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You Will Not Be Led into the Promised Land
Introduction:

This brief NEW series is about God and the LORD’s own relationship to man. It follows a pilgrimage from which many turn away.

These human failings by some from the Bible serve as cautions to those journeying toward the eternal place where the Lord welcomes those who do not refuse to follow.

:וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים

And God said:

There’s something about God [‘ĕlōhîm – אֱלֹהִים] you need to understand from the beginning. When God said, it is; that is, God’s word given to man is always a promise.

By contrast and by our tendency to turn from God, men (and women) break our promises, violate our vows and void our covenants with our Creator, even as as we do with our ‘fellow man.’

We are familiar with God as Creator, the One breathing life into men of dust, the One creating a living soul within living and breathing beings. ONLY GOD can do this!

וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃
בראשית 2:7 WLC

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 KJB

The LORD speaks it, it is.

IN THE BEGINNING, GOD creates; but once He makes man [‘āḏām], a relationship between God and man begins.

Moses’ refers to this relationship, here is ‘the Lord God.’ [yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm]. God’s chosen should speak of their relationship with the LORD God, the existing One, WHO IS HOLY or separated.

The LORD is G_d and man is not.

Deceit, sin and turning from the Lord God began in the paradise of our creation. We hid from God and man still tries to hide from God.

Covenant

Man was created with complete freedom — freedom to believe God in righteousness. Yet man violated a simple command. We just ‘had to know.’

Mankind wants to have our personal and unique knowledge of what is good and what is evil. I want to judge for myself what and who is good and choose to do evil IF it pleases me.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5 NASB

What follows in Genesis, yet precedes the saving of one faithful man Noah, is sad indeed.

As a father or mother grieves for their child who turns away from the loving parental relationship, so does the LORD, Father of all mankind, sorrow for the souls of men.
Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com – on Genesis 6:6

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:6 KJV

Consequently after the DESTRUCTION of ALL MANKIND by water the LORD enters into a covenant a contract between God and man.

“I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:11

Evil men may appropriate the symbolism of God’s seal in the sky to include all sin into the pantheon of earth worship.

Promise of the End

The LORD’s covenant with man not to destroy by flood provides no promise that the end will not come; and yes, a judgment of all flesh will follow. Do not be impatient for justice or the day of the end.

Men will no longer worship mother nature, but bow down to Christ Jesus, our only Redeemer of sinful flesh.

No covenant of man or offering to an environment of air breathed through masks can prevent the end which the Word has revealed through the Prophets, a new heaven and earth for the resurrection bodies of the chosen faithful. We have just examined part of this mystery revealed through Christ to John in Apocalypse 10 + Gospel of the Seventh Seal.
- Will you have life after death?
  - Yes! But to what end?
The Lord will judge the unrepentant in the fire and judge His own creation at the end of days!

Covenant between God and Abram

The Lord God begins again on a cleansed earth by fathering a people and making several covenants with Abraham.

In this brief series we cannot blaze a trail of a history of covenants between God and man; but understand that broken covenants, including those of Abraham, Israel (Jacob) and Moses, are broken NOT by God, but by many descendants of the promise.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 KJV

Descendants of the OATHS of their FATHERS remain BOUND to the same AGEEMENTS between the LORD God and a mortal man.

Those covenants prescribed penalty for breaking our word with the Lord God.
The Road Ahead

Lot’s Wife
Death in the Wilderness
Only Two
The Lord God will redeem His people at a time of His own choosing. It is NOT a time of our choosing.

And the cleansing of sin, judgment of souls and refining of faith occurs by the Holy Spirit through His Word and only Son of our righteousness, who IS the Messiah Jesus.

Sinful man in every generation, before the incarnation of the Son of God and until this day, breaks covenant with God time and time again, turning away from the Lord our God, our only hope.

Even by Christ’s new covenant of redemption for our sins, followers of Jesus Christ must heed the warnings of scripture.

Read how those who turned from God to their own ways, as is our own tendency even in this year of our Lord 2021, were rightfully judged. Note the warnings from this brief look at just a few of mankind’s many moments of faithlessness.

I pray that you may once again turn toward the Light of Life and eternal life after inevitable death of the flesh and final judgment of the world.
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February 26, 2021
Loneliness in the Solitary Confinement of Social Distancing
Security

We lay intertwined embraced in warmth flowing from fingertips to toe. Our paradise shattered as I awoke to a loud knock on the door…

We will return to my reaction to this awakening later, but for now we must leave the security of our dreams to a new reality of this prison of our solitary confinement.

Separation

COVID – 19 – – & other causes

What happened to the security of our past?

WHY a ‘new normal?’

(It’s not really normal, is it?)

We often feel like the man in prison wondering how he got there and missing his freedom of being with others.

Look into the soul of the one locked up – – – in a prison away from everyone — even in solitary confinement — to keep him safe — from other prisoners – – – to keep others – – safe from his own threatening condition.

This new reality is not like when we were back home in paradise – – home – – – with those who loved us – – – not like when our security became LIFE – – | | | – behind these confining bars – – | | | with a window looking out – – to a world virtually separated | | | from my lone soul…

We MUST get back HOME – – – – – – – for this is not our home.

Then the LORD God said,
“It is not good for ‘adam to be alone..
Bereishit (Genesis) 2:18 וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים לֹא־טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָֽאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ אֶֽעֱשֶׂהּ־לּוֹ עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ׃

Sin & Trespass

We all know what happened – – – – – –

“Has God really said...? – – –

..you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” – – –

The TREE was desirable to the eyes, | | | but it was the one place the LORD GOD commanded adam not to go.

