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Crushingly tired this morning
Took 20 minutes to get off the couch

BROCCOLI DISASTER.
Apparently aldi got a bad harvest again
SIX BAGS ALL YELLOW & BROWN. WTF

Weight spiked due to the binge. Scary.
Trying to cut calories for real today especially because it's Saint Michael's Lent
Update = FATHER E SAID "NO"
CUTTING CALORIES WOULD NOT BE AN ACT OF PURE-MOTIVE DEVOTION ON YOUR PART AND YOU KNOW IT
UPDATE TWO = TONY SAID READ THAT BOOK ON SCRUPULOSITY INSTEAD!!!!

CONFESSION
ADORATION ROSARY
BLOODWORK
FAX LETTER
SHAHROOZ BIRTHDAY SOON

CONVICTED YET CONSOLED AGAIN
https://youtu.be/pkpl7WToOdA?is=HVjMNu6esBalC1_F

SUPER LATE BK because we did SO MUCH READING
I think that, for a while now, I am going to take time every night SPECIFICALLY to type about what we read in TWOIP.
It's too important to neglect. It demands serious reflection in order to be fully and properly integrated. So I MUST put in the time and effort diligently and dutifully to do so.


Evening =
Hemp cleanout panic purge

Night =
Ate too late too fast
BINGEPURGE
EVERY TIME WE OVERSOCIALIZE THIS HAPPENS???????


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I'm ACTUALLY going to CHERRYPICK from one last Protestant commentary that we haven't done before because even a brief glance at it shows that it is DANGEROUS.
So I will only list here what strikes me as truly edifying and in harmony with Catholic truth, and leave the rest as is.

https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/kng/hebrews-11.html
⚠️MAJOR MARNING = DISPENSATIONALISM ⚠️
(i.e. five solas, no unified historical church, premillennialism, Christian zionism, literal interpretation of Scripture, rapture, no purgatory, only 2 sacraments, no pope, penal substitutionary atonement)
[SO YEAH YOU CAN SEE WHY I AM SERIOUSLY AVOIDING GETTING TANGLED UP IN THAT SCARY MESS]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🔥🔥🔥🔥[The legacies] of persons who have LIVED BY FAITH... have PROVEN the POWER and the WORKING of faith... All these examples are quoted... in order to SHOW the Hebrews, and also you, what a person who LIVES BY FAITH is CAPABLE of.
[This is so galvanizing. If God never changes, then in a sense, our faith in Him never changes in a substantial sense-- and therefore, yes, ALL these "powerful works" of faith that these heroes of old accomplished ARE POSSIBLE FOR US, too, AS GOD WILLS, and of course as applicable and relevant to our own lives and circumstances, FOR GOD'S GLORY. We may not need to literally "close the mouths of lions" or "quench the power of fire" in order to bring honor to God's Name in our own lives BUT we WILL need to do BOTH those things and all the rest in spiritual warfare, even DAILY. But we ARE capable of ALL of it, we ARE capable of being heroes and warriors for God, BY FAITH-- as long as we are LIVING BY IT!!! Our faith will be a weak and feeble thing if we only "exercise it" once in a while! Our faith MUST be the BASIS of EVERYTHING WE DO. We must LIVE BY FAITH LIKE WE LIVE BY BREATHING. And ONLY THEN will our hearts and minds and wills be open and docile and disciplined and ready enough TO respond to great trials with great faith, because grace builds on nature and our sanctification requires our cooperation. THAT'S our JOY and PRIVILEGE. God wants to work WITH us, to glory IN us, not as machines but as FRIENDS, as SHARERS in His beauty and love (CCC 293-294). But we can ONLY enter into this through FAITH in Him, by TRUSTING and LOVING and OBEYING Him, by sharing OUR lives with Him, for He is our Purpose and Goal and Fulfillment and Home and Father and Life. Faith is the doorway to being truly and really human, because humanity was created TO share in God's blessed Life (CCC 001) and that is the MOST wonderful thing we are capable of being, and in fact MEANT to be. Everything else we accomplish as a result is only the visible overflow of that greater truth, the manifestations of God's victory in us over all that seeks to harm us and lie to us about who we are. Faith is our weapon and our crown, our strength and our light, because our faith is in God, and when we trust Him to, He can do everything He wishes through us.]

⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ [Their] faith is NOT DIFFERENT from [yours, which is the very same faith] that BROUGHT YOU TO GOD,
[Which faith, in both this Hebrew audience and in ancient Israel– and, I always emphasize, in ALL humanity back to Adam and Eve themselves– was NOT INITIALLY a "personal faith" in Jesus AS a Person, but WAS ALWAYS nevertheless a faith in Jesus as a PROMISE, as the MESSIAH, as a man Who WOULD come one day, even if they would never see Him or meet Him on this earth.
So THIS is the HEART of faith FROM THE BEGINNING– because this kind of faith was NOT NECESSARY before the first sin; in Eden, our first parents WALKED WITH GOD and had NO "NEED" of a Savior, being unfallen. They "SAW" God in a sense; they KNEW He existed and they had NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER about that; they had NOTHING to "hope for" because they had ALL that was necessary for their happiness already??? OR AT LEAST, THEY DID, UNTIL GOD REVEALED THERE WAS MORE TO WAIT FOR??? When God gave that single command to "not eat of the tree of Knowledge," THAT was when "FAITH" as we know it FIRST "CAME TO BE"??? Because NOW our first parents had SOMETHING TO TRUST GOD FOR, IN THE FACE OF OPPOSITION, AND WITH SOMETHING TO HOPE FOR, THAT HAD BEEN REVEALED BUT WAS NOT YET REALIZED??? Because you must remember that EVIL ALREADY EXISTED when this command was given and THAT EVIL WAS ALREADY ACTIVELY TRYING TO DESTROY HUMANITY. So it would actually be NEEDFUL in some sense for Adam and Eve TO "know" what was evil IN THE SENSE OF HOLY DISCERNMENT, but NOT as "firsthand knowledge"– which is, tragically and ironically, what DISOBEDIENCE to God GAVE them!
But there is an argument that God WOULD have GIVEN our first parents that fruit of Knowledge in due time, according to HIS Wisdom and Timing, as they "matured" spiritually and became able to not only RECEIVE it but USE IT AS GOD INTENDED??? As "spiritual infants," on day one of life, they were INCAPABLE of doing so, and needed further growth in the grace of God, further knowledge of Him as their Father, further development of virtues, etc.?? And ONLY once they were PROPERLY PREPARED in maturity and holiness WOULD God give them the knowledge of something DANGEROUS, in order to FIGHT it???
That's all conjecture of course– I don't think there's ANY official statements regarding it in any sense?
Even the Catechism only speaks of the risk of disobedience=
(CCC 396) "God created man in his image and established him in his friendship. A spiritual creature, man can live this friendship only in FREE SUBMISSION to God. The PROHIBITION against eating "of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" spells this out: "for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die." The "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" SYMBOLICALLY EVOKES the INSURMOUNTABLE LIMITS that man, being a creature, must FREELY RECOGNIZE and RESPECT WITH TRUST. Man is DEPENDENT on his Creator, and SUBJECT to the LAWS OF CREATION and to the MORAL NORMS that GOVERN THE USE OF FREEDOM."
So again, we see that man has NO RIGHT to seek God's knowledge, nor ANY sort of "equality with God"– even Christ Himself didn't do that (Philippians 2:3-8)!!! Rather, we MUST be HUMBLE and OBEDIENT to Him, and RECEIVE what HE GIVES us, and REFUSE to take what HE DOESN'T.
OH WAIT I THINK THE CATECHISM ACTUALLY DOES HINT AT THE "HOPE" IDEA HERE???
(CCC 398) "In that [first human] sin [of DISTRUST in GOD’S Word (which is TRUE AND GOOD), and therefore in TRUSTING the LYING words of SATAN instead– which were most ingeniously disingenuous in NOT giving an "opposing command," but in QUESTIONING whether or not their MEMORY or UNDERSTANDING of it could be TRUSTED (Genesis 3:1)– immediately planting the seed of doubt in the most "innocuous way"– and then in manipulating the heart of man through MISREPRESENTING GOD’S CHARACTER (Genesis 3:4-5) so that man (so young and naive and helpless!), being deceived into LOSING HIS FAITH– by losing his TRUST in God AS TRUSTWORTHY– would generate for HIMSELF that contradictory compulsion, that desire to "take" what had been forbidden under this new germ of PRIDE that he was doing better than God, therefore making the deadly sin his OWN "will," and NOT something he could "blame on the devil"– although the accompanying words the Evil One had spoken were STILL in SUBTLE YET TOTAL CONTRAST to what God had SAID man should do], man PREFERRED HIMSELF to God and by that very act SCORNED [GOD. This preference was shown when man, in DECIDING to trust a voice OTHER than God's, and thus ABOVE God's,] CHOSE HIMSELF OVER AND AGAINST God, [and therefore inevitably] against the REQUIREMENTS of his CREATURELY STATUS [by trying to make himself "equal to God"] and therefore AGAINST HIS OWN GOOD. CONSTITUTED IN A STATE OF HOLINESS, MAN WAS DESTINED TO BE FULLY "DIVINIZED" BY GOD IN GLORY. [BUT] seduced by the devil, he wanted to "be LIKE God", but "WITHOUT God, BEFORE God, and NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH God"."
