A Watchman

Why It Is Hated By God For A Woman To Dress Like A Man, And Why Does This Practice Fill America? -or- This Man Of God's Great Embasrrassment

2009-08-05T14:40:00.001-07:00

Preface

The author speaks of his own embarrassment in regards to the Holy Spirit teaching him why it is that God hates the practice of men and women dressing alike. The author also speaks of why this practice has become very prevalent in America and western societies, and is most commonly found practiced when the woman dresses like the man.

It was in the afternoon, the year was 1999, I was 42 years of age at the time and had walked in life with an open Christian testimony since I was 14 years of age, some 28 years. This particular afternoon I had met with a man to discuss issues concerning how we as American people, although once having a deep rooted Christian faith and system of ethics, have strayed very far from the obedience and practice of God's commandments having accepted modern traditions of men which are based upon humanistic thought. Most particularly we were speaking of issues related to what is referred to as Divine Order, or as some call it: Vertical Alignment. The role and order of authority and responsibility spoken of in a condensed form by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3. Namely: God is the head of Christ, who is the head of the man, who is the head of the woman, and of coarse we understand that women are in headship over children, particularly their own children.

Its a funny thing, for as much as certain aspects of that day have been printed on my mind with what might be called indelible ink, I can not recall who the man was that I spoke with that day, but I remember with absolute certainty the words that he spoke to me as we ended our discussion and walked out into the parking lot of the restruant where we had been sitting together. He said, “Greg, you need to read Deuteronomy 22:5.” I asked him what the verse said. He said, “Just go read it and you'll see.”

I did go from there and read it, and there is no way that I can describe the surprise that I experienced upon doing so. For Although I had for 28 years lived an open Christian testimony, and although never claiming anything near perfection, in my heart I ever purposed to serve and please the God of my Salvation. But upon reading these words the most sincere, certain, and overwhelming conviction of sin and confusion came over my heart. It stated to me in no uncertain terms that I had for all those numerous years (particularly as head of my household) been allowing a thing that was an abomination to God. In fact, in the Old Testament era, before Christ stood between men and the law (before the grace of God was seen in the world in the person of Christ) a person, whether a man or woman, would have been personally considered an abomination to have practiced this sin, but I clearly understood that I was in Christ, and therefore in my person I could not be seen as an abomination to the Lord, but only the action of my life was considered an abomination to God.

I do not believe it is possible for me to describe the feeling that I had as I stood there before the Lord having read Deuteronomy 22:5. I was embarrassed. I was ashamed, and at the same time bewildered as to how I could have walked before the Lord for so many years not knowing or understanding how that I was practicing a thing that was in His determination a thing that is hateful to Him. Let me say this. This experience was a very clear signal to me from that time forward that it is only God that reveals truth, and only His presence can convict any sinner of the error of his or her ways. Yes, we must seek him and that is our responsibility, but He alone is the revealer of truth. He alone turns the “light” on. However, when He does, then it is our responsibility (empowered by His grace) to walk in that light. Perhaps if you can bring to your mind the most embarrassing moments of your life, this was how I felt. I stood there before God embarrassed and very ashamed, because I, how be it in ignorance, had been practicing something that was shameful to Him whom I loved.

Deuteronomy 22:5 in the King James version says The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.” I have had a number of life changing revelations from the Scripture in my life, but I admit that the conviction of this statement of God's law, and the revelation of its purpose and meaning that would come to me in the following days has ranked right up at the top of the list in reference to how they have upset my life. I have since I first came to the Lord in my youth endeavored to walk honestly before God. To not allow it to be the practice of my life to make silly and pitiful excuses for my sins or failings, either before God or man. So, as I stood there that day I was not about to argue with the simple understanding of the words, which I was then and am even today convinced that an 8 year old can understand, nor was I willing to argue or put away the conviction of His presence that was at work in my inner person. So I simply said before Him, “Here I am Lord. I do not know how I could have so long remained ignorant of this that is so clearly spoken of as an abomination, but I will do your commandment. However, Lord,”, I cried out. “How is it that the Great God of all creation can be excited by threads? What do you care about threads? I don't get it?” For admittedly, it was way beyond my comprehension as to why God Almighty would care about what particular clothes a person might wear. Of coarse at the time I perceived the importance of issues of modesty in regards to clothing, but I had zero perception of deeper issues.

I didn't get it. I could see the commandment and I knew the conviction of His presence was upon me, but I did not have a clue as to the reasoning for the commandment, but God was gracious and kind to me. It was only a few short time later when He used the foundation of prior points of understanding to bring a very profound revelation to me in regards to the purposes of clothing, and most importantly, why it is a detestable thing for a man to dress like a woman, or a woman to dress like a man. And you will note that for a woman to dress in the manner that a man dresses has become a very common thing in this society, and my friend, it is not without reason. It is not by accident, but by the design of the Evil One, having found an entrance into both society at large, and the household of faith in modern western societies.

The Holy Spirit revealed to me that clothing has three purposes. Let's first speak of the basic need for protection from the elements. Our bodies need protection from the sun, the cold, etc. Otherwise we would not be able to maintain our natural lives. The second reason for clothing I'll mention is the the need to protect modesty. All human persons are sexually orientated beings. We were made this way by God as a reflection of Himself and His relationship to the Church, or individual Believer. If we did not cloth ourselves utter chaos would very soon take over. The third reason for clothing is the one that holds the greatest possibility of offense to God when not practiced in obedience to the Scripture. It is that clothing has a symbolic nature to it, and designed to be so by God Himself. The truth that even among men that clothing is symbolic, or has voice or meaning in itself is seen very clearly. For are not soldiers quickly and easily identified by their uniforms? Are not police identified in the same manner? Do not signs on bathroom doors identify the men's and the women's room by the difference in the dress that the figures have?

The highest of all the creation is the human person. Yahweh, by His infinite wisdom and power created the male person to be a reflection of Himself. A living mortal illustration of Himself. This is particularly seen as He grows to manhood, and in marriage. The female person was at the beginning, (and still is by means of birth) created to be a living mortal illustration of the One who is the single great object of the Divine One's love and attention: the Church. So, in the most simple words, the man represents the Lord, the woman was (and is) made to represent the Church, (or the individual Believer). Therefore, both reason, and the commandment of God demands that the man and the woman adorn themselves distinct fully different the one from the other. For they are distinct fully different creatures, designed and created for distinct fully different roles and callings, which when properly lived out will cause each of the sexes to illustrate with their lives true and accurate heavenly realities. However, when either a man or a woman who because of ignorance, and/or confusion, or by reason of outright rebellion refuse to maintain his or her person and calling, and begin to “blend the genders” by the mixing of their clothing, or other acts that deny their role and calling as either a man or a woman, they bring forth an incorrect reflection of heavenly things. For remember that they (the male and female, or man and woman) were created with that purpose in God's mind, namely: to illustrate with their lives heavenly realities. Therefore, to dress a man like a woman, or to dress a woman like a man is to bring forth a slanderous testimony of both the Lord and that which is the chief object of His love and attention. And this is, as you can imagine, a thing that is very offensive to God. That is why any one who is still directly under the jurisdiction of the law, (the one who is not yet hid in Christ) and who disobeys this commandment is for it's sake is considered an abomination. And, whoever's actions, although they may be in Christ, who disobeys this law stands in their action to be doing a thing that is an abomination to God.

I was like this. For years I walked in disobedience to this command of the Lord. However, I was like a young child who in the ignorance and confusion of their childhood poops continually in his diaper. A filthy-rotten mess that the child's guardian has to continually clean up. Now, this is not thought an extreme or unusual thing in so much as the child is small, but if a child is 10 years old and has to be cleaned up in this manner it is exceedingly more detestable, and therefore hateful to whoever is around the child, or has to clean the child up.

In like manner before the commandment came to me (the understanding and conviction of it) I was like a small child. I practiced a thing that was detestable to God, (this action of mine stunk in God's nostrils) but He winked at it, in that He knew I was in darkness (ignorance-confusion) and therefore did not hold it against me. However, one day He convicted me of my error, bringing it to my attention. From that point on I was no longer in ignorance, for I had been made aware that this action was displeasing to God. The Apostle Paul spoke of this process when he said, “when the commandment came, sin revived.” (Romans 7:9 KJV) Jesus made it clear that we are responsible for obedience to commandments that we are knowledgeable concerning when He said, “He that has my commandments and keepeth them, He it is that loveth me.....” (John 14:21a KJV) That is how I was able to live so many years with an open Christian testimony, yet with peace of heart before God, but at the same time be doing a thing that according to God's law is a detestable thing. I was ignorant. I was in regards to this issue, in darkness. But when the darkness passed and the light came I took hold of the light and began to walk in accordance to His law. Not that that action made me more saved, for it did not. But it did prove my devotion to God in that I loved Him enough to obey Him. For the Christian is not saved by the keeping of the law, but when we are saved, it should then be our nature to always turn and obey His commandments when they are brought to us. If we possess a heart that in any way turns from His commandments, then we need to examine ourselves before Him, asking of Him. “What is wrong with me, that I do not turn to do your commandments?” For the heart of a Christian that is right wants to do the Lord's commandments, it wants to please Him who calls from above.

Now, let us give answer to why it has become so extremely common place for women in modern western societies to dress like men. (to cross dress) IE, to wear pants like a man would. Why is it that men do not by in large, dress like women by wearing either a dress or skirt? Is this practice simply by coincidence, or it it because of an influence behind it? And if there is a definite influence behind such an action who is it that is doing the influencing?

Again the man is meant by His creator to be a living mortal illustration of Yahweh. The woman is meant by Yahweh to be a living mortal illustration of the Church, or the individual Believer. This can only be fully realized when the man and the woman by means of obedient understanding follow the Lord's commandments and promises. Other then that we will fall short of this calling. When a woman dresses like a man she is by her action saying that she is the same as , or equal to a man, therefore she dresses like a man. No, I do not mean to say that she thinks she is like a man in body, but that she has begun to think that she is equal to a man in reference to headship. That she is equal in headship. Therefore she has the right to dress as he dresses and assume the place and calling that he (the man) has. In short, she begin to think and act as a man does, usurping the God created and God given authority that men in general have over women in general, and in particular terms, that a father or husband have over those of their household. The spirit of humanism that is the progenitor of the spirit of feminism has received an extreme acceptance into modern western society, and for that matter in to almost all that is called Christian. Feminism teaches that men and woman are equal or the same. Now, remember that Yahweh created the human persons to illustrate heavenly realities. Therefore when the woman dresses like the man, in that she was created to illustrate the Church or individual Believer, she is saying by her actions that the Believer is equal to the Lord Himself. In other words that the Believer is lord over his own self and actions. Which means that they are equal to the Lord and therefore can do as they wish to do, even though what they wish to do may be contrary to God's laws. Sad to say, this spirit and practice fills our western Churches. Confusion and sin has become common place in our Churches, and thus that is why the American nation is being forfeited to the ungodly. The “Salt of the earth” has lost its saltiness, henceforth, as the Lord Himself taught us it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. This is what is happening in America to most everything that is called Christian. One ideological foundation after another in our American society that our godly forefathers by means of great effort and sacrifice had established is being cast out, rejected, and trodden under men's feet as if it were nothing of importance.

To realize an even further depth to the sinfulness of the practice and the spirit behind the blending of the genders, I will ask you to call to remembrance who else in the Bible is spoken of as wishing to be equal to God? Isaiah the prophet in combination with Ezekiel the prophet tells us the story of Lucifer who was the highest of all of Yahweh's heavenly creatures, but in whose heart was one day found the desire to usurp the place of the Almighty and thus declared himself equal to God. (Isaiah 14:13-14 & Ezekiel 28:1-19) When the woman dresses her self as the man she is walking out (how be it many times mostly in confusion and ignorance) the same expression of usurpation that Lucifer introduced into the world a long time ago. Her expression that she is equal to the man is at the same time giving the expression that the Believer is equal to the Lord. Equality means that the one is independent of the other, and of coarse the Believer is anything but independent of the Lord. That is the bottom line reason why the practice of a woman dressing like a man is an abomination to God.

When a man dresses like a woman he is making the expression that he wishes to throw away his manliness and put on femininity. And most men do not wish to do that in a complete manner. However, it has become very common place for men to neglect and forsake their role of manliness by surrendering their role of headship to the woman, allowing her to usurp what is not given her of God. Thus you see this expressed in the adornment of men and women. She puts on his clothes, but he most commonly will not put on her clothes, but he allows her to dress like himself.

Closing Remarks

I will remind you of the illustration of the young child, particularly an infant child who poops in his diaper, yet because the child is young it is excused with almost no thought given to it. In like manner our sins and confusion, (which includes the modern western confusion and sin associated with the blending of the genders) although infinitely detestable to God are excused and winked at until such time as the Holy Spirit begins to enlightenment and conviction us, but when the light of understanding comes to us, these sins then begin to stand between the Christian and the Holy One. Yet how is it is that so many when confronted with the simple directness of the commandment of the Lord for the sexes to dress distinct fully different the one from the other, and when given the explanation of the extreme gravity of the reasoning behind it, reject the commandment as if obedience to it matters nothing? It is because we live in a generation where very many have grown use to following the ways and doctrines of men (humanist teachings that are man centered) instead of the commandments of God. And, in that we do not make it our practice to obey God's laws our senses are dull and not able to easily discern good from evil. (Hebrews 5:14) Much of what is called Christian in this generation is wise in regards to getting along in the world, (this is called worldly wisdom) but proves very often to be very low in obedience to commandments of God that are socially unpopular and may cost the Believer something. This my friend is very dangerous ground. For it is not the Spirit of the Holy One who influences us to think in such a manner, but the spirit of the Wicked One. Let us not forget the exhortation of the Apostle John, when he says, “He that committeth sin (continues therein) is of the devil. (1 John 3:8 KJV)

Let us walk in humility and be overcomes like those that are spoken of in Revelations 12:17 (KJV), And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 14:12 (KJV), Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. Also, Revelations 22:14 (KJV), Blessed are they at do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.

Peace to the Israel of God,

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

Why Is It Hated By God For A Woman To Dress Like A Man, And Why Does This Practice Fill America? -or- This Man Of God's Great Embarassment

2009-08-05T14:40:00.000-07:00

American Church, Your Salt Is Not Salty

2009-08-02T11:25:00.000-07:00

The author in clear and simplicity terms spells out why America, although boasting a citizenship of 40 to 50% Evangelicals is on an on-going basis loosing the moral and spiritual battle to the ideology and practice of humanism. Humanism, that ideology that excludes God and His laws, for the acceptance of the practice that man without God is the highest authority, and has the wisdom within himself to maintain and prosper.

Why The Current Events Of Abortion, Homosexuality, 50% Taxes, and Other Vices Triumph In America --or-- American Church, Your Salt Is Not Salty

Hey America, and the Evangelical of the land:

How is it that in a nation that boasts that 40 to 50% of it's people to be “evangelical” (evangelical being defined as knowledgeable and obedient to the Bible) that in both our laws and institutions we are continually loosing ground in the moral and spiritual battlefield? So that a nation that was once referred to as “Christian” (God centered) is certainly now becoming a “secular” (man centered) nation. A nation where these words are expressed in it's pledge to it's flag, “one nation under God”, and on whose money it is printed, “In God We Trust”. A nation whose first successful colony, (the Pilgrims) because of their faith, considered themselves “a city set upon a hill”.1 A nation where in it's beginnings the faith of it's people was so based in the God of the Bible that at the time of the Revolutionary War the common slogan of the day was, “No king, save king Jesus!.”2 A nation where our first president, George Washington at his farewell address as president had these words to say, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity religion and morality are indispensable supports....And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle”.3 A nation where our former president (Abraham Lincoln) so believed in our “Christian Republic”, that he referred to the preservation of America as...”a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come;” and was willing to lead the nation into the most terrible civil war to preserve it. 4

In the most straight forward and simple terms I know, the moral digression of America can be described in these words.

The devil, using the advent of the modern multiplication of technical knowledge began to sow humanistic (man centered) thought into the hearts of men, thus sponsoring doubt in the God of the Bible, and with the doubt rebellion against the God of creation. Humanism needing an answer to the origins of man produced the deception of the doctrine of evolution. Evolutionism (the practice of the doctrine of evolution) begat twin sisters. These twin sisters are more then just related, they are Siamese twins, they are joined at the hip. They are the spirits (thought patterns- ideologies) of feminism and socialism. They are spirits of usurpation. Feminism being the corruption of Divine Order, where the woman seeks to usurp the place and the calling of the male head in her life, and males in general. Socialism being the corruption of civil order, where government seeks to usurp the sovereignty of the individual man, and as it does that the control over all men. The spirit of humanism, working through the pretense that there is no God, and through the encouragement of the spirits of feminism and socialism have sought to pull down the ideological moorings that American civilization was built upon, and have produce a generation where great confusion and lawlessness abounds. This my friend, is modern America.

ome broad examples of the sins that the progression of iniquity in modern western nations are:

The flood of the filth of pornography. Where a search engine boasts it can produce 1,000,000 pornographic sites. (I saw this with my own eyes) Where is the legislation to suppressed it?

Where the norm of television is continually vulgar, violent, and contrary to the fear of God.

The “legalized” murder of over 40 million innocents through abortion.

Same sex marriage “”legalized” in three states, and there are many other lesser advancements of this perversion being found in other states of the union.

The divorce rate being 60 some percent for first time marriages, not to consider those that will marry multiple times.

Approx. 50% of all American youth will not marry at all, but will “cohabitate”. (the back door is left open that way when one or both wishes to make their get-a-way)

Many spending 50% of their income on taxes. Yes, when you add up local, state, and federal taxes, many pay 50% of their wages to taxes.

The name or law of God ousted from every public place. Such as the example in Montgomery Alabama when the judge there could not keep a monument displaying the Ten Commandments in the court house lawn.

Murder, theft and oppression being rampant on our streets.

If a nation was involved in a war and continually experienced defeats, would not that leadership (military and otherwise) consider what it is that they are doing wrong in order to correct it, and thus have victory? In like manner I will speak to those in America that hold to the faith of Jesus Christ, and that consider in your heart that you are a child of righteousness. I will endeavor in plain and very straightforward words to show you why the cause of righteousness in our nation is continually loosing ground, and why we will continue to loose ground against spiritual and moral wickedness in this nation until we change our ways. Why is it that righteousness among our people is not advancing, but rather decaying?

The answer to our dilemma, American Believers, is wrapped up in the wisdom of one single verse, a statement that Jesus voiced. This verse if found in Matthew chapter five, verse 13. (KJV) It is Jesus speaking to the children of faith. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men. Within the context of the wisdom of this single verse lies the answer to why the battle between good and evil is being lost in this nation. It is simply that the quality of the faith of Christianity in this nation is not what it is supposed to be. You might put it this way, “our salt is not salty!”. Why is our salt not salty? Our sins separate us from both God and His power, the which we need to work in our own lives, and in the life of this nation in order to live victoriously. For He alone has power. Our national fathers accessed that power to build and maintain this nation to this point, but we are proving ourselves unable to maintain it. Why? Again, it is our sins. Our sins separate us from the power of God, and I am not speaking here of the sins of the nation, but rather the sin that is held on to by the Church. I will now list 82 issues where by common practice and/or civil law we as American's practice what is contrary to God's commandments. From this list I will mark with an * the 48 of which are commonly participated in by much of what is called Christian in this nation. These are why again and again, what is called Christian in American, has not of late been proven to hold back the onslaught of sin in this nation, but rather is more and more being held in disdain by society at large.

hich sins are these:

Under the banner of the corruption of Divine Order (the role of authority among men that was established by God) you will find a goodly number of examples of our nation's errancies from the truth. This confusion and sin represents a very major “blind spot” in the thinking and practice of western societies, which very greatly includes western churches. These sins are:

*Women holding public offices (offices of authority over men)

*Women in the military (in a place of authority over men)

*Women in the police force (in a place of authority over men)

The teaching of a gender free God (a corruption of truth that the male person was created as a
representation of God Himself and as such is given by the creator authority over the woman and
the children that proceed from her)

*Inheritance passed on to a woman versus a man's son, or sons. (a corruption of the God given role of authority)

*Women suing for divorce (a corruption of the laws of God pertaining to marriage and Divine Order)

*The promotion of girl's and women's sports (a corruption of the place and calling of women, for in order for a woman to fulfill her primary God given role as wife and mother she must cultivate the spirit and wisdom of a completer, not the spirit of competition)

*Women preachers, church elders, and deacons (a corruption of the place and calling of woman
in regards to Divine Order)

*Married women refusing to take their husband's family name, but maintaining their maiden
name (a confusion and corruption of the place and calling of the woman, and how it is to
reflect the Bride of Christ)

*immodest clothing (a corruption of the place of the woman as wife and lover to her husband,
and a corruption of the calling of the woman to reflect the Bride of Christ)

*Women leaving the home to pursue a “career”. (the corruption of the place and calling of a
woman as wife and mother)

*Women owning property with a title (For her to own is not a sin, but for her to be empowered
by the government to be able to use that to usurp her husband's place of authority and
ownership is sin)

Immodest clothing in advertisements on television and else where (the nakedness of a woman belongs to her husband, if she is not married then there is very little difference in her showing her nakedness publicly then the practice of fornication-it is entirely the same spirit)

Pornography (The flood of filth across this land is a direct expression that fathers have no place
of care or authority over their daughters who sell themselves for a profit)

*Lack of the use of the titles Miss and Mrs (The lack of the use of these titles is seen because
the degeneration of marriage has made the titles of little significance, since the virtue of
virginity is not valued, and the virtue of the married woman is not valued)

*The use of the term “Ms”.(In God's economy there is no such thing as a “Ms”. A woman is
either a unmarried woman-“Miss”, or a married woman-“Mrs.”, there is no exception to this. A
“Ms” is simply a woman who does not wish to be recognized as either married or
unmarried. This woman is hiding from the truth)

*Women not wearing a head covering in public prayer or prophesying (the speaking forth of the testimony of God)

Men wearing long hair (In that the hair is given in both the male and female as a sign of a
covering, long hair on a man always signals either confusion and/or rebellion to God's
placement of the male in His order of authority. This is without exception)

*Women wearing short hair. (This act signals, and that without exception, that there is either
confusion and/or rebellion on the woman's part as to her place in God's order of authority in that
the hair is a natural (token) sign of her place as being in submission to the male headship in her
life, whether that be her father, brother, or another male person)

*Women wearing pants (This is cross dressing. In the law of God it is termed as an abominable
act. (Deuteronomy 22:5) In that the commandment of God expressly prohibits that a man and a woman dress in the same manner, they must by God's law dress distinctively different, the one from the other)

*Women given a civil vote (The practice of a woman exercising a civil vote in effect makes the
woman equal in authority to not only her immediate male head, but all males in general. This
flies headlong in the face of Divine Order)

*Women judges (This practice puts a woman in authority over a man, which is contrary to
Divine Order)

*Women on juries (This practice puts a woman in authority over a man, which is contrary to
Divine Order)

*Girls or women in ROTC programs (This practice puts (promotes) women in authority over
men, which is contrary to Divine Order)

*Community property laws (Where the headship of a man's property is stolen from him in the
event that his wife chooses to leave him)

*Domestic violence laws (These have advanced to the point where men are commonly thrown
into jail for absolutely no more than a woman testifying to a police officer these words, “He
scared me”)

*Restraining orders (Where it is very common for men to be restrained by law from their own
property and children on the whim (testimony of violence without any validation) of a woman)

*Divorce (Especially what is called “no fault divorce”, for this vice could never have such a
strong hold in American except for the deterioration of the practice of Divine Order)

*Unbiblical remarriage. (A practice that is extremely common in America. Where upon people
enter an adulterous relationship but “sanctify” it in the eyes of men by remarriage)

*Child Custody (Where a father, if and when a wife chooses to leave him, has to fight for the
custody if of his own children, when by God's law he owns and is therefore responsible for
both the mother and the children)

*Child support (Where a wife divorces a husband, and the husband is then forced by law to
support the children she has stolen from him)

Beyond the category of the corruption and confusion of Divine Order I suppose the next largest set of vices can be found to spring forth directly from the the modern acceptance of socialism.

The practice of an inheritance tax (This practice makes the government the heir of an individual,
a government has never yet come from the loins of a man so therefore can not be his heir)

Progressive income tax (This is unconstitutional and oppressive, and unfair)

The Federal control of schools (It is unconstitutional and the “big brother” of federal
government does not need to, nor is it effectively able to control schools on the local level)

The outlawing of the Ten Commandments, and other Christian expressions in public places
(this nation was founded by Christians, and what's more, the separation of Church and state
does mean that “religion”, Christian or otherwise, does not have the right to influence both
society and government)

The outlawing of the Bible from public schools (Any local community as the right to use as it's
curriculum what it sees fit to use. It is not the right of the “feds” to dictate what we as
individuals or communities teach our children. To outlaw the Bible from public schools is
unconstitutional, remember the men that wrote the constitution were by in large God fearing,
and Bible promoters)

Property tax. (Where one can never own his property because the government has a continual
lien on it)

50% of a person's income going to taxes. This is not uncommon. (Add up local, state, and
federal taxes)

*Welfare, entitlements and grants. (The hundreds of ways the government gives away
the money it has wrung out of the tax payer)

*Equal opportunity laws (I have nothing against government mandating equal opportunity with
what is it's own, but it has no right to usurp the sovereignty of an individual proprietor, or a
corporation to demand it (he) that it, (he) has to hire so many of these, and so many of those)

Beyond those vices that can be seen to originate quite directly from the practice of feminism and/or socialism there are other common practices among our people which are contrary to God, as listed:

Tolerance and promotion of witchcraft, mediums, physics, Satan worship

*Wave the flag and boast, “forever-together we stand”, yet not repent of our sin

The offering of God's blessing by our leadership, but without repentance (God's blessing is only
available for the obedient)

The sending forth of ambassadors for peace and human rights, but at home we practice the
murder of abortion

Billions spent on pursuing terrorists (At least what are called terrorists) but the whole-sale
slaughter of the unborn continues (abortion)

The common inequity of “do not pouch the moose,(or any other animal) but go ahead and kill your unborn child” (abortion

The practice of a large standing army. (This is not of faith, nor is it economically responsible)

*The promotion of the practice of usury across this land, thus causing one's neighbor to be
enslaved

*A debt ridden society (The practice of living beyond one's means, exemplified by our federal
government which has a rapidly growing multi-trillion dollar debt)

*Religious holidays being polluted by fantasies and commercialism

*Failure to teach the accurate history of our nation's beginnings

*Civil and religious leadership unwilling to call men to prayer and repent

*Our Church's failure to pray. (Where is the burden to pray in our land?)

*Ministers of God's word who are both cowardly and confused (Therefore unable or unwilling to teach men the truth)

*People having itching ears (hearing only that which is easy and convenient to hear)

*A flood of pornography on the Internet, movies and books

Illegal drug use not severely punished

DWI's not severely punished

*Youth allowed to cast a civil vote (By God's law eldership is to rule, a man of 18 is anything
but an elder)

*The promotion that America is a democracy versus the promotion that it is a democratic
republic (The difference being that a republic is based on a set of laws, (which were meant by our nation's founding fathers to reflex God's laws) thus a people who are
ruled by law, versus the whim of immediate public sentiment)

Judicial tyranny (The practice of judges usurping the will and determination of our legislative
governmental bodies)

Multiculturalism so called (Which works out to the allowance and promotion of every different
group's perversion)

Same sex marriage (Isn't it strange that a perversion that the Scripture teaches is to be answered
with the death penalty, our courts are beginning to determine to be equal to marriage)

Wicked civil leaders (Any civil leader that promotes any agenda contrary to laws of God)

The keeping of long term prisoners

*The lack of corporal punishment (billions are spent on “re orientating” prisoners, when a whip or a rod to the back would in all most all cases do it very easily and very inexpensively, also the failure
to use corporal punishment in the rearing of children)

*Sons and daughters leaving home before marriage and before they are grounded in life

The allowance and promotion of Gambling-legalized casinos (Sin always begets more sin.
Confusion always begets more confusion. These vices serve no good and productive purpose,
but only promote confusion and poverty among its users, and with their presence comes every
wicked and perverse practice of men)

*The practice of “no fault” divorce laws (There is no such thing, it is an impossibility)

The illustration of extramarital sexual union in forms of entertainment

The use of the name of God, or the expression of God without purpose

The promotion and/or the allowance of random violence in forms of entertainment

Promotion and/or allowance of nakedness in forms of entertainment

The legalization of abortive birth control methods. (I guess the idea is that the sooner we kill the
unborn we do not want, the better)

Society's practice of abortion

Governmental promotion of birth control, particularly in lieu of the practice of chastity

*The practice of birth control (Birth control is contrary to the proper illustration that the
man and the woman were created by Yahweh to give of the Lord and the Church. For the seed
of man represents the seed of God. So I ask you, does the Lord sow His seed into the Church to then destroy it? In like manner the seed of the man is not to be destroyed. Also the practice of birth control possesses with it the spirit of abortion. For one destroys life, and the other destroys the potential for life)

*The promotion in every level of society of the fable of evolution

*The mixing of fabrics in our adornment(The purity of the non-blending of fabrics in clothing is a token practice commanded by God to help the Believer maintain a pure and “unblended” testimony of godliness in their lives. As one is to put on Christ without mixture, so one is to adorn themselves with clothing where the fabric has not been blended)

*The neglecting of obedience to the laws pertaining to sexual abstinence during a woman's
menstruation. How do I know this law is not by in large obeyed? Because it is taught by very few.

