Titus 2:1 But say the things which fit the sound doctrine,
2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;
7 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ;
14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
Devotional:
The good works of Christians underline the good words of the gospel.
Three times in as many paragraphs Paul makes the point that the behavior of Christians either advertises or discredits the gospel of grace. First, Paul says that if women don't behave in a manner that is sensible, chaste, or lovingly submissive, God's Word will be maligned (vv. 3�5). Second, he says that if Titus combines impeccable behavior with good teaching, he will silence his opponents (vv. 7�8). And third, if Christian slaves are the best workers, they will commend the gospel to all who have eyes to see (vv. 9�10).
By their behavior, the congregation can decorate the doctrine of God our Savior. While this adornment does not add to the gospel, the beauty of this behavior will attract people to the gospel.
These last words�"so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive"�are addressed to slaves. The core of the gospel is opposed to slavery, and in later years this gospel demanded that Christians abolish the institution of slavery. But Paul did not yet counsel anyone to rise in rebellion, to go on strike, or to take up arms. In the same way, Paul's words on women's behavior also make concessions to what his environment considered proper.
At all times, more is at stake than your and my rights. The real issue is that we reflect the attractiveness of the gospel
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." [Yeshayahu/Isaiah 8:20]
Brethren, it is all backwards. Everything in life is backwards, and this is what the LAW and the TESTIMONY are all about.
�For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,� declares the Lord. �As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.� [Yeshayahu/Isaiah 55:8-9]
According to the Word, the natural men of the world are all spiritually dead, and need to be born again, to see what life is all about.
Men hate this version of what life is all about. Given the fact, that they are breathing, having fun, and playing golf, they think that they are living. The GOSPEL is the news that men are dead spiritually, and that, "unless one is born again, they cannot see the TRUTH, which is, THEY WERE DEAD SPIRITUALLY!"
The mystery of the gospel, is that man does not grasp the truth of spiritual life, because he is engrossed with living the physical, which he deceives himself by, in thinking "I am alive, am I not?" "I feel pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, so therefore I must be alive!"
The wondrous knowledge of what life is about cannot be comprehended through the physical religions of earth, including Christianity and Judaism.
There are TWO TRUTHS which must be comprehended, forward and in reverse, in order for one to be a wise man, or one who has been enabled to comprehend "religious thought", as Elohim�s Seed.
This is why the Old Testament was written and read from the RIGHT to the LEFT, and the New Testament, from the LEFT to the RIGHT.
You have to comprehend that true wisdom [the Wisdom of Elohim] has to have TWO COMPONENTS in order for it to be classified as being "WISE".
Daniel was classified as "a wise man", because he correctly comprehended religious thought. Elohim proved this, in Daniel, by the dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had, about the body having different parts. Daniel was one of the bachiyr, and was born again, although the term would not be used until Jesus/Yahusha would come. But Daniel was only given knowledge pertaining to the first part of time. He knew the Second Part was coming, for YaHUaH (YHUH) told him that it was. But no one but Daniel knew that time was going to be divided up into TWO PARTS:
"But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase." [Daniel 12:4]
What Daniel saw was the kingdoms that were to come during time as physical man sees it. They were to see an unending chain of kingdoms, until "this body" had been shaped; meaning the fullness of time was complete.
This comprehension was given only to "the bachiyr", or "anointed ones" during the first half of time, so that when the Second Half of Time was under way, which is when the New Testament was begun, and written, men would be able to comprehend the Wisdom of Elohim, as being evident in everything in life, being represented in His Amazing Letter to One People, spread over the Two Halves of Time. This was announced with the coming of the Messiah, Yahusha/Jesus.
I was born to comprehend and write about this knowledge, in the time of the end, which is where we are at now.
My ministry, as is the case with the ministry of all of the "eklektos", or those of Abba's Seed, that were to come in the Second Half of Time, is to surround TIME, and "HOW?" as Daniel put it, the whole of time was to be summed up.
No one on earth during the earlier period of human history could grasp that there was to be a book, called the Bible, written in time, and that it would explain why everything in the world has ever occurred, and/or the reason for time being kept - which was to show that it was to be summed up, all along.
This, TIME, has to do with ETERNITY, but man could not comprehend this dichotomy, when at first, only one part existed.
This is why everything in life has TWO PARTS, and that even man's ability to comprehend anything, also involves CONTRASTING the TWO.
Without Abba placing the knowledge whereby man was enabled to have a mind, you would not be able to think, read, or write, and there would be nothing to discuss without the creation.
The creation is filled with WONDROUS knowledge. Everything in life has a specific meaning, although the Seed of Darkness cannot comprehend this.
Just as there is a contrasting mechanism for the proportion known as "UP", which is "DOWN", so there is one for everything in life..
