My pet idea of the moment is that God's prophecy hinged and still hinges on Abraham, being IIRC, the first man / human that God made a covenant with. What Abraham did for God was enough for the Lord and even today, what we follow in Abraham's footsteps to do is enough for God.
Why then sell heaven? Peter, Paul, and the rest of the apostles and their cryptic letters -were they for naught? Were they for people of a different time?
Why the prophets and their disjointed glimpses of future Jerusalem? Their cries of "Messiah, Messiah"?
The truth behind the whole story of the Bible was that if God had not made Abraham into a great nation and trigger the whole sequence of events we know as gospel, we would not have one important thing...
Guess what it is -it should come immediately:
- fun (NO)
- faith (NO)
- love (NO)
So again, if Abraham did not trigger everything from Moses to Jesus to the present day genocide in Israel, what would happen is simply NOBODY WOULD CARE.
Why tell a story written in blood? Because otherwise nobody would move on it. Why tell people a story written in blood and make them feel bad -ask them to sacrifice for forgiveness? CONTROL. It should come naturally. Why CONTROL? Because again, PEOPLE HATE GOD deep inside and He knows it.
At this point, you may say, "I have no hatred of God or any man!"
Then I say to you, "So then no Hell burns below you?"
And you say, "Well, God punishes man's disobedience."
"And that's good?"
** Hesitation **
Brothers and sisters, God is hated by mankind deep down. We refuse to care and so the Bible story and 40 years in the desert of the Sinai were required of the Israelites.
We refuse to end our struggle with God's will and that is what He terms "sin". So you can see how selling Heaven is a big thing to those who know the Bible story and who made it up -God. What do you think of being blithely righteous like Abraham? Will Jesus personally save you, will you walk with God? Will angels take you to Heaven?
The ONE THING is that Heaven leads to Heaven II and Heaven III etc. And we are an active part of the ongoing story. We cannot be Abrahams for long, as even Abe moves on to higher things. Maybe, one day, there will be further beliefs / covenants / what have you. Further the Kingdom. We evolve. And the story continues.
I write this because we might tend to be weary of hearing gospel -I know I did. I would rather go shopping than analyze scripture. But today, I sat in a small conference room and we talked about parables and admonitions. It was quite moving and I realized I'd been falling asleep / growing lazy / running cold. So realize this: WE [actually] HATE GOD so let's carry on striving to understand His logic and apply it in our lives.
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