Keys 1335 – Faith and Grace

Keys of the Kingdom Podcast 1335

Noah – not a righteous man(?); Diligence vs perfection; If I do this, then God must…; Offenses, and the desire to separate; Eschatology worship?; Noah, like King David, …; If there’s a draft in your country; Corvee systems of statutory bondage; About being responsible; Some newly added HHC web pages; One of the problems/blessings of seeking KoG; Why should go to church; Rome not built in a day; We have the bible (and common sense); They want to give us more; Not the spirit of Christ; Why the bondage of Egypt; Rockefeller paid no taxes(?); “Even if it wasn’t a covetous system…”; What we have to do – as a people; “Deacon” – derivation of “ten” and “serve”; Wiki editors; Money, economics, and other complex issues; Judicious giving; “Covet means”; Until we do this…; Playing that game; Baby steps; They have to participate; Not for slothful or self-indulgent rich; Yom Kippur; Because Jesus said so; Have to work (“seek/strive”) at it; Commitment; Multiple prohibitions (from what, actually); What atonement brings to us – and what this day is all about.

Part 1
Part 2

by Gregory Williams
Air Date: September 14, 2013

Show Notes

http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Politics_of_Health

Transcript Part 1

Welcome to Keys of the Kingdom. I’m Brother Gregory, and we’re going to talk about the Kingdom of God. We’re going to talk about a little bit of things that have come up in the last week, and one of our earlier shows where we mentioned Noah, and that Noah was not a righteous man. People took offense at that; but you have to take everything in context. Noah was righteous in his generations and found grace in the eyes of God because of that. If you go to Romans 3:10, it says, “As it is written, ‘there is none righteous, no not one’”. Well, that would probably include Noah. In Mark 10:18 it says, “Jesus said unto him, ‘Why callest thou me good?’” There is none good but one, and that is God. In Luke 18:19 we see the same thing, “and Jesus said unto them, ‘Why callest thou me good?’”. You see that same witness appearing in the Gospels. You can go back to Psalms 14:1 and it says, in relationship to the Psalm of David, “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that doeth good.’” There are other places. In Psalm 53:1 we see, “Every one of them is gone back, they are altogether become filthy. There is none that doeth good, no not one.” In Hebrews, we see, “By faith, Noah being warned of God, things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir to the righteousness which is by faith.” I wasn’t that everything Noah did was righteous. We can actually go back and take a look at Genesis 6:9 in a second; but if we continue looking at this Hebrews 11:7, reading the verse before, which is of course, 6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Not perfectly seek Him, but we are to seek perfection, but to diligently seek Him. 

Abraham screwed up; and yet we see in the very next verse after 7 it says that, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” This act of doing things by faith doesn’t make us righteous; but in doing things by faith, we find grace from God. Thus, that’s a message of hope because a lot of people are self-condemning. We should not be self-condemning and we should not be judging anybody else. Nor should we be judging ourselves. We should be examining ourselves and wondering and pondering about who we are, what we’re doing and if we’re doing the right thing; but this depressive, oppressive judgement…leave judgement to God. 1 Peter 3:20 we see, “…which sometimes were disobedient when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared wherein few, that is eight souls were saved by the water.” He’s talking about this period of longsuffering of God. God wants to grant you grace. He wants to give you forgiveness. You’re not going to get forgiveness because you’re righteous, but because you have faith, because you repent, because you exercise humility. You accept the fact that you cannot decide good and evil with your own knowledge alone; but you must listen to the Holy Spirit, to eat of the Tree of Life. Listening to Holy Spirit and eating of the Tree of Life are really the same metaphors in divergent times. Times that are so far apart that we begin not to listen to the Holy Spirit, not to eat of the Tree of Life, but to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In other words, very simply we decided in our intellect, this Tree of Knowledge, that we were going to figure out what was right and wrong and we were going to decide. It was going to be our flesh and blood that determined what was going to be righteous and unrighteous. We were going to be like God in that sense that we cut off ourselves from the Holy Spirit of God, no longer walk with God, but walk in our own ways. That’s arrogance. That’s not humility. We must humble ourselves before the Lord and be willing to admit that we cannot figure it out. When we do that, then if our heart aligns with the ways of Christ, which is the way of sacrifice, the way of loving one another, then the Holy Spirit will guide us, lead us; and we will walk with God. It isn’t a matter of magic names.

If you think that it’s important that you use a particular spelling of Jesus’ name or of the nomenclatures that we use to identify God, you go ahead and do that. The woman who thought that she had to touch the hem of the garment of Jesus Christ, because she believed that that’s what she had to do and acted on that faith, she was healed, not because of magically touching the garment, of reaching over and touching that garment. That wasn’t what it was any more than the Roman soldier that said, “You don’t even have to come to my house.” He had enough faith to know that you don’t have to touch any garment. I don’t have to touch any garment. I know it will be done. I know that You can do it. He had that faith. Other people don’t have that faith. They think, “Oh, well I have to touch this, or I have to say this particular word or I have to say these groups of words or these phrases; and if I don’t say these things, then I’m not saved.” So, if that’s where you’re at in your faith, go ahead; but know this. You are not saved by witchcraft. You are not saved by idolatry. You cannot make these things where if I do these things, God will have to bless me or heal me. He doesn’t have to; but God knows what’s really in your heart; because other people will use the same exact words with no effect. They don’t really have faith in God. They have faith in the words. Very dangerous when you start saying, “Oh we have to say these words. We have to say it this way. We have to spell it this way. We have to genuflect and use holy water, burn incense.” All these things that are not the weightier matters…not the things that Christ was looking for. These can really very quickly become idolatry when you start putting these things up and people say, “Well, it is His name”, and we go through these arguments. We have an article up on What’s in a Name? Somebody evidently read it or started to read it and they took offense. They didn’t get down to the end. You know what they did? As soon as they took offense the wanted to separate themselves out, which is the point of the article, showing you all these different arguments about, the name should be this way and that way, that Jesus is a derivation of Zeus, and all these things that really don’t hold up when you start looking at details objectively. Really, the message of the article wasn’t even about all those details and all that intellectualism that is always creeping in, which is just flesh and blood. It’s just peoples’ rationale. It’s not the Spirit. We’re trying to guide people to the Spirit, that the “name” of Christ is the character of Christ, not the spelling of Christ. So when you understand that word, that ancient word “name”, go back in the ancient times, and people gave somebody a name and birth; and they gave somebody a name when they changed their status. They would get a new name. They’re not a different person, but it’s describing who they are. The Indians did this, the Saxons did this, the Jutes did this, Celts did this. Even the Romans did it early on. They even did it later; but usually the change was when you went and got your status more in bondage in the civil law that they’ll change your name. They’ll add a new name, and they’ll change the way they write it because they’re changing who you are; but there’s no magic in the spelling. Either we are walking with the Spirit of God, and using the Tree of Life as a source…the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, or we’re creating dogmas and doctrines in our own imagination and in our own mind, which will lead us into bondage. We are not walking in the Spirit, but we are creating an eschatology that we worship. We worship the eschatology and not the God that it’s supposed to be about. So this is something we have to guard ourselves against all the time

If you go down and you read in Genesis 6:8, it says, “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord…but Noah found grace, this favor in the eyes of the Lord. It didn’t mean that he was completely perfect; but he found that there was a reason from the point of view of God to find favor in Noah. It was because of, and we see the words these are the generations, but the word are isn’t really in the original text. It’s these, the generations of Noah. This is why he found favor, because Noah was righteous in his generations. I does say in the translation, Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. We see the word and there, but again, that word and isn’t really in the original text. It’s added to make it flow; and the word just is often translated righteous. It’s saying that Noah was righteous because Noah was this perfect in generations. He did walk with God, but not all the time…not when he got drunk, he wasn’t walking with God. He was like King David

King David screwed up all the time; but he was king after God’s own heart. He repented; and one of the things that he did was he created a draft. This is one of the sins that David did, and we don’t usually use that word to describe it; but this is what he did. He went out to number the people to create a draft. This creation of a draft was a sin against God; and he admitted it eventually and repented of it. Of course, 20,000 people had died before he finally realized that this was a bad thing; and people were battling against him. The funny things is that this has also happened in our own history and many other countries.

