“ANDREA, YOU ARE NOT ONLY BROKEN... YOU ARE LOST!” - FAMILY TO CLAN TO MANKIND!

 

“ANDREA, YOU ARE NOT ONLY BROKEN... YOU ARE LOST!” - FAMILY TO CLAN TO MANKIND!

DATE: October 3, 2021

TO: My 5 kids (Ejing, Andrea, Coycoy, Et-et, Jared)

CC: Other next generation of the Insoy-Andea clan

CC: To all lost tribes of Israel

FROM: Papa (Uncle) Cocoy

RE: “ANDREA, YOU ARE NOT ONLY BROKEN... YOU ARE LOST!”

Years ago, when Vida and I were very active with the wellness industry, members of many, such as First Vita Plus, Intra, Moringa, etc., we encountered many cases and actual experience with cancers and we saw how painful and difficult is to have a cancer without the wholistic environment in the city, where you live with polluted air, polluted noise, polluted food, polluted water, etc... So when we had a long-distance wellness “consultancy” and care with a number of them, including nang Neneng Cuarteros Butron... I CAME UP WITH THE CONCLUSION THAT A GARDEN-LIKE ORGANIC FARM IS THE BEST TYPE OF “HOSPITAL” TO BUILD, AND NOT THAT ONE IN THE CITIES AND TOWNS... IF WE ARE TO ACHIEVE A 95% SUCCESS IN HELPING THOSE SUFFERING CANCERS AND OTHER DEADLY ILLNESSES, NOW INCLUDING COVID.

A timely report on TV about a rich businessman somewhere in the Philippines who followed the advice of his friends and relatives and saw the healing of the cancer of his wife. The advice is: REMOVE YOUR WIFE FROM THE CITY AND PLACE HER IN A COUNTRYSIDE PROPERTY TO SERVE AS HER OASIS OF HEALING.... where everything is fresh and organic.

When in contrast, we saw the steady decline of Nang Neneng’s health despite the best natural supplements Intra and First Vita Plus, the best we know, my conclusion about A CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT AS THE HEALER WAS SOLIDIFIED.

So was born the vision of transforming the two lots of the Insoy Cuarteros in Jagna, namely: the 5-hectare in Bon-onon and the about 7-hectares in Ilaya, Mayana. The financial or economic aspect only came as a bonus. The priceless health was and should be higher and paramount. So I foresee the clan property to be both a NATURAL PLACE OF CARE AND HEALING OF SOUL (MIND) TO RESULT TO THE HEALING OF BOTH BODY AND POCKET.

I have articulated this vision during the many meetings and discussions, both personal and online, wiht the clan members... but it seemed to not have sank in their minds and hearts. I even included the joy of seeing old members to choose to stay and retire in our envisioned clan hacienda which I now describe as a ranchard (ranch and orchard).

When lately Bea Alonzo came up with it, a few years later than us, I told a few relatives: That is what I have been trying to portray in worlds and tried to translate into reality using our collective little resources. Since we do not have the bulk amount that Bea has, we could have done still the same through our clan cooperative. But everybody listened to the ija-ija aho-aho selfishness of capitalism influenced by mostly the wife... almost each wife is not so inclined to the idea of clan cooperative... because she does not believe cooperation/ cooperativism works or is enough to meet her own visions or she does not believe we can do it... in the light of repeated failures and attempts of countless previous clans and cooperatives. So each wife only permitted her husband and family to join the cooperative on condition that this project will be treated as sideline of her own family, not the main line... or not to be taken seriously.

FIRST BLOW DESTROYED THE PROJECT

The inability to grasp the vision of AN OASIS OF LOVE ... of a HAVEN OF HEALTH AND HEALING... the dim and darkness or lack of comprehension in the part of Nong Narding, Nang Terry, Hilda, et al, delivered a deadly stab on what we had started.

Like seeing a more beautiful woman than his wife, Nong Narding immediately abandoned our vision for an ORGANIC FARM in favor of what he (or was there a hidden expert agriculturist who tempted him?) saw as better, to wit: INORGANIC SYSTEM.

When Nang Terry and Hilda signed his decision, I let them do it. I did not abandon the clan coop. They were the ones who abandoned the vision.. who betrayed the noble will that our heavenly Father was leading us to see: A CLAN RANCHARD SERVING AS OASIS OF LOVE AND HEALING AND ULITMATELY PROSPERITY.

In this sense, they betrayed the hope and aspiration of the entire clan, especially of the next generations. We failed them! They will not see the vision fulfilled. They will not see the clan farm becoming an oasis of love... a place of healing for the body, soul and pocket.

For shifting suddenly to inorganic system, the system of toxins, the Insoy Coop is already suffering a loss of no less than P 600,000.00.

