Matthew 28:20 ~ Emmanuel - God with us +

Matthew 28:20

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.


Regardless of who won the Presidential Election:

The news headlines are just pain worrisome enough. Life has stress.

A wave pushes from one side strongly. A prime parable of stress in life. The disciples were in great wonder and discomfort and yet did not leave Jesus to find a comfortable life. They stayed until they thought it was death. Jesus held forth Love and Healing and Understanding and they were mesmorized.

This is a great study for stress in real life and the way to find peace. Hugely a display of the Grace of God Almighty of the Universe, with reality reaching very,very, very far down to comfort His Creation! His Beloved children adopted from the Branch of Jesus. People fail. Only God redeems. And the massive rewards the Disciple John contemplated ~ as God lavished love upon John ~ for keeping to Jesus. Go John. The 2nd century old age of John has the Church History reporting John stayed heavily involved in the many thoughts about John's Jesus. And ours'. Our Jesus.

So how do we get to the point Jesus calms the storm?

Know the storm, the triggers of stress. And hold tightly to Jesus  in Psalm 131 - feel the embrace of Jesus. Ask Him.

Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful scheme

We cannot, shouldn't be like the man by the Pool of Bethesda. Ungrateful.

We cannot be the nine lepers who met God and shrugged like this leper crowd did for Healing from God. Be the one who goes back and won't forget Jesus. No regrets in being grateful to the Lord of All.

How did they hold on? Looking up. Not letting the waves, circumstances and the iffy ness of public opinion block out the Light of God. Gratitude at the Majesty of God. Who lives within. Jesus and Our Abba longs to run to us and be our Homecoming. Priority - God.

Joshua Heard from Father God, who said do not let go of your courage. Hold fast to the real truth of God. You are aware in dealing with the rebellious Children of Israel, as Moses did, Joshua probably reminded himself this Word of God daily. Probably wept with concerns  ~as he believed. And remembered. God did Not Promise Joshua a free ride, He said, like Jesus said again, the work God gives mankind is to believe.

Jesus met this head on. Jesus was not going to let go of the father who cried out for his son, "Help my faith, I do believe."



Nicodemus worried. He arrived at Night to See Jesus. Jesus spoke to him very bracingly, with stress Nicodemus had been given to generously with gifts from God and must rise to the responsibility. Jesus was again giving the Joshua talk.

Jesus met parents gasping about their children's dying. Jesus said don't listen to the crowd. Believe God. Follow Jesus. Jesus went so far as to put people aside to get to the heart of the matter. This is the - Heart - Jesus displays. Wonderful, amazing Jesus. Is. For you. Individually.

And when does Jesus shine? In the middle of a Bear Hunt. A 25 foot Grizzly barreling down hunt.



The man at the pool of Bethesda? This man did not even ask to be healed. He had gotten used to his days by "the pool". This walking man was only too vocal to give Jesus over to "The People Who Matter". Yay perks. Jesus told us The Temple wanted to sort out friendship with the world. Raise money. Form lines in the right places. We will constantly battle the "get ahead" mentality and even go so far as "call this God" and really take the profit line.


What does God say about the real work to please God and real work to prosper like Nehemiah? A very real balance effort.


Leviticus 26

26 “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 I will make my dwelling[a] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Punishment for Disobedience

14 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.

23 “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, 24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your supply[b] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. 

29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.


Divorce from the goodness of God.
Always for the comfort of self.
A fall... far down.

We, as Children of God, long to be tied to the vows we offer for Love. This framework makes safety. Where we trust each other. And God to do His2 promises He gives us to do. We are tied to the Goodness God would make a way for.


Matthew 28:20
And teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you...... And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.


Psalm 16:8
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

We see that God has shown our eyes salvation.

When we live to see the Goodness God - God will work God for those who Love God and He will interweave for goodness. We know that the wicked will fall. When you have lived long enough, you know this to be true, the wicked fall far.

And we will have our hearth to be our comfort. The soul where God does not leave, even when we stress or have difficulties and swim with turbulent life.

