John Gillespie

The Shadow evinces the Light. The hour grows short. Woe to you who seek the coming of the Day of the Lord, or are caught unaware, for the Kingdom of Heaven is closer than you know. Guard yourself well for the coming days. Repent and look to the LORD.

@IzabelTheodora @NoticerIAm @Uncommonsince76 Turn to the LORD. Your relationship with Him is what truly matters in this world. All else shall pass away and be remembered no more. Everything which creates division is of our eternal enemy & is death. We are charged to be in this world but not of it. Who will you live for?

When the Democrats are in charge “White Nationalism” is the biggest threat. When the Republicans are in charge “Radical Islam” is the biggest threat. This way they keep both sides chasing fake enemies so that will never figure out that it’s Jewish Supremacism running our government. What group hates both Islam and White Nationalism? Jews. So in this way, they never lose with their manufactured parties.

The tools of the devil will never be set to a righteous purpose. Rather, they will subvert and pervert all attempts to turn them to a righteous end. No more shall I be subverted here. To those of you who continue to trap yourselves: Time is short. Repent and look to the LORD.

@S72139South @wendyp4545 He presents himself, through his stated intentions, as a savior of humanity. Is that true though? AI control is a choice. Why is he expanding the scope of "Neuralink" instead of advocating for return to hand-operated tech in critical functions? Is Revelation 13:11-17 in play?

@wendyp4545 🙄 been saying Elon is not what he seems to be

This leaves people to assume that Elon isn't following the Constitution and that his technology doesn't follow the constitution either.

@jobiwan76 @wendyp4545 Revelation 13:11-17 is looking pretty close to fulfillment lately.

@wendyp4545 At least he isn't microchipping people. Frankly, I only trust one; Jesus.

@barrabus999 @wendyp4545 Revelation 13:11-17

I’m more worried about Bill Gates than Elon … I’m hoping that Elon is on our side … he may be helpful in keeping this AI technology (which we cannot stop) from taking off beyond our control … we need Tulsi, Kash, and RFK confirmed … they will be essential in helping us if Trump gets carried away with all this MRNA / AI BS

@iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii Indeed. It is a conundrum, but one which requires guidance of the Holy Spirit to overcome and to comport oneself towards righteousness in His ways. One troubling bit of scripture through the prophets concerns "killing an ox will be like killing a man" in God's eye at some point.

@JohnGillespie76 @LaneAndrew4 @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii Just to be clear, those are not my words. This is what Messiah Himself said in Matthew 5:18-19. Reading all this, what do you expect me to think and to do? Do what Jesus said, or what priests, popes, pastors, mainstream churches, human doctrine and tradition say? Honest question.

It blows me away that Isaiah 53 is so clearly about Jesus that when you read it to people, without telling them that it was written hundreds of years before the New Testament, they tend to just assume that it was written after the fact. Mind blowing. “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.” Isaiah 53:3-11 ESV

Truly, the only thing concerning the Messiah and the New Covenant which was introduced through Christ Jesus is His name and His Apostles. Multiple prophets spoke of the New Covenant but the most detail came through Jeremiah and Isaiah. It is upon them which Paul's Epistles rest. Paul did not receive the Gospel from the other Apostles but through revelation on the road to Damascus. We must recall that before his encounter with the Lord, he was not someone who could have been argued as a subversive radical, intent on overturning the Law and the system of Rabbinic authority over Israelites. He was a Pharisee and a judge of the Law under their reckoning. His testimony and teaching to the Greeks and other Gentiles, and the Judaizers in their midst, in those early Church communities have special weight and significance as a result. Our Lord made no mistake in turning him to His service, and so we must consider his teachings to those early communities, who were dealing with these very topics, seriously. That his teachings are reflected in those of the Apostles who walked with Christ just validates the seriousness with which we ought to consider Paul's teachings. Things shifted in a fundamental way concerning the effect of the Law upon the LORD's chosen people. We are held to a much higher standard than were the Israelites who were brought forth from Egypt. Even so, He makes it easier for us to bear the fullness of His Law than the written Law from Sinai ever was. Consider John 15:22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin." How shall you account for this in your quest to observe the written laws in scripture which were delivered to the Israelites from Sinai? Recall that the books of the Torah were not written at Sinai but later during the long years of trials in the wilderness. There were no sacrifices whatsoever during the long years of the Exodus. There was no grain and there was no meat available to them. Several prophets made mention of rejecting the sacrificial system, centuries before Christ. The most assertive rebuke of those offerings came through Amos. Even King David made explicit mention of the Lord's rejection of sacrifices in Psalm 51. Given this long history of animal sacrifice being a substitutionary blood atonement for sin, for which the wages are death of the individual, why bother dwelling upon the elements of that system which was so clearly abolished by the crucifixion of Christ and was so clearly rejected for a full 40 years after His resurrection before the final, and promised, destruction of the physical temple at Jerusalem? I trust Him and whom he sent to us to guide us to His path. Reflect and pray for guidance, brother.

