Signs of the Second Coming

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I’d like to begin a new discussion on an old topic. First, I’d like to add the religious-side of this evidence, which; I warn; is quite lengthy itself. Then, I shall posit my interpretation based in modern knowledge.

That was King James’ Version.

Here is English Standard Version:

Have you ever looked at one of those old bibles? They were ornate, weren’t they? Intricately designed and fancy. A lot of effort had been put into carefully constructing every letter, fashioning it just perfectly. The original bibles were works of art. People love words and art and beauty just as much as they did today; though judging by the way most people speak today, you wouldn’t be able to tell. Such beautiful words to describe beautiful sentiments; and like any artist, they distort the truth in a way to add fantastic nature to the mundane or seeming mundane. It’s that romantic nature buried in us even when we misuse it for means of subjugation of others; as surely the Romans and Catholics did shortly after Jesus Christ’s death.

I want to give an example of how writers do this; though I make it a little more obvious in mine how it’s tethered to reality:

I know you know this, but how often have you applied it to the full of the bible? I’ll get into that in my second post which will go up as soon as I’m done typing up a response. I just figured this is already long enough for an initial post and should be a nice breaking point.

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That is true.

Most religious texts are written in abstract language and should not be read verbatim.

That is why it is necessary for an interpreter to cross a certain threshold of understanding before assuming what scriptures are really saying.

with love,
sanjay

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So many stories tell the same story in this day and age. If you look into Chronicles of Narnia, you find Aslan. If you look into Lord of the Rings, you find Aragorn, son of Arathorn; heir of Isildur. In comic books, Superman is strangely representative of Jesus; the ideal that all men strive for of both morality and power. You also find Thor and Loki; opposing brothers; similar to Michael and Lucifer. Even Batman bears striking similarity to the ideal of good tarnished and darkened by todays society, as he admits his faults, but continuously moves forward to learn from everything and keep trying to outdo himself and the day before.

So, when it says that the Son of Man is going to come in his father’s glory, I think of something like that. We expect some miraculously ridiculous conceptual imagery to reinforce it all against all knowledge of reality. It is simply a common man with the bearing of a King, as it was with Jesus Christ. They did not recognize him then, either; in large. They all had their bloated ideas of what to expect based on the promises told from a different perspective and they were severely disappointed. When it says that he will reward all of those according to what they have done, it is simply meant that he will be the mirror that they must look into. Everything they perform; in essence already having performed on so many; will be mirrored back upon them. Those who love will be shown love, while those who show hate or insult will be shown similar. It ties into ‘so you have sown and so too shall you reap what you sow.’

When it says ‘you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’’; I take it to mean the same thing it has always meant: you will never know God’s work until you accept it as God’s work. Since we are all God’s work, it’s rather a moot point to bring it up in Jesus’ reference; and yet we don’t often bless the misfortunes done to us, so we would have to take that it means we will bless him for what he will do; those who see.

Already, he compares the second coming to a storm, which is rarely a good sign. Like lightning. Quick, precise; seemingly without sense or purpose or pattern. Random and utterly unpredictable. Those who witness it firsthand are often in awe or in fear or hate or indifference and even those distant from it will still see and hear it and feel its effect.

They fucked around with the atom and created an awesome and terrible thing; something that can’t easily be destroyed safely. The entire Earth has mourned over the clouds of destruction that Nuclear energy has spawned. Nuclear radiation has thoroughly infiltrated our world and has affected us all without most of us even knowing about it. It has been accidentally and purposefully dumped in almost every location we can think of and spreads through the air and through our water in some times near invisible; trace; amounts. I wouldn’t worry about it; we’re a hardy species. People were expecting something to happen right away; things take time to develop.

Well… look at the world around us. It doesn’t really take a genius to see that the return of Jesus Christ at this point in time would drastically surprise a lot of people and have it be unaccepted, given what we know of peoples over-reactions. They really wouldn’t expect it.

This means simply to keep watch over yourself and don’t do anything you would be ashamed to be caught doing. But, keep in mind that nobody is perfect and we will make mistakes. That part goes unsaid right there, but is supplied in other parts of the bible to support the addition of it. Be as kind to yourself and your neighbor as possible.

Nothing quite so majestic as this paints it out to be, I’m afraid. It’s simply meant that people will see this man in his humble glory, promoted above all others and coming on the clouds of heaven; i.e., the storms of the lightning that he will be seen as. We see around us all over the world increasing natural disasters that many people try to pretend is something that happens occasionally; and all of them do happen occasionally. But the frequency of them and their combined nature should also be taken into account, I think.

