ANGELFIRE 11-02-05

Eleven (November) has a hint of apocalypse as we're reminded of "the eleventh hour" in history that is upon us. I celebrated Halloween by looking at that "pumpkin in the sky" that is almost as near to our planet as it was two years ago, only 45 million miles as compared with 34 million then. It was certainly the brightest object in view, so I went out early this morning to look again. The Jack-o-lantern had moved from east last night over to the west, and I could see Orion almost directly overhead. Siting across it's three star belt, it was easy to find Serius (brightest of all, the Dog star) down to the south. Yet Mars was outshining it with a golden yellowish color over there on the west. What a glorious sight just looking up! That earthquake in Pakistan has mounted in lives lost to compare with the Asian Tsunami of last year. And hurricanes keep pounding over here as Beta is doing to Mexico again after Wilma. And new disasters in India. And now the global pandemic scare over the avian /bird flu worse than the Asian in the sixties or Hong Kong in the ninties. Just no let up it seems, much like the war in Iraq, When will it all end? The last chapter of Hebrews begins "Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." He promised to return and said there would be signs in the heavens of His coming. So we must keep the faith that is shared by that cloud of witnesses, all those spirits of the righteous departed ones that Christ will bring back to receive glorified bodies on resurrection Day. His angelic army from heaven will accompany His appearing out of the eastern sky.

Veteran's Day also carries the eleventh hour implication. Those my age can recall when it was Armistice Day to mark the end of fighting in WW I. But an armistice was not enough as WW II proved. There had to be a "total surrender" and that's how it happened as "unconditional" in Europe and then later Japan. So president Eisenhower changed it in '54 to a day of honor for those who have fought all our nation's wars. We see the folly of that "War to End all War." And 1918's dramatic treaty signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month just didn't work. Even the world wide flu epidemic was also that year. So the tone of apocalypse sure did fit the later 20st century, and this new 21st as well. I've just read a book "A Peace to End All Peace" that describes WW-I better than anything I've seen. An historian named David Fromkin is the author who dates the "peace" agreement as 1922. The cynical title sure fits doesn't it. There was too much double dealing for it to last and it sure didn't. I thank Gary Canady for loaning me the book. I was reared on Kipling's poetry which my dad could recite endlessly. But the Brits don't look as noble in their empire building days. Winston Churchill is the central figure, yet it ends long before he became prime minister with a remark by some MP that he would might make a good PM. I leaned more toward Mahatma Gandhi as the hero of my youth than Chruchill, though he was also a great man to us. Gandhi was using passive resistance to gain independence for India from Great Britain. My grandfather Thomas Hazlitt, that I never knew, was a Brit who served in their Black and Tans. It was a military unit in Ireland to keep them in line. So some British pride lingered in my dad, the late JM Hazlitt. He would speak admiringly of their "empire on which the sun never sets," though he was solidly American in his attitudes here, as PV old timers well know. The book shows that America's influence ended empire building on this Earth. All nations should be free just as all persons should. We end our pledge of allegiance "with liberty and justice for all." I also see that as the meaning of our upcoming Veteran's Day. And even more that Christ came to free us from Satan's tyranny over the soul. He leads the war against sin which is not fought with carnal weapons acordiing to 2 Cor.10:4-5.

Ending now with this happy thought: just a couple of weeks ago the WW Refinery announced an increase of 30% in their "throughput" and already gasoline at the pump is making a sizeable drop. Yea for WW!

