November 21st.

They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers.

They now understood the words that had been made known to them.

The biggest, most important lie that baffles the humans is that there is no darkness now, nor has there been for the past so many hundreds of years since the truth of God went completely away from the earth sometime before 500 a.d. There is no exact date because it was a slow movement away. The zenith of the life of God in the earth was seen strongest in Jesus and the bond between the Father and himself, and the love that flowed out from him to the 12 men to whom he revealed their true Father, then lead them to Him. By the time that generation was passing, the darkness was already starting. As time slowly moved further away from that point, the truth of the life of God living in humans moved just as slowly away from the earth. By around 450 a.d., the man-made lies which replaced what was true on the earth had been made official by the humans, and the truth that the disciples had, systematically outlawed by the animals who set themselves up in God's place, just fizzled away into nothing.

In a way what happened on the earth, according to what the humans observe, wasn't that important because that's the natural reality, what the humans are fully a part of so they can look at, observe, record and communicate it however they want. In the NT times it was by saying those things with the mouth, by the expression of words. If there afforded a more rare occasion to write things down and deliver that message, that existed too. Still, whatever is about the natural isn't very important because it goes away as per its purpose to continue to exist by all the continually renewing cycles of death.

The spiritual reality is what's important to those who are chosen to become spiritual, like their Father, and that reality isn't written down for any of the humans to be able to corral, corner, own, possess and control—what they do with everything they can in the natural. Superficially even the earth is in that sense not important, because its outer layer can be subdued and owned, therefore controlled by the humans who have the power to enforce it. They can grab it, hold on to it, and own it; they can have power over it. Although they can never do anything about its spinning and racing through space at the perfect speed and velocity without a waver so that the humans don't burn up or freeze to death. They like to forget that serendipitous perfection as they ponder everything *except* the God who created it. Because the only humans who ever openly talk about God are liars who are totally duped by mythologies that are thousands of years old, it's more cool to say there must not be any God (if the only God is the god of the liars).

As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work—which is by faith. The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.

The spiritual reality is the place where God lives. It is not a part of this natural creation. Above us is space and below us is space, with a huge ball in between, which is wrapped in layers of protection. The spiritual reality is a different dimension that is made up of matter too fantastic for the humans to even contemplate adequately, because of the limitation of the natural reality and what they're able to comprehend. The humans are bound to the earth and everything earthly. They aren't supposed to be able to comprehend the spiritual reality. That which can interpret it must be born into an earthly being if that which is incomprehensible is to be comprehended.

The Jews thought the kingdom of God was only and forever a natural reality, as it had existed under David. Jesus came along and said that the kingdom of David was only a copy of something much better, but that real kingdom of God couldn't be comprehended by natural beings except if they were given different eyes to see it, because it was spiritual, unseen and invisible to the purely natural humans—of a totally different form and matter than that which the humans could comprehend. The kingdom of God was the same thing as the kingdom of heaven; heaven just means the spiritual place where God who is the spirit lives, separated from the earth. God lived via His unseen spiritual body matter in Jesus' body, in his heart meaning inside his thoughts and consciousness—his life in the most intimate places within him. Not in the places where he lived and communicated with other humans, but the secret place within him that was unique to him i.e., He didn't just live anywhere, but only one place, because that place was clean.

The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him. Jesus said, "This voice was for your benefit, not mine.

God didn't communicate with Jesus on the outside. He did in the places where no one else saw, or was able to verify whether He did or not. That is the human way, to be able to verify and prove something—what they need for validation and belief in whatever natural phenomenon, circumstance or condition. God communicated with Jesus in a way that was above what the humans can understand. The voice of the spirit of God talking to his spirit is the best way to understand it, but even that's flawed because it's based on naturally perceived things. But since that's all we can understand that'll have to do, until or unless that same phenomenon starts happening to us, then we'll just know. Suffice it to say that it's not natural, or like anything natural. It just is, and unless it breaks in, we just remain natural beings, another integral part of the natural creation.

Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.

God wanted a people who were set apart form the rest of the humans. Not set apart merely in the superficial manner (doing external rituals) while in their hearts they remain fully as the rest, scurrying about making money, raising brood, getting and maintaining a fully wild animal identity, bound to the earth via their nature. That is their real identity, another animal in a world of animals, while the whole servant of God identity is merely an act, another way to hide and pretend.

By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

Transcending the natural is necessary for humans to be able to believe something outside of what they want to accept (like a miraculous exodus and a pillar of smoke and fire). The miracles were for a purpose, to validate the God who wasn't a part of their everyday experience as members of the natural creation. They were a temporary busting in to the natural reality, but they didn't remain. The people who witnessed them had to remember them to keep them going along in their intended way. But they forgot and they went according to whatever welled up inside them to go after, according to craving and instinct that produced fear and the longing to indulge and hide from Go instead of coming near Him.

As soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

In your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

God did finally abandon the natural group of humans who came naturally from Abraham, just as everything that is natural gets abandoned when its time has come to be replaced by some other natural thing. The relationship He established with the new people of God in the first century was more like the ultimate relationship He will have with His own sons. The new covenant was of different language, a spiritual condition rather than a natural one which didn't last because the humans are dull to anything that isn't natural.

You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

The spiritual reality is the important one, because God is the spiritual reality, and only He is important, along with what He considers important enough to make a part of that reality, motivated by the intention of redemption, which is motivated by love for what is His. That reality is seen in the opening statements of the record—His family, children and sons, and what He wants His reality to be, because He has the power and ability to decide that.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The reality of the sons in the first century was that they understood they were sons, via that spiritual understanding, the same as what Jesus understood. Inasmuch as he was able to realize what he was to God, and what his work was—to fulfill that act of true love for his true brothers whom were spiritually recognized by him, not naturally—so also did this man Paul, who was being transformed into a being like Jesus who comprehended the spiritual reality. That reality is not automatically extended out to everyone, just as Jesus didn't speak to everyone with the intention that they all understood the reality he meant to convey to those who were chosen by the Father to know it.

Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.

What he was before God came to him can be comprehended by the humans, because he was one of them. And he acted accordingly, as he saw fit, by whatever was inside him to act and decide what to do, where to go, who to kill—according to what would best allow him to survive and promote his welfare while he thought he was doing God a favor.

The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Paul believed that the Son and Father, united as One being, lived in his body. He believed that the Son was killed and then resurrected, and was alive in this other intangible, unseen form of spirit which isn't bound by natural limitations, nor is it subject to natural expectations, like we expect an apple to fall on the floor if it rolls off the table. He didn't comprehend that voice and life based on what he observed in the natural reality. In that sense he looked like any of the other humans, just as Jesus looked like any of them too; except that he thought a dead man was inhabiting his body.

They had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.

He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?