*Failure to observe the Sabbath (The American people used to do this, how be it for most it was obeyed in confusion, where Sunday was held as the Sabbath. However, in more recent times even the practice of holding Sunday as the Sabbath is very greatly neglected)

For those who may want it, an expanded version of this teaching is available on this web site. It is titled: WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN? Take these O Christian, and with them examine your life and conduct, surrendering yourself to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and may He (the Holy Spirit) guide you in the way of truth and righteousness. Amen!

A Watchman,
Greg DeHart

footnotes
1. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 1622.
2.The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267
3. The Light And The Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 351
4. Lincoln Selected Speeches and Writings, page 280

Ultimate Surrender To The Way Of The Bible Can Bring Peace and Security To Believers, To America

2009-05-14T16:40:00.000-07:00

To The Believing, and To Those Who May Learn To Believe:

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.

There is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of God. A place where sin can not molest, near to the heart of God. O Jesus blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God. Hold us who wait before Thee, near to the heart of God.

Where is this place of quietness and rest? The place where neither sin, or the abusive and loud pressures, afflictions, and persecutions of this present life can harm or alarm us? Where is this place? Does such a place exist? It does exist. It can be found as we quiet our spirits before God our Savior. The door to such a place is operated by faith via the route of surrender. Faith via surrender, can these open to us the treasures of peace and quiet in the midst of the storms of life? Yes, the practice of these can quench the the nagging- screaming voices of worry, sorrow, rejections, humiliation and life's disappointments. Yes, faith via the vehicle of surrender can bring us into the place to realize the Holy Spirit's power, genius,guidance, and fellowship. It can grant us peace when we face imprisonment, poverty, humiliation, the fear of the unknown, the loss of a friend, the pressures of providing, the loss of health and strength, even death itself. It can, faith via surrender can bring us into the secret place of the Almighty which surely can only be accessed through Jesus? In this quiet place, can we find His wisdom there? His power there? His guidance there? We can find sweet release and protection from the storms of life that commonly batter the souls of men?

Should the Believer work and pray for peace and security in his nation, and in the world? Yes, in fact the Bible pointedly instructs us to pray for the good of our land, and work for the good and security of our people. Yet, until Christ comes again and bodily reigns as king in the earth there will not be true and lasting peace and security. Yet to the believing man and woman is offered the internal peace and security that truly passes all human ability to understand, and explain how it works. It is found in Christ, via the route of faith and surrender.

Ah, Jesus blessed Redeemer, who was sent from the heart of God. You are the door. You alone are the entrance into this tranquility and rest. You are rest. You are tranquility. You are peace. You are wisdom and power and deliverance. You are the only way to God, and the only way to the secret place where one can sit under the shadow of the Almighty, but you can not be reached without the operation of faith and surrender. Surrender, that God given empowering weapon that allows the soul that uses it to come out on top. Imagine that, Oh the wisdom of God. How the wise of this world stumble over it. Victory found in surrender! It is like unto the paradoxes of gain found in giving. Exaltation found in humbling one's self. Life found via the route of death. Yes, the ways of God are a mystery unto the unbelieving, but they are life to those that believe. Amen!
Dear One: This quiet place is for you. Go ahead, enter in.

Gregory A. DeHart
A Watchman

Consider Phil. 4:7, Jer. 29:7, 1 Tim. 2:1-4,

Why Christianity Is Decreasing In America, While Secular Humanism With it's Vices Are Increasing

2009-05-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

To the Evangelical of the land:

For years in one manner of speech or another I have listened to people give their answer to the question of why righteousness is loosing ground in America today, and why more and more of whatever is called “Christian” is increasingly being persecuted, despised and rejected. How is it that this nation who's coinage boasts, “In God we Trust”, can increasingly, in one point after another deny the laws of that God, even though approximately one half of it's populace claim to be born again evangelicals? When I ask this question of people, most always the answer that is given although perhaps expressed in different words is, “It's because it's the last days”. And in saying this the people are endeavoring to communicate that things are suppose to be that way, for according to their understanding and acceptance of the Bible, righteousness is suppose to give way to ungodliness in the last days.

I am in full agreement that the kingdom of darkness will continue to grow in intensity until such time it shows itself to be the epitome of confusion and wickedness, and that this gross darkness will permeate many. This will happen, (even now is happening) it is forecasted by the Holy Scriptures and it will surely come to pass. However, at the same time it is forecasted that the Kingdom Of Light will develop into the completeness God has intended for it to be in the earth. The best way I know to illustrate this is to imagine the peace, order and righteousness that will be the every day norm in the age which is next to come (the millennium age, where Christ will reign in person here on earth) and know that the church must grow up into the fullness of this character in this present age, before entering that next age. Even as a child has to be first fully developed in the womb before it can be born. In like manner the Kingdom of God has to be fully developed in this age before the new age (millennium age) is birthed.

So, back to the original question: Why is righteousness loosing ground in America in this generation? It is the last days, that is for sure, but that is not why righteousness is loosing ground in America. No, it is not! I will give you the answer. It is because the chemistry of the righteousness of the acts of the American Church (Believers) by in large is not pure and powerful enough to hold back sin. You might say it this way, ““our powder is not dry”, therefore when it is ignited it does not have the power to destroy sin that it is supposed to have.” Jesus said it this way, but it means the very same thing. (Matthew 5:13 KJV) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

We, the evangelical of the land, we that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible have lost our saltiness. We do not fully love and obey God's laws, and the testimony of righteousness that the Scripture proclaims. There is a very sincere spirit of confusion and spiritual apathy that grips us, thus allowing for great and many blind spots in our understanding and the practice of righteousness. We have surrendered ourselves to many forms of confusion and sin. A brief description of this is that in the mid to later 1800's, we who were once a very strong Bible based society with the advent of the multiplication of modern technical knowledge began to throw off the wisdom of the Scripture, taking in it's place the doctrines and practices of humanism. (where man is supreme in wisdom and power) This needing an answer to what our origins brought forth the doctrine and practice of evolution. Which birthed the spirits of socialism and feminism, which are twin sisters. In fact, they are Siamese twins, for they are joined at the hip. The one spirit, that of socialism, works in the realm of government. It works there seeking to promote the ideology that man is the servant of government, and not government the servant to men who have both created it and maintain it. The other spirit, that of feminism is at work in the male-female relationship. (particularly in the marriage relationship, but not by any means exclusively) It seeks to corrupt both the true nature and calling of manhood and womanhood by promoting the woman to usurp the place and calling of the man and the man to resign his place and calling to the woman. Thus you end up in both society at large and in the family unit a corruption of manhood and womanhood. These spirits have introduced what is called liberalism, the which has filled America with what seems like unending confusion and vices. So we have modern America, where 40 million plus babies have been murdered by means of abortion. Where a search engine can boast 1,000,000 pornography sites, where our jails are filled beyond capacity, where many pay 50% taxes, where 8 out of 10 teenagers boasts sex out side of marriage, where 50% of our people will never marry, but “cohabitate”, where nearly 70% of those that do marry will divorce, where homosexuality becomes the law of the land, where the promotion of the name and law of God are exulted from public life and institutions, etc, etc.

We, the evangelical of the land that say we love the Bible and the God of the Bible cry to God to bring forth righteousness and stop the flood of iniquity that has been spreading across our land. But little do most of us know that in many ways we promote the very wickedness that we say we hate. We do this by ( in our confusion) practicing in our own right many forms of of sin. It is no wonder that righteousness is loosing ground in America. For it is according to the saying of Isaiah, the ancient prophet who said these words. (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV) Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

In one of my featured writings, WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN (which is available through our website) I show that in common practice and by civil law we as American people practice (participate in) 82 manners of life that stand contrary to God's laws. According to my perception, 48 of these are commonly practiced by nearly all that is called Christian in this land. This America, is why righteousness is loosing ground against liberalism in this generation. It is because we have been duped into confusion and apathy, and do not recognize sin for what it is. For the apostle John defined sin in 1 John 3:4: (KJV) Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. There are many ways where the practice of modern western theology and it's associated life style promotes the transgression of God's laws.

In conclusion I say this. It is the last days, but the reason we are loosing ground to the forces of unrighteousness is that our “powder is wet”. If the righteousness of our deeds could be illustrated as gun powder, when it is ignited it would only make a small poof, and not the mighty explosion that it is suppose to create. Is it because our sins keep God's power from working in and through us as He would have it to work, and sin can not be held back in our personal lives, nor in our public life without the working of God's power.

Jesus forecasted this situation in the parable of the ten virgins which is told in the book of Matthew chapter 25. He said in the last days that all ten of the virgins would “slumber and sleep”. This speaks of the general apathy and confusion that Jesus forecasted would grip the entirety of the Kingdom Of Light in the world at the last time. But the cry is being made to those that have ears to hear. This cry is that Christ is soon to return. Wake up. Shake yourself. Dress yourself with every manner of righteousness for the day of His return and judgment is very near. All things must now be brought to completion.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heaven, and turn again to the Lord. Jesus, and His gospel, which brings forth true and enduring righteousness is alone the answer.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

Lets Talk About America, President Obama, Socialism and Taxes

2009-04-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

Hey America. Politicians, and President Obama:

Years ago I figured out a simple truth. Be generous and give, and you’ll earn favor with people, especially if the gift is one that cannot be repaid. The person you give to may then be your friend, perhaps for a life time. I first learned this at the hand of my Great Grandpa who used to give us kids lemon drops when we would visit him. A small thing, but it has been many years and I still vividly remember his thoughtfulness to us. Warren Porter was a family friend who when I was eleven years old took me traveling with himself and his aged mother from Minnesota to Alaska, with many interesting points in between. I will never forget these and others who have been generous and kind to me. It would appear to me that our federal, state, county and city governments have learned a similar thing. They make many friends of special interest groups with our tax dollars. We pay for many “gifts”, monies spent to benefit the few not the whole, or even the many.

The thing that the politicians do not seem to understand is that it is not their money. By force of law they steal from the working man, our wives and children, so they can take the money and make friends with it. You might say that by means of armed robbery they steal from the producing element of our American society. They arm themselves with the force of unjust and foolish laws that are forced upon us. In the law of God it is clearly put forth that no one has the right to take from another that which doesn’t belong to him. To extract from an individual his wealth by force of law and not give him a just direct benefit is no less than thievery. God sees it all friends and do not think He doesn’t. You should not take from one in order to give it to another to win the recipient’s favor. Many have departed from honor not realizing, or caring, “that a gift corrupts”. Larry Burkett, a modern financial counselor can add a bit of wisdom from his book THE COMING ECONOMIC EARTHQUAKE. “So fearful were the founders of this country of a strong central government that they went to great lengths to ensure that its powers were severely limited. Basically, the central government could settle arguments between the states, organize an army to defend the nation's common cause, regulate interstate commerce, and negotiate foreign treaties. The federal government was allowed to raise its operating capital by charging an interstate tariff on goods only -- period!”

I didn’t notice any federal income tax, no welfare, no endowments, grants, nor any other tokens of what is called socialism. My, my, how far we have strayed from the intent of our founding fathers, not to mention the law of God. The Savior says, repent! Now America, since I’m speaking of taxes let me give you some words of advice. First of all scrap any idea of giving monies to anyone or group that would not be spent to the equal benefit of the people who paid the taxes in the first place. If certain groups or individuals want money for private or small concerns that do not benefit the general populace, let them earn their own money. Secondly, scrap all taxes that are levied upon a select group but which proceeds are spent on the general populace. This is practiced with various “sin taxes” such as tobacco and alcohol taxes. How is it that a government has the right to levy taxes on a select group for any reason unless the proceeds are used to directly serve the ones who paid the tax? However, the individual who practices their vice, needs to be held fully and singularly responsible for the outcome of that vice, meaning by example: lung cancer and the such like for the smoker, and automobile accidents, etc. for the drinker. The drinker should not be required to pay taxes that advantage me the non drinker. I, the non-drinker should not in anyway be held responsible for the drinker who, because of his drinking, damages himself or any one else. This is just and fair. Thirdly, since taxes must be raised to pay for services that benefit all, do it in a manner that is in agreement with the law of God. Scrap the income tax. It is exceedingly complex and inequitable. Institute a flat rate sales tax system. This system will equally tax rich and poor alike, according to the money they spend. This system has no need of business deductions because whether it is a multi-million dollar corporation or an average citizen, he will be taxed the same percentage per dollar spent. A very large portion of the IRS could be eliminated because a flat rate sales tax would be far more easily run as well as policed. When you do this, however, do not neglect to compensate the vendors who collects the tax money for you. It is not right that they become tax agents without adequate compensation. Another built in advantage of this system is that the government would not be able to collect money over and above what an individual owes. This is the practice at this time. The government uses our money for up to a year’s time without paying one dime of interest to anyone. America, God the Almighty runs His whole kingdom on earth with such a system. It’s called a tithe Those who are committed to His work in the earth pay a tithe, which is commonly accepted as one tenth of one's income If God’s Kingdom can run on so simple a system, why is yours so extremely complicated and expensive? The answer is simple, your system is based on inequity and wrought with many follies.

Our new President, Mr. Obama seems to be head of the class in regards to the promotion of socialism and the giving away of money. I heard just yesterday that by current projections his administration is scheduled to produce more national debt then all the prior 200 years of federal government combined. I guess you might say he's doing it in style. He's an all out sort of fella isn't he? The single great problem is, who's going to pay the tab? For I assure you America, there will be a tab to pay!

A Watchman
Greg De Hart

Consider; Pr. 17:23, Pr 22:16, Ps. 62:10, Ex. 22:26-27, Is. 10:1-4, Gen. 28:22, Gen. 14:20, Ex. 30:15

By God's Wisdom, What Should The Actions Of A Man Toward A Woman Be? What Is Feminism?

2009-04-26T17:15:00.000-07:00

DEDICATION
An article firstly dedicated to three female persons who have each in their own way, and in their own time deeply affected this man's life for good and for God. My mother, who first introduced me to the faith of Jesus Christ, my Grandmother, whose tender ways were an extreme comfort to my soul when I was a teenager, and to a teen aged young woman who at that time was named Judy Graham. Whose bold and upbeat godly testimony served as a very great influence to cause this man in the tenderness of his youth to step out and make a public commitment for the faith of Jesus Christ.

ARTICLE SUMMARY: The author notes the observation of how Christ acts toward the Church, and from that derives wisdom as to how a godly man should act toward a woman. (particularly a wife) Noting, that this may involve great attention, sacrifice, devotion and labor on the man's part, but at the same time must never give any place for the allowance of the spirit or actions of feminism.

By God's Wisdom, What Should The Actions Of A Man Toward A Woman Be? What Is Feminism?

The Eternal Creator designed and built the human persons as living mortal illustrations of both Himself and the single great treasure of His heart: the Church. He created the male person, which grows to manhood to represent Himself, and the female person, which grows to womanhood was designed and is created to represent the Church, or individual Believer. This is the nuts and bolts, or the bottom line foundational premise of the great mystery that the Apostle Paul spoke of in Ephesians 5:22-33. The particular, very wisdom of which is being revealed to truth seekers in these lasts days before the advent of the next era which has been forecasted to come. (the Millennial era) An era of time which is to happen, but has not yet been entered into, but is fore told by the Holy Scriptures. However, it can not be entered into until both the kingdom of light, and the kingdom of darkness grow to complete maturity, and the full spectrum and volume of the fruits of each kingdom are demonstrated in the world. In light of the coming of this new age, the culmination of this present age necessitates the Church coming to full maturity. In view of this, I offer this writing to truth seekers who with honest and loyal hearts are seeking to live Yahweh's truth in the world.

What Are, Or Could Be, The Actions Of A Godly Man Toward A Woman? (particularly a wife)

To answer this question we will follow a very simple course of thought and investigation. We will consider how Christ acts toward the Church and then endeavor to mimic His actions within the frame work of our human relationships, (particularly that of marriage). For after all, the male person (man) was designed and built with exactly that purpose in mind: to be a living mortal representation of God. The woman (the female person) was designed for the exact purpose of being a living mortal representation of the Church, or individual Believer. So, therefore, for a man to mimic Christ's (God's) attitudes and actions toward the Church (or individual Believer) is to walk out (flesh out) the life style and person that the Creator designed a man to be. For a woman to mimic a Believer's ( or the Church at large) attitude and action toward Christ (God) is to walk out the life style and person that the Creator designed the woman to be. Amen! This is true manhood, and womanhood.

The Purposes Of A Woman (wife) In A Godly Man's Manner Of Thought.

She is to be loved and cherished as a great treasure and responsibility that has been entrusted to him by God above. She is to honored, again, in that she was given to him by God, and because an extreme amount of his service and response to the Almighty One is bound up in how he treats her. She is to be taught. She is to be encouraged. She is to be prayed for and worried about. She is to be studied, with the hope of doing the best a man can to understand her, in order to lift her up and cause her to blossom and bare the greatest amount of the fruits of productively and righteousness that are possible for her to bare. She's to be courted, not only in the beginning of the relationship, but to a degree forever. She's to be looked upon and admired. She's to be teased. For will a man tease a woman he doesn't appreciate? Not likely, generally he'll make a very wide circle around such a woman. She's to be complimented, and praised for many things. Her beauty, her charms, her labors, her intelligence, her understanding, her abilities, her devotion to duty and what is good and right in life, and in the world. She is also at times good for the simple and basic purpose of sitting and staring at for enjoyment and admiration's sake. Hey, she's good to hold and touch and tickle and handle and undress and to enjoy passion and pleasure with. Yeah, sex is also a part of the package. She can, and should play the role of a major recipient of a man's love and affection, for there can be a great amount of love and affection in a man's heart. She's meant to partner with. So labor joined to labor, and mind joined to mind, creativity joined to creativity can accomplish tremendous things for the glory of God in the world and the furtherance of His purposes, the betterment of God's family, and the basic family unit. For as Solomon The Great said, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour,.......again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” (Ecclesiastes chapter four, various versus KJV) She's to share the wonder, joy and great sacrifice and adventure of being a parent with. She plays a very basic and important part in the Lord's teaching of man-as to really how the Believer is before him. For in observing the woman the man sees himself before the Lord. And believe me, that is a mixed package.

She's to be served, loved, cherished, lead, taught, guided, prayed for, believed in, shown patience and forbearance, shown gentleness and kindness, shown empathy, sympathy and mercy. She is to be honored, lovingly disciplined and corrected, complimented, encouraged, forgiven, worried over, day dreamed about, thanked, given thanks to God for, protected, desired, nurtured, cultivated, to be delivered in and from all sorts of situations. She's to be fought for, and yes, certainly also she's worthy to be fought over. Perhaps even in the struggle to protect and deliver her she is to die for, as well as for one's children that proceed forth from her. That a man would die for a woman, and/or her children, hasn't this depth of love been demonstrated innumerable times in the history of the world? She's to be a partner, a lover, a friend, a confidant.

But this I will say. Of all the many and tremendous things that a man is to do for and with a woman, the which will even work to accentuate his very person and manhood, and which are to God's praise. There is one thing that a man is never to do in regards to a woman. Never, Never, Never, Never, and Never!

He is not to surrender his headship to a woman. He is not to neither promote or allow her to be his head, or seek to promote or allow her to assume or usurp headship over other men, so that he follows her in life, or she becomes the leader of other men. This my friend and brother is confusion before the Almighty Creator. This confusion (sin) fills our nation, and causes extreme hurt, and loss of honor. It is what is called feminism. This confusion is a copy of the very act of usurpation that Satan himself committed before the Eternal God. Feminism is a spirit of usurpation. It is the spirit of Satan. For Satan is the prince of usurpation. Consider in your mind, should the Christian Believer teach or lead the Lord Jesus? In like manner the woman was created to be a living mortal illustration of the Believer in the world, so for her to teach or lead a man, (especially her husband or father) is to give the picture of the Believer leading and teaching the Lord Jesus. Such picture should never be given. For of all the wonders and the excellence of the great grace of Christ shown to the lifting and honoring of the Believer, there is one thing that He (Christ) has never done, and will never do, and that is to surrender His headship (that of being Lord) to the Church or to anyone else. Let us note that Jesus gave Himself for the Church, not to the Church. There is a very great difference between the two. He is Lord, and in like manner the husband is lord over the wife, also men in general are lord (head) over women in general. (this is called eldership rule) This is the way of truth, it is the way of God, and anything different than this, no matter how it may be “dressed up”, or even if it is referred to by many as wise, modern, or progressive will be shown to be confusion and error.

A Watchman,
Gregory DeHart

Consider: Genesis chapters 1-3, particularly 3:16, 1 Timothy 2:8-15, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, Ephesians 5:22-33, 1 Corinthians 14:33-35, 1 Peter 3:1-7

Bible Insights Into President Obama's Order To Kill The Somalian Pirates, And The Death Penalty

2009-04-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

Hey America, President Obama, US Naval Seals, and Captain Phillips:

The Holy Scripture teaches that honor is to be given to whom honor is due, tribute to whom tribute is due. Therefore, in the spirit of that admonition I will speak of aspects of the recent piracy act where an American sea Captain was held as hostage. Captain Phillips, showing both bravery and compassion volunteered himself to be held while begging the release of some of his fellow ship mates. This is commendable. For it is written: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13 KJV) Captain Phillips: you sir, are to be honored for your act of decency and devotion to your ship mates, risking your life for the aide and safety of those in your charge.

This piracy episode was brought to an end when the US navy seals by means of sniper fire killed three of the pirates who were holding the ship captain at gun point. The ship captain was freed and the fourth pirate brought into custody.

Now, in view of the Holy Scriptures let us examine various aspects of this event, and what will be the likely judicial action exercised upon the captive pirate. Why should such an examination be done? For two very basic reasons. Because Yahweh, the creator of the world, who is also the author of the Holy Scripture is wiser then we are. Therefore, we can gain wisdom to live successfully by giving heed to the Holy Scriptures. In conjunction to that reason there is also this reason. All men will one day be held in account as to whether each lived his natural life in acceptance and obedience to Yahweh's Lordship, or in rejection and disobedience to His Lordship (ownership). Therefore, in light of eternity it behooves every man to examine his actions knowing that he will ultimately stand before the Living God to be judged for the deeds of his life.

Point One: A national government, even as is exemplified in the most basic and fundamental of government units, which is, that of a man in his own household, ought to defend and protect it's own. So America, President Obama, and the US Naval Armed Forces you did well to go to the aide and protection of this one who is an American citizen. We can see this truth spoken clearly in these verses from the Holy Scripture: 1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV) speaks of an individual's responsibility to supply provision and protection for those of his own household. But if any provide not for his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Romans 13:3-4 (KJV)speaks of the responsibility of a government to protect and defend it's own. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Point Two: To kidnap any person is a capital offense by the law of God. It is written in Exodus 21:16 (KJV), And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. The conclusion is exceedingly easy and forthright. It is plain for anyone with an honest heart to see, and that is that any man stealer (kidnapper) is to be executed. So in that these pirates would not surrender to due process of law you did 100% right to kill them in defense of the life of the American ship captain.

Point Three: In spite of the fact that by God's law death is to be the judgment for all kidnappers, mercy was offered for a lengthly amount of time, and the pirates were given an opportunity to recant their deeds and release their captive. However, they refused. It is good to show mercy, but mercy scoffed needs always to be turned into judgment shown. President Oboma, Naval Seal Commander: you did well to show mercy, but in that it was not received you followed it by the most proper action, that of slaying the pirates that held the American citizen captive. For the Holy Scripture teaches that mercy is only to be shown to those who show mercy. The pirates refused to show mercy, so in the end no mercy could be granted to them.

Point Four: According to the norm of American justice the fourth kidnapper will never be treated in the manner that what is commanded by the law of God. As we read earlier, any man stealer (kidnapper) is to be executed. Now I realize that this scenario has not yet been played out, but an established norm has been set in the United States of America is recent decades, and that is to forsake the commandment of God in reference to the judgment of those guilty of the death penalty, and to force the American public to feed and house the guilty for years and years, and then in many cases to later set the lawbreakers free so that they can practice their wickedness again to the hurt of other innocents. This is neither wise or godly. However, when one is to be killed in punishment for their crimes, they deserve this one respect, grant that a God fearing minister be supplied to them to give them one last chance at entering the salvation of Jesus before they depart this world. For at death the judgment of whether one belongs to Jesus or not is set, and that for all eternity.

Point Five: I will give this advise in reference to piracy on the high seas. First of all, in accordance with the norm of modern American wisdom and practice, our government will try to answer this situation by throwing volumes of money at it. By trying to guard the whole coast line of Somalia, or some such thing. Such thought process is foolish for two reasons. One: We can not afford that expense, (we already have a national debt of multiple trillions of dollars) and besides that, such action is unnecessary, and it is sincerely doubtful that such as task can reasonably be made to work. Do this, allow the ships that use that shipping lane to arm themselves against those that would attack them. I know this flies in the face of modern American thought that would like to pretend that big government has the answer to every problem. Such a government would like to disarm it's people, and in so doing create a society where the government plays the part of God to its people. (“the ever present supplier and protector, where one need only to swear allegiance to it and all his needs are met”) Know this, it was men that created our American form of government, therefore the government belongs to the people, and not the people to the government. I now suggest to you an answer to the piracy problem that will work, and is in accordance with the wisdom of the scripture as is seen in this verse. (Matthew 12:29 KJV) Or else how can one enter a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And then he will spoil his house. The wisdom of this verse speaks both in respect to the need for individuals to bear arms to protect themselves, and the need for commercial enterprises to bear arms to protect their own interests. Which any government denying it's citizens this right is proving in that action to be both foolish and ungodly.

I freely and pointedly say that the action of the US Government to protect and deliver Captain Phillips from the Somali pirates was an action worthy of honor. You did good Mr. President. You did good Navy Seals. However, this incident is only one in light of the very many examples in modern times where our American government has not defended it's own.

Why have we not defended the innocents who have been murdered by means of abortion since our own Supreme Court “legalized” this type of murder in 1973? Why Mr. President, does the US government not go to the defense of these? Are these unborn, or newly born Americans any less citizens of the United States of America then Captain Phillips and his crew? With that question I will ask another. Why has civil judgment not been exercised on those that have slaughtered to date, by means of what is called abortion, over 40 million of our nation's citizens? Beyond this question I will ask still another, why are not the many who murder any of our citizens on our streets not brought to execution, and thus the law of God fulfilled, and the land made free of the guilt of the shedding of innocent blood? Why are not the many who deal in drugs and any other vices that continually threaten the well being, and lives of our citizens not brought to justice and executed?

Woe to a nation who will not exercise judgment according to God's laws. Who to the leaders of men who do not seek the praise and reward of God , but rather seek the praise and reward of being the friends of men, and because of this do not do judgment. Woe to these, and woe to such a nation. For Yahweh, the King of the earth will Himself exercise judgment upon such a people. Though this judgment may seem to linger, it will surely come.

Here is my counsel America, President Obama, and to all who will see these words: Repent. Turn from the wickedness of humanistic thought (man centered thought) and action and do both the laws and the promises of God. In them alone is life, and only those that follow Him will He welcome into His eternal kingdom. Also, only those who walk in the light of His promises and laws will be proven in the end to have His blessing in this life. Amen. As it is written: Blessed is the man (nation) that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of the sinner, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight (that nation's delight) is in the law of the Lord; and in his law he mediates day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor the sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but he way of the ungodly shall perish. (Psalms 1: 1-6 KJV)

A Watchman
Gregory DeHart

Iowa's Supreme Court “legalized” Same Sex Marriage-Is Homosexuality Godly?-Can Gays Inherit Heaven?

2009-04-09T16:03:00.000-07:00

Hey America: Lets talk about Iowa's Supreme Court's decision that “legalized” gay marriages in that state, and about whether homosexuality is godly, and about if such action and manner of life is congruent with the calling of God that our national father's felt in their hearts for this nation.

