The Hate of Esua goes much deeper than the person, and Obadiah is the culmination.

Obadiah serves as the judicial and historical explanation of God’s justification of Esua’s Hate.

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated” Malachi 1:2-3

1. Covenant Rejection vs. Chosen Lineage
In ancient Near Eastern treaty language and Hebrew idiom, the pairing of “love” and “hate” functioned as covenantal terminology:

“Love” (‘aheb) meant to choose, enter covenant with, and claim as an heir.

“Hate” (sane’) meant to reject from the covenant blessing, disinherit, or hold at a distance (comparable to Jesus using “hate” in Luke 14:26 to denote priority of devotion).

Before the twins were born, God announced to Rebekah that “the older shall serve the younger” (Genesis 25:23). Paul cites this in Romans 9:10–13 to illustrate that God’s redemptive purpose depends on His divine calling rather than natural primogeniture (birth order). God did not choose Jacob because Jacob was righteous, nor did He withhold the covenant from Esau out of petty bias; God sovereignly selected the lineage through which the Messiah and the Word would enter the world.

2. Why God Rejected Esau: Profaning the Sacred
While God’s election was sovereign, the biblical narrative emphasizes that Esau’s own choices fully validated his disqualification:

Contempt for the Birthright (Genesis 25:29–34): When Esau traded his spiritual birthright,which carried the Abrahamic priesthood and promises, for a single bowl of red lentil stew, Genesis concludes: “Thus Esau despised his birthright.”

The “Profane” Nature of Esau: Hebrews 12:16 identifies Esau as a prototype of spiritual emptiness: “lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.” The Greek term for “profane” (bebelos) means a threshold open to common foot traffic, someone with zero regard for sacred boundaries. Esau prioritized immediate carnal appetite over eternal promises.

Separation from Covenant Purity (Genesis 26:34–35): Esau married Hittite women, which the text notes brought “a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah,” signaling his detachment from the faith and destiny of Abraham.

3. Generational Hostility: From a Stolen Blessing to Bloodshed
The hatred between Esau and Jacob did not end in the Genesis reconciliation at the river Jabbok. Esau’s descendants (Edom) institutionalized that grudge over centuries:

Refusing Passage (Numbers 20:14–21): When Moses and Israel journeyed to the Promised Land and requested safe transit along the King’s Highway, Edom met their brother nation with a drawn sword and blocked their path.

The Amalekite Offshoot (Genesis 36:12; Exodus 17:8–16): Amalek was a grandson of Esau. The Amalekites preyed on the stragglers and exhausted rear ranks of Israel coming out of Egypt, earning a perpetual divine decree of war.

The Climax at the Fall of Jerusalem (586 BCE):

As recorded in Psalm 137:7 and Obadiah 1:10–14, when Nebuchadnezzar battered down Jerusalem’s walls, Edom shouted, “Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation!” They ambushed fleeing Judean refugees at the crossroads and plundered their belongings.

In Obadiah 1:10, God states the explicit cause for Edom’s absolute ruin:
“For violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.”

4. Malachi 1: The Verdict Delivered

When the prophet Malachi opened his oracle around 430 BCE, the people of Israel, having returned from exile to a ruined Jerusalem,questioned God’s love: “In what way have You loved us?” (Malachi 1:2).

God answered by pointing directly to the desolation of Edom:

“‘Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ says the LORD. ‘Yet Jacob I have loved; but Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.’ Even though Edom has said, ‘We have been impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places,’ that is what the LORD of hosts says: ‘They may build, but I will throw down; they shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, and the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever.'” (Malachi 1:2–4)

Obadiah 1:18 (“the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble”) is the prophetic decree of this exact judgment. God’s “hatred” toward Esau( and his bloodline not just the person)was not an unprovoked emotional grudge; it was His holy condemnation of a proud, carnal nation that despised God’s covenant and sought the violent eradication of His covenant people.

“The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.”Obadiah 1:18.

The rivalry stretches back to Genesis 25, where Jacob and Esau grappled in the womb. Esau fathered the Edomites, who settled in the rugged, mountainous terrain of Mount Seir, south of the Dead Sea.

