I cry out a warning to all in the field
That kitty is loose.
He thinks they are play things
Those birds of the field
He seeks to destroy them
With the glint of his tooth.
And oh he is fearsome
Though inside he purrs
He thinks it’s delicious
To taste blood mixed with fur.
But o’er cross the fence
One more fearsome than he
Barks, whines, and hollers
And sends kitty to flee.
I woke up this morning with Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer stuck in my head…, particularly, this verse:
I’ve kicked the habit/kicked the habit
Shed my skin/shed my skin
This is the new stuff/this is the new stuff
I go dancing in/We go dancing in
The thing about a lot of the great 80s music is… to me… it’s all about theology. That’s part of what made it all so great. A lot of the time, it’s not just theology, it’s eschatology, end of the world sh*t. I could give you tons of examples of popular 80s songs about the end of the world, especially if you count songs about true love as eschatological hits, which I do.
I call us the second to last generation. It means, we might be the last. It means no matter how long we have, we must always assume that we have our entire lives to live (for many disrespect the earth and themselves because they think that the world is coming to an end) and that we must prepare the next generation to meet their coming King (because the world is coming to an end, and by end, I mean goal).
I believe we were brainwashed by the 80s so that we would make strange adults who could prepare the next generation for an even stranger world. This goes on cyclically, quickly, until finally, the whole thing comes to the glorious revelation of how everything really looks on the inside. These are the footsteps.
The reason I had Peter Gabriel’s song in my head was because I was thinking about kicking a habit. But as a minimum wage servant at the university, I read many theology papers by students. Last night, I read one about the makeup of the human being. It said that there are three views:
1. The human being is just a body.
2. The human being is something greater (a soul, a mind, a heart, a spirit, etc.) living inside a body.
3. The human being is something greater (a spirit) living inside something great (a soul) inside the body.
Now, personally, because I gotta be different than everybody in the whole world, I opt for a fourth option:
1. The BODY: Born to Die.
2. The FLESH: The part of your body that habitually does wrong; the part of your mind that hates you. You know, that part that calls you an asshole. That part that tells you you’re a really good person and you don’t need salvation from death. In Judaism, the flesh is called, the will to do. Yetzer haRa. Without it, we could not do anything constructive in this world, but every time we construct, we also destroy.
3. The SOUL: That’s you. Your living soul, your nefesh chaya, is an eternal being. You will never stop being you no matter what your final destination in life.
4. The SPIRIT: The spirit, the neshama, was initially created alive. It belonged in Adam and Eve. It is the part of them that died when they surely died. Now here’s the important part. ALL human beings are born with *dead* nishmat. We inherit the dead spirit from our fathers.
The dead spirit can still act like a spirit – it can move us to higher realms of consciousness and to higher morality, etc. -, but whether we cultivate it or let it rot, it’s death. We can receive a living Spirit when we ask for it from the One who can make us alive. Now, the rabbis say we cannot have a resurrection without a Moshiach. So we need a spiritual Moshiach to bring us to spiritual life from a spiritual death.
Moshiach, who saves us from death, not just from Hezbollah, was also born with a living spirit. The only way he could be human was to be born from parents. But the only way he could rescue us from the deadness of our spirits was to be born from above. In order to have a living spirit, his father had to be spiritually alive, not spiritually dead like mine was and yours was. The only being who has a living spirit is El Elyon, the most high God.
So wow, this turns out to be a Christmas post! I don’t understand why people think it’s so strange that one time in all of history, the Spirit of God planted a baby in the belly of a woman. I mean, Jesus, he’s God, isn’t he? (Here, I use Jesus as an expletive or as a name for God, however you want to take it.)
Anyway, virgin Mary gives birth to a baby whose seed was from the Lord. Mary was of the house of David and so was Joseph, the Moshiach’s adopted father. Joshua fulfilled in all ways the requirements for the lineage of the King: Human, Jewish, Judaic & Levitic, Davidic, Nathanic & Solomonic, Son of God. (God is the King of Israel, is he not? If there be ONE God, why would there be TWO kings? He is called the Son because he is God, sent forth into this world.)
