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 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 a college campus ...
and it was all fine cut grasses and tall trees and artsy buildings ...
and manicured walkways every which way ...
and school was out for the season ...
Yet remained there some ...
and to the some the school had become their life ...
and amongst the some ...was a man who had went to school many years ...
Nevertheless now ...he was threw with it ...
and he had quit and had nothing left ...only a huge debt ...
and he sold all he had ...to pay off some bills ...
evenso it was nothing ...compared to the debt ...he had ...
and he told a young woman the same ...
and the more that she should not stay in school for a long time ...
and that the school cared for nothing except to collect tuitions ...
nevertheless none of the some would hear the warning ...
and though they pretended to care maybe writing to one another ...
evenso no names were given to the man who left ...
and as the man left the school ...the seeing changed ...
and the scene changed and the school campus was like a desert ...
even as the deserted shore of sand soured by a tsunami of the waters of the worldly ...
and scripture came back to remembrance ...
Job answered, and said: I have often times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the fort of you. Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say? I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my souls stead.: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips. But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me. And now that I am full of pain, and all that I have destroyed ( whereof my wrinkles bare witness ) there standeth up a disassembler to make me answer with lies to my face. He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy schooleth upon me with his eyes.
They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversary. God hath given me over to the ungodly. I was some time in wealth, but suddenly he hath brought me to nought. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at. He hath compassed me round about with his darts, he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground. He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant. I have sowed sack cloth upon my skin, and lay with my strength in the dust.The Lord God hath given me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them which are troubled, yee and that in due season. He waked mine ear up by times in the morning ( as schoolmasters do ) that I might *herk. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, therefore can I not say nay, ner withdraw myself, but I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting, for the Lord God hath helped me, therefore shall I not be confounded. I have hardened my face like a flint stone, for I am sure, that I shall not come to confusion. Mine advocate speaketh for me, who will then go with me to law ? Let us stand one against another: if there be any that will reason with me, let him come here forth to me. Behold, the Lord God standeth by me, what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth which moths shall eat up.
Therefore who so feareth the Lord among you, let him hear the voice of his servant. Who so walketh in darkness, and no light shineth upon him, let him hope in the Lord and hold him by his God. But take heed, ye have all kindled a fire, and girded yourselves with the flame: Ye walk in the glistering of your own fire, and in the flame that ye have kindled. This cometh unto you from my hand, namely that ye shall sleep in sorrow*herk (hearken)
Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily, and lovingly doth she order all things. I have loved her and labored for her even from my youth up, I did my diligence to marry myself with her, such love had I unto her beauty. Who so hath the company of God, commendeth her nobility, yee the Lord of all things him self loveth her. For she is the schoolmaster of the nurture of God, and the chooser out of his works. If a man desired riches in this life, what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things? Thou wilt say: understanding worketh. What is it among all things, that worketh more than wisdom? If a man love virtue and righteousness, let him labor for wisdom, for she hath great virtues. And why? She teacheth soberness and prudence, righteousness and strength, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in their life. If a man desire much knowledge, she can tell the things that are past, and discern the things for to come: she knoweth the subtleties of words, and can expound dark sentences. She can tell of tokens and wondrous things, or ever they come to pass, and the ends of all times and ages. So I purposed after this manner: I will take her unto my company, and commune lovingly with her: no doubt she will give me good counsel, and speak comfortably unto me in my carefulness and grief. For her sake shall I be well and honestly taken among the common men and Lords of the counsel. Though I be young, yet shall I have sharp understanding, so that I shall be marvelous in the sight of great men, and the faces of Princes shall wonder at me. When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure: when I speak, they shall look upon me, and if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth. Moreover, by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and among them that come after me. I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subdued unto me. Horrible tyrants shall be afraid, when they do but hear of me: among the multitude, I shall be counted good, and mighty in battle. When I am come home, I shall find rest with her: for her company hath no bitterness, and her fellowship hath no tediousness, but mirth and joy.
