Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child

Life is a maze of mirrors, yet not all mirrors are equal.
Only one type of mirror is capable of reflecting reality.
All the others are warped and show a distorted image of reality.

Some people spend an entire lifetime gazing at their image in a warped mirror, because they prefer the reflection of the false image of themselves over the reflection of their true image.
They look away from YHWH's mirror and seek validation and support in the mirrors reflecting a false image of themselves.

'Spare the rod, spoil the child' means you deprive your children of seeing their reflection in the mirror of YHWH's reality.
Instead, they see themselves reflected in the corrupt mirror you hold up to them, and they learn to relate to that image as their reality, their true identity.
The image becomes a straightjacket shaping their walk through life, obstructing them wherever they go.

When the Bible speaks of 'sparing the rod, spoiling the child', it refers to withholding YHWH's standard of truth.
It does not mean corporeal punishment, as if by beating your child you are automatically doing the right thing.
The rod is the standard of YHWH by means of which He defines, affects and shapes our reality.

Wherever YHWH's mirror of reality is withheld a corrupt mirror takes its place.
This corrupt mirror is held up by you, the parent, and the corruption comes in the form of either omission, or commission.

There are two ways of sparing the rod.
The first way is when you replace YHWH's mirror with the mirror of permissiveness.
You do this by not informing your child of what is right and good according to YHWH's standard, or by not disciplining your child when it has done wrong.

The lack of correction when it is required holds up a corrupt mirror of your own standard to your child.
The child sees a reflection of itself in your mirror which states that the evil the child committed is right, because it did not have to face the consequences in the form of discipline.

Spoiled children grow up with an unrestrained ego which is rooted in the corruption of the mirror they are looking at, as well as a set of false values.
When YHWH's mirror comes on their path in life, the conflict between the corrupt mirror they believe in and YHWH's mirror produces a conflict, and they have difficulty in coming to terms with it.
They may even end up hating their parents because they set them up to fail in life by not allowing them experience the truth of the mirror of existence.

The parents in turn may not have intended any harm to their child, and simply wanted to protect their child from any negative influence and harm.
Yet if their protection meant that they did not confront their children with the consequences of behaving contrary to YHWH's standard, which is the act of withholding the true mirror of existence, they have done their children a lot of harm in spite of their good intentions.

Loving your children also means correcting them when it is so required of you to do so.
Anything less than that means a dire lack of true love on the part of the parents.

Sparing the rod and thereby spoiling the child implies that you teach a child that he can do evil, and expect good in return.
That is the corrupt mirror you hold up to them.
You do not provide your children with a mirror of truth, but instead you show them a mirror which lies.

The second way of sparing the rod is by forcefully applying your own self-righteous rod in place of YHWH's rod.
This happens when your child has done wrong, and instead of disciplining your child in the right way, your form of discipline is distorted by for instance your anger and frustration, or by your games of manipulation through guilt or otherwise.
What you did was that you took away the reflection of your child in YHWH's mirror, and substituted it with the reflection in your own mirror, which has its roots in your corruption.

Your child may have lied about something and therefore applying the standard of YHWH's mirror requires correction.
The self-righteous parent decides to use pent up anger and frustration to 'apply correction', which really is a way to vent the anger by appointing the child as the recipient of the brunt of your anger.
You put your own mirror in front of YHWH's mirror and as a result your child is not corrected, but victimized and confused.
Furthermore, you defiled YHWH's mirror by pretending to act in the authority of His standard.

The stripes of discipline you apply the wrong way to your child cause wounds which go much deeper than the skin alone.
The marks of the wounds will cripple your child's soul so that he grows up crooked in the image of your crooked mirror.
You forced a corrupt image of your self-righteous anger on your child, and you damaged a soul which was entrusted into your care.

You will have to answer for that to YHWH when He holds up His own mirror to you.
If you have children you carry the responsibility for the way you affect and burden them with your own sins.
Nothing is hidden, not even our most inward thoughts, and you will not get away with your hidden motives and the things you do in secret.

Remember the expression 'If you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword'?
This expression is the embodiment of the mirror of reality as YHWH created it.
The principle is simply this: if you put out evil, evil will be done unto you, so with your evil intent you ultimately end up hurting yourself.

