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THE BOOK OF RABBINICALS

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The 'Light' In Our Beginning

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By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

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The Book of John 1: 1-4 reads as follows:
 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning, with God.
3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.


John may or may not have known how literal his words were when he penned them. However, scientific discovery has recently taken these words from a metaphoric platitude to a literal event, adding exciting new meaning to how fearfully and marvelously we are made.


In 2016 scientists at Northwestern University conducted a study of the dynamics of conception, during which they were able to capture a remarkable event that occurs at the moment conception takes place. The study revealed that at the exact moment a sperm on a fertilizing mission actually penetrates an egg (the

moment of conception), a distinct, instantaneous flash of light occurs.


John would postulate that Jesus is this light. It is Jesus’ signal that he has delivered yet another victorious human, chosen from the foundation of the world. The inseminating sperm locates a penetrable spot on the egg’s outer armor, where it will burrow and commence with the process of biogenesis once inside the egg.

 

What Is the flash of light?

 

John 1:9 answers this as well: “That was the true light (Jesus), which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”


Scientists discovered that this flash of light occurs with each instance of human conception. How did this very microscopic discovery wind up verifying a testimony that is more than 2,000 years old? Better yet—how did the Apostle John write so brilliantly about this without having any foreknowledge or vision of this recurring event that precedes every human life? What was he seeing when he wrote these passages? More than likely John did not know. But the Holy Spirit did.


Science and the Bible are beginning to discover their compatibility. Science now verifies there is “a true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”  Every human receives this prenatal flash of light. The light of God is the seminal escort of every dormant sperm’s journey towards ignition. It is with pinpoint accuracy that one out of a million sperm is strategically guided into position to activate life in the lifeless egg awaiting fertilization.


The light announces the arrival of the sole victorious swimmer out of millions whose reward is to become you.
 

Clearly God gives life. That’s exactly why no one on this planet is an accident. We are fearfully, marvelously and purposefully made. We were planned and announced with a glorious light show at the exact, precise time. Each human began in His light. That’s why abortion is not just a fetus being treated as an untimely inconvenience; it is rather the upheaval of a perfectly designed plan of God for you and for the child whose life will be ignominiously decimated.

 

But before anyone plans the demise of an unborn child, one must introspectively consider what it means that God has already shined his light upon this child. “It was the true Light (Jesus) which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”


The light of God is a crucial element of your life’s beginning. The seed, once ejaculated, begins a journey. A programmed voltaic charge that may awaken every purpose and plan of your being is triggered as it enters the egg. One cell begins to form ex nihilo, dividing and multiplying into billions of cells, 99 percent which will replicate your common humanity with all homo sapiens, and 1 per cent will represent your biogenetic heritage.
 

Before the foundation of the world, Jesus, the Light of the World, planned you, and when time dictated the onset of your purpose-filled life, He was there igniting your force, proclaiming your advent with a flash of radiant glory.

   The Wedding at Cana

 

    By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

 

Part I of III

St. John 2:1-5   

 

2:1: On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.  3. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."  4. And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come."  5. His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

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Jesus was 30 years old, and had just begun his ministry with four new disciples. He had a three-year mission, to find Himself a bride (the church), to make her grow (adding to her daily), to implement a program completely foreign to the Jewish mindset called evangelizing. This had never been necessary among Jews because it was always assumed they would be born, raised, and die in the Jewish religion. And on top of all of this, Jesus has committed himself to die an excruciating, torturous death as atonement for our sins. He has a race to run, and Cana has become his starting blocks.


John the Baptist’s ministry was going strong at that same time. He was a popular preacher in the territory of Galilee conducting immersion rituals and preaching repentance. In the first chapter of John, we learn that on

the "second day" of the narrative, Jesus went to hear John the Baptist, who was preaching and baptizing at the
Jordan River. Jesus was baptized there that same day.


The next day, which was the "third day," Jesus, His four new disciples, and His mother Mary, attend a wedding. Weddings were highly festive events in Hebrew culture. A wealthy family could celebrate for several days. But these people were clearly not wealthy; the wine ran out long before the people did. It was a potentially humilia- ting moment. But Jesus intervened.


The Bible records in John 2:6: "And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the puri- fying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece."


The Jews would immerse themselves in a vat of fresh, living water as a sign of purification before they would engage in anything sacred, like offering of sacrifices or repentance. These water jars were dedicated for this purpose. This is what John the Baptist was doing at the Jordan River on a larger scale. It was called a mikvah,

a purification ritual symbolizing repentance. For the Jews it was an invitation to publicly commit their lives to holiness before God. John the Baptist was preaching repentance. The response required a public commitment. Jesus made this public commitment by taking a mikvah in the river.


But this mikvah is distinguished from all other recorded mikvahs in history: God the Father, and God the Holy Ghost were special guests of Jesus.


The people of Israel did not understand the concept of a triune God. To think of God in three persons was tanta- mount to heresy for them. They believed in only One God, Jehovah, and not three Gods in one.

 

But they were about to get a revelation right there at the Jordan River. Jesus was submerged in the water for a few seconds, and when He surfaced, the people saw a symbolic representation of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove descend from heaven, and alighting on Jesus.


And then they heard the actual voice of God acknowledging His son. This was a powerful event. The voice of God had not hovered and spoken over the waters since Genesis 1! To the Apostle John, it was a highly signifi- cant event. But the third day was equally remarkableif not greater.
 

