Getting What’s Deserved (Poem)

In their past, present and sadly, future realities, 

Communities across the world suffer atrocities,

From such, they hope for relief, and later, they seek justice.

If/when relief and justice are received, they are joyous!

The guilty ‘got what they deserved!’

Let’s segue, if you will, and shift the scene,

And the perspective, with you on the screen,

The guilty one from whom someone seeks relief.

Someone whom you caused considerable grief!

He thinks, ‘You’ll get what you deserve!’

But by some fluke in the system, you ‘got-off scot-free!’

Though you are guilty, now you’re the joyous one, proudly!

Your victim, lacking his sought justice,

Remains aggrieved, distraught and joyless. 

You did not ‘get what you deserved!’

Let’s segue, once more, to a higher scene, one from God’s angle.

Focus on His Grace given to you, Grace He hasn’t yet cancelled. 

Then examine your responses, and how, to Him, they appear.

To His amazing Grace, you have not tuned your eyes, nor your ears.

He hasn’t ‘gotten what He deserves!’

Can you see our warped, biased perspective,

That is apparently quite pervasive,

On the ‘getting what one deserves’ notion??

It’s prevalent across every nation!

We work to ‘block the bad we deserve!’

Foolishly, our perspectives on this critical matter,

Narrowly focus on this life, not on the ‘here-after’.

Thinking, ‘Grace for me, but not for my enemy’, is cool, 

We fail to perceive the flip-side of The Golden Rule.

God says we’ll ‘get what we deserve!’ 

When we repeatedly abuse God’s Generous Grace Gift,

He’ll begin to apply His Disastrous, Disgrace Downshift.

But like a frog in a pot of cool water, with the heat turned up,

We won’t notice His shift, until our measure of Grace is used up. ¹

We’ll get His Justice we deserve!

But wouldn’t it be better to live in His ‘perspective shift’?

Let’s show our appreciation for His amazing Grace gift,

By extending to others, Grace we receive,

So in us, His Golden Rule, they can perceive.

Both sides will get MORE GRACE …He serves. ²

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¹ See: Ephesians 4:7-8 and Titus 2:11.

² See: 2 Corinthians 9:8 and Grace, So Amazing (Series).

Heads-up, World! (Letter)

Dear World,

 

I AM Jesus Christ, The Lord God Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of creation. Your decisions to believe or disbelieve that, will never change Who I AM. 

 

Decades ago, Marvin Gaye released the song, ‘What’s Going On’. In one phrase, he sang, ‘I’ll tell you what’s going on’. Did you ever notice he never did?? He didn’t because He, himself, didn’t know. To perceive the intricate complexities of ‘what’s going on’, is to know and understand the mysteries of God. That requires an attentive spirit, who is in-tuned and aligned with My Spirit. That’s because, as I revealed to Apostle Paul, ‘in My Father and Me, are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge’. In light of that, please know this: All the wisdom and knowledge that humanity has accumulated since I created Adam, have come from Me. It has been, and continues to be in accordance with what I revealed to My prophet, in Isaiah 28:10 &13:

Precept upon precept.

Line upon line.

Here a little, there a little.

 

Though I intended My ‘downloads’ to be used for righteous purposes, literally every generation has found many ways to use them for evil. Yet, in My Grace, I never stopped downloading increasingly complex insights to mankind. Rather, in My foreknowledge of how you would abuse them, I determined to integrate such abuse into my Multi-millennial Strategic Plan for Humanity, which is summarized in My Holy Bible.

 

My Plan is for 7 ages of history, comprising 6 ages on this current Earth, and a 7th, eternal age on the new Earth I promised Isaiah I would create. There, every human whom I will have created and endowed with spirit, will forever reside, either in My GLORY-lit zones, or in My lake of fire zone for those who will be eternally damned for rejecting My Grace. That new Earth is in the new heaven (universe) John ‘saw’ in the vision I gave to Him, as recorded in Revelation 21 & 22. It is also what Apostle Peter mentioned in His writings. Those who are spiritually wise among you, will quickly understand why I inspired three prophets to repeat this awesome promise.

 

So allow Me to do what Marvin Gaye did not do, and could never have done – to enlighten you about ‘what’s going on now’. It is summarized in one Bible verse, and is iteratively demonstrated across the pages of The Bible, as well as in the annals of history:

 

But let him who glories (boasts), glory in this:

1. That he understands and knows Me,

2. That I, The Lord, AM in the Earth, exercising:

    a. Loving-kindness (protracted Grace), 

    b. Judgment (Justice), and 

    c. Righteousness (per My laws and standards),

for in these I delight.’ (Jeremiah 9:24)

 

This 3-point, persistent, protracted pattern is My response to age-related cycles of deepening, human sinfulness across the world. These cycles are triggered when generations in each age, increasingly yield to temptations from satanic forces who know much better than humans that, their time is short. They desire, and are dutifully achieving the sustainable deception of increasing numbers of humans, who will share in the ultimate judgement I have pronounced upon them. In light of this, these forces are working ‘feverishly’ to achieve their targeted results. 

