Trust in the steadfast Love of God

John 12

When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

39 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”

41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

I will not forget you this day LORD GOD, hold me in Your Mercy, Father. Blessed is the man that you cover his sins and credit his faith as righteousness.

Psalm 52

8 But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
9 I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.

Blessed are the eyes that did not see and yet believe. Jesus, Your name is Love. I take Your abundant blessings. We are the Easter People Alleluia.

1 Thessalonians 4

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 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. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Love never ends!

While the storm clouds gather far across the sea
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer

An Open Letter to Howard Carter Presbyterian Minister - New Zealand.

Hi Howard! How in the World!!! Blog

You posted the most interesting blog post on the recent elections in New Zealand. And you sustained your viewpoints with the hope of Jesus believing and Word believing Church drawing from the timeless lessons of Revelation.


We’ve just had a long and hard election campaign here in New Zealand, and if you are a member of a particular political party that didn’t do so well in the polls you are just about to start an equally long and laborious leadership primary. …Amidst all the weird stuff that seemed to be the defining feature of this year’s election people, me included, really wanted to know where the various leaders and parties stood on the pressing issues.


Where do you stand on the housing crisis in Auckland?

Where do you stand on climate change issues?

Where do you stand on education?

Where do you stand when it comes to child poverty in New Zealand and doing something about it?

Where do you stand when it comes to foreign ownership of New Zealand land?

Where do you stand on the living wage issue?

We needed to know where they stood so we could decide into whose hands we should trust the future of the country.



The book of revelation was written as encouragement to a church facing persecution, suffering and tribulation. Both pressure and opposition from outside and difficulties and divisions from within and in the face of that it starts with a clear vision of where its leader stands. Both one of its earthly leaders, John the elder and more importantly its founder and true head… Jesus. Amidst all the weird and wonderful images and visions which are the defining feature of the style or genre John chooses to write in, first century apocalyptic language… a bit like sci-fi or science fantasy…there is a clear vision of Jesus and where Jesus stands when it comes to the church in its trials and troubles.

Bishop Clark Lowenfield Anglican Church of HopePointe in The Woodlands, Texas just sent out a letter to our Church Family asking us to vote in November. Saying, as always, Clark neither points right or left, Clark has a King and that is Jesus Christ. Vote as a Christian. Timely and good advice.

We jaw about politics all year long - our opinion only matters exactly once in reality - taking gratitude from the men and women who died for our freedoms - moving to the polls to express our viewpoints. Vote!

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the enameled plain!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee

God and His Vast Greatness remove boundaries, bring history to solutions for today and ask us to take our faith into action.

Let's briefly tie -
1. The Exodus 1500 B.C.
2. John, being vibrant and alive in the amazing cave on Patmos Island with it's view of earth to Heaven - seen in the photos as astonishingly similar in 2014 as in 101 A.D.
3. World War II
4. The Middle Ages
5. Solutions for today and a prayer. The Church as Living Water Old Testament NT OT




1. The Exodus

The Exodus speaks to today. As well as the results from the Exodus to Government and what we are capable of as a Light of all mankind dwelling in us.

The Ipuwer Document was found near the Pyramids and describes a citizen in great anger the events of the Plagues were not well thought out by Government and admonishes the Government to be in better shape.  This is an eye witness account. Currently resides in The Leiden Museum in Holland

Feel free to skim or skip the detail.

{PAPYRUS 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. Blood is everywhere.
EXODUS 7:21 ... there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

This was the first plague.
PAPYRUS 2:10 The river is blood.
EXODUS 7:20 ... all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

This water was loathsome, and the people could not drink it.
PAPYRUS 2:10 Men shrink from tasting -- human beings, and thirst after water.
EXODUS 7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
The fish in the lakes and the river died, and worms, insects, and reptiles bred prolifically.
EXODUS 7:21 ... and the river stank.
PAPYRUS 3:10-13 That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin!

The destruction in the fields is related in these words:
EXODUS 9:25 ... and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
PAPYRUS 4:14 Trees are destroyed.
6:1 No fruit nor herbs are found..

