Conflicted --A State of mind?

The World is Upside Down, with appearing that only a miniscule few people Are, Want to be or know that they should try, to do what is RIGHT. Some of the issues that are signs of the problems: "The rights of the few are more important than doing what is right according to GOD, Terror and war appear to be coming from every direction, the common beliefs that have arisen such as "There is no Truth"," Laws and rules are for others not for people like me", these are some of the signs that We are in serious trouble --AGAIN! Each time we and the world have gone through this, it is the worst yet. Hence I would stop it if I could. I cry out to The Creator of the Heavens and Earth to have mercy, to the people I say Hear, See, Understand we have chosen to destroy ourselves, . . . . And then I am reminded that this has all been foretold thousands of years ago and we refuse to Hear, See and Understand, so we will go through this one also.

As a person that thinks, who reasons and learns, one who is striving to be righteous, I am very concerned about the state of the world and the people on it. It is not a simple thing to find an answer that does not cause sleepless nights and upset stomachs. Then I remember that everything is how it was foretold, and so I can not stop what is coming. I can only do what is right according to GOD's Laws and Teachings. It is MY soul that I am responsible for, and for my actions which are seen by others, for good or bad. Each of US influences others by our words and deeds. We affect and effect what happens to others without being in direct contact or our knowing it. Hence, our actions matter. Granted, none of this is likely to make you feel better, well not soon anyway.

What is now and what will be, are foretold in the writings of the Prophets given in the NAME OF G_D.

There are circumstances which seem to be at odds with the idea of "having the freedom to choose." One example, We find many times in the Writing of Moses and then through to the last prophet: they have ears that do not hear, eyes that do not see and a clouded mind or heart(paraphrased). To solve this condition, I have asked THE ALMIGHTY to undo this condition as a simple answer or so it seems simple. Ask the ALMIGHTY to unstop the ears so that people may perceive what they are doing, uncover the eyes so that they may know and un-cloud the mind so that they wil have understanding , then will return to the ALMIGHTY with new hearts. As a result it would seem that "Heaven" would present itself.

This sounds really great, except --Our choice would be gone. We have chosen to not ear, we do not want to see, so that we can claim to have no knowledge of what we do. This is the reason that GOD does not just make everyone Good. We would have no choice, so . . . . .

This prayer is not going to change what will happen for several reasons. The consequence of forcing any person to SEE, HEAR and UNDERSTAND, takes away the responsibility of making the choice, this the ALMIGHTY will not do. Yet, that condition is the one used to describe the Children of Israel.

Time to drop in a lesson.

Isaiah 48:17) Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD thy God, who teacheth thee for thy profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18) Oh that thou wouldest hearken to My commandments! then would thy peace be as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea; It is good to remember that what we think is a curse or a blessing may not be.

Moving On:

Our choice is always a personal one, even when the circumstances,{See the Exodus Story in the Book of Exodus, particularly Pharaoh and Egypt. But this will change and it will happen suddenly, again for HIS GLORY and our enlightenment} seem overwhelming and would justify a certain set of actions. It is our own choices and actions that we are responsible for. You could review the story of Adam and Eve, with the resulting exile from the Garden, or the exodus from Egypt, Noah, or the Tower of Babel, or the Exile to Babylon and the resulting curses upon Babylon , Egypt, Asyria, (I hope that you get the idea, they each punished for their actions.) as full examples of this in full effect.

As a story in opposition to the bad behavior, where we can see self-control, as the answer to a tempting and justifiable set of actions, which can be based on circumstances, I present a story of David son of Jesse, prior to being King of Israel. In this example of David's behavior, look at when David works directly for King Saul(defeated Goliath, is a soldier for the King and place music when the King is visited with a savior head ache, . . . ), David was anointed by Samuel at GOD's instruction(this is our first knowledge of David), as King. King Saul knows that he has lost the kingship to another and suspecting David, King Saul hates David and attempts top kill David. On numerous occasions GOD in watching over David, makes it possible for David or his men to kill King Saul. David absolutely refuses and forbids anyone he knows from harming GOD's Anointed, no matter what King Saul does. GOD watches over David and loves him because of David's deeds. David uses self-control, and we are shown the good and the bad of David's actions. [1Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.' 9 And David said to Abishai: 'Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?' 10 And David said: 'As the LORD liveth, nay, but the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and be swept away. 11 The LORD forbid it me, that I should put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water and let us go.']

Whatsoever the ALMIGHT has said . . . IS! There are No maybes, or IF's, or Possibly, IT JUST IS! the truth. O.k. That which is told, is going to happen from our perspective of time and space. All of it will happen on the earth, there is no question, and much of it is already here or has been accomplished. But, not the real terror, not Yet! {So you ask how can you Know this? I ask you to judge, Do the people of the earth KNOW the ONE GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to worship only HIM, to trust only HIM and therefore keep HIS LAWS and TEACHINGS? N.....O.....! Therefore the WORST IS YET TO COME.} It is again my responsibility to choose Good and not Bad for my actions, this makes me one of GOD's children, my actions and choices.(Isaiah 40 and 56 are good examples of what GOD wants from us.)