It was July 4th 1776. The delegates that represented the 13 American colonies had been for some days in committee on behalf of the whole of the American colonies. They were debating the issue of whether to declare independence from Great Briton or not. Why was this issue being discussed? What was the single most basic motivating factor that had moved the hearts of these English men (and the populace they represented) to consider declaring independence from the British Empire? I would say that the answer to that question is quite easily understood by the communication of a very common slogan of that day which went like this: We have no king save Jesus! For a great many reasons (there were 63 grievances submitted with the original Declaration of Independence) our nation's founders had determined that they could not serve King George and King Jesus at the same time. Thus on this day it was voted unanimously to declare independence from England, and establish their own central government, which was meant in their hearts and planning to be a government under God. Where His laws ruled supreme. This is obviously testified to according to the expression of Samuel Adams, who as one of the colonial delegates had participated in voting for the passage of the Declaration of Independence. After the passing of the declaration he is quoted as saying, “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men out to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and .....from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.” 1

Of course, for the original 13 colonies to come to the place where they were willing to vote to cast off the rule of the British Empire was not an over night thing. It had been building for years, having been born of the sentiment of it's people, which for the greater part were God fearing. Which sentiment is echoed in these words that were in 1772 written as a part of a declaration of a small town on the “elbow” of Cape Cod, it's name being Chatham. They held, “civil and religious principles to be the sweetest and essential part of their lives, without which the remainder was scarcely worth preserving.” In like spirit, the men of Marlborough in the year 1773 proclaimed unanimously, “Death is more eligible than slavery. A free born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties....” 2

Much more recently on Friday the 3rd of April, 2009 Iowa's Supreme Court “legalized” gay marriage in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and the first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed. In its decision, the high court upheld a lower court's ruling that found that a state law restricting marriage to only be between a man and woman violated Iowa's constitution. "We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," the Supreme Court wrote in its decision. "The Legislature has excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification."

America, let's reason together.

Let's start at the beginning. Lets first consider the sentiment of the One that created the world, as is revealed in the Holy Scripture. Now please keep in mind that we can only, for lack of time and space mention a very few Scriptural notations in regards to this subject. In Leviticus chapter 18 a rather elongated list of sexual sins are listed, among which is found a commandment directed toward males, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (NIV) A few verse later this statement is made, “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.” (NIV) So it is clearly seen that homosexuality is in Yahweh's eyes a detestable thing, and that at least in the case of the nations that inhabited the land of Canaan they were destroyed as a people because of the practice of this sin, among others. A New Testament writer named Paul many years after the prophet Moses had delivered the commandments of the law that condemned in them the practice of homosexuality, speaking of irreligious people (like very many in modern America) who grow more and more vile throwing off the knowledge of God described them like this, “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.” (Romans 1:26-31 NIV)

It is obviously clear to any honest heart that God's word forbids the practice of homosexuality and associates it with every sort of vile and depraved behavior. This is because sin always begets more sin. Even as righteousness and mercy begets more of the same, perversion will always beget more perversion. So we see that homosexuality is hated of God and that it will only serve to breed more and greater perversion, which in the final conclusion if not repented of, will bring the judgment of God to bare upon any person or nation of people.

The Iowa Supreme Court is quoted as saying, “We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," Let's think about this statement. The Iowa Supreme Court says that to disallow gay and lesbian marriages (homosexuality) does not substantially further any important government objective. Ok, what is the objective of government? I would say that a very basic objective of government is to enforce law that will promote and maintain order and peace among it's people. With this in mind I will remind you of the wisdom of the Apostle Paul as was expressed in Scripture verse that is written above, which undeniably associated the practice of homosexuality with very many numerous vices which are any thing but conducive to peace and order among any people. (in fact, reading the list of these vises is much like reading the news headlines in America today) Therefore, I say to you that this state's Supreme Court by means of its irreligious and unbelieving heart has taken yet another step to encourage and promote the destruction of this nation by aiding the destruction of its moral character.

They are not the first state Supreme Court that has chosen to deny the continuing historical precedent of conservatism (fear of God) that our nation and its courts have held up from this nation's conception to accept and promote that homosexuality is right and therefore should be allowed and promoted by law. The Iowa State Supreme Court, by their very action declared that our national constitution, (which was created by a body of men who by both word and action proved that they both loved and feared the God of the Bible) was designed to include and promote the vice of homosexuality. I say this is a lie from the pit of hell. It is simply the wickedness of their own hearts being expressed through the judicial position that they occupy.

So to the godly of America I will ask, when will you rise up and throw off the tyranny of wickedness that the judges of this nation wish to impose upon you, corrupting your laws and institutions? Our national fathers could not abide the tyranny and corruption of King George. How long can we abide the tyranny and corruption of both the legislative and judicial branches of our state and federal governments?

There remains yet one more question to be answered that was asked in this article's title. Can the homosexual inherit Heaven? I would say that basic reasoning can answer this question very easily. Would you invite some one into your home to live with you that practiced a manner of life that was detestable to you? I think not. In like manner the God of all creation will not invite those who cling to any perversion to spend an eternity abiding in His presence. Simple reason teaches us this. This reasoning is verified by the revelation of the Scripture as is found in Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.” I would not say that this Scripture (or any other) offers any hope for those that practice the abomination of homosexuality to inherit eternal life, other then that they repent, crying out to God for mercy.

Repent America. Let us turn from the wickedness of our indifference. Let us turn from the every aspect of our lives that are not in obedience to the commands of Christ our Lord. Turn again to the faith of your fathers, who proved at the time of the Revolutionary War that they would stake their lives and fortunes to maintain their godliness. For they chose Jesus as their King instead of King George. Will history record that the righteous of this generation firstly cleansed themselves of their own sin, and then beyond that fought for godliness? Or, will history record that the “righteous” of this generation failed to cleansed itself of its own sins, and beyond that failed to stand up and call the sin of homosexuality, and other sins for the perversion that they are?

A Watchman

Footnotes: 1-The Light And The Glory by Perter Marshall and David Manuel, page 309
2-The Light And The Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267.

A Frank Discussion Concerning Murder and Abortion In America

2009-04-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

Hey America, Lets talk about ethics, about justice, about judgment to come, about how murder has become common place, and about Yahweh's forgiven.

Having read this article's introduction you understand that an Alaskan woman was found guilty of abandoning her infant in a closet in her parent's home, causing the death of the infant. There it's dead body was found rotting some weeks afterward. A pretty gruesome thing to do eh? Yeah, sounds like something out of a horror story, or maybe you might say it sounds like something straight out of the pit of hell! A mother, abandoning the infant that came forth from her own body, and that was meant by the creator to be nourished at her breasts and cradled in her arms. This mother placed her child in a closet where it was left to misery and death, out of the immediate detection of anyone who could have acted to save it's life, before which she had wrapped it in a plastic bag to enclose the smell of the unavoidable decomposition that her child's body would experience.

A story like this prompts a sane mind to ask a few questions. First of all, how it is that a mother could care so little about her child's life? After that, this question comes to mind. How could she think she could ever get away with it, for sooner or later the remains of the child's body would have to be found? It could not be hidden forever in her parent's spare bedroom closet. Then this question comes to mind. Didn't she think that there would be some sort of punishment for such an action?” Although these are all basic questions that arise in such a story I am not sure we can answer them here and now, and besides that, these questions are offered by this article's author to cause us to focus on an evil much greater in scope than that of the woman against her child.

Ethics

Yes, the woman's actions constitute a cruel and unnatural act of murder. An action perpetrated by the every person that should be a young child's greatest friend and ally in the world. Perpetrated by the very person who was the instrument used by the creator to conceive the life of this child, and then after carrying it's developing person within her womb was enabled by God to deliver the child in the world. Should not this mother, above all people have pity, and a heart full of mercy toward the child of her womb? Yes, something in her heart was obviously very wrong, for it is from the heart that sin proceeds. Which sin includes murder.

America, mother's from among your populace have now “legally” murdered well over 40,000,000 (40 million) of their children by the empowerment of the United States Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision in1973. The act of this woman from Alaska is undoubtedly barbaric in nature, but at least she did not seek to change the law of the land to accomplish her murder. Why did the mothers of these aborted children have no heart? Why did the medical personnel who snuffed their lives out have no heart? Why has our Supreme Court not opened their heart to aide and protect these innocents that have been butchered by the millions? Why as the American Civil Liberties Union not fought for the right of these individuals to live, but rather they (the ACLU) have fought to promote the destruction of these innocents.

It would appear that the ethics of this nation are far from pure, in fact they have every appearance of being barbaric. Much like the barbaric nature of Hitler's Germany.

Justice

The woman received a twenty year prison sentence. Some would say that this sentence is to lenient, other would say it is to harsh. What does the Bible say? Scripture answers this type of situation very clearly and in very simple terms, but admittedly we view our selves as far to “wise and humane” to execute the Biblically prescribed punishment for such sin. (Genesis 9:6KJV) Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man. Pretty straight forward words. Words whose meaning any honest heart can understand, which boil down to capital punishment.

It would seem to me, as I think it would to any rational-honest thinker, that if on one hand we call murder as murder, (such as was done in the case of the woman in this story) then we should call it murder on the other hand. Which is then to say that the murderous deaths of all these innocents whose lives have been snuffed out by abortion by rights out to be accounted for. Now, that is no small element of accounting.

Judgment to come

Our American fathers by the wisdom of their faith (by the way America, in case you have not figured it out, those without faith reason altogether differently then those that live by faith) realized that without law there can be no liberty. For the lack of restraint of law in the actions of one violates the right of the pursuance of life-liberty-and the desire of happiness (fulfillment) in another's life. Therefore, from the beginning, the practice of this nation was meant to be that civil judgment be administered against all law breakers in a quick and expedient manner. So that the innocent among us could have a fair chance at a full life, not suffering by either oppression or death from another. It is very obvious to any thinking person that this judgment has in a very great degree departed from America. We have become a land where crime often has a very small price tag attached to it, and whose punishment can be a very long time in coming.

America, did you think you could hide the sin of abortion from the judge of the earth? It has appeared that you have thought you could hide your sin in the “closet” of the Supreme Court referring to it as “legal”. I say to you America, that you have been found out. The word is out. Your sin is completely apparent before not only God our creator, but before all honest men and women everywhere. Do not allow yourself to be fooled. Whatever a man sows he will later reap. If the powers that are in place in this present time are confused and polluted and will not execute judgment, then rest assured there in One in Heaven who will bring you to judgment. This judge stands completely impartial, and from a point of view that possesses all insight and wisdom, and will judge without mercy every action of every person. These next excepts from the Holy Scripture describe this judgment. (Romans 2:5-11) But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.----Who will render to every man according to his deeds.---To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life;---But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,---Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and the Gentile:---For there is no respect of persons with God.

Murder has become common place

So tell me America, how can it be right to impose a 20 year prison sentence on this woman when at the same time it is “legal” and held as “prudent” and “ethical” by our very own president, very many of our civil leaders all across this land, very many of our religious leaders all across the country, and by the very highest court in our land to in no less a brutal manner murder children by the process of abortion? Our Supreme Court, which is meant to be comprised of men (and women now a days) of learning and justice, who are supposed to be, beyond all others, able to interpret the actions of our nation in order to maintain the rule of law in our land, how is it that they do not see the insanity of abortion for the murder it is? How can it be that before the point of birth we can murder our children, and even at the point of birth we can murder them, but we can not murder them after they have lived a few weeks time after being born, as is the case of this Alaskan woman whose story I have mentioned? Tell me America. Tell me, how can this be so? Tell me, what is the difference between the life of the child not yet born, or very newly born, then the life of the child who has lived as a birthed individual for a few weeks time? I must admit the difference can not be found in my perception of things. Apparently my mind has been proven to simple and naïve to be able to grasp what must be the complex and higher reasoning that is used by many to justify the actions that have now resulted in the death of 40 million plus individuals since the passing of Roe vs. Wade.

Yahweh's forgiveness

I have good news for some. It is meant for all people, but I fully realize that many will never take it to themselves. This news is that God is to be found in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. That means in simple terms that there is forgiveness of sin in Christ Jesus. That a holy God, who is absolutely apposed to any and all sin, and in who's presence sin can never abide, has in His great love and mercy provided a way for the forgiveness for any man who will answer the conviction of the Holy Spirit's dealing in his heart, and confess his sin before God, and turn from his sins, clinging by faith to Jesus as the payment for his sins. Any soul of man, no matter how vile he or she has been can be forgiven and find in Christ the Lord a total and complete clear conscience. Thus, resulting in joy and peace that is beyond expression. Amen! There is no one in all the universe other then Jesus who can do this for us! The remission of sin is offered in His name alone.

This forgiveness is for the woman who murdered her child. It is for the abortionists who have murdered the 40 million plus innocents since Roe vs. Wade. It is for the mothers who in their confusion and self-centered desires gave their children over to destruction. It is for our presidents, and our civil leaders, and for our religious leaders who in the blindness of their hearts have voted for the murder of these innocents. It is for you America, it is for all of us who have stood and watched it happen and not spoken a word or lifted a finger to stop it. This forgiveness is for all who have not even bothered to pray for the murder to cease and justice to be served. Yes, this forgiveness is for all who being convicted of their vile state will call upon the name of the Lord, confessing their wrong, and turning from their wickedness. This forgiveness is found in Jesus, and in no other.

A Watchman
Consider: Exodus 20:13, Rev. 21:8, Mk. 7:21, Rev. 20:1-15, Rm. 3:23, Rm. 3:26, Rm. 6:23, Eph. 2:8-9,

Loyalty-What or Who Is The Standard Of Loyalty and Can We Measure Our Selves By It?

2009-04-03T10:17:00.001-07:00

Hey America:

Loyalty, a word that in many hearts rings with warmth and great value. A quality that can be found in people that invokes endearment and appreciation from those who are the recipient of it's expressions. A quality that is “part and parcel” to true friendship. In fact, I'd say that without it, true friendship is lost. For how can true friendship stand if there is no trust or reliability, and loyalty is the very foundation of trust. There can be love in a relationship without loyalty being expressed by all partners, but there can not be a love relationship. Meaning this, that in relationships it is often sadly true that love (which is expressed in loyalty) does not go both ways. For love to be a mutually reciprocating thing then loyalty much be found practiced by all.

Loyalty is defined by one popular dictionary as “feelings of allegiance”. But does loyalty only go as far as feelings? Do feelings of allegiance alone constitute loyalty? I think not. Yes, I would think that most of us would say that loyalty has feelings of allegiance, but with out actions that spring forth from allegiance shouldn't it be said that the feelings are very shallow? So we find that loyalty is to stand in allegiance to another in both feeling and action. But, what is the highest form of loyalty? I would say it is not only to stand by another, but to stand by them to the end that truth might prevail. An example of the negative side of this is the many who were very loyal to Hitler's Germany, but in the end who would say their loyalty was a good or a profitable thing? In like manner, all of our loyalties at life's end will be judged as to whether they were according to the truth or not. Sad to say I am afraid that the loyalties of many will not be found to the praise of Christ.

THE HIGHEST AND ONLY UNFAILING EXAMPLE OF LOYALTY AMONG MEN

Undoubtedly loyalty as been exemplified in men's lives since the beginning of creation. But I hold that there has only ever been one man who has perfectly exemplified loyalty, and that is Jesus the Righteous. How did He prove this? What actions of His life are recorded that bare the witness that His life alone perfectly exemplifies a life of the purest loyalties?

Firstly, He was loyal to His Father, who was the One that commissioned (sent) Him into the world.

He ever obeyed the word (commandment) of His Father. This is seen in that He humbled Himself to set aside His deity, to then be found in the fashion of a man who came into the world as a baby born of a virgin woman

to live among a poor and oppressed people. He grew seeking the way of His Father, to live out His earthly ministry, to be brought to a place of rejection and betrayal by all men. Then to be condemned to a humiliating trial, brutalization,

and death, and all of this was at the command of His father. So that He could be become the savior that was needed to express the love of God to a lost creation, providing the salvation that men needed. Oh, how I am thankful that He was loyal, to the very bitter end of His natural life.

Secondly, He (Christ) was (and I believe is, and will ever be) loyal to His own word and oath. We see this first in that He kept His oath to the Father in that He completely played the part of becoming savior to all men. This is seen in Psalms 40: 6-8, (KJV) “Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.” Christ's loyalty to His Father, obeying Him to the point of death is also established by the testimony of the writer of Hebrews 12:2b (KJV), “who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,.....”

Then He rose from the dead as He said He would. He sent the baptism of the Holy Spirit as He said He would.

He gave gifts unto men (the ascension offices of the New Testament Church) as He said He would. He's alive in Heaven making intercession for all Believers as He is supposed to be. He will come again to receive His own unto Himself, and at that time to judge both the righteous and the wicked, even as He said He would. He is loyal to His word, and in so doing He is loyal to all men.

Thirdly, Christ was and is loyal to His brethren. This loyalty is encapsulated in the first and second loyalties of Christ's heart. In that He is loyal to the Father and to Himself, He can not but help to be loyal to His brothers and sisters yet in the world. How can this be proven? I would say it is very easily proven by the fact that He has never lied to, or abandoned His own. I do not believe that there is one who can honestly say that Christ has never kept His word to His own. I believe that all the promises of God (Christ) work for us, if we work them correctly.

HOW CAN MEN LEARN THIS FORM OF LOYALTY?

There is only one way. It is found in being in Christ, and then in putting on Christ. By the operation of faith receiving Him as the savior and sovereign of one's life. By the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, which creates in the Believer a new inner man. One that is not fashioned after this world and its ways, but is fashioned after the One who calls us from above. Beyond these, the actions of
loyalty are learned by the renewing of our minds, where we learn to fashion our habits after the habits of Jesus. To the extent we will do this, we will be shown to be loyal, first to the Lord, and then to men around us, according to the various relationships that we experience in this mortal life. In this truth is the realization of the failure of our nation's people as expressed in how we have rejected God in our schools, in our churches, in our government and institutions. For in so doing we are more and more becoming a people where our citizens lack love for their neighbors. This produces a self serving people, a people with fewer examples of true and noble loyalty. That is why we have a divorce rate of nearly 70%, why we have murdered nearly 40 million babies through “legalized” abortion, why most any where in America one can open a phone book turning to the Yellow Pages and find page after page of attorneys being listed. And why is this so? It is because we are a nation filled with litigation. Neighbor suing neighbor in courts of law. The truest form of loyalty can only will be found where Christ is received as the center of men's lives.

WHAT ARE THE GREAT ENEMIES OF LOYALTY?

I would say the greatest enemy of loyalty to God and our neighbor is self-centeredness. Self is the greatest enemy that the Christian has. It is a far greater enemy then Satan. Loyalty, whether to God, or to one's neighbor is impossible until one learns to deny self. Beyond self there are other negative character qualities that are counter-productive to loyalty. Unbelief is one of these. How can one be loyal to either God or man when one is not able to believe? Confusion and ignorance is another. Not being able to conduct one's self with a clear understanding will affect one's ability to perform in a loyal manner. This is why God has given the Christian the mind of Christ, that by operating in His mind we might be able to conduct ourselves with clear and sound thought.

IN THE END, CAN ONE BE LOYAL TO HIS PEERS IF HE IS NOT FIRST LOYAL TO GOD?

Yes, I think one can be loyal to his neighbor without the fear of God, but I do not think that in the end it will profit him anything. For all creation is owned by Yahweh, therefore all the works of every man's life must be in accordance with Yahweh's will and purposes. So for any man to be loyal in any action to his neighbor or any purpose of man, be that secular, personal, or religious in nature, but not be loyal to God's purposes, will at judgment day be found completely empty and without reward. Therefore, in my mind loyalty to God is premier above every other loyalty, and every other loyalty, must, by the wise man and woman be brought into alignment to God's purposes.

Let the man that would seek the way of loyalty, take heart. The day comes when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of God and His Christ. (Revelations 11:15) In that day, full and true loyalty toward God and toward one's neighbor will be found in all men, for every offending person and thing will be removed.

A Watchman

Divorce-The Dissolving Of The Covenant Of Marriage- Five Lies In One Action

2009-03-25T15:28:00.000-07:00

Divorce is the summation of as many as five lies embodied in one action. In a generation gone mad with every sort of humanistic ideal and practice divorce has become common place in America, so that nearly 7 out of ten first time marriages end in divorce. Why is this so, and what can we do about it?

Lie number one: Divorce is a slanderous testimony lived out by the actions of the unfaithful marriage partner (partners) in regards to the heavenly realities that the man and the woman in the institution of marriage were created by Yahweh to illustrate.

Lie number two: Divorce is an open lie before God (the All Present One) in that all marriage partners have vowed fidelity in both the presence of other people, and in the presence of God.

Lie number three: Divorce is a lie before the marriage partner in which you entered into the covenant of marriage with.

Lie number four: Divorce is a lie before the children who at the time of the wedding are yet unborn, but are by the very nature of all natural forces (that were put in place by God our creator) an expected result. Therefore, for people to enter marriage is by their action expressing a promise to the children that will come forth to them, that they (the children) will be provided that which is part and lot for children in a family. Which things include a home, food, shelter, and a loving-nurturing-stable environment as they grow to adulthood, and the possibility (if life continues) of parents who have remained together to one day be grandparents to their children.
Lie number five: Divorce is a lie before the human witnesses that were present at the wedding ceremony, when by the words of one's mouth, he/she, offered the promise of fidelity.

The very composition of the marriage covenant demands witnesses. There are two key bodies of witness necessary for any marriage to take place in a wise and just manner. They are God Himself, and at least two human witnesses. For the wisdom of the Scripture has ever taught that all the affairs of man must be settled by the minimum of two human witnesses. The reality of this truth is proven in that it is common any where in the world for a wedding to be a community events. For a man and a woman to simply just begin to live together and share the act of sex, which is meant by God to be the act of marriage, but without offering public verbal expressions of fidelity, is not marriage. I believe you'll find in most of these cases that the man and the woman are simply mutually using each other, which often continues only until one or both of them finds that the “grass appears greener” some where else. So reality is, that every divorce is by at least one of the marriage partners an expression of an outright lie to the body of witnesses that were present at their wedding ceremony when he-she-they publicly promised to live until death alone parted them.

America, the land where one of its earliest colonies ( the Pilgrims at Cape Cod) had devoted them selves to being a community of people (in both civil and religious manners) where Christ was King. Then the Pilgrims were followed by their cousins, the Puritans, from whom sprang forth a great part of our nation's godly beginnings. Followed then by the 13 colonies, who separated themselves from King George's England in that their heart's cry was that God's law alone could reign as supreme. From which sprang our national constitution and bill of rights. Where even as late as the year 1900 in the city of New York the divorce rate was only 1.5 %, how is it that divorce as become so common place. It has become the expected norm! Why has this become so? It is because we have become a people unfaithful to God. Divorce among us is an expression of our divorce from God above, and His law. We have become a people who are very willing to live a lie. Expressing by our actions things that are slanderous to the heavenly realities that we were created to picture with our lives. To by our actions live an outright lie before God in Heaven who witnesses the vows of faithfulness on every person's wedding day. We have become a people willing to lie to not only the marriage partner we covenanted to live with, but also to the children that are meant by God, and every natural course, to come forth from the marriage relationship, and who have every right by God's law and design to expect parents to provide for them a continuing stable and godly home life. Beyond these, divorce is an open lie to neighbors who by their participation as wedding guests became witnesses of the promise of faithfulness in marriage.

Woe to a nation of unfaithfulness! Woe to the preachers near and far who by reason of fear and confusion are unwilling to call divorce for the sin it is. For they shall one day stand before God and have to give account for being teachers of men, yet not insisting on God's laws.

Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the Heavens. Let us cry out to Him, seeking that a spirit of conviction for our many sins might visit our people, and that a powerful and wide spread season of repentance might be seen in our land, of not only this sin, but of the many sins that are practiced by our people. That from the Lord we might be visited by the promised last great season of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, bringing forth the culmination of the expression of what the Bride of Christ is meant to be, as is written in Philippians 1:10-11. (KJV) That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Also as is expressed in Philippians 2:15.(KJV) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life..... Also as is written in Ephesians 5:27. (KJV)That He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

A Watchman

A Current Event-Vile Television and Entertainment, The Citizen's Biblical Responsibility

2009-03-16T12:33:00.000-07:00

Hey America, Civil Leadership, and to all who traffic in unwholesome entertainment:

A certain memory is printed in my mind with what you might call indelible ink. It has been some time now, but the image has not faded. One day I drove downtown past the movie theater, and as usual one half or more of the movies playing were rated R, (it is my judgment that in most cases this rating stands for rot) There was a line in front of the theater, and at the end of the line stood this very pretty young blond girl. I prayed, “My God, she is but a child and already they participate in destroying her morals.”

Oh, foolish generation. Do we think we can immerse ourselves mentally in murder, immorality, vulgarity and ungodliness, and reap happiness, joy, prosperity, health, and eternal Life? I would think the answer ought to be obvious to us. Is it any wonder why America leads the industrialized world in vices such as: divorce, murder, rape, and violent crime? Now how's that for being the “head of the class”? I suppose some will say that there is no correlation between the violence, pornography, immorality, vulgarity and general disrespect in which this generation continually immerses itself in via the television or cinema screen and the epidemic of teen suicide, teen age sexual immorality,(what is called teen sex) abortion, (the 40 million babies American citizens have “legally” murdered since Roe vs. Wade) our national divorce rate, guns and knives being packed to school, vulgar speech used by even very small children, bombings, and people going on killing sprees. I ask you, can a person drink poison and not at least get sick? Do we dare think that the rot which the entertainment industry produces is doing anything but producing a demoralized, confused, and ruthless people?

This trash is not free speech as some would suggest. A large portion of what the entertainment industry produces is pure, unadulterated rot, and as long as it is allowed to be produced it will continue to act as a poison to the soul of our people. For who can reasonably argue that the way it works is anything other than, “garbage in - garbage out”!

What Must A Person Do About It?

Protect yourself and your household from the vileness of modern entertainment.

The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

“... save yourselves from this untoward generation”.

Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, what soever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.

We must pray, confessing and turning from our personal sins, while confessing the sins of our land, petitioning the Lord for a visitation of His presence among our people.

“If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

And it shall come to pass afterwards, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it , until he receive the early and the latter rain.

Every man must exhort his neighbor to do right, which also includes an exhortation toward law makers to enforce punishment upon those who would demoralize our nation through vile forms of entertainment.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Be warned. Remember, every person will be rewarded according to the deeds done while in the body. Whether the deeds of our lives served to turn men to God, or served to turn men away from the fear of God.

Jesus voiced a warning this way, (Mathew 18:6 KJV) “But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Paul spoke his warning in this manner, (Romans 2:8-9 KJV) “But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath, tribulation, and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.

A Watchman

Consider: I Co. 15:33, Ga. 5:7-10, Judges 15:1-20, Lk. 17:33, 2 Co. 7:1, Ps. 94:16, Eph. 5:1-17, Mt. 6:22, James 3:1

The Second Greatest Commandment-To Love One Another As Expressed In Foot Washing and The Holy Kiss

2009-03-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

Jesus taught that the first great commandment is, “Thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.” Then the Lord Jesus went on to tell us what the second great commandment in the Law is, “ ....and the second is like it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40 KJV) By the instruction of the Lord Himself we know that upon these two directives hang the Law and the Prophets. Obedience to these will lead men into the obedience of all the Lord's commandments. This article is devoted to the second great law, which is that we must love one another as ourselves. Why is it referred to as the second great commandment? I would say it is because it is the second hardest thing for men to do, the first hardest is to love God with all our heart, soul and strength. Why are these so difficult for men to do? Because man is profoundly self-centered. For other then by surrender to the grace of God no man can get past “self” to live in a manner that is firstly God-ward, and beyond that to live a life directed toward others. Only one man has ever completely filled this bill and that was the Lord Jesus. Every other man who has lived has failed these commandments, however, that does not take away our responsibility to, by the grace of God that is at work with in us, give our selves to the fulfillment of the Biblical commandment to love our neighbor as our self.

So we find that we are commanded to love one another as we would our own self. In order to emphasize and maintain this love the Lord Jesus gave to the Church two admonitions: The practice of foot washing, and the practice of the holy kiss. Although both practices are commanded by the Scripture, neither would have any significance if it were not that they are to reinforce brotherly love among the members of the family of God. This gives them extreme significance.

THE HOLY KISS-or-THE KISS OF LOVE

Through ignorance I was totally negligent in the practice of this commandment for many years, although I had an open godly testimony. It was not rebellion on my part, but rather simply the working of ignorance and confusion. I, although a “son of the Church”, was never instructed by her to do this commandment. A blindness being on the eyes of the Church and myself in regards to this practice. It is impossible to understand the need to practice the holy kiss until one can open his heart to understand the need for brotherly love in the house of the Lord. There is absolutely no need for the holy kiss, or the kiss of love if we have no intention on loving our brother as our self. If we are not interested in warmth of heart among God's people. If we are not interested in dealing with each other in respect, in dignity, in tenderness, in humility, in forgiveness, in the building up of each other, in the comfort of each other, then there is no purpose in the practice of the holy kiss. The holy kiss, which in my determination is exercised the man to the man, and the woman to the woman, is to emphasize the great importance that we see for the other person. It is the act of saying, I LOVE YOU, YOU ARE AS IMPORTANT AS I AM. It is to humble one's self before his brother. It is to say, I respect you. It is to say, I honor you, and give you value. It is to show affection and warmth.

When I make mention of this Scriptural commandment others often say to me, “it's a cultural thing that is being spoken of, therefore I do not need to do that.” To that statement I answer, “yes, every culture ought to obey God's word and fulfill this commandment.” For the commandments of the Scripture ought not to be influenced by society, but it is man's cultures that ought to be influenced by the Holy Scripture.

Some may say, “do I have to kiss another on the lips?” No, not as far as I am concerned, but to kiss your brother on the lips is not necessarily evil. However, to kiss your brother on the cheek certainly fulfills what we are commanded to do.

