In the last couple of months, GOD has blessed me to take up reading
Peter F. Hamilton’s sci-fi series, backwards.

It began when the local library where I go to NETWORK, had
his latest release, called the DREAMING VOID on display.
The opening words pulled me in and since then I have
been tracing Pete’s writings back to where I found myself the
other in the NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST series.

This quote that would have you consider is culled from that
series book called Consolidation, a novel, where the story
revolves around the dead having crossed over from their
resting place into our reality and were possessing folks for their
own purposes, Some dead were benign while others were back
to avenge what they felt were wrongs left undone, while yet
the third group was only interested in getting out of the hell
where the dead had been congregated, a NOTHINGNESS
and so those were back to live their former lives better or
just over again with supernatural abilities.
It is a WAR between the living and the dead basically.

But the story line aside, it was this verse found in amongst all
that fantasy chaff that made me go WOW. And I would like to
pass it on for your consideration.

The discussion is between a priest and his bishop, the priest
had just escaped the clutches of the possessed with a spaceship
full of orphans and they are discussing the events happening
in the known universe where men had settled.
Other species has experience the same nightmare and some had
overcome, while others had vanished in to the night forever.
IT was a time of TRIAL and TESTING for mankind,
and these two holy persons are sharing.
The bishop speaking to his friend,
STRANGE HOW IT”S NOW 2600 YEARS SINCE OUR LORD
WALKED THE EARTH AND THE LAST TIME OF SUCH
MIRACLES.
WE ARE SO USED TO DEALING IN THE CONCEPT OF
FAITH, RATHER THAN FACT.
AND HERE WE ARE ONCE MORE STANDING SURROUNDED
BY SUCH MIRACLES THOUGH NOW OF A SINGULARLY
DARKER COUNTENANCE.

People, too many of us are either treating the record of a people
as INERRANT or INFANTILE.
UNQUESTIONABLE, or too FABULOUS in a fantastical sense.

We bandy the meaning of words and miss their import as a
collective reality, and that maybe by intoning them we might
through osmosis become wiser, purer, more real.
People,
FAITH is FACT and FACT is FAITH.

I had the blessed privilege to watch a Ted Dansa film on the
LOCH NESS monster, where he was the skeptic and this little
girl had to make him see the truth with this profound line.
SIR, you don’t need to see in order to believe,
you need to believe in order to see.
Sound familiar, consider Malachi 4,6

We have allowed them, who don’t believe, see John14,12
or Mark 16,17+18 to steal our sight, to usurp our faith
with their own twisted unbelief of half truths.

Today we have quacks like Hinn, Popoff, Jaerock Lee and others
set the bar with their blends of truths and lies more often back
into the realms of fantasy, just so they can secure a comfy
life style on your sweat and effort as once did Pharaoh and Caesar.
As they lord over you from the high office seats of power
and documented authority and yet they can’t lift one iota of
the promises in scripture as proof of their true worth, but they
shear the sheep of Jesus for all it’s worth.

IS GOD looking for more brainless OVINE, BOVINE or
blinded RUGRATS?

Jesus is supposed to have stated, the children of the world
are wiser than the children of GOD Luke 16,8
I ask you, is that statement true? So what are we going to
do about the gauntlet Jesus threw down?

LOOK, Pete and John in ACTS 4, or Stephen in ACTS 7
and even Paul didn’t fix anyone, GOD did, ACTS 20
NEITHER did Moses part the Red Sea, EXOD 14
nor Elisha raise the dead 2 Kgs 4
and I know I go out on a limb by saying, neither did Jesus
except by the very grace and finger of GOD, who had sent
Him here amongst us slummers of this gaol which we pretend
is our EDEN. Luke 11,20 and John 5,30

WHAT is your FAITH predicated upon? FACT or FANTASY?
Is it only CONCEPT or is it REALITY?

