Watch

Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. 

Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 

Some thoughts on Allegory

Written and interpreted as an allegory, the bible message is clear, simple, and understandable. But the concept of allegory is not accessible to the vast majority of humans. They simple do not have the IQ, the intellectual capacity to read something and NOT interpret it literally. So I ask why the message of the bible was intended to be hidden from so many, and available to so few?

Matthew 7:14

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

 

Matthew 13:13

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

 

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1 Kings 6:4

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

 

Ezekiel 40:16

And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

 

Numbers 22:26

And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

 

1 Kings 6:4

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

 

 

 

There was no "Jesus"!

Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed, all exist in character only to show us the way to get to heaven with parables. Taken literally they are all different and divisive. Taken allegorically their message is exactly the same: that the kingdom of god, heaven, is within you, here and now, and can be accessed through meditation. 

The bible is allegorical and not to be taken literally... The letter kills 

2 Paul letter to Corinthians 3:4 "....“Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

“13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;”

“13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 

13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.”

“13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”

“13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

Meditation is Heaven

1 John 1:5 
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all

Matthew 6:22

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth hemeditate day and night.

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Psalm 63:6

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

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Psalm 77:12

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

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Psalm 119:15

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

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Psalm 119:23

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant didmeditate in thy statutes.

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Psalm 119:48

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

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Psalm 119:78

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

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Psalm 119:148

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done

Matthew 6:7 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 

1 Kings 6:12 - Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee.

The "Darkness" of meditation

Heaven was never intended by any scripture to be a place you go when you die. The bible says that the kingdom of heaven is within you!

1. Genesis 1:2
   And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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2. Genesis 1:4
   And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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3. Genesis 1:5
   And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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4. Genesis 1:18
   And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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5. Genesis 15:12
   And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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6. Exodus 10:21
   And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
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7. Exodus 10:22
   And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
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8. Exodus 14:20
   And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
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9. Exodus 20:21
   And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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10. Deuteronomy 4:11
    And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
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Seek first the kingdom of heaven

Matthew 6: Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

² Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
³ But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
⁴ That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
⁵ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
⁶ But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.


⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.


⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
⁹ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.
¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
¹⁵ But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
¹⁶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
¹⁷ But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
¹⁸ That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

²² The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

²³ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
²⁷ Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
²⁸ And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
²⁹ And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
³⁰ Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
³¹ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
³² (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
³⁴ Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.