ANGELFIRE 10-8-05

I've considered what our Lord had to say about "the birds of the air" having nests now that we've learned about a possible pandemic of bird flu. He considered the little creatures precious to our heavenly Father, since not a tiny one can fall to the ground without His love and care. There's a song about such providence, "His eye is on the sparrow, and and I know He watches me." I think it's from Matthew's sermon on the mount, early in that book (chapters 5,6 & 7). Yet toward the end of it (24:28) Jesus speaks of birds in a negative sense: "For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together." Most other translations say "vultures," which makes the statement seem more deadly. Thus an international avian flu epidemic would reinact the mood of 1918, when the nations agreed to sign an armistice and stop military action. I was taught as a boy that the use of poison gas had been the decisive factor. But surely that terrible wave of influenza must have added pressure on all nations to end their fighting. The carcass of which Jesus spoke could mean all humanity this time, should such a global outbreak occur. PV's old water tower dates from the year aviation began, 1903. Now we see Earth's atmosphere as the common great "ocean'" for aircraft to go everywhere. But it's been that for the birds since dinosaurs first sprouted wings. So 7.1 billion dollars is the president's request to Congress for getting us prepared just in case it does happen. After 9/11 and Katrina/Rita, he's taking no chances. A year ago Bush announced plans for a human landing on Mars by 2020; though NASA still needs funding for it, including a launch base on the moon and a method of return. But so much cost could be saved by lanching direct from earth to send someone willing to make the trip and just stay; though WW's Donna Shirley did it in '97 by virtual reality, when she directed that successful landing of Pathfinder. Out from it she brought Sojourner, the rover that was deployed. It was first to travel on Mars and is still there, sojourning.

Again this year at Christmas we're asking for either money or new toys for Prison Angeltree. We'll gladly come by and pick up any donations.

ANGELFIRE 11-8-05

Halloween last week seemed to be free of all the deviltry that had been taking it over in past years. Long before "trick or treat" I can recall such ugly pranks that got worse year by year. Then the trick thing was reversed when razor blades were in some of the apples or candy given out to kids at the door. It seemed an effort to be negative about "trick or treat for UNICEF." Then going only to houses where the front light was turned on seemed to help. But events such as WW's "Great Pumpkin Fest" have made it a season of full enjoyment instead of dread. I got to watch our pumpkin roll down the hill on Kerr Blvd. from beneath that tall scarecrow named "Howdy" this year. Moms and children released theirs from the starting place and dads with large buckets caught those that rolled clear down across the finish line. The big ones went much faster but the lop sided ones wobbled around, some clear off the street. It was fun for each family and a pleasure to behold and then to go hear the singers downtown and see the unusual cars on display there. What a good time! Recalls the Lord's words "Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

Those riots in France now echo our race riots out in CA some years ago. Remember that black cab driver, Rodney King? He was badly beaten up, but his words became a national plea, "Why can't we just all get along?" Another such victim down in N.O. got really mauled by police several weeks ago, yet showed no malice. Those words of MLKjr must have been head by both: "Don't get mad. Get smart." But those young Muslims setting fires in France (now spreading to Belgium and Germany) have no inkling of the power in passive resistance. It's been sung in that civil rights spiritual, "We Shall Overcome." Nothing of Islam points that direction, because it doesn't know the way of the Cross. Even as Jesus prayed for His crucifiers to be forgiven their murder of Him, He knew the divine vindication that would surely fall upon them unless they took heed and repented. "The meek shall inherit the earth" refers to those who put their trust in the Almighty's justice rather than seeking their own revenge for being mistreated. It's what waiting upon the LORD is all about.

Prince Charles and his wife are over here in the US seeking to repair their public image. Though she is only a duchess, he'd srely like her as queen if he can ever become king. Maybe there's some value in all that, but I credit the French for getting rid of royalty. It was their influence that helped us avoid having such stuff in the USA. In prison ministry I used to hear inmates speaking of the ten kingdoms to be united over in Europe before Christ returns, and that "mark of the beast" all citizens will be pressured to take upon themselves. It was Prince Charles they thought most likely to be that monarch because of his royal credentials. No one is saying it now, since the international media is restoring his image. I've also read a book about Winston Churchill's role in British imperialism back during WW I, "A Peace to End All Peace." It showed how the Brits took down the Ottoman Empire by pushing them onto Germany's side. After the war, they got a mandate to control Palestine from the League of Nations. Then they gave the Zionists, whom they approved in the Balfour Declaration of 1914, a free hand to buy real estate in Palestine for a Jewish Homeland. No one guessed it would ever become a state way back then, nor that Churchill would be the most famous leader in WW II. Yet the Brits finlly pulled out of Palestine and the Israelis declared a nation in '48.   They've been struggling to keep it ever since, as that book title seems to be suggesing with it's contrast to "The War to End All War." Lasting peace is not from a treaty but will be only after our Lord's return to establish the Kingdom we seek in The Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come."

