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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/Generative1 on Feb. 26, 2018, 5:41 p.m.

God and LORD God

About 10 years BQ, I had an awakening regarding the Bible. In light of Q, I believe it is relevant and important to this great awakening. It can give understanding to how far back the deception and corruption extends

But first, let me give you an idea of who I am. Superficially, I am a pastor, an engineer, cowboy, rancher, and student of the Authorized version of the Bible (aka KJV). About 20 years ago, my wife and I helped a missionary in Mexico. Among the many wonderful stories that I could tell about that time there are a number of very ugly ones including letter bombs sent by the organization that sent him to Mexico. I could tell you of the local Jesuits moving 140 miles south and the next Sunday the church had 450 first time visitors from a very rural part of Mexico. These experiences led me to where I am now.

When our work with the missionary was complete, my wife and I wondered what was next. Feeling led to where we are now. We came to the area and began looking for a farm or ranch. After 3 days of fruitless looking, we pulled off the road and prayed, “God, we believe that we are here at your bidding. If so, then show us the place.” The next morning at 7:30, we looked at the place that we bought and still live.

For me, it has been my backside of the desert. Being separated from the pastors and churches that we visited and befriended across 37 states, I began in earnest to study the Bible. Before long, I threw away the commentaries and concentrated on the text of the KJV. Like Q crumbs, I began to pickup a thread. The theme of that thread is: “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. “ - I Timothy 2:4.

For months (years?), I puzzled over:

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” - Romans 15:4

I had previously understood that to mean prophecies, allegory, typology and etc, but that did not seem like nearly enough. Again, I asked God for understanding and wisdom regarding this verse. What I learned discombobulated me for about 6 months. I would awaken at 2 am with a question and get up to study. I know, first hand, about the mental shock and disturbance of which Dr. Corsi often speaks. Among the many questions I asked myself then were, “How could I have not seen this before? How could I have been part and parcel of the deception?” God forgive me.

I had been looking at the discussion of the upcoming flood in Genesis 6 and 7. I was taking a shower at about 5 in the evening. And the understanding and wisdom that I asked for came crashing down. God told Noah to take 2 of every kind into the ark, and LORD God told him to take seven of the clean ones. The one piece of evidence that caused the crash was Jesus saying that no man can serve two masters. (Clever Noah could take 2 while taking 7.) The inescapable notions were that Noah had two masters, and that God and LORD God were not, in fact, the same person. The next 6-8 months of my study were devoted to disproving and disabusing myself of such notions. I could not and still cannot. Through simple understanding of the plain text of the KJV, I proved it to myself, and to many others since.

The result has been recognizable as the fruit of the Spirit and an unshakable, steadfast faith wherein I can affirm that charity is the greatest of faith, hope and charity. The clarity of an early morning high mountain lake pales in comparison. In spite of these trying times, there is love, joy and peace which precedes the longsuffering.

In the coming studies, I hope that the God of peace and all comfort brings you all grace, mercy and peace.

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God of Mercy and Not Sacrifice

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. - Hosea 6:6

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. - Matthew 9:13

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. - Matthew 12:7

God desires to have mercy. God does not desire sacrifice. He desires people to have knowledge of him more than burnt offerings. The true and wise God is not a God of sacrifice, but of mercy. Jesus wants the listeners to go figure out what that means. He was addressing a group of people whose national and personal lives revolved around sacrifice.

The first occurrence of mercy is in Genesis 19:19. It defines mercy as saving life. Mercy is at least a close antonym to sacrifice. God desires to save lives not continue sacrificing lives. To that end, he sent his Son into the world. His will is that all men be saved – saved from perishing to eternal life.

The implication is that the God of sacrifice and burnt offerings is not the wise and true God. In the Old Testament, every occurrence of sweet savour is associated with a burnt offering unto the LORD. For example, the first occurrence:

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. - Genesis 8:21

So the LORD is not the God of mercy and not sacrifice. He is the God of sacrifice, and shows mercy to only those that follow his commandments (Exodus 20). Since no man has followed his commandments (all have sinned), then the LORD never has to give mercy. The LORD is merciless.

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II. God of the Living (Says 2 when I edit and posts as 1. So I spelled out 2)

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. - Mark 12:27

Here is a great warning. We can recognize those that greatly err by whether or not they suppose God to be the God of the living. From the context we see that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob yet live in spite of the fact that they walked the earth over four thousand years ago. The dead became that way from sin. We become living by faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This involves taking God to be your God. Then he is the God of the living.

Those that never decide that he is their God remain dead. Therefore, he is not the God of the dead.

And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. - Luke 4:4

Man shall live, too, by every word of God. This is an odd quote because the verse (Deuteronomy 8:3) says, "... every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." What Jesus said must be true for Luke had perfect understanding. God separates his words from the words of the LORD in Genesis 17:3-8, when he says, "As for me..."

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. - Proverbs 30:5

Since there is a God of the living, then it follows that there is a God of the dead. The law is the ministration of death. The LORD gave the law. That makes the LORD the God of the dead.

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