But the ongoing loss of hope and faith and trust is greater and more damaging. A change of vision and strategies, if not leadership, is needed.

As I have told everyone all over the world, WE HAVE NO OTHER ECONOMIC METHOD THAT WORKS, BUT ONLY TO GO BACK TO ECOSYSTEM, GOD’S WAY, WHICH PRODUCED THE PARADISE OF GENESIS 1 AND THE CANAAN OF THE ISRAELITES.

Both Paradise and Canaan was based on Ecosystem... on what I call Ranchard System, a combination of Ranch (animals) and Orchard (fruitrees).

In Genesis 1, you can find the salient features of Paradise such as: a) grasses as feeds of the animals (hence, the ranch); b) fruits and seeds (hence, the orchard) as food for man (animal as food was not in the original menu); c) the mandate and policy to employ the lower creation, and not the fellowman; d) God’s mandate and policy not to kill nor eat the animals but to employ them as man’s employees or work assistants, etc., for example, Do not underestimate what animals can do to you, such as the bees giving the Americans beekeepers wealth.... These are God’s basic rules for our economic and spiritual success.

The description of Canaan

Adonai has a wonderful description of Canaan, viz: “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Meaning: ranch (milk means animals... and flowing with milk means plenty of healthy animals, hence, ranch) and flowing with honey means plenty of flowers, hence, fruits, hence, orchard. Hence, Canaan was ranchard... a flourishing ranchard.

But today, you cannot find such ranchard in the Middle East, where the land of Canaan is said to once upon a time was located.

Very sad.

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To compliment His commandments, God gave Israel the ranchard land of Canaan to realize His promises of a life of many blessings. Without Canaan, God could not deliver His promised blessings to Israel. With Canaan, God rained abundant blessings to His people. God listed in Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28 the most wonderful of all earthly blessings one can wish for.

Let us quote them, to revive our desire for them, thus:

Leviticus 26:

3 If you live according to my rules, keep my commands, and do them,

4 I will give you rain at the proper time, the land will produce its yield, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

5 Your threshing season will last until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will last until planting time. You will eat your fill of food and live securely in your land.

6 I will grant peace in the land so that you can lie down without anyone frightening you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through it.

7 You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you in battle.

8 Five of you will chase away a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase away ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you in battle.

9 I will turn my face to you, will make you fruitful and numerous, and will keep my covenant with you.

10 You will still be eating the previous year's harvest when the time will come to clear it out to make room for the new!

11 I will place my dwelling among you, and I will not despise you.

12 I will walk around among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt's land—who brought you out from being Egypt's slaves. I broke your bonds and made you stand up straight.

Deuteronomy 26:

1 Now if you really obey the LORD your God's voice, by carefully keeping all his commandments that I am giving you right now, then the LORD your God will set you high above all nations on earth.

2 All these blessings will come upon you and find you if you obey the LORD your God's voice:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

4 Your own fertility, your soil's produce, and your livestock's offspring—the young of both cattle and flocks—will be blessed.

5 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you are out and about and blessed when you come back.

7 The LORD will defeat any enemies who attack you. They will come against you from one direction but will run for their lives away from you in seven different directions.

8 The LORD will command the blessing to be with you—in your barns and on all the work you do—and he will bless you on the land the LORD your God is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his own, a holy nation, just as he swore to you, if you keep the LORD your God's commandments and walk in his ways.

10 All the earth's peoples will see that you are called by the LORD's name, and they will be in awe of you.

11 The LORD will make good things abound for you—whether the fertility of your womb, your livestock's offspring, or your fertile soil's produce—on the very land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give to you.

12 The LORD will open up for you his own well-stocked storehouse, the heavens, providing your land with rain at just the right time and blessing all your work. You will lend to many nations, but you won't have any need to borrow.

13 The LORD will make you the head of things, not the tail; you will be at the top of things, not the bottom, as long as you obey the LORD your God's commandments that I'm commanding you right now, by carefully doing them.

14 Don't deviate even a bit from any of these words that I'm commanding you right now by following other gods and serving them.

On the other hand,

THE CURSES OF REJECTING GOD’S WAY LEADING TO OUR LOSING PARADISE-CANAAN:

Leviticus 26

14 But if you do not obey me and do not carry out all these commands—

15 if you reject my rules and despise my regulations, not doing all my commands and breaking my covenant—

16 then I will do the following to you: I will bring horrific things: wasting diseases and fevers that make the eyes fail and drain life away. You will plant seed for no reason because your enemies will eat the food.

17 I will turn my face against you: you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you; and you will run away even when no one is chasing you.

18 If, despite all that, you still do not obey me, I will punish you for your sins seven more times:

19 I will destroy your prideful power. I will turn your sky to iron and your land to bronze

20 so that your strength will be spent for no reason: your land will not produce its yield, and the trees of the land won't produce their fruit.