Psalm 122:7
Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!






Did Moses have difficult days? You know he did.

Did David have difficult days? You know he did.

Did Paul write of difficult days. You know he did.

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 3
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are

18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.


Romans 5:5
And hope does not put us to shame, because
God’s love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit
who has been given to us.

Thank JESUS!!!


What truly keeps us with Jesus? The awe and wonder of His Overwhelming Love.


Abba, 
You Are God of Love. 

We lift up our faces to see the Light of Your Face. In God's Love, we find our the process to find Peace. Knowing we will not always dwell with peace. That peace is a process.

We thank God for His direction in His Word to find the process of finding a secure place. Know a process exists - God, You, are going to be the same today as Jesus praying for us in John 17. The way of God, You help when we Need God.

In all seasons, You, God never shunned us in the journey.

We give all our cares to You. You save us. We offer our loving gratitude for the Love You, Father, have for our Loved Ones. For our Churches, Jobs, Neighborhoods, we bless You for hearing our prayers and lifting us up to You. 

Bless the Name of Jesus this Presidential Election is OVER. We don't have to hear all the bickering and massively opinionated headlines. We are not being told what to think all over social media. We can look forward to more peace for holy days.

THANK JESUS!!! 

We can Trust in God to make His Will fulfilled. He is Working and will work for us all. Reconciling All Things to Jesus. Amen.

Jesus is GOD.

In this calm, this peace, this is where we can see Jesus making a path where no path is possible. This is where Jesus will walk and show us the Way.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

The Scriptures - Ask and you will receive. Jesus Christ came to save sinners.

We are living in a unique time. Something new to the earth and the history.

My grandmother's life began in 1898 and she and her six brothers and six daughters rode in two covered wagons to see grandparents. And Grandmother saw the landing on the moon with real joy. Mother saw the polio vaccine steady the planet and parents watching over children. I saw the internet in the early nineties unfold a story about Cardinal songbirds and the time to load up was 30 minutes. I said call me when the water warms up. And my children explained video games and computers to me that we use effortlessly now.

Will my great-grandchildren be married into the family? Will they share core values of mine, knowing Jesus Loves them and sustains them? Will they know who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are?



My grandmother's era was vastly different even as our culture changed since 9/11.

The Donny Doberman says a lot about today's college indebted for 30 years generation. They don't count on company retirement. They are unsure of our government systems. They don't know if they will marry. And children? Hopefully after a marriage.





Suddenly the Headlines tell us we are in the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.

How are we similar?

Caesar Augustus wanted a census of the Empire. The first of it's kind. Results of this census have recently been located. Bam. Truth. Augustus wanted Knowledge of who we are and what did people do and age and marry and think. With the census he began to re-shape marriage and make inheriting much more difficult - which in turn endangered the family unit - all civilizations - people - need to rely upon.

How we are like Jesus' time ?

The disease of cutting was not in the Psychology books when we went to college. And there are a lot of cutter's out there. Even parent's of cutter's worry and stress about this.

We have 28 Sexually Transmitted Diseases STD and Zika mosquitoes make this the first STI illness.

The headlines read like the Roman Senate.

The Roman weather was so weird, people contemplated if it was the end of the world with earthquakes and weather that was just off.





Christianity has been changing since the end, or the duration, of World War II. Where the liturgy was just read and at the end of the war people said well, we survived and that ol' liturgy didn't help much. Leaving the congregations to be older people today.

The Hour of Power and the Crystal Cathedral fell- why - it's hard to be shiny and happy about all that 'it's all good" attitude. People have dramatic things in life. Like Alcoholism. 30% of Americans have an alcohol disorder. Huffington Post says Online Porn Statistics Porn Sites Get More Visitors Than Netflix, Amazon And Twitter Combined. The Editor got so upset with the story - the story was removed.

The Pew Report says we face a 2% loss of Church regular attendees - every year. Now, really, let's not get too fussed - 85% of Americans identify themselves as Christians who pray and go to Church. But we see changes.