SO THAT'S THE HOPE — THE "FULL DIVINIZATION" OF MAN'S DIVINE IMAGE AND LIKENESS, REDEEMED BY AND RESTORED IN CHRIST, AND BY HIS HOLY SPIRIT, ULTIMATELY SUFFUSED WITH DIVINE LIFE AND KNOWLEDGE– WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST?????
(John 17:3,17,25-26 = "And ETERNAL LIFE is this: to KNOW YOU, the ONLY TRUE GOD, and JESUS CHRIST whom you have sent... Consecrate them in the truth; YOUR WORD IS TRUTH... Father, Upright One, the world has NOT KNOWN you, but I HAVE KNOWN YOU, and these have KNOWN that YOU HAVE SENT ME. I have MADE YOUR NAME KNOWN to them and will CONTINUE to make it known, SO THAT THE LOVE WITH WHICH YOU LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM, and SO THAT I MAY BE IN THEM."
John 14:6-7, 9, 16-17, 20-21 = "Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you KNOW ME, you will KNOW MY FATHER TOO. From this moment YOU KNOW HIM and HAVE SEEN HIM... Anyone who has seen ME has seen the FATHER... I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete to be with you forever, the Spirit of TRUTH whom the world can never accept since it NEITHER SEES NOR KNOWS him; but YOU KNOW HIM, because he is with you, he is in you... On that day you will KNOW that I am in my Father and YOU IN ME AND I IN YOU. Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who LOVES me; and whoever LOVES me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and REVEAL MYSELF TO HIM."
2 Peter 1:3-5,8 = "By his divine power, God has lavished on us all the things we need for LIFE and for true devotion, through the KNOWLEDGE of Him Who has called us by His Own glory and goodness. Through these, the greatest and priceless promises have been lavished on us, that through them you should SHARE THE DIVINE NATURE and escape the corruption rife in the world through disordered passion. With this in view, do your utmost to support your FAITH with goodness... The possession and growth of these qualities will prevent your KNOWLEDGE of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST from being ineffectual or unproductive."
Colossians 3:10-11 = "...you have put on a new self which will progress towards TRUE KNOWLEDGE the more it is renewed in the IMAGE of its CREATOR; and in that image there is no room for distinction... There is only CHRIST: he is everything and he is in everything."
Titus 1:1-3 = "From Paul, servant of God, an apostle of JESUS CHRIST to bring those whom God has chosen to FAITH and to the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH that leads to true religion, and to give them the HOPE of the ETERNAL LIFE that was PROMISED so long ago by God. HE DOES NOT LIE and so, in due time, he made known his message by a proclamation which was entrusted to me by the command of God our Saviour."
Ephesians 1:17-20 = "May the God of our Lord JESUS Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is REVEALED, to bring you to FULL KNOWLEDGE of him. May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what HOPE his call holds for you... IN CHRIST...")
2 Corinthians 4:6 = "It is God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' that has shone into our hearts to enlighten them with the KNOWLEDGE of God's glory, the glory on the face of CHRIST.")
There is SO MUCH DEPTH to this but I cannot go into it now; I am just learning all this for the first time too.
FOR THE RECORD, HERE'S A BIT ON TRUE "KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL".=
(CCC 387) "ONLY THE LIGHT OF DIVINE REVELATION CLARIFIES THE REALITY OF SIN and particularly of THE SIN COMMITTED AT MANKIND'S ORIGINS. WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE REVELATION GIVES OF GOD, WE CANNOT RECOGNIZE SIN CLEARLY, and are tempted to explain it as merely a developmental flaw, a psychological weakness, a mistake, or the necessary consequence of an inadequate social structure, etc. ONLY IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S PLAN FOR MAN can we grasp that SIN IS AN ABUSE OF THE FREEDOM THAT GOD GIVES TO CREATED PERSONS [WHICH IS GIVEN SOLELY AND SPECIFICALLY] SO THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF LOVING HIM AND LOVING ONE ANOTHER."
I WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS IS THE "KNOWLEDGE" THAT THE FRUIT WAS MEANT TO GIVE— THE GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF GOD HIMSELF, AND OF HIS PLAN FOR MANKIND, AND ONLY IN THE LIGHT OF THAT KNOWLEDGE IS "EVIL" REVEALED BY CONTRAST: EVIL IS ANYTHING THAT IS NOT IN HARMONY WITH THE CHARACTER OF GOD, AND THEREFORE WHICH IS ALSO IN OPPOSITION TO GOD'S PLAN (OF SALVATION; which is LITERALLY JESUS CHRIST).
ESSENTIALLY, ALL EVIL, ALL SIN, IS THE FAILURE TO KNOW AND LOVE GOD.
GOD IS LOVE, AND IF WE DON'T KNOW GOD PROPERLY, WE CANNOT LOVE HIM PROPERLY. BUT WE CANNOT KNOW GOD ON OUR OWN. WE CAN ONLY KNOW GOD AS HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO US.
But I have completely lost the original topic. That point is this = WE CANNOT TRUST WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW. WE CANNOT HAVE FAITH IN GOD IF WE DO NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. AND WE CANNOT KNOW GOD IN ANY REAL WAY IF WE DO NOT LOVE HIM. AND GOD MEETS ALL OF THESE NEEDS BY REVEALING HIMSELF TO US, IN FULLNESS OF TRUTH, AND IN ENDLESS LOVE, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
It was the PROTOEVANGELIUM that truly "brought to God" our first parents, in this respect? Ironically, it was only AFTER they FAILED to have faith in God that they REALIZED what it TRULY meant TO have faith? Because now, having LOST their hopes of BOTH Divine Knowledge AND Divine Life, because they had lost FAITH in the ONLY ONE Who COULD give them, as falsely seeing Him as NOT being WILLING to do so (a total lie of course), they REALIZED by the consequences OF their distrustful disobedience that GOD HAD BEEN TRUSTWORTHY THE WHOLE TIME, and that THE SERPENT HAD LIED THE WHOLE TIME, and therefore GOD WAS ABSOLUTELY WORTHY OF THEIR TRUST, and in their suffering they now KNEW in a very visceral way that they NEEDED TO TRUST HIM or things would only get WORSE. So, when God suddenly gave them a NEW HOPE, a hope of a SAVIOR, of One Who would effectively UNDO their sin and RESTORE them to the Life they had lost (and also, I wonder if they surmised, Who would finally give them the TRUE Knowledge of God), they NOW KNEW that GOD WAS TRUSTWORTHY in this Promise and so THEY HAD ABSOLUTE FAITH IN HIS WORDS, and clung to them as their ONLY HOPE. So THAT was when their faith FINALLY "brought them to God," because it was ONLY THEN, by SHEER GRACE, that they IRONICALLY HAD enough "knowledge" of God (by this new and direct revelation of His JUSTICE against sin, AND His MERCY for sinners– which the fruit did NOT give them, so they could claim NO benefits from their own misdeed) TO HAVE REAL FAITH IN HIM, in the sense of not just knowing THAT He existed, but of now knowing HOW he existed, and that HE COULD BE TRUSTED TO REWARD ALL MEN ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS. In the terrible wake of the Fall, and in the wonderful Words of the Promised Messiah, Adam and Eve finally got a glimpse of Who God Was in a fuller sense– a Just God, a True God, a Powerful God, a Fearful God, and yet a God Who Loved them still and would NOT abandon them either to despair or to their own sins. When their disobedience caused their world to collapse around them and they had nowhere else to turn and no one else to turn to, it was God Alone Who remained faithful, both in Himself and towards them, and in that moment, faith brought them to God as their only Savior.
I think that's what I've been trying to say.
But my mind is reeling. I have to move on.
The last concluding point here = for Adam and Eve, for Israel, and for the Hebrew converts, the FAITH that ALWAYS "brought them to God" in TRUTH was their faith in the PROMISED MESSIAH.
Someone CAN come to faith in the existence of God through reason alone (Romans 1:19-20), but this does NOT result in faith in God as a PERSON (Romans 1:21-25). Thus the ONLY faith that brings us TO God is faith in Him AS HE HAS REVEALED HIMSELF, which He does through His WORD, which we must TRUST in, and the FIRST time that humanity did that in real earnest was with the PROTOEVANGELIUM, which was the Promise of SALVATION FROM SIN, through a SAVIOR. And THAT is the undercurrent of EVERYTHING GOD SAYS FROM THEN ON OUT, until that Promise is FULFILLED, and GOD'S WORD ACTUALLY BECOMES INCARNATE. And THAT'S why trusting in God's WORDS effectively IS trusting in CHRIST, because THEY ALL LEAD US TO HIM.
So THAT'S the "same faith" that ALL of God's people share, from the beginning of time. It is a universal faith because it is a single hope, a single trust in One God and One Word = MERCY.]

