Thy Kingdom Come

Brother Jeffrey Keith

Receiving the call to "come up hither" 20 plus years ago has left room for much pontification.

That's enough big words to satisfy my etymological bent and introduce myself. I really did receive the call, albeit in a dream, and have since tried to understand what that call entails.

I started studying Hebrew and Christian writings from the git go but I always came up with the wrong questions, evidently, because I ended up selling everything and hitting the road "looking for Him", twice, so far. The questions stem from the interpretions of what I read. Seemingly always interpreting the verses different than the church "leaders". Anyway I never receive their blessing when I leave and several let me know they wouldn't be giving any blessing when they made "hints" that I should move on.

Early on in this walk I made it a point to take every contradiction I could find in scripture concerning the early church and try to search out its historical root. This searching caused me to find a book of government, not a book of religion, the bible. In that quest I could never put it together or understand how He doesn't change and yet we, as His people, could have so many different laws. There is only one lawgiver so how could we have so many different laws? Evolution of law for new ideology and new inventions doesn't require this much law.

I found that much of what is espoused by religionists actually applies. It just doesn't apply in the Kingdom that Yeshua HaNazrit, aka Jesus of Nazareth, appointed to his disciples. I found that it is man that tries to replace Him with law.

So in my writings you will find me returning to the Hebrew root of ideas and concepts that the church has distorted in trying to separate church and State. In those writings you will also find that I don't separate the sacred from the secular. The Kingdom exists whether I acknowledge it or not.

Lu, my helpmeet of 27 plus years, and our son have used the writings of His Holy Church to further our own understanding and commitment to the Kingdom. We are learning how to be self sustaining and efficient at the same time by the knowledge compiled by the living stones of this group and through the nurturing of His Spirit within.

Every day brings a new challenge and new opportunities and I hope the writings we at His Church at Battle Creek contribute will be of some help in your own daily search for truth.

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Other articles:
Open Letter by Brother Jeffrey
Higher Biblical Criticism by Brother Jeffrey
Seeds of the Kingdom by Brother Jeffrey
Gnosticism by Brother Jeffrey
Eschatology, What Kingdom? by Brother Jeffrey
Two Body Politic Possibilities by Brother Jeffrey