 

From 3 perspectives, they know their time is short:

 

     1. They perceive the approaching ends of each of the ages on this Earth, 2 of which are now historical;

 

     2. They perceive the approaching start of the 5th age – My Millennial Reign, during which I will have them all locked away in an inescapable abyss; and

 

     3. They perceive the rapidly-approaching 6th age – the ‘little while’ period between the end of the Millennial Reign age, and the start of the eternal age. During the 6th age, they will launch their FINAL push to achieve their targets, and will make their FINAL, MASSIVE assault on all righteous things that will remain on the Earth after My departure. They also dread that age as it will presage their ultimate judgement.

 

My Plan predicts the rapid rise of a deceptive, global strongman, the anti-Christ, very early in the 4th age. This will be after My next global resurrection and rapture event for My faithful 3rd-age saints. In preparation for his advent, and also in My Grace to humans, I am allowing satanic forces to catalyze more nations’ electorates to push for strongman governments. They will be moderately successful in attacking major  problems, including those triggered by the disappearance of millions of faithful Christians. I will allow these prideful strongmen and other ‘wanna be’ strongmen, to serve as ‘foretastes’ of the pending, exceedingly prideful anti-Christ man. Thus, these NATIONAL strongmen governments, will help to ease pending MAJOR transitions to back-to-back GLOBAL strongman governance systems – that of the anti-Christ, for 7 years, followed by Mine, for 1,000 years.

 

The grossly unrighteous words and acts of the anti-Christ man will trigger My 42-month-apocalypse, during the second half (42 months) of the 4th age. It will be My longest-lasting judgments on unrepentant, sinful people. It will be much longer than it took for the global flood to destroy similarly sinful people at the end of the 1st age. During the apocalypse, I will 'make humans rare on the Earth'! The apocalypse will close-out the 4th age of history, and usher in the 5th age – My Millennial Reign as The Righteous King of all the Earth. Every remaining eye will see Me returning to Earth, in my GLORY, with ALL My holy angels, and ALL My holy, immortal saints, who will then be GLOWING, just as I AM!!! ¹ For a thousand years, we will take FULL CONTROL of every lever of human governance, worldwide. We will restore and enforce righteous relationships and resilient peace on the Earth – between every person, family, and nation; and among all animals, and between them and humans. Earth will be refreshed, physically and spiritually, similar to how it was when I drove Adam and Eve out of My Garden of Eden. Diets of both humans and animals will be restored to My original instructions. I will reverse the division of languages I triggered when the Tower of Babel was being built. 

 

Finally, throughout My reign, there will be no satanic forces on Earth tempting people to sin. Nevertheless, human nature will naturally still be …sinful. That is why, in My Bible, My reign is called an iron rod reign. Given that, and in light of lessons from history, I will leave it to you to imagine how My iron rod reign might end, and the 6th age of history might begin. Mind you, My Bible sheds little light on that ‘little while’ age, leaving much to …your imaginations. ²

 

Caveat,

Jesus Christ, The Lord God

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¹ Matthew 25:31, Mark 8:38, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, and Zechariah 14:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, and 2 Thessalonians 1:10, iteratively appear to affirm/confirm Heaven will ‘be emptied onto Earth’! Imagine that! For more on this GLORIOUS eventuality, see: Imminent Eminence (Poem) and WoW, Earth Filled (Series). See: Earth’s Cloaked Satellites (Poem) for my perception of the plausible role of holy angels during The Millennial Reign. 

² To see what I imagine, search this blog for Mid-ages Musings (Part 5).

Forever or Until Forever? (Poem)

Honestly folks! Anyone who thinks The Lord meant ‘for-evah’,

When He promised Canaan land to Abraham’s descendants,

Might have a serious case of Biblical myopia,

Or think He forgot about His ‘next Earth’ developments’.

 

Please tell me, why ‘on Earth’ would He make a forever promise,

About something He created to not last forever?!

Can we agree that would be deceptive, and also pointless?

I cannot believe such would be approved …by His Father!

(That is, unless… See below.)

 

The promise The Lord first made in Genesis 13:15,

Is best understood in context of the 6 ages,

He planned for us here, then on a new Earth where we’ll reconvene. ¹

Look, and you’ll see this plan across The Bible’s pages.

