The Righteous Are as Bold as a Lion

The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.   Proverbs 28:1

Sometimes it is beneficial to read the text in more modern or contemporary English. Here’s one:

The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off
    even when no one’s after them;
Honest people are relaxed and confident,
    bold as lions.

     The wicked are not attacked “ no one’s after them,” because they are doing what their enemy wants; evil, sin. The wicked are all ready under captivity. The are right where their enemy, satan, the adversary, wants them. They are slaves to sin. “For when you were the servants / slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.” (Romans 6:20)

      But they do run away from an enemy: their conscious. They know they have transgressed the law written in their hearts, and feel the quilt.  Their guilt keeps them from godly action and is the cause of their turning tale even when no one is confronting them.

Jeremiah 31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, ³² not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.

³³ “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴ They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

On the other hand, the righteous, when they transgress the law written, confess and turn from their sin, knowing that their God has forgiven their iniquity and does not remember their sin.

The righteous are not just bold and act with courage because they have not sinned, because if the say they have not sinned, they deceive themselves and make God a liar, and the truth is not in us; (I John 1:8 -10).

The righteous are bold because they know their sin has been forgiven.
Psalm 103:12: 

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

One does not have to be sinless to be used of God. Moses slew an Egyptian and hid him in the sand; (Exodus 2:12) and yet God used Moses to deliver His people out of Egypt, out of slavery. David, “a man after God’s own heart,” committed adultery (2 Sam. 11:4) and murder; (2 Sam. 12:9) and yet David is mentioned in Hebrews 11:32 as an example of faithfulness to God. Paul, before his conversion, “outraged the assembly, entering into each of the houses, dragging away men and women he delivered them into the prison. (Acts 8:3 Finck Translation) Saul/Paul was also present at the stoning of Stephen. (Acts 7:58).

God uses those who confess and turn away from their sin and understand that their sin has been forgiven.

But the heart of the matter sin goes much deeper than the confession/repentance cycle:  the men God uses are those who admit their sinfulness, their nature to sin, or as Paul explains in Romans 7:18: 

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing: for to will (to do right) is present with me, but to  perform that which is good I find not.”

The righteous understand the teaching of Romans chapters 5-8 which ends with Paul’s exclamation:

³¹ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?^{3 33} Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
³⁴ Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

     With this mindset Paul was able to endure all the sufferings listed in 2 Cor. 4:8-10 and 2 Cor. 11:23-28, including fighting with beasts at Ephesus. I Cor. 1:32.
     This understanding of the truth and promises of God in relation to their sinful nature – and their sin - is what makes the righteous bold as lions.
     The temptation is all around us today more than ever. Many times we succumb to that temptation, and then fail to confess and turn from our transgression. Consequently we lose our boldness, we lose our willingness to fight the good fight of faith.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ….. he is the propitiation, the satisfaction for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole (Israelite) Society.” (I John 1:9; 1 John 2:2)

The fight we are battling in is one of faith, “against spiritual wickedness on high.” (Eph. 6:12) Believing the truth and promises of God regarding his faithfulness and promise to forgive us our sins is what will make us as bold as lions in this day of adversity. 

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing,
But the righteous are bold as a lion.

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Can Adamic Man Know God?

Many believe, especially "non-religious" White nationalists, that all religious beliefs are based on faith, not hard, provable, objective data. Many also believe mankind is incapable of conceptualizing the true nature of God.

I would suggest both of these beliefs are false.

Scripture, archaeology and history is full of "hard, probable objective data." The God of Scripture, Yahweh, moved entire nations to work his will - His Story - in the world throughout time. Scripture foretold (prophesied) this history and Yahweh, through His People and through other nations / peoples, brought about his will. All one needs is an understanding of Scripture, history and archaeology to see how Yahweh has brought what his prophets have accurately foretold throughout history.

Most people have little or no knowledge of Scripture, history or archaeology and thus do not realize that faith is based upon fact.

