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ABORTION

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Abortion image3-1609631691The Bible, to my knowledge, speaks only of spontaneous abortion, not induced abortion.  According to medical science, abortion is the removal of pregnancy tissue, products of conception or the fetus and placenta from the uterus.  Pregnancy is a process that consists of a series of biochemical changes that take place in a woman’s organs and tissues as a result of a developing fetus, connected by the umbilical cord to the placenta. Through the blood vessels in the umbilical cord, the fetus receives all the necessary nutrition, oxygen, and life support from the mother through the placenta. Heart sounds are created from blood flowing through the heart chambers as the cardiac valves open and close during the cardiac cycle. Vibrations of these structures from the blood flow create audible sounds.  

According to science, life begins at conception, which most Christians would agree with. However, the growing fetus does not have its own life.  All that it needs to sustain its existence comes from the mother. It gets its life from its mother.  So in truth, the life of the unborn child does not begin at conception. It begins when the child takes its first breath— the breath of life.

 “And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

The soul is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action.  When it comes to abortion, the soul should be taken into consideration. Our we, as parents, spiritually (mentally and emotionally) prepared to bring a child into this world? If we are not, we will end up bringing harm to the soul of our child through our mental and emotional deficiencies.

“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.”  Isaiah 54:1  

“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many  more children than she which hath an husband.”  Galatians 4:27

I’m sure it makes people feel good to say that they are pro-life.  After all, they are standing up for life!  But what if the life the child is forced to enter into (having no choice of his own) is not a good one? The prophet Isaiah tells us that the desolate have more children than the wife that is married. How can the desolate have more children than the one that has a husband?  When it doesn’t seem to make sense literally, it should be taken spiritually.  We call the ground desolate when it is without seed. The spiritually desolate are those that lack what both the seed and the husband symbolize, which is truth, through which we are healed mentally and emotionally. If pro-choice no longer becomes an option, Isaiah’s prophecy will continue to unfold, as more and more children, born of the spiritually desolate, are brought into this world, carrying on the spiritual legacy of their caretakers, contributing to the growing spiritual decline of mankind.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2022

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

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Unconditional love: affection without any limitations, or love without conditions. This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism or complete love. Each area of expertise has a certain way of describing unconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has no bounds and is unchanging. – Wikipedia

God is Love. While it is true that God, which is Spirit, has no limitations. Is it true that God, which is Love, has no conditions? God has spiritual laws set in place, and being made in the image of God, man is subject to these laws. If he breaks these spiritual laws, he suffers the consequences. The law is the condition. God set up His Law out of Love, to keep us in the borders of obedience, within a wall of protection. 

 “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee… Exodus 15:26. There are conditions that must be met in order to escape the diseases that plague us. Clearly, man has not been in compliance with the conditions that God has laid down for us, to protect us, because he loves us. 

God is Love, which also has a condition:  Jesus saith unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:16. Which is to say, no man comes to Love, except through truth.  “For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me…” John 16:27. 

God loves those who love truth, therefore, God’s love is conditional!  So where did this “feel-good” expression come from?  A search reveals that the term, “unconditional love,” was first used by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in 1934.  So, it is a precept of man, not of God. The term is sometimes associated with “complete love,” the biblical term for which is, “perfect love.”  

“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God… God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: … There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear… We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” 1 John 4:15-21. The word confess means to assent; i.e. covenant, which is to express agreement or acceptance of something.  Those that agree or accept that Jesus is the Son of God, dwell in love.  Therefore, those that accept that Jesus is God, do not dwell in love. Why?  Because, in removing the Son we remove the word of God (truth), the very essence of God’s spirit— “the spirit of truth.”  So we can conclude that if we remove truth from the equation, our love can never be made perfect.  We can never reach “perfect love” from within our heart. The “day of judgment” is the period of time in which we judge (overcome) our false perceptions and beliefs. If we achieve it in this life, we will have boldness on the day of judgment in the afterlife. Love, by itself, has no power until it is directed toward someone or something. God directed His Love toward us by giving us Jesus, the manifestation of God’s seed or word of truth.  How do we love ourselves?  By giving ourselves the truth.  Only then, can we truly say we love God. Only then can we truly love our brother. Fear opposes love. A lie opposes truth.  Fear is the spirit or energy of the lie.  Love is the spirit or energy of truth.  How many of us have (knowingly or unknowingly) enabled our brother’s bad behavior as a result of accepting the “unconditional love” lie?  That is not loving our brother.  Love has a condition, which is truth.  Yet we fear telling our brother the truth, which would be a demonstration of our love towards them. 

