The difference between suffering for God, versus suffering for Satan, is that God makes you sweat, but Satan makes you bleed.
Both God and Satan require you to sacrifice. When you sacrifice for God, it brings you health, life, and joy. It requires death to the ego, illusions, false perceptions, and misunderstandings. This process means there are times when God leads you through tribulation so you can purify out all the false perceptions you have and come into alignment with true spiritual principles. During this time, the ego feels abandoned, tortured, and can feel like it is dying. But this type of death does not actually harm you. This type of death is the type where you clean out your home and afterwards it feels much nicer to be there. When you go through tribulation, God promises to take care of your needs and succor you, and strengthen you as you go through the purification process. When you are looking back, you will be grateful you came through the process. The type of sacrifice Satan requires, is the kind that leads you toward a state of malnutrition. You will be worse off than before. You will never receive a return on your investment for your pain and suffering. The blade in Satan's hand is there to torture you, whereas the blade in God's hand is there to perform life saving surgery. The difference is knowing which God you serve. Some people think if they just pray more, eat healthier, and spend more time doing service projects, that they are sacrificing for God. But they don't understand what true sacrifice for God looks like. When you know God, you understand that He only asks you to sacrifice when it's necessary for your development. God does not delight in you forgoing your basic needs and will rarely ask you to do this. God created you, with all your many needs and wants, and God respects these things about you. He does not think you are bad for having basic needs and wants. He wants to provide for you. This brings God joy. He may also give you the opportunity to provide for other people's wants and needs, or allow other people to provide for you, so everyone can experience the joy of giving and receiving for the purposes of edification. Satan will demand you to serve to the point of burnout and exhaustion. He will not respect your needs and wants, and if you consider your own needs and wants, he will make you feel guilty for doing so. He will ask you to sacrifice until you no longer find joy in living. He will punish you for wanting your basic needs to be met. He will tell you that you are weak for wanting things that are very human to want, like love and affection. He will make you want to become more and more robotic as time goes on, so you do not have to practice giving and receiving love with those around you. He wants you to have energetic support so long as it does not make you happy, and as long as it keeps your emotions suppressed. The more you suppress your own emotions and the emotions of those around you; the more he feels empowered. He does not like people to rejoice in being a human. He wants people to feel like the worst thing that ever happened to them, was being made into a human. This is because, by hating our human needs, we are hating God who created us with these human needs. In this way, Satan attacks God, by attacking our self esteem. By making people feel like their needs and the tender desires of their hearts don't matter; and by making them feel weak. In time, he will introduce a trans-human alternative that will appear to be a solution to what he identifies as the 'weakness' of the flesh. Robotic people do not feel bad when their needs go unmet. They do not need human love, support, and physical nourishment. They indeed sacrifice the spark of life that comes within every human heart, and that grows when humans do good for one another. Do not mistake the refiner's fire, with the suffering of those who rebel against the Creator. Those who rebel against the Creator seek to follow satanic practices that demand a pound of flesh for a sacrifice. These sacrifices are designed to make a mockery of God and the beautiful life He has given to mankind. They do not improve life, they indeed destroy it. Remove yourself from people who demand satanic types of worship. Examples of satanic worship include acts of righteousness that promote vain ambition, implementing fads and virtue signaling that require obsessive adherence to policy such that that only the privileged few can keep up. This includes rituals in behavior that only rich people do, clothes only rich people wear, or health protocols only the toughest of people can sustain. Such fads separate people into classes of upper and lower, stronger and weaker; and create a puffed up sense of personal will and pride within people's hearts. These types of sacrifices may look similar to what people of God do, but they are designed to pull you down and separate you from the nurturing sweetness of the Holy Spirit. When God is at work in people's lives, He creates a way that even the weakest among us are able to participate and find good results. Even the widow's mite will be appreciated. Activities inspire people to see the goodness in each other and to treat even the least of these my brethren and sisters with kindness and good will. The suffering you experience on the path to sainthood cuts down the dead branches so the healthy branches can obtain more life and nourishment. But the suffering you experience on the path to satanhood leads to class distinctions, self righteousness, over-working, and numbness to your own needs and wants. You are not able to care about yourself, and so you become intolerant to the suffering and needs of those around you. You believe you are better than others and if others are not well off it is because they are not as fit as you. You become self righteous in how you approach life, rather than joyful. This is why we are to become as little children. Little children are joyful, and it is good that they have needs and wants. They are learning how to take care of their own body, and practice how to take care of their needs and wants every day with the help of nurturing and supportive care givers. They may have to learn lessons around sharing, patience, kindness, and the delaying of self gratification on their journey, but these things are learned in the context of opportunity, empowerment and the acceptance of one's limitations. Having weaknesses and