FOR IN MUCH HUMAN WISDOM IS GREAT VEXATION. AND HE WHO INCREASES KNOWLEDGE INCREASES GREAT SORROW
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Wylliam Ireland retweeted
The “divine council” is not God talking to Himself, nor is it a pantheon of rival gods with a higher father over YHVH.
Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (LXX/DSS reading) says the Most High divided the nations according to the number of the sons of God, and the LORD’s portion is His people Jacob. The sons of God are the angelic beings from the first earth age (Job 38:7; Genesis 6:2; Jude 6). They presented themselves before YHVH (Job 1:6). Some kept not their first estate and were reserved for judgment. That is the council being judged—not a collection of equal deities.
Psalm 82 shows God standing in the congregation of the mighty, judging those called “gods” (the sons of the Most High who failed). Jesus Himself quoted this exact Psalm in John 10:34–36 when defending His claim to be one with the Father. He did not reject the God of Israel. He affirmed the Scripture cannot be broken and identified Himself with the Father those “gods” are judged by.
YHVH was not “given His portion by His father.” The Most High is YHVH. There is one God. Jesus identified the God of Israel as His Father (John 8:54). He never revealed another God above the Father of Israel, nor did He condemn the God of the Old Testament. The ones who rejected Him were the wicked seed—the tares, the Kenites who called themselves Jews but were not (John 8:44; Rev. 2:9; 3:9)—not true Judah and Levi. They picked up stones when He said “I am” (John 8:58) and “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). That is the claim that led them to crucify Him.
The good seed loves Christ. The wicked seed does the works of their father. There is no higher father over the God of Israel.
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Wylliam Ireland retweeted
You have not disproved the Scriptures; you have simply chosen Marcion’s collection over them. Let’s address your claims.
First, the Gospel of Marcion does not survive in an intact ancient manuscript. What you are reading is a modern reconstruction drawn from quotations and descriptions preserved by later writers. You accuse Luke of being reconstructed, yet the very Gospel you appeal to must itself be reconstructed. The surviving manuscript evidence for canonical Luke is not dependent upon Marcion’s reconstruction.
Second, Marcion’s collection around the middle of the second century was an early, deliberately restricted collection of Christian writings. Calling it “the first New Testament” does not establish that it was the original or complete apostolic Scripture. Marcion rejected the Old Testament and altered the Gospel and Pauline writings according to his belief that the God of Israel was different from the Father of Jesus Christ. That is the very error Christ’s own words expose.
Third, concerning the Pauline prologues: certain Latin manuscript prologues have been argued by scholars to have Marcionite origins. Their history and transmission are debated. That does not prove Jerome took them directly from Marcionite churches, nor does it establish Marcion’s authority over the apostles.
Now to your greatest objection: YHVH sends plagues and judges nations, and you say you refuse to pray to Him. But Jesus Christ identified His Father plainly: “It is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God” (John 8:54). The God of Israel is the Father of Jesus Christ. There are not two gods, one of the Old Testament and another of the New.
The judgments upon Egypt were against Pharaoh and Egypt for their oppression of Israel, including Pharaoh’s command to cast the Hebrew male children into the river (Exodus 1:22). God declared His judgments beforehand, delivered Israel through the blood of the Passover lamb, and made His power known. Scripture declares, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25). He is the Creator and the Judge; life belongs to Him.
And here is the foundation you keep rejecting: we pray to the Father through Jesus Christ. Christ said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Paul said, “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Ephesians 2:18). John said, “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father” (1 John 2:23).
There is one God, one Spirit. YHVH is the Father; the eternal Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ; and the Comforter is the Spirit of Christ. “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).