LIFE, DEATH
BORN, DIE
LOVE, HATE
PEACE, WAR
HOT, COLD
REND, SEW
BROKEN, REPAIR
WOMAN, MAN
YOUNG, OLD
HAMMER, ANVIL
BIRD, NEST
This is what Solomon was writing about in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. The very word "proverbs" is from "the Ibri" [ha-ibri - Hebrew] term "MASHAL", which means "comprehension by a contrasting mechanism".
SPECIAL NOTE: This is the reason why the Messiah [HaMashiach in Ibri] came teaching by parables, and why He never sought to teach anything without a parable:
�All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:� [Mattityahu/Matthew 13:34]
Life would be worthless without DUALITY, because it is to point, designed for the BACHIYR/EKLEKTOS, as the demonstrating factor that we were chosen by YaHUaH (YHUH) before time began:
[OLD TESTAMENT]
�The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.� [Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah 31:3]
[NEW TESTAMENT]
�But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:� [Galatea/Galatians 1:15-16]
The True Seed were so designed to comprehend the SPIRITUAL SIDE, which is invisible, by the contrasting mechanism of Elohim�s Eternal Wisdom, and men hate us for declaring that which we were predestined to know and comprehend.
This is all connected, to the knowledge that there were TWO CREATIONS, the one called "heavens", when the angels were made, and then the second, which was to come later, called "the earth". We live in the Second Part of the Creations. The Creations were to act as contrasting mechanisms, so as to demonstrate the Wisdom of YaHUaH (YHUH). This is why we see the TWO KINGDOMS mentioned in the writings of the bachiyr [anointed one] known by the name "Moshe" or "Moses":
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." [Genesis/Bereshit 1:1-3]
The HEAVEN is the Kingdom of Elohim
The EARTH is Satan's Kingdom
[although men do not like to hear this..]
Notice that it states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"
To be able to explain the truth, automatically brings persecution, which is why all of the prophets and apostles, were killed, as well as �the Messiah�* [*Ha'Mashiach, in "Ibri". "ha" means "the", and "Ibri", "one from beyond", which is the endonym Elohim's Spirit told Moses to call Abraham by in Genesis/Bereshit 14:13.]
We are ha ibri, �the ones from beyond�, Elohim�s Seed.
Back to what I was stating; There are TWO kingdoms, and the one during which Elohim would demonstrate HIS ETERNAL WISDOM for His creatures [in Heaven and on Earth], would be known as "THE EARTH". The EARTH represents the Second Half of Elohim's Complete Creation, and is represented in the New Testament.
The passage, "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." concerns Elohim's Plan to Create Every Thing, including a mechanism to contrast Him Self against: LUCIFER/SATAN.
Lucifer was an angelic being, with an extremely powerful intellect, but his intellect was limited, even before he was created, to using that knowledge and his abilities to present himself as the "Adversary", the "Antagonist", to Elohim, Who was to be comprehended as the "Protagonist", the True and Living G-d/Elohim.
This is the purpose for the Scripture: To show and teach truth.
But even truth, has to have a contrasting mechanism, which is why the Fall of Man was permitted and planned to occur. Men of truth need a liar to contrast, what we are not to be, and so the Seed of Darkness were created to assist Elohim as �vessels of wrath�, and their end is that they are �fitted to destruction�.
In order for YaHUaH (YHUH) to reveal Him Self, He needed a contrasting mechanism, and so He created the TWO KINGDOMS, with TWO SEEDS. These TWO SEEDS are represented in the Two Trees in the Garden.
�You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?� [Jesus/Yahusha Mattityahu/Matthew 7:16]
The whole of the gospel is to teach the Seed of Elohim that everything is from the Creator, and that it is wondrously connected.
�For we know that all things work together for good to them that love G-d, to them that are the called according to His purpose!� [Romi�im/Romans 8:28]
This is why Man was made in the image of Elohim, so we in knowing, would in effect be a type of Him.
Adam is the name given to man and woman, when they were first created.
MAN was created with the spoken Word, whereas the woman was fashioned from his rib. This was to signify many things, and teach the true seed about the Creator and Creations.
"IN THE BEGINNING GOD!"
Elohim was Alone in the beginning. His Name means "One Who is Existent In Him Self".
How could Elohim teach man, except for Him to make man, as a type of Him Self?
As Elohim was Alone, so He created Man to be alone. Then as an example of Him Self, in man, He then created Man to be His Companion, and so He duplicated this type into man, by fashioning the woman, from man's rib, to signify that Man was to be Head over the woman, as Elohim is to be over the creature, with man being in subjection to Elohim, as the woman is in complete subjection to man.
Man, when woman was not yet made, was given Authority over the whole creation and told to rule it. Then when Elohim made the woman, Man got it; he was to rule the creature, which had been fashioned out of himself, as a type of him being the Creator, and this is what it means for man to be made in the image of Elohim.