My grandfather, I never met him, he died before ever met him; but he fled Norway in order to evade the draft. During Viet Nam, there was actually talk about me going back to Norway to avoid the draft here in America. I didn’t. I chose to allow them to draft me. I had already had an appointment to Annapolis, and then when I was drafted, I was offered an appointment to West Point; but I turned those down and eventually…long story…left the Army under an absolute legal situation. It was very interesting how that all unfolded; but I was willing to go. I went into the Army to serve; but I knew there were certain things that were not right about this whole thing. Of course, there should be no draft. In a free nation, there is no draft. Whatever country you’re in, if there is a draft (and there are actually proposals of civilian drafts where you have to work for the government without pay even, or with limited pay), it is not a free country. Of course, everybody already works for the government without pay if you’re paying income tax.

That’s the bondage of Egypt. In Egypt, 20% of your labor every year had to go to the government; and so you would work for the government. They actually had a deal where you could go and send somebody else to do the manual labor for you. In other words, you would pay somebody to go and build whatever government projects they were working on; and that was how you paid your 20%. That was called a Corvee system of statutory bondage; and that’s what the bondage of Egypt was. That’s prevalent in every country in the world today. It wasn’t for most of man’s history; but it is today. Most everybody in every country has gone back into the bondage of Egypt. The dog has returned to its vomit and the pig to its mire. We’re making the same mistakes over and over again; and it’s all very legal.

That’s what we write our books about…one of our books, Covenants of the Gods; and we share that with everybody for free. If you want to get it, you can go to our website and get it and join the living network. Somebody will help you find it, and they’ll even help you study it. We have free study programs all the time to help you go through this, and hundreds and hundreds of audio explaining the books, and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of footnotes in the books so that you can check it out yourself. That’s being responsible, and seeking the Kingdom is about being responsible. It’s a lot of knowledge and information, but really you’re not going to get what we’re talking about when we preach the Kingdom of God and His righteousness unless you’re following the Holy Spirit. You have to be following the Holy Spirit.

When we’re recording this particular show, it happens to be the day that there was a draft instituted, I think it was 1940 Congress passed the Selective Service Act providing for the first peace time draft in the U.S. history. Now there were drafts even back in the days of the Revolutionary War; but they weren’t effective. The idea of creating a Federal draft was just simply totally ineffective. Even as late as the Civil War when they tried to implement drafts both in the north and the south, it really didn’t amount to much. Only about 2% of the people were actually drafted; and there was a great deal of violence over this opposing the idea a draft because they knew that if you have a draft in a country, you’re not a free nation. Just as they opposed it under David, people opposed it here in America. If you had the money, you could hire somebody else to fill your draft position; and there were people who did that during the Civil War. If you went and signed up for “so and so”, then he didn’t have to go; and people could earn extra bonuses besides their wages. They would be paid the wages of the military which didn’t amount to much; and then they would also get a bonus from the guy who they were fighting on the behalf of so that he didn’t have to go. The idea was there was this obligation to government. Now you have a natural obligation to your neighborhood and to your community and to the nation; but it’s a natural obligation. A free people have the right to decide how they will fulfill that obligation. If you are subject people, they can force you to fulfill it according to the leading of what is in them. Unfortunately, in most cases today, leaders are not led by the Holy Spirit. They are led by the knowledge of good and evil. Of course, this is what Nimrod did and Caesar and the evil Pharoah. They were all led by the knowledge of good and evil; but they had the power to force the people to follow what they believed was good and evil. They could force you, and of course, that’s the history that we see in the Bible as nations rising up where the people are subject to the Nimrods and and Lamechs of the world, and this other group that is seeking righteousness and led by the Holy Spirit, led by God, walks with God.

This is going to be a common theme you always hear on this program. We’re going to try to get into Hebrews later on in the show and probably in the next one, and the next one until we get all the way through Hebrews. Then we’ll put it together in a collection like we’ve already done with Romans and Ephesians. That’s all on the Preparing You website, which is one of our websites. There’s www.thelivingnetwork.org and www.hisholychurch.org and www.preparingyou.com. We provide services to all those people who want to know information. We just posted something on the net to what we call the Living Network. It just went out this morning, and it shows some of the new pages that have gone up just in this last week. One of them is a page on audios and videos that we have available. Another one is a page on health and the politics of health, and that actually covers some things on vaccination and exemptions from vaccinations.

These pages on the Preparing You site are created by you because you see, the Bible, according to Wycliffe, who was one of the first people who translated the Bible into English said, “This is the book for the government of the people, for the people and by the people”, and that’s right. The government of God is a government of, for and by the people. The ministers of the government of God according to Jesus Christ don’t have the right to exercise authority one over the other. They are actually servants. They are titular. If you look up the definition of a republic in at least older dictionaries (it’s in many of the newer ones although the definitions are changing, a common theme we talk about here show you how the definition of religion at the time of the constitution is different than the definition of religion today. If you use the word religion like you see in the Constitution, you need to go back and find out what it meant at the time in order to understand what they were saying. If you apply the modern definition of religion to what they were saying, you will not understand what they were talking about. That’s another thing that we teach people and show people with footnotes so that you can actually check it out. We’re not making it up! We did our homework. Just like this thing with Noah not being a righteous man, because none are righteous but God. That’s all there is to it! There are things that we do in faith that move us towards righteousness, that are a part of being righteous; and God will find favor for us if we do this. This is why He tells us to repent, that means turn around and seek the Kingdom of God. He’ll come out and meet you half way because you will find favor in His eyes; but you have to be very careful that you’re going the right way. That means developing that inner spiritual compass

Anyway, we’re going to talk about that; and we’re going to talk about Hebrews. We’ll also mention a few of the other things that have been new on some of our websites in the last week. We’ll do all that when we return to Keys of the Kingdom after a brief break. So be right back. 

Welcome back to Keys of the Kingdom. We’re talking about some of the changes at His Holy Church on some of our websites like www.preparingyou.com.

God does want us to be a free and independent people. That’s what makes us so peculiar is how we achieve that, because we don’t do it through covert or coveting means. We do not force our neighbor to contribute to our welfare. We aren’t socialists in that sense. Socialism is charity with a gun; and once you introduce the gun, it’s not charity anymore. You’ve given someone power to take from one member of society and give to another member of society according to what he believes is right. The ones who want to do that are not following the Holy Spirit. They’re following and eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They become very self-righteous and often become very unrighteous in their acts, which is why they lead to things like communism that ends up killing millions upon millions of people.

