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Joseph Fernandez Nov 2023
Everyone is intimately familiar with suffering.
So much so that it’s become commonplace to always try to achieve the best antidote for buffering.

It’s a constant that just does not go away.
So we all are forced to reluctantly play.

However, this game has penalties that affect us long term.
Like a miss judged grab at a scolding hot ***, it will for quite a while burn.

Will the suffering of this world ever cease?
Will we ever live endless days in absolute peace?

Have you heard of the promises of Jehovah, the almighty God that is able all his promises deliver?
We can have faith in his word, for he is the ultimate law giver.

His statutes though will never be a burdensome bother.
Because unlike imperfect humans, he is the universes most loving father.

The answer is yes, suffering will in his due time, come to an end.
And I know, because it’s all we’ve ever known, it’s hard to comprehend.
However have strong faith, the day soon approaches when he will suffering forever suspend!


J.I.F.


Revelation 21:3,4

3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them.  4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
Joseph Fernandez Nov 2023
What would be the consequence for errors committed in ignorance?
Would that classification of failure somehow be a mitigating factor in our absolute innocence?

In the distant past, perhaps it was possible to have partial clemency on the basis of not exactly knowing?
However, Gods word says that time has gone by, and people will certainly reap what they are willingly sewing…

Built in to everyone is a conscience at the center of their core.
It instinctively informs without vagueness, what it is, the true God does abhor.

No complete escape from the gnawing that emanates from within.
Optimally operating, it is as a burning sensation, like having acid poured on the broken flesh, of our skin...

Of course the receptors of everyone’s moral sense does not function quite the same.
Some may be
semi-unaffected, by attempting to shift the blame…

The world at large teaches that ignorance is bliss...
However, wisdoms companion shrewdness, is the path of the one that many tragedies his life will surely avoid, and miss.

A blind man since birth will perhaps be in the same dark place he’s always known.
But even for him, honesty will illuminate his way, once he is instructed in truth, his heart will recognize it, down to the very marrow of his every bone.

So if in any doubt as to what is factually unerring in Gods point of view, urgently find out with accuracy what he has to say.
Always remembering, with God in matters of pure worship and innocence, there is really no grey...



J.I.F.



Ephesians 4:17,18
17 So this is what I say and bear witness to in the Lord, that you should no longer go on walking just as the nations also walk, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are in darkness mentally and alienated from the life that belongs to God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the insensitivity of their hearts.

Acts 17:30
30 True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance; but now he is declaring to all people everywhere that they should repent.

Revelation 14:7
7 He was saying in a loud voice: “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of judgment by him has arrived, so worship the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water.”

Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Galatians 6:7
7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a person is sowing, this he will also reap;  

Luke 4:8
8 In reply Jesus said to him: “It is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.”
Joseph Fernandez Oct 2023
While the world around us goes completely insane!
We strive everyday to cleanse our hands from any blame.

Will mankind, on its own be able to succeed?
So common nowadays it’s considered just good entertainment, to see someone bleed.

No surprise to us, as we have been educated about how in the days of Noah, so would the days of the son of man be.
Who but Jehovah, would’ve been able to prophesy this acute mess, and with such preciseness foresee?

We must remember though that love is our heavenly father’s foremost outstanding quality!
He looks at every individual with respectful and tender equality…

Emulating his personality is of course a choice.
Clothed with it, we are able to wear it in such a way that will actually make HIM rejoice.

Father we humbly ask you help us not to cower!
Especially at this evident time, of this wicked world’s final hour!

Our unity amidst chaos comes from our knowing that your ultimate will, most certainly will be done.
So jointly with this state of mind and heart, we continue without let up, to reach as many as possible with the good news of your appointed son, and how he will soon usher in your everlasting kingdom.



J.I.F.



Colossians 3:10,14
10 and clothe yourselves with the new personality, which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it,

3:14
But besides all these things, clothe yourselves with love, for it is a perfect bond of union.

1 John 4:8
8 Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.

Matthew 24:37
37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.

Matthew 4:17
17 From that time on, Jesus began preaching and saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”

Matthew 24:14
14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Proverbs 18:10
10 The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. Into it the righteous one runs and receives protection.
Joseph Fernandez Oct 2023
When you don't have a faithfilled futureistic outlook forward, the distant past is what is instead entertained.
Yesteryear temporarily helps distract and ease the here and now, of our distorted mirror picture frame.

Many today try their best to look back with fondness, to a time perhaps filled with more pleasant and youthful memories.
In this unfortunate fallen world, you’re young only once, then the former days of life are unreachably gone, when it exuded what appeared to be endless energies…

Events that are then absent, are what seem more dependable.
I suspect the compounding reason why, is because things all around us every day are becoming more and more reprehensible…

Looking forward to the time when the future is the place we will with total delight and confidence focus, instead of the long lost past…
Is it possible there will ever be a time like this, when every next day, will be even brighter than the last?