@JohnGillespie76 @LaneAndrew4 @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii to earn points to get a ticket to heaven. It rather is an expression of obedience to God.

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii I think it's intentional spiritual practice and thus a good thing for those who find it meaningful. I'd like to be mindful of developing a similar devotional regimen for myself but I don't think that we all need to become monks to follow Christ. Spiritual alignment is crucial.

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Well, I don't get it, and I do. But not from a religious standpoint. Having structure is comforting. What do you think about structured prayer like Protestant variants of the Liturgy of Hours/Divine Office?

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii I get it, but the whole thing makes me wary where it comes to physical actions which rely on things and their acquisition. I have always hated material accumulation. It's easy to shift your focus away from the spiritual when it's based in reliance on physical practices.

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii The activities through the day seem to help her keep her mind on God. I am glad that I can have a pork sausage, mushroom and cheese pizza, but I'm not going to criticize a Jew that practices charity and piety. The warmth in her voice when she talks about God is so appealing.

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Indeed. Interesting implication though: If you take the direction from Leviticus concerning fat, cows are not suitable for sacrifice and thus you could argue to have your Wagu fatback steak, so long as it's not from a steer. Because technicality. Legalism is a road to hell.😒

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii If that's what the NY strip looks like I wonder what the beef belly looks like from that animal.

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Some people think that rigidity and adherence to rules makes you extra dutiful and godly. I say it's a false piety grounded in materialism, and Jesus would agree since he actively rebuffed such behavior. So, in essence, her material wealth is what allows her to be pious. 😒

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Her whole kitchen seems excessive. They remodeled it to have two sinks and they have two refrigerators. Multiple sets of dinnerware. Separate color coded towels, etc. But she seems happy. She had a strong local community and her family has two professional incomes.

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii I mean, that's basically unsliced bacon. 😅

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Image. Getting your hands on an imported Japanese wagyu NY strip steak, and not being able to try it. I took this picture. Someday I want to actually buy one, but that day I could only afford to look at it 😂

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii This seems excessive. If you really want to remove insects from something like broccoli, you dunk it in hot water. Hot enough for you to tolerate is not hot enough to cook veg but is way too hot for any insect. They will cringe and let go. Give your veg a little swish & remove.

@iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @JohnGillespie76 @MikeWingerii There's an Orthodox Jewish woman I watch on YouTube sometimes, and the ordeal she goes through to have a kosher kitchen amazes me. She has a special light box she uses to inspect her produce for insects. You might like her channel. youtu.be/LYqpwiKE7FU?si…

@nothanksnopeyno @iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Some of that is guidance through industrial products offered, rather than our own historical cultural practices. The blended fabrics thing reeks of rabbinic doctrines to me. Leviticus specifies a restriction to linen garments as holy in carrying out priestly temple duties.

@iatehisword @LaneAndrew4 @JohnGillespie76 @MikeWingerii It's interesting that you believe that ritual purity laws apply to gentile Christians, but almost none of the rest of us do.

@iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii I get it. But if you take it that far, you must also never eat the fat of animals which were suitable for ritual use. This instantly means that you cannot eat the majority of butchered beef from steers, due to fat marbling. Bye bye, fajitas. Bye bye, beef stew. 😓

@JohnGillespie76 @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii The good thing is, it only says that it's OK to eat. Not a command that we have to eat it. Otherwise, I would have to come up with a really, really good excuse to break that command. ;)