Adolph Hitler was a social democrat, and Karl Marx was for democracy because democracy leads to socialism and socialism leads to communism. Everywhere we’ve seen communism, we’ve seen totalitarianism. It doesn’t always raise its head immediately; but it comes because it opens a door to attract men who seek power, because it is a centralization of power. They talk about it being for the people; but they have to give someone the power to do the things that the people want done. Unfortunately, people become covetous. They don’t love their neighbor as themselves; and they will eventually ask leaders to take away from their neighbors so that they can have what they think they ought to have, or what they want, or think they need. We’ve done that in America for over a century now; and it’s gotten worse and worse and worse. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

The interesting thing about getting better is that it can get better in youright now. That’s one of the problems and one of the blessings of seeking the Kingdom. you can’t force other people to go the ways of the Kingdom, the ways of righteousness, the ways of faith, hope and charity. You can’t force them to do that. You can’t force them to tear down their altars for them; but you tear down the altars by exposing the lie of their altars…the foolishness of their altars. You tear them down like an iconoclast in their hearts and show them. You cannot do that unless you build up the altars of God. In other words, all those systems like Egypt and Babylon were created because men like Nimrod became mighty providers instead of God.

How does God provide for you? Well, often through your neighbor. If you have a need, if you have no coat and your neighbor chooses to give you a coat, he comes and he gives you a coat. He chooses to do that. Individually he chooses to do that, and you should be choosing that. If your neighbor breaks his leg in a skiing accident and can’t mow his lawn, you should choose to go over and help him mow his lawn. Then when you have hard times, he comes over; but that’s all faith, hope and charity, you see. That’s not force. That’s not making a contract with him where he has to do it whether he wants to or not. That’s the difference between a free society and a society that’s in bondage. It’s that simple.

Now, in order to do that, you have to gather together so that you know that your neighbor has a need. That’s why you go to church. You don’t go to church to have your needs fulfilled. You don’t go to church to make you feel good because “Oh, I love the singing there! It makes me feel so good!” You don’t have to go there so that God will hear you. I don’t care where you go. God can hear you. He probably doesn’t hear you because He told you He’s not going to hear you if you go the way of Israel when it elected Saul. This is what it’s going to lead to. You’re going to give Saul the power to take and take and take; and he’s going to do just that. He’s going to take your sons and daughters and draft them. He’s going to do all these things, and He says, “You’re going to cry out to Me in that day and I’m not going to hear you”.  

This idea of electing somebody who can exercise authority one over the other is a rejection of God, which is why Jesus said to his apostles when He appointed unto them the Kingdom, “It is not to be that way with you.”. He says it in Matthew, Mark and Luke. I’m not making it up. He said it. It’s not to be that way. You’re not to be looking to men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority. Yet all these people out here who are calling themselves Christians, send their kids to public schools that are financed at the expense of their neighbor because men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority, tax their neighbor. That taxation is not a free will offering, but based on forcing your neighbor to contribute, or you’re going to take his house away from him.

In a system of excise tax that is called property tax that is usury. That is amoral. That is immoral. That is against Christ. It is against the teachings of the Bible from the beginning to the end; but it’s legal. It’s legal because you have not been seeking the ways of righteousness for over a century in this country. It didn’t happen all at once. It happened a little at a time. Rome was not built in a day. You did not go into bondage in a single day. It went on many levels; and that’s why I had to write a whole book showing you many of those levels…15 different chapters showing you many of those levels in which you sell yourself into bondage because you love the rewards of men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority. If you do that, you are not doing what Christ said. You are not acting according to the name of Christ. You’re not doing it in the name of Christ because Christ wouldn’t do that. He wouldn’t become king of all the cities and rule over them because that’s not righteousness. That’s unrighteousness. You are putting yourself in the place of a god ruling people in flesh and blood.

God wants you to be ruled in your heart. Christ said he’s going to build His church…not because flesh and blood reveals it to you, but because My Father in Heaven reveals it to you in your heart and mind through revelation. Now, you can be deceived by what God is revealing to you. You can think, “Well, God wants me to go kill these people, or God wants me to rob these people.” You can imagine that; but we have things like the Bible and common sense that we check and say, “Wait a minute!”

If I send my kids to public school, or just take public school benefits, there are homeschooling programs now where the government will send you books and computers and lessons and all this kind of stuff; and you can keep your kids at home. They actually have a system like that in numerous states; but somebody’s paying for them. They’re amazed at how much the government will give you.

Well, they want to give you more than you pay in taxes because then that creates debt. Any benefit you take from a government in debt is a curse on your children because your children will be held accountable for that debt. So, since Social Security is bankrupt, any money you take from Social Security is a curse on the future of your children and your neighbor’s children because they don’t have the money to pay you. It doesn’t exist, hasn’t for years. People talk about lockbox…that’s a bunch of hooey. Go read the law. Go read Not So Secure Social Security on our website. It will show you the laws that have been passed, the Supreme Court rulings time and time again. There is no separation of funds. If the Treasury is out of funds, Social Security is out of funds. There is no division of funds, so any dime you take from that Treasury, whether it’s Social Security or EBT cards or whatever it is, any benefit you take has to be paid by somebody in the future. That means your children. So when read those items, you go look in your Bible for where it talks about cursing your children, that’s what they’re talking about. You’re cursing your children if you’re not teaching the says of faith, hope and charity.

Now, how would you teach them the says of faith, hope and charity? You go to a church that says, “We need to be taking care of the social welfare of our people through faith, hope and charity, not by calling to men who call themselves benefactors, who say, “Oh, he has no coat. Go to this man and he will take a coat away from somebody who has lots of coats; and he will make that person give you a coat.” That’s not what John the Baptist said. That’s not what Jesus preached. It’s not what Yeshua preached. It’s not what Yahweh preached. It’s not what ____ preached, it’s not what Jehovah preached. I don’t care who you call Him, that’s not the Spirit of Christ. It is the antithesis of Christ. It is anti-Christ; and if that’s the way you’re going about things, you’re anti-Christ.

You can call yourself a Christian, you can call yourself a follower of Christ; but you’re really going to be a Nicolaitan, a conquered people. That’s what nico laity means. They say, “Oh, we think it was somebody named Nicholas in history who had this idea; and he was teaching”. There’s no evidence of that. There’s somebody who gave that opinion a long time ago; but that’s not evidence of that. Read the word in the Greek – nico laity – conquered people. It’s associated with B___, the Arab B___. What does B___ mean? Conquered people. That’s what it means!

How are they conquered? They’re lovers of reward. They’re lovers of benefits that do not come without strings attached. Why were they in bondage in Egypt? They needed the rewards of Egypt to survive because they were not prepared to survive the famine. So they went into bondage in Egypt; and they got benefits from Pharoah. Now, he began to supply those benefits because he was rich; but eventually everybody, even in Egypt (except for the priests) went into this bondage where they had to pay 20% to the government. There was a ceiling limit for them. Nobody else has that ceiling.

I used to tell everybody when Mubarak was still President in Egypt, that there was a ceiling on income tax in Egypt of 20%. 2,000 years after Christ, thousands of years after Joseph, income tax in Egypt was still 20% 1/5. You can make a million dollars, it’s 1/5. You can make 10 million dollars, it’s still 1/5. I’ll bet you that’s going to change with your new democracy. I haven’t looked it up yet, but I’ll bet you that’s going to change! The rich are going to pay more than 20%; but then they’ll pay your new Congress in Egypt, they’ll bribe them and they’ll make exceptions, and they’ll end up paying nothing.