This portent was accompanied by consuming fire. Fire spread all over the land.
EXODUS 9:23-24 ... the fire ran along the ground.... there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous.
PAPYRUS 2:10 Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fire.
The fire which consumed the land was not spread by human hand but fell from the skies.
By this torrent of destruction, according to Exodus,
EXODUS 9:31-32 ... the flax and the barley was smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

It was after the next plague that the fields became utterly barren. Like the Book of Exodus (9:31-32 and 10:15), the papyrus relates that no duty could be rendered to the crown for wheat and barley; and as in Exodus 7:21 ("And the fish that was in the river died"), there was no fish for the royal storehouse.
PAPYRUS 10:3-6 Lower Egypt weeps... The entire palace is without its revenues. To it belong (by right) wheat and barley, geese and fish.
The fields were entirely devastated.
EXODUS 10:15 ... there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the fields, through all the land of Egypt.
PAPYRUS 6:3 Forsooth, grain has perished on every side.
5:12 Forsooth, that has perished which yesterday was seen. The land is left over to its weariness like the cutting of flax.

The statement that the crops of the fields were destroyed in a single day ("which yesterday was seen") excludes drought, the usual cause of a bad harvest; only hail, fire, or locusts could have left the fields as though after "the cutting of flax". The plague is described in Psalms 105:34-35 in these words: "... the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number. And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground."
PAPYRUS 6:1 No fruit nor herbs are found... hunger.
The cattle were in a pitiful condition.
EXODUS 9:3 ... the hand of the Lord is upon the cattle which is in the field... there shall be a very grievous murrain.
PAPYRUS 5:5 All animals, their hearts weep. Cattle moan....
Hail and fire made the frightened cattle flee.
EXODUS 9:19 .. gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field...
21 And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.
PAPYRUS 9:2-3 Behold, cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gather them together. Each man fetches for himself those that are branded with his name.

The ninth plague, according to the Book of Exodus, covered Egypt with profound darkness.
EXODUS 10:22 ... and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt.
PAPYRUS 9:11 The land is not light....
"Not light" is in Egyptian equivalent to "without light" or "dark". But there is some question as to whether the two sentences are entirely parallel. The years of wandering in the desert are described as spent in gloom under a cover of thick clouds....

The Last Night before the Exodus
According to the Book of Exodus, the last night the Israelites were in Egypt was a night in which death struck instantly and took victims from every Egyptian home. The death of so many in a single night, even at the same hour of midnight, cannot be explained by a pestilence, which would last more than a single hour. The story of the last plague does seem like a myth; it is a stranger in the sequence of the other plagues, which can be explained...

...Apparently we have before us the testimony of an Egyptian witness of the plagues.
On careful reading of the papyrus, it appeared that the slaves were still in Egypt when at least one great shock occurred, ruining houses and destroying life and fortune. It precipitated a general flight of the population from the cities, while the other plagues probably drove them from the country into the cities.

The biblical testimony was reread. It became evident that it had not neglected this most conspicuous event: it was the tenth plague.

In the papyrus it is said: "The residence is overturned in a minute." On a previous page it was stressed that only an earthquake could have overturned and ruined the royal residence in a minute. Sudden and simultaneous death could be inflicted on many....

EXODUS 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
A great part of the people lost their lives in one violent shock. Houses were struck a furious blow.
EXODUS 12:27 [The Angel of the Lord] passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
The word nogaf for "smote" is used for a violent blow, e.g. for thrusting with his horns by an ox.
The residence of the king and the palaces of the rich were tossed to the ground, and with them the houses of the common people and the dungeons of captives.
EXODUS 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.
PAPYRUS 4:3, and 5:6 Forsooth, the children of princes are dashed against the walls.
6:12 Forsooth, the children of princes are cast out in the streets.
PAPYRUS 6:3 The prison is ruined.

2:13 He who places his brother in the ground is everywhere.
To it correspond Exodus 12:30:
... there was not a house where there was not one dead.
In Exodus 12:30 it is written:
... there was a great cry in Egypt.
To it corresponds the papyrus 3:14:
It is groaning that is throughout the land, mingled with lamentations.
The statues of the gods fell and broke in pieces: "this night... against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment" (Exodus 12:12).

A book by Artapanus, no longer extant, which quoted some unknown ancient source and which in its turn was quoted by Eusebius, tells of "hail and earthquake by night [of the last plague], so that those who fled from the earthquake were killed by the hail, and those who sought shelter from the hail were destroyed by the earthquake. And at that time all the houses fell in, and most of the temples."
The earth was equally pitiless towards the dead in their graves: the sepulchers opened, and the buried were disentombed.