50% of new births do not have marriage committed parents. We hear lots of screaming about the divorce rate and find men with a college degree face long, long term marriages of 2/3's .... SUCCESS RATES.

Churches report that people at age 50 60 return to Church.

The number of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention grew by 294 to 46,793, a 0.63 percent increase over 2014. This is the 17th year in a row the number of SBC churches has grown. We are seeing a trend in smaller Churches.

Bringing us... To Evangelism Today !!!

The challenges facing Youth Ministry for decades - are the Evangelism challenges of today. Meet the needs of a culture that, if honest, has problems. We have solutions to find and because the adults are less talkie about what they really think and need in their worship times. What faces them ... REALLY.

We knew a woman who had business with us and was lovely. She had a mutual friend. All was just dandy. And unknown the the upper middle class community - her son was in his late thirties - mentally ill, prison released, drug using and as she tried to help him - he shot her and killed her. Her family life was undisclosed to those fairly close to her. I found out a year later - the story on the news - was this gracious lady.

Why didn't she tell. We live in a world where the gentiles over you are much more admirable. We envy the sharp tongue and the sharp elbow. We envy the violent the Bible warns us not to.

In fact, when One Mission of the 30 local Churches get together to worship - The Pastors refrain is "All is Not Right Behind the Trees."


We get into Bible Studies and we do just like this post, complain the good old days are gone. We judge ex-Presidents on their souls - like we are informed. We expect us all to pony up to one opinion.

And... the result is evangelism of the newbies - has them exiting as soon as they can find people who want to know them as they are.

We aren't told that they are worried to death the spouse is an alcoholic porn watcher.
We aren't told the child is flunked out of 4 universities and likes cocaine with a pot chaser.

We aren't usually told the child has a prison record.
We can't share if there is a new car - the tithe machine might happen.

We can't say too much about cancer. It's depressing.
We don't share the child is mentally ill.

My kids are living with their significant other. And now, we say that and don't say, "Let's pray they get married."

We can't say the child is in-debt for college and will never own a home.

We can't say that the medical bills are eating us alive and bankruptcy is the largest case for medical bills.

Will we help someone at Church get a job? What if they bring in a host of tell the others who I really am stories.



Now my Bible Study has met together for about 16 years.

And if I have a problem with my Bible Study partner, I find a time to meet them face to face and explain the rest of the story.

I don't treat this group like they need all of my life handed on a plate.

I'm dealing with a mother who is ill and a husband with a terminal diagnosis of 3 damages brain lobes - with stories of my ability that could go on and on - he is 6/4" and is sometimes angry and a lot of cussing and cussing and I know in Bible Study to keep this succinct. Edward is my beloved one who houses the soul of Edward.  Even when all day there is not a kind word. And yet, if you ask for support and don't talk too much - Edward is loving. And now on loan to me. Edward worked harder for my mom to go home than anyone expects of a spouse.

We have learned not to engage into a culture of "I Am Over You." That is sheer death in bringing the culture
into Christ sharing times.




What the HECK IS EVANGELISM???

It is when you say, "I'm going to pray for you." And if they are delighted, you say "Let's pray Now." And generally you are going to get - "Please!"

What the Heck is EVANGELISM?

SO GLAD YOU ASKED, It's when your Grandmother says when the Uncle is a r a t - that she "is Never Going To Stop Praying for MY SON !!!" And unlike Eli and Samuel - My Grandmother got results when the R A T was in his 70s and Jesus told his heart "I Love You." And a heck of a lot of the trauma there - was solved.


My favorite Bible Study on the Planet is Bill Hybels' "Just Walk Across the Room." We give back our gratitude to God - who gives us Eternity. And we explain "I love Jesus because of ..."

For me this the ability to read three Chapters of the Bible and come away saying this for the rest of my life:

1. My eyes have seen Salvation. And no one is going to personally debunk my real dreams of seeing Heaven like Isaiah - but God had stepped out of the room - I am not Isaiah. Where I was asked to "sell chairs" and now realize these are Heaven's seats.

