The Parallel Economy

 The Parallel Economy

By Richard P. Joseph

12/20/2023

There is much talk today about forming a parallel economy.  Andrew Torba, founder of GAB is a big proponent of this.  His hopes are to form a place where decent people can conduct business outside of the filth and scum of the sinful atheistic world.  I hope he succeeds.  The world system has moved into, what they call, a post Christian era.  They are even attempting to rename our dating nomenclature from BC/AD to BCE/CE which I addressed in another article.  All things clean and pure are now replaced with disease and horror.  The hope of Torba is to circumvent this travesty by creating a safe harbor that those things cannot enter.  So, is this really a new idea or perhaps an old idea reworked?

I can now think of two other times that this system is mentioned in the biblical record.  The first is mentioned way back at the formation of Israel and the second was the formation of the New Israel.  The first parallel economy was that of Israel.  After the events of the Tower of Babel, God mentions 70 nations.  This is a basic formation of the earth and the number 70 follows other significant events such as the 70 souls that entered Egypt and also the 70 elders that followed Moses up Mt. Sinai.  One notable item is that Israel is not part of the 70 nations.  Israel was formed shortly afterwards as God chose Abraham to form a covenant with.  God then developed his plan through his sons, Isaac and Jacob.  God, in other words, formed a parallel economy using the house of Jacob.  The Jews were to be his people and YHWH was to be their God, thus forming a distinct contrast with the rest of the heathen  world which was governed by pagan gods.  Deuteronomy 7:6 puts it this way;

“For you are a [b]holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 

Remember that the word “holy” means separate from.  This was the first parallel economy.  For the next fifteen hundred years Israel attempted to be a light to the world but failed miserably.  Only a small elect group made any attempt to remain holy and obedient to the commands of God.  It almost appeared that there was a parallel economy in the midst of the parallel economy.  The Apostle Paul had much to say about that in the book of Romans.  

Paul also explained that that first parallel economy was about to be replaced with a new parallel economy.  Paul’s letter is a manifesto describing a shift from the old to the new, from the law to grace and from Jew to everybody.  Paul warned that there was a judgment that was about to take place.  This was to judge Israel for their unfaithfulness to Him.  In this judgment, God was to replace the first parallel economy with a new parallel economy which would be everlasting.  This was also explained by John in Revelation 21 where he saw the New Jerusalem coming down from God.  In this new parallel economy, Jesus will be our king and we will be His people.  For the wicked John 21:8 puts it this way:

 But the cowardly, [e]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

And eliminated from God’s parallel economy would be all Democrats, or as John would put it in Rev 22:15:

But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

When Jesus returned in AD70, He punished his harlot wife and was then remarried to true Israel, the church.  In this church there is no room for perverts or liars.  Those are outside and cannot see inside unless they are invited by Jesus Christ and are born again.  This parallel economy is everlasting and has no end and is always right.  It cannot be diluted or polluted.  It is holy and sanctified to God Almighty.  It is the only stabilizing effect in the world and cannot be destroyed.  It is a safe harbor for those willing to be brave and follow Jesus Christ into it.  It is not for the cowardly or the deranged or the weak.  It is our only hope.

Muhammad; the perfect Messiah!

 Muhammad; the perfect Messiah!

By Richard P. Joseph

10/25/2023

Well, I tried visiting a church but it did me no good.  I don’t regularly attend any church because, after decades of listening to the same faulty theology, I finally decided it is a sin to go to church.  Especially to sit there for decades and never make an impact on society, nay, to just sit there week after week and never really change our community.  In fact, most churches today have been completely taken over by our politically correct, totally sinful society.  But the church I attended was not that bad off, they just continued with the same ole futurist doctrine that Jesus is going to physically come back and slaughter all the bad people (Warning; please think about that before you ask for it!)  In the sermon the preacher mentioned Revelation 19:15  From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule[c] them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

In other words, Jesus is going to come back wielding a sword and go forth to judge and make war.  He will be dressed in a bloody robe and his armies will be with him.  Then, as far as I can guess, when all the Christians see this bloody warrior making his way around the globe laying waste to all the infidels, they will be cheering him on.  He will make Adolf Hitler look like a schoolboy.   In fact, I would say that Muhammad fits the bill quite well.  Either straighten up or get chopped up.  Either believe or behead.  

