Bible ~~- Newer Testament ~~- James ~~- chapter 5 of 5 (20 verses.)

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James Condemns Rich People
1 Come on now, you ‘rich’ people. [Get down on your faces.] Weep and howl. Dread the miseries [YAH] comes to [rain] on you.
2 Your wealth is rotting away, 😇. Your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.
3 Your gold and silver lie corroded, 😇. Your pile of greed-gotten riches [rises] to testify against you. The rust that eats your money comes to eat your flesh like fire. This ‘treasure’ you accumulate to save your skin during the Last-Days comes to stand as damning evidence against you on the day of judgment.
4 Rich man! Look! Listen to the condemning cries echoing out of your moneybags: sacks full of wages you fraudulently kept instead of paying the laborers who reaped your fields, [who worked your investments]. The cries of your harvest-laborers pierce the ears of [YHVH] Adonai Almighty. He commands the Angel Armies to fight [all] oppressors.
5 You, 😇, live in pleasure on the earth, [lounging] in wanton luxury and self-indulgence. In a time of slaughter, you go on eating to your heart’s content.
6 You [rich people] continue to condemn and kill just [martyrs]. You murder innocents who never resist you.
If you're a worldly citizen, you've paid policemen and judges to jail and kill poor black boys for carrying a hemp-cigarette in their pocket, or for using their right to drive a car without a license. And you keep paying into the kill-system because you love 'police protection.' You've killed innocent ‘foreigners’ by paying taxes to fund wars which support your evil economic system's monopoly. And you keep paying-in because you love the benefits of being an empire ‘insider.’
Patiently Endure Suffering & Aggravation
7 So be patient, brothers, until Master [Yahshua physically, visibly] returns. 😇, watch how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth. He ever calmly awaits the arrival of the fall and spring rains.
Stoicly endure being excluded from the world's corrupt easy-money systems. Don't go under Caesar's authority in order to enter commerce to buy a nice house and nice clothes and a nice car. Worldly economic life is a bundle of get-rich schemes that end in disaster. Be patient. Your blessings eventually rain from heaven.
8 You too, 😇, be patient. Establish your hearts in courage. Master [Yahshua’s] return draws near.
You see the Adonai the moment you die. Judgment Day rushes upon us! Don't establish yourself by using the world's oath-bound debt money. Establish yourself with courage.
9 Never grumble [nor hold grudges] against one another, brothers. [Let go of your bitterness, so] you won’t come under condemnation. Look, 😇! The Judge stands at the door!
Never complain. Avoid putting each other down. #4727 stenazo: in straits, i.e. to sigh, murmur: with grief, groan, grudge. See Greek #4728.
10 Brothers, think about the [ancient Hebrew] prophets. They spoke in the name of the Adonai [YHVH]. YAH's prophets are great examples of how to be patient when you, 😇, suffer through afflictions.
It takes patience to reject the world's oath-bound benefits. All true prophets refuse to bow to the world-system in order to get material comforts.
11 Look, 😇. We [believers] revere those blessed [ancient holy saints] who persevered [to the death]. You've heard of the patience of Job: You saw [YHVH] Adonai's purpose in allowing Job to suffer. You saw that in the final analysis Adonai takes limitless pity on us [repenters]. [YAH] fills the universe with His tender mercy.
Go without the world's contractual carrot-on-a-stick oath-bound benefits (driver's license, passport, bank account, social insurance, pensions, royalties, grants, political power). Later you get paid all the wealth of the world.
A DISCIPLE MAY TAKE NO OATHS AT ALL. EVER!
12 And ABOVE ALL THINGS, my brothers, never swear. [That is, never declare anything under oath!] Not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by ANY OTHER OATH. Instead, 😇, let your yes be ‘yes;’ and your no: ‘no.’ Otherwise you fall into condemnation.
No oath of any kind means:
  • don't sign anything that says ‘under penalty of perjury’,
  • never raise your hand to a judge,
  • never take any oath of office,
  • never sign a binding contract,
  • never enter the military,
  • never sign a tax return,
  • never be an employee,
  • never make any promises at all.
Changing the word ‘swear’ to ‘Affirm’ is just a word game that doesn't change anything. Oath = horkos = limit = fence. Oaths corral you into your master's pen. You cannot serve two masters. This verse shows the utter bankruptcy of the Bible commentators who give Churchianity its sermons. Charles Wesley FALSELY claimed: James does not forbid the taking a solemn oath before a magistrate. Matthew Henry's commentary missed it too. Clarke admitted he didn't understand this verse. Gill, not reading, also claimed this verse only prohibits ‘some’ forms of oaths. Ellen White & Joseph Smith also parroted the same illogical error!
How To Get Healed (Biblical Healing Procedure)
13 Is anyone among you suffering? Pray, 😇. Is anyone merry? Sing psalms [with joyous musical instruments].
Pray for healing. Don't sign up for insurance.
14 Is anyone sick among you, 😇? Let him call for the elders of the Ekklesia. Let them pray over him, [repeatedly] oiling his [entire body, except the private parts] with olive-oil, in the name-authority of the Adonai [YHVH].
See how fun holy, non-sexual touching-rituals can be. Call the elders (multiple older, wiser men) of the Ecclesia (a called out political assembly under the sole authority of the King of Kings, that is not men who are politically bound up in the worldly nations). Those holy, separatist, non-worldly elders then rub oil into the sick body, calling on the name of YHVH and/or Yahshua. Remember to connect this verse to its context. This healing is by and for people who have stopped the swearing of every kind of oath. (James 5:12) Oaths to men remove you from the authority of the One Master who heals His people. That's why most healing services in churches die in great disappointment: Without truly-separated, oath-abstaining elders rubbing oil into the diseased body as they pray in the name of YHVH or Yahshua, this scriptural healing recipe cannot be expected to work. To understand the natural process, look up ‘Lipophilic’, ‘Liposomal’, ‘transdermal nutrition’ & ‘lymph’.
15 [If you, 😇, keep the preceding commands in their entire context, including avoiding any kind of oath, THEN] the prayer of faith will save the sick [believer]. [YHVH] the Adonai will raise him up [by restoring his health in this life or the next]. And if [the patient] has committed sins, [YAH] will forgive them.
There may have to be MANY of these oil-massage sessions conducted by older, righteous believers [who are free of the worldly jurisdiction created by any kind of oath]. Don't stop until the healing happens! Sometimes the healing has occurred but the blood and lymph flow need to be stimulated by massaging with oil.
16 Confess your faults to one-another, 😇. And pray for each other, so that [YAH] heals you. The fervent prayer of a righteous [being] is powerful and effective!
17 [Flash back to the life of ancient prophet] EliYah, a man subject to passions like ours, 😇. [One day,] EliJah earnestly prays that it won't rain. So not one drop of rain falls on the Land for 3 years and 6 months!
18 Then EliJah prays. So the heaven gives rain. The earth brings forth her fruit.
Actively Reach Out To Save Sinners
19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, somebody bring him back.
20 Remember this, 😇: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way saves [the sinner's] soul from death and sweeps a multitude of sins [into oblivion].
‘Cover’ (#2572 Kalupto) implies ‘stealing’ the sins away. Not just sweeping them under a rug. Removing them forever. You catalyze the transformation of a sinner into a righteous man by telling him YAH's Word at the right time. Tell everyone whatever YAH lays on your heart to tell them.
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