2. My eyes have seen the down fall of the wicked. Yes. I am in my 50s and see bad habits have shown me real and spiritual death. Living Parables.

3. My eyes have seen God goes before me. My Bible and my Church Going have taught me - I depend on God for my strength and my joy and my delight and my security and HE WILL. People - even the ones we love - come and go - but God beckons us to live in Love forever.



What is Salvation?

A Work of God the Father. Learning to single out one person you love. Salvation comes from love. When the heart is open. Surely pray for many. But we live in this Generation.


What is Evangelism?

We live in a world where God said this about this generation...

"I will put my covenant in their hearts to know I am God." Jesus says that the Light of God shines in all of mankind. If you talk down to someone who has opinions about God - you are shutting down the fact that the Body of Christ has many talents and functions and ideas.

Evangelism is LISTENING. And this is gentle. We find a thought of scripture and we share not a herd of cattle but one pearl. Because the Truth is - God Saves. We do one thing - WE PRAY.

If we are reciting Sunday School lessons of our youth. This is not going to work. Jesus never did this. Jesus said " Zacchaeus come down from that tree, I am coming to your house!"

And do you know that Acts 1 tells us the lot went to Mathias. The newly minted 12th disciple and some of the very early Church believes  this was the changed life and changed heart of one who is LOVED BY JESUS and actually is like Simon/Peter and is -  Zacchaeus/Mattias. Now did Zacchaeus/Mattias rock the planet and change the world for the lot falling on this loved heart? NO. Why? Because JESUS alone is God.

We have to quit yapping out the cereal box stories of "gotta believe this" and listen to what a soul sings who is created by God for God. What that Person's unique soul tells their Unique Father God Creator.

John the Disciple wandered around, like you and me, saying "What?"

And in the decades passing, he realized he did really well to support Jesus to the very end. Because John knew something we need to Sing Daily in our Hearts.

GOD IS LOVE.

And when we love GOD. We are seen as righteous in the Eyes of God.

And that ... is where we want to be. Eternally today the gates of Heaven are open to us in Prayer.
The very seat of Father God is available to us in Jesus.




Father God,

All sparrows are known to You. Every single one. Because in Your unlimited Creation and Ideas and Solutions and LOVE. You love all of Creation.

And just like the Doberman in the video - each Child of God relates and reacts to You in exactly the way a Vast God reacts to us.

You are the God of Love.

Unfurl and surround, uphold and uplift each loved one we have. Each prayer request we know. The desire of the Nation of  extreme worriers now. Bless the voting to Bless Your Name and Your Heaven.

We need You, We expect You, We will see You.  Thank You for Your Work. Amen Amen Amen
Alleluia Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Philippians 2:3 ~ Value others above yourselves

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves

This has been one of the most unusual weeks. Always look for the good in every situation. Our family all lived and no one went to the Hospital in our family.

My mother has made a miraculous recovery from Hospice calling on her 3 times. She went to the Symphony on Sunday with her long-time, wonderful boyfriend. After he dropped her off, a teenager ran a red light and his car was then the size of a coffee table. Miraculously, he has only scrapes on his right arm. 3 cars in that accident.

On Tuesday night, my mother's car was being taken leisurely for a drive by a friend with her permission. And it was night and a black SUV was hit in a dark residential street until the car would go no further. No injuries. My mother was not there, but apparently the doors no longer open when the damage was in the front end. We believe it is also a total loss. The number of phone calls was amazing.

My brother is an attorney and he took over our care of the accident and the insurance. He called me to say he had been driving, 2 weeks ago,his 2 level ATV with 4 dogs a regular road on the way to the El Paso desert. A man in a truck, probably texting, pushed the ATV over with 4 dogs. The truck was totaled, the ATV rolled with 4 dogs and a roll bar. My brother hurt his lower back and is ok, one dog is damaged for life. One dog is scraped up.