[This is] the faith WITH WHICH you PUT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN GOD [AS TRUSTWORTHY, AND YOU DID SO PARTICULARLY] FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS [by acknowledging that you HAVE SINNED, that you DESPERATELY NEED forgiveness, and that THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS ANYWHERE ELSE!] That was the BEGINNING of your [TRUE] FAITH [BECAUSE OUR COMING TO TRUST IN GOD, AS SINNERS, IS ALWAYS INITIALLY GROUNDED ON MESSIANIC HOPE– THE HOPE THAT SHATTERS ALL TRUST IN SELF AND THUS FINALLY LEADS US BACK TO THE TREE OF LIFE OF THE CROSS, WHERE WE FINALLY RECEIVE THE GODLY "KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL" IN THE FRUIT OF HIS PASSION???]

But FAITH ALWAYS REMAINS ACTIVE.
Faith in God is [and MUST be DAILY EXERCISED by =]
TRUSTING Him [in not only His WORDS but in His CHARACTER, and in His PRESENCE and PROVIDENCE as BOTH being CONSTANT and ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE];
REGARDING Him AS faithful [to DO what He says EXACTLY, with NO "fine print" or "catches," AND to BE exactly Who He has ALWAYS proven to be in history, with NO fickleness or exceptions (James 1:17)];
having the ASSURANCE that He HELPS [at ALL TIMES; this is shocking to realize; God NEVER ceases to work for our good (Matthew 7:11, Romans 8:28, Jeremiah 29:11, 32:40, Psalm 23:6, 84:11); I daresay He even WANTS and LOVES to help us out, even WAITING for us to ASK Him to!];
and [being CONVINCED] that He DOES what He SAYS [and that He WILL NOT revoke it, NOR "change His Mind" later (Numbers 23:11, 1 Samuel 15:29, Joshua 21:45, Isaiah 5:11, Psalm 89:34); whatever God says STANDS FOREVER (Matthew 24:35, Psalm 33:11, 119:89, 160)].

