"Historical Context upon every spiritual crime of idolatry and rejection of morality in society" (REVISED)

A Two Column approach Introduction
Kevin Simon, CDCS RESEARCH, 2:12 pm 1/10/2023


I.COLUMN 1: Themes and subjects that are often mishandled or misused:

"The Historical Context upon every spiritual crime of idolatry and rejection of morality in society"

  • Failing to understand the historical context of scripture and using it to justify negative attitudes or beliefs about God's nature and actions towards humanity
  • Using scripture out of context to make false or misleading claims about God's character and intentions
  • Not acknowledging the distinction between God's judgement on specific societies in the past and His character and plans for humanity as a whole
  • Using scripture to support the idea that God is the source of suffering and disasters, rather than seeing them as a result of humanity's rebellion and sin.

 

Example: Using scripture that describes plagues and disasters in ancient societies as evidence that God is actively causing similar events in the present day, rather than understanding that they were specific judgement on those societies for their idolatry and immorality.



II. COLUMN 2: Themes and subjects that should be approached with a healthy perspective and mindset:

  • Recognizing that the plagues, disasters, wars, and judgments spoken of in scripture are not necessarily evidence of God's punishment or lack of favor, but rather a result of humanity's rejection of God and moral order.
  • Understanding that the context of scripture must be taken into account when interpreting passages about God's judgment and wrath. "The historical and cultural context of scripture in order to properly interpret and apply its teachings"

     

    CITATION: (Exodus 20:3-5, Deuteronomy 4:15-19)
  • Approaching the study of scripture with humility and a desire to understand God's character and nature, rather than using it to support preconceived notions or beliefs.
  • Recognizing that, while God is just and holy, He is also loving and merciful, and that He desires relationship and reconciliation with humanity.
  • Recognizing that the Old Testament and the New Testament, while they have a continuity, they are separated by the New Covenant and the reconciliation through Christ, which is the heart of the message of the Bible.
    Citation: 2 Timothy 2:15, Acts 17:11
    Example: The historical context of the plagues in Egypt (Exodus 7-12) and its significance in the story of the Israelites liberation as God's people
  • Recognizing that God's judgement on specific societies in the past does not necessarily reflect His character and plans for all of humanity 
  • Seeing suffering and disasters as a result of humanity's rebellion and sin, rather than attributing them directly to God.

 

 New Covenant Truth: In the New Covenant, we have confidence in the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice on the cross and that God's judgement and wrath have been satisfied through Jesus. We are called to trust in His promises and rely on His provision, not to fear judgement or punishment for our sins.

New Covenant Truth: Jesus reconciled us to God, and that is the message of the Bible, and we are not under condemnation or God's wrath anymore and so we should study the scripture with that lens, in light of the new covenant, understanding that the focus of the Bible is on God's love, redemption and reconciliation through Jesus Christ, and not on God's wrath or judgement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CDCS April/16/2022 12:44pm

REVISED 12/16/2022 12am to 6am


Synopsis.

 From our perspective, a world without God and a world without order are often indistinguishable from each other. While themes of plagues, disaster, war events and judgements upon humanity are present in key areas of scripture, we here at CDCS want to highlight the need for context so people aren't arriving at a false characterization of Christ and His divinity in ancient times.

For example, our world-views of divine acts in segments from scriptures appear to conflict with the actual meaning of our final revelations of Jesus in the New Covenant. If unrelated areas which seem not connected with each other are actually pointing out the exact same thing. A life without God and a life without order are many times identical from the 'old' timeline, as we observe the 'new' timeline. Because of this, there is no significant distinction between the two timelines in regards to their respective existences. Only the instrumental cause of a superior covenant brings us to God apart from our own selves. If we were to say that everything that has ever existed either no longer exists or never was, then it would be impos­sible for us to know what has occurred in the history of our world. Yet the former was not built on better promises, the former generations set both the stage and need for it. It seems people still don’t accept the gospel and the Bible predicts things will get worse than they ever have been before. If you're shaken by ancient biblical events, the rest of those times of trouble are in the near future- and it's for the same causes and effect we've witnessed in ancient history, we will see the next wave in our time of Grace.

