Tag: Jesus

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life

I believe the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a representation of Jesus Christ and the Tree of Life is a representation of the Holy Spirit, or God’s wife. This is because Jesus is the gnosis, or ‘knowledge’, the embodiment of God’s perfect knowledge. And the the Spirit is what gives life: In Him was Life (the Holy Spirit). That is why they are both located in the middle of the Garden of Eden, Son and Mother nestled in the heart of God, Almight ALHYM. Remember that ALHYM is a plural sovereign name, which inherently denotes the Trinity, along with all of God’s other Sides perhaps.

In the Beginning, God’s spirit hovered over the waters and made YHWH and YHWY created all of creation, including Day and Night and Light and Dark which in the Hebrew language not only means literal lightness and darkness, but figurative light and dark, or…..good and evil. The beloved disciple, John, also tells us that Jesus was the Word and that the Word was in the Beginning, the Word was with God and the Word was God. This means the Word embodied the Spirit of YHWH, therefore, Jesus and YHWH are one and the same. John also delivers to us a parting understanding of Jesus in the last book of the bible, his Revelation: He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. Yeshua/Jesus is to be understood as existing at both ends of ANY spectrum and encompassing ALL in-between. This is the same concept as illustrated by the concept of ‘good and evil’.

When Eve and Adam disobeyed God and allowed desire to gain a foothold in their lives–which was the first act of idolatry in the story of man–they put in place the necessity of a messiah in order that God would not lose His entire beloved creation of man, those He had created to love and be loved by Him. That is why He told Adam that to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would cause death. Adam and Eve activated the sacrificial process of death by holy blood in this seemingly simple act of eating a piece of fruit. For some reason, God waited 62 generations from Adam to bring the messiah Jesus Christ to earth in the form of Yeshua through the vessel of Mary. His time is not our time.

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” ~Genesis 3:22-25

“To keep the way of the tree of life” in this passage of scripture means that because of God’s swift action of banishing now-sinful man from the Garden of Eden, the Holy Spirit was not also defiled by Man. God is protecting His wife you see. This is what I believe Jesus understands when he says, to our consternation:

Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. ~Matthew 12:31-32

YHWH took death upon Himself in the form of Yeshua, Jesus as Christ, as commanded by ALHYM because the created beings of man thought they could supersede God and His law. But as Jesus came to save and be the bridge between man and God, He also warns us–as God warned Adam–that violating the sacred Holy Spirit will bring irreversible spiritual death, as violating the sacred Gnosis and Word in the Beginning brought physical death.

Holding the concept of God’s Holy Spirit sacred and being reverent to it is all that is necessary. God does not allow her to be visible, indeed most theologians misunderstand the Holy Spirt as not feminine, but masculine, which is just crazy to me. But God allows this to protect her. Only those who search hard–but not too hard–will understand this. To search too hard might mean you begin worshiping her as the Catholic faith does, or as ancient people did by erecting Asherah poles next to alters; as modern new-agers attempt to do with Gaia and goddess worship.

So just as Adam named Eve as the “mother of all life”, so was the Holy Spirit the Mother of all life, and still is through God’s protection because God intervened in the Garden before man could also destroy Life, represented by the Holy Spirit. Active Satan worshipers blaspheme the Spirit when they seek access to God’s realm through the denial of Jesus and practice evil deeds such as blood-letting, blood lust, murder, sexual immorality, and the most vile practices demons can conjure. This is mirrored in the Garden when Satan bypassed Adam and tempted Eve, because he was ultimately after the Tree of Life, God’s wife; and he understood that Eve was the weaker vessel.

As a final parting thought, consider that the Garden of Eden was a literal heaven on earth where men and women do not have sexual relations. As it is written, Adam only ‘knew’ Eve once they were banished from the Garden. This was to bring about the lineage that would bear the Savior. Imagine a heaven so good that sex isn’t even a part of it. Wow!

Angels with Attributes of a Man and the Holy Trinity; and Demons

……four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say,“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” ~Revelation 4:6-8 [Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Cherubim,-Description-Of%5D

This revelation by John echoes Ezekiel’s vision of angels who worship God in Heaven. In Revelation, they are 4 separate creatures, and in Ezekiel, they have four sides to their beings: Man, Bull/Ox, Lion, and Eagle, along with 3 pairs of wings and wheels with eyes all around. Man represents humans, the Bull represents God the Father, the Lion represents Jesus Christ, and the Eagle represents the feminine Holy Spirit. The wings denote power and intention to lift up and appear where they will, and the wheels with eyes show the ability to move where they will and to see everything.

This means that angels indeed walk among men and have the face of a man, and the attributes of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They appear and move everywhere and see everything. Their whole purpose is to worship God, day and night.

Conversely, demons are not depicted physically in the bible but prefer to do their wicked deeds in the dark and can be beautiful or ugly. They are spirits consigned to this earth until Jesus’ return after being cast out of Heaven for rebelling against God with Lucifer, their leader. They are shapeshifters and appear in whatever form can wreak havoc and terror on the psyches of God’s people. They seem real but are not real; this is part of the magic they can perform, just as in the magicians in the Old Testament. They can appear and disappear at random. They are known to us mostly as UFOs, aliens, orbs, cryptids, and other monsters. They manifest when they are sought out, such as with satanic rituals, spiritism, fortune telling, dabbling in the occult, and deviant behaviors.

Just as angels literally manifest as humans, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares,” [Hebrews 13:2] I think demons can also manifest as humans. This is really strange, but I believe it is true. I don’t understand how, but the ‘why’ is to turn God’s people away from Him to the devil, and to help deflect truth into half-truth, which he is expert at (as in the Garden of Eden).