We see it all the time in society: people sell themselves out, their heart and mind to achieve some sense of prominence in this world; to buy one small slice of freedom or several; to have some say or control of a world that is vastly out of reach of both their say and their control. If anyone is ashamed to admit their belief in what they really believe in during this time of great deceit and great corruption, then the son of man will be ashamed of those people when he comes; for they lacked the courage to stay strong. They believed so much in Christ and yet failed to see his strength based in so much love that was seen to be weak. 2000 years have passed and people still fail to see it. I’d be a bit disappointed, too.

It seems like some godly beings will be gathered and we will notice their gathering, and yet it is again just men. A gathering of elect from the four winds; four corners of the world and Heaven, within a single circumference. The final call will have been made and those spirits will have been summoned to Earthly form for the final confrontation. Those Saints and Angels almost indistinguishable from everyone else. That means they would have had to have had time to live and learn and grow and retain some of their preternatural intelligence and knowledge before reaching the final point. There has been roughly 75 years since Israel reformed and became a nation again and since Atomic Weapons were first developed. That is roughly 3 generations worth of evolution that has lead to massive shifts in our intellectual development to which we are undergoing, in this modern generation, a mass shifting of awareness into an enlightened way of thinking.

People have misunderstood this for ages. People think the literal death; death of the body. That’s why so many people have expected the second coming of Jesus Christ to happen soon after the first; it’s why people get increasingly more disbelieving as the years go on without sign of what they were expecting; and as far as we know, everyone has died; so how can Jesus have been right? Death of the spirit. If your spirit remains alive, you will not truly taste death even if your body dies. Negativity is the death of the spirit.

This is a really wonderful question asked by a man who lived 2000 years ago. Would Jesus Christ find true faith upon this Earth if he were to enter it again in this present age? He would certainly see people believing in religion and having true faith in that, or believing in government and having true faith in that; or having belief in other men and true faith in that. But none of those are true faith, for true faith is belief that everything happens for a reason; belief in that unquantifiable power in the universe; belief in it and the full of what it is and the acceptance of that into love for it as seeing it as no different than yourself; no greater or more terrible than any man has been, save in magnitude; scale. I doubt he would find much true faith on this planet, no matter what the people said; for it is hard thing to come by in this day and age; it’s hard not to question things, but he never said do not question.

Jesus said this to all people. He went and made room for all people; all those who loved him and all those who hated him. He had hope for everyone, even knowing the odds. He was prepared, constantly, to face the hurt of being disappointed and he was willing to die up on that cross just to try to make them see what they were doing. 2,000 years later, people are still dying for it. They’re trying to create it here on Earth and it was told to them that it was never here. We know the way to the place where he is going. We think it is through death, but it is through the heart. ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.’ Death is only how we finally enter it fully, after a life of learning how to reach it.

And yet, people still expect to see Jesus coming directly out of the sky. They question why they’re looking into the sky, because Jesus was taken from them into heaven through the flesh; even though they saw his spirit ascend. The way that they see him return will also be in the flesh, though they probably shall not have seen his descent from Heaven.

This is something that has been a bit distorted by time. It says to turn to God so that your sins are wiped out, but God only allows you to see your sins for what they truly are. The act of forgiving yourself has always been upon you and it has always been up to you to seek God out, even though he will help you do so, and to seek Heaven through all of the Hell that may come at you during your life. We should feel bad for the harmful things we do to our selves and others; on some level; but we also shouldn’t feel so bad that we don’t move on from those things eventually into newer and better things.

You really don’t. It has been entirely upon you and every other person what you do and what they do with their lives. You for yours and them for theirs, obviously. We have been entirely responsible for what all of mankind has done as a group, as well; because we’ve all added to it in one way or the other. It’s really a pity when you live with yourself for a while and realize you can’t really blame stuff on other people anymore. When you realize you have to face your own mind; a daunting task for many.

Why should we judge anything? Who are we to judge out neighbor for doing something we might have done in similar situation with similar histories guiding us? And yet judge on some small part we must when it harms the balance of life. But we then have to wonder what really is harming the balance of life and whether our reactions to nature to begin with are what caused the extreme reactions we see today. We definitely can see how over-reactions can make mountains out of molehills.