Rockefeller made 360 million dollars one year and they asked him how much he paid in income tax. He said, “Nothing.”. 360 million dollars and he paid nothing. You make $36,000 and you have to pay. How does that happen? It happens every time. What’s the big surprise? You want to get all worked up and upset at poor old Rockefeller. Pity the guy. Do you know how hard it’s going to be for him to get into the Kingdom of Heaven? He’s got to fit through the eye of a needle because that would be easier for him to get into Heaven under his present circumstances. The same way with all these guys, Bill Gates..none are righteous. Oh, he gives away to charities; but all of his charities advocate socialism and vaccinations.

Speaking of vaccinations, we just added more information on vaccinations on www.preparingyou.com. You go to Politics of Health. Down there there’s information about vaccinations, including information about legally refusing them. There are articles about why you might want to do that for yourself, for your children, what have you. There’s a lot of money in vaccinations. It’s going to become more and more compulsory because your nation is full of people who want to exercise authority one over the other.

Now, you think you’re not one of those people, I’m sure. You don’t want to exercise authority one over the other. You don’t want to become a Nimrod, a tyrant; but the reality is, you are if you’re sending your kids to public school, or even taking the benefits of educating them at home, but having the curriculum given to you by the government. The government is men who exercise authority. They call themselves benefactors; but they don’t give you anything except what they take away from your neighbor. It’s legal to do that because you have made agreements with them. You signed up. You’re not ___ like Peter was. You are a registered member of a system of socialism.

You say, “I don’t want socialist medicine; but I want socialist public education.” We got along without public education. It was only a minority of students who came out of public schools back in the 1900’s. Most kids were not educated in public schools, yet we had one of the highest degrees of education anywhere in the world. Now they all go to public schools and we score, what is it, 69th? We have terrible scores! Now we have whole homeschooling groups that you should talk to. There are new curriculums coming. We should have some guests on and talk about this that are just going to devastate your children. You should get them out of public school. Even if it wasn’t a covetous system, you should get them out of there because they’re teaching them lies. I have a whole collection of school books that go all the way back to the 1800’s that I’ve accumulated in thrift stores and such very cheaply. I don’t know, it may have value; but you can go in and read the history books and even the math books. You can see that they’re not only dumbing down your children, they are teaching them lies. We just had a local lady, she’s been a real advocate. She’s known we’ve all homeschooled. She’s always pooh-poohed that and said, “Oh, no you have to send them to public school; but the other day she wrote a message that she thought that the schools were brainwashing their children. She’s very close to the Kingdom. She just took in a whole family of kids, a mother and I think five children. She took them into their house; and they’re helping care for them. Now, that’s a big invasion. They’re not related. She just did it because she saw the need. That’s very Kingdom oriented; but they’re all going to public school. Yet she just posted that those children going to public school are being brainwashed. So, do you really want that? The reality is, that’s the way it is. She could actually be getting money from the government for what she’s doing; and she hasn’t even considered it. I don’t believe she’s considered it, she isn’t doing it. So, that’s amazing.

The reality is, that’s what we have to do as a people if you want to be free souls under God, if you want to walk with God like Noah. This giving and taking in marriage, that has to do with giving and taking in contract. See, you’re marrying the state when you ask the state for benefits. The state’s become your father. We have articles called Call No Man On Earth Your Father. Jesus said that. What’s He talking about? He’s talking about the parens patriae that’s in your U.S. codes; and it’s in the codes of other nations all over where the state becomes your father. It’s the head of your family. You enter into agreements, to covenants with the state to take care of you; and they, in return will have a power to exercise authority over you, and force you to contribute. The problem is that you’re no longer living by faith, hope and charity. This is a process. It’s a little bit less charity, and then it’s a little bit less charity, and then more of the forced benefit, forced collection in order to provide guaranteed entitlements. You just keep edging away from a society that is rooted in faith, hope and charity where neighbor takes care of neighbor and community takes care of its members through faith, hope and charity, and philanthropic organizations are looking out for the truly needy of society. You move away from that; and the government does it all. Then you wonder why you’re in bondage. You wonder why you have no control over your government. Well, you unleashed the beast in yourself where you thought it was okay to covet your neighbor’s goods. That’s forbidden in the 10 Commandments; and Jesus said, “If you want eternal life, keep the commandments.” I’ve had preachers tell me, “No, you don’t have to.” That’s ridiculous. It’s absurd. Of course, you have to! You won’t do it perfectly; but if you’re not striving to do it, you’re not even trying?

Are you trying to create a system where nobody has to force their neighbor through taxation to provide education? Are you trying to create a system where nobody has to pray to men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority, to take care of the healthcare of your community? Are you trying to create that system, or are you just slothfully sitting back and saying, “Let the government do it”? You’re saying, “Oh, I don’t want the government to do it.”. A lot of you are saying that…Tea Partiers and Republicans, even guys who follow Ron Paul are saying, “We don’t want the government to do it.”; but what are you doing to create the alternative? You’re not doing it in your churches. You’re just singing and saying the magic words and all that kind of stuff. That’s all in opposition to Christ. That’s not what Christ came to do. He didn’t come to make you feel good. He came to show you how to be good. “Be ye perfect…” You can’t do that unless you start caring about your neighbor as much as you care about yourself. You’re not doing it in the name of the Christ unless you’re doing it by personal sacrifice, giving up your life so that others may have life more abundant.

We’re not trying to create a welfare state where people get to sit back and get fat and watch their TVs and not go to work. We’ve got a governing agent built into the system of God that if you don’t work, you don’t eat. You have to contribute, each according to his contribution; but you decide what that is. You gather together; and this is the way the early church did it…tens, hundreds and thousands. This is why you had these deacons. It’s actually a derivation of the word that means ten. It’s also is a word that means servant. Why are those two words similar? Because the system pre-dates, goes way back. Rome did it. The Teutons were doing it. The Israelites did it. Ten families get together, pick a minister who is titular in authority, in other words, he doesn’t exercise authority. He’s not standing between you and God. He is God’s servant; and he can serve the community with the welfare needed for community by what you give him. So you watch him. You can watch this guy serving ten families; and he’s connected with other ministers so that ten families are not isolated. The ten families are part of a nation; and it’s what they call the tens, hundreds and thousands or tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands. It’s basically a network of charity where you’re not bound by contract. You’re not incorporated. You don’t sell your right to choose in order to get guaranteed benefits. You maintain your right to choose in order to be able to provide the benefits of society in a government of the people, for the people and by the people. That’s why the Bible was written according to Wycliffe. That’s why it was given to you, so that you could begin to do that. That’s called seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and that’s what you need to do. We’re going to see that theme in the book of Hebrews when we begin to study that next time on Keys of the Kingdom.

Transcript Part 2

Welcome back to Keys of the Kingdom. I’m Brother Gregory, and we’re talking about the Kingdom of God. In the last show, we talked about some new entries on one of our websites. We have many, many websites. Preparingyou.com is a wiki site that is constructed by the people, for the people and of the people. They put on all kinds of information, talk about all kinds of different skills, and share information with others. Almost anyone can become a wiki editor of those pages. You can do it from your computer. It’s very simple. It’s not hard to do. We have whole teams of people who will help you learn how to do it. It’s not as complicated as regular programming html and hp pages that you see on the internet. It’s really just sort of a text editor, and you can put up your own pages. A lot of people who thought themselves to be computer illiterate have actually started to put stuff up on those pages, and have become editors to the page. If there are typos, you can fix other people’s articles; they will see that you’ve repaired them. You can work together as teams and get to know one another in doing this.