As others have said, it is good to know the truth of these things, but it is not good to expend energy on understanding the devil or his demons; we should only spend our energy on knowing God.

Because what you seek, you will find.

Losing Your Mind

When Nebuchadnezzar erected a huge golden statue to himself for his people to bow down and worship, God befuddled his mind so much that this mighty king was consigned to wander about like an ox and eat grass for seven years: he lost his mind. The longer King Saul ruled, the more corrupt he became. His thinking was debased, and he was envious of the future King David day and night. He became paranoid and murderous, and turned from the ways of God: he lost his mind. Ironically, the only thing that gave him comfort was the music from David’s lyre.

When the great Apostle Paul was imprisoned, he wrote letters to his spiritual son Timothy on how to be a proper pastor of a new church. Paul admonishes him that in the times to come, people would leave the faith, clinging to teachings of demons, having become seared in their conscious minds. They would lose all ability to see truth and reason: i.e. they will lose their mind.

While ‘brain’ is not specifically mentioned in scripture, what ancient authors of the bible meant for brain is ‘mind’. In Hebrew mind is ‘leb’ meaning the heart, or inner person, which only God can see but out of which flows action and intent. In Greek mind is ‘nous’ which means mind or intellect, and which is the fount of our heart and intentions. In the examples above, we see a picture of important, lofty men losing their minds, or ‘going crazy’, as we say. Today we tend to think of this as a ‘mental health’ issue. As I have outlined in previous posts, modern man assigns mental illness to the domain of physical illness. But from ancient times until about the 1970’s, mental illness was always understood as spiritual illness, or sin.

As I have outlined in previous posts, modern man assigns mental illness to the domain of physical illness, or disease of the brain. But from ancient times until about the 1970’s, mental illness was always understood as spiritual illness, or sin.

But what if wrong thinking in the mind (mental illness) really does lead someone to ‘lose’ their mind? What if this happens not only in the abstract, but in the concrete? What if God actually causes physical changes to occur in the brain due to sinful thinking? That is my new theory and understanding. I hypothesize that despite millenia of false teaching by philosophers, we cannot separate the body from the mind. God intended them to work together. The body is rarely mentioned in scriptures except as flesh to be persecuted daily:

This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. ~Galatians 5:16-17

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. ~Romans 12:2

To try and clarify this idea, we need to just understand a human being as one unit in its entirety. We are so used to separating out the outer man from the inner man (physical from mental), but we are one being, not two in one. And this one human being is corruptible in one way only, by sin. Being corrupted by sin causes sickness in us. This sickness occurs outwardly and inwardly, in ways that are visible to the naked eye and ways that are invisible to the naked eye but sometimes visible with sorcery (x-rays, scans, imaging).

The devil has done his work through philosophy and empty deceit (as Paul warned us about) and duped man into thinking that man’s mind and body function independently of each other, and most importantly, independently of God, or the spiritual realm. He has tricked nearly everyone into thinking that what ails man is not spiritual sickness, or sin, but physical and mental illness. And because we don’t understand the true root of our problem, we accept the devil’s offer of his false god, a physician (or its duplicate), to heal us.

If we don’t understand that our human self is sick for one reason only, sin, we cannot seek the correct cure, which is only from God (or His duplicate)–JESUS CHRIST.

One man has one disease: Sin.

One man has One Cure: Jesus.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ~1 Timothy 4:1-3

Besides being an obvious denunciation of the Catholic doctrine of unmarried and celibate priests, the above passage gives us the intriguing concept that in our times, even the elect will not give heed to the Holy Spirit, but to false spirits/demons and believe in their lies. Their conscience will become seared. In the Greek, conscience is συνείδησις, suneidésis, Strong’s entry 4893. It basically means moral consciousness, having to do with the mind. As we have learned, the mind is the inner self, the intellect, the heart, our moral compass. It’s what makes us human and different from the animals. It’s our brain, plus a lot more.

Seared is Strong’s entry 2743: καυτηριάζω, or kautériazó: To cauterize. Which we can understand in our language: a burning or branding that kills the flesh and is irreversible. Paul is teaching Timothy that anyone–even those who should know better as instructed by the Holy Spirit–is vulnerable to false teachings which come by demons and which will cauterize our consciousness. This implies an irreversible state or condition.

The brains of patients with dementia and Alzheimers disease have been studied, and researchers have found varying degrees of corruption from microvascular changes to black necrotic regions which cause outright holes in the brain. Obviously where there is lack of blood flow, tissue dies because the bible tells us the life is in the blood. When tissue dies, it withers away. This sounds like the concept of cauterization. If we use our mind to focus on idols and false spirits, and not what we should be focused on, God and the Holy Spirit, our conscious minds will become seared; it will cauterize our brain. Alzheimer’s and dementia are not organic diseases caused by what we eat, they are death of our flesh caused by sinful thoughts stemming from a sinful heart.

“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” ~Jesus

God is clearly telling us through His great Apostle Paul who speaks for Christ that if we do not use our life to serve the Spirit, but instead use our bodies and minds to serve satan and his demons, and believe in their false doctrines, He will allow us to fall into sickness, which is really unrepentant sin. Because we are one being, not two, this sickness will pervade our body, inside and out. On the contrary, the act of worshiping God and thinking night and day on His law and His ways, protects our minds from sin and keeps us healthy.

There are many ways to lose your mind and it manifests in many ways. At first you might appear to be depressed. Then paranoid. Avoidant. Envious. Angry. Murderous. Manic. Selfish to an extreme. If you live long enough, these all lead to one place: Loss of memory and executive function. Dementia. Or the dreaded worst dementia: Alzheimer’s disease.

