The word "homeless" doesn't work for the people who have their home somewhere else.
"And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head" (Matt 8:20).
Words to believers in Jesus Christ, strangers and pilgrims despised on the earth but welcomed home by our Holy God and Father in heaven:
That last word there, translated in the Authorized Version as "visitation," is the same word translated as overseeing, meaning to look intently on something, to inspect things, and the same root word is used to describe an office of authority in the church for an entire locale.
The overseer of the entire church is Jesus Christ, and He's coming to visit soon. I'm overjoyed, literally singing and dancing about it, but many have reason to tremble. Peter is teaching here that the righteous behavior of Christians right now will save many when Jesus returns.
Meanwhile, some of those people who will be saved are at this very moment the worst enemies of the church. God is leaving it up to their free choice, grieved by their evil deeds and yet hoping they will turn back to Him, and instructing His children to love them as He does.
Picture yourself as a Christian warrior looking back at your behavior in the world when you fought with your enemies, who you love. Lord willing, some of those enemies were or will be saved, making them former enemies, and your brothers and sisters.
Fight like Jesus, with love.
As Christian men, we're a class of warriors with no place on earth to rest. This is one big battlefield -- and more than that -- a proving ground for proving YOU. We're not homeless, because our home is in heaven with our Father and the Lamb, but we can be unhoused.
As part of a new ministry called #ManGoingUp, which is all about getting men to walk with Jesus Christ, I will be appealing first to the unhoused men living in big cities.
Since I've started writing a lot about #ManGoingUp, which is for men (and I hope women read it too), I'll write something here on the same subject addressed to women (and I hope men read it too).
Basically, I'll be praising the virtuous women out there, and condemning the rest.
A virtuous woman, just like a #ManGoingUp, is very hard to find, because in both cases, they're walking with Jesus Christ, which is very rare indeed.
In the ideal form, a man and a woman are joined as one flesh in marriage, which is a picture of Christ and His church before God.
The ideal form of a man and woman in marriage illustrates some facts about us, all pointing out that we're literally made for each other, to pair up and love each other. Any warring between the sexes happens far away from God's will for us, and is evil, leading to destruction.
Where's the body of Christ, God's church today? The church has always been walking, with Jesus, but instead of following, you built walls, and stages, and sat down in pews to watch a show put on by men. That's theater.
Want to go to church? Stand up and start walking with Jesus.
I've taken the biblical instruction for men to stand up and walk with Jesus, as His own body living in the world today, and called it #ManGoingUp.
If you're a prayerful woman who reads the Bible plainly, then you already know how this works for you. Anyone else, just ask.
You've heard of self-help and self-improvement programs. Well, they're all bogus because you can't help yourself, and you can't improve yourself. Besides, these are all shoddy imitations made by men. You need to rely on the only one who can help you: Jesus Christ.
Someone should start a crypto project called #NewWorldOrder that registers every human on earth as an NFT with their picture, biometrics, vital data, wallets, social media accounts, social credit score, current location... It would be so EASY, like Satoshi was a setup.
In fact, there are two big projects competing in this space, and I'm not sure which will deliver first in 2023. The team led by @elonmusk wants to use Twitter and Dogecoin, because Elon is a man-child without much sense. The smarter team will use #Cardano, which is banker tech.
Cardano is running late, so it'll probably go Twitter -> $DOGE -> sidechain (any), then later, a big migration to Cardano for consensus protocol and DID done right.
Devs complain about all the Haskell in Cardano. You know who loves Haskell? Bankers love Haskell.
The new big ministry is called Man Going Up, and it's for men seeking God's will for their lives. The results will be nothing less than the restoration of God's church on earth. Expect more details soon.
The movement called #ManGoingUp is about boys getting rid of their toys, leaving their mother's comfort, turning off the porn, marrying (if they lust), standing up and walking, building homes, telling the world how God is restoring His church by restoring the man. Basic stuff.
If a man has fallen, and he wants to get up and walk in the right direction this next and final time, seeking God, the first step is to humble himself, because while God is not far from every one of us, He turns away from the proud. What is proud? Coming up with your own ideas.
Blockchain is for enslaving people, and very soon. You'll have your very own NFT linked to you biometrically.
There are two or three major paths the powers could take here, but one of them is through a channel comprised of @elonmusk, Twitter, $DOGE, checkmark/badges and facial NFT PFPs. Also expect biometrics for verification, lots of AI for clerical work and a social credit score.
In 2023, FSD becomes common in robot cars, and humans will be banned from driving (they just can't drive safely among the robots). Robotic transport vehicles will fully replace cars. They'll be equipped to lock people inside and take them to prison, if the blockchain says.