April 30, 2026

Knowledge of the Holy 

The Self-Existence of God 

God is the creator, not created, and has always existed. This concept is hard for us to grasp because we see that everything comes from something. God is a being that has always been. Moses wanted to know His name, and He called Himself "I Am." Consider this: we sometimes say to ourselves, and possibly others, I am: for example, strong, competent, pretty, handsome, etcetera, you get the picture. We look at it as confidence; however, could we be taking the place of God when we say those words? Are we replacing God with ourselves? I wonder if we should remove those words from our vocabulary. Should we pay attention to how we refer to ourselves and, for example, rather than say, I am a writer, and sin by calling ourselves by God's name, say something like, " My profession is a writer, or " My job is a writer. Do we profess to be God when we say "I Am" and make ourselves a "little g" god? What might be hard is catching those words before they come out of our mouths, because I must admit, they have always been a part of my vocabulary.  Is changing our wording necessary? I can't be sure, but maybe when we conclude, acknowledge that we are created and not The Creator, and submit to His authority, we might refrain from calling ourselves God by using His name as a description. You must decide for yourself what you should do.

“A moral being, created to worship before the throne of God, sits on the throne of his own selfhood and from that elevated position declares, ”I AM.” That is sin in its concentrated essence; yet because it is natural it appears to be good. It is only when in the gospel the soul is brought before the face of the Most Holy One without the protective shield of ignorance that the frightful moral incongruity is brought home to the conscience.” A.W. Tozer 

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Exodus 3:14

If you want to dig a little deeper, look at what the words "I Am" mean!

H1961   (Strong)

הָיָה

hâyâh

haw-yaw'

A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): - beacon, X altogether, be (-come, accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), continue, do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, X use.

H1933   (Strong)

הָוָה    הָוָא

hâvâ'    hâvâh

haw-vaw', haw-vaw'

A primitive root (compare H183, H1961) supposed to mean properly to breathe; to be (in the sense of existence): - be, X have.

April 29, 2026

Knowledge of the Holy 

The Holy Trinity 

O Blessed Trinity!

O simplest Majesty! O Three in One!

Thou art for ever God alone.

Holy Trinity!

Blessed equal Three.

One God, we praise Thee.

Frederick W. Faber

Our minds cannot fathom the trinity; it's unexplainable. Many have tried. I've heard it explained as an egg with a shell, a white, and a yolk, but you can break an egg and separate each part. However, God is always one, and His parts work simultaneously. We can explain His functions separately, but He is never divided; He is always One. 

I and my Father are one. John 10:30

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Genesis 1:26a

If the trinity could be explained in human terms, we would dismiss God's magnificence to commonality. We must refrain from trying to divide Him into separate, stand-alone parts; however, His attributes can be explained and included as different parts of his character. Is your mind spinning now? Mine is! Because He is hard to explain, it gives more credence to His majesty. If we could explain Him, we would begin to idolize something that is not Him. It is human to try to picture Him as we worship, but if you can, refrain from seeing God as human, because He is not. He took on the form of a human in Jesus, but to be unable to see that He was all but a human is blindness; no human could do what Jesus did. 

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: Philippians 2:6-7

My worship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit changed, and I will no longer feel the need to worship them separately, but together as the one and only Holy God, the Father, just as Jesus taught the disciples to pray, Our Father, when he taught them The Lord's Prayer. 

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. John 14:11

April 28, 2026

Knowledge of the Holy

A Divine Attribute: Something True About God 

Only to sit and think of God, 

Oh what a joy it is!

To think the thought, to breath the Name 

Earth has no higher bliss.

Frederick W. Faber

We are always in such a rush, whether to get to where we are going or finish a task, but pondering the Almighty is what we should slow down for and feel. We may not realize it, but the spiritual and saving knowledge of God is our greatest need. 