🔔🔔🔔🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💜💜💜 And the DIFFICULTIES you are faced with are [NOT to be seen as OBSTACLES to your faith, for they are ALL FROM THE HAND OF GOD and thus have the gem of faith hidden at the very core of ALL of them; rather, the many trials and tribulations of life are GIVEN to us as] the [HEROIC] CHALLENGES for faith. Difficulties are FOOD for faith; difficulties are the VERY CAUSES for FAITH to PROVE ITSELF.
[THIS IS WHY WE "REJOICE" IN OUR SUFFERINGS AND TRIALS]
[Seriously TYPE ABOUT THIS SO MUCH MORE ASAP]

Faith is NOT to be "defined" [as something to be analyzed or achieved methodically; it is an "unseen" thing so it actually cannot be truly apprehended by mere reason?]. Faith is [to be RECEIVED as a GIFT and EXPERIENCED as] the EFFECTIVE POWER [of ACTIVE TRUST IN GOD, exercised] in view of the FUTURE [which GOD ALONE has declared to us by His Word] and in view of the PRESENT [in which our free choices for or against faith determine the way in which we will experience that future (Deuteronomy 10:15-20, Ecclesiasticus 15:11-20, Matthew 25)???]

🌟Faith fixes the eye forward, to what has been PROMISED [by GOD], and is ABSOLUTELY SURE that IT WILL BE ACHIEVED: [Faith looks forward IN] the ASSURANCE of things HOPED FOR”.
🌟Faith fixes the eye UPWARD, to GOD [the FATHER, Who MADE the Promises,] and CHRIST [JESUS, TO Whom ALL the Promises TEND, and IN Whom ALL the Promises are FULFILLED]: Faith [brings us into the TRINITY because it is ultimately the WORK of the HOLY SPIRIT in us??? And by His Presence, which is the SOURCE of grace, we receive the blessed] "CONVICTION of things NOT SEEN”.