 


1. God’s redemptive plan exceeds the power of judgement, brokenness in society.
If we aren't certain how quickly one generation can erode another, then are we accountable for determining the likelihood of when God should step in and judge if He should act toward us at all? God’s redeeming plans surpass the power of human judgement. If we are unsure of how rapidly generations are falling away from God, are we bearing the burden of deciding whether God should take action toward us at any given moment? Thus questioning history’s tell-tales indicating the results of those judgements God made as unnecessary or unfair? Then are we responsible for judging ourselves? And all of God's judgements fall short of effective and our irrational misconduct for how they affect human life? What if His decisions apart from our understanding were steps to live in completeness, rather than rulings forcing us to try to be complete by something other than Himself altogether? Would it still effect our logic to think differently of God, or inspire logic of putting our foot on the right conclusion?

We're trying to help people understand why some things happened in history, even though they may seem unrelated. A lot has been written about Christian theology, but even when discussing Christian topics, we don't necessarily wish for readers to arrive at a false understanding of Jesus' Divinity in Ancient Times.
We need historical contextualization so that readers don't get misled by incorrect understanding of Jesus' divinity.

The Bible is not merely an encyclopedia of historical facts, but a collection of stories that have been passed down through the ages. The authors of these stories did not intend to write a comprehensive account of history; they wrote them with a particular purpose in mind: to communicate spiritual truths to their audience. In order to understand what was being communicated, we must first know who the intended audience was.

I am not saying that God does not have a plan. I am saying that He has a plan which includes us. We are part of His plan. But we do not know what His plan is from a human standpoint. We can only speculate. The Bible says that God knows the end from the beginning. This means that He knows what will happen before it happens. It also means that He knows what we will do before we do it. So why would He allow us to make mistakes? Why wouldn't He just correct them? Because He wants us to learn from them. That is why He allows us to experience pain. Pain teaches us lessons and helps us grow spiritually, though not in the sense we embrace harm as a virtue of character, but "how much can we handle or put up with until we make the choice to cry for intervention. Not a coping method to stay bogged down by uncomfortable circumstances, but to see God's perspective as we welcome God's way of living out His plan.

 

As a reverse skeptic: "It's true that God has purposes for us, but I'm just suggesting that He may not be interested in our lives. I'm not claiming that He has no plan for us; I'm just suggesting that we shouldn't expect Him to take an interest in our lives. I am not making any claims about His grand designs; I'm simply stating that He may not be concerned with whether we succeed or fail."

As a confident belief in Biblical studies, objectively:
 "but I am certain that God has a plan for everything that happens in our lives. And I know that He knows exactly how we feel. So I'm not concerned about my future because I depend on His love. And I'll keep trusting that He loves me no matter what happens next, but I do believe that there's something beyond this world's understanding of pain, in relating that battle of their view of God above pain, we're called to accept in order to galvanize an even stronger world-view of Jesus!" Real Bible study relies on it!

I have been thinking about this question and how it relates to the topic of this article. The answer is yes, I think that God does care about our lives. However, I don’t think that He expects us to live them perfectly since out realest, genuine responses to most things are unfavorable to most experiences on our human limits. So then does my response generally impair God's favorable acts toward me? So why try or put on a good effort? So what part of faith and trust am I missing then?

Our human side of New Covenant has far reaching facets into the work of Christ than we give God credit for.

  • His plan exceeds the ability of evil to influence us; he wants to rescue us from ourselves through intervening with compassion. Whenever we recognize that we've turned our backs on Jesus, he wants to intervene in our lives to bring us back to himself. We must listen to the voice of pain so we won't miss out on the opportunity to be saved. There is a conscious living plan to rescue people who are suffering because they've been separated from Him through His appeals to them before the fury. To suspend the groundwork of the constant shame erupting from a course of false activity which we see as the first stage of a witness of judgement. He wants to intervene compassionately for the sorrowful hearts of many people who are rightly feeling as a result of ignoring Jesus' person when they thought about their relationship with Him. The roar of the hurt is bringing many into the danger zone, (the root of the separation anxiety) where they might not realize the source of their troubles He represents in our help before God. Some may even feel ashamed of themselves if they don't recognize that they're headed toward something that could be harmful. But God has given them a way out. He wants to step in and comfort them if they follow him with the promise we can find hope after great struggle.

 If I could connect the sovereignty of God, mercy and intervention that leads to a summary of God's outcome and report card of secular institutions all in the same sentence to explain some grim aspects of OLD COVENANT wouldn't I need to address why the New Covenant was needed afterward? Isn't that God's successive solution today for the world?

If reforms and systems of OLD COVENANT kept finding hardness and spiritual idolatry? Yet, without the Law, we heeded no divine warning until it was too late, the action of intervention was a 'structure for the cause' that couldn't be avoided it appeared only in the worst cases, falling short of a tiny fraction of repentance!