If all those church goers ever stopped and thought about what they believe, they would be embarrassed.  Jesus made it very clear that he will never step foot on this planet physically again.  He told his disciples to not be fooled.  "If they say I am in the desert or in the inner room, do not believe it."  That’s because he won’t be there.  He isn’t coming back physically, ever.  His return was in AD 66-70 at the head of the Roman armies when he did exact judgment on the people that he said he would judge, and that is unfaithful Israel, not us.  Sure, he certainly will judge but Revelation was written about the fall of Jerusalem, not the end of the earth.  There is no “end of the earth” mentioned in the bible.  The old physical Jerusalem fell in a bloody war just like Jesus said it would and the New Jerusalem was established by the blood of Christ.  We, the Christians, are the New Jerusalem and Jesus is the true Israel.  All of us who are in Christ are the true Israel.  Trust me, Jesus isn’t going to come back as some new dictator and begin slaughtering us, we do that well enough ourselves.  Jesus rules this earth in his people.  It is our responsibility to bring the gospel to this wretched world and let the light of Christ shine.  We are not waiting for some dictator to come out of the clouds and begin slaughtering people.  We have terrorist groups like the FBI that can do that.  The first century Jews were waiting for a warrior king like David to lead them to physical victory and glory.  They were completely surprised when a meek but strong carpenter came and told them that their problem wasn’t the Romans, it was sin.  They killed him.  Now, the exact same thing is happening again.  People are waiting for a warrior to come on a horse in the clouds to lead us to victory and glory.  Whenever the real Jesus shows up in articles like this, we get killed.  

Get your swords ready and wait.  In fact, I have a saying “He who waits, waits”.  I will be busy building the kingdom of God and being productive instead of sitting and waiting.  There is much work to do for all those that want to join in. 

Drinking the Kool Aid

 Drinking the Kool Aid

By Richard P. Joseph

10/13/2023

Back when I was 18 years old in 1978 american news was flooded with images and stories about a cult leader named Jim Jones.  Jones was a bisexual communist who used religion to gain control over the masses.  In his attempt to establish a closed community of faithful dumbed down followers he relocated to South America and established a commune.  Jones often used Apocalyptic end-times sermons to gain full control over his flock.  Because of rumors of abuse, congressman Leo Ryan took a trip to Guyana to inspect the commune.  As he and his entourage was leaving, Jone’s personal bodyguards fired on the group killing Ryan and injuring others.  Jones then commenced to force the entire encampment to drink a poisoned concoction resulting in over 900 deaths.  

This same type of scenario could be found in the Waco incident where, in 1992, Vernon Howell (aka David Koresh) led his band of followers to resist an illegal invasion by the FBI resulting in the death of 4 agents and multiple members of the Branch Davidians.  Howell also was a preacher of “End-Times” prophecies and also took pleasure in sexual favors from his followers just as Jones did.   

On a lesser scale, faulty theology also entered the picture at Ruby Ridge.  Again, the wife of Randy Weaver was a heavy believer in End-Times prophecy which skewed  the way they viewed the world.  Instead of following solid scripture, they were led astray by faulty theology.  The family, however, was leading a happy life living the homestead lifestyle when the father made a few mistakes and was targeted and set up by our over-reaching FBI once again.  The stand-off at Ruby Ridge, which was totally uncalled for, resulted in the death of Vicki and her son Sammy.  So what does all of this have to do with preterism?

A lot.  Preterism can’t stop our corrupt government from attacking any citizen it disagrees with but it might help people to not fall for faulty theology that puts them in harm's way.  All cults and man made religions are a result of not knowing and not understanding scripture.  Even in preterism there is faulty theology.  David Curtis, one of the best teachers I have ever listened to, is a staunch proponent of the idiotic flat earth cult.  Even though nothing in the bible teaches it, he believes it.  These are the kinds of things that lead people into dangerous territory.  Strict conservative preterism keeps people on the straight and narrow.  We don’t need to worry about the earth ending or Satan winning or anything about the Jews, we just carry on and fight the good fight.  We don’t stop fighting, we just know which battles to fight.  We don’t follow doomsday preachers because, there is no doomsday.  There are, however, battles to fight but the war was already won and Satan was defeated forever.  People still follow the fallen Satan but he and they are already defeated.  We don’t have to help the rabbinical Jews build a temple because that is not biblical.  We don’t have to wait for Jesus to come because he already came.  We don’t have to withhold having a family because we are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.  We don’t have to live in a commune because that would be unfruitful.  And most of all, we do not have to fear, for Jesus Christ is victorious over all.  So don’t drink the kool-Aid, drink the scripture. 

