Iran's Humiliation

My guess is that Christ seeks humility in the Earth. That's potentially a problem for you. It costs you nothing to be a decent human being, but if you refuse, and God through Christ needs to get involved, then it should be no surprise that Iran will be bombed by the US. But the US ought never glorify themselves, because after they are used by Christ, they too will understand God's judgments.

When the American eagle sank into the sands of Iran's deserthttps://t.co/3fZcGRd2Pm pic.twitter.com/YKc7Vnta6h

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) April 24, 2018

Payments of the spirit

A gift is given without merit, otherwise it is payment for work performed or payment for work to be performed, and therefore cannot be called a gift.

I grew up in the Pentecostal church, where people 'spoke in tongues as the spirit gave utterance'. The problem is not that they babble, the problem is that they say it is a gift from God. In reality, it is only a payment they've given themselves, which is evident by the fact that they have full control of the experience. It is solely the work and result of emotional triggers. When you read those passages in Acts about people speaking in tongues, it makes one think that first-century Christians could speak in languages unknown to them - which astonished passersby who spoke said languages. No amounts of dopamine activity in the brain could induce such an occurrence (like it does the Pentecostal babbling of today). Something like this, if it actually happened, could be considered a gift - and would change the face of the Church if it occurred today. Literally, the Church would have never gotten in bed with Caesar and would be very different if such things occurred - but they don't have 'the gifts of tongues' but only 'payments of babblings', and since Jesus obviously wasn't coming back anytime soon, the Church bent over and let Caesar 'do his business' (in the words of Celie and Shug). This, of course, is evident by the fact that no passersby are astonished by 'the gifts of tongues' (nor any of the other 'gifts of the spirit'). Not even the bastard children of Caesar's and Church's relationship currently living in Rome are astonished.

I watched a Youtube video of a Christian prophet who leans both toward the Acts version of 'speaking in tongues' and the Pentecostal church's version. He called up an Ethiopian couple, and told the congregation that, through the spirit, he would speak their language. I'm pretty sure I rolled my eyes as this threw up many red flags for me, but the congregation cheered and shouted. He then proceeded to speak Amharic to the couple, and they were mildly impressed - forcing themselves to get excited - the whole thing was ridiculous. I read the comments of the video, and people fluent in Amharic stated he gave a simple greeting - like, 'Hello, how are you'. Even more, many years ago I worked with a lady from Ethiopia, and she took the time to show me the symbols/alphabet and the sounds they made and explain to me that Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia, and that there are many languages spoken in the country. In fact, though she knew how to speak Amharic, her family language is Tigrigna (she pronounced it Ti-grinya). I would have been more impressed if he spoke Tigrigna so that not even the Ethiopian couple could understand it, but could immediately tell that it was Tigrigna.

But the payments of the spirit in the Church today are only paid if you do the work of accepting Jesus as your personal lord and savior, and believe that he died for your sins. Then, in some Churches, if you do the work of being baptized, then and only then do you receive salvation. All of this is totally in your control. All of it. And no one has an issue with this! Payments for work done are not the same as gifts received, nor are they the same as God's power - not even imaginably close.

God said to the servant, "I want the tree in your front yard chopped down." Then the lord Jesus Christ said to the servant, "My faithful servant, go to Home Depot and purchase an ax. After you purchase the ax, go home and chop down the tree in your front yard." So the faithful servant, went to Home Depot, waited in line for 2 hours, and purchased an ax. They then went home and chopped down the tree in their front yard. The servant then began praising the lord, and knew they had performed the will of God by sacrificing only a little time to worship the lord by following his commandment. "What is a little bit of time for the sacrifice the lord has made for me?" asked the servant.

No issues with this? Of course not, this is a Godless and faithless planet.

God said to me, "I want the tree in your front yard chopped down." Then the lord Jesus Christ said to me, "Kelvin, go to Home Depot and purchase an ax. After you purchase the ax, go home and chop down the tree in your front yard." I said, "Absolutely not. You and your commandments can go fuck off you obnoxious liar." The next morning, I woke up, looked outside and saw that the tree had been chopped down by landscapers, then I got back in bed for another hour of sleep.

This has been the story of Kelvin for the last 12 years.

Reminds me of Micah, the Jews couldn't stand him and the Christians ignore him:

"With what shall I come to the Lord and bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, with yearling calves? Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:6-8

He literally tossed the 'Laws of Moses' out the window (which back then, included sacrificing children alongside calves and rams, probably somewhere in the middle of Deuteronomy).

Afraid of the dark

You tell our children to not be afraid of the dark, but you are a hypocrite. You too are afraid of the dark. You say to them, "there are no monsters under your bed", but you deceive yourself, because you believe there are monsters under your bed.

Are hell and demons something I should be afraid of? Should I tell our children to be afraid of them?

The coming wrath of God

God requires faithfulness. Faithfulness is what moves people to do good - not good as in flipping nickels to beggars - but good as in melting guns into frying pans. Only a faithful person would trade their gun for a frying pan in the midst of danger. The faithless arm themselves with guns and bullets; the faithful trust the Living God, not because of words in a book (that would be fucking stupid and unrealistic), but because they have seen God's power, and they are surrounded by mercy everyday, and their faith rests solely on God's power and kindness. They are able to tell you about God's consistency, and they do not require the assistance of any holy book to do so (only the faithless require holy books to be the foundation of their 'faith').