For whenever we imbibe humility and understanding for our fellow man, we proclaim that we see what Jesus had died for and that we honor and respect it and fight for that same freedom in our own fashion.

Pretty straightforward. We’re all going to die, but first we’re going to watch power and authority returned to each and every single person. Those who truly had faith in Christ and understood him and what he had done will be first. I find that this is incredibly short-sighted, though. It’s just people wanting to be the favorite child of the Lord and it’s really just bullshit. It sounds great: ‘we believed in you!, we believed in you!’ No, you didn’t. You believed in some other man up at a podium with a microphone and a book in his hand; you didn’t believe in me. That’s exactly what he’s going to say to a lot of them, too. The true believers are those who believe in the same things that Christ believed in, even if they don’t believe in Christ. He has no favorites. He would still argue with them that God exists.

What IS best in this world? When you strip away every other object, it becomes ‘knowing your self’. You can be surrounded by other people, but until you know who you are, you will constantly be influenced beyond what you wish to be influenced by those other people. When you strip away everything that has been influenced by other people, there’s very little you’re actually left with except blind talent at whatever you’re good at; but you would more-than-likely be counted as an idiot for not having the emotional content with which to supply your work with the crucial element it needs. Even those who seemingly don’t have emotions, do; they just often don’t know how to express them. And certainly, with having some highly empathic people, we can have some people that lack emotion a bit more than others naturally. That doesn’t make them a bad person, though and they can still come to understand emotion if they try. When you strip away every lie as you experience life, you may come up with a variety of answers; but it still comes back to love and respect and order and instinct, both inherent and learned. Obviously what was best for the world was to experience what it chose to experience and thus we reach this critical stage in our evolution and are forced to jump tracks to pay attention to the possibilities of the future instead of the mistakes and failures of the past; and to focus on what we need to do now, in the present, to bring about that future. A time to reassess our species and it’s progress and what mistakes we have made. However, the institutions and organizations will deter this sort of communal bonding and therefore that is the best at this point in time.

We don’t belong here. It can be fun at times and great and awesome and purely divine; but we never belonged here. It was never the final resting point of our journey. Just birthing pains.

Here’s what I find funny. People expect Jesus Christ to save them and yet no man can save a person who doesn’t wish to be saved. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. I imagine he would ‘save’ people by telling them to save themselves. You can only show someone the way to freeing themselves. You can remove their shackles and open the door and say, ‘here, take this gun and this unlimited ammunition and this sword thingy with extra cool shit on it,’ but you can’t be there with them constantly helping them overcome their fears or fight their demons. And yet, when you reach to set them free and they turn on you and attack you with the weapons you armed them with… yeah, there will be wrath.

I’m going to stop here, for the moment and continue this a little later.

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To continue on from before and actually touch on that again for a brief second, when it says that people report, it means that they bear witness. Now, what they see of others is often tinted by blinders or shades of negativity and hate to whatever degree they’re applying those things, but God does not see with their bias. He sees the ultimate truth beyond simple perspective. He is the only one capable of judging your life for good or bad. So, it doesn’t matter how others see you, because they often do not bear witness without their bias or report to God in that manner, either. People often forget that they’re humans and own superior intellect when we’re all slaves to the blinders we put on our selves. The type of reception that is given others should be the same reception given to all until each person individually proves that they deserve otherwise. If people can not afford each other courtesy and respect in even the smallest amounts, then what amount and measure of men are we? At that point, it becomes a matter of how we measure and amount that courtesy and respect, for surely each person views those things differently.