The Covenant at Sinai is dead, and never applied to anyone other than the Israelites who were brought out of Egypt. Some of the Lord's statutes to the Israelites which coincided the Sinai Covenant endure, but they never applied to other peoples. You must consider the fullness of what it means to fulfill "the Law and the prophets." The Prophets did not just deliver and record prophecies. They also delivered corrections to the Israelites and explicitly told of the New (and Everlasting) Covenant with Israel (the house of Jacob) ~600 years before the coming of our Lord to establish it through His ministry (see Jeremiah 31). The Law is fulfilled with the establishment of the New Covenant relationship between the LORD and Man, open to all whom seek and believe on Him. The Covenant with Abraham, which existed long before the Sinai Covenant, was fulfilled through the birth of Christ Jesus and the dispersion of the Kingdom of Israel in the pre-Mesianic era. For whom do those old covenants endure? The Sinai Covenant shall never lead anyone to salvation. Only through the New and Everlasting Covenant shall any Israelites find salvation. No matter how compliant you are with the old laws of observance and outward conduct, it will count for nothing in the end. We will be judged according to faith in Christ and love for our fellow man, both felt inwardly and demonstrated. Good works count for nothing without good faith, a right heart, behind them. In a very real way, the old covenant led many people under the written law to a shallow relationship of behavioral obedience alone. The New Covenant is completely different in terms. We enter into an individual Covenant relationship with the LORD, not subject to mass punishment as the Israelites were in their turning from the LORD, for which they remain under collective punishment to this day. It is through this Covenant which ALL people are offered salvation from corruption and judgement, and a return to the grace of the LORD. If you wish to know the pure terms of the Law, as pertains to the New and Everlasting Covenant, look to Christ's teachings throughout the Gospels, though the densest portion of it is found in Matthew 5 through 7. Beyond that, seek to hear the voice of your Teacher behind you saying, "This is the way, walk in it." (Isaiah 30:20-21) Do not get caught up as the first-century Judaizers did. Paul's ministry was instructive and corrective to many of the early Church communities. His Epistles, as well as those of the other Apostles, are taken as scripture for this reason. They do not conflict with Christ's teachings but instead communicate them more fully than the Gospels do, in part because the Gospels have a somewhat different purpose of establishing a foundation for faith and a right relationship with the LORD. It is worth noting that under the terms of the New Covenant, most dutiful and pious Israelites since its establishment, in trying to hold fast to the now-dead Sinai Covenant, will never find salvation and redemption with the LORD. At the end of this age, those children of the line of Jacob (Israelites by blood and not by faith or creed) who are still alive will have their eyes opened and be granted one last chance to end their collective punishment, stemming from the LORD's judgement against their people in the previous age, and to seek redemption in the New Covenant before the final judgement and the passing away of this earth. Until then, the Lord's hand has always been open to them, since the day of His first coming. Observe what you feel you ought, out of respect for tradition, but be clear-eyed about the terms of our Covenant relationship with the LORD. Be careful not to allow yourself to be turned aside from that in pursuit of what may ultimately be a material expression of piety which was meant to teach and train the Israelites towards obedience and to point them towards the faith which now comes from salvation through Christ. Be at peace, brother. ✌️

@LaneAndrew4 @nothanksnopeyno @JohnGillespie76 @MikeWingerii I guess, a lot of it has to do with whether the old covenant was replaced by a new covenant, or a new covenant comes on top of / additionally to the old covenant.

@iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Fair enough. Not something I would eat though. All insects are detestable in my view. No thanks. 😅

@JohnGillespie76 @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii Btw, I think I didn't say anything to that... Locusts are defined as edible, per Leviticus 11.

@LaneAndrew4 @iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii Judge not, lest you be judged. By the measure you mete to others, so shall you be measured.

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii Sorry, it's so hard for me to process and judge between such nonsense.

@iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii But if you wish to observe food restrictions for your own sake, you certainly may. John the Baptist was said to eat a diet of locusts and honey in the wilderness, which was certainly unclean by Rabbinic standards. He was Christ's cousin and heard no reproach from Him over it.

@iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @LaneAndrew4 @MikeWingerii It begins with the vision given to Peter in Acts 10. It is stated plainly in guidance given through Paul in Romans 14, and is developed in 1 Corinthians 10. In Christ, we have no restrictive food ordinances beyond shunning foods offered as sacrifices to foreign gods and idols.

@LaneAndrew4 @iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii No, they're not. One is speaking of food, the other of ritual cleansing. 🙄

@JohnGillespie76 @iatehisword @nothanksnopeyno @MikeWingerii John: You're both right. Reality: The two people are saying the opposite thing.