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| Here is another way to think of the Eucharist that I stole from your favorite crazy man:
We go before God, our father and he takes a look at us. If we've been bad we get a spanking, if we've been good we get a treat. This is the same pattern as the inspection of jealousy in Numbers 5. It is the same pattern as the inspection of the lamp stands in Revelation.
Should children be disciplined? Think about it...
It is wrong headed to not discipline them out of love for them, because true love necessitates discipline. A parent's job is to train their child to live rightly. So, it is similarly wrong headed to withhold the sacraments from children on the basis that they might possibly receive judgment from it. Rather, we should encourage them to go before God and let him have a look.
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| Luke 11:49-51 - Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees...
"Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from
the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the
altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this
generation."
Revelation 18:2-8 - "Another Angel" (Jesus) says...
"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast
For all nations have drunk
the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;**
for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.
Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,
and repay her double for her deeds;
mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
and mourning I shall never see.’
For this reason her plagues will come in a single day,
death and mourning and famine,
and she will be burned up with fire;
for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Revelation 18:21-24 - "A mighty angel (also Jesus?) throws a millstone into the sea and says...
"So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;
and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
will be found in you no more,
and the sound of the mill
will be heard in you no more,
and the light of a lamp
will shine in you no more,
and the voice of bridegroom and bride
will be heard in you no more,
for your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
and of all who have been slain on earth."
Jesus says that the prophets perished between the altar and the sanctuary. The harlot mixes a cup of the blood of the saints and drinks it down. Rather than drinking the blood of Christ, she drinks the blood of the saints.
So, Israel is "Mystery Babylon", or "The Harlot" in Revelation. The Roman Catholic Church is not... nor is any other future body of people, that people have made up.
**Those told to flee the city are the righteous (Christian converts in Israel) and references Christ's words in Matt/Mark/Luke on the abomination of desolation - (From Luke) "Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it."
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| When Satan asks Eve, "Did God actually say, ‘Youshall not eat of any tree in the garden’?" he is not seeking to undermine God's authority so much as Adam's authority. God commanded Adam not to eat of the one tree before Eve was "built" from Adam's rib, and so Adam had to have told Eve about the tree. Satan is causing divisions in the body from the beginning (he always works this way). He knew from the beginning what God later says at babel: "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this
is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they
propose to do will now be impossible for them..."
Satan also knew from the beginning that man was a little lower than the angels, but only for a time. Man would eventually reach maturity, and would gain kingship over the world and be higher than the angels. Satan did not want to be under man, and so he rebelled from his role as chief angel (babysitter), tempting man to fall short of his glory. The word 'glory' here is important because glory is a covering. The glory of God is a covering cloud. The glory of a woman is the hair that covers her head. The glory of a king is his kingly robes... So when they ate of the fruit they gained discernment like kings (see Solomon) but had no glory robes from God. This is their realization of nakedness. They were not prepared for the office of king.
So Satan prolongs his superiority over man and even takes man's kingship of the world. Christ comes as a second Adam to take back the world from Satan, and rightfully receive the glory robes and kingship for mankind. Maybe that is what he was wearing in the garden after his resurrection...
(This is brought to you by 70% Girard and 30% Jordan)
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| Neko Case's 'Fox Confessor Brings the Flood' beats Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' for the best album of 2007. Basically 'cause I said so...
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| I'm still alive, just not as xangan because I ran out of things to say.
Besides this:
Listen to this album cause it is so good. If you don't like it, may God have mercy on your soul.
Also I made a blog for my extended family to post their pictures from Guatemala. You can look at them if you want. I put a few up...
thesackfam.blogspot.com
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