And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day.
The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
creteis@yahoo.com Behold in a dream during the dread nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was taken and shown near a city ...
and there was a small town in the distance ...
and an older man and a younger woman were in a car driving to the country outside of a small town ...
and the man was in his early forties and the young woman was in her mid twenties or a little older ...
and they leisurely drove on the back roads ...to a house that was the young woman's ...
and the man and the woman laughed and told stories and joked much of the way ...
even loving to find out little secrets about one another ...
and they had stopped in the moon light in an empty wayside ...
and walked and held hands and touched each other tenderly ...
even with arms around one another as they went ...
and on occasion as their hearts were moved to one another they embraced lovingly...
and they excitedly returned to the car ...to continue on to the young woman's house.
and as they arrived was the man impressed ...for the young woman's house was a immaculately restored and well kept farm house ...
and the house was large ...3 to 4 bedrooms and a huge covered porch...
and again all of all was in wonderfully prepared and kept ...
and that for the young woman had been very blessed and was diligent in her works and ways ...
and had become very successful as she managed businesses in the city ...
even her own ...that she had started from nothing ...
and the older man was such as was very well blessed ...
and that for he had made much money honestly and fairly and had blessed many others ...
and his investments in worthy measure of matters had set him free of debt and bondage of labor ...
and he lived very well on the dividends of his being blessed ...
and the man and the woman went into the house ...
and the young woman showed the man her house ...and how she had it prepared ...
and each bedroom was finished and and completely furnished ..
even as was the whole house prepared ...
and they sat close to each other in the living room and talked into the late evening ...
and as they talked they spoke more tenderly and as their hearts reached out for one another they embraced passionately...
Yet withheld themselves for the lust of the flesh ...
and the evening became quite late and neither of them were used to staying into the early morning hours ...
and so it was decided that the man would stay the night and they would have breakfast together in the morning ..
and the woman showed the man a bedroom that had been prepared ...
and the woman went to her room and was quickly to sleep ...very peacefully ...
and the man like wise completely at rest ...slept through the night without stirring ...
and the morning came bright and early and the man stretched and thought to take a shower ...
and he went into the main part of the house and the woman was gone ...
and she had left a note saying she went in to get items for a special breakfast they they would share...
and the man smiled in his heart ...and went to take a shower ..preparing for the day ...
and as he went he looked and the door was open to the house ...
and so he closed the door and tripped the lock ...
and went to take his shower ...
evenso as he was getting ready to get in the shower ...many others came ...many people ...
and they even came into the house ...
and the man without taking a shower ...put on his a covering and went to see what the matters were ...
and there came relatives and friends of the young woman ...flooding into the house ...
and young men and others asked who he was ...and what he did ...
and how he knew the young woman ...
and he answered them ...as best he could ...with reservations against busy bodies and gainsayers ...
and the man thought to go back to the room provide for him ...
and to take his shower as he had planned ...
and so he excused himself and went to the shower ...
Yet other young men were using the bathroom ...
and he had to wait ...and the other young men grinned at the older man slyly ...
and that for they were young men and wanted to play with the young woman themselves ...
Yet all they wanted to do was ...play ...for the lust of the eye ...lust of the flesh and the pride of goods ...
and were careless of truth or worth or respect or honor for the young woman ...
Nevertheless the man waited to use the bathroom ...to shower and to wash himself clean ...
and when he was finished he went again down stairs ...to main part of the young woman's house ...
and still the house was full of others ...relatives and "friends" ...
and they all had found out about the young woman meeting the older man ...
and they came to find out ...of the thing ...
and many did not approve of the young woman choosing and older man ...
and they scoffed rudely at the older man ...
nevertheless the older man was not moved by the games people played ...
Yet sought out the young woman ...
and she had come back to the house and was surprised at all the people ...visiting ...
and she had become overwhelmed by the din of activity ...of questions and prying opinions and conclusions ...
and the young woman lounged on the couch ...trying to rest somewhat ...
and the man came to her and touched he gently on her head ...
and she looked up at him ...seeing he was ready to leave ...
and she drew him closer and asked " please don't go " ...
Yet he smiled and turned as if to say "look at all these people ..."
and he turned back to her smiling as if the whole thing of all the peoples coming was nothing ...
and he kissed her gently on her head ...
and turned to go ...
and the young woman was furious ...at the man ...for leaving ...
and she thought he should have stood up to the people more straightly ...
and the man drove off ...from the house the young woman had prepared ...
and as he was leaving a young man waved him down ...asking for a ride into town ...
and the older man said get in ...
and the older man and the younger man talked ...
and the younger man spoke highly of the younger woman and that she was worthy to be any mans wife ...
and the older man thanked the young man and dropped him off where the young man wanted ...
and the older man looked at the road ahead of him ...
and the road ...that he thought to go ...became blocked ...
and the older man turned around and went back towards the house that they young woman had prepared ...
and scripture came back to remembrance ...