Fromm’s concept of “unconditional love” could very well have been an unconscious back-lash against the fear instilled in him through religion, having come from an Orthodox Jewish family, a religion he turned away from in 1926. If we did our due diligence by looking into the history of those that come up with these man-made concepts, we would most likely understand the psychology behind it. This obsession with love is an attempt to counteract the fear buried so deep within the psyche, that most of us are still unaware of its existence, a fear that can be overcome by replacing all of these lies, with truth.  In truth, there is no such thing as “unconditional love.”

“We can’t heal the world with Love until we heal our hearts with truth!”

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021

CHRISTMAS TREE PROPHECY

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Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen,Christmas Tree and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”   Jeremiah 10:2-4 

The word heathen means Gentile.  It was 300 years after Christ before the Roman church kept Christmas, and not until the fifth century that it was mandated to be kept throughout the empire as an official festival honoring “Christ.”  However, it is not Christ that is being honored through this tradition, but Paul, upon whose teachings the Roman church was built, which is why Paul is called Apostle to the Gentiles. 

REINCARNATION

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The doctrine that the soul, upon the death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form. Rebirth of the soul in a new body. This is the general understanding of reincarnation today, which comes from the east.  A different understanding comes from The Holy Bible— the Sacred Text of the west. The soul, by definition, is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. The soul is unique to each individual because none of us have the same exact experiences in life, which determine how we think and feel; thought and emotion. The eastern concept of reincarnation teaches that the soul of an individual can return again and again for the purpose of reaching total enlightenment. Here, the body experiences a physical death, followed by a physical birth as the soul is transferred to a new body.

Energy is either transferred or transformed. The east teaches transference of the soul-energy. Here’s the problem with this incomplete concept. Our soul, through the painful things we saw, heard, felt, and experienced throughout our life, took on negative and destructive energy. If our soul-energy is not transformed during our time here on earth, our unhealed mental and emotional energy will be transferred, passing over into the spiritual realm—“in heaven as it is on earth.” If we are to accept the eastern concept of reincarnation, we must accept that the infant comes into this world in an unhealed mental and emotional state.  Otherwise, what would be the purpose of the soul’s return, which according to the east, is to reach enlightenment. So now, the poor soul that has taken on a new body, not only has the burden of the negative and destructive energy of the previous life, but the burden of the negative and destructive energy his soul will carry through the painful experiences of this life. To have a complete understanding of reincarnation we must incorporate what the Sacred Text of the west has to teach us on the subject:

The Holy Bible teaches spiritual reincarnation through a spiritual death and rebirth that takes place while we are in the physical body. To reach enlightenment does not require the soul to experience many past lives through many bodies. But rather, to experience the past of this life in this one body.  Jesus said we must “become as little children,” which takes place through the transformation of our mental and emotional or soul energy, through which we return to the state we lived in as little children; pure in thought and emotion. Jesus provides the instruction for returning to this pure state through his cup and platter parable. The “inside of the cup” symbolizes the thoughts of the mind.  The “inside of the platter” symbolizes the emotions of the heart.  We are transformed through the purification of our mind and heart.

Transformation is the process of transforming or being transformed— the process through which we become a new creation, our “first heaven and first earth,” (formed through false perceptions and beliefs carrying negative and destructive mental and emotional energy) passing away (Revelation 21:1). This is the spiritual death that precedes the spiritual birth of  “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing a new mind and a new heart, which being formed through the spiritual light of truth, carries positive and constructive mental and emotional energy, the soul reaching enlightenment in one lifetime. The soul consists of mental and emotional energy. The transformation of this energy is the rebirth of our soul in our body.  This is the teaching of the Sacred Text of the west on the subject of reincarnation.

“The last Adam was made a quickening spirit…”  The spirit is the power or energy that works through the mind and heart— through the soul. The word quickening means to (re-)vitalize, make alive, give life. Through this transformation process, the holy spirit is revitalized. And with the revitalization of our portion of God’s holy spirit, comes the regeneration of God’s word (Matthew 19:28), which forms our new heaven and earth, the word regeneration meaning the act or process of creating anew. As man enters the third day, he is given one last opportunity to revitalize his holy spirit through the conception of truth in his heart, returning his soul to the pure state in which it was received.  A new mind and a new heart equates to a new soul, in which dwells a new spirit (Psalms 51:10)— a new soul formed inside of our current body, as opposed to the eastern belief of an old soul entering a new body.