Jude

Jude

By Richard P. Joseph

8/29/2023

The epistle of Jude is packed with important issues that represent its historical, as well as current, events.   Jude was probably the last book of the bible written.  According to Ed Stevens, in his book “Final Decade before the End”, he dates the book at about AD 64.  This letter is important in many ways as it was the closest book written to the Parousia, which began in AD 66.  In this short article I would like to point out a few interesting passages in Jude, understanding that every word is important but for the purpose of this short study we will examine only a few areas concerning eschatology.

One of those verses is Jude 1:3 where Jude exhorts the church to contend earnestly for the faith which was “once for all” delivered to the saints.  This is a matter that I brought up in my other writings as well.  Here Jude is confirming that the faith has been sealed.  There is nothing else to learn about our salvation.  It has been completed and delivered.  The only thing left was the second coming which occurred about two years later.  This confirms that there is no “new” revelation after this time.  Any new “prophet” after the parousia is blatantly false.  Islam, rabbinical Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses etc are all man made religions and are to be discarded as cults.  This is something that our modern churches need to understand in a bad way.  Christianity is not a religion and has no competition.  Jesus is not the “founder of the great religion of Christianity” like our textbooks teach, he is El Shaddai, God almighty, who is not bound by religion.  Then Jude describes a problem of his day that is still with us today.

In verse 4 he describes a group of people holding a problematic doctrine usually associated with the Nicolaitans.  These are people who ate meat sacrificed to idols and were sexual predators.  Ironically, this problem still exists today; on steroids.  Sexual perverts of all sorts have taken over many churches.  They are people who eat meat (secular doctrine) that has been sacrificed to the god of secular humanism.  They are those that have already been condemned but just don’t know it yet.  Gay churches of all sorts are a common site today as they proudly display their sin on their church signs instead of a Christian type symbol.  Nothing new here, this problem has been there from the beginning and it is still sin and an abomination to God, and a clear rebellious act to the Apostles' clear declaration condemning such lifestyle.   Even during the rebellion of AD 66-70, drag queen soldiers plagued the city of Jerusalem which was about to be overthrown by the Roman army.  The modern day Western cultures are in the same throes of being overthrown as perverts of every sort are dominating our political landscape. The United States military has become a hotbed of sexual perversion that is the laughing stock of the world.  There is no escaping judgment from this heinous sin.  In historic times kings castrated little boys to prevent them from harassing the king's concubines and to be slaves of the king.  Same thing today as our government is currently promoting child transgenderism.  This is the new eunuch.  Young men losing their God ordained gift to be warriors and protectors of society.  Now our young boys running around in dresses have become fodder for every form of licentiousness for perverts to use and discard.  And many churches either say nothing or are actually part of the disease. 

Jude reminds us in verse 1:5 that those freed from Egypt got destroyed within 40 years before they even reached the promised land due to their lack of faith in God.  In 1:11 he says that they perished in rebellion.  This was a type of what was currently happening in Jude’s day.  Jude knew that they were in the last days and understood clearly that, just like the transition period from Egypt to Cannan, he was living in the new transition period from Pentecost to Parousia.  And just like the rebellious Israelites in Moses’ day, those that rebelled against Jesus Christ were about to be wiped out before they entered the promised land of the New Jerusalem in AD 70.  In 1:18-21 Jude confirms that he was living in the “last days” and encouraged his flock to “keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life”.  It would be silly for Jude to remind them to be Anxious about something that would be thousands of years hence.  It is obvious in all of the New Testament writings that the second coming of Christ was imminent.  There is never a mention of a prolonged waiting period anywhere in the New Testament.  He once again in 1:24 reminds them that they will soon be standing in the “glory” of Jesus Christ.  Either Jude was an uninspired liar or he was right.  I believe he is right but that isn’t hard to do being that history confirms Jude’s prophetic utterances. 