One day, this King will be revealed in the first coming that my Jewish friends await (MOSHIACH NOW!) and in the second coming my Christian friends foresee. Associated with his coming is the visible resurrection from the dead.
Now, essentially what this means is, you are going to molt.
You’re going to shed this earthly, fallen, body, and your soul is going to be revealed as your new, heavenly, body. It’s going to be made real, physical. It is going to be more tangible than the body you’re in now.
And however your soul looks, that’s how you are going to look for eternity. Got a fat soul? Does it laze around all day and never work on its physique? Welcome to fat for eternity. Got an ugly soul? Hate everybody and everything so that it twists your heart into deformity? Welcome to horrific for eternity.
If your spirit is dead, your soul will be resurrected to death. If your spirit is alive, your soul will be resurrected to life. Whether your soul is ugly or beautiful, you will be resurrected to death or life on the basis of your spirit being alive or dead.
Resurrection is not becoming a zombie. Resurrection is shedding your body to reveal the soulish body within on the Day when the visible comes to nothing and the invisible becomes the visible.
You are going to molt. You know perfectly well, O you who once were children, that there are at least two parts to us. (Though I list four, they are really 2 -the physical- at odds with 2 others -the spiritual- – I was just being overly specific.) We all remember watching princess movies and being told, you have to be beautiful on the inside, too. It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside, we all know what it means to be ugly or beautiful on the inside.
One day, when we go dancing into the reign of Moshiach, King Forever, we will have shed our skin, revealing the new stuff that lies hidden in our hearts. What’s your underskin, your heart, your real body look like? Better get it ready, cause this is the second to last generation.
*Step 1: Ask HaShem – God – for a Living Spirit.
*Step 2: Ask the Living Spirit – the Spirit of the Most High God – to help you make your soul/your resurrection body beautiful.
Oda a los Political Facebook Posts
I could have told you four years ago
That the masterplan
Was to bring the troops home from Iraq
To implement wartime
On us.
When I was young, I learned in World History
That the plebian poor would rise up.
And from Ani DiFranco with Utah Philips
And from Billy Bragg
And from that historian whose name eludes me
That they would be beaten, enslaved, and slaughtered.
You would ask, where were you
When Ursula LeGuin
Told you the fate of your nation?
They put video cameras
On every street and in every lap
Hello home troops from Iraq.
Your coming is auspiciously located.
Amongst economic unrest
And the sickest congress I have ever lived through
Passes bills
That troops can torture you and
Imprison you indefinitely
Just for writing this poem.
So all you facebookers
Can stop asking me to sign your petition
against Internet censorship
(or whatever is the cause of the day)
Cause I could have told you ten years ago
That it was going to be this way.
And it’s only going to get worse.
You cannot stop the march of history.
You cannot stop the march of time.
And if you stand in its way, you’ll be crushed.
O you who live in interesting times:
The only way out is up.
Rebellion to Law
Yesterday I went into the gas station on my way to work about 1pm, and there were two people in front of me enthusiastically purchasing alcoholic beverages. The attendant and the sharply dressed woman buying mini bottles of Chardonnay were having a loud and celebratory conversation.
“Yeah!” the attendant was saying, “one guy was telling me that there was a line out the door at Dixie’s when they opened at noon.”
“It’s about time. I know if you go down the street, you can buy liquor too.”
“Yep. We’re inside city limits, so you can only buy beer and wine.”
I asked the attendant, “So is everybody celebrating the fact that we can buy liquor on Sunday now?”
“Yeah, everybody is coming in and buying drinks.”
I thought, I have to write something about this!
Yeah, but what’s that got to do with the end of the world?