Part II continues. Be sure to return to discover the types and shadows revealed in this teaching.

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Part II – The Miracle of the Clay Pots. John 2:1-12

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Six Clay Pots


During the wedding banquet Mary persuaded her son to quietly fix the wine problem. The third day was beginning to take shape. The number 3 is a fascinating number. However, before we learn the significance of the number 3, along comes another important number.

 

The Number Six


Jesus at the insistence of his mother agrees to quietly do something when the host ran out of wine. Six giant water pitchers happened to be standing nearby. These clay pots were symbolic, in biblical terms. Six is the number of man. Man was created on the sixth day of creation, so wherever we find the number six in the Bible, there will be an allusion to man or mankind.
 

We humans are clay vessels, formed from the earth. We are ready to serve, we are willing to be used, but we don’t have the power needed to be of full service to the will of God on our own. However, when Jesus calls you into His service, things change in a hurry. He  ill fill you with His word, and with the Holy Spirit. That Word will come alive in you.


Jesus tells the servants to fill the clay pots up with water (water is sometimes used as a type of the word). Remember the verse Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. As the servants continue drawing out and pouring water into each pot, one can imagine the tasty well water coming from the underground water table. This water, mostly from the salty Sea of Galilee has seeped down into the earth filtered by rock sediments and fissures, from miles away, and it strains itself through the drenching muds and silts of the river beds, depositing its salts and other minerals for the mud bathers, so that it tastes pure and refreshing as it finally rests in the wells of Galilee. The Galilee valley was a fertile area because of its natural irrigation system of multiple streams and waterways springing from the Sea of Galilee and its tributaries.
 

The flow of the water down into the water table would course its way to the man-made wells dug deeper into the earth so that water from the water table would drain down into these reservoirs, making well water plentiful for the households of the Galilean cities at all times, as well as sufficient to irrigate the top soil crops. This was a verdant land. Only yesterday, Jesus had taken a ceremonial mikvah, having immersed himself completely into the Jordan River, one of the main tributaries to the Sea of Galilee. It was part of a network of water streams and underground water channels throughout the region of Galilee. Father, Son and Holy Spirit came together, teeming with enormous power. The anointing of the Holy Spirit poured out onto Jesus. Jesus was imbued with power. Water molecules, full of salt, became ignited.

 

The next day, purely coincidentally, Jesus orders that six clay pots be filled with well water. Remember, these clay pots serve as a type. It’s you and me. Imagine though, that some of the water that was used to fill those six clay pots was flowing in the Jordan River only yesterday – at the exact same hour of Jesus’ ritual mikvah followed by the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Hmmmm…


Imagine that it was water from the river Jordan which, by the third day, had found its way through the water table into the well, bringing forth Holy Ghost infused water from the day before (the second day). The servants later drew this water out of the well, and poured it into those earthen clay vessels, on the third day, and the water could not be just water anymore. It came alive with power from on high – volatile, miraculous. It was Holy Spirit activated! Acts 1:8. Ye shall receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon you It was the third day. The number 3 symbolizes resurrection, restoration, and release.
 

 

 

Part III. St. John 2:1-12

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How to Apply the Wedding at Cana to Our Lives


We believers are earthen vessels – sanctified, cleansed, set apart, emptied out, and eager to be used for God’s purpose. We don’t have much innate power of our own. We are the clay pots, and the water is the Word of God. And sometimes the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts along with the Word of God, and we are elevated to a power-filled miracle realm.


At the voice of Jesus, with the presence of the Holy Spirit still stirring restlessly in the well, the water had become an effervescent concoction. Its molecular DNA received new messenger ribosomes, building proteins, sugars, and other acids, which instantly became wine, new wine, the best wine, miraculously imbued with dynamic power from on high! It’s the same power we need to change from a confused drug addict to a sober purveyor of wisdom and truth, or from a blind man to a man with 20-20 vision. John the Apostle concludes:

 

John 2:12. This, the first of his signs (miracles), Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested His glory. And His disciples believed in Him. In Christ, one never needs to wonder whether God knows how bad things have gotten
in our lives. He is way ahead of us. He planned the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River and all its tributaries, the wells in Galilee, the couple who would fall in love, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, the anointing by the Holy Spirit, the wedding date, the speed of the water flow into exactly the right network of waterways, the empty clay pots, the exact amount of the anointing, sugars and proteins extracted from the grape vineyards on the way, whatever else was needed in the water to turn it into wine. He even 
planned Mary’s keen observation. God planned every minute detail, from the foundation of the world. Everything that you need is already provided.

 

Don’t worry about anything!


God is not pacing up and down, worrying about how He can fix your problem, and neither should you be. In this scenario, the wedding couple did not even know that they had a problem! We should behave in this manner, as if the problems that Satan presents are not even real. Just sit back in faith, and watch the messenger angels

running back and forth, sending catalytic conversions through your spiritual DNA to deliver change around you, even as you speak it.


The first recorded miracle Jesus performed was to show the world a picture of who you are, church. He’s already said “Greater works than these shall you do”. This miracle might be considered trivial – not a life or death situation. But just as you spend time looking for your child’s $2 toy, God will attend to the small details in your life along with the big things. There’s nothing too big or too trivial for Him to do for you!