THE GOSPELL OF ST. MARK Chpt 10
And he rose from thence and went into the coasts of *Jurie through the region that is beyond Jordan. And the people resorted unto him afresh: and as he was *wont, he taught them again. And the Pharises came and asked him a question: whether it were lawful for a man to put away his wife: to prove him. And he answered and said unto them: what did Moses bid you do? And they said: Moses *suffered to write a testimonial of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them: For the hardness of your hearts he wrote this precept unto you. But at the first creation God made them man and woman. And for this things sake shall man leave his father and mother, and bide by his wife and they *twain shall be one flesh. So then are they now not *twain, but one flesh. Therefore what God hath coupled, let not man separate.
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN Chpt 2
See that ye love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods) is not of the father, but of the world. And the world vanisheth away and the lust there of: but he that fulfilleth the will of God, abideth ever.
Behold, the Lords hand is not so shortened that it cannot help, neither is his ear so stopped that it may not hear. But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness: Your lips speak leasings, and your tongue setteth out wickedness. No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit, conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil. *They breed cockatrice eggs, and weave the spiders web.
*Whoso eateth of their eggs dieth.
*But if one treadeth upon them. there cometh up a serpent.
*Their web maketh no cloth and they may not cover themselves with their labors.
*Their deeds are the deeds of wickedness, and the work of robbery is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels, harm and destruction are in their ways. But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is there no equity, their ways are so *crocked that whosoever goeth therin, knoweth nothing of peace.
And this is the cause that equity is so far from us, and the righteousness cometh not nye us. We look for light, lo, it is darkness: for the morning shine, see, we walk in the dark. We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noon day, as though it were toward night: in the falling places, like men that are half dead. We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none: for health, but it is far from us. For our offenses are many before thee, and our sins testify against us. Yee we must confess that we offend, and knowledge that we do amiss: Namely transgress and disassemble against the Lord, and fall away from our God: using presumptuous and traitorous imaginations, and casting false matters in our hearts. And therefore is equity gone aside, and righteousness standeth far off: truth is fallen down in the street, and the thing that is plain and open, may not be showed. Yee the truth is laid in prison, and he that refraineth him self from evil, must be spoiled.
When the Lord saw this, it displeased him sore, that there was no where any equity. He saw also, that there was no man, which had pity thereof, or was grieved at it. And he held him by his own power, and cleaved to his own righteousness. He put righteousness upon him for a breast plate, and a fiery helmet of health upon his head. He put on wrath in stead of clothing, and took jealousy about him for a cloak: ( like as when a man goeth forth wrothfully to recompense his enemies, and to be avenged of his adversaries. ) Namely, that he might recompense and reward the Islands where through the name of the Lord might be feared, from the rising Sun: and his majesty, unto the going down of the same.
For he shall come as a violent water stream, which the wind of the Lord hath moved. But unto Sion there shall come a redeemer, and unto them in Jacob that turn from wickedness, sayeth the Lord. I will make this covenant with them, ( saith the Lord): My spirit that is come upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never go out of thy mouth, nor out the mouth of thy childrens children, from this time forth for evermorefrom the marginal notes...(MN) or martyrs notes
*1 To breed cockatrice eggs, is, to go about that which is inischeous (unsatiating) and wicked: A to weave that spiders web, web, is to about vain and trifling things, which are of no value: although they seem ever so excellent unto the doers.
*2 As to ye that eateth of a cockatrice egg dieth, So they that delight in cruel works, or that consent unto them, shall perish.
*3 And if a man unawares, tread on their eggs : and so press out the cockatrice and be touched, he shall be killed of her: evenso shall the thoughts of that evil bring them to death.
*4 As no man maketh clothes of the spiders web, so shall the wicked works enrich no man nor profit him on the day of judgement, when we must go unto that rest in that wedding garment.
*5 By the deeds of wickedness understand guileful and crafty deeds of robbery, violent and tyrannous deeds. The text sayeth that their deeds are the deeds of robbery because they help no man with their hands. But rather rob and beguile the poor: so are they without charity, so feel they not what charity requireth of them.THE REVELATION OF ST JOHN Chpt 21
And there came unto me one of the seven Angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues: and talked with me saying: come hither, I will show thee the bride, the lambs wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and an high mountain, and he showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the brightness of God. And her shining was like unto a stone most precious, even a Jasper clear as Crystal: and had walls great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve Angels: and names written, which are the twelve tribes of Israel: on the East part three gates, and on the North side three gates, and towards the South three gates, and from the west three gates: and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the lambs twelve apostles.