By perverting the meaning of the principle of 'sparing the rod and spoiling the child' you end up damaging them with your anger and self-righteousness.
The result will be that the abused child does not feel corrected, but he feels victimized, and rightly so.

The abuse can come in the form of angrily beating up a child, but it also comes in the guise of psychological abuse.
Whereas the first is easy to detect, the psychological abuse can be difficult to detect and perhaps is the most deadly form of abuse since it avails itself of the use of guilt and manipulation.
Once the guilt force is set in motion and channelled through manipulation it tends to become a perpetuum mobile, changing the psychological profile of the victim through the seed of manipulation based on the guilt.

Whenever the guilt game of manipulation is played, children tend to project their anger and hatred towards themselves, leading to devastating destructive outcomes for their lives.
Psychological abuse sows seeds of destruction in the heart of the child which will grow up to produce fruit after their character, capable of bringing the life of the child to complete ruin.

Too often correction become a license for abuse.
When the principle of 'sparing the rod, spoiling the child' is abused to vent frustration and anger, beating the child into submission and destroying a child's character in the name of correction, then this principle takes on very dark overtones and turns into a sword which destroys instead of a rod which corrects.

Taking correction as a license for abuse causes the evil you put out to be replicated in the next generation.
Your child, suffering under the injustice and responding with an inner anger and resentment towards your hypocrisy, now has to deal with the presence of your demons in his heart, and your evil is visited upon him.

The same is true for psychological abuse.
The child may harbor a deep grudge against you for your manipulation and your insincerity, and how you try to destroy the independent character of your child with your tactics and your unspoken hidden intentions.
This child may feel like the most worthless person in the world because of the guilt over resenting you, not knowing how to deal with it because you have plastered this child's mouth shut with your sly games of manipulation.
Here too your demons have found their way into the child's heart through the secret anger in the child. 

In the case of abuse, whether it is by means of corporeal punishment or psychological games of manipulation, you do not provide your child with the mirror of YHWH's reality.
Instead, you broke that mirror and held up your own corrupt mirror in its place when you vented your own frustration and abused your child.
Your self-righteous abuse broke YHWH's mirror, and held up a corrupted mirror, one which reflects an image of your evil back at the child.
You become a devourer of the souls of your children as you destroy them with your hypocrisy.

Sometimes I see preachers promoting the principle of 'sparing the rod' with a little bit too much enthusiasm and too little understanding. 
Perhaps you have heard them preach about the good old days when  'Johnny was taken behind the barn for a thrashing with the belt'.
Words like that can easily lend themselves as a religious legitimization for abuse, and the preacher promoting this is equally responsible.

All too often the self-righteous parents love to beat up their 'wicked child' so that in the end 'no evil is left in that child', and it can grow up into a perfectly conformed oak of righteousness just like THEY are, applying the same principle of 'correction' in the name of 'sparing the rod, spoiling the child' to the next generation.
They just LOVE to sway the rod to the beat of their fuming anger in the name of righteousness, venting all their pent up frustration on that 'wicked' child.

I have seen the broken spirits of individuals raised in an environment under the rule of a hypocritical fear-based religion where the abuse of the rod of correction is standard practise and turned into a destructive mental hammer beating the children into cog-conformity.
It robs people of their character and their identity, replacing it with a pseudo-identity in the image of the hypocrite parents.
It destroys the spirit of a child, and if by some miracle of YHWH such a kid survives this chamber of horrors he has to deal with the wounds for the rest of his natural life.

Children grow up in that environment, and after a while nobody seems to be at home in their body any longer.
Instead you look into the eyes of a shell repeating the words of their parents, attending the same church, following the same routine, robots.
Ironically, although having a religious veneer of believing in Jesus or Yahshua as the Messiah, these environments are the complete opposite of walking in faith in Yahshua, because they lead people to guilt, fear and doubt instead of peace, confidence and faith.

So, I cringe when I see preachers reminiscing the 'good old days' when little Johnny was taken behind the barn to make acquaintance with the rod of correction, which all too often was nothing but the rod of pent-up frustration and anger, the magic wand of demons to shape the recipient of the lashes in the image of the demons applying the lashes.

To apply the rod means that you discipline your child in love, without venting any frustration.
To do this correctly you must be business-like in your approach, and use a measure of correction in accordance with the severity of the transgression.