There are several views on the Apocalypse, but one that was pervasive in the 1800s was called pre-millenialism. Pre-millenialism is the idea that the 1000-year reign of Moshiach (the Messianic Age in Judaism) heralds the second advent of Christ. People in the 1800s believed that it was the Church’s responsibility to set up the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in a tangible format. They thought they could legislate righteousness. By forcing people to behave for 1000 years, they thought they would usher in the coming of the King. Jews feel this way too in some way. They say that if every single Jew would keep Shabbat two weeks in a row, the Messiah will come. Yeah right! Like that’s ever gonna happen.
The Blue Ticket
Abraham Lincoln ran on a blue law platform. He was a Christian, and since it was the prevailing view of his day, he was also a pre-millenialist. Blue laws are called blue because they were written on blue paper. And the intent of the blue laws was to create a moral civilization that would attract Jesus’ return. All those funny laws you read about, like it being illegal to chew gum on Sunday, are blue laws. They are man’s idea of what a righteous civilization that Jesus would like to live in would look like. They are not! Jesus’ idea!
Pre-Tribulation
Today, the prevailing view of the American Church has changed. It is now popular to believe that Christ returns before the 1000-year reign of Christ (post-millenialism). We no longer believe that it is possible to legislate morality – to force people not to gamble or chew gum – but eschatological views (what we believe about the end of the world) still alter our view of reality. Pre-tribulation eschatology promotes a laissez-faire approach to the environment and to other worthy causes. It also promotes ignorance among the people of God because the pre-tribulation view is so complicated to understand from a simple reading of the Bible.
Back to the Sales of Grape Juice and Bread Soda…
What happens when you force people to obey laws they don’t feel in their hearts? Rebellion. Yes, we couldn’t buy beer on Sunday for so long, it is only natural that people would want to celebrate their freedom. I voted with sober gusto myself to repeal the long stagnant blue law, evidence of a false notion of Christianity left over from a century ago. But any time you rebel against something, you prove yourself to be subject to it.
Everybody rebels against the Law… Sometimes.
Homosexuality and Christianity is a theme that keeps coming up. Some silly people – both Christian and not – feel that it is impossible to be both gay and Christian. How ridiculous! Christianity is not supposed to be a set of laws. If it were, there would be no point. God’s law was already perfectly expressed to the Jews. If you want to follow God’s law, convert to Judaism. Gay people, alcoholics, Sunday School teachers, murderers, bankers, thieves, liars, and all manner of “wicked sinners” have access to the throne of God and eternal meaning through Christ.
The Law cannot make you righteous.
Law lacks the power to make people righteous. All those people for all those years who didn’t buy beer on Sunday, do you think they were fooling God? Hey God, look at us Georgians!! We’re good! We never buy beer on Sunday!
All along, underneath that good behavior enforced by the police, people wanted to buy beer on Sunday in their hearts. The law made them look like they were “righteous” (if righteousness has to do with a day of the week and whether you make certain purchases on it), but it did not make them non-beer-buyers on Sunday. It just made them look like they were.
Stop putting people under law
A former associate and I had a long standing argument about whether to tell people who were Christians to abstain from sex. Because I do not believe that obedience to law makes you righteous, I was in favor of not telling people to abstain. My associate was in favor of warning people that sexual sin was dangerous and could weaken your position with God.
So I told this person to stop eating pork. I told her that the law was complete. If adultery was against the law, so was pork. So stop eating pork.
You know what this person did? Immediately, she went out and bought a sausage biscuit and ate it in front of my face. She thought she won the battle, but she only proved my point. Putting people under law makes them want to break the law that much more.
Though I have said it before, I’ll say it again. Don’t follow that law, follow that Man!
Georgia’s Teachable Moment
I hope that Georgians everywhere realize that buying beer on Sunday is not a sin leading to perdition. I hope that Christians understand that telling people not to have sex with people of their same sex does not make those people Christians. I hope that non-Christians understand that it doesn’t matter what you do, Jesus loves you.
The Bloody God of the Gentiles
Jesus was “perfected by suffering.” Even though they are the exact same person, the God of the Christians is superior to the God of the Jews. The God of the Jews is pristine and perfect. He is above all the dirt and slander and blood of this world. That’s no good, he says to himself.