Now Jesus made it clear that not all disease was due to sin. He said sometimes disease happens so that God’s glory made be made evident through it. But most sickness is due to sin, and sin leads to death. Men who use their minds not as they should, to think about lustful things, murderous things, all the things listed in the bible as sin will not escape with an intact mind. They will go crazy. And it won’t be due to what they eat or due to genetics, it will be due to their sinful heart. There is no place man can hide from God, not even in his mind.

~Selah

A Prophetic Dream

March 7, 2025

I think I had a prophetic dream from God because there is no way I would have dreamed this on my own. I rarely remember my dreams but this one was vivid. And not anything like the dreams I usually have. I am not an AI artist, but I drew it the best I could. If you mash it up with the featured art of this post, you can get sorta close to what I dreamt, though not with so much color:

To begin, my perspective was looking up into this dome above me as if I were in the center, below it, and it was coming all the way down to the earth. Like I was on a cake plate and the huge domed top was covering me in black. God then made to appear a central area/circle of jumbled numerals with some runes. These appeared as light coming through the black. God could make all of this fade in and out immediately, so it seemed as if it is always there, but you can only see it if He reveals it to you. Although I did not visualize all the numerals, I knew there were around 12, plus about 5 or so runes. The dream then progressed to God revealing the next circle which were symbols which I understood to be astrological symbols. These were scattered about the ring.

Then he paused this revelation, and I noted that I was in a room with a tall square table. I was on one side of the table and there were figures around the table, again about a dozen or so, I am not sure exactly. But one main figure was at the adjacent side and she seemed to stand alone as the leader of this group. Although she led this group, I was the guest of honor here. And I was bereft. I was sobbing and overwhelmed with grief over the annihilation of life and the earth. Someone to my left was ministering to me, but everyone here was just waiting patiently for my human feelings to abate. I was grieving for the end of all things, mostly lost life.

Then I returned to the other perspective and God revealed the next concentric circle to me which were a lot of mathematical calculations. This ring was wider than the others and was full of separate groupings of calculations which I knew to be the secrets of the universe. Finally, the last ring was revealed, and it was geo-locations. I don’t know what units or symbols were here, only what it was. These seemed to be places on the earth where God would rescue His people.

He gave me understanding to know that the center circle was like a grab-bag where He would pull a number or rune and give it to an entity, and if you got the right number, you would be sent to the Light and if not, the Dark. I am assuming the runes were the wrong ‘numbers’. Anyway, He held the power, this is why I call this center circle ‘The Keys’ because that is essentially what they seem to be.

While I did not see Jesus, I assume He was above all of this. I had the sense throughout my dream I was only interacting with Almighty Alhym, Father God. Of interest, at some point I was made aware that a few others around me who were present (no idea who they were) could not see what I was seeing. Neither could the entities at the square table. That is why I was the guest of honor. God could make these illuminations appear from behind the black dome at His will; fade in and fade out. I asked Him why only I could see it, and He told me it wasn’t important, that I should not seek out why. He told me ‘the devil is in the details’ as if to pursue this knowledge, iniquity would follow.

When I was waking up, I lamented to God about my grief, wondering if my utter sadness meant some of my children had not been saved, and He said to me, “What about My children?” And I realized the truth of this: that there is very little time left to reach people with the gospel and save all those God wants to save, which is everyone. My children should be God’s children.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. ~2 Peter 3:9-10

When I awoke and was processing this prophetic dream, I was like, wow, I knew 12 was significant, and 4, but what about astrological symbols? I know the bible commands us not to dabble in astrology, yet I also know from early in Genesis that He gave us the luminaries and stars for signs to know when to congregate to worship Him. To further help me process this dream, I found this insightful post online:

The Zodiac in Scripture

I also see symbology in my dream related to the 4 rings, which reminds me of the 4 rivers pouring out from the Garden of Eden. The 4-sided table is reminiscent of the 4 faces of prophecy:

4 sides of the Tabernacle encampment, etc.

I know from physics studies that there are literal loopholes in spacetime that demons (and man) can traverse. But God is showing me here that He is still in charge of ALL of it. He can make it appear and disappear at His will. And while satan can calculate wormholes and stargates to other dimensions, time travel, and maybe even read our minds, only God holds the keys to our ultimate fate: Heaven or hell. At the very end, satan, the devil, and their demons are consigned to hell but they are going to work hard to see that as many of God’s people are destroyed with them. And they cannot help but sneak around hiding out in spacetime thinking they are hiding from God. They aren’t. God is outside time. God is the Creator of everything and commands it at His will. God sees everything and everyone. And those not in the Lamb’s Book of Life will perish.

~Selah

What You Seek You Will Find

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. ~Exodus 32:7-9

I have come to understand that we don’t get the message of idolatry that is clearly laid out in the bible, because we do not properly interpret what idolatry is to our modern time, and in our life. Of course most of us would never build a golden calf and bow down and worship it or think that it would be a god or be able to do anything for us. We would need to understand what that would have meant to man in ancient times (3-4,000+ years ago) and then find an appropriate example for our time to fully see what God has for us to see.

I am no historian, but I will apply common sense [hermeneutics] to it. Gold was the most precious material in those days in that part of the world (it might have been diamonds or opals in another place, but it was gold here) and a calf represented youth, vitality, vigor, meat, sustenance, longevity, prosperity, and other things I cannot fathom. Bowing down indicates submission to this creation, which means this creation–and all it represents–is above them and they were honoring it with everything they had. They were putting all their hope in it. And they were doing this in the context that God had literally just delivered them out of bondage as slaves. But because the freedom they were enjoying was difficult and not everything they thought it would be, they quickly turned away from God to what was before them, that they had created by their own hands.

