If God is love and mercy then how do we understand His anger and wrath?

If God is love and mercy then how do we understand His anger and wrath? 
Judas hung himself when he could not make right his wicked actions, God was not angry because he had opposed God.s will. Instead it was his refusal of salvation.
Judas lost faith in the forgiveness and power to heal the broken that he had seen in Messiah; and not only seen but called to witness of. Even when he realized the hurt he caused his reaction was to try to justify himself by doing what he thought was right. His return of his gain by treachery was an attempt to set things right in his own way and on his own terms.
When his self willed actions had no good effect his heart would still not look to God as his maker. It has been said that the pinnacle of human pride is to reject God's forgiveness with the false humility of "God can never forgive what I have done." So Judas, lost in his own guilt and shame killed himself.
God set things in a certain order in His creation. Gravity pulls us down and the flesh can not survive without breathing oxygen are easily observed by us.
The wrath of God is seen in the course of nature; as sinful men refuse his salvation they reap in their flesh the result of their refusal to allow God to be their life. 
This result was obvious in Judas but in our own existence we often experience loss, shame, and despair without recognition that the wrath of God against us is the natural result of our trying to live outside of our own ability. 
His anger is at our refusal to let Him help us because He loves us.His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts so we make a grave error when we judge his wrath and anger after human wrath and anger

The Meaning of Life

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The meaning of life according to the bible is much more than things we do.

Teachers of the scriptures, from ancient times, understood them as unified. This was despite the years between authors.

This brought a teaching that the first mention of a thing determined understanding. Each mention of the same subject afterward fleshed out details of the original.

This created a bible study method called "stringing pearls". Unlike the word studies we do in modern times. These studies focused on the entire picture of the subject in context. 

The scriptures or show our understanding must be line upon line and precept upon precept. We must understand that the beginning and the end are one and the same. With this in mind let us consider what the scriptures call life.


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 LIFE

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 2:7

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deu 30:19 

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. Pro 12:28

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Haba 2:4 

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Eze 13:22

 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; John 5:25-26

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Rom 6:22


The life of man is, has, and will be in THE Father. The existence Adam chose and we inherited is wickedness incarnate. Knowing both good and evil coexisting in us. 

It is only by trust, dependence and expecting the Father's promise in us we can experience life. Our Adamic nature crucified in Christ we are a new creation living by the breath (Spirit) of our Father. 

Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus

  Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 2:1

My father in law Ed Cronin recently contacted me and my wife and asked us our opinion on the verse above. He told us he was asking several people he knew to share their understanding of the verse; both its meaning and how to functionally obey this scripture. This is my phrasing of his request so if I have phrased it incorrectly the blame is mine alone. my answer can be seen below.
ME: Ed

what an interesting question...as you can see from my response it got me thinking. I decided to use an email because it would take me a year to text this, also I did want to consider and pray before I answered as James warns all those who answer the call of teacher to do.

with most authors of bible books we have only definition of words and context to use for our understanding.

 we know that by definition grace means a gift.

and in context Paul is speaking of the futility of trusting in men, even those who are believers; so Paul's conclusion, despite the fact He is writing from prison, is the only thing which can be a solid support and strength for our living is a complete trust in the gift of God.

A clearer understanding of his statement can be had by an understanding of the thinking that goes along with the authors use of this word (Paul's personal definition of the word grace)

Imagine a person reading court transcripts one thousand years from now...if they were to read a witness saying my dog said he was going to kill that guy...without the understanding of how that witness calls his friends dog those in the future would interpret what he said very different.

we have a great privilege with Paul of having many different manuscripts by which to decipher his true meaning of the gift of God. 

For Paul the word grace speaks of redemption...not salvation, forgiveness,mercy, or justification as the modern church interprets it. While these things are all related and part of the whole we see in Romans and Galatians that Paul uses this word to define the work by which God places our self generated life from inherited from Adam into His Son in whom that old man dies and a new creation is born where the life is no longer in the blood but in the Spirit.

For Paul grace is Gods life being made into our life as we become one...just as Adam was nothing more than formed  earth until God breathed His own life into him making him a living soul.

Paul knows that just as Adam could be tempted and choose to become self reliant and self oriented so too a new creation in Christ can too. The result of doing such is a separation from the life of God and the beginning of a self generated life which God concludes and defines as death. Hence his strong warning in both Romans and Galatians that righteousness can only be obtained by trusting in the gift of life from God...and further when we see unrighteousness in our lives we should know we have frustrated the gift and placed trust in our self generation.

