W I S D O M
by jpw

Of God and man
(Vol. 4)

Copyright © 2005 by jpw

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We are, in this world, but a speck of dust within this universe.  What we currently know and currently believe, in this world, is but a speck of the whole truth that is to be found in life.  Never rest upon what you currently know and believe; the path of seeking the truth is one of excitement (ask any scientist this).  The path of seeking the truth can only lead to improvement in life.  Choose the path of seeking the truth and accept the challenges that come your way because of this.  Do this with diligence and you will find yourself a better and wiser person.
Do this with humility . . . and you cannot fail.

Foreword

My friend, know that there comes a point in every person’s life where they must ask the question, “Do I believe that God is going to raise me from the dead?”  Some people ask this early in life, some later, and to be sure, some only ask this question when they can see the end is near; and this is alright:  this is acceptable by the very words that God has spoken to mankind.  Remember always, that the race goes not to the swiftest, but to the more determined.  Remember also, that those who arrive at their conclusions early, usually arrive in error.  This fourth and final book of Wisdom will address each of these three topics because these three topics are all you need to succeed in this life.  In fact, you only need do well at two of these three topics just mentioned in order to succeed in this life:  you may choose your two and be comfortable in your journey through life.  There is an old adage amongst hunters that a deer should never see you, hear you, or smell you.  Upon one of these, a deer will become curious, cease moving, and its level of awareness will increase.  Upon the second, a deer will flee every time.  Other than fish, no other creature is hunted more intensely than deer, yet no other wild creature has become more prolific, and has thrived better, than deer.
So . . . is God going to raise you from the dead someday?  This author cannot answer that question for you, nor can any other person.  This is a question that each person must ask and this is a question that each person must answer their self (to their own satisfaction).  Two-thirds of this book will be dedicated to this question.  Just know that if you never answer this question, you can still do just fine in this life if you use all of your other senses to guard your life and to choose your path through this life.
Now . . . is the race truly to the swiftest or does it go to the more determined?  That honestly depends on what race you are running.  If you are running the race of vanity, you will do fine, for a while, until you run out of resources.  Should you so choose to do, you truly can scurry about here and there picking up your treasures . . . for a little while.  Never mind those you hurt or ignored along the way.  Never mind some real treasures you missed along the way.  If you choose to obtain five large diamonds in this life rather than five true friends who are very dear to you, then that is your right in this world.  This author will never fault you for this and neither should any other person (unless you damage their time, their life, or their body).
Ah, but here is your next truth . . . do those who arrive at conclusions too early, usually arrive in error?  Once again, only you can answer that question to your own satisfaction, but unlike the first two questions, there is only one answer to this question and this author will gladly help you find this answer.  This author has spent three books “beating-up” religious folks and, in a way, has felt poorly for doing this.  This author did not really mind doing this because in fact, these books are short and have only taken but relatively few hours of any person’s life to read.  Any person who truly believes in God does not mind having that faith tested for a short time if they know that test to be earnest and not wanting to hurt anyone.  For any religious person who has stayed with these four books so far:  you are a rock.  Know that your faith in yourself is a magnificent reflection upon your patience and your perseverance:  you will not be disappointed in this book.
Return now to the person who pursues their vanities in this life; whether they believe in God or not.  A person pursuing their vanities in life, indeed, can appear to win many races:  every treasure completes one race.  It does not matter who you are in this world:  a small treasure completes a race for a poor person and a large treasure completes a race for a rich person.  But consider a longer race:  there is a not-so-old adage concerning a person’s dying thought in this life.  You have heard this before so please bear with this author for a few more sentences.  Ask yourself:  what person, one day from their death, ever said, “I wish I had bought that Porsche?”  What person ever thought, “I wish I had gotten that promotion?”  These questions do hurt, but please keep reading because this might just be you in your life, right now.  What person, one day from their death, ever said, “I wish I had cut my lawn better?”  And finally, to drive the point home, what person, fifteen minutes from their death, ever said, “I wish I had been rich?”  By the time you are finished reading this book, you will honestly feel that any person who fails that last question truly does not deserve their last fifteen minutes here in this life.
These last several questions were ridiculous, to be honest:  the obvious answers being ridiculously easy.  But, and this is important, they were perfect examples of our arriving at conclusions early.  The term “arriving at conclusions early” means we never considered the lasting effects of our decisions in life.  These questions were silly, but effective, examples of our continually arriving at conclusions earlier than we should.
All of this . . . is this author’s promise to you, no matter who you are and no matter what you believe about God.  You have spent three books, here, learning about how simple God is and how simple life can be (if you so choose to make your life this way).  No matter what you believe, God is simple:  period.  If anyone tells you otherwise, run away from this person.  No matter what you believe, your life can be as simple as you wish it to be.  Your life is entirely up to you.  It pains this author to say this because some will use this for wrong; but it does not matter if you are rich or poor:  your life truly can be as simple as you wish it to be.  Just remember that it is your caring for and your helping of others that will keep your life simple.  Abraham was the only person who was ever called “the friend of God” and Abraham had so much wealth that the land, from horizon-to-horizon, could not contain that wealth God had given him.  Abraham placed his cares, his help, and his giving before his wealth.  Remember this . . . that through God, all things are possible.  But remember this also; that each person will one day face the consequences of their decisions here.  God is the one who will determine the consequences of the path you chose here in this world.
My dearest friend, you will learn much about God in this book.  It does not matter if you believe what you learn here or not.  You would do well to believe it, but this is not required of you.  However, it is absolutely required of you to believe that this life, indeed, does go to the more determined and that those who decide the course of their life early (never considering the consequences) usually have chosen the wrong path.  Truth is, they chose the wrong path because they stopped looking at other paths available to them:  they stopped guarding their life as the deer does.
Remember that it is never too late to choose or change your path (based on what you learn in this world).  A wise person always examines the path they are on and the paths that are available to them.  Remember the deer . . . especially the old deer who has fewer paths to choose from.  This old deer might be nearly blind, but as long as it can hear and smell, it will continue in this life.  There is much wisdom to be had in this life if you stay alert to the world around you.
Stay alert, my friend, for the duration of this book and prepare yourself for an extraordinary journey into the simple truth of God, the simple truth of mankind, and the simple truth of your life.

OF GOD

My friend, all truths are based upon simple facts.  We may not understand these truths, but we must accept them and see them for their simplicity.  Life exists, in this world, because there is oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; also, there is water on the ground; simple.  Water pipes burst when freezing because water is one of the only substances that expands just before it freezes; simple.  Now, just as simple, but harder to understand is the fact that intelligent life exists in this world only because water is one of the only substances that expands before it freezes.  It is the absolute truth that if frozen water pipes did not burst, then life, as we know it, would not exist on this planet.  In the relatively early days of this planet, there were many ice ages as we realize today.  When the earth froze (to extremely cold temperatures), ice formed on the surface of this earth.  This crust of ice floated on top of the waters thereby insulating and protecting the precious life beneath, allowing this life to develop and become more advanced.  If ice did not float, but rather sank, then every million years, or so, this planet would have become a solid block of ice for well over one-thousand years; and advanced life on this planet would have had to start all over again.
While all truth is simple, some truths need a bit of explaining.  So why does ice float on water?  Because of something called the hydrogen bond.  As a liquid, water molecules form a “V” and nestle in tightly with other “V’s.”  Before water freezes, the “V’s” have to line up in a certain pattern called crystallization.  Hence the spacing between molecules expand just before freezing:  hence bursting pipes.  Why is water one of the only substances that behaves this way?  Science does not know:  in fact, this very phenomenon has been the cause of more than a few scientists to conclude that there are just some laws of nature that must have been written solely for the purpose of life existing here.  A great many substances possess this hydrogen bond.  Of these, only water expands when it goes from a liquid to a solid state:  science does not know why.
Now learn another truth of this world that may never be understood.  This world is made up of an endless series of chemical reactions; any scientist can tell you this:  this includes the human body.  The most common chemical reaction in this world, by far, is that of combustion.  We burn fossil fuel in our engines, coal to produce energy, and wood to keep us warm.  The truth is; that science is clueless as to what chemical reaction occurs during combustion.  While all truths are simple, there are some that just may never be understood by mankind.
This section of the book is about God, but before you can understand God, you must learn what the truth is.  Science is a wonderful thing, but science will never explain all things to you.  Every person needs to accept simple truths as they exist in this world.  Any scientist can tell you why water expands just before it turns to ice, but no scientist can tell you why no other naturally occurring substance does this.  Likewise, no scientist has ever been able to explain how coal burns to produce electricity.  Science takes advantage of these truths every day of your life in order to bring these wonderments into your life, but that does not mean they understand why these things happen.  Your life is no different than a scientist’s life.
You do not need to believe there is oxygen in the air in order to take your next breath.  You do not need to understand what happens to that oxygen after you breathe it in.  However, it is absolutely required that you understand that none of this can happen if your head is under water.  Life is this simple and, believe it or not, God is this simple.  Just as a scientist does, you wake up each morning and face the truths of this world.  So here you are, reading this book expecting to have God explained to you; and this author is teaching you about chemical reactions.  Well, all this author is really teaching you is the truth you find in this world;  you will need to find God yourself!  However, this author will teach you many ways of finding God based upon simple truths you find in this world, the rights and wrongs you find in your heart, and your ability to use your common sense.  Sound familiar?  Have you read these words elsewhere in these books?
There is, but one God, who created this universe and breathed life into a creature, called mankind, some six-thousand years ago.  This is the premise of every religion today.  While this author cannot prove any of these facts, enough truths will be presented to you so as to allow your common sense to see these truths for what they truly are . . . a factual part of this life.  Some time ago, there existed religions that espoused multiple gods.  There are reasons these faiths died over the years:  they defied common sense as science progressed, they defied logic, and they could not be proved.
Ah . . . proved; now there is a word as deceiving as faith or trust.  The word “proved” comes down to what you find in your heart.  If you ignore all other truths in this world, a person standing in front of you can easily prove to you that this world is flat.  Many faiths have believed in multiple gods:  the god of the sun, the moon, and the earth.  The god of rain, the light, and the dark.  All of these are fine and noble attempts to understand this world we live in.  Before you dismiss these gods as nonsense, consider modern day beliefs such as receiving seventy-two virgins in the after-life if you sacrifice your life toward the destruction of those infidels who do not see your truth of this world.  Before you dismiss this as nonsense, consider your own beliefs that might include a ten-year old illiterate child in Bangladesh burning in hell forever if they failed to be dunked in water and then accept someone by the name of Jesus Christ as their savior (your so-called truth of this world).  Before any person can accept the truth, many non-truths must be torn down.  When a non-truth is torn down, you should always consider the possibility that you might just be a casualty of this tearing-down.
Please do not continue in this book if you think you know all truths of God in this life.  Combustion and ice have been a part of this world long before mankind came along.  Science still does not understand these two simple and common occurrences.  Go back and read from the beginning of this book again and consider the possibility that most of what you have been taught and have come to believe just might be wrong.  Sure, some of it has always been true; your common sense tells you this much, but that does not mean you understand all truths.  If any of what you believe involves others being excluded from life, then you are wrong:  absolutely wrong.  Oh, some will be excluded, this truth is obvious, but no person on this earth is qualified to claim any of this.  Only God will claim this and each person should tend only to their lives, never telling another person how they must live their life.
No matter your faith, know that there is but one God in this universe who created all life.  This includes our silly planet called Earth and also the hundreds of billions of other "livable" planets within the trillions of solar systems in this universe.  God said as much Himself in John 14.
John 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John said even more so regarding these other planets’ thrones found in the Kingdom in Revelation 20.
Revelation 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
No matter what you have been taught, or what you have come to believe, your common sense tells you that God requires very little in this life regarding what you know about Him:  but God does require that you not reject the few words He has spoken to mankind in the past six-thousand years.  He does not even require that you understand His words:  just do not dismiss (reject) them.  There truly are many mansions in God’s Kingdom:  only one of them has been prepared for this world.  There truly are many thrones in God’s Kingdom and Christ, indeed, will sit and reign upon just one of these thrones.  This particular throne will descend from God in Heaven and come down to this earth and Christ (God) will sit upon this throne.  (Words in italics placed by this author for emphasis.)
Revelation 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(This is our one single mansion prepared, by Christ, for this entire world.)
Revelation 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(Once this city and throne arrive on this earth, some of the first words Christ will speak are found in this same conversation.)
Revelation 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Revelation 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 21:7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Could this last verse be God’s clue as to our own future in the Kingdom?  It is!  Did God just say that we shall inherit Christ’s life and that Christ shall be God, the Father?  Yes, He did!
My friend, this book has just begun.  It does not matter who you are:  you have just learned four simple, but amazing truths of God.  For any who missed these truths, here they are:
1.	Many mansions equals many planets with God’s children on them.
2.	Many thrones equals many Christs (not just our own Christ).
3.	Heaven comes to earth equals we do not go to Heaven (yet).
4.	In our NEXT stage of LIFE (if our life here warrants it), Christ shall be God and we shall be His son (we shall be Christ on another world).
If you are a religious person, ask yourself why you have not been taught these four simple truths of your life and of your future.  There is only one answer:  because your religion has never understood its own vanity, nor has it been able to teach you the truth of God’s Word.  Four simple truths in but a few minutes of your time reading:  this is not your fault and this is not your religion’s fault.  We all have our vanities in this life and there is not one of God’s Commandments that state we must ever understand Him or worship Him.  In a way, God does not care about Himself:  all God ever says is that we are to care about the life we live here, in this world.  In a way, science could care less about the truth; as long as it is able to use the truth of this world toward mankind’s benefit.
If you are not a religious person, know that you are just as far along in God’s Plan for this world as any other person.  Religious folks have the burden of relearning the truth of this world and the truth of God, but you have the burden of having to “somehow” come to believe the words God has spoken to mankind during our past six-thousand years here.  God never once states that you must learn His truth the moment you come across it (in the Bible, or in any other faith).  God merely states that you must learn His truth of life “before” you will ever take part in His Kingdom.  If you totally fail, in this lifetime, then you may indeed receive a second chance because God truly is a God of second chances:  found in the earlier books of Wisdom.  If religious folks have never understood God themselves, know that you are in the exact same boat, rowing through life:  indeed with them as your partners.  God states this clearly in His parable of the Kingdom of Heaven.  (Words in italics placed by this author for emphasis.)
Matthew 20:1  For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:2  And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3  And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
Matthew 20:4  And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Matthew 20:5  Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
Matthew 20:6  And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
(Notice this verse in particular because this story is mostly about this last group.).
Matthew 20:7  They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Matthew 20:8  So when even (evening) was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Matthew 20:9  And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Matthew 20:10  But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Matthew 20:11  And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Matthew 20:12  Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Matthew 20:13  But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
Matthew 20:14  Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Matthew 20:15  Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Now, for you to start believing in God sometime during this life, you only need to believe this one promise that God has made to us:  that he who comes to God in the eleventh hour (the last hour of life) shall receive the same rewards as he who worked the full day (their entire life).  This truth makes you equal to any person who worked for God their entire life.  We ARE INDEED all in the exact the same boat, rowing through this life.
There are some, who will deny you this truth of God, but never concern yourself over those who wanted that penny for themselves (and especially, for themselves only).  God gives you this one simple truth that no other person can take away from you.  The penny’s worth of truth is that if you are spending your entire life in prison, paying for some mistake in your past, that God’s simple Plan still includes you if you do something here (work earnestly during the last portion of your life).  But this means you have to do something and not just “show up.”  Yes, those who showed up last got a kick-in-the-pants to get going, but they got that kick, did they not?  Well, this author has spent four book’s worth of your time trying to kick you in the pants.  Life has always been about doing something (with or without God).
My friend, it took four simple truths of the Bible to show all believers the truth of God, His Plan, and His Kingdom.  If they accepted these four truths, their life truly was shattered.  Let them deal with the truths they find in their lives (four truths in particular) knowing that they will do just fine by the common sense they have and their knowing the difference between right and wrong.  Rather concern yourself with the one truth you find facing yourself here:  that someday, somehow, even if it takes until your last few productive days here in this world, you do have to face one truth:  if there is a God in Heaven, will you have a place there with God?  Or, to put it another way, DO SOMETHING!  Even if what you do is wrong, do something!  Religious folks already know the answer to this truth:  indeed, they have taken a beating in these prior books of Wisdom, but all they really have to do is to change their thinking; and this is fairly easy.  Religious folks have no problem with the concept that God requires them to do something.  Religious folks have no problem with the concept that God requires them to change their thinking (when the truth of their life stumbles across a truth of God).  The truth is the truth and religious folks do know the final truth:  all they have to do is to accept the details between now and then.
Those religious folks who have stayed with these books of Wisdom will do just fine.  They have taken their punishment, by way of the truth, and stayed-the-course.  Any time a person can withstand their foundations being shaken to the core, what truth remains is easy to accept.
Now, to those who do not believe anything, these books have been very forgiving.  These books have been very forgiving for a reason:  you do not need to believe in God today and you do not need to believe in God during this lifetime.  However, God Himself states that no person shall enter His Kingdom except by coming to God.  This could be now, later, or even during your second chance (should your decent life here warrant that second chance.)  This is “your” simple truth and this book shall be “your” punishment (your hardship really; as the prior books were a hardship for believers).  Can you handle a few reading-hours of hardship?  Any religious person reading thus far has endured much more from this author (in his prior books of Wisdom).
As an unbeliever, you have been given just two truths (of God) here really.  First, that in the eyes of God, anyone who worked the final hour shall receive the same wages as those who worked the full day.  If religious folks have to swallow this pill, then so do you.  So when is your final hour?  You will never know; no person will ever know.  But the truth is the truth and every person, sometime during their life, must ask the question, “Is God going to raise the dead and if He is, will I have a part in it?”  Oh, how this truth can hurt every single person who takes a breath!  If you think about this long enough, there is only one answer to this question.  If your answer is no, then read that last question one more time.  “IS GOD GOING TO RAISE THE DEAD AND IF HE IS, WILL I HAVE A PART IN IT?”  Whether you answer this question today, or twenty-years from now, there can be only one answer.  Take your time, if you so choose, but always be mindful of that question.  Forget God:  God cannot answer this question for you; God cannot make this decision for you.  Life does not require you to answer this question today, but life does require you to answer this question someday.
To be sure, if you live your life here, giving to others, tending to your vanities just a bit, then you can do just fine; because God truly has promised that each person will find His laws written into their heart.  But sometimes, we need help:  this author included.  This author has made enough mistakes in his life to where at times, if this author could not see some sort of light at the end of the tunnel, this author would be lost for all time.  With this said, do you really think you are better than this author, or other religious folks?  We are all the same, my friend; we are all exactly the same.  Consider mankind’s beloved Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Muhammad, Buddha, and yourself as the same.  This all, is the second truth (of God) that unbelievers must face in life:  that no single person (such as yourself) is better or worse than any other person in this world.  No nation (or faith) is better than any other.
Never judge your own future by way of your beliefs.  You may indeed, be counted worthy of a second chance, even if you fail during your final hours here.  You are the child of God and only God will decide your future based upon the life you lived here.  But do not wait for, or count on, God’s mercy.  Take your life into your own hands and make it happen upon your terms.  Would you rather you learned how to finally walk at age twelve or are you glad you did this by age two?  Time is yours because time is given by God.  God knows not time!  There is no time in Heaven.  Only you can decide to guard your time; or to waste your time.
My friend, there is only one way to understand God and His Plan in this time of ours; and to do this, you must try to put yourself in His place (as truly you will be in His place someday should you find your place in His Kingdom).  How many times have parents wished that their children could see life from a parent’s point-of-view?  Well, it is time for you to see life from God’s point-of-view whether you believe in God or not.  All you have to do here is to truly see this life from a parent’s point-of-view.  Here are some truths of God as shown in these books of Wisdom, all of which come straight from God’s Word found in the Bible.
FACT - There is but one God who created this universe and this life.
FACT - Life truly is simple in this world; as simple as going to sleep each night and waking up each morning and deciding how we will treat the world around us that day.  Anything more complicated than this is only because we have chosen to make it that way.
FACT - Life is simple only because God is simple.  We might not understand everything regarding God, but any confusion on our part regarding His simplicity is just our vain attempts toward our “having” to understand everything.  God is very simple and has never said otherwise through any faith that ever existed.
FACT - God, our Father, has basically chosen to stay out of our lives and out of worldly affairs.  He has come here from time-to-time to give guidance.  If you count the number of times God has offered us guidance and then balance that number against our six-thousand years here, then any sane person must admit that God has designed this life to be lived according to the free will He has given us.  All of this is by His design obviously.  Even when God came here Himself using the name Joshua (or Jesus, if you prefer the Greek translation for "Joshua"), He only stayed here thirty-something years.  He could have stayed a lot longer had He so chosen to do.  He could have stayed here forever, but He did not.  This is a critical fact.
FACT - God has designed this life according to these simple facts for a reason.  Common sense dictates that this reason can only be for His children (us) to grow-up in this world somehow.
FACT - As God’s children, we are to grow-up into being “something.”  What do all children grow-up to be?  Children grow-up to be parents.  You may fill in the details of our growing-up-to-be-God yourself because it really is very simple (as explained in Wisdom - Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven).  To be honest, the details matter not; only the simple truths should be important (the details can be very exciting to ponder though).
These simple truths are all that matter regarding our belief in God.  How difficult is it for any person to accept these few basic facts?  These basic facts fully describe God’s Plan for this world.  Consider your own life:  the children you create in this world can do just fine in this life if they never take your advice.  They will have much working against them, but it is possible for them to grow-up into being fine and decent people.  Yes, their journey will be much easier if they follow your advice and listen to your teachings.  You know this to be true so swallow this pill yourself.  The true words of God (found in every faith) are merely Him cautioning us of the pitfalls we find in this life.  You can do just fine in this world without God, but your chances are much better if you heed the advice He has given in the relatively few visits He has made to this world during the past six-thousand years.
Did you just read anything here that says you have to go to church every week?  God never said this.  Did you just read anything here that says you have to somehow worship God every so often?  God never said this.  Did you just read anything here that says you have to observe some silly practice or silly rule that a particular religion puts forth in order to glorify its beliefs?  God never said this and you can verify this in your Bible’s first twenty, or so, pages regarding Abraham:  the ONLY person who was ever called, “the friend of God.”
Abraham was never born-again, saved, baptized, or knew Christ as his savior.  Abraham never went to church on Saturday or Sunday.  Abraham never had the Ten Commandments written for him.  Abraham never kept the Sabbath or the morning and evening prayer as Muslims do.  Abraham never heard of a Buddhist and killed a calf whenever he needed food.  My friend, Abraham never, but ever, did any of the things that religion preaches today.  Abraham did two things and he did them well.  Abraham believed in one God and then lived that life he knew God wanted him to live.  For this, Abraham was the only person who was ever called, “the friend of God.”  Sadly, there is not one faith upon this earth that teaches this simple faith or this simple life.  (The Buddha, however, came very close to teaching this truth.)
God only wants true faith to be found in this world:  true faith is based upon the simple facts just presented to you.  Read these facts again and realize that there is nothing difficult in them; nor are they complicated.  This section of the book is about God.  Going to church has nothing to do with God.  Going to church has to do with mankind and will be dealt with after that section of this book.  Know that there are many wonderful reasons for going to church, but these reasons are related to mankind:  not to God.
So . . . with these simple facts of God in mind, place yourself in His position (as you will indeed find yourself one day).  You made this world and everything in it:  everything.  Read that word again:  everything!  You then put your children in this world.  It is a good world and a very good place to grow-up (if they so choose it to be).  Your children will find much to amuse themselves with here in this world.  Does this sound any different than your own children here today?  As God, you do not really care about those things your children decide to pick up along the way in order to find contentment.  They will find nature and work toward understanding it.  They will find science and be astonished with what develops from it.  They will discover ways of becoming comfortable through building houses, furniture to sit on, and through their ability to create heat within these houses.  All of this is good because you put all of this here, in this world.
Your children will discover everything they seek to discover in this world.  (All of this is found within the first few pages of your Bible.)  Your children will discover and create music for entertainment, they will sing songs and dance to this music.  Maybe a little singing and dancing is good in this life:  you created singing and dancing.  Your children will discover sex and pleasures of the flesh.  Maybe a few pleasures are good in this life:  you created pleasures.  Your children will discover that work brings many benefits in this life, by way of comfort and occupying one’s time here.  Your children will discover how to make alcohol and how to use opium or other pleasurable substances:  you made all of this.
You made everything that there is in this world, but what do you truly want from your children?  Do you really care if they invent the wheel?  Do you really care if they learn how to drill holes in the ground to obtain petroleum?  Do you really care if they learn how to create electricity?  Each generation lives for only one hundred, or so, years.  Just what do You (their God) think about the creature-comforts they have designed, or desired?
Any good parent only cares about what kind of person their children grow-up into being.  This holds true for one child or one planet.  As long as your child can keep their problems, their pleasures, their struggles, and their victories in proper perspective, then your child is doing just fine.  So what does “proper perspective” mean?  Well, think of your own child.  Do you want your child to succeed in life by stealing from others or would you prefer they succeed by way of their labors in this life?  You made this world and you made your children, so what do you value most in your children?  Regarding your actual children here in this life, would you want your second child to spend their entire life stealing from and deceiving your other two children?
If you are to play God for just a bit and imagine a world created by yourself, then you MUST look at that world from a parent’s point-of-view.  You made all of these children, gave them but a hundred short years to show what kind of person they were, and found a few lazy ones who only stole from others and some who satisfied their vanities through deceiving others.  All of the silly things they gathered here-and-there and then placed value upon are but trinkets; indeed they will do great wrongs (to others) in order to garnish these trinkets.  You are the only Being who realizes that all of these trinkets are going to be left behind when your children die, yet they gather these ridiculous trinkets like tomorrow might never come.  Remember, these are your children living in the world you made.  Maybe you could visit your children from time-to-time and teach them what ought to be important.  Maybe you could come to them and tell them that you are their father or mother and they should listen to you (above all others).  Maybe they should listen to you and ignore what others tell them.  Surely you would tell them that they should make their own lives, by way of their own labors and not steal from your other children, not lie about your other children (toward their own gain), and not cherish selfishly what your other children have obtained through their own hard work.
Well, my friend, if you agreed with this, then you just learned the entire Ten Commandments (except one) given by God nearly four-thousand years ago.  And, to be honest, you just learned about God’s Plan in this world.  The amazing part is that you did not even have to believe in God:  you only had to imagine yourself being God.  You did not even ask your children to believe you were God!  This is how simple God is.  This is how simple God made religion (or more correctly, faith).  Only we, over the past six-thousand years, have made God complicated.  True religion is as simple as knowing that God made this world and God made you:  period.  Faith is as simple as knowing that God put us here to grow-up and to learn certain things (such as decency), period.  Read these last two sentences again and learn how simple God is!  Anything else is just people making things up along the way and you should never consider what others teach you about God.  Include this author amongst those others.  Put yourself in God’s place (any parent’s place really), think about what He wants, what He has told us, and then realize that you are not God YET:  you are His child in this world and but a few simple things are expected of you.  More correctly, you are just one of His children.  His other children include Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, various Christians, and all the native tribes of this world.  Indeed, you are just one of many different children of God trying to grow-up into being God.  This might hurt, but this is the simple truth of God and of your life.
This simple exercise was presented to you for many reasons.  You just learned more about God than any organized religion has ever taught.  You just learned more about mankind than any book has ever taught (except for the Bible, Qur’an, and other Words of God).  You just learned more about yourself than you ever thought possible.  You did all of this because you did it yourself.  You considered yourself to be in God’s place and considered what God’s Plan in this life just might be.  Probably, many things went through your mind regarding your own children upon a planet somewhere, someday, while you were reading this.  Probably, many things went through your mind as you considered your own life in this world.  This was a very simple exercise and you should be ever mindful of it; for when you consider that all of the people on this earth truly are God’s children, how ridiculous it is that we believe that some black, white, Asian, or Mexican person is worthless.  How ridiculous it is that we believe that some Baptist, Lutheran, Muslim, Jew, or Hindu knows nothing of God.
If you belong to any religion, can you now see how easy it is for non-believers to do better than yourself in God’s eyes?  God does not want us to learn His Plan for this world through any organized religion:  nor will His Plan be found through any organized religion.  God’s Plan can only be found in each person’s heart!  This is because God requires each person, sometime during their life, to decide if His ways will become their ways.  Religion cannot do this for one single person; no matter how many rituals they concoct to make a person believe:  “Whew, got that out of the way.”  God’s Plan is as simple as these values you find in your heart:  God has never said otherwise!  Through any faith!  In the past six-thousand years!
If you believe nothing about God, can you now see how easy it is for religious folks to do better than yourself in God’s eyes?  God has spent six-thousand years here teaching mankind what ought to be important.  God has made His simple truth easy enough so that any person can recognize it, no matter what they believe.  Even if they believe the wrong things, this is acceptable, if and only if, they believe and live by His simple truths.  All one has to do is to believe; and then make these beliefs part of their life.  God does not care about the details (obviously):  God only cares about the truth!  Religious folks have learned one simple truth of God; that God created this world and this life.  Religious folks may not fully understand the details of God’s Plan for this world that He made, but God does not care about His own details.  Religious folks need to learn a few details about the truth of our life here, but you need to learn just a little about faith so you can then understand some simple truths standing right in front of you in this life.  You do not even have to believe in God:  just learn some of His truths.
This exercise was intended for many purposes.  It was intended to make non-believers consider the truth of God and to consider what simple things God expects from us.  Having a simple faith in God is, in no way, a massive undertaking as many believe it to be.  It was intended to make believers consider that the actual truths of God must always come before the vanities they have been taught throughout their life:  these vanities including terms such as Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or native tribe.  It is normal (and vain) human nature for Americans to believe that they are the most powerful and benevolent nation that ever existed:  everything that Americans espouse must be true because they are the greatest nation that ever existed.  It is normal (and vain) human nature for the British to believe that they are the greatest nation that ever existed because their language and their laws have become the standard of today’s world:  everything that the British espouse must be true because their beliefs go back to the dark ages and time is the true test of honor.
Well . . . guess what?  People are people and people believe many wrong things.  This exercise was intended to get every person outside of their own life, momentarily, in order to consider God’s Plan for this world and His children everywhere.  Hopefully, you succeeded in doing this just for a few fleeting moments.  A few fleeting moments of our time is an eternity for our mind and for what we find in our hearts.  This exercise was given first because it involves us; and the one thing we know best in this world is our life.  But what about God’s place in our lives?  Never mind if you believe in God or do not believe in God.  Never mind what you believe or what others have taught you to believe.  Return now to the prior exercise, imagine yourself to be God, who created a world and all of your children in that world.  Return now to that parent’s point-of-view (and your actual future in God’s Kingdom).
So here you are, sitting in Heaven, watching the little world you recently made, and observing your little children in their lives upon that world.  What place are you going to take in their lives?  Let your mind wander with this question because there is no wrong or right answer.  No matter what you read here, there is no single answer to that question.  The world you made is fairly new and there are a few million people there.  Are you going to live on that world yourself as its ruler?  Will you make every wrongdoer come before yourself to explain their actions?  You might be very busy if you do this.  But you are God and are capable of many wondrous things.  Maybe answering “yes” to that question is a good thing and would make you a fine God.
How far would you go in being a fine God?  If a man raised his arm to strike his wife, would you grab that man’s arm to prevent it?  If a mother shook her baby in anger, would you take hold of that woman and stop her?  Given time, there will be over six-billion children of yours to watch over in this way; twenty-four hours per day.  But you are God and you have many angels at your disposal.  You could do this and this might just make you a fine God.
So, again, how far would you go in being a fine God?  If a person was in a bar, would you hold both of their arms down after their third drink to prevent drunkenness?  Would you physically keep a person’s hand from bringing a cigarette to their mouth (slowly killing themselves)?  If a mother promised her daughter for three-months that she would attend her daughter’s band concert, but on that night, the mother receives yet another call from work regarding yet another emergency, would you physically prevent that mother from going into work?  If you said “yes,” what if that mother was a heart surgeon and someone’s life was at stake?
My friend, there truly is no wrong or right answer to what kind of God you will be someday when you are given your own world.  That decision will be between you and your Father, but for now, examine your Father in this life you now live.  Examine what part God, the Father, has clearly chosen to take in your life, here today!  Do not examine what other people tell you about God.  Other people will tell you that if you drink or dance, you are going to hell (seemingly, they are already making God-like decisions even though they are not qualified).  Other people will tell you that if you do not go to mass every Sunday and receive communion that you are going to hell.  (This author was raised a Catholic and stopped believing when he was eight years old and was told, in Sunday school, that his best friend Bobby was going to hell because Bobby was a Baptist:  strange, how children can see simple truths even after adults make truth complicated).  My friend, it is so important for you to not examine what other people (this author included) will tell you about God:  go to the Word of God found in your Bible, your Torah, your Qur’an, or the basic (but original) beliefs of whatever your faith is.  Also, examine the God you find right here in this life.
God never makes our decisions for us:  He is our Father (Parent) and has only tried to guide us in our judgments.  Do you, as a parent, watch your child every single moment and hold their arm back when they steal that cookie?  First of all, do you have time to do this for twenty-years of your life?  More importantly, is this the right way to raise your child?  Has God raised this world for six-thousand years teaching us to always look over our shoulder to see if He is there?  You, here today in this world, know what lies ahead of your children in this life.  You raise your children using examples (appropriate for their age) to teach them lessons about this life.  You do this over-and-over again in what seems to be an endless struggle:  they always have other children in their lives to teach them childish ways.  It is a battle, to be sure, but a patient and caring parent knows they can win in the end.  To be honest, you only do this for about twenty-years and then your child is on their own and will seek further advice from you, upon their terms.
People who believe in God do understand this truth of God.  No matter how complicated most churches try to make God, this simple truth is known and understood by every faith upon this earth.  Regarding those who do not believe in God, they should consider reading “some” book on faith:  keeping only this simple truth in mind.  Do this just once (for yourself!) and realize that all God has ever said to us was given as Fatherly advice (or lessons).  God told us, in Abraham’s day, some very simple things such as us not allowing our pleasures-of-the-skin to control our lives, nor to allow them to cloud our sense of right-and-wrong.  Yes, there are pleasures to be had in this world:  God gave us these pleasures!  God has never been a dictator; He has only given us Fatherly advice and lessons on how to keep a balance in our lives.  The pleasures we seek in this life must never ever come before our knowledge of what is right-or-wrong, nor should they come before our needing to treat other people decently.
As a simple example of God’s simple truth, consider two examples straight from the Bible.  These passages are so simple and known that they will not even be quoted here.  God’s example of Sodom and Gomorrah had everything to do with how important our rights-and-wrongs should be in this life.  Heterosexuals applaud this true story because God made those Homosexuals pay.  Well, God never said this:  only other people said this.  Read what exactly happened in the Bible and read what exactly God said.  Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed only because those people allowed their pleasures (vanities) to rule their sense of right-and-wrong.  The results would have been the same if the people tried to murder the two angels.  The two angels saved Lot (and his family) only because Lot tried to do what was right:  Lot tried to save the angels (as if angels need help).  No, you say to this?