  • A. Any persons who would have perished, or judged in the last 4500 years of Biblical history before Christ suffered on the cross...had a great second chance in that grace. The Bible tells us that Jesus visited all of those cut off, and died without God's former covenant. Jesus preached to those souls in prison, and brought those cursed out of the grave, accepting Christ and living in resurrection. Look at 2 Peter. Evil nations and reprobate saints (Golden calf, Meribah, Moses trespass, Lots family, pagan worship and worship of devils, Egyptian child sacrifice in Israel's enslavement), had a growing burden upon the heart of God that He must mediate such displays of cruelty and darkness on some level. On what level though? The level mankind resisted we see the result of God's actions seem to adjust to the course. God would be corrupt to allow it! It went beyond freewill and choice when divine action ascended in to God's court- the grievances were a pervasive sin against God, and against their own humanity! The pain of not acting was worse than the justice aspect of God because God sees the loss inside that creation that would never return, or reverence Him! Justice means there is a settling of the problem, stability, and order behind God's motivation, even as it defies human intellect and self-preservation!

  • B. You see the wisdom if man doesn't grasp their sin against their own selves by living in blatant ignorance of a supreme order of divinity that created the world they are hellbent on destroying when they reject God!
A desperate act of killing their own soul.

              God's influence on the conscience is given to divert men from the worst part of themselves from becoming the idols they were worshipping, and willing to commit horrific actions against human love and affection from the evil power they derive from their rituals of sin. These forms were direct attacks on the creativeness and ingenuity of the best parts of God He gave to mankind - they cursed those very ideals!
            "God is unjust for giving us a choice of salvation, or to perish into our own oblivion by declaring life-on-earth ending judgement or floods...but God knowing acts of self-destruction on their own horizon if God did not act, God mediated a form of undeserved rescue on every occasion. Men still held the solution in contempt. Their own waywardness put their family, kids and mothers into the path of that rejection of Salvation. I don't see how determining evil on account of God's divinity or foreknowledge can be seen as sins against humanity, on youth or women because those nurturing mothers were all but in agreement with the men of that society to ignore the warnings from God. Families acted wickedly in agreement to defy heavenly warnings. They sinned against their own souls, against all appeals in that parental irreverence. Leaders in those families falsely sheltered their own children to not obey and heed God or His spokesperson and were consenting to sacrifice their own families as they had already done to reach that point." Dichotomy of inverted reasoning is a hallmark of those fallen generations. A pervasive miscalculation of divine resources  we dig up resentments, isn't even close to the level man gave himself over when they gave away what God put in their heart, home and health, as both a promise and a as stake for the boundary to keep everything together for their benefit.


  • C. God created man to possess faith. Duet 32 is a gem of history that supports our findings and conclusions.

                From Jacob to Moses, gives humanity a picture of God's anger in a condensed setting. In every case where God eternally displeased with the apostacy of His creation, in the proceeding actions that brought suffering on those subjects, were immediately followed by the promise of restoration, abundance and a return to God- and the promise of a future Covenant with Christ.

No judgement was ever announced until it was self ascribed at their word to act contrary to Biblical direction, or there was a conclusion within that society not changing or repenting of some very legitimate practices and forbidden forms of worship in those norms. Sectors became abysmal demonic breeding grounds of psychotic immorality and depravity.

We are not seeing an overnight progression on any quick, half-hearted assumptions that God was making a mistake.
If God miscalculated His own wisdom and couldn't limit His interventions, that would be one thing; But we could still see God later turn His declarations around when those oppressive forces overstepped their original purpose: He originally allowed nations to grow for a time to run wild. God then turns His sword to them away from the people of God in disagreement to His own mechanism of divine wrath. 

             God states in many passages that "He would repent of any actions once the people woke up to how evil they had become, and decide not to continue." The presence of reverting course is a promise more associated with the baseline of God's operating standard. Crimes against the helpless, those weak entrusted to care of the strong, extortion of courts, and backward justice among officials, self-destructing immorality, are the beginnings that prompt God to act.

The origin and conclusion of articles of hit pieces against Christ today frames a divine-being as impersonal, incapable of discerning hope for humanity, or inspiring healing change into dark corners that would infect the rest of the world, is an agenda that needs clarification. Publications only affirming God is only promoting catastrophe as an unalterable force to inflict unjust evil on random people who did not warrant those actions is a fallacy on the image of God in their own heart.