ANGELFIRE 11-12-05

The service of recognition for veterans was held yesterday morning, Tuesday, on the front lawn of PV High School. It was conducted by several of the students as all of them came outside to join the score or more of us veterans attending. The flag was raised by soldiers in uniform as the school band played the national anthem, after which Principle Peter Campbell gave a short greeting; the program was brief with no long speeches. Bob Martin recognized each of us and we stated the military branch in which we had served. Finally a student offered prayer giving thanks for veterans and for our fighting troops in Iraq, after which the band played once more. All was conducted "with dignity and in order" and was concluded in less than a half-hour with a morning of perfect weather. On the back of program sheets handed to us was a list of PV's fallen in WW-I and II, Korea and Viet Nam; which the students had read aloud during the service. I have mine as a memento to keep. WW-II Americans have been called "the greatest generation," though that's only because so many more died. All who fought in our wars are equally greatest, including the one name read that was so recent it wasn't listed on the program sheet. And I'm sure everyone was mindful of the over two thousand now lost from or military in Iraq. Though I heard no mention of that divisive issue, I'm sure the planners must have given thought to how it should be handled respectfully. I can't see how some call this a false war. How could we stand by watching Saddam rule Iraq and still say our own Pledge of Allegiance "with liberty and justice for all." Let's continue to heed the many signs posted that remind of the ongoing war with "Pray for Our Troops." I just don't see any end until the Lord returns. So we're going bankrupt. Wouldn't we betray any great grandchildren even worse if we only stood by? There's something spooky about our criminal enemies that can't be caught no matter how much bounty is offered. Terrorism keeps spreading from land to land, Amman being the latest city. Now we add it to London, Paris, Madrid, Indonesia, NYC and OKC. That's seven so far, which may soon be seventy times seven. Armageddon has already begun, I say. As the prophet cried out long ago and now to the church: "Hear Oh Israel, prepare to meet thy GOD." Our own state capitol was first because the bomber had been over in Iraq in the '91 war and got his mind twisted by that insanity. I try to forget his name now, but not the poison he brought back and foisted on us here in the Heartland. There had already been an attack on the Twin Towers in NYC, but Armageddon began in our state with destruction of a skyscraper by conventional explosives. I heard the late Monte Lee once say that "Today it's a whole building taken out by one truck bomb; tomorrow a whole city with a suitcase nuke." We haven't reached that level yet, but the terrorism still goes on while the VD culture that gains us such hatred abroad continues to grow in our own body politic i.e. Vegas delusions, Aruba, N.O. Florida and even Cancun MX. The good news; on a Church markee it read "Coming Attraction--Jesus Christ." Fitting perhaps for a world caught up by entertainment. He truly is coming soon and we are making preparation as we seek first His kingdom and righteousness in our thinking and behavior. Read the Bible daily and converse with your heavenly Father each hour in Jesus' name. Days fly past and life goes with them, but we can be making investments in eternity even now right here in Garvin county. We don't need some vast t audience for which to perform because GOD and the holy angels are witnessing every thought, word and deed. I spell with capitals because He is the "Great father, Our savior, Divine guide, all three. What a day and time to serve and seek to please the One who gave His own son to save all who turn heavenward by following the Lord Jesus Christ.

ANGELFIRE 11-15-05

Have you seen how Mars and Venus are both so bright in the eastern and western night sky lately?   Makes me recall a book very popular several years ago, "Men are From Mars; Women From Venus." Never got hold of a copy but found the title fascinating as Mars connotes warfare and Venus the beautiful. I've wondered why angels are usually depicted as feminine in today's world, when they are masculine in the Bible. Maybe the human hunger for things beautiful is finding expression that replaces things bloody. It does seem that the increase of civilization shows more and more femininity which equates with refinement and elimination of crudeness or rudeness. When your eyes shift from Mars across the sky to Venus, they move west just as the course of human history has gone. In Scripture the expulsion from Eden, where Adam was completed by the creation of Eve, resulted in a male murdering his brother. What a start for human history. But it resulted from the LORD's acceptance of a blood sacrifice by Able rather than the grain offering Cain had given. That enraged the older brother when divine favor was shown to his sibling instead of himself. Yet Cain became the ancestor of urban culture, whereas Able's blood would call from the ground for atonement, along with all other righteous victims of man's wickedness. It's so obvious in prison ministry that I've been doing the past 15 years how many more males that females are in for murder. Some day I may write a book titled "Angels are From Venus; Demons are From Mars." Yet as I understand the hereafter, gender will no longer apply. It's basic purpose will have been accomplished, "to multiply and fill the earth." Thus I don't see GOD and all the holy angels as sexual beings, a dimension of creation that has been finally fulfilled in history by the wedding of the Bride to the Lamb or marriage of the Church to Christ Jesus when He returns and establishes GOD's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