When God laid down the laws He wanted to govern the Hebrews, He told Moses that any two people caught in the act of adultery should be immediately killed.  Heterosexuals might say, “Oh, that’s just not right:  it’s too strict.”  Well, in God’s eyes, it is exactly the same as what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah:  same crime, same punishment.  God’s lesson is that there is right and there is wrong in this life:  the details matter not.  When you are God someday looking down upon your adulterous children, all you will see is one child hurting your other child.  Again, the pleasures we seek in this life must never come before our knowledge of what is right-or-wrong, nor should they come before our needing to treat other people decently.
Back to the exercise of your being God and watching the vanities of your children; it is going to happen (in a billion, or so, years) and you will decide to what extent you permit vanities to happen.  Are you any different in your own life?  Do you keep all toys out of your children’s sight?  Or do you allow them to have their fun; with yourself getting involved only when they forget the values you taught them and start fighting over their toys?  When your children fight, do you immediately become a dictator or do you allow them the opportunity to learn their own lessons?  Some parents do become dictators, but deep down, they know they should allow their children to learn their own lessons:  or if not today, then someday without their parents’ guidance, because it will happen.
Everything you have read here is ALL that you need to know about God in order to do well in this life.  As stated earlier, any child in this world is capable of growing up to be a fine person if they never learn a thing from their parents.  While it is possible (and has been done), the odds are greatly increased if that child listened to their parents’ advice when it was given.  The odds are increased even more if the parents gave their advice, watched the effect that advice had on their children, and then followed-up with further advice, lessons, rewards, and punishments.  Does God, our Parent, ever follow-up with us?  Read your Bible just once and you will find example after example of God doing just this:  in fact, you will find little else!
The Bible is a conversation between God and His children (us) and this is why you should never listen to some person spewing forth their vanities regarding God.  It is easy for us to realize this regarding some Muslim extremist saying you or someone else will receive seventy-two virgins in Heaven if you will die for God now (and blow up many of God’s innocent children).  Oh, they will even have a ritual prepared for you concerning washing your body and wearing some fine white linen.  Now, what about Christians spewing forth their vanities?  Oh, that just “cannot happen” because most of us English-speaking Christians grew up and have become familiar with Christianity.
Only one short example of debunking Christians shall be given here.  Many Christians will quote a certain passage in your Bible in order to persuade you to come around to their way of thinking.  Just one of their examples:
Mark 16:16  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
You better do what these people say (and do it their way) or you will have no chance in this life.  Well, these very people totally ignore what John the Baptist said about baptism (because it is convenient for them to do so):
Luke 3:16  John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luke 3:17  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Forget the verse numbers:  verse numbers were placed in the Bible hundreds of years later.  You just read “one sentence” in the Bible (start-to-finish) regarding baptism.  This one sentence describes three different types of baptism.  Regarding yourself, if anyone tells you that you will burn in hell if you do not get dunked in water, that person is spewing forth their own vanities and does not understand God’s Plan for this entire world.
The real baptism is coming.  John never, but ever, said that his water baptism will excuse you from God’s true baptism.  The little verse quoted in Mark 16:16 was but a summary of God’s short time here “as Christ.”  They were God’s parting words to this world before He left us for the next two-thousand years.  They were the closing statement of everything God, the Father, has said since the beginning of time.  Any person quoting this silly verse to you missed, entirely, the verse right in front of it.  Christ, speaking to His disciples:
Mark 16:15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
So, we are supposed to believe the Gospel (the Word of God; which, by the way, is found in every faith).  The most critical part of this Gospel is the fact that we only have our life here and it is what we do with our life that matters.  Oh, the real baptism is coming:  know that!  At that time, we will not fall back on our God for help because it is God that brings the real baptism.  We will only fall back on what we have done with our life.  Everything God, our Father, says proves this.  But God has said this through all faiths that ever existed.  Even the faith of ancient Greece (espousing multiple God’s) taught that we must live decent lives.  The real baptism is still coming.
It is the hope of this author that each person reading this book believes that there is a God in Heaven who created this world and all of the properties found in this world.  If nothing else, it is the hope of this author that each reader of this book can at least believe in their heart that there might just be a God in Heaven, somewhere, who cares about people and wants us to do those things that are right (toward other people).  This is just fine:  this is all that is necessary for you to respect and search out those lessons God is trying to teach us.
So what do you do now?  Well, you do a few very simple things.  Knowing what you know (or believing what you think just might be the truth), you decide to live a life that shows respect and decency to all of God’s other children in this world.  This includes the person living next door to you, the person working next to you at your job, and a person living on the other side of this planet who you will never meet.  You do this for others because God does this for you.  This is the first and only requirement for you to succeed in this life.  If you care to find it, this is God’s Eleventh Commandment.  What follows in this section regarding God is only optional.
Next, you should strongly consider learning what God (your Father) has been trying to teach mankind since the beginning of our time here.  How do you do this?  There is only one way and that is to go to the source, the Word of God.  The Jewish Bible has teaching-after-teaching by our Father.  (Regardless of what some will say, the truth of the matter is that the Old Testament contains more than enough teachings by God to get a person through this life and into the Kingdom of God.)  The teachings of the Old Testament begin with Abraham, about two-thousand years before Christ.  People lived and died with only these teachings and could do just fine in God’s eyes.  What did people live and die with before Abraham?  They lived and died by the first requirement, of God, for anyone to succeed in life (just discussed in the prior paragraph).  People today read the first twenty, or so, pages of the Bible and fail to realize that this covered two-thousand years; and, but a few teachings by God.  People lived and died and could do just fine in God’s eyes during these TWO-THOUSAND years.
Whatever path you choose to follow in God’s Word, know that you can find much truth regarding your life and this world.  None of the examples this author uses against organized Christian religions makes these religions bad.  It is not their fault that the origins of many Christian religions started in the dark ages, where they literally had to fight for their lives (against the all-powerful and all-corrupt Catholic church).  They did not have enough history and information available to them in those days to know that they, indeed, were the lost ten tribes of Israel and that the ancient faith of the Hebrews (the promises by God to Abraham, Isaac, David, and especially Jeremiah) were theirs.  They did not know that the throne of England (the actual chair itself; the old one, down in the basement) sits upon the same stone that was Jacob’s pillar in the Book of Genesis.  They did not know that this stone was the very stone that Moses struck with his stick and caused water to pour out of.  They did not know that this stone was the very stone that the descendants of David stood next to when God made them King of Israel (witnessing that the line of David would not be broken until Christ came here at the end of the world to sit on God’s throne).  Read this promise yourself in the Old Testament and realize that God keeps every promise He makes.  Read for yourself in the Old Testament of how many kings “stood upon the rock” or “stood by the pillar” during their coronation.
Somewhere, in this world today, is the unbroken line of David:  a descendant of David sitting on a throne, ruling the children of Israel.  God promised this.  The next time a king is crowned in England, if they show it on television, notice the old, worn-out, and cracked stone that rests between the throne’s legs:  this is Jacob’s pillar stone where he rested his head the night he saw the ladder (and the angels coming and going to heaven).  Had these early Christians known this truth when they broke away from the powerful Catholic church, they would have known to change their direction toward the God of ancient days rather than “any convenient direction” that took them away from the corrupt Catholic church.  This is what religion was in its early days:  a struggle for power in this kingdom or that nation.  Religion never, but ever, was about the truth of God!  Not in early Hebrew days, nor in early Christian days.  Power corrupts, power blinds, and power deceives.
It is not your church’s or minister’s fault (today) that they do not know the truth of God and His Plan for this world.  All churches and ministers build upon those traditions that began in the dark years of their formation.  As an example, the Presbyterian church, in a large way, claims to follow the teachings of a man named John Calvin, who when he finally obtained religious freedom from the Catholic church, would take people who disagreed with his personal thoughts regarding the trinity of God and peel their skin in strips while they were still alive and then before they died, he would burn them while tied to a pole above a stack of wood.  This is a very slow burn as wood catches on fire slowly.  Do not confuse this with some Hollywood version of a fire where the fire starts with a whoosh of flames (caused by chemicals you cannot see).  This was a slow and horrible death that John Calvin caused to happen over and over again.  Supposedly, John Calvin would laugh while watching this process:  power corrupts, power blinds, and power deceives.  Nobody teaches this truth of John Calvin:  this history has been filed away deep in the archives of churches wishing to hide the truth.  As another example, Martin Luther wrote a great many words reflecting his disgust with all Jews:  he called Jews “the devil’s people.”  He went so far as to claim, “We are not at fault for slaying them.”  He also urged Germans to seize their properties, burn their Synagogues, and force them into hard labor.  Luther held these beliefs until his death.  His writings greatly influenced Adolf Hitler and of course, the Lutheran church was the de facto State Church of Germany in that day.
Now, all of these churches are fine organizations today in that they are comprised of fine people seeking the truth of God in this world.  God has seen to it that His simple truths have always been attainable through any faith in this world.  These examples were given merely to show that you never have to do what a church tells you to do, but you always have to do what God tells you to do when you come to realize that His very simple truths are found in every faith.
Some bad things have been said here regarding the Muslim faith.  Before anyone thinks that the Muslim faith is evil, learn a few things about the Muslim faith.  This section will not address the small (but growing) faction of the Muslim faith that seems hell-bent on the destruction of non-Muslims, and indeed, other Muslim nations and people!  They are obviously hell-bent on the destruction of all of mankind as they cannot even direct their hatred:  they just hate life.  The true (and correct) Muslim faith claims little activity by God outside of the middle two-thousand years of mankind’s existence.  God has a timeline in this world and in His Plan that cannot be dismissed.  Any religion claiming activity by God outside of this timeline (and thereby claiming special favor in the eyes of God) just cannot accept that all people, everywhere, are the children of God.  (To all Mormons, you are fine people, but know that your precious Book of Mormon has nothing to do with God or the children of God which cover this entire world.  It truly is possible to find God’s Kingdom having never known the words of your American prophet named Joseph.)
The Muslim faith claims its lineage back to Abraham and is exactly right:  this is common knowledge.  The Arab nations are descended from Ishmael, the first born of Abraham (father of nearly all nations).  Muslims believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (later named Israel).  Muslims believe in the God of Moses and David.  Not only do they believe in this same God, but they believe in all of His teachings.  Muslims believe in the teachings of Christ also.  The Muslim faith, however, did not begin until somewhere around six-hundred years after Christ.  The Muslim faith started with a prophet named Muhammad.  God did not speak to Muhammad, rather the angel Gabriel spoke to him for God.  Muhammad brought nothing new to this world really (nor did he claim to); He did bring some laws to the Arabs who believed in multiple gods at the time.  The fact of the matter is that Muhammad taught people the true messages of God exactly outlined in the Bible, which includes the New and the Old Testament.  Everything Muhammad taught was right!  The Old Testament is mostly a history of the Hebrew people, filled with examples of mankind’s failures and God’s attempts to correct mankind and to teach mankind how to live this life.  Muhammad told the people that the Word of God found in the Old Testament was God’s Truth.  The New Testament contains God’s Truth regarding the Resurrection.  Christ brought this truth to mankind and Muhammad teaches this.  Muhammad spends a great deal of time talking about the life that is required to obtain this Resurrection:  a great deal of time!
Muhammad skipped some details because he was not there, in the ancient days, to witness these details:  Gabriel told him this, while the ancient stories and Hebrew truths were being spoken to Muhammad.  Muhammad wrote one of the most beautiful books ever:  regarding how we people should live our lives.  Yes, there is much to be learned by history, but if you can truly get your life right from this point forward, history does not matter:  Muhammad wrote this very truth also.  In a way, history is necessary only for people who need examples.  Americans (and Europeans) need examples.  Do not take this the wrong way; it is merely the way we think and the way we accept this life.  Just know that examples are not always necessary in this life.
To illustrate this, consider the American examples you look toward:  people like Martin Luther King, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and our founding fathers.  These very people you look up to did not follow any examples:  they made their own life an example for others to follow!  (So do the same yourself!)  Know that examples can be good; your Bible is full of examples that you have always been told to follow:  Abraham, David, Ruth, Daniel, Christ, Paul, and many others.  God gave these examples to the nation of Israel (all twelve tribes:  meaning you!).  Why did God use Muhammad’s way (of no contemporary examples) to teach the Arabs?  We will never know.  Maybe, just maybe, God used Muhammad and the lack of examples to teach this family of stubbornly independent children.  Maybe stubborn and fiercely independent people do not need examples.  Maybe a “way of life” works better for these people because that is what Muhammad wrote.
Trust in God to give His children what they need to succeed in this life.  Your own Bible states that there are seven Spirits of God that are sent to this world (and to God’s children).  Why would God need (or send) seven Spirits?  Would not one Spirit do just fine?  Obviously not.  We might not understand this truth here in our pathetic lives, but it is only what God knows that matters.  Because God did not explain these seven Spirits, this can only mean that God could care less if we understand His seven Spirits.  They will do their job . . . to perfection.
Choose your path, my friend, because it would appear that there are seven paths of the Word of God to follow in this life:  they all lead to the Kingdom of God.  Forget those who would tell you that there is only one path to follow, using God’s (only) Holy Spirit that is part of some ridiculous Trinity.  That Trinity just turned into a “nine-ity” with the addition of all seven Spirits, so take the path of your choosing and not the path of some other person’s vanities.  Just know that once you choose this path of finding God and what He teaches us in this world, you must never, but ever deny another of their place in God’s Kingdom.  Choose your path and know that there were many fine people who lived in this world besides the twelve Apostles and a man named Paul.  The next person you pass in the street just might be one of these people.
My friend, this author lives his life by only a handful of rules.  Each of these rules is held closely to this author’s heart.  None of these rules violates any faith’s beliefs upon this earth.  One of these rules is as follows (found in Hebrews Chapter 13):
Hebrews 13:1  Let brotherly love continue.
Hebrews 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:  for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
This book is titled, Wisdom - of God and Man, but this book comes in three parts:  God, man, and life (with life connecting these two:  God and man).  This first section of God is finished.  You have learned how simple God truly is and you have learned how complicated man tries to make God.  If you learn nothing else from this section, learn how simple God is and how you have nothing to fear from God:  should you seek any of His teachings in this world.  Read that again, ANY OF HIS TEACHINGS IN THIS WORLD.  God only wants to help you, as you only want to help your children.  These books of Wisdom have been very easy on unbelievers because God Himself is easy on unbelievers.  These books of Wisdom have been fairly easy on “most” believers also because God’s truth is very easy if one just decides to seek God’s truth.
Find your Father, here in this life, because He very much wants you to find Him (just as you want your own children to find the truth you present to them).  Find the Truth in this world because it is everywhere.  You need no formal education to find the Truth:  it is everywhere and in every person you come across in this life.  Some truths are good and some truths are bad.  Just never blind yourself to the truths you find in this world.
Find your Friend, here in this life, because He very much wants you to consider Himself as your friend.  He once lived the very same life you now do:  He just did it long ago on a different planet.  Talk to your Friend and listen for Him to talk back to you:  the words will come because He lived your same life, so long ago!
Curse your Friend when life does not go right:  He will not mind this.  When you have finished your cursing, remember what your Friend has taught you and remember that, in the end, your Friend was right.  Everything He has taught you will be found in your heart; once your temper subsides.  Your Friend has never denied you your temper:  just do not let it overwhelm you to the point where you hurt others (or yourself).
Find your place, here in this life, and be content with what comes your way through your efforts.  Anything more is vanity and this you shall leave behind when you leave this world.
Start your journey of finding your place in this life and you shall truly be amazed at how simple a journey it can be.