21 If you continue to oppose me and are unwilling to obey me, I will strike you for your sins seven more times:

22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will kill your children and destroy your livestock. They will make you so few in number that your roads will seem deserted.

23 If, despite these things, you still do not accept my discipline and continue to oppose me,

24 then I will continue to oppose you. I will strike you for your sins seven more times:

25 I will bring the sword against you, avenging the breaking of the covenant. If you retreat into your cities, I will send a plague on you, and you will be handed over to the enemy.

26 When I destroy your food supply, ten women will bake bread in a single oven, and they will ration out bread by weight. You will eat but will never get full.

27 If, despite all this, you still do not obey me and continue to oppose me,

28 then I will continue to oppose you—with anger! I will punish you for your sins seven more times:

29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

30 I will eliminate your shrines, chop down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. I will despise you.

31 I will turn your cities into ruins, I will devastate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the soothing smells of your offerings.

32 I will personally devastate the land so much that your enemies who resettle it will be astonished by it.

33 I will scatter you among the nations. I will unsheathe my sword against you. Your land will be devastated and your cities will be ruins.

34 At that time, while it is devastated and you are in enemy territory, the land will enjoy its sabbaths. At that time, the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35 During the whole time it is devastated, it will have the rest it didn't have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

36 I will bring despair into the hearts of those of you who survive in enemy territory. Just the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to running, and they will run scared as if running from a sword! They will fall even when no one is chasing them!

37 They will stumble over each other as they would before a sword, even though no one is chasing them! You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 You will disappear among the nations—the land of your enemies will devour you.

39 Any of you who do survive will rot in enemy territory on account of their guilty deeds. And they will rot too on account of their ancestors' guilty deeds.

Deuteronomy 28:

15 But if you don't obey the LORD your God's voice by carefully doing all his commandments and his regulations that I am commanding you right now, all these curses will come upon you and find you.

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

18 Your own fertility, your soil's produce, your cattle's young, and your flock's offspring will be cursed.

19 You will be cursed when you are out and about and cursed when you come back.

20 The LORD will send calamity, confusion, and frustration on you no matter what work you are doing until you are wiped out and until you disappear—it'll be quick!—because of the evil acts by which you have abandoned him.

21 The LORD will make a plague stick to you until he has totally wiped you off the fertile land you are entering to possess.

22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation; with scorching heat and drought; with destruction and disease for your crops. These things will chase you until you are dead and gone.

23 The sky over your head will be as hard as bronze; the earth under your feet will be like iron.

24 The LORD will turn the rain on your land into dust. Only dirt will fall down on you from the sky until you are completely wiped out.

25 The LORD will hand you over defeated to your enemies. You will go out against them by one direction, but you will run for your life away from them in seven different directions. All the earth's kingdoms will be horrified by you.

26 Your corpses will be food for every bird in the sky and animal on earth; no one will frighten them off.

27 The LORD will afflict you with Egyptian inflammation, hemorrhoids, rash, and itch. You will be untreatable.

28 The LORD will make you go crazy, make you blind, make your mind confused.

29 You will fumble around at high noon as blind people fumble around in darkness. Your plans won't prosper. Instead, you will be constantly oppressed and taken advantage of without any savior.

30 You might get engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You might build a house, but you won't get to live in it. You might plant a vineyard, but you won't enjoy it.

31 Your ox will be slaughtered while you watch, but you won't get to eat any of it. Your donkey will be stolen right out from under you, and it won't come back. Your flocks will be given to your enemies. No one will save you.

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation while you watch; you will long for them constantly, but you won't have the power to do anything about it.

33 The produce of your land and all your hard work will be consumed by people you don't know. You will be nothing but oppressed and mistreated constantly.

34 The sights your eyes see will drive you insane.

35 The LORD will strike you with horrible inflammation in your knees and legs, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. You will be untreatable.

36 The LORD will send you and the king that you appoint over you far away to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known. There you will worship other gods made of wood and stone.

37 You will become a horror, fit only for use in proverbs and in insults by all the nations where the LORD drives you.

38 You might scatter a lot of seed on the field, but you will gather almost nothing because the locusts will eat it all.

39 You might plant lots of vineyards and work hard in them, but you won't drink any wine or harvest the grapes because worms will devour them.

40 You might have many olive trees throughout your territories, but you won't cover yourself with their oil because your olive trees will fail.

41 You might have sons and daughters, but they won't be yours for long because they will be taken away as prisoners.

42 Crickets will take over all your trees and your soil's produce.

43 The immigrants who live among you will be promoted over you, higher and higher! But you will be demoted, lower and lower!

