DEFEATING GOLIATH
Words are abstractions of things that label places, people, and objects. They describe subjects and points of view, record history, and create cultural documents that relate to generations. The information has a source that comes from history, but it may not yet be manifest if it is describing something not yet seen in the material realm. Words are signposts that give understanding of context. Words speak directives as they may create action and tell of a certain time in history that names or relates to a people.
Moses received instructions to lead the children of Israel out of their slavery. David confronted Goliath with the words he believed from his heart, that he could bring Goliath down. Yet this was also backed up by the constant training he had been prepared for in the field when he brought down the lion and bear, even with his bare hands. He was put in a situation that taught him to conquer with his continual practice, his belief in himself to do what was impossible for others was as simple as using one small stone to defeat what was coming against Israel in that generation. Today, there are many giants to overcome in different lands with their own Goliaths that hold back people. Goliath could be described as strong. His objective is to defend territory. It may be in education, business, families, politics, or social life.
Goliath is symbolic of a warrior who will use intimidation, depending on the sphere in which he stands. Land is symbolic of possession. The children of Israel were defeated in their minds; it was not a physical reality. It came through small suggestions that created doubt in their minds, except for two: Jacob and Caleb out of six million. There is so much we can learn from these statistics that even though God had opened the red sea and drowned all the enemies and provided for them in the wilderness and raised up a shepherd that would lead them out they still had the mentality from their captivity in Egypt which ultimately meant that they would never possess the land. If we are observant today, we see that the same battle won in people's minds is the same strategy used on the masses, explaining why people never progress.
Much evidence in the material world may come to hinder, distract, seduce, entrap, dislodge, victimize, or deceive in one trillion different ways. This is why we were created to function from the word of his instruction written on our hearts. It is not in physical things already manifested in the material world. We must embrace first principles as the keys to life, not the descriptions or labels culture gives us. This is where we must separate information. There are many ideas our culture has given us, take the common gender ideals that have created many neologisms that did not exist even fifty years ago. Still, God said he made mankind female and male, so the superior source is not what the world has debated as an alternative.
In contrast, the female gender in Iran is shaped differently than in Western culture. Does it make one right and not the other? No, the reason why women are suppressed in many nations is a result of the curse and a lack of understanding of our origins before the fall, where all the truth of life abides. God’s original intent. This is one example of a Goliath that needs defeating, but it’s nothing on the outside: it’s in people's minds. How do you create slaves of any culture? It can happen in religion or any field of life through achieving consensus with agreed-upon definitions and labels that produce a shared perspective. One of the fastest ways to discover this is in today's world. When we interact with different cultures, we soon find that their philosophies and perspectives differ from ours due to exposure to other information. One culture is not inherently better than another, as we are often biased by our own cultural background. It has been so naturalised that when an idea is repeated repeatedly, it becomes the default setting in the mind.
Take, for instance, a rationalist, a religious or an atheist, any starting point, you may be a Marxist, a capitalist, you may have goals that you want to buy a house, have a big family, live by the sea. We need to stop right here. The fact that people identify with those thoughts means they have been socialised into some system. As an example, right from birth, we are socialised by a discursive system of meanings, such as your parents saying you will be a doctor, they can label you and give you all kinds of ideas that may not be what God created you for. We are socialised by the politics in our land, as well as the economics, religion, and culture, all of which we did not choose for ourselves.
This depends on where we are born on the world map, meaning my life and yours would be so different if we were born in another culture, meaning all the discursive systems of meanings that shape our views of the world were not by our choice. This is where we find the tension between the ideas continuously sown into our minds and what is true. When an idea has been sold to the subconscious repeatedly, it has no form of resistance; it cannot differentiate truth from lies. It is only in the conscious mind that it can reject or accept. Before the age of seven, we had no resistance. This is when the identity of the self is shaped, based on ideas about family, religion, and every idea that one has been exposed to. Just look at how an accent is formed without your conscious consent.
Unless you are exposed to superior information, that will generally set the trajectory of your path. Even the Bible says, "train a child in the way he should go and he will not depart from it." The building blocks of life are words. Yet there is another layer of complexity: the word that serves as a signpost for a tree is related to an image that may come from your culture, with meanings that are not inherent in the tree itself but socially constructed by culture with a narrative. This narrative may be shared within a culture as it has been passed down through generations, much like Santa Claus and many other cultural symbols shaped by meaning.
We often do not notice these meanings as they have become like the fuselage on a plane; people identify words and ideas as who they are, with their identity. You can see this in nationalism when a person has identified so much with their culture that comes from the earth, they are sentimental to the point that they will fight and debate that their culture is superior to any other culture on this earth. If humanity has come from the same source, it depends on the reason for creation. Culture is man-made, but the originator of mankind has the original intent for his creation. God does not have favourites; he chose Israel as his firstborn son. He likens a nation to one son. That means other sons relate to different cultures.
God chose Abraham because He was certain he would teach His truth to the next generation. Abraham is the father of faith, who gave birth to the seed that would redeem all nations back to Him. The seed was not born until around 2000 years later. Today, the messianic message that the kingdom of God has come is not in the future but now. We have access to everything just by faith, not by works. This is related to the kingdom culture, which is relevant to all humankind because it is the truth that we are made not only of flesh and blood but of the Spirit, which is the part of us that lives forevermore. It is the second death that matters more than the first. There are universal truths that relate to all humankind, not just to one culture. This is why we must separate words and meanings that come from the earth or the mind of God. You can tell the difference by observing whether the information relates to a specific group of people or to all of creation. Life or death is in the words that produce meanings.