Second, GOD requires us to choose GOD OR not god(Life and Death, Good and Evil, Right and Wrong.). This is our only choice, to follow the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac, the GOD of Jacob (These are three witnesses of GOD, with blessings, of which we are a part.) or you are against GOD. If our condition is by Our Choice, then if HE opens and uncovers and clears what we have done, then HE takes away the Choice. Our choice has direct effect upon our soul and its value to GOD, which seems to be valued above all creation, such that creations seems to have been performed for this purpose. To find those souls that of their own choose GOD.

Third, Deuteronomy 30:1) And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2) and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; 3) that then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. ===This is one of many descriptions of the End Of Days events in the Tanakh (Old Testament) regarding the Children of Israel and those that accept the LORD of Jacob as GOD. A second confirming description is in Leviticus 26.(You shall judge the truth only on the witness of two or more.)

The result of all of this brings me back to the beginning --I would stop and give understanding, perception and knowledge so that we would choose wisely. It is a great thing that I am not in charge, for I would blow the Righteous Outcome and settle for less, But The CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH knows what HE has done, and knows the perfect outcome. This is far beyond all human understanding so I will trust GOD and HIS plan. All I can do is: "Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD: Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is near to come, and My favour to be revealed. 2 Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil."

Note: In order to be able to perform what Isaiah 56 speaks about, one must know the LAW, Judge himself(regarding his success and failures in doing so) and Walk humbly before the GOD of OUR FATHERS, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Seek out knowledge of GOD's laws and teachings. Seek the LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL, and you will find HIM.

I have a theory and this is not in the Torah, although based on the Torah and Tanakh, but it is from my understanding alone. It seems to me that the Master of the Universe, in knowing everything from the "Let There Be Light!" command to the "Lights Out!" command, is waiting for that perfect moment. That moment when the last soul chooses good instead of bad. . . . Really when the last TRUE choice is made for GOD, then all others will know their shame, of their choices and actions.

If I get questions regarding any and all of this, I will expound further.

Yaakov

Know This . . . .

Know This:

First, THERE IS, AWAYS WAS AND WILL ONLY BE:: ONE GOD, and each of of us is Required to choose and the choice is completely personal, you are either for GOD or against GOD(anything other than GOD is against GOD).

Second, What it means to choose: when we do as GOD has said to do (Find Laws, Explanations and Teachings in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy--they do not change,) we are for GOD, or we are against GOD by doing anything else.

Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, [Here we have repeated in various styles, return unto Hashe'm; follow HIS LAW; with all of your heart; with all of your soul;]

2) and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

8) And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which I command thee this day.

10) if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

15) See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,16 in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

19) I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;20) to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Leviticus 19:

כז לֹא תַקִּפוּ, פְּאַת רֹאשְׁכֶם; וְלֹא תַשְׁחִית, אֵת פְּאַת זְקָנֶךָ. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
כח וְשֶׂרֶט לָנֶפֶשׁ, לֹא תִתְּנוּ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶם, וּכְתֹבֶת קַעֲקַע, לֹא תִתְּנוּ בָּכֶם: אֲנִי, יְהוָה. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD; and not rather that he should return from his ways, and live?

Jeremiah 17:

ה כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה, אָרוּר הַגֶּבֶר אֲשֶׁר יִבְטַח בָּאָדָם, וְשָׂם בָּשָׂר, זְרֹעוֹ; וּמִן-יְהוָה, יָסוּר לִבּוֹ. 5 Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
ו וְהָיָה כְּעַרְעָר בָּעֲרָבָה, וְלֹא יִרְאֶה כִּי-יָבוֹא טוֹב; וְשָׁכַן חֲרֵרִים בַּמִּדְבָּר, אֶרֶץ מְלֵחָה וְלֹא תֵשֵׁב. {ס} 6 For he shall be like a tamarisk in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. {S}
ז בָּרוּךְ הַגֶּבֶר, אֲשֶׁר יִבְטַח בַּיהוָה; וְהָיָה יְהוָה, מִבְטַחוֹ. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.

The Torah(Five books of Moses) and the Tanakh(Torah, Prophets and Writings) contain the LAW, GOD'S COMPLAINT AGAINST MAN and HOW TO RETURN to RIGHTEOUSNESS. You can change your life, your soul and by your change maybe others you know and those you do not, will choose to change their life. FIRST YOU MUST SEEK THE ONLY GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, there is no other help or Salvation.

Yaakov

It is not enough!

Have you ever said that, "It is not Enough, . . . . .!"? Maybe to family, co-workers, employees, workers, church, . . . .

How about to . . . .GOD?   Will GOD say that to YOU?

It is not enough for me, to assume that the few years of life that I have on earth, is all there is? I want to understand how I can lengthen my days if not remove death from the picture or going to the next Event.

Genesis 5:21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah. 22) And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. 24) And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.  Did Enoch follow GOD? 

