My Testimony

My Testimony

During High School, I attended a Mormon Church with my best friend one Sunday a month in order to play on their basketball team during the fall. We played every Saturday during the season and I would attend their teen dances on some Friday and Saturday nights when they had them. I also attended Catholic services in order to appease the parents of the girl that I was dating at the time. I was going through the strokes of attending Churches for the wrong reasons.

Soon after High School I joined the Army. I left the MEPS building in Atlanta, Georgia and headed a few miles down I-20 to Anniston, Alabama were I would do basic training at Fort McClellan.

Basic training was a piece of cake for me and since I was in great shape from being active and playing sports outside all my life. I could already pass the Army's PT test. I was a running, sit-up and push-up machine. I was Army hardcore from the get go. Plus I was in ROTC for 3 years in high school and I had the drill and ceremony down pat.

I went in under weight and that meant I could eat in the hamburger line and enjoy some fried fatty foods, unlike those who came in over weight and they had to eat from the salad line.

The hardest part I must say was the restrictions on candy and sweets. Every Sunday after chapel, they would let us walk up to the PX and Luden cough drops were on top of everyone’s list and provided temporary relieve to everyone's sweet tooth.

If we attended Chapel, we would get a chance to leave the barracks and get out of some extra duty. Anything to get a break from polishing brass, shoes, cleaning and waxing the floors. I again attended Chapel on Sunday's for the wrong reason.

My military experience was overall a good one. It put me in historical places at historical times. This is probably were my interest in History comes from. 

After the military, I moved back to my home town and lived again with my mom for a short while. I lived in a mid-sized town. For a High School kid and for young twenty somethings, the only thing to do for entertainment was to cruise the town's main strip. Listening to the radio, cassette tapes and circling around and around on the 5 mile main thoroughfare for hours on end and occasionally stopping at the closed businesses where everyone would loiter.

One Friday I had been riding the county back roads with a friend on a motorcycle without my helmet. It was a beautiful spring day, not a cloud in the sky. That night when the cruise strip was the busiest, I was going to go back through town one last time before I headed  home to see who was there.

Heading in from the county back into the city limits, I came to the first red light and decided to put my helmet on, just in case law enforcement seen me.  

The next intersection was the beginning of the cruise strip where everyone would do a U-Turn and continue cruising. How would I know this is where God would try to wake me up.

As I approached this intersection, halfway from the red light, I noticed it turned green. I was the only traffic approaching from the previous block. I gave the motorcycle a little more gas and got at a cruising speed of around 45 miles per hour. 

A young kid was approaching my direction and decided to turn to his left, he didn't see me and we met head on in the middle of my lane. I hit him dead center and my motorcycle acted as a catapult and launched me over 5 lanes of traffic onto a side walk in front of a Church. 

I landed on my back and everything happened very quickly. I got up without hesitation and there was a small pick-up truck right beside me with 3 in front and a couple of High School kids in back.. They said, “Get in! Get in! We'll take you to the emergency room!”. I got in all dazed and confused from what just happened. They drove me the 5 or so blocks to the hospital. 

As I was there some people who witnessed the wreck came to see how I was doing and when word got out among the cruise strip, some of my friends and some strangers came to check on me.

The Police showed up to take a police report of the accident. They were amazed that I was uninjured. One brought my helmet in for me to see and the back of it was crushed like an egg shell that had been dropped on a concrete floor.

For the guy who hit me, he didn't fare so well his car looked like he had hit a telephone pole and he had hit his face to the wind shield of his car and required stitches from between his eyes to just below his left cheek. I had won that fight. 

For days that is all people talked about and I really didn't give the Church that I landed in front of a second thought. I knew a few friends from my childhood who attended there, but I thought that Church was for just little rich kids. But the memory of the accident stayed with me until I got married and started having children of my own. 

Within a few months of that accident, I met my wife. We had four children. 

God started talking to me! 

When my youngest daughter was a toddler around the age of three, she would play in her room. She would often run into the living room or the bedroom where my wife or myself would be and be all excited about the “Bird Man”. She would say the “Bird Man! The Bird Man!”, all excited and pointing to her room. We would go and check her room and never saw anything and passed it off as the vivid imagination of a child and really never gave a second thought about it.