Now when I considered these things by myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be joined unto wisdom is immortality, and great pleasure to have her friendship: how that in the works of her hands are infinite riches: how that, whoso keepeth company with her shall be wise: and that he which talketh with her, shall come to honor: I went about seeking, to get her unto me. For I was a lad of ripe wit, and had a good understanding.THE FIRST OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 1
In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, which moved much people with their council, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the Heathen, that are round about us: for since we departed from them, we have had much sorrow. So this device pleased them well, and certain of the people took upon them for to go unto the king, which gave them license to do after the ordinances of the Heathen. Then set they up an open school ( at Jerusalem ) of the laws of the Heathen, and were no more circumcised: but forsook the holy Testament, and joined themselves to the Heathen, and were clean sold to do mischief.
THE SECOND OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 4
This Simon now ( of whom we spake afore ) being a betrayer of the money and of his own natural country, reported the worst of Onias: as though he had moved Heliodorus unto this, and as though he had been a bringer up of evil. Thus he was not ashamed to call him an enemy of the realm, that was so faithful an overseer and defender of the city and of his people: yee and so fervent in the law of God. But when the malice of Simon increased so far, that through his friends there were certain manslaughters committed: Onias considered the peril that might come through this strife, and how that Apollonius ( namely the chief lord in Celosyria and Phenices ) was all set up tyranny, and Simons malice increased the same: He gat him to the king, not as an accuser of the citizens, but as one that by himself intended the common wealth of the whole multitude. For he saw it was not possible to live in peace, neither Simon to leave off from his foolishness, except the king did look thereto. But after the death of Seleucus, when *Antiochus ( which is called the noble ) took the kingdom: Jason the brother of Onias labored to be high priest: for he came unto the king, and promised him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and of the other rents eighty talents. Beside this he promised him yet an hundred and fifty if he might have *the school of the children, and that he might call them of Jerusalem Antiochians. Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the superiority, he began immediately to draw his kinsmen to the custom of the Heathen, put down the things that the Jews had set up of love, by John the father of Eupolemius, which was sent ambassador unto Rome, for to make the bond of friendship and love. He put down all the Jews and Liberties of the Jews, and set up the wicked statutes. He durst make a frightening school under the castle, and set fair young men to learn the manners of whores and brodels.
This was now the beginning of the Heathenish and strange conversation, brought in through the ungracious and unheard wickedness of Jason, which should not be called a Priest, but an ungodly person. In so much that the priests were now no more occupied about the service of the altar, but despised the temple, regarded not the offerings: yee gave their diligence to learn to fight, to wrestle, to leap, to dance, and to put at the stone: not setting by the honor of the fathers, but liked the glory of the Greeks best of all: for the which they strove perilously, and were greedy to follow their statutes, yee their lust was in all things to be like them, which afore were their enemies and destroyers. How be it to do wickedly against the law of God, shall not escape unpunished: but of this we shall speak here after.
What time as the Olympiades sports were played at Tyrus ( the king himself being present ) this ungracious Jason sent *wicked men bearing from them of Jerusalem ( which were now called Antiochians ) three hundred drachmas of silver for an offering to Hercules. These had they that carried them, desired under such a fashion, as though they should not have been offered, but bestowed to other uses. Nevertheless he that sent them, sent them to the intent that they should be offered unto Hercules. But because of those that were present, they were given as to the making of ships. And Apollonius the son of Nesteus was sent into Egypt, because of the noble men of king Ptolomy Philometor. Now when Antiochus perceived that he was put out from meddling in the realm, he sought his own profit, departed from thence, came to Joppa, and then to Jerusalem: where he was honorably received of Jason and the city, and was brought in with torch light and with great praise: and so he turned his host unto Phenices.THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Chpt 19
And he went into the synagogue, and behaved himself boldly for the space of three months, disputing and giving them exhortations of the kingdom of God. When diverse waxed hard hearted and believed not, but spake evil of the way, and that before the multitude: he departed from them, and separated the disciples. And disputed daily in the school of one called Tyranus. And this continued by the space of two years: so that all they which dwelt in Asia, heard the word of the Lord *Jesu, both Jewes and Greeks. And God wrought no small miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body, were brought unto the sick, napkins or partlets, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto the time of Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith. But after that faith is come, now are we no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. For all ye that are baptised, have put on Christ. Now is there no Jewe neither Gentile: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither man nor woman: but ye are all one thing in Christ *Jesu. If ye be Christs, then are ye Abrahams seed, and heirs by promise.
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