44 They will lend to you, but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head of things; you will be the tail.

45 That's how all these curses will come over you, pursuing you, reaching you until you are completely wiped out, because you didn't obey the LORD your God's voice by keeping his commandments and his regulations that he gave you.

46 These things will be a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

47 Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly above all else,

48 you will serve your enemies—the ones the LORD will send against you—during famine, drought, nakedness, and total depravation. God will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has wiped you out.

49 The LORD will bring a distant nation—one from the far ends of the earth—against you as fast as the eagle flies: a nation that speaks a language you can't understand,

50 a stern nation that doesn't go easy on the very old or show pity to the very young.

51 That nation will devour your livestock's offspring and your soil's produce until you yourselves are destroyed because you will have no grain, wine, or oil left—nor any young from your cattle or offspring from your flocks—that is, until that nation annihilates you.

52 That nation will attack you in all your cities until your high, reinforced walls that you thought were so safe fall down across your entire countryside. That nation will attack you in all your cities throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.

53 You will eat the offspring of your own womb—the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God gave you—because of the desperate and dire circumstances that your enemy has brought on you.

54 Even the most gentle and refined man among you will scowl at his brother or his own dear wife, or the last of his surviving children.

55 He won't want to give them any of his children's flesh that he will be eating because he has no other food due to the desperate and dire circumstances that your enemy has brought on you in all your cities.

56 Even the most gentle and refined woman among you, who is so refined and gentle she wouldn't stomp her foot on the ground, will scowl at her own dear husband, her son, or her daughter—

57 not wanting to give them any of the afterbirth she pushed out or the babies she bore, because she will be eating them secretly while starving due to the desperate and dire circumstances that your enemy will bring on you in your cities.

58 If you don't carefully keep all the words of this Instruction that are written in this scroll, by fearing the awesome and glorious name of the LORD your God—

59 the LORD will overwhelm you and your descendants with severe and chronic afflictions, and with terrible and untreatable sicknesses.

60 He'll put on you all the Egyptian diseases about which you were so afraid; they will stick to you!

61 What's more, the LORD will bring on you all the other diseases and plagues that aren't written in this Instruction scroll until you are completely wiped out.

62 Once as countless as the stars in the night sky, only a few of you will be left alive—all because you didn't obey the LORD your God's voice.

63 And just as before, the LORD enjoyed doing good things for you and increasing your numbers, now the LORD will enjoy annihilating and destroying you. You will be torn off the very fertile land you are entering to possess.

64 The LORD will scatter you among every nation, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known—gods of wood and stone.

65 Among those nations you will have no rest and no place to call your own. There the LORD will give you an agitated mind, failing eyes, and a depressed spirit.

66 Your life will seem to dangle before your very eyes. You will be afraid night and day. You won't be able to count on surviving for long.

67 In the morning you will say: "I wish it was nighttime," but at nighttime you will say, "I wish it was morning"—on account of your tortured mind, which will be terrified, and because of the horrible sights that your eyes will see.

68 Finally, the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the route I promised you would never see again. There you will try to sell yourselves as slaves—both male and female—but no one will want to buy you.

THE COMING CURSES ACCORDING TO PROPHET JOEL:

1. LOCUSTS OF DIFFERENT POWER OF HARM

Joel 1:

A Lament Over the Land

2 Hear this, O elders, and give ear, all the inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days? Or the days of your ancestors?

3 Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.

4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

5 Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 Because a nation has {invaded} my land, strong {and beyond counting}. Its teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and its fangs [are those] of a lioness.

7 It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown [them] down; their branches have turned white.

8 Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

9 The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh.

10 The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because [the] grain is destroyed, [the] new wine dries up, [the] olive oil languishes.

11 Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over [the] wheat and over [the] barley, because [the] harvest of the field is ruined.

12 The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree --all the trees of the field--are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men.

2. FIRE (EL NINO, ETC.)

Joel 1:

13 Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, [O] ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, [O] ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

14 Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather [the] elders, all [of] the inhabitants of the land [in] the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.

15 Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.

16 [Is] not food cut [off] before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

17 The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out.

18 How [the] beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; [the] flocks of sheep are in distress.

19 To you, [O] Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field.

20 Also, the beasts of [the] field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.

3. A DEVASTATING ARMY

Joel 2:

1 Blow [the] trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on {my holy mountain}! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh [is] coming --[it is] indeed near.

2 A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

3 {Before them} a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land {before them}, and after them [it is like] a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them.

4 Like [the] appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run;

5 like [the] sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like [the] sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows [for] battle.

6 {From before them} nations writhe, all faces {turn pale}.

