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Some of you have no concept of time. Some people miss the party altogether because they did not know what time it was. Some show up late in order to focus attention upon themselves. That is egotistical. All social life has a beginning and an ending.

From the moment you are born-again to the day of your death, God has assigned to you a certain amount of days. These days may add up to many months or to many decades. Each one of us have an assignment from God since we are allotted a certain amount of time. We will study the concept of redeeming the time and how reversionism affects our days.

Tolstoy himself stole his novel name, War and Peace, from this chapter. He portrayed the conflicting thoughts and concepts within Russia. At least nations have attempted to portray his novel on film. The Russian version was hard to figure out. Russians tend to be easily depressed and they suffer from wide emotional swings. A typical American production was longer than it should be and it cuts out the deep thought and principles. So they tried to make everyone as pretty as possible. Then there is the British version, which managed to capture Tolstoy. It is being shown on channel 8. Good clear characters, unlike in the Russian version. The American version sounds like they were removed from their brains. War and Peace is probably well-known to us, but we may never have associated it with this passage.

Some things may not apply to women, e.g., a time to kill. The pen of King Solomon was intended for believers in general. By the time you depart from this world, you should have experienced all of these things.

Many of these phrases are unbearably incorrectly translated. You will miss the fun of all of this and you do not have doctrine in your soul, then you will not appreciate or enjoy participating in these various events.

The sermon, praying knees don’t dangle from dancing feet. Bob learned to dance at 11 years old, and he did not understand that aspect of Christianity.

The principle is, there is a time to dance, but Bob did not discover that soon enough. He describes dancing today as two pieces of spaghetti about to hit the water. That is African culture as a prelude to sex.

This subject will be called the Sands of Time, which will cover several passages.

Bob had a lot of fun in college; this is not a confession, by the way. However, Bob always got his studying done first, and then he could go out and have fun; so he did not think about what he had not done. That is what makes pleasure so pleasurable to Bob.

It is not sinful or evil to have pleasure; it is a part of our allotment of time. There is a time for every pleasure.

Time is organized to include a variety of things for man to do. We are to experience most or all of these things.

Eccles. 3:1 Everything [has] an allotment of time [or, an appointed time], and a time for every pleasure [or, pursuit] under the heavens:

the most obvious beginning is a time to be born. At the moment of our birth, someone wrote something down and we are assigned a birthday. Time begins with the date of our birth. All of us, whether we know it or not, have a birthday. We each have a time when we are born. No male will every give birth to a child; and it is the woman only who will give birth to a child. John 16:21?

There is also a time to die, and all that we do fits in between birth and death. Some of us are obsessed with death; by hurricane or cancer or an auto accident; and we get morbit about this. We need to recognize that God wants us to live for a time and then he will cut that time off.

Some people avoid airplanes. If God wants you to die in an airplane, then you will. If God wants you to die in bed, then why miss out on all of these flights.

Death is time’s cutoff point. John 16:21 If God wants you to die in an airplane, then you cannot change that.

Thesis, the antithesis; and they have affinity for one another. Then we have another pair of related affinities. There is a relationship between birth and planting; and a relationship between death and pulling up a plant.

This is beautifully organized and when one verse becomes confusing, then you look at the other 3 things to sort it out.

God has allotted to us a business, a profession, a job; and the time to deal with it. There is a time to begin it and a time to end it. A time to work and a time to leave that job. God has not only provided the job, but He has also allotted a specific amount of time to it. It is only with Bible doctrine that makes it count.

This applies to farmers and businessmen. There is a time to be at work and there is a time to be at home.

Reece is Bob’s agricultural man. If you want corn next year, you have to pull up the old corn in order for the new corn to grow. Bob does like corn, but only as food, however.

There is a sense in which we were planted. God allowed us a certain amount of time, and it is all related to doctrine. There will be a time for death for all of us. When the time comes for us to die, we will have dying grace. When you are dying, remember that God has provided a plant to take your place. There is a turnover in generations.

It is always nice to know that the human race is going to continue on. We are here in life and conscious in time and many of us have a ball because this cycle was continued. We would not be here unless some plant was uprooted ot make way for us.

Beyond our allotment, there is nothing. If we beg for an additional 10 years and are given it, then it would be meaningless. Bob knows all about vegetating. He has watched us during class.

Eccles. 3:2 a time to be born [or, a time to give birth], and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pull up what is planted;

Bob dedicates this verse to all bleeding hearts. There is this bleeding heart group in this country who think that it is bad to kill a communist. Some are even that way about animals. This is why we have abolished capital punishment and it is the reason why we have lost 2 wars. There are those who even send blood to North Vietnam. Killing in battle is one of the highest honors in life. All of us saved after 1945 were saved because of killing Chinese, Germans, Italians, etc. We need more born-again Spirit-filled believers in the army killing our enemies.

Many people in the congregation have killed in battle and we would never know it to look at them or to know them.

Do you think that the Arabs would have taken over our oil wells, etc. if we were killers? Do you think Mexico would have done this? American business and know-how is what brought these economies out of the doldrums. When we kill our enemies, this makes a point with them. If anyone touches one American, then we go over there and kill a bunch of them.

Harag is the verb for to kill. It is to kill by a knife, by a sword, to kill the enemy in battle. When someone is a conscientious objector, then he does not know enough doctrine. A ranger who says he feels sorry for those who have not had the pleasure of killing a communist. God has designed war as the basis for freedom.

Bob says something about killing the enemy, and then says, “That’s right; I just heard a ranger growl.”

There are many people in Berachah who look as nice as can be who have fought in great battles. There are men in the congregation who have killed the enemy and you could not have visualized them. There is a time to kill and a time to heal.

Everyone spends a certain amount of time in saving a life; in restoring life; in enduring a disease or health problem.

Bob knows one doctor who went to Vietnam to help the soldiers; and he took his own weapon along because he planned to kill the enemy. A Vietcong was brought in and he was asked to fix him, but he had not been made a prisoner yet, so he refused to do it; and he asked for a court marshall. Someone higher up got a hold of this and straightened things out; it was the influence of the news media to push against this guy. He was also going on a convoy and he was told to turn in his .45, so he said, “I’ll use this instead” and took out his .357.

The Aggie approach was to shake hands with all of their enemies on the field. Texas hospitality to all. They helped those they tackled or knocked over to get up.

A time to demolish and a time to build up. Paratz is the verb, and it means to demolish a building, a structure, a city; anything. Any nations have reached great peaks of power because of divine establishment. However, there is a time for the removal of cities, nations and various organizations. There are times when local churches no longer serve God, and there are times for that church to God.

There is a time to build up, which is the Qal infinitive construct of banah. This is the verb used for the body of the woman.

Eccles. 3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build up;

Eccles. 3:1–3: Everything has an allotted time and there is a time for every pleasure under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to demolish and a time to build up...

Under the bonafide function of the emotion, we weep and we laugh, generally not at the same time. It was always considered sissified to weep, and this was ingrained as part of the training. Do not every let down and let people see that you are hurt. This made a lot of stoics out of many men who went to WWII. However, weeping is a legitimate activity. Bakah develops the concept of affinities. The word for laughing is also in the infinitive. This is legitimate weeping; not operation crybaby.

Sakak is only used laughter at legitimate humor or laughter because you are relaxed. This is not laughing because you are holding someone in derision. God has allotted for us to be under a certain amount of legitimate pressure and a certain amount of relaxation and only Bible doctrine allows us to handle both antithetical affinities.

Saphahb means to weep, to beat the breast at a funeral. There is a certain amount of time in your life to mourn for those that you love. Only a certain amount of time is allotted to this because you must, at some point, pick things up and move on. Dancing is to be enjoyment, pleasure, the fun of a party. It is the antithesis of mourning. We may be disconcerted by circumstances of life. You may not feel like dancing during a time of mourning; there is a proper time to mourn and to dance. This is dancing as an expression of happiness; not something you do as an expression of decadence, foreplay or something you are brow-beaten into doing.

When people die, we all spend time mourning their deaths. Bob remembers Fred McIntosh and how he will, on his anniversary, go out and watch planes take off, remembering him. Not mourning in the sense of regret. In any case, mourning is a pleasant beautiful memory of people that you love. Seeing something and pausing for a few moments to remember that person, who will be in your soul always. Mourning is not a bad thing; it is a very sweet thing and a very powerful in life. Those who have nothing to remember have nothing...

Eccles. 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Things become more complicated. The first 8 verses are merely an introduction to this New Year’s study.

We change to the Hiphil infinitive construct of shalach to be caused to throw stones; throwing stones could mean a lot of different things. Stones used as ammunition in war; so this can mean to be caused to fight for your country. This also has the meaning to execute a criminal. This means to participate in a legitimate execution. This passage says, if you are a born-again believer in a firing squad, fire at will.

Now we go back to the Qal: the Qal infinitive construct for gathering stones, which can be done to clear a field to plow; or they can be collected to be built up into something.

Summary of Stones

1. Wartime is destructive; peacetime is constructive. Throwing stones is destructive and gathering stones is constructive. The point is, we ought to always know what to do and when to do it.

2. A secondary concept is the control of crime. Crime must be controlled by destroying criminals. Gathering stones is also the criminal who can legitimately be rehabilitated. Only a criminal who listens to consistent Bible doctrine after being saved who actually rehabilitates himself. There is a great need for prison chaplains today.

3. There is another meaning here as well. It is the believer who observes the laws of establishment. When a believer observes these laws, he is a builder; he constructs a good society. How do you construct society? Not on the basis of socialism or welfare, but based upon the Word of God. All the catering to criminals will not reconstruct.

4. There are constructive and destructive times in the life of every believer. Knowing when to do one or the other takes great wisdom in the believer’s life; more than human wisdom.

5. There is wisdom required to figure out when to be constructive or destructive; it is the Word of God which allows us to determine what we need to do. Counseling is not needed today; it is doctrine which is needed. You cannot use someone as a crutch in order to function in this life. “Why ask Bob personally about such and such a thing, when if I come to Bible class, he will give it then. It would be cheating.” We need men in congress who have guts. However, they cut back on troops and officers. They ought to be constructive with the military so that we can go out and destruct our enemies. The federal government has destroyed the petral chemical industry, and then turn around and say we have an energy crisis. When Bob here’s that, he floors his accelerated and boom out. We need to take all of these laws off the backs of industry. Teddy Roosevelt was the last president who knew when to be destructive and when to be constructive. He did not shut down businesses; he preserved vast areas of land. No president since him had an idea what to do; a few congressmen have known what to do. Bob looks at people who talk behind his back like the sneak that you are. That is being destructive when they ought to be constructive. Then you get triple compound discipline when you are being destructive and gossiping. “You have a case of athlete’s mouth.”

6. To know when to be constructive and when to be destructive only comes from Bible doctrine in the soul. Bible doctrine in the soul provides the wisdom to know which to do and when.

7. The time that we have remaining as a believer requires the filling of the Holy Spirit, the learning of Bible doctrine, so that we can redeem and purchase time given to us by God.

Taxation has ruined the petrochemical industry; when Bob thinks about this while driving, it makes him put his foot down on the gas and zoom off.

Teddy Roosevelt saved vast parts of the west in conservation but he also allowed free enterprise to coexist.

There are some people with one thing on their minds all the time, whether they are going to church, coming back, going to the ball game and coming back...they think about sex. Thinking about sex all the time is not to be construed as occupation with Christ.

There is a time to embrace, but this means more than embracing; it means sex. This is more than putting your arm around some doll; this is the works. There is a time to be far away from embracing. This time, we are in the Piel infinitive construct. This time, with the Piel, when the time is right for sex and time when it is not. Time to have sex and time to be far away from it, which means not to even think about it. Waiting is not always easy. You learn the principle and deal with it.

Eccles. 3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Some do not know how to win and some do not know how to lose. Bob knows both; he rooted for the cowboys today. Baqash mean to seek, to strive after; to try to gain; to use one’s initiative; in the Piel, it means. to be aggressive. Men instinctively understand aggressiveness where a woman is concerned or where sports are concerned. However, there is a time for a woman to be aggressive. She is aggressive in her response to her RM. Men, when they are sick, are awful; especially when there is a woman around. So a woman must take care of her. However, a woman should not be aggressive in straightening out her RM. God has allotted time for a woman’s aggressiveness and a time not to be.

Robert Frederick was a great general who was retired early by a gutless politician.

There is a time to keep, to guard. Whatever you value, you guard and keep. Everyone has a scale of values. You think about the most important thing in your life. The things of this life. There are some people that you love and some you don’t. There are things you would like to have and things you could care less about, and it varies with the individual. Three men. X you discover has a nice face and an attractive body, but he is so filled with his own importance, that you assign him to the cellar. When you tell him to get lost, he moves on. Y comes along at the right time, and he is the antithesis. Smooth-talking, but not that attractive. It is such a relief to be around Y. Y seems to be the Balm of Gilead. However, it is Z who comes through in the end.

The Hiphil again of shalach. The time to cast out. This means your scale of values have changed. God allows this little doll a certain amount of time for their foolslihness and confusion, so she can reject X and Y and get to Z. God has allotted to each one of us a certain amount of foolishness. Sooner or later, we must get down to the answer.

Eccles. 3:6 a time to seek, and a time to give up as lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Qal infinitive construct of qara, which means to rip apart. There is a time to rip apart and a time to sew together. Bob has been told if you sew crooked, you have to rip it apart and start over.

A time to rip apart can refer to hurting feelings and being unkin; it is leveling with someone and telling them off, if necessary. There is also a time to mend and to pick up the pieces and mend relationships as well.

A time to be silent and a time to speak. Kasha means to be silent. Your mouth is open but nothing offensive is coming out. There is a time not to be offensive; there is a time to be gracious and not vicious. God has given us a certain amount of time to be silent. There is a time to speak. A time to comfort. Knowing when to do these things requires the utmost in wisdom.

Eccles. 3:7 a time to tear apart, and a time to sew together; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

There is a time to be born and a time to die; therefore, you ought to race cars, date blondes, and do whatever else until God takes you out of this life.

