Quiproquo

Just one Less obvious title so that the public retreats, and this can be added to the many proofs that we are living in one of the most shameful times in human history: the age of absolute laziness!
Even in the most terrible periods of the past, individuals were willing to flee… or pursue, but now we are faced with a mass that doesn't even bother to think, accepting any content based solely on the label that packages it.

I dare not shirk this responsibility and say that leaving my "comfort zone" is easy, because the only different actions I have committed to each day have been seeking the Lord through the study of His revealed Word, meditating on its meaning, and constant prayer.
This has already allowed me to understand that God can answer with "yes," with "wait," but also with a firm "no"... and if you're not ready to understand that this is perfectly feasible within a much larger plan, you'll probably get tired of playing at "being a Christian" at any moment.

I know very well that I am still very, very far from being a "hero of faith"—and it wouldn't make sense to lie about that to you, who only follow me online, because the Lord God himself knows and reviews each of my steps—but if I often consider my Christian maturity insufficient, I feel a certain degree of despair when I see Christians who claim to be "mature" practicing acts that are absolutely contrary to what any slightly more attentive and serious biblical study allows one to conclude.

In last post, For example, I presented a biblical perspective on how we, as Christians, should not be classified as "sheep" during our material existence—and by publishing a study with references accessible to anyone, my intention is to promote mutual edification and provoke respectful feedback from those who call themselves "Bible scholars" so that, in the face of some interpretative error, I can be helped to better understand the Truth—but all I have received so far is… silence.

So, if there's anyone truly following my efforts to break the shackles of functional illiteracy through biblical reading and exposition, today I will present another catastrophic consequence of this systemic ignorance: the creation of people who are angry with and inaccessible to the gospel because they are approached through ignorant and deceitful promises that lack God's true backing to be fulfilled!

Is your faith greater than death?

In my military training class, there were over 500 students. For two years, we faced every obstacle until the completion of the specialist sergeant training course, and the adversities served to unite most of us in a fraternal feeling, despite the diverse paths that life had prepared.
Through messaging apps and their groups, we were able to get together to find out how our lives were going after these more than three decades, and that was really important because it allowed us to interact again, support each other, and have some degree of companionship with those who had gone through a journey with so many things in common.

I remember that one of these friends had never shown much religious fervor, but not long after the death of my mother, He asked everyone for prayers for his wife, who was hospitalized and facing serious health problems.
That really broke me, and I began to pray that the Lord would fulfill His will in that situation and, if possible, restore that woman's health for the honor and glory of His Holy Name…
The fact is that He preferred to take her away.

Everyone in the group offered words of comfort, and I even tried to explain this issue of God's "no," but all I could witness, through social media, was that with the same intensity of despair that drew him to the gospel, he soon came to hate it with all his might after failing to achieve his goals.

Because of the false promises that were offered to him and the amount of money that was taken from him in the name of "a miracle," I suffer every time I remember this episode that I am telling you here and, I confess, I do not persist in confronting such disbelief, only praying that the true Truth may one day reach that heart full of anger and bitterness.

However, I cannot ignore or overlook the fact that the blame for all this lies with supposed Christians who approached preaching a gospel of lies! Promising what is not, in fact, recorded as a promise or, worse than that, even saying a prophecy of healing who never even came close to being sent by God!
These are terrible times we live in: any clown can come along to tell merciless and beautiful lies that defame the gospel… without having to pay any price for it!

However, the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak,
or to speak in the name of other gods,
He will have to be killed.

(Deuteronomy 18:20)

Is it a sin to expose the lies of illiterate people?

These pandemic days have been perfect for functionally illiterate people, disguised as good intentions, to spread a shameful distortion of the Word that will inevitably frustrate all who believe in it without consulting it.
I wrote about it. previously, But I'm going to try a new approach, and I ask that you also read the... previous publication, This will consolidate information necessary to understand Israel's position regarding Christians, a requirement for a full understanding of this issue.

Imagine a father who has two sons and, knowing their characteristics very well, establishes their inheritance in a deed: a plot of land to the older son, whom we will call Israel, and a car to the younger son, whom we will call Cristiano.
Cristiano receives his car as soon as he learns to drive, but Israel was being a bit rebellious and, despite being the firstborn, the fulfillment of his promise was delayed for a while…
Upon reading that his father had promised him a plot of land, in an era of utter mental laziness, Cristiano promptly steps forward and begins to demand the inheritance that was promised exclusively to his brother!
What obligation does this father have to give the land, specifically promised to one person, to another who, incidentally, had already received his share?

Given the obvious illustration I've created, what in the Bible defines Cristiano's "automobile"?

And on the last day, the big day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, saying:
If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
And this he said concerning the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive;
because the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

(John 7:37-39)

O Holy Spirit It was promised to anyone who truly believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, regardless of nationality; it has arrived for avoid going back and forth And since then, it has been distributed to all who have attained their faith strictly through knowledge of the Word of God.
And what about Israeli land?

And the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:
I heard your prayer, and I chose for myself. this place to house of sacrifice.
If I shut up the heavens, and there is no rain;
or to command the locusts to devour the land;
or if you send pestilence among my people;
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer. from this place.
For now I have chosen and sanctified. this house,
so that my name be in it perpetually;
And my eyes and my heart will be fixed on it every day..

(2ⁿᵈ Chronicles 7:12-16)

Read carefully the points I've highlighted and answer honestly:

• What is “THIS PLACE” that the Lord has chosen as a “HOUSE OF SACRIFICE”?
• The Bible commands Christians to sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2) something?
• What is THIS HOUSE that the Lord God has chosen so that His name may be there FOREVER?
• Do you know what "PERPETUALLY" means?

This promise was not made to Italy, nor to the United States, nor to Brazil… and much less to the entire planet!!
This is the Word of God being specifically directed to the nation called Israel, and to its people, and to its geographical location!
No matter how much you want to appear kind, by taking verse 14 out of its essential context in an attempt to generalize the Word of God, you are only promoting a terrible and shameful distortion that, incidentally, God has no obligation to honor!

God is not a man, that he should lie;
nor a son of man, that he should repent;
Would he perhaps say it and not do it?
Or would he speak, and not confirm it?

(Numbers 23:19)

I am not speaking for myself here, much less presenting an understanding so confusing that it cannot be absorbed by any person of good will; however, unfortunately, in this age of absolute laziness we find many who refuse to exercise even their own neurons, deeming it necessary to preserve the lies upon which many current ecclesiastical enterprises have been built…
For I say that their meetings, even if they gather thousands, are useless if they are held to ask for what the Lord has NEVER promised!

What is the point of claiming to be a Christian and then using that as an excuse to march or pray AGAINST what is written in the Word of God?
Up until now you could claim ignorance, but now this knowledge is yours too.
You're welcome.

In times past, God did not take this lack of wisdom into account.,
But now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Because he has set a day when he will judge the world with the rigor of his justice,
through the man who appointed him for that purpose.
And in this regard, He gave proof to all,
by raising him from the dead!

(Acts 17:30-31)

Thank you for reading, and from the bottom of my heart, I hope that my effort is at least serving as a reflection for you and, perhaps, edification: I would be very grateful if you could give me some feedback, because I continue writing as the Lord inspires me, but there are times when I feel as if I am only writing for the robots of search engines.
Just so you know: like the previous one, the title of this post also comes from Latin — Quid pro co — and it means "to mistake one thing for another," or, as discussed, to fail to recognize the differences between Christians and Israelites.
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