True women of Elohim, are also taught this knowledge, as evident in Abraham and Sarah, who referred to Abraham as "lord".
NOTE: A true woman of Elohim wants to be ruled by an �Abraham�, for it is indicative communication between her and her Creator, which demonstrates that she knows Him, and is glad to demonstrate this, and be a doer of the Word, by her obedience to the Man/Elohim.
"Likewise, ye WOMAN, be in subjection to your own MAN; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the WOMAN; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear." [I Petros/Peter 3:1-3]
Man was created with the ability to have and demonstrate Elohim's Strength in his manly parts [the phallus], with only the woman, His chosen creature, to see this spiritual display. The Seed of Darkness do not get to experience the Spiritual Union with the Creator, our Elohim. This, the consensual union, is to signify Elohim penetrating the creature, and imputing His Seed into man, which results in a creature being made of the Man using the woman, which is another type. This is why the woman's womb is weak, and needs the strength of the man to have effectual union; she is to be an example of Man to Elohim.
Men have made vile the consensual relations between a MAN and a WOMAN. The role of seed being imputed, and a MAN cleaving to WOMAN, has been replaced with the notion that it was designed for recreational purposes.
WOMEN TAKE NOTE: You cannot WANT a MAN the way you want him to be, �a smooth-shaven, Aqua Velva Man�, for that denotes in your life, that you are ignorant of Elohim and the role Man is to play with You. For a man to shave, is for him to demonstrate the ways of the pagans.
Men of Elohim are to be bearded, if you men did not know! Why do you think that He placed facial hair on your chin? Not for it to be cut off:
�When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.� [2 Shmuel/Samuel 10:5]
This, which is contained in this post/article, is not doctrine that men of Satan's Seed want taught in "society", for they want women being harlots, who control their own lives, demonstrating the fallen creature apart from Elohim/Man; and they want men to be effeminate creatures, who need to buy razors, and shaving cream, and have sex changes, to represent their father's dark and rebellious nature in them, when he deceived the weaker, ignorant part of the creature ADAM � Eve, and actually sought to make her stupid through his manipulative reasoning.
MAN, in order for him to comprehend his connection to Elohim, has to have a contrasting mechanism, and so Elohim designed the creation {EARTH} to have Two Parts, The Old and New Testament periods, with Lucifer's Seed acting in the place of Lucifer, as Elohim's Seed acting in the place of Elohim.
Physical Israel, is the EARTH SIDE, or Lucifer's Seed, and Spiritual Y'isra'el, is the HEAVEN SIDE, of Elohim's Seed. As YaHUaH (YHUH) created TWO CREATIONS [Heavens and the Earth], so time is divided into TWO SEGMENTS.
What Peter was referring to above, regarding the woman's "conversation", is that she comprehends, that she is a type of the creature being in submission to Elohim, and that by her sanctified life, living as a submitted creature, the MAN, who is to act in the place of Elohim, may without the word be won by the conversation of the woman. The term �wives� used by the Luciferians, is not necessary, for who but the creature, in whom Elohim imputes His eternal seed, would comprehend?
This is not what Christianity or Judaism teaches. Their ministers, being connected to the physical side, teach men to obey man, in the form of government, not to demonstrate Elohim and His Creation and Creatures, in their lives!
This is the difference between the Seed of Darkness and the Seed of Life/Light, who want to manipulate other men, therein manifesting in themselves that they are Satan's Seed.
As Elohim has amazing powers and abilities, so the deceived in himself, Lucifer, had to have a kingdom, with powers and abilities. So, Elohim created the planet Earth, to contain wondrous knowledge, which is best referred to as, "physics", and the manipulation of this knowledge, "science".
All knowledge is broken into TWO PARTS, and designed to lead the children of Darkness, who must demonstrate their father's nature, to trying to overthrow the world, and to control and dominate all men, but unjustly. This is seen in physical Israel, and spiritual Israel.
All "math" [mathema], which is a Greek term which means "learning in general", was designed by the Creator YaHUaH (YHUH) to be the key to unlocking all of the knowledge in the creation. The Seed of Darkness has twisted it, and broken it down, so as to control is by categories, which they benefit from, in this their kingdom, to their ruin. This is why the scripture refers to "the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous". Their kidnapping of the creation, was planned, and it is to appear that they won, but then the Earth, or Heaven for us, is coming, with the Miracle of the Messiah to be revealed. All of these wonders, are part of their father's being enabled to act on the Earth as a type of god. Satan's Seed think that they win, but they are unable to SEE THE LIGHT that is coming.