The immediate catalyst for Obadiah’s prophecy was the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Instead of standing with their kin, the Edomites:

1.Stood aloof while foreigners invaded the city gates (Obadiah 1:11).
2. Rejoiced over the distress and ruin of the people of Judah (Obadiah 1:12).
3. Looted the abandoned wealth of Jerusalem (Obadiah 1:13).
4. Cut off fleeing Judean refugees at the crossroads and handed survivors over to Babylon (Obadiah 1:14; Psalm 137:7).

Because Edom exploited Judah’s calamity to enrich itself, Obadiah declared the Lex Talionis, the law of exact retribution:

“As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reprisal shall return upon your own head” (Obadiah 1:15).

So you can clearly see that when God Judges, especially from birth that there are reasons. And it is almost certainly not seen just at the surface of the event. God sees not just the person prior, but sometimes what the whole bloodline of that person represents and will eventually take part in. This is why we can not truly understand all that God does as a finite being. Our faith has to rest in the trust of Him to know what is best at all times.

The systematic attack of the Marriage was the very first attack made against God and his Kingdom.

Marriage represents God by serving as a living, earthly picture of the covenant relationship between Christ and the church

Marriage represented God relationship with not just the church but even God’s Very Oneness he holds with his Son and the Son with Church.

Satan’s first attack was to divide Eve from her Husband and then use her pride and lust for Glory for herself to disrupt her union and the order of the Oneness she had with her Husband. And he gained that through Adam inability to stay vigilant about Garden and things he was put in charge to watch over. And til this day Satan continues to use the same tricks on the marriage even the same steps of first trying make men less visual and active in the watch over things so that he can make the women rebel against authority and submitting to their Husbands. The Oneness was the first goal.

“Here O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE“. This same word “one” was used in the first instructions given about this union of Adam and Eve…

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become ONE FLESH.” Gen 2:24

The word “one” used here is echad, which means a unified whole. When Christ said, “The Father and I are one,” He pointed back to a union that is far more than casual. It is not something entered into out of boredom, and certainly not something abandoned simply because you did not get your way or believe the grass might be greener with someone else. This union was never intended to be anything less than the deepest connection in human life, because it was patterned after God’s own connection with His Son and the Church.

Marriage is also a blood covenant representing Christ’s covenant with the Church, His people. This is one of the greatest truths many modern churches have stopped teaching. The blood covenant that Christ died to fulfill and rose to renew operates on the exact principles marriage is built upon. The entire reason Christ had to die was to fulfill the Old Covenant, because a blood covenant can only be dissolved through the shedding of blood, namely, death (hence the phrase, “until death do us part”).

This is the divine design of marriage. Historically and biblically, the blood shed during the physical consummation of a woman’s virginity sealed that marital covenant. It was never intended to be taken lightly or driven by temporary impulse. It was meant to be reserved exclusively for her husband, sealing a devoted, lifelong partnership. This is why sex was never designed to be casual, and why treating it as such is sin.

Satan has turned this sacred reality into a global mockery. Society now treats intimacy merely as self-gratification, something to indulge in whenever, wherever, and with whomever one pleases. The biblical standard that intimacy belongs solely within marriage is dismissed as outdated. Society excuses youthful indulgence under the banner of “coming of age,” shifting the focus to mere “safety” rather than honoring lifelong covenant. What was created to mirror the holy bond between God and His Church has been distorted into spiritual corruption and moral decay, a direct reflection of Satan’s kingdom rather than God’s.

Within the Marriage that exist today…there are common thoughts that are not seen and supported in the Bible..

LIES of the Enemy:

• The thought is that you are two people that can do whatever they want. You can do whatever you like, and I can do whatever I like and as long as I’m not hurting anyone …what’s the big deal.
• This is a 50/50 partnership that nobody has control in and therefore there is no true Head.
• This is Mine, and that is Yours
• To be summited and obedient to someone means that I’m a Child.
• My body, my choices.
• I can have secret accounts and secret items that is just for me.
• You married my family too …not just me.
• My Mother/ or Father or other family members are Just as important as my spouse or more important.
• My Children are more important than my Spouse.
• Open marriage is the key to happiness.
• Toys and Porn are fine inside the Marriage.
• My spouse is just a roommate with benefits only when I feel like it.
• I can have friendships of opposite sex that I run to and talk to, to confine in all the time.
• My friends that I run with don’t have to be in a successful marriage or married and yet I seek their advice.

1Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3Do not let your adorning be external the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear . 4but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. 7Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you^a of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:1-7

1Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ 2Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. 3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife^a is her husband,^b and the head of Christ is God. 4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, 5but every wife^c who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 6For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. 7For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 8For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 9Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.^d 11Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; 12for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. 1 Corinthians 11:1-2

Roles and Structure within Marriage

• Headship (Husbands): Husbands are called to provide servant leadership, loving their wives sacrificially just as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25, Colossians 3:19). [1, 2]
• Submission (Wives): Wives are called to respect and willingly align with their husbands’ leadership as an act of obedience and reflection of the church’s relationship with Christ (Ephesians 5:22, Colossians 3:18)

And yet, even though each of these verses and many more consistently reinforces the importance of order and what that order is, people still ignore it. Every single time this order is not followed, you bring glory to Satan over God and consequences happen sooner or later. We have to remember in the same way this order exists, it mirrors the relationship of the Church to Christ. It exists to show the glory of God to the world, demonstrating the oneness of God with His Son, and the Son with the Church. So you aren’t rebelling against the Patriarch, you are rebelling against God himself. You aren’t rebelling against “The MAN”…you are rebelling against God himself. It isn’t about being free to do what you want …it’s about not being free because you were bought with a price, a blood price and the only freedom you have now is to be free of the Old Covenant which contained the law of sin of death.

Tell me: how can any direction opposite to God’s word, represent God and everything He established through His Son and creation if the mirror image is corrupted? If the reflection of God’s kingdom and will is flawed, selfish, unruly, hateful toward men, abusive toward women, disrespectful of His laws, rebellious against His design, hypocritical, and blasphemous toward His commandments, then our reflection suggests God’s kingdom is not His glory, but His nightmare.

We represent the kingdom of Satan far more than the kingdom of God when we rebel against what He established. Satan frames this rebellion in our minds as an act of pride and heroism, as though standing up against divine order is something noble. Satan is a master at deceiving man into fighting for his own glory over God’s, praising it as an achievement, while all along we are spitting in the face of God and the sacrifice of His Son. All of this stems from the very same sin found in the Garden: laziness/Vanity/Pride. Women do not want to be submit or be lead by; they want to rule alongside, which is the exact sin of Satan. Men don’t want to work hard anymore we want things handed to them. We want to find reason why we are not successful in everything but our own actions. All of these things were present at the Fall of Man in the Garden and it exist today.

Ultimately, all of everything we do comes down to our will to be or not to be of God. Sooner or later we are all faced with the choice to obey or disobey. The problem comes in when we want to complain that our choices shouldn’t have consequences when they are opposite of God’s.

It’s a lot easier to study God’s word than to actually stand on it when it affects us.

Continuing our theme of the Book of Philemon, I felt there was more left on the bone, so to speak. Throughout our everyday lives, we forget that the Bible is the living, breathing connection to God’s promises, principles, and power. Yeshua himself is the embodiment of that Word. Therefore, it has power: power to prove, power to correct, convict, forgive, and instruct.

Most of us go through our daily lives after reading the Bible, only to brush it off as something to read for stories or historical information. You trust that these things happened, but you do not recognize that the word is alive and current in our spiritual walk, which in turn affects our physical world. We do not pay enough attention to see that what we have gone through or what we are about to go through will sooner or later align with what was shown and taught in the very scripture you read and studied days, or even minutes, ago.

There is a reason why the specific word of God was given to you. It was so that you would know how to use it, because in many instances, God allows the lessons he teaches to be brought forward into our lives to see if we can honor him by applying His word and the lessons learned to ourselves and our lives. In most cases, we do not. Most of us will pray for forgiveness from God and have faith that he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, right then and there. That he will remember our sins no more. Amen, hallelujah! But when it comes to the forgiveness of others, they need to earn it, prove themselves to us, and be tested and tried, and then we might forgive them “a little” down the road or hold grudges. What if God’s forgivneness operated like that? We don’t like seeing that way because we all hate accepted that we aren’t truly what we claim to be through and through. That we still sin and are hypocrites in one way or another.

