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Once again, it is high-time for us all to hop aboard The “Holy-day” or “Holi-day” Hamster Wheel! A “glorious time” for us to heap upon ourselves enormous, untold amounts of completely unnecessary stress and financial burden (because This Present Evil World, together with Babylon the Harlot Church, say for us to do so!); all to find that “perfect gift” to give unto that “special someone,” on one day out of the year, in hopes of making up for all of our bigotry, animosity, indifference and hatred that we show toward one another throughout the other 364 or 365 days of the year. Be honest, doesn’t this sound just like our Heavenly Father’s love in The Lamb? Yes, this is sarcasm. If there is no genuine love… if there is no desire for genuine relationship… even worse, if there is no desire for genuine fellowship… then, there is no point! Our gifts are become a debt, an “I owe you”-obligation; because a certain day of the calendar year has come around, revolved, again! This is a yoke of bondage, indicating repetitive cycles of self-destructive behaviors linked unto specific days, and months, and times, and years; even as Apostle Paul described our “meagerly existing” under the Law: “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain, [*Galatians 4: 9-11 (KJV)] and again, “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday (*holiday), or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which were a shadow of things to come; but the body is of (the substance is) Christ (Himself). [Colossians 2: 16, 17 (KJV)]” We have become just like natural Israel, under the Old Testament, bringing our gifts and sacrifices on a particular “holy-day” or “holi-day”; but with no interest in having heart-felt, meaningful relationships (much less, fellowship) with one another, throughout the rest of the year! So, some obligated “gift” makes up for all of that, for all of our self-righteous bullshit?? We are delusional. The primary attribute of eternal life is our Heavenly Father’s love in The Lamb. Eternal life is love; and love is eternal life. And specifically, eternal life is the love between the Father and His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. What does eternal life have to do with the manipulative, controlling, monetary-based, materialistic relationship between a pharaoh and his slaves? Whoever hates their brother is a murderer; and no murderer has eternal life… our Father’s love, in The Lamb, and for the whole world… abiding in them. We love “God,” but we hate people? We love “God,” but we hate one another: “I have God. I don’t need you?” Sounds like, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing… including you!” says the church of Laodicea. If this is true of us, then we don’t even know God; much less, do we have His true image and likeness resting within our hearts!
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