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A Bird's Eye View of a Galaxy Collision 

What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. This is  large spiral galaxy, with its nucleus still intact, apparently peering at the smaller passing galaxy (nearly out of the field of view at lower right), while a bright blue beak and bright whitish-blue top feathers show the distinct path taken during the smaller galaxy's journey. These galaxies did not merely interact gravitationally as they passed one another, they actually collided. 

The Bird's Head galaxy, as it is called, is actually feeding off the elemental sustenance that resulted from the collision of one galaxy with another galaxy, and in so doing, new stars were reproduced each having its own gravitational sphere of influence.  The depicted bright blue beak and feathery areas are where the hottest new births took place.  In the law of returns, perhaps one of the morals is in the old adage, "You are what you eat". Let's continue to explore this saying, and draw from it another great mystery of life out of death. 

You are what you eat.

Truly, Truly,  of Absolute TRUTH, I Say unto you, unless you Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man/Adam, and Drink His Blood, you have No LIFE in you.

Man does not live by (earthly) bread only, but by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of Yahweh God does man live. (See Deuteronomy 8 verse 1 thru 4, and Matthew 4 verse 3 thru 4.) 

But, -- has our Holy Yahweh God changed His mind, and the Power of His Word become as the grass of the field?  Of course not! 

For I AM the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3 verse 6.) And the voice said, Cry. And he said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof (flesh) is as the flower of the field: The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it: Surely the people is grass (flesh). The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God shall stand forever. (Isaiah 40 verse 6 thru 8.)

Yes, it is we that are the perishing grass of the field that are swayed with the divisive winds of intellectual leaven that ferments out of the mouth of the prince of death.  From the Garden to the present, it is the demonic serpent and the destroyer of faith and souls, subtlety repeating the challenging and mocking question:
       "Did the Lord God really say -------?" 
So the flesh of man is swayed back and forth by every wind of doctrine. Even Balaam understood the absolute righteousness of Yahweh God, for he prophesies:

Yahweh God is not a man that He should lie; neither the Son of Man that He should repent: Has He (Yahweh God) said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and He has blessed and I cannot reverse it. (Numbers 23 verse 19 thru 20.)

The Holy Righteousness of the Eternal Yahweh God Almighty is not moved by the vacillating grass of the field.  Please take notice of the distinctions in the green linked word for "Man", for in Hebrew it is "Adam".

Christ Jesus is the Genetic Son of Adam/Man through Adam's wife named Ishshah, which means Woman.
For Jesus/Yeshua was God's Perfect Lamb, slain even before the foundation of the world.

(See 1st Peter 1 verse 19 thru 20 and 1st Corinthians 2 verse 5 thru 8.)

But, how is it that the wild grass that withers and fades away, has by man's edict and institutional dogma, annulled the Lord's Holy WORD of LIFE that Yahweh God provides to the believers IN the  Body of Christ Jesus?  The vital spiritual weapons of our warfare, are found IN  the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and should be integral through out the One Body of Jesus Christ, to the pulling down of the strongholds of sin and death, but Man's unbelief has rendered our mighty weapons IN Yahweh God to be inert for so many.   Within all of the church assemblies, we each love to have it our own way, and our way is the way of the flesh. And now Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace, witnessing the TRUTH of the WORD'S of His only Begotten Son Christ Jesus, are quenched, for the called prophets have wilted back into their seats of comfort, and the crier for repentance, is silenced.  Contrary to the WORD of Yahweh GOD, the exclusive doctrines and traditions of men, have created stumbling blocks of iniquity that have diffused the power of the peoples' faith in the WORD of our GOD.  Again, without the leading of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit with His Living Sword of TRUTH, then Faith in the WORD of GOD is darkened by the doctrines of disobedient men, who are taught by unbelieving pulpit teachers. 

Sin with its death never repents, but remains stubbornly affixed in the shadows of demonic deception, for willful sin hides itself from the healing Light and scalpel of the TRUTH of the WORD of Yahweh God Almighty.  The Lord Christ Jesus is the Chief Physician of our souls, and He alone provides the antidote for our acknowledged sin through His LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's New Covenant.  Unbelief walks in its own path that is the  way of death; unless perchance the unbelieving fool stumbles over their own self corruption and into the speculative wonder of the why of it all!  None of us humans are immune to sin's distorted and vain philosophies that can exist in any church.  Sin's very nature of death separates the people of God into separatist institutions, and into religious sects of exclusive cultural doctrines that dictates, "Its my way or hit the highway."