In the book of Philemon, we see clearly that the forgiveness preached covers the spiritual, financial, and physical identity of the man, all completed through the forgiveness granted to him via his salvation. Onesimus owed one man both for debt and the sin of stealing, yet Paul requests that this forgiveness should cover all things. He did not request that Onesimus work off the debt or prove to Philemon that he could be trusted; rather, Philemon was told not only to forgive but to completely change how he viewed Onesimus. As far as Paul was concerned, the forgiveness of this man took place when he was saved and if Christ could forgive him and give him a new recreated spiritual identity, so should the church.

So when you spend hours at church Sunday praying for patience, only to face traffic on the way home and complain or curse the cars ahead because the game is coming on; remember this! All of this is there to give us a chance to exercise what we claim to have learned. That is the way of it: the more you study and pray, the more God grants you chances to do better. So again, we can read and study, but what good is that study and reading if we never apply it to our lives? The Word of God is alive and active even when we don’t recognize it. Sooner or later, you have to practice what you learn and have faith for, because without it, we only have dead faith. 

The Freeing of a Slave and forgiveness of a master

“Unmarked Graves”, the modern day Pharisees

Catholic ritual of idotry/death

“Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”..Luke 11:42

Historical meaning of Jesus calling the Pharisees “Unmarked Graves“

Jesus uses the metaphor of “unmarked graves” to expose how the Pharisees’ hidden corruption secretly defiled the people around them instead of making them holy.

Under Mosaic Law (Numbers 19:16), touching a human corpse or a grave made a person ritually unclean for seven days, barring them from worship and community life.

The Historical Context: Because ritual defilement had serious religious consequences, Jews customarily whitewashed tombs with lime each spring. This made graves glaringly obvious so travelers wouldn’t accidentally touch or walk over them.

*The “Unmarked” Metaphor: An unmarked grave has no whitewash or warning sign. It looks like harmless, ordinary ground, but beneath the surface lies decay and death.

Results:
The Spiritual Indictment: Pharisees presented themselves as models of purity who protected others from sin. Jesus inverted this claim: their outer appearance concealed inward decay, meaning unsuspecting people who looked up to them or followed their teaching were actually being spiritually contaminated without even realizing it.

Historical Pharisees

Modern day Pharisees

The Matthew Contrast: In Matthew 23:27, Jesus calls them “whitewashed tombs” (looking beautiful on the outside, dead on the inside). In Luke 11:44, the emphasis shifts to the hidden danger: because the grave is unmarked, it acts as an invisible trap that defiles everyone who walks over it.

He follows up and address the lawyers …who ironically results in the exact thing today’s Catholic priest do all who they teach false worship to...

This verse (Luke 11:52) is a direct rebuke of religious legal experts for gatekeeping spiritual truth and preventing ordinary people from knowing God.
Jesus targets the “lawyers” (scribes and scholars of the Mosaic Law), condemning them on three specific points:

Taking away the “key of knowledge”: Instead of helping people understand Scripture and God’s intentions, the scribes buried the core truth under rigid, human-made traditions and technical legalism, effectively locking away access to genuine spiritual life.

Refusing to enter themselves: Despite having the text and authority right in front of them, the scholars lacked humility and faith, meaning their technical expertise did not translate into personal salvation or a real relationship with God.

Hindering others: By enforcing heavy burdens and actively opposing Jesus’ teachings, they frightened, confused, and blocked seekers who were genuinely trying to follow God.

Christ continues to show over and over again that those who stood about in all their robes and outwardly glorified appearances were a direct sign and stance of people trying to corrupt and infect others with their corrupted ways and need to feel important and worshiped. They place themselves as God to receive glorification, bowing, and prayers. And yet, to this day, millions and millions of people continue to follow these ways and place humans up as idols and objects of worship. They have the same Bible verses that give very clear directions about the false worship of angels, men, and statues. They are not hidden messages or prophetic hidden meanings, but clear, historically proven facts that everything the Pharisees acted like, dressed like, and ritually followed, the modern priests, cardinals, bishops, and especially the Pope of the Catholics have taken up the mantle to follow.