7 They run like mighty warriors, they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve [from] their paths.

8 They do not jostle {one another}; each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons, they are not halted.

9 In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like [a] thief.

10 {Before them} [the] earth quakes; [the] heavens tremble; [the] sun and [the] moon grow dark, and [the] stars {have withheld} their splendor

11 And Yahweh {utters} his voice before his army, because his encampment [is] very large; strong [is the] one who carries out his decree, for great [is] the day of Yahweh and exceedingly fearful. Who can endure it?

THE CURSES AS 7 LAST PLAGUES ACCORDING TO APOSTLE JOHN:

Revelation 16:

The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath

1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.”

2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: “You are just in these judgments, O Holy One, you who are and who were;

6 for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.”

7 And I heard the altar respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”

8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.

9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.

10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony

11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

13 Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”

16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.

19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.

20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.

21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

WHY THE LOSS OF BLESSINGS? WHY THE CURSES?

Deuteronomy 29:

22 Future generations, your children after you, or foreigners from distant lands will say: Look at all that land's plagues and the sicknesses that the LORD laid on it!

23 Look at all its land burned by sulfur and salt, unsuitable for planting, unable to grow or produce any vegetation, as devastated as Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD devastated in anger and wrath!

24 Indeed, all nations will ask: Why did the LORD do this to this land? What led to this terrible display of anger?

25 They will deduce: It was because those people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, their ancestors' God, which he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26 They followed other gods, serving them and worshipping them—other gods that they hadn't experienced before and that the Lord hadn't designated for them.

27 Then the LORD's anger burned against that land, and he brought against it every curse written in this scroll.

28 The LORD ripped them off their land in anger, wrath, and great fury. He threw them into other lands, and that's how things still stand today.

29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God. The revealed things belong to us and to our children forever: to keep all the words of this covenant.

Deuteronomy 30

1 Now, once all these things happen to you, the blessing and the curse that I'm setting before you, you must call them to mind as you sit among the various nations where the LORD your God has driven you;

2 and you must return to the LORD your God, obeying his voice, in line with all that I'm commanding you right now—you and your children—with all your mind and with all your being.

3 Then the LORD your God will restore you as you were before and will have compassion on you, gathering you up from all the peoples where the LORD your God scattered you.

4 Even if he has driven you to the far end of heaven, the LORD your God will gather you up from there; he will take you back from there.

5 The LORD your God will bring you home to the land that your ancestors possessed; you will possess it again. And he will do good things for you and multiply you—making you more numerous even than your ancestors!

6 Then the LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants so that you love the LORD your God with all your mind and with all your being in order that you may live.

7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and chase you.

8 But you will change and obey the LORD's voice and do all his commandments that I'm commanding you right now.

9 The LORD your God will help you succeed in everything you do—in your own fertility, your livestock's offspring, and your land's produce—everything will be great! Because the LORD will once again enjoy doing good things for you just as he enjoyed doing them for your ancestors,

10 and because you will be obeying the LORD your God's voice, keeping his commandments and his regulations that are written in this Instruction scroll, and because you will have returned to the LORD your God with all your heart and all your being.

11 This commandment that I'm giving you right now is definitely not too difficult for you. It isn't unreachable.

12 It isn't up in heaven somewhere so that you have to ask, "Who will go up for us to heaven and get it for us that we can hear it and do it?"

13 Nor is it across the ocean somewhere so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the ocean for us and get it for us that we can hear it and do it?"

14 Not at all! The word is very close to you. It's in your mouth and in your heart, waiting for you to do it.

Life and death

15 Look here! Today I've set before you life and what's good versus death and what's wrong.

16 If you obey the LORD your God's commandments that I'm commanding you right now by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments, his regulations, and his case laws, then you will live and thrive, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and so are misled, worshipping other gods and serving them,

18 I'm telling you right now that you will definitely die. You will not prolong your life on the fertile land that you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess.

19 I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you right now: I have set life and death, blessing and curse before you. Now choose life—so that you and your descendants will live—

20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying his voice, and by clinging to him. That's how you will survive and live long on the fertile land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors: to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

CALL TO REPENTANCE AND THE RESTORATION OF THE LOST BLESSINGS

Joel 2:

A Call to Repentance

12 "And even now," {declares} Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing."

13 Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.

14 Who knows [whether] he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God?

15 Blow [the] trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly;

16 gather [the] people, consecrate [the] assembly; assemble [the] elders, gather [the] children, even those [who are] breast-feeding; let [the] bridegroom come out from his private room, and [the] bride from her canopy.

17 Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"

The Response and Promise of Yahweh

18 Then Yahweh became jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

19 And Yahweh answered and said to his people, "Look at me, [I am] sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you [over] any more as a disgrace among the nations.

20 {The northerners} I will remove from you; I will drive them to a desert and desolate land, its front to the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and odor will rise up because he has done great things.