Is the western practice of a hand shake equal to the holy kiss? First of all if the Lord would have desired a hand shake I am persuaded that He would have commanded that. Secondly, I do not believe that the depth of brotherly affection and honor that can be transferred in the practice of the holy kiss can be transferred in the practice of the handshake.

Again, I say that this practice finds its total need of existence in the fact that we must love one another. Knowing that the fulfillment of love, the one to the other, is to stop evil in the world, ought we not to pursue love? For is it not true that if true love could exist in every heart then there would be no evil among men? So love is paramount. Love is supreme. Love is to be sought above all things. Therefore, that which is basic to the bringing forth of love is of extreme value. The holy kiss is found commanded in these verses: Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:20, 1 Thessalonian 5:26, 1 Peter 5:14

FOOT WASHING

The practice of foot washing as is spoken of by the Lord Jesus in John 13:12-17 is not directly a commandment, but a point of wisdom we are encouraged to follow. The which in my mind is an equal to a commandment. For when a superior desires something of us, is that not to be taken as a commandment? If a father says to a son, “I sure wish you would do this certain thing”, or, perhaps he puts it this way, “I'd like it if you would get this done for me.” is not his stated desire an equal to an order? I think so. Therefore, I view the Lord's encouragement of us to wash one another's feet as an equal to His commanding it. So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garment, and was set down again, He said unto them, know ye what I have done for you? Ye call me master and lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your lord and master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord; neither is he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if you do them. ( John 13:12-17KJV)

Jesus, having washed the disciple's feet uses the example of his own actions to instruct them to humble themselves toward each other. He did this by instituting the practice of brother washing brother's feet. No, it is not to clean your brother's feet as if they were dirty, but to humble one's self before his brother in order to serve him in this basic manner. Why do this? What is the need for this practice? The need is found in that we of nature are not humble the one to the other, but self seeking. We need this action to help break down the wall of “self” that separates us from an open, honest, pure relationship of genuine love and service to our brother. The practice of washing our brother's feet is a tool to empower us to be able to be genuine, honest, pure, devoted, sincere, openly affectionate, loyal, devoted, and if there is any other word that sums up brotherly love, then it ought to be done and not left undone.

As I see it, the bottom line of this issue is expressed in this question. Do I have faith, and the commitment of love toward God and my brother to follow Jesus in greeting my brother with the kiss of love, and to wash his feet?”

A Watchman

Birth Control-Does It Counter God's Command To Multiply-Does It Slander Heavenly Realities?

2009-03-15T07:50:00.000-07:00

When one pulls up to a stop sign what is it that is being communicated to the person? Undoubtedly the obvious communication is that the person must stop. But why? Nothing is said on the sign as to why the person must stop. This is taken as a thing that is supposed to be understood by the driver, or the driver should not be driving. The reason for the command is for the driver to stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the actual commandment only has value because it allows for the more important reasoning behind it, which for the driver to slow down sufficiently (stop) to consider the traffic on the road way and act accordingly.

God's laws pertaining to the act of marriage, (sex) and the obvious natural consequence of childbirth are like this. The greatest importance of them is in the reasoning behind them, this reasoning goes beyond the immediate sphere of men's lives. Undoubtedly there is extreme importance in the immediate sphere of men's lives for God's laws pertaining to marriage to be fulfilled, for this allows for stable and happy lives for all involved, and the extension of God's kingdom on earth. Yahweh's laws related to marriage, (which includes sex and childbirth) not only have an earthly need for fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly direct the affairs of man on the earth for his immediate good and protection, but also at the same time they represent heavenly and eternal realities. The following is an explanation of the heavenly realities that are reflected by the use of birth control, therein, defining the cause for the most extreme reason for Yahweh's disappointment in disobedience. For to violate Yahweh's laws pertaining to any aspect of marriage is to slander the heavenly realities that the faithful marriage was created by God to picture.

Birth control-Its Obvious Natural Consequences and The Heavenly Picture It Represents

In that Yahweh created the man as a living mortal illustration of Himself, and the woman as a living mortal illustration of the Church, and caused that they would come together in marriage, and in the confines of marriage reproduce themselves, the practice of birth control has far greater ramifications then the immediate affect of having fewer children. However, before we consider in any depth the heavenly realities that are pictured in the use of birth control lets first briefly consider the obvious natural immediate affect: having fewer children. Considering that Yahweh commanded the married couple to “be fruitful and multiply in the earth”, does the use of birth control agreeably fit into that commandment? Beyond that, in that Yahweh has purposed that in part His kingdom be extended by the birth of children who are to be raised in the fear of God, ( a form of evangelism) can the believing couple in good conscious toward this basic calling and objective of God, purposely limit or eliminate children being born to themselves? I will not offer an answer to these questions, but leave them to be answered according to the reader's own faith before God.

In regards to the heavenly picture that may be seen in the use of birth control I have these things to say. Mankind is the highest of all the creation of God and was made to reflect in their persons (both the male and the female) great and eternal heavenly realities. The man was created to be a reflection of God Himself, the woman a reflection of the individual Believer, or the corporate Church. Therefore, for those that purpose in their heart to be faithful this is to be held in great consideration. For the faithful man and woman desires in their actions to fulfill the complete and proper testimony of godliness that they were designed to fulfill.

The seed of man is an illustration of the seed of God, which is His word. (1 Peter 1:23) Even as the new Christian believer is conceived by the seed of God, (His word) and brought forth as a new babe in Christ, the seed of man sown into the woman plays its part in the conception of all human life. The obvious conclusion to this is that since the seed of man represents the seed of God, that the destruction of the seed of man illustrates the destruction, or negation of the seed of God. This is a picture that I want nothing to do with. I ask you, does Yahweh by the Holy Spirit through the Church sow His word into the world only to then turn around and destroy it? I think not. In like manner, neither then, should the man sow the seed of his body into the woman and then destroy it. Even as the word of God is left in the care of God to be brought forth to its rightful fulfillment, the seed of man ought to be, after which it is sown into the body of the wife, left into the hands of God to be brought to whatever fulfillment He purposes. Birth control by the destruction of the seed of man signifies the destruction of the seed of God. Birth control by the destruction of the seed of the woman brings forth the heavenly picture of destroying the ability of a person to receive God's word. Both pictures are slanderous of the truth, and ought not to be brought forth.

Beyond these pictures, many people view birth control as being the very spirit of abortion. For as the practice of abortion eliminates the bringing forth of children through the death of the child, the use of birth control eliminates the bringing forth of children through the destruction of the seed of the man, or of the woman, thus eliminating children. And, as it has already been stated, it is questionable that the practice of birth control works to bring forth a fulfillment of the commandment of God stated through His servant Noah, (Genesis 9:7 KJV) “And You, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.” And beyond these things, any form of contraceptive that destroys the seed of the man or the woman certainly brings forth a corrupt illustration of its heavenly counterpart: the word of God, and the need of the human heart to receive God's word.

So what we find in modern America is that the humanistic thought patterns that have sprung forth from man's wisdom, (versus obedience to God's laws) have created a generation that do not understand or value the truths of God that pertain to the man and the woman being the highest of God's creation. And as such are meant by Yahweh to be living mortal illustrations in all aspects of their lives of the eternal God and His purposes in the Church. This fact reflects that our generation has divorced God. It is that simple. It is no more complicated then that. Yes, we might boast that we are Christians, and that we are faithful, but Jesus said that “a tree will be known by its fruits”. And in the end, the real values of a person are known by what that person does or allows.

The word America is repent! Turn to God from the wisdom of men. Flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom of men. (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) He made man as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world, but not to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the supposed wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is at best foolishness.

A Watchman

Consider:

Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1-7, 1 Peter 1:23, Ephesians 5: 22-33

Water Baptism-How The Bible Based Ordinance Of Baptism Reflects Heavenly Realities

2009-03-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

According to the genius of the eternal God water baptism is another commandment that was designed to reflect great and eternal realities when faithfully and properly fulfilled by the Christian Believer. Unlike what is common in regards to others of the Lord's commandments, obedience to the command to be water baptized fulfills no immediate natural need. Water baptism's whole purpose of existence is in the truths it reflects.

What is reflected by Biblical Water Baptism?

The act of water baptism is to illustrate that the Christian Believer has experienced a death and a resurrection. That the person has entered a death of self; as been, according to the definition given by the Apostle Paul, crucified with Christ, “I have been crucified with Christ; ...”(Galatians 2:20a NKJV) and that he has then in association with Christ risen to newness of life. “it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20b NKJV) Or it could be put this way also and be no less accurate. Whereas sinners were before coming to Christ dead in their sins, “....dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit that is now at work in those that are disobedient.” (Ephesians 2:1 NIV) , but in that the sinner has come to Christ it can now be said that he has been made alive in Christ....”because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive, with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace that you have been saved.” (Ephesians 2:4-5 NIV) You will notice that self and sin are equated as equal, or the same. For the truth is that to follow the way of self is to sin, and one can not sin unless they follow the way of self. The very truths that the act of baptism is to represent are the reason for the need for careful and understanding obedience to how the act of baptism is performed.

Child Baptism Can Not Illustrate The Heavenly Truths Baptism Is Meant To Express

For an infant to be water baptized is completely without validation. For the whole purpose for the act of water baptism is for the individual being baptized to give forth the public testimony that he or she has turned to a life of faith in Jesus Christ. That by faith the individual has been “baptized into His death” (Romans 6:3b) and then just like Christ was risen from the grave we should “...walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:5b) Water baptism is meant by God to be a token, firstly to the individual being baptized and then to every witness of the baptism, that the Believer being baptized as passed from death to life by the faith of Jesus Christ. That the believing individual should from that point forward by faith reckon himself dead to sin and alive to Christ, (righteousness) so that the person no longer will give himself to the pursuance of wickedness and foolishness, but the pursuance of all things that pertain to Christ Jesus. These things are obviously impossible for a child to understand. Therefore making the practice of water baptism for a child an act that is completely without validation.

Sprinkling In Baptism Is An Inaccurate Illustration Of The Truths Behind The Act Of Baptism

The act of water baptism of need must be done by the immersion of the participant below the surface of the water. It can not be done by sprinkling as some do and fulfill the illustrations of the truths that water baptism is meant by the Scripture to fulfill. The Believer is lowered below the surface of the water in baptism, giving the representation of a dead person being lowered into the grave. For the first part of water baptism is a representation of death. When a person is buried do we sprinkle dirt on the body, or do we bury the body beneath the surface of the ground, completely covering them up? The second part of water baptism is that the Believer is lifted up from being below the surface of the water back into the air. This is a picture of the Believer rising from the deadness of a selfish-sinful life to newness of life found in Christ.

Baptism Is Only To Be Acted Out By Individuals That Have The Understanding Of Faith As To What Baptism Represents

Firstly I would say this: for water baptism to assist the faith of the Believer being baptized a proper understanding of what God has commanded to be done, and why He has commanded it to be done is needed. Other wise, what does his or her faith rest on? The word of God is alive and powerful. It can and does work in the heart and life of the Believer who trusts in it, and walks in obedience to it. However, the traditions of men are not so. The man made traditions of infant baptism and baptism by means of sprinkling are not in accordance with Biblical truth, therefore they can never have the power of the Holy Spirit's conviction behind them. For they are of man's creation. Yes, they are religious in appearance, but they are not of the truth. Secondly I would say that it is a dangerous thing for any Bible teacher or minister to lead any person into a improper form of water baptism. For in so doing they bring forth a practice that is un-Biblical in nature, and in fact is slanderous to the truth, in that it tells a lie and not the truth. Thus, there will be many on that last day who stand in judgment because they preferred the practice of men's traditions to the practice of the commandments of God, and the spiritual realities behind them.

Therefore the cry is made to all who have ears to hear, and hearts to understand and obey, do God's word, petitioning Him for more complete and perfect understanding. That every affair of your life's conduct and doctrine might be in line with His truth, and bring forth a full and accurate testimony of heavenly realities. This pleases God and will keep your faith sure.

A Watchman

Consider: Romans 6:1-23, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:21, Galatians 3:27

Governor Sarah Palin Breaks God's Law appointing Morgan Christen To The Alaska Supreme Court

2009-03-13T13:32:00.000-07:00

Hey America, and Alaskan Residents:

Quoting from the Anchorage Daily News, (adn.com) March 5th, 2009, “Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, on the bench since 2002, will be just the second woman named to the high court in the 50 years since statehood. "Alaska's Supreme Court bears the awesome responsibility of ensuring that our court system administers justice in firm accordance with the principles laid down in our state Constitution," Palin said in a written statement. "I have every confidence that Judge Christen has the experience, intellect, wisdom and character to be an outstanding Supreme Court justice."”

I am well aware that likely 95% all American citizens will not see any violation of God's law in the Alaska State Governor's action to appoint the Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen to the Alaska Supreme Court. In fact, perhaps it might be that 98% , or even 99% of our American people will see no violation of God's law in this appointment. But I do, and what's more, every soul of man that reads the Scripture will find the same fault if they are honest, and do not play the modern American “game” of twisting the truth of God to fit America's humanistic trends.

Is the violation, that she (Sarah Palin) took the unusual step of asking the Judicial Council to send her all information it had on the two finalists, Christen and Palmer Superior Court Judge Eric Smith, without even considering the other four candidates that the Judicial Council had on its slate? No!

Is the violation, that she did not follow the advise of the Alaska Family Council -- a Christian pro-family, anti-abortion group. Which on Wednesday sent an e-mail to thousands of people asking them to urge Palin to pick Smith, not Christen? No! That, is not necessarily a violation of God's law.

Is the violation of Yahweh's law, that Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen's application included her membership in several charitable groups, including some from her past, but did not mention that she was on the board of Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s. The organization, which didn't provide abortions in Alaska until 2003, but is now on the opposite side of a Palin-supported bill to require girls under 17 to get parental consent for an abortion? Admittedly this information seems to lean heavily to point out that Governor Palin's decision might be foolish in that Morgan Christen's record shows her habit of life to be contrary to the fight against abortion that Sarah Palin is known to support. But this is not the violation of God's law that I am speaking of.

Yahweh's law, that has been violated is written in exceedingly plain and simple English in the King James Version of the Bible. The which Bible version I will quote from, in that it has been the long enduring standard of the American society. Its presence being found here from the very formation of this nation. The verses I will submit as evidence that Yahweh's law has been violated are direct quotes of the Apostle Paul who wrote them as encapsulations of the writings of the Law and the Prophets in respect to what is called Divine Order. Which is the order of authority established from the beginning of all things by God our creator. 1 Corinthians 11: 3 is quoted as saying, “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of he woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” And in 1 Timothy 2:14 the apostle is quoted as saying, “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

How can a woman be appointed to be a State Supreme Court Justice, if by God's law a woman can not usurp the authority that lies in the man? Can the one who by God's design is under authority, make rulings pertaining to the life of another who by God's design is superior to her in authority? Further, since in all general terms the rule (headship) of the man over the woman is dictated by the Law of God, how can a woman be in the place of a civil judge at all? Or, in the place of a state governor? Or for that matter, how can she have a civil vote? For to exercise a civil vote is to exercise that portion of elder ship rule which our country's founders established this nation to be ruled by. They, as a generation, were in their time far more obedient to God's laws then what we are, and they determined that the rule of all forms of government, (headship) from a man's home to the White House was only to be filled by the man.

Obviously I am not naive that currently the law of the land grants the right of a civil vote to a woman, and that she can therefore with that right also pursue offices of authority, but then again, abortion is also legal, and has been since 1973. It is perfectly “legal” according to the United States Supreme Court to murder children. So America, if I were you I would not establish what is right or wrong before the Eternal Creator by what modern American calls either legal, or ill legal. If your trend of thought is to say, “Watchman, how can you be right in this matter when it appears that the greater portion of all the American people, if asked, would say that a woman is equal to a man in authority? (headship) My answer is very simple. I align myself with God the almighty. As far as I am concerned, if God is on one's side then that person is in the majority. For at the last day it will be His way and no other way! Remember it is written, “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the upright shall be delivered.” (Proverbs 11:21 KJV) I might add there are many forms of wickedness (things contrary to Yahweh's law) that are both popular and celebrated as wise and acceptable in modern America. You may ask, “Watchman, if what you say is true, then why are not the preachers and politicians of the land crying out this truth? The answer is simple. We live in a wicked and adulterous generation that does not value the truth of God, but the ease of life and the popularity of men. There is no shortage of both confusion and cowardice in this generation among those that in leadership in both civil and religious positions.

Mrs. Palin does right to fight against abortion. For the which I praise her! But that does not mean that other issues of her life are not terribly wrong. For abortion is the inexcusable murder of the most innocent of any society. (The which murder will bring unspeakable retribution upon this society. And do not be fooled America, though this retribution has lingered, it will surely come.) Can one fight one evil, by doing another evil? Can one fight fire by throwing more fuel on the fire? Can the violation of God's law on one hand eliminate the violation of Yahweh's law on the other hand? I think not.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. Thou hast made us as the off scouring and refuse in the midst of the people. (Lamentations 3:40-44 KJV)

These words are the words of Jeremiah, an ancient Jewish prophet who spoke them concerning the nation of Israel because they would not heed the call to repent. So in time God destroyed their nation. America, do you think that Yahweh can not, or will not also destroy you if you will not follow His laws? I tell you, He will only honor those that honor Him, (1 Samuel 2:30) but those that are set against Him He will destroy.

A Watchman

The Sabbath-Beyond A Day Of Rest For Men Is Designed By God To Reflect Heavenly Realities

2009-03-13T13:27:00.000-07:00

When one pulls up to a stop sign what is it that is being communicated to the person? Undoubtedly the obvious communication is that the person must stop. But why? Nothing is said on the sign as to why the person must stop. This is taken as a thing that is supposed to be understood by the driver or he should not be driving. The reason for the command is for the driver to stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the actual commandment only has value because it allows for the more important reasoning behind it, which is to slow down sufficiently (stop) to consider the traffic on the road way and act accordingly.

God's laws pertaining to the keeping of the Sabbath are like this. The greatest importance of them is in the reasoning behind them, this reasoning goes beyond the immediate need for men to rest. Undoubtedly there is an extreme importance in the immediate sphere of men's lives for God's laws pertaining to the Sabbath to be fulfilled, for this allows for stable and happy lives for all involved. One day in seven for man to rest and to consecrate that time to worship Yahweh is a very good thing. However, Yahweh's laws related to the keeping of the Sabbath have not only an earthly need for fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly direct the affairs of man on the earth for his immediate good and protection, but also they represent heavenly and eternal realities at the same time. The following is an explanation of the heavenly realities that are reflected by the violation of the Sabbath laws, offering an explanation concerning the aspect of man's neglect of the Sabbath that is the greatest offense to God. For to violate Yahweh's laws pertaining to keeping the Sabbath is to directly slander the heavenly realities that the faithful Christian is meant to picture in his life.

The Sabbath:

The Sabbath, whether through confusion or rebellion is neglected by most in this generation. The Sabbath law was designed by God to cause the seventh day to represent heavenly and eternal realities. The keeping of the Sabbath is a “banner” that is to be “waved” every seventh day. The doing of this testifies that Yahweh is both the creator and the redeemer of men, and if He is the creator of men, then He is henceforth the master of men. Also then, if He is the redeemer of men, then it is in His name alone that salvation can be preached, which name is: the name of Jesus. So to neglect the Sabbath is to give the testimony that you do not believe that God is the creator and the redeemer of men. This is a lie, and a slanderous testimony concerning Yahweh, who is our creator and redeemer. I fully know that there are many sincere Christians who are, as I once was, ignorant of Yahweh's demand to keep the Sabbath. They suppose, as I once did, that Christ's work on the cross some how did away with the need to obey this commandment, supposing that Christ had become our rest. I agree that Christ is the rest of the spirit of all Believers, but the keeping of the Sabbath has to do with more than our spirit. It has to do with the action of our whole person, and how those actions reflect or do not reflect the heavenly reality that Yahweh is our creator, and redeemer.

So what we find in modern America is that the humanistic thought patterns that have sprung forth from man's wisdom (versus obedience to God's laws) have created a society that has little regard for the Sabbath. Our national fathers, although mistakenly using Sunday as the Sabbath (a practice that I did for many years until the Holy Spirit instructed me more perfectly) were very careful to set aside a day as the Sabbath. How much more should we now rightly observe His holy day since the revelation of the truth of the Sabbath is being preached. The fact that less and less we as Americans honor the Sabbath, (even as it was with our fathers who treated Sunday as the Sabbath) is a token of how we do do not seek to honor the One who birthed this nation and who alone holds the ability to prosper and defend it. It is a manifest token that we are not conscious of the reality that Yahweh created us as individuals and that we each personally owe allegiance to Him, to obey Him in all things. It is a token that we think we are doing well on our own and do not need a redeemer, and that the eventuality of our standing before Him on the judgment day is not upfront on our minds.

The neglect, or violation of the Sabbath day misrepresents God and His purposes, and is in direct violation to Yahweh's laws.

The word America, is repent! Turn to God from the wisdom of men. Flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom of men. (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) He made man as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world. He did not create man to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is at best foolishness.

A Watchman

Consider:

Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 16:1-36, Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 31: 13-17, Deu8teronomy 5:5-15, Isaiah 66:23, Leviticus 23:3, Numbers 15, 32-36, Isaiah 58: 13-14, Mark 3:4, Matthew 12:11, Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:27, Acts 13:14, Acts 13:42-44, Acts 16:13, Acts 17:2, Acts 18:4, Colossians 1:16-17,

Cross Dressing-When A Woman Dresses In Pants Is It innocent Or Does God Hate Such Action?

2009-03-10T12:09:00.000-07:00

Hey America:

What is being communicated to a driver when he pulls up to a stop sign? Is it only that the person must stop, or is there a deeper, un-written communication there that is supposed to be understood by the driver? I would say that the value in the command to stop is for the driver to be able to have opportunity to look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the actual commandment only has importance because it allows for the more valuable reasoning behind it, which is to slow down sufficiently (stop) in order to consider the traffic on the road way and then act accordingly.

God's law that commands that the sexes must adorn themselves differently the one from the other is like this. The greatest importance of it is in the reasoning behind it, this reasoning goes beyond the immediate sphere of men's lives. Yahweh's laws that related to the adornment of the sexes have not only an earthly need for fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly direct the affairs of man on the earth for his immediate good and protection, but also they represent heavenly and eternal realities at the same time. The following is an explanation of the heavenly realities that are reflected in clothing, explaining why Yahweh considers it an abomination for men and women to dress alike.

Yahweh's law that states that the sexes be adorned distinctively different, the one from the other, is found stated in Deuteronomy 22:5. Here it says that any man who dresses like a woman, or any woman who dresses like a man is an abomination to the Lord. Though ignorance and unbelief I was myself blind to this until I was 42 years of age. That means I lived as a Christian, with an open godly testimony for 28 years before God could bring me into the light of this understanding. The disruption of Divine Order, (the order of authority: God-Christ-Man-Woman) which is sponsored by the spirit of feminism is extremely prevalent in the world and I might add in the church. Wanting to corrupt God's truth Satan has sown much confusion into the world, teaching men that in reference to headship the woman is equal to the man, thus denying and corrupting God's order. Again we need to remember that God created the human person illustrative of both Himself and the chief object of His love: the church or individual Believer. The man represents God Himself, (Christ) the woman is to illustrate the Church or individual Believer. Therefore, when a woman dresses like a man she is saying by this practice that she is the same as, or equal to a man, and in that she is a representation of a Believer the act of her dressing as a man is saying that a Believer is the same as, or equal to the Lord. For a man to dress as a woman is to give the illustration that God has surrendered His headship over men so that He is the same as man. These testimonies are slanderous, and are therefore detestable to God. Therefore cross dressing, or the mixing of adornment is slanderous to God and therefore an abomination. For remember that clothes have three basic purposes:

To protect from the elements.

To protect modesty, for all human persons are sexually oriented, therefore the covering of the body is of absolute necessity.

Clothes are illustrative. They by their nature are designed to give illustration pertaining to the one that wears them. Even as a police officer is known by his uniform, or a soldier by his, or a white color worker by his. In like manner a woman's adornment must signal that she is NOT a male, but female.

So what we find in modern America is that we have created almost an entire culture that cross dresses continually, and in our ignorance of God's ways we think little or nothing of it. But I say to you that this practice has everything to do with the spirit of feminism that prevails in this society, which has every thing to do with the nearly 70 % divorce rate for first time marriages, the fact that nearly 50% of all young couple refuse to marriage, but “cohabitate”, (which is living with the “back door” of the relationship open so that either can leave the relationship with relative ease when they may want to) that our Internet boasts nearly 1,000.000 pornography sites, that we have “legally” murder over 40 million unborn children, (abortion) These facts reflect that America has accepted “wisdom” that is not wisdom at all, but perversion of thought made to look good by the “wolves in sheep's clothing” that influence our people. Who are the “wolves in sheep's clothing” that influence our people? They are the ministers and educators, and politicians, and all others who guide and teach our people, but refuse to acknowledge the laws of Yahweh and turn and do righteousness, and teach others to live in obedience to God's laws.

Cross dressing, that of dressing a woman as a man, or in any other pattern of adornment that it might be found is sin. It is a detestable act in Yahweh's sight.

Repent America! Turn from your own wisdom and do it God's way, and He will lift you up. Turn from every voice of man that stands in rebellion to Yahweh's laws.

A Watchman

consider: Deuteronomy 22:5, Romans 3:31

Does A Woman's Long Hair Reflect Godliness and True Heavenly Realities-Does It Counter Feminism?

2009-03-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

What is communicated by a stop sign? Obviously the command to stop is given, but why? The posted command offers no explanation as to “why” behind it. This understanding is supposed to be understood if a person is able to drive. The reason for the posting of the stop sign is so that the driver will stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the real importance of the stop sign is the reasoning behind it, which is for the motorist to slow down sufficiently (stop) to consider the traffic on the road way and act accordingly.

The admonition of the Scripture stating that a woman is to adorn herself in long hair is like this. The greatest importance of the admonition is in the reasoning behind it, which reasoning goes beyond the immediate sphere of men's lives. Undoubtedly the fulfillment of this admonition, particularly from an honest and understanding heart will have great affect upon the relationships that the obedient soul is apart of, (particularly the marriage relationship) However, Yahweh's laws stipulating that a woman must wear her hair long has not only an earthly need for fulfillment. Meaning that obedience to this directive will go hand in hand with the maintaining of a submissive and reverent heart that is needed in a woman to enable her to conduct herself wisely toward all the forms of headship that are at play in her life, but specially in regards to her most immediate head. Which is her father if she is unmarried, or her husband if she is married. But at the same time for a woman to wear long hair represents heavenly and eternal realities which the godly woman will want to reflect in her life. The following is an explanation of the heavenly realities that are reflected by the neglect or abandonment of the woman wearing long hair. Therein, defining the reason for Yahweh's greatest disappointment when a woman, either through ignorance or rebellion of this truth, wears her hair short as a man would. For to violate Yahweh's laws pertaining to the wearing of longer hair, versus short hair (as a man would) is to in action directly slander the heavenly realities that the faithful woman was created by God to picture.

The Heavenly Picture Of Headship, and Its Working Among Men, and How The Wearing Of Long Hair Has A Part In This

To understand the Apostle Paul's admonition stating that a woman's hair is to be long, and that her long hair is a glory to her one must go back to the beginning of the creation of all things. The Mighty One created all the heavens and the earth, and everything contained in them. Man (mankind) was the crowning item of that creation, the which He made according to His own image. The first male person's name was Adam. He was firstly and directly made in Yahweh's image. The first female person's name was Eve. She was created from a rib that Yahweh had taken from Adam, after having caused him to fall into a deep sleep. Having been made from Adam's rib, the woman was apart of the man, thus it can be said that she came forth from the man, therefore she shared the image of God, but only through the man from which she was taken. So Adam was directly made in the image of God, the woman was made by the same creator, but indirectly shares the image of God, having been taken from the man. Therefore she has been from that time forward the very glory of the man, and the object of his affection. Furthermore, the man was created to be a direct reflection or illustration of God Himself, the woman was created to be an expression or illustration of the Church, or the individual Believer. Yahweh, the great creator, in His genius and unlimited power designed and constructed the two human persons to be living mortal expressions of these eternal and heavenly realities. His purpose being that in every affair of their lives they would, if walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit, bring forth a constant and accurate testimony of great, and eternal things that exist in the heavenlies.

Although created to illustrate heavenly realities, the man the woman are the chief of God's creation in this present natural world. Therefore, the wisdom that is contained in the commandments of God pertaining to their behavior is of vital importance to properly regulate their behavior, and in so doing bring forth godliness with it's many rewards in the present here and now. The bottom line issue of which we speak is that of the order of authority and responsibility in regards to the man and the woman. The man who was made as a direct illustration of God was created by God to be head over the woman. This brings forth the picture of God being head over the Church. The woman is to be under his authority (her father or husband) and her submission is to picture the submission that the individual Believer and the Church have to God (Christ). Authority and responsibility exist together in the equation of headship. You man say that they are like right and left hand. They exist together and you can not properly have one without the other. They are the two basic elements of headship. They belong chiefly to the man, even as in regards to heavenly issues they belong chiefly to the Lord. Now, the woman (as either wife or daughter of the one who is her natural head) will share this authority, and the corresponding responsibility that goes with it, but it firstly belongs to him. Even as the individual believer and the Church share in the authority and the responsibility of what is the Lord's. However, it must be noted that the sharing of this authority and responsibility is on the terms of the one in headship. It is not according to the terms of the one who was created to be in submission.

