CommuniChristi.

Some time ago I spotted about a dozen books grouped together in a public library.  They were all looking for an ancient obelisk that had, reportedly got itself lost, most inconveniently, under sand dunes or under the dead sea.  Once this hidden decoding key was found, all the secrets of the Bible would be revealed & his kingdom come on earth etc, etc. I was stunned, that a group of educated & intelligent men could devote so much time & effort to this bizarre proposition.

The next day I had a working lunch in a Sydney pub. (as you do)
I pondered the issue… Y-H-W-H is a God bought forth by the Patriarchs.
Who were the Patriarchs… a group of grumpy old men off their times.
Who am I having lunch with today… a group of grumpy old men off my times.

If the Bible is the day to day living guide to mans concerns for all of time, is the hidden key that reveals its secrets; likely to be found in some ancient obelisk that got itself stupidly lost, or more likely to be found in the day to day concerns of responsible & decent living men in our times.

When I look at Abraham, Isaac & Jacob particularly, I find they were not so much learned men, as worldly men with many worldly responsibilities. They were not formally learned to a doctoral or professorial standard as is the office of Rabbi or Bishop. The sum of their worldly experience had led them to believe humanity needed to reform. They were worldly men who had come to cherish the most high God in their hearts. The spirit of God had come upon them. The spirit off the most high God of Israel, specifically. They were men in positions off influence from which they could initiate changes. As such they performed the role of Patrons or sponsors, rather than the role of Rabbi’s, Bishops or Professors.

It is we the Patriarchs who first bought forth the most high God, & it is we who maintain oversight until the end of time.

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If we have to come out of retirement to put it all back on course from time to time…

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.                                                      that’s what we do.

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On my capacity to discharge the office of Gods Patriarch. (Assumed after an encounter with the tantalizing Elijah)

All administration will work if power & responsibility are equal & co-ordinate & vested in one place.  It may work well or it make work badly; you still have to work & struggle for it, but it will at least work.

When God commanded Noah ~build me an ark~ he did not stick him with the impossible, he also gave him the working plans to build a boat that big.

When God commanded Moses ~set my people free~ he did not leave Moses to flounder under an impossible charge, but supported him with the practical instruments & powers necessary to achieve it.

In both cases power & responsibility were equal & co-ordinate & vested in one place.  They were not given unlimited power (No mortal can have that) but given power & practical instruments specific to the task at hand, & sufficient for the task at hand.  Both still had to struggle & work for it, & their efforts were subject to the vagaries of human error.  We all have our faults. Yet because power & practical instruments were vested in proportion to the demands of the task, with faith in God, their tasks were accomplished.

When called to the office of Patriarch, ~address current problems in the family of Abraham~ I was not stuck with an absurd & impossible responsibility; but is his grace, I was endowed with the powers & practical instruments specific to the task at hand, & sufficient to the task.  I have to work & struggle for it, still have the failures of my own faults & inadequacies, oh me of little faith; but I am given all the means to make it a viable project, with faith in him it can be done.

…… …        Ken Maynard.      Patriarch… family of Abraham

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