And before you dismiss YHVH, consider the Hebrew text of Esther. Though God’s name is never openly written in the book, the Tetragrammaton, יהוה (YHVH), is embedded four times in consecutive Hebrew words: Esther 1:20, 5:4, 5:13, and 7:7. A fifth acrostic, אהיה (EHYH, “I AM”), is identified in Esther 7:5. These are not two alike or mere repetitions: each acrostic is constructed differently. The first two use the initial letters of four consecutive words; the next two use the final letters. The name alternates backward, forward, backward, forward. Each of the four YHVH acrostics also occurs in the words of a different speaker: Memucan, Esther, Haman, and the inspired narrator. The Hebrew textual tradition even preserves enlarged letters marking these acrostic formations in manuscripts. E. W. Bullinger examines these details in The Companion Bible, Appendix 60, and the pattern has also been discussed in scholarly studies of Esther’s Hebrew text. The book in which His name is hidden is a testimony to His hand working behind the scenes, overruling the affairs of men and preserving His people. You cannot separate YHVH from the Father of Jesus Christ.
Ironic.
Luke is a reconstruction from manuscripts two centuries after the fact, and “I and my Father are one” is John’s, not in the gospel Marcion carried). Your own Latin Vulgate carries the Pauline prologues that Jerome took from Marcionite churches.
The first New Testament was 144 AD and it was Marcion's. Keep coping.
YHWH sends plagues to and slaughters infants.
I sleep well at night knowing I do not not pray to him.
Peace be to you.
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Wylliam Ireland retweeted
ECCLESIASTES 9:11 — TIME AND CHANCE
God is omnipotent and omniscient. He knows the end from the beginning, and nothing is beyond His authority. But we must distinguish God’s foreknowledge, His election, His intervention, and what Scripture calls time and chance.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 KJV:
“But time and chance happeneth to them all.”
The race is not always to the swift, the battle is not always to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding. Unexpected events happen to mankind. Time and chance can bring unexpected blessings, such as finding treasure or receiving an unexpected fortune, just as they can bring unforeseen calamities.
Consider three distinctions.
MAN #1 — GOD’S ELECT
God foreknew and chose His elect. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jeremiah, Cyrus, John the Baptist, Peter, James, John and Paul are examples of men appointed for God’s purposes.
They were not ordinary men without a calling. God directed their paths, intervened in their circumstances, and used them to accomplish His will.
But even God’s elect can encounter time and chance. Consider Paul. He suffered shipwreck, persecution, stoning and imprisonment. Unexpected circumstances overtook him, but God intervened and preserved him through many dangers so that he could finish the work appointed unto him.
Acts 27:23-24 KJV tells us that an angel of God stood by Paul and declared that he must be brought before Caesar. The storm was real, the danger was real, but God’s purpose would stand.
MAN #2 — GOD’S CHILDREN WALKING IN HIS WILL
There are those who submit themselves to God’s Word, walk after the Spirit, and seek His direction rather than their own desires.
God can direct, bless, protect and intervene in their lives. His providence is not limited to those specifically named in Scripture.
Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV teaches us to trust in the LORD and acknowledge Him in all our ways, and He shall direct our paths.
MAN #3 — THE MAN WALKING UNDER THE SUN
Then there is the man who directs his own steps, follows his own desires, and makes his own plans. He encounters the same earthly uncertainties common to mankind. His strength, wisdom and abilities cannot guarantee his outcomes.
Proverbs 16:9 KJV:
“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”
Here is the distinction people often miss:
God’s foreknowledge does not mean we must attribute every individual occurrence to a specific personal decree from God. God knows what tomorrow holds. He can intervene whenever He chooses. He can protect His servants, redirect circumstances, and ensure His purposes are accomplished.
Yet Ecclesiastes 9:11 still says what it says: TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL.
Recognizing this does not diminish God’s sovereignty, omnipotence or omniscience. It means believing what is written without adding to it.
God uses men as His servants to accomplish His purposes. His elect have a calling, and His purposes will not fail. But we must not confuse God’s ability to intervene with a claim that He personally commanded every event that happens under the sun.
God knows. God foreknows. God elects. God intervenes. And His Word remains true.