OF MAN

The wisdom of man . . . now there is a contradiction of terms:  for mankind has only pursued its vanities in this life from the day we took our first breath.  It would seem that the wisdom of man can only be broken down into what we know and what we do not know.  What we know could only complete a few sentences, while what we do not know could fill a volume of encyclopedias.  Where does one begin with the wisdom of man?  Maybe, just maybe, we know a lot more than we think we do:  maybe we have just been ignoring what we know for the past six-thousand years.
One thing we know for sure is that we have a set amount of time here.  Somehow this life has been fashioned to where we have, maybe, one-hundred years here, give or take a little.  There is absolutely nothing you can do to extend your life here.  There are many things you can do to shorten your life:  such as alcohol, smoking, drugs, sex, stress, diet, driving recklessly, and many other things you know to be true.  No matter who you are, your vanities are speaking many things to you right now, so consider these vanities right now; and realize that your vanities are lies:  you do indeed have a set amount of time here.
There truly is “absolutely nothing” you can do in this life to “extend” your life.  Try as you may, there is nothing you can do about this.  No matter your path, God does say a few things regarding the value of a long life and the pleasures you will find in a long life by way of your offspring:  possibly to the third generation.  Truly, who would not cherish the embracing of their children’s children?  Well, to be honest, this could be a vanity or it could be a treasured moment.  Consider a person who never really cared about their children:  they sought their pleasures in this world, taught their children these same values, and lived to see these vanities passed to the third generation.  If this person never truly cared about their own children, of what value are their children’s children?  Think about that.
Now consider the other end of this example.  Consider a parent who spent twenty hard years tending to their children’s needs and lessons in life.  They then happily watched their children spend their own twenty-years of labor doing the same.  Can you imagine what it means for a person to see twenty hard years of work come to fruition?  Most people, this author included, are delighted to see one or two days of hard work come to fruition.  Any reward in this life is a real treasure.  Think about this for a moment because not only did this person see their work succeed in their own children, but their efforts were so excellent that they even passed these parenting skills to their children.  They were so successful that their children were able to pass both of these skills on; down to the third generation.
My friend, life can only be about quality; it is never about quantity (length of time).  This is a simple truth that any person can see.  Some might hide this truth if they, indeed, have no quality of life, but this simple truth shall always remain.  If you disagree, then look at any dying person.  You will never find a dying person, knowing they are about to die, worrying about anything in their past.  Once they can truly see the end, they will only consider the future of those they cherish.  Considering this life, there is much to be learned from the dying.  One truth to be learned is that you need not wait until the end to realize the importance of your loved ones.  Another truth is that we are all dying upon this earth so we all need to decide if quantity (number of years) is more important than quality (how each year is used).  Ask yourself now; have you been ignoring those truths that you know in this world?
We do know many truths of life.  We might not know much about this life, but we do know that it will end someday.  We also know that at some point, we will all have to look back; and God bless those who have the most good to look back upon.  This author can say this because this author has spent a lifetime wondering why his friends changed after they were married and had children.  All of a sudden . . . this author was not so important to his friends.  Well, God bless those people who chose their future and their children’s futures over this pathetic author because this is one simple truth of life that we all, somehow, must come to understand.  We do not understand much in this life, but we do understand this little piece of the truth.  Funny, how important some simple truths of life really are.
Any person who understands (and uses well) their length of time upon this earth truly possesses wisdom beyond their years.  Only this person can see the importance of their actions and decisions today.  Only this person can see the importance of learning from their mistakes today, rather than waiting for another day (that never really comes).  If you are not this person, then do have some patience in yourself.  Just remember, that when you do find this truth within yourself, to pursue this truth with all of your might.  (And know that this truth has come from a person who has not yet found it himself).  Everything stated in this paragraph is, by God’s Will, the foundation that all religions have been built upon.  The amazing part of this truth is that you do not really have to do much with this truth:  just accept it (and your heart will know what to do, with little help from your mind.)
The foundation of all religion truly is built upon our understanding (and accepting) that each of us has but a certain amount of time in this world.  Once we accept this simple truth, we then have some very simple decisions regarding what we will do with this “certain amount of time.”
There are creatures, on this earth, that live for hundreds of years.  There are some plants (trees), on this earth, that live for thousands of years.  Ask any scientist why mankind has not developed sufficient genetics, based upon their theory of survival-of-the-fittest, to allow mankind the ability to live for two, three, or even four-hundred years.  Any scientist will tell you that our length of time here is locked within the genetic code found inside our body.  Ask this same scientist where this code comes from and they will immediately go silent:  they just do not know.  Ask this same scientist why a turtle can live for hundreds of years and you will see a very perplexed look upon their face.  They do not know, you do not know, and the truth matters not;  listen to your heart on this, my friend.  Given the amount of time it takes for a person to pass through the early stages of life (growing-up), after a person reaches the age of thirty, or so, just how long does it take for that person to show the world what kind of person they are?  Deep down, in your heart, you know the answer to this question.  Deep down, in your heart, you know that you have been given enough time to grow-up yourself (doing the stupid things you have done), raise your children, sacrificing everything, and still have enough time to show this world (and God) what kind of person you are.  To live beyond a hundred, or so, years would only serve to increase the tally of our sins:  remember, always, why we are here.  This . . . is the magnificence of life.
Now, here is a critical truth of mankind and of this world:  the foundation of all religion truly is built upon the fact that we only have a certain amount of time here (as designed).  If science can never refute the fact that we are all going to die someday, then this indeed, is a truth we know in this world.  We might not fully understand it, but we know it to be true because we know it to be “designed” and we know we will never defeat this truth.  Science can defeat only falsehoods, but it cannot defeat the truth.
The purpose of science is to explain the world and universe that we live in:  God and Heaven are not of these.  Science is not supposed to be able to explain God.  Just because some silly religious folks think this world is six-thousand years old, science and religion have always been at-odds with each other.  Place the scientist Charles Darwin at the top of this list.  Well, guess what?  Charles Darwin was right because the facts of this world and this universe prove him to be right:  religious folks, just live with that!  If God and Heaven are not of this universe, science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of God.  No credible scientist has ever denied the possibility of God existing:  this is not the responsibility of science nor is it in their realm of purpose in this life.  The truth of this world is that death has been designed into this life.  Until science can locate the “designer” of this truth, even scientists must accept (as theory) that God and Heaven exists:  every design has a designer.  Darwin was right about life, but science knows nothing about death.
So, what are we supposed to do with truths we do not understand?  Live with them, my friend; live with them and then design your life around these truths!  Since this is a critical truth of mankind that we just do not understand, know that this is exactly where religious folks start making things up and preaching their vanities.
There is nothing wrong with religious folks trying to understand the truths of this world and trying to explain that which we will never understand.  Just as the scientist who cannot explain how coal burns to produce electricity, both use these obvious truths to try to better the existence of mankind.  Quite simply, there are some truths that we just have to live with because our common sense (and science) tells us that we will never understand them.  Do not blame or curse religious folks for their actions:  they have come just a little closer to the truth than others have.  They do not understand the details of this truth, but know this truth should have a central part of their lives.  This is where they convinced themselves that this-or-that must be the truth.  Scientists once convinced themselves that the world was flat and that the sun rotated around the earth.  Indeed, this has been the history of mankind regarding all science, all mysteries, and all faith in God.
If nothing else, know that religious folks are not bad people (terrorists and fanatics do not deserve enough respect to be addressed here).  Decent religious folks only want to help others:  we know this to be true.  Maybe we should listen to religious folks, just a bit.  How much should you listen?
Exactly as far as your common sense allows so as to recognize the actual truth of God.  Truth of science is one thing:  scientists build their lives around these truths (and the discovery of more truth from existing truth).  Truth of science is empirical (verifiable).  Truth of life is another thing:  while God has designed many properties within these three dimensions, all of which are empirical (verifiable), it is obvious that life is not contained by these three dimensions.  Truth of life can only be observed using our common sense.  Scientists use their common sense all the time.  When silly religious folks claim this world is only six-thousand years old, any second-year science student can present but a few irrefutable facts of science and common sense causes all rational people to see the truth.  The truth of life begins in these three dimensions however.  When silly scientists pull their “supposedly understood”  evolution books off the shelf, any amateur religious person can present but a few irrefutable facts and common sense causes all rational people to see the truth.
If science claims that birds evolved from reptiles, then where is that creature today which possesses the traits of both?  Where is that cold-blooded bird (here today) that still has a scaly exterior?  Where is that warm blooded reptile (here today) with blunt feathered wings?  If mankind evolved, purely on its own, by way of the apes, where is that semi-ape (here today) capable of speech, capable of building their life around science and technology?  Where is that creature (here today) capable of hunting its prey and building a fire to cook meat?  Just where is there any creature on this world capable of cognitive thought regarding anything outside these three dimensions?
Oh, science is right in that life changes:  believe that!  Any insect incapable of defense will surely become extinct unless it develops a bite, sting, camouflage, nocturnal habits, or the propensity to reproduce at high rates.  Any mammal (including mankind) would surely become extinct unless they were able to protect themselves from the elements and obtain food by way of their various skills.
Life changes . . . in that, science is absolutely correct.  There are many people today (this author included) who would not be here today were it not for the marvels of science and technology.  Never refute the obvious.  But never confuse this with the truth of life which goes far beyond these three dimensions of merely existing!  Truth of life includes that which our common sense knows must be correct.  For instance, if there are seven books in existence today (that science positively dates back to over four-hundred years before Christ) and these seven books give many details regarding the events of Christ’s life, then once the age of these books is scientifically proven, the truth of life requires us to believe that these seven books also present the proof of God.  Science proves the age; common sense and the truth of life proves God.
Please set any belief in God (or unbelief) aside for a moment and consider truthfully (and scientifically) the words you are about to read.

The book of psalms - written 1,000 years BC.
Psalm 22 is about the life-and-times of Christ (written one-thousand years before it happened).  Read this short piece written by King David and remember that none of this ever happened to David:
Psalm 22:1  My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 
Psalm 22:2  O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 
Psalm 22:3  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 
Psalm 22:4  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 
Psalm 22:5  They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 
Psalm 22:6  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 
Psalm 22:7  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 
Psalm 22:8  He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 
Psalm 22:9  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. 
Psalm 22:10  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. 
Psalm 22:11  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 
Psalm 22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 
Psalm 22:13  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 
Psalm 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 
Psalm 22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 
Psalm 22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 
Psalm 22:17  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 
Psalm 22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 
Psalm 22:19  But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 
Psalm 22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 
Psalm 22:21  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 
Psalm 22:22  I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 
Psalm 22:23  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 
Psalm 22:24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 
Psalm 22:25  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 
Psalm 22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 
Psalm 22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 
Psalm 22:28  For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. 
Psalm 22:29  All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 
Psalm 22:30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 
Psalm 22:31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Now, compare Psalm 22:1 to Christ:
Matthew 27:46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Compare Psalm 22:7-8 to Christ:
Matthew 27:41  Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 
Matthew 27:42  He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 
Matthew 27:43  He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 
Compare Psalm 22:14 to Christ:
John 19:33  But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 
John 19:34  But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 
Compare Psalm 22:16 to Christ:
John 20:25  The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he (Thomas) said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
John 20:27  Then saith he (Christ) to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
Compare Psalm 22:18 to Christ:
John 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
 John 19:23  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it.
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that Psalm 22 (written one-thousand years before it happened) is the very story of the death of Christ.

The book of isaiah - written 800 years BC.
Isaiah 7:14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Compare this to the life of Christ:
Matthew 1:18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 
Matthew 1:19  Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. 
Matthew 1:20  But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 
Matthew 1:21  And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. 
Matthew 1:22  Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 
Matthew 1:23  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 
Matthew 1:24  Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 
Matthew 1:25  And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that Isaiah wrote about the birth of Christ some eight-hundred years before it happened.

The book of micah - written 800 years BC.
Micah 5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 
Micah 5:3  Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 
Compare this to the life of Christ:
Matthew 2:1  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 
Matthew 2:2  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that Micah wrote about the life of Christ (as a baby) some eight-hundred years before it happened.  The truth of life also asks us to at least consider the fact that the wise men (many, not three) were the remnant of the lost ten tribes of Israel.

The book of second kings - written 600 years BC.
2 Kings 2:11  And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Compare this to the very words of Christ:
Matthew 11:12  And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. 
Matthew 11:13  For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John (the Baptist). 
Matthew 11:14  And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. 
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that the Second Book of Kings wrote about the past of John the Baptist some six-hundred years before it happened.

The book of jeremiah - written 600 years BC.
Jeremiah 23:5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Compare this to the life of Christ.
Luke 1:31  And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke 1:32  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that Jeremiah wrote about the kingly line of Christ (as God) some six-hundred years before it happened.

The book of zechariah - written 500 years BC.
(This is the God of the Old Testament speaking,)
Zechariah 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon ME whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
(Did you see that word “ME” that God just spoke?)
The piercing and the only son part has already been addressed here.  The first chapter of Matthew covers the lineage of Christ:
Matthew 1:1  The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
(This first chapter of Matthew goes on to detail every generation between Abraham and Christ, going through King David.)
My friend, the truth of life forces us to believe that Zechariah wrote about the lineage (and death) of Christ some five-hundred years before it happened.