limitations are not a mark of failure but an opportunity to progress; and this progression occurs in the context of healthy self confidence and esteem. Overall, God does not want us to be permanently miserable. He has us endure hardships for our sake, to bless us and give us more than what we had before. When you are in the refiner's fire, you will look back and see that you have more than what you had before. The journey will be worth it. Satan on the other hand will bring you down so you can stay down. He does not encourage or inspire, except by the bribery that leads to addiction to harmful activities and substances. Such bribery leads to numbing of the senses so you are no longer able to discern your own needs and wants. It leads to a suppression of the emotions and a replacing of emotions with substances and distractions to keep the emotions numb and to keep your heart from finding healing and growth. The human heart is very powerful and is capable of handling many difficult trials and tribulations. The human heart is a very powerful resource. And with any powerful resource, it can be misused. Everyone will behave selfishly when seeking to fulfill their wants and needs from time to time. Everyone needs to learn to temper their emotional desires. However, tempering them is for the purpose of cultivating an environment of long term growth. Satanic activities want to fully destroy and permanently remove your emotions so that you never feel joy again. Godly forbearance is like putting your money in a retirement account. This requires self sacrifice and self control, but in the long run, you will have more money than when you started. A Satanic sacrifice is akin to giving your money away to a robber, whereby you will never see it again, and who will use it to fund destructive activities. People must understand that not all sacrifice is good. Some people call for others to sacrifice their needs and wants at the expense of their own well being. These are destructive, yes even satanic operations. If someone wants you to sacrifice your own needs and wants, and makes you feel guilty for having needs and wants, then they are requiring a satanic sacrifice from you. It is better to remove yourself from these types of people then to allow their destructive influence to foster a sense of shame and hatred for having basic human needs. God will never do that to you. It may seem like God is torturing you at times, but He never is doing it to destroy you like Satan does. Satan wants to hurt you, but God wants you purify you. There are 2 different types of sacrifice that you will be called to endure in your life. Learn to sacrifice the types of sacrifice that do not ultimately benefit you. Seek the wisdom that comes from sacrificing the way God would have you do. Only sacrifice in a way that allows your heart to grow, endure, and accomplish many good things for the benefit of you and those around you.
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The events of the last four years sure add meaning to D&C 86
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servants, concerning the parable of the wheat and of the tares: 2 Behold, verily I say, the field was the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed; 3 And after they have fallen asleep the great persecutor of the church, the apostate, the whore, even Babylon, that maketh all nations to drink of her cup, in whose hearts the enemy, even Satan, sitteth to reign—behold he soweth the tares; wherefore, the tares choke the wheat and drive the church into the wilderness. 4 But behold, in the last days, even now while the Lord is beginning to bring forth the word, and the blade is springing up and is yet tender-- 5 Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reap down the fields; 6 But the Lord saith unto them, pluck not up the tares while the blade is yet tender (for verily your faith is weak), lest you destroy the wheat also. 7 Therefore, let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe; then ye shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and after the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned. 8 Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers-- 9 For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God-- 10 Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began. 11 Therefore, blessed are ye if ye continue in my goodness, a light unto the Gentiles, and through this priesthood, a savior unto my people Israel. The Lord hath said it. Amen. What stands out to me, is there will be time where it seems as if the church falls asleep. If you think about how the church has been around for 200 years, that makes sense. Things have become very routine. Then it explains how in the church you have the wheat and the tares, and there is nothing you can do about it because if you try, it will harm the wheat as they try to grow. But then by and by as time goes on, the tares start to choke wheat, and this is all happening within the church dynamic. I think this is a pattern, perhaps; and not just applicable to our church, but to many organizations and structures in the world. What is also interesting this in verse 7 it says that the wheat will be gathered BEFORE the tares are burned. Does this point to a pre-tribulation rapture? Or does it mean the wheat will be somehow inspired to leave in some way? What does it mean to be driven into the wilderness as it says at the end of verse 3? Then, in verse 9 - it says that the righteous will be hid, and it says this same thing in Zechariah 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger. It refers to the true priesthood as those who are hid by God, and will be used to bring forth a restoration, which I wonder if this restoration refers to the second coming. And that those who have the true priesthood are given the instruction to continue to be a light to the gentiles, as if a going away statement, telling us what the future will be for the wheat, but until then, the wheat are asked to continue to be light to the gentiles while they wait for the time where they are driven into the wilderness or hidden. I just watched the beginning of the series Fallout because my intuition lead me too. I don't recommend it, far too violent. but what I got from it, is that; the movie starts out with an exchange that is supposed to be mutually beneficial to 2 parties. But, it turns out that the second party is there to raid the first party.