My cat recently killed a chipmunk and there was nothing I could do. I looked into that chipmunk’s eyes, and I could see the plea for help, the fear, and the terror. Every day, people and animals, and dare I say it, trees and plants, and even rocks, are experiencing the terror of being alive on this planet. Joshua was sent here by God to be God experiencing suffering. He experienced it all. He is superior to the God of the Jews because he is the God of the Jews and he suffered.
Christians, stop trying to be Jews
If all it takes is obedience to law and that will solve all of our problems, then Christ suffered in vain. If we take it upon ourselves to obey even one law in the power of the flesh, then there was no point for God to take up a body and suffer in it. Christ’s suffering reveals a new promise, a new way of seeing God, a new way to be holy men and women and transgendered people. His righteousness is exchanged for our lawless- and lawfulness. We are freed by him.
Today, if you are in Christ, stop putting yourself under the restrictions of all sorts of law. Get off that diet and learn to follow Christ in your eating habits. Stop forcing yourself to get to work on time and learn to follow Christ in your timeliness. Stop squelching your inner passions and desires and learn to obey Christ. It might take a few years to reach perfection (now that’s an exaggeration), but as you learn to follow Christ, something amazing is going to happen.
You will naturally become more righteous because you are free. Compulsion and rebellion will become a thing of the dead and gone past.
The Repeal of the Blue Law and the Christ-Follower
As much as I passionately support the repeal of the blue laws, I didn’t give Sunday’s alcohol sales a second thought. Until I saw that people were coming out in droves to buy liquor – and bear in mind, they were mostly doing it just because they could – I didn’t even think about it. Because I am free, I have always been free to buy beer on Sunday. Under Christ, I am free to do a multitude of things. I might not do them, but I am free! Jesus led me to pick up a bottle of wine two Sundays in a row before the big vote. The cashier turned me away, but Jesus let me know that I was free. I was free because I didn’t make note of what day it was. And I was free because I am obedient to God and not to law.
We are not of this world. In the Kingdom of Heaven, wine will flow abundantly. And even if we are somewhere where we cannot get wine, the Spirit gives wine to anyone who wants it. And not just wine, everything good we long for that we try to get by “sinning.” Adventure, pleasure, riskiness, danger, love, happiness, you can have it all. Even as the blue law could not make millions of Georgians loving, spiritual, and Christian, following any law or moral code can’t get you there either. What gets you there is knowing God in your heart, having a friendship with God like that of Abraham, which Abraham won by faith in the promised seed of the Messiah.
And if you are there, you know and know and know that you will be there forever. There is no other way to do it. Even Abraham Lincoln can’t make us righteous, but following the faith of Abraham will make you free. Cheers.
(A question asked by Systematic Theology 1, Discussion Board 3)
Why does evil exist?
Jesus had a political message. That’s how they pinned him for treason against Caesar.
He was King.
As King, he invites us into a Kingdom over which he is King. Some people don’t want a dude who provides free healthcare, distribution of wealth, and an equal voice for all, no matter our sex, creed, race, or sexual orientation as King. So they don’t accept him as King. Tho it’s sad, there’s really not much anyone can do about it, so carry on.
But we who do make him King over our lives, we have an important JOB to do. We are Ambassadors for the Kingdom of LIGHT. We do not get down in the pit and wrestle with the political issues of our day, for they are temporal. Our position as Kings and Queens, Priests and Priestesses, does inform our political position as we dwell in the world, but our political position in the world should never inform our Christianity. Our mission from home causes us to see the world differently, but the way we see the world should never twist the message of our mission from home.