The book of malachi - written 400 years BC.
Malachi 4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 
Malachi 4:6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Compare this to the times of Christ:
Luke 1:5  There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 
 Luke 1:7  And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 
Luke 1:9  According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 
Luke 1:11  And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 
Luke 1:12  And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 
Luke 1:13  But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. 
Luke 1:17  And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
The truth of life forces us to believe that Malachi wrote about events that took place during the life of Christ some four-hundred years before they happened.  It is important to note that the words of Malachi quoted here are the closing words of the entire Old Testament.  They are the final words by God before He would come here Himself, and they talked about Elijah, the greatest prophet there ever was:  so great, in fact, that God would use Elijah twice.  The second time would be to announce the coming of God to this world (exactly where the New Testament begins).  God did not need Elijah:  God could have used anyone to do this.  God specifically used Elijah to tie the Old Testament with the New.  Christians need to learn this:  Jews need to re-read this and then learn this.
As an interesting side note, notice what Gabriel said to Mary regarding John the Baptist (or Elijah):
Luke 1:36  And behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age:  and this was the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
John the Baptist and Christ were cousins.  Even through birth, Elijah came before Christ, true to God’s word.
My friend, seven different books of the Old Testament have just been quoted to you regarding details of events during the life of Christ.  These books might only be a few pages apart in the Bible, but they are up to one-thousand years apart to mankind!  We are not talking about God here;  we are talking about events that actually took place on this earth.  All seven of these books are in existence today and science has authenticated their age (as presented here).  We know that Christ, the man, lived:  ancient Jewish records prove this and ancient Roman records prove this.  You already know that the truth of God does not require you to believe in God in order to succeed in this life.  God knows this:  and you know this, but your common sense does require you to believe in the truth of life in order to succeed in this life (as designed by God).  God knows this:  and you know this.  It is for this reason that God foretold all of these truths to us long before they ever happened.  God did not have to do this:  God did not have to waste His time predicting the future, but He did.  God is “all about” common sense and sufficient proof:  His actions over the past six-thousand years demonstrate this.  God would never expect us to believe something by faith alone:  this is how Satan works.  God gives us much advanced notice, knowing that our common sense (our truth, really) will always be able to discover His truth of life.  God has confidence in our ability to discern the truth.  Do you?  Think about that.  Do you have confidence in your own ability to discern (see) the truth?  In this life, mankind has created science:  the pursuit of empirical (verifiable) truth.  But, in this life also, God has created common sense truth:  our ability to recognize the truth of life which extends far beyond these three dimensions (as demonstrated by God Himself through His acts in this world).
Now, this author would never ask you to believe the entire Bible based upon what you just learned from seven books.  That would be neither right nor truthful.  Do know that should you come to examine the Bible for yourself, that there is enough overlap in its truth to sustain the validity of the Bible, but this author is not up to the task of proving the entire Bible to this world.
This author only desires you to obtain that “mustard seed’s” worth of faith regarding the truth of God because this is all that God expects of you in this life.  This author is a scientist; not an expert on the Bible.  However, every person who ever drew a breath is an expert on the truth (including the truth of life).  This book presents the truth of life much like a scientist presents electricity to you:  “We don’t know how this coal burns, but we do know that this plant burns coal at the rate of two-thousand pounds per minute.  Now, you take that electricity and do all you can with it.”
This all, is a truth that God breathed into a creature (called Mankind) some six-thousand years ago.  This all, is an enormous gap (in the evolutionary model) that science just cannot explain.  Oh, science can explain very much in this world:  know that.  But science cannot explain the many gaps found in life.  These gaps are the truth of God that God expects us to discover using the truth of life.  Science has never refuted these truths because the “truth of life” is not found in their realm of purpose (in this life).  If your life is to ever have an existence beyond these three pathetic dimensions, know that science will have no part of finding that truth:  you must find this truth on your own with the abilities you possess.  This is God’s definition of free-will.  Free will is to be used according to the truth of life God has placed in this world.  This is what growth is all about:  just ask any old person if this is not so.
My dearest friend, this section regarding the wisdom of mankind has been about those truths in life that we have always known.  This “truth of life” discussed here is nothing new.  The truth of life has always been here.  We have consciously (or subconsciously) chosen to ignore this truth of life because of our own personal vanities of self-worth.  However, just as the scientist who burns coal to bring electricity into your life (not understanding how it burns), you too use the truth of life every day regarding your rights-and-wrongs.  The scientist has their “rate of consumption” and you have your rate of right-and-wrong.  No person is excused from the truth of life as presented in these four books of Wisdom.  These books have been carefully worded to show this.  The truth is the truth and life is life.  You have a daily part in this life so all truths apply to you whether you believe them or not.  If you are a believer then you have probably read these many Bible quotations before.  Your church leaders certainly understand these truths, but lack the confidence of linking these truths to the ancient days (and the Hebrew ways) when God originally presented them to this world.
If you are an unbeliever then you are still not excused from the truth of life.  You know that anything beyond this life has nothing to do with these three pathetic dimensions.  Science is stuck here, but you are not.  Your waiting for science to prove the existence of God is merely an excuse for your “laziness” in the truth of life.  These words might hurt, but read them again and decide, for yourself, if they are wrong.  These four books of Wisdom have taught you nothing but to observe the many truths that exist in this world and to accept these truths into your life:  on your terms.  If your own terms include just a simple belief in God, somewhere, then you have done exceedingly well.  This simple belief is exactly that “mustard seed” of faith and is all that is asked of any person in this life:  regardless of what any other person teaches you.  Shortly, this book will describe this “mustard seed” and you will be amazed at how exceedingly well you have done.
Now, this author has spent four book’s worth-of-time debunking what Christian and Jewish folks believe.  (Yes, Muslims too; if they believe everything Muhammad taught.)  This author has never faulted these folks for preaching to others, or more correctly, this author has only addressed the vanities they preach, rather than the very simple truths they know they should have preached (the truth of life).  When billions upon billions of people believe in a certain idea, maybe others should listen to them.  Of course the details will change, here and there, because that is the way of mankind; but the basic beliefs are all the same.  EXAMPLE:
In contrast to this painfully obvious truth of life, as neglected by mankind since the foundation of time, consider your “acceptance” of what a handful of people can accomplish through belief and vanity.  (This might hurt you, but it is another critical truth of this world).  There is an advertising firm somewhere in New York City that is paid by a huge company that makes soap detergent, perfume, or another household commodity and these two companies want to make you believe that your life is incomplete without this product.  Never mind what the product is.  The advertising company understands human nature and devotes four or five people toward convincing you of the supposed truth of this product.  The manufacturer of this product assigns four or five people toward the spending of vast amounts of money promoting this supposed truth.  The real truth of your life is that you have done very well before this product existed, but now, you must listen to what ten, or so, people tell you because they know where you live, when you listen, and how to make you pay attention.  It is quite possible that you have always ignored what billions of others have believed, and you have often fallen for what ten people created in their minds (as the truth):  in your mind also, if you care to admit it.  Advertising is not bad; advertising is a part of this world.  Not believing what twenty-billion people finally came to realize (regarding God) is bad.  (Joseph Campbell, you had everything backwards; and your life reflected this).  
No . . . religious folks are not bad people; religious folks only took the obvious truths of this world, tried to explain the unexplainable, and then got caught up in their confusion.  Religious folks have done this world much harm, but even more good.  Does that not make sense?
My friend, religious folks have merely carried the truth of this world forward from its foundation until today.  Yes, they became confused along the way, but who does not get confused in this world?  This author has spent thousands of words making religious folks look ridiculous, but the truth of the matter is that if billions upon billions of religious folks had not carried these truths forward until today, this author, and many others, would be worshipping some silly rock who’s only qualities are that it appeared different from all others (the result of someone advertising that silly rock).  This author has nothing but affection for those religious folks who present the truth of this life to this world.  They may be severely misguided in the details (just as most advertisers and manufacturers are), but throughout history, religious folks have somehow managed to maintain the simple truths of this world.
If you ever spent even a moment considering the truth of what ten (or less) people on television told you about some drug, some diet plan, some get-rich-quick scheme, some exercise program, or any other miracle product you just cannot live without, then you should spend hours considering the truth and common sense of what billions of other people finally settled upon in their lives.  Ten people, and many who follow, constitute a fad.  Billions upon billions of people constitute an enduring truth that you should spend some time investigating.  Nutrasweet, over the course of a few years was proven to be harmful.  God, over the course of six-thousand years, is a truth that endures.
Regardless of the vanities attached by some, the simple truth of God has, indeed, remained constant throughout our existence here.  God bless those religious folks, who after finishing their vanities, still managed to keep the truth of God in their message.  Regarding those ten, or fewer, who promote only their greed:  do continue to work very hard as you move from greed to greed.  Keep your own life in order, as well as you can, knowing that yours is but a young person’s work.  Learn the lessons of your own life as found in Abraham’s life (the first twenty, or so, pages of your Bible).  Remember that the truths, found in your heart, will eventually determine the course of your life.  There is a reason that certain industries are plagued with burn-out.  People often confuse burn-out with greed, but the truth is that burn-out only comes with maturity and the recognition of one’s true values in life.  Learn the lessons of your own life as found in Jacob’s life (the grandson of Abraham).  Jacob worked a great many years for a very  greedy and dishonest person.  Jacob made Laban very wealthy by way of his labors.  Laban became even more greedy and dishonest in order to keep Jacob around.  But Jacob left; to pursue his own life upon his own terms:  and he became one of the greatest people who ever lived, so great that God, Himself, changed Jacob’s name to Israel.
This section of the book is about mankind’s place in life.  We all find our place in this life “someday.”  Know that your sense of right-and-wrong can always win, but know also that different people require different amounts of time to learn this lesson.  This section of the book started with how little we know about our world and what is expected of us in this world.  Well, just a few pages have shown that we do, indeed, know quite a bit about this life, should we merely decide to give it some thought.  Jacob went through all of this while staying true to the values found in his heart.  Jacob became burned out.  Because he stayed true to his heart, he was later named Israel (by God) and became the father to much of this world.  Always give others their due time regarding maturity and recognizing the true values in life.
This section of the book regarding mankind’s place in this life will finish with what we do not know regarding our place in this life.  In a way, this is an erroneous statement because at this late stage in history, we have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight.  Perhaps, a better description of what follows would be:  “things we should have always known” because some truths have stood in our face here in this life since the beginning of time!
This world is a very simple place and operates on some very simple truths.  Consider the atheist:  the atheist says that there is no God in this world.  Maybe they are right.  Now, a stupid atheist says that there is no God period (ever, in the history of mankind).  This person is stupid because quite simply, this person was not there, long ago, to see what truly happened.  A smart atheist will observe, correctly, that there is no God, here in this world, today.  Now, here is a person who took careful thought of their observations, today in this world, and spoke this truth out loud.  Oh, this person spoke the truth:  know that.  Talk to any religious person for a while, present them with five truly tragic stories, give them time to spew-forth their vanities, and then ask them where God was when these tragedies occurred.
Any person who disputes the absolute, unarguable truths of this world has placed blinders over their eyes.  This applies to that stupid atheist and any religious person who spews forth their vanities.  God has never, on a single occasion, through any faith, stated that we are to plod through this life oblivious to any hazards in our way.  God has never, on a single occasion, through any faith, stated that we are to accept His Word into our hearts and then go through this life blindly as if any mistakes we commit will have no effect.  God has never, on a single occasion, through any faith, stated that if we ONLY believe in God, then all is forgiven.  Oh, many will try to dispute this and many will quote this-or-that from their religion, but in doing so, they will have missed the “entire conversation of God” found in their faith.  An atheist, correctly observing the truths of this world, has a better chance in life than a religious zealot who ignores the obvious truths of this world and then lives their life contrary to the simple truths that God has placed here.
There are a great many truths of this world that we do not understand.  It would seem, to this author at least, that there are three major truths that we are expected to find during our lifetime.  Christ was here, in this world, for a little over three years, teaching us:  Christ did not waste His words.  Perhaps, if we are to try to learn some truths of this world, we should look at what God has said to us.  The longest story Christ ever told starts with John 13:31 and runs through the end of John 17.  There is a reason this is His longest story:  these books of Wisdom have touched upon this story many times (more on this later).  The second longest story Christ ever told is the story of the Kingdom of Heaven (our future).  This story is found in Matthew chapters 5 - 7.  This author’s prior book, Wisdom - Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven detailed this story (more on this later).
My dearest friend, there is a story in the Bible that addresses this life equally toward atheists, sinners, and religious folks.  This is the third longest story Christ ever told and it does not matter who you are in this world; this story describes both the life you live and the life you ought to be living.  This one story is the point of all four of these books of Wisdom because the truth is, we all have to muck our way through this life in order to attain our part of what is next in life.  Here-and-now is all that should matter to us:  right here and right now.  This story describes those things that we believe are so important in this life.  The amazing truth of this story is that God never tells us how we should live our lives:  He only tells us what should be important to us and why.  (Words in parentheses are placed by this author for emphasis).
Luke 15:1  Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.  (Christ)
Luke 15:2  And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke 15:3  And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
(speaking to all the Pharisees, or religious folks)
Luke 15:4  What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Luke 15:5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Luke 15:6  And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Luke 15:7  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Luke 15:8  Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
Luke 15:9  And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
Luke 15:10  Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
(Christ is just about to tell us all about that one sinner.)
Luke 15:11  And he said, A certain man had two sons:
Luke 15:12  And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
Luke 15:13  And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke 15:14  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke 15:15  And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke 15:16  And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Luke 15:17  And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Luke 15:18  I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Luke 15:19  And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Luke 15:20  And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luke 15:21  And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke 15:22  But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luke 15:23  And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Luke 15:24  For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke 15:25  Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Luke 15:26  And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
Luke 15:27  And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Luke 15:28  And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
Luke 15:29  And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke 15:30  But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke 15:31  And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Luke 15:32  It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 16:1  And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Luke 16:2  And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Luke 16:3  Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Luke 16:4  I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Luke 16:5  So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
Luke 16:6  And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
Luke 16:7  Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Luke 16:8  And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
(Those who pursue vanities in life truly are wiser than those who pursue righteousness . . . WHILE THEY ARE IN THIS WORLD ONLY!)
Luke 16:9  And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke 16:10  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Luke 16:11  If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luke 16:12  And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
(God is talking about Himself and us.  If we cannot properly tend to the details of this pathetic life here, then what possible place can we have in God’s Kingdom?  While we are in this world, the only thing that should matter is the life we live.  The life we live here will show God everything He needs to know about us.  To put it another way; religious folks are trying to teach you fourth-grade lessons before you ever pass third-grade tests.  While you are in the third-grade, only worry about third-grade things!  Oh, how religion has never taught these last several verses.)
Luke 16:13  No servant 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.
(Mammon is normally considered to be “wealth.”  Mammon is actually anything that God did not create, yet mankind places importance in.  Realize here that God is about to change His conversation and direct it toward those people who just refused to hear and/or believe His words.  This is where the “conversation of God” is important because God is about to tell these vain people the error of their ways.  Some religious folks would have you believe that God is about to tell all of mankind something of their future, but God is about to speak to those very religious folks who fail to see their own vanities in this world.)
Luke 16:14  And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.  (Pharisees were religious folks).
Luke 16:15  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men (going back to the story HE JUST TOLD); but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 16:16  The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Luke 16:17  And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:18  Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
(This single verse has confused so many people.  Know the words to be true; because God Himself spoke these words.  But know this entire message of God for what it describes:  it describes THAT WHICH WE PURSUE IN LIFE.  Mistakes will be made in life:  mistakes are “forgivable” so deal with this and get on with your life.  This entire message is about THAT WHICH WE PURSUE IN LIFE, or in other words, that course we choose in life.  God is not about “bumps in the road.”  God is about that one path we choose for our life.  Deal with your mistakes and read on):
Luke 16:19  There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke 1620  And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21  And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22  And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luke 16:23  And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:24  And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Luke 16:25  But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
(“Thy good things” equals LIFE LONG DECISIONS: not one little mistake).
Luke 16:26  And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Luke 16:27  Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
Luke 16:28  For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luke 16:29  Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luke 16:30  And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luke 16:31  And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
(Imagine that!  A Christian story that concludes with the fact that we should pay attention to EVERYTHING in the Old Testament.)
Luke 17:1  Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
(To the wealthy, this is the lesson that your religion has never taught.  God does not care how rich or poor we are:  “rich or poor” is merely “mammon” or man-made.  God only cares about what is found in our hearts and how we treat other PEOPLE.  Read the next three verses slowly and carefully.  God does not tell you how to live your life:  He only tells you to carefully consider how you live your life.  God is about to explain how it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.)
Luke 17:2  It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke 17:3  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Luke 174  And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Luke 17:5  And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
(The Apostles still did not understand.  So Christ summed everything up into how we treat other people and our vanities that we place before other people.  Christ spoke these words to His beloved.  This part of the conversation is NOT to those whom He was chastising earlier.)
Luke 17:6  And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke 17:7  But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?  (See that word “but”?  It means “this comes first!)
Luke 17:8  And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Luke 17:9  Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
Luke 17:10  So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Think about what Christ just said to His Apostles.  The mustard seed is a very tiny seed which grows to be an enormous plant.  The Apostles spent every waking moment with Christ (God):  they knew more about God than any other people.  Yet, if any of us can have just the smallest amount of faith, then we can command an enormous tree to be plucked up and cast into the sea:  IF . . . IF . . . IF . . . we can treat properly, other people, including those we consider to be lower than ourselves.  Might Christ’s words here explain how we hear of Catholic miracles, Baptist miracles, Mormon miracles, Jewish miracles, and yes, even Muslim miracles?  Maybe, just maybe, these miracles should not be credited to such faiths;  maybe they should be credited to the way a person treats the world around them and to God’s love for that particular person.  A mustard seed’s worth of faith; this is nothing:  anyone can accomplish this!  But the way a person treats the world around them . . . now this is a great thing in the eyes of God:  you just read as much in the words that came from God’s own mouth while He was here.
To religious folks (of any faith), this means you need to take a good, hard look at your life and think about how you treat other people rather than how much you believe in God.  Today’s religion does not want to offend anyone for fear of losing their congregation.  (Christ was not worried about offending folks with the Truth.)  You do not have to like God’s Word found here, but you do have to accept it, so offend yourself and examine your life (rather than your beliefs).  Remember what the words “humble and humility” mean to God and then make these words part of your life.
To those who do not believe in God, think about what this message (from God) means to you.  So little is expected of you regarding your faith.  God expects almost nothing from us regarding our faith:  just a mustard seed.  God is not here, in this world, with us and God knows this!  But God just said quite a bit about your LIFE LONG DECISIONS (or the course you choose in this life).  All you need is a simple acknowledgement that God does exist, that God did create this world, and that there is more to be had than you see in this life.  You can end your beliefs right here (as some faiths do); and spend the rest of your efforts taking a good, hard look at your life and thinking about how you treat other people.  (Sound familiar?)  God’s Wisdom applies to all people no matter what they believe regarding Him.
No matter who you are, this author has told you much regarding those who spew-forth their vanities:  religious folks do this, atheists do this, politicians do this, journalists do this, educators do this, indeed, all people do this.  This author has been formally educated as a scientist:  and that is all.  This author is not qualified to teach any person regarding any religion found on this earth, but this author has studied the various faiths upon this earth enough to realize that God has only spent a few moments teaching us about Himself and an eternity teaching us how to treat others in this world and in our lives.  You can find this simple truth in any faith (including the Gospel, the Qur’an, the Torah, the Buddhist faith, and many other places).  Nobody, but nobody, owns God’s truth.  Forget what any person (including this author) tells you:  rather spend a small amount of your time reading God’s Word found in your faith and spend a lot of time considering the life you live here and how your life fits into the truth of this world.
My friend, read these words spoken by God Himself one more time.  Never mind what others have taught you:  never mind what vanities others spew forth.  You just read the Word of God as spoken before He left this world.  God is no different than you:  in fact, God was you!  (In a different world, elsewhere in this universe).  If you were to be given, but a few fleeting moments to speak to this world before you died, would you want the world to hear your words?  Well, you just heard those very words spoken to this world by God Himself.  If you can possess just that little mustard seed of faith in God, then God has just told you of all that awaits you after this life:  if you can live by that small faith found in yourself.  But do know that something is required of you here:  to love all others as God has loved you.  How simple is this?  God could have said this in so many ways:  but this is all that He said.
Now, think about a few more questions this author will ask you about what you just read in God’s Word.  Was any of this difficult?  Was any of this complicated?  Was any of this mysterious; or did God merely speak His simple truth just as you might to your own children you created here in this life?  Did God say you had to experience some “life-altering moment?”  Even the twelve Apostles never had a “life-altering moment,” as this moment is defined by some today.  The Bible clearly shows that the twelve Apostles were very confused on the teachings and details Christ presented to them.  (Remember that mustard seed:  it is all you will ever need.  And it is oh, so easy.)  Did God say here that you ever need to go to church or follow some religious observances such as the holy trinity (which is a complete lie), getting dunked in water (which has never been understood), or to go out in this world and try to save other people (who are doing just fine already and might possibly be doing better than you yourself)?
God could have said any of this, HAD HE SO CHOSEN TO DO!  He knew the words and He had the time to say all of this . . . but He did not.  In Christ’s three longest teachings, all He really taught us was about who He (and God) is, our future in the Kingdom of Heaven, that mustard seed’s worth of faith we should try to have, and how all He really cares about in this world is the life we choose to live IN THIS WORLD.  Christ could have said that it is absolutely required that we have this mustard seed’s worth of faith to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but Christ did not say this.  That mustard seed is optional, but oh, so magnificent.  Religious folks will tell you the opposite; so go with what God tells you.  These books regarding the “wisdom of life” have come to the cross-road where this life can only be explained by the terms spoken to us by the Giver of Life.  If you cannot believe that all life was created by one God, our Father, who only desires us to believe that He does exist and wants us to live a good and decent life here, then the remainder of this book (your final book of Wisdom) does not apply to you (yet).
Please learn these three longest speeches by Christ while He was here with us.  Learn these three speeches asking yourself a few selfish questions:
Is any of this difficult to understand?
Is any of this difficult to do?
Is any of this wrong according to our common sense?
Remember, it does not matter what you believe.  Nobody has ever “correctly” believed in God.  None of this is new in God’s eyes, but much of this old truth is new in mankind’s eyes.
Will any of this make a huge change in my life?
Will any of this make my life harder?
No, no, no, no, and no:  there is but one answer to all of these questions.  These answers are simple because God is simple.  Religious folks would have you believe that this will make your life harder.  They want you to believe this so you will cling to them (and the vanities they preach).  We are talking about life here and life is simple.  God is simple because God could care less if we ever understand Him.  Think of that person living in one dimension:  a straight line.  This person is totally oblivious to life outside of this line.  We, ourselves, live outside this line in our three dimensions, but we are totally oblivious to any life beyond what we can see or touch (meaning God).  God knows this and this is why God could care less if we ever understand Him.  Oh, but religious folks would have you believe so much more.  Stick with the simple truths of this world as God’s Word explains them and you will do very well in this life, but remember that you do have to consider this truth and know this truth so you do not go through life with blinders over your eyes.
While the truth is so incredibly simple, God has, many times, described mankind using the following words:  “Having eyes, they see not; and having ears, they hear not.”  Oh, how we can pursue silly beliefs that we concoct ourselves when God’s truth is even more simple.
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Here, my friend, is the simple crossroad where these books of Wisdom have brought you to:
The simple truth of God (requiring nearly no effort to believe) which can lead to that little mustard seed’s worth of faith (that is all you are asked to obtain) is all you need to truly live upon a mountain of hope, knowing that the foundation of your hopes is solid.  Build your life upon these very hopes and you CANNOT FAIL.
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These words were typed in bold so you can return to them easily when needed.  You have but one main adversary in this world and you are not your own adversary.  Religious folks cannot explain why Satan was given control over this world because religious folks know nothing about Satan.  God Himself created Satan and gave Satan control over His children (us).  Satan must be addressed in this section (of Man) because Satan is a part of our day-to-day affairs.
As you learn of Satan’s works upon this earth, return to the prior paragraph which was typed in bold.  Satan was not placed here to destroy us:  rather he was placed here to strengthen that which God wants from us (typed in bold).  We truly are expected to learn from our mistakes whether we make the mistakes of infants, children, adolescents, or adults.  That simple truth (typed in bold) is what we are expected to return to:  we are only expected to return to the “simplicity of this life.”  It is the error of all children to make things (life) complicated.  God only desires simplicity and our always returning to simplicity.
Please consider the following to be but a subchapter of mankind because Satan is but a part of this short life we have in this world.  If you can recognize Satan and his works throughout our history, you will always be able to return to the simple truth of your life (typed in bold).