The time to love is time in all categories. There is a time for category #2 love and category #3 love. We can look back in the past years and see things that we will remember.

Bob heard something new from his son, as one man to another, and it was something that he would never forget.

We have to be careful to only see the ornaments of the tree, without recognizing the tree. This is a night of dating and partying.

Bob realized that no team that he has cheered for has won. God has given to each one of us a time to love. Our capacity to love is based upon the doctrine He has provided.

Love the brothers is not some flaky emotional thing like telling someone you don’t like 5 nice things about them.

To hate is the Qal infinited of tsaney, which means to hate enemies; to hate that which is antiestablishment. Bob was in the middle of the participle and these traitorous people who are the devil’s witnesses came to the door, and Bob told them that. Bob hates them, long-haired hippies, communists, socialism. The trouble with some of you, you don’t know what to hate and what to love.

A time for war and a time for peace. If anything confuses people today, it is that we have neglected a time of war when we ought to be at war. We have been given a certain amount of time to go to ward; we should have 10 or 12 million people in arms and kill communists and we ought to take back every oil derrick which belongs to us taken by Arabs and by Mexicans.

FDR made bad decisions about giving up a third of the world over to communists; and Truman’s mistake was setting up the Yalu River as a border over which we would not fight. Same for Johnson and Vietnam.

One of Bobby’s commanders would arm wrestle everyone, and if he started to lose, he would pop them in the head and then win.

A Time for War

1. God has allotted to each nation a certain amount of time for war so that that nation might have security and freedom from other nations.

2. When it is time for war, the nation should never back down.

3. If it is time for war and the nation tries to remain in peace, that nation will remain in chains and tyranny and slavery.

4. Freedom is something a nation maintains by war; it is maintained by fighting for it. If the nation succeeds in war, they will have peace for a certain length of time.

5. The Romans were so successful in war that they had Pox Romana.

6. When it is a time for peace, and a nation goes to war, they lose. Like Napoleon advancing against Spain and Russia; or the German advance. Napoleon lost out because he did not know this verse.

7. You cannot maintain freedom as a nation if you have peace and you should be at war, or vice versa.

8. Nations which go to war to preserve their freedom and privacy fulfill their obligations.

9. War means there is a time to have peace.

10. Our time of peace in the USA was purchase by our victory in WWII. The gallantry of our men in Vietnam and Korea should never been forgotten. It is the decadence of politicians who hurt us so badly in those wars. Politicians with his liberal, evil human viewpoint concepts which take our freedoms away. There is no energy crisis except to the extent that the government has typranized the pertro chemical industry.

11. Our bumbling and fumbling to the Korean war. MacArthur is so infinitely greater a man than Truman was. Because of that one decision and the decision not to fight a war as wars should be fought, we will lose our time of peace, and it may be this year. Bob hopes that it is.

12. Only God’s wisdom knows when to go to war and when to have peace. We need believers who know Bible doctrine. The worst liberal in Congress is born-again, and Bob knows that he is born-again.

13. There is a time of love and a time of hatred; and doctrine distinguishes. We love our country and hate our enemies; because we love Jesus Christ, we hate Satan. We love our friends and hate those who seek to discredit them and malign them.

Warfare

1. War is a inevitable. The way to have peace is through warfare; to keep the peace, a country needs to be militarily strong.

2. War is for adults. Num. Deut for exception. Some discover their RW when at war.

3. Annihiliation and decisive defeat of the enemy brings peace. Killing so many of the enemy is the best way to gain peace. Psalm 46:8–11

4. Just warfare is from God. When your cause if right. 1Chron. 19:42

5. Num. 32 it is sinful not to go to war at times.

6. War demands mental attitude, moral and battle courage. Deut. 20

7. War demands military training. Judges 3;2 Luke 14:31

8. The most important factor in warfare is Bible doctrine in the souls of believers.

9. Bible doctrine is also important in military leadership. Prov. 1 20

10. God prepares a believer for training. Psalm 144:1

11. Believers are protected in times of war. Job 5:20

12. There are always those who plot warfare against free nations psalm 55 140

13. Peace propaganda is a weapon of warfare. Micah 3:5, 7

14. War is used as a national discipline. 2Chron. 16:9 Judges 5;8

15. War is used for personal discipline.

16. The misnomer of warfare in matt. 26;52 never let a peacenik quote this to you

17. Motivation for warfare Neh. 4;14: And I looked [inspected] and rose up, and said to the nobles [generals] and to the rulers [the commissioned officers] and to the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them [the Jews are greatly outnumbered]. Remember Jehovah, who is great and majestic, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. Philistines and someone else is about to launch and attack. In addition to all of this, it is now time for a great inspection. He has finished his work and Nehemiah is going to inspect the troops. Jesus Christ killed 186,000 Assyrians in 1 second; an army which had not lost a battle in 200 years.

Eccles. 3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The Key

1. Because we are born, there will be a time to die. Because we plant a seed, that plant will be uprooted, making way for someone else

2. In v. 3, because there is a time to kill, there must also be a time to heal. So many of our greatest surgical techniques came from the battlefields.

3. Because we take time to demolish, we must also take time to rebuild.

4. Because we weep, we must also laugh. Because we mourn, we must take time for social life.

5. Because Jews threw stones to execute, they needed to gather stones to rehabilitate.

6. There is time for sex and time for no sex. We need to have other things going on; otherwise we are too wrapped up with a woman’s body.

7. Because we are aggressive, we often go after things which have rejected us. We must give up as lost those things for the sake of live and let live. When a woman tells you to get lost, then move on. Don’t bug her again. Live and let live. Some of you say, “That’s my RW and I need to show her.” “The hell you do.” For a woman living in Berachah barracks, no is her only defense. The ultra stupid only understand one thing, to get the hell beaten out of them. When a woman says no, that is her free will speaking. She is entitled to her privacy and to live and let live. There is a time to lose. Ask the Dallas cowboys.

8. In v. 6, because we are aggressive, we will go after things which have said no; and we must give up as lost those things.

9. Misdirected aggressiveness results in giving up something in the interest of freedom. This is the only true principle behind the collapse of the British empire; and there was a time for them to give up India, Australia and Canada.

10. There is a time to keep and a time to throw away.

11. As the values continue to change, children once loved and cared for are sent out into the world.

12. In v. 7, because things are ripped apart, they must be sewed back together. The restoration of love and firnedship; the rising of victory onto failure.

13. Because silence is a virtue, there must eventually be a time of speaking.

14. In each of these verses, the 2^nd half of the sentence depends upon the first half. Two antithetical things which have affinity. Because there is a time to love, there is also a time to hate. The key is in the arrangement of the phrases.

Everything has an appointed or an allotted time; there is a time for every pleasure under heaven. There is a time to demolish and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; a time to be aggressive and a time to give up as lost; a time to rip apart and a time to sew together; a time for war and a time for peace.

V. 9 is a new paragraph and gives us different approaches to time. We are faced with anachronisms and the translator did not do a good job even in his day.

This is someone doing something again and again and doing it until you are exhausted. Many things in life are monotonous, wearisome and tiresome. There are those who have jobs where they do not feel like they are doing anything important in life; and they keep going and keep going and they do not like the job and they do not like the work; and they are tempted to stay at home and receive even more money as a ward of the state.

There are those who do monotonous work and they feel like they are wasting time. That is the attitude expressed in this verse. It is the wrong attitude toward time.

Summary

1. Many find that there is time filled with monotonous routine and tiresome labor and think it is a waste of time.

2. This results in a cynicism toward time. The second point is the attitude of cynicism.

3. One comes to a place where life has no meaning, no purpose and no definition.

4. Without the soul assets of doctrine, time therefore becomes a slavery, a bondage from which there is no escape but death.

5. The cynicism of the attitude of this verse indicates no appreciation for life

6. The cynical question of this verse indicates a lack of doctrine in the soul. It indicates reversionism of believer and unbeliever alike.

7. For the believer with doctrine in his soul, the most insignificant of jobs becomes a place of service to the Lord and the function of the royal priesthood. Remember that job and that circumstance is full-time Christian service. It takes the proper amount of doctrine in the soul to appreciate this. A job where it is exhausting, you have to be nice to idiots, you feel unappreciated, it becomes imperative for us to realize that doing our job as unto the Lord is winning in the angelic conflict. While others appreciate what you are doing, that makes no difference. If the boss does not notice, that is unimportant. There is no such thing as a monotonous job. It is just monotonous people in a routine. Walking a guard mount; close-order drill; selling over the counter; punching a typewriter, waiting on tables. It is simply disorientation to time.

Eccles. 3:9 What advantage [profit] has he who works in that which he did as a laborer [or, to the one working in a difficult and boring and monotonous work]?

Solomon has seen everything. Solomon has seen every aspect of life and every circumstance of life. There is nothing which he has not seen or experienced.

A job, a business, a matter, a task, an occupation. “I have researched an occupation which God has given to the sons of men...” God has given something to us as members of the human race. The job that we are so cynical about, God gave us that job in eternity past. God provided that job for us in eternity past; so, if we are dissatisfied, then we need to take another look at it, realizing that God gave us this job.

In every life, there is allotted monotony. Since God gave us this, what are we going to do about it? Some in military life think that civilian life is all girls and fun; people in civilian life look at military life and see it as exciting.

For exercise to be good, you have to do things which are painful and which you do not want to do again. God also allocates to us pleasure; and this is on earth as well as in heaven.

Bob was with a group of rangers, with the toughest training of all, and they were able to get doctrine every day.

He would have academic achievement and show that is satisfying and gratifying. The Solomon tried to go out and raise hell. That was his next approach. Solomon decided, I have all of this money and power, so what do I have to prove? I can do whatever I want. Every pleasure turned sour on Solomon.

Some of you made the dean’s lists and you think you are really something. Guess who gave you those brains and guess who could turn them into fried eggs overnight.

The third thing Solomon did was to try to find someone to carry on his name. He had a son, and it turns out the dumbest ass who ever ruled was his son. If you have doctrine in your soul, you can have fun with money. If you are without doctrine, then it does not matter if you have doctrine or don’t.

Solomon went all out to make sure that no one forgot him. He build public and private buildings everywhere so people would remember him. Solomon realized that, even with his reputation, by the next two generations, he would be forgotten.

He finally came to the conclusion that, there are a lot of things in this life, but they are no good without doctrine in the soul.

Eccles. 3:10 I have seen the task [I have researched the occupations] which God has given to the sons of men, to be humbled by it [to be occupied in it].

Asah to manufacture blessing and happiness out of doctrine. Pleasure and sex and all of these things are good, and so is monotonous work; all in its own time. He has given the eternal doctrine in their right lobes.

Eccles. 3:11 He has made [manufactured out of doctrine and time] everything [every category] beautiful [excellent] in its time. Also, He has set eternity [given the eternal] in their heart [right lobes], without which man [mankind] cannot find out [can not perceive] the work that God makes from the beginning even to the end.

Everything has an allotted time; there is a time for every pleasure under heaven. A time to be born, a time to die; I time to plant, a time to destroy that which is planted; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time for sex and a time to forget about sex. A time to be aggressive and a time to give up; a time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace....I have researched the occupation...He has manufactured out of doctrine every category of time, good in its own time. There is a time for Bible class too. Also He has given the eternal doctrine in their right lobes without which doctrine man cannot perceive that which the God has made from the beginning to the end of history.

The average Russian thinks that everything invented was invented by a Russian. All systems of propaganda are designed to reinvent history. Liberals have reinterpreted American history. There were great pictures of battles in the history books of Bob’s time; and very little about politicians. Today, it is just the opposite. The federal government today is designed to enforce tyranny; bussing is a crime against the children involved.

The Doctrine of the Interpretation of History

1. One of the greatest objectives in history and the purpose of recorded history in the Word of God is to teach spiritual lessons from history and establishment issues from history as well. The rise and fall of peoples in history is related to the Word of God. The Bible is an accumulation of doctrine necessary for the royal family to grow. Man and history are an extension of the Angelic Conflict. History is therefore recorded in the Word of God so that spiritual lessons can be taught. Illustrate the learning lessons from history. We could learn something from the Punic wars. They had the most powerful nation in the world in North Africa. Carthage on one side and Eudeca on the other. Believe to be descended from the Trojans. Men of great genius; nobility were jealous of some of these men, Hannibal. He was even cut off from his support system out of jealousy. Jealousy is going to be shown to be a big factor in the fall of the U.S. It is possible to interpret that jealousy Jealousy led to They also agreed in this disarmament treaty to never make war apart from the permission of the Senate of Rome. Rome used this to destroy Carthage. Part Arab and part Black, an Arabian prince. Macinica disappears as the Romans paid him to go there and disappear. The Carthaginians saw the Roman army come in full force. Then Rome told them they needed to be under the Sullivan law and 100 boys from the most noble families given as a good faith gesture. Then they brought out all of their equipment to the Romans. Then the Romans sent an envoy. They were told we are going to party and then we will come and enslave you. In their camp was all of the Carthaginian weapons. While the Romans parties for a month, the Carthaginians got everything that they could to make a weapon from. The gates were closed when the Romans came for their surrender. And then they held out for 4 years. They starved and they died. A woman looked down at her weak kneed husband who are going to surrender; and his wife stood on the wall and killed their two sons and then herself. We look just like Carthage today.