So considering this Paul is saying to Timothy that he must be vigilant to ever only put trust in the gift of Gods shared life in Him by which both he, Paul, and every other believer is made one with the Father the Son and their shared Spirit.

with your permission I would like to make this response a blog/post...if you so desire I can leave your name out of it.
ED:I am reading it now again. Yes you can post it and with my name. I have asked many to tell me what or how to stay strong in Grace.  This morning I noticed it is be strong.  Though at this point mo one has said anything about it. I am looking at be vs stay strong as you texted me. Also, your reply is the longs yet. I plan to post each ones reply after all has done so. I giving all to Tuesday to replay. Is there a difference to how if the word be instead of stay. Thanks for replying.  I am going to reread your answer again.In Jesus Name. Hey, in a few words how do we( be strong in the Grace ) of Him?

As I said I exchanged the word- be - with stay. Is there a difference in meaning? If so, would the how have a different how. Hope I said it so you understand what I am getting at. Thanks for input.

ME:when we consult Strong's we see the original Greek word here has the connotation of being made strong...so this would mean that we are not strengthening our self in the grace but instead our trust in the gift of God as sufficient causes the gift to make us strong 

Why did Jesus call a woman a dog

The bible tells us of a woman who comes to Jesus and begs for her daughter to be healed. Jesus reacts to this woman in a way that most have a hard time getting their head around. At the first He simply ignores her, if that is not enough to cause us to pause He then goes on to call the woman a dog and declare that He has come for the children to have meet.
This reaction has been interpreted as hateful, racist, or as a testing of faith however these explanations are difficult to align with the rest of what we know of Jesus ministry. A better understanding can be had if we consider the way in which the divine power of God interacts with the earthly man.
When the earthly man finds himself in need of help from another his first recourse is to make a deal; in other words he appeals to the helper from a place of what said helper will gain i.e. money, acceptance, honor, fame, ect. When man has nothing of value to offer for the help needed they are forced to come from a place of weakness submitted to the helper and dependent on their mercy, kindness, and goodwill; we commonly refer to this as begging.
The Father in His wisdom does not allow himself to react to emotion for if He answered our desperation with salvation then it would be necessary to answer our hatred with cursing. The Father only allows Himself to react to our faith despite the fact that He cries when we cry and when we refuse Him.
The woman who comes to Jesus in desperation does have faith but it is clouded by her emotions. The interaction between her and our Lord is simply to make her have a clear understanding that the Father gives from His goodness alone as we trust in Him without any thought of making Him react by our actions.

Few there be that Find it

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-4

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;  (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Romans 2: 12-16

The list of reasons for why we do not see in our church and in our lives an equivalent experience to that of the biblical age saints is long and varied but in the end can be reduced to two factors pride and ignorance. These two states come together to form unbelief.

I assure you that the writer of what you now read does not exempt himself from this evaluation. As a rule we do not evaluate ourselves as spiritually ignorant or immature and will ignore any evidence that may show we are. If we bear no false witness of ourselves either we are experiencing in every way those things witnessed by Messiah and His apostles as a matter of common living for a believer or what they have witnessed is a lie.

Two of our greatest enemies in a war against unbelief are sparks of the new creation and assumption of knowing the truth. What I mean by sparks of the new creation is like if I had a light and a switch connected by wire that did not have proper connection.

If I flip the switch I will see a bright spark and smell the burning ozone but the light will only flicker leaving me still in the dark. This experience is like when we see YHWH move to answer prayer, or prophecy, or give peace and so on. The initial experience gives us light so intense that we see it even after its gone but slowly it fades leaving us to wonder if it was real or not. These flashes are caused by not having a sound connection; however they, by our own pride and ignorance, cause us to ignore that we are not experiencing the light as an every moment environment of our living. Yeshua testified His believers would live in the light as He was in the light.

The second major cause of unbelief is assumption. It is often the things we are certain we know already that cause us to not hear and understand what is being said. As an example if I were to ask any Christian “what is the gospel” the answer will for the majority of people Jesus died so my sins can be forgiven and I can go to heaven. Yeshua no doubt provided forgiveness and the promise of eternity with the Father and Him but that is a only a result of the gospel. Yeshua and the apostles teach about a forgiveness of past sins but this result is secondary to trusting in the redemption provided by Messiah which frees us from sin. The death of Messiah was not to settle an account of wrath but instead took the fate of our sin on him that we could be free from sin.

The death of Messiah is about binding the strong man inherent from Adam. The Adamic man we were dies in the cross so that by faith in our redeemer we join Him in the Fathers life. No man can have two masters; you cannot generate your life and be given His life at the same time. Yeshua referred to this as the kingdom of heaven and the heart of man while Paul spoke of the flesh and the spirit even YHWH spoke of it to Moses as life and cursing but all concluded that the solution is a complete giving of all that we are to YHWH and trusting, depending, and expecting YHWH to be our creator.