 

There’s nothing that can stop Him from getting to you! In fact, He promises that if you believe, "Nothing shall by any means harm you. (Luke 10:19)


Only believe! It’s your third day, every day!

God’s Biblical Language

 

By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

 

God’s most utilized language throughout the Judeo-Christian bible may be Hebrew or Greek officially, but to this writer it could arguably be "pictures." He speaks to us in pictures such as parables, character types, shadowy images and mystic signs and wonders, even as He presents a linear history.

 

The great African New Testament patriarch, Augustine of Hippo, asserts that the Old and New Testaments are knitted together by the pictures that begin to unfold between the Old and New Testament writings, most of which paint an illustration (picture) of Jesus our Savior. Augustine penned, "The New is by the Old concealed; The Old is by the New revealed."

 

The Old Testament offers prototypes, signs, prefigures, and blurry images which could not be clearly revealed without the New Testament. The Pauline epistles point to some of the mysteries in the Old Testament for which Paul had gotten a clearer "picture."

 

A collection of pictures that form a clarion likeness of Jesus can be found in the Genesis record of a young teenager, spoiled by his indulgent father. The persona of Jesus was concealed in this story. But now we can clearly see that Joseph is a type (or picture) of Jesus. Take a look at a few similarities:

 

Joseph: Joseph’s father Jacob, was well pleased with Joseph, giving him great favor.

Jesus:   Jesus’s father God, was well pleased with Jesus, giving Him great favor.

 

Joseph:  Joseph wore a colorful robe that conferred power and authority upon him.

Jesus:    Jesus was robed in righteousness with glory and power.

 

Joseph:  Joseph was accused of criminal activity but was innocent.

Jesus:     Jesus was accused of criminal activity but was innocent.

 

Joseph:  Joseph married a gentile bride who shared his prestige.

Jesus:     Jesus will marry a gentile bride (the church) who will share his glory.

 

Joseph:  Joseph was made a ruler over all of Egypt.

Jesus:     Jesus will one day rule over all of heaven and earth.

 

Joseph:  Joseph was 30 when he was given a ministry of power and authority in Egypt.

Jesus:     Jesus was 30 when he began his ministry of power and authority in Israel.

 

Joseph:  Joseph’s brothers could not foresee that Joseph would save them and rule over them.

Jesus:     Jesus’ kinsmen did not believe He was the savior who would one day rule over them.

 

Joseph:  Joseph‘s own brothers (the children of Israel) did not recognize who He was.

Jesus:     Jesus’ own people (the nation of Israel) have not recognized who Jesus is.

 

Joseph:  Joseph’s brothers and everyone in Egypt bowed before Him.

Jesus:    Everyone on Earth will bow before Jesus.

 

Joseph:  Joseph’s brothers repented for the wrong they had done to Joseph.

Jesus:     Jesus’ kinsmen will one day look upon Him whom they had pierced and will repent.

 

Joseph:  Everything Joseph put his hands to prospered.

Jesus:     Everything Jesus put his hands to prospered.

 

Joseph:  God foreordained the suffering of Joseph to save Israel.

Jesus:     God foreordained the suffering of Jesus to save the world.

 

Joseph:  Joseph’s Egyptian name, Zaaphnath Paaneah, means Life Saver.

Jesus:     Jesus’ Hebrew name, Y’shua, means Savior/Salvation.

EARLY BIBLICAL FAMILY DYNAMICS

Dressed to impress and be blessed:

The story of Esau and Jacob

By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

 

Part I of III

 

All Bible enthusiasts have their favorite Old Testament character(s), with this writer’s being the family of Isaac and Rebecca along with their twins Jacob and Esau.

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Isaac was directly descended from Abraham and Sarah. Isaac was, in fact, the child of promise from God to Abraham. Good lineage, so far. However, the boys were also in the lineage of Laban, their conniving uncle and his scandalous sister Rebecca, their mother. If there ever was a pirate of the desert, Laban was it, and Rebecca was his first mate. They were both master scam artists. In this family’s story, there is never a dull moment.

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But, as with almost every story in the Old Testament, we can find types and shadows of Jesus, the soon coming Messiah. Finding these depictions is a must for the serious student of the Old Testament.

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To begin, we should first understand something about the Jewish concept of adoption. It will be important to the story later on.

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Adoption was about son-ship. Every Jewish family had to have a male progeny to keep the family name alive. If they could not produce a son, they had to adopt one. Adoption was usually done when the head of the family had gotten old and pretty close to death, and still had no male heir. The male he selected to adopt would have to be an adultperhaps a nephew, or the chief servant of the house who had proven to be faithful to the family. Babies were not adopted for this purpose.

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The adopted son was given permanent first born son status. So, if under these provisions you adopted a son, and later you and your spouse gave birth to a son, the adopted son would still keep his first born privilege.

The first born privilege always included a double portion of the inheritance. This was called the First Born Blessing. The first born privilege granted the son the same authority and headship as the father. That authority was called the Birthright Blessing.

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The first born designation came with an immutable adoption contract. No refunds, no returns. No matter what the adopted son did, his son-ship could never be taken away from him. The designation included a historical cleansing of the adoptee’s past. His past was completely erased in everyone’s mind, and was to never be brought up again. The adoptee had to take on the family history of his new father.