Her room she shared with her brother at the time and had a bunk bed, TV, Book shelf and a toy box. One evening while everyone was gathered in the bedroom and sitting on the bottom bunk watching some kids show on TV. My daughter got all excited and started pointing to the top bunk screaming, “The Bird Man! The Bird Man!” No one else seen The Bird Man except for her. But at that moment I thought, “This must be her guardian angel”. How else would a toddler describe an Angel. A man with wings.

My daughter does not remember that time but it's something that I remember like it was yesterday and probably will never forget.

When the time came to put our children in kindergarten, I didn't forget the Church were I had landed and enrolled them there. My wife and I along with our children started to attend services on Sunday's and Wednesday’s. After a short while I accepted The Christ Jesus and was Baptized.

A few weeks after my Baptism, I was getting ready for bed, my wife had already fallen asleep. As I was getting into bed, I had a vision of Christ Jesus. I was fixated on His face and His garment was the most amazing white and through my peripheral vision I saw Angels swirling all around. As I was looking at His face, He placed His right hand out and I put my right hand into His and immediately went back to be fixated on His face. I did not notice any of His wounds.

As I was holding His right hand, He began to speak. But not with His mouth. He told me, “Whatever happens, Everything is going to be alright”. Then as fast as He appeared, He was gone again.

Immediately after it had happened, I tried to wake my wife and tell her my experience and she would not wake, she would grumble and moan as to leave me alone I'm asleep. I tried to put meaning to it. Was it real? What did He mean? Why me? Should I tell someone? Am I crazy? 

After a few weeks I decided to tell someone in my Church. The first person gave me a crazy look. The second was my Pastor's wife and she thought it was amazing. But deep down I thought she thought I was crazy too. So, I went years without telling anyone.

I think of the experience with Christ Jesus every day of my life since then. I've often wondered if it was a trick of the mind. But the experience was all too real.

Before the experience I had trouble understanding the Bible and after my experience, when I read the Bible it seemed to come alive. I went on to teach Childrens Sunday School mostly older elementary kids from the grades 4th -6th. I wanted to teach that age because I wanted to know about the Bible and that was the perfect opportunity to learn and teach from the over flow.

But believe it not, that's not the end of God's hand in my life. When my wife and I lived in Georgia and her family lived in Alabama about 3 hours away. As every year, the week before Christmas, Her family would have their Christmas party.

As they do every year, they would gather all the children and some of the females would read the story about the Birth of Jesus, while the men gather and talked about work, hunting and other things guys talk about. (This particular year I was unable to attend because I worked nights and weekends). 

Soon as the Story of Jesus' Birth had gotten over with, the tornado sirens went off. They gathered everyone into the basement. They did not know that they were in the tornado's path.

I was in Georgia and had no idea what was going on until I got a call from My sister-in-law who said, “Everyone is O'kay!”. I said, “What happened?”. She said, “We were in a tornado!”. She seemed frantic and out of breath.  

As everything became more clearer, the tornado had destroyed the house behind them and momentarily lifted as it past over the house with around thirty to forty members of the family and set down again and destroyed the house across the street. 

It overwhelmed me and I began to cry and gave thanks to God for protecting my family. 

Coincidence? I do not think so.

Benjaminite Wolf Prophecy

Benjaminite Wolf Prophecy

Let's follow the prophecy of the Benjamin Wolf.

1. Genesis 49:1 “And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:
2. Genesis 49:27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil.”

Jacob calls all of His sons which are the twelve tribes of Israel. In Genesis 49:8-12, Jacob tells his prophecies about the coming of our Lord Jesus when he is talking to his son Judah. From the tribe of Judah in which Jesus came. A total of five verses he spoke. He reserves just one verse to his son Benjamin in Genesis 49:27 and he did not have anything good to say about Benjamin and his descendants.

Destruction follow Benjamin and his sons every where they went. Starting with the birth of Benjamin, his mother Rachel died while giving birth to him in Genesis 35:18.

In Judges 20, the tribe of Benjamin raped and killed women while fighting against the other Israelite tribes. They immediately became outcast among their own people.

The Tribe of Benjamin was almost wiped out at the Battle of Gibeath and in Judges 21, the other eleven Israelite Tribes would not allow their daughters to marry anyone from the Tribe of Benjamin. The remaining tribes allowed the remnant of the Benjamin Tribe to marry foreign women of the surrounding towns who had lost their husbands as punishment. The tribe of Benjamin was allowed to continue through inter racial marriages.

Jacob in Genesis 49:27 says that the Tribe of Benjamin was like a ravenous wolf and in the morning that he shall devour his prey and at night he would divide the spoil.