To the person who values friendship and loyalty above all else, what is an unbiased nature other than another traitor if such a person fails to recognize their own wrongdoings and how those actions cause others to react and act in turn? To the person who stocks his weight in wit, such a long-term friend may seemingly cut you down, though fully expecting you to retort with wit of your own. And then some friends only have respect for the things you’ve been through together, like those raised on the street or in ghettos; they only respect people that can understand what they’ve been through and not judge them. And some friends only have respect for those who work hard and make it somewhere, like they do, because they lack that understanding that not all hard work gets rewarded as it should and that their system is far from perfect. When it says that they themselves report what kind of reception you gave; it’s not just the initial reception, like you think of as a reception, but the entirety of the relationship and how you received each and every person into your life. Did you do the best you could in trying situations? Did you allow yourself to lie to yourself for some semblance of vanity? Did you allow paranoia to cause you to react poorly to a person who truly did nothing to you? It is not so much that you must carry these sins with you; and sins they are while we avoid them; every thing serves a purpose and it is not always our will to understand how that purpose affects everything else. We can only take on faith that they are learning lessons. When we fail to balance our learning lessons of both bad and good and learn to balance ourselves for the… indescribable… lives that we live, we not only fail others; we fail our selves. In a sense, God fails himself. What is being reported? Nothing but the truth and the truth is beyond our reach, so even if it looks like we’re failing our selves and God is failing himself, we should just have some faith that things are going exactly as they should be going as we see so many people galvanized into action to counteract everything horrible in this world. What should God really judge except peoples unwillingness to learn? Why should he not punish them who fail to learn how to play nicely together? Worshiping themselves and their own might and will when those things lead them to ruin. Some would say this is conjecture; I find it that it is supported strongly by the cycle and momentum of events throughout history.

Do you know how many people honor and pray to Jesus and congratulate him for what a good friend he is and how great he is? Do you know how many of those people truly appreciate a good friend as much as they should in their lives? They’ve got such a perfect friend in Jesus. A lot of these same people wanting to be lead blindly when Jesus’ pursuit was never to have his people lead blindly by the nose, but liberated and freed; and they honor him for that, as well, though they often don’t understand what freedom entails. Many people have had their faith tried and tested and broken, but that does not make it broken forever. That is what they truly celebrate, because Jesus was a man who could renew that faith like nobody else could. He could talk to each person individually and have it mean something, be able to connect to them as people; as the people they actually were instead of what they pretended to be.

While artists of all shapes and sizes add to the good of this world, it often goes unnoticed because after a while it becomes to much noise and colors in a world that is swiftly becoming bland and tasteless and droll. It’s not their fault. They each fought in their own way and their own impact, but there was never any need for people to get offended when the Beatles claimed to be more popular than Jesus. A lot of people have been more popular than Jesus was during his life. Jesus was a very controversial figure, though his was a more quiet strength once he mastered himself. He effected thousands of years in a much stronger way than so many other people. It was never about popularity or giving the people what they want; and it was never about selling out, which is what a lot of artists forget in this day and age. You can get by without selling out. Jesus never wrote a book, he taught people. He went around, shook hands and helped people with what they needed help with in their lives. He imbedded himself into the smallest details of this world, and that is why people celebrate him like they do, even though they don’t understand. A lot of people wouldn’t recognize Jesus if he stood right in front of them; they’d keep expecting some mystical figure and yet he’d look just like them, sound just like them; be just like them.

If the thought of Jesus Christ coming again doesn’t strengthen your heart for the future… I mean, if such a man as Jesus Christ were to exist in this modern age; apart from the belief of God, even, just a man; why wouldn’t that strengthen your heart? If such a man of good intent were to enter into the fabric of this world in such a way and with such an intent to see balance returned to the world, why should the people not rejoice? They fear what is to come; the resulting effect of all of our combined actions. We fear the consequences and yet there is no avoiding them even without God. What we have done to our planet and to each other and to all other life on this planet without respect and without courtesy; in cruel and destructive manners; echoes in the vast emptiness of space. The fact that corruption is winning because of the apathetic natures of people the world over; the fact that even the intelligent revolutionists fall prey to the cunning of their enemies who delight in their game of shadows. Some people are simply afraid for no reason; made to feel guilty in their lives for things they didn’t do, they’re afraid people will accuse them of things they didn’t do and get blamed for it, which is a rather healthy fear with the way the world is right now. The media, for example. Politics. Slander and manipulation of facts and evidence knowing that people are too afraid to tell the truth openly and directly. They fear the day that those tricks no longer work.

‘We who are still alive’; this refers to those still alive in spirit; not a physical thing. Many of us die on the inside during the course of our lives due to insecurity or depression or disillusionment. It was never a statement of going back to save those that are already dead and buried, for they have already received their judgment; but a statement of coming back to re-open the doors to the Kingdom of Heaven and establish a new covenant on this Earth; one that encompasses all; to save as many as possible who still live, yet remain dead on the inside. ‘With a loud command.’ We think of ‘loud’ as we think of noise, most often, but ‘loud’ is also used to describe something flashy, like a shirt. Something you definitely take notice of. With the voice of the Archangel. There is only one Archangel they like to mention and that one is Michael, the voice of God; which is truth; so it is the voice of truth that people will hear and feel. ‘With the trumpet call of God’, refers to the passion exhibited by those who share a true connection with the lord. Not just to be spouting words from a bible, but to be actually teaching something with them that can actually be understood and applied.

