He Came as a Thief in the Night

People who pay attention to their faces, their interiors, while God orchestrates their several regenerations will notice the recurrence of troughs; when one uses the word "trough", one means the nastiest 'visitors' -- thoughts and feelings -- which arrive in the inside of the cup, the mind, and the inside of the platter, the heart.  If you are genuinely being regenerated, then you will certainly notice that the troughs become milder over time. Utterly vile feelings and thoughts become gradually and perceptibly milder, in such a way that the process is obvious.  For instance, someone whose head regularly filled up with sexual fantasies involving violence, death, cannibalism, absence of consent, multiplicity of partners, etc, will perceptibly notice that the worst sexual scenarios become obviously milder to the mind's eye. It is the same with other classes of sin and error. If someone was extremely contemptuous of others or bitter about the past, they should -- if G...

When in the Sermon on Evil Thoughts Jesus distinguishes between what goes out in the draught and what defiles the human, He touches in passing on the waste products solid and liquid of human beings. That they are mentioned by name in the menaces of Rabshakeh against Jerusalem involves the denial of divine good and divine truth and of the Lord's capacity to save. It is like when the Pharisees and Sadducees referred to Jesus as having a devil, ie being possessed. The meaning is very similar to the menaces of Goliath to David, whose flesh he promised to feed to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air. It is in both cases like calling God the devil, or the Church heretic, or good desires (beasts) evil or true ideation (fowls) false.  This has been related in order to give you a handle on how to understand these various references to the draught, dung, no one being left alive to piss against the wall etc. which occur in the Word.  The most important significance of dung an...