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ALL I’M OFFERING IS…

by I Am Thomas

The Truth. You will either believe one or the other of these two statements:

  1. ”YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH !” … Or,
  2. “…and you will know The Truth and The Truth will set you Free. “  

Hello again, I’m Thomas…Nodoubt you’ve heard the first line that was made famous in the movie, “A Few Good Men”, when Jack Nicholson‘s character answered Tom Cruise’s fiery demand, “I WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH! “I must admit that I have was as as Tom Cruise was, thinking that once I need to choose everything from you, so lone hunky-dory, and everyone would be so confused with me sharing with them my newfound knowledge. Boy was in for a rude awakening! The more people I shared the truth with, the more I discovered that almost everyone I talked to fell into one of these three categories –

  • they looked at me in disbelief or disgust – not sure which – and then turned and walked away, or
  • they got upset, with many even becoming irate, and accusing me of being a devil, or
  • the last category of people, and by far the most numerous, were those who were so disinterested, they couldn’t wait to get back to their “daily scheduled programming”,  Selah!

“…But the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and shoot the word, and it becomes on fruitful. Input “ (Mark 4:19)

To Be Continued ……. Whenever I can figure out a better way to ‘digitize’ this from my handwritten pages …..

in the meantime, look up what the word ‘selah’ means…

ALL I’M OFFERING IS…

by I Am Thomas

The Truth… I’m working on this and it’s gotten deep(er) than I thought it was going to be…sooooo, in the meantime, please enjoy your evening as you meditate upon this scripture   “Deep calls unto deep at the sound of thy waterfall”  
The depths of understanding required to dissect this word of truth will mean you are a true Berean*

*Berean – “And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.“

PS. I will update this tomorrow in its finished form…

WHAT IF . . .

by I Am Thomas

… I could imagine the world as I intended it to be?

I am going to share what I wrote back on December Sixth, Twenty-twenty:

WHAT IF, right now, we could imagine a world without fear, a world of love??? ?… Just like we knew it from the beginning IN THE GARDEN. I believe that when we can come to the state of our true being, that essence of who we are, then we will see, and “Know, even as we have been known“ as Paul expressed to us in one of his letters.

  • [ed. note: from 1 Corinthians 13, and in context – “when I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. But now, faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (New American standard Bible)

  Who we truly are has not yet appeared (before our eyes), but this one thing we do now in order to reach that, “Forgetting what lies behind, we press forward to what lies ahead. “

  • [ ed. note: to expound upon that thought further, consider these words from Paul to the assembly at Corinth – picked up at First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, known as the “love chapter of the Bible”, and beginning with verse twelve … “Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well…” ]

selah…. I Am made in His image and likeness and reflect who He is in all my ways

COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE

by I Am Thomas

”Nicodemus saith unto Him, ‘How is a man able to be born, being old? Is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?’ “ (John 3:4; YLT)

  Nicodemus was applying the same thinking which many ’born-again’ believers may be using today…

Hi, I Am Thomas…NoDoubt you may have known me as Tommy Rheman, a naive child unable to comprehend the depths of depravity the mind of man is capable of. But this is not about me, Kaila. This is about Him and I must decrease while He must increase. *

…the lack of spiritual insight into the world’s woes. Selah – you will have to pause and consider those words by turning them over in your mind many times before you’ll be able to cleanse it of the dross it has accumulated from the years of formal education, not the least of which is the organized religious institutions, which we have named the “Church “. My challenge in presenting this to you is much like the dilemma a woman from the 60’s was faced with before going on a date - “which dress should I wear?” And the answer is the same: “short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the subject “. Perhaps it will benefit our understanding to apply the precept**, “The spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and, as is the heavenly one, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.” (1 Corinthians 15:46-49 NAS)

  We are admonished to “Take heed therefore how you hear, for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken, even that which he seemeth to have.” (Luke 8:18 21st Century King James). Do not gloss over that word, ‘how’ you hear, for therein lies the crux of what Jesus was saying. For contrast, imagine being a teenage boy in the early 60s, who somehow got caught watching the playboy channel when your mother bursting into your room, seeing what’s on the screen and shrieks, “how are you listening?“ The logical or sense -common to the time- would answer “with my ears!” However, the context of and the meaning behind the question entreats us to dig deeper. Likewise, when we hear with spiritual ears, we get a spiritual understanding of how we are to listen.