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Example: You’ve been adopted, and you’re riding along with your dad and you happen to look out and see your old run-down residence. You say, “Look father! That’s the old shack I used to live in!”

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Your adopted father then says, “Son, I never lived in that run-down old shack, so neither did you. My blood line is now in you, and your past, present and future is now in me.”

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This is the basic essence or Spirit of adoption. (Romans 8:15)

 

On with the story.

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The law had been given to the people a few generations back by Moses, but there was no priest, no local temple. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes, and an annual animal sacrifice ritual atoned for all sins committed. The family was dysfunctional. Each parent openly favored one twin over the other. Isaac adored Esau’s ruddiness and manliness. Rachel adored Jacob’s cleverness and intellect.

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This would not have been the best family to live in. In this writer’s opinion they might deserve a full hall of shame exhibit. But this story is a vortex of dysfunction and destiny, spinning into purpose, which should bring hope to us all.

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Jacob and Esau

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God took a proactive part with these boys. According to scripture, He even favored Jacob (Malachi 1:2, 3), and hated Esau. (That’s probably because Esau was so callous about his own first born status that he was willing to give his blessing away for next to nothing.)

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God did not choose Jacob because Jacob was a great guy. In fact, He called Jacob a worm (Isaiah 41:14) and said, “I love you, and I am going to protect youyou ‘Worm.’”  This word translated “worm” here, was translated from “maggot” in another passagenot a glowing endorsement from God.

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Jacob’s name in Hebrew means supplanter, deceiver, cheat. He was conniving and clever. Esau’s name means brute, rough around the edges, a little rugged. He was hairy, manly, and probably dumb as mud.

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The set upDad orders takeout: Gen. 27: 1-17

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One day, Esau went hunting but returned empty handed, tired and hungry. He stopped off at his brother’s house, begging for the lentil soup he smelled from afar off. Jacob connived the ravenous Esau into giving him his birth- right blessing in exchange for the bowl of soup.

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But that was some time ago. Isaac had grown old and feeble, and was near death. He got a hankering for his favorite son Esau’s cooking, and asked him to prepare a meal of wild venison/deer.

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Part II of III: 

 

The Two Home Deliveries

 

Esau happily treks into the mountains to nab a deer for his dad’s meal It could take several days, perhaps a week, to kill it, skin it, lug it home, cut it up, and cook it for his father. But it will be worth it, because when he returns with food for his dad, Esau will get the coveted First Born Blessing from him. He’s already lost his to his younger brother. He wants the remaining blessing that is his due.

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Clearly, Esau didn’t care about losing the Birthright Blessing. Receiving it meant he’d have to stick around and take over for his dad, and run the ranch. Esau had his eye on some of the Arab women from surrounding com- munities, and he knew he couldn’t bring them home, so he’d have to live elsewhere. The First Born Blessing

was the double inheritance. Esau wanted that so he could live elsewhere, in style.

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Isaac wants to perform his final fatherly role of giving the blessing to his favorite son. There was a time when if

a father spoke words over his children, those words came to pass. Fathers, what words are you speaking over your children?

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Meanwhile, Rebecca learns that her husband Isaac is ready to give the First Born Blessing to his favorite son, Esau, who is the rightful heir. But Rebecca wants her favorite son Jacob to have it. Rebecca plots against both her husband and her eldest son Esau. Remember, this is Laban’s sister. Laban is the one who will deceive Jacob for more than 20 years. Rebecca needs to convince her husband that Jacob is Esau, so that Jacob can usurp the blessing. She knows that Isaac is nearly blind; so, while Esau is out hunting, Rebecca cooks a pot of goat stew and seasons the meat to taste like venison.

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She takes the goat skins and whips up some gloves and a nice neck choker to make Jacob’s smooth hands and neck feel hairy like Esau’s. She dresses Jacob in Esau’s old bloody, hunting clothes so that he’ll smell like Esau. Jacob goes in to Isaac in the persona of Esau. Genesis 27:18-29, Types, Shadows and A Perfect Scheme

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It worked. Jacob receives the First Born Blessing from Isaac. The end---right? Not really. There are many hidden nuggets in this story. If we look deeply enough, we will find pictures of Jesus, the privileges of salvation, and more. Where is this? It is in the Types and Shadows.

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The great African, St. Augustine of Hippo (an early church patriarch) said this about the Bible: "The New is in the Old contained. The Old is by the New explained." Jesus said it better: (John 5:39) "Search the Scriptures, for you think you have eternal life just because you memorized the scriptures but what you don’t realize is that the scriptures are pointing you to me."

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God embedded allegories, parables, or Types and Shadows that provided pictures of things to come to the savvy reader of the Old Testament. Paul often referred to them as mysteries. God kept some things unclear to the unbeliever, but expected His own to study and decipher these mysteries so that we could discover the hidden pictures and messages of the bible.

 

The obvious message in this story is that God recognizes our frailties, our shortcomings, our imperfections, but loves us in spite of them. His mercy far exceeds our sinfulness. There is more.

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Esau is actually a type of or a picture of Jesus. How can that be? Who is the beloved Son, in whom the Father is well pleased? Doesn’t that describe Esau in this passage? Does it also describe Jesus? If only for a small freeze-frame in time, Esau depicts Jesus.

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Jesus said, "If you ask anything in my name, God (the Father) will give it you." Jacob, the maggot, the deceiver and cheat, came camouflaged in the name of Esau. Isaac, like God the Father, automatically responded, "Yes," to his Beloved Son.

