And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... liberty...
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 in the midst of much weeping ...and heaviness of heart ...mourning in the midst of the darkness...
and before me a funeral ...of a loved one ...
and heavy dark drapes of mourning ...missing ...
and an unknowing of what to speak ...if i was moved to ...or made or speak ...
and a tin cup ...and a few coins ...dropped in ... pay the price of the burying ...
and weepingly i prayed to God my father and to Jesus my brother and Lord ...
and of deep agony of heart and mind and soul ...praying for relief ...
and Behold in an instant ...before a moan could be uttered ...blessing ...poured out ...like warm breeze ...
and comfort ...in spirit and truth ...filled mine being ...heart ...soul and mind ...
and words ...words would be given to speak ...if speaking would be needed ...
and coins of gold dropped into the tin cup ...
and regarding mine loved one ...gone from the flesh ...
evenso living ..and having life with God her father and Jesus her brother and Lord ...
and a word was given ...of her sake ...for mine sake ...
and the word was "liberty" ...
and on the evening of the same day did my daughter take her last breath in this world
(other dreams within that i was comforted by God and Christ )
1st dream 2nd dream 3rd dream 4th dream
"liberty"
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them. When ye be come in to the land which I give you, let the land rest a Sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vines and gather in thy fruits. But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The Lords Sabbath it shall be, and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines.
The corn that groweth by itself thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that grow without thy dressing: but it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth with thee: and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Then number seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven years: and the space of the seven weeks of years will be unto thee forty nine years. And then thou shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the seventh month, which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make the horn blow, even throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabiters thereof. It shall be a year of jubilee unto you and ye shall return: every man unto his possession and every man unto his kindred again. A year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye shall not sow neither reap the corn that groweth by itself, nor gather the grapes that grow without thy labor. For it is a year of jubilee and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat of the increase of the field. And in this year of jubilee ye shall return, every man unto his possession again.
He sent from the height to fetch me, and took me out of great waters. He delivered me from my strong enemies, and from my foes which were too mighty for me. They prevented me in the time of my trouble, but the Lord was my defense. He brought me forth also into liberty: and delivered me, because he had a favor unto me.
Let thy loving mercies come unto me, O' Lord, and thy saving health according to thy word. That I may give answers unto my blasphemers, for my trust in thy word.
O' take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy judgments.
So shall I always keep thy law, yee for ever and ever.
And I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy commandments.
I will speak of thy testimonies even before kings, and will not be ashamed.
My delight shall be in thy commandments, which I love.
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I love, and *my talking shall be of thy statutes,
These are the words that the Lord spake unto Jeremy the prophet, when Sedekiah was agreed with all the people at Jerusalem, that there should be proclaimed a liberty: so that every man should let his servant and handmaid go free, Hebrue and Hebruess, and no Jew to hold his brother as a bond man. Now as they had consented, even so were they obedient, and let them go free. But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.
THE THIRD BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 4
Then Darius the King stood up, and kissed him, and wrote a letter unto all the deputies and *Shreves, to all the Lords and nobles, that they should convey him forth, and all them that would go up with him. He wrote a letter also unto the Shreves that were in Celosyria and Phenices, and unto Libanus, that they should draw cedar trees from Libanus unto Jerusalem, to build the city with all. Moreover he wrote unto all the Jews that were gone out of his realm into Jewry, because of the freedom, that no officer, no ruler, nor Shreve, **should come to their doors: and that all their land which they had conquered, should be free and not tributary: And that the Edomites should give over the cities and villages of the Jews, which they had taken in: yee and that they should yearly give twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were finished: and to the daily hallowing of the burntofferings, as it is commanded, ten talents yearly also: And that all they which come from Babylon to build the city, should have free liberty, they and their children, and all the Priests.
THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 8
Then answered he me and said: Things present are for the present, and things to come for as such as be to come. For thou wantest yet much, seeing thou may lovest my creature above me: I have often times drawn near unto thee, but never to the unrighteous. In this also thou art marvelous before the Highest, in that thou has humbled thy self, as it becometh thee, and hast not regarded thine own self, that thou art had in such honor among the righteous. Therefore shall great wretchedness and misery come upon them, that in the later time shall dwell in the world, for they have walked in great pride.