21 Do not fear, [O] land, rejoice and be glad, because Yahweh has done great things.

22 Do not fear, wild animals of [the] field, because [the] pastures of [the] desert have put forth new green shoots, because [the] tree has produced its fruit, [the] fig tree and [the] vine have yielded their produce.

23 Be glad, [O] children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for [your] righteousness, and he has {poured down} for you rainwater, [the] autumn and spring rains, as before.

24 The threshing floors will be full [with] grain, and the vats will overflow [with] new wine and olive oil.

25 I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.

26 And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you {wondrously}. My people {will never be ashamed}.

27 And you will know that I [am] in the midst of Israel, and I [am] Yahweh, your God, and there is no [other]. My people {will never be ashamed again}.

Yahweh’s Spirit Poured Out

28 And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.

29 And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

30 And I will {set} wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

31 The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh.

32 And it will happen--everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be {those who escape}, as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling.

RESTORATION IF AND WHEN WE RETURN TO GOD’S WAY (ECOSYSTEM, RANCHARD, PARADISE, CANAAN)

Leviticus 26:

Covenant and restoration

40 But if they confess their and their ancestors' guilt for the wrongdoing they did to me, and for their continued opposition to me—

41 which made me oppose them, so I took them into enemy territory—or if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make up for their guilt,

42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob. I will also remember my covenant with Isaac. And my covenant with Abraham. And I will remember the land.

43 The land will be absent of them and will be enjoying its sabbaths while it lies devastated, free of them. They will be making up for their guilty deeds for no other reason than the fact that they rejected my regulations and despised my rules.

44 But despite all that, when they are in enemy territory, I will not reject them or despise them to the point of totally destroying them, breaking my covenant with them by doing so, because I am the LORD their God.

45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with the first generation, the ones I brought out of Egypt's land in the sight of all the nations, in order to be their God; I am the LORD.

THE ROOT CAUSES: WHY CURSES, WHY DID WE LOSE THE BLESSINGS?

1. WICKEDNESS

Deuteronomy 28

20 ...because of the evil acts by which you have abandoned him.

2. DISOBEDIENCE

Deuteronomy 28

45 That's how all these curses will come over you, pursuing you, reaching you until you are completely wiped out, because you didn't obey the LORD your God's voice by keeping his commandments and his regulations that he gave you.

3. NOT WILLING SERVICE IN TIME OF PROSPERITY

Deuteronomy 28:

47 Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly above all else,

Vulgate version:

47 Because you didn't serve ADONAI your God with joy and gladness in your heart when you had such an abundance of everything;

NIV:

47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

4. DID NOT LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD ESP THE INNER VOICE

Deuteronomy 28

62 Once as countless as the stars in the night sky, only a few of you will be left alive—all because you didn't obey the LORD your God's voice.

5. FALSE FAMILY

One of the values the government and church have taught the people to fight for is familism. Little did the people realize that like every other thing, the enemy has created a fake family in lieu of the true family. Read on.

The root cause is the wrong teaching that the churches taught to the people, namely: That God defines

family as husband-wife, father-mother, parents-children conglomeration.

We do not properly understand that to God that membership size is only the seed-family, not the tree-family, that is, it is only the proverbial mustard tiny seed, not the envisioned mustart tree that Christ mentioned in His parable.

Jesus said the system in His kingdom is like that of the mustard which starts in the tiniest size possible like the mustard seed which is one of the tiniest seeds but from there, it expands to become a tree.

So our concept of what a family is should be this as well, to wit: the husband-wife, father-mother, parents-children conglomeration is not yet the tree family, but only the seed family... it is only the seed, not yet the tree... so it has to be expanded to become a tree... it has to include, espouse and embrace all other families to become the tree... that is, the big universal Family of God.

This mental and heartal expansion from caring a family as a seed to expanding our coverage to include our clan or blood relatives and to as big as God’s entire human family, especially His poor ones, is the one the Lord referred to in Haggai 1. God uses two meanings in Haggai 1: His physical house, that is, the temple, and His spiritual house which is His human Family and all other creations.

You will find, after reading Haggai 1 that each of us is doing the act that causes our continuous losses, deficits, misfortunes, poverty and bankruptcies, to wit:

Haggai 1, HAGGI 1:

2 This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: These people say, "The time hasn't come, the time to rebuild the LORD's house."

3 Then the LORD's word came through Haggai the prophet:

4 Is it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

5 So now, this is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: Take your ways to heart.

6 You have sown much, but it has brought little. You eat, but there's not enough to satisfy. You drink, but not enough to get drunk. There is clothing, but not enough to keep warm. Anyone earning wages puts those wages into a bag with holes.