Cursed is the ground because of you;
With hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
By the sweat of your face
You shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,

Because from it you were taken;

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

For you are dust – – – – – -,
And to dust you shall return.”
Bereishit (Genesis) 3:19

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden,
and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24 NASB

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Jesus, Son of the Father, the Son of ‘adam – The Good News of John 14:

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT in the world outside the Good Garden – – – an eternal place to which the Son of ‘adam invites those banished and condemned to DEATH . . . to return to the Lord our God and Savior.

Separated from walking in Personal relationship with THE LORD GOD . . .

Therefore we pray:

.. and forgive us our sins,
as we have forgiven those who sin against us…

And don’t let us yield to temptation,
but rescue us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:12-13 NLT

Our paradise shattered!

Turn to me and be gracious to me,
For I am lonely and afflicted.
Psalm 25:16

We will return to my dream shattered by awakening from sleep when we continue Loneliness in the Solitary Confinement..
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January 11, 2021
CRUCIFIXION! – The Pangs of Sin
So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
John 19:16 NASB

Tarrying on the road of Suffering

“Father, the hour is come,” the Lord Jesus had prayed in a most personal prayer just hours before.

Then in the darkness of Gethsemane Jesus had asked Peter, “Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me?”

It it the Cup of the Blood of His suffering; some by scourging just witnessed, when 39 times Jesus had NO SIN to confess.

“Crucify ben ‘elyown ‘elyown,” they had shouted; CRUCIFY the SON OF GOD!

And shortly Jesus will cry out from His final pain:

“ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?” which is translated, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”
Mark 15:34 NASB

What Father remains silent on suffering?

And what Man must suffer silently for sin?

Crucify! Crucify!

John 19:17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, carrying His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called, Golgotha.

Hours before: Sanctification of the Sacrifice

Jesus spoke these things; and raising His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You, just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
John 17:1-3 NASB – The Son’s High Priestly prayer

The Pangs of Death

‘I feel your pain,’ some must have mocked toward Jesus at His suffering the 39 lashes of scourging. No one ever truly feels the pain of another’s suffering.

But for His dear friends the Apostles the Son of God had assured:

“A little while, and you no longer are going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.”
John 16:16 NASB

Jesus had not dwelled on His prophesied suffering. Yet by the scriptures perhaps the Disciples denyingly sensed what He must suffer this day.

Isaiah 53:

Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

The Apostles did not want to believe all of it, but to them the LORD revealed the Son embraced by the Father’s right arm.

For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

They also grew up near Him and even though some knew Jesus’ family, they were not attracted to Him until by Him they were called. In these three years Jesus became their Lord, Teacher and beloved friend.

He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Jesus was despised by the ruling council and leading Jews. The Disciples continually witnessed the Jews hatred for Him.

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4 NASB

John 8:

Temple officials had previously despised and did not esteem Him. These Jewish scholars had never believed His message or the Prophets.

21 Then He said again to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

25 Then they were saying to Him, “Who are You?”

These politically powerful religious officials most likely asked this mockingly, as they did while striking their blindfolded Messiah during the mockery of a trial before Caiaphas High Priest of the Jews and later in the presence of Pilate.

‘Who are YOU to talk of God or teach us the Law?‘

So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and I do nothing on My own, but I say these things as the Father instructed Me.
John 8:28

And the Apostle John adds this witness then in his Gospel:

30 As He said these things, many came to believe in Him.

Many believers will follow Jesus Christ in a victorious procession to the place of worship, but only a remnant remains following a captive King to the Cross of Calvary.
Roger Harned – talkofJesus.com

The Pangs of Pain

Returning to Jesus’ metaphor of suffering, He prophesies this day to His Apostles:

John 16:

20 Truly, truly I say to you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy!

As the Disciples had scattered as sheep from the wolves, surely they did not recall this at the time of Jesus’ arrest, trials, scourging and crucifixion.

Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come;

but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

22 Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one is going to take your joy away from you.

And why this suffering? – SIN!

The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!

..Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, Cursed are you..

And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.” – Genesis 3

The Prophesy of Christ’s Suffering

But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 NASB

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‘By oppression and judgment He was taken away,‘ prophesied Isaiah in the generation of Uzziah king of Judah. It was more than seven centuries Before Christ.

Isaiah, by the mouth of the LORD, indicts those who falsely convict Jesus.

They have just sent innocence to the Cross as the Substitute Lamb of Sacrifice for their own transgressions (sins).

‘And as for His generation,
who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living
for the transgression of my people,
to whom the stroke was due?
Isaiah 53:8 NASB

The Good News of John:

1:¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

מֵעֲמַ֤ל נַפְשֹׁו֙ יִרְאֶ֣ה יִשְׂבָּ֔ע בְּדַעְתֹּ֗ו יַצְדִּ֥יק צַדִּ֛יק עַבְדִּ֖י לָֽרַבִּ֑ים וַעֲוֹנֹתָ֖ם ה֥וּא יִסְבֹּֽל׃
Yeshaiya 53: WLC

²⁹.. “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

And now sinners take the sinless Sacrifice to the altar of the shedding of Blood.

They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, carrying His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called, Golgotha. There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
John 19:17-18 NASB
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November 4, 2020