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Jeremiah
Chapter 23
1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
2Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
5Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
29Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
32Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
35Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
36And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
38But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
40And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Psalms
Chapter 138
1(A Psalm of David.) I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
3In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
4All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
6Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
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Wylliam Ireland retweeted
Peter would never eat anything unclean. Peter himself said, “I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.” (Acts 10:14 KJV)
Eating unclean things can defile your flesh and make you sick, but it does not defile your soul. What enters a man’s mouth does not defile him; it is what proceeds out of his mouth, from the heart, that defiles him (Matthew 15:11, 18–20). The fleshwalker cannot perceive the simplicity of Jesus Christ. He will make up all kinds of things to justify eating and doing the unclean thing, but that is on him and to his own hurt. Those who eat unclean things are not thereby made spiritually unclean. The real harm comes when, in their ignorance, they teach others to do the same.
And this same blindness is seen in those who remain chained to the shadow, hurling the stone of “lawbreaker” at the soul who rests every breath in the finished work of the Cross. The fleshwalking Judaizer has the shadow but misses the substance. He measures righteousness by outward observances while overlooking the living Law written upon the heart by the Spirit. Yet the true abiding one feasts night and day upon the Living Word, picks up his cross daily, crucifies the desires of the flesh, and bears the fruit of the Vine.
There is no Sunday church versus Sabbath church. The Church is not a day, a building, or an earthly assembly. The Church is the Body of Christ, living stones quickened by Him and fitly framed together as a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:20–22). We do not go to church; we are the Church. Paul reasoned in synagogues on the Sabbath because that is where the Jews were gathered. That historical fact does not place the New Covenant Church under an ordinance Christ fulfilled.
“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” (Colossians 2:16–17 KJV)
The day was the shadow; Christ is the substance. God gave us Rest—dost thou think He gave thee merely a day? The Sabbath pointed to the Rest we now have in Him. Why return to the shadow when the Substance has come? The day is not the issue. The finished work of Christ is. We do not rest in a calendar day; we rest in Christ.
True rest is not lawlessness. It is walking in the Spirit, meditating upon His Word, denying the flesh, and bearing fruit daily. The commandments are not merely outward observances carved in stone; the living Law is written upon the heart. The one who abides in Christ walks in that truth every day, while the accuser remains chained to fulfilled shadows, unable to see the eternal Rest standing before him.
“For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.” — Hebrews 4:10 KJV
The law is in the new covenant:
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put MY LAW within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people." - Jer 31:33
And how does God define "My law"?
"Her priests have done violence to MY LAW and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the UNCLEAN and the CLEAN, and they have disregarded my SABBATHS, so that I am profaned among them." - Ezekiel 22:26
God's law includes the sabbath and food laws, so therefore the Sabbath and food laws are in the new covenant.
Most Christians today are fed the same bread you find on grocery shelves — stripped, bleached, enriched, preserved, and dead. It looks like bread, tastes like bread, fills like bread… but it does not nourish. Jesus warned of this exact thing: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees” (Matthew 16:6 KJV).
Their doctrine looked holy, but inside it was corruption. Modern Christianity serves the same loaf: pre‑trib rapture escapism, emotional ‘I feel led’ religion, and the traditions of men. It is processed faith — engineered to last, enriched for taste, preserved for comfort, and emptied of life.
Jesus said man lives by “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4 KJV), not by the leavened doctrines of religious systems. Hosea warned, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6 KJV). Paul said the last days would bring a “falling away” (2 Thessalonians 2:3 KJV).
Christ Himself warned that many would be spiritually “with child” and “give suck” in those days (Matthew 24:19 KJV) — not pregnant in the flesh, but impregnated with deception, carrying the seed of false doctrine in their minds. When they “give suck,” they nourish that deception in others, spreading the lie like milk.
