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Answers

Page 2 “It all Begins”

Page 8 “On the 5th”

Page 25 “and there was”

Page 33 “Continual Freewill Offering”

Page 61 “Knowledge”

Page 77 “Ephesians 5-11 Website”

Page 83 “52 Pick-up”

Page 92 “An Oral Tradition”

Page 95 “Dear Bob”

Page 101 “Notes on Satan”

Page 118 “Dear Friends”

Page 125 “The Spirit of the Churches”

It all begins with this simple notion, A day of rest. In a society such as ours, especially the America of my youth, with so much leisure time, it is had to imagine living in circumstances where life is work and nothing else. Imagine each day progressing into the next with no hope or thought of any other existence. Imagine a world in which the only law is the law of the ruler who sees no more value in a human life than in any other animal in their possession. Imagine a life in which a random thought of protest uttered out loud would not only cause your death but that death would be harsh enough to be an example to others to resist such thoughts.

Perhaps there were examples of social equality in civilizations prior to the Hebrews and their belief in a single Omnipotent God. But to have the concept of a day of rest as an unbreakable rule set down by the only God there is, made it binding upon even a King. The result would yield something even more unexpected. The “Moody Blues” put it this way:

“As new life, will come from death, love will come from leisure,

love of love and love of life and giving without measure,

gives in return, a wondrous yearn, for promise almost seen,

live hand in hand, and together we’ll stand, on the threshold of a dream.”

Of coarse we no longer live hand in hand. We’ve divided into our little activist sub-groups: but that’s how close we got, back when I was a young man before we became so disillusioned. Why, if there is a God, does He allow things to be so bad? The “Religious Right” has all these rules that seem self serving and contrived. The Atheists at the other extreme want freedom of thought. But God, like any Father, has rules set down for the good of His children. He also gives them their own lives to live, all the while hoping they won’t get hurt too bad in the process of learning for themselves, that what He told them when they were young was true and wise. “But its been six thousand years!” you say.

I was having a conversation with a guy on a work site not too long ago about wages and the lack thereof when the conversation naturally drifted to the topic of Illegal Immigration. I told him that the answer is a simple one. If we prosecute a couple of employers in each State of the Union and put them in prison for a while the Illegals would pack up and go home of their own accord when the work dried up just like I would leave California if there were no work here for me. He was quick to point out that the Illegals are only here trying to better their situation and continued by adding that, while he wasn’t a “Bible Thumper”, as a man who had begun going to church as of late he felt a sense of morality must also be taken into consideration. I sensed that I was suddenly being labeled a “Racist” and Un-Christian at the same time. I let it go until now.

As to the first point, we’re all trying to get ahead, to better ourselves. Those who thwarted American’s Rights in a Capitalistic Economy to bargain for a decent wage in exchange for the labor they had to offer, got Government to turn a blind eye to Illegal Immigration in the 1970’s and 80’’s until we allowed an Amnesty under Reagan. When the process was repeated through the 1990’s and on to today, it depreciated the value of labor for the Amnesty recipients right along with the rest of us. If we repeat the process again we get the same results. So to say that someone is seeing them selves “Bettered” in this process is a shortsighted observation and a perversion of the truth. As for the Christian angle, the man who allowed Lazarus to eat the crumbs that fell from his table did not get his reward in Heaven. But none of this is new.

Back before the American Civil War there was a battle raging over the issue of Slavery. If I’m not mistaken, one of the solutions tried was called the “Missouri Compromise”. It was agreed that certain rules would be applied to new States entering the Union to determine whether or not they would become “Slave States” or “Free States”. The result was what would come to be called “Bloody Kansas”. People from both sides of the opinion rushed into the territory to see their vote matter concerning the outcome and it got violent. I’ve heard “Black” historians, and others, make the case that, if one reads the news articles of the day, it was more about “Free Whites” not wanting to compete with Slaves as labor in the State. So I would ask you, would anyone who traded their labor for money or goods and services want to compete with Slaves in the market place? My opinion is that they would not. Would that make them run to a dangerous place to be protected from that possibility? Or is it more logical to assume that they came on moral grounds and the economic argument was made as well? We were a Nation of largely Christian People who had made their own Country, through the efforts of their Forefathers, that was dedicated to the principle that All Men Are Created Equal And Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Inalienable Rights. We had existed as such for nearly a hundred years and still the hypocrisy was Institutionalized. And yet there are those who discount any change that came out of “Bloody Kansas” as self-serving Whites looking for better wages. The same is said of people like me who will not support another amnesty and more of the same: or even a “Green Card” program. “Americans won’t do the Job,” they say. What could be more Racist than a statement like that? American men can’t attract a mate and raise a family for what the job pays when you lower wages by glutting the market. The spouses of Illegal Immigrants expect and will therefore settle for less. This guy, the one who insinuated that I was an un-Christian Racist said that Americans wouldn’t do “Roofing”. What he meant was at “Slave” wages.

