Kingship of David

 I wanted to make a video, but struggled through it. I was watching YouTube in the morning yesterday and was caught up in a debate over cremation. Will we be raised up if we are cremated? 

I have wondered a lot about people who are either cremated, or were taken apart (like saints whose relics are passed around) or if your head is cut off - in various ways, whether the idea is human magic, for their health or to rid themselves of the voodoo person, or if it matters for the afterlife, as the valley of dry bones where everything comes together again.

I had a dream at one time, probably around this time, because I always associated it with the death of someone on All Souls Day, that similarly had a death and life quality, although my dream had a field that died and came back to life. I remember it as being super quality.

The issue at hand, then, was that of afterlife clothes. What we will wear after we are dead, will our bones be necessary, will our skins? 

This Sunday it was parables time, and we read about the clothes we wear in heaven. Certainly what we are supposed to reason has to do with the Pharisees, as the Gospel relays today. What we miss so much not attending daily mass is astounding. (I remember now my old friend from grade school, the man who was elderly by the time I was atteninding mid-week services, who was there before school when I was hiding out in church as the new kid. He must have, I wonder now, been in a family who went regularly to daily mass, he must have known how much there is in all the days masses)

Today we study the way Jesus tells the Pharisees they are filthy within. And Paul tells us we must be good from the heart. On Sunday the parable was someone showing up to heaven in the wrong attire. 

We think too much. Everyone asks, "What should we wear? What do we wear?" You're kidding right!!??

So, in saying that, we know these lawyers who might believe they have a shoe in, in heaven, but are filthily clad, they will be disappointed when they are asked to pay debts they don't believe they are responsible for. Perhaps we can agree everyone has debts. Like the people who unwittingly show off in private and it spreads terrible rumors. Of course those who tell and listen to rumors are also debtors, are they not?

Moving along, men in the battle field, who are badly wounded, their bodies are destroyed, lose limbs, so on and so forth. Obviously they have not lost what God can restore.

If he can heal a body in a doctor's office, he can heal it in the afterlife as well.

So ... David was there in the video, they YouTube video, a cameo. He is ending a message regarding Saul, "Thank you for what you did with the body of Saul" ...

And of course there is the sacred story of Tobit. I have a beef with St. Anthony for having spoken ill against Tobit! He said he was lazy and that's why he was blind! Tell me no way!?

Then Amos is there speaking against the abomination of mistreating and burning another king. 

We look at bodies as sacred but not because of the right reasons. People misunderstand because they read into everything with power misconcieved. We look at things that are pretty obvious all wrong. Bodies are sacred. Living and dead. We don't have to argue that. 

What I saw was that David said "this is the law". He was great in making and keeping law at the advent of this conversation. 

Bodies in ancient times being preserved is as old as Job. I could move on to how Job was a famous prophet of God from ancient times, but instead, I saw that like Revelation 3:7-14 there is a stark reality in how well the man of God is able to keep up his reign and how well it shows up in the ever after. 

David will go on to mark lands and kingship, like a signature through time. It cannot be eluded. His kingship is true and valid as stated. (The jews still have a covenant)

Also, where there is a hallowed ground where Moses stood, there is no hide between man's foot and the ground. This is sacred. 

We look to power and it is more a formality. That gets complicated. It takes words, thought, laws!

But maybe, bodies are sacred. The. End. 

David's line of reign being forever and ever seems more and more evident. And those predestined to kinship after him are made manifest in his and Jesus stories. 

There is no one like Christ. That is why David was so important. If we look at his reign as kinship only, we miss things like Elijah and Moses on the holy hill with Jesus. What were they doing there!? 

His kingship is perhaps a role? One wonders.