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Jacob is a picture of the Church body. Jacob didn’t deserve his father’s blessing. But he received it anyway. We, the church, have unmerited favor with the Father. Isaac gave the blessing to Jacob, because under the covering of a sacrificed animal and a blood-stained garment, Jacob looked like his first born, beloved Son, a type of Jesus.

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What This Tells Us

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There is a covering for the church body that is so fool-proof that it compels God to treat us as if we are his beloved son, Jesus. That covering is the robe of righteousness. Under the covering of righteousness, and in accordance with the spirit of adoption, we immediately become a joint heir with Jesus in the majestic family of God. We are immediately transported to the throne room with right standing before God.

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Last of three parts: Legal Sons of God

 

In the Heavenly throne room, we are "seated not with Christ, but in Christ." (Ephesians 2:6) The scriptural use of the phrase, "In Him…" is actually adoption language. We immediately become entitled to kingdom privilegesauthority, provision, protection, and power. We are always entitled to more than enough.


Outside of him, maybe you used to be a thieving drug addict. But in him, not only are you no longer a thieving addict, but, as an adopted Son of God. You never were a thieving addict, because your adopted father never was. (Isaiah 43:25, Hebrews 10:17, and Hebrews 8:12)will remember your sins no more.
 

Your past has been blotted out. Your birth certificate has been altered. You are now a son of the living God, walk- ing in the power and love of "Abba father" (Romans 8:15) You also become a citizen of heaven. The Holy Spirit has enshrouded you in righteousness, which alters you so precisely within this covering that God promises to treat you as if you were Jesus Himself. You radiate His sinless presence before the Father.
 

We are in Christ and He is without sin, past, present, and future; therefore we are without sin, past, present and future. We can now ask Anything in the name of, or under the authority of Jesus, as if we were actually Jesus the first born, the beloved Son of the living God.


So, let’s go back now: Jacob gets the blessing from his father Isaac. What is that blessing? Let’s take a look in
Genesis 27: 28, 29:

 

Blessing One: Abundance, Prosperity. "God give thee the dew of heaven, and the fatness (continuous excess) of the earth, and corn and wine in plenty." (Genesis 27: 28) This calls for a year-round harvest; wheat and corn in the spring and summer, grapes and wine in the fall and winter. These are all prosperity terms.


Blessing Two: Authority, Position, Respect. "Let people serve thee [and] nations bow down to thee. Be lord over your brethren. Let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee." (Genesis 27: 29[a])

 

This blessing will trickle all the way down to a teenager named Joseph. Even the armies of Satan must bow down to you. Isis, El Qaeda, Ku Klux Klan, Proud Boysall must bow down to you. Drug addiction, pornography, adult- ery, lying, stealing, sickness and disease, poverty, lack, and every form of debauchery must bow down to you.


Blessing Three: Protection. "Cursed is everyone that curses you, and blessed is everyone that blesses you." (Gen. 27: 29[b]). God has given us supernatural protection, beyond our ability to protect ourselves.
 

Let this 3-part blessing become familiar; it’s your adopted son blessing (same as first-born son). Throughout the Bible we see that God has blessed His first-born sons to prosper, giving us ruling authority, and putting a hedge of protection around us. "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them."  (Genesis 34: 7)

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But we must get the sin-covering Robe of Righteousness on and keep it on. The essence of Jesus—His very beingis woven into the fabric! That’s why the Bible tells us to "put on Christ." (Gal 3:27)


At the Academy Awards fest on the red carpet, the stars are asked, "Who are you wearing?" They will say the designer's nameGivenchy, Pierre Cardin, Yves St Laurent, et al. Further, a stylist has made them look like a superstar celebrity who deserves to be honored and admired by all, even if they’ve never been nominated to receive anything.


Church, who are you wearing? Hopefully, Jesus. But are you dressed well enough forthe part? Who is your stylist? The Holy Spirityour teacher, your guideis the one who gets you made up in your Jesus look-alike persona. He is your stylist.
 

Rebecca, for an instance, represents a type of the Holy Spirit, preparing us to come before God, the Father, knowing that in our own selves, we do not deserve to stand before God or to receive His blessings, but we get them anyway when shrouded in the Robe of Righteousness, looking and behaving like Jesus.


Jacob did exactly as Rebecca instructed him and went boldly into the presence of His Father. The right covering and obedience will garner access to the throne room for us. When we have access, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16)
 

In conclusion, church, it is time to get dressed to impress, and be blessed!

White Evangelical Church: Repentance

from Generational Sin and Iniquity 

By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

Millions across the world followed the Derek Chauvin case, as did this writer, and wondered how many on-lookers of the video actually understood what they had witnessed  The bible calls it iniquity, taken from the Latin in-aequus, meaning without fair- ness, equality, justice.  Old and New testaments treat iniquity as a category of the most wicked and evil sins. Iniquity is defined as sin at its most horrendously gross level, often including satanic demons to assist in the seductive captivation of the will of humans. 

 

Something decidedly evil, a demonic presence, had commenced to openly express itself through Chauvin. This evil presence has been on American soil for more than 400 years. It was coopera- tive with its partner racism as a consciousness of gross sin because of race, resulting in grievous injustices. 