Jesus asks, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?  Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets (Matthew 16:13,14).  Jesus’ response?  Elijah has already come (Matthew 17:12), which was for the benefit of the Jewish scribes, who understood that Elijah must come before Messiah. But Jesus is also teaching us a very important spiritual truth.  It is not the soul (which is unique to each individual) that returns.  It was not the soul of Elijah that returned.  It was the spirit of Elijah, which rested upon John the Baptist, while Jesus possessed the spirit of Elisha: “And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.”  2 Kings 2:9.  “And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood upon his feet.” 2 Kings 13:21. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection,”  possessing the spirit of Elisha.

So now, through the Word of God, we understand that it is not the soul that takes on a new body. But a body that takes on the spirit of one that has come before. During a past-life regression, my sister saw herself as Queen Sheba. She took it to mean literally.  When in truth, it was the spirit or idiomatic expression of Queen Sheba that she took on in this life.  Any knowledge we have of a past life should be used to understand the past of this life.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2015

LINEAGES OF MATTHEW & LUKE

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Bible-heart-key-center-blkThe two lineages are the same for the 14 generations from Abraham to David. Then, the Matthew lineage takes us through the kings of Judah, while the Luke lineage goes through another line. But there were never to be kings in the first place. Israel rejected God as ruler over them when they rejected God’s mouthpiece, Samuel, meaning heard of God, demanding a king like the other nations, so God gave them Saul, the first king of Israel. God would later rend the kingdom from Saul and give it to David.  It is after David that the lineages diverge.  The Matthew lineage goes from David to Solomon, and the Luke lineage from David to Nathan, both sons by Bathsheba.

The reign of David is the type-and-shadow of the Messianic reign. The reign of Solomon is the reign of religious Christianity that followed the Messianic reign. Solomon had many strange women, representing the many strange (flesh or carnal minded) doctrines of religious Christianity. The majority of the kings of Judah do evil, with a good king periodically entering in to try to turn things around, but to no avail.  Judah’s last king was told to submit to the king of Babylon and serve him seventy years, after which time he and his people would return to the holy city Jerusalem.  But Zedekiah refused to submit to the king of Babylon, which would have saved his life, the life of his people, and Jerusalem.  Zedekiah’s eyes were put out, and he was carried into Babylon where he died in prison. In refusing to admit to our confusion, we are left blinded to the truth, bound by our prison of lies, iniquity or sin, the wages of which, is death— death with regard to the full potential of our soul.  We are going into Babylon, whether we go willingly or are forced by the circumstances of our reality.

It is after they are carried into Babylon that the two lineages come back together for two generations. The first son born after entering Babylon is Salathiel, meaning I have asked God.  This is where we return to a direct communication with God, which takes place when we humble ourselves by admitting we are confused. His son is Zorobabel, meaning, descended of (i.e. from) Babylon.  The lineages diverge again until they both return to Joseph.  What has led Jews into Babylon, and what has led Christians into Babylon, are different, so the path or generations back to Joseph will differ.  Both lineages go through Judah; through Pharez, meaning, breach, and therein lies the problem.

“For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s.” 1 Chronicles 5:1  

Judah prevailed above Israel as seen in her first king, Rehoboam, which means “a people has enlarged.”  But the birthright was Joseph’s.  Both camps, Jews and Christians (the Judah of today) have forfeited their spiritual birthright by skipping over the spiritual works, which has caused this breach or gap. To receive the birthright, they will both have to return to Joseph, as both lineages do.  Judas (Judah in Hebrew) bought a field with the reward of iniquity.  What is counted as iniquity for the Jews is revealed through the prophet Isaiah (1:13,14).  What is counted as iniquity for the Christians is the doctrine of Paul, the Saul of the New Testament. The 12 generations from Salathiel to Christ represents the spiritual judgment that brings us to the spiritual christ, through which we become true worshippers— worshipping God in spirit and in truth.  

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”  John 4:23

The generations should have gone through Jacob’s son, Joseph, not through Judah, which is why both generations go back to Joseph, the father of Jesus through the power of adoption.  All that came in-between; from Judah the son of Jacob to Jesus the son of Joseph, shows us our disobedience, and God’s mercy, who gave us David, a man after God’s own heart, who came to turn the heart of the people back to God.  But we are a stubborn and stiff-necked people, which was said of the children of Israel, chosen out of all the nations of the world to represent us the people.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2003

WHAT IS GOD’S WILL?