Yahweh has made every effort to enable Adamic man, created in His image, to conceptualize their God. "In the beginning was the Word (or Logos). And the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. .... And the Word / Logos was made flesh, and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, as of the most beloved of the Father, full of grace and truth. No man has seen Yahweh at any time; the most beloved Son, he has declared him." verses John 1:1,14,18.

Words express thoughts. Mankind communicates through language, words. We, Adamic man - (there are no other "men," made in the image of God) can know God's thoughts because we are created in His image, in his likeness. God has communicated, has expressed himself, who he is, not only through his written Word, but through his beloved son, the living Word, who has declared God, made the Creator known.


Adamic White man (endowed with God's spirit) can conceptualize the true nature of God, by examining the life of Yahshua Christ, the Kinsman Redeemer who paid the penalty for His People's transgression of His Law to bring His People back to himself. Yahweh's spirit communicates with our spirit that we are children of God. John 4:24; I John 2:27.

Adamic man can also get an understanding of the nature of Yahweh through His creation: Romans 1:19: Because what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."

However, many suppress this truth of Yahweh's nature, his eternal power, his divine nature, in an unrighteous manner and then say that God cannot be known by man. 

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that the God of Scripture cannot be known to you. Look at nature, look at the creation surrounding you to understand just a small part of Yahweh's limitless power and divine nature.

Examine the life and teachings of Yahweh himself as Yahshua the living Word, found within the written Word of God to get an idea of his grace and truth, how much he loves and cares for you, His People.


Praise Yahweh! 

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Perilous Times Are Here

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 Timothy 3:1

Perilous - hard to take, hard to bear, troublesome, dangerous.

"2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves ...."

So many "resist the truth." So many are set against the truth, so many are opposed to the truth. (v. 8) They simply refuse to accept the truth.

We live in perilous times, yes? This morning, once again, I am weary of hearing of the troubling news, the problems, the evil all around us. Haughty, pride filled traitors in charge. (v.4)

What is the "secret" of surviving during these trouble filled times?

Scripture.

v. 16: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for education in righteousness:

17 That the man of Yahweh may be perfect, (mature) thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Spend time in Scripture - reading, educating yourself, soaking in the Word of Yahweh. Soak in Yahweh's truth. More importantly, believe His Word, by making His Word your "course of life" by living it day-by-day.

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Flat Stone Teachers and Flat Stone Teaching

Flat Stone Teachers (FST) are those who skip over controversial passages / verses of Scripture, especially those that conflict with their current Weltanschauung.

Flat Stone Teaching is teaching that starts with a favorite passage from which an entire sermon is based and then skips from that one favorite out-of-context passage to other out-of-context passages, passages that seem to support the Flat Stone Teacher's currently held beliefs and teaching.

That is, unless one actually studies the passages in historical and biblical context and in the original - Hebrew and Greek - languages using several sources so as to conform to the Scriptural mandate of everything being supported by "two or three witnesses."

Most of the audience - and they are audiences, as they attend the "church services" to be entertained by the music director's entertainment program for that particular service - will not know or neither will they care if the teaching is as twisted as a pretzel - as long as their itching ears are scratched and the FST gets them back on their Lazy Boy, the remote and their beer before the start of their next entertainment for the day - the in season Beasts and Ball Game. And as nary a week separates one season from another now, the church goer goes from one form of entertainment to another uninterrupted.

This system has the masses worshiping the doctrine of devils, the beasts / icons of the (football) fields and the doctrine of Baal.  Meanwhile their entire culture is being destroyed and if and when they interrupt their entertainment cycle long enough to actually think about the destruction taking place around them, are completely clueless as to the cause. 

The "pastor's" flat stone teaching will keep the audience in a state of total ignorance for another week, until the next week's Judeo-Christian, ie, Scofield/Darbyism Baal doctrine of the jews being "God's Chosen" and "diversity is our strength" universalism programming is delivered.

Bring up the fact that the FST skipped right over the verse or verses that contradict what the FST was teaching, and you're immediately labeled a trouble maker, a division maker or worse. Nevermind that you can run circles around the FST and his flat stone teaching, no one wants to know what you  think.