I felt like there might be some symbolism here. Sometimes I feel like, we are heading into world politics to play out the same type of scenario that happens in a narcissist/empath relationship. What happens in these situations is the empath, believing in love and reciprocity, falls for a narcissist who acts loving, who plays the part very well. But as soon as the relationship is solidified, the narcissist starts to abuse the empath. And the empath, knowing they committed to a caring connection, overlooks the bad things because they realize that relationships take work and it's not always going to be what they want. So they start to put up with the abuse. And like boiling a frog, it becomes worse and worse. Some people never get to the point of calling the relationship abusive because the narcissist has the empath doubting themselves, to the point where the empath doesn't even know what they are feeling anymore. The lines between love and pain are blurred. Pretty soon, the empath is sacrificed. This is the problem with those seeking love and light only and not being willing to see the reality, not being wise. If you are wise, you realize the only way to have a community of love and light is if you stand up for your needs and wants, even if it means causing divisiveness in a relationship. People are so afraid of division, that they may end up sacrificing themselves and their loved ones. We never have to behave like wolves, but we do need to be aware that there are those who do, and those who are willing to spot them need to sit in leadership positions. Some may say these types of leaders are too tough, too intolerant, and so forth. But if you are wise, you see evil coming afar off, and you call it out. You expose it. People don't want to see it because it ruins their peaceful state of dissociation, the counterfeit of Godly peace. Godly peace means you realize you might have to do hard things, maybe even be willing to put your life in danger, in order to do what is right. It requires courage, sacrifice, and commitment. It is not sitting back and eating popcorn and assuaging your fears with thoughts of daffodils and picnics, and the hope that someone that acts nice, who has no reason to sacrifice for you; will come in and save you. False peace comes to those who put their trust in the wolves. I was always taught that there would be a meeting at Adam Ondi Ahman where the keys of the priesthood that had been given to the church would be returned to Jesus Christ.
Interestingly enough, Wendy Nelson alluded to the concept that if this meeting occurred, how would we know? She mentioned that since it wouldn't be posted on Facebook, we would have to know it had occurred by the Holy Spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fui12k45XO4 If the keys had been returned to Jesus Christ, wouldn't we start to see things within the church change? Here is a very interesting thing. I had a member of the forum email me a dream he had had, and that he felt it was significant. He was shown 2 numbers. 38 and 38. They even looked like they could represent the tomb and resurrection the way they were configured in the dream. For some reason, I knew that these were coordinates on the earth. When we looked up the coordinates, we found that 38.0000 by 38.0000 actually leads to a place very near the great earthquake in Turkey. You know, the one that Michael Sherwin predicted. I also had had a premonition before that earthquake that the wicked people of the earth were going to attack a portal, that this has something to do with the war in Ukraine. I felt the Spirit prompt me to know that the earth would defend herself against this attack. Perhaps this earthquake was actually the one prophesied to occur in the Mount of Olives. Perhaps the true mount of Olives is not in Israel. Zechariah 14: 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. Turkey is a hot spot for olive trees. https://goturkiye.com/the-routes-of-the-olive-tree You can see that olive trees are grown from the Black Sea to the Aegean region near the Mediterranean. So, Turkey can be seen as the official mount of olives. Do you want to know he name of this valley near the earthquake in Turkey? Adiyaman. https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B000'00.0%22N+38%C2%B000'00.0%22E/@37.9393735,36.6757666,196544m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38!4d38!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu Does that not sound like Adam Ondi Ahman? Do you see how Adiyaman is near Kahramanmaras where the big earthquake was? And consider this. Disney just put out a movie: Indiana Jones and the Table of Destiny. Consider in the last Indiana Jones movie, the Crystal Skull, the Illuminati seems to point out that the U.S. enemy is in Eastern Ukraine... https://youtu.be/foe4jgvMm6k?si=okImo0TUwtnfaEbj&t=140 And in this movie... they make a big deal about how the Nazis miscalculated something. They forgot to calculate continental shift. Perhaps they were looking for the Valley or Resurrection, or the Adam Ondi Aham of the old Jerusalem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLAS-GguiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7Kc5MV350 Here is a must watch. Douglas Gabriel was part of the brains behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones scripts. He was like the wise old sage that was called and asked how to develop the scripts. He says they were purposely putting in truth in those movies. Could it be the war in Ukraine was actually fighting over a place that they now know is in the wrong place? The Valley of Resurrection prophesied of in Ezekial 37, you know the chapter right before there is a war with Gog and Magog? Ezekial 37 1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones If you had an inkling that this valley of resurrection was a real place and you were a king of this world, don't you think you would want to know where the coordinates of this valley were on the earth, and wouldn't you want to attack it before it came to life? I had to ask Roy Potter, a scriptorian and expert in the dead sea scrolls about my theory. He takes my call here at 40:40 https://www.youtube.com/live/JsV_lDO6amw?si=vRxN2teh5ZXbEToq&t=2441 And did you know the descendants of Japheth lived near Ukraine, and they are known as Magog? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japheth - if you click on this link scroll down to the map on the left and you can see Magog highlighted Do you see it? Magog is there, which is the area that Japheth, one of the sons of Noah inherited. And it looks very close to modern day Ukraine. This alludes to the fact that the nations of the earth are engaging in a spiritual war. I think there is a lot of prophesy going on right in front of our faces. We are not being told. When prophesy comes to pass, it will be as it is written, not as we expect in our minds. I believe there is a spiritual dynamic where when we repent of our sins, God is enabled to relieve the suffering of innocent people. The best way we can help others, is to repent of our sins. To do this, we have to come unto Christ.
If people will do the right thing, God will protect them so they do not perish. There is no protection under the umbrella of wickedness. It is only through being true to your moral conscience that supernatural blessings appear. There are those who are morally compromised and feel if they don't go against their conscience they or their loved ones could die. This is not true. By staying true to your moral conscience, God will protect you. Your choice to do what is right in the midst of threats from the enemy is the act of faith that allows God to act in your behalf to preserve your life and your loved ones if that is His will. Give God the tools He needs to bless you, by standing in righteousness. Do not let the threats and the storms and the temper tantrums of the enemy move you from your post! Your life is much more likely to be preserved when you are having faith and moving in what is right.
Why is baptism part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? I have my own personal insights on the subject.
When Adam and Eve fell, their seed, Cain; was born. Cain became the father of the wicked. Eve was first given the seed of the serpent; and the seed of the serpent bore fruit when Cain was tempted and acted to commit murder. This seed is real genetic material. God allows the bad genetic material to continue with the good; in order to perserve the good. (This is the story of the wheat and the tares). Eve's seed was the seed of Satan, the serpent. This means the seed of Eve was no longer that of her husband, Adam. Adam's seed or DNA will be replenished by the power of Jesus Christ. And Eve's seed or DNA will be replenished by the power of Baptism. Baptism is the law of adoption; where that which is the seed of the human body is washed and the good seed is redeemed and adopted back into the family of Father Adam, and the contamination of the bad seed is washed away. Even the serpent's seed can be saved by the gospel of Jesus Christ; wherein the serpent's seed is baptised. When Sarah was not strong enough to have faith in Jesus Christ, she had her handmade Hagar have a son through her husband Abraham. Abraham is a type of Adam. Isaac is a type of the good seed. Ishmael is a type of the redeemed seed. Because of Sarah's weakness; and her lack of faith; another child was born to her husband that was not her own. But through the administration of baptism; Ishmael also becomes a son of Abraham and Sarah. He will be given the inheritance of both Father Abraham and Mother Sarah. This is because through Abraham and Sarah; all of the inheritance contained in the DNA is provided. Remember that our blessings come from our DNA. So when Sarah lacked faith, her posterity is redeemed when her surrogate son becomes her adopted son, inheriting her blessing as a mother and Abraham's blessing as his father. Hagar gets to see her offspring baptised into the covenant of God; Just like Bathsheba saw her son Solomon become the King of Israel; even though Bathseba's children would not have normally become the birthright royal seed of Israel. So here we see the power of baptism in the story of Adam and Eve and their son Cain, Sarah and Abraham and their son Ishmael that was born of Hagar, and Bathsheba and David and their son Solomon. In the case of Bathsheba, her son was given royal lineage through the redemptive and adoptive process of marriage to David after the sin of adultery was washed away. In the case of Hagar, her son Ishmael will be given the lineage of the royal priesthood and covenant of God when his seed is baptised and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the case of Eve, her seed which was the seed of Lucifer will be redeemed through baptism and the repentance of the seed of Lucifer. This repentance and conversion to do good and follow the laws of God allows the seed of Lucifer to be adopted into the seed of Father Adam and Jesus Christ. Therefore, Baptism is the process of adoption where that which is good is cleansed from that which is bad for purposes of redemption of the human race from that which has been corrupted, and baptism into the family of Father Adam and the family of Heavenly God. Throughout my life I have become obese. I have also processed painful childhood trauma for 8 years. I have prayed this entire time for God to please help me lose weight. Nothing I ever tried worked. Many times I tried to restrict my diet based on the notions of man; always against what the Holy Spirit was guiding me to do. Whenever I did this, it always made the situation worse.