 

What happened that day was egregiously offensive, murderous, self aggrandizing, despicable, inhumane. This was iniquity at its

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boldest, taking full occupancy in a  human mind, will, and intellect

(the soul), at the cellular levelhaving passed contagiously from forefathers. The bible labels them generational curses. Racial iniquity relishes in the ease with which a human being can be induced to openly  and publicly commit an atrocious act against another human being. Lynchings, castrations, tar and feathering, kangaroo courts, immolations, stoning, crucifixionwere all crowd gatherers.  

 

Chauvin allowed his mind to be taken over, and his body followed suit. He was so fully given over that he would not veer from his course. Nor would he allow others to stop him. The demonic presence cared about neither Floyd nor Chauvin. Both men were mere instruments (very much like the three men in the cold blooded Ahmaud Arbery murder case.) Iniquity ruled those two occasions, satiating its rabid hunger and bloodthirstiness. In Floyd’s case, it took the life of one, and putrefied the soul of another. The bonus for Satan’s team included two other officers who were neither strong enough nor good enough men, choosing to do nothing while a treacherous public execution took place. 

 

The public outcry was instant, the minute the video was aired. Groups and individuals worldwide responded with expressions of unbelief, outcries for justice, anger that such an atrocity occurred in America, in broad daylight. After using Chauvin fully, what/whoever obsessed him immediately discarded him to fend for himself. Before the night ended, he was in trouble.

 

Many liberal churches and other liberal groups joined the chorus, demanding justice and improved police practices. Conspicuous, however, was the very silent White evangelical church. They tried to appear piously sympathetic in subsequent television broadcasts by putting a few token Black leaders out front to express a personal indignation while the White leadership sat silently in the background, occasionally nodding their heads slowly, as if they wanted to depict their unity with the speaker while saying nothing. 

 

But the White evangelical church has a history.  It was always on the side of this iniquitous monstrosity called Racism.  This sin category has remained as an intractable indice of the historical iniquities of the White American evangelical church from its onset, with blood on both leadership and their congregation’s hands, passing from father to son to grandson to great grandson from past to future in the memory of each cell.

 

Very few historians discuss the sinister details of an 1877 meeting held in secret in the south attended by bankers, plantation owners, judges, lawyers, lawmakers, and clergy, whose agenda was to discuss the best method of getting Blacks to return to a slave-like state in the south. They needed their stoop laborers to work the fields again, for free.  The “for free” part involved a clever and diabolical plan proffered primarily by the bankers, but agreed upon by all in attendance.

 

It was the secret pact that these men made with the devil that brought about Jim Crow Laws, voting restrictions, and the advent of every other policy and law designed to keep former slaves harvesting one of the greatest wealth building commodities in the south:  Cotton.  Cotton was every bit as much of a cash crop as today’s oil fields.

 

The bankers had come with a plan. Mostly Jewish, these men knew that they would suffer fates as badly as the Negroes if they did not gain the respect of the leaders in attendance. So they brought a super plan to bear. They introduced a concept that seemed fair, but was never intended to be. 

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Part II. White Evangelical Church: Repentance from Generation Sin and Iniquity

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Black slaves were the descendants of pyramid designers and builders, pharmaceutical apothecary medicines, the geniuses of mummification, mathematics, astronomy, inventors of written languages, creators of one of the first universities in the world (Timbuktu, early 1300’s) among other things. They were an intelligent and noble people.  Yet, owners had imposed restrictions preventing them from using their intelligence. Decrying the brilliance and humanity of Blacks was a ruse.

 

Slavery was never about having located an inferior, sub-human race who could only do menial tasks for the White man. It was always about discovering  a means for exponentializing man-made wealth. The love of money figured first and foremost in the decision to engage in chattel slavery.

 

The south suffered great financial loss during the Civil War. Southern aristocrats saw the revival of the cotton industry as the south’s only salvation. They came up with a grand scheme. It meant prosperity for banks, planta- tion owners, and every other business entity that counted. Poor Whites might  be negatively impacted, but its primary purpose was to morph the southern Black man into a slave hybrid.

 

Sharecropping was the innovative concept. Crop owners could provide a minimal stipend against promised wages for former slaves, while appearing to be benevolent. At the end of the crop season, all debts would then be settled, including everything the sharecroppers had placed on account for food, clothing, and tools. The balance was either what the owner owed or what the sharecropper owed. You can guess who ended up owing.   

 

But there was an even more diabolical plot. The north had its military foot on the south’s neck, quelling all potential uprisings, and protecting the recently freed slaves. The south wanted the Yankee soldiers out. The bankers, along with a committee of townspeople representing clergy, business, law, educators and land owners concluded that the south had one important thing to leverage: 

 

Rutherford B. Hayes, a liberal Republican (north) was in a dead heat for the presidency of the US with Samuel B. Tilden, a conservative Democrat (south). They fought over electoral college votes. The compromise was to offer the presidency to Rutherford Hayes, in exchange for autonomy in the south. The north agreed to the compromise and pulled its troops out. Hayes was declared the President of the United States.

 

The Ku Klux Klan, a radical terrorist hate-group, had already been operational in parts of the south, but spread like wildfire with increased membership, mainly targeting Blacks who tried to vote and Whites who tried to register them. Meanwhile, hoards of repressive laws in the south known as Jim Crow laws accomplished two things: (1) Prevented forward economic progress of Black Americans, and (2) Prevented Black Americans from having the same access as Whites to constitutionally protected rights.