The issues of headship, both in respect to authority and responsibility are vital and basic to the peaceful and prosperous relationship between man and woman. They are vital to marriage, they are vital to family life. Therefore, since the marriage and family are such basic institutions in society, you can easy say that the issue of headship is vital and basic to all society. It has been the neglect and the corruption of the practice of this truth that has brought forth so very much vice, and the destruction of lives that go with these vices in modern America. It is obvious that our fathers understood and were more obedient to these truths then what our regent generations have been. Therefore, America boasts a divorce rate of nearly 70% for first time marriages, having “legally” murdered over 40 million babies, (abortion), possesses an Internet that offers 1,000,000 pornography sites, has an 80% teen sex rate (out side of marriage I might add), boasts a 50% rate of all couples refusing to marry, but “cohabitate”, which really means for most of them that the relationship is only good until one or the other discovers that the “grass is greener on the other side of the fence”. So, for any honest and thoughtful heart, the need among men to maintain the practice of headship it is nothing short of obvious. For to neglect it is to bring forth every sort of vice, and eventually even the very demise of our society.

The man, who was created to illustrate God (Christ) can not deny or abandon this calling. For to do so is to give the picture that Yahweh, the Great One, will abandon His headship over us. That He will forsake both His authority over us and His responsibility to us. I fully realize that the humanistic mind set wishes that He would do this, but I assure you He will never surrender His headship to anyone, at any time, or for any reason. He is alone God Almighty. He is alone head over all things. He shares the elements of that headship, both its authority and responsibility with both individual Believers and the Church, but only according to His will. He alone is LORD. So when the man who was created as a living mortal illustration of Yahweh surrenders or neglects his headship over the woman and the children she has brought forth to him, he is living a slanderous testimony pertaining to God. If, and when the woman rebells against her husband seeking to usurp his headship then she is living out the picture that says the Christian Believer, or the Church at large, has the right to act independently of the Lord, that the Church has the right to conduct her own affairs independent of God's will. This also is a slanderous testimony. Whether from the side of the man who through neglect or rebellion lives a life that testifies incorrectly of the heavenly realities he was created to picture, or from the side of the woman who through neglect or rebellion lives a life that incorrectly testifies of the heavenly realities that she was created to illustrate. Both are hated of Yahweh. For they tell a lie concerning Him. The testimonies of the lives who live in neglect, and, or rebellion to God's laws are slanderous toward Him and His purpose in the Church.

In conclusion, the reason for the woman to be adorned with long hair is that her hair is purposed of God to act as a natural symbol of her being under the headship of another. It is called a covering. It is a covering that is to be continually, night and day with the woman, reminding her that she was purposely created different from the man, and with the obedience of her life she is to fulfill a very different calling then the man, and to reflect different heavenly realities then what the man is to testify with his life. When a woman gives her heart to receive the truth and depth of this understanding this practice becomes her very glory. It is a glorious thing for a soul, in this case we are speaking chiefly about the woman, to understand and live out the truth of what her life was designed to be. Therefore her hair becomes her glory. For it is a continuing visible symbol to first herself, and then to others, that she is a woman and created by God to fulfill every aspect of how a woman is to testify of heavenly realities. The man is commanded to groom himself in short hair in that he was created firstly in the image of God and is to have no head between himself and the Lord . Therefore, he is to wear short hair, for he is to carry the symbol in his hair (or lack thereof) that he has no earthly head. This is not to say that in regards to the affairs of life the man does not need to answer to earthly authorities, whether they be civil or religious, or even commercial in nature (such as an employer), but that he is the direct head over all the affairs of His personal life, and of all things that belongs to him in this life. Therefore, he is not to wear a symbol of a covering. He was made with this sovereignty. This also pictures God.

So what we find in modern America is that the humanistic thought patterns that have sprung forth from man's wisdom (versus the obedience to God's laws) have created a society that denies that the creator made the man and the woman to fulfill very definite callings, and that when obeyed, these same commands will not only bring forth life and prosperity in this natural existance, but will also will bring forth a glorious and accurate testimony of heavenly realities. This fact reflects that our generation denies its creator, thinking that we are wise unto ourselves. It is that simple. It is no more complicated then that. Yes, we might boast that we are Christians, but Jesus said that “a tree will be known by its fruits”. And in the end, the real values of a person are known by what that person does or allows.

The practice of men wearing long hair, and especially of women wearing short hair is very common in America. I would say this almost without fail speaks of either ignorance or rebellion in respect to God's word on the part of the man or woman who does this. Now please do not mistake this statement to say that all women wearing long hair live after a godly manner, and that they practice submission of heart and action before the God given headship in their lives. For long hair is worn by many women only as a part of their femininity, but without recognizing or using that femininity to honor God, or their calling in God. For a woman to glory in the beauty of her femininity without using it to honor God is idolatry.

Repent America! Do not follow the wisdom of men. If they are unwilling to repent, then flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom of men. (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) God made mankind as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world, but not to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the supposed wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is no wisdom at all.

A Watchman

Consider:

Genesis Chapters 1-3, Corinthians 6:17, Ephesians 5: 22-33, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

Is The Spirit Of Feminism Countered By The Wearing Of A Head covering, And Did God Command It?

2009-03-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

Hey America:

When one pulls up to a stop sign what is it that the sign is signaling to the person? The obvious communication is that the person needs to stop. But why? The sign says stop, but it does not say why to stop. This reasoning is supposed to be understood by a person if they are able to drive. The reason for the posted law (the stop sign) is for the driver to stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the stop sign's actual value isn't so much in the person stopping, as it is in the driver slowing down sufficiently (stopping) so that the person can consider the traffic on the road way and act accordingly.

God's laws pertaining to Headship, or what many refer to as Divine Order, (of which wearing a head covering is a part of) are like this. The greatest importance of them is in the reasoning behind them. This reasoning goes beyond the most basic question asked by nearly all of us when first introduced to this concept, which is, “What's so important about a woman wearing a piece of cloth on her head, it's only a piece of cloth?” The next basic question asked by many when they begin to catch on that there might be true reasoning behind the practice is, “So what does the head covering represent, and if a woman adorns herself with a head covering, what affect will the faithful practice of wearing a head covering in public prayer and prophesying (the expression of the testimony of Jesus that is prompted by the Holy Spirit) have in the church and society around her?” To these two questions I will add a third, and I believe it is the most important question of the three, “So what does the obedience to this practice represent in regards to heavenly and eternal realities, the which all men and women were designed to reflect by their living?

Question Number One: Does the covering itself have any value?

There is no particular importance to the cloth, or veil, or whatever it is that a woman might wear as a head covering in itself. In itself it is only a piece of fabric. The importance is completely in what it represents. However, it would be my encouragement that the covering be an attractive article, for what good purpose would any woman have in adorning herself with something that is unattractive?

Question Number Two: In brief terms, what does the head covering represent in regards to how it affects the world around the one who wears it?

This is a very good question if asked from an honest heart. The head covering is simply a symbol of realities that exist in the world of men and women, and of realities that exist in the heavenlies. We will with this question seek to answer what the covering is to represent in regards to the world of men in which all of us are a part of. In the beginning Yahweh created all things. Obviously the human race was a part of that, and He made two styles of the human person: the male and the female. The first two were created as adult persons, and brought together as a husband and a wife. All others from that point have been created by the same God but through the process of couples coming together in the act of marriage, (sex) the conception of children, and then the birth of children. The reasoning for this is that Yahweh purposed to use His creation (the male and female, or husband and wife) to be an example of heavenly realities, and the reproduction of our own plays apart of the illustrating of heavenly realities that Yahweh wished to be pictured. For the man was created as a direct representation (image) of God Himself. The woman was created as an indirect representation of God. This is shown by the fact that Yahweh took a rib from the first man, whose name was Adam, and who then transformed the rib into the first female person. An adult woman whom Adam named Eve. So we have it from the first day of the existence of woman that she came forth from the man and was presented to the man, and was named by the man. Therefore it has been from the beginning that the man is firstly to be submitted to Yahweh Himself, for he came directly from Yahweh's hand. The woman is to be submitted directly to the man, for from a man she was created. (she was created from his rib, and reason tells all honest men that that which comes forth from another is lesser than that which it came forth from) Therefore, it has been the natural practice of men from the beginning and echoed by the very law of God itself that women are in general to be submitted to men in general, thus comes forth elder ship rule. And that, in particular terms a woman is to be submitted to her father while she is a virgin, (unmarried) and her husband after she is given in marriage.

Satan however, in his craftiness deceived Eve into entering into transgression by suggesting to her that if she would follow his advise (Satan's advise is the wisdom of this world) that they would be led into what would make them more “enlightened”, and be as “gods” in the world. Eve, thinking herself able to be a teacher and leader to Adam suggested to Adam that he follow her in what Satan had advised her to do. Adam allowed himself to be led by the woman. (even though he knew full well that what she had suggested was contrary to the command of the creator) Adam, who understood he was transgressing Yahweh's command was willing to do so because of his great desire for his wife.(this was the beginning of men following the lust of their flesh and the lust of their eyes, rather then their conscience before the Lord) Thus he plunged the whole human race into sin. So we see that from the very beginning of time Satan has tempted the woman to step out of her place as the follower and supporter of the male covering in her life to usurp his headship. This same struggle has existed in the human race from that time, right up to this present day. A woman, desiring to be in a place of headship seeks to usurp the place and the calling of the man, and the man wishing to not have to fulfill the responsibilities of headship is often very willing to surrender his headship to the woman. Thus corrupting God's order, and thus allowing great opportunity for Satan's devises to prosper, even as they did in the story of the first man and woman.

Therefore, it has been taught and practiced by godly and wise men from the beginning, even as it is communicated in the Scriptures in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 that beyond the covering of a woman's hair, a fabric covering ought to be worn by a woman as a symbol that represents her place as under the headship (authority) of a man, be that her father if she is a virgin, or her husband if she is a married woman. The Apostle Paul taught plainly that a woman's hair is a natural (God given) covering (symbol of her place), and ought not therefore to be cut like a man, but rather should remain long. This is her glory. This signifies that she is a woman, and as a woman under the authority, therefore the responsibility of a male person. But realizing the severity of the assault from Satan on the order of authority between the sexes the apostle urged and commanded that the practice of the wearing of a fabric covering also be fulfilled to complete the counter offensive against Satan's attack upon Divine Order.

So these things having been said, I can now say directly what value that the wearing of a head covering has for an honest heart. It has much value in that it speaks firstly to the one who is wearing the covering that she herself is pressing to be in her rightful place in the order of things. In a world filled with darkness and confusion, for a soul to be brought to the point where it will earnestly contend for the truth is very pleasing to God. Secondly, it says to all who see her that she is pressing, or at least making the show that she is pressing to be in her proper place in the order of things. This has very great value in that it serves to encourage those who take note of her actions to themselves fulfill their roles in respect to manhood and womanhood-to press into their proper place and calling. Here in is seen the exceeding gravity of the truth that each life has the potential to affect another life. The power of influence of one life to another, for either good or evil, can not be measured for its potential. It can be world changing in its affect upon others. Therefore, it behooves any and all of us to press into this truth, and into all truth at the Holy Spirit brings to us. For one day we will be judged for what we did with the “light” that He has brought to us. Whether we obeyed it, and put it on, and put it to work, or if we threw it to the side saying that Yahweh's truth is to much work, and has to great of a sacrifice associated with it.

The Third Major Question: What heavenly realities does the head covering speak of?

If one understands the reasoning used to answer question number two then this answer will come very easily. The creator made the man and the woman to represent heavenly things. The man was created to represent God Himself, the woman who was taken from the man became the very glory of the man, the “apple of his eye”, and she was created by God to be a representation of what is the very glory of His heart, the “apple of His eye”: the Church. Therefore, every law that God has every instituted pertaining to mankind has been crafted to direct the affairs of men and women so that in very action of their lives they do that which will (if they are obedient to God's laws) properly testify of heavenly realities. For the actions of the man must picture the person and actions of God Himself, particularly in Christ. The actions of the woman must picture the actions of the Church or the individual Believer. Any actions of either the man or the woman that do not accurately picture these heavenly realities that they were created to figure are slanderous, (un-truthful) testimonies of heavenly things, and are therefore displeasing to God. The more understanding that a person has concerning God's laws and yet refuses to obey them, the more that person's actions are hated of the Lord.

So what we find in modern America is that the humanistic thought patterns, that have sprung forth from man's wisdom (versus obedience to God's laws) have created a society that extremely discounts the practice of this wisdom. Therefore we have a very dysfunctional society that boasts a divorce rate of near 70% for first time marriages, that has “legally” murdered over 40 million babies, (abortion) that boasts of 1,000,000 pornography sites on the Internet, whose youth boast an 8 for 10 ratio of teen aged fornication. (what is called teen sex), where 50% of all our youth refuse to marry, but “cohabit ate”, etc, etc. These facts reflect that our generation has divorced the truth of God, and in so doing left the door wide open for Satan to have his way. It is that simple. It is no more complicated then that. Yes, we might boast that we are Christians, but Jesus said that “a tree will be known by its fruits”. And in the end, the real values of a person are known by what that person does or allows.

So Dear One, Dear godly woman, will you find the courage of faith to follow God and adorn yourself with a head covering (according to the mandate set forth in 1 Corinthians chapter 11) and make the statement that you will press to align your life with the reality of God's laws pertaining to Divine Order? You Brother, who claims the faith of Jesus Christ, will you show the courage of faith to rule your household, and teach, admonish, lead, and insist on the truth of God being fleshed out in regards to your life and family? This will cost you Brother. There is no doubt about it. To implement the truth of God in a pagan nation such as what America has become will not be without price. Do you love Him enough to pay this price?

The word America is repent! Turn to God from the wisdom of men. Flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom of men. (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) He made man as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world. He did not create man to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is at best foolishness.

A Watchman

Consider:

Genesis 2:1-25, Genesis 3:16, 1 Corinthians 11: 1-16, 1 Timothy 2: 9-15, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, Ephesians 5: 22-33, 1 Peter 3:1-7

Fornication-Beyond The Destructive Affect It Has On Men's Lives Misrepresents Heavenly Realities

2009-03-08T12:43:00.000-07:00

Disobedience to Parents- How This Sin Gives The Wrong Illustration Of Heavenly Realities

2009-03-08T12:31:00.000-07:00

When one pulls up to a stop sign what is it that is being communicated to the person? Undoubtedly the obvious communication is that the person must stop. But why? Nothing is said on the sign as to why the person must stop. This is taken as a thing that is supposed to be understood by the driver, or the person driving is not suppose to be driving. The reason for the command is for the driver to stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the actual commandment only has value because it allows for the more important reasoning behind it, which is to slow down sufficiently (stop) to consider the traffic on the road way and act accordingly.

God's laws pertaining to how children must honor and obey their parents are like the stop sign. The greatest importance of them is in the reasoning behind them, this reasoning goes beyond the immediate sphere of men's lives. Undoubtedly there is extreme importance in men's lives for God's laws pertaining to family life, and the rearing of children to be fulfilled, for this allows for the possibility (or even provability) of stable and happy lives for children when they grow to adulthood. Yahweh's laws related to parenting have not only an earthly need for fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly direct the affairs of man on the earth for his immediate good and protection, but also they represent heavenly and eternal realities at the same time. The following is an explanation of the heavenly realities that are reflected by the practice of children obeying their parents, therein, defining the reason for the most extreme cause of Yahweh's hatred in regards to rebellion found in children. For to violate Yahweh's laws pertaining to children honoring their parents is to directly slander the Heavenly realities that a faithful life was created by God to picture.

Disobedience To Parents:

In other articles we have spoken of the truth that the human persons, that of the man and the woman were created by Yahweh to be living mortal illustrations of both Himself and the chief object of His affection: the Church. Chiefly this is seen in the marriage relationship. Going beyond marriage is the obvious eventuality of parenthood. For just as the intimacy of the Lord to the Church will bring forth new believers, so it is that the intimacy of marriage, (the act of marriage) will bring forth children. So the relationship, and the laws that govern the relationship between parents and children are illustrative of the relationship that the Lord has to His own. The father of every soul made perfect is God Himself, the mother is the Church. The seed of God (His word) sown into the Church (which then brings to pass the evangelism of the unconverted) brings forth new children to God. When a child acts in disobedience or rebellion to his or her parents it is giving the picture of the child of God acting in disobedience and rebellion to the Lord, and to the Church. Therefore any act, or the spirit of disobedience of a child to his parent is slanderous to the greater truth that marriage and family are to illustrate in the world. In fact, I often ask my eight year old son this question. “Son, if you can not honor and obey your father and mother whom you can see and hear, for they are right here in front of you, how do you think you will learn to obey your spiritual Father and Mother?” (God and the Church) Therefore I conclude that to allow disobedience and dishonor of children to their parents is to promote the almost guaranteed open dishonoring and disobedience from that soul some years down the road toward both God and the Church.

So what we find in modern America is that the humanistic thought pattern that have sprung forth from man's wisdom (versus obedience to God's laws) have created a society filled with unruly and disobedient children that do not honor their parents or authority in general. This fact reflects that our generation is in itself rebellious toward God. It is that simple. It is no more complicated then that. Yes, we might boast that we are Christians, but Jesus said that “a tree will be known by its fruits”. And in the end, the real values of a person are known by what that person does or allows.

The disobedience of children to their parents and the Church, and other rightful forms of authority misrepresents God and His purposes, and is in direct violation to Yahweh's laws, and is hated by God. Therefore parent, you can not wink at your child's rebellion, but it must be overcome by both the grace of God, and the disciplining of the child.

The word America is repent! Turn to God from the wisdom of men. Flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom of men. (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) He made man as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world. He did not create man to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the supposed wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is at best foolishness.

A Watchman

Consider:

Genesis 2:1-25, Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1-3

Adultery-Beyond The Destructive Affect It Has On Family Members Misrepresents Heavenly Realities

2009-03-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

Divorce-Beyond The Destructive Affect It Has On Family Members Misrepresents Heavenly Realities

2009-03-08T12:11:00.000-07:00

Why God Hates Divorce, Adultery, Fornication, Child Rebellion, Sabbath Breaking, And Feminism

2009-03-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

There is a confusion in the world that teaches that the Law (Torah) is void in this dispensation of time, and has no affect upon the Christian believer. This is a lie, it is confusion, and according to the degree that such a thought pattern is accepted by a believer is the degree of evil affect that it produces in that person's life.

First, lets establish that in the same manner that Yahweh is Love, He is also Law. We know that John, an apostle of the first century Church coined the phrase which is found in the Scripture: “God is Love”. (1 John 4:16) From this love springs the mercy and grace that supplies salvation to all who believe, and in that belief call upon the name of Jesus whom God has appointed the Savior of the world. But just as a coin has two faces and neither of its faces are any more real or lasting then the other you many say that the character of God is not only love, but also law.

What is the character of law? It is that aspect of Yahweh that is just, and judges sin. It is that aspect of Him that is holy, that is completely separate from sin and sinner. It is that part of Him that says in a completely compromising way, “This is the way walk in it”....or “Thus saith the Lord”, and then the commandment is given. It is the part of Him that says, “Thou shalt, and thou shalt not”, and every disobedience to these commands demanding punishment. For He is holy, and an unclean thing can not abide in His presence. He is truth as is indicated by the words of Jesus in John 8:14, “...I am the way the truth and the life....”,and when connected with the wisdom of the psalmist one finds that God's law is referred to as truth. (Ps. 119:142 NKJV) Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth. (Ps. 119:151NKJV) You are near oh Lord, and all Your commandments are truth. So the conclusion is simple. To put God's law on the self and consider it void, or to consider it with out purpose is to put God Himself on a shelf and consider Him void and without purpose.

Some take the Apostle's Paul's remark in the Colossians 2:13-14 as proof, or indication that Christ did away with the Law at the Cross. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. (NKJV) I say to you that it is impossible for Christ to have done away with the law, “nailing it to the tree”. For to do that He would have had to have taken Yahweh Himself and nailed Him to the cross for the interpretation of this scripture to be that God's law was taken away and nailed to the cross. I suggest, what was nailed to the cross was our offenses, or violations of God's laws, (our sin) not the Law itself. Further, we see in Romans 3:31 that Paul communicates openly that the purpose of the Christian faith is not to make the law of God void, but to establish it. Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary we establish the law. (NKJV)

There you have it! In clear and certain terms the proof that God's law is not void, but is in place, and that God Himself is law. So what did the Apostle Paul mean when he said that we are not under the law but under grace? I believe he meant that the grace of God which is found in Christ, serves as a filter that stands between a holy God, (whose absolute righteousness demands complete and unmerciful judgment of sin), and all sinners. This grace is a loving God's way of dealing with a very imperfect creation. Allowing us time and empowerment to respond to Him and put on Christ, which means that those who are in Christ choose to learn His ways and flesh them out. Thus righteousness is produced in the actions of our lives. This process is summed up in this equation which is seen in John 1:17, For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (NKJV) Law + grace = truth in the believer's life. Truth being the right and lawful expression of life that is meant by God for the believer to live. The lifestyle that reflects the person of the Lord Jesus, who is the embodiment of law, and grace,(and its accompanying mercy) and truth.

Having said these things I wish now to list a set of commandments and speak of the meaning of these commandments. For they have meaning behind them. There is a “why” behind each. For a wise God never gives a commandment without a reason. Like unto a parent who will commanded his child to either do, or not do any given thing. The parent may or may not give an explanation as to the reasoning behind the commandment, but there is one there. In like manner the eternal and wise Creator has reason behind all of His law. But to start off, lets first consider an extremely common posting of law that is found in the world. That of a stop sign.

When one pulls up to a stop sign what is it that is being communicated to the person? Undoubtedly the obvious communication is that the person must stop. But why? Nothing is said on the sign as to why the person must stop. This is taken as a thing that is understood by the driver, or if the driver is unable to understand the reasoning behind the command to stop then that driver is not supposed to be driving. The reason for the command is for the driver to stop in order that he can look both ways and thus respond to the traffic that may or may not be present on the road that day. Thus the actual commandment only has value because it allows for the more important reasoning behind it, which is to slow down sufficiently to consider the traffic on the road way, and then act accordingly.

God's laws are like this. The value of them is in the reasoning behind them, and this reasoning goes beyond the immediate sphere of men. Each of these laws have not only an earthly need for fulfillment, meaning they are needed to properly direct the affairs of man on the earth for his immediate good and protection, but also they represent heavenly and eternal realities at the same time. The following are a listing of various commandments of God and brief explanation of the heavenly realities that they reflect. Therein, offering the most extreme reason for obedience to them. For to violate them is to directly slander, or stand in rebellion toward the One who designed the commandments, to not only conduct the actions of men's lives for their immediate good, but to bring forth the true testimony of Heavenly and eternal realities.

Divorce:

In that Yahweh created the man as a living mortal illustration of Himself, and the woman as a living mortal illustration of the Church, and caused that they would come together in marriage, the act of divorce has far greater ramifications then the effects of the dissolutionment of the marriage and family, as extremely horrible as that it. For divorce is a horrendous thing, which often brings extreme damage and pain to the family members involved. Yet the slanderous testimony of heavenly things that is brought forth is the chief reason divorce is hated of God. Marriage was created by God to represent His relationship to the believer. (1 Cor. 6:17) When one comes to the salvation of Jesus, God becomes the husband of their spirit. In that the man and the woman were created to illustrate in their person, both God and the Church, the act of unlawful divorce gives the signal that God will, or may, divorce believers, or that the believer is permitted to divorce the Lord. Our God is completely faithful and He will never divorce any soul of man until that soul has been proven unfaithful to him and will not turn from that unfaithfulness, (in other words such a one has thrown away his faith) and any soul of man that divorces the Lord will find themselves without a savior, and henceforth be destined to the Lake of Fire.

Adultery:

Again, the Creator designed and created mankind, both male and female, both man and woman to illustrate heavenly realities. The relationship of marriage was designed and the laws pertaining to it are to insure that the obedient will be able to live the fullest, happiest, and safest life possible while in this present life. However, more importantly these same laws are designed so that through obedience to them the full and proper testimony of Heavenly realties are brought forth. When the man, who is a living mortal illustration of God commits adultery with a woman, who is the living illustration of the Church or individual believer, this act is giving the picture that God will be untrue to the relationship of trust and commitment to a soul of man who has become a marriage partner (for again, every soul of man that experiences the salvation of Jesus receives the Lord as the husband of their spirit) The woman who commits adultery by her actions gives the picture of a believer leaving the Lord to enact intimacy with another god. This is idolatry. These pictures are completely untrue. They are slanderous testimonies of the Lord and His dealings with a redeemed soul, and the proper dealing of a redeemed soul with the Savior.

Fornication:

This act is similar to that of adultery. When a man and a woman fornicate it means that they participate in the act of marriage without entering into the covenant of marriage. Thus they by their action are testifying (again, in that they were created as representations of both the Lord and the believer) that God and a soul of man will enjoy the intimacy of marriage without first entering a covenant relationship. In other words, that an unconverted soul who has not experienced the regeneration of the Holy spirit, who is not born again can share intimacy with the Lord. This is an impossibility! Such action is a lie against the truth! The Holy Spirit will not enter and abide with any soul of of man and share communion with that person until that soul has been brought under the blood of Christ and has experienced regeneration. God will not dwell in an unholy place. So the heavenly illustration that fornication brings forth is that of God being married to (sharing intimacy with) a soul of man who is not His, and the woman's part illustrates a soul of man sharing intimacy with God without entering a covenant relationship, without being born again. These pictures are impossible and are altogether slanderous to the truth.

Child Rebellion:

Going beyond marriage is the obvious eventuality of parenthood. For just as the intimacy of the Lord to the Church will bring forth new believers, so it is that the intimacy of marriage, (the act of marriage) will bring forth children. So the relationship, and the laws that govern the relationship between parents and children are illustrative of the relationship that the Heavenly Father has to His own. The Father of every soul made perfect is God Himself, the mother is the Church. The seed of God (His word) sown into the Church (by means of evangelism of the unconverted) brings forth new children to God. When a child acts in disobedience or rebellion to his or her parents it is giving the picture of a child of God acting in disobedience and rebellion to the Lord Himself, and to the Church. Therefore any act or spirit of disobedience of a child to his parent is slanderous to the greater truth that marriage and family are to illustrate in the world. This is why in the Law a rebellious child who will not turn from his rebellion is commanded to be brought forth and stoned to death. For such rebellion can contaminate a society with its poison, and beyond that it is absolute slanderous picture of what the true relationship of Believer to the Lord is to be.

Sabbath Breaking:

The keeping of the Sabbath through much confusion and undoubtedly certain rebellion is by many in this generation neglected. This law was designed by God to cause the seventh day to represent Heavenly and eternal things. The Sabbath day is a banner if you will, that is to be “waved” every seventh day that testifies that God is both the creator and the redeemer of men. And if He is the creator of men, then He is henceforth the master of men. And if He is the redeemer of men, then it is in His name alone that salvation can be preached. The name of Jesus. So to not practice the Sabbath is to give the testimony that you do not believe that Yahweh is the Creator and the redeemer of men. This testimony is a lie. It is a slanderous testimony concerning God our Creator.

Cross Dressing:

The law of God commands that the sexes be adorned distinctively different, the one from the other. This law is found in Deuteronomy 22:5. It is said in this same reading that any man who dresses like a woman, or any woman who dresses like a man is an abomination to the Lord. I myself in blindness and unbelief lived in violation of this commandment until I was 42 years of age. That means I was a Christian with an active testimony for 28 years before the Holy One brought me to the place where I could see His law and be convicted of my sin. The spirit of what is called feminism, which is the disruption or deterioration of Divine Order, (the order of authority:God-Christ-Man-woman) is extremely prevalent in the world and I might add in the church. Satan wishing to corrupt the truth of God has sown much confusion into the world, teaching men that in reference to headship the woman is equal to the man, thus denying and corrupting God's order. Again remember that the Creator created the human person illustrative of both Himself and His the chief object of His love: the church or individual Believer. The man represents God Himself, the woman represents the Church or individual Believer. Therefore when a woman dresses like a man she is saying by her practice that she is the same as, or equal to a man, which is saying that a believer is the same as, or equal to the Lord. This testimony is slanderous and therefore detestable to God. Therefore cross dressing, or the mixing of adornment is slanderous to God, and therefore an abomination. For remember that clothes have three basic purposes: 1--To protect from the elements. 2--To protect modesty, for all human persons are sexually oriented, therefore the covering of the body is of absolute necessity. 3—Clothes are illustrative. They by their nature are designed to give illustration pertaining to the one that wears them. Even as a police office is known by his uniform, or a soldier by his, or a white color worker by his. In like manner a woman's adornment much signal that she is NOT a male, but female.