PAPYRUS 4:4, also 6:14 Forsooth, those who were in the place of embalmment are laid on the high ground.

Revolt and Flight

The description of distrubances in the Papyrus Ipurew, when compared with the scriptural narrative, gives a strong impression that both sources relate the very same events. It is therefore only natural to look for mention of revolt among the population, of a flight of wretched slaves from this country visited by disaster, and of a cataclysm in which the pharaoh perished.

Although in the mutilated papyrus there is no explicit reference to the Israelites or their leaders, three facts are clearly described as consequences of the upheaval: the population revolted; the wretched or the poor men fled; the king perished under unusual circumstances....

PAPYRUS 4:2 Forsooth, great and small say: I wish I might die.
5:14f. Would that there might be an end of men, no conception, no birth! Oh, that the earth would cease from noise, and tumult be no more!
The escaped slaves hurried across the border of the country. By day a column of smoke went before them in the sky; by night it was a pillar of fire.
EXODUS 13:21 ... by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
PAPYRUS 7:1 Behold, the fire has mounted up on high. Its burning goes forth against the enemies of the land.

The translator added this remark: "Here the 'fire' is regarded as something disastrous."
After the first manifestations of the protracted cataclysm the Egyptians tried to bring order into the land. They traced the route of the escaped slaves. The wanderers became "entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in" (Exodus 14:3). They turned to the sea, they stood at Pi-ha-Khiroth. "The Egyptians pursued after them. The Egyptians marched after them." A hurricane blew all the night and the sea fled.

In a great avalanche of water "the sea returned to his strength", and "the Egyptians fled against it". The sea engulfed the chariots and the horsemen, the pharaoh and all his host.}


And how does this relate to us?
Government is our way of passing on our responsibilities.

When God started to unfold the Exodus - His form of Government was - Judges - Self Government.
What can I do for others today? Reaching further back into the past, Jonah asked Judah to form armies and rescue Israel. And they did.

Passing on our responsibilities to others limits us. We cannot just jaw about the limitations of Government. We can all donate to Christian thrift stores. Look diligently to what we can give cheerfully. Give Time. Let our actions lend to being asked our opinion for Jesus' ways.

God uses our histories to teach us. Today.

2. John's Revelations for Today.

John did not deny Jesus. John did not perish when Jerusalem fell in 70 A.D. - the natural lifespan of Jesus.
Look at the cave. This is not the lunatic long bearded guy walloping in LSD mushrooms. God's blessings are available today to see how immutable His Word is - we see Patmos has not changed greatly in 2,000 years.

Heck, I'd live in that cave and say, "No Mortgage!" A word our grandparents had never heard of in a time when housing is outrageously expensive and not based on the Biblical principals of 7 year debt. Forget the Status Quo we need better Solutions.

John is recorded as being alive, active, well and Fighting the Good Fight in the years 100, 101 and 102 A.D. By Church historian Bishop Papias of Hierapolis. John is telling the Gnostics not to the riiiight. And the Jews not to the llllleft. John is a great example of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. If you want to live the Spirit of Truth honoring the Commandments of God's Word - this is where most of the blessings of all the New Testament and Old Testament are combined.

God sustains, blesses, rewards, loves and gives John as an example of Loyalty.

3. World War II

We have taken an era where the World did not want war. United as Brothers to put down evil. And we have taken our Victory and gone way over to the right left. Left right. We have forgotten our unwillingness to have war. Pope Francis says this is a patchwork piece meal World War III. We need to vote for those willing to sustain Peace. And Solutions.

Jesus said let the dead bury their dead. He wasn't kidding. War and hate must snuff itself out.

We must see the History we have had handed to us and what we have done with what we can do. Hitler rose because... people wanted the government to hand them solutions. We must rise in our determination to answer what we can for ourselves and let Government regulate what aspires to God.

4. We have Forgotten the Joys of the Middle Ages Church

We must acknowledge each century understood their circumstances better than we did. We must say bringing the Word forth is a necessity. But we have forgotten to applaud the fact the Church lived the Word of God. The Church fed the hungry. The Church believed their lives were Lights to bring forth more Light. They had an open door policy. Hospitals were created by the Churches willingness to lay down their lives to heal. The fortifications of draw back behind the safety of the walled villages led to the end of Serfdom. The Church built outside the walls and said "Come to me all of you are weary and heavily burdened and will give you rest." And don't you be messing with our security - you villains. Get over here and have dinner. And when your child gets the small pox, yes we are going to even take care of the villian's children. Oh yes, we make a very good beer and wine. Do you want to learn agriculture?

