The Truth

    Readers, do you think that Adam and Eve knew that they would be kicked out from the Garden of Eden, suffer emotional and physical hardship, and lose eternal life as a consequence of ignoring God's will? No .  Do you think that Saul of Tarsus knew the possible consequence(s) of ignoring the will of God ? No, he did not know it either. Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. “ Matthew 7:21.  Do we understand what Jesus said in Matthew 7:21? Does your pastor read and understand what Matthew 7:21 says? Saul of Tarsus doesn’t know why God gives us the Law. Adam and Eve did not know why God told them not to eat the fruit of a certain tree. But that is not our job. Our job is to obey Him. You know why? Because He has no intention of harming us. The smart thing to do is just OBEY Him, especially when we do not know why God gives us the law. Just do it ! Disobedience to G...

  Today I want to discuss with readers what Adam and Eve know about the law. “And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.“ Genesis 2:7. “Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." And the LORD God said, "[It is] not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: "This [is] now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall b...

  Readers, we don’t know why God gives us the Ten Commandments. And in my attempts to explain to my readers that we don’t know why God gives us the Ten Commandments, or why Jesus gives us His commandments, I may have used words that may offend some of my readers. Please accept my apology. Signed, Grumpy Old Man  😄

    “And He said, "Who told you that you [were] naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." And the LORD God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Genesis 3:11-13. ”Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.“ Genesis 3:22-24. Here is a short introduction from the Bible giving the reason why Adam and Eve lost eternal life. They di...

  “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.” Jeremiah 29:8-9.  “And the LORD said to me, "The prophets' prophecy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart”. Jeremiah 14:14. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly. "I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, 'I have dreamed, ...

  “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is [the] Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image , and had not received [his] mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And  they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection. Blessed and holy [is] he who has part in the first...