Feminism or The Disruption Of Divine Order:

The laws of God that demand the keeping of Divine Order have already been mentioned, but the extreme necessity of the understanding and the obedience to these bears out that they have their own listing and discussion. God's law demands that authority be exercised in this order: God-Christ-Man-Woman. Not only is this the only order that works among men and that can bring forth life and happiness, but it is the only order that reflects Heavenly realities properly. God is the creator and henceforth the master of all things. He has chosen the man Christ Jesus, who is His physical son to be heir over all things, hence Christ is second in the line of authority. Yahweh made the male person who grows to manhood to be the first representation of Himself, man was made in God's image, henceforth, man is next in authority. The woman was created from the rib of the man and henceforth made after the image of the man, and in that process became the very glory of the man, and henceforth is after the man in reference to authority. These things are of God, and to reverse the order of authority between the man and the woman is not only to disrupt life among men on this earth but it is also to bring forth a slanderous testimony of Heavenly and eternal realities. The which action will come under very severe judgment from Yahweh who created our lives to testify of His truth.

The word America is repent! For you have become a nation steeped in the wisdom of men, but very confused and negligent in regards to God's laws. Flush the worthless and confused preachers and educators that teach for doctrine the wisdom (man's misguided intelligence that refuses to acknowledge Yahweh and His laws) of men. He made man as the highest of all his creation, to live in the honor of knowing Him and His ways, thus by their lifestyle reflecting His truth in the world. He did not create man to wallow in the mire of the immorality that springs forth from the supposed wisdom of men. For the wisdom of men without the fear of God is at best foolishness.

A Watchman

Consider: Genesis 2:1-25, Malachi 2:16, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19: 3-12, Mark 10: 2-12, 1 Corinthians 6:17, Ephesians 5: 22-33, Exodus 20:14, Exodus 20:14, Galatians 5:19, Ephesians 5:3, Colossians 3:5, Jude, verse 7,

A Valentine Story-The Greatest Love Story Ever Told-The Lord Jesus Christ Obtains A Bride

2009-02-09T22:20:00.000-08:00

A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.....Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Bow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits.....I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, “Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one...My beloved has gone to his garden. To the beds of spices, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather the lilies. I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine. (Parts of Song of Solomon 4:12,16, 5:2, 6:2 NJKV)

And the Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come” And let him who thirst come, Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelations 22:17)

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write, Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!” And he said to me, “These are the true saying of God.” (Revelations 19: 7-9 NJKV)

The greatest love story ever told, is summed up in the gospel tale. God in Christ, reconciling men unto Himself, and from among the redeemed selecting those who by the power of the choice of their faith make themselves commensurate to Himself, to the end that they might enter an eternal marriage with the Creator and Redeemer of men. Where did it have its beginning? It began before time, in eternity past when the Creator purposed in His heart that He would bring forth a natural world with people upon it that would be created after His very own image. A world that would be filled with people that would be honored with the freedom of choice to choose good or evil, and henceforth in possessing that ability would make the decision to respond to Him in love, versus loving their own ways and being a part of the world's system which belongs to Satan. Why did the Creator do this? The short and simple answer is this: to make a demonstration of who He really is. (Ephesians 1: 1-14) No, not in the egotistical manner that is so common among men, but in the way that a God who is 100% holy and wise (which means He is 100% pure, true and just, a God who loves light only and in whose presence sin and darkness must be judged, and that has unlimited understanding) can only do. And in making such a show of His divine attributes He opens up an avenue of life, beauty, glory and immortality for all that would choose to love and embrace Him and His ways, and in doing this He calls to Himself a bride. A people who truly are individuals, yet corporately stand as one, who being commensurate to Christ will share an entitled relationship with Him throughout the ages of eternity.

So the Creator made all natural things as a home for these elite beings whom He referred to as man. (mankind) He created two varieties of this same species. They were made very similar to each other, but at the same time completely opposite. He created the male and the female. He created the first of them as grown adult people, a man and a woman, a husband and a wife. He purposed the continuation of the human population, but choose that to be done through the relationship and act of marriage. This started with the very first couple He created, and then couples thereafter. So that the miracle of His power of creation was to be acted out as a part of the beauty of the love that He had purposed to exist between the male and the female in the marriage relationship.

I am beginning to get a head of myself, Speaking of what they were to created and assigned to do, but first lets speak of the depth and beauty of the genius and power of our God to create the male and the female persons. None of the innumerable aspects of either the male or the female persons are by accident, but absolutely every aspect is with reason and intelligence. Eternally cursed is the lie and corruption of truth that is called evolutionism, which teaches that the formation of the universe happened of its own accord, discounting the truth that the human person, which is the highest of God's creation sprang forth by God's power and wisdom.

The man (created as an adult male) was created to be a living-breathing mortal illustration of God Himself. He firstly was made in the image of God, as the Christian minister Paul teaches us in 1 Corinthians 11:7. The woman (created as an adult woman) was created to bear the same image, but only through the man from whose rib she was made. The Creator's objective for her was that she be a living mortal illustration of that “One” who was to become the exceeding object of His attention and heart: the Church. That's right, the woman is meant by God to be a living mortal expression in every aspect of her being of the individual Believer, and at the same time the collection of all Believers: the Church. Thus in the very act of creation we begin to see the exceeding numerous parallels between the relationship of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Church, and the Church back to Him, and the relationship of the man (husband) to the woman (wife), and the woman (wife) back to her husband. Starting with the truth that the woman is to be subject to the man in all things in that she came forth from the man, just as the Believer is to be subject to the Lord Jesus in that only by Him every Believer has passed from the death of sin into the the life of God's kingdom. The Believer has life through Christ and is therefore subject to Him, the woman has life by man, and is therefore subject to him. For reason it self dictates that anything that is created by, or comes forth from another is lesser than that which it was created by, or came forth from. Now it exists that as the Lord Jesus is seen to be these things to the Church: lord, savior, guide, deliverer, teacher, redeemer or purchaser, provider, visionary, friend, partner, lover. In like manner, in regards to the man woman relationship (expressly husband-wife relationship) all these same attributes of character and service are also to be seen. The husband being the initiator, the wife being the responder. Christ being the initiator, the Believer being the responder. In short, Christ owns the Believer and meets the Believer's needs, the Believer responds in love and gratitude seeking to fulfill the Lord's purposes. In like manner the husband as lord over the wife owns her, and seeks to meet her needs, and she responds and seeks to fulfill his purposes. Obviously it has been Satan's objective to corrupt the workings of these truths, but in the end he will not win. And every soul of man who aligns itself with these truths will be shown to have great reward at the appearing of the Lord Jesus.

God's plan was a beautiful thing right from the beginning, however, Satan tempted the first woman Eve, and she being deceived gave her self to sin. The first man Adam was not deceived by the wicked one, he simply chose (with his eyes wide open) the woman instead of the Lord. ( 1 Timothy 2:14) Therefore sin entered the world and has from that time until this time been passed unto every soul of man upon the earth. Thus the Eternal God (not that any of this took Him by surprise, for He foreknew all of it) began from the every beginning to implement salvation for men, which would be found embodied in the act of His very self becoming a human person born of a virgin woman, who would live among men approximately 30 years and then conduct a ministry that would be ended in the giving of His life as the sacrificial payment for the sins of all men. Thus He would earn the title the Lamb of God Who Takes Away The Sins Of The World. This atonement for sin being available for every person who will turn from sin and place their faith in the salvation which God has provided through Christ.

The story of the bringing forth of the forgiveness of sin is filled with exceeding aspects of wonder and beauty, but it is not to be the final focus of this article today, but rather let us focus on the culmination of the the drama of Christ calling a bride unto Himself. Which is to be culminated at the end of the age.

This time is at hand.

The Lord Jesus while upon the earth spoke a very revealing parable, the which would be good for us to consider, from it we can gain basic and extremely important information. It can be found in the book of Matthew 25:1-13, and it reads: Then the kingdom of heaven shall be liken to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard, “behold, the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him!” Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, “Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out”. But he wise answered, saying, “No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.” And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying “Lord, Lord, open to us!” But he answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.” Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

I will now give in brief terms my understand of the meaning of this parable. I do not claim perfect knowledge, and undoubtedly others will disagree with me to varying degrees. None the less I will speak as I see it.

Those that will be counted worthy to occupy the Kingdom of Heaven are likened unto virgins. For they, by the new birth, (John 3:1-11) which is equal to the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:5) have in spirit become virgin before the Lord, being sanctified (set apart) in regards to their spirit, which has been made pure from the corruption of spirit found in the world, and abides in the salvation of Jesus. Undoubtedly all of these are wise in the sense that they have come to Jesus and have been washed from their sins in His atoning blood, for it is the very wisest decision that one can make. However, after making the decision to believe unto salvation it is necessary to continue to make the decision to seek the Lord and surrender one's self to Him in discipleship, becoming conformed to Christ and to His purposes. (Romans 8:29) Half of this group in the end are considered wise, and the other half are considered foolish. (No doubt there is a certain reasoning for the use of the number ten, but I do not know it) All of the virgins had lamps. This speaks that they possessed the testimony of Jesus as their Savior, the testimony of being transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. However, five of them had oil enough, and the other five did not have oil enough. The oil speaks of the Holy Spirit's involvement in their lives to bring forth in their lives the true and complete expression of the living out of God's commandments and His promises. In short, the foolish virgins are the picture of those who do not press on to “put on Christ” (Colossians 3:10) as the Holy Spirit would convict them to, they do not have “ears to hear” His voice as He works to bring them to full maturity. So five make it the habit of their life to respond to the Spirit's voice and unctioning developing all godly attributes, growing up into the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the other five do not.

At Midnight the cry is heard that the bridegroom is coming. This bridegroom is Jesus. The “midnight hour” is when the Holy Spirit convicts the believer to put off foolish and wicked works in order to grow up in Christ and become fully an expression of Him in the world. It is also a point at the end of time when the cry of the Spirit shall be heard saying, (and is heard even now) “Jesus is coming again, therefore put off every foolish and sinful way and get ready to meet Him.” These expressions are summed up in scriptures like these: “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection.....”, (Hebrews 6:1 NKJV) “Brethren I do not count myself to have appended; but one I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind....(Philippines 3: 13-15 NKJV) Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5 48 NKJV) Finally, brothers, goodbye, aim for perfection...(2 Corinthians 13:11 NIV) Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. (Colossians 1:28 NKJV)

Five of the virgins rise to trim their lamp (their testimony) only to find out that they lack the depth of being able to comprehend and thus obey the Spirit's voice and unction. We see this in the parable because it is said that their oil was running out, forcing the virgins to go to buy more to sustain their light (testimony). This speaks of the reality that to follow God unto full maturity is going to cost the Believer something. This process will never be completed simply by a Believer praying, “Lord, make me like You.” Yes, this is the right prayer, but every effort must be added to that prayer, and continued in, in order for this process to come to completion. Five of the virgins are not willing to invest time and life into this effort, and in the end are caught un-prepared by either death or the Lord's coming.

The Bridegroom's coming speaks that an appointed time is set for all things. Death has an appointed time, the Lord's coming has an appointed time, the end of the world has an appointed time. Now, as we read this article, and as we go about life, as the Holy Spirit's conviction is there dealing with us, now is the time to respond to the Spirit's dealing and seek the Lord and put on Christ in all of our affairs. ...Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. (Hebrews 4:7 NKJV) ....behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is he day of salvation. (2Corinthians 6:2 NKJV)

...the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut, afterward the other virgins came also, saying “Lord, Lord, open to us!” But he answered and said, “assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.” (Mathew 25 10-12 NKJV) This speaks plainly that there will come a time when the invitation to be a part of the “bride hood” of the Lord Jesus will come to an end. Some having missed the opportunity will cry out to God begging to be considered, and the answer will be no. For to be chosen for this elite honor there must be a level of depth of relationship, of both knowing and being known of the Lord, and the five in the parable who were rejected from entrance did not know the Lord in the way that is required for this relationship and honor. Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wire has made herself ready.” (Revelations 19:7 NKJV) This verse very plainly speaks of each Believer's responsibility to make himself ready. Oh yes, as in all expressions of grace it is by the empowering of the Holy Spirit, but it will never happen without the full cooperation of the Believer.

Are there any Scripture verses that encapsulate what a Believer by the Holy Spirit is to do, in order to be found acceptable to enter this eternal, intimate and powerful relationship with Jesus? I believe so. I suggest these: And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her off-spring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelations 12:17 NKJV) Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. (Revelations 14:12 NKJV) And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” Blessed are those who do His commandments, >that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:12-14 NKJV)

The Lord, whose eyes search the motives and deeds of all men looks to and fro through the earth in every generation searching for those whose ways are pleasing to Himself. It is He who righteously will make the final judgment as to who is appropriate to be arrayed in the fine garments that this bride shall wear, and be honored from that point onward to have a place in this special relationship, but it is our part to make our selves ready, to grow up in Him in all things. The following are scriptures that denote the specialness of the calling of the Bride of Christ.

These who are found worthy shall .....be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.. (Revelation 19:8 NJKV) Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then, I , John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:1-2 NKJV) and he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. Having the glory of God.....(Revelations 21: 10& 11a NKJV) but I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, (this statement proves that there is a whole population of people saved who are not chosen to be a part of the Bride of Christ) and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there) And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. And He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: they need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. (Rev. 21:23---Rev. 22:5 NKJV)

These words are illustrative of the person and calling of the Bride. Quoting the Apostle Paul, (Philippians 3:14-15) I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this same mind....

Amen!
A Watchman

A Word Concerning Abortion For President Barack Obama, The Supreme Court, and America

2009-02-06T14:40:00.000-08:00

Hey President Barack Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court, and America:

Abortion is murder. There are no two ways about it. It is simply and plainly murder. It is the taking of human life with no lawful justification. For I assure you that the U.S. Supreme Court's judgment (Roe versus Wade) that abortion is “in alignment to the Constitutional”, and therefore “legal” will mean nothing on that day we stand before God.

Mr. President, you signed an executive order reinstating federal funds for the promotion of murder. This sir is murder.

Now tell me sir, how can you expect to sow murder on one hand and receive God's blessing on another? Or do you think you can lead this great nation without His aide? Especially knowing all the while that murder is contrary to Him. For He is a God of justice and life. Yes, the judgment of death is fitting for those worthy by God's law of execution, but the most innocent of persons, the unborn, or new born child, how is it that they are guilty of the death penalty? One example of those worth of the judgment of execution by law is our own Supreme Court Justices who pollute God's law and call the murder of the innocent acceptable and “legal”. Yes, to this point they have escaped judgment, but they will have their day before God Almighty, and if they do not cry out for the hope of the gospel in repentance, and admit their sin, and turn from their error, they will never see His kingdom, but eternal judgment will be their lot, as it will be the lot of all who love wickedness.

Mr. President, if you would have your name be great, then you must think and behave as a great man would, and that is not to murder the innocent, but rather to fight for the innocent and punish the guilty. Do you think sir that you can lead this people into safety and prosperity and not promote true judgment? If you do sir, then you are only “blowing smoke”, which is a common thing for a politician to do, but it will not earn you God's favor, nor bring this nation into God's blessing. I warn you sir, you can not please men and God both, you need to make up your mind whose team you are on. For I assure you, no murderer, nor murderous nation will inherit eternal life, nor have God's blessing in this present life.

Consider:

Exodus 20:13---(NKJV) You shall not murder.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV) Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, no adulterers, no homosexuals,, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioner will inherit the kingdom of God. (and I will add one to the list, the murders of the unborn of the world)

1 John 2:22 (NKJV) But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going for the darkness has blinded him. (such are all that who murder the unborn)

1 John 3:7 (NKJV) Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning... (murder of the unborn is sin Mr. President, and America)

1 John 3:14 (NKJV) We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. (to kill your neighbor (unborn or born) without lawful justification is not to love him)

1 John 3:20 (NKJV) If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does no love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? (Look on the web, you can find pictures of the little ones you murder. Some burned with salt, others chopped to pieces, others who brains are sucked out so that they can be drug from the womb. I tell you Mr. President and America, they are real, and the corpses testify against you Mr. President, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and you America, for you have sanctioned their murder)

A Watchman

Was The 9/11 Twin Towers Destruction A Foreign Terrorist's Act, Or That Of Our Own Government?

2009-02-06T10:07:00.000-08:00

Hey America:

“The world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19 NKJV) But our national fathers established this nation to be a “Christian” nation, a “nation under God”, we were not birthed as a people to be an irreligious people, therefore how can this be? The answer is quite simple. We as a people have given way to some very fundamental lies for a goodly amount of time. Therefore confusion abounds, and the judgment that should spring forth from wisdom and righteousness is just about non-existent.

The doctrine and practice of humanism-supposing that man's wisdom is greater then God's, thereby influencing men to live according to their own dictates, versus God's laws.

The doctrine and practice of evolutionism-supposing that the creation “happened” into existence.

The doctrine and practice of feminism-supposing that the man and the woman are equal in regards to headship.

The doctrine and practice of socialism which works to deny men the personal and individual sovereignty that is a God given right and calling.

The lies that deny that this nation was birthed by God at the hand of our national forefathers which were mostly consecrated, God fearing individuals.

The promotion of the doctrine and practice of what is called “Separation of Church and State”-Which proposes that all Christian influence should be denied a place in civil life, and our local and national institutions.

Essentially the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY (the evolution of the workings of sin and its confusion) in modern America in the last 100 plus years has gone like this: Humanism (the mindset in man to rule himself without God) birthed the doctrine and practice of Evolutionism. (The doctrine and practice that man was created by accident and therefore his own master, therefore not subject to the law of an Almighty Creator) Evolutionsim gave way to twin sisters, which are Socialism and Feminism. These work to destroy Divine Order. (the order of headship: God-Christ-Man-Woman...or in regards to governmental issues: God-Christ-Man-Constitution-Government-Case and Statue Law) One in reference to Man's ruler ship with the home and family, the other, Man's ruler ship within the context of government. These spirits (mindsets, or ideologies) have given way to what has been called Liberalism. (where any thing goes) The practice of Liberalism is responsible for exceeding many vices that grip our American people, among which are: the modern divorce rate-modern teen sex rate and fornication at large-the modern explosion of pornography-many paying 50% or more of their income to taxes-50% of our youth refusing to marry-40 million plus legalized abortions-our prisons filled to capacity, the 9-11 attack on the Twin Towers, the government leading us into a war with Iraq when we were told they were a “terrorist nation” and had weapons of mass destruction, the which has been established as an outright lie.

Why are all these perversions of truth possible? We have loved our own way. Henceforth God has given this nation over to lies and this will continue until such time as we decide to repent and turn to Him, or we are destroyed as a people. One modern and very great perversion of truth is what is called 9-11-The Destruction Of The Twin Towers. The following statements when examined by any reasonable mind will easy prove that the destruction of the twin towers was a demolition job, and not the result of the fires caused by the crashing of jet planes into each tower. Each of these statements can be investigated in depth at AE911truth.org

THE TWIN TOWER'S DESTRUCTION EXHIBITED ALL the CHARACTERISTICS OF DESTRUCTION BY EXPLOSIVES: (and some non-standard characteristics)

Destruction proceeds through path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall acceleration

Improbable symmetry of debris distribution

Extremely rapid onset of destruction

Over 100 first responders reported explosions and flashes

Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600ft at 60 mph

Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking

Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds

1200-foot-dia. Debris field: no “pancaked” floors found

Isolated explosive ejections 20-40 stories below demolition front

Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame

Several tons of molten iron found under all 3 high rises

Evidence of thermite incendiaries found in steel & dust samples

FEMA steel analysis: sulfidation, oxidation & intergranular melting

No precedent for steel-framed high-rise collapse due to fire

AND EXHIBITS NONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF DESTRUCTION BY FIRE, i.e.

Slow onset with large visible deformations

Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, intact, from the point of plane impact, to the side most damaged by the fires)

Evidence of fire temperatures capable of softening steel

High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer lasting fires have never “collapsed”

Now, what could the motivation of this barbaric act be, and who is responsible? I lay the blame at the doors of offices in high places, starting with our former President, Mr. Bush. Their obvious willingness to cover up the act, and place the blame on others is the first proof of their guilt. What was, and is their motivation? I think it has been far more than money for the key players, although certainly the love of money played a part in the willingness of those that participated as both engineers and mechanics. I say it was this. Desiring to bring forth a One World System hysteria was created to influence the American people to surrender their sovereignty as individuals to the government, who as our “big brother” offers “security” in place of our individual rights. So that eventually we can be brought to the place where we are willing to surrender not only our personal rights but also our national sovereignty in lieu of a One World Order which will promise security and prosperity.

So America, what do we do? The first and great step for every man among us is not complicated, yet it is the greatest step any man can take. It is that we must man by man, humble ourselves and admit our sin before the Living God through the Lord Jesus Christ, admitting before Him that He alone is Master, and that He alone has the answer for our individual lives and the life and destiny of this nation. Until we are willing to do this our efforts will not add up to anything. For we individually or collectively are no match for Satan, who seeks to destroy every man, and every nation that maintains himself, or itself, by God's law and the salvation of Christ Jesus. Our National fathers brought forth a nation which was dedicated to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, where His law and salvation were to reign supremely. Do we now think we can maintain this nation without the same consecration of devotion and faith? In fact, let us all the more look to the Bible for the true answer, and it is found in the vision of life for nations as is written in Revelations 11:15, (NKJV)“Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in Heaven saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”” America, there are only two sources of all power: God or the Evil One. You must make your choice which you will give yourself to, and whose purpose you will pursue.

A Watchman

Gregory A. DeHart

Why Does God Hate Fornication?

2009-02-03T12:47:00.000-08:00

Hey America:

Almost every time the English word fornication is found in the Bible it springs directly from the Greek word PORNEIA, and is given this definition in the Strong's Exhaustive concordance: HARLOTRY, (INCLUDING ADULTERY AND INCEST). I believe this definition includes all sexual actions that are contrary to the commands of the Lord our Creator. Although it appears that the most common usage of the term is concerning the sexual activity of unmarried people.

In a generation that has been so affectively brainwashed by the doctrine of evolution many of us have obviously lost conviction concerning the truth that God is our Creator and henceforth our Master, therefore, having every right to command the behavior in us that He created us to live out.

Jesus gave fornication as the only reason a husband could divorce a wife. (Mat. 19:9)

The early Church Elders in their deliberation as to what commandments should be put upon new Gentile believers said that they must “abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication....? (Acts 15:20)

The Apostle Paul said those that commit fornication (among other sins) shall not inherit God's kingdom. (1 Co. 6:11)

Why then is this sin so hated by God our Creator and Redeemer?

It is because mankind is the highest of the creation of God. It is mankind that was made after the very image of God, and after the image of His purpose. (Gen. 1:26-27 & Rev. 4:11) In simple words, God created the male and the female as natural representations of very important and eternal truths. The man was made to represent God, the woman was made to represent the Church, or the individual believer. The sexual expression of the husband and the wife is to be a continual expression of the eternal and spiritual intercourse that the Lord has with those that are His. For all that are born of the Spirit have received Christ as the HUSBAND of their spirit. So to fornicate is to live out a slanderous testimony that suggests that God has intimate relations with those that have not entered into a covenant relationship with Him (been saved) This is a lie! God is only the HUSBAND of the spirit of those that have received the salvation of Christ, walking after His ways. (1Co.6:17 & Eph. 5:22-23) Beyond this truth, fornication also extremely disrupts the peace and order of life for men kind in this present life, causing much confusion and loss. For this reason also it is hated of God. For He seeks life and blessing for all His creation.

This is why Satan from the beginning has encouraged men and women to throw off restraint and to fornicate. For He knows that such action is an outright lie against the truth. It is a slanderous testimony of the Lord, and of true believers. The end of this life is DEATH. (Rev. 22:12-16) Jesus said that those that know and live the truth will find life. (John 8:32)

Repentance, which means to turn from sin to seek and serve the Lord, is the only door to life for those who practice fornication.

A Watchman

Feminism Cries For A Female President-Does The Bible Say This Is Within A Woman's Calling?

2009-01-29T13:13:00.000-08:00

Hey America:

I am not like the president of the United States of America. I was not voted into office and can not be voted out of office, but rather I speak because the Great One has instructed me to. Therefore, I will speak of a point of basic and very wide spread confusion that grips our American people even though it is a very unpopular subject. Namely, the place and the calling of a woman.

My small eight year old son came home from school toting a school work paper in which a picture of the White House is seen along with a quiz of a sort where he and his class mates were to spell out the address of the White House: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. All of that is fine, in fact, in so much as the true history of America is taught I am well pleased that he, (my young son) can learn these things. However, right there at the top of the page is yet another example of how America, which was called of God to be “the wise and enlightened” is being pressed hard by many to turn into America, the “miss guided and confused”. America, that special land that was birthed by the Eternal God through the faith of Christ that abode in the hearts of so many of His faithful servants to the end that it would be a “first fruit” of modern nations dedicated to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Where the knowledge and law of God are to reign supreme above all things.

Here is the sentence that was at the top of Matt's school paper, “After Inauguration Day the new President moves his or her family to a new home.” You may say, “Well Watchman, that is exactly where the new president and family are to move,” and, I will add you are entirely right. But here is the problem. The part of that sentence speaking of the new president that says, “his or her family”, obviously suggesting we can, or will sometime have a female president. Where in the wisdom and law of the Almighty is it allowed for a woman to rule men, let alone a woman to rule this great nation in the capacity of president or any other governing office? In fact, by God's law a woman is never given the authority to rule over the life of anyone in this world except her children. That my friend is the simple outcome of God's law. Anyone, whether preacher, or educator, or politician, or mother or father,or brother or sister that will tell you differently than this, is telling you a lie.

America, you first swallowed Darwin's lie of evolutionism, it led to the lie of feminism that promotes the perversion of truth that states that women are equal to men in respect to headship. The acceptance of this lie led you to pass the 19th amendment in 1920, erasing the wisdom of our Nation's fathers to accept the doctrine and practice of feminism that many tote as “enlightenment.” This doctrine is not true, nor has it ever been true, nor can it ever be true. Now, do not get me wrong, I am not speaking of the value of a woman being less then a man. In fact, in reference to value I will say this. There are few men of any worth that will not, if called upon by neccesity, lay down their lives to preserve and protect the women and the children of their lives, thus establishing that a man views them as more important than himself. This truth has been played out millions upon millions of times in the history of men kind. So I am not speaking of worth, but of headship, I am saying that she is subject to a man. A unmarried woman is to be subject to her father, a married woman is to be subject to her husband. Women are in general terms are to be subject to men in general terms. That is why wise governments, whether civil or religious in nature have forever been comprised of men, and not women. That is wise it is an ungodly and extremely foolish practice to give a civil vote to women. This is why the Apostle Paul encapsulated the law of God into a brief statement as found in 1 Corinthians 11: 3, NJKV, “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.” God is head over the man Christ Jesus, who is head over the man, who is head over the woman, who is head over her children. There it is America.

The words to this scripture are very simple words. Which part of them is it that we do not understand that has led us to the extreme role reversals that occur in modern America Society? I'll tell you why we do not understand, it is summed up in a couple of statements that the Apostle Paul made and are recorded in the New Testament writings. (2 Timothy 3:5&7 NKJV) Having a form of godliness but denying its power, and for such people turn away......Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. , and (Romans 1: 21-22 NKJV) Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thought, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, the became fools. Sorry to say it America, but these words fit you to a tee. That is why you have murdered 40 million plus innocents through legalized abortion. That is why many of you pay over 50% of their income to taxes. That is why your Internet can boast a million porno sites. That is why you have nearly a 70% divorce rate for first time marriages, plus the reality that approximately one-half of your young people refuse to even “give marriage a chance”, but choose to live together outside of the covenant of marriage, thus always having the “back door” open to escape the relationship when things don't go their way. That is why 8 out of 10 of your teenage are sexually active (fornicate), irrespective of our public school's attempts at sex education. (which teaches everything but chastity) That is why your streets are more and more dangerous and murderous. That is why your prisons are filled to capacity and you are setting wicked men free to do their crimes all over again. And the list goes on.

What is the answer? My friends there is only one answer and the root of it is certainly not in politics. In fact, politics is often more a part of the problem then a solution to the problem. It is in the repentance of our people before the Divine One. The answer is in turning from our self-centered ways acknowledging our sin before the Eternal God, turning to Him through Christ Jesus for mercy. It is in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That alone is the answer. There is no other answer. There was no other answer for the American people at the time of the Civil War, nor at the time of the Revolutionary War, nor at the time of the first successful European colonists. (the Pilgrims), nor will there ever be any other answer for this nation, or any other nation of people. For it is only the gospel of Christ that can set a man free from the wicked and confused nature that grips his unregenerated soul. And only men who have been re-created after the likeness of God's Son from Heaven can have any hope of building a nation where righteousness and mercy meet, bringing forth true and lasting prosperity and security. Amen!