In between, we have house guests from Germany and North Carolina going with my son to the Baylor TCU game. A house full of guests and car accidents in Dallas and El Paso.

Edward went on Friday to Dallas for a National Disc Golf Tournament and as he got to Rice, Texas, he saw a motorcycle accident where the driver rolled and rolled and rolled and rolled, no helmet, probably to his death. In front of Edward. Immediate Assistance occurred for the driver and his motorcycle team as Edward, in shock, went past the accident. 911 reported he was one of many to call.

As Edward called me, I was on my cell phone and a driver then ran the Long Lake stop sign with a mere glance at the shrubs hiding 50% of the street.

When Edward arrived at his mother's house, she reported going to pick up the dog through residential streets and seeing 3 separate accidents.




One Fatality. 7 Accidents. 4 total losses.  One incredible incident of 'what stop sign'.

There was no rain in these accidents. Only one was at night. Only one was on a highway.

The path we decide to take.


Auto insurance tells the driver not to admit fault. Most of this was texting. The Television show "Mythbusters" found texting is as dangerous as being 4 times over the legal limit of alcohol.

Every car accident has a driver. Every driver has to live with what they have done to others.

Philippians 2

4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,a 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,b 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.


I hold my phone up to the traffic, but I have realized I am not alert enough. I will not answer texts while I drive. I don't want to be the driver causing one of these accidents.

When life events holler loudly, we realize the forces of life need to be examined. Serious events.  Deliberate Life. Deliberate Choices.



Our Father in Heaven,

Know that the Lord, he is God!
It is He who made us, and we are His
we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Jesus please pray with us for this earnest prayer. When we drive, we offer the people near us pasture - safety, harbor. Cover us in the Name of Jesus we ask.

And we need not make memories lasting all of our years.

Thank You, Father for keeping us safe. Help us to avoid seeing the death descriptions on Reddit. We pray for the safety of ourselves and the ones we love. Including a very ill 19 year old cat, Scoop the cat.

Asking for Your Good Will to preserve our lives and make our passing to You, pleasant for those who love us. Good health. A passing showing we Trusted our God. Asking for Your Steadfast Love on those we Love and pray for. The cares and concerns we all have in presenting our soul back to You.

Your blessing and protection on our roads, cities, Churches, jobs, States. 

And Especially for voting for our Nation as offer prayer. If You would see the promises made at the Conventions to see what we hope for, be pleased in Jesus' Name with Your people and help guide this nation. Remembering our children and grandchildren with Your Love.

We need Your Blessing. Your Will and Your Plans are our Hope and Future. We want to abide in You and Your Word. Our Hope and Refuge.

In Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Isaiah 7:14 ~ Immanuel 'God is with us'

If you are over 40 years of age, you might notice a change in the the questions presented to the lay people often brought up as a puzzling question about faith.

We have dropped questioning the Virgin Birth of Christ Jesus. In the 1970 and 80's this was repeated so often people got loud and opinionated.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (which means 'God is with us').

My father and I had the debate. He said how would that be possible. I said if the blind see and deaf hear and Jesus walks on water, why not if God's Word goes forth? My father said that was a complete summary and did bring definition. Eventually, this calmed the nationwide debate.

What else was the contributing factor?

The most amazing collection of Archaeology ever found. The very House of David has been questioned to be of fable.

Found:

A steele telling of David.

The Biblical directions to David's Palace found his home. The prison cell found a bulla of the Biblically accurate account of Jeremiah and Baruch in the prison cell.

The stables of Solomon.

The water wells of Hezekiah, seals backing up the amazing prosperity of Hezekiah.

Pontius Pilate was found to exist in records in Rome and two archaeological finds in Israel. He had been said to be fiction.

A pottery shard linking Goliath to David in Goliath's home town.

The sarcophagus of Caiaphas and of Herod. The house of Caiaphas.

The census of Jesus' birth in Luke 1 found in Rome.