When it says that the dead in Christ will rise first, it just means that those who had found their faith dying will have it renewed. People have often dreamed of immortality, not realizing that they were looking through a window and immortality is what lays on the other side; that parallel we can’t reach in the physical world. Therefore, for us all to be caught up and brought together to the Lord in the sky, we’d either have to be meeting a being that claims to be working in God’s name, or we will be dead. No one enters into the Kingdom of Heaven with a physical body, though.

Blameless is what people try to be, which is why they often lie and cover up and pretend that they’re perfect. They often fail to understand that being blameless has nothing to do with being perfect. It means making mistakes and realizing them for what they are and learning from them. You can’t keep blaming everyone else, for you must blame yourself long enough to be able to notice and recognize your own faults. If you wish to be blameless, you must punish yourself when you do wrong and when you error, but you also must not punish too harshly, because it IS just a learning lesson. Forgiving yourself with intent and will to realign for the better is divine. God’s the parent; he’s going to forgive you no matter what you do, but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to let you punish yourself with the life you choose to live. Many spirits have chosen to hate God for his lessons. They are not blameless.

This was merely stated so that people don’t jump at false alarms. It was taken into account that there would be; that there would possibly be people who thought they were when they weren’t, or people who would like to prank and ‘call wolf’, so to speak; and people who would actually be out to deceive you into believing their packs of lies, such as Adolf Hitler. People jumped at those false alarms, anyway, and then got all butthurt about it afterward. They were told. Don’t fucking buy into any persons story on face value of what it seems. that is idiotic beyond compare. As convincing as something may seem; watch it; and just because it might fail or might get destroyed by life around it, didn’t mean that for that small time it wasn’t good. Some of our best men are driven insane from having to be such images of perfection to the people around them. They have to be what people expect them to be and people don’t realize, often, exactly how hard that is. They take it for granted. So, a person who looks like he has been deceiving people all along may have just finally broken, too. It becomes, largely, a matter of perception and by our perceptions we are often damned. There are a multitude of perceptions, but only one that really matters: Love and respect and gratitude. No matter what life throws at you; but there is a point when it becomes a bit too much what we choose to throw at our selves. People love to do things to other people and say that’s just the way the world is and life’s unfair. Maybe it is, but that doesn’t mean they should take it out on me. Instead of converting their negatives into positives as they should, they’ve just been sitting there and spreading it along; that faulty adaptation that fully endorses faulty growth. A positive perception does not mean that things are seen with rosy glasses all the times. People think in terms of extremes, when a positive and healthy perception is one that balances all things and accepts negativity for what it is: as a force we will always have to deal with, but we can be better as a species if we keep this in mind and train our kids from an earlier age; which is exactly what has been said in countless ways. You shouldn’t fill their heads with meaningless drivel or ‘fairy tales’, you have to find that passion within yourself to feel it as if it is you; because it is you. People every day raise their kids and try to prepare them for the world around them the best they can. Some parents are horrible with connecting to kids and definitely some people just shouldn’t have them for how little attention they give them and/or what happens to them, but even that prepares those kids for how the world is. The world is varying stages of progression all in one as it always has been. We’re chasing smoke trying to change the world the way we’re doing it. We need to mix and match what fits and to do that you can’t be accepting what anyone says on face value alone; you have to constantly be adding it all to your own weaving of it and let it express itself naturally through you. That is the fluidity of life and how our culture flows through us. Put filters on yourself to prevent negativity from ruining the piece, just enough to make it add to it instead of detract from it; show people how to use it appropriately in whatever form of art you’re in, even if it’s not seen as a form of art, like landscaping or housecleaning. If we each do what we are passionate about, then God speaks through us as he has always done and so truth can always be found within. We just have to be wary of what we view our passions to be based on what our lives have been.