Applying the rod does NOT equal corporeal punishment.
It stands for disciplining someone by confronting them with the consequences of the evil they are guilty of.

If it is standard practise in your home to apply correction through corporeal punishment you really should ask yourself what is wrong with YOU that you feel the need to hit your children, which basically is a very dumb method of 'correction'.
Surely if you love your children you want them to be smart and intelligent?
Then correct them intelligently with a right spirit whenever necessary.

The important thing is that you do this with love, and not out of anger or frustration.
When you get yourself out of the way, children can see their reflection in YHWH's mirror which you uphold very clearly, and it confronts them with what they have done wrong in the clearest way.
YOUR responsibility as a parent is to make sure you hold up an undefiled mirror of YHWH, and NOT your own mirror which has been corrupted by either anger or other negative emotions, or by a wrong concept of good and evil, right and wrong.

Surely it is not difficult to see that although 'sparing the rod' may corrupt your child, disciplining your child in the wrong way can harm them to an even greater extent?
Both sparing the rod and applying the rod the wrong way have in common that they are expressions of the absence of true love.
And true love is what a child needs most.

So if you love your child, give him a true mirror of existence, with love.
A mirror which reflects back at the child his wrong, and a mirror which affirms the true image of the child.

Discipline carrying the motivation of true love is the way of giving your child the reflection of his image in YHWH's mirror.
Abuse in the name of correction carries the signature of evil, and it gives your child the reflection of his image in the corrupted image of evil.

Life is a maze of mirrors, mirrors of corruption and a mirror of reality.
As we move through the maze, we chose which mirrors we identify with.

Don't you know that there are mirrors all around you, and that you will find mirrors of yourself also in your children?

The conformist child will show you a reflection of your veneer, and because you like this image, you will reward the child who upholds this image to you.

Yet the rebellious child which will show you a reflection of the very thing you wish to bury beneath a contrasting veneer, will be rejected, all too often ending up on the receiving end of the brunt of your anger because the child reflects back at you the very thing you are in denial of.

So, if you have this mix of conformist and rebellious children, perhaps it is time for introspection.
For if you persist in your denial, punishing the one who reflects the elements of your denial, ultimately you will be confronted with the rod you used to beat your child when YHWH will hold up His mirror to you, and you seen your evil coming back at you.

Both the ones who refused to give their child the mirror of existence and spoiled them rotten, and the ones who use the principle of 'sparing the rod, spoiling the child' as an excuse for unleashing anger and beating up the child, are individuals who end up destroying their children.
Both will ultimately be forced to look in YHWH's mirror and acknowledge who they really are.

So if you secretly love to beat up your child because it feels good to relieve your anger and feel justified about doing it: know that if you do not return from your ways you will meet in YHWH the one who will use the rod of your self-righteous anger against you so that you will be destroyed as you have destroyed.

And if you spoiled your child and thereby fostered evil in your child, withholding YHWH's mirror of existence from that child so that this child grows up crooked in the image of your mirror, you will find in YHWH the destruction of the wickedness of your heart.

Life is a maze of mirrors, with one mirror of truth among many mirrors of lies.
The image you choose to identify with may be the reflection of either truth or a lie.

Depending on your choice you will find either a confirmation of truth upon leaving this maze as you venture into the real life of the spirit, or the shock of gazing into the reality of what you truly are will send you off into the great abyss.

The Rod

Hidden beyond the sight of men the metal contours of an industrial landscape littered by many different factories shape the line of the horizon.
In these factories the mirrors of life are made and shipped to the merchants, who promote the mirrors in order to maximize their profits.

Before the mirror is made, the owners of the factory decide which quality standard will be used in the production process.
When the production process is set in motion, each mirror becomes the embodiment of this quality standard so that the reflection of the mirror is created in the image of the standard used for the production of the mirror.

And so it happens that the great variety of mirrors leaving the factories differ in the way they reflect images back at people looking in these mirrors.
Although all of them are different, there is one ancient standard which produces mirrors capable of reflecting an accurate vision of reality.
The great multitude of other standards have in common that they all deviate from this one ancient standard to some degree.

