will have the GUARANTEE of what Jesus made available...
Ephesians 1:14
"which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it".
...and then we can also have our CONSCIENCE purified along with our purified flesh (Hebrews 9:14,...COMPLETE salvation).
I was a Christian for 22 years and I never heard of many of the things you mention, but Judaism is only the religion of a past culture, it has nothing to do with with the NEW testament/covenant way of knowing God, neither does the Torah or "Noahide law". God wants us to be free of all law that constrains us/dictates to us, He wants us to live under the law of LIBERTY...
James 1:25
"But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty...shall be blessed in his doing".
After reading that verse, if we remained unsure that we should live under the perfect law, The Lord clarified it as a "responsibility"...
James 2:12
"So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty".
...after all, The Lord abolished the commands/commandments as a requirement because the human being simply does not have the ability to be "Godworthy"....
Ephesians 2:15
"by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances".
There are many things that are clearly written in scripture that "Christianity" never wanted to believe or even notice (it would have destroyed their business), but The Lord tells us what He will do in the "last days"...
Acts 2:17
" 'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams".
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=I+will+...
(POUR living water)
You'll see from my post in the "God minus religion" forum (I finally got the forum name right) that worship centers/buildings and spiritual teachers are unecessary (pastors will always FIERCELY reject such a message..."STRONG delusion").
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1302178#i
The names for God that past cultures used (Jehovah, Elohim, etc.) were meant only for those PAST cultures, but the The Father's "FOREVER" name is "I am who I am" (Exodus 3:14) because the SPIRITUAL man is meant to be integral with God in spirit (we should know who we are).