 Paul is the man that Jacobs prophesy is about. In the morning Saul of Tarsus kills his prey (Christians). Acts 7:58-59 “and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” and at night he would divided the spoil. As Saul becomes Paul he divides God's people.

1. Paul says in Romans 11:1 “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. Philippians 3:5 “Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Jesus warns us several times about this ravenous wolf. In Matthew 7:15 Jesus says, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

Let's see how the false apostle Paul divides the spoils at night (night meaning the later part of his life).

We will start with the words of a True Prophet who passes the test of a prophet with flying colors, Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 22:26-31 “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God."

Seeing vanity is an easy one, Paul mentions me, myself and I, more than any other in the Bible. With 175 times in 1st Corinthians, 103 times in 2nd Corinthians, in the short book of Galatians an outstanding 69 times.

What does Paul teach? Did he butcher the law in his teachings, when Jesus says that the law stands until heaven and earth pass away in Matthew 5:17-19, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Paul says in Galatians 2:16, “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

 Paul also says in 1 Corinthians 10:23-27, “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake; for “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.”

 Paul just can not seem to shut up, in Colossians 2:13-16, “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:”

Really Paul? We can't be judged by not keeping the sabbath days? Should we disregard Exodus 20:8, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Jesus said that, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

Paul says in Romans 3:27 “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” 

Who is right about the law of faith? Paul who claims to have a vision just like Joesph Smith and Mohammed? Or James who actually knew Jesus and was Jesus' brother and a true Apostle?

James says in James 2:24, “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

Paul you can fool some people that hold to the power and authority of the whore (Revelation 17) that gives you power, but you can not fool the people who meditate on the word day and night and knows the trickery of Satan.

Strange Flesh

Interracial Relationships

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” ~Jude 1:7

If you do not have the King James Version, then you do not have these words. Other Bibles written in the 20^th century have become politically correct and have omitted the words of “strange flesh”.

The word Strange is define as relating to, or characteristic of another country. It can also be defined as not native to or naturally belonging in place: of external origin, kind or character. The word flesh means human being.

Over the years, many have come to the conclusion that the “strange flesh” was describing homosexuals. Through my studies of the word, I have found out that the original Greek word “strange” means “heteros”. Heteros as in heterosexual. This passage is not at all about homosexuals, but about heterosexuals. With the Greek all this means a heterosexual human being from an external origin.

Interracial marriage or dating is a topic that is highly controversial. It's a topic that I feel needs to be discussed. No one seems to ever reference the verse of Jude 1:7 because American society has almost pushed this verse out of existence.

Interracial dating and marriage in today's American society has become one of the abominational norms in the American society. Within the white circles and among the black circles, the thought of interracial relationships is still very taboo. It becoming more acceptable, Hollywood forces it down our throats in their movies, TV show and commercials. Numbing and dumbing down the population at large.

The 2010 census noted the highest number of interracial marriages in America's history, noting a 28 per cent jump over the past decade. One out of every 10 married straight couples identified as different races, which shows an increase from seven per cent in the 2000 census data. Greater social acceptance of the unions and demographic shifts throughout the country are thought to be the two largest contributing factors to the increase.

America is a one of a kind country of the world that comes to interracial relationships. All other foreign countries do not have this problem. But is it a Problem? The problems seems to be the offspring of such unions. These mulatto children are not accepted by either race. They are most times outcast from their extended families.

Mulatto Children with their non-acceptance in society also have some underling problems. One is that a mulatto child who needs a bone marrow transplant is hung out to dry. It is impossible for them to find a matching bone marrow donor. Not even from the parents.

Through the Bible, God frowns upon such unions. He forbid the Israelites to intermarry among other races. If God was for it, then why did not He make everyone the same race to begin with? Why are we allowed to un-perfect His perfect creation?

Another reason is if I were too bring home a Nubian Princess to my parents, they would not approve. Which brings us to the Ten Commandments of Honor your father and mother. If I continued to date this Nubian Princess against my parents request, I would be breaking one of the Ten Commandments.

When it comes to following the Bible and there is a gray area, such as Interracial relationships, tattoos or other subjects that does not have a clear understanding, I do not do it. I do what I know is 100% right.

Interracial relationships are another product of the “False Apostle Paul”. MostChristians will say that it's okay for anyone to date and be married as long as they are both Christians regardless of race. This is simple not true and this truth will be a hard pill to swallow for many.