Forget my book title as I really don't mean to demonize Mars. We'll be going there in this 21st century if time goes on, and no plans are made for travel to Venus that I know about. Though it's a more beautiful planet, it's just not feasible for colonization with all those clouds and excessive heat (nearer the sun). So Mars is NASA's next target. Last year president Bush announced the goal of a manned (male/female) landing by 2020 (which I'd call a "full vision"). The schedule is set for another stationary laboratory far larger than the rovers already sent in '07 and then a communication orbiter in '09. After that the subsequent types sent will be chosen according to what fuller details have been learned of the surface from our robots. A committee of Mars experts, chaired by WW's Donna Shirley, is considering how to "terraform" it's face. That means making a more earthlike environment there for human habitation. On Columbus Day last month I imagined as always another voyage over millions of miles across the ocean of space to claim this "new world" as he did in 1492. Or mow our upcoming Thanksgiving Day that marks the safe arrival of those brave souls who stepped ashore at Plymouth Rock (1620) and formed that early Colony here in America. They considered themselves a "new Israel" as they set us an example of faith in GOD. Now we remember them each year as our pilgrim fathers on Turkey Day. Benjamin Franklin even wanted the turkey to be our national bird; but that would have spoiled the holiday. Just think, who would dare to eat a bald eagle now? Shalom

ANGELFIRE 11-18-05

I don't believe that life just goes in circles, though some things do seem to come clear around to where they began i.e. names: There is a Greek word in the New Testament from which we get our designation for Spirit born believers, "evangelical Christians"; and also from which the term "evangelist" is derived. the word is euaggelizo. A local church in the great city of Antioch is where Paul and Silas spent time ministering and where "followers of the Way" became first known as Christians by all those Gentile citizens in that metropolis, But evangelical is an insider's description of our identity and thus appears far more often in Scripture. So if we had to shorten it to just one word, "evangelical" is the one that ties us to the Gospel, whereas "Christian" now link's us to a vast religion that may or may not spread the faith once delivcered. There isn't even any Biblical mention of Christianity, which developed in subsequent centuries out of groups called "the Way" (by their fellow Jews). With passing of time, the more Gentile congregations formed into an organized religion centered at Constanople and Rome. Now Christianity has grown to more adherents than any other revealed faith. Yet instead of a huge religion, Christ's good news concerns the Kingdom of GOD coming on earth as in heaven. Such was the theme of all His parables. To get that message out for a perishing world is His church mission. Evangelicals must evangelize instead of Christianize. The latter is a process of imposing religious symbols onto pubic life, as individual souls may still remain unchanged. While we evangelicals deplore today's secularization of American society that has resulted from so many court rulings against Christianity, it can't destroy real personal faith. A prominent pastor I know recently wrote that Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter would soon be known only as The Fall, Winter and Spring Festivals. That's for the sake of political correctness which is to help maintain harmony. Yet such a trend really makes underground evangelism imperative. It can be through one on one sharing of testimonies about our own divine redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ. If the culture grows hostile, then we may have to be as bold as those first century evangelicals; possibly face persecution again as they did, until we've "fought the good fight, kept the faith and finished the course" by going full circle to His return in glory.

I'll repeat the claim made for WW's refinery on this page several weeks ago (but not in the paper) that the 30% production increase prediced has led to a national drop in the gasoline price. Now it's under $2 per gal. So y'all look down here to WW for national trends!