2. The geogrphaphical interpretation of history.

a. The river-valley theory. A lot of attention is given to this an city states in the various valleys of the different states.

b. The climatic theory; too much rain, the jungle encroaches. A lack of rain turns everything to desert. The places becomes uninhabited.

c. The river theory that every nation which has been great becomes great because they have at least on gigantic river, the basis of its agriculture and commerce. India and Egypt for that.

d. Biological interpretation; men are in competition for food and mates and land. This breeds social and artificial and further inequalities.

e. Racial: always some group which considers themselves the Supergrace.

f. Ariyan nordic theory; which theory affected the little Bavarian painted Adolf Hitler.

g. The genius theory. Each person has their hand on one part of the truth. Various geniuses arise and move things forward. This is not true of a democracy, however, there was a genius who was elected in Athens and he left for several years with his laws intact.

h. The morality interpretation of history. This explains the rise of the Jews; the decadence of the phallic cults; the rise and then the fall of Rome. This has a lot of credibility.

i. The economic interpretation of history and the crusades is the western european trying to capture trade routes. This is the most accpeted interpretation today in colleges, but it is erroneous.

j. Only the Word of God can correctly interpret history and only the divine interpretation of history have meaning. History is our relationship to time and spirituality is our relationship to God.

The ultimate objective of time. There are all kinds of people trying to work their way into heaven. Little Miss Goody-Two-Shoes working her way into heaven. Or taking Watergate and tying to be more self-righteous than someone else. The problem with Watergate is the fact that people just stopped thinking after televsion came across. Almost everyone is dishonest in politicis. Nixon is not Bob’s favorite president, but he is a much maligned man; and he is being kicked in the pants for the wrong things. Politics is dirty anyway. The problem with politics is hypocrisy.

People criticise Bob because he says too much about history, but he gets into current things and he knows what he is talking about. Bob always knows what he is doing. “You can take what you don’t like about what I am doing and if you don’t know where to file it, you should know.”

Qal perfect of yada. This should be I have known. Kiy ein should be translated that there is nothing. Then we have better and it reads: I know there is nothing better for them in time than to possess inner happiness. This is done by knowing Bible doctrine. Some of you want to get out and hustle for the Lord. You know He is omnipotent; you know that He can give you everything that your heart will desire. People often hustle and work for that reason; but that is not doing good. Some figure out that they will just does stuff they don’t like, e.g., going to church. Don’t you decide what you are going to do for God; just get doctrine and let Him use you. Let the Lord decide and he won’t make a mistake about it. And what others tell you, “You are always taking it in and never giving it out; you are stagnate.” Come and beat a tambourine on he corner of 5^th and Main; or come and make an ass out of yourself for Jesus. God always needed a little help and I am going to help Him. Doing good is what we have studied all weekend. Doing good is doing your job as unto the Lord, filled with the Spirit.

Eccles. 3:12 I know that there is no good in them [or, I know that there is nothing better for them in time], but for a man to rejoice to do good in his life [than to possess inner happiness].

Everything has an allotted time; there is a time for every pleasure under heaven; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; a time to keep and a time to throw away; a time to be silent, and a time to speak; a time for war and a time for peace. I have researched the occupation of time that God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with; everything good in its own time.

The subject is the perspective of time. The beneficiary of the laws of divine establishment is man. Time is composed of man in history.

The word for drink means to drink a beverage that you enjoy. A lot of people eat and drink for other reasons other than fellowship. God has allotted to each one of us a certain amount of time on earth; and there is pleasure here on earth. The idea is, you are eating and drinking under relaxed conditions. No one is giving you a hard time; you are sitting around with those you love and enjoy; and if hundreds of thousands of others are doing the same thing; that indicates that the laws of divine establishment are at work.

Freedom and privacy in live and let live. We have an old sin nature, and the sin nature is nosey and wants to mind everyone else’s business; wants to arbitrate in every problem and wants to play God in everyone’s periphery.

You can enjoy good social life after having hard word; and the idea is, you do the hard work first and then you go and do your social life.

God has provided that we will all work for a living. There is wearisome work; and there is a contrast as well. This verse applies to believers and unbelievers. This verse delineates the laws of divine establishment to all people. This applies to all people, believers and unbelievers. This suggests freedom and privacy in the national entity as based on free enterprise. There is no suggestion that the federal government should play God and feed the multitudes.

Bob has heard 5 or 6 times how Congress has given us a 65 mph speed limit, and if a state does not adhere to this, there will be no federal funds for highways. This is immoral. Free enterprise pays taxes; there is no such thing as federal funds. The government collects money from the citizens in order to tyrannize them or to bribe them. We have an evil, immoral, blasphemous government. Our government has no right to tell us to be nice to this or that person; or to hire this or that person. The government fleeces us of our money and then they turn around and browbeat us with this same money. Now we can be nice to who we want; but this is not the federal government’s business. The government should not act as God. Things are so bad that the leadership all the way to the top will have to be destroyed, if our country is to survive.

The Laws of Divine Establishment

1. The divine laws which God has ordained for the human race fall into numerous categories. There are there divine law mistakenly called scientific laws. The law of gravity. Science observes these things and has determined that they exist. Science did not put these laws into effect, science does not enforce them, and often science does not fully understand them.

2. Laws of divine establishment are designed for the people on planet earth. Some laws are also designed for those who are born-again. These are the laws for the orderly conduct of man. There is freedom, blessing and protection for the human race and they guarantee blessing for the human race.

3. The basic concept of the laws of divine establishment. Just as the human skull is designed to protect the human soul, so the laws of divine establishment are designed to protect the volition of the soul. It is man’s volition which is the key to our existence. As divine institution #1 is voltion.

4. We can do what we want as long as we do not violate the law.

5. Things become complex when there are two volitions involved e.g. RM/RW. Marriage forms the basis for stability in society and reject the anarchy of communal living. Marriage has its problems. These problems exist for two souls in close contact with one another. Marriage is a part of the laws of divine establishment.

6. 3 or more people is family; and they get started with the physical birth of a child. Living together or not, they have a family. Physical birth finds the baby helpless and useless, and God provides the child with parents for the training and raising of a child. If a parent provides only food and shelter and clothing, they have missed the boat. Some people live their entire lives off-balance and off-base. They do not understand authority in the home or in the classroom. The parents must train the soul of the child. There is a lot more than toilet training. Inculcation of respect for authority, for law and order, for the volition and property of others. Christian parents must teach the gospel to their children. Deut. 6:6–9 and 7:9 Parents failed to teach this principle and they raise children who are completely disoriented to life. Their parents teach disrespect for the pastor. The children overhear fried pastor for dinner and they pick up over it.

7. Nationalism, which is pertinent to our passage. Deut. 32:8 Acts 17 nationalism protects the rights and freedoms of individuals who are scattered throughout in various nations and groups. There are at least 3 types of definitions. Racial differences (which has not existed for some time). A lot of Irish people have Spanish blood. Also a lot of English blood. Greeks have been invaded many times; Turks went through there; Englishmen who went through there; Slavic groups. In the Hungarians there is no purebred. Oriental high cheekbones and Slavic other features. A full-blooded Apache that Bob knew was part Navaho. There is a geographical definition. Ours was that until he took in Hawaii and Alaska. The 3^rd concept is linguistic. We have these national entities. They are under laws from God. There needs to be interior protection; proper laws, protection and enforcement along with a fair court system. The federal government is to protect us in riots and revolutions. This goes from the government down to the local police officer. Their profession is the most difficult. He is called so many different things which are uncomplementary; he is maligned and disliked; and he is the key to society. He is the key to internal stability. He represents establishment in this field. There is also the principle of exterior protection. They represent the privileges which we have and our privileges have been purchased on battlefields. The 3^rd is government which protects the freedom and the rights of the individual. The federal government was not designed to be our master; it was designed to be our servant; it is to administer in our place. Jesus Christ is called the servant of Jehovah. He is a substitute and He provides all of the answers for us. The federal government is our servant; not our master. The federal government has no right to take a census and to ask how many children you have; they have no right to step inside your house or to take away your weapons or guns unless you are breaking the law. The federal government is designed to protect your freedoms and not to take them away. The federal government has ignored the constitution and it has become a 3-headed tyrannical monster. They have become tyrants instead of servants. Our government is in violation of our freedoms and rights as citizens. We have so many people on government doles, that we have lost the national vigor upon which our country was founded. The 4^th paragraph deals with the economy; this is free enterprise. A person has the right to go as far as he can go in business, as long as it is legitimate. Once an organization purchases up a piece of property; and they were shut down, a paper company, because they did not like the smell. In the name of environmentalism, they shut down the paper mill. We are suffering from an energy crisis which does not exist. It has been an attack on the petrochemical companies. There should also be an esprit decorps, which makes our nation different from every other nation. We have a black culture which is evil; western european culture; and the dark ages and the rise of Romanism; and this is what our forefathers came over here to avoid. When men became believers, they despised western european culture. We had to punch England in the nose to tell them we are through with them. We had our own culture. The only thing to tour Europe is battlefields, food, and the beer in Germany. The worst mistake we had is that Marshall plan stuff. The Europeans knew how to butter up...the only thing we should have sent Europe are Bibles and evangelists. Worst is Black African culture. If there is anything Blacks should not like, it should be the Arab slave traders who brought them to the coast to sell them to the clipper ships made in Boston. We had a great wonderful culture. There should be the morality of a nation, the thinking of the nation; literature, art and music and something else. There should also be the collection of taxes.

8. Human freedom needs to be preserved so that the gospel can be taught. Religioun must be separated from the state. The state should never coerce anyone into believing in Christ or penalize your for beliving or not. Satan attacks the gospel and divine institutions. Laws of establishment are subject to Satanic attack.

9. When a national entity declines, alternate laows to into effect. Laws of discipline; 5 cycles of discipline. These are penalties from leaving establishment.

Eccles. 3:13 And also every man that eats and drinks, and sees good in his labor [hard work], it is the gift of God.

yada meads that Solomon understood exactly what had happened to himself, and wrote this as filled with the Spirit.

God manufactures a perfect plan from His essence. Everything about your life is perfect. When God does something, it is permanent, as well as perfect. God’s character is absolutely perfect. Since we believed in Jesus Christ, we are related to God and His character forever. His plan and its concept cannot be inferior to the One Who planned it. He knew the plan billions of years ago.

Now we wonder what it is all about when our lives take this or that turn; but God knows what is going on. He does not have to react to this or that circumstance and rethink His approach to things, which is what we do. God’s plan must reflect His character. It is impossible for a perfect God to come up with an imperfect plan. God knew the end from the beginning; every problem and every option. The solution for all of our problems comes before we knew there was a problem. God took care of it in eternity past.

Forever with God goes both ways. It goes back to eternity past as well as to eternity future. When we link up with the eternal, we can’t help but have confidence. The Hiphil stem means that there is nothing to add to God’s plan. Our throwing a faggot on the first and making some dramatic decision under a high emotional pitch is meaningless. Whatever God does, there is nothing to add. You’re fouled up, the camp director is fouled up; the only thing doing the right thing is the wood; it burns. You cannot add to God’s plan. God can add to our lives with great blessing. However, with ignorance of Bible doctrine, we can be sucked into every trap. The only way that we can avoid these things is lots of doctrine in the souls. Some of you have not run into any of this, because you have led a sheltered life. If you ever ignore the Word of God on a regular basis, you will try to add to a perfect plan...if we, as imperfect, add to a perfect plan, the result is, we wreck the plan for ourselves. We need to recognize Who is running the show.

Bob saw an open bottle of Haig and Haig, and he tried to drink it neat, like his dad did. It did not taste that good, so Bob decided to add rootbeer to make it taste better; he poured it into the bottle of Haig and Haig. Bob then discovered that adding to what his father considered to be perfect was a bad idea. The sooner we get doctrine in our souls, the sooner we recognize the perfection of His plan. It is best to simply stay out of His way.

Grace

1. Grace is all the God is free to do for man on the basis of the cross. It is God’s freedom to express His love to mankind without compromising His essence. Grace is the key to how God figured out how to do things for us, but without compromising any part of His essence. Grace is the policy of God; grace is the key to God’s policy and God’s plan.

2. The concept of grace: grace depends upon the character and essence of God. Grace is what God can do for man and be consistent with His character.

3. Points

a. Sort out the difference between grace and legalism.

b. Legalism is man adding some extra to God’s plan.

c. Whatever man throws into the plan would destroy grace.

d. However, the plan of God is not destroyed or neutralized, because grace rejects man’s ingenuity, plans, ideas, etc.

e. Man’s plans and God’s plans cannot co-exist.

4. Grace and sanctification are a part of the Angelic Conflict. The greatest thing that God can do is to make us like His Son. The first Adam lost the victory through the fall and the second got the victory through the cross. Man is inferior to angels and becomes superior. Stage 1: positional sanctifification as members of the royal family of God forever. Heb. 1–2. Phase II sanctification. Supergrace life. The consistent ministry of the Holy Spirit. 3^rd phases is the body of Christ becomes the bride of Christ at the rapture. We are physically superior to angels.

5. Points:

a. Every believer has tasted the grace of God at least once, the day we believed.

b. At the moment of salvation, the believer has received 36 things which belong to us forever. They are perfect the moment they are given.

c. This grace package cannot be cancelled or destroyed by our failure or by God’s change of mind.

d. Among these things is propitiation, where the believer will receive maximum love from God.

e. Maximum love frees God to pour our maximum grace. Grace can only lodge where there is capacity for grace.

f. The believers is saved by grace, but he does not have the capacity for grace.

g. Things are provided.

h. Filling of the Spirit provides minimal

i. Edification complex provides more and stability.

j. We must reach the objective to the supergrace life.

k. Grace never goes where grace is not wanted.

l. Therefore, some of us will never know what God has prepared for us in time. We will never know the reality of that phrase.

m. Therefore, while we are fooling around and not getting with doctrine, God taps His foot waiting to grace us out; things for which we have no capacity. Isa. 30:18-19

6. Reversionism is the great danger after one has started out well in the Christian way of life.

7. The divine attitude. Some will understood this. In reversionism, we reap what we sow. In supergrace, we reap what God sows.

8. Grace in phase I is catagorized rom. 3: Rom. 4:4

9. Grace in phase II

a. Prayer of the supergrace life. You need to be a supergrace believer to come boldly to the throne of grace.

b. There is a field in this life called suffering; supergrace suffering is designed for blessing.

c. Growth; grace in growth in 2peter

d. Stability. Our stability does not come from our inherent strength but from doctrine.

e. Our way of life. Supergrace functions. God has given us a life worth living. Pleasure under heaven. Technically, we are not living the Christian way of life until we reach supergrace.

f. The production of divine good is one of the byproducts of phase II. Divine good is what we produce in what we say, think and do.

g. Giving is a great part of phase II. Grace oriented believer knows how to give. It eliminates the sad stories given in order to get money.