But understand thou for thyself, and seek out glory for such as be like thee: for unto you paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready: a city is builded for you, and a rest is prepared, yee perfect goodness and wisdom. The root of evil is marked from you, the weakness and moth is hid from you, and into hell flyeth corruption in forgetfulness. Sorrows are vanished away, and in that end is shown the treasure of immortality. And therefore ask no more questions, concerning the multitude of them that perish. For they have taken liberty, despised the Highest, thought scorn of his law, and forsaken his ways.
Moreover they have trodden down his righteousness, and said in their heart, that their is no God, yee and that wittingly, for they die. For like as the thing that I have spoken of, is made ready for you: Even so is thirst and pain prepared for them. For it was not his will that man should come to naught: but they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and are unthankful unto him, which prepared life for them. And therefore is my judgement now at hand. These things have I not showed unto all men, but unto few: namely unto thee, and such as be like thee.
Now when he with his wife, his son and with all his kindred was come in captivity unto Nineve, what time as they all are of the meats of the Heathen, he kept his soul, and was never defiled in their meats. And for so much as he was mindful of the Lord in all his heart, God gave him favor in the presence of Salmanasar the king, which gave him power to go where he would, and so had he liberty to do what him list.
So went Tobiah unto all them that were in prison, and comforted them, and gave them wholesome exhortations. And when he came unto Rades a city of the Medes, having ten talent of silver ( of the things wherewith the king had honoured him ) and saw among a great company of people of his kindred, one called Gabelus (which was of his own tribe ) being in necessity, he gave him the said weight of silver under an handwriting.
Olias the son of Micha of the tribe of Simeon, a Charin ( which is also called Gothonel ) were the principal rulers at the same time. Now when Achior stood in the midst of the Senators, and before them all he told them, what answer he gave Holofernes, to the thing that he asked him, and how Holofernes people would have slain him for so saying, and how Holofernes himself was wroth, and commanded him for the same cause to be delivered unto the Israelites: that when he overcame the children of Israel he might command Achior also to be put to death with diverse torments, because he said: The God of heaven is their defender. And when Achior had plainly told out all these things, all the people fell down upon their faces, praising the Lord, and poured out their prayers together unto the Lord, with a general complaint and weeping, and said: O' Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look upon our lowliness, and consider how it standeth with thy saints, and make it to be known, that thou forsakest not those, which hold them fast by thee, and how that thou bringest them low, that presume of themselves, and make their boast of their own strength. So when the weeping and the prayer of the people ( which they had made the whole day long ) was ended, they comforted Achior, saying: The God of our fathers, whose power and strength thou hast praised, shall so reward thee, that thou shalt rather see their destruction. When the Lord our God then shall give his servants this liberty, God be also with thee among us: So that if it please thee, thou with thine mayest dwell with us.
THE SECOND OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 11
And this was the letter, that the king wrote unto the Jews: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council and the other people of the Jews. If ye fare well, we have our desire: as for us, we are in good health. Menelaus came and told us, how that your desire was to come down to your people, which are with us.
Wherefore those that well come, we gave them free liberty, unto the thirtieth day of the month of *April, that they may use the meats of the Jews and their own laws, like as afore: and none of them by any manner of ways to have harm, for things done in ignorance. Menelaus whom we have sent unto you, shall commune with you at large, fare ye well. In the hundred and forty eighth year, the fifteenth day of the month of *April.
THE GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 4
And Jesus returned by the power of the spirit into Galile, and there went a fame of him through out all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, and was commended of all men.