GOOGLE

 GOOGLE

By Richard P. Joseph

8/4/2023

I am using a google product to write this article but don’t try to google it; my google based blog has been shadow banned.  Google is part of the New Socialist Order where all things Christian get canceled.  Google has great products but I am always in search of an alternative, because what is the use of having a good thing if you can’t use it.  Remember that it is Jesus Christ that they are attempting to ban, not just us.  They can get rid of us anytime they want but they are having a slightly harder time canceling the creator of the universe.  In fact, it is impossible.  I have to give them credit for at least attempting the impossible but I don’t have the heart to tell them that they failed before they even started.  If you have to search for my blog, try BRAVE or some other search engine.  Perhaps I will find a new platform soon but until then, STAY FREE!

Parables

 Parables

By Richard P. Joseph

7/31/2023

It was a common practice for Jesus to speak in parables to the general public.  It is inherent in parables that one must have spiritual ears to fully understand their meanings.  In today’s world we not only have to have spiritual ears, we must also have historical ears.  Many of Jesus’ parables were vivid eschatological teachings that those that first heard it understood and those that hated Jesus were threatened by them.  Modern Christians today, who are far removed from Middle Eastern culture and from their historical setting, usually completely miss the meaning of those parables.  Hopefully this article can create a new mind frame to help you understand these parables.  

Luke 13:1-9 is a great example to start with.  The chapter starts out with a group of people that informed Jesus about some Galileans who were murdered by Pilot and mingled their blood with Roman sacrifices.  Then Jesus coupled that with an accidental catastrophe of 18 innocent people who died from a falling tower.  So, whether death is caused by murder or by accident, repentance is necessary.  However, Jesus adds something else to this, a warning. 

Jesus told them that they would also come to the same end unless they reformed their ways.  While that certainly has meaning for us today, it definitely had an acute warning to those that he actually told it to.  It is almost as if a tragedy was looming that they did not know about.  Jesus did not let us hang in confusion because he straightway told the parable of the barren fig tree.  Jesus told of a farmer (God) who had been inspecting his vineyard (Israel) for three years (the length of Jesus’ ministry) and had found no fruit (repentance).  The vinedressers convinced the owner to leave it for another year (perhaps the millennium) where they would cultivate it and fertilize it and if it still does not bear fruit they will cut it down.  This parable is strictly eschatological and imminent to those that were standing there.  Jesus was giving the Jews a strict warning that a judgment was coming and if they would not repent and follow Him, they would all likewise perish and that is exactly what happened.  Jesus preached for three and a half years then his disciples preached for another forty years (the millennium) and those that did not repent were wiped out during the civil war and the Roman invasion at the Parousia of Christ.  Many of the parables tell of this same story.  Those parables were directed at the unfaithful harlot, Jerusalem.  The judgment was executed between AD 66-70.  This is not a future event for us, it was directed to first century Israel, not to us today.  The New Jerusalem has no expiration date.  While we are not looking for a physical catastrophe necessarily today, we certainly still need to be born again from above and repent just the same.  Those that do will not be judged and those that don’t will perish just the same.  

Common Era

 Common era

By Richard P. Joseph

4/3/2023

Over the past several years, especially during a democratic regime, we have watched as liberal groups such as ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter tore down as many statues and monuments of American history as possible with the goal of destroying American society as a whole. They have no plans to rebuild anything constructive, only destroy.  That is how evil works.  If they could build anything back, which they can’t, it would be some blend of communism mixed with sexual perversion.  Since they are controlled purely by evil, that limits them to destruction only, there is no plan to “build back better” like the Democrat false narrative exclaims.  It is pure catabolism and never metabolism.  