The body, soul, and spirit

I wanted to put something here on my blog for those who have come to read it regularly. What I have given is more stream of conscious and list like in its content. I have a tendency to waffle between a witnessing mode where thoughts are clearly defined and a study mode where my mind is attempting to understand how all these individual lessons are in fact one. The following is more outline for a section of a book about true redemption life that I am believing YHWH will work through me before I leave this present place as a gift unto all believers. I know it is choppy but in my present mindset it is all I have to offer…may the Spirit of truth teach you all things.

                My people are destroyed for a lack of seeing

(1)          The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 14: 8-12

(2)          Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:1-6

(3)          And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. Exodus 24:3

                Trusting the life of I AM in us( if we have trusted in His redemption)

(a)          The blindness is not a lack of visual acuity but of perceiving the truth

(b)          Just as Israel did at the giving of covenant most today see the things taught as regulations and standards to be submitted to. The thought is that a desire and determination to do right will make righteousness within. In short an improving of the life at work in them.

(5)          Count the cost…submission to YHWH excludes submission to oneself…His life is not added to ours or strengthening ours. Our life must end in Messiahs death on the cross; the life found in us must be his life generating in us as He has promised…all we can do is trust He has said truth…believing YHWH is able is not the same as believing he is active.

                Separating between the soul and Spirit

(a)          There is a good deal of confusion about the difference between soul and spirit and definitive explanation seems to elude us.

(b)          The soul is catalyst which takes the form and substance of the world around us and converts it to a usable form by which we have existence.

(i)            The scriptures say the life of the unredeemed is in the blood. It is the blood that carries the air and food in a usable form to the whole body through which we exist.

(ii)           The philosopher Descartes  said I think therefore I am but go ten minutes without air and the fallacy becomes obvious.

(iii)          Some confuse the spirit with being the conscious; thoughts, motives, emotions are simply equations by which the dynamic between soul and spirit are quantified by us. The consciousness is therefore simply a part of the soul.

(c)               The spirit is the energy both driving and created by the interactions of all substance and form

(i)            An illustration of these things can be seen in the process of nuclear fission. When we look at the physical reactions taking place; we look at the soul. When we look at the energy released by these actions; we are looking at the spirit. The way we explain what we have witnessed is our consciousness…E=MC2.

(d)           Most have a conception that it is the soul and the spirit in man that is impossible to to separate; however in truth it is the body and soul that are codependant

                When Adam chose to be a self he became self-sufficient; however he soon realized that his self was not sufficient.

                He was mandated to be a multiplier of Elohim’s image and likeness; he became instead a subtraction, a consumer. From the time Adam (both he and all that came forth from him) was deemed a self every attempt to bring forth has consumed from the substance of things both around and from him.

 

Are You Faithful?

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Proverbs 28:20

The scripture is saturated with the importance of a man’s faithfulness and of the immovable certainty of YHWH’s faithfulness. There is little argument from neither the brethren nor the world of the necessity of a man’s faithfulness.

It is the definition of the word where the difference comes. For the world faithfulness is a virtue comprised of loyalty, respect, and honor; the world list synonyms such as: loyal · constant · true · devoted · true-blue · unswerving · staunch · accurate · precise · exact · errorless · unerring · faultless · true · close. All of these things imagined into a man’s heart bring him a place of honor among men as a personality to which others should seek to become like.

This definition has nothing to do with the scriptures and if inserted into ones understanding of scripture it will fall out to fighting against the Spirit instead of receiving by grace.

To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress. He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.  Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer. He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat. He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.  He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.  Proverbs 28:21-27 

    These are the things a man who has been formed to faithfulness by Elohim (creator heavenly Father) has been made to understand through the instruction of YHWH (covenant relationship heavenly Father).

• To have respect of persons is not good…no man, including oneself, is better or worse than any other of by some self-made ability
• One’s life is not determined by either the gaining of or lack of temporary things. The faithful man has learned to have life whether he abounds or is abased
• Offending with truth makes a better relationship than placating with the tongue
• To assume we are entitled to receive for our self from those who love us brings destruction upon themselves and those who care about them
• Those who believe they deserve respect, fairness, and appreciation make strife compared to the faithful who are given more than enough from the YHWH
•  Those who trust in their own motives, desires, and ways will come to an emptiness of existence compared to those who walk in submission to YHWH are delivered up to goodness
• The faithful man gives of all he has received to those without knowing that YHWH’s providence is not diminishable compared to the man who does not consider another’s need who will only find a curse.

A faithful man in accordance with scripture is one who puts all trust, belief, and expectation in YHWH. The worldly man sees faithful as a virtue that lifts men up above their peers for honor. A true faithful man has allowed the self to be crucified in Messiah to the end that all honor or glory rest soley upon YHWH and His Messiah Yeshua.