Greetings, dearest Gumby... and may you have peace!
You asked some "valid" questions, and the answers have already been written some letters to others, so if you will bear with me, I will respond by quoting them:
Yes Shelby....he is quite the loving daddy isn't he?
Yes, He is, Gumby. I cannot apologize for that.
The only problem is he doesn't love ALL his kids does he?
He most certain does. However, contrary to popular belief, not ALL... are His kids:
"The children of God and the children of the Devil are EVIDENT by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness (an no, that does not mean fleshly perfection - Luke 18:10-14) does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should have love for one another; NOT like Cain, who originated with the wicked one... and slaughtered his brother."
"You are from your father, the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began.."
Who are His children?
"You heard that it was said, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy,' (which hearing was a LIE, for Ex. 23:4 said what we SHOULD do...). However, I say to you: Continue to LOVE your enemy and to PRAY for those persecuting you; that you may PROVE yourselves sons of your Father who is in the heavens, since He makes His sun rise upon wicked people AND good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous. For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Are not the tax collectors doing the same thing? And if you greet your brothers ONLY, what extraordinary thing are you doing? Are not also the people of the nations doing the same thing? YOU... must accordingly be perfect (in LOVE), as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Some of his kids do not get gifts
"Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the celestial lights, and with Him there is not a variation of the turning of the shadow."
"Therefore, if you, although being wicked, now how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more will the Father in heaven give holy spirit... to those asking Him."
or let in on what his FAVORITE kids get in on.
But these operations the one and same spirit performs, making a distribution to each one respectively just as IT wills. For the Body is one but has many members and all the members of that body, although being many, are ONE Body, so also is the Christ. For the Body, indeed, is not one member, but many. If the foot should say: Because I am not a hand I am no part of the body, it is not for this reason no part of the body. And if the ear should say: Because I am not an eye, I am no part of the body, it is not for this reason no part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the smelling be?
But now God has set the members in the Body, each one of them, just as HE pleases.
The eye cannot say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again, the head to the feet: I have no need of you.
Accorgingly, when he caught sight of him, Peter said to JahEshua: Lord, what will this man do? JahEshua said to him, If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?
The favorites of your dad is you and all others who were fortunate enough to have heard the good news about Jesus and his dad .
How will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to herald? How, in turn, will they herald unless they have been sent forth?
Nevertheless, they did not ALL obey the good news. For Isaiah says, JAH, who will put faith in the thing heard from us [the prophets]?
I was not a prophet, neither was I the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a nipper of figs of sycamore trees. And JAH proceeded to take me from following the flock, and JAH went on to say to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
Happy you are when people reproach you for my sake. for in that same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
So faith follows the thing heard. In turn, the thing heard is through the word about the Christ.
When the Son of Man arrives, will he really find faith in the earth?
Your dad has not let the other kids hear about him and his son very much.....just that some people believe in them. There are billions of your dads kids he doesn't talk to about his son.
And this good news of the kingdom [the news about the Christ and his redeeming death that can repurchase any who partake of his sacrificial flesh and blood IN FAITH so as to be able to approach God THROUGH that One and ask and receive holy spirit and forgiveness] will be heralded in ALL the inhabited earth for a witness to ALL the nations
He lets people get murdered who try and go over there and tell them about your dad and his son.
A slave is not greater than his master; if they persecuted me they will persecute you also.
I'll bet if the kids in donkey's story would have known more about your dad and his son.....they wouldn't have had to gone through the torture.
(Hmmmm and whose responsibility was it to TELL them about my dad and his son? And what was such one to tell them?)
Listen, O, Israel, JAH is your God. And you must love JAH your God with all our heart and all your soul and all your vital force. And these words that I am commanding you must prove to be on YOUR heart, and you must inculcate them in YOUR son
And one of them, versed in the Law, asked, testing him: Teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the Law? He said to him: You must love JAH your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. The second, like it, is this, You must love your neighbor as yourself.
(Somehow, dear Gumby, I dont think the kids fleshly dad in this case, took his seriously obviously, really and thats quite unfortunate. Truly.)
Tell me Shelby....is your dad ever going to speak to the rest of humanity
For YOU have NOT approached that which can be FELT (physically) and which has been set aflame with fire, and a dark a cloud and thick darkness and a tempest, and the blare of a trumpet and THE VOICE OF WORDS (which are heard with ears of flesh)
YOU have approached a Mt. Zion and a city of the living God HEAVENLY (spiritual) Jerusalem
See that you do not BEG OFF from him who IS speaking. For they did not escape [those] who begged off from Him who was giving divine warning upon the earth; much MORE shall we not if we turn away from him WHO SPEAKS FROM THE HEAVENS.