If you were Satan

Before anyone can understand Satan (or defeat Satan), one must know "who and what" Satan is.  The Bible says Lucifer (Satan) was one of the most beautiful creatures God ever created.  But then, Satan considered his own beauty and sought to make himself God.  Satan placed much importance in himself (the beginning of all vanity):  remember this because it is very important.  Satan, it would seem, was given command over one-third of God's angels.  More correctly, one-third of God's angels chose to follow Satan in his rebellion against God.  Now, if Satan can influence one-third of God's angels (all of whom have seen God's face), then what chance do we humans have against Satan?  No chance, my friend, regardless of what any religion teaches you (more on this later).
 
Satan has been given rule over this world:  he has more power here than all other angels.  Satan can appoint rulers, Satan can create nations, and Satan can control your very life in ways you cannot imagine.  (Oh, but you will imagine them shortly).  For the remainder of this letter, please forget everything you have been taught about Satan and you might be able to keep him at arm's length; by way of your faith.
 
Given what we know about Satan, the only thing Satan has in this entire universe is this world (us) and his hatred of God (or more correctly, his desire to be God:  this is important).  Remember this because this tells us everything we need to know regarding Satan's designs upon this (our) earth.
 
Satan wants to be God so the most natural place to find Satan, and his works, is in religion (sorry, but this is true).  Forget your religion for a moment and see what God commands us to do regarding worship.  The first three commandments (from God's Ten Commandments) are the only commandments God gave concerning Himself (and they are quite simple):
1.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2.  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3.  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
This is all God says and it requires very little from us really.  But now, enter religion upon the scene and everything changes.  God never invented religion:  God merely wants us to live decent and simple lives!  (Read the Ten Commandments and see if this is not true.)  Religion was invented by mankind, for the most part.  People devised a manner to meet in certain ways and to be taught about God, but in doing so, they voluntarily placed their future in the hands of those they sought to teach them.  What a perfect environment for someone like Satan.  You do not believe this?  Then answer the following questions.
 
If you were Satan, and God had commanded us to have no other gods, would you not then teach mankind to do exactly the opposite?  You will find Satan's work all through the Old and New Testament.  When God brought the Hebrews out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea to help them escape, the Hebrews promptly forgot this and built a golden calf for worship, while Moses was away.  These are the very people who saw the first-born of all Egyptians killed in a single night and saw the Red Sea parted so they could leave Egypt.  Remember that none of this is the story of God:  it is the story of our vanities and failures.  We are no better than those Hebrews!  Satan is as strong today as he ever was.  When the ten tribes of Israel separated from Jerusalem shortly after Solomon's death, they formed their own nation.  The kings of this new nation were concerned about any loyalties to Jerusalem (and God) so they created false gods (in two golden calves . . . again) and devised the worship of pagan symbols (basically the worship of naked tree trunks).  Yes, the ten tribes of Israel congregated in groves of defoliated tree trunks merely because a few leaders were more concerned about their power (and vanity) than the truth of God in this world:  this is the power (and work) of Satan in this world.  This is the exact opposite of what God commanded and this is how Satan works.
 
If you were Satan, and God commanded mankind to make no graven image, would you not teach mankind to do exactly the opposite?  In Israel's early days, God had them sacrifice animals (perfect, unblemished animals of the highest value).  God carefully told Israel that, regarding the stones (or alters) upon which the animals were placed, absolutely no tool was to be used to shape these alters.  God knows our minds:  once we build or fashion something, it becomes important to us and we place value upon it.  (As in “my alter is better than your alter.”)  God wanted to make sure that no value was placed upon these stones.  It was the sacrifice that was to be important:  our willingness to part with something of value.  Alters were never supposed to be important to us, but of course, Satan caused the opposite to happen (over thousands of years).
 
Now, examine the religions (and churches) of today.  Find the word "graven" in your dictionary.  "Graven" means anything made by human hands:  ANYTHING!
Exodus 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
The first thing you see when you walk into most any Christian church is a large manmade cross, hanging on the wall behind some sort of alter that was fashioned by human hands.  There is a good chance you will also see a station commemorating Moses and the Ten Commandments.  Many faiths, will kneel down before these images and worship before them.  Was any of this commanded by God?  Absolutely not.  Oh, you will hear many excuses as to the purpose of these graven images, but remember that these excuses are merely the result of Satan's efforts over the past few thousand years:  THEY ARE NOT THE RESULTS OF GOD'S SIMPLE COMMANDMENTS!  (There is nothing wrong with a person, or even a church, taking some time to examine the foundations of their belief!  Indeed, this author would argue that this is among the best things that a person, or church, can do in their life.)
 
If you were Satan, would you teach people to bow down and pray to someone other than God?  Well, there are people all over this world who pray to dead people such as Saint this-or-that, to the Virgin Mary, or to some Holy Spirit that God never, but ever, said to pray to.  Your praying to Saint Peter to help you through some pearly gate is about as useless as a Jew praying to Moses:  Jews know better.  Jews have always known better!  Satan has never even attempted to teach the Jews to do this:  this should tell you a lot.  Why?  Because God's second Commandment forbids this.  God wants us to pray to HIM only.
 
If you were Satan, would you not teach mankind to forget the seven Holy Days that God laid out for mankind?  These seven days would outline God's true Plan for this world.  Just imagine how these seven special days would tell us exactly what day God would arrive as someone we called Jesus (The Feast of Tabernacles which comes in the autumn, not at Christmas), the day we would kill Christ (Passover, which fell on a Wednesday evening, not Good Friday), the day Christ would return to this world at the end-time, and the day Heaven will descend down to this world.  (Imagine that:  God giving us a schedule!)  There are Holy Days not yet used by God in His Plan, such as the Feast of Trumpets and the Last Great Day.  No, if you were Satan, you would definitely hide this schedule of God and what better way to accomplish this than by creating your own religious schedule such as Easter, Pentecost, Good Friday, Christmas, and All Saints Day (imagine that . . . a day for dead people!).
 
Think about God for a moment:  He, early on, laid out seven simple days for us to remember.  These seven days were important to Him and were supposed to mean something to us.  God even gave us the exact days of the year these events were to happen.  Now, think about Satan for a moment.  Satan is an angel who understands God's Plan and Satan is very intelligent.  Satan has had six-thousand years to slowly influence us.  Satan knows us in that, once something becomes a tradition for us, it remains for a very long time, becoming more embedded in our tradition as time goes on.  Satan knows that all he has to do is to start something (with but a piece of the real truth).  Satan has a lot of time and Satan knows us very well:  one small thing in this generation and one small thing in that generation.  Remember "opposites" because this is your first clue in identifying Satan.
 
Now, here is your test regarding what you think Satan is capable of in your life, what Satan has accomplished in your life, and if you can identify the works of Satan throughout mankind's history.
 
If you were Satan, and God told mankind to keep holy His Sabbath (the last day of the week) would you move this day to Sunday (the first day of the week)?  Remember that Satan's best work is through opposites.
 
If you were Satan, and God gave mankind seven days to keep holy and to celebrate, would you discard every one of those days (knowing they signify every major event by God in mankind's history  . . . and future) and then create your own holy days such as Good Friday and Easter?  Think about this:  Satan even has power to influence our math.  How can a man (Christ) promise to lie in a tomb for three days and three nights, die on Friday afternoon and rise on Sunday morning?  Do the math, my friend, and realize the immense powers of your traditions and of Satan's influence in our lives!  Satan has truly caused us to believe that 1 + 1 + 1 equals a day-and-a-half!  So, has Satan had an influence upon your church?  Has Satan accomplished anything in your life?
 
If you were Satan, and God gave mankind seven days to keep holy and to celebrate, would you discard every one of those days (knowing they signify every major event by God in mankind's history  . . . and future) and then create your own holy day such as Christmas?  Read your Bible.  Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem because Caesar called for a census.  The census, that year in Israel, took place in the autumn.  This Roman edict required that each person return to their nomes (cities and sites of their family birthplace).  This is why Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem regardless of Mary's pregnancy:  the Roman penalty was severe, including the loss of all possessions, or even freedom.  The Feast of Tabernacles occurs in the autumn.  Is it just happenstance that the Roman census (the time of the taxing/counting of heads) took place in the autumn?  Is it just happenstance that the Feast of Tabernacles lasts for seven days and Hebrews are required to live in tents (any temporary domicile, or tabernacle, such as a manger) for these seven days?  Is it just happenstance that God, Himself, was coming to this earth using a temporary domicile (a human body, or in His terms, a tabernacle)?  Hence, we have God's true meaning, and our common sense realization, of God's Feast of Tabernacles.  Listen to your common sense:  your common sense can always see the truth.  But of course, no Christian religion would ever tie the actual birth date of Christ to some "Hebrew" tradition (that came from God's own Word in the Old Testament) because this might move some peoples' hearts toward the ancient Hebrew ways (such as the Sabbath falling on the last day of the week; or not having graven images present in the place of your worship).   Imagine that:  a Christian church afraid to have its flock return to the Ten Commandments!  (To Christian churches of today, none of this is your fault!  It happened almost two-thousand years ago and is revered today only because it has become "our" tradition.  Remember, it is not your fault!  God only desires mankind to return to His Commandments and His Ways.)  
 
So, has Satan had an influence upon your church over the past two-thousand years?  Has Satan accomplished anything in your life (such as forgetting the Ten Commandments?)  Now, if you are Jewish, has Satan accomplished anything in your life?   Such as forgetting the Feast of Tabernacles where you must live in a tent (or any other temporary domicile) for seven days?
 
If you were Satan and knew you had been given control of this world, would you convince the religions of this world to teach all people that Satan had no power over their lives (as long as they believed this or that)?  If you were Satan, would you not realize that since mankind does not even know you, that it is good for them to believe that you have no part in their life?  
(My friend, you see this very deception every day in your own life and do not even realize it.  Have you ever seen a credit card advertisement on television showing how bad other credit cards are?  But, if you keep their particular credit card, you will be trading others' evils for "their good."  This credit card company knows that we are absolutely incapable of comparing things we do not understand to other things we do not understand.  This is not your fault; just know that you do not understand what's in your wallet.)

If you were Satan, would you take what mankind calls God's Golden Rule and then totally pervert it?  God's Eleventh Commandment is "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."  With Satan's help, we have perverted this into mankind's Golden Rule:  "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  We all know how God loved us:  He created us, allowed us to live our lives with free will, and has only asked us to show this very same love toward all others that He created.  God's love is as solid-as-a-rock (and simple), but Satan has slowly removed God from this rule to where we should only treat others as we believe they should treat us.  Well, this opens up many shades-of-gray.  Never mind that God's love is written in stone; we today, should only treat strangers the same way we expect strangers to treat us.  So how do you expect a stranger to treat you?  This is all you have to do towards them.  Christ never taught us this!  Christ might meet the lowest form of human life (as indeed He did, and so do we) and then show that person great love.  Satan's law never says this:  Satan's law says that we are to only treat that poor destitute stranger the same as they would treat us if we were in their shoes.   Oh, how Satan has influenced our lives:  with and without religion.
 
Satan knows this world better than anyone.  If we do not understand God (and those simple things He expects from us), then how easy is it for Satan, over the course of SIX-THOUSAND YEARS to teach us "his own version of God" and then teach the things that he wants from us, using the name of God?  It is a huge misconception that we believe Satan wants to destroy us.  This is all that religion teaches us and religion has a lot of things backwards.  Your Bible only teaches that Satan merely wants to BE GOD.  Satan can only be God if we believe him to be God.  Satan has never, but ever, tried to destroy mankind.  Satan is as simple as this:  he wants us to do well, according to his terms, while we believe that he (through his lies) is God.  Satan does not want your soul:  Satan only wants to be God.  We are mere pawns to Satan, but he absolutely needs us so he can continue to believe he is the "god of something."  In other words, Satan is all about Satan:  we are the means to his end (and nothing more).  Satan only cares about the "little while:"  and Satan will enjoy his "little while."  Given this, Satan has taught us to only care about the "little while."  Who today, would argue that mankind, truly, only cares about our "little while?"  (Well, this author will!)  God is all about "us" because God is our only Father:  this is the difference between vanity and truth.  To us, here in this world, living this pathetic and short-lived life, the difference between vanity and truth is but a simple decision that has immense consequences.
 
My friend, this author is a horrible historian:  this author knows his abilities and inabilities.  This story of Satan was absolutely the truth, but this author has presented only a fraction of Satan's truth to you.  Go to your library, or somewhere on the internet, and get a book titled, The Tracks of the Devil by Ronald L. Dart.  It is currently purchased at one of his websites.  That website is www.borntowin.net <http://www.borntowin.net> then click "Book Store," click "CEM", click "Printed Literature," click on "booklets," click on "next," and scroll down to "The Tracks of the Devil."  Once there, you will see instructions on how to obtain one copy for free.  You do not need other people to tell you how to live your life, but if you care to learn how Satan has influenced your life and influenced many things you hold so dear, then you will never find a better book than that written by Mr. Dart.  (This author, jpw, has no affiliation with Mr. Dart nor any of Mr. Dart’s websites.  Also, this author can attest to no other publications found at the above website.)
 
Sometimes, just sometimes, it is good for us to let go of some things that stand in our way of this life.  It is always good for us to examine our beliefs and whether they have slowly departed away from God's Word.  Your vanities (and beliefs) are part of what you should understand and then be able to let go of in this life.  There will be two ways to understand this book:  both shall help you immensely.
  
First, by you knowing exactly who Satan is (and was) regarding our life.  You know your vanities:  you absolutely know your vanities.  But Satan started all vanities in this world, long before you were born.  When you come to understand something's beginnings, you can truly see that "something" for what it was, is, and should be.  Every vanity in your life can be better understood if you see how Satan uses it against us in our life:  you can do this knowing nothing about God.  So this author strongly encourages you to put this book down now and read Mr. Dart's book first.
 
Second, by your ability to cast aside traditions, beliefs, vanities, and what you have been taught in your life regarding anything that has to do with God.  Mankind knows little about God:  what we do know is quite often in error; this author has written four books teaching this.  The journey of reading Mr. Dart’s book first will, by far, be the easiest:  you may decide you do not even need this book after you read his.  This book merely presents the truth of God and the truth of mankind:  these, you can find on your own!  Mr. Dart's book will teach you everything you need to know before going out on your own to make those last few adjustments which will make your life right.

LIFE

This final book of Wisdom was about the wisdom of God and the wisdom of mankind.  All of the wisdom of God means nothing and all of the wisdom of mankind means nothing:  if you cannot find a place in your heart to hold this wisdom and if you cannot find a place in your life to live this wisdom.  These four books of Wisdom have only been about you and your life!  This includes the family you create because marriage is the only institution on the face of this earth that God ever blessed.
This author has been very careful to not tell any person how to live their life.  Christ was very careful to not tell any person how to live their life.  Every decision we make in this life must be made by our self and will always reflect the direction in which we intend our life to go.  Every decision we make in life “should” reflect the place we intend to take in the Kingdom of Heaven; or rather, every decision we make in life “will” reflect the place we eventually take in the Kingdom of Heaven:  you must learn the difference.
My friend, there are many reasons these four books have been written in the order they were.  The first book, Wisdom, was written only to get people’s attention:  simple truths about this world, simple truths about life, and simple truths about God.  This author wanted every person to think, “Well, maybe that is right, maybe that is why I get angry, maybe it is my stupid little tongue that always gets me in trouble, or maybe, just maybe, there is a God somewhere.”  The first book wanted you to see this life through your common sense:  common sense always keeps life simple.  The first book wanted you to realize that there is a God somewhere and that you should spend just a few moments toward considering this.  To be honest, most of the stories concerning God in the first book were directed toward those religious folks in order to tear down the ridiculous ideas they had been taught all of their life by various religions.  These religious folks were also being prepared for the truths to come in the following book (their true future with/as God).  Some beliefs must be torn-down before truths are given:  Christ did this Himself to the Jews and He was hated for this.  This author fully expected to be hated by all Christians after the first book.
The second book, Wisdom - Concerning the Kingdom of Heaven, was written not to prove the existence of God:  too many people have tried and failed at this.  Rather, the second book was written in order to open each person’s eyes (widely) as to what awaits each of us:  if we do right in this life.  This author firmly believes that if a person can see and/or imagine some of the details regarding their next billion, or so, years, that the ridiculous vanities of this short lifetime will not be so important.  Yes, buying a house can be important to us, but how important is that house compared to making your own solar system, shaping the oceans and mountains someday with your own hands, creating your own children out of the dirt (yes, science has proved that the mineral content of the human body is equal to that found in dirt), and most important, raising these children to live decent lives while they enjoy everything you made on their planet.  Finally, you would come to the world you made yourself at a time when it was so lost-and-confused (and just before it was about to truly blossom).  Your world would kill you, thereby sending you back to Heaven and you would, for the first time, sit down on the throne of Heaven and become God the Father.  Oh, that house you want today is important for a few years, but how important is it really?  This was the sole purpose of the second book.
The third book, Wisdom - Regarding the Simplicity of this Life, was written for only one reason.  When a person reaches the point in life where their common sense tells them that God does indeed exist, this person is clueless as to what they are to do next.  Typically, they start attending the church services of the religion they were born into.  But this religion tells them they must do this and they cannot do that:  basically, everything that caused them to leave this religion in the first place.  Well, the third book was written to help this very person and to show them that God only expects them to live their life based on the rights-and-wrongs they already possess and by the laws God has long ago written into their hearts.   God designed this life and this world to be very simple.  Anyone who teaches you otherwise is wrong and you should run away from this person (remembering the influence Satan has had in the history of mankind).  Always remember that “mustard seed” Christ spoke about regarding your faith.  Religious people have never understood this mustard seed because over the past two-thousand years, religious leaders, historically, have only sought money, power, and esteem:  by way of their church.  Remember John Calvin:  the supposed founder of today’s very fine Presbyterian church.  John Calvin, once he achieved his power, arrested those who disagreed with him, peeled their skin alive, and laughed while they burned:  screaming in pain.  John Calvin never understood the mustard seed; John Calvin believed that life should be complicated (in his way) and that God’s “mustard seed” did not exist.
My dearest friend, learn now, the truths of these first three books of Wisdom.  When this author was about thirty-years old, God started talking to this author and the first book was begun.  Many pages of the first book were written word-for-word as God spoke them.  Sometimes God would go on-and-on and this author would just listen, doing his best the following morning as he wrote many pages.  This author never wrote those bad things God talked about because it is not our fault we were born into these last days of mankind where we have become so evil (non-caring) that God will soon decide that there is no more good upon this earth; and will end this world as we know it.  To this author, it is very evident that this (today) is a time where each person can only save their self and their loved ones.  Each person can only decide, on their own, how they will treat others because they will find no guidance through government, educational institutions, or sadly, even through modern-day religion:  yes, this includes the Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhists, and the so-forgotten native tribes of this world.
God did not help this author write the third book of Wisdom and that is why this author refused to quote the Bible anywhere in this third book.  The third book, regarding the simplicity of this life was a compilation of everything God told this author during the first two books, but that this author was afraid to write (or did not know how to write).  The third book of Wisdom was written for people of all faiths and for people of no faith because this world has now reached the point where every person needs to save their self and their family, expecting little help from others.  The third book of Wisdom was only about the simple decisions required by us in this life.
My dearest friend, there is but one truth in this life that you must find written in your heart; if not now, then someday.  This one truth, quite simply, is that somehow and somewhere, there is a God in Heaven that made this world (and also made you).  This has been the sole purpose of these four books of Wisdom and this has been the sole purpose of God’s work upon this earth as evidenced by His own words in the very long conversation ending with Luke 17:6.
Luke 17:6  And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Your one truth “is” this mustard seed that God desires you to obtain.  Nothing further is expected and nothing further is required.  No matter what others tell you, this is all that God Himself states.  And He states this so clearly.
The rest of this life . . . is up to you.  Forget what your family has taught you, forget what your religion has taught you, forget what these books of Wisdom have taught you, and finally, forget what you have taught yourself.  It is time for you to take a break from reading this book and to think about two things.  A blank page shall be inserted after this paragraph because there comes a time in every person’s life when they need to ask a very simple question:  “Is there a God somewhere and do I have a place in some sort of everlasting life that God created?”  As you can see, there is much left to this book, but do stop here for a bit, and consider these two questions.  What follows, in this book, can only help you if you do find that mustard seed of faith inside of yourself.  Religious folks have always been right:  they merely got the details wrong.  Religious folks tried to turn that mustard seed into the Sycamore tree:  in doing so, they got everything backwards.  It is not their fault; they had a lot of help in doing this.  (Remember Satan’s work here for the past two-thousand years?)  What follows, shall be the actual truth of God and the actual truth of what religious folks have failed to teach during the past “thousands of years.”  This life, and this book, is only about you so take a few precious moments and think, once again, about yourself and about God (somehow and somewhere, who has given you your beloved freedom in this life).  Truly, this time is about you so take a few precious moments to decide if there is a God (that you will probably never understand) and if your life here means anything (toward the next billion, or so, years).  When you return and continue past the blank page, only those things that God wants you to understand about this life will be discussed.  And you will be amazed at how simple they are and how simple life, here in this world, truly is.
“Is there a God somewhere and do I have a place in some sort of everlasting life that God created?”