I actually had a "leader" of a particular church tell me

The points you make seem logical – when you start with your position on Gen 3 (:15)  – but are so radically different from where I am at today that I’m not willing to simply “jump ship” so to speak and embrace them.

In other words, "how can you, even though the points you make seem logical, be right, when what you say is so radically different from what my FST teaches, and what I and everyone else believes?"

"Baaa baaa. I'm going to go with the sheeple, rather than what the Word of God says, because who are you among so many?"

Thank Yahweh that Noah, Joshua and Caleb, Jeremiah and all the rest did what Yahweh commanded them, rather than what everyone else was thinking should be done.  

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Common Interpretation Mistakes

Common mistakes many make when reading / studying Scripture or even ancient history:
(Any history for that matter.)

Bringing to the time period under study 
the attitudes and understanding they currently have
and applying it to the time period under study.

One such example is the believe that the Ethiopian of Acts 8 was a black man. 

Where does the idea come from that Ethiopia was a nation inhabited by blacks 2000 hundred years ago? Is it because Ethiopia today is a black nation?

Another common mistake is thinking the known world in biblical times was thought to be as large as the world as we know it today. 2000 years ago, there were few globes or world maps, no GPS, no satellite views of the earth from space. No airplanes, trains, automobiles, etc. People did not travel except in large armed groups for fear of robbery or worse. Very little travel far from one's hometown was done by 99 percent of the population. Most people, if they went anywhere, walked. A few went by horse, the wealthier by wagon / coach; a few by boat and fewer still by ship.

Many people 2000 years ago believed the world to be flat. People fell off the edge of the earth if they went too far on the oceans.

Reading was rare, books few. In fact, personally, they didn't have books - they had clay tablets, then scrolls of parchments rolled up and kept only by the very wealthy or in libraries. I read somewhere that one "educated" person at that time had the largest known private library  - 12 scrolls. People would travel long distances to visit his "library" of 12 volumes.

The known world - known by our ancestors, the Greeks and the Romans, was the area around the Mediterranean Sea - pretty much the region covered by Paul in his journeys. The Phoenicians (also Israelites) did travel out beyond the Med Sea through the Straits of Gibraltar - but it was they who most likely started the rumor of falling off the edge of the earth so as to protect their sea trading and merchant monopoly.

Josephus, although somewhat tedious at times, has a wealth of background information that is a must read for serious bible students.


Context, context, context is extremely important to get a proper understanding of the history of the time under study. Thinking was different 2000 years ago; knowledge of many subjects was much more limited then than it is today. One has to put themselves back into that time frame, that frame of reference existing at the time under study to acquire a proper understanding of the events and world views of most people during that period of history.

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The Word “World” in the Scriptures

“…The whole world is gone after him.” John 12:19

Did the whole world go after Christ?

“Then went all Judea and were baptized of him in Jordan.” Matthew 3:5

Was all Judea or Jerusalem baptized in the Jordan?

“We know we are of God and the whole world lieth in the wicked one.” I John 5:19

Does the “whole world” here mean everyone? If so, how is it then that there were some who were “of God?”

The words 'world' and 'all' are used in some seven or eight senses in Scripture; and it is very rarely that 'all' means all persons, taken individually. 

(Charles H. Spurgeon, Particular Redemption, A Sermon, 28 Feb 1858)

Romans 10:18

"But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their (those preaching the gospel) sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world."

Did those preaching have their sound “go into all the world, unto the ends of the world?”

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.  Luke 2:1

Was “all the world” taxed? 

Probably the most quoted Bible verse, John 3:16:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Did God so love the entire “world” and did or does “whosoever believeth”  have everlasting life? 

What sayeth the Scripture? 

 Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Who did Yahshua Christ send his disciples to?

Matthew 10:6

 ¹And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
 ²Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
 ³Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
 ⁴Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
 ⁵These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

 ⁶But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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