7 This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: Take your ways to heart.

8 Go up to the highlands and bring back wood. Rebuild the temple so that I may enjoy it and that I may be honored, says the LORD.

9 You expect a surplus, but look how it shrinks. You bring it home, and I blow it away, says the LORD of heavenly forces, because my house lies in ruins. But all of you hurry to your own houses.

10 Therefore, the skies above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce because of you.

11 I have called for drought on the earth, on the mountains, on the grain, on the wine, on the olive oil, on that which comes forth from the fertile ground, on humanity, on beasts, and upon everything that handles produce. (CEB Bible)

When you are asking why each of us is suffering all and many kinds of misfortunes today, instead of reaping blessing after blessing, then, you have the answer.

In the last part of this article, we will take the opportunity to quote other versions for a clearer understanding.

HEAVENLY FATHER, NOT JUST LORD; HOME-FAMILY, NOT JUST HOUSE; THE INDIVIDUAL, NOT JUST THE TEMPLE

The full and meanings intended in those verses are:

1. It is the Father of the House, not just Lord, who was speaking;

2. He was actually referring to His Home, His Family, not just the physical house, the later only an instrument to care for the former;

3. Paul was used by the Lord to tell us the higher, deeper and final meaning of “temple” which is the body and soul of the individual person, hence, in Haggai 1, the heavenly Father intends the care and development of each individual in His Home-Family. The individual is the TEMPLE or CHURCH, that is, his body, his soul, his heart, is the temple or dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

That is how care should be seen... it has to be individualized, and to concern the soul and the body. Spiritual health as well as physical health. Spiritual salvation, as well as physical salvation.

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Andrea, and her generation, is taking the same path and entering the same sufferings, only in much intensified manner, that we, their parents, had taken erroneously. Despite our attempt to correct our error by leading them away from it, they too choose... are choosing... the same mistake... the same harmful and painful path.

So last time, as Andrea begins to take the first blows of misfortunes for having chosen the same paths that her uncles and auties have taken, she told me, “Pa, I am broken.”

I add: “Andrea, you are not only broken. You are also lost.”

And the breaking is only starting. It’s going to become worse, as you left the path of humble love that we, your parents, after years of seeking, are discovering and re-introducing to the family.

When I was 10, I started seeking this way. I called it then as the “better way.” Since then, I did not stop chasing and pursuing it... to me, it has been so elusive like catching a clever butterfly.

But I rest on His promise, Ask and it shall be given; Seek and you shall find, Knock and it shall be opened.

Ultimately and eventually, I and I hope all the rest, will finally catch it and take hold of it, never to let it go anymore. The apostles told us to “hold it fast”... meaning: strongly and tightly, never allowing it to escape and get lost anymore.

Unless and until everyone gets the point, namely: That the “family” that the Roman Empire and Catholic Church have taught us is only the seed of the family, not the tree, we will continue transgressing Haggai 1 and to suffer.

God bless.

Yours truly,

Papa Cocoy

P.S. ADDITIONAL BLESSINGS THROUGH THE SECOND COVENANT: SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS

Matthew 5:

The Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes

1 Now [when he] saw the crowds, he went up the mountain and [after he] sat down, his disciples approached him.

2 And opening his mouth he began to teach them, saying,

3 "Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed [are] the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.

5 Blessed [are] the meek, because they will inherit the earth.

6 Blessed [are] the ones who hunger and thirst [for] righteousness, because they will be satisfied.

7 Blessed [are] the merciful, because they will be shown mercy.

8 Blessed [are] the pure in heart, because they will see God.

9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.

10 Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

12 Rejoice and be glad, because your reward [is] great in heaven, for in the [same] way they persecuted the prophets before you.”

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USING DIFFERENT VERSIONS

Haggai 1, GW Bible version:

2 "This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say it's not the right time to rebuild the house of the LORD."

3 Then the LORD spoke his word through the prophet Haggai. He said,

4 "Is it time for you to live in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

5 Now, this is what the LORD of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!

6 You planted a lot, but you harvested little. You eat, but you're never full. You drink, but you're still thirsty. You wear clothing, but you never have enough to keep you warm. You spend money as fast as you earn it.

7 This is what the LORD of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!

8 "Go to the mountains, get lumber, and build the house. I will be pleased with it, and I will be honored," declares the LORD.

9 "You expected a lot, but you received a little. When you bring something home, I blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of Armies. "It's because my house lies in ruins while each of you is busy working on your own house.

10 It is because of you that the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

11 I called for a drought on the land, the hills, and on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and whatever the ground produces, on humans and animals, and on all your hard work."

Haggai 1, NIV:

2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD’s house.’ ”

3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:

4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”

5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.

9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Haggai 1, NLT version:

2 “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: The people are saying, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD .’”

3 Then the LORD sent this message through the prophet Haggai:

4 “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?

