Marriage of the Lamb

Jesus wants to have a deep relationship with us individually. In fact, He uses marriage to illustrate just how incredibly intense and totally complete he wants this relation between us to be.

In the beginning, when God made Adam and Eve he explained that they would bond together so tightly that they would become "one flesh." Another place he said that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife.

And when Carla and I got married, the preacher said, "What God has joined together, let no man put assunder." 

A marriage relationship is the closest possible relationship a man and woman can have on this earth. It is the highest realization of love that we can know. That is why God uses marriage to tell us how intimate he wants to be with us.

In Revelation 19:7-9 John writes, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.  And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."

You and I can become the spiritual wife of Jesus Christ. In Genesis you can read where a man "knew" his wife and she bore him a son....

That is the complete way that Jesus wants us to know each other. Completely and intimately. He wants us to understand that He is willing to send His Holy Spirit to actually dwell inside of us, to become a part of us, to control and direct us. To actually create a new life out of our old one.

You can see this in the verses above. The fine linen, clean and white that the "bride" wears is the righteousness of the saints. These saints are pure. That is what white worn by a bride signifies, that she is a pure virgin. She has saved herself for her husband on their wedding night. These saints are pure. They have not worshipped other gods. In fact, the marriage supper of the Lamb (Jesus) is a victory supper. It will take place in heaven after He has taken all the saints back with Him at His second coming. Just like a man sort of is the "victor" and has won the woman over all the other men who might have wooed her, the Lamb has married all these pure saints. And we together will have a victory supper.

David wrote about it in Psalm 23 "He preparest a table for me in the presence of my enemies." This is the table of the victory supper at the triumph of the Lamb. These saints have chosen HIM!! They are united in spiritual marriage to Him. They have become ONE with Him. They have His Spirit filling them completely. They have chosen to follow Him completely.

Thus the deepest love between a husband and wife is used by Jesus to begin to try to describe the incredible union that He wants to have with us. He loves us and wants us to become ONE with Him. And God sent Jesus to come and die for us, to enable us to reclaim the wonderful relation that Adam and Eve had before they sinned. 

We will actually spend eternity being able to talk to our Maker face to face. And it will be a life of Joy, of fulfillment, of satisfaction. I want to "marry" Jesus, don't you?

 

 

Sincerely,

David A. Youngs

I am heavy because of DARK MATTER.

I just found this incredible report over at the United States Department of Energy Research News http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2002-02/ddoe-1pq061502.php that says that there are eleven questions that are bugging scientists today that have gone unanswered.

One of the questions is about dark matter--just what is it? I just have to quote one paragraph because although I have studied physics, I am not a physics major. And these few sentences open up vast areas of what I call "dark" knowledge -- knowledge I don't have right now, and perhaps never will. With that in mind, here goes:

"Astronomers have shown that the objects in the universe from galaxies a million times smaller than ours to the largest clusters of galaxies are held together by a form of matter that is not what we are made of and that gives off no light. This matter probably consists of one or more as-yet-undiscovered elementary particles, and aggregations of it produce the gravitational pull leading to the formation of galaxies and large-scale structures in the universe. At the same time these particles may be streaming through our Earth-bound laboratories."

Okay. Dark matter. Matter that is "not what we are made of, and gives off no light." And guess what--scientists don't have a clue exactly what this "dark matter" really is, or whether it even really exists. They are making this stuff up as they go along folks. It is creative imagination on steroids. Dark matter might be this, or it may be that. I just love the quote about "as-yet-undiscovered elementary particles."

Nobody knows for sure. But I think that dark matter is probably the reason that when I get on the scales I weigh too much. Yeah, that has got to be the answer. If it wasn't for the dark matter, I would not be fat. I would not be overweight. And so I am going on a light matter diet. Don't make light of what I am doing to be light now. The only thing is, I am not quite sure what a light matter diet is. But I'll bet it does not include light bulbs....

Okay, enough humor for one day. Being overweight is serious because heavy people get cancer many more times than people who are the ideal weight. They develop nearly all diseases at a faster rate, and they usually die a lot younger.

So even if scientists never do figure out their questions about dark matter, I still need to continue losing weight.

Don't weigh too much
David A. Youngs

We all have cancer, but what shall we do?

My good friend, personal health coach, and health motivator Steven Jenkins writes:

Cancer is a blessing from God, and we all have cancer when we are born. Cancer is not a virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite, or other animal -- it is simple misguided cells multiplying in an area that is plentifully teeming with carcinogens, free radicals, and most importantly cancer food--which includes dead animal cells. Yes, that is how we grow cancer in a laboratory--we use meat--usually hot dogs seem to work the best. If our cancer cell count is around fifty thousand per petri dish, we are considered healthy, but if our cancer cell count climbs to over one hundred thousand, watch out. What this really means it that our T cells (our immune cells) are over taxed and not able to keep up. Well how can they possibly keep up when we use our body as a laboratory to grow cancer? People actually work very hard at growing their cancers.