From the beginning till the end [of not only each individual man's life, but also of humanity as a whole, from the dawn of time to the end of all ages], FAITH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND GOD, [because you CANNOT have a relationship WITHOUT TRUST!!!!]
Faith deals with [the HOW and the WHY, the REASON and PURPOSE and GOAL, of EVERY ASPECT of SALVATION HISTORY, particularly =]
CREATION,
SIN and OFFERING [SACRIFICE];
[HUMAN] LIFE and WALKING to the PLEASURE of God;
the TESTIMONY [of the Truth of God] TOWARDS the world;
the JUDGMENT OVER the world,
and finally the [HOPE and REALITY of the HEAVENLY] KINGDOM OF PEACE.
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟‼️‼️‼️‼️🤍🤍🤍🤍 In ALL these aspects, [GOD] THE SON [AS JESUS CHRIST INCARNATE] IS CENTRAL.
1. Creation shows the Son as CREATOR. [He is The WORD of God that SPOKE EVERYTHING INTO EXISTENCE (Hebrews 1:2, John 1:1-3, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:15-16)]
2. The offering shows the Son as REDEEMER. [Because He PAID THE DEBT OF LOVING OBEDIENCE on our behalf, and "BOUGHT US BACK" from death with HIS OWN BLOOD??? And a key part of this redemption is FORGIVENESS OF SINS which leads to RIGHTEOUSNESS through GRACE??? (CCC 1701, 1708, Mark 10:45, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Titus 2:11-14, Hebrews 9:12, Romans 3:21-26, 5:8-10) I'm still learning what this all means, but I know it's true, even if I don't understand it yet, because God SAYS it is true, and that's where MY faith needs to lock in-- I think only then will I be ABLE to understand it, if I stop trying to "analyze it first"]
3. A life and a walk to the pleasure of God is PERFECTLY SEEN IN THE SON. [Because Jesus does EVERYTHING IN HARMONY WITH GOD'S WILL (Matthew 3:17, John 4:34, 5:30, 6:38, 8:29, 12:49-50, 14:31, 15:19, Hebrews 10:20). His Life is the PERFECT example of self-denial and humble submission to God, which says a LOT about what that LOOKS like-- it is NOT "self-annihilatory," but is VIBRANT and BEAUTIFUL and POWERFUL. The same thing goes for MARY, although we don't get many examples of that in Scripture, but her entire life POINTS TO GOD and away from herself, and it is GLORIOUS for that very reason, because it is GOD'S glory that shines THROUGH her. And SHE IS OUR MODEL. We can never be as perfect as her, but we can always strive to walk with her in Jesus's footsteps, and grow ever more pleasing to God, as we draw ever closer to Him.]
4. In the world He PERFECTLY TESTIFIED WHO GOD IS. [Specifically AS A PERSON (Hebrews 1:3, Colossians 1:15, 2 Corinthians 4:4, John 1:14+18, 14:9)]
5. The Son will JUDGE the world. [NOT THE FATHER!!! (John 5:22-30, 12:48, Romans 2:16, Acts 10:42, 17:31, 2 Timothy 4:1, 2 Corinthians 5:2) This is HEAVY. It means that our eternal destiny ultimately hinges on our relationship with JESUS CHRIST, on whether or not we believed HIM, whether or not we listened to and honored and obeyed HIS WORDS, and whether or not we had faith in HIM as our SAVIOR and LORD and above all as the SON OF GOD.]
6. He will also ESTABLISH the kingdom of peace. (Luke 1:30-33, Revelation 11:15, Daniel 17:13-14, Philippians 2:10-11, Isaiah 9:7)

Furthermore,
Creation POINTS FORWARD to the RE-CREATION [of the entire universe, BECAUSE of the redemption of mankind???] of which the SON is the HEIR [as the "firstfruits" of RESURRECTED mankind???]. (Isaiah 65:17, 2 Peter 3:10-13, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Revelation 21:5, Hebrews 1:2)
⁉️⁉️⁉️ On the BASIS of the OFFERING [i.e. the CRUCIFIXION], ALL THINGS will once [and for all] be SUBMITTED TO THE SON. (1 Corinthians 15:20-28) [REFLECT ON THIS MORE??? Is this because BY His saving death on our behalf, Jesus DEFEATED SIN AND DEATH, and those were really the ONLY things NOT "in submission" to God???]
In the taking of Enoch ["exempt from death" on the basis of a life entirely pleasing to God], you see the picture of the [final deliverance?] of the CHURCH, the heavenly people of God. (1 Corinthians 15:50-54?) [Remember that THIS IS NOT A "RAPTURE"; THAT ENTIRE IDEA IS FALSE. We as individuals WILL still die bodily deaths until the return of Christ, BUT THE CHURCH HERSELF WILL NOT "DIE." She WILL suffer, she WILL follow Christ in His Passion, but SHE WILL NOT PERISH, because SHE IS HIS VERY BODY (Matthew 16:18, 1 Timothy 3:15, Colossians 1:18+24, Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23)!!]
🌟🌟🌟⁉️⁉️⁉️ The church is RELATED TO the Son [as His BODY and BRIDE], and PARTAKES of EVERYTHING that is the PART of the SON, and of what HE will RECEIVE in the Kingdom of peace. [THIS IS STUNNING???? LOOK INTO THIS MORE]
⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ Noah is a type of the [faithful] people [living on earth in the body, yet living with their hearts and minds already] in God's Kingdom [through faith in Christ-- these are] the believers who will "inherit the world" through judgments [in the end times???]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤The COMMON THREAD through EVERYTHING [IN EXISTENCE] is FAITH. This theme CONNECTS EVERYTHING TOGETHER.