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God’s Will was and is creation. Being made in the image of God we have the power to form a spiritual heaven and earth, which we have all done.  But this creation was not God’s Will, as it was not made according to God’s instruction. It was not formed in the light of truth, but in the darkness of naïveté. 

 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…”  Isaiah 5:20

We have all called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, causing us to make wrong decisions throughout our life, which brought woe, meaning misery.  We have pushed the destructive energy of painful memories down into the darkness of the subconscious mind.  It is time to bring that which is in darkness into the light, through which we form a new creation, made in accordance with God’s instruction. This is God’s Will! 

While we are on the subject, let’s talk about this “God willing” expression we hear so often from those of religion.  Is this not saying that whatever happens, whatever the outcome, good or evil (i.e., desirable or undesirable, pleasant or unpleasant, joy or sorrow), is God’s will?  And what if what happens falls under the latter?  Are we not calling God, Who is good, evil?  According to the prophet Isaiah, the misery we bring into our life is the consequence of us calling evil good, mistaking lies for truth.  According to the prophet Jeremiah, our word (the sum or our false religious and personal beliefs) is our burden. When we say “God willing”  we place the burden on God.  If the outcome is one of pain and sorrow, it’s God’s fault, not ours.  This is a perversion of God’s Word, which teaches us that the burden is ours.   

“And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden?  I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.  And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house… And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.” Jeremiah 23:33,34,36

We are responsible for what we bring to our life. As God’s word formed heaven and earth, which was good, our word formed a heaven and earth that was not so good.  But we have power to bring joy and peace to our life through a new creation. This is God’s Will!  

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”  Revelation 21:1,4  

Our reward for performing the spiritual (mental and emotional) works that result in the creation of “a new heaven and a new earth,”  symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” our thoughts, emotions, and actions made pure.  This is God’s will for us!

Written by Sandra L. Butler ©2022

THE CICADA SIGN

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cicadaThere are signs to indicate the times. The return of the 17 year cycle cicada in the United States in 2021 is a very important one!  The biblical word for cicada is “locust,” which means,“to point to the most High”— a teaching of the first revelation. The word locust goes back to the Hebrew prime root word, rabah, meaning, increase, gather, store.  The 17 year cicada is coming up out of the ground, as Joseph, who being 17 years of age, came up out of the ground, retrieved from the pit in which his brothers threw him, entering Egypt, symbolizing the World, where he would gather and store the increase of corn for the coming famine, the corn symbolizing the spiritual word of God, for which there is now a growing hunger, as was spoken by the prophet Amos:  “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the the words of the Lord.”  8:11.  The masses have been hearing the words of the Lord, but not through the orator of spiritual truth.  The only perspective with regard to the literal Word of God has been a religious one, which was established 17 hundred years ago by the Council of Nicaea; a group of political and religious leaders that formed a government-sanctioned religion for the people to follow.

Like the cicada, which disappears for 17 years, Jesus disappears from scripture between the ages of 13 and 30— for 17 years, spending time in that spiritual ground called the heart.  And what Jesus gave the World was spiritual corn— spiritual truth, the literal Word of God written in a symbolic language, which has preserved and protected this spiritual knowledge for over thirty-five hundred years.  It is a language that is foreign to the religious ear, which is why Joseph’s brothers did not understand his language, and why the multitudes did not understand Jesus’ parables.  But when the famine waxed sore in all the land, the brothers of Joseph went down into Egypt to buy corn (Genesis 42:1,2), as our religious brothers are now beginning to buy the spiritual knowledge and understanding that is appearing after 17 hundred years, which their religion deprived them of, as spoken by the prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” referring to destruction on a soul-level.  To preserve their spiritual life, they, like the brothers of Joseph, will have to eat of the spiritual corn, which is to accept this spiritual truth into their heart through spiritual obedience.  When Jesus said “believe the works” (John 10:38) he was referring to one’s obedience to the spiritual works, through which one obtains spiritual life, which is salvation of the soul.