  To come out of the mindset of the world, is the deeper meaning behind his words, but could there be something of greater significance lurking within? Are we guilty of straining out a gnat while we swallow the camel? Think about this scripture,

  “…they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. “Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little.” For with stammering lips and another tongue, will He speak to this people, to whom He said, “this is the rest herewith you may cause the weary to rest,“ and, “this is the refreshing”. Yet they would not hear. But the word of the Lord was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little, that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken. “ (Isaiah 28:7-13 KJ21) “ Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you arrogant men who rule this people who are in Jerusalem. “ (Isaiah 28:14 AMP)

   The precepts and lines spoken of are not the commandments of God, which He is referring to here, but the snares disguised as Commandments from God. To carry that thought a step further, what if we couple together that warning in Isaiah with the one in Revelations 18:4,

  “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not be a partner in her sins, and receive her plagues;… “. (Revelations 18:4 AMP)

For those of you unfamiliar with the “who“ is riding the beast depicted there, the short answer is the bride who has turned back to the world and its alternative system to God‘s kingdom on earth. She is the same woman described as “foolish virgins“ in the parable of the ten virgins Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25:1. And as for the beast she is riding, this is known today as the military, industrial, entertainment, medical, governmental, religious, educational, economic and banking system.

  No pay close attention to the word “partner “and think about how a partnership in business is made. A partnership means each partner is legally responsible for the business’s debts and actions, and is established through the signing of legal papers and documents to that effect. You may be asking yourself right now, how have we partnered with the beast? And when did I make that legal? Every contract you have signed created a partnership between you and each arm of the vast interconnected (MIC, etc.) complex beginning with the birth certificate, followed up by the social security contract, driver’s license, and every contract known as a bank check you have ever signed.

  We’ll explore these thoughts further in another episode of how the world turns tomorrow… Until then, Shalom!

  • ‘ he who has the bride is the groom; but the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly, because of… he must increase, but I must decrease… “ (John 3:29-31)
  • ** precept: rule of personal conduct… Higher law, a principle that takes precedence over the laws of society, moral principle

All Creation Is Groaning

by I Am Thomas

Waiting for the revealing of the Sons of God, who are you and me, my beloved family of THE ONE WHO DIED AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR US ALL!

Good morning, the revealing is here: Now ask yourself what that scripture penned in Romans 8:22 can possibly mean? Have you ever wondered, like I have,

HOW CAN A WOODEN TABLE OR AN INANIMATE OBJECT POSSIBLY ‘GROAN’???

When I looked up the meaning of that word, it is the same word used of a woman ‘travailing’ or ‘groaning’ to give birth. That didn’t seem to illicit any new light upon my dilemma though. But as I kept digging deeper into the subject, God slowly began imparting revelation to me. The parturition of childbirth is a tearing, a ripping & an expanding from the confinement of the womb into the universe of possibilities. That revelation came to me after my own ‘cocoon’ experience of ‘The Boy With The Broken Brain’ had happened to me. 

