Not into wizardry or necromancy, but Jesus Christ and I always have a good time as we drink our strong drinks. He performs magic like He did on the Egyptians, plaguing them with His wrathful behavior, having a good time. Like the Creator He is, Christ departed the Red Sea, giving safe passage for His children to cross over. The Lord tested them like he does to us all, it strengthens us, so we don't fall. Gave them water to drink in an unforgiving desert, manna to eat, the very bread of heaven. They bitched and complained like bratty children said they wanted quails along with the bread. Our Lord gave them their hearts desire, like He does with all of us, feed them well, then struct them dead. Doesn't want to spend eternity with insubordinate kids as He made them an example for us to learn by.
As Biblical history progresses, we understand what Israel's children were like, worshiping the idols that became their savior, delivering them from famine and their enemies. We learn the parallels of Jewish behaviors in our own society, only more atrocious with the erosions of our moral values. Then the Lord, on His Secret mission, comes unto His own and they received Him not. He wept over them in the streets of Jerusalem with a booming cry, heard all across the city. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Meaning Jerusalem will not exits under Jewish rule until the return of our Lord, fulfilling prophecy written in Ezekiel, "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." This covers the time frame from 70 AD to this present day. Then the Lord foretells His death, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles." But our darling Saviour gave stern warning as we would our own children, on His way to Calvary, he told the women weeping for Him, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? "
I can understand how society can see my God as a cruel and vindictive God, to be honest, He is. We discover that hell was prepared as an "everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Deuteronomy says this about hell, "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." "Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering." The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." As we scroll through the Bible, "Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?" "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it." "Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down." "Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." Proverbs says this, "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you."
We have all the Biblical evidence needed for obeying the Lord and apologize for our sins. Not a magical prayer or enchantment by any means, all it takes in a sincere heart, spending good quality time in the Word and communion with the Creator. I like to think of it as my magic man as we sit around drinking my whiskey. As intoxicating as it is, we have such a good time listening to Orthodox Music, Rock N Roll if appropriate, singing our tunes and drinking His wine...
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