Thursday, March 10, 2011

So it begins:

So it begins:


You have seen the holes… something deep within tells you there are parts missing….

Do you trust everything they have said to you… year after year?

Listen to the small voice…. trust the witness within you….


Choose the “red” pill and wake up to the truth.



This is just the starting point.....


Ephesians 2: 11-6
Therefore, remember your former state; you Gentiles by birth, Called the uncircumcised… at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Israel. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.

Paul is speaking as a Jew.... He believed, as all Jews of the day did, that the Jews were "Gods chosen people".

He believed that only the Jews had true knowledge and experience of God.

He says… Remember your former state… You were estranged from us… You were not partakers of God’s promises…. You had no hope.

Remember that Paul was a Jew. Paul is speaking from the perspective that Jerusalem and the Jewish people are the center…… He speaks out to the Gentiles from that place. From a Jerusalem perspective out to the uncivilized world “Gentiles”.

He is speaking to the Gentiles in 2:31 and tells them:
"remember your former state: You gentiles by birth (at that time) had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national live of Israel (could not be included in the promises God has given the Jews)... You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God's promise. You were in this world without hope and without God.”

2:13... But now, you who were once far off have been brought near....

He has made us both one....."


The point being... Paul was telling us (gentile believers) that we could
now be included with Israel in all the promises and relationship with
God.... We were being brought to them (the Jews)....

2:19 you are fellow citizens with God's people (the Jews) and members of God's family (the Jews)......


He does not say…. You have replaced Gods people… Or that God is doing a new thing…

Once we discover that we have been brought into Gods covenant promises with Israel (with the Jews) our interpretation of everything else must change.


Eph 2:15 He did this in order to create in union with himself from the two groups (Jew and Gentile) a single new humanity and thus make peace.

Jew and Gentile are now one people in union with Him.....

So we are not a "complete people" without the Jew!....

Why….. The answer will surprise you….. The answer is so clear…..

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate

As the moon rose and the hour grew late
The day-help on the coconut estate
Raked up the dried leaves that fell dead from the trees
Which they burned in a pile by the lake

The beetle king summoned his men
And from the top of the rhododendron stem,
"Calling all volunteers who can carry back here
The Great Mystery has been lit once again"

One beetle emerged from the crowd
In a fashionable abdomen shroud
Said, "I'm a professor, you see, that's no mystery to me
I'll be back soon, successful and proud"

But when the beetle professor returned,
He crawled on all six, as his wings had been burned
And described to the finest detail all he'd learned
There was neither a light, nor a heat, in his words

The deeply dissatisfied king
Climbed the same stem to announce the same thing
But in his second appeal sought to sweeten the deal
With a silver padparadscha ring

The lieutenant stepped out from the line
As he lassoed his thorax with twine
Thinking, "I'm stronger and braver and I'll earn the king's favor
One day all he has will be mine"

But for all the lieutenant's conceit
He too returned singed and admitting defeat
"I had no choice, please believe, but retreat
It was bright as the sun, but with ten times the heat

And it cracked like the thunder and bloodshot my eyes
Though smothered with sticks, it advanced undeterred
Carelessly cast an ash cloud to the sky, my lord
Like a flock of dark vanishing birds"

The beetle king slammed down his fist
"Your flowery description's no better than his!
We sent for the great light and you bring us this?
We didn't ask what it seems like, we asked what it is!"

His majesty's hour at last is drawn nigh
The elegant queen took her leave from his side
Without understanding, but without asking why
She gathered their kids to come bid their goodbyes

And the father explained, "You've been somewhat deceived
You've all called me your dad, but your true Dad's not me
I lay next to your mom and your forms were conceived
Your Father's the light within all that you see

He fills up the ponds as He empties the clouds
Holds without hands and He speaks without sounds
He provides us with the cow's waste and coconuts to eat
Giving one that nice salt taste, and the other its sweet

Sends the black carriage the day death shows its face
 Thinning our numbers with kindness and grace
And just as a flower and its fragrance are one
So must each of you and your Father become

Now distribute my scepter, my crown, and my throne
And all we've known as wealth to the poor and alone"
Without further hesitation, without looking back home
The king flew headlong into the blazing unknown

And as the smoke ring hurled higher and higher
The troops flying loops around the telephone wires
They said, "Our beloved's not dead, but his highness instead
Has been utterly changed into fire"

Why not be utterly changed into fire?
Why not be utterly changed into fire?
Why not be utterly changed into fire?
Why not be utterly changed into fire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTcrWUU-EeA&feature=related

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Beginning

I need a place to document what has happened,... how I ended up this way.

This path,... This road I walk.

I’ve been told that not many travel this way, most have turned back.

Long ago I passed the place where the road was paved and well defined, past the gravel, into an unkept place. I follow only a path now, step by step, moment by moment, following that whisper, or is it?
Beyond the imitations, beyond the limitations, beyond time.

I will whisper my secrets here. The ones shown me by the ancient one.
He has said “follow me”, I naively said I would, just like many of you.
I Questionly think I have?
You will have to draw your own conclusion. Am I still walking, am I still.
Waiting for it to happen, knowing it already has, at the edge of something, on the edge of myself.

I will not try to convince you, or persuade you.
I have discovered you are on your own in that regard. The argument would be irrelevant.
I only offer the ever changing truth, as best I understand it in this moment.
Ever changing, ever flowing, deeper and deeper into the dark places of revelation.

A place I fear now, and am reluctant to return to, even though the whisperer urges me to come,
I walk in it all the time.
I long for it,
I know the way,
I recognize the urgency.

I will lose myself, I am already lost, I am already found.

Known before ever time was conceived, before light and darkness, morning and night.
Hidden now from sight.
Held safely, though it feels precarious.

A cleft in the rock, a cave, hidden from light, full of the light, destroyed and recreated by the light.
A wave that carries a vision which instantly arrives and happened long ago, though starts right now.

How can I contain this, how can I share this.
Look at what it has done to me!
Look what it can do for you.

I will share with you the philosophers, the teachers and the words. Precept upon precept.

Here is where it started, I will share this with you now.
Ponder it, when you do it your reality will change.
The light overtakes you.

Here is the first truth:

1. If you want to know, If you dare to know. If you want to move beyond yourself, in this place, and this time. You need to ASK! That was my first mistake. That was the best thing I ever did.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom… ask God… and it will be given to him… ask in trust, doubt nothing.

That is where it begins, that is where it will end, that’s where it will continue.