Once again, this isn’t something they don’t know is wrong. They don’t have a signed scripture in even their own Bibles that gives them even remote approval for their actions. No, they do it because they choose to do it boldly. This means that God has given them over to this sin, as they claim to know that what they do is unsupported and warned against, yet they do it anyway. This is the scary part. To knowingly teach others to follow a sin is a sin worse than almost any other, save one. And yet, this continues.

Even during time on earth Jesus made it clear that Mary was not the object of worship!

True Blessedness
As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” Luke 11:27-28

In this verse, even then people were attempting to create human idols, and Jesus on multiple occasions addresses this in this chapter. Here specifically, it was directly toward attempts at false worship or misapplied blessings. The lady here tried to imply that Jesus’ mother was her focus because he came through her womb. But Jesus addresses this by showing her that this thought was wrong with the word “Rather,” a term used to end and cancel a direction previously spoken in order to show the correct path. “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it.” Not a woman who merely gave birth to me. This was not the source of salvation nor something deserving of such a blessing. He reminded her the source is God and the focus is what he does for his people who keep his commandments. This addresses the idolatry in the woman’s heart and gives her the corrective steps and the proper location of focus: keeping his commandments which includes the warning of false worship and creating idols.

We as humans have this habit of wanting to make idols out of creatures(creatures are everything that is alive that was created, inckuding humans). In fact, no Bible scripture ever written or translated, ever gives approval for such things and only warns us not to do them. Even Catholic Bibles never give a single solitary example of God ever approving of the worship of Mary or any saint or prophet. The Bible never gives approval and ONLY warns about people creating statues of things to bow down to them. And yet this idolatry continues. And what is even scarier is the fact that when I spoke to an Orthodox Catholic priest, he admitted they have no scripture that gives this approval to do what they do and that the Bible does say not to do what they do. But his excuse was that he can’t stop it and so he continues to teach others to do so because he loves God and therefore their idolatry is accepted. So you see, even the leaders know what they do isn’t biblical and yet they continue to teach millions this is okay.

Revelation reveal even John in Spirit attempted to sin multiple times ..
Revelation 19:10 and 22:8-9

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind ..Col 2:18

This is why it was so important that any angel was careful not to allow worship of them. They know the tendency of man is to create false gods and idols and want to bow to them. They know this is wrong and tremble at the attempts of man to do it. Even John, in front of the Known God on the Throne, tried multiple times to worship an angel right in front of God and the Lamb while He sat on the throne in heaven. And this was the Holy Spirit-filled, speaking-in-tongues John, the disciple of Christ and leader. This man decided to attempt one of the worst sins in all of the Bible, right in front of God. And it wasn’t because he was confusing the angel for God. He was in the throne room mere feet away from the Throne of God, and yet not once but multiple times he attempted to bow to this angel, even when told not to multiple times.

If this doesn’t prove how messed up mankind is, even the disciples themselves, I don’t know what does. John was in spirit, not in flesh, and still wanted to sin in front of God. Satan was not there, tempting him, nor was he guided by his flesh. He had a new, recreated spirit of salvation and still wanted to turn the angel into his focus of worship. This also tells me that sin has nothing to do with the body only, nor does it only have to do with Satan tempting you. It is our very being. This is why I don’t believe free will is given back to us at the end. We have proven that if given the chance, we will sin in flesh or outside flesh, with a dead spirit or a recreated one. If choice is given, we will sin.

Christ never taught tolerance, only mankind does!

One of the biggest lies that continues to resurface is that Christ taught tolerance and would be okay with your choices, sharing in other gods and worshiping idols, as long as you are a good person. So many so-called Christian followers have adapted this belief as though it is even remotely taught by the Gospel. And every single one of these people, like Hugh Jackman, is wrong because they don’t read the scriptures. Christ never, ever taught a single person that they could worship a different god alongside him or that there was any other way to salvation but through him. This is how you know false teaching and evil when you see and hear it. From Genesis to Revelation, the message is very clear: Without Christ, you have damnation. There is no other person or name under heaven by which you may be saved but Christ. There is no other god before Yahweh or alongside Him. It is through His begotten Son that you have access to Him, the only true God. Buddha and any other person are not allowed alongside Christ. No other way or direction is accepted, and this has been the consistent message of the whole Bible. Man can try and create whatever they wish to make themselves feel better all they want.