10. Axioms of grace\

a. God is perfect and His plan is perfect.

b. A perfect plan can only originate from a perfect person.

c. If man can do anything meritorious in the plan of God, it is not perfect.

d. A plan is not stronger than its weakest link.

e. Lealism and human good are the enemies of grace.

f. The works of human righteousness have no place in the plan of God.

g. All human good is associated with the sin of pride. The most devastating of all mental attitude sins is jealousy.

11. Pride.

a. Satan’s pride

b. Pride in the believer who rejects the doctrine of eternal security. This makes you fatheaded. You have assumed there is some sin you can commit whch is greater than the plan of God. When you think you are so shocked that you can lose your salvation; you think you have found a sin which overrules God’s plan. This person always thinks that his sins are greater than the plan of God.

c. The believer who succumbs to the difficulties of life. Or the pressures.

d. The pride of pseudo spirituality; those who jabber and think that they are doing great things for God by talking in gibberish. These people are always in Reversionism.

e. There are those who think they are spiritual because they imitate some person.

f. Some observe certain taboos; and all confuse means with results.

g. Some people compete with you, thinking that their sins are less repugnant than yours. Ritualism, making yourself miserable on Sunday.

h. The believer who thinks his emotions are more important than the plan of God.

i. Grace is related to divine assets 1Cor. 1:6–7 you can still know what God’s plan is by it being the grace way.

12. Supergrace is found in James 4:6, which is maturity in the Christian life. Philip. 4 Eph. 3:19–21

13. The pursuit of grace. Eph. 1:6 the believer reaps what God sows.

What God has provided for us is forever. You cannot fake it with God. Standing around with your jaw dropped means nothing. It is an attitude of the soul. It has nothing to do with one’s posture. Therefore, time and all grace provisions for time occurred in eternity past.

Eccles. 3:14 I know that whatever God does [manufactures something out of something], it shall be forever; nothing is to be added to it [you cannot add anything to the plan of God], and nothing is to diminish from it [nothing should be taken from the plan of God]. And [or, because] God does it so that they fear before Him.

That which is, it already was. Kavar + the pronoun means it already was. God made provision for everything. Every need was provided for in eternity past.

Which came first, our categories of blessing or us? We came along in time long after the blessings.

Piel imperfect of baqash means to be out looking for someone in a desperate search; one you love or someone about to do something stupid. The Jews were great fighters when this was written. David’s army was unparalleled in human history. The Jews of that day would never say, “We have retreated.” So, they use a passive and say, “We have been pursued.” He is running away from the blessing of God and God is pursuing him. God is still running us down and trying to get us to turn back to Him.

Eccles. 3:15 That which has been, it already is; and that which is to be [to come to pass], it already has been. And God seeks what has gone by.

Eccles. 3:16 And again I saw under the sun the place of justice: wickedness is there; and the place of righteousness, wickedness is there.

Eccles. 3:17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every good purpose and for every work.

Eccles. 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the issue of the sons of men, that God may test them and see that they by themselves are beasts.

Eccles. 3:19 For that which happens to the sons of men, and that which happens to beasts, even one event is to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, one breath is to all; so that there is to the man no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity.

Eccles. 3:20 All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to the dust.

Eccles. 3:21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

Eccles. 3:22 And I have seen that nothing is better than that the man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Russell E. Dunham’s citation. Robert M. McGovern. The contribution of these men will never be known apart from this on the tape. Politicians destroy freedom; military men secure it.

Therefore, he communicates, “Wake up you sleeping ones, you reversionists...and the Christ will shine on you. Therefore, be aware how accurately you walk, not as unwise ones, but as wise ones. Constantly buying the time because the days in the allotment are evil. Stop being drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.

Every believer is royal family. It is necessary to press on toward the supergrace status; and there is one celebrity and many heroes.

Present active imperative of εγειρω = to wake up, to rouse up. They are being awaken from a sleep. Leaving behind Bible doctrine means one is retrogressing. The reversionistic believer is unaware that he is in reversionism. No one recovers reversionism until he knows of his own condition, just as no one goes to the doctor until they know they are sick.

Reversionism means a loss of our allotment of time, which is also a loss of pleasure.

Stages of Reversionism

1. Reaction. You may be in the reaction stage. Response is good; reaction is bad. Reactor factors include discouragement, disillusion; boredom; being overcome by self-pity, frustration, implacability, operation vengeance. Building your happiness on someone else’s unhappiness. Reaction to being jilted.

2. Frantic search for happiness; this depends upon the trends of the sin nature at this time. So it can be subtle. There is a trend toward lasciviousness and a trend toward asceticism. The in-between is when people call a pastor during a time of difficulty, but they have not been going to church. People who call Bob that way drops the phone right down on the cradle. “You come help me because you’re the pastor and you are supposed to be nice.” Bob could spend 25 hours/day listening to the most idiotic stuff in the world. They may later show up to Bible class in order to bribe God. That is one type of a frantic search for happiness. Those people come and go. Bob occasionally pitches their card into the waste basket as an administrative function.

a. A trend toward asceticism means a person can go to a holy roller church or go to the camping groups or to to the rah, rah, rah organizations where people work themselves up. They make glowing decisions for God; they make great decisions for God. An ascetic trend often means hooking up with a religious organization. Super-ascetics become Jesus freaks. They become gypsies and see visions.

b. A trend toward lasciviousness. This is not subtle at all. They just go all in for debauchery. Some are obvious and some are not.

3. Disillusion, boredom, frustration, mental attitude sins, are the reactor factors; this is followed by the frantic search for happiness. This intensified the reactor factors. Intensification.

4. Emotional revolt of the soul. This is the complete change around of the soul. The emotion is the RW of the soul; the heart is the RM of the soul. Emotional revolt of the soul makes a man effeminate and the woman more masculine. There is all kinds of emotional revolt. The way people dress, act and think. It takes over the soul. The woman runs the soul. The emotion has no thinking and no ability to think. They live by how they feel. They become irrational.

5. Stage 4 is negative volition toward doctrine. He may have antagonism with the pastor or other members of the congregation. Failure to utilize the rebound technique.

6. Inability to handle prosperity. Some get prosperous and cannot handle it.

7. Stage 6 is the Blackout of the soul. This is an attack on the left lobe. The attack comes from the vacuum of the soul. When a person is negative, the vacuum opens and sucks in false doctrine. Doctrine of demons influences the left lobe. This is where people fail at every divine viewpoint concept of life. Eph. 4:17.

8. Demon influence or demon possession.

9. Stage 7 is the freezing of the valves of the right lobe. They all feed into the launching pad where you make all of your decisions.

10. The believer reverses the whole concept of love. Instead of loving God or loving doctrine, they love something else. He reverses all of the objects of his love. It is a complete reversal of all the objects of one’s love. Sleeping is a perfect analogy to lost time.

Ανιστεμι means to stand up again, to rise up; to get out of bed; to be resurrected. Constative aorist looks at the whole thing. There is this unknown length of time. It takes a few months, a few years, etc. Every act of rebound. Concentration under the pastor-teacher is all involved in this waking up. Reversionists flock together. They are called dead ones because they all move toward the sin unto death.

Sin unto death

1. If a believer remains in reversionism long enough, it is inevitable that they will die before his time. God has allotted to every believer x-number of days. This is our allotment and it is assigned. If we get into reversionism and stay there. Jesus Christ first knocks at the door, then there is intensive discipline; and then there is the sin unto death. You might have had another 30 more years, but you are out of fellowship. 1John 5:16

2. This is not a loss of salvation. 2Tim. 2:12–15

3. Reversionism is the cause for the sin unto death. Jer. 9:16

4. There are 4 reasons why any believer dies: your work is finished; to glorify God in some special way; you life is often compressed; maximum discipline reversionism; psychotic or neurotic stage of reversionism where you superimpose your volition over God’s where you kill yourself before your time is up. You have cut short your own life on this earth. Believer committing suicide means he is a reversionist.

5. Case histories:

a. Monetary reversionism of Annanias and Saphira.

b. Incestuous Corinthian.

c. To participate in the communion service without filling of the Spirit.

d. Refusal to kill the enemy.

e. Anti-establishment revesionism. Isa. 30:1-3

f. Verbal reversionism.

6. Reversionism recovery 2Cor. 2:5-10

7. There must be repentance (changing your mind); rebound, back to the daily function of gap; growing to developing an edification complex, and then to supergrace.

There are other doctrines we could study here; rebound, and gap; we will move on.

Analogies to the supergrace life. Wake up is an analogy to supergrace recovery. Future active indicative of epiphauskô. This means to shine.

the future tense is a progressive future; the use be construed as progress toward an objective. We just woke him up and in future time, we expect him to move. Like a sergeant who just woke up his recruits. It is in our interest, if we are in reversionism, for someone to jerk us up. The subject is at the end of the sentence in order to give it a greater emphasis. Only the Lord Jesus Christ can provide supergrace blessing. He is our Host when we are on this earth. He does not pour unless we have a cup. He will not pour until we have a cup; otherwise it is all poured on the floor.

Bob found out that by teaching a different passage every night, he was catering to reversionism. So, he now gets in a passage and stays there. This all goes with Eccles. 3, which is all about time.

You do not sweet-talk people out of a sack in the barracks. You get them out with a stick or a loud braying call. They understand authority and meanness. “I don’t feel like getting up, sergeant.” Mamma always woke him up sweetly and softly tiptoed out if he wanted more sleep.

Supergrace Life

1. Definition. The supergrace life is the final stage of spiritual growth. It is where we reap what God has sown. It comes from James, where God is said to give greater grace (supergrace). The reception of capacity for life and the reception of blessings.

2. The characteristics of supergrace. The cup runs over in psalm 23:5 and that grace pursues him all the days of his life. Psalm 16:5 the Lord is my cup. The cup is Bible doctrine in the soul. Pouring into the cup is God giving supergrace blessings to the soul and the life of the believer.

3. 4 general categories of grace:

a. Phase I grace, which is salvation.

b. Phase II grace is life after salvation.

c. Stage of maturity where God gives us greater grace in life.

d. Surpassing grace in eternity.

4. Examples:

a. Abraham has supergrace sexual prosperity. From his supergrace sexual prosperity came a new race and many gentile nations.

b. Then there is Joseph and his great promotion and prosperity.

c. Moses the father of the Jewish nation

d. David is supergrace leadership as the greatest king of Israel until Christ returns.

e. Isaiah has supergrace blessings in the realm of Bible doctrine.

f. Jeremiah greatness under pressure and record blessings in old age.

g. Daniel supergrace blessings and promotion outside of the land, like Joseph. They were prime ministers outside of Israel.

h. The time of Israel’s dispersion and the Apostle Paul. Doctrinal blessing.

5. Psalm 84 God’s man for the crisis.

6. There is the love problem in supergrace. God loves every believer with the maximum love; but we cannot love God until we know Him. The believer’s love for God varies by the doctrine in his soul. God expresses maximum love through supergrace blessing.

7. Sharing God’s happiness, which is the happiness spectrum, from tranquility to ecstatics.

8. The reality of the celebrityship of Jesus Christ. Occupation with Christ is commanded and can only be fulfilled in the supergrace life. Freedom, life, love, etc.

This may be the time when Bob moved from teaching a different passage every night to moving straight through a passage.

Eph. 5:14 Therefore he communicates, "Wake up, sleeping ones! And arise from among the dead ones, and the Christ will shine on you."

Therefore, he communicates, “Wake up you sleeping ones; get up from among the dead ones and Christ will shine on you.”

βλεπω = to glance at; to beware, to be on the lookout. In the present imperative, this means to stay aware of what is going on; to beware. We must move toward our objective and once we get there, we must stay there. This means a total avoidance of reversionism; and to move toward the objective of the Christian life, which is supergrace.

Presence tense of repeated action. Everyone has their own idea of what it means to be circumspect; and there are weird and inconsequential things which emerge from an adverb like this. It is ακριβος which means accurately. This demands cognizance of the Word of God.

Most people think that if they make big enough asses of themselves that they are doing great things for God. This is untrue. Not as fools; and if you do not have a lot of doctrine, you will make a fool of yourself. Sophos with the alpha negative means unwise, flaky.

The adversative conjunction alla, which means a contrast is coming up. Folly is a believer negative toward doctrine. Wisdom is a believer with doctrine in their souls. You are a fool or wise. It all depends upon your attitude toward doctrine.

This means you need to find your right pastor and get under that ministry. Don’t come wandering into Berachah.

Bob’s ministry is designed for those moving toward supergrace or maintain supergrace. He may have a breakthrough on Wednesday, so that you walk in on Sunday and are lost.

Eph. 5:15 See [beware, be constantly aware] then that you walk circumspectly [accurately], not as fools, but as wise ones,

The purchase of time is the tactical victory of the Angelic Conflict. Exagorazô means to buy, to purchase, to buy and take something with you. You are living in time, but you are to buy or purchase time. In order to buy something, you need to have money. You need doctrine in the soul and the filling of the Holy Spirit.

You have two assignments in time. Time is assigned and time is allotted. The allotment of time is what we deal with. We have time for gathering stones or throwing them; time must be considered as the time assigned and the time allotted. The Bible is like a bank with unlimited funds. You open the Bible, you listen to the teaching, and you become spiritual millionaires. This word means to purchase with cash on hand. This word is used for you at the bank getting cash for a big day.

Phase II is divided into a number of days. Because these days are evil. Evil is theh plural of πονηρος. As long as we are in time, we are in the devil’s world. We are exposed to human viewpoint every day of our life. Evil and lawlessness and reversionism and internationalism and peace when it ought to be war and vice versa are all evil.

