The Our Father

In my video "The Heresy of Zionism," which was in two parts on Bitchute and GabTV, because of their size restrictions, one of the Rabbis interviewed waxed poetic about how the Jews do not accept the Christian idea of "The Failed Messiah." He didn't go into detail about how Jesus failed, but it was easy to see his theory as to how Jesus failed by how he described what a "True Messiah" would do. Of course, his description of the coming successful Messiah matched very closely to what the Christians recognize as the Anti-Christ and the false Islamic Messiah of the Shiite Muslims, who is called "The Mahdi." This person will be everything Jesus was not, an earthly world leader, mighty military warrior, spiritual mystic, world dictator, etc.

The rabbi speaking of Jesus, shrugged and said, "He only had twelve followers." In that statement, you see the obtuse rationalism the Luciferian Talmud Rabbis always expressed concerning Jesus, who, to this day, has had a more significant impact on the population of earth and the history of nations than any other person in human history. The Bible, still in these pagan times, is printed in hundreds of languages and outsells every other book exponentially. By comparison, the Babylonian Talmud, the oldest of the Talmud texts, was just translated into English, for the first time and sold in the popular press in the last few years. Oddly enough, the majority of those sales are through self-identified Christian booksellers.

So rather than defend Jesus by speaking of the fact of his resurrection, which contrary to mythology is a historical fact; Or the witness of more than five thousand people that saw the resurrected Jesus between his resurrection and his ascension; or the profound impact the witness of the resurrected Jesus had upon his followers who were willing to suffer persecution, torture and ignominious deaths rather than when confronted by the authorities, to simply deny what they had witnessed; This is the witness of the martyrs; instead I want to share Jesus' witness of his success as he hung on the Blessed and Holy Cross. You will have to forgive my ignorance because I had not until this week, here in my old age, realized that Jesus witnessed his messianic reality while he hung upon the Sacred and Blessed Cross. I'm not talking about symbology, the Paschal Lamb; there is that too, but in his words.

As an aside, have you ever wondered why the instrument of Jesus' death, the Roman execution instrument, the Cross, is revered and venerated by Christians worldwide? It is because Jesus' blood sanctified that Cross. An interesting story about the Cross has been scrubbed from the internet (last I looked). I have printed copies in my too-large jungle of notes. An investigative group who were mocking the thousands of Icons of the "True Cross of Christ," relics of the Cross extant today, a few chunks of wood but many smaller pieces and thousands of slivers, displayed in Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches, the churches that had genuine Apostolic roots and venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary. Their Secular Fundamentalist premise was that with the advent of the computer, it would be relatively easy to catalog every True Cross fragment and measure their exact dimensions and even calculate their weight, much like a forensic crime photographer documents items at a crime scene. To find the True Cross relics was not that hard since congregations possessing such a thing made it public knowledge and even touted it. Such congregations on the celebration of the Elevation of the Cross parade the relics in the streets or, at the very least, in procession around the Church. It was also their Secular Fundamentalist assumption that when their research was complete and they exposed all the fake relics and false claims that the actual wood in the known relics would add up to many times the mass of a single cross. The historical subject of Roman execution by crucifixion was well documented down to the most common breadth and width and length of the pole and crossbar.

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) describes three different types of "crosses" used by the Roman army for execution, one being the transom cross we all have burned into our memories. The Jewish Roman Historian, Josephus, in his treaty "The Jewish War," states, "The soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the crosses, and crosses wanting for the bodies." The meaning is that sometimes they would nail more than one body to a pole or a cross. We have the record of the Apostle Peter being crucified upside down. Well, rather than Roman Cross history, it will suffice to say that the size, dimensions, and weight of a single Roman transom cross was not hard to document. There are extant examples. So what did our Secular Fundamentalist scholars and skeptics discover when they had cataloged all the known True Cross fragments in the world? They found that their collective size and weight was just less than the size and weight they had documented, leading them to admit that despite the roomers of out of control fake relic sales in the Middle Ages, most likely, the True Cross had been preserved and that it was Christ's Cross being venerated and not Medieval forgeries and fakes.