"But I eat a healthy diet," you may object. Did you know that the advertising budget (as reported by the United States Office of Statistics) shows a budget of thirty billion dollars for the year 2006 spent on promoting animal foods as being healthy foods, while only twenty nine million dollars were spent on advertising veggies? Isn't it interested to know that ninety five percent of the oats grown in the United States is fed to cows. Did you know that lentils have more protein than beef? Did you know that protein deficiency is unheard of in the human race except where people are actually starving, like in Africa. Did you know that Carl Lewis, world champion for the greatest endurance, is a vegan? Did you know that the iron man race was never won by a meat eater, and in fact it's usually won by a margin of about eight hours ahead of the meat eaters, by vegetarians. Is it any wonder why the three Hebrew boys mentioned in the book of Daniel in the bible (who requested a vegetable only diet,) and well as Daniel himself, were much stronger and wiser than the other Hebrew boys taken into captivity by the Babylon king who ate from the king's table where they were served meat and processed food?

What is even worse is that instead of letting the cancer out of the body with our sweat, we plug up the cancer in our bodies by using antiperspirants to keep the sweat (and the cancer) in. And in addition to that, we treat cancer with caustic cancer causing chemicals called chemotherapy, when the latest statistics from our own United States offices compiling cancer treatment information shows that there is no real evidence at all that any of the cancer treatments such as chemo-therapy and radiation treatments are even really working to cure cancer.

How many thousands of people who have suffered through multiple radiation treatments and the full course of chemotherapy treatments have died anyways--or perhaps because of the treatments. We are warned by doctors not to get too much radiation because radiation can cause cancer, and then we treat cancers with radiation. Does this even make sense? Long years of exposure of the skin to sunlight almost invariably will cause some form of skin cancer, especially in people who eat a lot of meats and processed foods. True vegans who eat mostly raw foods are somehow excluded. The fact is that cancer rates in the United States have increased almost five hundred percent since the chemotherapy and radiation treatments started. Wow!

So how do we cure cancer? Very easy in fact... Stop doing what it is that is causing it, and then turn around and start doing something to get well.

Read the bible and start at the beginning, you will find all the answers there. Genesis 1:29 will give you the cure. Eat God's original diet of fruits, nuts, grains (mostly raw food) and you will be will and live a long healthy life. Vegans only rarely ever get cancer, and then it is usually because of environmental causes. We cannot ever limit God, and so knowing this, we have to accept that cancer is curable. Many people who have CHANGED their lifestyle and especially their diet have seen even advanced cancers go into remission, never to be seen again.

If you have any questions contact me, Steven Jenkins and go through one of my cleanse programs as experienced by my very special friend David Youngs. During the cleanse, you will experience and learn things that will probably blow your mind.

(Note from David: Steve is right. The cleanse was an eye-opening experience for me to say the least, and my very own father was a medical doctor. Steve has this video of a lady doctor who once had extremely serious advanced cancer through out her body, but today is completely healthy. As a physician, she knew that chemotherapy and radiation both compromised the bodies natural defenses--the immune system. Therefore, she refused any and all chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and treated her own virulent and life threatening cancer only with major life style and dietary changes. Not only has she been completely cancer free now for several years, she has helped countless other people to confront their cancers using the same radical and effective natural methods. Yes, it is mind blowing--but truth. And the American Medical Society would probably rather suppress this truth because it doesn't make tons of money like radiation and chemotherapy does!!)

God bless you always,
Steven Jenkins

Note from David: thank you Steve for that challenging and inspiring article. Check the other blogs for information on how to contact Steve. God designed our bodies to be self healing. If we align ourselves with the laws of health, we can be healthy again. But it does take work. But the end result is worth it! Join me in a quest for health.

Let's get healthy NOW!!!
David A. Youngs

Eating out and still losing weight

Well, I messed up horribly, but it tasted so good. I had a gourmet vegetarian pizza at Round Table. Oh the white sauce laced with garlic was fantastic. I don't know exactly how many calories were in the pizza, but sometimes you just need to forget your diet and go and pig out! Right? Wrong....

Eating out is probably not the safest nor the easiest way to lose weight. First of all, most of the foods served in fast food joints are super unhealthy. Take french fries for instance. They sure taste so good, don't they. But due to the fact they are literally dripping with oil, the calories in french fries are sky high. And then there is the ubiquitous hamburger. The reason it tastes so good is that it too is very high in fat content.

When you eat a lot of fat, guess what? You get fat! No kidding. So if you are going to eat out, you have to carefully avoid most things on the menu and opt for things like salad. But even salads can be loaded with fat. The culprit is the salad dressing. If you look at the ingredients for salad dressing, almost invariably one of the first ingredients is some kind of oil or fat. So if you are serious about losing weight, you will take your salad like the honey moon couple used to say "let us alone with no dressing." Of course lettuce alone is rather bland, and you will immediately be tempted to pour on the dressing.

Another problem with eating out is salt. Salt is everywhere. French fries taste so good because they are covered with salt. Salad dressing has a whole lot of salt in it. In fact, salt is used so much in the things served in restaurants that once you become conscious of the salt, you probably will want to eat at home.

Eating at home makes it a LOT easier to lose weight.

Happy weight loss,
David A. Youngs