A Watchman,

Consider: Gen. 3:16, 1 Cor. 11:3, 1 Tim. 2:12-14, 1 Cor. 14:34

Advise For America and President Barack Obama From A Man Of God On Inauguration Day

2009-01-26T07:11:00.000-08:00

In the night the Spirit of my God stirred my mind with thoughts of how a man of God ought to counsel not only his president, but also the American nation at this “changing of the guard” in Washington DC. Doubtless this is a time of numerous international anxieties along with very deep domestic ailments that if not handled well could certainly promote, if not insure the plummeting of this society in to social-economic darkness that would be nothing short of devilish in nature. Along with my seven points of advise I suggest to you America, and to you Mr. President, that you study to emulate both the spirit and the character of two of our past American presidents who as Christians stood in their generations as pillars, and national fathers: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Both of whom were seen to demonstrate little or no hesitancy to speak of, and conduct their personal and official affairs according to the faith of Jesus Christ. I hereby firstly offer a few quotations taken from Peter Marshall and David Manuel's book, The Light and the Glory, pages 284 and 285, originally quoting from George Washington's personal prayer book titled, Daily Sacrifice.

Let my heart, therefore, gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of Thine honor that I may not do mine own works, but wait on Thee, and discharge those weighty duties which Thou requirest of me.....

O most glorious God....I acknowledge and confess my faults; in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of sins, but so coldly and carelessly that my prayers are become my sin and I stand in need of pardon. I have heard Thy holy word, but with such deadness of spirit that I have been an unprofitable and forgetful hearer....But, O God, who art rich in mercy and plenteous in redemption, mark not, I beseech Thee, what I have done amiss; remember that I am but dust, and remit my transgressions, negligences and ignorances, and cover them all with the absolute obedience of thy dear Son, that those sacrifices (of sin, praise and thanksgiving) which I offered may be accepted by Thee, in and for the sacrifices of Jesus Christ offered upon the cross for me.

Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit...daily frame me more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ.

Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me; and hast given me assurance of salvation, upon my repentance and sincerely endeavoring to conform my life to His holy precepts and example.

I submit these quotations in lieu of portions of more famous addresses of George Washington such as his inaugural or farewell addresses, because these so obviously show the devotion to God that was the guiding and propelling factor throughout his life.

In Lincoln-Selected Speeches and Writings, (a compilation of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings with an introduction by Gore Vidal) these quotations can be found which express the deep Christian faith that abode in Abraham Lincoln.

Taken as a portion of a letter written to his brother near the time of their Father's death. (January 12th, 1851) “...I sincerely hope father may yet recover his health; but at all events tell him to remember to call upon, and confide in, our great, and good, and merciful Maker; who will not turn away from him in any extremity. He notes the fall of sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads; and He will not forget the dying man, who puts his trust in Him...”

Taken from his first inaugural address. (March 4th, 1861) “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

Taken from a message to Congress. (March 6th, 1862) “In full view of my great responsibility to my God, and to my country, I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people to the subject.”

Taken from his second Inaugural address.(March 4th, 1865) “It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!” If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which , having continued though His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether”.”

America, and Mr. President Obama, do not these words testify to us that the two men who formed them although each in his time serving as chief executive and commander in chief had no shame and hesitancy in their admittance to the existence of, and their allegiance to the God of heaven via the Christian faith. I suggest to you that the way of true greatness and success is found down this path and no other. Respectfully now sir, and respectfully America, here are seven principles of guidance and operation that if followed will work to promote honor, prosperity and security, and if abandoned will promote ruin, dishonor and God's judgment upon either man or nation.

Read and obey God's word (God's laws, and the writings of the prophets, Jesus, and the apostles) and be a man of prayer and worship. (be filled with the Holy Spirit)

----Speaking of the kings of Israel (Duet. 17:18-19) Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levities. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

----A Psalms of David the king of ancient Israel (Psalms 18: 1-3) I will love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

----The words of Jesus the Son of God. (John 15:5) I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

For true success a Leader must surround himself with godly men and men of talent.

----Men of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

----Men of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:10) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

----Men of talent and skill (Proverbs 22:29) Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.

----Removal of wicked men (Proverbs 25:5) Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne will be established in righteousness.

A leader of men and nations must surround himself with true prophets and wise men.

----Gad the prophet to David before he was king in Israel (1 Samuel 22:5) Now the prophet Gad said to David, “do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go to the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

----Nathan the prophet to David the king (2 Samuel 7:5) Go tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord: “Would you build........”

----Gad the prophet to David the king (2 Samuel 24:11-12) Now when David rose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, “Go and tell David, Thus saith the Lord: I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.”

----Wise counselors (Proverbs 24:3-7) Though wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.A wise man is strong, yes a man of knowledge increases strength; For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.

A leader must conduct himself as a father figure, offering instruction, correction, encouragement and comfort which springs forth from the Spirit of God. This nation of people no longer can afford to nurture the confusion that promotes the lie that we did not spring forth by means of the Christian faith, and must be continually instructed that only the salvation of Jesus can pick us up out of the mire we are in. The last thing this nation needs are individuals that are to weak kneed, and self centered to possess courage to throw off this damnable heresy that men came from apes. This perversion of truth which is known as humanism effects the whole of our people, enticing men to throw off godly restraint, polluting their minds to the reality that all will give account for their life's actions on that last day. Therefore the vices of adultery, divorce, fornication, every sort of lewd and perverse behavior, pornography, drug and alcohol abuse, homosexuality, the torrent of feministic doctrines, abortion, 50% taxes for many, murder on our streets, have become very common place in the fabric of our society. The which will destroy us as a people if we do not repent.

----David was a father to the people, therefore he was termed “a man after God's own heart”.

----The Apostle Paul's example (1 Thes. 2:11-12) As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children. That you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

----By Solomon's example (1 Kings 4:32) He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

----Jesus builds His kingdom this way. (Matthew 9:35-36) Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no Shepard.

A Leader must remember that appointment is from the Lord and that every soul of man will be held accountable for what has been entrusted into his hands, and to those given more power there will be a greater accounting of what they did with that power.

----It is God who promotes and then shall judge (Psalms 75:6-7) For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south. But God is the Judge; He puts down one, and exalts another.

----Again, it is God who promotes (1 Samuel 2:6-10) The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and He hath set the world upon them. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; From Heaven He will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed.

----Nebuchadnezzar learned it the hard way (Dan 4: 34-37) And at the end of time I, Nebuchadnezzar, (at the end of the time alloted to him to repent from is arrogance before he was judged and lost his mind and lived like an animal crawling on all four eating grass, and sleeping in the field) lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. NO one can restrain His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?” At the same time my reason returned to me and for the glory of my kingdom my house of splendor returned to me. My counselors and nobles resorted to me, I was restored to my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of Heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.

----It was God who appointed David as king in Israel (2 Samuel 12:7-8) Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: “I appointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping , and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been to little, I also would have given you much more!

Know that the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of God and His Christ, and that all that that stand in rebellion to this will be mercilessly crush. Therefore, there is no room for a man to do his own thing.

----Daniel prophesied it (Daniel 2: 44-45) And in the days of these kings the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to the people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.

----The Psalmist understood God's authority (Ps. 2:1-12) Why do the nations rage, and the people of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and His anointed, saying, “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure, “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.” “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to me, You are my Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of me and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.” Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

----Jesus promised it (Revelations 2: 26-27) And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessels.

Don't cut any deals that compromise God's laws and purpose. Do your give and take within the framework of obedience to God.

----Saul lost a kingdom because of compromise (1 Samuel 15: 22-23) So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”

----A prophet lost his life because of compromise (1 Kings 13:21 and 24) And he cried out to he man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you.-----When he was gone a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the corpse.

----Paul said it would be common place in the last times (1 Timothy 4:1-2) Now the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

----The early apostles refused to cut a deal to make their life easier (Acts 5:29) But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather then men.”

----Jesus commands a life without compromise (Luke 14: 34-35) Salt is good; but if the salt has lot its favor, how shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land nor the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

So Mr. President and America I believe the most reasonable way to conclude this article is to suggest that these points of wisdom, as well as the testimony of the lives of both Washington and Lincoln can be summed up in this one Bible verse. (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14) Let us hear the conclusion of the matter. Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

An American Watchman,
Greg DeHart

Chivalry-- Elements of Wisdom On A Woman's Part That Will Provoke Male Courtesy

2008-12-18T19:32:00.000-08:00

The author offers a Bible based teaching on how a woman can provoke chivalry from men by the practice of five points of wisdom on her part. This being possible without even a hint of immodesty, or impropriety.

Chivalry: defined by the dictionary as courtesy shown toward women. A practice that many would say is less and less common in American society. I believe this is entirely true, henceforth I offer this article in the hope that at least some who truly desire understand will be spoken to by the insights of this article. For a goodly number of years, from the depths of my heart I have prayed to God our savior petitioning Him for an out pouring of the Holy Spirit, with one of the manifestations of His presence being that there will be a noted, yes, even a fantastically noticed turning of our America people to what the Bible refers to as the wisdom of the wise. What is the wisdom of the wise? Simply, the wisdom to conduct one's self in accordance with God's commandments. Only those that are exercised in this wisdom can know the good of it. An example of the proof of this wisdom is that women who practice it are shown chivalry. That is the reason for the statement of Jesus: Wisdom is justified by her children. (Matthew 11:19) Obedience to God's wisdom brings positive results.

Before I begin into the meat of this message I will endeavor to first draw a picture so that you, the reader, can be aided to better comprehend the workings of God. God is infinitely bigger and higher then what we are. Even the Apostle Paul with the extreme revelations given to him described the Lord in Romans 11:33 in this manner: O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen Yahweh, the great Eternal One sits in heaven, we as men are on earth. Perhaps we could be described before Him as what an insect is before us. Very small, yet possessing life and certain understanding. Oh yes, men are exceedingly greater then insects, but before God in heaven we are very very small, very very weak, and very very foolish. Therefore, it is only by the obedience of His commandments that we can be brought by the Holy Spirit into His wisdom, and realize the benefits of His salvation. Now, please listen very carefully. In regards to His laws, we are very much like little children before their parents who do not understand the need to obey their parents. Children do not understand the depth of reasoning that a parent has when a parent tells them to do, or not to do, any certain thing. It is upon obedience to God's laws that our understanding is open to perceive the reasoning for the commandment, the particular benefits of obedience.

Varied Commandments of God and Reasoning Behind Them

The chief reason for the lack of chivalry in America today is the lack of the practice of godly manhood, and womanhood, and the whole reason for the lack of godly man and womanhood in America today is ignorance and rejection of God's commandments, particularly in respect to the issues of headship that exists in the man-woman relationship. In order for chivalry to work among men and women we must learn to maximize manhood, and maximized womanhood, but this is only possible by obedience to the Holy Scriptures, for the carnal reasoning of man can not produce godly man and womanhood.

The Scripture gives command for the headship of man over woman, and in particular terms this means husband over wife, father over daughter. In general terms it means that in all government, whether civil or religious is to be comprise of men who rule. Commandments pertaining to this issue are found throughout the Scriptures in one form or another, but please allow me to submit a few very pointed examples: Genesis 3:16, Duet. 22:5, 1 Cori. 11: 1-16, 1 Cor. 14:33-36, 1 Tim. 2: 8-15, 1 Peter 3:1-7. Most of these Scriptures that I have listed are what I will refer to as encapsulations of truth that the original authors had gathered from their study and obedience to the Mosaic law, and ancient Jewish prophets, then condensing that understanding into brief exhortations, (commandments) the which they offered to the New Testament Church. We could form a writing based on an exhaustive analysis of the Law and prophets and point by point come to the same conclusion, but there is absolutely no need for that, since the New Testament Apostles did this for us. Our lot is to obey these commandments and to enjoy the fruit of that obedience. And if we will not give ourselves to the obedience of these and other commandments of the Lord, then we shall certain “eat” the fruit of our unbelief and disobedience. Such fruit fills our American society, and could never exist among an obedient-godly people. A sampling of the fruit of disobedience to God's laws, and the laws of headship imparticular is:

Somewhere near 70% divorce rate for first time marriages, not to speak of people who have been married numerous times

Over 40 million “legal” abortions

Teenage fornication where 8 of 10 teens now testify that they fornicate

Search engines that can boast 997,000 pornographic sites ( I have seen this with my own eyes)

The headship of men over women, and again in particular terms the husband over the wife, and the father over his household, which includes his daughters is rightly expressed in the picture of our human body. Every properly formed body has two hands. They are equal, but opposite. All people are meant to have both a left and a right hand. Headship is that way. It is comprised of two elements that are equal but opposite, they are: authority and responsibility. By means of the women's suffrage movement of a century ago (which brought to pass the passing of the 20th amendment to the US constitution which gave American women the right to vote) we began to accept a doctrine of the devil which has worked to sow confusion and numerous evil works into our American families, and to our American culture at large. The ratification of this law stated that men and women are equal in terms of headship. In short, Papa (the male head) can not, and will not play the part of the man if head ship is taken from him. The reason for the authority of headship is so that he can fulfill the responsibility of manhood toward all of society, but especially in regards to his wife and children, and other extended family members. To take away his authority is to take away both his heart and his ability to be fully responsible. So in a nutshell, it works this way. A man will not fight for what is not his own. A wife that stands contrary to him, is in all affects not his own, her rebellion is equal to unfaithfulness, being adulterous in nature, so why should he care? Why should he pay the price to fulfill manhood to nurture, protect, provide for, lead, intercede in prayer for a woman, if she will not give herself to follow him? I realize this may sound harsh, but I'm telling you life works this way. Understand this, a man's world if filled with struggle. He fights (struggles) to overcome the passions that are inherent within his own person to maintain godliness and be steady and faithful. He fights the elements to go and do whatever kind of work he does, he has to compete with others in the work a day world, which struggle must be maintained as a friendly and gracious contest, but none the less it is a constant contest that he must endure all his life. He fights to overcome his own self centered laziness to rise up and lead and nurture his family and others. The last thing a man needs, (or wants) is to come home to civil war with his wife over who is to lead the family.

Ladies, may I submit to you some practical wisdom that will gain you great advantage in dealing with a man. Remember that the man was made firstly in the image of God Himself, and was created to be a natural living illustration of God. Whereas you as a woman was created by God to be a natural living illustration of the Church of God. NEVER, and again I say never, allow yourself to think of a man as if he is like you. For he is not, and you do not want him to be.

Point number one:

The way to victory in getting what you want with a man is by means of surrender. Even as the way of victory for the believer in obtaining from Christ what the believer desires is the way of surrender. I'm telling you, that is how it works. Any other means, be it force, nagging, manipulation, trickery, or anything else will back fire on you and cause disruption. As a part of this practice learn to cultivate a spirit of quietness. Do not be deceived into thinking that this will make you into a doormat. It is those in life who possess the quietness of a meek spirit that in the end are the true overcomers. For the meek shall inherit the earth. We have Jesus promise of this.

Point number two:

Do everything you can to maximize your femininity. Be a woman! Do everything to maximize your husband's masculinity. Never do anything to minimize his place as head thinking that in minimizing his masculinity you can gain control, and thus have your way. For you may gain control to accomplish whatever it is that you want, but you will loose out big-time in other ways.

As a part of point number two:

Obey the commandment of the Lord found in Deuteronomy 22:5 that states that a man and a woman must dress distinctfully differently, the one from the other. In modern western terms this simply means that a woman wears a dress and a man wears pants. Never, and again I say never forsake this truth. When by a pure heart a woman conducting herself in quietness of spirit begins to adorn herself completely differently then what a man would, thus by this action maximizing her femininity (womanhood), then I believe I can promise you that her husband, if he has the least spark of godly manhood will be affected to begin to rise up and play the part of a man, and begin to put away the foolish and irresponsible games that he plays in his life. Beyond that dear woman, you will in lesser ways have similar affect on men in general. For even the most ignorant of men are not blind, and they notice when a woman conducts herself in quietness of spirit adorning herself in a modest and feminine manner. You will find men will address you with greater tenderness, they will more readily open doors for you, ask if you need a hand with this or that, they wills speak to you in more gentle and respectful terms, in short do numerous acts of chivalry toward you without any provocation on your part other then how you dress yourself and the quiet spirit you handle yourself with. I have heard women in their simplicity exclaim, “It should never matter how I dress, a man should always treat a woman with respect and gentleness.” I suppose I agree with that statement, but none the less it is not how it works. Whether you or I think this is right or not is quite beside the point, but what I am telling you is that it is how it works. A man will go out of his way to show chivalry (defined as courtesy toward a woman) many times over if she is dressed in an attractive, modest dress versus pants, (especially if she is dressed in drudgy pants, and looks like a construction worker). Whether you like it or not, wish to admit it or not, open your eyes and look around and you'll see what I say is completely true. There is something in a man that responds to femininity. Whereas a woman that has the look and sound of a man may not be openly rebuked or completely shamed, but she will not be not be received and treated with the honor, (courtesy) given to the woman who is maximizing her womanhood.

As a part of point number two:

Women who cut their hair short stand in violation of natural and Scriptural laws, and in so doing are discarding their femininity. The long hair of a woman is a God given natural “covering”. It is by nature meant as a symbol that the woman is under the covering of male headship. When a woman in her ignorance or rebellion of this truth cuts her hair short she is by action saying that she can operate as a man, in effect, that she does not need a man. Further, I will remind all that the importance of the keeping of this truth is so great that the Apostle Paul taught in the churches that a woman must never pray or prophesy in public without an addition to the covering that her hair provides, that a head-covering of fabric must also be worn when a woman in public speaks of God, or prays. This practice states opening to all that she is a godly woman who recognizes that she is to be under male headship. Now, as in the case of the woman who again, whether in ignorance or rebellion to the truth cuts her hair short you will find that men will not show her chivalry. (both honor and courtesy) to the extent that they will women who by reason of understanding and obedience adorn themselves with longer, well kept hair. Why is this? It is not complicated. The maleness in a man responds to the femininity that she shows, and honors it. It is that simple. When a woman looks like a man she will be treated by men similar to how a man would treat another man, and that is with indifference. But if you as a woman appreciate something more than indifference from the male of society, then the actions of maximizing your femininity as shown in the obedience to God's commandments will bring that chivalry you desire to pass.

In conclusion

I again encourage all women everywhere that the way of victory in obtaining from your male head what you want is the way of surrender. Do everything to maximize his manhood (even if the man is a weeny in a hundred ways, you have to start somewhere). Do everything to maximize your own femininity, (womanhood). This means in word, in tone, in manner of speaking, in dress, in the bedroom, in the modesty of your clothing, in quietness of speech. If you will by faith persevere in this, you will find that the spirit of your life and your actions will provoke not only your man, but men in general as they may have contact with your life, to treat you with greater courtesy, respect, and gentleness.

A Watchman,

Gregory DeHart

Consider: 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 2:7-25, Genesis 3:16, Eph. 5:22-32, 1 Tim. 2:8-15, 1 Peter 3:1-7, Duet. 22:5, 1 Cor. 14:33-36,

Acts Of Wisdom On A Woman's Part That Promote Chivalry From A Man

2008-12-18T19:28:00.000-08:00

The author offers an abbreviated explanation on how a woman can provoke chivalry from men by the practice of five points of wisdom on her part. This being possible without even a hint of immodesty, or impropriety.

Ladies, do you like the thought of your femininity being recognized by the male of society to the end that chivalry will be practiced toward yourself? Do you treasure the thought that men would greet you in a gentle, respectful and pure manner? How about a door being held open for you as you pass though it? A heavy object carried for you? Your car started for you on a cold winter's day? All of these and more, and with not even a hint of the man wanting to “hit on you” for favors that should not be asked for. This is possible, and I'll give you a few pointers as to how to bring it to pass in your life.

Realize that the Creator made the man and the woman for two entirely different purposes. The man was created to be a natural living illustration of God Himself. The woman was created to be a natural living illustration of the One that is the object of God's heart, the Church. Study what this means and it will lead to to this basic rule of thumb. Maximize your womanhood in all points and do nothing to minimize any man's manhood, and especially your husband's.

Give yourself to dressing in a manner that is entirely and distinctfully different then what a man would dress. In other words wear a dress at all times. Not only for the sake of conscience before God because His law commands this, but because it will promote femininity within yourself that you will glory in, and the expression of this will have very positive affects on men. The inborn masculinity of a man instinctively holds every expression of femininity in value.

Do not cut your hair short, but rather allow it to be long. Allow it to be as the Bible describes, a glory to you. Let it be as a crown of your womanhood, the which the Creator made it to be. In the maximizing of your femininity you will gain the attention and the honor of men.

Conduct yourself with a quiet spirit. No, I'm not saying for a moment that such a spirit is unintelligent, and weak in any sense. But quietness of spirit is a glory for either man or woman. The man shows this chiefly before God and the authority figures in his life. The woman shows it in general to all men, but especially before her husband or father. It is very hard to bully a spirit that just won't fight back...rather the dominating male ego will seek to raise you up and hold you in value if you will behave quietly toward it.>/li>
Never forget, and always operate according to the wisdom that the way to gain victory with a man, and especially your man, is the way of surrender. Even as the way for a Christian to gain what he wishes from Christ our Lord is the way of surrender, in like manner it is with the woman to the man. God made man to rule over all things, and he made the woman to help him do this. So, if you'll treat him right you will find he will spend his energy to fight for you, and to grant you what he can of life. But if you counter him then he will be obliged to fight back to defend his ego. That Sweetheart, is the way it is with any man who has any degree of backbone in him.

Darling woman, do these five points of wisdom and you'll find the whole male gender will view you and treat you in a more respectful, tender, patient, gracious, and serving manner. I guarantee it.

A Watchman,

Gregory DeHart

Consider: 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 2:7-25, Genesis 3:16, Eph. 5:22-32, 1 Tim. 2:8-15, 1 Peter 3:1-7, Duet. 22:5, 1 Cor. 14:33-36,

Does The Bible Support The Doctrine Of An Age Of Accountability?

2008-12-07T14:33:00.000-08:00

This writing is dedicated to Titi. An Indonesian woman living in the jungles of Borneo, and the mother of four who recently experienced the loss of two of her young sons to jungle fever. And to men and women everywhere who have known the pain of the loss of a small child. May the God of all comfort, by the Holy Spirit comfort Titi and others who grieve, that they may be able to accept and believe God's revealed truth. That in their sorrow they may find an anchor for their souls in believing God's promises, and the acknowledgment of the goodness of His plan. For He is in control.

This teaching begins with a small story.

I do not rightly recall the year with exactness, it was somewhere around 1997. My daughter Hanna was at the time about 13, maybe 14 years of age. I do not at this time remember the source, but I had obtained a copy of The Peace Child. A book telling the story of how a missionary named Don Richardson with his wife Carol had been used of God to bring the gospel to a stone-age people group in the tropical rain forests of what is now called Papua New Guinea, an island nation found directly north of the nation and continent of Astrailia. I had been very moved by the story, and as fortune would have it this same Don Richardson was to be the key speaker at a missions conference in Fairbanks, Alaska. Since this was only a 300 mile drive away from our home, my daughter Hanna and I determined to invest a weekend to hear what this man had to say. We knew no one at church that was hosting the event, but they received us warmly and provided from among their members a place for us to stay for the weekend.

Mr. Richardson's speaking began with him offering a claim that he believed he could to the satisfaction of any thinking person prove that the Almighty would at the end of all things be proven to have won not only a moral victory over the evil one, but a quantitative victory as well. Meaning, that not only will the Lord be shown to be pure and true, and the devil absolutely corrupt, but that it will also be shown that far more souls of men have found refuse in the salvation of our Lord then the souls of men who have gone the way of the evil one. He further noted that his claim appeared to be exactly opposite to the words of Jesus found as apart of Jesus' famous “sermon on the mount” recorded in Matthew 7:13-14, which reads as follows. Enter ye in at he straight gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in there at, because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that go in thereat. I must say that Mr. Richardson had my attention. For I was very acquainted with the words of Jesus found in Matthew 7:13-14, and I was interested to hear the explanation of his claim.

Mr. Richardson then stated a claim that was to be the foundation for the larger assertion that God would be shown at the end of time to have won the quantitative victory over Satan. This claim being that through the course of human history 60 to 70% of all people who had been conceived in the womb had not lived to the reach an age where their faculties of understanding were developed so that they could be accounted responsible for the very sin that they were born into. Therefore, being held innocent before God at the point of their death, all such would have been, and still are to this day ushered directly into the heavenly glory of the Almighty God, our creator. These, by the mercies of God will be shown to have been privileged to have circumvented the rigors that are custom to this natural life. And of course us who have lived any amount of years in this life know very directly the magnitude of evil and pain that can be, and very often is a part of this natural life.

Mr. Richardson was forthright to say that he could provide no clinical proof that as much as 60 to 70% of all human life from the beginning has never lived to what is termed by many as “the age of accountability”, but that the acceptance of these figured would be based on reasoning within the minds of thinking people who have appreciable understanding of the mortality rates that have been common in nations of the world both in regard to miscarriage and infant mortality, before the advent of modern medical and health practice. In fact, even to this day the mortality rate of the preborn and young children throughout the earth is very tremendous. Especially considering how that among “advanced”, and “civilized” nations, abortion steals the lives of multiple millions around the world each year.

Mr. Richardson had my attention. My ears, as it might be said, were all his. I wanted to hear what he had to say, for since my youth I had heard the term “age of accountability” used in Church circles, but I had never been able to provide sufficient Scriptural proof of this teaching. It was not that I did not believe that the very young, because of their innocence, went directly into God's presence at the point of their death, but yet I could not show it by Scripture, and I wanted to be able to have the confidence of Scripture in this most important issue.

Before we examine the Scripture let us again rehearse the claim that Mr. Richardson offered that day, the same claim that I now am suggesting and promoting to you, the reader. That the Almighty Sovereign will be shown at the end of time when all the affairs of man are laid out plainly to be judged, to have not only won a moral victory, (which is to say that He will have been shown to every soul of man to be absolutely good, and the devil, and his influences to be absolutely corrupt) but will be shown to have won the quantitative victory as well, having provided a way for the larger percentage of all human life to in spite of the sin of mankind to have both an entrance and a continuance in His presence for eternity. This being possible because 60-70% of all human life have not continued in this life to the age of accountability. Therefore, not having to undergo both the rigors and the deceptive temptations of the evil one in this present life. For this Yahweh aught to be praised!

Mr. Richardson then went on to show us a particular Bible verse that was the text of his message. And like what is very common in Scripture the truth that we were searching out was to be found in the text of a story that really has no direct bearing on the particular truth we were seeking to uncover. Isaiah chapter 7 begins with the unfolding of the story how that the nations of ancient Syria and Israel had joined to form an army that had marched on Jerusalem to over take it. The prophet Isaiah and his son were sent out by God to meet the king of Judah who was a descendant of the King David, whose name was Ahaz. Ahaz was given the comfort of the promise that the actions of the two kings of the north would fail. Further the prophet instructed Ahaz to mention anything whatsoever that he may have wished to be accomplished as a sign that God would protect Jerusalem, exactly has He had promised. Ahaz, felt that it would be tempting the Lord to ask for a sign, so he declined the offer of the prophet. Therefore the prophet, speaking by the Holy Spirit offered his own sign, and that sign was that a virgin would conceive and bring forth a son, and that His name would be called Immanuel. This obviously was spoken in regards to the Messiah, Jesus, the Christ of God. Who some generations later was to be conceived by the seed of the Holy Spirit within the womb of a young woman named Mary who at the time was espoused to a man for marriage, but had yet to join him in physical relations.

As extremely tremendous as the reality of this prophetic prediction, and its fulfillment was, and still is, we will leave it and focus on the following statements concerning the child which was the fulfillment of the prophecy. From it we will forge the exhilarating and comforting conclusions pertaining to the doctrine of the age of accountability. Speaking of this child that was to be born of a virgin woman the prophet went on to say, “He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong, and choose the right, But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.” (Isaiah 7: 15-16 NIV) Thus we see mentioned in words that were first, in particular terms, used in regards to the Lord Jesus, the truth that there is an age of innocence in a child's youth before the child (any child) can come to a place where he has sufficient faculties to discern good from evil and choose the way of good or evil. In regards to the Lord Jesus this truth is verified by the Scripture in Hebrews 2:10 where it is said that Jesus had to suffer in order to be brought to a place of perfectness, (completion). So if the One who was born of the actual seed of God had to by the love of the truth learn to choose good over evil, how much more the rest of the human family who have each been born into sin. Therefore, concluding that children who die during the innocence of this period of their lives are according to the truth of 2 Corinthians 5:8, ushered into the presence of the Eternal God. For 2 Corinthians 5:8 speaking of the death of one who abides under the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ at the point of death says, We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Praise and exaltation to the Lord who in His mercy has allowed countless millions of the human family to escape the harsh rigors of this present natural life to find an entrance into His presence in that they were were at the time of their departure from this life found innocent before Him, not having come to the place of understanding sufficient to choose either good or evil. May He ever be praised for this. May His goodness be recognized among all peoples of the world. May the comfort of this truth be known by all who have lost children, and grieve for the loss of them. Knowing that through the mercy and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ they are not lost, but only temporarily separated from those of us who are yet to gain an entrance into the heavenly courts. Who by the atoning properties of His blood which He allowed to be shed upon the Cross, considers all who will receive Him by faith to be acceptable to God. To this God be praise and adoration throughout all eternity. Amen!