If you are so interested, read or reread The Pillars of the Earth,  a historical novel by Ken Follett published in 1989. I cannot recommend the 2007 follow up because,my opinion, it is too pc, and not relevant and not exactly real. The first book was praised by historians for the historical accuracy. The variations in the two books suggest our unwillingness to see solid facts about history and our attempt to judge history as irrelevant with an almost irrational bias to current thought. If it's not current pc, then we toss out all solutions.


5. Solutions for today and a prayer.

The Church as Living Water Old Testament NT OT. Just as the Old Testament has portions telling us of water flowing from the Temple, the Church is to be such Love of God that Loves pours forth bringing new people.

The point of the Church is not to feel comfortable and at home. Secure in our pew. The point is to feel vast encouragement of God to be loved as we are Today.

And in the brimming over of that Love, to want to bring other's into the warmth.

Not to affirm the standards of the world, but to say the Higher Path has drawn a huge breathe of freedom in forgiveness. To say come with us, the Kingdom of Heaven Is At Hand. With God All Things Are Possible.

To say - your life matters. Your actions of diligence for Jesus. To say, when you need to Preach the Gospel. Use Words after your actions have spoken.

Housing crisis - garage apartments. Be a good tenant, be a good landlord. Form bonds. Old Age Assistance - combine with Day Care. Put Treasure with Treasure.  Builders? Teach reconstruction to the youth of renewal of old places. Make bonds in families for family projects. Rely upon each other. Building Investors? Lets have solutions for good housing at 7 year mortgages. Fall down slums? Reclaim as retirement with young people. Churches are needed there.

Climate change? The world is not ours to control. See the Ipuwer. Be your own Climate Change.

Education? Wisdom? Place this first. Read on the successes of Home Schooling and read the disasters. See innovation. Offer College for free to non-citizens - hope to keep the innovators. PRAY always! Teachers need sabbaticals.

Encouragement of all endeavors. Sale of hand-made art to make life have beauty. Sale of growing fruit and vegetables. Friends who teach skills to other. The need of fellowship and love. Encouragement of travel, ships coming to New Zealand - People have gone back to B and B travel and taxi cabs owned to individuals.

Child poverty. So glad you asked. I work at a Pregnancy Assistance Center. In exchange for 450 homework pieces on parenting, Bible Studies, budgeting, self-esteem, pre-natal, childhood and infant development, breast feeding, nutrition, marriage, the truth about cohabitation blessing the rolling stone, raising blended families, older children and infants, safety and rolls of mom and dad as well as highlighting the positive and dealing with stress - well for the work - you get to sign up for clothes and goods and bedding and all the needs children have. Homework doers get formula, cereal, juice, jars of food, diapers and wipes as well as vouchers to the Thrift Resale Shop.  And are treated with dignity and compassion. With the ability to Google and reply to the form about how they are treated at each visit.

Results are earned. Gratitude is actually lavished and this is a place of Hope and Encouragement.



From one prosperous nation to another - this example is Hope from God and Prayer. One lone woman in the Dominican Republic began to pray for her town. She had no resources to give, but she wanted more for her town than a month of employment for the town picking crops. She saw a run down bar and drinking people with no funds and no hope. She began to ask for help from different charities and was turned down for five years. Vision Trust built a three room school. A Spirit of Giving created a Spirit of Gratitude. Now it's 12 rooms and education for the adults. Then the bar was torn down. And in it's place a covered arena for sports. There is a small downtown now. And more employment. Prayer goes far in all countries. Jesus is alive.


Christians who pray are always a good source. Because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Father GOD, renew us in hope, compassion, longing for the fulfillment for Your Word. Equip us in all good things as You have promised to send us forth for Your Glory. We ask Your Vast Blessings and see them with faith. Help us with our specific prayer request, knowing that our treasure is actually the Father God to Child relationship of trust, intimacy and knowledge with hope, faith and love. Thank You, Jesus, for all our blessings we are so ambivalent about, but would never hope to lose. In the privilege of calling upon the Highest Name of Jesus Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves † 

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