The Bible takes place within us: When I left behind what was becoming a religious mindset back in 1997, it was said that I had gone into the World.  Yes, I had gone into Egypt, symbolizing the World, after being thrown into a metaphorical pit by the rejection of those I once considered friends (Zechariah 13:6).  Like Joseph, who spent time in prison, I spent time in solitude, quieting my mind, the spiritual or symbolic meaning of  “silence in heaven,” through which I too came in contact with the baker and the butler, symbolizing the spirit and the word of God, also symbolized by the “two olive trees” or “two olive branches” (Zechariah 4:11-14), the olive pressed to make the oil used in physical anointing.  But it is only through the spiritual anointing of God’s holy spirit, which delivers the word of truth to our heart, that we gain spiritual life through the removal of the spiritual flesh formed by our false religious and personal beliefs, as the cicada sheds its skin.  Once free of its skin, the wings of the cicada are given power. It is time to shed our spiritual “coats of skins,” thereby restoring the spiritual power through which we are made mentally, emotionally, and physically free, which is salvation of the soul.

The return of the 17 year cycle cicada is a sign, one that points to the return of spiritual truth, which has been buried— hidden from the masses for 17 hundred years.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY

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616E4896-7835-40E8-861C-3AA8C26A6873Two Paths:  Science and the Mind or Spirituality and the Heart.

Jesus advocated for the latter— the path through the heart. The narrow gate, which few have the courage to enter, fearing the experience, as the children of Israel were in fear of ascending the mount— the process of surmounting the painful emotions of the heart.

As there is physical pain with physical birth, there is spiritual or emotional pain with spiritual birth.  The busier we can keep our mind, the less time we have to think about how we feel, which is exactly what these new age Science-Mind pseudo-spiritual practices do. They keep us distracted with their convoluted theories, taking us down the wrong path, but hopefully not so long as to keep us from entering that narrow gate called the Heart in this lifetime.  Contrary to popular belief, all paths do not lead to the same place!  Wherever we are in the ascension, transformation, purification, or salvation process at the time we leave the earthly realm, is where we will be in the spiritual realm. The Bible speaks of two kingdoms. The kingdom of heaven, symbolizing the realm of the mind, and the kingdom of God, symbolizing the realm of the Heart.  To enter them without, in the reality of God’s Kingdom, we must first enter them within.

These Science-Mind beliefs fall under the church of Thyatira in the book of Revelation, the last of the four churches pertaining to religion, and to the religious, spiritual, and scientific beliefs that formed between the middle of the first century up until the twenty-first century, all of which have roots in religious Christianity. Scientific Spirituality grew out of the Scientific Revolution that took place during the Renaissance, the word Renaissance meaning rebirth— the birth of new ideas.  It took new scientific ideas of the revolution that occurred in the late seventeenth to eighteenth century, and combined them with elements of the Christian Religion. Science and Religion are of the Mind. Spirituality is of the Heart.  Spirituality is the state, quality, or fact of being spiritual: of, concerned with, or affecting the soul.  It is  soul that is being adversely affected by the vast array of attempts at spirituality through these new age ‘science and the mind’ philosophies.  There is no absolute truth in science. There is absolute truth in spirituality, which is of the heart— the seat of the soul.  It is through the power of the heart, not through the power of the mind, that we receive absolute truth, which is a process— the process of enlightenment.  Truth is light!

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:”  Matthew 7:13 KJV  

The destruction is spiritual, of the soul, because these scientific approaches to spirituality only serve to prevent us from entering that strait gate called the heart, where we will complete the works through which our soul reaches its fullest potential. The scientific approach to spirituality is no different than the religious approach to spirituality, both of which bypass the heart.

THE GREAT SPIRITUAL HEART BYPASS— the broad way that leads to destruction!

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021

 

CHRISTIANITY: THE CURSE UPON AMERICA’S FREEDOM

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downloadAmerica was founded upon spiritual principles or truths, our Founding Fathers divinely inspired by The Holy Bible.  

Principle: a basic truth, which applies to both the physical and the spiritual. Foundation: the basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported.

The “Declaration of Independence” proclaims as a self-evident truth the First Principle: That “all men are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  We were all created in the image of God, as it is written, “Let us make man in our image; after our likeness.”  The image of God is His Spirit and His word, truth, Jesus personified, through which we obtain life and liberty, as it is written, “In him was life…”  John 1:4.  “And ye shall know the truth, and  the truth shall make you free.”  John 8:32.  Spirit and truth, the two-fold power we have all have been endowed with by our Creator, through which we obtain true happiness, should we choose to pursue it.  The Founding Fathers formed the government of America, “the land of the free,” after the likeness of God. But to continue to be the land of freedom for the World, the people must be governed by God’s Spirit, and obedient to God’s word— the two divine attributes of the Creator.   