And the Saga continues, Paul leading us further and further away from the truth of our Heavenly Father.

Edolatry

Catholics Come Home Video

Edolatry

The Catholic come home commercial mentions that they brought us the College and University system. So we need to look at this system more closely also.

If someone has a Law degree from Harvard and one has a high school diploma, which one do you hold as higher esteemed in society? Of course the one who holds a degree from Harvard.

In the Untied States we worship many Gods. Education is one of the many gods and having a good education and having a degree from a prestigious institution is worth more than money itself.

We instill in our children the importance of getting good grades before they even start school. We are more concerned that our children get a good education than we are about them living for the Lord and living a Godly life.

We go to great lengths for knowledge. We save money for a lifetime to be able to send our children and grandchildren to college and universities. Most families can not save money for education of their children and it's easy to go into debt with easy to get college loans, hoping you will be able to find a good paying job after college.

These colleges and universities teach our children secular values. Your child may have been in church their entire life and may have memorized many bible verses.

When they enter into these colleges and universities, if they are found out to be a christian, they are often ridiculed by their professors and peers. They are told how dumb they are for believing in a fairytale. Only then will many question their faith because we are programmed to believe people who have a degree are smarter.

Men love to praise themselves and wear their degrees like a badge of honor. Framing them and hanging them on walls for all who to see. They put titles before and after their names to let people know that they are to be respected.

Education is a form of evolution. Men like to be able to set themselves apart from the animal kingdom. Simply because we are the most intelligent animal in the animal kingdom and the most intelligent person will be worshiped as the highest type of evolved animal. Everyone wants to be intelligent and wants their offspring to be even more intelligent. Education is what makes us human and separates us from the animals.

Christians worship education more than most others. They hold preachers with degrees from theological seminaries higher than a person who is blessed by god. These seminary universities, men teach men. Men are fallible and they teach out of the text books of other fallible men. Most of the time they teach the doctrines of the whore, the catholic church without knowing the deceptive qualities that have been passed down for two thousand years and has been intertwined with the original meanings of Jesus Christ.

Most believe that someone with a four year degree has more knowledge of the Bible than someone who reads the bible everyday for seventy-five years. People need to learn how to interpret the bible. Which this is true in some cases. Some of the teachings in the Bible are as plain as black and white. More on this later.

Some pastors attend seminary for the wrong reasons. They want to get paid for their college education. What organizations have the most money to pay? It's the Church. Big Houses and fancy cars, especially if you land a job in one of the mega churches of today. Some just love to be called Pastor, they want to be trusted. We do trust them because of their degrees from institutions of higher education.

It does not matter which denomination you belong to, the truth is most worship this false god of education. As parents we are all too eager to see our children graduate from these secular and/or Christian universities. In reality we should want to see our children have a childlike faith in Jesus.

Through my years in the church, I have seen people conducting and finalizing business deals on Sundays at the Church. I have seen churches in trouble financially, having to cut the pay of the Pastor and the pastor gets mad and leaves for a church who can pay him his worth. An educated person thinks,“Well I paid the sacrifice and spent all these years in school and I deserve to get paid.”

I have often seen children, some in my very own family, who attend a Christian school all their life and enter into the institutions of higher education and emerge from these universities as godless and as atheist with their new found intelligence. They have reasoned away god and some believe they are smarter than God himself.

With a degree, people think they are somebody. Some of these “somebodies” that I have met through my life, do not have a bit of common sense and lack the wisdom to apply their educational knowledge. Engineers are the worst, they have the book smarts and they lack in the ability to apply the principals. But you can not tell them any different because they have paid the price with their journey of higher education and have a degree. Even the wisest eighty year old man can not tell a twenty-two year old what's right from wrong. But not in all cases, there are some educated people who are wise in their years and seek advise. Those wise ones often advance faster in their chosen career fields.

For those Christian parents who send their children to institutions of higher education, rather it be secular or Christian are almost ensuring that their children turn out confused with weaker or counterfeit faith.

But some leaders of the Church will tell the lesser ones that they are not smart enough to understand what God is saying in the Bible and you need someone with a degree in theology to help you understand the hidden meaning about the passage and you do not understand the audience in whichit is was originally spoken to or you do not understand to events surrounding the Biblical passage or it's history. I say this is nonsense! God speaks to everyone differently with different messages in order to achieve His ultimate Will. You just have to know God's voice and recognize when He is speaking to you.