Let’s take the Occupation. The Occupation. To me, the Occupation makes me very sad. I have waited my whole earthly life for this day. I have followed the likes of Woody Guthrie and Utah Phillips. I have painted pictures and written songs about Bread and Roses. I have written essays in the flesh about how the 8 hour workday that our fathers bled and died on American soil to win us from the hands of our fascist oppressors – Corporations – has slowly been eaten at until now. We drive to work for an hour, maybe two. We take a quick and stressed lunch. We drive home from work for two hours, maybe three. That’s a 13-hour workday. Then, we have time for little more than a quick couple hours in front of the TV, on facebook and twitter, barely enough time to eat our cereal and sandwiches, and where is the time to engage with our children? What’s worse, there is NO TIME for Americans to sit and think about the Kingdom. What does it mean? Why are we here? Where are we going? What is the point of my dull existence?
The Occupation makes me sad because I have waited my whole earthly life for it, and now that it has come, I cannot join up. I can support what they do. I can believe in their message. But I cannot Lend my Body or my Mind to their cause. Why? Because I have a greater Cause, a Cause that drives me to live my life in such a way as to spread Gold and Delicious Scent throughout the world, Gold Dust and Rose Petals.
But I will say this. The Left fully supports the Occupation. The Right fully opposes it. I don’t see what there is to oppose, but there you go. They say that the kids on Wall Street are spoiled brats. The real people who should be protesting the fascist system are the starving people in Africa.
One, we, the privileged Middle Class, are the only people who have enough political and economic power to protest on behalf of the starving people of the world.
Do you realize that fighting for the rights of the working class, be it white or blue collar, fighting for the rights of working class means fighting for the RIGHTS of PEOPLE EVERYWHERE to have theological thoughts? Do you not understand that people who are dead tired from working, people who are stressed and depressed over joblessness, people who have all the candy they want but no bread, have no time or inclination to think about Jesus, get closer to him, become Christians, speak truth and love into existence? Do you not understand that the only thing that keeps us from starving in the streets is a financial elite who wants to keep us dull, unspiritual, and stupid? They say the word, your power goes out. Your gas pump runs dry. Your water turns black. Your grocery store goes empty. We are but a week away from utter starvation and poverty. All they have to do is say the word.
Two, what do you think the antichrist system is comprised of? Democracy? Nuts and Bunnies? Can you imagine if McDonald’s ruled the world? How do you think the antichrist system invokes such economic power that ppl won’t be able to buy or sell without their seal of approval? If you’re on the right, you believe in this. So if you’re on the right and you believe the Bible, what in heaven’s name are you doing on the side of the fascists?
The Christian Right and the Christian Left are both wrong imo. The Bible says neither look to the left nor to the right. You’re extremists motivated by an agenda – a human agenda. Your agenda could be fulfilled if you sought the truth first. But when you try to use the truth to back your agenda, you have no TRUTH at all. You have twisted the Truth. And do you know what a bent Truth is? A lie.
Want to prove God loves homosexuals? You can do it with the Truth. You don’t have to trash the Bible to prove that God loves homosexuals.
Want to prove that God intends for us to live righteously? You can do it with the Truth. You don’t have to bash the Spirit of Love & Freedom to prove that God wants us to be righteous.
I’d like to end this post with a song I wrote. I wrote it for the Occupation long before there was one. I give it to you today.
We’re many sons. Sons of the One True King.
We’re many daughters, fill us up, we’re sons of the One True King.
Marching forever through streets of silver!
Marching forever through streets of gold!
Still the story will be told, marching through the streets of gold!
Still the story will be told, marching through the streets of gold!
We’re Sons of the One True King.
Love is the Battle Cry:
Love Love Love Forever!
Love is the Battle:
Cry Love Forever!
Jesus is the Holy One:
King King King Forever!
King on the Throne Forever.
We’re Sons of the One True King.
Hear our Marching Song,
Following the Captain of our Hearts!
The Captain of our Hearts is the Captain of the Hosts of Heaven!
The Captain of our Hearts is the Captain of the Hosts of Heaven!
We’re Sons of the One True King.
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Are you sons of the One True King???
One of the first amazing bloggers I ever encountered was a Jewish woman with a theology problem. I wish I could remember her name, it eludes me. Her bookmark is gone forever, gone two macbooks ago. (I do go through em pretty quick though.)