I wrote an article I still have published on the "interwebs" entitled "Cries from the Cross," where I speculated upon the meaning of Jesus' words as he hung upon the Cross. I wrote it three decades ago, and were I to write it today, it would be very different, at least in one respect. This is a witness that old dogs do learn new tricks, and the teaching of the Holy Spirit can humble old men. That prophecy of Joel about old men dreaming dreams, Holy Spirit inspired and guided dreams come to mind.

I was sleeping lightly, and I kept hearing the words, "The Lord's Prayer," so I silently prayed it, in the Church of England version I learned as a child, ending with "for thine is the Kingdom and Power, and the Glory, forever and ever, Amen" the version used to open our school day, in elementary school. Something challenging for you Secular Fundamentalists to imagine could have ever happened. Then I began hearing the words, "The Our Father," so I silently prayed it, ending at the proper place according to scripture, "and deliver us from the Evil One." The Protestants whose religion rose from the personal interpretation of Bible texts by reformers, texts that were numbered book by book, chapter, and verse. When they reference a text, they say, "John Three Sixteen" and not "For God So Loved the world"; Pslams twenty-three and not "The Lord is my Shepherd." The Churches with genuine Apostolic roots say, "Our Father" instead of the Anglican constructed "Lord's Prayer." Where they added a version of the Great Doxology 1Ch_29:11 Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for thou art Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before thy face every king and nation is troubled. (Septuagint). The Our Father is solemn; the Lord's Prayer, the Anglican Liturgical version, is poetic, beautiful, and scriptural. And there is an Orthodox Liturgical version of it that ends, "For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Now and ever and unto the Eons of Eons – Amen."

In my sleep, these thoughts coursed through my mind. It seemed silly to me. Then in the dream, someone asked, "When Jesus returned to his home country and entered the Synagogue, when he was asked to read the Hebrew scriptures, what scripture did he read?" I immediately answered, "Isaiah 61, the first couple of verses." The person in my dream said, "No. He asked for the Isaiah scroll to be unrolled to 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me.' There was no Isaiah 61." I lazily drifted to the vision of the text in my mind, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompence; to comfort all that mourn; that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory." I saw the text quickly and didn't really read it in my mind, because it instantly dawned upon me that this was no twilight sleep revere; I was being taught a lesson. I said, "Yes, Lord." He said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Here is their failed Messiah." And I sat straight up, and tears flowed down my face. I had to wait what seemed like a lifetime to clear my eyes, and when I could see, not wanting to disturb the room, I quietly took my smartphone, pulled up my little King James Website, and opened the program for the first time in my life to, not a cold reference number, but to "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me." It said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they

shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
(Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog. - Septuagint)
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation (Assembly – the New Testament name for the Church) will I praise thee.
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation (Megas Ecclesia): I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds (Patria) of the nations (ethnos) shall worship before thee.
For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. +++

Those mocking words from that anti-christ Rabbi, "The Christians push the story of the failed messiah." That is a damnable and demonic lie. The depth of meaning and power of the actual Messiah confirming his Messianic reality as he hung on the Cross – honest, it felt like Jesus was teaching me from the Cross, the "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me." It made me sort of resent the numberings. I thought, how much closer to the WORD would we be without them.

In manuscripts, codices dating back to the fourth century, we know that some form of chapter divisions were used. In 1551, Robert Estienne (a.k.a. Stephanus) added verse divisions to his fourth edition of the Greek New Testament. The first translation to employ his versification was the Geneva translation of 1557 (whole Bible, 1560). Of course, the Geneva Bible was a protestant translation. It, along with the Bishops Bible, the Tyndale Bible, and the Textus Receptus, were the basis for the translation of the King James Version of the Bible. There is one way that the numbering system of scripture is a great reference help, but there is also the factor that it regiments it, fragments it, and removes us from some intimacy we should have with it. My mental processes, I've never been a chapter and verse person; I have all my life referenced scripture through key phrases and a concordance. No one was more blessed when the pocket bible and word search arrived via Texas Instruments, thirty-plus years ago.

I'm going to leave you with this challenge. Have you ever read the "Cry Aloud and Spare Not"? Find it and read it all; it is the theme and purpose of the Bond Robin Channel.