The gospel was not given to create peace; it was given to create separation and to divide those who will obey the one true God from those who wish to do other things. There is no middle ground. And if you call yourself a Christ Follower, your opinion has to be exactly the same as Christ’s. If not, then he is not your master and Savior, and if that is the case, there is no salvation or redemption for your soul. This is the truth, even when others get mad at it, and even when social media says otherwise. It is through Christ, by Christ, and for Christ alone that salvation is found. So pray for this man and any other lost soul who buys into this false thinking of tolerance religion. I pray that before he and others die, they repent of their direction and belief and return to the only true salvation and belief.

Works are required to Complete our Faith!

“Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.” James 2:21-23

   Here’s something churches today have preached falsely, leading many people down a road of sin. The fact is, works are required to complete faith… salvational faith or any other faith. The grace and faith that are there to save are only completed and alive through corresponding works. James chapter 2 is a great chapter that enforces this rule. It proves that just claiming you are a Christ Follower and saved by the Blood of Christ isn’t enough. Your actions must align with your professed faith and your confession. This is the part most churches today have failed to teach others, for fear of people leaving the church out of judgment or guilt. Nobody wants to feel like they have to sacrifice their flesh, lust, wants, and even things you believe you need for your profession of faith to be completed and alive. Everyone wants to believe salvation is just an easy and quick way to do what you want, get everything you desire, and when you die doing what you want and getting everything you desired, while doing whatever made you happy, you get to turn around and wake up in heaven and get even more riches.

The truth is, this life is a sacrifice and battle of exactly everything you lust for, desire, and identify with against the one true God and Savior, Christ Yeshua. His sacrifice and example are for us to follow, not abuse and take for granted. It’s not a “get out of jail free” card that we can toss around whenever we want to go do what we want and flash the card later so we can feel good about ourselves again. But most churches teach that very thing: that somehow no corresponding works are required for your faith to be active, alive, and complete. And if your faith isn’t complete and is dead, then so is your salvation.

That’s the truth. Does this mean just being a good person can save you apart from Christ? Of course not. I think that we all know the Bible clearly makes this point. But our faith must produce active works that support it in order for it to work. In other words, you have to practice what you confess and/or preach. We don’t get to do whatever we want and continue in our sins unabashedly. And we can’t pretend that we are accepted by God simply because one day in the past we were baptized or that every Sunday we go to a church. Christ didn’t live and show examples of how to live for us to turn around and live the exact opposite way. He showed us his path for us to follow, and when we fall and truly repent, to give us a way back. But there is no repentance from a person that believes their life choices are acceptable to God nor attempts to change them.

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Mathew 7:19

There are consequences to our continued sins without repentance. It is real and present, and every church or teacher not teaching this truth is not following God’s words nor his instructions and should repent. Fear of losing people in the church should mean nothing against the fear of allowing those people to be lost to hell.

Church Hurt!

Church hurt refers to the emotional, psychological, or spiritual pain caused by the words, actions, or neglect of church leaders, members, or religious institutions.

Common Causes:

1. Spiritual Abuse & Manipulation: Leaders misusing scripture, authority, or dogma to control, shame, or exploit individuals.

2.Hypocrisy & Betrayal: Experiencing double standards, broken trust, gossip, or cover-ups by those in leadership or community standing.

3.Exclusion & Rejection: Being ostracized, judged, or dismissed due to differing views, lifestyle choices, identity, or personal struggles.
Unresolved Grievances: Dismissing legitimate complaints, doubts, or reports of misconduct under the guise of “forgiveness” or “submission.”

Chances are you or someone you know has gone through this in their Christian walk, regardless of denominations, at least one point or another. And when it happens there are severe consequences to this type of hurt.