Our gold today is our money, our wealth, our savings account, our assets. And what do we worship the most? Our life, our health, our longevity. We are told the best thing to attain is physical and mental health and even that this is a right of ours to have! With physical and mental health come longevity, quality of life, vigor, youthfulness, prosperity, and sustainability. In those days, medicine was not to the sophistication it is today, so people did not expect to live a long time. They just wanted to live without suffering. Most of us in modern times do not suffer day-to-day anymore, so our new goal is to live long and live well, not just merely survive. Therefore our calf became more abstract.

Assets = Gold, Health = Calf

How do we bow down to our health with our assets? You know how. We pay health care providers working in hospitals to do magic on us. We even make extra offerings to these false gods with our blood and body parts, as we prostrate ourselves to them. This is done every time they draw our blood for a lab test or cut us open. Sometimes we are even out of our mind (anesthesia) and allow them to things to our bodies without knowledge. We pay them to look inside us with their sorcery (which we call machines) and tell us their truth about what is wrong with us. And then we offer ourselves to them to operate on us on their alter (operating table) and are completely at their mercy.

I am so weary and tired of Christians not realizing that the bible does not tout medical care as okay or permitted by God. In all the bible, old and new testaments, we are told to seek after God and all we need will be given us. How does that translate into seeking medical providers? The only way that makes sense is that we are making medical providers into gods. False gods. They can never know the real truth as to what ails us, and they can certainly never cure us. All truth and cure come in one Word: Jesus.

All truth and cure come in one Word: Jesus.

 Some bible verses for review are below. I am especially interested in what happens when we seek out things we should not seek out. We are commanded to ONLY seek out God. If we seek out medical providers we are not seeking out God, but false gods. If we seek out false gods, what happens to us?

Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. ~Matthew 6:31-34

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile. ~Jeremiah 29:10-14

Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. ~Leviticus 19:31

[Conclusion: familiar spirits are synonymous with spirit guides, although exactly what form they took (human spirits residing in Sheol, angelic/demonic beings, animal spirts etc.) is not specified. Speaking from the ground/dust refers to the tradition of bringing the spirit “up” from the Underworld.]

I will destroy your witchcraft
    and you will no longer cast spells.
I will destroy your idols
    and your sacred stones from among you;
you will no longer bow down
    to the work of your hands. ~Micah 5:12-13

It becomes clear to us that when we week out false gods and worship our expensive healthcare (golden calf), we will find demons. You will conjure demons. That is why one of my dear old friends saw demons crawling up the walls of her hospital room, because the devil prowls around seeking whom he may devour, and humans in that place are opening themselves up to the devil, satan, and demons.

My best friend has been opening herself up more and more and I have been watching it but not seeing it. But I am able to see it now as it now as He teaches me more and more. Now she is literally being invaded by a demon into her home (a new roommate). Oh, he is a member of the church and calls himself a Christian, but my eyes have been opened to the truth. Whether he is aware of it or not, he either is a demon or has demons. But when I look back at her life, even though she knows better, she keeps her hair short like a man’s, she gets tattoos, she places her dogs over people (I call it her armor of dog, versus armor of God), she is selfish, is stubborn in the face of truth, practices gluttony, and slothfulness to some degree. The latest thing is that she has obsessed over her back pain to the point of finding a god to tell her she needs surgery (the ultimate golden calf, i.e. most expensive healthcare) and I am so tired of it. To be fair, she has said no to surgery for now, but she still reveres doctors more than God, and looks to them for her answers, above everyone else, including God.

I have tried and tried to tell her this truth, but her generation is very stiff-necked. I can only tell God and write it here. Someday maybe I will be able to proclaim it more loudly. The older generations grew up thinking doctors were the shizzle (a lie of the enemy) and they are locked into that mindset. But God doesn’t allow excuses. He might forgive in His omnibenevolence, but He holds us accountable for our sinful choices. I can say no more to her about all this. She does listen to me, she just doesn’t see it the way I do. Now she has LITERALLY invited a demon to live in her basement! He is there in large part to monitor me when I am there and through her as she is my best friend. You see, satan hates me a lot, and wants to terrorize me through my weak-minded friend. But God has shown me his plans as if it was all happening in the light of day. I am on it. And I am not afraid.

Moral of this story: What you seek, you will find.

~Selah

Cattle Mutilation is the Work of Frustrated Demons

Cattle mutilations are a weird phenomena that happen all over the planet but mostly on North American soil. Many renowned Christian scientists and scholars have noticed that people who have encounters with aliens, spacecraft, and even bigfoot, called ‘experiencers’, are not believers or they are living in some sort of dysfunction, outside God’s protection. They have also discovered that during the experience, if the person calls upon the name of Jesus, he is immediately released! This means this whole shebang is demonic, and not actually real; it’s the way demons are getting to us in our modern times. I do think cattle mutilations are real. I know that demons can possess animals and leave objects in the real world, though it is difficult for them. But God does not allow them to harm man as a general rule. God did allow Satan to harm Job to show God’s sovereignty and Job’s faithfulness. God has allowed me to see beyond the veil to know the spirit realm is real, more real that the reality we are living in. As the Apostle Paul admonishes us to know: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” ~Ephesians 6:13

Specifically for cattle mutilations though, the telltale signs are always the same: an ear is cut off, an eye might be missing, a tongue, the side of the face/jaw, sometimes the organs, always the blood, and then the reproductive organs. It’s very bizarre and no one has been able to figure out this mystery.