A Watchman,

Gregory A. DeHart

Please consider: Isaiah 7:1-17, 2 Cor. 1:3, Heb. 6:19, 2 Cor. 5:8, Acts 20:28, Romans 3:25, Romans 5:19, Eph. 1:17, Eph. 2:13, Heb. 13:12,

Is The Soul Of Man Immortal, Or Does It Cease Existence Upon The Death Of The Body?

2008-11-15T18:47:00.000-08:00

Nearly 20 centuries ago the Apostle Paul speaking to Timothy, his son in the faith is quoted as saying, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressely, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils;..” (1 Timothy 4:1) There is a movement among religious ranks that teaches that the soul of man dies, or perishes in the sense that it ceases all knowledge and thought, and that those souls that are considered of God to be righteous are then later caused to come back from this “realm of nothingness, or thoughtlessness” to share a place in God's eternal paradise. But the souls of the unrighteous cease to possess any knowledge or thought (which to any thinking person is equal to nonexistence) for all eternity. The definition of a righteous soul being established by this author as any soul of man that is found hidden in Christ our Lord. For it is a basic Bible communication that no soul of man is righteous on its own merit (Romans 3:10 & 23), but can only be saved if it by faith receives the gift of righteousness (Romans 5:17, Ephesians 2:8) that is offered by Christ, the Lamb of God.

The obvious conclusion of any doctrine that suggests that a person's soul ceases to exist, or ceases all knowledge or thought, is that the souls of the unrighteous (unredeemed) will not therefore experience torment in hell in that they upon death of the body cease all knowledge. Therefore, in this doctrine there is no sting in the judgment of God. Therefore, this manner of teaching is exactly what the devil wishes to be communicated. For if there is no punishment for the wicked and the unbelieving, then what do they stand to loose for rejecting God in this life? Nothing, nothing at all. Therefore, suggesting to people that it matters very little if one does or does not obey the Gospel of God, for the soul that does not obey God will at the point of death simply cease existence, and if one ceases existence, then that one has no knowledge or thought, and if one knows nothing, and has no thought, then that one has zero sense of loss. The summation of this line of thinking is that most men will therefore behave according to the ancient proverb: eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. This thought process promotes God-lessness. Consider this, in a world that is filled with the devil's influence, knowing that the motivation of the devil's heart is summed up in these words, “kill, steal, and destroy”, would the devil not want to convince men that there is no judgment for sin, that sin ultimately has no sting to it? I belief he would, and that he though false teaching deceives many to think after this very same manner.

In this article we will seek to by clear and certain Biblical statements and examples answer these questions:

Does the soul of man, righteous or unrighteous cease to exist at the point of the death of the body?

If the soul of man, righteous or unrighteous does not cease to exist then where does it go at the point of the death of the body?

Is there a both a resurrection of the righteous and then a judgment of the same?
Is there a resurrection of the unrighteous and then a judgment of the same?

In Ecclesiastes 9:5 it is said, “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward;....” “But the dead know not anything” is an old English way of saying that the dead have no knowledge. This verse is used by some to suggest that upon the death of the body the soul of that man also ceases to live. To anyone who has needed to handle a dead body or been in the company of a dead body it is perfectly obvious that this verse is true, for a dead body has ZERO knowledge in it. It is nothing but an empty shell of flesh, that no longer possesses the life that was once in it. So Ecclesiastes 9:5 stands absolutely correct, that the dead body has no knowledge in it, but this Bible verse does not answer the question as to what becomes of the soul at the point of the death of the body. Does a soul cease existence, or does it depart the body to go elsewhere?

Another Bible verse used by some to promote the idea that sinners will cease all life and knowledge at the point of death is found in the writings of the ancient Jewish prophet, “.....the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) To establish what is meant by the prophet's statement we need to observe the wisdom that the Apostle Paul gave to his son Timothy and that is to “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15) I would suggest to you that any person who takes any form of communication completely by first appearance is both childish and foolish. This person is what is referred to as a simpleton, for there are very few things (if any at all) in life that are not more then simply what they appear to be on the surface. For in the case of this verse, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” the words are simple to be understood, but what do they mean? To answer this question let's begin by reading the testimony of the creation of the first man, Adam.

Having created Adam God placed him in a garden called Eden, and the commandment was given that he could eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he was commanded to not eat, nor even to touch it, lest he die. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Genesis 3:3) But Adam did eat of this fruit as did his wife Eve. So we have it by the mouth of God Himself, and the prophet Ezekiel, that death is the result of sin. Yet, Adam did not die, but went on for a very great number of years. In fact, it was not until he was 930 years old that he died. Is God really that slow in executing the judgment that he had pronounced upon Adam and Eve? No, not at all. For Adam and Eve immediately died spiritually, in that their spirits were cut off from the life of God. They no longer had access to the intimate relationship with God that they once had, and as a result years later the natural life of their bodies ceased at the point of their physical death. Spiritual death had become a part of the human race. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:....Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. (Romans 5:12&14)

So we see that the Scripture is proven to be completely true. For the spirit of that first man Adam died immediately upon his sinning,(transgressing God's law) in that it was cut off from the life that is in God, and in time Adam's body died also. And this death has been passed on to all generations of people since that time. All men are born into this world being dead in their spirit, in that they are separated from the life that is in God, and can not enter fellowship with God until such time as they are born again. Which means that their spirits by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit are again connected to the the Living God. But the statement that the prophet Ezekiel made, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” has not yet been answered. We will answer this question as we proceed, but first let's address the Biblical proof that there is a separation of the soul and the body.

Human-kind, as it is said in Genesis 1:26 were created after the similitude of God. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:... Human-kind, being made after the similitude of God are triune beings, they are a composition of spirit, soul, and body. This being testified to by the clear statement of the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonian 5:23 ......and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible testifies that man was formed from the earth. 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) In this verse we see that God created man in two steps. First from the dust of the ground He formed the body of Adam. Then, having formed Adam's body He then enlivened that body by breathing into it life. Thus man became a living soul. So we have it that Adam was not alive until God breathed life into his body, in like manner when the soul of man departs the body, the body ceases to have life. The answer to what exactly a “living soul” is, is found in the words of the Apostle Paul, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless.... The nature of man is clearly taught to be a mixture of body (that part of us which is physical), the soul (that part of us that comprises emotion, intellect and will), and spirit (that part of us that is connected directly to God). Adam became a living soul by the breath of God, it is the combination of the soul and spirit of man. Is it reasonable that the breath of the eternal omnipotent God will vanish away? I think not, thus establishing along with many other elements of Biblical proof that the “living soul” of man, that came forth forth from God, is an eternal thing. Psalms 146:4 speaking of the death of men testifies, “His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” But does this mean that the soul of man ceases thought, or only that there is no thought within his dead body?

In that by God's commandment and by prudence of wisdom we understand that all things must be established by more than one witness, let us go on now to examples found in the Scripture that testify clearly to the soul of man having existence (thought, knowledge and voice) after its departure from the body. We will do this one after another, not intending any certain order.

Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus to Peter, James and John. (Matthew 17:1-9) We know that Elijah has never undergone death in that he was taken from this world without having experienced death as is spoken of in 2 Kings 2:11. However, Moses had experienced death as is testified in Deuteronomy 34:1-8. So Moses' appearing with both Jesus and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration is our first example that the souls of men having departed from the body at death do not cease thought, knowledge, or voice. For Moses appeared with Jesus, speaking to Him. This takes thought, knowledge and voice.

Luke chapter 16 tells the story that involves three men. The story is of a certain poor man named Lazarus who in his poverty sat at the gate of a certain rich man (whose name is not given). This rich man showed no mercy to Lazarus and in time Lazarus died, then the rich man also died. The story goes on to say that the rich man being in the torment of hell could see Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham across a great gulf, and spoke to Abraham asking for Lazarus to be sent to him with water on his hand to touch him in that he was in torment caused by fire. Abraham answered the rich man saying this was not possible, in that a great gulf was set between them. Please take note that this story gives evidence that these men were spoken of as “certain” men, this signifying that this story is not a parable, but rather an factual account. Also, that both Abraham, and the man referred to as the rich man, although each of them being in two different places both possessed intelligence and speech, and they both spoke of Lazarus as being alive. Thus adding another proof that men do not cease existence upon the point of death, but rather go to a place where they are kept awaiting the final judgment.

Matthew 27:52 testifies that after the resurrection of Jesus from the grave that many saints who had died previously were raised to life and seen about the city of Jerusalem I ask you, if at the point of their previous death they had ceased to exist how could they be raised to life again?

Jesus raised to life a young man who lived in a village called Nain. (Luke 7: 11-18) If the souls of men cease existence than how could Jesus have raised this man to life?

Jesus raised Lazarus to life. The story is told in John 11: 1-46. Peter raised Dorcas to life. This story is told in Acts 9:40 Paul raised to life a young man. This is spoken of in Acts 20: 9-10. Jesus commissioned the disciples to raise the dead. (Matthew 10: 7-8) How can the dead be raised if they had ceased to exist?

The elders who are spoken of in Revelations chapter 5 as being in the very presence of God have speech, and it is said of them in verse 9 that they are among those that have been redeemed out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. In verse 10 these same elder testify that the redeemed shall in the future reign upon the earth. Thus testifying that the resurrection of the righteous had not at that point happened, but is to happen at a future time.

Revelations chapter 7 tells the story of a multitude in heaven that is so large that a man can not number them. They are described as coming out of great tribulation, and that they have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and that they are before God night and day. The promise is given to them that the One that sits on the throne will shall dwell among them. Thus signifying of when Christ shall set up His kingdom on the earth. If the souls of men perish at death, how can these things be?

Revelations chapter 14 speaks of a group of 144,000 who are in heaven who were redeemed from among men.

Revelations 15 speaks of a scene in heaven testifying of men that had gotten the victory over the beast.

Revelations chapter 19: 1-8, tells of a scene in heaven and it is said that there is “much people”. Later they are commanded to offer praise to God. Again, if the dead perish how are these people here?

Revelations 19: 7-9, another scene in heaven tells of the marriage of the Lamb. This marriage is between Christ and the Church, the church being comprised of people. If the soul of man perishes at death how can it be found here?

Revelations 19:10, John, in the amazement of all his experiences of being caught up into heaven falls to worship the messenger whom God had assigned to show him the things that he saw. This messenger reproved John's action of worship, and goes on to describe himself as a fellow servant who had the testimony of Jesus. He could not be fellow servant, and have the testimony of Jesus if he had not lived prior to this and have died and gone to heaven.

Revelations 19:14-The army that follows Jesus that is dressed in fine linen. Who are they if they are not the redeemed of the earth?

Revelations 20:4 speaks of the souls of men that had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus.
Do souls have heads? No, this speaks of when they were still in the body, but when John saw them they only possessed the existence of their soul, not having yet been resurrected, and given a new body.

Revelations 20:5 says “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.” This verse speaking of the time when the righteous shall experience a bodily resurrection unto life, but the unsaved souls shall not at this time experience a resurrection. There is another resurrection. It is referred to as the second resurrection. It is the resurrection of the unjust unto eternal damnation. Earlier in this writing we had quoted the prophet Ezekiel, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die”. The second death is the fulfillment of that prophecy. The souls of all men whose names are found written in the Lamb's book of life will be resurrected unto eternal life to be spent in the presence of God. The souls of all whose names are not found written in the Lamb's book of life will be subject to eternal damnation, separated from the presence of God.

Quoting 2 Timothy 4:6, “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand”. If the souls of men perish at death, why did Paul speak of his death as a “departure”, except that he knew he was going some where?

In 2 Peter 1:14 the Apostle Peter speaks of his death as the “putting off this tabernacle”. If Peter's soul was to perish he would not speak in such a manner.

2 Corinthians chapter 5 speaks of the reality that our bodies are but “tabernacles” that we live in until such time as we experience death and then for the righteous it is pointed out in verse 8 that they go into the presence of the Lord at their departure from the body.

So in direct answer to the questions that were asked at the beginning of this article:

Does the soul of man, righteous or unrighteous cease to exist at the point of the death of the body? The answer is no, neither the righteous or unrighteous souls of men will ever cease to exist.

If the soul of man, righteous or unrighteous does not cease to exist then where does it go at the point of the death of the body? The righteous go to what is called Abraham's bosom, (Luke 16:22), which is in the presence of God, this being proved by the words of the apostle in 2 Corinthians 5:8 which reads, We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. The unrighteous souls of men go to a place of torment where they await their final judgment. (Luke 16:23)

Is there a both a resurrection of the righteous and then a judgment of the same? Yes, the righteous unto life eternal, this being spoken of in Revelations 20:6.
Is there a resurrection of the unrighteous and then a judgment of the same? The unrighteous experience a resurrection also this is spoken of in Revelations 20:5-6. After which they under go a judgment unto eternal damnation, this is spoken of in Revelations 20:11-15.

Why does Satan want the truth of the immortality of the soul of man to be perverted. The devil wants men to think that the wicked will vanish away at the point of death. Therefore taking away the fear of punishment. Also it perverts the testimony of the character of God. For it works to suggest that God did not honor men by making them eternal beings, and that God's attributes are not equal, that His hatred and henceforth His punishment for sin is less then His love to create a way for men to be redeemed. For men who suggest that the punishment of the wicked is that they disappear upon their death, do so saying that a loving God would not allow the eternal punishment of the wicked. Yes it is true that God is love, but He is also a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29) The benefits of His love are eternal, and the damnation of sin is eternal.

American Current Events—The Rejection Of God, And The Judgment Of God Foretold In A Parable

2008-11-09T18:39:00.000-08:00

To what should we liken this generation? To what shall we compare it to? America of late is like Nabal of old who had crops and herds that God blessed so that he was very prosperous. He was, however, an arrogant fool who neither thanked or honored God for His blessing, nor did he honor David who, with his four hundred men, camped near Nabal’s estate guarding it from thieves and raiders.

After harvest, David sent messengers to suggest a payment be given for their services. Nabal was drunk and foolishly laughed at the request. Later, upon hearing this, David became incensed. He and his soldiers lighting upon their mounts vowed that not a male person belonging to Nabal would live to see another day. Nabal had a wise and beautiful wife named Abigail who saw what was coming down. Knowing the reputation of David, she moved with fear and quickly prepared much provision in carts and on donkey’s backs and met David on the way. Bowing humbly, she confessed her husband’s sin and folly, pleading for the lives of all the men in her husband’s estate. David moved by her beauty, wisdom, faith and humility, received her gifts and reproof. He turned and went his way thanking God for her. Nabal is America, prosperous but arrogant and foolish. Abigail is the Church, clothed in beauty, wisdom, and faith, who, knowing the character of God, moves with fear to intercede for a foolish generation. David represents God who receives the intercession of the Church and spares Nabal (America). Those who know to pray, had better do it! By the way, God Himself struck Nabal, and he died about ten days later. David took the lovely Abigail as his wife. America, do you think God cannot also strike you a death blow? Let us turn to God from: divorce, adultery, teen sex (fornication), pornography, unfair taxation, abortion, the self will of evolution ism, feminism expressed in numerous ways, lewd and violent television and movies. All of which total up to the rejection of His Son from Heaven.

Of this generation, it is true what Cotton Mather, a puritan preacher, said of his generation Religion begat prosperity, and the daughter devoured the mother. America, do you not understand that it was God who birthed you? It was the Almighty that brought forth understanding and conviction so that our national fathers established a government allowing for civil liberties greater than any other country in all of history? Do we not understand that it was He who gave us this portion of the North American continent with its rich resources and beauty? It was He who provided the strength, cunning and wisdom to bring forth prosperity. Do we not understand that it was He who allowed the great and terrible Civil War to purge us of our arrogance and oppression over those who were held in slavery? They which we held in dishonor, in murder, having stolen their dignity and the wealth of their labor. Why did He do these things? That we might be a nation filled with His light, a beacon to the other nations of the world, testifying to the majesty of His wisdom, protection, and provisions, the which, He has bestowed upon us by His grace. We have become a people steeped in our arrogance, self-willed, and rebellious. A people who throw off the restraint of God on every hand, a people who revel in darkness and think we should be both blessed and honored because of it. Such is our extreme confusion. We would do well to follow after the scriptural admonition. (James 4:6-10) God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. Submit yourselves, therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. Let us turn from our sin unto God that we might again be filled with His vision for us as individuals and as a people.

A Watchman,

Consider: I Sam. 25:1-14, I Ti. 2:1-4, Jn. 5:34

Can the Bible and the Presidential Candidates be Lovers?--Can True Religion and Politics Share the Marriage Bed?

2008-10-13T16:56:00.000-07:00

Does the Bible have anything to say pertaining to the progression of women in politics to the point of vying for the Presidency of the United States? Is this new phenomenon based on the advancement of modern understanding, or simply the age old story of a wayward people who's sin progresses in its boldness? Join with me and we'll endeavor to answer these questions.

A new Phenomenon is on the street in this 2008 Presidential election champaign. The advent of the woman endeavoring to hold the highest, and second highest offices in American government. It is of little doubt that the long awaited advent of women running for these highest American public offices is a source of extreme exaltation and triumph to many, while others sit by watching with total indifference. 88 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave the adult female the right to a public vote, does there still exist a remnant of what are thought of by many as “prehistoric” thinkers that still hold that the Bible testifies that for a woman to rule over a man is sin.

It has been an obvious political strategy for both major political camps to embrace their female candidates hoping to capitalize on the female vote to aide them in their ambitions for the Presidency. It is also obvious, as it is in most presidential elections, that the candidates put themselves forward as Christians, claiming a relationship with God through Christ. This of coarse I ultimately can not judge, for I own the spirit of no man or woman. So I think we need to leave that judgment to the only one that can make it, and that is God Almighty. Who according to His own time table will gather all men before Him to be judged, and all the motivations of the hearts of all men will be laid bare to be judged. But, this I believe we can and must judge. We can judge if the actions of the American people, and their Presidential candidates line up with the scripture, and this we will do with the help of the Holy Spirit who was sent into the world to aide all who possess honest and searching hearts, who cry out to know and walk in the truth.

It is obvious that we can not begin to in this article search out, even in the most basic sense the Scriptural precedence concerning the many actions of this campaign, so lets focus on one only.

Is it sin for a woman to occupy the office of the Presidency? But in order to answer that question it is first necessary to answer a more basic question, namely: is it sin for a woman to have the right to vote? This question being asked on the premise that the casting of a civil vote is the operation of authority, as would be exercised in an elder-ship rule. For I do not believe that we can view a citizen's right to vote as anything less than an operation of authority, or, the vote would merely be a public poll, and not a public vote. So, what does the Bible teach?

Let us now look at one encapsulating Scripture that was first coined by the Apostle Paul of the 1st century Christian Church. By encapsulating I mean that this Biblical statement was meant by Paul to sum up, and give conclusion to the issue of headship. Rather than submitting to the people an expanded point by point thesis on why headship works as it does, the apostle merely summed it up with these words. (1 Corinthians 11:3) But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. This statement of core truth is drawn out like as you see below. In this illustration I have added the child's position to give further clarification to the core truth.

So, what can we learn from this statement and illustration? Note that God is singular above all. He's the Creator and Master of all things. Christ, who is the God-man, and in that nature being appointed Lord, Savior and Christ (anointed one) over all men is also singular and in a submissive position to the Eternal Father, but is head over all affairs of men. Note the man is not singular, for the world is filled with men, therefore they are shown on a line with numerous circles. The man is subject to Christ. Created by God to be equal, the one to the other in approaching God. The man was created in the direct image of God as a mortal illustration of God Himself. The next level is that of the woman. She also is not singular, for the world is also filled with women. She was not created from the dust of the earth, as was the man, but from the rib of the first man, Adam. She was designed to be the glory of the man, and bare the image of God through the man, and be both the great delight and the responsibility of the man in that she was taken from the man. She was created to be a mortal living illustration of the Bride of Christ. The Child position which is filled with numerous circles is to be subject to all the above forms of headship.

This illustration speaks of the truth that our national fathers understood clearly, in that they, by in large, were a far more God fearing generation than what we are. Therefore it was obvious to them that a woman could not, and in fact, must not have an element of authority equal to men in general...or in particular terms, if the woman was unmarried it meant that she was to be in submission to her father, or male guardian, and if she was married, she could not usurp her husband's place. For to usurp the authority of her given headship was to smack of both folly and ungodliness.

I have given a brief explanation of the law of God pertaining to headship. I will now give a brief explanation as to the reasoning behind that law. For even the laws of men do not express the reasoning behind them, they only state the demands of the law. Nothing that is created by another, or that comes forth from another can be equal or superior to that which it came forth from, or was created by. Therefore, in that God created man, man is for eternity to be subject to God. In that the woman came forth from the man, she is for ever by the design of the Master Creator to be subject to that which she came forth from. Which is the man. The child came forth from its mother and is subject to its mother as long as it remains a child. When the form of a child changes to adulthood, then the child leaves the covering of its mother.

Therefore, since it is ungodly and contrary to God's law for a woman to usurp the place of men, and in particular her immediate male head, then it is sin for a woman to cast a civil vote. If it is sin for a woman to exercise authority in the vote, then it is obviously sin for her to occupy an office of authority to govern men. Such as the Presidency, or Vise Presidency of the United States, among many other offices. So to answer the question contained in the title: Can the Bible and the 2008 Presidential Candidates be lovers, and share the marriage bed of religion? The answer is most certainly YES. “Religion” can, but TRUE RELIGION can not. Religion, which has the look of godliness but without obedience, will open its doors to about anyone. It is as common in America today as the 10 dollar bill, it is everywhere. But I tell you that God Almighty will only receive those that come to him in humility and REPENT of the transgression of His laws. He will know intimacy only with those that repent of the transgression of His laws and by faith cover themselves in the atoning blood of Christ the Lord.

A Watchman,

Consider: Gen. 3:16, Luke 2:51, 1 Tim. 2:8-15, Eph. 5:22-33, 1 Cor. 11:1-16, 1 Cor. 14: 34-35

Presidential Debate of Oct. 7th—Do The Presidential Candidates and the American People Miss The Real Bottom Line Issue In This Election

2008-10-10T09:27:00.000-07:00

The evening of October 7th, 2008, PBS hosted the presidential debate in the town meeting forum, between candidates Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. They to a degree sparred with each other, but in my mind neither came away with any conclusive victory in respect to the debate itself. Both voiced, to my hearing basically the same things that they have been heard saying many times. They spoke a lot about economic issues, some about the environment, and I suppose the second major issue was that of national security, military strength, and international dealings and relations with other governments. Although I have certain personal opinions on these issues, it is not these that I believe is the real fundamental issue that needs to be addressed. For with out this certain basic issue being address the others have no hope for lasting success. NONE!

So what is this issue? You may be asking in your mind, “ what do you know DeHart that these presidential candidates don't seem to know?” Here it is. We are a people more and more estranged from the God who birthed this land. The God of truth and justice, and who is the Savior of the world. The God who alone has the power to over come Satan, who is the principle source of the woes that affect this land and our people. In very short terms I am saying that our national fathers sought God, and particularly and expressly worked to bring forth a society under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. So how is it that we in this generation think we can have hope to maintain this nation in prosperity and honor without Him?

Now I offer no personal rebuke at either of these candidates for president, but I will ask this question. Did they at any time before, during, or after the debate state the need for prayer to seek the guidance of Heaven on either the debate its self, or the election its self, or the whole of our nation? I did not hear such a prayer, nor have I any time in this whole election heard such a prayer by any candidate. Nor have I at any time during this election heard any open exhortation from either candidate stating that without the American people humbling ourselves and repenting of our many sins, and turning our faces toward God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are not going to be able to pick our selves up and rebuild prosperity and honor among the peoples of the world.

America, I say again to you that we are a black-slidden people. We are a people filled with sin and confusion, which increasingly works to bring us lower and lower. Our national fathers purposely sought the God of heaven realizing that unless He built the political edifice of the United States, that their efforts to establish a central government would prove to be no more effective than the monarchies that filled the world at that time. They wishing to build a republican form of government akin to the elder-ship rule of the early nation of Israel, where men were were free, being subject to the Law of God. For the greater portion of our national fathers realized that men were never created to be independent from a vital, personal, saving relationship with God through Christ our Lord. And with out this spiritual dimension it is impossible for men to keep themselves, for the lower nature of SELF ( humanistic thought and behavior) will drag any man, or nation down. For it is the promotion of self that is the chief tool of Satan in destroying men and societies.

Step back with me in time, it is now 1787. This nation having obtained freedom from England is flaundering trying to overcome the self-centered demands of each of the thirteen colonies. Each colony having a very hard time surrendering their personal interests in order to form the Federal Republic and establish a national constitution. The Constitutional Convention is in session and they were hopelessly deadlocked and growing increasingly bitter (part of the New York delegation had already gone home in disgust and others were preparing to follow), God once again had mercy in the affairs of America. This time He used perhaps the least likely (and therefore the most arresting) vehicle—the eighty-one year old philosopher who had been publicly known to have been a resister of Christianity, and in fact before this time, this elderly gentleman was known to be a prominent physicists of his age. The Elderly Benjamin Franklin rose and speaking to the convention through it's leader, George Washington, said, “ In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor....And have we now forgotten this powerful Friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: “that God governs in the affairs of man.” And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aide?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aide, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial local interests; our projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business.”

American people: I move that we return to prayer. That we seek out leaders that are known to humble themselves in prayer and in repentance, and to lead their followers in the same. This being in both the religious and political aspects of of life and society. I move American people that we as a people humble ourselves in prayer, turning from our wicked ways to seek the mercies of the God of Heaven. Even as was also illustrated in Abraham Lincoln, that famous father figure in our American past, who during a time of terrible judgment of God upon this land, in the soul wrenching reality of the American civil war was quoted as saying, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I have no where else to go.”

America: Do we have to be driven to total war, or economic collapse, or a nation wide plague of some wasting disease, or continue to experience the judgment of the Almighty against us in the form of greater and more frequent natural disasters, or the betrayal of our nation by its own leaders, (such as is seen in how our current president George Bush works to sell out this nation into a one world government), before we will choose the way of humility and godly wisdom and turn and seek the Lord?

Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. We have transgressed and have rebelled...... (Lamentations 3: 40-42a)

A Watchman,

Quotation taken from THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 342

If God Isn't Welcome In American Court Rooms, How Can Justice Be Served?

2008-10-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hey America:

Some time ago I attended a court session in Friday Harbor, Washington. I saw two things that caused emotions to well up in me: anger, sadness and even laughter. These things that I saw that day, like so many things all around us, are tell-tale signs of our extremely sick spiritual condition. Many of us have hearts that are so darkened we are barely aware of the bottom line causes for the many ills that this nation has. One event in this court of law struck me as particularly humorous. In fact, wise people often chuckle at the way of fools conduct themselves, especially highly educated ones who act as if they have all the answers. But, their answers stand so often opposed to the Holy Scriptures. You may ask why I have an element of sarcasm in my reproof. I will tell you why. Doesn’t the Scripture say to answer a fool according to his folly? (Prov. 26:5) We have played the fool, America. We have laid aside God's laws in many ways to take up the wisdom of this generation, which is not wisdom at all, but folly.

It used to be the practice in American courts that when a person was sworn in a court of law, that he would be instructed to place his right hand on the Bible and then he would promise to tell the whole truth so help him God. Apparently the judicial system doesn't do this anymore (at least, this practice was not used the day that I was present). The Bible was not even used and the person was asked. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help you? So help you what? I asked myself. So help you, if you do not tell the truth an acorn will fall on your head, or a cloudburst will rain on you, or maybe lightning will strike you, or perhaps you'll get a flat tire? Maybe, for the evolutionist, Great Great Great Grandpa Monkey will come back and stick a banana in your ear! In the name of God and basic sense, what is wrong with saying “so help me God?" It is simply that so many will not admit the existence of God, nor will they admit that He can and will execute judgment upon the ungodly.

America, you think you can have justice without God. To that I say, ha! ha! ha! He is a simpleton who thinks he can have justice outside of God. Consider our own Supreme Court and their legalized mass murder of the unborn, or the continual coddling of the perverted and violent, throughout this nation. America, the country where the “book” may be thrown at your for poaching a wild animal, but hey, kill your neighbor or especially your unborn child and there's no problem.

There is working among us a liberal movement that seeks to exclude the mention or influence of God from our borders. Such was not the case when our nation was born. Having just voted to accept the constitution, Samuel Adams was quoted as saying, “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.” This, Mr. Adams spoke in reference to the formation of our beloved United States.

This watchman says, turn to the Savior, America, as your founding fathers did. Your rebellion, arrogance, and ignorance are showing. No society can prosper without the law of God”.

A watchman
Greg DeHart

Consider:

Pr. 1:20-33, Ps. 2:4, Ps. 24:1-2, Ps. 33:6, Ps. 95:5, Ge. 1-2, 1Co. 1:21, Ps. 100:3

Quotation taken from THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY page 309