Impact:

1. Loss of Faith or Community: A disruption in personal faith, deconstruction of beliefs, or complete withdrawal from religious spaces.

2.Emotional Distress: Lingering feelings of guilt, shame, betrayal, anxiety, or religious trauma.

Over the past five years, research across the Body of Christ reveals a sobering and pervasive reality: the prevalence of “church hurt” is rising across virtually every denomination. At the root of this crisis lie two primary drivers….interpersonal conflict and profound disillusionment caused by hypocrisy and moral failure in leadership.

When we examine this through a scriptural lens, the core issue becomes clear. Many assemblies have drifted from being governed by the Word of God, choosing instead to conform to secular patterns and prevailing cultural currents. Rather than serving as the pillar and ground of truth (1 Timothy 3:15), many institutions have allowed social media trends, public opinion, and pragmatic growth strategies to dictate their moral convictions and operational standards.

This cultural accommodation has directly compromised biblical leadership standards (1 Timothy 3:1–7; Titus 1:5–9). These are our standards that should follow leadership.

Erosion of Pastoral Qualifications: Appointing leaders based on charisma, platform size, social influence, or financial leverage rather than tested spiritual maturity and godly character.

Corporate and Political Orientation: Treating the local church as an enterprise measured by revenue, digital engagement, and stage visibility, rather than a spiritual body led by the Holy Spirit.

Compromised Separation: Blurring the line between the sacred and the secular to appeal to the culture, ultimately losing the distinct witness of the Gospel (Romans 12:2).

When organizational expansion, stage management, and institutional preservation take precedence over genuine pastoral care, the vulnerable are overlooked. In the noise of corporate machinery, the individual soul quietly suffering in the background is neglected; the wounded parishioner who quietly exits goes unnoticed.

Scripture repeatedly warns that when the biblical gate of character and sound doctrine is lowered, spiritual predators find an open door:

“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.”
— Acts 20:28–29 (KJV)

When shepherds prioritize the mechanics of the institution over faithful stewardship of God’s Word, the flock is left exposed, trust is broken, and the sheep are scattered. True restoration requires a return to biblical governance, spiritual integrity, and a pastoral heart that seeks the lost and heals the brokenhearted. This is what is no longer being followed as a whole in far too many churches today. We owe it to our God and our calling to get back to this, to help stop this growing trend, especially in these times..

We have to get back to holding ourselves and leadership to God’s standards, not the world’s. Just because it’s easier to allow a leader his or her position despite their lifestyle or spiritual maturity doesn’t make it right in the sight of God, and our instructions give biblical guidance for leadership. We have to let go of the notion that the world has changed and therefore so the church has too. Our standards should be strived for, not lowered to fit the world’s standards for leadership. While still understanding that even though this is not what is required for the flock, but we have made the two positions have the same standards for far too long.

THE TRUTH NO CHURCH WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

Colossians 2:8 of the King James Bible: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ

Biggest Truth that Churches refuse to see and accept: The Disciples never looked at the Holy Spirit as a 3rd person, so their writing does not reveal what they never meant. Nor did they look at Jesus as a 2nd person of a three person God.

Question: If the disciples never believed in the concept of the Trinity the way the modern church believes today, which was first created centuries after their death and completion of the bible..then there is no way that their writing reveals the Trinity either, and if this is the case, why do men rely on philosophy created by men over what the disciples believed about God for salvation 

This touches on one of the most intense and foundational debates in church history: the development of doctrine versus biblical precedent.

The technical vocabulary and formal creedal formulations of the Trinity (terms like homoousios, three persons in one substance, or the formal doctrine codified at Nicaea in 325 AD and Constantinople in 381 AD) did not exist in the 1st century. The apostles were 1st-century monotheistic Jews, not 4th-century Greek-speaking theologians.

Because of this historical reality, theologians, historians, and believers view the connection between the New Testament and modern Trinitarianism through different lenses. Here is how the different sides answer your question.

1. The Historical / Unitarian View

Many historians, scholars, and non-Trinitarian Christians (such as Unitarians) agree that the disciples didn’t teach the Trinity, nor did this perspective even exist during their time. WHY?

