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Hi, My name is Todd.
I am starting this website to share my interpretations from my personal scriptural studies over the past several years. Many are not widely accepted. I was taught, as most are, from early age what to believe from parents, Sunday school teachers, books and media. All this without studying the word for myself. Jump forward 50 plus years and I sought God’s word for myself. I read the bible over and over for several years and low and behold, new understandings opened up to me. The old testament truly was opened up to see Christ in types, figures, shadow and patterns. It was a fulfillment of John 5:39. it was a testimony of Jesus. The new testament was a fulfillment of the old.
I would like to share what I have learned. If anyone disagrees, kindly move on and I hope that you keep the matter to heart in the future. Who knows when God will open anyone’s mind to the revelations of the greatest mystery ever written.
usly a magazine editor, I became a full-time mother and freelance writer in 2017. I spend most of my time with my kids and husband over at The Brown Bear Family but this blog is for my love of food and sharing my favorites with you!
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Are we the Pharisees of today?
The Pharisees caught a woman in the very act of adultery and brought her to Jesus for judgment and His response was,
John 8:7
“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”
They of course did not throw any stones at her but left one by one. Then Jesus turned His attention to the woman and said,
John 8:10-11
“Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” [11] She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you.
John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Do we not have a tendency to judge people based on what we see. The Pharisees saw sinners with disgust. Consequently, Jesus openly accepted sinners to sit with Him.
Matthew 9:11-12
And when the Pharisees saw that, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” [12] When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
Repentance means turning to God for help, acknowledging that we are sick and sinful and that we need a Physician to heal us. The Apostle Paul spoke about his need for a Physician as he repented and turned to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Jesus’s name means, The LORD will save.
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Seeing Him as the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world is seeing by believing. Not by sight, but through faith.
In the story of the blind man in John chaper 9, we find a blind man from birth, who was healed by Jesus. The man first sees Jesus as a man, then a prophet and finally the Son of God. He is healed both physically and spiritually.
The Pharisees are the opposite, they see Jesus as an ordinary man.
They refused to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Now Jesus turns His attention to the proud Pharisees as Jesus states He has come into the word that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
John 9:40
Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
The Pharisees claimed to see, but they were truly blind and since they denied Jesus as the Lamb of God, their sins would remain.
We are all sinners saved by grace. Let us stop judging others by what they do or don’t do. Good people don’t go to Heaven, forgiven people do.
Clouds of Heaven 