                 "Society tempts God the more they push Him out of society. But Society won't thrive without Him."

Mankind brings upon themselves the terrors of hell when they ignore eternal goals that we're set on this earth for, and if God didn't intervene to stop the plagues of evil men brought on themselves, the true people of God would become devoured of that rampant lack of morals, and regard for human life. The judgements in the Old testament fits the level of hatred, bitterness and disdain for the Word Of God and His Person from wicked generations. But its what brought the judgement from itself. God burned in jealousy as a fire that extends to the pits of hell for those who did not have faith; God rose up invasion forces, poisonous snakes, drought and hunger on generations that fell from original virtue of knowing God:

"because all virtues giving us a valued purposeful identity of a certain future are as the fury and counter to all the false knowledge fear is building on dependence through ourselves as we burn to the ground depending on our human fear...when Christ isn't enough. The snares of the Old covenant posed on human weakness, are the moments we spend contending on the importance of Christ's definition of Himself- while apart from us, away from us and outside of us as it was in OLD COVENANT, the level of degrees those separations involve us in, bring us closer to the same precipice these desires and actions took down a dark path generations before the writing of the book of Matthew. A raging storm of self-defeat before the altar of protest against the voice of God. The same battle is taking place in our false reforms because they are still build on false worship now in our perspective of Christ!

It's easily seen that humanity at its worst stopped acting on human characteristics, but engrafted themselves in the dark underbelly of satanic behaviors that had reached a level that could not continue.

              "The future of human grasp of survival cannot pave a way forward if that way forward is without God."

It was the sin upon breaking the foundations of respect for humanity that presented an extinction level event if God didn't act- no generation would preserve itself. Her method of survival is to end herself in a broken fury of giving up on God in total. We have to accept historical narrative not of God's plan, but what has to be done to give us up to a void of that plan if life would continue with one, two, or three righteous people on humble territory to salvage what is left.

The future would say, "Not only did God allow the future to destroy itself but God didn't act, didn't care and was too high to involve Himself in history," a rare statement that any person would be alive to share." Jesus warned us such a future day but He would act before that time. So God has a perfect plan, and often, that implementation comes in painful ways to let men decide if that is what they want toward consideration of a better future, or give up on it! Or to be so ever merciful in affirming the path of hope is stained in blood for the willing and sober? Outside this future is every despairing cry of eternal separation in the programs, solutions and fixes of fleshly reforms in the church to which never saves! 

 
         "God allowed it to get so bad through allowance of His freewill, and through patience, that the very idea of judgement would wake up His servants to recognize the signs of what is coming if they don't turn as well."

These men were the vanguard of bringing these appeals to the public in a worthy manner. The Scriptures tells us all former judgements are a placard of future examples of the simple, basic fact, that all forms of judgement are still resting on the concept of men rejecting faith; the virtues of faith, and the respect of God in faith, and the love toward God in that faith! Today the world mocks a history of disaster of the people of ancient times, and puts the voice of truth on trial before the church, but the mockery of the church toward Christ and His complete New Covenant will not also go unaddressed!

 

Men are justified, restored and brought into a prosperous outcome on the response to repentance in faith toward God! Simply laid upon the altar of intervention, men could have sacrificed their inhibitions to stop delving deeper into the abyss, and return to the promise of redemption.

1. God only makes the move to bring us to Himself if we first realize what makes us choose the wrong move is leading us away from Him!

2. God made clear warnings before His anger, addressing serious consequences before shame takes hold. Is everything God starts working on acting as a "do not ignore" disclaimer on His actions of power before the storm?


3. God's unconditional, perfect love is so great that no human concept of pain could ever compare to it. We separate ourselves from God because we're afraid of not having enough time to spend with him or be able to dispel the wrong idea that our pain is less important than His.



4. God’s grace surpasses our sin

5. God’s mercy surpasses our fear

6.God’s forgiveness surpasses our guilt

7.God’s redemption surpasses our despair

8.God’s justice surpasses our injustice

9.God’s compassion surpasses our indifference

10.God’s salvation surpasses our hopelessness

11.God’s healing surpasses our sickness

12.God’s restoration surpasses our destruction

13. God’s peace surpasses our anxiety

14.God’s presence surpasses our loneliness

15. God’s care surpasses our abandonment

16.God’s hope surpasses our despair

 The only way out of this is through Jesus Christ


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