As I said, we recently put up a page on health and other pages of things like multiple sclerosis, vaccinations, and also on money. There was interest in this BitCoin that was going around the internet. There are some meetings with the government. Of course the government has an interest in anything that appears as money because the government runs on money. It creates most of the money that people use. A lot of the money you use, you created. You talk about complex issues…that would be a very complex issue to discuss. That’s not going to be the theme of this show; but we have a little article, and you can read on it. The fact is that a lot of people don’t understand how economies work, how money works, how it affects society. We need to understand that because the Bible talks about money. It talks about the love of money being the root of all evil. The word they actually use there for the love of money…it’s not money that’s the problem. It’s covetousness. If you look into the origin of the word there that you see, it actually is a word that has to do with coveting. It isn’t about the money itself. Originally, the early forms of money was gold and silver and copper coins; and all those were substances. You didn’t even use the word “coined” as we see it today. “Coined” is when you say that an ounce of silver is a dollar; and then you stamp on an ounce of gold $20 or $50. Now you have coined the idea that an ounce of gold is worth 50 ounces of silver. You’ve stated that, and now that’s a coin. It’s not a commodity. Somebody has defined that this coin is worth this much of this other commodity. You’ve moved away from just weights and measures. The way you would do it is, this is an ounce of gold; and it’s worth an ounce of gold. This is an ounce of copper; and it’s worth an ounce of copper. This is an ounce of silver; and it’s worth an ounce of silver. You can measure how much silver is in the coin and say it’s .999 fine silver. That’s just weights and measures; but when you start saying, “This silver is guaranteed to exchange for this much gold, or this much gold exchanges for this much silver”, now you’re coining. You’re stamping a value. Somebody’s dictating value. It’s no longer commodity. Before, it was just a commodity. The gold miner goes and mines gold, and he give so much to the smelter guy. The smelter guy turns it into coin, and gives all the coin back to the gold miner minus his labor for turning it into coin. Then they both go out and spend it on olive oil and fishes, or grain or whatever it is they want to buy. Then money goes into circulation. That’s a government of the people, for the people and by the people. But if you give somebody the power to say, “This much gold is worth this much silver”, now they’re coining, now they’re dictating, now they’re ruling over something. You can certainly do that; but it changes the nature of your money. The money is no longer a commodity money. It’s something else; and you can get arrested for counterfeiting it, or even competing against it. There’s a 486 in the codes on money; and we talk about that on that page, and show that you can get in a lot of trouble for trying to create an alternative currency, even a digital currency. A person needs to understand that. We warned people about creating Liberty Dollars. We told them what the problem was. They didn’t listen; and they got themselves into a lot of trouble. I couldn’t believe they were doing so many stupid things.

The reality is that the money systems that the world creates in all countries always collapse eventually because men are greedy. It’s all based on covetousness. Most of society is greedy; and they’re all going to fail, too. It’s that covetousness that’s the problem. It doesn’t matter whether you’re using BitCoins or silver coins, gold coins or paper money. If the covetousness is there, there’s going to be a problem. It’s going to serve ill for society. Now, with that said, there are forms of money that lend themselves to covetousness…speculative coins, speculative money. It draws the covetousness out of us. It draws the greed out of it; so there’s more danger in that than there is in those that are produced by actual manual labor. One of the things about BitCoins is that you can only produce so many of them. Then they become rare; therefore, they increase in value, and more people show an interest in using them. So, you imagine that the value is going up; because you can buy more things with them. The reality is that the value hasn’t changed. It’s not really a product of labor like gold and silver would be. I’ll give you an example. Even gold and silver are not perfect. In the gold camps in Alaska, a carton of eggs might be worth more than an ounce of gold; because you couldn’t get the eggs. There was lots of gold going around. The value of things fluctuated; but that’s in a commodity market. Your money should always be nothing more than a commodity, an item of trade. That lends itself to a better society and a better economy. As soon as you get away from that, as soon as you coin or stamp a value on that source, and give someone the power to control that value as you do with paper notes, you open a door to all kinds of problems. Now you couple that with a society that’s becoming more and more covetous; it is a recipe for absolute economic disaster. So, the solution is to stop being covetous; and that’s something we need to practice. Of course, that brings us back to the Kingdom of God. 

In the Kingdom of God, you have to practice charity. You have to practice giving to one another. Now, how do you do that? This is another problem that came up on the network recently, and we’ve talked about it in previous shows. Someone says that they have a need. It could be a widow, an orphan. It could be someone who had an injury or something and they have a need. They say, “I have a need. I am short of funds. I need help.” So, how do we respond? Do we just throw money at them? That’s a phrase we often hear with modern government. Do you just throw money at it? They asked for help. Don’t we just give it to them? Well, who are they? Do we know them? In a true church setting, you know who’s in the church. You know who’s in your congregation. You know whether they’re telling you the truth. You know that men are liars. All men are not liars. That was in David’s haste he said that all men are liars; but men are liars. They lie to themselves, they lie to others. Somebody comes up to me and tells me that they need help. We’ve given that example of the guy on the street corner. They’re actually doing shifts; and they’re not homeless. There may be some homeless out there; but there are actually teams of guys working corners. They’re getting a government check. They’re not homeless; and they’re doing just fine. They go out there a beg; and people hand the $10, $20. They feel good they provided a service. It makes people feel good; but it’s not righteous. It’s not what people should be doing. You don’t know who that guy is. You don’t know that he’s got an SUV parked in the parking lot. You don’t know that he’s got lots of money. He just does this because he likes to screw around with people. You don’t know; and that’s irresponsible. So just as if you were to go to the governments who exercise authority one over the other, and force your neighbors to contribute to your welfare; they’re going to ask questions. They’re going to want to know how much you make and where you live, who you are, do you have children, do you have family, etc. They’re going to ask you all kinds of questions. You fill out those questions. You’re going to get welfare from them; but they’re not going to ask you, “Are you moral?”. They’re not going to ask you…well, they might eventually, I’ve never filled out one of these things, so I don’t know all they ask…but are they going to ask, “Do you have a drinking problem? Do you have a pornography problem? What kind of problems do you have that have led you into this situation where you need help?” To just throw money at it is not going to solve that problem. Well, the church should ask those questions; and you should expect those questions to be asked. “You have a need, your kids are hungry, how come? You live in Spokane and your kids are starving? You live in a house that was given you by your relatives, by your parents? You don’t have to pay any rent. You have to pay taxes on it. Most of your kids are over 15 years of age. Some of them are well over 20, and your young kids are starving? Why?”. We’re going to ask that question. We want to know, because we want to solve the problem. We don’t want to feed the problem. Maybe the problem is that you’re slothful. Maybe you’re a bad money manager. Maybe you’re squandering your money. We’ve got to find out what the problem is if we’re going to help you. If your charity isn’t strengthening the poor, you’re committing the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. Common theme.

So, we are going to get to Hebrews. We’re going to start looking at it; but we need to start realizing that the church is a government. It’s defined as a government in Black’s Law Dictionary. I didn’t make it up. It says it’s one form of government. The form of government that it is, is a government based on faith, hope and charity. That’s a government of the people, for the people, by the people where if somebody has a need for a coat or food or shelter or anything, we supply it out of charity. That’s going to produce a different kind of society. That’s what we need to be doing is producing a different kind of society; because if you base it on force, men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority…covet means.