 

Groups like the KKK did not wait for laws to take effect before exacting their own brand of justice outside of the law and the courts. Lynching, castrations, rapes, mutilations and other atrocities against Blacks and Black sympathizers became their hallmark.

 

Slavery, which existed from 1619  to 1865, was essentially resurrected in the south under Jim Crow laws from 1877 until 1964, when the federal Civil Rights Act was enacted, guaranteeing protected groups full access to their constitutional rights. Notwithstanding, prior to, during, and even after the CRA of 1964, the saga of mistreatment of Blacks in America flourished in both the north and the south. 

 

From a Christian point of view, the sin category was racism, but racism was far reaching, entailing a perception

of superiority based primarily on skin color with White skin purportedly belonging to the superior people. It demanded entitlements based on race. This sin against Blacks manifested as rape, mutilation, tar and feathering, lynching, murder, bombing of churches, police brutality, castrations, assassinations of civil rights leaders, and other horrendous crimes. 

 

Qualified Blacks were refused jobs and fair housing and continued to be brutalized by racists throughout the north and south. It was manifest in public education, housing, churches, restaurants, and in general every institution in the nation. The same spirit continues today in the form of suppressed voting rights, job discrimination and gerrymandering to minimize the effects of the Black block vote, along with police brutality, including senseless murders of Black citizens.

 

Neither Blacks nor Whites today know much about African History, including the atrocities of enslavement or beyond that. The question is, why did Satan choose Blacks to become slaves to the White world? This writer has one answer for consideration.

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Part III continues. 

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Part III. White Evangelical Church: Repentance from Generation Sin and Iniquity

 

Judeo/Christian history and contemporary American biblical commentary have willfully overlooked some his- torical facts. One of them is that Ham and his relatives did not turn Black when he sinned against his parents. He was already Black, just as Shem and Japheth were. They were all descendants of Adam and Eve, who were Black people, created in the sun-drenched levant of Africa. Noah, Abram, Isaac, Israel, and every biblical Jew down through Jesus (in human form) were Black. The Bible is essentially Black history. 

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It is likely that the Blacks in Africa who were enslaved in the Americas were some of the Diaspora of Jews who had lost their right to Israel, and were in such disobedience that they suffered the biblically epic punishment, as described in Genesis of being slaves for 400 years to evil strangers.

 

Genesis 15: 9-21 

            13 "Know … that for 400 years your descendants

will be strangers in a country not their own and that they

will be enslaved and mistreated there. 

14 "But I will punish the nation who enslaves them, and

… they will come out with great possessions."

 

American Blacks would then be the descendants of Jews who had sinned greatly against God and then tried to outrun God by hiding out with their native African cousins but God knew where they were. Their punishment is spelled out concisely in Deuteronomy (28: 16-68). There are no other people who have come close to meeting every detail in this passage of the Bible. Chattel slavery and Jim Crow filled every horror. The first date in which an African slave was sold on American soil was in late October of 1619. In January 2020, some 400 years later, the plague known as COVID-19 or coronavirus hit America. (Exodus 26)

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White evangelical church, you are not immune from God’s wrath. You have mistreated God’s Jewish people.  Some will say, "I didn’t do it; that was my parents or great grandparents, and I shouldn’t have to pay for them."  But God says, "The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, even unto the third and fourth genera- tions."  You could be wrong.

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Gamal Abdul Nassar, president of Egypt in the early 1950’s spoke harshly about the Caucasian peoples who had come to inhabit Israel in 1948 as Jewish descendants of the original Israelis. His words were, "You people left here Black, and you came back White. We will never accept you." The White Jewish settlers, primarily descendants of the Khazarian/Ashkenazi Jews of Irani/Turk/Slavic/Germanic backgrounds, have no cellular DNA connection to the early Jews of Israel. They have also attempted to detach themselves from Africa, even referring to their homeland as the "Middle East," when there is no such place on Earth. It is a fake geographical designation, which allows these inhabitants to deny that they are non-Black people who claim to be returning to a land previously occupied by all Black people on the Black continent of Africa.

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White evangelical church, your arrogance has destroyed your walk. You’ve sold your soul for potential political power, and in spite of the debauchery and racism that you tacitly approved or overlooked, you did not gain the power you craved. You’ve stopped preaching about sin. You may never have planned to call racism a sin or to call for church-wide repentance from this iniquitous generational curse. 

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But you need to do that in a hurry. Punitive discipline is at your door. Your people should be told to scurry to the altar posthaste, repent, and beg God’s forgiveness. Then all of you should seek deliverance from the hatred deposited into you from several generations back. 

 

God did not end COVID early, as some of  you had prophesied. You have besmirched the new president of the United States chosen by God. God’s young Black men are dying daily at the hand of a network of racists mas- querading as peace officers and vigilantes, and you know by now that Satan must be looking for a specific young Black man who will usher in the final days (perhaps "Elijah?"). Satan is adamant about delaying this event by destroying as many Black males as he can, and you’ve said and done nothing.

 

Exodus 26, has already begun, starting with this ungodly plague and its variants in America, with the possibility

of punitive events that are seven times worse for five disciplinary cycles, until you either die or repent.