Jesus teaches us somethings are hidden from the wise and educated. In Luke 10:21-22 Jesus says, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”

What are these things that God has hidden from the wise and intelligent? How do we know if the Son has revealed these things only to the well educated theological masters? It reminds me of today's Church as the pharisees and sadducees of old.

It was the matter of interpretation that brought me to where I am today. The matter of and manner of interpretation, over the years, raised some very serious questions. The matter of interpretation was different from Church to Church and Pastor to Pastor. Which one was right? When each had it's own interpretation. So I set out on a journey for truth.

These masters of interpretation dumb down their flocks. Most of their flock will not dare question the teachings of these earthly educated masters. They will not read their bibles for themselves.They just go with the flow and feel good about themselves because they attended church.

Why does God delight in us “simpletons” that have childlike faith in his son? He is looking for meek, humbled and servants with pure hearts. Jesus said to the Pharisees in Luke 16:15, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”

A degree is highly esteemed among men and not with Jesus. We worship the people who hold Bachelors and Doctorate degrees.

Ask a pastor, why did you go to seminary or college in order to become a pastor? Most will say they had a “calling from God”. Then ask, if you needed to go to an institution of higher learning to become a preacher. Some answers will amaze you.

This education system is not new. In the early days of the university system, only the wealthy could afford higher education for themselves and their children. Only in today's times has education became the norm and almost anyone can go to the colleges and universities and obtain degrees. It's so common today that we do not give a second thought about it.

Before the later half of the Twentieth Century, most families worked farms and was lucky to attend school or even make it past grade school. Children had to stay home to work on the family farms to just make a living and survive. Education was not really needed. The top priorities were farming, cooking, sewing, washing clothes, hunting and the basics to get by in this life.

The bible even speaks of this on the end times in the Book of Daniel 12:4, “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Today we run to and fro to obtain knowledge. We travel at great links in order to obtain knowledge. We often travel out of state or out of the country to attend a university that teaches knowledge of one thing or another.

If this was not such a problem, then why did God mention it to Daniel? Maybe because higher education teaches us to rely on our self more than to rely on God.

God in Genesis 2:17 told Adam and Eve, “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.”

Knowledge is something that makes people aware of other things than that of the Godly things.

Is education worth more than your placement in eternity? It's a hard choice. You can have both. It's what you do with your knowledge that's important. Are you advancing the Will of God or the things of the devil?

Paul Rejected

The Tithing Envelope

The Tithing Envelope

“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. ~Matthew 6:1-4

I have a problem with Churches who send their members pre-addressed envelopes for tithing. The Churches like to send them out periodically with your name already stamped on the envelope. I receive an envelope around the First of each month that contains 4-5 other envelopes with the date of each Sunday already stamped on them.

I believe that your tithing should be done in secret. Only known between God and yourself. Churches can mislead people by sending them a summary of their yearly tithing around tax time so you can claim it as a deduction.

If you receive a tax refund, you should give 10% of that and the entire amount of your tithe deduction from the government, if you tithe to the Church.

Most often, the Church office see and know who tithes the most by the name on the envelope. You are paying their salaries and the Church will so favoritism to those who give the most. Which is not right.

You should drop cash into the offering plate, but this does not work either. It's not done in secret because usually the people who pass the offering plate are standing at both ends of the aisle and are watching to see who places something in the offering plate.

We should render that of Caesar's to Caesar and give God the things which are His.

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.” (Mark 12:17)

 

Hydro Plate Theory

Hydro Plate Theory Video

A Simple explanation of the Biblical Flood. So simple.

Our Pagan Ways

The days of the week representing the sun for Sunday, the moon for Monday, mars or Martes for Tuesday, mercury or miércoles for Wednesday, jupiter or jueves for Thursday, venus or viernes for Friday and Saturn for Saturday.

The Didache

The Didache Message Video

The Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Translated by Charles H. Hoole

CHAPTER 1

1:1 There are two paths, one of life and one of death, and the difference is great between the two paths.

1:2 Now the path of life is this -- first, thou shalt love the God who made thee, thy neighbour as thyself, and all things that thou wouldest not should be done unto thee, do not thou unto another.

1:3 And the doctrine of these maxims is as follows. Bless them that curse you, and pray for your enemies. Fast on behalf of those that persecute you; for what thank is there if ye love them that love you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? But do ye love them that hate you, and ye will not have an enemy.

