Perhaps for each you’ll agree: ‘That would work, and let’s do it now!’

Finger pointing is rampant and dominating the conversation, massive problems are re-crisply defined and loudly complained about, news shows and documentaries routinely close with the thought “challenges are still everywhere and getting worse, concrete rational proposals of/for working solutions are still rare to non-existent.” This column details only 17 of God’s concrete rational Ideas, Cures that will indeed Solve all; much is olden copy from olden column that has today been modified a bunch for (hopefully) additional clarity; I’m repeating some chunks of it now because everybody is throwing their hands up in the air now, and saying “what will we do?!” Now. And I’ve decided to repeat these 17 (and more!) every two years with delight. Baha’is are Called to pray three times a day, our Lord knows the Value Of Repetition. I am just trying with all of my might to get your real attention. I’m loving this stuff and I must try to (however clumsily) share it. Ye will know Him not by His manner of initial appearance (Ta-Dah!!), but rather “by His fruits.” – (God)

Hello friends! Every Prophet of God reveals two sets of laws, the eternally unchanging spiritual laws, and the routinely changing social laws. Recall that Jesus Christ abrogated the Mosaic social law of divorce, etc., fomenting much tumult.

As regards to the unchanging spiritual laws, here is Jesus speaking about them as He speaks of His promised Return “in the glory of the Father”: “He shall … bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26).

Exactly what Jesus meant by this is found in my Baha’i community’s Mukilteo Beacon Weekly Worship column published Jan. 22, 2020. (bit.ly/3q7Ev2I) There, in a small space, the eternally unchanging spiritual laws of God! There, Jesus Christ, in His new attire, re-voicing our Lord’s absolutes, is boggling in Its content, its rhetoric, and the neon-unavoidableness of its Divine authority and power, defying the most brilliant writer’s pen.

As regards to the routinely and necessarily changing social laws in each of God’s Revelations, always changing appropriately to match the particular exigencies of the day, here is Jesus speaking, again, about His promised Return:

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear them now.” For instance: The Blueprints for the structure of God’s World Peace and The Handbook With The Instructions For The Manner Of Its Effecting would have been vastly premature 2,000 years ago, when for most people The World was 60 miles across. Jesus continues: “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you unto all truth …” (John 16:12-13). What Jesus meant by this, I respectfully proffer to you in today’s column. This is the stuff. What follows is a list (not literally scripture, but rather my arbitrary list) of a portion of things that God revealed in 1844, things that Baha’is believe, and among them are several of God’s new social laws; please see/weigh them! Please see if you find them to be appropriate (Godly!) for the particular exigencies of this day:

1: The oneness of God – The unity of God, one loving creator

2: The oneness of religion – The foundation of all religions is one: our one God

3: Religion must be the cause of unity –The fundamental purpose of relig ion is to promote concord and harmony, in this world and the next

4: The oneness of God’s Prophets – Their essential Unity, “They all have but one purpose; Their secret is the same secret.” (quotation from the Baha’i Writings)

5: Progressive revelation – Spiritual laws are eternal, but since the social laws are always based on the current day’s demands, God’s Revelation of (progressive!) social laws is not fixed, but rather is renewed in cycles, as mankind’s capacity grows; as we can bear it. (Exactly as we teach our children.)

6: The oneness of mankind – Unity in diversity. Not homogenous at all, but rather preserving and cherishing diversity

7: Equality between men and women –In education and power; equal opportunity, rights, and privileges

8: The abolition of all forms of prejudice –Re 6,000 years of war every day: “… that war was due to either religious prejudice, racial prejudice, political prejudice or patriotic prejudice. It has therefore been ascertaine d and proved that all prejudices are destructive of the human edifice.” (quotation from the Baha’i Writings)

9: The independent investigation of truth

–A search unfettered by mere imitation

10: The harmony of science and relig ion –Religion must accord with science and reason

11: Universal compulsory education – If a family cannot afford this, the spiritual community will finance it

12: A spiritual solution to the economic problem – The abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty; a voluntary sharing that shall be sufficient (i.e.: the Golden Rule in effect.)

13: The integration of worship and service –God exalts work performed in the spirit of service to the rank of worship

14: The adoption of a universal auxiliary language – To be chosen and taught worldwide in addition to the mother tongue

15: The decentralization of administration –All B aha’is are equal. All are to teach, if only to share their individual paths taken; all leadership is vested in elected groups, each of which has re-elections, all by secret ballots (No campaigning, No nominating) every one to five years

16: Universal peace upheld by a world federation – God’s Blueprints and Instructions For Assembly Of “… on earth as it is in heaven.” (You see, when Christ Returned in 1844 He DID “bring” world peace, it’s just that “Some Assembly Is Required.” God indeed provides way sufficiently for the birds, but He does not “place the food in” their mouths.)

