Tuesday, July 25, 2006

An Epistle I Recieved from an old friend

christopher, an apostle of christ,

i firmly believe in the continuing grace of our Lord and have been inspired through prayer and constant meditation to dispatch countless messages over the passing years towards to end of reinstigating the tradition of letter-writing amongs the churches.

many times i have felt compelled to write you such letters but have felt fettered by my lack of knowledge concerning your current spiritual state of being.

a great Evil has spread itself upon this earth, as indicated by our scriptures.

false prophets are among us.

we live in a world, and specifically a nation, of christians, and yet, our Faith in our Lord has been twisted to suit the desires of those who we should rightfully call our enemies.

I speak not of other cultures and faiths.

I speak of men of great power who profess a devotion to Christ, but who also seem to have a tendency to drop high powered explosives on people they've NEVER WITNESSED TO or met face to face.

In light of the current events in this world, i have found myself entirely devoted to a reinterpretation of INTERPRETATION of scripture.

For far too long have the proponents of false doctrines been the gatekeepers of our Lord's compassion. Their love is weak and spread too thinly across too much unbroken bread. Their COMMUNION is mere ritual, NOT spiritual and communal experience.

The Promise of our Lord does not reside in the petty affiliations of secular rulers of modern nations, regardless of the extent to which they profess OUR faith for the sake of THEIR election to national privilege.

They profane the name of our Lord through their murder and conquest.

They dare to speak His name and recite his scripture in their speeches and public addresses.

The time has come for all true believers to separate themselves from the lesser, human aspects of spiritual history.

You and I, Christopher, as heralds of His Word, MUST feel obligated to speak the truth.

The so-called Christians of the present era are NOT sacrificing themselves for the sake of martyrdom before the eyes of Roman patricians.

They are NOT dying upon the sands of Coliseums.

They are hypnotized by glowing-machine-pictures to the point of believing the exact inversion of our Lord's sacred Word.

The most immoral and profane of rulers has defiled our faith by invoking Christ's name to further the greedy cause of conquest and invasion as prophesied in the texts that we share and value.

I for one will not stand by idly as the virtue of our Lord is desecrated by the rulers of this new pagan Rome.

I request that you pray and mediate ceaselessly, as I'm sure you are doing, concerning the matters that I have now addressed through the modern means made available by the progress afforded by the governance and glory of our Lord.

I do not hesitate in admitting that I have spent the past few years in service to my own devotion. My prayers and worship have been endless and strong, and yet they were self-directed.

The Lord has ripped me from this self-indulgence and charged me with confronting my fellow Christians with the message He has given me.

Please share this word with those you trust and with those you know to hold Christ's name and glory above present historical and cultural circumstances.

Our ranks have been infiltrated by machine-image Chaldeans, false prophets, and politicians eager to gain favor through adherence to the local imperial cult.

I have not known your company or voice for quite some time, but trust that we have remained united in Christ and remember that your mission is NEVER complete until your hair is grey, your belly is sagging, your voice is spent, and your body is destroyed-

your physical form ruined not through torture and tribulation as our former historical churches have experienced at the hands of mad imperial power,

but through the joyous proclamation of Christ's Love and Divinity!

I am not instructing you to do anything, for i acknowledge your senior knowledge in such affairs, but I would invite you to use whatever means available to spread this word that I have sent you.

Speak it to a single love you trust, or even go so far as to read these words to a small group of close friends.

Either way, it is of no concern.

Our union with Christ in Eternity is promised.

Considering this, all ventures yield value and spiritual profit, and yet are forced to stand in a relative awe before the absolute of the One and Only.

In closing i will say that if troubles come upon you, remember these words:

No imperial sword may pierce the breastplate of His righteousness, which adorns the body of all who profess.

No worldly affliction possesses the power necessary to invalidate OUR FAITH in Christ, regardless of the lies of conquerers and thieves.

In closing I can only say, in love and devotion to you through Christ, that I would gladly meet you upon Roman sands and contest the might of hungry lions, singing praises to our Lord before the mortal gaze of any earthly false emperor!

Let he who doubts these words meet us both in Eternity and present any and all objections!

May our deeds be deemed worthy upon His return. SELAH!

Jacob Eckstein

Monday, July 03, 2006

Why I gave up consuming "La Biblia en un Ano"


Two reasons: 1. Kings is pretty confusing in Spanish. 2. If you miss a day its all over. No more Bible in one year. I think my solution will be to read whole books of the Bible in a sitting as much as is possible.