As believers, we are the only challenge to the evil in time. Our understanding of the laws of divine establishment is the challenge there is to evil in time. There is no other challenge. Television as a news media to promote human viewpoint (communism, socialism, etc.). Every one of these evil things are praised on the television. Bob is waiting to hear any young man with a crewcut and Bible doctrine in his soul interviewed. Otherwise he would be the face on the cutting room floor.

There are those who are concerned that Bob talks about the government or about current events, and they think that he shouldn’t do that. “You’re mixed up.” The only opinion you hear from Bob is divine viewpoint and you do not even recognize it. It never occurs to you how often that Bob studies the Word of God. Some are so filled with human viewpoint that they cannot tell the difference. Ask the devil if we have an immoral government and he’ll say, “Hell, no, it is exactly what we need.” We have been so indoctrinated that they have no clue.

When you get on your high horse when Bob talks about the government, military or the economy, you are getting human viewpoint every single day in every single course and on television. Many times you do not even know that it is human viewpoint until Bob challenges it from the pulpit. Bob would rather have empty pews than negative Satanic snots. This is a person who listens to Bob teach the Word of God, picks out what he likes and says the rest of it is Bob’s opinion.

Bob has retired tapes that he thinks stink. There is not enough content. Not enough depth. Those who will go on with Bob are those who know that Bob knows what he is doing. It is amazing to Bob that women think that they have an opinion about anything who are filled with human viewpoint. The only way you will get bright, ladies, is with Bible doctrine. Constantly buying the time means you need to take in doctrine every day.

Eph. 5:16 redeeming [constantly purchasing] the time [allotted and assigned], because the days [in the allotment and assignment] are evil.

The first way to buy time is the function of gap; then the filling of the Holy Spirit. Even though Bob is going to Dallas, this thing is not finished yet. It is the consistency of teaching which counts; not the occasional.

We are commanded to buy time; we are ordered to buy time. Some of us will miss a lot of fun. There is pleasure under heaven because you did not purchase your allotted time or your assigned time. Because of this, stop becoming... This is the challenge of the Sands of Time special. Here, this is a fool who misapplies what he has; and the other fool is someone who is stupid and does not know anything. He walks into a store to buy something and he has no capital.

Συνεημι means to understand something and to be able to relate it and to apply it and where to apply it and when to apply it. The believer of this dispensation and this is a command. We are commanded to understand this. This is our cash; this is our capital.

The content of God’s plan is what we need to understand. That is the will of the Lord. Θαλημα means will, plan, purpose, policy and demand.

Anyone taking in doctrine consistently does not need counseling. You can counsel yourself.

Divine Guidance

1. There are 3 categories of will in history.

a. Will of God called the sovereignty of God. It is sovereignty which is the volition or the will of God. It is absolute.

b. Angelic will or volition, which is the basis of the function of human history since the fall of man.

c. The will or volition of man.

2. 1John 3:23 gives us the cardinal rule for guidance. This is the will of God that we believe on His Son. If you are every going to break with all of the evils which have come up on cosmos diabolicos, you must break with these.

3. The free will of Christ. Some claim there is no such thing as human volition. They think that nothing exists apart from the sovereignty of God. If angels or man lack free will, then there is no Angelic Conflict. No free will in mankind means that Jesus Christ has no free will; which means no redemption and no salvation. Man does have free will and he needs information on which to make decisions. If the humanity of Christ has free will, then man does.

4. Types of the will of God; all 3 types with Baliim.

a. Num. 23:12 directive

b. Num. 22:20 permissive will of God; divine recognition of man’s will.

c. Num. 23;5, 12, 26 the overruling will of God.

5. Academic principles of guidance. Knowledge or doctrine in the right lobe. Prov. 3 Rom. 12:2 you must know Bible doctrine in order to know the will of God in our life. We first need doctrine in our souls in order to figure out the will of God. We must havge known factors in order to know the will of God.

6. Yieldedness Eph. 5:18 which is the filling of the Spirit or the rebound technique leading to that.

7. Growth is attaining the supergrace status. 2peter 3:18

8. Phase II categories:

a. Viewpoint will of God; some are in opposition to Bob’s ministry because we do not have enough cognizance of Bible doctrine. What is the will of God with regards to what we should think, do, and where does God want me to be? Many have assumed that Houston is hot; but apparently, there is an arctic time period here. Superbowl is about to be fought there.

9. Acts 11 mechanics: guiding through prayer, through thinking, through His Word; through providential circumstances, through the Holy Spirit; through fellowship with other believers; through memory of Scripture.

Eph. 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise [because of this, stop becoming fools], but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Now we will deal with the 2^nd way to buy time. You must remember negatives require a positive. What you have inside is what you are in the outside. Being filled with spirits sometimes brings out the real you. The controlled person brings out the uncontrolled person. One businessman told Bob he needs to see a man drunk and playing poker, to know everything about him.

Drinking is not forbidden in the Bible, but drunkenness is. Too many of you try to make the application before we get to the doctrine.

Kai continues the subject. This is still about buying time. Buying time is an analogy. Μεθυσκω means to become stinko, drunk. The command is a negative. The present tense is a progressive present. When you take a drink, you don’t get drunk. But you keep feeling better, so you keep drinking, thinking you will feel better and better. Bob studied the curve on this. You go up and you get to a point where there is so much alcohol in the blood, so that you are at the point of being inebriated. From thereon, whatever it took you to get up there, there will be a matching hangover on the way back. You reach a peak, and from thereon, it is no longer fun.

Wine is one of the several alcoholic beverages. Stop becoming intoxicated by means of wine. En + hos. In which is keeps on being dissipation (or debauchery) = asotia

drunkenness is a waste of time and always forbidden in the Bible. This verse teaches that drunkenness is a sin, but it also sets up a negative analogy. The character and personality of the imbiber are changed; we are changed on the inside for better or for worse. God can control us on the inside and alcohol can control us on the inside. There was a warning to the believers in Ephesus that they were drinking too much alcohol. There were apparently a lot of Christian lushes in Ephesus. They have failed to use what God has provided in time. He uses liquor instead of doctrine and takes it to excess. A believer growing in grace will not have this problem.

Don’t kid yourself; if you have no capacity for life, then you have no capacity for alcohol.

Doctrine of Drinking

1. Drunkenness is condemned as a sin. Isa. 5:11 Prov. 20:1 Rom. 13:13

2. Drunkenness is to be avoided in a certain category of humanity. Rulers, pastors and deacons, in certain Bible characters (Noah, Lot). Who would expect Noah to be involved in homosexuality or Lot to be involved in incest. Incest is the one sin which shocks Bob. It is beyond Bob. It didn’t bother Lot. A couple of nations got started in this way. Nabal who had a very attractive and wonderful wife. He drank so much that he could not enjoy sex or social life with his wife, even though she was beautiful and scintillating. Heavy drinking destroys this capacity. If you want to knock out category #2, alcohol will do it. This destroys a person’s capacity for life.

3. Ephraim, as a tribe, were heavy drinkers. Isa. 28:1

4. The drinking of alcohol is condoned in some places; Proverbs and 1Tim. Bob didn’t come up with this; but Bob’s job is to be honest. Timothy was told to take some wine for his stomach’s sake. He was a bachelor and he could not handle horsey women. A limited amount of alcohol is find; many medicines are packed in alcohol. A matter of fact, even this has some alcohol in it. It is good for the brain and the nervous system. It stimulates the appetite. It was the central nervous system in Timothy’s case.

5. The adverse concepts of alcohol: impulsive and abusive behavior, dulled reflexes, amplifies mental attitude sins, reduced inhibitions; diseases like vernaky’s disease, machanfava-something disease; corsikoff’s psychosis; auditory and visual delusions and hallucinations; liver cannot handle the digestion properly;

6. Jesus did turn water into wine; and Bob is going to ask about this. It had to be the best wine ever. This was obviously something really good. John 2:1-11 this does not condemn or condone drunkenness. This shows that Jesus is the God-man, the only Savior. Wine produces joy in the human heart, and therefore, this is a picture of doctrine in the soul. We share God’s happiness. There is a focus on the hypostatic union of Jesus Christ.

7. Alcoholism is always a part of national disaster. This is the subject of Joel 1 economic depression, frustration, vulnerability of a nation Isa. 28 as well

8. Law of love should be demonstrated toward alcoholics. So don’t pop a cork in front of a alcoholic; nor do you drink and give the gospel, as that confuses unbelievers. There are things in the Bible which are not wrong, but wrong under certain circumstances.

9. Individuals negative toward doctrine use alcohol as a frantic search for happiness.

10. Common sense principles.

a. The importance of abstinence on the job or when young. Young people destroy their own souls.

b. Do not drink when frustrated or unhappy.

c. Moderate drinking is for those who can handle it. Young people should not drink at all. At age 30 or 35 or 40, then you can take another look at it.

d. Do not drink with an unknown crowd or on a date with a strange man or with an unknown crowd. When you are drinking, be with friends you know who have your back.

e. Never drink when alone or upset.

f. Never drink with strangers or in a strange place; this is how you get rolled.

g. Do not drink when operating any sort of equipment; on a sailboat, in a car, airplane, etc. Or anything that requires reflexes.

We will go to the positive approach tonite. So this must be a Sunday Am service.

Therefore, He communicates, “Wake up you sleeping ones and get up from among the dead ones, and the Christ will shine on you [with supergrace blessings], not as unwise ones but as wise ones, constantly purchasing the time assigned and allotted to each believer, because the days [of this assignment and allotment] are evil; also, stop becoming intoxicated by means of wine, which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit. (1Cor. 5:14–18).

The present passive imperative of πλεροω = to fill up a deficiency; to fully possess; to fully influence; to fill up with a certain quality. All of these are applied to the Holy Spirit. This is an iterative present tense, describing what occurs at particular intervals. Imperative mood is a command to all believers, which is in contrast to the previous passage. Εν + πνευμα refers to the 3^rd Person of the Trinity.

There is the assignment of time, from the moment of the cross to the day that we die. We are given a certain amount of time. Then we are allotted within that time frame, periods of time for a variety of things (love, hate, war, peace, etc.). Time is purchased by that which God has provided. There is a personal attack upon days, e.g., with astrology, which is typical of reversionists and those with human viewpoint. It is simply another Satanic attack.

Some of us will never have a true friend because we will spend our entire lives in reversionism. God invented time, but Satan, as ruler of this world, tries to steal time. Satan can steal one gift which God has given to us.

The Doctrine of Memory

1. Communion table is directly related to this principle. Communion allows us to concentrate on Jesus Christ. It is a part of category #1 love and a part of the supergrace life. Psalm 145:7–12 Eccles. 12 1Cor. communion passage. Memory requires concentration. Love demands concentration. You need to be able to concentrate in order to love.

2. Therefore, memory is a source of great happiness. Prov. 10:7 memory center brings these people into focus more than any photo album will do. Bob recalls Fred McIntosh. He wanted to come back to preach Christ. Some of you are poor when it comes to memory. You do not know love when you see it.

3. Consequently, doctrine must be a part of the memory center. Peter 13–14

4. If you do not have doctrine in the memory center, memory can provide misery as well as happiness. God gives this thing called time once. We do not want to miss the boat on what we have. Some of us will be old someday because we have nothing in our soul. No doctrine means no scale of values and you have lost time. Satan has ways of explaining lost time. Astrology. Lam. 3:17

5. Memory is an important function of gap. Prov. 4:5

6. Memory is designed to orient the believer to God’s grace. Psalm 103:2

7. Memory is a associated with the one who teaches you Bible doctrine. Heb. 13:7, 17

8. 7 negative aspects of memory:

a. Judging others destroys the blessing of memory. Some people you will find that you think are friends, and they malign you. They are guilty of character assassination. Job 14:2-12

b. Memory will have regrets beyond death. Unbelievers will have regrets for every moment that they are in the Lake of Fire. This is what their memory tells them. Luke 16:25

c. Too much drinking causes those leaders to reject or forget their responsibilities. Prov. 31:4-5

d. One of the negative aspects of memory is that it is a reminder of sin and leads to a guilt complex. That is a sin. Reversionism and lack of understanding of life.

e. Divine judgment of a nation blots out the memory of that nation. Ex. 17:14 and we would know nothing of many nations in history apart from the Word of God.

f. The memory of reversionists will be blotted out. Job 17:18

g. The reversionistic believer does not remember the Lord under the sin unto death. Psalm 6:5 except when they turn it around in Psalm 6:4

9. Memory is used as an anthropopathism. This is language of accommodation to explain to us Psalm 104:14 Gen. 9 Ezek. 16;60

Qal active participle used as a noun. Remember the One Creating your souls. God created our mentality, our memory, the categories, the norms and standards, the whole thing. God did not create the old sin nature; that was added by negative volition. Baraʾ here refers to the creation of our souls; the very means by which we remember Him, God created.

Literally in the days of your youthful vigor, because some lose their vigor in their 20's. People get old at different ages. This is someone who is young and has the vigor of youth. Energy of soul and energy of body. You are young still; you are not old yet. Some have lost the energy of soul. When God disciplines the reversionists, there is the warning and the intensified stage. Being on the dying stage, they are already old. King Saul was old before his time. He was the handsomest man in his time when he became king. He was a great warrior and soldier; but he became old quickly. A part of the sin unto death is to be old before your time. Old age in the soul means no energy of soul. Old age can come upon us as suddenly as the sin unto death. Some take a long time to enter into the sin unto death; but some people are living ghouls because they have no youthfulness of soul. This tells young people how to become old.

Some people even become old in their teens. Dried up under the sin unto death. It is painful and horrible. The only memory open to a reversionist.

The next phrase is incorrectly translated throughout the chapter. This should be rendered before and you cut the negative out of the verb.

Every day that you logg in reversionism, is a wasted day, or a day of evil. Then we have to strike, to punch; Hiphil stem. Until Reversionism punches you.

There is a time that God gives us for these pleasures under heaven. God has allotted us time for pleasures under heaven. The reversionist has no pleasure however in these days. God has given us days in which to have pleasure, and we have none.