‘THE MATRIX’, a movie most of us have seen or heard about, is the best picture-image of what that experience of childbirth must be like when Neo, the main character, experiences this ‘jacking-in’ back into the ‘matrix’, as it is described in the movie. There is so much symbolism in there of this experience of ‘groaning’ in childbirth and the flood of emotions and trauma passing through us all around us, igniting our senses in a panoply of feelings, sights & sounds through wave upon wave of echelons of patterns designed to distinguish this from the soupy mixture of chaotic formulaes into the coherent pattern of distinguable objects as the first words penned in the book of Genesis describes:

“In the beginning God created the heavens and earth, and the earth ‘became’ formless and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

Now, for you Bereans of the Word, you’ll notice I’ve changed the word ‘became’ from its King James translation of ‘was’ as it is mis-translated in most, if not practically all Bible. That word ‘was’ is the metaphorical leaven that has messed up this whole earth and kept us in this matrix of lies surrounding our senses. We are admonished to ‘come out of her My people’ in the last book of the Bible. If you are not beginning to sense this dawning of the new day forming around you now, then close your eyes and imagine with me that you are a fish in the depths of the ocean. You’ve been born into the water-world, lived in it your entire life & know of nothing else than the matrix of water surrounding you, supporting you and supplying for your every need. Year after year while living in this water matrix, you’ve grown accustomed to it providing and fulfilling every passion and every desire you can imagine & as your elation elevates your spirit, you begin to rise higher and higher until you notice above you a formless movement of glittering sparkling objects dancing in the distance. As you get closer you notice this as a school of fish just like yourself, but they seem to have reached the edge of creation as they dart in and out of your existence that we know as water, into the unknown matrix above them. More excited than ever now, you race upwards toward the top, but then, out of nowhere, something breaks through that barrier of the matrices and violently brutalizes one of your newfound friends, mercilessly ripping him into pieces before your eyes. You’re shocked, traumatized and paralyzed!!! As you stare in disbelief, slowly absorbing this convulsive turn of events, your mind screaming at you telling you “RUN” HIDE!!! … but your heart is gently tugging at you beckoning you to intervene, to somehow help your friends. This syndrome has now become enshrined in our vernacular as the

‘FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT’ response, the ‘DO-OR-DIE’ mode.

I AM here today to tell you that is a lie…and that lie is the concomitant results in our senses which Adam and Eve first experienced in the Garden of Eden when they chose the tree of Knowledge of good & evil rather than the Tree of Life.

Let me take you back to that school of fish and imagine that you are one of those fish living amongst the hundreds and hundreds of others and you have only ever known a violent existence such as you’ve just witnessed and another ONE, just like yourself tries to tell you there is another world beyond your traumatized senses of good and evil. That world, HE says, the world beyond the ‘fight/flight’ ; ‘good/evil’ is only a ‘belief’ ; a ‘thought’ away from this lie of the matrix known as ‘good/evil’ that has morphed its way into the consciousness and enshrined itself as the defacto way of life they have known. 

That is the conundrum men and women are in today and as we are approaching the final culmination of events prophesied that must occur, we recognize this feeling of uncomfortableness in our spirits as we see, outside of ourselves that the animals are beginning to behave ever more strangely. This is that ‘groaning’ and sighing we are experiencing today.

Bereans Only!

by I Am Thomas

This question(from another one like you and me who is ‘seeking, asking and knocking’ will cause us to think deeper)…listen to hear that ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ with ‘here a little and there a little’ thrown in to season the truth of, from, to and through His, Yhwh’s, wisdom and mind… 1st the question: “ …isn’t or does this process address my property being returned to me?”

2nd the rephrasing: I would also ask the same thing and your question, DARYL, has brought up another couple questions concerning calling ‘land’ a (piece of) property? And , in light of the scripture which says, ‘the earth… (land/soil- Heb.- ʼerets, eh’-rets; from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land) …is the Lords and the fullness thereof’ (Ps. 24:1) , does man truly own a so-called piece of property, the ‘land’? or, is he a caretaker for another’s land aka ‘property’, as in,

10 “He who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little thing is also dishonest in much.11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of earthly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? 12 And if you have not been faithful in the use of that[earthly wealth] which belongs to another[whether God or man, and of which you are a trustee], who will give you that which is your own?” (Luke16: AMP)

also, look at where this next verse is positioned in the timing of its appearance:            
v13:  [ 13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand devotedly by the one and despise the other. You cannot serve bothGod and mammon [that is, your earthly possessions or anything else you trust in and rely on instead of God].” ] (quotes from https://www.biblegateway.com/p…e+16&version=AMP )