These deviating mirrors give birth to a distorted reflection of reality in accordance with the standard they embody.
Anyone who looks in these mirrors will see an image which does not have any bearing in reality because it is manipulated and deviates from reality.
Instead, they will see an artificial projection of themselves in the image of the mirror, a projection which is the result of the standard of the mirror.

If the standard appeals to them and they accept it, the reflection in the mirror becomes their identity.
If they reject the standard, the reflection in the mirror will not become the seed for their identity. 

The factories which produce the mirrors also manufacture compatible rods which come with the mirrors.
These rods are extensions of the quality standard used for the production of the mirrors.

Like the magic wand of a magician, these rods magically shape reality in the image of the standard.
Wherever a mirror is sold, a rod accompanies the mirror, and it changes the reality of life for the ones looking in the mirror in the image of that mirror and the standard it embodies.

In the capacity of reality shapers the rods become physical representations of the standards embodied in the mirrors.
The rod becomes the standard.

And so it came to pass that a man held up a mirror to the Pharaoh so that the ruler might behold his reflection in this mirror.
Because the Pharaoh always had identified with the image reflected by a different corrupt mirror, the image he saw in the man's mirror felt alien and uncomfortable to him.

So he rejected the image he saw in the mirror, and declared his own corrupt mirror to be superior.
Pharaoh's identity was built in the image of the corruption in his mirror.
It always showed him a pleasing and familiar image of himself, even if the reflection was artificial and a distortion of reality.
The Pharaoh enjoyed living in the fairy tale created by his mirror.

And so, to demonstrate the superiority of his own mirror, the Pharaoh summoned the men with the rods who worked in service of his mirror.
They assembled in the hall of the palace, all of them holding a rod in their hands, just like the one man with holding up the different mirror, a mirror they were not used to.
This mirror did not show any flattering images having their root in fantasy, but instead it reflected back at everyone the truth of who they were.
Nobody liked that.
They preferred the lie, for it was sweet as honey.

When all of them threw their rods on the ground, their rods turned into snakes.
People jumped back, frightened by the sight of these snakes slithering across the stony floor in the palace.

Yet a strange thing occurred.
One of the snakes was bigger than the others, and moved towards the other snakes crawling on the floor.
The bigger snake bit a smaller one, and proceeded to eat the entire snake.
After the bigger snake had eaten the smaller one, it slid forward to another snake which tried to flee from the bigger snake in vain.
After a while, the bigger snake had eaten all of the others, and it was the only snake left in the palace.
Then the man holding up the alien mirror stepped forth, grabbed the snake by its tail, and it became a rod again.

Truth destroyed the presence of the many lies slithering across the cold floor of Pharaoh's court.

This one standard of truth, representing the concept of the mirror the man Moses held up to Pharaoh and his magicians, annihilated the standard of lies which the Pharaoh embraced.
This one rod changed Pharaoh's reality, and to the degree that Pharaoh hardened his embrace of the dream reality he beheld in his mirror, the rod representing the mirror Moses held up to Pharaoh forced Pharaoh to wake up from his dream to the reality of Moses' mirror with increasing strength and intensity.

In the end, Pharaoh was forced to acknowledge the superiority of the standard of reality held up to him by Moses.
Because the identity of Pharaoh was so fully absorbed in the dream reality of the image in his own mirror, the manifestation of YHWH's mirror of reality ultimately reflected back at Pharaoh the image of his destruction.
As he sought to kill the escaping Hebrews, he found death staring at him in YHWH's mirror.

Twelve men were gathered outside the tent.
All of them had carved the name of their tribe on the rod.
After giving their rods to Moses, he laid out their rods in the tent

Twelve rods were lying on the ground all night long.
Yet the next morning when the rods were brought out of the tent, one of those rods had sprouted, and it bore blossoms and ripe almonds.
The other rods were carried out of the tent just as they were brought in, as barren rods.

This one rod destroyed the standard embodied by the other rods, the standard of arrogance and rebellion.

Yet there also was a time when a rod was used to strike the face of an innocent man.
He had done no evil, yet the pain caused by the rod reflected a corrupt image at Him in the mirror which the agents of falsehood held up to Him.

Yahshua had to endure the pain inflicted on him by the rod of falsehood as it shaped the physical reality of his body, attempting to shape the mental and spiritual reality of His Soul and Spirit in the image of the rod.
He had to tolerate the blows of the false reality where those dressed in garments of authority, even religious authority, applied the rod of falsehood in the name of YHWH's standard of truth, even unto death.

