"When you little scamps get together,
you're worse than a sewing circle"
Pulp Fiction,
Mia Wallace
(Uma Thurman)
The bible is just chock full
of women of "ill-repute"
for lack of a better word.
(I am just doing broad strokes here today.
This could very easily be expanded
into a multi week Bible study.
And maybe someday it will.
But that is not what were doing today.
Only hitting the surface.)
Thats not new news.
Not in the least.
Tamar, Ruth, Rahab,
Mary
(Christ mom)
The woman at the well.
Mary Magdalene.
Gomer,
(Hosea's wife.
God actually told his prophet Hosea
to go marry a proustite
and father children with her.
Yes he did.)
So All of the above
in one way or another
either were,
or were thought
to have been
by others
such a woman.
We forget
it was a prostitute
that anointed Christ
and we forget the lesson
that it teaches us:
"recognizing one's sinfulness
leads to greater appreciation
for God's mercy."
You know?
Funny thing about judging others
it keeps your eyes focused
off of:
"recognizing one's sinfulness"
And thats why people do it.
Cause as long as your focused
on someone else sins?
Then there is no need
to consider your own.
God kinda partial to the lowly
that accept him
and believe on him faithfully
and trust his plans for them
when others
don't or cant see what he is doing.
My favorite female character
in the bible is Rahab.
Far and away
hands down
my favorite.
Not even close
with any of the others female characters.
Part of that reason
for that
is because of something
few know or ever talk about.
All the spies did in the Rahab story
was save a harlot gentile woman.
Thats it.
Thats all they did.
They didn't get any information
that would help them in the coming battle,
troop positions, tactics, plans, maps, nothing.
All the
two spies
accomplished
was saving
a harlot Gentile woman.
It is foreshadowing
the two witnesses,
saving
the whorish,
apostate Christian church
in the end times.
We are supposed to be
a beautiful bride
(Church)
waiting on our bridegroom
(Christ)
and we have just sold our faith down the river
with any and every worldly thing
that comes along.
All of us.
The two witnesses
come near the end
to save
the apostate whorish
gentile church
from itself.
Mirrors what the spies did w Rahab.
So in a sense,
Rahab had to have been a whore
in order to foreshadow that.
God likes using outcast BTW.
Oh yes he certainly does.
If you think Im way off base
with what I am saying consider:
After Rescue, Rahab and her clan
had to camp outside of
the Israelite camp as foreigners
were not allowed.
it mirrors the outside of the temple
being measured
and given to the gentiles
in Revelation 11:2.
The inner court having
already being spoken for.
(Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity.
Another "red headed step child" so to speak
you don't hear anything about.)
And the marching around Jericho 7x
mirrors the judgements in Revelation.
Even complete with a pause.
And a long blow of the horns.
Its pretty uncanny how that
all matches up with
the judgments,
visions
(7 each
containing another 7)
Long trumpet blast,
pause etc.
in the book of Revelation.
So I got my reasons
(more than I listed here :-)
for having Rahab as my favorite
female character in the bible.
(Thx be to Chuck Missler
very much worth the time to watch it.
We did so in two parts
and I would recommend that
due to the overload of information
that's provided.
But that's just a side note
to my point here at the end.
Lets consider a few other things.
Everybody knows
or has heard
or can imagine
what Mary,
Jesus mom
went through.
She is young
angel comes tells her what's up,
Holy Spirit impregnates her etc.
The penalty back then
for sex outside of marriage
was death.
So, young woman, angel
Holy Spirt, pregnant
potentially facing death etc.
That we hear a lot about
and rightful so.
But what hardly
anybody ever talks about
let alone teaches about is
what Joseph
went through.
By now you should start to be able to see
where this is headed lol.
He was going to hide her away.
He was having doubts
about what had happened,
till the angel came and told him
it was all true
and to take her as a wife.
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Point is
we all think probably think about
what Mary went through
be we rarely if ever consider
what must have been
going through Josephs head
during that time.
It wasnt easy for him either.
What would you have done?
It will make you think.
And I just love the fact that it calls him
a JUST man.
As in he had been
justified.
(This is pre-marriage BTW
read the scripture above again.)
As in
his slate of sins
had already
been wiped clean
by God Almighty.
Romans 8:33
Who will bring any charge
against those whom
God has chosen?
It is God who justifies.
Not you,
and not your church,
and not your deacons
and not your preacher,
and not your denomination
and not your pope,
and not your patriarch etc.
IT IS GOD ALONE
THAT JUSTIFIES.
PERIOD.
Apparently some people
are just never gonna get it.
So if people wanna bring charges
against against those whose slate
has already been declared clean by God?
Then go right ahead and do it,
and go tell God yourself
that he chose the wrong people,
cause that is exactly
what you are saying
and the same people
doing it right now
would have been doing it
back then as well.