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Blacks, your 400 years of punishment appear to be over, but you are not free from the micro-cellular level of self-hatred that these past 400 years have imprinted into your soul. You must be renewed by the transforming of your minds through the Word. God’s plan is not that more young Blacks should die, but rather that you should thrive. It’s your time!

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Black Americans come from a people who labored hard and lived under great duress. But God’s blessing has returned to His people. The children of Israel left Egypt with all the silver and gold of their captors. It was, in essence, their "back pay."  Black survivors of the Diaspora, fellow descendants of slaves, your "back pay" will come as the blessing of the Lord which "maketh rich, and addeth no sorrow (labor) with it." (Proverbs 10:22).

 

But remain diligent, Black man. Satan continues to seek your demise, thinking he can thwart God’s plan. He is stupid that way. So are the people he uses.

Black Dating Over 40 (?)

By VICTORIA GRIMMETT RABB

I recently read a Face Book posting from a man who complained that women should know they are
expected to have sex with him when he takes them out for dinner. He actually believed that he was booking an evening of fanciful delight by including a food feature, and was upset at the women who wouldn’t put out after dinner.


Sex is understandably a regular recreational pursuit for singles, because it’s fun and exciting with a compatible partner, and it’s not always readily available without some effort. But there is much more to it than its stimulating property. My rationale is bible-based, but not without some sociological sup- port. I am a practicing Christian, but I haven’t always been, and I don’t want to use this time to be preachy. I just want us all to understand what is happening with mature Black men and women in and out of the church, so that everybody gets it, when it comes to sex.


Sex joins souls. That is its primary purpose, with procreation being secondary, and illustration being the tertiary purpose (as a parabolic type or shadow of the bride of Christ.) The gentleman in ques- tion is saying that a plate of food gives him the right to hitchhike onto my psyche, risk a potential "commemorative human reproduction," and compromise my role as a member of the bridal body of Christ, as he deep dives into my lady parts, exiting only after depositing some wretched hodge-podge essence of witless souls with whom he has randomly bonded in recent months.


Seriously?


I’ve accepted many dinner first dates, where the gentleman brings me home, waits until I get my front door open and says "Goodnight. I had a great time. Can I call you?" A brief follow-up hug is first date decorum for me. Buying dinner for me does not equate with buying or renting my body for the night. You would be disap- pointed if you expected that. Perhaps you should make your intentions clear up front. Lead with, "I’d like to have dinner and sex with you. Pick you up at 7?"


Your game sounds weak, mister. It speaks to how you regard women as mere playthings. If/when you do get to enjoy the privilege of playtime with a woman on the first date, it will be because she wants the same thing you want, dinner or not. You’d both be mere playthings. Some of you guys on my Face Book feed make my personal choice of abstinence difficult, because you are gorgeous and difficult to resist with all of your attractive accoutrements, including being witty, intelligent, talented, accomplished, or a combo of these traits and more, and while the muscles are a value-add to gawk at, most of us women don’t mind at all if the midriff is cuddly or just a little pudgy.

 

But attractions notwithstanding, our end goals may greatly differ, so we should start out with some clarity. Neither your gorgeous presence nor your dinner offer would be construed as an equitable incentive for me. I cook gourmet! Most women over 40 are merely looking for that nice guy who doesn’t want to play the field, who wants to hang out with her, who could laugh and talk for hours on the phone with her, teaching her, learning from her, flirting, exchanging sentiments of affection, being sexually exclusive with her, and being open to a possible long term of togetherness.


A woman over 40 wants to get to know you, to size you up, and to see if you fit in her life, and vice versa. Dinner together is a great way to introduce yourselves at your own pace. You could give her a high-end experience, or maybe after a movie, share great tacos from the local street vendor. If she can feel your contentment in being with her, she’s happy. A second dinner date with no strings attached might be refreshing for you both. And remember, after she pays for her hair, mani-, pedi- and make up, she will have paid more to go out with you than you paid to take her out. But some- times more sinister things await.


Sexual hook ups can be serious and life altering. If you are on the constant prowl for sexual smash time, you are skimming along the edge of a dangerous precipice. If you have no concerns about the character of your partner, you raise additional alarms. STD’s are real, owing to the proclivities of encounters in the dating sex-pool. But paradigm down-shifts in your own mental soundness are also real. There’s always that one man or woman that you wish you hadn’t slept with because that person seemed a bit unstable during dinner, and afterwards they kept calling at all hours or doing drive-bys.

 

You might subsequently find yourself behaving just like that person, perhaps for the rest of your life. Recognize that you cannot shield yourself from a soul tie with a prophylactic. An incorporeal transfer will still occur. A spi- ritual amalgamation will happen (intentionally designed to bind husbands and wives) and despite your best protective efforts to remain single and free, you will have entered a long term "marriage" contract with that person’s contaminated soul. A cocktail blend of that person’s multiplicity of poor choices are now operating in you.


There are consequences.
 

Bon Appetit.

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BIBLICAL PURPOSE OF SEX


1. SOUL TIES Gen. 2:24, Gen. 34:1-3, Matt .19: 4-6
2. PROCREATION Gen. 1:27,28, Gen. 15:1-4
3. TYPES and SHADOWS Eph. 5:32, Matt. 25:10, Rev. 21:2, 9, Rev.

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Victoria Grimmett Rabb is a columnist based in Los Angeles.

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