What is the lawless one other than negativity and fear and lies? That which says, ‘this is not fair!’ when you respond to them with the same thing they gave you, in your own way. The lawless that acts in pettiness while the true ones who uphold the law are righteous and there is a very strong difference that our current laws of man likes to overlook. Our lawless ones become our politicians and our government officials and our congressmen and all men in power throughout the world; all men who would grace themselves with power of word or wealth or fame for any purpose other than freeing themselves and the rest of the world. Any person that would further this decaying and decadent cycle of destruction has been corrupted by the spirit of lawlessness and that spirit must be purged from them and from this species. It doesn’t have to be a physical death if it can be avoided, but it does have to happen. And it needs to keep happening, as harsh as that sounds. Truth must be upheld in this world; and sense and reasoning. We can not afford to let our kind take the routes of chaos and destruction; not with the technology we are and have been developing and what we have already developed that few people truly know about. It is not about the splendor of the coming; it is about waking people up to the very harsh reality that they all face because of everything they have been blind to in their apathetic sleepiness. We can not afford to be fooled by intelligently insane people who do not have our best interests in mind. We do not need a system that can be easily corrupted; we need to put the hard work into making that system us. Each and every single one of as many of us as we can. We need to get this hammered into society; into our instinct; this balance; and we need to cement it to reinforce it, otherwise we are going to destroy our selves far before we should be destroyed. We’re already probably going to die sooner than we should have, anyway; because of what has been done already. But, I think we all owe it to what time our species does have left on this Earth to try to give future generations better than we’ve all been given; and not to spoil them, either; for to spoil is to give worse than what we were given. We can live in a better world and still keep the same values. We can evolve and we know how to do it. It’s just a matter of realizing that we know how.

‘A for effort, shitheads!’, he said lovingly. We kinda failed and yet we only failed to see how he knew we would before he set the task before us. And yet he knew we could succeed with it in time with the right pushes and shoves; otherwise why would he give us the task? Why the long amounts of patience with repeated messages spoken with each new generation in new ways and with their own flavors? As much as we see parts of God, parts is all we’ll be able to see of him. There is a part of him that does live in unapproachable light; good luck approaching that one. He has those who speak for him and that is not out of ego or arrogance, but out of all the work that he is doing while he appears to just sit there. That is why to him be honor and might forever. That is why he loosed his lesser nature upon this world and allowed it to be deceived. All the while he was working his subtle approach while Lucifer and others assumed that God sat there and was doing nothing; not understanding the show they were witnessing. God already knew how it was all going to go because he programmed this shit. Just like how we know what a computer is going to do because we programmed it. People need to stop seeing their faults as faults and start seeing them as natural in the course of learning. Don’t expect too much of yourselves too fast and don’t be afraid to take a step back and learn some patience to watch a situation before jumping in to whatever over-reaction you might have planned.

I think that’s enough for the moment. I’ll continue this again later on.

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as this reads, it is to understand that all shall be judged in the presence of God by Christ Jesus. He will judge the living and dead; those who live in the name of the lord or in sight of his spirit even if they know not his name and those who do not. He will judge them by their deeds. Not their past, for it is human to err, but by what he sees in the moment.

This says to speak the words that Jesus spoke; be prepared at all times for trouble to strike; correct, rebuke and encourage; in that order; with great patience and careful instruction. What I find funny is that the people who have mastered this are those who refused to belong to an organized and structured group. They had the patience to correct, rebuke and encourage us to be more than just a label and to build this glorious society; and many times over we have seen people pass over to darker pastures in terms of negativity or sinking to greed or other baser sins; and yet they have only ever served that greater purpose so what is truly being judged save how much longer it took to get to the end result for people inability to truly follow directions without getting side-tracked; and what form of judgment can be given to those who keep trying in spite of the seeming impossibility of such a task?

Upon his coming; when he comes in his full majesty and people are fully aware that he is he; the meek will surely wear crowns of righteousness upon their heads and raised from paupers to places of prominence for how well they’ve tried to be their brothers keeper and save him from the traps his own mind could snare him in, despite all of the things that made them cry and weep and gnash their teeth; or curse the name of their lord whom they loved and whom loved them. Those who long for such a coming will be glad to see it come; while those who turned away and stopped keeping watch for it will find it as a terrible wound suddenly appearing in their spirit. And they will know.

This is what life teaches us as we go along; if we care to learn it. We find, after a certain age, we start feeling the pains of our body more keenly and this only becomes more-so every so often. Passions are great, but too many people get caught up in them and once the passion wears off, they fail to realize that it takes effort some times to keep passion going; effort on both sides.