But God has revealed the truth to me for those with eyes to see: It is frustrated demons trying to send us a message that they want what Jesus gave freely to us but cannot get. They want eternal life and all the gifts that come with salvation in Jesus Christ, and they want to terrorize those of us who can still attain it.

In these verses below that I have copied from scripture, God is clearly outlining the order of things: beasts bow to man, not man to beasts. That is part of the reason why demons and aliens cannot physically touch us, and appear to us in apparitions. God said to be fruitful and multiply. But demons cannot multiply! That is why they spend so much time and energy ensuring abortions and birth control are available. They hate children (and then women) because it shows God has power over life, which is their utmost desire. That is why in cattle mutilations the sex organs are always entirely cut out: It’s symbolic that they cannot reproduce. Finally, the blood is always missing. This is the most baffling of all, that the poor animals are completely exsanguinated. What do we know about blood? The bible has a LOT to say about blood, in fact. The bible says that the LIFE is in the blood! And Jesus gave His blood for us as the sacrificial lamb of God. Therefore, the act of taking the blood from the animals shows that they want the blood. They are bloodthirsty for it.

But they cannot touch us and they cannot know God like we are able to as His pure people. The closest they can get is stealing it from a beast of the field. And leaving the creepy corpse in their wake to try and terrorize us. But they are the ones who are constantly terrorized because they know they are banished to hell forever, and the Lake of Fire, after Jesus returns to rule and reign! Cattle mutilations are their attempt at screaming out their frustration at not being part of God’s plan.

Psalm 115: The Futility of Idols and the Trustworthiness of God

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us,
But to Your name give glory,
Because of Your mercy,
Because of Your truth.
Why should the Gentiles say,
“So where is their God?”

But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not see;
They have ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but they do not smell;
They have hands, but they do not handle;
Feet they have, but they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter through their throat.
Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who trusts in them.

O Israel, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.
O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.
You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.

The Lord has been mindful of us;
He will bless us;
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron.
He will bless those who fear the Lord,
Both small and great.

May the Lord give you increase more and more,
You and your children.
May you be blessed by the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s;
But the earth He has given to the children of men.
The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor any who go down into silence.
But we will bless the Lord
From this time forth and forevermore.

Praise the Lord!

In the above Psalm, we see all the embodiments of what experiencers have related: The apparition cannot speak verbally, can float, cannot reproduce, cannot touch things, must not be able to smell or taste, the craft are the work of men’s hands in metals of silver and gold. And those who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them is like them.

The LIFE is in the BLOOD

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life. ~Leviticus 17:11

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. ~Matthew 26:28

According to Its Kind

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ~Genesis 1:11-12 (3 times repetition means God’s perfect harmony and sovereignty)

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ~Genesis 1:24-25 (3 times repetition means God’s perfect harmony and sovereignty)

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ~Genesis 1:26

Be Fruitful And Multiply

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. ~Genesis 1:27-31

Cloning

I do believe that physics show us that space time travel, wormholes, and stargates are possible through hidden truths of the universe. I also believe that sinful man either in the past or future will learn these secrets and use them for ill intent. We already know about cloning species together and the bible tells us it is also a sin. These weird beasts that have been created might have been cloned, and who knows if they also cloned man with a beast. But this is not God’s plan and never was, which is why He says clearly ‘seed after its kind’ in the aforementioned verses. All this to say that there might be a scientific basis for some of demonic activity but that doesn’t mean it’s all rooted in science or is of God. Demons want us to think they are God; it is their ultimate goal to make Satan, their master, God. But it will never happen and they know it. Are cloned creatures living among us? Perhaps. But that is a subject for another writing.

Take Heart

Some good books have been written, and commentaries on Youtube provided, for us in this day and age dealing with new tricks of the enemy. Satan used other tricks in the past but his plan is always the same: To try and take out as many humans as possible before God ends us. Be AWARE: God does not want us to seek them out, but he wants our focus on Him. If we seek out demonic activity we are acting as spiritists and mediums which is a sin!

But take heart. As we stare down these End times, we must remember and know that God is in charge and that all believers will be saved. It’s never been more crucial than now to spread the Gospel message and tell every soul about Jesus and His sacrifice for us, so that none may perish, but have eternal life.

~Selah

How to Love Your Wife

Astute counselors and bible scholars teach the very important doctrine that to maintain a happy marriage, women need love and men need respect. It is interesting that the bible does not teach that both just need love but goes a step further and differentiates the needs of a wife and husband. This comes from the bible passage in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word…husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. ~Ephesians 5:25-26, 28-30, 33

Of course, the Old Testament first commands man to love God and to love his neighbor, and Jesus clarifies this as the Two Great Commandments, so loving one another is not a new concept for marriage. But in marriage, wives are called to go one step further and to respect their husbands. We will discuss that in the next essay. For now, let’s explore what husbands loving wives should look like, biblically.

Paul explains in this same passage that loving each other should look like how Christ loves us. Christ left His divine home in heaven and came down to earth clothed in a human body, lived a perfect life, and died an unfair, cruel death on a Roman cross out of His love for us, to save our lives. So, husbands loving wives looks self-sacrificial. He counts her life more valuable than his own.

In our world, people define love as a feeling to be thrown around to mean everything from liking something to hating something but not wanting to tell the truth about it! Love in our world is rarely expressed how the bible intended love to be understood. In God’s economy love is an action. To love is to do something, not just feel something. Just as faith without works is dead, love without works is meaningless.

Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? ~Peter 2:15-16

If there is no love in a home, the fault lies with the husband because it is incumbent upon him to bring love to his wife. How does he do this? He spends time and effort listening to her, watching her, and caring for her to determine her needs and desires. Then he finds ways to bless her in those ways, because she is a unique person and needs his unique love for her. He cannot function on ‘autopilot’ and expect his wife to feel loved! A biblical love of a husband for his wife is thoughtful, kind, expressive, and mostly, unique.                

The word for Jesus as the Son of God in the bible in Greek is ‘monogenes’. This basically means ‘unique’ Son. Jesus was God’s unique expression of love for us that could not be found in anyone else. For a husband to love his wife like God first loved us means that it will be a unique love made especially for her, and not anyone else.                                       

Our Spiritual Body

I am listening to the works of Origen, a second century theologian from Alexandria and he said something very interesting. He believes that when we die, we are given a new body in heaven, not merely a spiffed-up version of our current body. This is a frequently discussed issue among believers. Do we keep our current body, only it is perfected in heaven? Or what do we look like in heaven? Even in the earliest church days, the bible says that, ‘Somebody will ask, “how are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?”‘

Upon reviewing this issue and in my previous post, the Apostle Paul makes it pretty clear with those with eyes to see and ears to hear that we receive a new spiritual body in heaven:

But God gives it (the seed) the body He wants to, and to each kind of seed its own body…just as there are different kinds of flesh, moreover, there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing while the glory of the earthly is another. So too is it with the resurrection from the dead. The body is sown in a state of corruption; it is raised in a state of incorruption. It is sown in a state of dishonor; it is raised in a state of glory. It is sown in a state of helplessness; it is raised in a state of power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Just as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall bear the image of the heavenly Man (Jesus).

Listen, I will tell you a secret: all of us won’t fall asleep, but all of us will be changed in an instant, in the flash of an eye, at the last trumpet. A trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. This corruptible body will put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality. ~1 Corinthians Chapter 15

As I said in my previous post about Jesus coming back in the clouds to rule and reign, we will have no idea what He will look like, yet everyone will know it is Him. This means that we will not be given this knowledge by sight since we know not what he physically looked like, but by spirit.

This is also an excellent word for those who are born from rape and incest or are considered illegitimate by man. As humans, we tend to think that due to genealogy, some are better than others, and that babies conceived by illegitimate means are justified to be killed or aborted. But nothing could be further from the truth! The scripture above tells us that just by being human and in our ‘natural’ state, we are all corrupted! No one type of conception is better than another. In the book of Job, Job decries his sinful conception. In Psalm 51, David laments the same thing. The Apostle Paul tells Titus in his letter: “Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.” (Titus 3:9). Furthermore, I have written about Jesus Himself being a ‘mamzer’ or of illegitimate birth, probably conceived of the union between Mary and a Roman soldier, as recorded in Jewish midrash. Again, in God’s economy, the last is first, and the first, last.

Paul uses the word glory in the passages about our resurrection several times. Glory here is the Greek word doxa which is Strong’s entry 1391 and it is feminine and means: Dignity, Dignities: primarily denotes “an opinion, estimation, repute;” in the NT, always “good opinion, praise, honor, glory, an appearance commanding respect, magnificence, excellence, manifestation of glory;” hence, of angelic powers, in respect of their state as commanding recognition.

This gives me a Holy Spirit vibe. Maybe when we transcend into heaven we will be so surrounded by the Holy Spirit as to be luminous with it, allowing us to be near God. Maybe the envelopment with the Holy Spirit is what makes our bodies incorruptible in heaven.

So when believers die and go to heaven, we will take on the true image of God which He intended for each of us even as He made us a seed in a natural, corruptible body. We will become spirit and glorified in heaven, just as He is glorified. It probably won’t look much like our earthly bodies because the glory is different. What man thinks is glorious is not what God thinks is glorious: “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). This passage underscores the divine perspective that values inner righteousness over external attributes. Our heavenly bodies will shine with those attributes about us that God thinks are beautiful, and others will view us as God views us, in unconditional love.

In Heaven, our spiritual seed, or soul, will finally become liberated and we will become who we were truly meant to be from the beginning of time.

Resurrection is Spiritual Not Physical

The Talpiot Tomb, the family tomb where Jesus’ body might have been laid to rest, invites the brave to consider the heavy concept of physical versus spiritual resurrection. Since the time of Christ, many of the most important bible stories in the New Testament are confined to a literal interpretation by elite theologians and simple pastors alike. This leads the listener down an obligatory dead-end alley of literal interpretation, with no room for discerning another possibility. But I say this needn’t be the case. That in careful interpretation–and introspection–the bible can actually be more aptly interpreted in these stories in a spiritual, versus physical, way.

In order to not become distracted here, I will stick to one story on my mind: the story of Jesus’ resurrection. This is not an exhaustive exegesis of this concept, but merely an opening of the door into this miraculous event and my argument that a spiritual interpretation is the only explanation that makes any sense.

I appreciate that the bible is an ancient document. I mean it was orally transmitted millenia ago, and the latest biblical tales all occurred by the end of the first century AD. So we are talking ancient ancient history. It is pretty hard for most of us to ponder what it must have been like to live over 2,000 years ago! And even if that is our personal jam, we still probably wouldn’t come too close to an accurate understanding because it’s just so long ago. I mean, germ theory, physics, and astronomy have all become so much better understood than in those times. Also, we have collective generations of people behind us who have relied upon the bible to make meaning of their lives, which has shaped us and our culture whether we realize it or not. So the way we think about things is very different than how they thought about things.