The things which Solomon sought instead of doctrine in the soul. He wanted academic knowledge. Then he wanted to play and he went to pleasure. He had no capacity to go with it. He messed up studying and playing both. Then he decided to settle down and get married and have a big family. However, there was no pleasure to him in heritage. He ignored his time allotment. Then he decided to make a lot of money. Money did not make him happy at all. He only got ulcers from it all. Then Solomon said to hell with everything, and then he spent all of his time having sex. Then he tried the hero image concept. All of his experimentations failed. In Eccles 10, he began to recover. But he did have some notes. Solmon found his notes and he opened them up and decided, “Wow, was my father smart.” Proverbs was much a rehash of these notes that he got from his father.

Eccles. 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth [youthful vigor], while the evil days do not come [before the days of intensified discipline; the days of adversity; worthless days], nor the years draw near [when reversionism strikes you], when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

The importance of Bible doctrine is what is covered next. If you are going to recover, you need to have doctrine in the soul. God can give us all the money, pleasure and sex in the world, but we need doctrine. The sun refers to prosperity and light refers to the accumulation of doctrine. The two together tell us how the believer reaches maturity. The moon is a satellite, a reflector of light. The is RM/RW and it is analogous to us and the Lord. The woman with RM/RW never has another thought about another man; and no other man can take his place. Everyone should have a moon. A moon is a satellite which goes just around us. The stars are used here in their right sense (not in astrology) but in astronomy. They represent all the supergrace systems of prosperity. The sun is the man in prosperity; the moon is his RW who reflects his glory; the stars are the blessings of supergrace. Light in the sun represents doctrine and therefore, spiritual energy.

Before any of these things are darkened. Reversionism takes all of these thing from you. The light, the moon, the stars. They all go with supergrace. A certain percentage of people may never be this way again. This may be our story right here. The concept of recovery from reversionism. Reversionism will cause us to lose all of this.

These things are all related to light. Light refers to Bible doctrine in the analogy. When you lose doctrine, you lose everything.

The clouds have returned. This is the Qal perfect, which is what is important here.

This person loses the prosperity. Too much rain means too much prosperity. Your eyes are on the gifts and you lose track of the giver. That is the disaster. Before the sun, the light, the moon or the stars be darkened; or the disaster clouds return after the rain.

Eccles. 12:2 So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened [i.e., before these things are darkened], or the clouds return after rain,

Bob said it was a great conference. Said that people drove as much as 100 miles in an ice storm one way for the Dallas Conference. Nothing worse than a religious town unless it is a religious city. That could explain why the cowboys won’t break through anymore. Bob picked up some kind of a virus there.

It is tragic to go through life where no one has a pleasant memory of you. Prov. 10:7 doctrine is only taught categorically in Berachah Church. 2Peter1:12, 18 Lam. 3:17-24 psalm 119:16, 18, 176 Prov. 4:5 associated with the one teaching you doctrine. 7 negative aspects of memory; judging others destroys the blessing of memory. You memories become bitter and the blessing of memory is destroyed. For unbelievers, there are regrets beyond death. All unbelievers will have regrets forever and ever. Too much drinking causes those with authority to neglect or to forget their responsibilities. Memory reminds us of sins. Memory of the reversionist will be blotted out. Reversionist believer does not remember the Lord when under the sin unto death (unless he repents and gets out of it).

Remember therefore the One Creating You (a plural of majesty). The fact that Jesus Christ is the Creator is taught in several places. Solomon is addressing Ecclesiastes to believers. This is in the days of youthful vigor. Old age has nothing to do with how old you are. You can be old at any age. Youth on one side and old age at the other. It all has to do with spiritual energy.

The evil days are the days of adversity. No pleasure is taken in the divine assignment of time or in the divine allotments. In that assignment, we have allotments of time for various things. The believer can squander their entire allotment in phase II.

Some say, I have no pleasure in the allotments given them. The light is doctrine in the soul. The moon is the RW, the stars are a variety of prosperities. More prosperity occurs after Bible doctrine. Without Bible doctrine in the soul, you do not have the appreciation in your soul for it.

Resumption at v. 3. You can be old at a number of different ages, and it depends upon the vigor of the soul. When you lose these energies. This is what v. 3 is all about. This will be a description of someone who has lost all 3. We begin with the hands. The hands will tremble. There is a loss of energy in the nervous system. When people are neurotic, it is a combination of the soul and the body. One can no longer control his or her body. The nervous system is a part of the body and it reflects what goes on in the soul. The soul and the body combine when people no longer have control of their body. You can be young at 90 because your soul controls your body. This palsied hand is illustrative of many different things. We spend so much time on 2-3% of the congregation. God bless them.

The strong men can refer to the entire leg or to the knees or to the feet. There are 3 areas where we recognize that we are getting older. A football player who has trouble with his knees occurs early. These all bow themselves. This means, they break down.

The teeth. Bob refers to a dentist at Berachah. There is a relationship between the soul and your teeth; between your teeth and your nervous system. In the ancient world, if they lost their teeth, they could not replace them. A wood plug was the most common. Ivory and metal as well. Here, some teeth are missing. Bob’s father had all his teeth when he died...but that was at age 64. He said that was because he soaked them in scotch.

People are blessed with things, always by grace, and they are asked why, and they come up with a goofy answer. They chew roots and two glasses of lemon juice each day. No one lives beyond what time God gives to them. Our souls and bodies are both hooked up. When you find the jug smashed up. Christian science distorts some true points of doctrine. This is one of Satan’s great tricks.

We are hooked up; we have a soul inside the body. When you get to where your hads are trembling, it means that you need doctrine. The shakes without doctrine is hell on earth; but with doctrine, you can deal with it.

Bob got a flash photo taken of him, so he has seen lightening in one eye since then. The windows are the eyes here and one of the greatest blessings which God has given us is eyesight. It is much more difficult for those who could see to lose their eyesight; than those with congenital blindness.

Eccles. 12:3 in the day when the keepers of the house [hands] shall tremble, and the strong men [the legs] are bowed, and the grinders [the teeth] cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows [the eyes] are darkened,

the doors here are literal doors. We all go through periods of time when the door is shut to the street. This is contact with normal people; less social life. They have lost all contact with the rest of the world. It means isolation from the main street of life. We have a tendency to take people out of society and to isolate them. In the past, the older people stayed with their families; there were no homes for the aged.

Maybe this refers to the hearing, and their hearing of what is going on is as if they are inside and the doors have been shut.

next we go to indigestion, which is the sound of grinding is contemptible. The grinding is the grinding of the mill. The mill grinds the flour. Indigestion can often be tied to soul problems.

Eccles. 12:4 and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low [indigestion], and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird [insomnia], and all the daughters of music are silenced [deafness; inability to appreciate music];

Then there are odd fears which crop up. Altiphobia. Phobias must be distinguished from other kinds of fears. There are fears which we can understand; but these are phobias. Some people have various fears and phobias normally; but others develop these as they get older, which is what we are seeing here. The answer in every case is Bible doctrine.

Let’s say you are afraid to fly in a particular type of plane. Without doctrine, this is far worse. Often when you face situations in life, it may never occur to you that what you need is Bible doctrine.

All these commentaries have so many ideas related to almond trees and the whiteness. All of these people come to weird and different conclusions. Bob tells you it is an almond tree and you say, “Hell, I can read that for myself.” The almond tree is the dulling of the taste buds. The taste and capacity for life go together. The taste buds represent capacity for life. For some, wine tastes the same. Someone else can find all the nuances. Bob’s dad said he could distinguish 11 different tastes in scotch. Bob tried a little in a tumbler; and he spit it out. Bob’s father had a capacity for it; and Bob did not.

Bobby and Roy Hurst were there to meet Bob at the airport. And a guy approached them and asked if they were the guys from such and such a company. They were going to hand out superbowl tickets. Less enjoyable if it were those from the nutcracker suite. Bob doesn’t care for all those fags prancing around. It is possible that we can come to a stage in our life where our capacities have been dulled.

Once a person has great physical strength, it becomes their security. It is like fighters. Bob has rarely met a fighter with a bad disposition (only those who drink too much). Jack Dempsey could break a 200 lb sandbag with a right hook. Loss of skill and loss of physical ability. It is a great disaster to someone who has had this all of their life.

Reduction of sexual desire. There have been many gallant men who have stepped on mines in war and have been castrated by a mine. Some Koreans in the Korean War castrated some of our men. The Barefoot Contessa was based on this same concept. To have this without doctrine would be unthinkable. However, with doctrine, it can be dealt with. These disasters are put in front of us. God has provided for us supergrace prosperity. He has also provided for us adversity. There is a time for mourning and a time for dancing. Our lives are made up of a variety of things.

Eccles. 12:5 also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors [fears] along the way [all the phobias; here is travel fears], and the almond tree shall blossom [white hair] [the almond tree will be despised], and the grasshopper shall be a burden [loss of physical strength], and [sexual] desire shall fail [frustrate; this is loss of sexual desire]; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Bob was delighted to see everyone on time for the Superbowl game. He waits until it is filled up, and then he gets started. That is flexibility. He is assuring everyone that they will get home in time.

Death is one of Bob’s favorite subjects. God can take the thing which people fear the most and make it magnificent. History channel 9^th episode of War and Peace was about death. Primarily, morbidity was characterized as the overall deal. Maybe a different channel? Being a Russian, Tolstoy is depressed by death; and it is a tragedy for him. Neither was Bob impressed about how we are little bits, and at death, going back to the big bits. That he loved this doll still was about the only thing good about that episode. Apparently Tolstoy was a believer, although he was a pietist. Bob did not like it because it was so far from what death it. It does not come anywhere close to portraying the magnificence of death. Our death might be magnificent, dying in battle or saving someone; but it may also be some lingering disease. Adversities and prosperities. God saves the best for life; and if you have capacity for life, then you have capacity for death. The amount of doctrine you take in before this or that event, the better off you will be; and so much better of if you take in a lot of doctrine before death. We will have the privilege to enjoy the desert of the end of our lives and death is wonderful for the believer with maximum doctrine in the soul.

The almond tree will be despised and the grasshopper would be too much of a burden.

Then the subject changes somewhat. Because begins a new subject entirely, which is the desert of the course of life. Every step that you take is one more step toward desert. We are all in different stages and death is the desert. Bob has a paragraph and he is delighted that he will die. There will be a generation which goes up without death. Bob knows he will die and he wants Bobby to speak at his death. Bob is not just ready right now to jump out of his skin. God designed the perfect way for Bob to die. It is in God’s hands because He knows best. Death is just a valley. Dying is just a valley. The Lord waits at the other end of the valley. Bob will walk through that valley and it does not bother him or upset him. He has capacity for living as he has capacity for dying. Doctrine makes the difference. When that comes, Bob wants us to be relaxedabout it. We are living right now and some are looking to live it up after the superbowl.

Eccles. 12:1–5 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them. So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain, in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced; also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

olam means eternity. Mankind is always walking toward eternity. This is not a long home but eternal home. Phase III is the most fantastic thing which could exist.

There are mourners here and they go about without direction. A person who has lived a normal supergrace life, and has doctrine in his soul, there will be mourners. We all have the right to ask, if I was to die today, would anyone miss me? We have all had contacts and relationships in life. If you have Bible doctrine in the soul, people will miss you. If you are in reversionism, no one will miss you. It is tragic to depart and for no one to miss you.

V. 6 continues with this sentence. The verb is translated without the negative. There is another set of words which keep us from translating the negation. Chesed here is a silver thread. This silver thread is a political picture of life. It is life after salvation. After salvation, we were born-again with a silver thread in our lives. This is poetic language. Nearly all of the ancient languages use the snapping of a silver thread as death. Our death as assigned by God ought to be poetic. Poetry has all kinds of meter in it. There are all kinds of death also assigned to believers. Before the silver thread is snapped or removed. This reminds us that God assigns to us.

It is hard to explain poetry, because English poetry is pitiful. Bob had to memorize that damn poem about daffodils and he had 2 fights after school having to give that poem. Everything that Escules did is perfect balanced meter. Our death will be similar. So the snapping of a thread is used in that sense.

The golden bowl and this was Zechariah and this is a container and there is a wick which sucks the oil up to the top, and there is the flame and the flame represents life. The oil is the energy of life. People have going through the brain an electrical charge, called an EEG. There is an electrical charge in the heart and in the brain. There is a golden bowl; it is our life. When there is a leak in the bowl, the oil leaks out. The leaking out of the oil is a long death; a large crack means a quick death; and the wick no longer draws up oil and the flame goes out. This describes death in terms of a negative EEG. That electric spark is no longer in the body.

When Bob’s body is a vacant house, then it is time to close the coffin. When the soul leaves the body, there is no EEG.

Good poetry is a combination of good thought and meter. There is that spark of life which we studied in the Hebrew.

This rest of this passage is obscure. The translation stinks. Both of these analogies are based upon getting water out of a well in the ancient world. Some of us have gotten water out of a well and there is a wooden bucket. Forget about wells that we have seen. Water was taken out of a well in a shaft. There would be a wheel and an axel. There was a rope connected and it lowered a jug made out of clay. This clay jug is lowered. It would fill up and then it would be lifted up again. It pulls the jug back up. There are two ways you cannot get water. If it smashes the side of the well going up or down; if it hits the wall, no water. This is the circulation of the blood going out and coming back again. The second problem is if something goes wrong with the wheel; a mechanical failure with the wheel. Two things keep you from getting water: smashing of the jug or the axle. The wheel and axle represent the heart and the other is the circulation of blood. There are two type of heart attacks. A bursted vessel or the breaking of the heart. The first type is a destruction of the circulation; and the 2^nd is a failure of the heart itself; failure of the electrical arrhythmia. The rupture of a great vessel which carries the blood. Circulatory cardio vascular death. A wheel is a galgal (an onomatopoetic word). The 2^nd is a mechanical cardio problem; a heart attack.