Now, we come to life, as it was meant to be lived.  Oh, this life was meant to be so simple and easy to find.  The remainder of this book will be as simple as God intended this life to be.  No further time (in this section) will be spent on convincing any person as to the existence of God because this is an answer that can only be found in each person’s heart.  Rather, the truth of God’s own Word shall be given from this point forward:  and oh, how simple this truth is.
God, throughout history, has said many things through many faiths.  Choose your faith, if you will, but before this, choose the simplicity of what God has tried to teach His children here (through all faiths).  In the Bible, Christ gave three of His longest teachings ever found in the history of mankind.  The third longest teaching (regarding life) was about that mustard seed’s worth of faith that is desired of us here in this world.  It is not even required:  it is only desired!  Christ’s second longest teaching was about the Kingdom of Heaven (found in Matthew chapters 5 - 7) and what awaits us (in life) if we do right in this short one-hundred, or so, years here.  God chooses His words carefully; He always has and He always will.  Christ’s longest teaching, by far, found in John 13 - 17, concerns who exactly God (Christ) is and what simple life is expected of us here.  God has never wasted His words with us.  Using His wisdom, He wants us to first understand that all we need is but a mustard seed’s worth of faith to succeed.  He then wants us to know of His Plan for us and of our place in the Kingdom of Heaven which describes the next billion, or so, years of our life.  Finally, and most importantly, God wants us to know who He is (in our lives) and what “one thing” He expects from us during this life (our one-hundred, or so, years).  Please bear with this author (and with God Himself) and read Christ’s longest message to mankind.  While you read this, realize how little He is asking of us, in this life.  No matter what anyone tells you, you truly can obtain that mustard seed of faith through any religion or through no religion.  No matter what anyone tells you, you truly can obtain your place in the Kingdom of Heaven MERELY by the life you live here in this world.  But, and this is important, you can only succeed in life by learning what follows:  what follows is the most simple explanation of God and the one thing that God expects from us during our time here.  What you are about to read is the story of one who has gone before you, once lived the life you now live (on another planet), made every mistake you have made, and went on to raise His own children (meaning us).  This story starts when Judas, who betrayed Christ, left the supper the night before Christ was killed.  This is the last great teaching that God gave to mankind so maybe we should pay attention to it.  Also, expect this to be as simple as anything else you have found in these four books.  (Words in parentheses are placed by this author for emphasis).
John 13:31  Therefore, when he (Judas) was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John 13:32  If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
John 13:33  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
John 13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
(The one thing that God expects us to do with our life here.)
John 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
(Imagine that:  His greatest Commandment and faith has almost nothing to do with it.  All God cares about is how we treat others in this life.  How simple is that?  Think about what God could have said here.  He could have said, by your faith, by your baptism, by your going to church, by your being saved, by your being born-again, by His name, or any of a hundred other vanities people preach.  But no; God is too simple.  All God said was by our treating other people decently, according to the love He has shown us, shall the entire world know that we are God’s disciples.  Not only does faith have little to do with this, but He gave this lesson with no religion’s name.  According to His words here, a Jew can do as well as a Christian, who can do as well as a Muslim, who can do as well as a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Shinto, a native tribe, or even as well as someone who never believed in God.  If any person, whether they believe in God or not, can follow just this one Commandment, they will be called a disciple of God; God just said so Himself.  And if this person can then find just a MUSTARD SEED’S worth of belief in God?  Well, this person would be guaranteed a place in the Kingdom of God.  God’s Commandments are oh, so simple.  It is only mankind who tries to make things complicated.)
John 13:36  Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
John 13:37  Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
John 13:38  Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
John 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:4  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
John 14:5  Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
John 14:8  Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
John 14:9  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
(Christ, as the Logos of Elohim, was the spokesperson of God.  He was, indeed, the only part of God who EVER spoke to mankind.  This includes every faith and every “peoples” that ever existed in this entire world.)
John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
John 14:11  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
(Can you believe what Christ just said?  It is not required that we understand God, The Father, or that we understand Christ.  If we can merely believe there is a God somewhere because of the things He has done in this world, then this “mustard seed’s” worth of faith is enough!)
John 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
(Christ just went from the smallest amount of faith starting with John 14:1 right into His teaching that WE will do everything that He has done here in this world:  everything!)
John 14:13  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
John 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.
(And finally, Christ just returned from speaking of our future for the next billion, or so, years to that one thing that is required of us in this life:  keeping His simple Commandments.)
John 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
John 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
John 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:22  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
John 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:24  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
John 14:25  These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
John 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:28  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John 14:29  And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
John 14:30  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
(The prince of this world is Satan.)
John 14:31  But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
John 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
John 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
(Religious folks would tell you differently, but all Christ is about to talk about next is that mustard seed’s worth of faith and your life here with all of God’s children.)
John 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 15:7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
(This means; only if we follow His last Commandment (indeed, all eleven of His Commandments).
John 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
John 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
(No matter what you believe through faith, it is only the life you live that matters to God.  The truth of life (indeed the very words of God here) require us to extend this wisdom of God to all peoples and all nations, regardless of the name they place upon their faith.)
John 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John 15:12  This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:14  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John 15:15  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
John 15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
John 15:17  These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:18  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:20  Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21  But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
(God has not been talking about faith or religion here.  God has been talking about those who follow His Commandments in their life.)
John 15:22  If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
John 15:23  He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:24  If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 15:25  But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 15:27  And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
John 16:1  These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
John 16:2  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
(Christ has been talking about the bad things religious people can do . . . in the name of God.  Remember always; religion separates, but faith unites.  Faith is only about God.)
John 16:3  And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 16:4  But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
John 16:5  But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 16:6  But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
John 16:7  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
John 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John 16:9  Of sin, because they believe not on me;
John 16:10  Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
John 16:11  Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
John 16:12  I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
John 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:14  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 16:15  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
(Because of Christ’s work here, He shall become the father and our journey shall become exactly that of Christ’s:  our next billion, or so, years).
John 16:16  A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
John 16:17  Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
John 16:18  They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John 16:19  Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
John 16:20  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:21  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:22  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
John 16:23  And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
John 16:24  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John 16:25  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
John 16:26  At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
John 16:27  For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:28  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 16:29  His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
John 16:30  Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
John 16:31  Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
John 16:32  Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
John 16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 17:1  These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
John 17:2  As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:4  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 17:5  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
(As this author has stated over-and-over in these books, here are Christ’s very own words that He has always been a part of God (or Elohim, meaning plural).  For God to glorify Christ with His own self means that Christ will become the Father.  Christ “graduates” to a higher level because of what He has done here in this world, since the day He made this world with His own hands  Know now, that you will say these same words sometime in the next billion, or so, years.  You will say them on a world you created with your own hands; and on a world you spoke to, as a part of Elohim.  And you will ask God, your Father, for your place upon His throne because of your works upon the world you made.  There is nothing greater, than for a person to lay down their life for those they love.)
John 17:6  I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
John 17:7  Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
John 17:8  For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
(Christ’s “work” here is finished:  the Christ who made this world, made mankind, and then taught us everything we need to know about God and life.  It is time for Christ to go back to Heaven and sit on His throne next to the Father.  His “work” here is finished and the two-thousand year famine, of not hearing His words (see Amos 8:11), is about to start.  With all teachings finished, the remainder of the words here are God’s farewell to this world; for the next two-thousand years.  He has nothing left to give mankind, except his farewell.)
John 17:9  I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
John 17:10  And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
John 17:11  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13  And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John 17:14  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:19  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John 17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24  Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:25  O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John 17:26  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
This was not the story of Christ, rather it is the story of God.  And it is the story of you because, one day, WE WILL ALL BE THE GOD OF OUR OWN CHILDREN ON THE WORLD WE FASHIONED WITH OUR OWN HANDS (if our life here, not our beliefs, warrants that place on our own world).
My friend, God said many things in His longest teaching to us; but everything He wants us to understand regarding life is summed up in one Commandment.  God first tells us that He is preparing a place in the Kingdom for us (someday).  He then tells us that we shall (someday) do everything He has done.  This cannot be stressed enough:
John 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
God also gives one Commandment, that has been reworded so many ways, but only boils down to loving (and respecting) all other people in this life.  The loving is easy, but respect requires you to do something!  Anyone who does not “show” respect in this life is living a lie.
Go back and read these words one more time knowing first that you will one day be Christ, speaking these words to your own children.  Once you realize that you will one day be Christ (God) on your own world that you created, you will truly understand the words God speaks here as you re-read this longest teaching.  It is only what we DO here in this world that matters.  God could have said anything He wanted here, but these are the words He spoke.  Oh, religious folks would have you believe so many things, but in His last and longest teaching, this is all that God said:  that the only thing that really matters in this life is the way we treat other people.  Think about that:  what do we really have in this world?  Ourselves and other people . . . everything else will just fade away.  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust but the spirit of mankind, given by God, lives on.  Oh, what God could have said, but oh, what God did say!
Never mind that God made this world and also made us:  this is not important.  Never mind that God spent two-thousand years here teaching all of His children, through all faiths, about who He is:  this is not important.  Never mind that God came here Himself and died trying to teach us about life in this world:  this is not important.  God gave us Ten common-sense Commandments and wrote these commandments into our genes (our DNA, our minds, or if you prefer, our hearts).  Three of these Commandments involve the basic belief that God exists; the rest involve our living a simple and decent life.  Because we ignored these simple rules, God then summarized life’s entire existence to our finding, somewhere in our heart, the ability to love other people just as He has loved us.  How hard is any of this?  It is not.
My friend, this book is finished.  This author would dearly love to go on for many more thousands of words, but to do so would dilute the wisdom of God, taken from around this world, and presented here.  Never let any person tell you how to live your life.  Never let this author tell you how to live your life.  Your life is nothing but a series of decisions that you make from the day you are born until the day you die.  Make your mistakes:  enjoy some of them, laugh at yourself for making many of them, curse yourself for a few of them, and cry over the worst of them.  But do learn from every decision and every mistake (this is humility); and then adjust your life so as to make mistakes less and less as time goes on (this is honor).  Christ was very casual about Peter’s mistake of denying God three times before the rooster crowed.  No matter what you have ever done, nothing can be as bad as this.  This is life:  make your mistakes, as Peter did, but learn something from them and then DO SOMETHING about what you learn.  Peter did.
Knowing just enough about God to believe that He exists, knowing your possible future for the next billion, or so, years, and developing just a mustard seed’s worth of faith in God; who would have ever thought that God’s three longest speeches would teach us that these three truths are all we need in order to understand the course our life should take in this world.
Ah, the course of our life in this world; this author promised not to tell any person how to live this life.  But this author will teach you of a place to go where you can learn how to live your life (and very little of God shall be found in that place, believe it or not).  The place is Jerusalem while it truly was God’s Jeru-Salem, or City of Peace.  The time was three-thousand years ago; and the man was Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived.  Solomon wrote quite a bit:  much of which is found in the Bible.  But Solomon wrote little about God.  Solomon’s wisdom regarded life (as so he requested and received from God).  The foundation for this story lies in the events which took place about the time of King David’s death and when Solomon had already assumed the throne of Israel.  Solomon was a very young man when this story happened to him.  God so loved David that He would bless David’s son also:
I Kings 3:5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
I Kings 3:6  And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
I Kings 3:7  And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
I Kings 3:8  And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
I Kings 3:9  Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
I Kings 3:10  And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
I Kings 3:11  And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
I Kings 3:12  Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
I Kings 3:13  And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
I Kings 3:14  And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
God swore that Solomon would be wiser than any person who lived before him and any person who would ever come after him.  Maybe, just maybe, we today, should read what Solomon wrote.  Remember, Solomon only asked for wisdom to discern between good and bad in this life.  God replied that Solomon would be given wisdom to understand (this life, as far as judging good and bad):  this should be all that any leader asks for.
Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs and is widely believed to have written the book of Ecclesiastes in his old age.  Generally speaking, the book of Proverbs teaches us how to conduct ourselves in this life without telling how to live our life.  There is no mention of religion in Proverbs, but some mention of the place God might take in a person’s life without telling that person how they should live their life.  It is a book on life and you should read it over and over again for the beautiful wisdom it possesses.
In ancient days, it was believed that Solomon probably wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, which roughly translates into “Gatherer of Sentences” and later became acceptable to translate into “The Preacher.”  Nobody really understands what this word strictly translates into because the exact manner in which the original author applied this word was not a manner in which this Hebrew word was normally used.  The confusion over this word “Ecclesiastes” is fitting for this particular book because Bible scholars are absolutely clueless as to the wisdom found in Ecclesiastes:  they merely call it the difficult and/or dark book.  Today’s Bible scholars are so clueless as to the wisdom found in Ecclesiastes that they now believe that Solomon could not possibly have written it.  So you will have to use your common sense and knowledge regarding vanity for this part of the Bible.  (That is all Solomon wanted you to use regarding his books anyway.)  Whoever wrote Ecclesiastes had wisdom far exceeding any Bible scholar that ever lived.  As far as life goes (day-to-day life), Ecclesiastes is probably the most amazing book in the Bible because Ecclesiastes describes, perfectly, our vanities and how our vanities can be our greatest enemy in this life.  This life is not about God; this life is about us, our vanities, and our decisions regarding these vanities.  The Book of Ecclesiastes is about life and getting through this life on our own.  Many people believe that Solomon was a great person:  God came to Solomon, asked what He could give Solomon, and then gave Solomon many times more than that which Solomon asked for (because, through humility and honor, Solomon asked only for the wisdom necessary to help other people).  Solomon was great; because regardless of what God promised him, he knew that, in the end, he was required to get through this life on his own.  Solomon’s teachings demonstrate this clearly; and Solomon was, quite simply, the wisest person who ever lived.
Solomon is the ultimate lesson regarding life in this world.  He was the richest man of his day, he was the most powerful man of his day (so powerful that not one single nation ever attacked him), and he was the wisest person who ever lived.  What more could a person ask for?  Well, Solomon failed at life.  Solomon was loved by God very much, but quite possibly, might never find his place in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Only in his last days, did Solomon summarize the failures of his life; and he had the wisdom to present his failures . . . to the entire world, through his Book of Ecclesiastes.  In his book, Solomon will tell you how NOT to live your life, but more important, Solomon will tell you WHY.  Only in his last days, did Solomon return to his humility and honor.  Maybe this was enough to save Solomon.  Only time, and the number of people Solomon helped, will tell.
Everything you could ask for, or have asked for:  Solomon had.  Everything you could dream of:  Solomon had.  The word Ecclesiastes (The Preacher) is a perfect word for this book of Solomon because who better . . . could gather the sentences regarding our failures of this life than the one man who failed worse than any other?  Who better . . . could preach about the vanities of this life than the one man who gathered the most?  Do read these two books written by Solomon (Proverbs and Ecclesiastes).  They will not tell you how to live your life and they will teach you nothing of God, but they will teach you much about yourself and; very much so, why you do the things that you do.  Solomon came to understand vanity in such a way that mankind has never learned.  Only a person who did it could teach it in such a manner as Solomon does.  In a way, Solomon wasted his life so that you could learn how to not waste yours.

CHURCH

This author has promised, here and there, throughout the last four books of Wisdom to talk about church (and going to church).  "Church" could not be discussed before this point because every person (and minister) needs to consider the truth of God, the truth of mankind, and the truth of this life before ever considering what little truth there is to be found in a church.  Church is a man-made entity.  God, mankind, and this life are not man-made.  Going to church will not be found in any Word of God, including the Bible, the Qur'an, the Buddhist faith, the Hindu faith, or any other faith that truly possesses the Word of God.  People search all through the Word of God trying to claim that one passage here or there says we are to gather on the first day for this or that reason.  Well, the words are just not there, period.
 
The truth of the matter is . . . that God says nothing through any faith about going to church.  Going to church on Sunday was invented by a religion that was being formed in Rome some three-hundred years after Christ died.  (Remember that Christ had plenty of time to tell us to go to church on Sundays; but He never said it.  The word "Sunday" or "first day" never once came out of Christ's mouth.  Therefore, anything regarding this is just people making things up.)  The man's name was Constantine, who declared Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.  This was one of the major events of Satan in the history of mankind.  This church, forming in Rome, desperately needed to loosen its ties to Jerusalem, exactly as the kings of the northern ten tribes of Israel did shortly after Solomon's death.  Satan will always present much, but not all, of the truth in order to sell his lies (to move us in the opposite direction that God wants).  No, Constantine was not Satan; and no, the Catholic church is not Satan, but long ago, during the foundation of their church, Satan was able to influence both Constantine and this upstart church.  Satan, knowing of our love for tradition, patiently watched his seeds of lies take root and then grow.
 
So, three-hundred years after Christ died, church leaders were in a quandary as to which way they should believe:  Saturday with the Jews (and most Christians of the time) or Sunday with this new Christian upstart in Rome.  (Remember, church leaders were in a quandary:  normal people had no problem following the Commandments of God).  Well, this fellow Constantine settled this for all time and made it a law:  laws are a good way to start a tradition, but they do not always make something right.  Funny how, when you learn how a particular tradition started and why it started, how less important this tradition becomes all of a sudden.  Read for yourself what God says about the Sabbath.
Exodus 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exodus 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Never let any person add to these words of God.  Constantine, and others, added to these words:  they shall answer to God for this, but never will have to answer to us.  Make your own decisions regarding this and use your common sense.  God said we can (or possibly should) work six days each week toward the life we live here, but we are to rest on the last day of the week.  We must rest, our family must rest, those who take orders from us must rest, even the animals we use for work must rest.  Any visitor or guest in your house must rest.  God said one other thing:  to keep this day holy.
 
What does holy mean?  You can look this word up in your dictionary, but you will not discover what it meant over three-thousand years ago when God said it:  so use your common sense.  (Dictionaries always give what a word means in today's world first).  Use your own common sense first, but to this author, "holy" means to keep it pure:  the way it was meant to be.  God is simple and does not want anything in this life to be complicated.  If we are to keep one day holy, we must make it a special day, apart from all of the rest of the week.  This day must not change; so we do no work, period.  None of this disagrees with the ancient Hebrew word "qadash" used in the Bible for "holy."  Qadash basically means to "separate."  Whatever you decide the word "holy" means in your life, JUST DO IT, and do not worry about others (and their lives).
 
Did God say we are to worship Him on this day?  No.  God could have said this, but He did not.  Never let anyone add to what God said (or did not say).  God said to keep this day very special (above all others in the week) and to do no work.  Rest is good and God is telling us how good it is.  How difficult is any of this?  God tells us to rest one day out of seven.  Rest from what?  Well, rest from our work, rest from our vanity, rest from our decisions, our mistakes, and all those adversaries found in our lives, but mostly, rest from Satan because Satan is not holy (pure).  Satan truly has six days per week to influence our lives as we work and chase our vanities:  this is normal and this is part of life.  But God says you only need one day out of seven to rest (totally rest) from your labors and then truly appreciate the beauty of this life you have been given.  The beauty of this life includes your family, your friends, and those treasures (fruits) obtained by way of your labor.  (If you learned anything from Solomon's two books, you learned this.  God, or Christ, never said otherwise.  Nor did God, or Christ, ever call these things "vanities.")
There never has been a person who has not sinned, does not sin, and will not sin.  Christ Himself said this:
Luke 17:1  Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
God wants us to totally rest from life one day per week and He does not even say we have to worship Him:  we only have to rest.  Your eyes have now read this truth and your common sense tells you this is the truth.  If you want to go to church on Sunday, then by all means, go!  God never forbade this.  But do not forget to keep God's Sabbath (rest; totally rest).  Keeping the Sabbath will truly help you in this life.
 
So what is a church?  If God never commanded us to go to church, then what is church?  Obviously, church is optional; obviously, church is man-made.  Church can be good and church can be bad:  only you can make it either!  At this point, your common sense should be telling you that church is something mankind invented, in the hopes of doing good, with each church succeeding in this way or that; and each church failing in this way, or that.  The Hindu religion teaches some to die of starvation while a healthy cow walks by them:  this is obviously wrong.  The Muslim religion teaches some that those who are not of their faith are infidels and must die:  this is obviously wrong.  The Catholic faith taught this author that any non-Catholic would burn in hell forever:  this is obviously wrong and this author has many Baptist friends who were taught the opposite being true.
 
All churches (religions) are right; and all churches (religions) are wrong.  Now, examine churches from a common-sense point-of-view.  How many miracles have you heard about within the Catholic church people?  How many miracles have you heard about regarding the laying on of hands to heal people within the Baptist church people?  How many miracles have you heard about Jehovah's Witnesses regarding healings after they refused this-or-that medical treatment?  How has the Jewish nation of Israel managed to survive so long being surrounded by enemies?  Since the re-birth of Israel after World War II, all that its enemies had to do was to unite and then just walk into Israel, killing every Jew in sight.  Israel can withstand any two of its enemies, but it has never been able to withstand all of them:  Israel just does not possess enough people and bullets to withstand all of its enemies.  Obviously, the hand of God has been with Israel for all of this time.  Given all of Israel's magnificent efforts, there is not one sane person living in Israel who would deny the part God has played in its existence.
 
Regarding miracles . . . people have everything backwards.  Catholics see some statue bleed, a few people being healed, and then credit their Catholic religion.  Catholics see this and say to themselves, "Yes, I belong to the one true faith of God:  God has shown me this."  Baptists see a few people being healed by the laying on of hands and say to themselves, "Yes, I belong to the one true faith of God:  God has shown me this."  Likewise with Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and strange as it seems, people with no religious affiliations at all!
 
Maybe, just maybe, we should never consider a church, or its beliefs, as part of God's miracles.  Maybe we should consider the miracle itself as coming from God (who is the sole source of all miracles) and one person's faith in God, need for God, and past works that cause God to love that person so much that God can do nothing but weep for that person and pour His heart out to that person.  We will never know the reasons for God's miracles in this world, but it is absolutely clear that religious beliefs have nothing to do with miracles.  Our common sense has to tell us this much.  If the Catholic church was right, nothing good would ever happen to Baptists, Hindu, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, or any other religion.  Likewise with every other faith.  God has spread His love around this world to show every person (of any or no faith) that we are all, indeed, His children.  God has never shown favoritism!  Every miracle by God in this world is between God and that person receiving His help.  Church has no part of a miracle because church is manmade:  miracles come from God!  Miracles are given to people!
 
Knowing this to be true, we still must consider the place church plays in our life.  Hopefully, that question has been answered in your own heart by now.  No church, and no religion, has ever saved a single person, since the beginning of time; but God has.  Believe that there is a God somewhere; know what He has waiting for you during the next billion, or so, years; work on that mustard seed's worth of faith here in this world; and live your life loving all other people in this world.  Do this and God will heap His blessings upon you more than you are able to contain.
 
Knowing this, any person choosing a church needs to do so only in hopes of finding a church that will teach them what God has said to us.  A church should teach us about our adversaries in this life; including Satan and how Satan has influenced this world and our religion.  No church should ever, but ever, teach people that Satan has no control over their lives:  this is Satan's greatest deception in this world and churches are the sole proprietors of this great deception.  Now, any church that cannot explain how the last day of the week (God's Sabbath) was moved to the first day of the week should seriously examine the Word of God found in the Bible.  Any church that cannot explain how graven images and graven alters found their way inside that church's four walls should consider a "simple" return to God's Commandments given to mankind.  We are talking about Ten simple Commandments here, my friend!  
 
Church should teach us about our place in the Kingdom of Heaven someday; if, and only if, our life here warrants a place in that Kingdom.  Church should teach us that all people make mistakes and will never cease doing so; all any of us can do is to learn from our own mistakes, never judge others by their mistakes, and to help those others (in our lives) that are trying to recover from their mistakes.
 