Kennedy once gave a speech that many have heard that he gave at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel where he talks about a vast conspiracy that has attained human and material resources and done so through covet means. It’s very clear that he says covet means. When you see a transcription, it talks about covert means. He had a Bostonian accent; but either that’s a Freudian slip, or that’s what he actually meant. That actually fits better than covert means. It was done through somewhat covert means. He’s talking about fighting this conspiracy that is international in scope to keep man from being what he was born to be…free and independent. Then a short time later, somebody shot him. You can add conspiracy theories to that; but the point is that what he said was really true. It’s been true throughout history; and the Bible talks about this time and time and time again.

So how do you become free and independent without becoming responsible, and without caring for your neighbor as much as you care about yourself? As a society, you cannot become free unless you do that. This is why Christ was saying seek the Kingdom, seek to be responsible, start loving one another, caring about one another, caring for one another through sacrifice; because that’s what Christ came to do…to serve and to sacrifice Himself for others. We don’t all have to get crucified; but we are crucified daily by choice when we come together by faith, hope and charity. You go to church to help your neighbor. If nobody in your congregation needs help, then you say, “Let’s get together and help somebody not in our congregation…someone outside of our congregation.” Maybe in another congregation somebody needs help; so we have to connect with them. Maybe somebody that’s not in any congregation of the church or networking with us, maybe they need help. Let’s go help them. That’s casting your bread on the waters. That’s the red heifer. That’s the sacrifice of the red heifer. Until we begin that, we can kiss freedom goodbye. I don’t care who you elect. Ron Paul, all that stuff, that’s all politics. It’s not going to work. It’s not going to change. Nothing’s going to change until you change. You can’t change your neighbor. You can only change yourself. You really can’t even change yourself; but you can be changed if you admit that you need to be changed! You need to be changed; because you’ve been living by covet means, you see. You’ve been playing that game. You need to stop playing that game and start playing the game of Christ; and it is an important game. It’s a game that involves the winner taking your soul. So, you’re either moving toward the Kingdom…the system of government based on faith, hope and charity or you’re moving somewhere else. It’s your choice; and you can’t do it without gathering together.

How can you love your neighbor without gathering together with them?…and guess what. Most of your neighbors aren’t going to want to gather; but the more of you who gather, and the more of you who start taking care of one another in any way you can afford (just start with something…baby steps), you’re going to start changing the collective consciousness. You’re going to have to strive at this; and you’re going to have to persevere. Those are terms that Christ used. That’s what we’re talking about at His Holy Church. We’re preaching repentance…turn around and go the other way; and it’s going to take you to do it. All I can do is talk about it on the radio. I can send you emails about it; but if you run out of food, what am I supposed to do? Email you a picture of food? We had this family in Spokane where the kids were actually showing signs of malnutrition; and one individual said, “Oh, we just have to help them. Just start sending them food.” What was I supposed to do? Mail them a couple of steaks? I could send money; and you could go down to the store and buy them meat. They didn’t have much meat in their diet. They evidently needed other things; but on further investigation, I found out they had a lot of problems in their family that needed to be addressed. All I would do would be to make them dependent on us to give them what they should have been able to provide for themselves. They had the resources. They just were not managing them right. What they needed was counseling. Now, they might need some immediate help with food; but they were not out of food. They were just not eating right. That was about education, because the food was available. They just weren’t pursuing it properly. So, to really help them…to strengthen the poor, we had to do something different. As we pursued that, we discovered what it was; but they had to participate! We participated…they participated. They have to repent and go a different way that’s not going to put them in such a vulnerable position. This is people helping people. That’s it. That’s the Kingdom of God; but they actually do it in an organized fashion. Not because somebody rules over them; but because they realize that if we do this with teamwork, we can do it better.

If we have ten guys, and each of us go over and try to pick up this log to move it to another location, we’re not going to get it moved. It’s too heavy. If we all go together and simultaneously reach down and pick it up and say, “Heave Ho!” it’ll come up off the ground and it’ll go where you can take it; but you have to choose to work together in the Kingdom of God. We don’t have taskmasters who are going to whip you if you don’t pick it up; and that’s just the way it is. That’s freedom. That’s the other form of government. So, the Kingdom of Heaven is not for the slothful. It’s not for the self-indulgent rich. It’s for the rich who are willing to unload some of their burdens and give to the poor. Even the poor have to give amongst each other. China has always been plagued with poor people; and it’s been that way because the warlords and different leaders just were ruthless in ruling over the Chinese. The real problem was the Chinese, the poor in China preyed upon the poor in China. They had this whole thing in their culture. I’m not picking on the Chinese; that’s what they have in their culture.Today in America, we think it’s absolutely okay to have public education at the expense of your neighbor who you force to pay into the public education through property tax. It shouldn’t be that way. That’s not a free nation. You can have public schools in a free nation; but the public schools would be supported by freewill offerings. They used to be! Even when public schools were in the minority in the country, most people were not educated in the public schools. The public schools received donations from people to stay in business, because they didn’t tax them enough to maintain the public schools. Starting down that road opened a Pandora’s Box which brought us to our present dilemma.

As I said, we’re going to take a look at Hebrews. It’s going to take us show after show after show. We’ll air them in a number of different places, and eventually we’ll have them as a study group. We needed to lay some foundation here as to what we’re talking about. We always do, and we always go back to that.

Today, according to some calendars is a Day of Atonement. There’s a Christian day of atonement that throughout history is based on the English translation of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. In the original Hebrew, the Bible calls that day Yom Hakippurim, the Day of Atonement. This Yom Kippur was the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. While the temple in Jerusalem was standing in Bible times 70 CE, the cohen gadol or high priest was mandated by the Torah to perform a complex set of special services and sacrifices for Yom Kippur and attain divine atonement, the word Kippur meaning atone in the Hebrew. Our understanding of what they were doing is actually distorted, because, by the time you got Christ on the scene, the Pharisees had twisted the translations so that you had unmoored the purposes of what they were talking about from their original meaning; and they created a lot of complex, mindless rituals that really had nothing to do with the original Hebrew text. This is really easy to do with Hebrew which is a precise language, but it’s metaphoric. Almost every word has multiple definitions. One will be an abstract definition, and the other one will be a meaning that is something specific…some physical thing. We’ve gone over that. A kidney is reigns of control and it’s a kidney. So when they say “kidney”, are they talking about reigns of control or are they talking about a kidney? Well, in some 18 places, they translate it “reigns”; and in other places they translate it “kidney”. If you translate it the wrong way in the right place or the right way in the wrong place, you’re going to create confusion. That’s what they did, so you don’t even understand what the cohen gadol was. A lot of people actually think that the Levites were to stand between the people and God, as if you couldn’t give to God unless you gave to the cohen…the priest. That’s ridiculous. It’s absurd. You’re all altars of clay in the Kingdom of God. Yet you have these altars of stone, which is another form of government where the leaders, the cohen are titular. They have no exercising of authority. They don’t have any funds to give away unless you choose to give to them. Now, you should tithe in the Old Testament and the New Testament; but you tithe according to their service. You don’t have to give to a particular guy. This puts the power in your hands; and that makes you the government of the people, for the people and by the people. Anything else is bondage. Anything else is slavery. Anything else is not holy. Anything else will end up feeding of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, not the Tree of Life; and will not walk with God. So, God wants you to be free souls under Him and His guidance. We’re going to talk more about how to do that and the book of Hebrews when we return to the Keys of the Kingdom.

