Listening To God: When Things Go Wrong, He's Saying "You Have Got The Wrong God. Can't You Hear Me Knocking?"

God has shown me one of the greatest Gospel songs of all time: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. I am concerned for all the stress and heartbreak and suffering in China and everywhere else. Toxins, pollution, fraud, theft, corruption, evil government, floods, drought, kidnapping, bankruptcy, organ harvesting, joblessness, persecution--the list goes on and on. Many people are devastated, at wits' end, desperate, and there is no relief. Then I saw it's God talking: "You've got the wrong God." Things go well when you've got the right God. Things going bad is His saying, "You've got the wrong God." When you see in life that God makes the sun to shine and the rain to fall on both the good and the wicked, but things go well for the believers who do well and evil for the ones who do certain evil, it's like, "Hey, there's a god, a real god--the real God--that discriminates between good and evil and who has the power--real power--to make things go good or bad depending upon whether He is your god or something else is your god. Something else has been my god; I'm going to make this God my God."

Good or bad, it is God talking. Listen. Can't you hear Him knocking?

PS: The Suffering Servant took all "things going wrong" upon Himself. For so He was destined from before that the world was. The Aramaic, according to Alexander, says that on the cross Jesus said, "Unto this You destined Me."

On The "You" In Mark 4:11

This is on the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4. People call it the Parable of the Soils, because there are four soils we may be. But the point of the parable is that God sows His Word upon all soils. It isn't that the type of soil we are receives the Word, and the others don't (yea for us); it's that we may help the other types of soil to receive and understand God's illustrative language also. For God speaks to us in illustrations. Yes, God is after us, but He is also after THEM. Can we help the backward ones understand the Word they receive all day everyday?

I hold that that which we call God is the consciousness of the Ineffable No-thing, which consciousness has been generated, i.e., developed through self-discovery, over eternal time past. The Eternal (the One God Who is a Spiritual Unity) has been around for a very, very long time. During that time He has been becoming self-aware--conscious of what He is, what He wants to be, what He doesn't want to be, and how to get there.

From the Ineffable No-thing has come Its own consciousness, and from Its consciousness has come Its Milta (Aramaic), the Manifestation of Allaha, the Godhead. The Milta is (hayah) Jesus, and we are in the middle of that--bits of the Ineffable's consciousness becoming manifest.

God is hard-wired to become. What He becomes is also Him (hence both He and we are imagination). And just as over time He has developed and matured into what He is today, so must that which He becomes develop and mature into that which He is today. Do you see the problem here? It takes time to generate the self-awareness and God-awareness necessary to convert this (arms waving all around to indicate everything in the world) into His developed and mature manifestation.

Now, in Mark 4:11 there is a you spoken of: "And Eashoa told them, 'To you has been given the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, but for the outsiders* (lit: "the backward ones"), everything happens through parables'" (Alexander). The "parables" Jesus speaks of are God's Word the Sower sows to the backward ones--the rest of mankind--throughout their lives, in hopes of their becoming you. The parables of God are everything that happens to them that they do not understand, because they do not know the vocabulary of God. You do, he says, because when they were by themselves, they asked him, those that were with him, together with his Twelve, about the parables.

He is feeding us and hiding from the others? No. A lamp is lit to be set on a lamp stand. By what we measure it will be measured unto us, and more will be given. Just cast seed on the soil--all soils, but wisely--and let it surprise you.

Mark 4:10-11: Pray For All Man--Another Perspective On The Parable Of The Sower: God Is Not Indifferent

I misread Mark 4:10-11 for forty-eight years. 

"When they were by themselves, they asked him, those that were with him, together with his Twelve, about the parables. And Jesus told them, 'To you has been given the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, but for the outsiders* (lit: "backward ones"), everything happens through parables'" (Alexander).

I always understood (incorrectly) that it was Jesus' twelve disciples who asked him what the Parable of the Sower meant. Instead, it was "you," "those that were with him," those to whom the doctrine of the Kingdom of God has been given. I want to mention that the twelve "disciples" of Jesus are aspects/facets of his character and being. They are basically his strengths, attributes of his integrity. We can be "together with his Twelve" by being like him. Note also that it was "when they were by themselves." When they were communing with God alone?

We hear, repeatedly, that this parable is about the Word of God, the Gospel being broadcast in the world, and the four different kinds of "soils" who hear the report: those by the wayside, those who are stony ground, among the thorns, and those who are good soil. Every preacher will tell you to be good, receptive soil.

But the focus of the parable is not just on "you," you being the ones who seek Jesus and the truth of God after the show. Yes, you will find God when you seek Him with all your heart, but the parable is indicating something else: the Sower Who sows His Word on the backward ones who do not respond and/or persevere. He WANTS them to be saved. He is seeking the ones who are not among "you."

God is not indifferent to the miseries man suffers. He is not hiding. God is showing Himself, but man does not hear, because GOD SPEAKS TO US IN ILLUSTRATIONS, which are as parables to the unenlightened. Man sees God's display, His sown Word, as parables. What we misunderstand is the fact that WE have GOD'S divine sovereignty over our lives. We do not catch what the parables mean or imply, and live our lives as unto ourselves IN REBELLION. God gives us HIS Life, and we use it amiss . . . which sovereign acts He respects unto our condemnation. Becoming the "you" in Mark 4:11is conditional. It is for those who are with Jesus, together with his Twelve. The Parable of the Sower is Jesus waving a flag: "Help. Pray for the other soils!! Pray that they will perceive the Word, that they will see, that they will listen, that they will understand, search, and find He Who is seeking them.