Putting God In A Box :: By Jim Towers

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

In present times, we tend to put God in a box. So-called sophisticates, phonies, and know-it-alls think they’ve got the Almighty all figured out. This is especially true of teachers of the Bible who, having gone to seminary, think they are the only ones who know God. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s the man who has experienced God’s presence and knows Him intimately who can tell you about Him. Who cares where Antioch is? Who cares about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? The so-called experts only want recognition for what they think is their profound knowledge of God, and other stage performances.

They seldom refer to Him as Father but only by the word God, which could be anyone – Allah or Gaia, for example. They should try calling out to our Father in heaven on their face in agony of soul and repentance and see what happens! God will show up! And they will never be the same again. In the Bible, our Heavenly Father says, “I will show myself to him who seeks me with his whole heart, and he will give me praise.”

We are seldom taught that He is a very present help in times of trouble. Many think that if He really did exist, He is taking a nap somewhere under a shade tree – or perhaps that He died a long time ago. Silly, they don’t realize that all things exist because He exists and that all things are dependent on His existence.

Surprisingly, there are those who try to put God in a literal box, not believing the things written in the Bible. That is, God has left the scene and will not fulfill His promises. Yet, in reality, they don’t really believe He can or will.

But like the Bible says, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

God, in times past, spoke audibly to the very first men, Adam, Cain, and Able, then Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. Elijah, Elisha, and others followed. These are men who sought God with all their hearts – holding nothing back. Most others were too busy gathering berries and anything else they could eat, even thanklessly, forgetting their creator and benefactor and eventually putting Him in a box to keep from answering to Him.

Surprisingly, though, He can and will do the same things today, and He can work miracles as well! But He also knows what’s best for us and will deny us certain things – such as a yacht, millions of dollars, or a Mercedes Benz – things that we don’t really need. Instead, He makes sure we have the necessities of life – if we are His – but only if we ask.

God likes to be thanked and conversed with as any earthy father would, yet people barely give Him a second thought as they go about seeking money and pleasure. His word (The Bible) is often ignored, and people only read it in Sunday school to impress others – with a somber and/or religious expression on their faces.

Now, imagine, if you will, the Bible as a box. This box is full of gold, jewels, and precious stones. But it’s left gathering dust on bookshelves, coffee tables, or desks for everyone to see. It’s kept just for luck or to read for comfort on some far-off rainy day – maybe even to leaf through on one’s deathbed. But that incredible book is worth more than all the treasure in the world. It can change your life completely for the better.

Evil men have tried to destroy the word of God, or to change it to suit their agenda, and/or to gather followers. These teachers have tampered with it to their own destruction and the destruction of their followers. Take, for example, Jim Jones or David Koresh, who claimed to know more about this book than anyone else. Those are extreme modern cases. But there are other insidious so-called denominations who twist the Word of God to say things that are pure folly, like the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Yesterday, I went to my new Mission Station at Clam Pass, where a tram will take you to the restaurant/platform at the end of a boardwalk a mile away. As I arrived on foot to the boarding pavilion, there was a middle-aged man standing with a female partner; he was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and tie and sporting a black wool fedora.

“Looks like you’re dressed for a sunny day at the beach!” I quipped in jest.

The man didn’t laugh, so I continued. “I’m sorry if I offended you; I was only joking.”

With that, we began conversing, and soon, I contended with what turned out to be a Jehovah’s Witness who tried to teach me a few things about the Bible. (Little did he know that he was talking to a forty-five-year student of scripture.)

I should have known that he was a Jehovah’s Witness, what with the propensity to try to appear respectable – if not knowledgeable – at the expense of appearing foolish. (It makes me wonder if they wear ties in bed.)

I let the man talk, and finally, I simply replied, “Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man comes to the Father but by me,'” at which the conversation ended abruptly. As the tram arrived to ferry me to my mission station, the man stood pondering what I had just quoted.

Jim’s Book Review

As many of you know, the Bible is my favorite book. I read a chapter in it every night and have been learning from it since I first received Christ as my Lord and Savior. I’ve owned the King James version and can quote many verses verbatim from it. But I’ve also owned The Living Bible, American Standard, and now the New King James. “Study to show yourself approved, rightly dividing the word of God.”

I also recommend The Twelve Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and The Road Less Traveled by Dr. Peck.