Ultimately this rod of falsehood served the purpose of letting the abused Man use His rod of iron to smash for once and for all the corrupt mirrors of falsehood manufacatured by the unseen powers beyond our world.
Although the rod of falsehood seemed to prevail over YHWH's rod of truth for a fleeting moment, it was only permitted to happen so that YHWH could deal the death blow to the Satan's house of false mirrors.

Up to this very day the factories are still running, shipping their multitude of false mirrors to nations, institutes, schools, universities, corporations, offices, churches, synagogues, families, individuals.
These mirrors are hung on the walls and doorposts so that everyone is forced to look in these mirrors and subject themselves to the magical reality-shaping powers of the rods belonging to the mirrors.

The magical powers these rods have lies in their ability to induce a sleep state in the ones looking in the mirrors the rods are part of.
The sleep-state becomes the fantasy world they relate to as reality.
It turns them into zombie creatures whose souls have merged with the puppet costume and its strings, carrying an identity rooted in a fantasy world.

Yahshua destroyed the power of these mirrors.
His people suffer on a daily basis from having to walk through the maze of mirrors projecting false images and manipulating their circumstances to reflect the false standards of the mirrors.
For a season they may lose themselves in the image reflected back at them by these mirrors, a false image of who they truly are.

Yet, in their hearts there is a part which simply does not belong in the reflection in the mirrors of falsehood.
The image they see in the external mirror clashes with the image they see in the mirror of their spirit.

When the moment comes, they learn to discern the false elements in the reflection of their image in the mirrors of corruption.
As they learn to identify with the contrasting reflection in the mirror which YHWH holds up in their hearts, the falsehood begins to lose its power.
After all, the corrupt mirrors reflect elements back at them which are not part of their new-found identity in YHWH's mirror.

They begin to stand out as deviations from the norm of the mirrors of society, and like Yahshua they too have to learn to endure the lashes of the rod of falsehood when they choose YHWH's reflection instead of the reflection of the image in the corrupt mirrors.

But ultimately, Yahshua is the One holding the rod of iron.
Just as He prevailed once, He prevails time and again in us, smashing the falsehood in the images the mirrors hold up to us.
He will return to break the power of the maze of mirrors for once and for all, destroying all false images with His rod of iron, the unbreakable standard of YHWH's truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.
And the Word became flesh and manifested the purity or Elohim in a world of corruption.
When the Word spoke, His words became a rod of truth shattering the images of falsehood and dashing to pieces the stronghold of lies. 
Then the Word went back to Heaven and became the pure Word of YHWH in the hearts of men in the flesh who believed, shattering the presence of the lie in and through them.

Now the Word will return to confirm the Word in the hearts of men and make it manifest on the earth, changing the entire world into the image of the Word with the rod of iron.
Yahshua's words will become the sword, and the sword will go forth like lightning striking at the heart of darkness, destroying it forever.
They will thunder from above announcing the end of the Lie and the beginning of a new day.
Then the rain will come.

The Mirror

When I wake up in the morning, I always stroll over to the sink.

Over the sink there's a round mirror, and it gives me a very accurate reflection of my face.

The mirror does not have any agenda.

It just hangs on the wall, over the sink, reflecting light as it bounces off surfaces such as my face accurately.

The mirror reflects the reality of who I am in terms of my physical form, and it does not soften or alter the reflection in any way.

What I see is what I am.

Laws are like mirrors.

If laws have grown out of a sound and good standard, they provide us with a mirror reflecting back at us what we have done wrong.

The basic principle of this mirror is that if we put out evil, we end up receiving evil.

When we steal, our freedom is stolen from us, when we take a life, our life is taken, either directly by the death penalty, or indirectly by imprisoning us for the remainder of our life.

The object of the law is not only to protect those who wish to do good, but also to discipline those who do evil.

The basic message of the law is: if you do evil and seek to inflict hurt, you end up hurting and doing evil to yourself.

In this capacity the law serves as a reminder of the mirror of existence.

If you look in that mirror, it reflects back at you what you are in terms of the core values of that mirror, its properties.

A straight mirror gives you a correct image of yourself, a bent or warped mirror distorts your image in accordance with its deformity.