Will the future ever, everyday be a better time with added endless possibilities?
Will we ever experience the sky’s limitless limit, when we’ll have boundless God given strength, and everlasting capabilities?

Yes! This will be the time when nostalgia itself will be a thing of the forgotten past.
When we no longer have any need to cling to what currently, does not last...



J.I.F.



Revelation 21:3,4
3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Job 33:25
25 Let his flesh become fresher than in youth; Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor.

Isaiah 65:21-25
They will build houses and live in them, And they will plant vineyards and eat their fruitage.  22 They will not build for someone else to inhabit, Nor will they plant for others to eat.  For the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, And the work of their hands my chosen ones will enjoy to the full.  23 They will not toil for nothing, Nor will they bear children for distress, Because they are the offspring made up of those blessed by Jehovah, And their descendants with them.  24 Even before they call out, I will answer; While they are yet speaking, I will hear.  25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, The lion will eat straw just like the bull, And the serpent’s food will be dust. They will do no harm nor cause any ruin in all my holy mountain,” says Jehovah.

Psalm 37:10,11,29
10 Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, And they will not be there.
11 But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

29 The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it.



Isaiah 65:22b
Days of a tree,

Some trees live for thousands of years.
Can we see, with our minds eye, the idea that Jehovah is implanting within us?
Joseph Fernandez Oct 2023
The day will arrive for those lost through millenniums of time…
Yes, we all are well acquainted how generations have had to pay with their lives, for Adam and Eves disobedient crime.

Shortly though, as prophecy unfolds, he will make well all the broken hearted.
Because of his perfect memory of them, a fresh new day, soon to be started…

Yes, the hour is coming, and it is as though it is here now.
By virtue of his unfailing prophetic word, they are as if already back, simply put, because no one is able to break his vow.

Kindness he will show to those that are no longer able to exhibit kindness anymore, it is then he will restore their extinguished animated spark of light.
This magnanimous gift he will bestow to many millions, yes this multitude he will cordially back to life, invite.

He that has the ultimate power is the one that intimately their darkness does understand.
Yes, they will hear his chosen envoys merciful shout to awaken, and they will irresistibly heed his affectionate command...

For all his fathers ways are audible and filled with eons of times brightness.
So no more will they remain neither silent nor sightless.

Nothing other than the might of Jehovah will be able to interrupt the rest from which they have gone to.
Yes, they will awaken with abundant vigor, with bodies that are restored, yes, even better than new…

Awaken from your slumber, and please do arise!
And if you so desire, take part in your heavenly father’s everlasting gifted prize…



J.I.F.



Genesis 3:11
11 At that he said: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

Romans 3:23
23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and it is as a free gift that they are being declared righteous by his undeserved kindness through the release by the ransom paid by Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:12
12 That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned—.

Romans 6:23
23 For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 11:11,14,43
11 After he said these things, he added: “Lazʹa·rus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am traveling there to awaken him.”

14 Then Jesus said to them plainly: “Lazʹa·rus has died,

43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Lazʹa·rus, come out!” 44 The man who had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Free him and let him go.”

Luke 7:11-15
11 Soon afterward he traveled to a city called Naʹin, and his disciples and a large crowd were traveling with him.  12 As he got near the gate of the city, why look! there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother. Besides, she was a widow. A considerable crowd from the city was also with her.  13 When the Lord caught sight of her, he was moved with pity for her, and he said to her: “Stop weeping.”  14 With that he approached and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. Then he said: “Young man, I say to you, get up!”  15 And the dead man sat up and started to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.  

Luke 8:41,42a 49-56
41 But look! a man named Jaʹi·rus came; this man was a presiding officer of the synagogue. And he fell at the feet of Jesus and began to plead with him to come to his house,  42 because his only daughter, who was about 12 years old, was dying.

49 While he was yet speaking, a representative of the presiding officer of the synagogue came, saying: “Your daughter has died; do not bother the Teacher any longer.”  50 On hearing this, Jesus answered him: “Have no fear, only have faith, and she will be saved.” 51 When he reached the house, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the girl’s father and mother. 52 But people were all weeping and beating themselves in grief for her. So he said: “Stop weeping, for she did not die but is sleeping.”  53 At this they began to laugh at him scornfully, because they knew she had died. 54 But he took her by the hand and called to her: “Child, get up!”  55 And her spirit returned, and she rose immediately, and he ordered that something be given her to eat.  56 Well, her parents were beside themselves, but he instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

John 5:28,29
28 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice  29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
Side Note:
Jesus documented resurrections, for what purpose?