5 This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

6 You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!

7 “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

8 Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD .

9 You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.

10 It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.

11 I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”

Haggai 1, MSG version:

2 A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: "The people procrastinate. They say this isn't the right time to rebuild my Temple, the Temple of God."

3 Shortly after that, God said more and Haggai spoke it:

4 "How is it that it's the 'right time' for you to live in your fine new homes while the Home, God's Temple, is in ruins?"

5 And then a little later, God-of-the-Angel-Armies spoke out again: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over.

6 You have spent a lot of money, but you haven't much to show for it. You keep filling your plates, but you never get filled up. You keep drinking and drinking and drinking, but you're always thirsty. You put on layer after layer of clothes, but you can't get warm. And the people who work for you, what are they getting out of it? Not much - a leaky, rusted-out bucket, that's what.

7 That's why God-of-the-Angel-Armies said: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over."

8 Then God said: "Here's what I want you to do: Climb into the hills and cut some timber. Bring it down and rebuild the Temple. Do it just for me. Honor me.

9 You've had great ambitions for yourselves, but nothing has come of it. The little you have brought to my Temple I've blown away - there was nothing to it.

10 hat's why. Because of your stinginess. And so I've given you a dry summer and a skimpy crop.

11 I've matched your tight-fisted stinginess by decreeing a season of drought, drying up fields and hills, withering gardens and orchards, stunting vegetables and fruit. Nothing - not man or woman, not animal or crop - is going to thrive."

Haggai 1, NCV:

2 "This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: 'The people say the right time has not come to rebuild the Temple of the Lord.'"

3 Then Haggai the prophet spoke the word of the Lord:

4 "Is it right for you to be living in fancy houses while the Temple is still in ruins?"

5 This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done.

6 You have planted much, but you harvest little. You eat, but you do not become full. You drink, but you are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but you are not warm enough. You earn money, but then you lose it all as if you had put it into a purse full of holes."

7 This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done.

8 Go up to the mountains, bring back wood, and build the Temple. Then I will be pleased with it and be honored," says the Lord.

9 "You look for much, but you find little. When you bring it home, I destroy it. Why?" asks the Lord All-Powerful. "Because you all work hard for your own houses while my house is still in ruins!

10 Because of what you have done, the sky holds back its rain and the ground holds back its crops.

11 I have called for a time without rain on the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, the plants which the earth produces, the people, the farm animals, and all the work of your hands."

Haggai 1, NIRV:

2 The LORD who rules over all says, "The people of Judah are saying, 'The time hasn't come yet for the LORD's temple to be rebuilt.' "

3 So the message came to me from the Lord. He said,

4 "My temple is still destroyed. In spite of that, you are living in your houses that have beautiful wooden walls."

5 The LORD who rules over all says, "Think carefully about how you are living.

6 You have planted many seeds. But the crops you have gathered are small. So you eat. But you never have enough. You drink. But you are never full. You put your clothes on. But you are not warm. You earn your pay. But it will not buy everything you need."

7 He continues, "Think carefully about how you are living.

8 Go up into the mountains. Bring logs down. Use them to rebuild my house. Then I will enjoy it. And you will honor me," says the Lord.

9 "You expected a lot. But you can see what a small amount it turned out to be," announces the LORD who rules over all. "I blew away what you brought home. Why? Because my temple is still destroyed. In spite of that, each one of you is busy with your own house.

10 "So because of what you have done, the heavens have held back the dew. And the earth has not produced its crops.

11 I ordered the rain not to fall on the fields and mountains. Then the ground did not produce any grain. There were not enough grapes to make fresh wine. The trees did not bear enough olives to make oil. People and cattle suffered. All of your hard work failed."

Haggai 1, CJB:

2 "Here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot says: 'This people is saying that now isn't the time - the time hasn't yet arrived for ADONAI's house to be rebuilt.'"

3 Then this word of ADONAI came through Hagai the prophet:

4 "So is now the time for you to be living in your own paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

5 Therefore here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot says: 'Think about your life!

6 You sow much but bring in little; you eat but aren't satisfied; you drink but never have enough; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who works for a living earns wages that are put in a bag full of holes.'"

7 "Here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot says: 'Think about your life!

8 Go up into the hills, get wood, and rebuild the house. I will be pleased with that, and then I will be glorified,' says ADONAI.

9 'You looked for much, but it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?' asks ADONAI-Tzva'ot. 'Because my house lies in ruins, while every one of you runs to take care of his own house.

10 This is why the sky above you has withheld the dew, so that there is none, and the land withholds its yield.

11 In fact, I called for a drought on the land and on the hills, on the grain, the wine and the olive oil, on what the ground brings up, on men, animals and on all that hands produce.'”