Tearing down statues and burning down cities is only one way to push their agenda, there are other ways.  The main modus operandi that left wing atheists use is by way of false narratives.  As a quick guide, “If a democrat is speaking, they are lying”.  I don’t mean that to be funny, I really mean it.  Since the prerequisite to being a democrat is the rejection of Jesus Christ, then it is impossible to tell the truth.  If your foundation is off then anything that you build upon it is off kilter and skewed.  So, even if they try to tell the truth, they can’t.  False narrative is their only weapon being that they can’t produce anything functional.  Every time the big news comes on, it is all false narratives.  There are other false narratives too that most people don’t catch.  

One of the most common false narratives is the replacement of AD (Anno Domini) with CE (common era) and BC (Before Christ) with BCE (Before Common Era).  The use of AD and BC is functional because it represents a real time marker; that is, the birth of Jesus Christ.  This is an actual historical event that can be confirmed (of course there were some original mistakes with the exact date but that isn’t the point).   AD represents the Christian Era.  Time was always marked by the reigning king in ancient times.  It is no different now.  Therefore, it is the year of the King of kings 2023 right now.  Jesus is the reigning king and will be forever.  The false narrative CE has no time marker and is therefore illegitimate.  The only function of CE is to brainwash the next generation into embracing atheism.  It is a direct attack on Christianity.  It is a direct attack on America.  It is the ultimate statue tear down.  Anyone who uses it is attacking our Christian heritage.  I suggest that you complain to every editor that allows it in their papers.  I suggest we strike it from our schools.  I suggest you loudly and boldly disapprove of it in public and in private.  Remember, there is no such thing as “Common Era”, it represents nothing but atheism.  It has no time marker and no history.  It is only the destruction of American and western history.  We live in the “Year of the Lord” and that is the only acceptable time marker we have. Common era is really just Common error.

Blasphemy

 Blasphemy

By Richard P. Joseph

3/17/2023

I have heard many people warn others to never say godd&%n because that is using God’s name in vain.  While that is certainly good advice, it is actually theologically incorrect.  You see, "God", isn’t God’s name.  

So, what is God’s real name?  Actually God does not have a “name”, he has a character description as a name.  The general Hebrew name for god is Elohiym (Elohim).  This can refer to the one true God as well as any other created spiritual being.  In other words it can be used for any being that resides in the spiritual realm such as watchers or possibly even angels.  It was even used to describe Samuel when he was called up by the witch of EnDor.  So if we use the word “God” in the general sense, it is more of a place locator (the location of the being), not a name.  The name is a little more complicated.  

To understand how taking God’s name in vain when He really doesn’t have one takes a little digging.  It all started in the Garden of Eden when God told Adam that everything he names, he has dominion over.  Fast forward to the time when Moses asked God what his name was and God said “I Am who Am”  or in some versions “I Am who I Am”.  God simply was not going to allow Moses to name him because then man would have dominion over God such that the idol worshipers gave names to their gods.  But the name really wasn’t a name after all, it was a character description.   God was telling Moses that he is the one “who exists’.  In other words he is the Eternal Existent One.  He has no beginning and has no end, just like Jesus claimed for himself because he was God.  He said “I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end”.  Jesus was the eternal.  That is where the tetragrammaton comes into play.  The Scripture writers used the tetragrammaton YHWH to denote the Eternal Existent God.  The Eternal One is holy (separate from this sinful world).   So how do you blaspheme in this case? 

Blasphemy isn’t about using a cuss word, it is about associating the Eternal Holy God with sin.  This occurred recently at a public library meeting that I recently attended.  People were there protesting the use of homosexual cartoon pornography books aimed at children.  While decent Christians showed up to protest this filth, the filthy homosexual groups showed up obviously in favor of it.  While it is expected that sexual perverts are going to promote the book, one lady (or whatever it identifies as) stood up and claimed that she was a born again Christian and that she is all for the lude pornography for children.  That, my friend is first class blasphemy!  She coupled Jesus Christ, the eternal YHWH, with what God calls an abomination.  She outright slandered the “name” of God, not by using a cuss word, but by associating God with sin. She claimed to be a follower of Jesus Christ while at the same time promoting homosexual pornography for children.    She will have a heavy price to pay for that one as this type of blasphemy is unforgivable.  The millstone will be the easy part, hell will be her permanent lot.  

So hopefully you understand better now how not to break the third commandment which says “ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”  

Jesus himself referred to this commandment in Matthew 12:31-2  “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.