So choose your church according to the common sense you have, the Word of God you now call your own (God's teachings; not your personal beliefs!), and leave any church that fails in either of these.  Oh, my friend, church (if you so choose) can be such a powerfully good force in your life if you guard your life and guard God's Word found in your heart (and found in your Bible, Qur'an, Torah, etc.).  Church is a man-made entity.  If your Muslim cleric teaches you to hate (or use violence against) any other person, then leave this cleric and find one that understands the true Word of God.  If your Baptist minister teaches you to learn the Word of God and apply this goodness toward ALL OTHERS in their OWN pursuit of God's Kingdom, then cling to this minister with all of your might.  If your Presbyterian minister ever walks into your church and tells you to leave right now for home, get into your blue jeans, and meet him/her on the other side of town to help disaster victims clean up their mess; then realize that you have found a person who truly knows what it means to love one another as God has loved you.
 
Church was created by mankind, not God.  Church is supposed to be about people:  a simple knowledge of God, a mustard seed's worth of faith, and an entire lifetime of living with your decisions, mistakes, and lessons learned.  No matter what you believe, read what people call the four Gospels found in the New Testament.  You do not even have to believe what you read, if you so choose.  Just read these four short books noticing that God did not come here to teach us much about Himself.  God came here to teach us about life; He came here to teach us about us!  Notice also, that Christ never told us how to live our life:  He left all decisions to us.  Church is supposed to be about people wanting to LIVE THE LIFE GOD ASKS US TO LIVE.  Church is supposed to be about doing something with your life that will make you love your life:  once you learn why you have been given your life.  The reality of today's world is that church is now ONLY about God:  we spend one hour, or so, listening to someone who's last goal is to hurt our feelings.
 
Well, truth hurts and life can be hard.  Solomon taught us that "Open rebuke is better than a deceitful kiss.  The wounds of a friend are still faithful."  (You are about to receive a healthy dose of Solomon's wisdom here.)  God has given you enough truth and wisdom to overcome this life and to deal with the pain of truth.  Church is not about you; church is about people.  Churches have gotten everything backwards over the past two-thousand years (this final third of our existence, where we live during a famine of God's Word spoken of in Amos 8:11).
Amos 8:11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Church has grown into an institution where committees are formed to oversee "doctrine" and their church's adherence to that doctrine.  Never, is one person allowed to stand up in church and scream for their minister to teach them about life, rather than God; because God is simple.
Amos 8:12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and they shall not find it.  (This is God's Word describing the truth of all churches of today).
To all churches today (read that again:  ALL CHURCHES), know that you have failed God and failed to feed His sheep.  You absolutely understand that the words of Amos (spoken almost three-thousand years ago) apply to you today!  Yet you have done NOTHING about this except to pursue your vanities:  your doctrine, your grand buildings, and your oh, so precious collections.  Know that it is not too late for you to change.  Your wisdom comes in what follows to all people (God's sheep).  To all people, when you do ever find a church that teaches this simple truth of God and also teaches you to get out and do something with your life, then you have truly found a precious thing in this world:  the name of this church matters not because the name by which we call God matters not.  A church should guard the "lifes" of its people (yes, that word is spelled correctly:  it means one person at a time).
 
Oh, church can be a wonderful thing in this life if it is done properly!  Your heart will know, your body will know, and your common sense will know when you have found a church that teaches you to build your life around this world, your future, and the Word of God.  This author will never belong to a church or organized religion, but that does not make this author right!  The Catholic church, to a small degree, and this author's Catholic mother, to a large degree, taught this author, long ago, to always help those less fortunate then himself.  This author can never take away, from the Catholic church, those lessons of life that he learned during those two-hours each Sunday in his youth.  But this author cannot take away, from his common sense, the day his Sunday School teacher bragged about the Catholic church being offered two-million dollars for a piece of paper containing Henry VIII's request for a divorce.  The Catholic church decided to hold on to this silly piece of paper while this ten-year old author was advised to "go without" so other starving people would have food.  Children can so easily see through the vanities of adults in this life.  This author has many Baptist friends who tell of similar stories.
 
This author considers his life to be a blessing and a curse:  a curse because this author has lived a life of poverty; to which any of his friends can attest.  But this author is so content with what he does have, that all he desires is to give unto others (as God has given such a charmed life to him).  This author has done more stupid things and has made more mistakes in his life than most any person reading these books, but this author has never failed to see God's blessings in his life and has always tried to help those people he was capable of helping.  This author has but twenty, or so, years remaining in this life and if he spends these remaining years in poverty, then nothing has changed and none of this is bad.
 
Life is good so never let your vanities control your life.  You will always have your vanities, just as this author:  in this, we are all equal!  Guard your life well, putting evil out of your sight.  Appoint leaders who will do this same at the local, regional, and national levels.  It does not matter what party your politicians belong to, if they will follow this first rule of government by God (guarding your vanities).  Know that power and money will corrupt any person; and leaders have both.  When leaders are found to possess this corruption, deal with it swiftly and thoroughly.  Remove all power and money from this corrupt leader and then leave this person alone to make their life right, knowing that we all can fail, given what we have in this life.  Gerald Ford was considered by many to be a worthless president.  But Gerald Ford was a common man, no different than any person reading this book.  What Gerald Ford did was to teach America, and the world, our greatest lesson of modern-day regarding power and corruption of leaders.  Gerald Ford knew what the term "quick and thorough" meant and he did what he did despite our vanities;  despite our hatred (this made him a very good leader).  Concerning life, Gerald Ford did not help Richard Nixon in any form or fashion.  Gerald Ford helped this nation, and perhaps taught this nation its greatest lesson ever regarding vanity (deal with evil and vanity by putting it out of your sight).  What Gerald Ford did was so simple, that it was perfect:  even if Americans did get mad.
 
Learn the history of Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, and Gerald Ford and see what one common person can accomplish in this world.  Then make this lesson your own.  Gerald Ford was the only President of the United States that had no part of being elected to the position:  and he was the perfect person for the job.  Does this tell you anything?  Gerald Ford did not have enough time to be corrupted and he was the perfect person for the job.  So be that worthless person who teaches others through their deeds.  Be that common person who works their own personal miracles knowing what is right and doing what they know.
 
These obscure lessons in life, barely remembered by most and never known by many, are a very good example of how "life" should be taught in churches.  We do not need help learning about God!  These four books have shown that every person on the face of this earth is capable of finding God, should they so choose to do.  But we all need help (or support actually) in dealing with the other ninety-nine percent of our life (the decisions, mistakes, and lessons learned throughout our week).  Christ said our faith in God can truly be but a mustard seed in this life.  This mustard seed is a very good thing, but keep it (and God) in the proper perspective:  no matter what, we must all face life in this world.
 
When told properly, people love history because it shows them that they truly are no worse-off than others.  History teaches us that no matter how big we think our problems are, that there are always others with bigger problems.  Life teaches us that "bad things happening" is normal and there are always ways to deal with this.
 
Christ came here to teach us a little about Himself, more about what awaits us in the Kingdom of God, and mostly about this life.  Christ's last command to His Apostles was to "feed His sheep" and He drove the point home three times:
John 21:15  So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
John 21:16  He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
John 21:17  He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
This is God's most important command to any minister and should be the last fleeting thought that goes through any minister's mind before they fall asleep each night.  So how does one "feed God's sheep?"  One does this exactly by following Christ's examples!  A church should teach but a little about God; leaving that decision to the free-will each person has been given in this life.  A church should teach more about the Kingdom of God that is our future; which truly is the essence of all hope in this life (our next billion, or so, years).  Finally, a church should teach much about this life and our adversaries found in this life; again, allowing each person to make their own decisions as God's free will allows us.
 
So how does one know if their church is feeding God's sheep?  Your spirit will know:  as much as your body knows when it is being fed empty calories, your spirit will know when it is being fed empty religion.  The miracle of God's Design allows "life" to provide that mustard seed's worth of faith that is required someday.  Do not expect "church" to provide that mustard seed for you.  If you freely choose to pursue only your vanities in this life then you will entirely miss God's Design.  If you freely decide that you can only fight this life (because life can only hurt you) then you will entirely miss God's Design.  This is exactly what is meant by the term "free will."  This is exactly the reason God spoke the following words (God spoke these words to His Apostles):
Matthew 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Christ was not speaking about churches, per se.  He was mostly speaking about ordinary people.  This might hurt your feelings, but it is the truth.
 
TO ALL CHURCHES,
take heed of God's Design for this life and make His Design your truth.  Allow God's children their free-will.  Allow God's truth its place in this world regarding the failures of mankind (because of our free-will).  God's gift to mankind truly is free-will so teach mankind accordingly.  God's gift to mankind is not Himself:  His gift is free-will.  Your gift to God's sheep is to teach them about life:  if you do this well, they will indeed, find God by way of their own free-will; and then they will begin to ask YOU about God.  This is the magic of God's truth in this life:  that a life well lived will always lead to God; your gift to God's sheep will help them find the beginning of that path.  If you are a minister of God's sheep, read this last sentence again.
 
Feed God's Sheep.  Every flock contains sheep of every age:  age is not measured in years.  Age is measured according to a person's control (and acceptance) of their free will and vanities.  God never told you to feed only certain sheep.  Every message you preach must apply to every member of God's flock (no matter their age; no matter their control over their free will and vanities).  Every message you preach must address God's entire flock, regardless of their maturity.  Do not speak up or down to God's children.  All people are capable of discerning the truth of this life (using their common sense).  JUST SPEAK THE TRUTH OF GOD REGARDING LIFE ON THIS PLANET EARTH.
 
Feed God's Sheep.  God's message in Revelation regarding the churches of today (in the end-time) is exactly the same as Christ's words to the Jewish faith of His days;  "You have everything backwards!"  In some form or fashion, nearly every church has everything backwards.  Remember always that mustard seed's worth of faith and what great works it can accomplish in people's lives.  People do not need a sycamore tree's worth of faith to accomplish little things in their lives.  Spend your time on those enormous feats that God's children are able to accomplish in their lives.  GOD'S CHILDREN CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING THEY DESIRE:  SO DIRECT THAT FREE WILL TOWARD LIFE, AS FOUND ON THIS PLANET EARTH.
 
These four books of Wisdom have done exactly this (as hopefully, you have noted).  Your task may seem daunting, but all you have to do is to care about God's flock and have faith in God's message to all of mankind.  Always remember (and have faith in God's flock) that a ten-year old child can recognize the truth as quickly as a fifty-year old adult; if it is presented properly, free of all vanity.  Those poor children:  they have such a problem understanding vanity.  Now truth; children have no problem dealing with the truth.  Allow every person to grow according to their own designs and abilities.  Trust in their abilities to learn and trust in your abilities to feed.  Your knowledge of the truth and mankind's ability to understand the truth of free will shall be the foundation of your patience.  For the most part, this is all God ever counts on.  In this, please FEED GOD'S SHEEP.
 
As a final note to all churches, God has never, through any faith, told any church (or minister) to care about Him.  God has only instructed His ministers, priests, prophets, and teachers to care about His children (us).  Only Satan has taught this world to care about God because Satan wants to be God.  Satan could care less about us (and our lives).

THREE TOPICS,
AS PROMISED

My friend, there comes a point in every person’s life where they must ask the question, “Do I believe that God is going to raise me from the dead?”  Some people ask this early in life, some later, and to be sure, some ask this question only when they can see that the end is near; and this is acceptable:  this is acceptable by the very words Christ has spoken to mankind.
Remember always, that the race goes not to the swiftest, but to the more determined.  For the more-determined person has weighed their choices, made their decisions, and has found in the end, that they have fewer mistakes to correct.
Remember also, that those who arrive at their conclusions early, usually arrive in error.  Haste is a vanity and swiftness is a decision guided by our vanity.  The word “conclusion” implies final and correct:  swiftness has no relationship with this word.  Conclusion also implies common sense (logic) and the truth.
This fourth and final book of Wisdom has addressed each of these three topics because these three topics are all you need to succeed in this life.  In fact, you only need do well at two of these three topics just mentioned in order to succeed in this life:  you may choose your two and be comfortable in your journey through life.  There is an old adage amongst hunters that a deer should never see you, hear you, or smell you.  Upon one of these, a deer will become curious, cease moving, and its level of awareness will increase.  Upon the second, a deer will flee every time.  Other than fish, no other creature is hunted more intensely than deer, yet no other wild creature has become more prolific, and has thrived better, than deer.
The point of this entire story is that we, like the deer, need to guard our lives.  Mankind does not use the same senses as the deer for survival.  Mankind needs but a mustard seed’s worth of faith (wisdom) regarding life outside these three dimensions, determination (truth) regarding the difference between vanity and true values, and finally, knowledge (understanding) in that patience will always lead to correct decisions.  Wisdom, truth, and understanding are the three virtues that God (or just Life) has bestowed upon mankind for purposes of survival (and success).  If you have never done anything to guard your life (regarding the three virtues of this life) then you have probably failed at this life.  Any deer failing in two of their three senses of defense, will surely die.  Any person failing to guard their own precious life will lose it also.  They will lose to their vanities, lose to Satan’s ingenious snares, or lose to God’s truth (and judgment):  as required by life.  If these books have taught you nothing else, know that God’s truth (by itself, with no effort on your part) is not enough to save you!  As stated all through these books, you can lose to the truth of God, but still save yourself with the truth of this life (vanities) and the truth of this world (patience):  it is more difficult, but it can be done.  Religion has never taught mankind about the “whole armor of God,” but the Apostle Paul certainly did:  Paul did so by telling people to guard their lives first:
Ephesians 6:1  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 
Ephesians 6:2  Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 
Ephesians 6:3  That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 
Ephesians 6:4  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5  Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 
Ephesians 6:6  Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 
Ephesians 6:7  With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: 
Ephesians 6:8  Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. 
Ephesians 6:9  And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. 
Ephesians 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 
Ephesians 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Using your common sense, did you just read anything that said God will guard your life for you?  Paul just summarized this author’s three topics for all of mankind (of any faith) and Paul called this the “whole armor of God.”  People have never been taught that the life they live (decisions, mistakes, and lessons learned) constitute two-thirds, or more of this armor.  This armor is your defense against the life we have been given.  This armor is your defense against yourself, your vanities, and against Satan.  Religion would have you place God first:  seemingly disregarding everything else.  Please read Paul’s entire conversation here:  take care of your life first keeping your faith in God as that mere “mustard seed.”  The whole armor of God starts with each of us protecting our day-to-day lives properly.  The whole armor of God starts with us (and our life) and finishes with God (after our life is right)!  God’s second chance, found all through the Bible, states the same.
Truth hurts and life can be hard:  these four books of Wisdom are about both.  Mankind (and Satan) has falsely taught how to guard your vanities:  these four books have taught you how to guard your life!  Knowing this, please accept the following truth of mankind’s future (regarding your next billion, or so, years).  The details of this future will be the matter of a later book, or even some other author, but your truth belongs in this book, here and now.
Our world is rapidly nearing its end.  Modern religion can see this, but cannot explain why.  Your common sense can see this, but cannot explain why.  All wisdom begins with God so the truth from the Bible shall be given first.  God gave His truth to all of mankind, but God only gave His timeline to the people of Israel (all thirteen tribes of Israel including North America, South America, Europe, Australia, parts of Asia, and parts of Africa).  Yes, this includes all Muslims, should they decide to accept all truths of God as the prophet Muhammad instructed them to do.  Given this, notice that the timeline of God has been given to the entire planet except for India and the Far East (people who have never sojourned and did not need this timeline:  their faith did not require this).
Abraham’s future (and timeline) has always been tied to Judah (the scepter) and Joseph (Israel’s birthright).  Judah’s scepter will never fail (by God’s very Word), meaning the tribe of Judah (the Jews) and the line of King David (sitting on a throne).  But by the very Word of God, when Joseph fails, so will all of Israel (the vast majority of this world).  Use this clue of God to see His timeline.  Joseph’s birthright was passed to Ephraim and Manassas (England and America).  Add to all of this the line of David (Judah’s scepter), and a kingdom that will not fail until Christ returns, which is found on the throne of England, and you have the timeline of God’s Plan for this world.
The demise of the throne of England has been obvious for some time now.  Recent events, starting in the early 1900’s, clearly show this.
It all started with one king (Edward VIII), in England (1936), who sat upon Jacob’s Pillar Stone (thereby receiving the ancient blessing of God) and, in less than one year, gave up everything (including God) in order to pursue his vanities.  Oh, how his descendants have followed suit.  And oh, how his entire nation was immediately punished for his actions against God.  (Know that there are “signs” everywhere.)  He was the ONLY descendant of David who ever “walked away” from God’s ancient promise!  To pursue his vanities!
The imminent collapse of the throne of David, as evidenced by its moral, religious, and intellectual demise should be a clear indication as to God’s timeline for this earth.  Once the throne of England is gone, there will be no other place (on six continents) for the line of David to continue.
The demise of Ephraim and Manassas (Joseph) is the next clue.  The Bible, and history, always shows that regarding nations, a moral decline always comes first.  Forget religious decline:  while this always precedes moral decline, the moral decline has always been more important.  (Religious decline has always been an indicator of moral decline, but never lose sight that morality is the more important.)  The strength of the thirteen tribes of Israel was always to be found in Ephraim and Manassas (England and America).  While Ephraim would be the greater of the two (a company of nations), Manassas would be the strongest (by itself).  The future of Ephraim would be complex because it was to be a company of nations (England, Australia, Canada, South Africa, et al).  At one time, the sun truly never set on the British Empire.  No matter how you feel, over the past thousand years, England truly was the greater of the two.  The future of Manassas would be found in America (like Joseph, described as the brother who was cast out).  Regarding Ephraim and Manassas, where have you seen, in the past three-thousand years, two great nations that have been so close as England and America?  The greatness of America started with its inception:  a nation basing their core beliefs upon the simple truth of free will in this life and then upon God’s simple truths in this world.  Read the Declaration of Independence yourself:  it begins with the truth of this life and incorporates that “mustard seed” of faith in God.  The Declaration of Independence never even attempts to identify God!  It only attempts to identify that wonderful mustard seed of faith that is required in this life.  And compared to today’s standards, those folks were barely past the stone-age level!  Oh, how simple the truth of life is.
The moral decline of America (Manassas) started after World War II:  with America’s “greatest generation.”  Americans, it would seem, felt that the world owed America “something.”  This author cannot say, but maybe Hitler saw something of this weakness developing in America during those days.  Regardless, the moral decline of America should be painfully obvious to every American today.  Surely the entire world has seen this since somewhere around 1960.
History shows that once the moral fabric of a nation is gone, the financial fabric soon follows.  This too has already occurred in America and England:  only America and England fail to see this.  With morality (the sense of right-and-wrong) gone, America’s financial strength is but a foregone conclusion.  Wise financiers, in foreign markets, have been positioning themselves for this outcome longer than any American can know.  (Not all, but just a few wise ones.)
The military fabric of a nation is always the last to fail.  Barring everything else, any nation can prop-up its military for a short amount of time.  All else failing, the lifelong fear of one’s enemies will carry this military fabric beyond its years:  history has shown this (see the Soviet Union as a modern example).  The entire world can see that America and Britain’s moral power has been in decline since President Kennedy’s day.  The entire world can see that America and Britain’s economic power has been in decline since the creation of OPEC (a few Arab countries that brought England and America to their knees in the seventies).  The Asians, Europeans, and the world took note . . . the day the Arabs made America stand still.  (Our consumption, and our vanities, comprise our Achilles heal.)  The collapse of American and British financial institutions are a foregone conclusion as of this writing (based on national and personal debt).
The military power of America and England is all either has, as of the turn of this new century.  As Hitler possibly saw in his days, the entire world truly sees today.  The boldest of these (today’s terrorists) can see this truth of God in today’s world.  They may be premature in their judgment (as Hitler was) or they may just be sapping England and America of their final strength (as Europe sits idly by; protecting its resources), but the truth of the matter is, that once the financial power of Joseph (England and America) dissipates, this world will see military power for what it is:  the most fragile fiber of the three.
As a side note, only years from now, using 20/20 hindsight, will the world finally understand why the great nations of Europe stood idly by while watching the strength of America and England being sapped of their final resource:  their military might.  In fact, they did not exactly stand “idly by:”  they actually aided (actively and passively) the demise of America and England.  All this; as exactly described in Genesis 37:  the betrayal of Joseph, by his brothers, the sons of Israel.  Yes, America and England (Joseph) has fed (and secured) all the tribes of Israel for one entire generation.  But those days are nearly over, according to prophecy.  The term “tribes of Israel” biblically meaning “all Christian and Jewish” nations.

Every strength of any nation is derived only from its moral fabric:  this is a simple truth of God, His Scripture, and history.  Our life, and this world, revolves around morality.  Shame on every historian for not telling this story loudly, shame on every American for not learning this in school, and shame on every politician who let money and power corrupt them in this truth:  (America and Britain, you could have continued in your ways for a very long time had you just learned God’s lesson of morality taught through every faith).  God has never cared about power, corruption, money, or greed:  we have always been free to pursue that which we wish to pursue.  God has only cared about His children and their knowledge of right-and-wrong (morality) in their lives.  Remember, whatever we choose to pursue, will eventually catch us and take control of our lives:
Revelation 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The patience and faith of the saints is the following Truth of God:  He that pursues wealth (vanity), shall be caught by wealth (vanity).
If you do not believe in the importance of moral fabric, then take your lesson from history.  Every great nation, since the beginning of time, had a beginning.  Historians have always known this, but to sell their books, they decided to emphasize the peak and the decline of these nations in their textbooks:  there is nothing to be learned here.  Historians are only experts on the demise of nations.  At a national level, here is the patience and faith of the saints:  that it does not matter what destroyed a nation:  there is nothing to be learned here.  What does matter is what made that nation great:  whatever it was, when they lost that, they literally destroyed themselves!  Egypt, early on, was a great nation:  its leaders of the highest moral fiber.  Early Egyptian laws governed Egyptian people according to morality; simple rights-and-wrongs, and they became a great nation because of this.  Greece was no different in its beginnings:  indeed the multiple gods of the Greeks were based (truly) upon the rights-and-wrongs found in mankind.  The Roman Empire may be the most powerful and greatest nation there ever was:  due entirely to the strong moral laws that founded that society.  These early laws were of such high moral fiber that most nations’ laws of today can find their roots in early Roman law (yes, this includes the fabled British Common Law).  Did you read that correctly?  It said EARLY ROMAN LAW, not LATER ROMAN LAW!  Maybe America should take note of this.
This author could go on and on listing other great nations of the past, but they all follow this same pattern.  Why were these nations so great?  Why did these nations prosper to such a degree?  History books typically begin with these nations while they were at their peak of greatness.  Every great nation that has prospered (and became great) did so because of their moral fabric.  Is it possible that God made these nations great BECAUSE of their morality?  This author cannot answer that question because this author was not there.  However, you can answer this question in your heart, using your common sense and rights-and-wrongs:  knowing now that all people and all nations are the children of God and have been so since the beginning of time.
Use America as an example.  Fortunately, all Americans have been taught, exhaustively, the history of America.  The greatness of America has its foundations in its morality:  early American law shows this.  The morality of America predates any of its financial or military might by many, many years.  America obtained its greatness solely through its moral fabric.  The industrial might, financial might, and military might of this country find their roots ONLY in the moral might of America’s foundation.  Everything starts with morality and everything ends with morality.  History teaches us this time-and-again.
Over the course of many generations, with each generation being born into further prosperity, Americans have lost sight of their morality.  You can see this in our cities, our families, our schools, our health care industry, our judicial system, our politicians (who are no different than the politicians of Rome’s final days), and yes, you can see this on our nightly news every day you return to what should be “a morally and financially stable home.”  (Well, maybe that is a thing-of-the-past also).  And by the way; Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and some others:  you are included in all of this too.  You too:  are descended from Joseph!  Honestly, this author is an American, so this author writes to all Americans.  But the truths of this book apply to all descendants of Joseph (Ephraim and Manassas).
Is the moral fiber of a nation important?  Does God any longer, in any form or fashion, bless this nation of America?  This author refuses to answer these questions because your common sense (and your knowledge of right-and-wrong) already has.  This author refuses to discuss how it has become “illegal” for a child (in school) to learn the true religious and, especially, moral fabric this nation once had, which led to the financial and military might we now enjoy.
To all decent people of this world, know that the end is near, as evidenced by God’s chosen:  the nation of Israel (meaning all Christians and Jews) in His timeline.  There was once a period of Israel’s history (while Israel was comprised of all thirteen tribes) where God gave Israel His one true form of government that He desires for mankind.  This was the time of Judges.  Not surprising, there is a book of Judges found in your Bible.  (Funny, how everything we need to learn about ourselves has always been here to learn:  in our past).  God wanted each person to live their life based solely on right-and-wrong.  When a person committed a wrong, they were to stand before an elder (someone old enough to be free of youthful vanities and therefore able to judge right-and-wrong, not just someone who is “old enough” to win an election) and in this place, each person was to account for their actions.  These judges were to decide guilt or innocence and the punishment of the guilty was a foregone conclusion according to God’s Law:  pay one time (the damages) for an accident and pay seven times (the damages) for an intentional act.
The period of Judges turned into the most lawless time of Israel’s history.  Try as we may, mankind could not judge itself:  God gave us our chance with the perfect form of government, but we failed.  How better can we live, than to live our lives freely (from any government) only having to pay for our wrongs?  But we failed.  Well, there was one other book of the Bible written during those days that remains one of this author’s favorites.  This is the book of Ruth, or more correctly, this is the book of “you” as it describes life during these final days (and even more so, the days shortly to come).
Read this very short book of Ruth found in your Bible:  see how very little it has to do with God and see how much it has to do with the truth of God found in this life.  The book of Ruth has to do with life during a time when government could not help people, judges refused to execute justice, and morality had gone awry.  (Does this sound like today’s world?  This does not mean our younger generation, rather it applies to this nation’s leadership!)  The book of Ruth has to do with life lived in a nation that was doomed.  Barring the intervention of God, the nation of Israel certainly would have collapsed as evidenced by the book of Judges.  The book of Judges is a sorrowful book because it is about failure:  the failure of mankind to govern itself.  (Hence, the need for Christ (or God) to come and judge this world, Himself, for a thousand years:  soon.  Oh, we had our chance!)  The book of Ruth is the story of a common person (during the time of Judges), living their life right and finding success by way of their morals, their decisions, and their family.  In the book of Ruth, Naomi shows us how to live our life with humility, with but a mustard seed’s worth of faith in God, and with determination of hard work and family (all of this being the proof of true faith and righteousness).
My dearest friend, mankind’s time here, as we know it, is nearly finished in this world.  The religions of this world know this truth, God’s six-thousand year clock for this world shows this truth, and your common sense understands this truth.  Religious folks would have you find God during this time.  This author and these four books of Wisdom would have you find your life; as God so designed it for this short-lived world.  Read the short book of Ruth in your Bible:  it is only a few pages long and you can finish the book in less than ten minutes.  Just remember that this story took place in some of the darkest, and most lawless, days of Israel’s history.  Naomi’s life was turned to absolute ruin (for that time period).  Naomi did not turn to God; indeed this story has nothing to do with God, per se.  Naomi turned to her morals, her sense of right-and-wrong, and Naomi lived.  Read this story and you will not believe who Ruth was.  When you ever leave this world, as you must, think about what you will take with you.  You will take what Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz took.  You will leave behind what Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz left.  You will take nothing else and you will leave nothing else:  this is the majesty of life.
The choice of this life is yours . . . when you leave this world, you can gather all the treasures you amassed in your time here and hope to keep them somehow, you can take only your belief in God and hope it counts for something, or you can take your works in this world, regarding God’s other children, and stand before these works as God judges your life here.  The decision is yours, your mistakes are yours, and the lessons you learned in this life are yours.  If you had to stand on anything regarding your time here, would you rather stand on your treasures, your beliefs, or on the life you lived?  Today’s organized religions (of mankind) teach you two; God’s truth and these four books teach you the other.  As a final note, on Judgment Day, when God calls forth the names of His chosen, the names will come from His book called The Book of Life.  They will not come from The Book of Faith; nor will they come from The Book of Treasures.
Revelation 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 
Revelation 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 
Revelation 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
No, this has never meant everlasting torment.  It means what it says:  the second death (or the true end of one’s life).  God has never been about eternal punishment.  God has never been about eternal hatred.
My friend, consider much, this Book of Life:  and what it takes to have your name written in this Book of Life.  “What it takes” to have your name written in this Book of Life has been the sole purpose of these four books of Wisdom.  This author only desires that you “somehow” get your name written into God’s Book of Life.  (It does not matter what faith you follow or if you indeed follow any faith; you just read this from the Book of Revelations!  The Qur’an teaches this same Truth of God!)  God bless you in your journey through this life.  Only you can decide if the wisdom of God presented in these four books will help you in your life.  Should you so desire, put away everything you have read in these four books because they were written by a man who is as poor and stupid, as Solomon was rich and wise.  But never put aside the Word of God that you can find anywhere upon the face of this earth.  You can find the Word of God most anywhere you search in this world.  You will always find the Word of God written in the rights-and-wrongs so cherished as the values found in your heart.  Set your vanities aside, find what is in your heart, and you will do just fine, by God, in this life; if you do these well.  Your goal here has never been to find God.  Your goal is to get your name written in THE BOOK OF LIFE!
My dearest friend, this book is finished; all wisdom given to this author by God is finished; and your life has just begun.  Every day you wake, your life has just begun.  See to today, never consider yesterday, and leave tomorrow in the hands of God.  If you do this well, you will never have anything to fear from God.
Guard your life well, as does the deer, knowing that you are always vulnerable, but knowing also that your future is always in your own hands.  This is the simplicity of life, this is the simplicity of God’s truth, and this is the simplicity of your future:  you only need to do well at two of these to succeed.

THE CONCLUSION OF WISDOM

My friend, there is one very important truth of God that was never explained fully in these four books.  This truth had to be held until the end because this author has always considered this to be God’s final truth for this world.  Religious folks properly consider this to be God’s amazing-grace truth.  No matter what you believe (or do not believe), learn this final truth of God and consider the beauty found in these words.  As with all truths of God, these particular words carry His greatest promise (to people living today) and His greatest curse (to people living today).  We, today, can read the ancient stories found in the Old Testament with wonderment.  God told mankind that if they did this, then God would do that and He told them in advance!  This happened over-and-over again in the Bible and God always stayed true to His Word.  We, today, read these words and wonder how these people of ancient times could be so stupid.
Well, here is God’s promise (made long ago) to people living right now and He clearly states that it applies to people living right now.  As before, He uses the terms, “If you do this, then I will do that.”  Learn now, this greatest blessing of God along with His greatest curse.  Learn, afterward, why this was (and is) so important to God.
Luke 12:10  And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
Just in case you did not know, the Son of man is Christ:  the only God this world has ever known (or heard speak), for Christ made this world and breathed life into mankind so long ago.  These words are so simple that even a child can understand them.  If we speak against God (Christ), then God (Christ) will forgive us.  This is quite a promise!  But if we speak against God’s Spirit, this shall not be forgiven.  Here we have the only sin ever defined by God, as unforgivable.  Obviously, this is important.
God’s greatest promise . . . followed by God’s greatest curse; and it does not start until Christ leaves this world (Christ said He would send this Spirit to the world after we killed Him).  Clearly, this is God’s message to the final third of mankind (us, here today).  In a small way, it would appear that this promise is more important than God’s Ten Commandments.  Not really, but consider this, God’s third Commandment:
Exodus 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Well, there is a big difference between “not guiltless” and dead (unforgiven).  While this author would never minimize the importance of God’s Commandments, this author will always place the Word of God within the context of God’s desires.
God gave us Eleven Commandments by which to live our lives.  We all know that we are not perfect.  God’s Eleven Commandments are a gift to us; they carry no curse.  They tell us how we should live, they tell us how to recognize our mistakes, and they are the measure by which we correct our lives according to the rights-and-wrongs that we know.  Walk into any church and let your eyes see our failure of this Commandment of God:
Exodus 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Obviously, churches are not perfect either.  The only thing wrong with churches is that they make no effort in trying to do better.  God gave ALL OF US these Commandments so that we would try to do better in this world.  Read any of God’s other Commandments and compare them to life, as you see it, in this world.
Now, use your common sense (wisdom) and return to God’s greatest promise; and God’s greatest curse.  Remember always, God’s messages in the past; “If you do this, I will do that,” and how foolish you considered mankind to be in those days.  Do this, because here you are today with but one promise and one curse by God; the decision is yours.
Just what is this Spirit of God that we are not supposed to speak against?  It is obviously not a part of some make-believe trinity because God has sent seven of these Spirits to the four corners of this earth.  Just as a reminder:
Revelation 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Revelation 3:1  And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Revelation 5:6  And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Use your common sense here as you know God wants you to.  There is nothing mysterious about God:  quite the contrary.  For the first two-thousand years of mankind’s existence, God gave us His laws of right-and-wrong and wrote them into our hearts (or our genes if you prefer).  But mankind chased its vanities despite the rights-and-wrongs they found in their hearts.  During the following two-thousand years, God helped us and taught us through His Word.  This help came by way of His prophets and it came to all people found everywhere in this world.  But mankind killed God’s prophets.
Then God came here Himself as one of us.  While He was here, He taught us how each person should live their life.  He taught us many things about Himself, but never said we must bow down and worship Him.  No, God left that decision to each of us.  God could have come as a dictator, but He did not.  Then we, mankind, killed God.  So here we are today; with six-thousand years of rights-and-wrongs written in our hearts, four-thousand years of God’s wisdom spoken by His prophets, and two-thousand years of having God’s Word written and spoken while He was amongst us.  Never before, has mankind had more information available; and never before has mankind failed more so than any other generation.
God has only INCREASED His love for mankind and mankind has only increased its pursuit of vanities in this world.  Think about this:  after we killed God Himself, what else did He have to give?  He had His love; He called this His Spirit, and He sent it to us in seven different ways (remember, “seven” means “perfect” to God).  Perfect means it applies to every single child of God; no matter what name they call God, no matter what name their faith is called, and no matter what nation they call themselves.  Perfect is perfect:  no faith, or any nation . . . is perfect.
Remember that you are the child of God and that God (Christ) used to be just like you (a long time ago).  Whether you admit it or not, you do understand love.  Think about your own life.  You go here and there, meeting people in all walks of life.  Some, you choose to share your love with; some you do not.  Think about your love in another way now.  Your love is basically there for anyone to accept (and return).  It really does not matter who that person is.  Seemingly, a homeless person could meet a wealthy person:  and the two might find a great bond between them, if they accepted each others’ love.  Oh, we could all think of many ways that one could despise the other, but given respect and honesty by both parties, it is entirely possible that these two could truly establish a lasting bond of friendship (love).
Now, what is the worst way a person can hurt you?  The only way a person can truly hurt you is for three things to happen:  you accept their love, they accept your love, and they later fail you by “rejecting” your love.  God is no different!  While we are indeed the children of God, about the only thing we have in common with God (in this world) is the ability to love.
Some will describe this as forgiveness:  they are right.  Some will describe this as giving:  they are right.  Some will describe this as caring:  they are right.  You know what love is and you need no other person to describe love to you.  Give to God, the same accord you give your own love.  Just know that His love is perfect, as evidenced by His six-thousand year history (proof) of only increasing His love toward us.  You (and this author) have not the patience (or proof) to endure six-thousand years of betrayal and murder:  we are mere children, honing our skills in our youth (regardless of our age).  CHRIST PERFECTED THESE VERY SKILLS HERE (IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND LATER, WHILE HE LIVED AMONGST US) AND THIS EARNED HIM HIS PLACE UPON THE THRONE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  Before He left us, He told us that our path (journey) was the same as His.  Yes, we are honing our skills here today, but we too shall not perfect our skills until we are on a planet that we made with our own hands, amongst children we breathed life into and those children then kill us because of the love (unconditional, or God-like love) that we show toward them.

These words are the conclusion of all wisdom.  These last two paragraphs fully describe God’s Plan for Life, Christ’s place upon the Throne, and our future (and duties) in Heaven.

God described His love (by way of His Spirit) exactly as we are able to understand it.  Please excuse this author’s paraphrase, but God says we can hurt Him (fail Him) in many different ways, including His name.  God spells out eleven of these “many” ways and calls them Commandments.  We can make our mistakes with His Commandments just as we make our mistakes in life:  as long as we someday learn the real truth of this life and the real truth of God.  Yes, God’s Commandments do carry a curse (of keeping ourselves out of His Kingdom), but it is always possible for us to correct these ways.  If we break these Commandments, it is forgivable (if we correct our ways).  It is no accident on God’s part that He excluded Himself (and His part of this life) in His Ten Commandments that He knew we would break.  We are absolutely allowed to fail God in many ways.
However, once you accept God’s love, truly in your heart, you must never reject His love.  This, fittingly, is God’s description of our one unforgivable sin.  This, fittingly, has no part in His eleven Commandments that He knew we would break.  Until we accept His love, He could care less:  seemingly all will be forgiven, no matter your faith, no matter your beliefs, no matter your station-in-life, no matter what country, or government, you call your own.  Remember, no matter how rich you are, God has more; and no matter how poor you are, God has nothing, absolutely nothing, in this world because of the free-will He gave us in this life.  Anything God might have claimed to own in this world was absolutely given away the day He granted us our free-will (and the day He allowed us to kill Him).  
My dearest friend, if you have learned anything in these four books of Wisdom, you should have learned that God is not important in this life.  To be honest, God is important, but He is nothing if you cannot try to make your life right.  The life you live must (absolutely must) come before your belief in God:  God says this over-and-over through every faith found upon this earth.  God also says (through all faiths) that He does not want your love (or for you to accept His love) until you decide the time is right.  We were put on this earth to grow, so allow each person to grow in their own time.  Allow other persons to grow faster than you and allow other persons to grow slower than you.
Regarding the current condition of this world, have you ever wondered why so-called Muslim terrorists are all young?  The truth is that they are definitely terrorists, but they are only so-called Muslims.  No true Muslim would ever destroy another child of God.  One would think that the so-called intellectual nations of this world would have learned this by now.  So, if a nation denies entrance (across its borders) to any certain people under a certain age, who gets hurt?  Nobody gets hurt . . . NOBODY.  But if a nation, once hurt by a few, kills many innocent people (women, children, and true elderly Muslims) the entire world loses.  Know, for a fact, that every nation must defend itself, even if it comes to destroying every man, woman, and child of another nation hell-bent upon its destruction.  God teaches us this much, but this is a final solution, not the first solution:  God teaches us this much also.  God has always taught us to leave other nations alone, segregating ourselves (and our laws) from outside influence.  This allows each people, or nation, to stand upon its morals:  this has always been God’s first solution.  Read these words again because God’s first solution should be so important to us.
Study your Gospel, your Torah, or your Qur’an and see if this is not true.  Ask any Jew, Hindu, or Buddhist if this is not true.  Why do you think true Muslims desire all foreigners out of their nations?  True Muslims are good people; true Muslims understand God’s first solution (that helps protect their moral fiber that they hold so dear).  Never, but ever, allow young people of this world to dictate your national policy.  Allow all young people to become old by way of your laws and the enforcing of laws.  War must only come after such allowances have failed.  We are all children of God and we are all at different stages of discovering this fact.  Also, we all have different ways of protecting our national morals.  Never fault another nation for wanting to be left alone.  Never fault another nation for those who exit its borders:  rather fault yourself for those who enter your borders!  God has never taught mankind to just sit back and allow bad things to happen:  God has only taught mankind to do something about bad things happening!  It is oh, so simple, for a nation to protect itself from others in this ever-shrinking world.  It is oh, so simple, for any faith to recognize the Word of God found in every other corner of this world:  all one has to do is to examine the decency found in the elders of these other lands.
Trust in God and His seven Spirits sent throughout this world; and never judge another people by way of its youth.  Which is worse?  A young evangelical Christian, or a young Muslim terrorist?  This author dare not answer because one can hurt but a few while the other can hurt many who already live according to the love taught by God’s seven Spirits.  Then again:  one can cause the destruction of their nation, while the other can lead just a few astray of God’s real Truth.
This is the conclusion of God’s wisdom in this world.  This author cannot state it more bluntly because of God’s determination that there will, indeed, be free will among mankind.  Any person who cannot see the wisdom of God’s truth in this world has just not grown to the point where they are capable of this.  If you need to, discard every word this author has written, but read the Word of God found in your faith (or in your common sense) and find the truth of God’s wisdom in this world.  God’s Word, and your common sense, will never lead you astray:  given enough time for you to grow into His wisdom.
If you do see the wisdom of God’s truth in these four books of Wisdom, then consider your place, someday, in the Kingdom of Heaven:  and consider the words God spoke Himself while He was here:
Matthew 13:52  Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Many new and old things have been presented to you in these four books of Wisdom, but if you think about it, nothing new and nothing old has been presented.  Only the simple truth of God has been presented to you.  Nothing that agrees with the Word of God is new or old.  God is the author of all life and God is neither new nor old because there is no time in Heaven.  This is something we cannot comprehend in these three dimensions:  any scientist can explain the concept of time to you, but only God can explain life.
This author’s first book sought to teach you about the truths you find in this world.  This author’s second book sought to teach you about God’s Kingdom that awaits you.  This author’s third book sought to teach you about the simple life that is required to obtain the Kingdom of God.  This author’s fourth book sought to teach you those truths that would bridge the gap between God and mankind (you).  That gap is this very life we now live:  it does not matter what time we live in.  Life is no different for a person living four-thousand years ago (Abraham’s day) than it is for a person living one year ago (your day).  God has seen to this:  so each of us must tend to our own life.
Do you remember the Kingdom of England?  Many people live in England, but not all have a part in the Kingdom of England.  Likewise, Heaven is not the same as the Kingdom of Heaven.  At the end of this world, as we know it, Heaven shall be brought down to Earth.  The Earth will truly become a part of Heaven, but not all people will have a part of the Kingdom of Heaven.  The day you take your place in Heaven will be the day your next billion, or so, years begin.  The day you take your place in Heaven will be the day you start working on your place in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Oh, these hundred, or so, years here are so insignificant compared to what awaits us in life.  Work toward that day now with the life you have been given.  Give all others their free will, here in this selfish little world, so that you may one day give billions of your children their free will.  The day you succeed in the life you are given in Heaven will be the day you receive your place in the Kingdom of Heaven.  This world is but a sample of true life as God has so designed.
These four books of Wisdom are finished.  Beyond these books, this pathetic author knows not what awaits him in life.  Hopefully, as you should, this author will live his life according to the Will of God.  Oh, this author will continue to fail, here-and-there as he always has, but this author will never stop trying.
God bless you and God bless the family you create in this world regarding the efforts your family puts forth.  If you ever become lost in this world, know that the truth of this world will always be found in the Word of God, no matter what faith, if any, you call your own.  Hopefully, as applies to this author also, you will one day present the truth of God to your children (billions of children) upon the world you created with your own hands and your own heart.  God bless you in this journey of life, my friend.

Wisdom

Religion separates, religion builds walls, and religion is only about people:  these words involving vanities and lies.  Satan created the first religion there ever was:  that being, “The religion of ME.”

Faith unites!  Faith unites all peoples and all causes.  Faith unites people with life; and unites life with God (no matter the name anyone calls Him).  Faith only involves the truth:  this being the simplicity of faith.

All this . . . because faith is only about God.

Truth

On Judgment Day, when God calls forth the names of His chosen, those names will come from His book called the Book of Life.  

God’s chosen will not come from the Book of Faith; nor will they come from the Book of Treasures.

Understanding

Respect your life; indeed, respect all of life because it is only through life that we find what we seek.  This is the wisdom of God and the patience of the saints.  Or, is it the wisdom of the saints and the patience of God?  They are one-in-the-same, my friend:  because more so than being our God, God is our Father.  Each of us is His child who will one day grow into being God:  if, and only if, our life here warrants that growth.

This is the beginning and end of all wisdom because truth only belongs to God.  Understanding begins and ends with God, but has been made available to every person living upon this earth.  Wisdom is obtained only by those who actively seek it:  they shall find it only through truth and understanding.  Learn this Plan of God and you will find that a life, well-lived, will always lead to God.