360 Called: Wisdom of the Ages: A Journey Come Full Circle

By Gary Rivers

These are the living testimonies of God to men’s hearts.
The point of these epiphanic entries are for you to read the statements but most important for you the reader to study and meditate upon the scriptures given. 2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)
These were words whispered to me in the dark of night.
“What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.” Matthew 10:27 (KJV)
WHAT MUST I DO?
“Repent and be baptized (taught) every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:38 (KJV)
Dedicated to our God, the Messiah and our Forefathers who obeyed God’s Commandments, Statutes and Laws.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728368092

Gary Rivers

God destroyed my pride through financial bankruptcy…Breaking down racial barriers with the son of a troubled father…Taking down a elder of a large congregation…Laying bare my spirit before HIS.

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Contents

The 10 Commandments

Called - Wisdom of the Ages 1 Volume I

Called - Wisdom of the Ages 2 Volume II

Called - Wisdom of the Ages 3 Volume III

Called - Wisdom of the Ages 4 Volume IV

The Glossary

A daily study – Devotional – Meditation Tool

A guide unto Salvation – liberating

both True Israel and the World

The 10 Commandments

1. And God spake all these words, saying,

2. I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:

3. Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me.

4. Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth.

5. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:

6. And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee, and keepe my Commandements.

7. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse, that taketh his Name in vaine.

8. Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy.

9. Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke:

10. But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayd seruant, nor thy cattell, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11. For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and halowed it.

12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may bee long vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

13. Thou shalt not kill.

14. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15. Thou shalt not steale.

16. Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.

17. Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.

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Called - Wisdom of the Ages

Volume I

2016 - 2017

October 18, 2016 (10:29 am)

• Joy is found in the TESTIMONIES of The Most High. Psalms 119:24 (KJV)

October 17, 2016 (12:18 pm)

• 2 Timothy 2:3-4….be in the world not of it…

September 12, 2016 (1:24 pm)

• War on Drugs…War on Poverty. Deuteronomy 28:16-68 (KJV). Social Injustice.

• Isaiah 11:2…. gives you an idea of his actual spirit…. God’s internal spirit… with access of it through the sacrifice of the Messiah….

August 7, 2016

• Ecclesiastes 12:13…study… it is the whole duty… Deuteronomy 28 … review entire chapter…our solution. v. 1 -15 ……our demise…. v. 16 – 68 (KJV)

August 7, 2016 (7:35 pm)

• Ecclesiastes 12:13…. conclusion….commandments must be followed!!!!!

July 21, 2016 (11:28 am)

• Hosea 4:6; 2 Timothy 2:15… but there can be a gaining of knowledge (worldly) that just puffs up and DOES not lead one to the knowledge of the TRUTH….

• 1 John 2:3-4 - states to know him…1 John 3:10 - believe in The Messiah and his message to love your brothers… 1 John 5:1 - 3 - tells what is the actual love of God….review Matthew 10…for your learning…. Psalms 111:10…commit Israel to his commandments (the NIV uses precepts here - a mis-transliteration) …to gain a true understanding… go purchase the King James 1611 version….

2016

June 13, 2016 (8:12 am)

• For your learning … Exodus 31:16 (keep the Sabbath); Isaiah 56:2 (keep the Sabbath); Matthew 12:1-2 (keep the Sabbath); Matthew 12:8 (the Sabbath for us – not us for the Sabbath); Ecclesiastes 12:13.

May 26, 2016 (2:50 pm)

• Romans 13:1 (KJV) For there is NO power but of God… John 19:11 Christ to Pilate and the nation of Rome….what you have is given to you.

May 16, 2016 (2:49 pm)

• Have the oil lamps (your minds) ready…the end will come like a thief in the night…as everyone is going about their day, unaware (1 Thessalonians 5:2) … it is a terrible thing to have No FEAR of the Most High God. Psalms 34:9 (KJV)

March 13, 2016 (10:50 pm)

• Broad is the way that leads to destruction…. narrow … narrow >.. and strait the gate….(s)…and very few that find it. Revelation 22:14 (KJV)

January 20, 2016 (12:33 pm)

• Psalms 27:14; Psalms 31:24; Matthew21:21 (KJV) - DOUBT AND FEAR drive out FAITH… ask for wisdom… ask for understanding.

