Gethsemane - Forgiveness - Repentance

This morning, I read the Gethsemane chapter in Come, Let Us Adore Him in preparation for my personal celebration of Easter (the Resurrection) tomorrow. I don't know how anyone can read it and not be sobbing by the fourth page in.

For this post, I just wanted to share a few quotes from this chapter, which is an apostolic eyewitness of Christ's suffering, death, and resurrection as seen by Denver Snuffer. All emphases are mine.

To enter into the kingdom of heaven, all [people] must lay down their sins. But this they cannot do when they claim the right to restitution for any offense from their brother [meaning all other humans]. All claims must be set aside, the greater and more difficult being the righteous claim against another for their deliberate offense. Yet in asking for justice for yourself, you always require justice be answered in turn for all of your offenses. A [person] will not be given mercy if he is not merciful. (pp 228-9)

Denver talks about paired waves of torment our Lord suffered, the first being the suffering for those who harmed others (the perpetrators) and the second being the suffering for those who have been harmed by others (the victims), then he writes the following:

The greater difficulty in these paired waves of torment was always overcoming the suffering of the victim. With these waves, the Lord learned to overcome the victims' resentments, to forgive, and to heal both body and spirit. This was more difficult than overcoming the struggles arising from the one who committed the evil . . . The victim . . . always feels it is their right to hold resentment, to judge their persecutor and to withhold peace and love for their fellowmen. (pp 220-1)

In the final wave, the most brutal, most evil, most heinous sins men inflict upon one another were felt by Him as a victim of the worst men can do. He knew how it felt to wrongly suffer death. He knew what it was like to be a mother holding a child in her arms as they are both killed by those who delight in their suffering. He knew how it was for ambitious men to rid themselves of a rival by conspiracy and murder. He knew what it was to have virtue robbed from the innocent [this would include the rape of toddlers and children]. He knew betrayal, treachery, and abuse in all its worst degrading horror. There was no cruelty, no offense, no evil that mankind has suffered or will suffer that was not put upon Him.

He knew what is it like for men to satisfy their ambition by clothing their hypocrisy in religious garb. He also felt what it was like to be the victim of religious oppression by those who pretend to practice virtue while oppressing others. He knew the hearts of those who would kill Him. Before confronting their condemnation of Him in the flesh, He suffered their torment of mind when they recognized He was the Lord, and then found peace for what they would do by rejecting Him. In this extremity there was madness itself as He mirrored the evil which would destroy Him, and learned how to come to peace with the Father after killing the Son of God, and to love all those involved without restraint and without pretense, even before they did these terrible deeds. . . .

As a result of what the Lord suffered, there is no condition - physical, spiritual or mental that he does not fully understand. He knows how to teach, comfort, succor and direct any who come to Him seeking forgiveness and peace. (pp 222-3)

I share the above in the hopes that it gives comfort to some, and that it helps someone who is struggling to forgive a person or people who have caused them harm, no matter how terrible that harm.

P.S. You can forgive without putting yourself in danger, and without ever having to contact or talk to a person who is dangerous to you.

2012 - Mayan Calendar - End of the World

 So, I was thinking about this and thinking "we" were expecting a sudden group of cataclysms to end the population of the planet.

What if, instead, it marked the beginning of the end? What if, in 2012, the secret plans began in earnest? The things that would guarantee the destruction of the bulk of the people on this planet.

I'm talking about what we are seeing now, that has probably been in the works for a century or more.

• Men being women.
• Boys being girls.
• And vice versa for both.
• And hormone blockers for children (prevents children's hearts, lungs from maturing; causes osteoporosis, etc.)
• Sex change operations instead of addressing the mental issues and the problems.
• Telling gays and lesbians they aren't gay nor lesbian; they are actually the opposite sex.
• Predatory men/boys allowed in locker rooms, bathrooms, and prisons where they have (proven) raped and harmed actual women/girls.
• White people automatically racist because of the color of their skin (even if they are only 3 seconds old).
• Black people automatically stupider than any other race ("math is racist" "getting a driver's license is racist" - never mind that there are plenty of black geniuses).
• Teach children as young as preschool age about sex and sexual perversions.
• Create a worldwide "pandemic" and force as many people as possible to take a series of dangerous jags which have killed and maimed a helluva lot more people than c0v1d ever could or did.
• Get more and more people addicted to unreality; culminating in the MegaVerse, eating bugs, owning nothing and being happy, having zero freedom to choose pretty much anything, and so on.
• MAiD (in Canada) - assisted suicide for pretty much any reason whatsoever.
• More and more violence of all kinds.
• More fires and earthquakes, from what I've seen.
• Lots and lots of "divide and conquer" going on (I'm sure I've missed some, so this is the catch-all for everything I've missed listing).
  