And just for fun and to stay ahead of the upcoming federal inquiries, I recommend The Laptop from Hell by Miranda Divine. And as a follow-up, American Injustice by John Paul Mac Isaak, the Hunter Biden computer repairman, so that you might know what will be spoken of in the upcoming inquiry into the Biden family corruption by Congress.

YBIC

Jim Towers

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27 Nov 2023

Published on: by RR7 Category:Israel Watch

Fiendish Fiends

Although it was so predictable, it’s hard to watch Hamas control the war they started against Israel. The “deal” to “release” hostages, amid a backdrop of a ceasefire, is the cruelest act I think I’ve seen in my lifetime. There is no horror too much for the terror group and, by extension, their legions of fans worldwide, including media and diplomats.

Israel cannot win this war agreeing to negotiate with terrorists that slaughtered their people on October 7. They just can’t.

Evidently, 13 of the 240-or-so hostages were released yesterday. How long will it take to release the rest? How many decades you got? At this rate, the Hamas strategy of waiting-out international opinion is working like a charm.

At this stage of the war, Israel has degraded Hamas’s capability to do certain things, but much remains to be accomplished. Because the devils in Washington, New York, London, etc., are applying inhumane pressure on the Jewish state, it’s not clear at all that Israel will in fact finish the job. This is a psychological disaster of epic proportions.

Added to this disaster is the fact that Israel was forced to release more terrorist killers from prisons; it’s a “prisoner exchange.”

God is watching.

According to a report from The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, progress is being made by the IDF:

“On November 16, 2023, after 12 hours of fighting, IDF forces captured an outpost of the commander of the northern area of the al-Quds Battalions, the military-terrorist wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest organization in the Gaza Strip whose operatives participate in the fighting against the IDF. The outpost was used for training operatives of the organization’s military-terrorist wing and at the same time as a factory for the manufacture of weapons.

“IDF forces searched the outpost and found a large quantity of weapons, including two trucks loaded with weapons, parts of three Badr 3 rockets, parts of a UAV, RPG rockets with tandem-charge warheads, personal weapons, and PIJ intelligence materials. In addition, a dummy tank used by operatives of the military-terrorist wing to train for the takeover of an IDF tank was also found at the outpost. After taking the weapons and intelligence materials from the outpost, IDF forces destroyed and blew it up (IDF website, November 17, 2023).”

Much, much more remains to be done to exterminate these goblins from the earth.

But it’s very clear that the powers-that-be do not want that to happen.

Israel has the northern Gaza Strip under control. It is the rest of it that continues to be a threat. Will Netanyahu and the government be able to stand up under the pressure of the international community?

“We” are here in this place precisely because of an unwillingness to finish the job. For decades.

The question must be asked: why did the international community not only tolerate Yasser Arafat, but mainstream the killer dwarf? The answer is obvious: Jewish life is cheap to most people.

Look, I firmly believe all this is pushing us toward those great end-times battles. There must be a mechanism that turns the whole world against Israel. Sadly, that must happen. So what are some potential mechanisms?

The insane “Two-State Solution” model, for starters. For 30 years, the world has played a game with Jewish lives, demanding that Israel carve itself up in order to give the Palestinians what in effect will be another terror state on the doorstep. Per treaties, at the moment, Egypt and Jordan do not fit that scenario, but Lebanon and Syria in the north certainly do. Another terror state in Gaza and parts of the West Bank/Judea-Samaria would be intolerable for daily life in Israel.

Yet the world demands it!

Here’s an interesting reality, though: it looks like the Israelis do not want to play with that ball again. Breitbart editor Joel Pollak had this to say about that:

“If you want to compare it to something it was almost like the Rwandan genocide where people looked their victims in the face before doing horrific things to them. I think that changed the Israeli attitude towards Hamas and its role and its relationship with the Palestinian people. I do think it does put the entire idea of a two-state solution in question. I mean if that was on the table and for the Biden administration it still is, it’s really off the table for now. Because it is impossible for the Israelis to accept that they would live next to another entity that is controlled by Palestinians where this kind of thing is allowed to happen.”

I absolutely believe this will at some point be the match that lights it all up. There must be some extraordinary situation that compels the reprobate-minded international community to finally have enough with the Israelis. There is no other rational explanation for why a plan as flawed as the Two-State Solution has lasted this long. It is as stupid a model as one could imagine, yet the dead horse is still beaten.

In the end, the Two-State Solution is planned as the Nazi-like Final Solution.

God will not let that happen.

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