Ancient man was necessarily much more literal-minded than we need to be today. We understand that there are tiny machinations of things at work that the naked eye cannot see, but which cause real material changes to occur. In those days, if you couldn’t see it, it was all ascribed to the gods, or God. As Christians we know everything was made by God, but God uses the natural processes He made to cause events and effect change. God does this in a supernatural way we cannot understand as His ways are not our ways, but it filters down to us in a natural way, if we have eyes to see this.

Because ancient people lived in a more concrete way, from day to day, they needed to be shown the gospel in a way that they could understand. God doesn’t always want everyone to understand everything as evidenced in Jesus’ parables. Remember how his own disciples struggled to make meaning of similes and metaphors? But the thrust of the gospel–Jesus being raised on the 3rd day–was the keystone upon which Christianity was founded, and it was imperative that chosen ones got it so that they could then pass it along. If this concept was not grasped, Christianity would have slowly died out. God knew this, so in His genius, He provided for different interpretations to be available in the one bible for all men, for all time.

Some men and women are literal-minded, they need to perceive a truth in order to believe it. Others are more abstract-minded, they are able to understand the immaterial without difficulty. Because God makes both kinds of people, He provided that the bible also accommodated this reality.

In several places in the bible, namely Acts and 1st Corinthians, Paul says that Christ died, was buried, and on the third day was raised according to the scriptures. He goes on to say Christ was seen by hundreds of the brethren and apostles, and lastly by him. In Acts, Paul literally says he ‘saw’ Christ when he was still Saul, yet we know that he only had a vision of Christ, so he ‘saw’ and heard Christ in his mind’s eye as it were in a bright flash of Light; none of his other traveling companions saw or heard Christ speak though they did witness the bright Light. So as we can see, he uses the word ‘saw’ literally and figuratively, regardless of the circumstance. This is hard for us to understand because we use language differently. Paul also does this with the word ‘sleep’ for death of the brethren. Because Paul understands–and preaches–so intimately that believers do not die but pass into eternal life, he does not use the word death at all regarding believers who pass away, but the term ‘sleep’. We think of sleep as one thing usually: nighttime slumber or napping. I am convinced that Paul, through God’s inspiration, was taking liberty with words that men used in their daily lives to mean something literal and assigning to them a more abstract meaning. So that those with eyes to see and ears to hear could understand on a deeper or more spiritual level, as needed.

Paul had the difficult task of spreading the story of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection to all men: those that needed to believe literally, and those that were able to understand deeper, less visible, truths while remaining true to the simple story of the gospel.

If you read the accounts Paul gives of Christ being resurrected from the dead, you can see that he never closes it off to having to be a physical, bodily resurrection! He always leaves an ‘out’ as it were for those who are able to understand that our bodies are spiritually resurrected into who we will be in heaven. Paul becomes ‘all things to all men’ when he teaches on this subject, which is the cornerstone of Christianity. Some men cannot believe unless they envision Jesus’ physical body floating into heaven in a supernatural event. But some (like me) cannot believe unless I imagine it as an invisible spiritual supernatural event. This is also the case for me regarding the ‘virgin’ birth where virgin had different meanings in those days. But I already posted about that.

I can imagine easily that Jesus’ spirit laid dormant 3 days then rose into Heaven to be with God, making a way for all of His chosen ones–those who believe in Him–to also make this journey in the blink of an eye when our bodies pass from life to death. Those 3 days must have been terrible! This would have been an invisible event to living creatures and seen only by heavenly beings. People who have had near-death experiences speak of signs of heaven and of hell. It baffles my mind that people, especially in our day, have a hard time believing something that they cannot see. For me, things unseen are truer than things seen!

So when preachers and teachers become dogmatic that the bible must be interpreted only literally or only figuratively, they are both wrong. God allows for those with eyes to see and ears to hear the truth of how He works. Some people, because of the way they are made, cannot believe something unless it is presented to them in a concrete way; others are able to believe in a more abstract way. The point is that Jesus rose from the dead and sits at the right hand of God, and will return ‘in the clouds with honor and great glory’ to rule again.

It tickles the imagination to think of His spiritual return, what this will look like. He will be in His spiritual body. We don’t know what his physical body looked like or what his spiritual body will look like when He returns. But everyone will KNOW it is Him in that time. I can’t personally believe that a physical Jesus-esque body will float down to us from the sky…

But maybe something like a reverse black hole happens: a WHITE expanding cloud from the heavens envelop us, while His brighter blinding Light and His consciousness pervades our every cell so that all living creatures KNOW He is Jesus returning to rule and reign.

Females Shall not be Preachers

This post was a long time in the making, like years. Because this topic is so controversial, I needed to wait and consult different theologians and thinkers and delve into the pages of scripture seeking its truth regarding this subject. I know it’s clear that the Apostle Paul told the pastor Timothy (and Titus) that he himself does not allow a woman to speak in church, but I needed more than Paul’s opinion and practice; I needed my Savior’s opinion. Interestingly, those who seek the answer to women pastors never seem to discuss what Jesus thought or did in the matter: it always seems to come down to Paul.

I understand that Paul was swimming upstream in a raging torrent of culture which had come out of Asherah pole worship in earlier times to goddess temple worship in their time. Priestesses were ensconced in temples and were worshiped as gods in lewd ways constrained only by men’s imaginations. Women also logistically were not given the same rank as men in society. Paul was not part of Jesus’ living ministry and therefore was not witness to Jesus’ tender moments with the Marys or others whom He traveled and preached alongside. Therefore, Paul only heard second-hand about these situations, and he graciously allowed women to be benefactors for the Way, but stopped it there.