Welcome back to the Keys of the Kingdom. We’re talking about Yom Kippur on our way to talking about Hebrews. Of course a lot of people think, “Oh, that’s a Jewish holiday.” The reality is, there are a great many Christians, there’s a whole variety of groups of Christians that deal with the Day of Atonement, which is what Yom Kippur means. We’ll talk about that conflict in a bit.

Years ago I was out here and I worked seven days a week raising sheep and children and farming the desert, which is a lot of work. One day, I looked on the calendar, and I saw this word Yom Kippur. I had heard it before and seen it, but didn’t really know anything about it. I knew it had to do with atonement, so rather than looking it up (there was no Google in those days) I got interested and I saw in parentheses it meant Day of Atonement on the calendar, I though, “I’m going to take that day off and I’m going to just walk out on the desert.”; and that’s what I did. I just left all the work behind. I left early in the morning; and I fasted all day. I didn’t even take water with me, I don’t believe, and walked out across the desert. Usually in October, it’s not all that hot; but I went miles and miles in a big loop out across the desert. I had a tradition of doing this, my own personal tradition every year out here in the desert I would do this.

One of those times I came back a long way and came across a piece of property. I was walking across the piece of property; and I was suddenly struck as I often have been, and have since I was a little kid, with a premonition, an epiphany. Standing on a little piece of ground in the middle of nowhere, I suddenly realized that I needed to own this piece of property. I needed to obtain the property. I don’t even want to use the word own, because that’s not what I really felt. I needed to obtain this property. I would not hold it forever, but I was to seek to obtain this property. I didn’t even know whose property it was. I had an idea of where I was; I knew how to get back. I didn’t know exactly where I was. I’d never been to the spot before; but I looked at the ground and I looked to the right and to the left, and this is what I felt, an inner compass kind of thing; and I knew that I was to get and obtain this property. I’m actually having a little epiphany about it right now.

The point is that this happened on the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement is calculated by different calendars. All of that’s irrelevant; because it’s this inner compass that you really need to develop. It’s fine to study all these things; but if they supplant the inner compass of the Holy Spirit, you’re not walking with God. You’re walking with your knowledge…your flesh and blood knowledge…what you learn intellectually. The spiritual walking with God that you will know things not by the knowledge of men, not by flesh and blood but you will know them because you have an inner knowing, a guiding of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know how many times it has saved my life and the lives of others, because I will listen to the Holy Spirit, and seek to always listen to the Holy Spirit over what my intellect will tell me what to do. This is the big challenge. This is one of your big challenges…are you going to listen to the Holy Spirit; and how do you know it’s the Holy Spirit?

Anyway, we’re going to be talking about Hebrews. The Pharisees had gotten away from that, so when they read the Bible, they had convoluted an interpretation and translated the Bible what they were supposed to do on Yom Kippur. They had borken it down into these complex religious rituals, and had unmoored them from their real meaning. This is common. These services were considered to be the most important part of Yom Kippur, these actual rituals; because through them, the cohen gadol, made atonement for all Jews and the world. That’s, of course, superstitious nonsense. It was the spirit of what those words were describing that makes atonement. Christ knew that. So Christ made that atonement; but you’re not atoned for yet until you conform to Christ and His Spirit. You see, you can’t be forgiven unless you forgive. Christ said that. Now Christ did His part, but if you don’t forgive, you’re not forgiven. If you don’t repent, you’re not saved. You have to actually repent; and you have to know what you’re repenting of.

One of the guidelines of what you’re repenting of is are you still coveting your neighbor’s goods through the agency of government in order to obtain benefits at their expense through men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority? Well, then you haven’t repented if you’re still doing that. If you’re not turning around and trying to create a society that is not dependent upon coveting means, then you are still unsaved. Not because Christ didn’t do His part; but because you’re not doing your part. You’re not repenting. You’re not seeking the Kingdom of God; nor are you seeking His righteousness. You’re still coveting your neighbor’s goods. You’re still slothful in the love of your neighbor, because you’re not creating that alternative system. You think that if you vote somebody in, he’ll do it for you, which is what they thought when they elected Saul! He’ll do it for us! That act alone is called the rejection of God, you see! So all the people trying to do that are missing it. They’re off the mark; and they probably already have the mark of the beast. Anyway, we won’t go into that now!

During this service, according to their traditions, the cohen gadol (high priest) entered into the Holy of Holies in the center of the temple. It was the only time of the year that anyone went inside. Doing so required specific purification, preparations including five immersions in what they called the mikvah, four changes of clothing. Seven days Prior to Yom Kippur the high priest was sequestered in the Palhedrin chambers in the temple where he reviews the services with the sages familiar with the temple. He was sprinkled with spring water containing ashes of the red heifer as purification, and of course I’ve told you many times the red heifer had nothing to do with a heifer, had nothing to do with the color red. We’ll keep you in suspense on that for those who are new listeners, newcomers. We’ll explain that at a later time. Let’s stick on this.

On this day of Yom Kippur the cohen gadol, high priest had to follow a precise order of services and sacrifices and purification. He wore these five sets of clothing. Three of them were kind of golden, and two of them were white linen. He was immersed in this mikvah five times and he washed his hands and his feet ten times. When he was immersed, he had to wash them twice. Sacrifices included two daily lambs, one bull, two goats, two rams with accompanying meal offering, wine, other libations and three incense offerings. A regular, two daily and an additional one for Yom Kippur. So this high priest entered into the Holy of Holies three times, the tetragrammaton, this YHWH was pronounced three times, once for each confession. There’s this whole system of confessions. The central theme of all these rituals is this atonement and repentance.

Of course, they had become so focused on the rituals that they had neglected the weightier matters that Jesus lists off in the Bible. They had all of their incense and their spices and all this kind of thing; but they did not repent, because they had unmoored the principals of all this. If you read Sacrifice of Sophistry for example, you can get it on our website, or I think it’s the second chapter of the book Thy Kingdom Comes, you’ll see this idea of bulls and rams, you’ll see there’s alternative meaning to these things. The whole altars of clay and stone, these are describing functions of your government and how your government operates. You think it has to do with these mindless religious rituals because that’s what the Pharisees were telling people; and the Pharisees got it wrong according to Christ. So why do you think you should go back and study what the Pharisees were doing. You should find out why they had it wrong, you see.

The modern Christians wouldn’t recognize the real Christ if He came. Some of you might; and some of you are starting to realize that seeking the Kingdom of God means that you have to actually, physically start loving your neighbor as yourself, taking care of his social welfare needs in faith, hope and charity instead of with men who exercise authority one over the other…because Jesus said so, because Yeshua said so, because the Bible says so! But your local pastor, he doesn’t say so. If you need any help, you go to the men who exercise authority. You just come here, and we’ll make you feel good about it because we’ll tell you you’re saved. You said the magic words.

