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. This is the same method that their forebearers used in the 1917 communist revolution. While I mentioned ANTIFA and BLM, other groups are showing up all the time. A more recent group is the NO KINGS group. But it doesn't matter what they call themselves, they are just new names for communists. Like I said, it is just a slogan used for deceptive purposes, but the method and the evil is the same. 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 and slogans.  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 narratives and slogans are 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 as I write this article.  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.

The Original Social Justice Warrior

 The Original Social Justice Warrior

By Richard P. Joseph

9/29/2022

Social Justice; According to something on google it is;

“Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.

 

As you can guess, google makes it sound so nice, and don’t forget the picture of two black gay guys hugging.  

Social justice is just a nice way of saying, punish the straight, hard working white guy and give his earnings to lazy blacks.  It is part of the political correct way of telling Christians to buzz off and to usher in all manner of sexual perversion and religious degradation.  It produces nothing but poverty and social decline.  This is one of the Roman Catholic’s biggest projects.  I worked for a Catholic Hospital and their main mission was to champion homosexual rights and racism.  I was actually fired for being a Christian.  Social Justice is Satan’s way of replacing Christianity with sin and it will make the ignorant participants feel good doing it.  I guess, after you think about it, all sin feels good, for a few minutes!   So, what does the bible have to say about it and who was the founder of social justice?

Without getting long winded, we can boil this down to help the widow and the orphan, and if you have an abundance, to give to the poor.  Paul went so far as to say; if you don’t work, you don’t eat.  There is nothing in the bible about punishing  productive people and promoting a sinful lifestyle.   In fact in the parable of the talents, Jesus had harsh words for the lazy unfaithful servant in which he finally said to take his one talent from him and give it to the one with ten, then cast him into prison.  When a social justice warrior said, but Lord, he has ten talents already, Jesus told him that he who has little, even what he has will be taken  and given to the productive servant.   Even if this parable isn’t actually about poor or rich people, the idea is still the same.    So, who really is the original social justice warrior?

There is a story told in the gospels about the time when Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, anointed Jesus with some very costly oil which filled the room with an aroma.  This caused Judas Iscariot to complain that the oil should have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor.  Of course he would be the one to take care of that and perhaps reimburse himself with a slight handling fee.  When Jesus told him to leave Mary alone, and that she had performed a noble deed, Judas became even more angry.  The next verse in Matthew's account shows that Judas, at this point, made his final decision to betray Jesus.

26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.

Judas Iscariot appears to be the original Social Justice Warrior and all who subscribe to it today are his followers.  Judas had a skewed view of reality and that is why he simply could not understand the teachings of Jesus Christ.  Somehow he could not reconcile the mission of Christ with what he thought it should be.  I hate to be the one to tell people this but attempting to somehow justify natural and normal human behaviors to make all things on earth equal, is not the mission of Jesus Christ.  Our job is to do what Mary has done, worship Jesus Christ.  Only then can we impact our society.  Any attempt to use social engineering to fix society can only be met with futility, especially when the real reason that social justice exists is to promote sin and denounce the straight and narrow.  Judas Iscariot was a failure and all who promote a Godless social justice system will end up the same way Judas did.  Feeding the poor and loving your neighbor is not social justice, it is what we should be doing as Christians.  When a non-Christian attempts the same thing it actually becomes sin and always makes things worse.  By promoting the current social justice we are actually putting people in a prolonged state of poverty and immorality.  Real Christian social justice would guide people out of poverty and lead them away from anything impure.  I implore you all to follow Jesus, not Judas.

The parousia according to Martha

 The Parousia according to Martha

By Richard P. Joseph

9/23/2022

    We are all familiar with the story of Lazarus and his two sisters in the gospel of John.  Apparently, Jesus loved this family and they worshiped him.  I am discovering that this obscure family is more theologically important than what we have imagined.  The few times that they are mentioned seems insignificant compared to their impact on our understanding of Jesus and his mission.  

We are introduced to this family in John 11 but obviously they have been friends and followers of Jesus for a while.  We know that the sisters sent word to Jesus that Lazarus was sick and near death.  Jesus seemed to take his time getting there on purpose so that there would be no doubt about what was going to transpire.  When Jesus finally arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had already been in the tomb for 4 days.  It was Martha that got word of his arrival and dutifully ran out to meet him.   Then Martha said; “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” 

Jesus then told her that her brother would rise again and Martha responded by saying; “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Apparently, Martha had a very clear understanding of eschatology and the approaching historical events that were about to occur.  But before we discuss that, I would like to present a few other major events that came from this simple family.  First of all, they might not be as simple as we thought as some have suggested that Lazarus was actually “John Eleazar” or John Lazarus, the writer of the gospel of John, the three epistles and Revelation but I can’t prove that as correct or not but there are some good arguments for it.  The events that took place that day caused the Sanhedrin to meet and condemn Jesus to death, the dinner shortly after caused Judas to finally decide to betray Jesus, the eyewitnesses of Lazarus’ raising would become vocal advocates for Christ, and Mary’s story would be told for all eternity.  But back to the storyline.

    Jesus then confirmed that he was the resurrection and the life.  Martha confirmed that she understood that Jesus was the Christ.  She then went back to the house and got Mary who, upon seeing Jesus, fell at his feet.  You can always find Mary at the feet of Jesus.  She was at his feet later when she anointed him and caused Judas Iscariot to go apoplectic and made his final decision to betray Christ.  When Mary came it caused Jesus to weep and groan.  As they approached the tomb and began to understand that Jesus meant to raise him, Martha informed him that her brother was rotting by now.  If she understood a lot, she, like all of us, really doesn't know how powerful our God really is.  Jesus then called Lazarus out of the tomb which caused a domino of effects that lead to the cross and the empty tomb of Jesus.  This also brings up another topic, eschatology.

    The Jews usually talked about two separate ages; the present age (the Mosaic age, and the age to come; the Messianic age).  In Luke 18 Jesus uses this same language;  30 "who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”  According to the timeline in Revelation and other places there was about to be a tribulation period in which the Christians would suffer loss, followed by a period of wrath which would be poured out on the unbelievers.  These two periods would be divided by a resurrection and a rapture.  Josephus gives an account which I believe clearly demonstrates the exact time that this took place.  He tells that on the evening of Pentecost (AD66) as the priests were fulfilling their duties in the temple they experienced an earthquake then heard a multitude of souls under the temple shouting “let us remove hence”.   This would have been right between the tribulation and the wrath.  This is what I believe to be the exact day of the end of the “age” and this seems to be exactly what Martha was referring to.  Notice she used a single “day” to describe that her brother would rise on the last day.  If Jesus did not raise Lazarus from the dead he would have been raised on this “last day”.  Also notice that Martha said “at” the last day instead of “on” the last day.  The Greek word en denotes a fixed position in time as if she fully understood this as, not an arbitrary event, but rather a predestined event at an exact moment in time.   This means that Martha had an exceptional  understanding of the eschatological events that were about to occur.  It almost seems like she understood things better than the apostles.  The last day of the Mosaic economy was the first day of the Parousia (visitation or commonly referred to as the second coming) which lasted another 3 ½ years.