But why would “Black” historians resist the notion that those who fought and died for them from outside the Black experience were being anything but selfish? Why is it that when Black History Month roles around year after repetitious year they don’t get excited about Jefferson. Why don’t we hear about Harper Lee and how Martin Luther King would have had little or no success in the South, regardless of the efforts of the North, had “Scout” not paved the way. Scout saw the woman at her Aunt’s tea party explaining that her Black servant was forced to just get over the injustice of the death of a falsely accused and unjustly tried and convicted black man. The lady would have just fired her for her bad attitude but she knew the servant needed the dollar and a half she paid her each week just to get by. It was Christian morality don’t you understand. But the leaders of the “Black Community” cease to be leaders if there is not a separate but equal Black Community. The White man in Scout’s observations who preferred the company of Blacks was one of the nobler characters of `“To Kill A Mocking Bird”. But Jefferson is not endeared. Though he spoke out for an end to slavery, he did not see Blacks as competent to stand on their own in the America of his day. To be fair, the concept of nature versus nurture was not yet in the world and those Blacks he knew were afforded little in the way of nurture. Add Racism to the equation and a lack of social programs and it is easy to see why he feared that even if he could have afforded to free his people (which he couldn’t do as a net debtor) they would be at risk on their own. Those fears, while called a Racist Attitude on the part of Jefferson, are the foundation of “Affirmative Action”.

Some people say that there need to be rules of Law. Some say there should be free thought and expression. I am reminded of the two men in “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” arguing about who should lead the gang of three and turning to Delmar for the deciding vote. As the two factions of Law vs. Free thought argue which is right, it is the voice of God that answers back “Well, I’m with you fellas.” I often think of that scene in “Dances With Wolves” where they’re in the Tee Pee having a grand old time when the hero asks for his hat back. Yeah, they’re family and all, but the law is “If we don’t resolve this verbally, then either I win by default and you lose face or one of us doesn’t make breakfast.” That’s the tribal family Law that has its elders who only let you kill people until you’ve just become a pain and then we deal with you. Bigger societies weren’t family. They had Rulers at the top and overseers and the rest at the bottom was of little value. And then God gave them a day off and He proclaimed to the world that Man was worthy to be served by the Host of Heaven. He said that He loved each and every mother’s son and daughter of you, like any good Father would. He sent you word through His Prophets and through His Son and He said He was going to Labor for six days and you were going to labor for six days before you would be grown enough to understand that what He told you from the beginning was true and good for you. He encrypted the time release portions so those who interpreted all He had told you to their own ends wouldn’t be threaten by it enough to try and change it until it was too late. Then He sat back and watched you grow as He promised you would. We have been free Men and Women here in the New World for over two hundred years. Jefferson wrote the immortal words of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and through “Bloody Kansas” and on to The Civil Rights Movement and Illegal Immigration we still haven’t been able to get our minds around it. No wonder it’s taken 6,000 years to get here from where we started. Thank God the time has now finally arrived. If you will seek the truth with an open mind, I will share with you the Mysteries of God and more. There’s a lot to know and a lot to try and understand and internalize, but you can do it if you work together. The important thing to remember is that the real struggle is over as soon as you begin to see that it all began with a simple notion of a Sabbath Day and it comes to fruition were it began, with the Sabbath. You can stop struggling and rest from your labors. Your fighting and your activism are not necessary. .

Ex 20:8-11 (KJV) 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Ex 31:17 (KJV)17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13-14 (KJV) 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Matt 12:6-8 (Revised Standard Version) 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had known what this means, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

Rev 5:9-10 (KJV)9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us

unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

George Bailey

On the 5th of March, in the year of our Lord 2007, the following letter was E-Mailed to the addresses listed below. One week later the remainder of this document was sent to the same. Whether or not these words fell on deaf ears or not, I cannot say. All I know for certain is that this mailing represented the last group of institutions to be approached with the work I do. In 2000 I sent copies of Revolution Number Ten to 59 Secular Individuals and Organizations of Renown. Between 2002 and 2006 I attempted to enlist religious organizations of all persuasions to no avail. I have come at last, to these, lest any of those who have a voice and yet were silent, should claim that they would have been a voice for truth if only they had been shown truth.

Dear People, Children of Reason, (E-Mailed 3/05/07)

I saw young people who seemed to be intent on “blaspheming” against the Holy Spirit and when I sought them out on the Internet, I didn’t find them. Instead, I found another young man who quoted from the Old Testament of the Bible concerning the destruction of the Canaanites. He was very angry as well. Then, finally, I looked under the heading “Atheist” and I found you. So let us reason together.

There is no doubt that the deeds depicted in the stories of the Old Testament are horrific. What I would like to do, if you will bear with me, is give you another perspective. Without going too deep into the meaning of the Bible I would refer you back to Noah’s Ark. When God destroyed the inhabitants of earth, it was to rid the world of what God called the “Mighty Men”. What is a “Mighty Man”? Well, there are two kinds of people. There are those that believe in and follow the “Law” and there are those who turn to “Strong Men” or “Mighty Men”. Iraq has a long history of Mighty Men that persists to this day. After the flood, Noah was the only remaining vestige of that type of man until he inadvertently revealed himself to one of his sons, who was then expelled and (as I understand it) went to form the group known as the Canaanites. The story goes that the son looked upon his father’s “nakedness”.