And he came to Nazareth where he was nursed and as his custom was, went into the synagogue on the Saboth days, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the Prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place, where it was written. The spirit of the Lord upon me, because he hath anointed me: to preach the Gospell to the poor he hath sent me: and to heal the broken hearted: to preach deliverance to the captive, and sight to the blind, and freely to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Chpt 27
When it was concluded that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, an undercaptain of Cesars soldiers. And we entered into a ship of Adramicium, and loosed from land, appointed to sail by the coasts of Asia, one Aristarcus out of Macedonia, of the country of Thessalia, being with us. And the next day we came to Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends, and to refresh himself. And from thence launched we, and sailed hard by Cypers, because the winds were contrary. Then sailed we over the sea of Cilicia, and Pamphilia, and came to Myra a city in Lycia.
For I suppose that the afflictions of this life, are not worthy of the glory which shall be showed upon us. Also the fervent desire of the creatures abideth looking when the sons of God shall appear, because the creatures are subdued to vanity against their will: but for his will which subdueth them in hope. For the very creatures shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain even unto this time.
THE FIRST TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 7
If any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin, if she pass the time of marriage, and if so need require, let him do what he listeth, he sinneth not: let them be coupled in marriage. Nevertheless he that purposeth surely in his heart, having none need: but hath power over his own will: and hath so decreed in his heart, that he will keep his virgin, doth well. So then he that joineth his virgin in marriage doth well. But he that joineth not his virgin in marriage, doth better. The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will, only in the Lord. But she is happier if she so abide, in my judgement. And I think verily that I have the spirit of God.
THE FIRST TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 8
But take heed that your liberty cause not the weak to fall. For if some man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idols temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak, be boldened to eat those things which are offered unto the idol? And so through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak consciences ye sin against Christ. Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.
THE FIRST TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 10
Whatsoever is sold in the market, that eat, and ask no questions for conscience sake. For the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is. If any of them which believe not, bid you to a feast, and if ye be disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you: eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But and if any man say unto you: this is dedicate unto idols, eat not of it for his sake that showed it, and for hurting of conscience. The earth is the Lords and all that therein is. Conscience I say, not thine: but the conscience of that other. For why should my liberty be judged of another mans conscience? For if I take my part with thanks: why am I evil spoken of for that thing wherefore I give thanks?
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the praise of God. See that ye give none occasion of evil, neither to the Jewes, nor yet to the gentiles, neither to the congregation of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they might be saved. Follow me as I do Christ.THE SECOND TO THE CORINTHIANS Chpt 3
Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness, and do not as Moses, which put a veil over his face that the children of Israel should not see for what purpose that served which is put away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day remaineth the same covering untaken away in the old testament when they read it, which in Christ is put away. But even unto this day when Moses is read, the veil hangeth before their hearts. Nevertheless when they turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. The Lord no doubt is a spirit. And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all behold the glory of the Lord with his face open, and are changed unto the same similitude, from glory to glory, even of the spirit of the Lord.
Then fourteen years there after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also. Ye and I went up by revelation and commended with them, of the Gospell which I preach among the Gentiles: but between our selves, with them which were counted chief, lest it should have been thought that I should run or had run in vain. Also Titus which was with me, though he were a Greek, yet was not compelled to be circumcised, and that because of incomers being false brethren which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. To whom we gave no room, no not for the space of an hour, as concerning to be brought into subjection: and that because that the truth of the Gospell might continue with you.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and wrap not your selves again in the yoke of bondage. Behold I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing at all. I testify again to every man which is circumcised that he is bound to keep the whole law. Ye are gone quite from Christ as many as are justified by the law, and are fallen from grace. We look for, and hope in the spirit, to be justified through faith. For in Jesus Christ, neither is circumcision any thing worth, neither yet uncircumcision, but faith which by love is mighty in operation. Ye did run well: who was a let unto you, that ye should not obey the truth? Even that counsel that is not of him that called you. A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump of dough.
I have trust toward you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded. He that troubleth you shall bear his judgement, whatsoever he be. Brethren if I yet preach circumcision: why do I then yet suffer persecution? For then had the offense which the cross giveth, ceased. I would to God they were separated from you which trouble you. Brethren ye were called into (liberty) only let not your liberty be an occasion unto the flesh, but in love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, which is this: thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself. If ye bite and devour one another: take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.
