As the subject of a decades long hate campaign I know according to the Talmud the FIRST TEMPLE was destroyed for idolatry, immoral sex and murder while the Second Temple was destroyed for the sin of hatred without just cause to show that hatred without just cause is a greater sin than the three great sins that caused the destruction of the First Temple.
As a student of parallel ways I also know the great prophecy of Crazy Horse who stated that before the Last Judgment there would be terrible fires all over the world and that men would be brutal to women everywhere. There are now terrible fires all over the world. We have reached a level of brutality towards women that would have made the worst tyrants of the past shudder. Nonetheless, we are to be cheerful. I am.
I also know that the spread of secret slander is as great a sin as murder because it is murder.
It is a sin that kills the slanderer, usually their subject and those who hear it.
I say usually their subject because most subjects either do not know or ignore the power of trusting in the WORD.
What WORD you asks?
This WORD from Mark: 16: 17 These are the signs that will mark those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons. They will be granted the gift of speaking in new languages. 18 If they pick up serpents in their hands or drink any deadly poison, they will remain unharmed. The sick on whom they lay their hands will recover.”
Serpents means children of the great serpent, the father of lies and the murderer, who deceived Eve.
Serpents are liars and murderers.
That being still is hard, almost impossible.
Nonetheless, it is the right thing.
We are told that those who hear the word and trust it are like a person who builds his house on rock while those who hear the word and don’t trust it are like those who build their house on sand.
When the storm comes the house built on sand is swept away while house built on rock remains.
The storm has been beating against my house for a long time now.
It stands.
How can we know the WORD is true unless we trust it.
I trust it.
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” ― The Essays
THE NEW TESTAMENT is to be read wholly, with diligence and attention.
If you can read Greek read it in Greek. I can’t.
However when we read a book in a translation we are at the mercy of the translator. My reading of multiple translations of THE NEW TESTAMENT has shown me how much gets lost in translation.
Try reading a poem by Arthur Rimbaud in French and then read it in any English translation.
As for that punishment of the LORD, well, look to Jerusalem.
What was done there will be done here.
–Reg Hartt 2024–08-05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq2YgWaePY
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