The rapture fantasy, the fear‑based mark doctrines, the emotionalism masquerading as spirituality — these are the leavened ingredients that conceive the mark of the beast long before Satan arrives. Deception is the embryo(Mark 13:5
“And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:”,
Luke 21:8
“And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.”King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 24:4
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.”)
Repetition is the nursing. Tradition is the milk. The Pharisees fed Israel dead bread. Today’s churches feed believers dead bread.
Only God’s Word is living bread — unmixed, unleavened, and alive.
If your doctrine doesn’t nourish, strengthen, and awaken, you’re eating enriched spiritual bread mixed with the leaven of the Pharisees and that bread will starve your soul while making you feel full — impregnating you with deception and turning you into a nursemaid for the very lie that prepares the world to worship the dragon (Revelation 12:9 KJV).
Wylliam Ireland retweeted
The rapture crowd are nothing but clouds without rain, puffed up with empty promises of escape. But when the storm comes, they’ll be the first looking for a way out, having made no preparation to endure. They have itching ears for a fly-away doctrine, but Scripture prepares the servants of God to stand, endure, and overcome. (Jude 1:12; Matthew 24:13; Revelation 13:10)
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Wylliam Ireland retweeted
The Judaizer, chained to the shadow of the weekly yoke, hurls the stone of “lawbreaker” at the soul who rests every breath in the finished work of the Cross. Yet the true abiding one feasts night and day on the living Law written by the Spirit, denying the flesh, and bearing the fruit of the Vine as daily bread—while the accuser starves in fulfilled shadows, blind to the eternal Sabbath where grace covers nakedness and the blood of the Lamb is the ceaseless road.
In this final generation—the generation of the fig tree—this ancient pattern repeats even among those who claim the name of Christ. Professed believers fixate on shadows and outward forms, using them as points of division. They attack brothers and sisters who rest completely in the finished work of Calvary, labeling their freedom from the old ordinances as error or weakness.
True rest in Christ is not lawlessness. It is living out God’s law through the Spirit every single day: meditating on His Word without ceasing, picking up the cross daily, crucifying the desires of the flesh, and sharing the Bread of Life as fruit that flows from abiding in Him.
Those who burden others with nailed-to-the-cross traditions miss this entirely. They persecute fellow Christians for embracing the full liberty and power of the blood that covers us. He who clings to the shadow accuses the light. But he who abides wholly in the risen Christ bears eternal fruit, clothed in His righteousness, walking the narrow road as a new creation.
The Sabbath is no longer stone or ritual, but a heart where the commandments live and the flesh is crucified daily. Rest fully in Him every moment—for His yoke is easy and His burden is light. The power of Calvary remains unchanged, saving us while the shadows fade.
There is no “Sunday church” vs “Sabbath church.”
The Church is not a day, a building, or an assembly.
The Church is the Body of Christ — living stones quickened by Him and fit for the spiritual house of God.
We don’t “go to church.” We are the Church.
Paul reasoned in synagogues on the Sabbath because that’s where the Jews were gathered. That is historical fact, not a New Covenant ordinance placing the Church back under the Sabbath.
Colossians 2:16–17 is clear:
Let no man judge you in respect of a holy day, new moon, or sabbath days — these are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
The Sabbath pointed to the rest we now have in Him.
Christ did not come to move people from one calendar day to another. He fulfilled the shadow.
The substance is Christ.
Assembling on Saturday does not make a man more obedient than one who assembles on Sunday.
The day is not the issue. The finished work of Christ is.
We do not rest in a day.
We rest in Christ.
The day was the shadow; the Rest was the substance
God gave us Rest—dost thou think He gave thee merely a day? Thy soul must be growing faint, for thou hast not tasted the Living Waters nor entered into the eternal Rest.
The Sabbath was a shadow; but Christ is the substance. The shadow hath passed, and the Substance hath come. Why return to the shadow when thou mayest rest in Him?
“For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works.” — Hebrews 4:10 KJV