I may be a lot of things
but telling God he got things wrong
just aint in my repertoire.
That don't end good.
I promise you it don't.
So I stay away from telling God he is wrong
and just accept what is meant to be
even when I have no kinda understanding whatsoever,
what is going on and why.
And?
I do more than that
I tell others about it
so they can avoid avoid the same pitfall.
See above about
it don't end well.
Isaiah 55:8-9:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord"
Comprende Kemosabe?
If God wants one of his servants
to marry a woman of "ill-repute"
so he can make his point through them?
Then thats what he will do.
Cause its what he did.
(I love the book of Hosea BTW)
Alright so,
moving on yet again.
Imagine
and this is something hardly anybody ever does.
But imagine your dream life.
What would it be like?
Come tell me about it :-).
In what manner would you be living?
Where would you be?
Who would you be with?
What would you be doing?
Not just for a while,
for the rest of your life.
There is no point
in dreaming a small dream.
None whatsoever.
If its a small dream?
Then its not even a dream.
Most people never even stop
to consider
out of all of the possibilities
what would I would REALLY want?
So out of all the possibilities
there are in all the world
what would be you dream life?
I said years ago,
years.
We are the two witnesses
and we get heaven on earth
for telling you hell is coming.
(and because we never craved those things to start with
as had our sights set on higher things.
And for some other things as well,
Demolishing strongholds
establishing
Christ Last Church etc.
Our heaven for us
is right around the corner.
It is literally right here
right now.
All we are missing
is a few
very tiny pieces
of the puzzle
for every bit of that
to be true.
And then we are all good.
Promise.
Here is the thing.
we don't get the Heaven on earth part right
and then get the hell is coming part wrong.
Not how this works.
If you are seeing
that the heaven in this realm
is coming for us?
(And some are.)
Then you can rest assured
THE HELL IS COMING RIGHT BEHIND.
And the only thing gonna protect you
from Gods wrath?
(You'll get Satan's wrath
that's what purifies you.)
Is your belief in Jesus Christ of Nazareth
as God in the flesh.
EVERYTHING ELSE
is only gonna let you down.
You have exactly
ONE
eternal decision to make.
ONE.
I pray you get it right,
I really do.
The point of all that was:
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard,
neither have entered
into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.
(Revelation 12:14
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time,
from the presence of the serpent.)
In our instance?
it doesn't
just mean heavenly things
like everybody thinks it does.
God is making a point
to give an abundance to the ones
the world thought lowly.
He is making a point
to the ones
that crave the things of this world,
these two didn't crave that
and you see
what I did for them.
He told us
we would have heaven on earth
and now people are starting to see
that it is true.
GOD ALWAYS
KEEPS HIS PROMISES.
ALWAYS.
Don't take it wrong.
I hate the prosperity gospel.
That above doesn't mean
he is going to do it for you.
It's the end times
(close enough)
and he is choosing
to use the two witnesses
to prove a point to you.
They didn't crave world things
they know what is most important
so I rewarded them
for all to see.
For those that love God?
their reward could very well be
heavenly things,
eternal life
wisdom, knowledge,
discernment, understanding
etc.
We just happen to get both.
Luxury and comfort
are not sins.
IT"S THE CRAVING THEM
(lust)
THAT DOOMS YOU.
So there is that lol.
So point is.
Themes in the bible repeat
And they are with us right now.
The whores and harlots
and prostitutes'
of long ago,
became our righteous
heroines of today.
Just like God intended.
James 2:25:
"In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?"
Because of their conviction
and their strength
and their courage
of doing what they knew to be
Gods will for their life.
In spite all of the:
"When you little scamps get together,
you're worse than a sewing circle"
going on around them.
Think they didnt know?
What people thought about them?
They knew.
They went ahead and did
Gods will for their life anyway.
Honey sees a lot of herself
in a lot of the female characters in the bible
and I see a lot of myself
in a lot of the male characters.
I read a long time ago
(Its around here somewhere
I just dont wanna
bother looking for it lol.)
they thought the two witnesses
were the male and female
aspects of divinity
powered by the
Holy Spirit in the end times.
I absolutely concur.
100%
Rahab's story
(and a lot of others)
resonates with honey.
Josephs story
(and a lot of others)
resonates with me
as well.
So here is a question
and this whole piece has been
about getting to this point,
and I asked this before
at CBC during bible study
one evening
and I have asked it of others,
question goes like this:
WHAT WOULD BE
YOUR REACTION
IF A MODERN DAY RAHAB
WALKED INTO
YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP
THIS SUNDAY
(accompanied by Joseph of course :-)
????????????????
Cause you never know.
You might just experience that
someday.
We have so badly forgotten
just how God works.
So God put Me and honey here
to remind you of
a few things.
Food for thought anyway.
Love ya everybody.
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