2017

December 2017

• I have a master’s degree in counseling the essence of this science is to get others to understand the messages we receive in life and the behaviors they will produce…behaviors that will preferably launch us into a better way of living…

When it comes to COUNSELING…he has promised that the holy spirit will be poured out upon us Acts 2:38….it is our Counselor/Comforter to understanding of the scriptural messages of God’s word .…understanding, wisdom and knowledge…unto eternal life…Isaiah 11:2 (KJV)

December 27, 2017 (10:27 am)

• It amazes me how the scriptures can be so straight forward about what our priorities in life should be…but people will go their own way regardless…EVIL will dangle MONEY in our faces and off into apostacy we will go!…

The LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)

and your choice is stated SERVE ME OR MAMMON(Money) Mt 6:24…You CANNOT serve both-CANNOT!

Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness Matthew 6:33 (KJV)

December 26, 2017 (10:06 pm)

• You got everything you asked for yesterday… why are you so dispirited today? Luke 12:15…life does not consist of the things that you possess… then what does it consist of? LIFE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIP…first vertical - TO GOD….then horizontal- TO YOUR BROTHER.

• You know life can sometimes put you flat on your back…the perfect place to be in… to be able to LOOK UP AND SEEK THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD…..his arm is not too short to reach down and lift you up. Isaiah 59:1 (KJV)

December 22, 2017

• the eyes are the windows ….and doors to our souls….pathways for SIN/evil… or unto righteousness….What will you be looking at today?….what will you be allowing to enter in?…He moves about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8 (KJV)

December 22, 2017 (7:03 am)

• You pick up your cross daily not to wear as some ornament to your own righteousness around your neck Lk. 9:23… But to kill that ‘old man"-that body of sin and death. Ephesians 4:22; Colossians 3:9 (KJV)

2017

December 16, 2017

• HE defeats ALL our ENEMIES….And CONFOUNDS ALL our ADVERSARIES!!!!!

Micah 5:9; Psalms 71:13; Nahum1:2; 1Corinthians 1:27 (KJV)

December 16, 2017 (8:48 am)

• The world is lost and is the enemy of God…Trying to find yourself in IT….You will become lost and his enemy as well. James 4:4 (KJV)

December 14, 2017 (9:12 am)

• THE LAW (s)…

#1 Do not debate the Law…(God wrote it & inspired men to add statutes, judgements and additional laws)….

Titus 3:9… BUT avoid FOOLISH debates, GENEALOGIES, quarrels and disputes about the LAW because they are unprofitable and worthless…

But- know there are DIFFERENT laws…(major & minor)

*** Levitical/sacrificial laws- Leviticus 6:9; 6:25; 7:1; 7:11; 7:37; 11:46; 13:59; 14:2 (KJV)

***Mosiac laws- Numbers 5:29; 19:2,4; Deuteronomy 4:44 (KJV)

The Sacrificial laws are done away with (nailed to the cross)…replaced by Christ’s sacrifice!…Isaiah 53:10-12; Hebrews 10; Colossians 2:14 (KJV) not all laws…

AND LASTLY- Matthew 5:17-18…Till Heaven and Earth PASS! (they’re still here)…not one jot or one tittle will pass from the LAW….till all be fulfilled (Judgement)…God’s story continues….

Revelation 22:14 (KJV)

December 13, 2017 (11:06 am)

• ‘turn off that TV"…especially the news….read your bible…meditate on his word…listen to some calming music…AND YOU KNOW WHAT….YOUR STRESS LEVELS WILL GO DOWN!!!!

2 Timothy 3:1; Psalms 37:7 (KJV)

December 12, 2017 (1:38 pm)

• People live as thou they will never die…and will die as though they never lived…believing they will be judged on how good they have been…God prefers OBEDIENCE than goodness(good by whose standard?)