People expect things to be easy because that’s the lie they were given and hard work must be put into every thing in life; so those who seek to undermine life to avoid hard work and seek to avoid learning lifes lessons will find themselves constantly ramming their head into a wall and wondering why it hurts so much. The intelligent get caught in these traps just as easily. We must be eager to do what is good, but we must understand what it means to do good and to do it right. To take the time to pay attention and listen to those we try to help. To better understand their wants and needs; and we shouldn’t ever baby them, but teach them how to tend to themselves and only ever be there completely when they fully need us and we can be there.

And therein lays a lie; for to bring salvation, he would once again have to bear the sins of the people he hoped to save; to understand them enough to know how to save them; how to help them save their selves. He would have no intention of dying again for our sins. He would put the responsibility back on them and say ‘forgive yourselves, brothers; be true to you and do not lie, but make intent to realign yourself for the better.’

We shouldn’t ever give up on the habit of meeting together with friends, as we are all in the habit of doing some times; but it’s not enough just to meet together to discuss our things and it’s not enough to have a church devoted to discussing God as they used to meet together back in the day. It has to mean something, so it can’t be machine-like and it can’t be so often that you fail to really learn anything new. It’s never supposed to been one guy standing in front of everyone else talking; though that’s often how it goes; people should be engaged in what’s going on and asking questions. People used to get excited about learning, but now it’s all about self-indulgence. We’re a society of enslaved slobs; slaves to highway slobbery.

What’s a couple thousand years between homies? That is an incredibly short amount of time on Gods end, isn’t it? Seems like barely yesterday that they had those crosses they used to hang people on… There has never been any delay, though; there has always been work going on to build the groundwork for the second coming; so that when he comes again, and he will come again through the flesh; he will be able to orient himself faster and be able to be better faster. It was said we will not know him when he comes. He will come as lightning, but still people will not recognize him; they see the sign in the sky, still they won’t recognize him. They won’t recognize him until he becomes revealed; but he does not delay. He may not even be sure of who he is, such as Neo in the Matrix.

Patience is a great virtue, but I think we’ve all cursed having to learn it at some point in time or another. People love to say you have to go out and get things; but they don’t understand that patience does that, too; it waits and then goes out and gets at its leisure, knowing full well what it wants and needs. It doesn’t rush in like the fool, because it has done that too many times already. Learn your lessons, be patient, stand firm; because the Lord is coming soon. Don’t be negative; take things in stride; otherwise you will be met as you have met others.

They were a far more troubled people; the church and state had it really hammered into them that they were evil and they believed it because of all the mistakes they kept making. Unlike the present age where people come to know better and get bitter about it, those people actually thought Jesus was being merciful to them, that he was doing them a great deed. And certainly, to them; it was a great deed. He stood against the tyranny of their age like a passive-aggressive badass in a world of brutality; sandals letting the sand slide along his feet, hair rustling in the wind. A little bit of flair and embellishment added by the storytellers for their imaginative audiences… They had never been met with such kindness before and they thought it was more than they deserved.

Now we live in an age of people who feel they deserve entirely too much and so they still continue to rob from each other though they console themselves with plausible deniability through multiple steps of disassociation. We do deserve kindness; but we also deserve a lot of the rudeness that comes our way when we step out of line and it will always be harsher and more memorable than the little moments that make everything worthwhile; because that’s what helps make us remember so we don’t have to be sorry all the time and can be mindful of the mistakes we make before we make them. It’s something we do need to teach to children, so they get it faster; but we can do it. All it takes is people being able to spend proper amounts of time with their kids and really teach them about life in a well-rounded fashion instead of having them sit behind a desk all the time.

There is a better way we could be living if only more people could see it and work towards it and we’ve been struggling with that for ages while fighting amongst ourselves. The religious have long lost sight of it and have their goals made a mockery of by politics and government; which is itself a mockery of what religions sought to teach; and I think we all could learn a lot from each other if we just stopped being serious with the way we pushed each other to learn and grow and started being mindful of what we’re doing and mindful of how it affects people and start creating a much more mellow; go-with-the-species that is able to adapt to anything that comes out way with alacrity. Because that is what’s going to happen in the end or we will destroy our selves; so it’s better to go with the flow instead of against it otherwise we run a higher risk of destroying our selves. I’d like to see us get to that end result. I’d like God to see it and for him to have his faith in us justified, so that he can have a bit of his own doubts eased and some of his own insecurities soothed. He still cares about us even though he keeps his distance and he doesn’t want to see us fail.