She called herself a Jewtian, and she made bonafide crazy art about the end of the world, the hatred of the enemies of the Jews, and about the love of God expressed through Moshiach.
And the theme of her work is one that shone with truth and golden splendor. It is a theme that I carry into my own views of God and his reality. That is, Moshiach belongs to us Jews.
It is time to reclaim Moshiach as ours.
The life of God has been opened to the Gentiles for 2000 years. As it is written, the Gentiles will trod the Temple grounds. Not only did that prophecy occur in reality, it has occurred in spiritual reality. The Gentiles have been piled up in the center square of Judaism for so long, as I said before, that our Moshiach and what he means is hardly recognizable anymore.
What I wish, what I desire, is that someone with Torah learning, someone smarter than me, would make the kinds of connections I am making. I wish they would explain themselves the Torah with Truth and Love so that everyone could understand: Moshiach belongs to everyone, but first and foremost, he belongs to the Jews. I am sure there are such scholars, but for our purposes, I’m the best I’ve got, so I give it a go.
At the center of everything is a Man who becomes King over Israel. He brings people of all kinds into greater spiritual awareness, greater aptitude for Torah observance, greater love for God. For the Jews, this man comes suddenly to rectify the world. Yet his approach is heralded by a slow movement upward, called the Footsteps of Moshiach.
For the Christian, the march of the Christ is slow and plodding. He comes once to introduce the resurrection of the dead in the spirit and suddenly to introduce the very same kingdom the Jews await.
I wish I could in so small a space describe the multitude of ways that Yehoshua, son of Joseph, has fulfilled not just the prophecy of the Hebrew hope, but also the nitpicky details of Torah commentators.
For instance, Moshiach will be associated with his acute sense of smell. With his sense of smell, he will be able to ascertain whether a person is righteous, how much that person prays, etc. And too many Christians just today have posted or tweeted something about the aroma of God.
Read what Indian, Mary Beena Varghese, has to say about the aroma of Moshiach:
THE AROMA!!!!
We are called to be the AROMA of Jesus in this world. And the AROMA of the Lord has a quality which may make some comfortable; but some very uncomfortable!!!! Do you know why??? Because the AROMA OF JESUS IS THE AROMA OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO TRUST AND BELIEVE, but to those who do not, THE AROMA OF JESUS, THAT YOU CARRY, IS THE AROMA OF DEATH!
We who trust and believe carry on us the scent of death. Lovely.
An African American pastor tweeted something today about the aroma of Christ. He wrote that when our houses are full of prayer, it is an aroma to God of the work of Christ in our hearts.
So I referred him to the work of Chaim Kramer, who has produced a wonderful text on speculations about the identity and purpose of Moshiach according to Rav Nachmann.
Kramer writes that the Moshiach will smell beautiful. He will have a nose that will breathe power into his prayers. He will snort with his nostrils, and death will flee.
Why, even John the disciple of Christ wrote that Yoshia snorted at death when his friend Lazarus was in the tomb. He snorted at death and the dead rose.
The Moshiach, the Resurrection of the Dead, the Life, the Promises, the Oracles of God, all these things belong to the Jews. And yet, the Jews have allowed Esau to steal their heritage, to eat their stew and to wear the crown of Moshiach. We have seen their bad behavior and we have claimed that people who exhibit such maleficent qualities could not possibly have a key to the Kingdom that belongs to us. And yet…
Even in our own teachings, Moshiach elevates the Gentiles.
I might make the Gentiles mad when I say that I feel I have a special relationship with Christ because of my natural bent toward Torah. But I do. I know it is different to be a Jew in this world.
Paul says this:
In Christ, no male or female.
Yet, in the world, we are are male and female. We have different patterns of behavior, different ways of thinking, a different shape to our souls. I am female. There are certain qualities, limitations, and excellencies that come with my sex. Although in Christ, I am no better or worse than you men, in the world, I am still different.