One day I prayed, pleading for God to help me lose weight. I got an answer. I received an intuitive download that contained the message, "Pay attention to your dreams." Today I received revelation and understanding on this issue. Many people are suffering from trauma, anxiety, mental and emotional and physical anguish. Studies show that to heal and protect the heart from intense emotional pain and suffering, you should eat saturated fat. Furthermore, a number of systematic reviews of cohort studies have shown no significant association between saturated fat intake and coronary artery disease or mortality, and some even suggested a lower risk of stroke with higher consumption of saturated fat (3,6,32,33). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874#:~:text=Furthermore%2C%20a%20number%20of%20systematic,6%2C32%2C33). I once had a dream as an adult where in the dream I saw myself as a kid. Jesus was sitting next to me. I pulled up my pajamas, and on my chest, in my heart area, were immense scars. So many intense scars, that my child self said to my adult self in the dream, "It's ok." This dream was revelation to me that I had a lot of trauma pain stored in my heart. One day I was resting on the couch, processing some trauma; and I had a vision of Jesus. He told me, "Eat saturated fat." There was another time where I felt guilty for eating Papa John's pizza. During that time, I had a dream. In the dream someone told me, "When God tells you a certain food to eat, it's because there is something in the food your body needs." I was then shown in the dream that the alfredo pizza sauce I love from Papa Johns contains capsicum, which my body needed. What my intuition always told me, was to not worry about being overweight, but to eat the food that felt and seemed best to me each day. Because many times these foods seemed to conflict with the common science of dieting known by man; I often struggled to follow my intuition to allow myself to eat what felt right to me. But again, every time I did this; I ended up getting even more obese. This morning, it dawned on me; that though I eat too much ice-cream, that I was actually eating the saturated fat that I needed to prevent me from dying. The side effect of eating that food was obesity, because in the end; it was more calories than what my body could handle and not gain weight. But the side effect of not eating those foods very well could be death. So; when people die who are obese due to heart disease; it is most likely not the obesity that is causing death. It is most likely the heart pain and trauma and anguish. Unfortunately, pain, stress, and trauma, does decrease your life span. Over-eating certain foods actually extends the life span so that the person lives longer and has more time to heal their heart pain than they would have; had they not been eating the foods that are causing them to be obese. Now, of course; this is not the case in every situation. If people have a habit of eating unhealthy fat, like what is in fried foods; or eating soda; which is not much good for you... then those simple lifestyle changes could help a person lose weight. That obesity is a life-style issue, not a trauma issue. But for those who are in tune with their body, and are eating what their body needs, then just because they are fat; does not mean they are unhealthy. It is important to make this distinction, because not only should these types of people not be shamed, but they should be appreciated for being alive despite of the heart pains and traumas they have endured in their lives. Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit The spirit of the law is that we love each other. That becomes hard to do when there is a perception that so doing would cause one to suffer a loss. It's a situation no one should ever get into and yet a situation many are often in without most people being aware of it. When someone does the wrong thing in leadership, we don't know what situation they may be in, and we have to understand God would never ask a person to show love for others at the expense of their own life. We are free, with our free will to offer to give that love, but God could not ask it of us, we would have to give it freely. So if a leader doesn't give up their life for what is right so as to protect themselves from persecution, I don't expect God to fault that person. Because were God to do so it would be akin to forcing someone to show love where love must be given freely.
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