You don't have to think about it for very long, for no doubt Satan from the beginning, is the malignant originator of the methodology of divide and conquer.  It is painfully evident, that we are not all of one mind and saying the same essential things that pertain to the one Perfect Faith in the Eternal Holy Yahweh God of creation.  Yahweh God IN His Holy WORD of TRUTH,  has given His Promised Gift of LIFE through His Spirit of Grace  to the believers IN the Body Jesus Christ.

Do You not  know that You are already dead because your sin is death!

Think on this remarkable TRUTH for it IS the WORD OF GOD.  From the beginning of your life, Sin has already killed you, and now you exist in a body of death caused by sin.  But the Good News is, if you are people of Faith IN Christ, then you are new born into the Body of Christ Jesus and are mortifying the dictates of sin in the your flesh.  Remember that when we eat of the Bread of LIFE, we are to remember that He died for our sinful nature of flesh that innately gives birth to death.  If by Faith we are dead in the Body of Christ Jesus, then we are to liken ourselves as being dead to sin, but alive in the risen Living Body of Christ. As obedient servants IN the Body of Christ Jesus, sin is to no longer have dominion over faithful believers.

However, in our sinful nature of natural flesh, death will seek its own way, but when we Drink in Faith of the LIFE giving Blood of the Jesus Christ, then the Power of Yahweh's Spirit of LIFE in His Son Yeshua overcomes our propensity to continue in sin's death,  All who would hold to the TRUTH that is Jesus Christ, would become more than conquerors IN the risen Body of  the Lord Christ Jesus.  Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace is given to His Ecclesia through His only begotten Son, Yeshua haMashiach, Who seeks too develop within our souls, a greater love and obedience to His Father Yahweh God Almighty.  

Adam's insurrection to His Maker brought sin and death into the world, and Yahweh God's Holiness can only be satisfied by the death of an innocence  Son of  Man.  Therefore   Yeshua Emanuel, the Son of Adam  gave Himself as an offering to Yahweh God for the sin and death caused by the first Man Adam. Thus Christ revealed that He had conquered man kind's sin for He bodily rose from sin's death, in the Power of the LIFE of His Holy Father Yahweh God. The Savior of Man kind, is Jesus Christ for He  is the Only WAY, the Only TRUTH and the Only LIFE of men, Who can lead His Body of believers into the Presence of His Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty.  Jesus/Yeshua is our only Mediator and our High Priest Who brings believer's through the veil of His Body into His Father's Throne Room of Grace. (See Luke 24 verse 49.)

The writings are not clear about the unsullied belief of the latter two, but Paul says that only Luke is with him. Paul continues in his writing to Timothy advising him of his first trial, that

However, being justified in their religious eyes, the Roman and Orthodox Catholic Churches, through the inherited Roman traditions of human idolatry, are tap dancing around several all important issues of Salvation, and remain disobedient, without true repentance for their vain idolatrous traditions of the flesh.  In elevated pride these sanctimonious churches remain defiant to the TRUTH that IS the Personage of the WORD of GOD, and now their un-repented rebellious sin has led them to more iniquity that festers in the flesh of their idolatrous followers.

You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourselves any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that which is in the earth beneath or in the waters of the earth. (See Deuteronomy 5 verse 1 thru 9 and Exodus 20, verse 3 thru 4.)

Meanwhile the multi-fractionated Protestants attend their own individual dances, to the tunes of Calvin, for they are continually waltzing around predestination, and end their jig with an out of step once saved always saved (OSAS). Oops, sorry, but the fractionated (OSAS), have stepped on their own holy toes.  Don't you know that according to the OSAS's doctrine that their one time confession is good forever, inspite of gross sin?  Witness how Paul speaks of his fellow worker, the man Demas as pertaining to his saving faith. (See Colossians 4 verse 14.)  No doubt, Demas was once saved, but Paul declares in his second letter to Timothy of his disappointment in Demas and perhaps others:

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

no one stood with me (Paul), but all men abandoned me (Paul): I pray to God that He does not lay it to their charge. (See 2nd Timothy 4 verse 10-11 and verse 16.) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1st John 2 verse 15.) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them to not have known The WAY of Righteousness that after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered unto them. (2nd Peter 2 verse 20 thru 22.) 

I don't have the means to speculate as to the end reward of Demas, but I would be pleased to hear from any of the spokes persons of the Once Saved Always Saved dictum.  Then again is there anyone who will provide sound Scriptural Doctrine that would substantiate their claims, and refute those in all of these writings. But, consider before hand, you that were once save,  that your own sin will find you out, and then what do you do with your own revealed rebellion.  The apostle Paul doesn't quibble about the power of the Law of Sin and Death, for he confirms the WORD of GOD as TRUTH Who reveals death by sin:

Then do we make void the Law through Faith? [Yahweh] God forbid! Yea, we establish the Law. (See Romans  3 verse 29 thru 31.)

If you are dead in your sin because of the Condemnation of the Good, Holy and Just Ten Commandments of Yahweh God, then in your ignorance of the Law of Sin and Death, how will you find Yahweh God's New Covenant LIFE IN Christ Jesus, the TRUTH?

With their doctrinal position of the OSAS, the now dysfunctional administers of the multi-fractionated protestant churches, see no need for receiving Yahweh God's renewing Communion New Covenant Grace IN the LIFE Giving Blood of Christ Jesus.   Out of their pompous idolatry, the one and done theology of the OSAS, have dismissed the need for Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace, for God's Spirit of TRUTH renews the core of God's saving Faith to those who live IN The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE of God's Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. 

So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew you out of My Mouth.

Perhaps the disputer was once IN the Body of Christ, but now what dried up pond are you floundering about, (See Revelation 3 verse 15 thru 20.)

We all should be thankful for Holy Yahweh God's Mercy IN His Messiah Yeshua, but His Mercy is directed toward the faithful that fear the Almighty Yahweh God and keep His Covenant WORD.  The called are to remember to honor His Commandments through His Spirit of Grace within His Only Begotten Son. Jesus the Messiah of Holy Yahweh God Almighty (See Psalm 103 verse 11 and 17 thru 18.) 

It is better to Trust IN the Lord, than to put confidence in man.  (See Psalm 117 verse 8 thru 9.)

Let Godly Wisdom Prevail, There is no life in mankind, accept IN the LIFE of Christ Jesus.

The apostle Paul, in his 1st epistle to the Corinthian church, chapter 10, encapsulates Israel's struggles in the wilderness, where many were destroyed because of their lustful desires to participate in their evil choices. (Read 1st Corinthians 10 verse 1 thru 10.)

Now all these things happened to many of Israel for our example, for they are written for our admonitions, upon whom the ends of the world are come.  Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.

We are not of them that draw back into perdition. but of them that believe in the saving of the soul. For Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Wherefore, we fully believe in the unseen TRUTH of the WORD of GOD.  Now, our fellowship with Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty is to be as joint members IN the One Body of Christ, through Yahweh God's unseen Holy Spirit of Grace.  In our times of trouble, Almighty Yahweh God does not make 'a' way of escape, as in an enigmatic way of escape, but His WORD makes it clear in His New Covenant that the only WAY of escape is through the LIFE giving Blood of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, for Yeshua died for our sins of death.  Christ Jesus says emphatically:

"I AM The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE of men. No one comes to the Father except by ME."

The Cup of Blessing, which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Jesus Christ?
The Bread, which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Jesus Christ?

The Communion Blood of Jesus Christ is eternally efficacious, for His Holy Spirit of Grace provides the only WAY of escape from our sinful earthly entanglements. (Read with understanding 1st Corinthians 10 verse 13 thru 16.)

Yahweh God's unseen Grace is in the LIFE Blood of Christ Jesus that was poured out of the Body of Christ fin reperation for the sins of mankind. 

My WORD shall not return to Me void, but (HE) shall accomplish that which I please. (See Isaiah 55 verse 10 thru 11.) 

By their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that says unto Me. Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: But those that do the Will of My Father, Who is in Heaven.  Many will say to Me in that day: Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in Thy Name.  And the Lord will declare unto them: Get away from Me, you who practice iniquity, for I never knew you! (See Matthew 7 verse 15 thru 23.

Yashua haMashiach is Holiness Personified and in His Holiness it would be impossible for Him to intimidatly know of  the iniquitous dead.

You are the salt of the earth: But if the salt has lost his savor, how shall it be salted again? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.  (Matthew 5 verse13.)

To the lukewarm pew sitters, the Lord of Salvation Declares:

I will vomit you out of My Mouth.

Those that continue in their sinful ways while proclaiming that they are saved, produce an extremely disgusting taste in the Mouth of the TRUTH of Holy God Almighty.  Those that think they are blessed of God because of their riches, are blinded by their possessions that are piled up behind the door of the world.  The Comforter that is One IN the TRUTH of Yahweh God, further Declares:

Those that I love, I rebuke and chasten.  Therefore be zealous and repent: For Behold I stand at the door (of your heart) and knock: If any man hear My Voice and open the door (of his heart), (then) I will come in to him and will Sup with him and he with Me. To him that overcomes (the deceit of sin, I will grant to sit in My Throne, even as I also overcame and I AM sat down with MY Father IN His Throne.

If you have ears to hear, then hear what the Spirit of Christ is saying. (See Revelation 3 verse 15 thru 22.)

There are so many false prophets that lead their sitting people astray with their own misleading vanity.  Those that eat of the pulpit prophet's pernicious delights will all fall into their same ditch of vanity.  These fleshly prophets pick and choose their own scriptures to satisfy their own itching ears.  Then in their pride, they boast of their own wisdom to those who have like itching ears, and call for justifying shouts of amen and alleluias.  Therefore, the directives of all the Scripture's 'there-fore's'  that proceeded the preacher's singled out clause of exclusivity, are never brought to the attention of the people of the pews. 

The disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord.  It is enough for the disciple that he be like his Master, and the servant like his Lord. Therefore, whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven. But whosoever will deny Me (and MY Words) before men, him will I also deny before My Father, Who is IN Heaven. (See Matthew 10 verse 24 thru 33.)

What is the extent of our denial? Have you not heard of the quasi idiom; "Actions speak louder than words"? For what does it profit a man if he boast of his faith and has no works to prove his faith. Can faith save him? 

Faith without works is dead,  for it is alone, (wallowing in it's self).  Yes a man may say, he  has faith, but I have works: Show me your faith without the evidence of works, and I will show you my faith, by the evidence of my works. (See James 2 verse 17 thru 23.) But do you not know O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

You are (to be) the Light of the world.  A city set on a hill cannot be hid.  Neither do men light a candle and put it under a basket, but put it on a candlestick and it gives light to all that are in the house.  So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. (Matthew 5 verse14 thru 16.)

The truth of the matter resonates in our vacillating vanity, for 'words are cheap', and the all-knowing Eternal Holy Yahweh God is not mocked with empty words of human flesh. (See Galatians 6 verse 6 thru 8.)  However, the Covenant WORD of the Lord Yeshua/Jesus Christ is followed with His Covenant Work on the cross of Calvary: For His Selfless action speak clearly that His Word is TRUTH.  The sinless Christ died once for our sin and death, so that we would be free from our self-idolatry that speaks only for itself.  The Eternal Yahweh God is not mocked with our vanity, for He knows all things in His creation that began with His creation of the fabric of time.  The freewill actions of our flesh speaks loudly in the Sight of the Almighty Yahweh God, for they either deny or confirm the TRUTH of the Salvation Word of Almighty Yahweh God.  Yahweh God knows the weakness of our flesh, and His New Covenant is IN the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ  that provides the Only Way for our escape from the entanglements of the sin that so easily entraps the unbeliever and the believer in death.

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest". (See Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30)

Christ Jesus, Himself, as the expressed WORD of His Father Yahweh the Almighty God, declared at His Passover Table on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that His Communion Blood IS the Only LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's New Covenant given for the remission of the sins of repentant believers.  The WORD of Yahweh God is One Spirit, and Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace is One with the Water and LIFE giving Covenant Blood of Christ Jesus that He shed on Calvary.  The TRUTH of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty is constant with Christ's LIFE giving Blood that is received at His Table of Grace for the remission of mankind's fleshly sins of death that are confessed in true repentance by believers.  Yahweh God's Promised Gift of His Spirit of Grace, brings with His Presence, the Messiah's Holy LIFE in His Fellowship Blood, even to the vain sins of those, who, in their hypocrisy, claim to adhere to Sola Scriptura.  Yahweh God is not glorified in our confusions and hypocrisies that are rooted in the vanity of fallen flesh.  The Resurrected WORD of Yahweh God sings out to believers: 

Preach of repentance with the remission of sin in Christ's Name of Salvation to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.)

Yahweh God's Spirit of cleansing Grace through the LIFE Giving Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ relieves the conscience of repentant believers from our errors of the flesh.  You can be sure that if we are not IN agreement with Yahweh God's Spirit of Communion LIFE IN Christ Jesus then we will continue to eat of our own confusions, as we keep on dancing in sin's way of death.

If that, which is called by Almighty Yahweh God to be the One Ecclesia/church in the One Body of Christ, is splintered into thousands of separate sects that are squabbling over the essentials of faith, then where does that leave those without the church. Those in darkness, fail to see any light coming forth from the actions of sinners who say they are saved by faith alone.  Yes, but is the substance of faith IN Christ Jesus

On appearances, the multi-fractionated ideologies of all the churches seem to be lacking in the definition of the One Body of Christ.  Sin, as always, separates, divides and kills within its fleshly nature of self will: And the Light of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ cried from the utmost darkness of the cross:

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do". 

It is impossible for the Living Christ Jesus to be divided, and fractionated among the many religious Christian sects, and neither is Jesus exclusive to the larger institutions of mock superficial piety with their segmented superiority. 

For, there is One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism,  One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all and in you all. (Ephesians 4 verse 4 thru 6.) 

The One Yahweh God and Father of all is One Spirit and not two spirits.

There is only one Everlasting Covenant, given by the One Everlasting Yahweh God, where by each and every member, within the One Body of Jesus Christ, would be, through their obedient faith, set apart from sin, by Yahweh God's Gift of His Holy Spirit that is One with the Sacrificial LIFE Blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Through faith, IN the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we rebellious sinners have entered into Yahweh God's New Covenant of LIFE through baptism into His One Body, where by the Lord our Salvation would maintain each member's sanctity with the Holy Provisions of His Word of Grace. 

For this is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin(Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28.) If we say we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us. (1st John 1 verse 8.)

Our Holy Almighty Yahweh God has not changed, and His Spirit of Prophecy with the testimony of His Son Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah), remains the same yesterday, today and forever. (See Revelation 19 verse 9 thru 11.) The Constant Word of the Universe says:

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.  For Truly I say unto you: Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law (TORAH), till all be fulfilled. (See Matthew 24 verse 35, and Matthew 5 verse 18.)

The Spirit of Yahweh God's WORD is immutable and shall stand forever.  Yahweh God's WORD remains active and alive today, even as when the Spirit of the Lord Jesus prophesied to the Seven Churches of Revelation.  The Spirit of the Lord will bring correction, and His correction will speak strongly to our unfaithfulness, for His faithful Call is to those already marked for Salvation and for their return to our first Love.  (See Revelation 2 verse 3.)

The Everlasting Covenant is in the LIFE that is IN the Blood of Jesus Christ, which we have entered into by unadulterated faith in the WORD of Yahweh God.  That faith is from Yahweh God of the Living WORD, and not with the gods of controversy that are born out of the pride of controlling sin that gives birth to death.  If the flesh of man is arguing with the flesh of others, over that which is spiritually discerned, then man's faith in the Almighty Yahweh God is disrupted into the flesh's confusion. 

For the Spirit we have received is not the world’s spirit, but Yahweh God’s Spirit, helping us to recognize the gifts He has given to us.  We speak of these, not in words of human wisdom, but in Words taught by Yahweh's Spirit, thus interpreting spiritual things in spiritual terms. (1st Corinthians 2 verse 13 thru 14. )

The True Light of Yahweh God's WORD forever shines, sending forth the rays of His Infinite TRUTH within the hearts of the faithful hearer of His WORD of TRUTH.

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Robert Glenn Pratten