Jewish people traditionally observe this Holy Day with an approximately 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer; but because they weren’t attending to the weightier matters, because they were seeking kings like Saul, God wasn’t hearing those prayers. Not on an individual basis. Sometimes people are completely duped. God will run out and meet you because He speaks deeper into your heart than I can; but you are following false religion. Remember the definition of religion 200 years ago, the definition of religion at the time of Christ from the point of view of the Bible was how you took care of the needy of your society, how you fulfilled your obligation to love your neighbor as yourself, to God and your fellow man. That was religion. Well, today you do it with men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority. That’s what you have to atone for. That’s what you have to repent of; and that’s what His Holy Church is about.

We have these Google groups. If you want to join the Living Network, you have to go join this Google group. Now you can actually meet up with physical people if you’re not on the net; but if you’re on the net, you join those Google groups. That gives you an opportunity. All they are is a tool by which you actually meet physical people in real congregations of record where they pick a minister and that minister picks a minister. They begin to network with one another so that they can begin to take care of one another in faith, hope and charity when there is real need. We are coming to a time in history where there’s going to be real need; and you need to do that. But I don’t want you to come together out of fear. I want you to come together out of love for one another. Christ will know the difference. We are discovering the difference by the way in which you come together. You come together because you want to be free. You come together because you want to be safe. That’s not why Christ came. Christ didn’t come to be free. Christ didn’t come to be safe. Christ didn’t come to be served. He came to serve; and He’s explaining this. So, when you go to church, are you coming to serve, to give, to take care of others in a righteous way that takes care of the poor or not? So you see this is the message of Yom Kippur, the 7th day of the 7th month of Tishri, and also regarded as the Sabbath of Sabbaths.

There’s Rosh Hashanah referred to in the Torah as Yom Teruah, the first day of the month according to the Hebrew calendar. There are all kinds of Hebrew calendars out there. On some, there are two months of Adar. That’s right, they just add an extra month! That can get confusing.

Yom Kippur completes this annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days, and commences with Rosh Hashanah. It is observed by many secular Jews who may not observe other holidays. Well, the fact is that it’s now also recognized by many Christians who are doing the feasts like the Feast of Tabernacles; but they’re not creating a network of faith, hope and charity. They’re not coming together to take care of one another. They say, “Oh, we keep the feasts!” They don’t even know the purpose of the feasts.

In order to have a network of tens, hundreds and thousands, how do you get to know the congregation that’s 150 miles away or 1500 miles away? How do you keep those connections so that if they have an absolute disaster, you want to come to their aid. How do they do that? The Feast of Tabernacles. When you go there, your sons and daughters will meet and your sons and daughters will marry people in those other valleys thousands of miles away; and you will have a blood connection to those other communities.

You have to work to at the Kingdom. If you’re going to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people, you have to work at it. You have to strive, which is why Jesus said to strive. You have to seek, which is why Jesus said to seek. You have to do it in a righteous way, which is why He talked about love and charity…same words…faith, and hope. You have to gather together. You can’t just come to the festival a couple of days ahead and want to see where everything is. You need to start working on that festival today for next year…working on it…contributing to it.

We have a Burning Bush Festival, and we actually knew we were going to have a small number of people show up this time. We have missionary parties going out, and we have another festival going in the Mid-West. It’s a huge expense. This is a big country to come all the way this way. So we knew we were going to have our numbers down, and that was okay. Instead of having whole families come, we might have had one member from a family. This saves them money, and this is good; but we also know that they’re working in their local areas to build their local congregations to do the jobs that they need to do like the missionary work. If we’re going to show an example to the world, we need to build the congregations locally. They’re actually doing the job, and then come together so that we have something to connect at the Feast of Tabernacles, which we call the Burning Bush Festival.  We need to start making it the outreach that it was. Early on somebody said, “Oh, well we should only invite good people in congregations.” No, that’s not what the Feast of Tabernacles was. It says, “Invite the stranger into your midst.” This is your outreach to show them what a free government looks like and how it works, how it takes care of the needy of its society without using a gun to the head of your neighbor, without forcing the contributions of your neighbor, but with freewill offerings so that you create the spirit of a free society. Those people who want to walk in those ways cast up and want to be heard by God. They want to return to the ways of God.

It’s not the mindless ritual that we want to return to. It’s atonement; and atonement means to repent and turn around and start creating a society based on love. We’re not talking about the hippie dippie free love. We’re talking about righteous love and righteous responsibility of commitment and caring for one another. You say, “Love, honor and cherish ’til death do us part.” That’s when you have to do it. It doesn’t mean love, honor and cherish until you’re tired of it. It’s love, honor and cherish. Your commitment is before God. Let no man or yourself break that apart. Continue that commitment. It builds character.

So Yom Kippur completes those holy days. The Erev of Yom Kippur, which is actually the Eve day of that day is commemorated with these two festival meals and with giving of charity and asking others for forgiveness in this Hebrew month of Tishri. This is the key because we have offended one another.

If we look at some of the general observances, (and there’s a reason why we’re going through all of this before we really get hot and heavy into Hebrews. It may not be for another couple of shows before we really get into Hebrews.) in Leviticus 16:29 it mandates the establishment of this holy day on the tenth day of the seventh month of the day of atonement for the sins. Don’t get caught up in the specifics of that.

Get caught up in the spirit of forgiveness and giving and charity. Get caught up in the Kingdom of God and the ways of the Kingdom of God, not in the ritual itself. Don’t worship the ritual. Follow the Spirit of sacrifice and forgiveness. I see so many people who say, “Well, I’ve forgiven them; but I never want to see them again.” Why not? If you forgave them, where’s the pain? Where’s the injury? Where’s the heartache? It’s gone! Forgiveness works. Real forgiveness works. Mental forgiveness, imaginary forgiveness doesn’t work. So therefore, we become afraid.

Anyway, this Sabbath of Sabbaths, this Day of Atonement in Leviticus 23:27 decrees that Yom Kippur is this strict day of rest. Rest from what? Rest from eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Rest from submitting to your own willfulness and submitting to the will of God. You see, that’s the problem. It’s that we decided for ourselves; and we need rest from that. We need to fast from that and dwell in the Holy Spirit, live in the Holy Spirit, be guided by the Holy Spirit. Keeping the physical ritual doesn’t make that a reality in our life; but fasting, waiting upon the Lord.

There are other prohibitions during this period. It talks about no eating and drinking. Again, eating and drinking of what? Eating and drinking of the Tree of Knowledge..not wearing of leather shoes. We were allowed to kill animals to cover ourselves and protect ourselves. Does it really have to do with leather shoes, or are these symbols of something else?…no bathing and washing. Well, the high priest, he’s washing all the time. We go to churches a lot of times to imagine that we are cleansing ourselves; but we’re not actually repenting and turning around. It makes us feel good. We think we’re washing, but we’re washing ourselves as if we can save ourselves. So, symbolically, we’re going to have to realize that we can be washed. We can be cleansed; but we can’t do it ourselves. We cannot provide the covering ourselves. We cannot eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but must receive of the Holy Spirit.

It talks about no anointing oneself with perfumes or lotions. Is it the perfumes or lotions that are key to that prohibition, or is it anointing ourselves? We can’t anoint ourselves, we must be anointed. What we’re doing is recognizing that we can’t make this a reality ourselves; but this is a relationship, that’s another thing about the marital relationship, it’s a relationship with God and the Holy Spirit guiding us so that we walk with that Holy Spirit. That’s what atonement is bringing to us; and that’s what that day is all about.

So it’s great that we’re beginning Hebrews on that day, and we will finish it much later so that you get a clearer picture of what Holy of Holies really means. Until then may peace be upon your house, and may God be with you.

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