In Christ, no Jew or Gentile.
Yes. But in the world, God has made us different. The Aleinu prayer has been accused of supremacist thinking because it highlights the distinction between Jew and Gentile. But it is not a matter of better or worse. It’s a matter of having different qualities, different ways of thinking and being, yes, even a different kind of soul. We are different from you.
I know this because when I go into your churches and think and act like a Jew, you want to cast me out. And most often, you do.
In fact, the way I think on this blog is an excellent example of marred Jewish thought. I am an uneducated, lower-class, Benjaminite with no credentials. I am the very same kind of Jew that followed Jesus during his sojourn in a fleshly body. But as clumsy and uneducated as I am, hi, I am barely even literate!, I think about this stuff more than the average Gentile. I just do. It’s not because I’m better. I’m just shaped differently. Gentile Christians love God, there is no doubt about it. The real ones do, anyway. They love God, and some of them are quite brilliant. I can think of a handful off the top of my head whose brilliance and intelligence surpasses that of most people who have ever lived on earth. But even they cannot think about these things Jewishly, they simply cannot.
God wants to be the king of Israel. There is no doubt about that. YY God wants to be our King.
In the World to Come, the whole earth will be ruled by his majesty, YY God, the King.
But here is where we differ. This God wanted to bless us with a physical body in which he would dwell because our hearts yearned for a King we could touch and see.
In the World to Come, we will be able to SEE God.
How is this possible? There is only one way for a being to enter the physical world. That is with a body. Bodies get here through the wombs of women. But God would not deign to be an ordinary being born of man and woman. He supernaturally placed himself inside the egg and grew to be a man.
But how does one enter the World to Come? Through death.
Therefore the Holy One had to die. He does die in Zechariah 12 and the family of David mourns for him.
Yehoshua, son of Joseph, died in the body so that he could then put on new flesh. He does so in his Resurrection. He is the first to be resurrected, and through him, all will be resurrected to life in the World to Come. These are simple biological facts.
Jews believe that Christians worship three gods. This is an unfortunate development of the Christian church in the early years. It is not that there is no “trinity.” But so much emphasis has been placed on the three persons that we have thrown ourselves for a loop.
YY God, invisible, entered this world through the womb of a woman, exited through death on the cross, passed through the tunnel from this world, which is a womb for the next, and arrived safely in a better body. We will all take the same path some day.
I cannot say what other Jews should do or believe. But for me, these things make sense. There are many ways in which they make sense, and through this blog, I can document as many as I can before I die.
I am a Jew with a Theology Problem. I do not fit in with Christians because of their behavior, their blatant disrespect for Torah, and their tendency to play rough. I do not fit in with Jews because I have claimed our Moshiach as King, Invisible Moshiach. Invisible Resurrection has already happened in my Spirit. One day, these things will be made plain.
Until then, I beg of you not to cast me away as a heretic or as an elitist or as someone who thinks too much without enough knowledge. I know that I am ignorant and poor. It is through him, the God of our Salvation, that I am able to think and live at all. If I were not experiencing these things, why would I bother writing? Do I sound like the Gentile preachers of the day? Or is there something different about what I say?
I do not condemn the Gentiles, but I do say that although their love for YY is evident and their love for the Jews is at least nominal, their noisiness, inelegance, anti-intellectualism, and disdain for Torah as a beautiful, whole, diamond through which we see the Lord, can be annoying to say the least.
I do not condemn the Jews, but I do say that they tend to discard what could be the true King of Israel without examining him for what he may be because of the Gentiles.
But the footsteps are getting heavier. Can you hear them? Moshiach is approaching. He is at the gate, even now. It is time for us to claim him as our King, as our Lord, as Yah Shua, the God of our Salvation. The Son of David is his Name, and he comes to set the wrongs right, to bring to light the secret things, to reward the living and the dead for their good deeds.
Love is where we start. If we love our God whose Name is above all Names, then we ask him. Who is your Moshiach and how may we know him?