The kingdom is in your MIDST.
The kingdom is INSIDE you.
MY sheep know my voice.
BEFORE he comes and kills everyone except you and your Christian brothers and sisters?
(I think you err in your assertion of kills everyone except [me and my] christian brothers and sisters)
When the Son of Man arrives in his glory then he will sit down on his glorious throne, and all the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate people one from another And he will put the goats on his left.
Then he will say, in turn, to those on his left, Be on your way FROM me, you who have been cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. For I became hungry, but you gave me nothing to eat, and I got thirsty, but you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, but you did not receive me hospitably; naked, but you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, but you did not look after me. Then they will answer with the words, Lord, WHEN did we see YOU hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you? Then he will answer them with the words, Truly I say to you: To the extent that you did NOT do it to these LEAST ones (notice the word brothers is not here), you did NOT do it to me. And these will depart into everlasting cutting off.
But wanting to prove HIMself righteous, the man said to JahEshua: Who really IS my neighbor? In reply, JahEshua said: A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who both stripped him and inflicted blows, and went off, leaving him half-dead. Now, by coincidence, a certain priest was going down over that road, but, when he saw him, he went by on the opposite side. Likewise, a Levite also, when he got down to the place and saw him, went by on the opposite side. But a certain Samaritan traveling the road came upon him and, at seeing him, he was moved with PITY. So he approached him and bound up his wounds mounted him upon his own beast and brought him to an inn and TOOK CARE OF HIM. Who of these three seems to YOU to have made himself neighbor to the man that fell among the robbers? He said: The one that acted mercifully.
Jews have NO dealings with Samaritans
(And yet, the Jewish mans enemy and therefore, also considered an enemy of God, yes? a Samaritan is the one who PROVED himself a son of God although NOT a Jew by LOVING his enemy.)
BTW...your dad is behind in his child support by a few trillion dollars! Those are HIS kids aren't they that are starving to death?
(Ummm as you enjoy your breakfast/lunch/dinner today, you might consider the following):
Am I my brothers keeper?
Should the fast that I choose become like this, as a day for earthling man to afflict his soul (body)? Is it this that you call a fast and a day acceptable to JAH? Is THIS not the fast that I choose? To LOOSEN the fetters of wickedness, to RELEASE the bands of the yoke bar, and to send the crushed ones away FREE, and that you people should tear in two EVERY yoke bar? Is it not the DIVIDING OF YOUR BREAD OUT TO THE HUNGRY ONE, and that YOU should bring the afflicted, homeless people into YOUR house? That, in case you should see someone naked, YOU must cover him, and YOU should not hide yourself from YOUR OWN flesh (family)? In THAT case, YOUR light would break forth just like the dawn; and speedily recuperation would spring up for YOU. And before YOU, YOUR righteousness would certainly walk; the very glory of JAH would be YOUR rear guard. In THAT case YOU would call AND JAH HIMSELF WOULD ANSWER; YOU would cry for help and HE would say HERE I AM!
If YOU will remove from YOUR midst the yoke bar, the poking out of the finger and speaking of what is hurtful; and YOU will grant to the hungry one your OWN desire, and YOU will satisfy the soul that is being afflicted, YOUR light also will certainly flash up even in the darkness and YOUR gloom would be like midday.
And JAH will be BOUND to lead you CONSTANTLY and to satisfy YOUR soul even in a SCORCHED land, and He will invigorate YOUR very bones; and YOU will become like a well-watered garden and like the SOURCE of water, the waters of which do not lie. And at YOUR instance, men will certainly build up the places devastated a long time; YOU will raise up even FOUNDATIONS of CONTINUOUS generations. And you will actually be called the repairer of the gap, the restorer of roadways by which to dwell.
If, in view of the Sabbath (which is EVERYDAY, as Christ is now Lord of the Sabbath) you will turn back your foot as regards doing your OWN delights on my holy day, and will actually call the Sabbath (day of rest from OUR own works) an EXQUISITE DELIGHT a HOLY day of JAH one being GLORIFIED and will ACTUALLY glorify it (by doing HIS works) rather than doing your OWN ways, rather than finding what delights YOU and speaking a word you WILL in THAT case find your exquisite delight in JAH and I will make YOU ride upon the high places of the earth and I will cause YOU to eat from the hereditary possession of Jacob, your forefather, for the Word of JAH has SPOKEN it.
(Again, when you are going about the routines of YOUR life, dear Gumby, eating your plentiful meals at least, in comparison to some you think about whether or not YOUR support is in arrears. Take the rafter out of your OWN eye before you try to take a straw out of Gods.)
And, as always I bid you the GREATEST of love and peace.
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SJ