People on this planet have been sitting in pickle juice. They are raised by pickles. Being a pickle is being in a state of godless and faithless despair. You recognize that this place is hell, but you still say that God is here and God is with you; but you discount the horror that is waiting around the corner. There is no light at the end of the tunnel of life for a pickle - this is why they invented stories of heaven in some afterlife. The dead do not 'go to heaven' only the living do. The only thing keeping this hell from being heaven are the pickles here stinking up the place with their violence, bloodshed, hate of truth, awful words, and bad behavior.

God will not allow pickles to fester the Garden. God requires fresh and crisp cucumbers. No amount of words or reason can transform a pickle into a cucumber, only God can do this. You can preach to a pickle from a holy book until your tongue falls out, but at the end of it all, you'll still have a pickle - perhaps even more rotten, and soon after, you'll be dead (a lose-lose situation). Only God can transform a rotten pickle into a living cucumber. Of course, a pickle has to want to become a cucumber, but a pickle doesn't recognize that they are a pickle; and when they walk past a cucumber, they pay him no mind, all the while assuming the cucumber is like themselves. (Even though the freshness of the cucumber is evident in every aspect of his life, those pickles attribute it solely to luck, smarts, and a gentle demeanor - which, in itself, is nothing to be celebrated.)

Pickles anger and sadden and disappoint God, but you must understand that God's wrath is not dictated by God's anger. God is not human. Rather, God has a plan to transform pickles into cucumbers - a planet filled with faithful people, people who would never trade their frying pan for a gun. Part of this plan will require the death of many. God will hastily remove people from life (rather than waiting for them to drop dead, as has been the case with God for millennia). God (and Christ, and others) have been planning the impending wrath for thousands of years. I don't know all that will take place; I imagine the bombing of Iran is part of the plan - but I don't yet understand as I'm only allowed to see through very thick-lensed sunglasses.

Light and the pinky toenail

Every scientific advancement that we achieve will also be weaponized. This is the sad state of this godless race. Since people cannot put their trust in God, they weaponize their achievements. These achievements are then celebrated, decorated, and held with highest of honors - they are ultimately the reasons why we have presidents, and ministers, and kings, and queens.

The light of the future (for the human race) will only come thru veils of darkness - as it seems. Though I don't mean to be fatalistic, I feel no sense of excitement when perceiving the future. Things have never turned out the way I thought they would, but they have come around, and I have learned a lot by watching God. But you have seen nothing, nor have you interpreted anything, nor have you witnessed anything. So when God comes to stand before you, you will only see the raging volcano spewing smoke and sulfur into the atmosphere, whereas I see the pinky toenail of the only God I have ever known.

Only the wind can praise God

Only the wind can praise God. That is why wind exists, to praise God - not just Earthly winds, but winds on every planet and star. God is worshiped in every corner of the universe. God is not human, and has no desire to hear human songs. So when you sing, you sing for your own pleasure, and not God's. No man or woman sings songs that they hate to sing, they only sing what is pleasant to them - so those are the songs they make and those are the songs they sing. The wind is God's song - by God and for God. The wind has been singing to God long before you got here.

So if you're singing to 'God', you are only singing to the god in your imagination, because the Living God does not care for your songs (as is evident by the fact that God does not treat people differently based on the songs they do or do not sing).

The wind is God's business, and not ours. God knows how to please God, and does not require your assistance in doing so. If you and your god love the EXACT same songs, then you and your god are one and the same. What if your god loves a song that you hate to sing? Do you still praise your god with that song? Are you ever repulsed by a song that your god loves to hear? The wind knows how to delight God; you just be human. If you forget what it means to be human, go to a child a few days old and ask them.

If God requires worship, then God will make sure that God is worshipped - sending you messages through old books and dead priests is not necessary. If God were hungry, would God tell you?

Just attempting to make a point. (Earthly winds are just the movement of air molecules from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.)

I am at the receiving end of mercy. Everything that comes to me from God is a gift. I do nothing to earn it. No words, dances, prayers, sacrifices, chants, songs, nor vows have been required of me. If anything is required of me, then I receive what I am due, like a paycheck. Besides, if God did require songs, then God would not command it of us - God would simply design hydrogen atoms and stars to burst forth in fiery song at appointed times (there are far more stars than there are humans - and they are a lot bigger than us). Such things would be God's business and not ours.

The things that are our business, such as our health, our planet, and our children, do require our work.

It is my hope that people stumble upon God. God is wonderful to me, but painful to you. Your endless prayers are evidence of this. The only people on the planet who cry out as little as me are those rich with money - and you see the wealthy, they are broadcasted on all radios and televisions, but you don't see me. You don't see the wealth that I have - and I am not rich with money, but with God's compassion.

I know where I am, but I don't know where I am going. Things have never gone as I have imagined they would, and I am glad that Yahweh is God, forever searchable yet always knowable.