To Believers:

#GRACE AND PEACE TO THOSE OF YOU YOU WHO KNOW OF GOD and JESUS CHRIST:

It is by grace that we have been given great and precious promises.We can one day experience life as part of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world, because of human lust.

Because we have this promise, we need to diligently add virtue to our faith.

We are called to moral excellency, hard as that can be. We need to continue gaining in knowledge, and self-control. We need to work on perseverance, godliness, and kindness.

In addition to our faith, we need to add charity, giving to others.

If you have all of those things, you will not be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who lacks the things I've listed is shortsighted, practically blind. He's forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Believers, are you sure you were called out of darkness? Were you chosen to be given grace, even though you didn't deserve it? Do the above things, and you will never stumble.

It is for all believers; an entrance will be supplied to us abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of Christ Jesus.

For this reason I'll try to remind you of these things, though you already know, and are established in the present truth.

As long as I am in this place, to stir you by reminding you, even though I must one day leave this tent, just as Christ showed me.
Also, I will be sure that you always have a reminder of these things after I decease.

2nd Peter 1... my interpretation...

Revelations

Revelation: The revealing of something that was once unknown. 

Revelations: A book written a couple thousand years ago that has been perfectly preserved. It was written by a man, inspired by God.

My thought, I believe, is often inspired by God. I write a lot of lengthy, deep thoughts, such as this, but I don't have courage to post them. I am afraid of the ripples.

My Angel Granny taught me a moral not long ago: Words lose their power when too many are used. I get it, I understand it. I just haven't mastered it. I feel like I am constantly talking.. to someone. Whether it is on the phone via text, on FB, email, in real life..

Communication is who I am. My daughter told me tonight that I need to be a preacher. I can write.. OH.. I can write. But speak I am unable. My insides turn into fireworks, my thoughts start speeding on the Jersey turnpike.  

#pREACHING

"Water will fall from the sky." I said to my daughter.    "Okaaaaay." she said.

"In Noah's day that was nonsense," I started preaching. "The people laughed at him when he told them.

"Why?". She'd asked my favorite question. 

"They didn't believe him.

 Water had never fallen from the sky, and how would that even be possible? 

Some may have believed him, but they had crops to tend, children to feed. Their lives couldn't stop, even if they DID believe. 

#thE bIBLE
I wasn't there, and I can't pretend to know the details...I read the story, as it is recorded in human history. Whether it is true, or if it is false. Personally I believe the bible to be written communication, a handbook if you will, from the Creator of the Universe to humans living on the Earth.

Moses recorded the flood.

Moses was alive during the times of the Pharaohs, with the pyramids and slaves. He was a Hebrew, who was adopted by the Pharaoh's daughter after his mother, a slave, stuck him in a basket and sent him down the river.

# Geneology

Moses came from the bloodline of Levi. Levi was one of Jacob's 12 son's. Jacob had a brother, Esau. Their father was Isaac, the son of Abraham. 

Moses had access to a lot of family history.. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I imagine, were alive all at the same time.

Abraham, the man called friend, by God, was born in YEAR 1948, 292 years after The Great Flood. Noah and Abraham were alive at the same time for 86 years. 

Abraham's descendants, kin of Noah, were given land, by God.

Isreal.

#On the Arc

Moses recorded that very few people were on that boat. The doors were sealed AND THEN it started to rain. Once it started raining the skies opened up and water fell for 40 days. 

Condensation, at it's finest.

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"I'm just sayin'," he said. "Water is going to fall from the sky. The Earth, and everyone on it will be destroyed. I can not force you to get on the boat.. It's up to you to believe."

Imagine a pot of Hydrogen and oxygen, placed onto the hot stove. 

Cold has a measure of heat. We have not even experienced the absence of heat, we can get it pretty cold..but we have not yet met the complete absence of heat, like it was in the beginning, when there was nothing. Void. 

My God did that.

He destroyed all the living. 

In His book, 'Revelations', in the very first line he open with this:

#SIDE NOTE:

Now mind you, there are a LOT of different biblical versions out there. What you choose to read depends on the grasp you have. Can you read ancient literature, and understand their dialect of the time? Me either. So I read a version that has been updated, so that I can read it. It has been combed through, by scholars of language and historians, both believers and non, who say that it is true to the original text. (not all bibles follow the same rules: go do some research on the bible used by the Jehovah's Witnesses.. I was raised and believed as a JW until I was 26.. I did research to discover that what I had learned from for 20 years was written by 4 men.. mine was written by over 40. Only one of those 4 men read or wrote Hebrew or Greek, because he took 2 hours of biblical Greek, and 20 sum hours in Classic Greek. 20 hours, and he thought he was good enough to give a translation to the world??! Dumb ass. 

Revelations 1:1-3 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who  hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

I really don't like what is going on with the Gaza strip right now... Scary stuff. 

Publishing without proofing 8/4/2014: Alana Curtis