1:4 Abstain from fleshly and worldly lusts. If any one give thee a blow on thy right cheek, turn unto him the other also, and thou shalt be perfect; if any one compel thee to go a mile, go with him two; if a man take away thy cloak, give him thy coat also; if a man take from thee what is thine, ask not for it again, for neither art thou able to do so.

1:5 Give to every one that asketh of thee, and ask not again; for the Father wishes that from his own gifts there should be given to all. Blessed is he who giveth according to the commandment, for he is free from guilt; but woe unto him that receiveth. For if a man receive being in need, he shall be free from guilt; but he who receiveth when not in need, shall pay a penalty as to why he received and for what purpose; and when he is in tribulation he shall be examined concerning the things that he has done, and shall not depart thence until he has paid the last farthing.

1:6 For of a truth it has been said on these matters, let thy almsgiving abide in thy hands until thou knowest to whom thou hast given.

CHAPTER 2

2:1 But the second commandment of the teaching is this.

2:2 Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not corrupt youth; thou shalt not commit fornication; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not use soothsaying; thou shalt not practise sorcery; thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born; thou shalt not covet the goods of thy neighbour;

2:3 thou shalt not commit perjury; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not speak evil; thou shalt not bear malice;

2:4 thou shalt not be double-minded or double-tongued, for to be double tongued is the snare of death.

2:5 Thy speech shall not be false or empty, but concerned with action.

2:6 Thou shalt not be covetous, or rapacious, or hypocritical, or malicious, or proud; thou shalt not take up an evil design against thy neighbour;

2:7 thou shalt not hate any man, but some thou shalt confute, concerning some thou shalt pray, and some thou shalt love beyond thine own soul.

CHAPTER 3

3:1 My child, fly from everything that is evil, and from everything that is like to it.

3:2 Be not wrathful, for wrath leadeth unto slaughter; be not jealous, or contentious, or quarrelsome, for from all these things slaughter ensues.

3:3 My child, be not lustful, for lust leadeth unto fornication; be not a filthy talker; be not a lifter up of the eye, for from all these things come adulteries.

3:4 My child, be not an observer of omens, since it leadeth to idolatry, nor a user of spells, nor an astrologer, nor a travelling purifier, nor wish to see these things, for from all these things idolatry ariseth.

3:5 My child, be not a liar, for lying leadeth unto theft; be not covetous or conceited, for from all these things thefts arise.

3:6 My child, be not a murmurer, since it leadeth unto blasphemy; be not self-willed or evil-minded, for from all these things blasphemies are produced;

3:7 but be thou meek, for the meek shall inherit the earth;

3:8 be thou longsuffering, and compassionate, and harmless, and peaceable, and good, and fearing alway the words that thou hast heard.

3:9 Thou shalt not exalt thyself, neither shalt thou put boldness into thy soul. Thy soul shall not be joined unto the lofty, but thou shalt walk with the just and humble.

3:10 Accept the things that happen to thee as good, knowing that without God nothing happens.

CHAPTER 4

4:1 My child, thou shalt remember both night and day him that speaketh unto thee the Word of God; thou shalt honour him as thou dost the Lord, for where the teaching of the Lord is given, there is the Lord;

4:2 thou shalt seek out day by day the favour of the saints, that thou mayest rest in their words;

4:3 thou shalt not desire schism, but shalt set at peace them that contend; thou shalt judge righteously; thou shalt not accept the person of any one to convict him of transgression;

4:4 thou shalt not doubt whether a thing shall be or not.

4:5 Be not a stretcher out of thy hand to receive, and a drawer of it back in giving.

4:6 If thou hast, give by means of thy hands a redemption for thy sins.

4:7 Thou shalt not doubt to give, neither shalt thou murmur when giving; for thou shouldest know who is the fair recompenser of the reward.

4:8 Thou shalt not turn away from him that is in need, but shalt share with thy brother in all things, and shalt not say that things are thine own; for if ye are partners in what is immortal, how much more in what is mortal?

4:9 Thou shalt not remove thine heart from thy son or from thy daughter, but from their youth shalt teach them the fear of God.

4:10 Thou shalt not command with bitterness thy servant or thy handmaid, who hope in the same God as thyself, lest they fear not in consequence the God who is over both; for he cometh not to call with respect of persons, but those whom the Spirit hath prepared.

4:11 And do ye servants submit yourselves to your masters with reverence and fear, as being the type of God.