Christianity:  the religion derived from Jesus Christ.  Derived: of, or pertaining to. 

The Christian religion was not derived from Jesus Christ.  It was derived from the teachings of Paul.  Apostle Peter wrote the following about Apostle Paul in his letter to Clement: “bad instruction, vain boasting, and other such evils have filled the whole house of this world like some enormous smoke preventing those who dwell in it from seeing the Founder aright.” Peter goes on to say that Paul is the source of these errors, and that his visions deluded him. The following is a quote from Thomas Jefferson, one of the seven Founders: “Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.  Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.”  It was most likely this insight that gave rise to Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation between Church and State,” which Jesus spoke to, saying, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Mark 12:17. The Founders saw the danger in mixing government with religion, symbolized by the iron and clay in the Book of Daniel: “… they shall not cleave one to another, even as the iron is not mixed with clay” Daniel 2:43. Thomas Paine, considered by some to be a Founding Father, said this: “All this [Paul’s writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told.” The Founders were deists: one who believes in the existence of a personal God, but in few or none of the doctrines of the Christian religion. Christianity was founded upon the conjured, carnal-minded teachings of Paul, not upon the spiritual teachings of Jesus. In destroying the spiritual principles and truths upon which America was founded, Christians are unwittingly giving power to a government that will destroy what America stands for, which is FREEDOM! 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021

THE RAPTURE

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rapture-1The origin of the term comes from Paul, in which he uses the Greek word harpazo, meaning “to snatch away” or “to seize,” to teach that “believers” in Jesus Christ (according to Paul’s definition) would be snatched away from the earth into the air. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”  1 Thessalonians 4:17. Paul teaches a physical return and ascension.  Jesus does not! 

Paul was not a witness to the ascension that took place in Galilee.

“And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.”  Acts 1:9. Jesus was taken up out of their sight, meaning  they did not see him taken. “And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel.”  Acts 1:10. The two men in white apparel symbolize the two witnesses, who in that day were John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ— the embodiments of God’s Spirit and Word— the “spirit of truth,” which has come to teach us the truth regarding Jesus’ return, which Paul will turn into a lie. “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:1. If the men of Galilee were doing right by gazing up into heaven, waiting on a physical return, what need would there have been for the two men to question it? The two witnesses of God have come to stop the iniquity that will soon spread regarding Jesus’ return, who will come in the same manner as he left, out of their sight— a return not seen through the physical eyes (plural), but through the spiritual eye (singular)— the third eye, as it is written, “ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him…”  Revelation 1:7.  The clouds [of heaven] symbolize the thoughts [of the mind]. Truth comes with or through the thoughts of the mind (by way of the heart) when there is “silence in heaven,” which opens the “seventh seal” (Revelation 8:1), which is the same as the seventh chakra. Christians will have to silence their mind of the religious iniquity they have been taught if they want to open (activate) this spiritual crown chakra, through which they will see the spiritual Jesus— the spiritual truth of God’s Word.  

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” 1 Thessalonians 4:16. More evidence of Paul’s carnal mind. As the men of Galilee did not see the Lord ascend, Christians will not see him descend.  An angel is a messenger. The voice of the archangel that Paul speaks of (but does not understand) is the truth that speaks to us through the holy spirit when we quiet our mind, bringing messages from our heart to our mind, and back again, illustrated by the angels that ascended and descended upon the ladder in Jacob’s dream, which was set up on earth, symbolizing the heart, and reached into heaven, symbolizing the mind. The ladder symbolizes  the process by which the painful emotions of our heart are transformed, through which we experience a spiritual rapture; an elated (joyful) emotional state. Christians await Jesus’ second coming, which has already taken place. His first coming was his birth. His second was when he appeared to his Apostles in Jerusalem. His third is spiritual, coinciding with the third and final spiritual “era of Jacob,” which began with the new millennium, when Jesus returns to the individual in the form of truth returning to that spiritual earth called the heart.

The children of Israel, chosen to represent us the people, were to ascend the mount on the third day at the sound of the shofar (trumpet), but they declined out of fear.  The third day began in the year 2000; the beginning of the third thousandth year since the crucifixion of Jesus (2 Peter 3:8). We have all crucified the truth from within our heart through false religious and personal beliefs. The trumpet that Paul speaks of has already sounded. The sound of the trumpet means prepare for battle. The time to overcome our spiritual enemy of false beliefs, resurrecting truth from within our heart, is now!

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021