IT IS ONCE APPOINTED FOR US TO DIE THEN THE JUDGEMENT. Hebrews 9:27 (KJV)

2017

December 10, 2017 (9:23 am)

• RE—SEARCH….DID YOU KNOW…

When the event where it was stated that in Antioch (a Greek hell hole) they were first called Christians…they were not talking about a nation of people….but about and to-Paul and Barnabas, the prophets and the disciples who went there to minister to the people who were fleeing persecution (like Stephen’s stoning)…Christian means POOR FELLAS…..Acts11:26…says plainly…And the DISCIPLES were called Christians first in Antioch..

• We have a choice…put God first or live a life which IS NOTHING MORE THAN SHEER…VANITY….A WASTED LIFE. Ecclesiastes 2:11 (KJV)

• My people will be destroyed for lack of knowledge because they will reject knowledge…(Cypher bible). Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

December 9, 2017 (4:44 pm)

• MAJOR STUDY CONSIDERATION….

BAPTISM is the spiritual submergence into the Good New or Gospel of the Kingdom (understanding of Christ’s sacrifice)….water in the scriptures can and does mean WORD… Ephesians 5:26 says that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of *water by the word/baptism…….1 Peter 3:21 (KJV) .……

SAYS…the like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now save us (NOT THE WASHING OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH, BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIOUS TOWARDS GOD)…by the resurrection of the Messiah…

*Water can also reference created beings (waters above – angels; waters below – mankind)

December 6, 2017 (4:32 pm)

• THE THING ABOUT DISCIPLINE…it is the responsibility of the father (NOT OTHERS). Ephesians 6:4; Hebrews 12:9-11 (KJV)

It (disciplining) hurts initially…but the hurt goes away and true training & learning (TRUTH) can take hold!! Hebrews 12:11 (KJV)

CONDITIONAL PIECES NEEDED–

#1 Fathers/parents -are to be in CHRIST–Ephesians 6:1 (KJV)

#2 Parents are to be honored- Exodus 20:12 (KJV)

#3 Children are to obey—Colossians 3:20 (KJV)

OTHERS USURPING the Father/Parent AUTHORITY…committeth SIN. Exodus 20:12 & 16 (KJV)

Note- many fathers are missing…then Christ becomes the temporary head of the woman…….God over All (1 Corinthians 11:3 KJV).

2017

December 6, 2017 (9:00 am)

• A BAD DECISION…..Trading off SPIRITUALITY for POPULARITY…Christ was in the garden alone. Philippians 2:12 (KJV)

December 5, 2017 (4:28 pm)

• SUBLIMINAL WARNING…HOLLYWOOD KNOWS..

You are still worshipping strange gods/deities of the Greeks& Egyptians…they are called Superheroes ...Avengers…yep…from comic books to cartoons to TV to video games TO MOVIES…The Justice League(Thor-god of thunder/Hermes-Flash/Hera -wonder woman/Thanos seeking stones/Dr Strange/// ISIS.. the Vision who has a 3rd eye and called himself…I AM…on and on…Evil in high places–-Hollywood. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV)

December 4, 2017

• We equate good things happening to us as our perceived goodness or righteousness…But our own righteousness is as filthy rags before God. Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)

My tongue shall speak of thy word: FOR ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE….. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Psalms119:172 (KJV)

He sends sunshine and rain on the just/good and the unjust/evil………………..

Matthew 5:45…GOD prospers the evil to his own good purpose…

• PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW…and are amazingly gullible and naive to the messages they receive on a daily basis FROM THE WORLD…. John 8:32 (KJV)

December 3, 2017

• THE THING THAT WE ALL SHOULD BE STRIVING FOR IN THIS LIFE…TO DO THE WILL OF GOD. Matthew 6:33 (KJV)

December 3, 2017 (10:28 pm)

• God established the commandments for our SINNING problem-Repent

God established Christ for our Forgiving problem - Embrace the Good

News/Gospel of the Kingdom…

God established the outpouring of his spirit for our living problem

Acts 2:38 (KJV)

Study/Pray/Fast…….

