​​Greetings. If we wronged people in this physical world we should try and make it right with them and maybe they will forgive and forget. Ninety-nine-point nine percent of the time people don’t forgive or forget and will wait years even to get even. I have never met anybody who forgives and forget and neither have you. Only God can forgive our sins when we repent of the evil we have done to His word. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Man has never been willing to confess his sins because he has looked at what he judged sin to be. Proverbs 24:9The thought of foolishness is sin. We have all walked into a trap or snare by thinking we could judge God’s word without Him making it known unto us. Psalm 9:16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. It doesn’t matter how many altar calls we answered, or the times we were physically dumped in a tank of water: these are our own works of the hand, just to name a few. If God doesn’t renew our spirit by making his word known unto us, we’re not saved. Isaiah 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. God doesn’t respect any image or statues we might have bowed down to and asked for forgiveness, it’s a waste of time. Prayer gardens or groves may be serene and beautiful places but serve no spiritual value to you and nobody else. The Bible judges with what’s in men hearts [nothing good] but our carnal mind makes everything we see in the Bible physical. We are born with our own spiritual judges and they reside in mind of mortal men. The other day a woman in the marketplace was quoting scriptures with no spiritual understanding of what she was uttering. Being grieved I waited for an opportunity to challenge what was coming out of her vile mouth ''We’re going to pray President Donald Trump out of office she proclaimed''. God is interested in how we interpret his word and not who’s next in office, as I corrected her. She claimed I was judging her as she started to retreat trying to escape God’s judgement. When we can speak just a little of God’s word there’s no earthly wisdom that can come against it. We could hope the next President loved the Lord, but it would be almost impossible to find even a true Christian who loved God’s word: we only have loved an image of ourselves and called it God. Before God gave his ancient people of Israel a physical king, he gave them judges. Judges 2:16 Nevertheless the Lord raised judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. We, just like the ancient children of Israel we must be delivered from them that spoil us, which are our thoughts. This is difficult because we only think of somebody breaking into a dwelling and taking the physical. That spoiler must be that boss at work who asks you to put up your cellphone, thus spoiling your day. Ancient Israel enemies were always taking the physical things away from them: crops, livestock, etc. We like the enemies of Israel Spiritually go to the Bible to take a spoil: we take the substance of God and make it ours. Proverbs 1:13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil. At first, we usually don’t know this, and we take these spoils and try to build a house for God’s Spirit to dwell in: He will not: this is the house made with hands. The spiritual houses we’re trying to build must be destroyed for they haven’t any the wisdom of God. Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established. God wants to establish his kingdom in the earth, not a physical place but in us. That’s why Jesus said the following: John 18:36 Jesus answered,My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Nothing in the Bible is physical, thus the word Jews in the above and below verses represents our thoughts which are contrary to the words of God. Acts 14:2  But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.  There were physical Jews in Jesus times who hated him, but we have all hated and judged God’s word or His son. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15  who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: My own countrymen in the above verse represent my thoughts I’m born with: later when having looked at the Bible my thoughts become the unbelieving Jews, these Jews or thoughts are contrary to any thoughts that tried to expose their unrighteousness. These things don’t come easy to me, but only after the very, very few who are willing to seek after God with all their heart. The only reason we don’t seek out these things [God’s word] and would rather spend twelve hours on face-book is, we’re unbelievers and don’t even know it. Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Our own righteousness isn’t His and we have never looked upon all these things or his words and hoped for them to been added unto us. We have all added our own thoughts onto God’s word as the evil natural brute beast we are. Revelation 13:18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. This isn’t a physical number but only represents how men without God's wisdom are always adding unto God’s word and man has millions of thoughts contrary to God. 2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption. God must destroy our own wisdom because it can only speak evil about the things it can’t understand: the Bible. The first things we all did was made image of ourselves [unknown God]and called it the image of God, our image mocks or scorns the things of God: a scorner refuses to be judged. Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God, Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Without God reproof of judgement, we can never be established. We all have persecuted God’s word or made a mockery of the things of God. In the physical world, one political party accuses the other of making a mockery of the democracy. Millions would be shocked to learn that the word ‘’democracy’’ was neither used in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution. In a thinking society one would wonder don’t those guys in Washington D.C know this. In a physical Church world attended by millions, one should wonder does anybody love God’s word and not their thoughts about it. Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. There isn’t a person born in this physical world, who doesn’t love what they think, rather right or wrong, and we are what we think.  Luke 17:21 neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Now this verse really, really, I mean really use to bother me: what does Jesus mean, within me. So, like any of the countless other verses I couldn’t understand, I just go to the next one I couldn’t spiritually understand neither. A kingdom or nation within me, how is that possible? Please bear with us as we allow God’s Spirit to explain the above verse: this is done by allowing the Holy Ghost to instruct and reprove us. Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? People look for a physical sign of Jesus coming, something they can see. How can we the spiritually blind Pharisees, see a Spiritual word hidden from us? The end of the world in the above verse deals when my worldly understanding is destroyed. If our spouse or lover walked out on us and we lost our job the same day; we might think our entire world was coming to an end. When God words starts to enter our mind, it will destroy my world or worldly thinking about the Bible, and this is mentally painful to us. THE TRIBULATION PERIOD IS FOUGHT IN THE MIND! We presumed we were saved by something we imagined was as sinful and cease doing it: thus, so looked right to ourselves and others: even more than God's righteousness. Job 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? You only cease from sin when you stop making your thoughts God’s thoughts: this isn’t easy. 1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin. What we thought was sin is often not using common sense: if you like alcohol, your liver will suffer, and drugs will fry the little brain you have left. Sex with members of the same sex can only produce dirty sheets, and really a form of clever population control.  Sex with multiple partners produces confusion and heartache; you don’t know who you love and remembering all those different names at various times, well? Fact being we usually just secretly only love ourselves and can’t understand why others don’t love us more.
Quit any of the above and you’re still a sinner only now a self-righteousness one and worse than before. Matthew 23:15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Notice the above verse doesn’t say the child is going to hell, because when we can’t get a witness from God’s word, you’re already in Hell. Psalm 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. King David penned the above verse when he was yet alive on this physical earth. When we go to the Bible, do we behold the corruption of our own mortal thinking? You remain in Hell if all you ever spiritually witness is your own corrupt mortal thinking. The word child in Matthew 23:15 denote your level of spiritual understanding: you haven’t any! 1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Shall we go on only as the Lord lead? Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. I’m at peace within myself until God’s sends a sword or His word against me. God’s word comes to destroy my thinking concerning the evil thoughts within all of us are liken unto a nation and these nations or thought exalts themselves against the knowledge of God. I worked at construction some years ago, I dreamed a dream the other day, that I was at a construction site and all the building material for a house was laid on the Ground. I awoke from the dream with this thought on my mind: you mean I’m going to have to start all over to build this spiritual house? Yes! Luke 17:20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. The observation deals with what the physical eye can see or witness when it reads the Bible. As this next question is asked of the Prophet Job by his friend concerning how he interprets or sees the word of God. Job 10:4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? The next time we read the Bible your familiar friend or thoughts in your mind will ask the above question: seest thou as man seeth?  God in his grace must open our blind eyes and this starts to destroy my mortal thinking as to how I interpret the Bible. 1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. If were to stop physically doing something that others had judged to be wrong, we might come away as being righteous in the eyes of other spiritually blind people. Such an act in the flesh would do nothing in putting on immortality and you would still be corruptible. Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Witnessing the above verse with our mortal mind, would lead the person to observe the recent wars we have had in the last hundred years as a physical sign, of Jesus second coming. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as we have always had wars: it’s in man’s beast nature to physically kill and try to spiritually kill God’s word. Luke 24:38And he said unto them, why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? The nations or thoughts will rise up within us, when we start to witness anything spiritual, we will be troubled. Genesis 25:23 And the Lord said unto her [Rebekah], Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels. My nation or thoughts have no opposition against it as long as no other nation opposes it. Two sons were struggling in Rebekah womb, one son born after the flesh, Esau and the other born after God’s Spirit Jacob. Genesis 25:21And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 
Michael Rudolph Hodges 1/19/20 AMENDED 2/25/2022

NATIONS AGAINST NATIONS/OR MY THOUGHTS AGAINST GODS