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Casting down imaginations

“I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.” Psalms 139:22

                Providing context, King David is talking about his physical enemies. He was a man of war. He also describes his enemies in Psalm 139, the Philistines, as “They speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.” That also describes the Jews of today, since they like to blaspheme in Jesus’ name.

                It’s not very politically correct to hate people. Even the false church that likes to call itself Christian says you mustn’t speak hateful words. But David said, “I hate them with perfect hatred!”

                I think of what they’re doing in Gaza, all these Christians that like to claim Israel is the kingdom of God. What God? More like Baalzebub country.

                Why do I even bother to try to tell people. It goes on deaf ears. “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” Matthew 7:6

                But people today will mostly blast you or get offended if you talk about God or Jesus. They deny the Bible, the Gospels and try to tell you it’s all myths and legends. The Spirit World is real. Jesus spoke in Luke about a purgatory where people suffered having died.

                “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.” Luke 16:26 Here’s the context again: It’s about a rich man who let a beggar lie at his gate hoping for a few scraps from the rich man’s table. The dogs licked his wounds or sores.

                Now, this is a story Jesus told recorded in the book of Luke. Luke was a Greek doctor that was converted by Paul. There’s not good reason to believe that this isn’t an actual recording of Jesus’ words.

                Anyway, the beggar and the rich man died. The beggar went to paradise, not Heaven, another state of being in the afterlife. The rich man went to Hell and somehow saw Lazarus, the beggar, being held by Abraham. (They’re both in the same paradise awaiting the resurrection.) So, the rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus, as if the was his servant, to cool his thirst and the rich man speaks of being tormented by fire. “And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”

                But Abraham tells him he’s had his party on earth and now it’s time for the beggar to receive his reward. And Abraham says, there’s a “great gulf fixed” between them. He can’t come to Abraham or Lazarus and Lazarus can’t go to him.

                But the rich man is not done. He asks Abraham to send Lazarus to his father’s house to warn his brothers and Abraham says, “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.”

                And the rich man argues that if they see one arise from the dead, they will repent. It’s interesting to that the beggar is called Lazarus in the story, since Jesus raised a Lazarus from the dead in real life. Abraham says, “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” That’s been the state of the world for 2000 years. It’s not my job to convince you. All I have to do is warn you.

                And if you want to live on in your make-believe world. Be my guest. You live in an imaginary world. Your speech is just nonsensical bull shit. You just regurgitate what you’ve been taught. You’re a product of what we used to call the boob tube. You have no mind of your own. You’re a zombie—brain dead!

                For me, I’m “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

2 Corinthians 10:5