4:12 Thou shalt hate all hypocrisy and everything that is not pleasing to God;

4:13 thou shalt not abandon the commandments of the Lord, but shalt guard that which thou hast received, neither adding thereto nor taking therefrom;

4:14 thou shalt confess thy transgressions in the Church, and shalt not come unto prayer with an evil conscience. This is the path of life.

CHAPTER 5

5:1 But the path of death is this. First of all, it is evil, and full of cursing; there are found murders, adulteries, lusts, fornication, thefts, idolatries, soothsaying, sorceries, robberies, false witnessings, hypocrisies, double-mindedness, craft, pride, malice, self-will, covetousness, filthy talking, jealousy, audacity, pride, arrogance;

5:2 there are they who persecute the good -- lovers of a lie, not knowing the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to the good nor to righteous judgment, watching not for the good but for the bad, from whom meekness and patience are afar off, loving things that are vain, following after recompense, having no compassion on the needy, nor labouring for him that is in trouble, not knowing him that made them, murderers of children, corrupters of the image of God, who turn away from him that is in need, who oppress him that is in trouble, unjust judges of the poor, erring in all things. From all these, children, may ye be delivered.

CHAPTER 6

6:1 See that no one make thee to err from this path of doctrine, since he who doeth so teacheth thee apart from God.

6:2 If thou art able to bear the whole yoke of the Lord, thou wilt be perfect; but if thou art not able, what thou art able, that do.

6:3 But concerning meat, bear that which thou art able to do. But keep with care from things sacrificed to idols, for it is the worship of the infernal deities.

CHAPTER 7

7:1 But concerning baptism, thus baptize ye: having first recited all these precepts, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in running water;

7:2 but if thou hast not running water, baptize in some other water, and if thou canst not baptize in cold, in warm water;

7:3 but if thou hast neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

7:4 But before the baptism, let him who baptizeth and him who is baptized fast previously, and any others who may be able. And thou shalt command him who is baptized to fast one or two days before.

CHAPTER 8

8:1 But as for your fasts, let them not be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and fifth days of the week, but do ye fast on the fourth and sixth days.

8:2 Neither pray ye as the hypocrites, but as the Lord hath commanded in his gospel so pray ye: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done as in heaven so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debt, as we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil: for thine is the power, and the glory, for ever.

8:3 Thrice a day pray ye in this fashion.

CHAPTER 9

9:1 But concerning the Eucharist, after this fashion give ye thanks.

9:2 First, concerning the cup. We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine, David thy Son, which thou hast made known unto us through Jesus Christ thy Son; to thee be the glory for ever.

9:3 And concerning the broken bread. We thank thee, our Father, for the life and knowledge which thou hast made known unto us through Jesus thy Son; to thee be the glory for ever.

9:4 As this broken bread was once scattered on the mountains, and after it had been brought together became one, so may thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth unto thy kingdom; for thine is the glory, and the power, through Jesus Christ, for ever.

9:5 And let none eat or drink of your Eucharist but such as have been baptized into the name of the Lord, for of a truth the Lord hath said concerning this, Give not that which is holy unto dogs.

CHAPTER 10

10:1 But after it has been completed, so pray ye.

10:2 We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known unto us through Jesus thy Son; to thee be the glory for ever.

10:3 Thou, Almighty Master, didst create all things for the sake of thy name, and hast given both meat and drink, for men to enjoy, that we might give thanks unto thee, but to us thou hast given spiritual meat and drink, and life everlasting, through thy Son.

10:4 Above all, we thank thee that thou art able to save; to thee be the glory for ever.

10:5 Remember, Lord, thy Church, to redeem it from every evil, and to perfect it in thy love, and gather it together from the four winds, even that which has been sanctified for thy kingdom which thou hast prepared for it; for thine is the kingdom and the glory for ever.

10:6 Let grace come, and let this world pass away. Hosanna to the Son of David. If any one is holy let him come (to the Eucharist); if any one is not, let him repent. Maranatha. Amen.

10:7 But charge the prophets to give thanks, so far as they are willing to do so.

CHAPTER 11

11:1 Whosoever, therefore, shall come and teach you all these things aforesaid, him do ye receive;

11:2 but if the teacher himself turn and teach another doctrine with a view to subvert you, hearken not to him; but if he come to add to your righteousness, and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.

11:3 But concerning the apostles and prophets, thus do ye according to the doctrine of the Gospel.

11:4 Let every apostle who cometh unto you be received as the Lord.

11:5 He will remain one day, and if it be necessary, a second; but if he remain three days, he is a false prophet.

