Everything in the Bible is about the Kingdom.

If you come upon something that doesn't make sense,

ask yourself how it relates to the Kingdom.

We are in the 10 Days of Awe. 

These are the feast of the Lord that have not been fulfilled in Messiah,

these are the feasts about the establishment of the Kingdom.

Have you ever noticed that the second half of the Christian year is empty? 

That's because the Jewish fall feasts were not really mentioned by Jesus,

and they were not fulfilled in his first coming.

These feasts all look forward

to his second coming.

 

We have left the lectionary for the next three Sundays.

And when I asked the Lord about what readings to use this week,

he asked me a question.

Always pay attention to when the Lord asks you a question.

"Can you mate a sheep with a goat?'

That is an interesting question.

The short answer is,

no,

you can't.

It turns out some have tried,

and when you do

the offspring is always still born.

And when I asked the Lord about this,

I was brought back to this passage from Matthew,

where Jesus sits upon his glorious throne.

And he separates the sheep from the goats.

Religious thinking wants everyone to get along

and cooperate.

Let's keep the sheep and the goats at peace.

Jesus,

is a peace maker.

Peace requires a division and a separation.

When you try to keep things that do not belong together,

you are going to have conflict.

And these ten days are a symbol of this separating ourselves

from the world,

and being set aside for God.

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