Yesterday social media used this painting, to express deep frustration with the zippy answers of Faith.
Rarely since 2007, starting this blog, do I reply to mocking God. The anger of man does not product the Righteousness of God. This painting was used. :/ Jesus pointing at the far right and saying, to the baby, that man killed your family, but he repented so now he is in Heaven with you. Let's go say hello. A frustration George Carlin would show late in life, after decades of fame. Pat, simple, repeat answers to faith used to vastly annoy him.
"Yar" is a word used a lot in the Hebrew Scriptures. Yar is translated quickly as Fear. Fear God. Yar would translate with more care as, "Reverence." Applying the translation of the well used word, Yar - let's put Scripture to answer this question. First addressing the humor.
“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.” Mark Twain
The first impression I had to this social media was the movie, "Places in the Heart." Incredible harsh life, meets the blind, the widowed, the unfortunate, the wolves ready to tear and destroy the innocent. The Good Fight to find God and help. Enduring, Persistent, Every Day Work to Believe God and Overcome in Jesus. Meets Heaven. Communion of Heaven. The Blood and Body of Jesus Christ healing all. Tenderly. Eternally.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
Faith isn't the ready and quip answer. It's the Good Fight to believe with sincerity God's Promise in Life. Jesus for you. Forever.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
We might be able to quietly speak of this in public. And then in our heart, God Almighty, Knows we understand the full Word of God.
Psalm 42:6-8
6 O my God, my soul despairs within me.
Therefore I remember You
from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
To truly feel anger at the Forgiveness of God, is to experience hell on earth. What would God Alpha and Omega say?
Revelation 6
9a I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.
10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
This just isn't your typical Heaven, Revelation 6. Lazarus and the rich man - Lazarus is told to us from Jesus and His Gospels. So many times in the Gospels, Jesus uses the Word "Immediately." And we find, like so many who have had near death experiences - Jesus is right there with you and Heaven is immediate. John reported this in Revelation Chapter One, like near death experiences, the walls melt and Jesus is and has always been with you.
This Revelation 6 is allowing time to mellow and forgive in More Grace of God. God is recognizing horror, gross injustice and His Will. No surprise, God is answering the deep calls to deep questions.
If we look at this, my gut reaction is to raise my hand and say, "I forgive!!! Help me, Jesus to forgive any, any, anything that seems unresolved. AMEN!!!" Whew. Let me be like the father of the son, the Disciples couldn't help. But WHEW, Let Jesus be Present. Thank God. I want John 6, Jesus caused the boat on the Sea of Galilee to reach the other side immediately. I Love Jesus and this is the boat I want to be on when the Saints Come Marching In!
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the roar
God, to Whom all hearts are open, would call to the sorrow of someone understanding the gut wrench of God's Forgiveness.
Jesus would take the time to be with the lamb hunkered far away and looking with dread at a Kingdom allowing a forgiveness so large.
Joel 3
“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, 3 and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
4 “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. 5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. 6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
Consecrate for war;
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 Hasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.
Go in, tread,
for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 The Lord roars from Zion,
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.
The Glorious Future of Judah
17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and strangers shall never again pass through it.
18 “And in that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the stream beds of Judah
shall flow with water;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of Shittim.
19 “Egypt shall become a desolation
and Edom a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,
for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
Heaven restores. Restoration. With the Wisdom of Truth God the Almighty is Himself.
God, our Father, has walked this exact path in Forgiveness.
Suppose God Himself is to deal with depraved murderers. We could call on the name Jesus and look at Caiaphas. Caiaphas relics in archaeology are the sarcophagus not holding enough dust to remember Ezekiel. And his house holding Jesus on Good Friday. Visited to see this site, held in honor of Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel 37
3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
Jesus our Lord, we can follow His Path in Life and Heaven. Caiaphas murdered Jesus with lies and false witness. From His Cross, Jesus forgave Caiaphas. We are not given the ability to sit on the Right Hand of God and find what did happen to Caiaphas.
We could quote this.
Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
The reason Caiaphas is not held up to answer all the questions about forgiveness is an important question. While Jesus is never recorded as sitting to have dinner and communion with Caiaphas in life and not even in the Resurrection; we have to also allow Jesus to be God and not our judgment.
Jesus died for all of us to have salvation we can not buy, rent or have except by Faith. According to God, we are the people.
Acts 3
12 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people:
“People of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? 13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 16 And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus.
Logistically,; Heaven is said to be 7 levels and 10 levels. Joel 3 describes multitudes of people and Revelation says Heaven has too many people to count.
Revelation 22:1-3
22 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month.
The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
Abba,
Your child Thanks You for Your Mercies renew each day. We thank You to send the Christ appointed to us, Jesus.
We lift up our cares to You to Carry. The Battle truly belongs to You.
Your Strength is our strength, when we are weak. And in this Comfort, we find our Joy.
Your Great Love causes Joy to pour out from us to give to the ones we Love and make the Path of our lives Joy to You.
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Thank You for Your Way, Truth and Life. Prophesies speaks to mankind, to the Light of Jesus Living and working within, for our edification, encouragement, and comfort. You have put eternity into mankind's heart, yet so that we cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Help us to be joyful and to do good as long as we live. God of encouragement help us to please You as we seek the Kingdom of Heaven first. God of Love, help us to live in Love, Peace and Joy.
And in this Love, please cover those we Love in Jesus Christ as well. Let our Yes be in Jesus Christ.
With Your Kingdom, Your Power and Your Glory, bring more Heaven to earth for Your Good Will. And for all of Your Good Creation, we know Jesus is Here for Your Glory where we Rejoice. Amen in Jesus.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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