Exodus 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the LORD, peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.' 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold. 32 Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.' 33 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.
   Here we learn:
1) Even Moses could not forgiveness for another person.
2) GOD has Book of Names, and those removed are DEAD because of SIN. This book is also known as the 'Book Of Life'.
3) Judgment and the Book belong to GOD's.
4) Those that Sin against GOD are removed form the BOOK.


It is not enough for me to think that others should be better, I must strive to be better, even if they do not --it is after all is said and done MY SOUL that is effected by what I do.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0420.htm  This one I would like to give a summary, the l;ink is the whole chapter for you to read. In Numbers 20, the Children of Israel to the place that has ROCK and no water. The Elders and the people have been in the desert for several years --they should know better, that Moses whom the see and GOD whom they have seen and heard will not let them die because of lack of water

It is not enough to Know that GOD(the GOD of Abraham, the GOD of Isaac, the GOD of Jacob, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, . . . .) IS GOD AND THE ONLY GOD ONE. I must seek out GOD and discover what HE wants, if I want to Live.

 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0215.htm  Exodus 15:25) And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them; 26) and He said: 'If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.'

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices; 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hearken unto My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

Deuteronomy 6: 4) Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.


It is not enough to say the law. I must do(perform accordingly) so that my words are a copy of my actions.

It is not enough to watch others struggle to find the way. I must be available to show the way.

It is not enough to know right from wrong. I am required to be Righteous in my actions and deeds.

It is not enough to say I will be forgiven later. Later may not come. and if it does come and you are forgiven for your sins, the consequences of you actions will still have force upon you, your family and the world.

That is all for now, I will fill in later all of these and more. It is enough --for now.

TruthintorahBB --What's Up?

Greetings Readers,

I am happy to declare that for the first three weeks of March 2013, TruthInTorahBB another Board which I write had more than 2 million pages read. I also had 12,000 registered readers(they actually created accounts). I say this because I praise GOD that some of my writings actually got into peoples minds, . . . . maybe hearts.

The reasons I am writing here is strange. Please let me present them:

1)  My TruthintorahBB.ask-james.com  directory became corrupt ten days ago. This happened in January just as my numbers started to explode. The fix at that time was to upload and perform a new install of PHPBB 3.11 -- which fixed the problem. --No other problems have occurred with the rest of my websites.i have performed the same copy and process as before to no avail.

2)  During the installation a Install directory is created and access to the system is removed except for the administrator to perform the install. The install must be run from a browser and a install.php file.  The Install directory keeps being erased within 60 seconds so no install can begin. I have checked the the security setting and  am the only Administrator)registered on the system. yet only an Administrator can delete the files. I have tried this from other systems(in case there is something on my system) --no success. The issue only happens on the One Directory.

3)  I must find another way.

Until I do, this is the place I will post.

Yaakov   

Original Sin

What can this be? I have heard it declared to be: Sex, Lust, Lying, Choosing against GOD. . . .

I am in favor of the last one as the original sin, committed in the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve. Yours and Mine are different "Original Sin."

The “Original Sin” is just that, the first (original) sin. It is not Your sin! It is not Inherited from anyone else!

A Proof Text –  http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0232.htm

Exodus 32 –Synopsis (Moses had gone up to get the LAW from the ALMIGHTY, and the Children of Israel created an Idol of Gold. When Moses returns he calls for those that follow the LORD to come to him and the remainder are put to the sword. )

{Exodus 32: 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold.

32 Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'

33 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.}

In this text we learn:

1)                The Children of Israel worshipped an idol, a great sin.

2)                Moses, favored by the ALMIGHTY did not accept Moses’s soul for even one sinner.

3)                In fact we are told only the sinner is punished.

4)                This is the only place I have found that mentions or refers to a Book of Live Souls (verse 33). This is my gleaning from the text –those that have sinned are blotted out of MY book.

So what actually happened with the first sin?

Soul marked as dead. (“Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'"JPS1917 ver.)

Eve informs the snake; {Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'

4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;

5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.' }

In this we learn that Eve knows what she of what is forbidden and the consequence for doing it. She goes with It looks good and I will be like GOD.

All of this is true! She LOST her innocence to gain the knowledge of right and wrong. She stopped being Childlike, (innocent) and became responsible “Doing what she knew was wrong” for her sin(choosing against GOD).

Meaning that the snake is correct --you will be like GOD, knowing right from wrong. This doesn't mean either were without knowledge, only that they had not sinned and had not learned that terrible information.

To this day we seem to be unable to understand this event. The importance on this knowledge begins to tear away the human lies about sin and its mystery. Now we are faced with a terrible consequence, that of knowing that "I am guilty", without being able to blame anyone else.

It is also a great time to remember that NO ONE ELSE CAN DAMAGE YOUR SOUL AND ONLY GOD CAN CLEANSE IT.

We are not punished for another's sin, nor is anyone else punished for your sin. Keep in mind they because this true none but GOD can take away sin from another.

We are each accountable for what we do and the results of what we leave in our passing.

As always, I encourage you to read the text for yourself. An online resource with a respectable translation of the Original Hebrew is:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm.

I will continue to work on this, and look forward to any discussion regarding the Bible, Tanakh, Torah( Five Books of Moses) as these are foundational text in my view.