Thoughts are nothing without action. People have been told to just let things be for a long time, now. We are building up to a time of action when the majority of our species will instinctively know it’s time to do something and we’ll move as a majority to do it. We must each be self controlled so that we do not panic when catastrophe hits; so we are able to move with the flow of history and rewrite it as it should be for future generations to exist in a world free from our current insanity. There is hope that we can break free from these hellish, circular thoughts. That hope has always been Jesus and grace will be delivered to us when he is revealed.

This never says to keep your silence or to mind your own business; but to keep in accordance to your beliefs while doing so; to stay true to your beliefs and your good deeds no matter if they accuse you of doing wrong, so that they may see your good deeds glorified in God’s name when He comes.

Christ’s suffering was mostly internal. He suffered the pangs of bad emotion throughout his life and was highly empathic. This merely states that we should rejoice that we share in his suffering when we feel emotional pain and suffering when we hurt another or see another get hurt or when we lose a friend. We should be happy to feel sad and we should not complain; though it is definitely human to do so and hard not to do until you fully realize your pain is nothing that hasn’t already been felt in this world and was often felt a lot worse by people who didn’t have all this luxury that we have now. We should live austere lives; indulging only every so often in certain things that are bad, because they are still good in moderation and should not give full measure to our deepest desires, for they often lead us astray. And yet, we each must make our mistakes, still; so this shouldn’t ever be too strict, and yet strict enough when it needs to be.

I do not follow cleverly invented stories when I tell people about God or about the Kingdom of Heaven, but I was an eyewitness to their majesty. Just a small glimpse is enough muse to whet the pallet of any artist; and has been for ages; those brief glimpses of the other side.

So there has been and so still there are scoffers following their own evil desires because they just don’t care anymore. A lot of people doubt that Jesus Christ ever even existed.

Where will you be at the return of the King? All they knew was that they would be like him. The trick was that he was like them. They already were like him and only needed to understand that. We are all equals and therefore there is not just one King, but many. Still, they will all defer to him; not out of fear, but because they want to.

godly, ungodly; ungodly, godly. Smodly todly. What it really comes back around to is respect and knowing the value of humility and patience and to not be too egotistic or arrogant no matter how much you feel you deserve to be, because you don’t know everything and you’re no better than everyone else could be if they weren’t actively being their own worst enemies. And the people he’s seeking to act against are those who knowingly make each person continue being their own worst enemy instead of trying to free them; just so that person can come up something a little extra than they had before.

He won’t judge them based on that alone, but on the entirety of their lives, to see if that was just a mistake and a learning lesson or if it became a big mistake because they failed to learn from it. He judges what they choose to learn and those who choose to fasten themselves to negativity are those he doesn’t much care for; they will not be in heaven and they should not want to be, for they would find such a place boring.

God has many faces and not all are approachable; though all are approachable if one knows how to approach them and put the effort into becoming like them. It is best to stay within his love, for his mischievous side will get you in trouble and his hateful side will destroy you without even caring; his insanity will lead you in circles upon circles of fractalization within fractalizations; so it really is best to stay in his love, but this is only something you’re going to understand after you’ve tried a variety of other ways, so don’t be afraid to try those other ways for a while; just be careful you don’t get caught up in an addiction of habit and go overboard on something just because you like it.

He knows we aren’t perfect and he’s coming to free us from this mockery of divine order we call society.

This has yet to happen. It will. All the peoples of the Earth will mourn because of him. They will mourn because of all the mistakes that have been while they tried to follow a path they didn’t understand. They will mourn because they’ll see that this was unavoidable. They will mourn over their own stupidity and feel the humility that comes with realizing that every human amount of wisdom was eventually for nothing because they could finally see the truth and see how much they had only gone in circles repeatedly; thinking they were getting somewhere new. They will finally see and they will recognize God as the true Alpha and Omega; for they will see that even at their best, they only affected some people for the worse; and even at their worst, they only affected some people for the better and whatever their intent was, they wrought the opposite for lacking understanding and failing to accept the things they learned as they claimed they had done. They will mourn because they will suddenly realize how many times they had refused to be wrong and they will be linked to all of those times at once and every time of great tragedy in the world; they will also be linked to every miracle and great happiness; every single moment of history brought together and they will feel it and they will mourn. Those who suffered as Jesus has suffered will have nothing to fear from this storm, because they have already survived it. Those who have not will have everything to fear from it, and many will surely ‘die’ and ‘disappear’ on that day.