Remember before the silver thread of life breaks, or the golden bowl is broken (an electrical encelphliagram) or the clay jug be shattered on the side of the well, or the wheel on the well be broken.

Eccles. 12:6 or ever the silver cord is not loosed [before the silver cord is snapped], or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken [or the clay jug be shattered] at the fountain [on the side of the well], or the wheel broken at the cistern [or the wheel on the well be broken];

The body decomposes into chemicals. Unfortunately, we have caskets. Bob has no problem with being cremated. People who are goofy or morbid about their children dying in other parts of the world. The body does not mean a thing. It is the soul that counts. God has the perfect garbage disposal. There is no place on this earth for dead bodies. Once the soul leaves the body, unless that body is kept preserved by artificial means, it returns to the air or soil. What happens to your body does not mean a thing. The key is the soul.

The body will return to the ground as it was. Barah means to create out of nothing. Asah is to create something out of something. For the man’s body yatsar and for the woman’s body is banah.

The chemicals are still there; and they will be in the air, the sea or the soil. The soul is returned intact. Ruwach indicates that there is a soul and a spirit and they stay together. Everything that we have, God gave us. We need to be constantly reminded of this fact.

The dust, which represents the body, returns to the earth and the spirit returns to God Who gave it.

The Doctrine of Death

1. 7 types of death in the Bible.

a. Physical death.

b. Spiritual death, which is how we are born.

c. If a person in life rejects Christ as Savior that is the 2^nd death

d. Rom. 6

e. Operational death faith without works

f. Temporal death believer out of fellowship every time we sin, we are in temporal death.

g. Sexual death

2. Bible references to physical death are extensive. Psalm 23 Job 5

3. 4 causes for physical death: our work on earth is finished; God in His perfect estimate of the situation is our work is over. Anyone who lives a normal Christian life. Some believers die in a way which have a great impact. Some have a greater impact in death than life. Then here is extreme discipline, or the sin unto death. The last one is suicide. Believers do commit suicide and they do go to heaven. Bob has known of definite cases of those who commit suicide.

4. How believers face death in the Bible is a great subject.

a. When Job faces it in Job 13:15 He did not agree with any of it; but he was willing to die.

b. Lazarus was thrown out in the street; he had great ulcers on his skin. He would eat crums which fell from the rich man’s table. He never complained or murmured. His death stands for many wonderful principles. He was prepared by Bible doctrine in the soul.

c. Abraham died in Heb. 11:13–16 in a tent. He was a millionaire many times over who could have built a city and never have felt the pinch. He believed God and chose to live in a tent for the rest of his life. Sarai meant nagging bitch in the Hebrew. Abram wanted everone to know that God will keep His promises. At the end of the Millennium, there will be a new Jerusalem which will come down intact and hover over Jerusalem. This is Abraham’s city.

d. Heb. 11:22 Joseph would have his bones taken from Egypt to be buried into the Land of Promise. He knew this land would be given to his descendants. In his sarcophagus above the ground were the bones of Joseph to be taken to the Land of Promise. This became the mighty hope of Israel. There is a greatness for believers with doctrine in the soul.

5. Psalm 23;4 the principle of dying grace.

6. What does death mean to the believer. What does it mean to any believer? It means no judgment to those in Christ Jesus. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that, the judgment. Death means to be face to face with the Lord. It means for us no more pain of any kind. No more death sorror or crying. It also means an eternal inheritance. Death also means a new home. It also means realization of eternity. We are time oriented. We will have an empiracle and doctrinal understanding. Death means waiting for a resurrection.

7. To the unbeliever, it means torments. The soul of the believer resides in torments.

8. What does death mean to the living believer? It means the anticipation of dying grace? We should have no fear of death. It is the sleep of the body, and who is afraid to go to sleep or to be afraid to be with God.

Eccles. 12:7 then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who had given it.

There is no vanity here or a preacher; otherwise, everything is fine. Kavel is the masculine singular in the construct form, so it is the emptiness of... The first empty revers to the emptiness of reversionism. This word is repeated, but in the plural.

The 8 Stages of Reversionism

Emptiness refers to reversionism. Emptinesses refers to any one of the 8 stages.

1. Reaction against God or reaction against people or principles or authority. You cannot react toward God toward everything which is important. You cna be discouraged or disillusioned or overcome with self-pity. These reactor-factors in the life, becoming religious, revolutionary, . A mental attitude sin is often the catalytic agent, which stirs up a strong reaction principle. These are involved in people who use drugs. Drug addicts are reaction to life. Draft dodgers are in the reaction stage. It is indicative of what is happening in our country today. There are many facets of the reactor factor still to cover. Some become reactors because you are jilted in a love relationship or a love affair. You react because you are jilted; you become bitter, disillusion and upset.

2. A frantic search for happiness. No one is in a state of reaction without a personal frantic search for happiness. This will follow the trend of the old sin nature. Mental attitude sins involved as reactor factors; then there is the frantic search for happiness based upon the trends of the old sin nature. There is asceticism, which means they become religious or a holy roller. And there are those who have a bend toward lasciviousness, and they turn toward drugs, drinking and sex. Or there is a middle road, and someone becomes an academic snob. Achievement might describe this middle road; “I am better than you because you have not achieved.”

3. Intensification of reversionism. There needs to be this intensification stage which makes the reactor factors more intense. A false system is set up in your life and this stage become operation boomerang, which comes right back at you and makes these problems worse.

4. The emotional revolt of the soul. You can find this in stages 2 and 3 as well. The emotion is designed to be a responder to the right lobe. The emotion is designed to respond to the content of the right lobe. If you have patriotism, then your emotion responds to that. If you have in your heart the principle of being a professional athlete, you respond to the coach and you stay in the best possible condition; however, if your emotion controls the heart, then you rebel against the coach and his discipline. You do not get up for a game; if you are professional, then you do it well every time. Getting yourself up for a game is being a football holy roller. The more worked up an athlete is, the more difficult it is for him to concentrate. So, in the ring, Bob found out that your turn off your emotions. You will lose your timing, and you must know how to throw a hook. Bob gives a boxing lesson. A great fighter can get tied up by getting emotional. Max Schmilling was a great fighter in Bob’s time. He got all worked up for a fight and he was one of the few to defeat Joe Louis. Louis the 2^nd time was his same old dead pan perfectionist. As a result, Louis nearly knocked his head off.

5. As a result of these things, a strong negative attitude sets in. Negative volition toward doctrine in stages 2–4 (which negative volition is sporadic). In sage 5, it becomes consistent negative volition. You stop attending going to Bible class altogether. Indifference toward Bible teaching, antagonism toward the pastor-teacher. Antagonism toward a member of the congregation. No use of rebound. The inability to handle prosperity. Any of the reactor factors.

6. Blackout of the soul is the result of consistent negative volition. This opens up the mind to suck in human viewpoint and Satanic viewpoint. Satanic or demon influence. A believer thinks like an unbeliever, acts like an unbeliever; but is under the influence of Satan or demons.

7. Blackout of the soul leads to the freezing of the valves. A loss of the norms and standards of the Word of God; the loss of divine viewpoint, and this is called hardness of heart or hardness of neck.

8. Reverse process reversionism, which is the exact antithesis of supergrace. It is a distortion of love. It is a reversal of all objects of love. It is a complete loss of scale of values. It makes a member of the royal family of God the worst guttersnipe who has ever lived.

No matter what you have in life. We all have goals and desires and happiness associations. We all have things that we want. We all have some ambition which we desire. All people have these things. Some men and women think, if I had my right number, I would be happy. However, you have no appreciation of him/her. You are in a stage of reversionism and you cannot appreciate this person. All of the legitimate sex in the world is not something which you can enjoy. Some of you think it is money. If you have money and suffer from emptiness of emptinesses; if you are promoted, you are still minus happiness. In other words, the column which is important is Christ; Christ cna give us a billion dollars tomorrow. He can give us success and recognition and money; whatever we associate with happiness. However, in the doctrine column, we are empty. We have no capacity. If we are in reversionism, then we will not have any happiness under any circumstance. If you come with emptiness, then you have had it. The beauty of all this is, we always have the source. Nothing is impossible with the Lord. If God did something for us, without capacity, it would be nothing more than emptiness. There has to be doctrine in your soul.

Bob hates the word preacher. “Well, preacher, how are you today? How’s John the Baptist?” This word is associated with some pulpit pounding madman. Every king who speaks does not always have a thing to talk about. Nixon might come on the television today to talk about the energy crisis, but he has nothing to say. A king who recovers from reversionism wouldn’t write the Song of Solomon; but Solomon had the gift of prophet, so he could sit down and write these things. This is a Spirit-given gift. Moses and Jeremiah had the gift and office of prophet.

Kohelith refers to an orator. Therefore, the man with the message seems to be the closest to our context.

The all refers to the fact that time is assigned to us and we only go through this once. Reversionism is loss of time. Reversionism shortens time. It removes time from our lives.

Eccles. 12:8 Vanity of vanities [emptiness of emptinesses], has said the preacher [man with the message]; all is vanity [the all is empty].

Reversion recovery gives life meaning to Solomon. He has the opportunity to tell us how important it is to recognize reversionism and to recover from it. As long as we are alive, life has meaning and purpose.

Because the man with the message had doctrine, he taught doctrine to the people; also he considered and investigated and composed many proverbs. Preview of the next verse.

Eccles. 12:9 And more than that [furthermore], the preacher [man with the message] was [had become] wise; he still taught [to teach with authority; to teach animals by jabbing them; to teach by hurting; learning the hard way under strict discipline and strict authority] the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked [intensive stem—investigated], and set in order [composed] many proverbs.

Qohelith is the man with the message. God the Holy Spirit caused him to communicate these things in writing. He went through all kinds of reversionism. Solomon was quite a loser and he actually confessed to this. He considered himself to be the greatest lover of his day, and he talks about the woman who jilted him in Song of Solomon.

Solomon learned that all of these things associated with happiness do not bring a person happiness.

A man may jump out and say, “I’m your RM and he may be your RM; but you have no capacity for love.

Nearly every jackass who studies India thinks that the Taj Majal would be quite impressive, and all those in Bob’s family have traveled all around the world.

God has allotted time under heaven for pleasure. But you must have the capacity for pleasure. Compare this back to Eccles. 3:1. Happiness is no good without the word of pleasure, which is Bible doctrine.

The Doctrine of Inspiration

1. All Scripture is God-breathed (which is an inhale and an exhale). This is the whole process of breathing. Inspiration actually just means inhale. When Solomon recovered from reversionism, the Holy Spirit caused him to find his old class notes from when he studied under David and Bathsheba. So now Solomon takes into his soul doctrine and he exhales accurate Scripture. Jer. 1:9 Mark 12:36 Acts 28:25 Solomon is in reversionism recovery; he exhales in written form, writing. He exhales with his own vocabulary and his own personality. All of these things are involved in writing Provers, SoS, and Ecclesiastes. Solomon takes the doctrine and he expresses this in his own vocabulary. Solomon was famous as a lover, but he was not a successful lover, as he did not have his RW. He could turn the head of any young lady. He had several lines which he used. He talked about her perfume or about his weatlh and power. And he was eloquent and intelligent as well. Fundies would today say that SoS is too pornographic. In the exhale, the human writers of Scripture so wrote without sacrificing their individuality, their individual feelings, their vocabulary, and yet produce the very Word of God. The writer puts down in permanent form the Word of God.

2. Therefore, the origin of Scripture is not human viewpoint. 2Peter 1:20–21

3. The Bible is said to be the mind of Christ.

4. Bible doctrine the Bible is the mind of Christ and because Christ existed in eternity past, it becomes the absolute criteria. Bible doctrine existed billions of years ago in the mind of Christ. Everything is contained in the mind of Christ. Christ is the planner of Scripture. Bob was pointing out to the ladies class this morning; say there are 1000 subjects in the Bible, and you are only interested in 10 of them, so you stay home when it is stuff you are not interested in. The last half of Gen. 6 was something which Bob never taught because he had no interest in the Ark. It was the worst looking thing that he had ever saw. Yet, some people go wild over the Ark. Exploration for the Ark; but there have always been things and people worship the things. Or they use these things as a good luck charm. God designed us for doctrine. But not for religious stuff. Some people need a Bible where the outside box was made with wood from Palestine. Bob had one with a cross carved into the wood and the wood from Palestine. He threw it away, the cover. It is all up in the soul. Bible doctrine is the mind of Christ. It existed in eternity past prior to being put into written form. Bible doctrine was here much longer than us.

5. There was a long time in human history before the Bible was started, and much longer until it was completed (96 b.c.). It was written and completed in a canon for a period longer than 2000 years? What about those who lived before the Law? Before the prophets? What did they do for doctrine? Hwo did they get it? This is called pre-canon revelation. 2Sam. 23:2 Ezek. 2:2 8:3 11:1, 24 Micah 3:8 Heb. 3;7 Prov. 8

6. 4 categories of precanon revelation: the spoken Word, dreams, vision (getting Bible doctrine while wide awake but with some ecstatics; great Bible teaching before the canon was completed from teaching angels. Angels taught Bible doctrine. Psalm 68:17 acts 7:53 Gal. 3:19

7. 7 principles of the extent of revelation.

a. Unknown past. Bible portrays the unknown past historical details unknown to man otherwise. Satan’s fall; the creation and restoration of the world. A lot of things happened before man existed; nothing in archeology or in any book. Only found in the Word of God. Inspiration guarantees their accuracy apart from any confirmation of any source.

b. The extent of inspiration is found in ancient history. Both Old and New Testaments require that we know some ancient history. The Bible is not an historical textbook, but it demands that we understand some.

c. Law, and the Bible contains objective type law. These laws perfectly express God’s perfect justice and repetition of the laws makes this for other generations as well. They perfectly reflect every aspect of divine justice.

d. Dictation. There are some portions of Scripture which are dictated or spoken by God. Inspiration tells us that these are accurately quoted.

e. Devotional literature, like the psalms. God uses the problems, the pressures, the prosperity, the success of certain believers to reveal certain principles of grace. In that study, many of the psalms represented some action of David. David spends the night in a tent with the severed head of Goliath, making a psalm to Goliath. Often fantastic principles of doctrine presented.

f. Since people lie and the Bible records these lies accurately. How can the Bible record lies? Silly. This does not mean that falsehood is true. The Bible does not sponsor adultery because it records cases of adultery.

g. Prophecy involves material which is future from the time it is written. Much of this is history to us. However, for the future, there is still a lot to come. There is fulfilled prophecy and prophecy yet to happen. Inspiration tells us that all of this will come to pass. If it is prophesied that the Lord will come again, then He will come again. We are also told that Jesus Christ will bring peace on earth. Inspiration guarantees all of this.