ANGELFIRE 11-23-05

Finally got a flu shot Monday and was driving up Larry Lane toward town when I wondered which one it might be named after. Several Larrys come to mind such as Rotary's well known banker, or the prominent builder, or the optometrist, or that one who speaks out on issues, or maybe some other fellow. Just made me glad that my claim to fame is so unique, only a block and half long at the northeast corner of town. I know it's for me because it's name is "Joe Street." Ha. But I'm seriously thankful to have a home town like PV, where I was born on Xgiving Day way back in the roaring twenties. It was just a little over a year before the stock market crash of '29. That was the "doomsday" I always heard about, which had begun the great depression of the` thirties. I was also the year my grandfather Hightower died. E.G. went peacefully in his sleep I was told by my grandmother. But that put some kind of dread in my childhood mind, though I have no recollection of him. Death didnīt seem fearful as possibly going to hell, but of just ceasing to exist. As a teen I once confessed to her "Whatīs the purpose in life? Weīre all just going to end up six feet under." She asked if I didnīt believe the Gospel, that Christ had died for us so that we could live forever. It struck me like a bolt of lightning, a breakthrough from heaven: "Thatīs what we hear at church each week!" Iīd never made the connection to myself before. I guess itīs why cemeteries pveditor@swbell.net Subject: ANGELFIRE 11-23-05 Finally got a flu shot Monday and was driving up Larry Lane toward town when I wondered which one it might be named after. Several Larrys come to mind such as Rotary's well known banker, or the prominent builder, or the optometrist, or that one who speaks out on issues, or maybe some other fellow. Just made me glad that my claim to fame is so unique, just a block and half long at the northeast corner of town. I know it's for me because it's name is "Joe Street." Ha. But I'm seriously thankful to have a home town like PV, where I was born on Xgiving Day way back in the roaring twenties. It was just a little over a year before the stock market crash of '29. That was the "doomsday" I always heard about, which had begun the great depression of the` thirties. I was also the year my grandfather Hightower died. E.G. went peacefully in his sleep I was told by my grandmother. But that put some kind of dread in my childhood mind, though I have no recollection of him. Death didnīt seem fearful as possibly going to hell, but of just ceasing to exist. As a teen I once confessed to her "Whatīs the purpose in life? Weīre all just going to end up six feet under." She asked if I didnīt believe the Gospel, that Christ had died for us so that we could live forever. It struck me like a bolt of lightning, a breakthrough from heaven: "Thatīs what we hear at church each week!" Iīd never made the connection to myself before. I guess itīs why cemeteries attract me, to stand amid those waiting for His return on resurrection Day. "Dead forever" is a devilīs lie. Even the wicked will be raised at last, though only for eternal fire. In England I visited so many graves of famous people, including John Wesleyīs. Heīs fifth or sixth down, since space was so rare. In fact many are laid beneath Westminster Abbey and St.Paulīs Cathedral. And I stood over that poetīs who wrote "The boast of healdry, the pomp of power; all that beauty, all that wealth īere gave, await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "Oh but thereīs glory beyond" I added. On my paper route I pass PVīs old cemetery, plus Bethlehem and Mt.Olivet south of town. Then Oaklawn in WW and now little Hopewell up the road north from Savage Stadium. Thatīs another route to PV which I sometimes take just to see the countryside. So Iīm thankful in finishing this 77th year on earth for the good news from heaven about a new world coming in which Christ Jesus will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. His majesty Yeshua(Jesus) calls us to yield our lives to Him now and be ready for that thousand years of preparation; after which Heīll turn it all over to His father Yahweh GOD. Thus "Jesus" means "Yahweh saves." Father and Son are both ONE.

ANGELFIRE 11-27-05

JMH, my dad, had been the lone surviver of 20 SeaBees that just finished unloading four tons of blasting dynamite on a S.Pacific island when a bomb was dropped by a low flying Jap plane. Though he received the Purple Heart, he couldn't talk about it for some years, so the story went mostly untold. But this free verse that he wrote in Pauls Valley after his return (while the war was still going on) converys his gratitude to be alive and a changed man. Then after an active life in PV he died Dec.10'69 and his beloved wife "Becky" was buried years later in a grave beside his at Mt.Olivet cemetery:

(Dad never thought he was an intellectual since he didn't graduate from college. But I find thoughts quite profound in "Tangled Twine," his little book of poetry. There's a copy in the PV library where you can see many more, his shortest being the last one.)