YHWH gave us His perfect law as a mirror.

Each time when we look in the mirror of His Torah, it reflects back at us who we are in terms of good and evil.

When we hate someone, looking in the mirror of YHWH's law we become aware of a reflection of evil within us.

If we do harm to someone, then the mirror of YHWH's law inflicts that harm back on us.

YHWH gave us His law to make it clear to us that life is a mirror reflecting back at us what we put out.

Why do you think YHWH created the principle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?

If we steal, YHWH's Torah demands restitution and a penalty, if we kill, our life is taken.

In this capacity the law becomes a mirror because it brings back to us the evil we put out.

Did YHWH create these rules because He is harsh and unforgiving?

No, He created these rules to make it perfectly clear to us that whatever we put out is what we receive.

If we hurt, we receive hurt, if we do good, good will come back to us.

It is the mirror of existence.

It helps us make the right choices.

If we love YHWH, we will experience His presence as a delight and a joy, but if we hate Him, we will experience His presence as anger towards us, and He manifests as destruction.

If we steal from our fellow man, we rob ourselves, if we take his life, we kill ourselves, because the law convicts and penalizes us in accordance with the transgression we are guilty of.

Thus, the law mirrors back at us what we have done wrong.

Our entire planet is created in such a way that it reflects back at us who we are: dualistic human beings carrying both good and evil within us.

The good part is our conscience, the evil part is our manipulated physical mind.

The system of law in our countries reflects in the same way as a mirror: if you seek to hurt, you hurt yourself.

This basic principle acts as a correction, because if we want to enjoy life and receive the good things, we have to make sure that we put out good and not evil.

The Torah is like a mirror in the sense that it provides us with the rules of the mirror of existence.

Besides the mirror of reality, there are mirrors of corruption which reflect the distortion of the mirror back at people and thereby provides us with an incorrect false image.

When mirrors are corrupted, they show us an image of ourselves shaped by this corruption.

If you look into a laughing mirror it does not show you a reflection of your true physical shape, but instead it reflects a distorted image which has no root in reality.

Distorted mirrors manifest themselves for example in national laws which deviate from YHWH's definition of good and evil.

If you create a law which allows for the murder of infants, then the murderers who look into that law do not see an accurate reflection of what they are.

Instead, the law validates them in the same way as a parent might spoil a child by not correcting a wrong the child did.

As the rod is spared, the child is spoiled and grows up crooked with a corrupt set of values.

If a law is called into existence which affirms a lie and punishes truth, then those who speak truth will not find an accurate reflection of themselves in that mirror.

They may put forth good, yet in the mirror of the law they receive the distorted image of evil.

Yet those who put out evil and agree with the lie will find affirmation in the image of the mirror of the law.

If national laws are based on a corrupt concept, they are transformed into distorted mirrors.

The early followers of Yahshua in the Roman Empire were persecuted for believing truth, and the means of persecution was provided by the law.

The emperor had based the law on a corrupt concept, and if those who loved truth mirrored themselves in this law, they were incompatible with the image reflected back at them.

And so, whereas they put out good, they received evil in return.

The forces of evil corrupt YHWH's law of existence by reversing everything.

If a law in the capacity of being a mirror is supposed to be based on a concept embodying that which YHWH defined as good, evil forces deviate from YHWH's concept by creating laws into existence which reflect the corruption of evil.

The result is that evil is rewarded, and good is punished, a reverse mirror and a perversion of the mirror of existence.

So, if life has true mirrors and corrupt mirrors, surely then the entirety of life is not a true mirror of existence because it does not accurately reflect back at us our image?

Is it not true that sometimes those who do good receive evil and those who do evil are rewarded?

Although the latter is true, life IS a mirror of existence, because we WILL  see an uncorrupted image of who we truly are reflected back at us.

Even if this image is withheld from us in this life, we WILL see this image in the mirror of our Creator when we stand in front of Him.

He is the Source of Life, and in Him we will see a true reflection of who and what we are.

The corrupt mirrors are just part of a smokescreen of evil, and they serve the purpose of refining and sharpening our vision of truth.

The corrupt mirrors seek to entice us to believe in the reflection the mirrors give us of ourselves.