The earthquake stone geologists said occurs in the right year.

The very Hittite nation with the library backing up all the Biblical accounts.

The Ipuwer Papyrus found at the base of the Pyramids follows exactly in eyewitness account of the Plagues of the Exodus. Is now housed in Holland in the Leden Museum.

The Babylonian Chronicles identical to the details of the Babylonian exile with dates and records feeding the House of David.

The King Uzziah's leprosy archaeological tomb warning.

The foreigner's pool found at the Temple mound.

Eyewitness letters, two of Jesus' miracles.

Prison Maritime records of Peter and Paul.

The Archeological find of Peter's bones researched for 80 years and the graffiti matching Peter's home in Capernaum.

The History of the Roman Empire showing the fear of the miracles continuing from the Acts of the Apostles.

The end of the fiction the New Testament was written in 400 A.D with 104 Chapters as clear as if written yesterday, see above. This is possibly written during the life of John the Disciple with the sacred name style of papyrus coding.





And as the finds continued to add up - faith has increased in the veracity of God's Word.


There is one wonder of God rarely considered. The lack of bones found in Israel. Recently a Canaanite cemetery was found to great rejoicing. World wide news recorded the find. And unfortunately no skeleton has been found to explain the giants recorded in the Bible. However we know Goliath existed. And then we can believe in faith, Goliath was 9 feet tall.

A little something "Og" from the Bible:


Deuteronomy 3:11
Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.

Rujm el-Hiri same age as Stonehenge in the U.K.

This is a 13 foot bed. And a tomb about the same age and shape as Stonehenge is supposed to be the burial ground of Og. And, like most of Israel, contains no bones. The weather of Israel would keep bones.


So let's draw some vast conjecture about Matthew 27.

51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.


What Biblically repeats this action of God?

Ezekiel 37

37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 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.”


What happened to these resurrected saints?

The New Testament has an idea.

Hebrews 11: 5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

Now here is our wild conjecture piecing together John 21 - the conjecture - the guess of what happened when John said the world could not contain all of the stories around Jesus Christ.


Picture three men who have experienced not only the hearing of the Disciples seeing the Living, Victorious Jesus. But have encountered the living saints.

One man tells the others his Uncle Fred had returned. For a time. The other two men are incredulous. Suddenly they have little to say. The man who has spent time with his late and sainted Uncle Fred is uncomfortable and indignant  the others don't believe him. He sputters the Good News his Uncle Fred had told him about the Kingdom of Jesus at hand. And repeats the story again more loudly.

The second man interrupts him and says, "I'd never say this to anyone, but I remember Uncle Fred clearly. I - om - I had a weekend with The Elijah."

The third man says, "My entire family had Sabbath with ... Moses."

The three men say, "Peter and the apostles are actually going to the Temple today to talk about Jesus the Son of God." And all agree not to tell others about Uncle Fred, The Elijah and The Moses, but they do agree all of them to see Peter at the Temple.

And what happened to Enoch and all these bones? There is no Ascension. Probably like John in The Book of Revelations - the dimension opened. Suddenly they were in Heaven. And Jesus ascended to make sure we knew Jesus had gone to His Father and our's.

The Multitude had seen our Living Jesus do His Ministry. But imagine if the living bones had borne witness to the multitudes who flooded the Temple itself?

Our Abba,

David told us in Psalm 40

Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

John 20:30
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.

Job 26:14
See, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard

Thank You, Father for the Wonders of Your Ways.

We lift up to You, the ones we love and their cares. Our neighborhoods and Churches. Work places and Nation.

We rest securely remembering Your Love, Mercy, Power and Joy. You are our Father and have great Love.

1 Chronicles 13:8
David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.

Our God is a God of Love and Joy. Alleluia in Jesus. We bless and bless and bless Wonderful Jesus for the people of His heart who give us the love and joy of Jesus. I have several friends who just hearing a small text from them, or a call, makes my heart tender and the prayers flow forth. Thank God for the people who do know Jesus dwells within them. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †