HAPPY EASTER! JESUS CHRIST SUPER STAR! "COMFORT, YES, COMFORT MY PEOPLE!" SAYS YOUR GOD. --BIBLE, ISAIAH CHAPTER 40. "HE BRINGS THE PRINCES TO NOTHING; HE MAKES THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH USELESS." OFTEN WE FORGET, GOD'S GREATNESS AND MAN'S WEAKNESS. IT HAS BEEN AN INTERESTING WEEK, BOTH POLITICALLY SPEAKING AND RELIGIOUSLY SPEAKING . . . ALL THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, EXCEPT THE ONE JEW IN THE CROWD OF 5 POTENTIALS, BERNIE SANDERS, APPEARED AND SPOKE TO AIPAC, OR A NON-PARTISAN JEWISH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, SPEAKING TO SOME 18,000 PEOPLE. THERE WERE SPEECHES BY THE CANDIDATES, TALK OF MOVING, THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL AND FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF ISRAEL, IN TEL AVIV, TO THE JEWS DESIGNATED AND HISTORICAL CAPITAL, OF JERUSALEM. THERE WERE PLEDGES OF SUPPORT AND LOYALTY TO OUR ISRAELI ALLIES. IT IS ALWAYS INTERESTING, TO LISTEN TO AVOWED ATHEISTS, LIKE "REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER" WHOM, I BELIEVE HAS A JEWISH MOTHER, AND A CATHOLIC FATHER, BUT, REALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE IN RELIGION, AND MAKES LIGHT OF IT SOMETIMES, BUT, SEEMS MUCH MORE ATTUNED TO IT, THAN MANY BIBLE THUMPING CHRISTIANS, WHO GIVE LIP SERVICE, BUT THEIR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL LIVES ARE FAR FROM THE CHRISTIAN IDEALS THAT JESUS HIMSELF TAUGHT! I GUESS IT IS A REPUBLICAN VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY, AND MUCH LIKE THE REPUBLICAN VERSION OF THE CONSTITUTION, THEY ONLY BUY ONTO, THE PART, THAT THEY AGREE WITH, EITHER GOD OR THE FOUNDING FATHERS! LOL! I TEND TO BUY IN WHOLE, BOTH CHRISTIANITY AND THE CONSTITUTION! I AM A RARE BREED, WHO DOESN'T PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH COMMANDMENTS, OR BILL OF RIGHTS, I WILL SUPPORT, OR REFUSE TO SUPPORT! I AM SHOCKED, EVEN WHEN, ALLEGED MODERN, POLITICAL PUNDITS AND OTHERS, SEE THEMSELVES AS TOO SOPHISTICATED TO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE, WHEN MUCH OF WHAT IS GOING ON, OVER WITH ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES, CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD, AS SEEING, IT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORY, AND RECOGNIZING THAT THESE CONFLICTS, HAVE ROOTS OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS! JERUSALEM, PLACE OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK, ALSO A PLACE OF JEWISH TEMPLES, IS CLAIMED BY BOTH, THE JEWS AND THE PALESTINIANS, AS THEIR HOLY AND ETERNAL CAPITAL, AND THERE IN LIES SOME OF THE PROBLEM! IF NOT THE PROBLEM! THE IDEA OF A TWO NATION STATE, OR LIVING IN HARMONY, WITHIN A VERY LIMITED AND SMALL TRACT OF LAND, WHICH, HAS BOTH HISTORIC AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE TO BOTH SIDES, HAS ROOTS IN CONFLICTS, STARTING BACK, 2000 OR MORE YEARS AGO, AND NOT TO BE RESOLVED SOON, UNLESS, WE, IN OUR MINDS, CAN GRASP, THAT, GOD IS GREAT AND MAN IS NOTHING! I BELIEVE, THAT IT IS ONLY WITHIN THE CONFINES AND CONTEXT, OF THE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS: (1) TO LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL YOU HEART, MIGHT, MIND AND STRENGTH; AND (2) TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR ALSO, CAN THESE OLD, GNARLY, BEASTLY, WORLD PROBLEMS, EVER BE RESOLVED! PALESTINE NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST, AND ISRAEL NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE PALESTINE'S RIGHT TO EXIST AND SEE, THAT BOTH ARE CHILDREN OF THE SAME GOD, WITH ROOTS OF COMMON ANCESTRY, STARTING WITH FATHER ABRAHAM! CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? SO AS WE ENJOY, EASTER, HAM DINNER WITH OUR FAMILIES, BUNNIES, EGGS, EASTER BASKETS, AND NEW CHURCH CLOTHES, WE NEED TO REALIZE AND WORK TOWARDS, BEING REBORN, BEING RENEWED, BEING RESURRECTED IN OUR IDEAS, IN OUR PASSIONS, IN OUR POLITICS, AND WORK, WITH LOVE, TOWARDS WORKABLE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, SHORT OF CAR BOMBINGS, KILLING EACH OTHER'S TEENAGERS, THEN RETALIATING, AGAINST OUR ENEMIES, STOP THE BLOOD SHED, THE POLITICAL SHOW BOATING, THE CHEST PUMPING, AND TRY, TO FOLLOW, EITHER THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, OR HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, WHO LAID DOWN HIS LIFE, IN ORDER, THAT NOT JUST JEWS COULD BE SAVED, BUT GENTILES OR THE REST OF US, SEEING THAT GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS, MALE, FEMALE, JEW, GENTILE, BLACK, WHITE . . . WE ARE ALL HIS CHILDREN, ALL FLAVORS, COLORS, RELIGIONS, RACES, CREEDS, AND WE ARE ALL ENTITLED TO BE JOINT HEIRS, WITH JESUS, IF WE CAN ACCEPT, HIS GIFT OF ETERNAL GRACE, WITH HIM, AS OUR HEART CAPITAL, AND BANKING IN ETERNAL BLISS, SEEING ON THE THIRD DAY, HE WAS RAISED FROM THE TOMB, AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, TO PLEAD OUR CASES AND CAUSES WITH THE FATHER, AS OUR ADVOCATE! JUST A FEW INTERESTING SCRIPTURES, HIGHLIGHTED FROM ISAIAH 40, I THOUGHT WERE APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY, THIS GLORIOUS EASTER SUNDAY, WHERE THE WORLD STOPS, TO BE RENEWED, AND REBORN! MAKE PEACH HAPPEN, WE CAN DO THIS WORLD, BUT ONLY ON THE CONDITION OF LOVE! BE A NEW PERSON TODAY! KISSES, LOVE, HUGS . . . WORLDWIDE! JESUS IS BIG ENOUGH FOR THAT!

THE HOLY BIBLE

• To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall i be equal? says the Holy One.
• Lift Up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not on is missing.
• Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel; My way is hidden from the Lord, and my just claim is passed over by my God?
• Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.  His understanding is unsearchable.
• He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
• Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,
• But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, and they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

CELEBRATE EASTER, CELEBRATE OUR TRUE SAVIOR'S LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION . . . HE LIVES!

I BEAR MY SOLEMN TESTIMONY--HE LIVES, HE DIED FOR US, HE IS OUR ONLY SALVATION!

MAKE PEACE HAPPEN, MAKE LOVE HAPPEN!

HAPPY EASTER!