IF YOU'll all recall long ago, I stated my posts are linked,
and this one is linked to WON OVER

PAX

[Amadeus]

Yes, PASHA, many people are really asking Pontius Pilate's question [What is truth?] even though they never say those same words with their mouths. Their actions show that they often know little or even nothing about God's Truth.

and I know I go out on a limb by saying, neither did Jesus
except by the very grace and finger of GOD, who had sent
Him here amongst us slummers of this gaol which we pretend
is our EDEN.

As long as the limb is going in the Lord's direction it is not as lonely as some might believe. I know you are 'tough-skinned about being ignored or rebuked, but it still can be a lonely place when so few will even consider the possibility that your way might be God's and theirs is the one that leads to the ditch,

John,

AMADEUS,
MANY THINK by QUANTITY they will be proven RIGHT, but sadly that is
not the case with GOD, for with GOD it's not quantity but QUALITY.
AND to be rebuked, well isn't that a par for the real christian course?
If I JUDGE, I do EXPECT to be JUDGED, IF I CONDEMN I must expect
to be CONDEMNED, but at the end of the DAY, GOD has the final say.
FOR WHOM HE PREDESTINED HE ALSO FOREKNEW,
ALL HE"S DOING is letting an EXPERIMENT run it's course of which HE
already knows the OUTCOME.

THE QUESTION MANY SHOULD TRULY ASK IS
HAVE THEY BEEN MISLED and thus perpetuate that trend as
once ISRAEL was misled and got their sinful collective dispossessed for
a time.
THERE ARE MANY QUACKS wacking the moles, agree, but once can
spot them a mile off with the tin cup that they shake for FINANCIAL
CONSIDERATION.
And then there the other extremeists who seek followers who will obey
their montra just like is expected in all mainstreamed institutionalized
forums,
I ain't look for any followers just as Jesus never looked for FOLLOWERS
though He did ask some to follow on but to be IDOLIZERS that is never
what Jesus had in mind.
JESUS ADORED ONLY ONE, His ABBA, the GOD of gods as scripture records
and I again was blessed to read in Danny 11.
Jeus didn't come here to represent Himself, but many are brainwashed
that is how it ought be.
THE LIE has already misled many to their everlasting damnation, and as
my dear dad, earthly brother by also another mother always says
THE DEVIL SLEEPS BEST WHERE NOBODY CONTESTS FOR THE TRUTH
and the RULERS have complete CONTROL over their flock.
Does a SHEPHERD CONTROL his SHEEP or control the enviroment wherein
they bleat?
BUT MANY WON"T SEE IT THIS WAY, and for their sake I keep GOADING
them to AWAKEN before it is too late, that is the ROLE of ANY LIGHTHOUSE
or LITE TOWER.

[Amadeus]

"When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Mark 12:17

Those righteous will keep the righteousness of themselves, for that is their reward. They cannot see that by their choice, the rewards that God has prepared for those that really love Him will be forever lost to them. This is where most who call themselves Christians are now. Their eyes are blind to the strait and narrow gate.

AMADEUS,
JESUS had a sense of humor, or at least the recorder did,
ARE THERE ANY TRULY RIGHTEOUS FOLK, or are there only those
as you say,ONLY IN THEIR OWN MINDS, and what number are they
the MAJORITY or are they often the MINORITY?

[Amadeus]

Originally Posted by PASHA

AMADEUS,
JESUS had a sense of humor, or at least the recorder did,
ARE THERE ANY TRULY RIGHTEOUS FOLK, or are there only those
as you say,ONLY IN THEIR OWN MINDS, and what number are they
the MAJORITY or are they often the MINORITY?

Sometimes PASHA, my own flesh gets ahead of me and I find myself wearying in well doing. There are so many who say they are 'saved', but do they really even know who Jesus is? Are they are too blind to see Him at all? My own vision may be at times quite blurry, but usually I know it and simply one more time ask for help. The Lord is more than willing to provide the necessary help to those who are willing to really ask.