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So Jesus warned that the time would be coming, when they considered it a favour to God if they killed us - which is true, but deeper than this is the fact that what they think they will kill you for: changes from generation to generation. Initially they meant "Peace without life! Peace without relationship!"; later they meant "Peace without end! Peace without Spirit!"; now they have come to the point where they mean "Peace without joy! Peace without Great Witness!"; later they will mean "Peace without terms! Peace without reckoning!". These things they say, because they do not know exactly what it is that they mean, for all time.
The Fool will gain wisdom from generation to generation, but always too late - even at the End of Man, fools will be saying "Peace! Peace!" - there is nothing in Jesus that can save them. God will overlook them, His messengers will learn to work around them, for the most part. This is the outworking of Wisdom from generation to generation, until Her wisdom, in God is brought to light - fundamentally. When we practice patience in Jesus, through meditation on His Word, we put the world's peace to death - it is a life and death struggle!
Jesus concerned Himself with the foolishness of working with iniquity (that is, instead of repenting), for as He said "the things concerning Me have an end" (from memory, gospels), even the end getting away from Him, will come to an end - in no simple terms, the Fool will be punished and the world will begin to lament that it continues to mourn the Fool as it does the Lord. This is the struggle for life: to get faith from the Messenger, before the end of the Age makes it impossible. If it can be gleaned from the Messenger, there is time to do the work of the Chosen - work that will save, this is the point.
Does a fool return to foolishness, when he has been punished? Not immediately, not for a long time! This is the Grace of God, the Fool is free, he embraces his foolishness willingly, God cannot stop him. The end coming, the point known, there is almost noone that would not turn their life around, to be with God again - it may take a long exile into darkness to make the difference of life with God clear, in distinction to darkness without Him, but it unmistakably forces the Fool to assess what he means by "peace". There are loopholes, there are snares, the Fool does not seek them all out, but what he seeks out, is his end.
Learn from God, escape foolishness while you can - from Genesis to Revelation there is an answer to man's foolishness: you will be tested, you will be tried, but if you pass through you will have joy unspeakable, in life everlasting. Surely you are not so great a fool as to count that a "little" thing? May someone pray for you and your soul.
So Jesus warned that the time would be coming, when they considered it a favour to God if they killed us - which is true, but deeper than this is the fact that what they think they will kill you for: changes from generation to generation. Initially they meant "Peace without life! Peace without relationship!"; later they meant "Peace without end! Peace without Spirit!"; now they have come to the point where they mean "Peace without joy! Peace without Great Witness!"; later they will mean "Peace without terms! Peace without reckoning!". These things they say, because they do not know exactly what it is that they mean, for all time.
The Fool will gain wisdom from generation to generation, but always too late - even at the End of Man, fools will be saying "Peace! Peace!" - there is nothing in Jesus that can save them. God will overlook them, His messengers will learn to work around them, for the most part. This is the outworking of Wisdom from generation to generation, until Her wisdom, in God is brought to light - fundamentally. When we practice patience in Jesus, through meditation on His Word, we put the world's peace to death - it is a life and death struggle!
Jesus concerned Himself with the foolishness of working with iniquity (that is, instead of repenting), for as He said "the things concerning Me have an end" (from memory, gospels), even the end getting away from Him, will come to an end - in no simple terms, the Fool will be punished and the world will begin to lament that it continues to mourn the Fool as it does the Lord. This is the struggle for life: to get faith from the Messenger, before the end of the Age makes it impossible. If it can be gleaned from the Messenger, there is time to do the work of the Chosen - work that will save, this is the point.
Does a fool return to foolishness, when he has been punished? Not immediately, not for a long time! This is the Grace of God, the Fool is free, he embraces his foolishness willingly, God cannot stop him. The end coming, the point known, there is almost noone that would not turn their life around, to be with God again - it may take a long exile into darkness to make the difference of life with God clear, in distinction to darkness without Him, but it unmistakably forces the Fool to assess what he means by "peace". There are loopholes, there are snares, the Fool does not seek them all out, but what he seeks out, is his end.
Learn from God, escape foolishness while you can - from Genesis to Revelation there is an answer to man's foolishness: you will be tested, you will be tried, but if you pass through you will have joy unspeakable, in life everlasting. Surely you are not so great a fool as to count that a "little" thing? May someone pray for you and your soul.