December 2, 2017 (7:51 pm)

• We have amidst us …wolves in sheep’s clothing…..eyes of Judas…. eyes of deceit. Matthew 7:17 (KJV)

2017

November 30, 2017 (10:04 am)

• NOW….

If it’s not celebrated in the scriptures of the Bible…It must be a TRADITION OF MEN….What does the Bible say about traditions of Men….

Colossians 2:8 (KJV) -—BEWARE!!

Mark 7:8…. You lay aside the commandments of God

Matthew 15:3…Jesus replied; And why do you, by your TRADITIONS VIOLATE the direct COMMANDMENTS OF GOD……

• REMINDER….

In the last days God is going to raise up YOUNG MEN who will see VISIONS (this is seeing the Truths of God)….

And raise up OLD MEN who will have a spiritual understanding of Him and his PROMISES/covenants (this is called DREAM DREAMS). Acts 2:17(KJV)

November 30, 2017

• What you feed your mind will produce GODLINESS or WORLDLINESS…. A mixture of both produces LUKEWARMNESS…. This state makes God vomit….

Revelation 3:15-16 (KJV)

• Food for thought…. God may only give you one opportunity to embrace this Truth. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV)

• The road to Hell is paved with good intention…

GOD does not care about what you intended….He will give you what you DESERVE!…

Revelation 2:23….I will strike her children dead…then All the churches(nations) will know that I Am the one who searches out the thoughts and intentions of EVERY person. AND I WILL GIVE EACH OF YOU WHATEVER YOU DESERVE!!! Revelation 2:23………………according to your works-or obedience to my commandments…

November 27, 2017 (2:08 pm)

• Matthew 10:26 (KJV)….all that has been covered up is being revealed….social, political, criminal, ethical, cultural, religious….

All honor and glory to the Most High God….he and he alone is worthy to be praised….

November 27, 2017 (9:33 am)

• GOD knows our hearts(minds) but judges OUR ACTIONS…a new day IS dawning….repent and live…

Romans 13:11-14…..Do this, knowing the time, that it IS already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is NOW nearer to us than when we first believed…..

2017

November 27, 2017 (12:05 am)

• A true basic principle of God…you WILL reap in life what you sow…to the flesh or to the spirit…no foolin God out there….

November 26, 2017 (8:08 am)

• MAJOR STUDY ALERT!!

When You SIN .….NOT IF…

Know this……..

Sin is the transgression of the Law(the major and least commandments of God. Matthew 5:17-19…what SIN looks like..

Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV)

The wages of sin IS death Romans 6:23..can be physical/definitely spiritual ...AND separation from God

Isaiah 59:2 (KJV)

WHAT HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT OUR SINS…..

#1-Acknowledge them…to God - Psalms 51:4 and….CONFESS your sins one to another… James 5:16…to heal

#2 Invoke the prayers of a righteous man…the prayer of the righteous availeth much…James 5:16 (KJV)

#3 REPENT-turn from sinning. Ezekiel14:6; Matthew 4:17 (KJV)

#4 Go and Sin NO MORE…John 8:11 (will you crucify him again?)

#5 Lastly PRAY-suggestion…The Lord’s Prayer Matthew 6:9-13 and The Prayer of Manasseh(Apocrypha)…….

And FAST….WHEN you fast(not if)

Matthew 6:16 an atoning activity (no food no water-Jonah 3:5-7)…..

November 24, 2017 (8:48 am)

• be thankful everyday….

• God has a tendency to take us to a point of sheer desperation…so as to bring about real change and real trust…it’s called a cry from the garden…a cry from Egypt

November 23, 2017 (8:48 am)

• A COMMANDMENT IS NOT A SUGGESTION!!!….take the 10 away…and you get SIN and… evil and evil continuously…Exodus 20:1-17…

2017

November 23, 2017 (9:07 am)

• The