17: A binding international tribunal – This worldwide mutually sanctioned assemblage will be majority ruled (by mutually sanctioned and previously-agreed-upon-by-allas-fair representational voting apportionment!) and nobody has veto power. Result. And again, result.

Notice how God’s ideas are way better than many of ours.

When speaking of His promised Return, Christ said that He had “… yet many things to say unto you …” and that “He … shall shew it unto you,” and then shortly thereafter, He said “My sheep hear my voice.”

And that is exactly why the galvanizing Scripture before your eyes in Jan. 22, 2020’s column sounds exactly like God, and why the 17 trumpet blasts listed above were extraordinarily prescient for having see ARLIN page 15 u on the defensive end at the end of the second quarter.

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Foster drove deep into Mariner territory and was poised to score what could have been the game-tying touchdown with time winding down in the first half. Instead, Cuellar picked off a pass five yards deep in the end zone and sprinted 105 yards for a touchdown to give the Marauders a momentum-shifting 18-6 halftime lead.

“I saw a whole army of men blocking for me,” Cuellar said. Cuellar scored on a 10-yard run on the first drive of the third quarter and found Mackey James on a 70yard scoring strike. Junior running back Kelvin Iaulualo closed out the scoring with a 2-yard run.

“Our line was opening up good holes and blocking really well,” Cuellar said. “We all just work as a team.”

Foster scored a late touchdown in the fourth quarter.

“Our defense did very, very well,” Tuiasosopo said. “It took them a second to get going. But I’m very happy with the team defense.”

The Marauders forced two fumbles and picked off one pass. Mariner limited the Bulldogs to only seven first downs, while the Marauder offense finished with 14.

Tuiasosopo wasn’t too concerned about the two interceptions. He told his quarterbacks that he wanted them to be aggressive. “We’re going from a wing-T running heavy system and transitioning into the pass game,” he said. “It’s going to take a little bit. So that’s what we wanted to see tonight. We wanted to see the growing pains.” been Announced 178 years ago. (!) Might you agree?

Mariner (1-0) outgained Foster (0-1) 466 yards to 132 yards. Cuellar and Bagley completed seven of 13 passes for 206 yards, while the Mariner ground game amassed 216 yards. The two interceptions were the only Marauder turnovers.

Up next for Mariner is its home opener against Everett at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at Goddard Stadium. The Seagulls (0-1) lost 34-20 to Issaquah. The Marauders open league play against Glacier Peak on Friday, Sept. 30.

Mariner running back Cartez Williams celebrates a touchdown with teammate Vicente Cienega-Alonso during a nonconference game against Foster Friday, Sept. 2, at Foster High School in Tukwila.

Jesus’ quote is: “Ye shall know Him by His fruits. (Author’s Question!:) Might we take Jesus Christ at His Word??

The loving followers of Moses were taught that their upcoming Messiah would be All Glory, All The Time! An All-Glorious king! With an All-Subduing Sword! And a Marvelous Throne! Instantly restoring righteousness instantly!

But God in His Wisdom had His Son appear “in the clouds” (!) with His (God-Intended!) “veils” of appearing as a carpenter’s son, a mere Nazarene commoner! But, lo! It was common knowledge that “Nothing good comes out of Nazareth!” Yet God’s Son’s appearance was all humility and servitude, all love and sacrifice, and all mixed with tossing the money-changers out of the Temple, and breaking Mosaic law and changing the day of the Sabbath! It turns out that “only those who had (blessed and spiritual) eyes” could “see” Him.

God has used that same device, again. As promised, Christ returned as a thief in the night, and “caught many unawares” In 1844. For Biblical backup, please google how the Millerites looked (correctly!) at the Book of Daniel, re 1844. (For the finest of tuning, please read “Thief In The Night” by William Sears!)

My question again is: might we take Jesus Christ at His Word? That “Ye shall know Him by His fruits”? Might we cease insisting upon The Miraculous Moment Of Technicolor Grandeur Overwhelming All In A Split-Second that we so cling to and insist upon? Might Jesus’ personally spoken promise of “His fruits” being sufficient massively supersede the well-intentioned guesses of our ancient mortal leaders, our Prophecy-interpretation-guesses from centuries ago?

(Author’s Message!:)

The answer is exactly yes, we can take Jesus Christ at His Word. We shall know Him by His fruits. Lucky us! So, be sure to look at fruits proffered. Like perhaps the bell-ringing Scripture published Jan. 22, 2020, or maybe one more look at those 17 concrete actual solutions listed above. Just trying to help.

In closing, From the Writings of Baha’u’llah:

“The mystic and wondrous Bride, hidden ere this beneath the veil of utterance, hath now, by the grace of God and His divine favor, been made manifest even as the re-