What if 2012 was not the harbinger of instant destruction "right now"? What if it was merely ushering the new "year", but the harvest was not yet ripe any more than peaches or apricots or tomatoes are ripe in January if you live in northern lattitudes?

I would venture to say that we are incredibly close to being ripened in iniquity and that our only hope is repentance and turning to Christ.

In August 2017, God made the first stroke of an X that was to cross the USA off the map. (A total solar eclipse. And there were a lot of moon eclipses (search barerecord.blogspot.com/ for lots of info on that*) on holy days between 2012 and now.) In April 2024, God is going to write the second and last stroke of the X across the USA. And don't think the rest of the world is going to be spared.

What if "at my house it will begin" means that it will begin in the USA, where God brought forth the Book of Mormon to teach us of our sins and what we needed to do to repent and avoid destruction? What if it is first because of the blessing and cursing on this land? Blessing (prosperity and an abundance of God's help) if you repent and turn to Christ. Cursing (being wiped off the face of the earth) if you become "ripened in iniquity".

Anyway, just some thoughts I've been having recently.

 

*Note: Here's an example from barerecord which, at this moment, is the last post posted:

https://barerecord.blogspot.com/2023/01/signs-and-seasons.html

Equinoxes and Christ

 An idea came to me about the spring equinox and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I found a list of equinoxes, but I was hoping to find one that included days of the week. At this moment, I'm not inclined to search for which days the spring equinoxes may have been on a Saturday (supposing Christ died the day before and rose the day after) somewhere between AD 20 and AD 40.

Anyway, this is my theory - in light of the fact that Joseph was born soon after the winter solstice, when the light began to conquer dark, and the fact that God chose a servant whose last name was Snuffer (and whose initials are D.S.) - it seems to me that there must be some symbolism surrounding Jesus' atonement, death and resurrection.

So, our Lord died in the spring. What if he died the day before the equinox, symbolizing the darkness of the world and of devils; was gone during the time all is equal; and rose again the day after, symbolizing the conquering of Light over Darkness?

If I can swing it (get all the supplies together), I intend to celebrate Passover on the day before the spring equinox this year and celebrate the Resurrection the day after the spring equinox (with bread and wine in the early morning). I'm not sure what to do on the day of the actual equinox. And, I also intend to read about Christ's suffering and death from Come, Let Us Adore Him the day before the equinox - and the part about his resurrection the day after the equinox. 

All of this because it is my belief that that is probably when the atonement, death and resurrection happened and that that may be why there are so many ancient monuments that are aligned to the spring equinox (see Graham Hancock's books - The monuments are in Egypt, North America, South America, and other places on the planet).

Jesus' Love for Me, for You

 The love of Jesus is deep and powerful. It encompasses us, draws us in, and changes us - but only if we are willing to be changed.

How can we not love someone who loves us so powerfully and so thoroughly even though he knows our worst defects and our hidden darkness?

How can we not love someone who has pulled us out of hell and into love, peace, and power (real power, not the fake stuff so rampant today. That isn't real power because devils are controlling them).

There is no way to glory in Jesus enough. His love is real. It isn't this weird "acceptance" and insanity the world has going around today, like a rampant disease. It's real. It's powerful. And if we accept it and turn to him, then our love for him increases and our appreciation of him is boundless, for how can you be pulled out of fear, terror, depression, anxiety, and so on and not have the deepest love and appreciation for him who pulled you out and filled you with his love and peace?

 

To quote part of a song:

I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me
Confused at the grace that, so fully, He proffers me.

 I marvel that He would descend from His throne, divine
To rescue a soul so rebellious and proud as mine
That He should extend His great love unto such as I
Sufficient to own, to redeem, and to justify

 

 If you have watched The Chosen series, most of the videos below will make more sense, even though I think the message can be received even if one has never watched it.

 These videos move me to tears. The sobbing kind. Perhaps it is because I have had such darkness inside and such fear, depression, and anxiety coursing through my soul for decades (which things I still fight) that I thoroughly identify with the poor souls depicted in these videos. The spiritually and emotionally maimed and wounded. The lost. Those that hell overcame - until Christ entered the picture.

 

 

 Minute 2:34 to the end of that video above. I have no words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hymn - Hope for Zion

This is a hymn from a hymnbook put together by a total amateur who could not afford the Adobe PDF writer program. Their heart is in the right place. (The book is to be freely given, never sold. Because they didn't have the Adobe PDF program, they couldn't rearrange the pages as they'd like, so some of the songs with two pages have to have the page turned to see the rest of the song. If this person can ever get an Adobe PDF writer, they will rearrange the songs so that all of the two-page hymns can be seen at once.) Denver's Christmas carol (O Come, Let Us Adore Him) is also in the book.

This hymn's tune matches the LDS tune of hymn #259 in the green hymn book. The words are by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, so it isn't written on the hymn. The pdf version.