DEFEATING GOLIATH
Words are abstractions of things that label places, people, and objects. They describe subjects and points of view, record history, and create cultural documents that relate to generations. The information has a source that comes from history, but it may not yet be manifest if it is describing something not yet seen in the material realm. Words are signposts that give understanding of context. Words speak directives as they may create action and tell of a certain time in history that names or relates to a people.
Moses received instructions to lead the children of Israel out of their slavery. David confronted Goliath with the words he believed from his heart, that he could bring Goliath down. Yet this was also backed up by the constant training he had been prepared for in the field when he brought down the lion and bear, even with his bare hands. He was put in a situation that taught him to conquer with his continual practice, his belief in himself to do what was impossible for others was as simple as using one small stone to defeat what was coming against Israel in that generation. Today, there are many giants to overcome in different lands with their own Goliaths that hold back people. Goliath could be described as strong. His objective is to defend territory. It may be in education, business, families, politics, or social life.
Goliath is symbolic of a warrior who will use intimidation, depending on the sphere in which he stands. Land is symbolic of possession. The children of Israel were defeated in their minds; it was not a physical reality. It came through small suggestions that created doubt in their minds, except for two: Jacob and Caleb out of six million. There is so much we can learn from these statistics that even though God had opened the red sea and drowned all the enemies and provided for them in the wilderness and raised up a shepherd that would lead them out they still had the mentality from their captivity in Egypt which ultimately meant that they would never possess the land. If we are observant today, we see that the same battle won in people's minds is the same strategy used on the masses, explaining why people never progress.
Much evidence in the material world may come to hinder, distract, seduce, entrap, dislodge, victimize, or deceive in one trillion different ways. This is why we were created to function from the word of his instruction written on our hearts. It is not in physical things already manifested in the material world. We must embrace first principles as the keys to life, not the descriptions or labels culture gives us. This is where we must separate information. There are many ideas our culture has given us, take the common gender ideals that have created many neologisms that did not exist even fifty years ago. Still, God said he made mankind female and male, so the superior source is not what the world has debated as an alternative.
In contrast, the female gender in Iran is shaped differently than in Western culture. Does it make one right and not the other? No, the reason why women are suppressed in many nations is a result of the curse and a lack of understanding of our origins before the fall, where all the truth of life abides. God’s original intent. This is one example of a Goliath that needs defeating, but it’s nothing on the outside: it’s in people's minds. How do you create slaves of any culture? It can happen in religion or any field of life through achieving consensus with agreed-upon definitions and labels that produce a shared perspective. One of the fastest ways to discover this is in today's world. When we interact with different cultures, we soon find that their philosophies and perspectives differ from ours due to exposure to other information. One culture is not inherently better than another, as we are often biased by our own cultural background. It has been so naturalised that when an idea is repeated repeatedly, it becomes the default setting in the mind.
Take, for instance, a rationalist, a religious or an atheist, any starting point, you may be a Marxist, a capitalist, you may have goals that you want to buy a house, have a big family, live by the sea. We need to stop right here. The fact that people identify with those thoughts means they have been socialised into some system. As an example, right from birth, we are socialised by a discursive system of meanings, such as your parents saying you will be a doctor, they can label you and give you all kinds of ideas that may not be what God created you for. We are socialised by the politics in our land, as well as the economics, religion, and culture, all of which we did not choose for ourselves.
This depends on where we are born on the world map, meaning my life and yours would be so different if we were born in another culture, meaning all the discursive systems of meanings that shape our views of the world were not by our choice. This is where we find the tension between the ideas continuously sown into our minds and what is true. When an idea has been sold to the subconscious repeatedly, it has no form of resistance; it cannot differentiate truth from lies. It is only in the conscious mind that it can reject or accept. Before the age of seven, we had no resistance. This is when the identity of the self is shaped, based on ideas about family, religion, and every idea that one has been exposed to. Just look at how an accent is formed without your conscious consent.
Unless you are exposed to superior information, that will generally set the trajectory of your path. Even the Bible says, "train a child in the way he should go and he will not depart from it." The building blocks of life are words. Yet there is another layer of complexity: the word that serves as a signpost for a tree is related to an image that may come from your culture, with meanings that are not inherent in the tree itself but socially constructed by culture with a narrative. This narrative may be shared within a culture as it has been passed down through generations, much like Santa Claus and many other cultural symbols shaped by meaning.
We often do not notice these meanings as they have become like the fuselage on a plane; people identify words and ideas as who they are, with their identity. You can see this in nationalism when a person has identified so much with their culture that comes from the earth, they are sentimental to the point that they will fight and debate that their culture is superior to any other culture on this earth. If humanity has come from the same source, it depends on the reason for creation. Culture is man-made, but the originator of mankind has the original intent for his creation. God does not have favourites; he chose Israel as his firstborn son. He likens a nation to one son. That means other sons relate to different cultures.
God chose Abraham because He was certain he would teach His truth to the next generation. Abraham is the father of faith, who gave birth to the seed that would redeem all nations back to Him. The seed was not born until around 2000 years later. Today, the messianic message that the kingdom of God has come is not in the future but now. We have access to everything just by faith, not by works. This is related to the kingdom culture, which is relevant to all humankind because it is the truth that we are made not only of flesh and blood but of the Spirit, which is the part of us that lives forevermore. It is the second death that matters more than the first. There are universal truths that relate to all humankind, not just to one culture. This is why we must separate words and meanings that come from the earth or the mind of God. You can tell the difference by observing whether the information relates to a specific group of people or to all of creation. Life or death is in the words that produce meanings.
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