• Judaic Monotheism: The disciples were strict Jewish monotheists whose bedrock confession was the Shema: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4).
• Progressive Dogma: Modern Trinitarianism was developed centuries later, heavily influenced by Greek philosophical categories (like Platonism and Neo-Platonism) to explain Jesus to the Greco-Roman world.
• The Conclusion: Because the formal framework didn’t exist in the 1st century, reading a 4th-century creed back into 1st-century texts distorts what the original authors actually believed and intended to communicate. For those holding this view, true Christian faith should return to the simpler, sub-creeds understanding of the early disciples.

2. The Traditional / Trinitarian View

(How the Church reconciles the historical gap)

Trinitarian scholars and theologians generally agree that the formal vocabulary developed later, but they argue that the raw dynamic was present from the beginning. Their perspective relies on two main ideas:

A. Implicit vs. Explicit Revelation

Trinitarians argue that while the Apostles didn’t have the systematic word “Trinity,” their writings record experiences and claims that forced later generations to develop the concept:

• They worshiped God the Father as the single God of Israel.
• They attributed divine qualities, worship, and titles to Jesus (e.g., John 1:1, Thomas calling Jesus “My Lord and my God” in John 20:28, or Paul applying Old Testament Yahweh passages to Jesus in Philippians 2).
• They spoke of the Holy Spirit as personal and divine (e.g., Acts 5:3-4, where lying to the Holy Spirit is called lying to God).
• They placed all three together in equal baptismal and benedictory formulas (e.g., Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14).

From this view, the early Church didn’t invent a new God; they were forced to invent a new language to explain how Jesus and the Spirit could be divine without abandoning Jewish monotheism.

The problem is God NEVER told them this was needed nor approved it. So every single thing that resulted from this was of MAN…not GOD. It is the single greatest reason why the Christian faith has more Denominations than almost any other religion…a Total of 42 thousand different denominations claim the Christian faith and disagree.

B. The Development of Doctrine

“Trinitarians” (NOT the prophets of the Bible. Not the Disciples of Christ, and NOT GOD...) hold that theology develops like a seed into a tree:

• The Seed (1st Century): The Apostles’ lived experience and writings.
• The Tree (4th Century): The Councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, which drew boundaries around that experience using precise language to defend against opposing views.

Why Do People Rely on Later Philosophy for Salvation?

Answer…To address the heart of your question about SALVATION:

But this Question was never ASKED of US or given to us by God. And every time man attempts to answer a question never asked of us in the first place, it leads to failure.

Most classic Christian theologians (including many early Church Fathers) would argue that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ, not through mastering complex philosophical creeds( But yet their actions, philosophy, and words counter such beliefs)

1. The Apostles’ Criteria: In the New Testament, salvation is attached to simple trust in Christ—e.g., “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31) or confessing that “Jesus is Lord” (Romans 10:9).
2. The Role of Creeds: Creeds were originally built not as a checklist of intellectual philosophy required to enter heaven, but as defensive guardrails for the church community to define its public teaching against what it viewed as errors.

Scary Part to all of these….

And yet they have become the very language and view that the Church has forced billions to believe and lie and say that this is what the word of God says and means, when it never did. God’s words given to the disciples are only read the way we want to see them through our lens of philosophy, because this was forced upon us as part of our structure for our faith as a Christian. But if modern-day Trinity believers presented God the way the Church claims we must …the Disciples would identify us has hertics. And we would identify them as such too.

Your salvation was never based on your understanding or agreement to repeat Philosophy created by Pagan, Greek philosophers, or other men after the Disciples finished the gospel. It is solely through the Living Faith in Christ as the Messiah, the Only Begotten Son of God… God manifested bodily. You were never meant to identify Christ as a 2nd person of the Godhead, or the Holy Spirit as a Person. Nor does the Bible ever say that God merely DWELLS in the Father. The FATHER IS GOD; he doesn’t contain God in him…HE IS GOD, PERIOD, not a Container …not a BODY that houses GOD, like the official Doctrine of the Trinity teaches, which most people don’t even know. Man’s philosphy is the virus that has corrupted God’s church and is the underlying structure for over 42 thousand split-off denominations of Christianity.