Once we believe, we have accepted the corruption of the mirror, and the corruption becomes part of our being.

Yet if we hold fast to truth and our reflection in the mirror of truth which YHWH gives us, then the corruption in false mirrors cannot shape us into believing the corruption.

We reject it and hold fast to our true image in YHWH's mirror.

Thus, the mirrors of corruption serve to enhance and strengthen our image in YHWH's mirror of truth.

Life is a maze of mirrors.

There are mirrors of YHWH's reality, such as in the form of his Torah, or in the form of nature, or in the form of our conscience, or in the form of our experiences in life.

Then there are mirrors of Evil which lie to us.

In life we are given the freedom to choose which mirror we shall use to mirror ourselves in.

Some prefer to look in the mirror of corruption, because they like the image reflected back at them.

Others come to love truth so much that they prefer to look in the mirror of YHWH's reality, even though the image reflected back at them is not always flattering.

In the end we are pulled out of the maze of mirrors here on earth, and we find ourselves looking in YHWH's mirror reflecting the true image of who we are.

Those who love truth so much that they chose YHWH's mirror of His reality on earth will see the image they are familiar with looking back at them.

Yet those who hated truth and preferred the mirror of corruption will be in shock of the image of themselves they behold in YHWH's mirror.

The image they see in YHWH's mirror is condemnation, and YHWH will manifest to them in the form of that which they have been, thus reflecting back at them their true nature: evil.

And they will run into the dark abyss seeking to hide from the reflection of their image in YHWH's mirror, just as they have done when they were part of the earth theatre.

The Painting

We all are painters.

When we are born we receive an empty canvas of our life and a palette.

We put different colors of paint on the palette, mix them, and choose the colors we apply on the canvas to create the painting of our life.

Yet by what standard do we make our choices?

When we look in the mirror, we want to see the reflection of a free, autonomous individual.

We want to see someone who is able to make independent decisions.

Yet if we take a really close look at the reflection in the mirror of our lives, do we see truly autonomous individuals making independent choices?

How do we know anything?

Isn't it by observing it in relation to a standard we can use to measure and give it a place?

How do we know the grass is green?

Because we have been given a standard with names for certain colors, and when we say the grass is green we express our knowledge of the standard we have been taught.

We give this color a place in the entirety of the spectrum of color in accordance with the standard we have been taught.

This is the problem.

We cannot know anything other than by standards which have been given to us which allow us to place everything in the perspective of those standards.

If we then substitute the absolute standard of YHWH by standards created by man, who is subject to a dualistic creation and therefore carries corrupt standards in his psyche, then by judging and assessing something in accordance with these man-made standards our knowledge and outlook on life will reflect the values of those standards.

In other words, if we use corrupt standards, our views will reflect this corruption.

We paint the canvas of our life in the wrong colors and wrong shapes.

If a prophet does not reference to YHWH's standards, then inevitably his prophecies will reflect the corruption present within his reference standard.

The main characteristic of false prophets is that they have substituted YHWH's standard of truth with man-made standards they refer to as truth, and as a result their prophecies lie.

They may predict a few things accurately, but their prophecies in their totality show the evidence of  corrupt standards.

To be able to detect their corrupt standards you must have a standard of truth which allows you to accurately assess the standards of the false prophet.

Lacking this standard of truth, you may end up painting your own canvas with the colors of the false prophet.

To be able to paint our life in the colors of the vision YHWH had in mind for us when He created us, it is important to embark on the quest for YHWH's standard of truth.

The closer we are to envisioning this standard, the more accurate we are in painting our lives in His true colors.

The further away from YHWH's standard of truth, the more obscure and obfuscated our painting becomes as it reflects false standards we used to create the painting.

Our problem is our belief in false standards.

The human robot is created by a conditioned response to accept false standards as his own, reducing him to a robotic cog in the great wheel of deception.

The robot is set up to follow orders and bow before titles of authority.

They take up their rank in the big wheel, and if they are obedient robots they move up the ranks to create more robots as cogs in the great big wheel which makes the earth system of slavery move around and yield its harvest of souls.

Robots have handed over their painting and let the deception behind the great big wheel dictate the colors and shapes of their painting.

They have been conditioned to learn to paint exactly within the lines, thus creating a painting in the image of the false standards of the authority figures they were subject to.