 

So let’s examine The Lord’s promise made to Abraham.

Though to him and to his seed, the land was ‘indeed given’,

They were too small, weak, and faithless, that land to ‘re-program.’

Thus, they failed to heed The Lord’s …‘qualifying conditions’. ²

 

Their continued sinfulness on the land would long be stymied!

Yet The Lord’s promise to Abraham, will ‘stand the test of time’.

It will only be fulfilled when, on Earth, Heaven is emptied,

That’s when all folks will know His …Millennial Reign paradigm. ³

 

In preparation for that GLORIOUS age of history,

In 1948, He bumped-up the protracted process,

Of drawing a few Jews back to the land of their ancestry,

The tiny part on which, The Lord’s laws, most Hebrews

had transgressed.

 

Now what, since Ezekiel 37 we can now trace??

And Zechariah chapter 10, verse 10, is nowhere in view!

Let’s wait for other predicted precursors to fall in place. 

For now, our thoughts about the promise, need to be re-construed!

 

Most versions of The Bible, perhaps except one,

Seem to stumbled on Genesis 13:15.

Read in the Young’s Literal and Wycliff versions,

The latter one ‘got it right’! That is what I’ve glean.

 

Several times, The Young’s Literal version uses the phrase,

‘To the age’, which many versions translate as, ‘forever’.

But we need to slow down, and our ‘forever thoughts’ reappraise,

When this phrase is applied to things that, to ‘this Earth’, refer.

 

The Wycliff version uses the phrase, ‘till into without end’.

Since the promise refers to the land of Canaan, in history,

Unless on the new Earth, that’s where new Jerusalem will blend,

That phrase means: ‘until the forever age’ -- ‘until eternity.’ 

 

In my book, ‘until’ infers limited to the present.

As such, that promise to righteous Jews …excludes eternity.

So how could our thoughts about this promise be …so errant??

May we all learn to perceive The Bible …strategically. ⁴

 

Exodus 19:6, The Lord’s ‘priestly people promise’,

Will finally be fulfilled during The Millennial Reign.

On the brand new Earth, might that be the forever practice,

Of righteous Jews, in the eternal Jerusalem ordained?? ⁵

Just to be clear, here's a summary of my points:

1. The Lord's promise of Canaan, applies to righteous Jews, 

not to unrighteous Jews. ⁶

2. Unless Canaan is also on the new Earth, His promise has a start and end point, i.e., from the start of the 5th age (The Millennial Reign), to the end of the 6th age of history (the ‘little while’ post-Millennial Reign age), before eternity begins.

3. For righteous Jews, The Millennial Reign may be a long practice session for their eternal priestly roles. 

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¹ See: Human History Ages (Series), Revelation 20:11-15, and especially Bible Raptures – Types and Timings (Series). The Lord’s plan is for all humans who will have ever lived (and possibly those who were conceived, but were never born) to be resurrected (if they died), and raptured in Heaven. YES!! Every human The Lord created will be raptured to stand before The Lord:

  (a) to give account and be judged for the life we lived, and the binary choice for whose spiritual kingdom we lived – The righteous Kingdom of God and Christ, or the sinful kingdom of satan; and

  (b) to receive our assigned, eternal destination on the new Earth He promised to create. Our disbelief won’t change His plan. To make the right(eous) choice, please see: Prayer of Salvation (Poem).

² Obedience to His loving, righteous laws and principles, of which the Ten Commandments is the cornerstone.

³ Stymied from committing more gross sins, by being exiled from the promise land. Matthew 25:31, Mark 8:38, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, and Zechariah 14:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, and 2 Thessalonians 1:10, iteratively appear to affirm/confirm Heaven will ‘be emptied onto Earth’! Imagine that! For more on this GLORIOUS eventuality, see: Imminent Eminence (Poem) and WoW, Earth Filled (Poem).

⁴ Most of us likely were taught to read and understand The Bible as a ‘religious book’. Applying my skills as a long-time, diplomatic and consulting international strategic planner (as The Lord gracefully instructed me to do in retirement), I now clearly see it really is His Multi-millennial Strategic Plan for Humanity, covering 7 pre-planned ages, of which (get this) over half of the initial 6 ages, are history! (Read between the lines!) The purpose of this blog is to share these concepts to help you to envision what I now see.

⁵ Join me in pondering the strategic questions posed in Part 2 of The Bride of Christ (Series).

⁶ Zephaniah 3 not only describes Judah before it went into Babylonian captivity. Some aspects of The Lord's description may very well apply to Israel today. Ergo, it should be instructive to read and ponder the last half of that chapter, to understand what He promises to do to the 'unrighteous Jews' who will still be alive at the start of His Millennial Reign.