11:6 And let the apostle when departing take nothing but bread until he arrive at his resting-place; but if he ask for money, he is a false prophet.

11:7 And ye shall not tempt or dispute with any prophet who speaketh in the spirit; for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven.

11:8 But not every one who speaketh in the spirit is a prophet, but he is so who hath the disposition of the Lord; by their dispositions they therefore shall be known, the false prophet and the prophet.

11:9 And every prophet who ordereth in the spirit that a table shall be laid, shall not eat of it himself, but if he do otherwise, he is a false prophet;

11:10 and every prophet who teacheth the truth, if he do not what he teacheth is a false prophet;

11:11 and every prophet who is approved and true, and ministering in the visible mystery of the Church, but who teacheth not others to do the things that he doth himself, shall not be judged of you, for with God lieth his judgment, for in this manner also did the ancient prophets.

11:12 But whoever shall say in the spirit, Give me money, or things of that kind, listen not to him; but if he tell you concerning others that are in need that ye should give unto them, let no one judge him.

CHAPTER 12

12:1 Let every one that cometh in the name of the Lord be received, but afterwards ye shall examine him and know his character, for ye have knowledge both of good and evil.

12:2 If the person who cometh be a wayfarer, assist him so far as ye are able; but he will not remain with you more than two or three days, unless there be a necessity.

12:3 But if he wish to settle with you, being a craftsman, let him work, and so eat;

12:4 but if he know not any craft, provide ye according to you own discretion, that a Christian may not live idle among you;

12:5 but if he be not willing to do so, he is a trafficker in Christ. From such keep aloof.

CHAPTER 13

13:1 But every true prophet who is willing to dwell among you is worthy of his meat,

13:2 likewise a true teacher is himself worthy of his meat, even as is a labourer.

13:3 Thou shalt, therefore, take the firstfruits of every produce of the wine-press and threshing-floor, of oxen and sheep, and shalt give it to the prophets, for they are your chief priests;

13:4 but if ye have not a prophet, give it unto the poor.

13:5 If thou makest a feast, take and give the firstfruits according to the commandment;

13:6 in like manner when thou openest a jar of wine or of oil, take the firstfruits and give it to the prophets;

13:7 take also the firstfruits of money, of clothes, and of every possession, as it shall seem good unto thee, and give it according to the commandment.

CHAPTER 14

14:1 But on the Lord's day, after that ye have assembled together, break bread and give thanks, having in addition confessed your sins, that your sacrifice may be pure.

14:2 But let not any one who hath a quarrel with his companion join with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be polluted,

14:3 for it is that which is spoken of by the Lord. In every place and time offer unto me a pure sacrifice, for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the Gentiles.

CHAPTER 15

15:1 Elect, therefore, for yourselves bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not covetous, and true and approved, for they perform for you the service of prophets and teachers.

15:2 Do not, therefore, despise them, for they are those who are honoured among you, together with the prophets and teachers.

15:3 Rebuke one another, not in wrath but peaceably, as ye have commandment in the Gospel; and, but let no one speak to any one who walketh disorderly with regard to his neighbour, neither let him be heard by you until he repent.

15:4 But your prayers and your almsgivings and all your deeds so do, as ye have commandment in the Gospel of our Lord.

CHAPTER 16

16:1 Watch concerning your life; let not your lamps be quenched or your loins be loosed, but be ye ready, for ye know not the hour at which our Lord cometh.

16:2 But be ye gathered together frequently, seeking what is suitable for your souls; for the whole time of your faith shall profit you not, unless ye be found perfect in the last time.

16:3 For in the last days false prophets and seducers shall be multiplied, and the sheep shall be turned into wolves, and love shall be turned into hate;

16:4 and because iniquity aboundeth they shall hate each other, and persecute each other, and deliver each other up; and then shall the Deceiver of the world appear as the Son of God, and shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands; and he shall do unlawful things, such as have never happened since the beginning of the world.

16:5 Then shall the creation of man come to the fiery trial of proof, and many shall be offended and shall perish; but they who remain in their faith shall be saved by the rock of offence itself.

16:6 And then shall appear the signs of the truth; first the sign of the appearance in heaven, then the sign of the sound of the trumpet, and thirdly the resurrection of the dead

16:7 -- not of all, but as it has been said, The Lord shall come and all his saints with him;

16:8 then shall the world behold the Lord coming on the clouds of heaven.