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. Job 22:21

My brain is still steered to the point that contemplating the wonder of our Creator is still daunting, but if we don’t try to seek Him and attempt to understand His magnificence, how could we get past our struggle to understand Him if we don’t, at the very least, try? It’s worth it to create a new neural pathway that solely thinks about God. How do we do that? A habit is created by completing a task daily for twenty-one days. If we begin today, by the end of this series, we should all be focused on our Creator, which will give us a more powerful prayer life. Knowing who we are talking to will make our time devoted to Him more precious. God reveals Himself through His Word and through creation, but if you want a personal revelation, ask Him to show you something about Himself and wait for the answer. In my experience, He answers you before you even get the question out. When you show interest in who He is, He will make Himself known to you.  

April 27, 2026

Knowledge of the Holy

Using A.W. Tozer's book Knowledge of the Holy as a reference, we will attempt to uncover a description of God from what he says about Himself in the Bible. This study will last about three weeks, but our goal should be to learn as much about Him as we can throughout our entire lifetimes. This study will give us a good start to build upon. 

God Incomprehensible

We should understand that there will never be an accurate description of God, and our attempt to picture Him in our minds could become idolatry because we would be picturing Him as things we've seen in the flesh, but He is nothing like what we have ever seen. When Ezekiel tried to describe what he saw, he had a hard time finding words to depict Him accurately and mostly described the other beings he saw with him. 

Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filledwith the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.  Ezekiel 10:4

" The intellect knoweth that it is ignorant of Thee," said Nicholas of Cusa," because it knoweth Thou canst not be known, unless the unknowable could be known, and the invisible beheld, and the inaccessible attained." 

God is unlike anything we've ever seen, and our imagination cannot contain Him. Worship Him without a picture in your mind's eye because what you see is not Him.

April 26, 2026

Pray for discernment because the things I’m sharing are not taught in church. However, I believe every word written in the Bible, I’m just seeing it in a different light. I am a rule follower as long as it makes sense. Believe me, it’s eye-opening!

Jesus said:

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Matthew 24:14

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Colossians 1:23

Is Paul insinuating that the gospel had already been preached to every creature that is under heaven during his time? 

It seems we may be waiting for the Judgment Seat of Christ, not the rapture or the millennial kingdom, where we will rule and reign with Jesus. There is evidence that those things may have already happened, but the enemy has been trying to cover it up. Ask yourself how the technology to build some of the most incredible buildings has been lost, and why they were built without indoor plumbing when they likely would have known how, but they clearly wouldn’t have needed it during Jesus’s reign. The technology wasn’t lost; we never had it. Many of those buildings were likely built during the Thousand-Year Reign of Jesus, and since then, the devil has been loosed, and he has been trying to destroy that evidence to keep us in a delusion. We need an awakening to recognize the timeframe we may be living in and stop waiting for something that may never happen. 

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation 20:3

The Bible makes so much more sense when you consider that we may be living in the little season of Satan. 

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Revelation 20:7-8

April 25, 2026

Do you think that the following verses point to a time two thousand years later? The Bible was written to the people of that time, not to us. Don’t get me wrong, we need to learn everything we can about what the Bible teaches, but we need to read it with clear eyes, understanding that we were not the ones these letters were written to. There was a seven-year war between the Romans and the J*ws around 70 AD, and the temple fell three and a half years after it began. This war coincides with the seven-year tribulation that was prophesied. Jesus said that some will not taste death before they see him coming into his kingdom; ask yourself, are there people living today that are over 2,000 years old? 

We cannot just gloss over these verses and give them a meaning different from what they say directly. We may be living in the little season of deception, where the devil and his cronies have been loosed. The enemy changes the times, calendars are manipulated, history is recreated to fit a narrative, all done by a being who has seen everything and can give us a new reality without us knowing it. However, as his season comes to an end, he can no longer keep up with the people who are waking up. The curtains are being opened, and the light is shining through. Tribulation is not on the horizon; that has already happened. However, there is more to come: Gog and Magog and the final Great White Throne judgment. 

J*wish history backs up everything. Even the elect have been deceived, but we don’t have to be. The Bible points to the truth, but the enemy has given us a deceitful narrative to keep us blinded and in fear of tribulation. Relax and fear not because the best is yet to come!

*Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. Matthew 16:28

*But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. Matthew 10:23

*Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Matthew 24:34

*And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. Mark 9:1

*Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Mark 13:30

*But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 1 Corinthians 7:29

*But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 1 Peter 4:7

*For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Hebrews 10:37

*The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Revelation 1:1

*Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Revelation 1:7

*I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation 1:9

*And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Revelation 22:12

April 24, 2026

Persevere in Holiness and Truth

As daunting as the times we live in are, we can be thankful that God gives us directions to follow that help us maintain a good relationship with Him. 

1. Building up yourselves in your most holy faith. Jude 1:20
2. Praying in the Holy Ghost. Jude 1:20
3. Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 1:21
4. Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Jude 1:21
5. Have compassion. Jude 1:22

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Jude 1:23

What more could we ask for? God gives us steps for righteous living, and they aren’t that hard. What Jude doesn’t tell us is how satisfying it is to live by faith in Jesus and that we can stop looking to fill the gaps in our emptiness, because Jesus fills that gap, and his love overflows within us, spilling onto everyone we meet, whether they accept that love or not. Hopefully, they will see and wonder how they might receive some of what we have. Jesus is the only way to live without shame in a world that is full of corruption; seek him before it’s too late. 

April 23, 2026

Judgment is Coming

It's not a sin to ask questions. The powers of this earth may not like you thinking for yourself and discarding the narrative, but it is a healthy way to sort through the information you hear. Jude mentions Enoch and his prediction of Jesus coming with 10,000 angels to execute judgment. I looked up the Book of Enoch to see if I could find what he is talking about, and I found that it is more than 10,000 and probably innumerable. Enoch is not part of the canon of scripture, but it is an interesting read nonetheless. 

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speecheswhich ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Jude 1:14-15

What an exciting time to live! With the cognitive dissonance we see daily, not only on television, but in our daily lives with people and their outlandish ideas, we must be close to the end. People have fallen for the ungodly narrative and cannot be convinced to see things in any other way. They are angry, obsessed, chaotic, confused, and their minds are disheveled to the point that I don't think they can come back from their madness. Look at this verse and tell me we aren't living with these people mentioned here:

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. Jude 1:16

Pity these people and do your best to try to convince them that the only way is Jesus. Some will hear you, but most will not. However, it is part of our commission to tell them about Jesus and snatch them from the fire. 

April 22, 2026

Avoid Fruitless Arguments

As tempting as it may be, we need to refrain from arguing with others. Because we are in a time when evil beings present themselves as light, we must be cautious about how we speak to others and abstain from getting into a verbal match, because we cannot win. If a demon controls the person you have a problem with, they are more powerful and more cunning than you because they were once part of God’s kingdom and know how things work; our skills are very primitive in comparison. That’s why Jude cautions us not to bash them and use fewer words to rebuke them. Even Jesus refrained from arguing with Satan when he was being tempted in the wilderness, and when Peter used words that came from Satan, Jesus only said, “Get the behind me Satan.” Even Michael the archangel withheld his tongue when disputing with Satan.

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. Jude 1:9

We are part of the kingdom of God, and it is beneath us to engage in a war of words with the enemy, especially when he is using a fleshly being as a weapon. Whatever the argument is about, it’s not worth losing your dignity over. Remember, you represent Jesus in all your dealings, so keep your responses short but composed so you are not corrupted. 

April 20, 2026

Pray for discernment before reading!

Reading Jude in context makes it seem as if the evil among us might be those angelic beings cast down from times of old. We know they are here, but we think they are invisible, but are they? Could these entities, that live here, disguise themselves as humans? If you think about it, our bodies are simply the containers of our souls. Could these empty vessels be part of our everyday lives, and some of them standing in church pulpits? Are they the false teachers Peter warned us about? The heading for this section of my Bible is labeled “Judgment on False Teachers,” but Jude doesn’t mention them, though it is likely what he is talking about. The reason I say this is because, look at this verse:

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 1:4

“Who were before of old ordained to condemnation,” we know that those who were cast out of heaven are of old and are ordained for condemnation! Jude is warning us not to mess with these beings because they are very powerful. We need to read our Bibles with discernment, and sometimes we need to ignore the headings because those were likely added later and not part of the actual letters.