Eccles. 12:10 The man with the message sought to find out [obtain] pleasing words [words of pleasure]; and words of truth [to be] written by the upright [truth].

There should never be the public confession of sin in any congregation. This is simply assuaging a guilt complex by mixed up believers.

All freedom is through military victory. When a government becomes socialistic, they remove freedom. Politicians, by their weakness, instability, self righteous stupidity involve us in great wars, which wars could be squelched with a powerful military.

Remember therefore the One Creating you in the days of your youthful vigor, the divine assignment of time and allotment of time before the sun or the light or the moon... “young man, shut up....of all of the rude, crude asinine trips...do you understand me, sonny boy? When the Word of God is read, you shut your mouth and listen. If you are not here to listen to the reading of the Word of God, get the hell out and stay out.” ...or the clouds return after the day, in the day that the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the grinders shall cease because they are few, the doors on the street have been shut, and the sound of the grinding mill be contemptable, the ears brought low, and they will be afraid of the high place and travel; and the almond tree will be despised, and sexual desire will be frustrated because mankind is constantly going to his eternal home...remember before the silver thread is broken, or the golden bowl be broken,...or the wheel at the well be broken on the well, then the dust will return to the ground as it was, and the spirit will return to the Lord Who gave it. Emptiness of emptinesses, all is empty. And the man with the message produced many proverbs....

Solomon begins to tell us what this meant to him. The words of the wise are the doctrines darvon is an 8 ft. long stick with a mental disc for cleaning the plow, and a plat chisel shaped piece of metal. To drive the oxen as the move the plow, and the other was to clean the plow. Doctrine also cleans your plow. It takes the mud out of your life.

There is a special kind of nail. Wood plugs, bronze nails and iron nails, which were very valuable and hard to come by. Used to hang things on. A iron nail could be one man’s entire closet. Qal passive participle. The master carpenter is really a master of Bible doctrine. Somehow in this verse, there is a master carpenter?

There is great stability to be found in Bible doctrine, like hanging stuff on an iron nail?

God the Holy Spirit is not only responsible for the content but for its organization. All doctrine has us thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ. For this reason, God the Father magnifies His Word above all His Name. God the Father has honored the thinking of Christ. God the Son did thinking which is now the content of the Bible. God the Holy Spirit takes this thinking and implants it into the souls of the writers of Scripture, it is imperative that we understand everything that we can.

The Word of God is alive and powerful and the voice of God the Holy Spirit but it is also the thinking of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Shepherd. We live not only by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from his mouth.

We have a contrast between the mind of Christ, the canon of Scripture and doctrine. The Bible is one book with 66 books in it. It is the sum total of divine viewpoint. In contrast with this, the world is filled with books which teach the other side of life. These books describe religion, which is the devil’s ace trump. They represent reversionism and human viewpoint. When we get to the studying of books, we will get a contrast. The study of human viewpoint is weariness.

Eccles. 12:11 The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words [the masters of these collections (the collections of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs)] are like nails driven home [well-driven iron nails]; they are given from one [unique] Shepherd.

Let’s look beyond the study of the Word of God to other books; studying the Bible refreshes the soul and studying other books is wearying to the soul.

My son here refers more to the idea of a student rather than to an actual son. It is used this way because a son is under the discipline and guidance of his father until he grows up and leaves the house of the father.

The warning comes through the teaching of the Word of God. From Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, be warned by teaching...this is the best way to be warned is by teaching, under strict academic discipline, to absorb, apart from any human subjectivity, and to be warned by the content of this teaching is the smart way to learn.

But if you have to be warned directly by God through discipline. No one can live in this life without authority over them. No one is a law unto himself; and when you think that way, you have been become arrogant, egotistical, vain and proud and you have over-estimated your own life. Life is made up of many people. The only way for all of us to possess our freedoms is to conform to authority. Bob likes cars which get 5 miles to the gallon. He does not like 30/mpg cars. That is a sewing machine with wheels. Bob is mor accident prone under 30 mph because he gets bored. However, there are 1000's of automobiles in Houston, and he has to recognize the authorities like a traffic light and a system of laws. None of us could get anywhere without recognizing authority. This way we can all have automobiles. If we are going to have freedom, Bob has to recognize it, and we have to recognize his. If you are a gossip or a motor mouth, you want your own privacy, but you do not recognize the rights of others. If I want the right to free enterprise, then I have to recognize your right to free enterprise. Communism is the exact opposite. Report those you believe are out of line.

We assemble as a kingdom of priests, of some of us have strict ideas about things which we think are prohibited. Only long-hair is spoken about in the Bible; other clothing choices and grooming standards are not covered. Bob illustrated by saying you could come to a bikini and hardly anyone would notice (laughter). There are no dress codes as such in Berachah Church. Some wear tee shirts or others are in a tux, and that is fine. Being casual does not mean you can criticize someone who is more formal, and vice versa. Only long hair is the problem on a male, and they can come in and decide for themselves when to obey that. When a child leaves the home, do not interfere with their lives. Do not bully or try to run their lives. You get the ready for life from 0 to age 18 (or 20, or whatever), and after that, it is hands off. All kids make their own mistakes. Satanic viewpoint says that taboos rule society. Divine viewpoint is taboos are not spiritual.

If you are a missionary in a naked society, you do not try to superimpose your dress standards upon the natives. Reverse the situation. That has been Bob’s experience with missionaries for many years. Missionaries are loaded with these asinine taboos. Bible doctrine is a goad; it is an iron nail well-driven. Bible doctrine eliminates tabooism. Some taboos are more obvious than others. In Yankee-land, there are those who live up north think it is sinful to wear lipstick or makeup.

A woman is going to look in a mirror at some time, notice her assets and defects and try to hide the defects and emphasize the assets. Do we in the name of Christianity say, “You need to let your beady eyes show?” Do we deny this little creature lipstick? This is exactly what happens when people get human viewpoint. This is what happens when they ignore the freedoms of others. Bob can’t stand to see women without makeup.

Bob would rather see a woman smoke a cigar rather than a cigarette. However, Bob has a personal taboo against a woman smoking a cigarette. He thinks it makes them look like hell. He could care less about men smoking.

You have a right to freedom and a right to privacy in church; and in your own house, you have a right to your privcy, without coercion and without tyranny.

For some, the whole concept of the Christian life is giving up things; if it is fun, then give it up. If you enjoy it, then give it up. For every person who gets skunk drunk, there are 50,000 who do not. If a person wants to smoke himself to death, that is his right. Bob’s business is getting doctrine through to everyone and that is it. If you want to wear cosmetics, okay; he can’t say fine, as he might shudder when seeing us. It is the human viewpoint which causes the weariness of the flesh. Be warned by teachng. We all have different taboos and they come from mining other people’s business. Any form of tabooism violates our priesthood. You can keep your own taboos if you choose to, but you have no right to superimpose those on others.

When anyone writs a book, they just put into words their own thinking. Herr Marx has some thoughts. So, out of his thoughts, he manufactures that monstrosity, Das Kapital, and someone is idiotic enough to publish it. And we have books by the millions, each book represents someone’s viewpoint. Most represent the thinking of Satan, whether Escules, Sophocles, Catcher in the Rye, and in the course of academic life, one has to read a great many books.

Quaz = end or limit of time or circumstances. It refers to the limit of books which represent human viewpoint.

When you learn doctrine, you will see all of the various human viewpoints of history, that they become very wearisome. Bible doctrine stimulates the soul. Human viewpoint wearies the soul.

Eccles. 12:12 And further [and beyond this], by these, my son, be warned [admonished]: The making [manufacturing] many books has no end, and much study [the study of the human viewpoint of life] is a weariness of the flesh [something which does not sustain or stimulate the soul].

We begin with what is most important in the function of gap. Our life must be measured by our intake of doctrine. Concentration is always the key. Since concentration is often an impossibility, God the Holy Spirit makes concentration possible. This is the ministry of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Niphal perfect of shama, which means to concentrate on a message. This is the reflexive use of the Niphal. This is the 16^th lesson on the Sands of Time, and this was begun before New Year’s as an aprospos beginning of the new year.

Dabar kol = the word of the all, the entire matter; the conclusion of the entire matter. We come to the spiritual gift life. Our soul is occupied with Who and What Christ is.

Jareh = to fear, to stand in awe; to have a love for. This is the status of the supergrace believer.

Occupation with Christ

1. Definition: occupation with Christ is the maximum expression of category #1 love for God. Heb. 12:2 no one can love Jesus Christ until he knows him. He must love of God a lot of time in the function of gap. Occupation with Christ is the primary characteristic of the supergrace.

2. Occupation with Christ is primarily associated with the function of gap. Jer. 9:24 Eph. 4:20 Col. 3:1–2

3. Occupation with Christ is the motivation of the pastor-teacher and it is the normal function of the royal priesthood Heb. 6;10

4. 1Cor. 11:7 Eph. 5:25–32 related to RM/RW

5. Related to the strategical victory of the cross.

6. The principle of the permanence of category #1 love. The sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit guarantees Eph. 1\:11–14

7. The title of occupation with Christ, there are titles often associated with this status. Philostheos or friend of God. Better to understand it meaning lover of God

8. Characteristics of occupation with Christ include: basis for supergrace believer contributing to national blessing. Deut. 30:16–20 courage and victory in battle; preservation and prosperity; stability and great happiness (Person singular. 16:8–9; occupation with Christ is the basis for blessing in suffering. Reversionism intensifies suffering.

9. Occupation with Christ glorifies God. Eph. 3;21

10. Occupation with Christ begins at the believer’s entrance into the supergrace life. Col. 3:16–17

Supergrace Life

1. Supergrace is the final stage of spiritual growth beyond the edification complex of the soul. It is the area for the fulfillment of Rom. 8:28 where we reap what God sows.

2. Characteristics of supergrace. Often an analogy: the believer receives blessings and God is glorified. The cup of the soul represents the analogy. The cup is Bible doctrine in the soul. Once the believer has a cup in his soul, God can pour into the believer’s cup. God is the host and the host pours; and He pours blessings which He put together for us in eternity past. These blessings are poured by God. God does the pouring. We are therefore the beneficiaries of fantastic blessings. Grace will pursue me all the days of my life. The Lord is the portion of my happiness. Pouring into the cup is God giving the believer supergrace blessings. Occupation with Christ, supergrace capacity and supergrace blessings poured out by God. Isa. 30:18–19

3. There are 4 categories of grace. Phase I grace, which provides us with salvation. We respond by faith. Then there is living grace of phrase II grace. Living and dying grace. Supergrace of James 4:6. Also known as the tactical victory of the Angelic Conflict. Surpassing grace called the exceeding riches of His grace.

4. Illustrations of the supergrace life. The line of Israel to see the difference.

a. Abraham with supergrace sexual blessings.

b. Joseph and the line of Abraham; emphasis upon ruling and being a blessing to a gentile empire. He has sexual prosperity, wealth, promotion.

c. Moses. Supergrace leadership. He is the father of the Jewish nation and the greatest leader of the nation Israel.

d. David is supergrace leadership and the greatest king in history until the 2^nd advent of Christ.

e. Isaiah was the greatest prophet.

f. Jeremiah was the greatest prophet in national disaster. Israel went into slavery. He holds the record for blessings in old age.

g. Daniel blessings outside the land.

h. Paul is the greatest blessed in terms of Bible doctrine.

5. Psalm 84 the promotion of the supergrace believer. If God does not promote you, you are not promoted.

6. Doctrine of propitiation. Believer does not love God until he knows God. The believer’s love for God varies as to the amount of doctrine in his soul. God expresses His love to the supergrace believer in a number of ways. For the reversionistic believer, God also reveals love in discipline.

7. Supergrace life is characterized by the happiness spectrum.

8. The supergrace believer has maximum love and appreciation for the person of Jesus Christ. Col. 3:1–2

9. This is tested by the Communion table. How we handle the Communion table is a definite thermometer related to supergrace capacity.

10. Freedom our capacity for freedom is based upon the supergrace life James 1:25–2:12 our capacity for life in general; our capacity for love in all 3 categories Joshua 10–11 capacity for suffering.

We are told to concentrate on the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God. Also, we are to guard His commandments, which means to guard something valuable.

Kiy zeh means because of this. Then we have kal haadam because this is the whole man, the complete human being.

Eccles. 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep [guard that which is valuable] His commandments. For this is the whole duty of man [the complete man].

Then we go into decorations of the tactical victory. Napoleon recognized the importance of battlefield decorations ahd a hierarchy Napoleon would get a particular story of someone who had acted with great bravery, and he would pin the legion of honor upon him.

God has the same concept, but on a greater scale. We are blessed in time because we reach supergrace. There are also decorations in eternity.

God will bring all production into judgment and everything being hidden... You don’t toot your own horn when you do something. There are no braga monies. Therefore, it is a hidden thing, but it is not hidden to God. This is the divine good which we produce, and God takes note of it and He rewards us for it. We could certainly bring in many New Testament verses here that Jesus said.

if you only have human good, it will be brought to light and it will be burned. It will all be stacked up and burned. If you produce divine good. It is brought to light and you are decorated and rewarded for it. You can have great pleasure and be rewarded for them.

Eccles. 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing [and everything being hidden], whether it is good, or whether evil.