To begin, I do have a bias in this and it might not be what you think. I do not think women should be preachers, pastors, or elders (basically all the same thing in the New Testament). It has never sat well with me to hear women preach in church, unless I was at a woman’s conference. Whenever I show up to church and the person on the stage is a female who is going to deliver the Sabbath message, my insides groan, and I have to fight the urge to flee. But I also don’t think women should be presidents of public institutions such as President of the United States. Private corporations I seem to be okay with. I mean, you can do what you like with your own money, but I don’t want a woman deciding the fate of my country, state, or local domains. I just don’t think women are blessed with the same ability to judge the affairs of men as men are. But to muddy my waters more, my selected denomination, Assemblies of God, does think women can be ordained ministers in order to preach to the assembly. So I really needed to get to the bottom of this dilemma.

With that being said, I do understand that women in the Old Testament were judges (Deborah) and prophets (Abigail), although it was rather rare. Just reading the bible shows us that the canonized prophets were all male, except for Esther. And Esther was the only scroll not secreted away by the Essenes, the male elite who sequestered themselves away waiting for the Teacher of Righteousness. These OT female roles appeared outside the temple or tabernacle in the fields and had a specific purpose. In no stretch of the imagination could we see in our mind’s eye a female standing in the sacred temple opening a scroll and reading from it as our Great Priest did with the Isaiah scroll. But that was OT days. After Jesus, maybe things were different. After all, Jesus seemed to treat women as equals and was very loving and understanding toward them.

The bible in the book of Luke tells us that Jesus spent all night in prayer asking the Father whom He should choose to be his first disciples. In the morning, He called 12 male disciples to Him, and they became the ones who would spread the good news that the Kingdom of God had come. Close to 30 years old at this time, Jesus certainly might have known of at least one woman (even if only his own mother) who could have had adequate knowledge of His mission and ministry to preach it well. Yet He chose men. He then sent them out 2×2, in pairs. Joan Taylor and Helen Bond are a pair of British theologians and professors who have written and instructed that Jesus had female disciples, and they try to make a weak case for those same disciples church-planting for Him. I refute their feminist message (respectfully). Disciple means a follower or student of a teacher, leader, or philosopher. That Jesus had female followers and supporters is not disputed by anyone. But what they propose is that these women traveled about like the men and would have preached the gospel; essentially opening the door to the likelihood that Jesus appointed women who would have become church leaders, or pastors.

One the main tenets of Joan’s argument for this lies in the interpretation of the 2×2 bit above. In New Testament Greek, the phrase duo duo is used for how Jesus sent His disciples out. Duo duo simply means ‘in pairs’. She tries to link this phrase with the story of Noah’s ark where Noah was supposed to gather the animals 2×2, in pairs. Except in that instance, pairs in the Hebrew language (the language of the old testament), meant obviously male and female with the purpose being for the animals to procreate once the flood waters subsided. The tenuous link she provides for saying that duo duo means male and female comes when she uses the Septuagint’s translation which translates the Hebrew OT into Greek. The Septuagint was written in the 3rd century BC. Guess what Greek words the Septuagint uses for this phrase from Genesis? Yep, duo duo. So Joan argues that because they chose the phrase duo duo for the pairs of animals that obviously meant male/female, that is how Jesus also sent out His disciples to preach the Good News, as male/female pairs. Preposterous!

As a bible student myself, I know that you cannot take one phrase–or even a set of verses–out of context and assign a heavy, or outlandish, meaning to them if they don’t agree with the other parts of scripture. The concept of systematic theology says that you must interpret events in the bible in light of what the whole book (God’s divine word and meaning) is saying. Other later scholars translated this Hebrew phrase differently, as brought to us in the Interlinear translation, for example. It was only in the Septuagint she was able to link the idea of duo duo to male/female and even then, duo duo can mean simply, ‘a pair’.

Let’s look at it. Would Mark, Luke, and the other gospel writers really witness, or know those who witnessed, the remarkable event that Jesus chose female disciples but not record it? Joan and Helen would have us believe that Jesus chose 12 male disciples, and that He then expected each of them to be paired with an unknown female disciple whom he might not be married to, to walk to distant places and stay in strangers’ homes, sleeping and bathing together? That was totally unheard of in the holy land, and most other places, in those times. No self-respecting Jewish household would permit entry of these disciples!

After Jesus called the twelve, He received many more followers, including women. He then sent out 70 (or 72) in pairs again. This same argument stands: Would Jesus have sent out male/female pairs? I have already shown this is impossible. Would He have sent out solely female pairs? Let’s think about that. Jesus, who loves women and understands their often abused and overlooked plight, is going to send 2 women out on the Roman roads and footpaths into the unknown without a weapon or money, and with minimal clothing? No way! They could be raped, killed, taken, enslaved, or sold. Plus, Jesus came to first share His gospel with the lost Jews. How would Jews He was trying to reach take the message which John had begun, and Jesus had continued, if this High Priest was sending out women alone and unprotected to preach to them when it was completely against their culture and everything they knew to be right?

Once I realized that Jesus did not send out women, based on these two episodes in the bible, I knew I had discovered the truth about female pastors: Jesus never intended women to preach His word. Women could be disciples (Joanna). Women could understand and learn from Him (Mary and Martha). Women could anoint and heal (Mary). Women can evangelize (share the gospel message, Priscilla). Women can prophecy, judge, and teach men outside the pulpit (OT). Women can be counselors to women, and through women, their men (NT). But women cannot be preachers, elders, priests, pastors, or be a shepherd of a congregation. Women can basically do everything else, but:

The role of church leader, teacher, and shepherd is made specifically for a male.

~Selah