Robots learn to conform and bow before authority regardless of the nature and integrity of that authority.

As a result they receive rewards: a place in society, honor and esteem from men, awards and medals, diplomas, commissions.
Or the robots learn to become a manifestation of authority in the system of the big wheel themselves through rebellion and carving out a new system of cogs within the setting of the big wheel.

They have to trade in the quest for YHWH's standard of truth and supplant it with man-made standards, which include standards of religions.

Whereas robots paint their canvas in colors of conformity, the rebels paint their canvas in contrasting colors.

Rebellion and conformity are fruits growing on a tree which grew out of the seed of dualism, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Although different in their colors, both rebellion and conformity produce the same painting.

You are probably familiar with negatives of photos.

The negatives are exactly the same as the photos, only the appearance of colors on the negative is the opposite of the colors on the photograph.

However, although the negative looks very different than a photograph, if you print a photo out of the negative you will suddenly discover that the print shows the exact same image with the exact same colors as the photograph.

This principle also applies to conformity and rebellion: rebellion is just the negative of the photo of conformity.

All too often people fall prey to the dynamic force which creates an expression of the dualism of conformity vs. rebellion, a force which begets its power from our emotional reactions.

Mind you, this force is not equal to our emotional reactions, but it feeds upon them.

It's the force which has blossomed in the form of our pride, our need to be gods instead of serving Him.

Being exposed to a religious veneer without the true depth of the Spirit behind it ends up as an enticement to rebel against the veneer, OR, to conform to it due to suppressed guilt rising out of hating the hate-object for the falsehood of the veneer.

The rebel not only rejects the veneer because it fails to comply with what it purports to be, but also the core values of the veneer are all too often thrown out along with the mask.

That is the very thing which causes the hypocrisy of a religious veneer to be passed on to the rebel.

The self-righteousness behind the veneer of the religiosity gives way to the veneer of the prideful self-righteousness of being right in the rebel.

Rebellion out of anger against what is wrong does not make you right.

Rejecting falsehood because you love and embrace the standard of YHWH is what makes you right.

Both reject, yet whereas one still contains the poison which produced the hypocrisy, the other lacks that poison because it could not enter the soul.

Control is exercised through both conformity and rebellion over the ones who conform or rebel.

The control consists of acceptance of that which the conformist seeks to imitate.

Yet the control also extends into the rebellion against perceived hypocrisy.

Through his reaction against hypocrisy the rebel allows an external source to determine his direction in life and shape his attitude and his beliefs which are derived from standing in reaction against something or someone.

"You say there is a god while I can see enough behind your mask to tell me that you really live as though there is no god? You secretly do things which you publicly denounce?

You're just lying and everything you say is a lie, and I will do my best to strip away this veneer which lies to me and speak the truth: there is no god and your values are just a demonstration of your lackluster showmanship!"

Our emotions are like the colors we apply to the canvas.

The danger of emotions is that they can make us feel right about our belief in wrong standards because of the chemical reality they produce in our body.

To react angrily against something makes you feel right in your anger, but feeling right does not make your standards right.

To paint YHWH's vision of our life on the canvas in the exact right colors we must learn to function from YHWH's standard.

There IS NO other standard.

There is only ONE standard of YHWH, who is the only Source of existence.

The millions of deviating standards are just expressions of different ways in which one can deviate from the one true standard, and they are simply trap-doors created to lure us into non-existence.
The deviations are just the by-product of the dualism of good vs. evil.

When we are able to relate everything in our lives to YHWH's standard and give them a place in accordance to this standard, we are free to apply the exact right colors on the canvas and begin to paint the true vision for our lives.

As long as we use false standards as our frame of reference, we will paint a robotic pseudo-vision on the canvas in the drab colors assigned to us by these false standards.

When we look in YHWH's mirror, we realize that we are not autonomous.

We all exist in relation.

Question is: to what standard do we relate?

Because this standard determines the quality and color of the vision we paint on the canvas of our life.

The art of life is about learning to recognize and abandon false standards by identifying with YHWH's standard only.

There is no other standard.

All standards which deviate from YHWH's standard automatically fall in the category of corrupt standards.

Because YHWH is the ultimate standard of knowing, and there is no other way of truly knowing anything other than by YHWH's standard.