ANGELFIRE 11-30-05

Since we still have plenty of turkey in our refrigerator here at the Pinkhouse, I'm going to tell how our native American bird got it's name through a mistake. Some of you probably have assumed that it's from that country in the middle east, focus of so much conflict these days. Well it came from a false identification by our English ancestors who had been buying a bird from the Spainish which they imported from Africa through the land of Turkey (once central to the Ottoman Empire). Thus they were named "turkeys." So when the Pilgrims found these fowls looking similar in America, they thought it was the very same creature. Only after the name had been used over here was it learned how this was a different bird. But the name stuck, just like our involvement in the middle east has. I think the current trial for Saddam, that should have been over in twenty minutes, is a sign of what's ahead...delay, delay, delay. It's getting more difficult to find attorneys to defend him as terrorists have killed some of them. That's a clear picture of the satanic madness we are coping with now. Trying to put the blame on Bush is the same in a larger homefront conflict that might yet cause us to back down before terror. Such action will leave the Antichrist unopposed and he will gain strength around the globe until the Lord returns to overthrow his increasing reign of terror. Even this uneasy feeling now about saying "Merry Christmas" is a tiny taste of the political correctness to come, as I see it. LORD help us. You've already blessed America so much. Now our prayer is also "GOD save America."

Here in WW our giant angel has replaced that huge scarecrow on Kerr Blvd's beautifully lighted mall. The tall scarecrow was named "Howdy" but I don't know what to call the angel. Only three are named in the Bible: Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer. A couple more can be found in the Apocrypha and some groups name still others others in their own literature. I'm inclined to feel that "He knoweth the number of the stars and calleth them all by name" has reference to angels rather than astronomical bodies. We know that stars have been named by man as they have been discovered and studied. But angels were with the Creator even before this physical universe came to be. They are His messengers, coming and going between heaven and earth. So I sang my re-write of that song about climbing Jacob's ladder at the PV Health Care Facility as being more accurate: "Angels climb up Jacob's ladder, Angels climb down Jacob's ladder ... See them come and go." Christ alluded to this when He told Nathaniel to expect seeing the same vision following His calling. Christ would be the ladder linking Nathaniel to heaven, which is the true meaning of Christmas for all believers, isn't it. "Joy unspeakable and full of glory" from the birth of that Baby in the manger. Angels were coming and going even then, as men and earth's animals drew near to behold the mother and Child.

ANGELFIRE 12-4-05

Glen Siminsen knows that I love new words, so he's given me this one to describe my habit of writing sacred words to secular tunes: contrafactum. It's not even my unabridged dictionary and I shared it with Wilbert Davenport who also has a curiosity for such things. But he couldn't find it either. So on the Internet I learned that it was a practice in the Middle Ages of taking music composed for worship and creating worldly words, sometimes called "proxy." There was only church music back then, no secular. Later on the process was reversed to go from secular to sacred, which I'd know about Charles Wesley in England. He took the drinking songs from pubs (beer joints) and wrote evangelical words for them. It was part of the 18th century revival there that finally spread all over America.   Well I've re-written a football fight song that's been in my head all these years just to purge it and keep the good tune. It began "We're Peacho Thompson's Panters and we're riders of the night." That's all that was decent, so here's the new version:

"Jesus is our Coach who ever helps us play life right/ This game against ole Satan can become an awful fight/   KEEP TRIM--IN HIM running for life's goal/ Christ Almighty on Good Friday died to save each soul."

I'm glad to get rid of the filthy obscene profane old words by singing these new ones instead. And so much melody that's been stolen by the devil can be reclaimed for GOD, divine source of all true beauty. He is the Creator, not Satan. The latter only claims and corrupts the holy. A call to worship I still like to sing to myself goes "O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Serve Him with gladness, all the earth."

I heard a news report about "anchor babies" down along the Mexican border. Illegal immigrants get across the river with their expectant wives just in time for delivery on American soil. That guarantees citizenship for the child, who becomes an anchor for the rest of it's family. Our law says that any child born on this soil is a citizen. Maybe that's a metaphor for Christmas this year. The Almighty broke through into this human world by getting His baby born at Bethlelhem. That gave the Child citizenship in humanity. Jesus always referred to Himself as "the son of man" rather than of GOD or David. He is the anchor of heaven on this sin cursed earth. Through Him we can all get into the Father's house above. Does that "contrafactum" offend you? Generosity is the theme of this Incarnation season. It's known as "grace" in the Bible. GOD is so good and full of grace (overwhelming generosity). We can anchor our souls in Him and his Son forever. Shalom/Salaam

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