I say walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would. But and if ye be led of the spirit, then are ye not under the law. The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these, *advoutry, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, zeal, wrath, strife, sedition, sects, envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and suchlike of the which I tell you before as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things, shall not inherit, the kingdom of God. But the fruit of spirit is, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. They that are Christs, have crucified the flesh with the appetites and lusts.
If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the spirit. Let us not be vain glorious, provoking one another, and envying one another.*advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one else. see James 2 for adultery.
This is a true saying: If a man covet the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work. Ye and a Bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly apparelled, *harbourous, apt to teach, not drunken, no fighter, not given to *filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness, and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience with all honesty. For if a man cannot rule his own house, how shall he care for the congregation of God. He may not be a young scholar, lest he swell and fall into the judgment of the evil speaker. He must also be well reported of among them which are with outforth, lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evil speaker.
Likewise must the Deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre: but having the mystery of the faith in pure conscience. And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless.
Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober and faithful in all things. Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as rule their children well, and their own households. For they that minister well, get themselves good degree and great liberty in the faith, which is in Christ *Jesu.
These things write I unto thee, trusting to come shortly unto thee: but and if I tarry long, that then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth. And without nay great is that mystery of godliness: God was showed in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of Angels, was preached unto the gentiles, was believed on in earth and received up in glory.THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER Chpt 2
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soul, and see that ye have honest conversation among the Gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.
Submit yourselves unto all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake, whether it be unto the King as unto the chief head: *other unto rulers, as unto them that are sent of him, for the punishment of evil doers: but for the *laud of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that ye put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men: as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but even as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship. Fear God and honour the king.
THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER Chpt 2
There were false Prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you: which privily shall bring in damnable sects, even denying the Lord that hath bought them, and bring upon themselves swift damnation, and many shall follow their damnable ways, by which the way of truth shall be evil spoken of, and through covetousness shall they with *feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement: Neither spared the old world, but saved Noah the eight preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly, and turned the cities of Zodom and Gomor into ashes: overthrew them, damned them, and made of them an example unto all that after should live ungodly. And just Lot vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he. For he being righteous and dwelling among them in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished: namely them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority. When the angels which are greater both in power and might, receive not of the Lord railing judgement against them. But these as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction, and receive the reward of unrighteousness.
They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceivable ways, feasting with you: having eyes full of *advoutry and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children, and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness: but was rebuked of his iniquity. The tame and dumb beast, speaking with mans voice, forbade the foolishness of the Prophet.
These are wells without water and clouds carried about of a tempest, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh, them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors. They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bond servants of corruption. For of whom soever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage. For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. It is happened unto them according to the true proverb: The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.*feigned (made up, beguiling) *advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one else. see James 2 for adultery.
THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES Chpt 1
Wherefore dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all *superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls.
And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with *sophistry. For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass. For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was. But whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein (if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work) the same shall be happy in his deed.
If any man among you seem *devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this mans *devotion is in vain. Pure devotion and undefiled before God the father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widow in their adversity, and to keep him self unspotted of the world.*son: exactly as it appears, other places sun is spelled sunne, here is son spelled sonne.*concupiscence: strong desire, as in the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of goods.*erre: from Hebrew meaning to *pledge. to believe in Gods truth, verity(realness) promises through Jesus Christ. ie:error. *superfluity: indulgence
*sophistry: an imaginable but misleading discussion: sophisticated proud speaking.
*See here that this word is not "religion" neither is the word "religion" found in any of the original text.THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES Chpt 2
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture which saith: Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself, ye do well. But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law, as transgressors. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all. For he that said. Thou shalt not commit **adultery, said also: thou shalt not kill. Though thou do none *adultery yet if thou kill, thou art a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For there shall be judgement merciless to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgement.
**see here the word adultery, see elsewhere the word advoutry. exact spelling from the text
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