3rd, the answer: And, that last verse means, to me at least that, property, lands etc all ‘belong to’ Him THE Creator of it, ‘the earth and the fullness thereof’ and we even have, in law, something which says that, ‘he who creates a thing is the owner’? Or something to that effect?
I would most eagerly ask this group of true Bereans and seekers of The Truth to examine that terminology of words in light of the scriptures of truth and help me out with my understanding of the Word? Thank you and I appreciate the helpful discussion and insights presented in here. 🙏

4th, the reality of it:

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
3 As the heavens for height and the earth for depth,
So the hearts and minds of kings are unsearchable. (AMP).

…and, I ask to the remnant, to you who are the called, chosen and faithful, are you a ‘king’ of THE KING?

Pets

by I Am Thomas

What I have learned from watching people and their pets over the course of the Texas Big Freeze. This thought came to me like a flash as I was meditating upon the reason why people keep pets. To any rational mind, a pet costs time and money and in an economically uncertain world we have entered into since the 2020 planDemic began, you would think that pets would be more of a liability than an asset. However, that is in a rational world where things used to make some semblance of sense and like I said, we’ve entered into uncertain times since the scamDemic hoax* of 2020. And, as I searched deeper into the anomaly of senseless thoughts versus rational thinking in a world where the veil of cognitive dissonance has seemingly triumphed over the free spirit given unto man by his creator Yahweh, I have come to this conclusion:

“Misery loves company“

While that thought may not conjure up the feelings and emotions most people would associate with their animals they keep as a pet, nevertheless it is true. Allow me the benefit of the …NoDoubt for one moment before you refute anything that I may say next? When in doubt, stop, pray and ask Him for discernment, guidance and direction in His wisdom and from His mind. Then, continue on when you have a peace of “that passes all understanding” (Phil 4:7) Now let’s talk, Thank you …

Our pets are a constant reminder and source of continual comfort to us that we are better off than them in our captive collective misery. When we drive into our garage and open that back door into our house, they are as happy and thrilled to see us after a 20 minute run to the store or a two week vacation to the mountains of Israel or the Alps where ‘The Sound of Music’ is playing on the theater screen of my mind, but all I can think about is Jenny has my arm captured over her shoulder and my arm is going to sleep… But I digress and as this is not about me but it’s about you and your pet, consider this scenario… Your animals innately retain the ability to serve their masters as ordered by their Creator and, assuming that the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is not exclusive terrain to the mental psyche of man only, the animals think that “if you can’t beat them, join them! “

After generations of conformity to a standard of culture, even the most revolutionary of ideas can be sufficiently watered down to the point that the original intent of its Maker could be unrecognizable. So with that thought in mind, where did Yahweh place the first man and woman-in the city or-in the garden? And are the animals caged, controlled or confined in anyway? In today’s modern American cities, do we have zoos with caged and domesticated wild animals whom we control down to every detail of their lives including what and when they get to eat? I would like to end with this one last thought of summation to the above:

“ How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished.” (2Sam 1:27). “How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. “. (Isaiah 14:12 KJV)

If we truly are the seekers of the way, the truth and the life, we must admit to ourselves first, that Yhwh’s original design for man & woman living freely in the garden of Eden where harmonious living in peace with all of creation has been corrupted by a city life style of modern consumerism. To further illustrate falling from grace and a life of freedom and peace yielded, in caring for his flock of sheep freely roaming in the garden of earth, consider Abel, whose name means “keeper of/caring for flock as a shepherd”. Cain’s character and nature as ‘tiller’ of ground\earth [ ‘tiller’- from Heb. abad: primitive root; to work(in any sense) causatively (to enslave) ] is the opposite of freedom and harmony. His name means, and thus his character is, ‘enslavers of/(by implication) forcing to serve and till for… ‘ Why would Cain, as a vagabond and a fugitive create the first city concept of man enslaved to his system of city consumerism with factory farming methods of CAFO (Confined Animal Feedlot Operation) as just another way of enslavement to the system of Cain, the first city named after his son, enoch!