THE REVELATION OF ST JOHN Chpt 22
I Jesus sent mine angel, to testify unto you these things in the congregations. I am the root and the generation of David, and the bright morning star. And the spirit and the bride said come. And let him that heareth, say also, come. And let him that is a thirst, come. And let whosoever will, take of the water of life, free.
I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: *If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall minish of the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from those things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith: be it, I come quickly, Amen.
Even so: come Lord Jesu.
The grace of our Lord Jesu Christ be with you all:
AmenTHE FIRST TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 11
I commend you brethren that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances even as I delivered them to you. I would ye knew that Christ is the head of every man. And the man is the womans head. And God is Christs head. Every man praying or prophesying having any thing on his head, shameth his head. Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth bare headed, dishonesteth her head. For it is even all one, and the very same thing, even as though she were shaven. If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. If it be shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her cover her head.
And it happened when these words came to the ears of Judith a widow, which was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the son of Osiah, the son of Elia, the son of Jedeon, the son of Raphoim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchia, the son of Euam, the son of Nathania, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon, the son of Ruben. And her husband was called Manasses, which died in the days of the barley harvest. For while he was binding the sheaves together in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he died at Bethulia his city, and there was he buried beside his fathers. Now was Judith his desolate widow three years and six months. And in the higher parts of her house she made herself a *privy chamber, where she dwelt, being closed in with her maidens. She wore a smock of hair, and fasted all the days of her life, except the Sabbaths, and new moons and solemn days that the people of Israel kept. She was a very fair and beautiful person. Her husband had also left her great riches, and plenteous household, great unmovable possessions and many cattle. This Judith was a woman of very good report with everyone, for she feared the Lord greatly, and there was no body that spake an evil word of her.
When this Judith heard, how Osias had promised the people, that after the fifth day he would give up the city unto the Assyrians, she sent for the elders Chambri and Charmin, and when they came to her, she said: what thing is this, wherein Osias hath consented, that if God help not within five days, he will give over the city to the Assyrians ? What are ye, that ye tempt the Lord ? This devise obtaineth no mercy of God, but provoketh him unto wrath and displeasure. Will ye set the mercy of the Lord a time and appoint him a day after your will ?
Nevertheless for so much as the Lord is patient, let us rather amend ourselves, pouring out tears, and beseeching him of grace. For God threateneth not as a man, neither will he be provoked into wrath as the children of men. And therefore let us heartily fall down before him, and serve him with a meek spirit, and with weeping eyes say unto the Lord, that he deal with us according to his own will and mercy: that like as our heart is now vexed, and brought low through the pride of them, it may so be comforted through his grace: in so much as we follow not the sins of our forefathers, which forsook their God, and worshiped other Gods: for the which sin they perished with the sword, were spoiled and brought to shame of all their enemies. As for us, we know none other God but only him, for whose comfort let us tarry with meekness. He shall require and make inquisition for our blood, from the vexations of our enemies: he shall bring down all the Heathen, that rise up against us, and put them to dishonor, even the Lord our God.
Therefore dear brethren, seeing ye are the honorable and elders in the people of God, unto whom all the people have respect, and upon whom the life of the people standeth, lift up their hearts with your exhortation, that they may call to remembrance, how our fathers also in times past were tempted, that they may be proved, if they worshiped their God aright. They ought to remember, how our father Abraham being tempted, and tried through many tribulations, was found a lover and friend of God. So was Isaac, so was Jacob, so was Moses, and all they pleased God, being tried through many troubles, were found steadfast in faith. Again, they that received not their *tentations with the fear of God, but put themselves forth with *unpatiency and murmuring against God, perished of the destroyer, and were slain of serpents. And therefore should not we undertake to be avenged, for the thing that is done to us: but consider, that all these punishments are far less than our sins and misdeeds. Believing also, that this correction cometh unto us ( as to the servants of God ) for amendment, and not for our destruction.
Then said Osias and the elders unto Judith: All that thou speakest, is true, and no man can reprove thy words. Pray thou for us now therefore unto God, for thou art an holy woman, and fearest God. And Judith said unto them: seeing you know, that my words are of God, then prove my counsel and devise, if it be of God: and beseech God, that he will bring my counsel to good end.
Thus have I devised: Ye shall stand this night before the port, and I will go forth with Abra my maiden: Pray ye therefore unto God, that he will graciously remember his people of Israel within five days, as ye have said. As for the thing that I go in hand withal, ask ye no questions of it, till I open it unto you myself: do ye nothing else but pray unto the Lord your God for me. Then Osias the prince of the people of Juda said unto her: Go thy way in peace the Lord be with thee, that we may be avenged of our enemies. And so they went from her again*privy (private) *tentations (intents, temptations) *unpatiency (impatience)
and others of a similitude ...
"the worldly against the coupled..."
"seeking the wealth of others ...and which God hath coupled together... "
" lust of the flesh ...or God coupled ..."
"The danger of a vain wife..."
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