To give us proof that not even death is a barrier for Jesus father, Jehovah.
When the time arrives, he willingly will restore the free gift of life to millions.

As with all the examples in the scriptures, they were all resurrected back to life on earth.
Likewise too, all future resurrections of life, will be restored here to the earth.

Side Note Two:
With the number of suns in existence for an unknown number of years within the universe’s billions of galaxies.
Each of these possible trillions, giving off sustained unmeasured dynamic energy powered by God almighty himself.
Is that source that effortlessly supports all these not able to bring back any amount of dead ones by reanimation, and also sustain their billions of lives forever on this, our one lilliputian planet, by physical scal in comparison?

Isaiah 40:26
26 Lift up your eyes to heaven and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who brings out their army by number; He calls them all by name.  Because of his vast dynamic energy and his awe-inspiring power, Not one of them is missing.
Joseph Fernandez Oct 2023
Living in the present,
but dwelling on the past.
Conducive to making our life any longer last?

Once given our fervent prayer of pleas, are they possible again to retrieve?
Are not our errors of yesterday better left in his trustworthy reprieve?

If yesterday is gone why continue to live there?
Why do we carry on sentencing ourselves, and over and over, us rip and tear?

Convicted or exonerated!
Though we are impotent in these extreme terms we everyday constantly them ponder…
With what right to judge ourselves or anyone else, is that not within his sole  jurisdiction, to capably conquer?

The future is brighter when fully trusting his merciful forgiving ability.
Lest we forget he truly understands our inherent fragility...

Yesterday gone, tomorrow now here.
Let's take this fresh opportunity to fully incline our willing hearts, and to his compassionate standards, wholly adhere...



J.I.F.



Lamentations 3:22,23
22 It is because of Jehovah’s loyal love that we have not come to our finish, For his mercies never end.  23 They are new each morning; your faithfulness is abundant.

Psalms 146:3,4
3 Do not put your trust in princes Nor in a son of man, who cannot bring salvation.  4 His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground; On that very day his thoughts perish.

Proverbs 3:5
5 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, And do not rely on your own understanding.

Psalm 103:14
14 For he well knows how we are formed, Remembering that we are dust.  

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Psalm 103:14 is many times misunderstood.
Would anyone build a structure, like a house, out of dust?

No, because dust is a (fragile) substance.

Jehovah remembers, and never forgets that we are fragile, and lovingly deals with us according to our well understood makeup.

He certainly gave us an extraordinary example as to how we should interact with all others, especially our young children.


Philippians 2:3,4
3 Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with humility consider others superior to you,  4 as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Joseph Fernandez Oct 2023
From the moment we enter into motion of time.
We ask ourselves questions that demand logical reason and rhyme…

We acutely have an intricate sense of our intellectual awareness.
Our thoughts racing night and day, our thirst to know, is limitlessly relentless…

Time seems to vanish, while all the while gracefully appearing…
It moves with moments ever so puzzling, as we endure in our daily battles, teaching us what is in fact, persevering…

We ponder the future that is yet to come?
Also we think deeply of this, where did everything come from?

Time, are you giving us more?
Perhaps we can run out and get additional years, and stuff you away in some mental drawer?

Alas, that isn’t the way it is to be.
Time you have no capture, you are unbound, and your will is utterly free...

The reality, we look in the mirror and what do we see?
Time you have been all along charging us each day, incrementally...

Time you are there on every of life’s occasion.
You are holding us prisoner with your preciseness of ticking, in our entire existents equation.

Time, I wonder do you really care?
Please do not leave me in such broken despair.
Answer me, and please with compassion be complete, as well as insightful, otherwise my next breath will be lacking sufficient air…

Time, because in all life’s past you’ve been present, and will be there to greet infinity’s future you should know where the answers are found, so for me this once please
propound…

Times personified reply:

The answers you seek
I personally know not, however I will tell you where you may with all confidence look.
It is my advanced understanding, they have always been written down in his one and only authentic book.



J.I.F.



Ecclesiastes 3:1-9
There is an appointed time for everything, A time for every activity under the heavens:  2 A time for birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what was planted; 3 A time to **** and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to wail and a time to dance; 5 A time to throw stones away and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away; 7 A time to rip apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak; 8 A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

2 Peter 1:21
21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by Holy Spirit.

Daniel 12:4
4 As for you, Daniel, keep the words secret, and seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rove about, and the true knowledge will become abundant.”

Revelation 11:18
18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.

2 Timothy 3:16,17
16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness,  17 so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.
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