This is why the Father, the True Father of the Creations, called the Heavens DARKNESS, for His Full Wisdom was not known in the first part, when the "EARTH WAS VOID" and Darkness [Lucifer�s and Man�s shared temporal wisdom] was upon the deep; and this is why we see Him refer to the Earth as LIGHT, when He would proclaim �Let there be LIGHT [True wisdom]!�
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered." [Lukos/Luke 11:52]
This is the key of knowledge that has been stolen by Satan's Seed, who have hijacked the creation, which is a type of Heaven, only to be tricked in themselves, for the end of their rebellious nature, is as it got Lucifer, who wanted to rule the creation, and when he got the Earth, which is what he was fighting for, little did he know, but that the LIGHT of eternal wisdom, would expose that in reality he was a fool, and so he and his seed will share a dark kingdom eternally, while Abba's Seed, go onto Heaven.
The Old Testament period is represented in the phrase "DARKNESS", with the "LIGHT" coming in the latter end, the second part of time. Time has been divided into TWO PARTS, and these parts are known as "DARKNESS" and "LIGHT".
Judaism was shaped around the philosophy that "WORKS" and "OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW" would make one acceptable to G-d [Elohim], which led to the notion, that one could purify themselves through the LAW. If one worked hard, one could obey the LAW.
As Judaism was in the First part of TIME, so Christianity is in the Second Part of TIME.
The Torah, which the Judaic philosophers thought was complete 2,012 years ago, was not complete until the B'rit Hadasha, which came about through the writings of the Natzarim, bringing the New Testament into reality.
The TORAH/LAW had to have as its contrasting mechanism, the TESTIMONY/GRACE, which is duplicated in Judaism and Christianity, the physical religions.
THIS NOTION OF PRESENTING THE GOSPEL AS "ATTRACTIVE" IS THE REASON WHY CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM, AND I NEED TO ADD.....ALL OF THE PHYSICAL RELIGIONS EXIST, IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Men hate G-d! Face it, men hate G-d!
The last thing that any man wants in his/her life, is the notion that there is a GOD, and that He is SOVEREIGN. This is why they use the truth, and make money, or employ it in deceiving others, which is why they NEED to make it attractive. It has gotten so bizarre, that some have taken to spewing such outlandish tales, as Benny Hinn, who said �Adam flew in the Garden� and �Eve gave birth through her ribcage�.
Men do not want to hear, that there are TWO SEEDS in the children of men, and that they are to demonstrate either spiritual wickedness, of spiritual righteousness!
That is a message that will not go over well in this present world, and especially their economic system. Man wants to BE IN THE KNOW, and so we have all of the arguing. There just cannot be a manifest solid truth, and so Satan�s Seed twists the Word, so men will argue and each think that he/she is GOD, after all, they do know the truth, and can demonstrate this.. RIGHT?
Have you ever heard the saying, "THAT IS LIKE PUTTING LIPSTICK ON A PIG"?
The GOSPEL is the PIG to many in the world, well at least to those who are perishing:
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God." [I Qorinti'im/Corinthians 1:18]
The carnal men of this age think that the gospel is so ugly, that it needs lipstick.
The REAL GOSPEL is and always has been SO BEAUTIFUL � if you are chosen and anointed.
[OLD TESTAMENT PERIOD]
When the sons of darkness who were concealed in 'the Hebrew' [ha-ibri] people, were in search of a new philosophy to lead men with, and kill the "bachiyr", so as to steal and twist the truth, "Judaism" is the resulting religion to come out of it.
[NEW TESTAMENT PERIOD]
When the sons of darkness who were concealed in the Gentile people, were in search of a new philosophy to lead men with, and kill the "eklektos", so as to steal and twist the truth, "Christianity" is the resulting religion to come out of it.
The Word of Torah was not good enough for Satan's Seed, so they want to reshape it, and repackage it, to make it appear as a tool to govern men with.
The Law of the Torah and the Word of the Testimony is not good enough for Satan's Seed, who could not comprehend it, because it was not spoken to them, and so they want to MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE.
This passage of scripture, in Titus/Titos, means something different to people who are called to walk the walk of faith, as the Patriarch, which is why Isaac was renamed "Y'isra'el", for "HE SHALL RULE AS ELOHIM", and the Seed of Darkness who cannot comprehend it, and need to try and fashion something new, but yet strange, out of it!"
The Words of the Father are precious to me. I do not need any man "sugar coating them", or trying to make them attractive to me..
Verse 11. Verses 12 to 14. Our motivation, right there. Thanks, dljrn04!
I don't like the slave trade, either. But I wonder: slavery abolished? We are called to be slaves to God, after all (Romans 6:22). That, and I'm not quite sure if people in gaol aren't slaves of the state.
Natzarim, I'm not meaning to ignore you, but I'll look at what you've posted soon. Peace!