*ref needed for Pres Trump’s off-mike comment prior to Covid press release: ’So it was a hoax?’

Modern factory farming methods along with CAFO’s are products of the mindset of enslavement not freedom

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; The point is To Discover Them “. Galileo Galilei

What I Have Learned from the ‘TEXAS BIG FREEZE’

by I Am Thomas

I was originally going to title this, “the city of Death’’ but to forestall those who believe that certain words indicate ‘doom and gloom’, I decided to rename it the ‘Texas Big Freeze’. After an extremely mild winter, mid-February 2021 arrived and the middle of North America was pummeled with an arctic outbreak plunging temperatures to record lows across America. Subzero temperatures with ice and snow amounts never before seen in Texas froze wind turbines, natural gas pipelines, broke water pipes and mains, in turn causing electric power generator plants to shut down for lack of steam. Millions of city-bound residents spent days inside their homes or shelters without heat, electricity or water. Down south in the subtropical Rio Grande Valley of Texas, this freeze could not have come at a worse time of the year. Almost all the cold sensitive tropical plants had begun budding out with fresh, tender new growth and some were even beginning to set fruit. This past winter, we had seen an early cold spell in November and early December followed by a gradual warm-up in January and the first part of February. So, when this freeze hit us, springtime in the plants’ and animals’ mind was already well underway. Which ever model of climate change you and I may be a fan of, every sign of the past which preceded the coming of the “Little Ice Age“ or the “Maunder minimum“ is happening now. ( livescience.com/61716-sun-cooling-global-warming.html ) One thing is for certain though, if the ‘Texas Big Freeze’ happened once, it will happen again. And if we are wise, we will take this as a warning shot across the bow of the ship. Ultimately, what we will learn is this: there is more broken than just the electrical, natural gas and water systems. The whole premise and foundation upon which the system stands, that of a collectivism mentality of society wherein farmers are feeding the city is discernibly flawed. Even the very premise itself is indubitably contrary to the basis upon which the Constitution for these united states of the America’s, “that all men are created free and equal”; the reason which Yahushua came to earth, “to set the captives free” and why Yahweh created man in his image, “to show forth and express Yhwh’s love and glory”.

Do you know WHO you are?

by I Am Thomas

I Am Thomas …NoDoubt. Do you know who you are? You’ve probably either followed that thought for a while and gotten nowhere or else, you are on this journey with me right now? For those of you who are with me and, for those of you who may be curious enough to tag along also, here’s my story of how I came to live two lifetimes in this one body… I call it my ‘Do-Over’.

It all started when I asked to know the ‘Truth’. That was it! I didn’t want to be deceived or lied to, no matter how much it may have hurt or helped. It all started when I asked to know ‘The Truth’. That was it! I didn’t want to be deceived or lied to, no matter how much it may have hurt or helped. The next earth shaking occurrence In my life happened when I heard God’s voice for the first time. “I want you to follow me,” were his exact words. I will never forget His voice nor those words He spoke to me. Nor will I ever be able to forget My words back to him nor will I ever not regret these words. “No way! I’m going to have fun in this life!”

I’m about 25 years old now and planning how best to take my life, when I hear his voice for the second time: ‘Stop smoking ! Don’t pray in My Name, pray in my Son’s Name, Jesus!’ This time His words were more insistent than the first time, which felt more like an invitation than a command. Today I look back on these last 45 years and I’m truly thankful to him, Yahushua haMashiach aka Jesus, His Son. This journey of finding out who I am has led me to want to know who He is? More than $1 million a year business, not even if I gain the whole world would it be worth losing my own soul for the knowledge and wisdom of knowing Him. Even more so than that is the fact of this privilege that mankind alone*, has been granted!

* man alone, apart from animals, angels & (to be) equaled only by God.