Have You Heard The Expression, “Fighting Like Cats & Dogs”? Well, The Person
That Said That Obviously Had Never Had Cats. We Had Two Cats, That
Were Brother And Sister. 'AJ" & "Zoe". They Tussled, But It
Was Mostly Play-Fighting. Zoe Loves To “Zoom” And We Call Her “Zooming
Zoe”, (We Should Have Named Her “Comet” As She Likes To Streak Across Very
Fast Like A Comet, Or As A Pun As In AJax & Comet Household Cleaners). Zoe
And AJ Are Brother And Sister, But Don’t Look Alike. Zoe Is A Gray
Calico Tabby With Touches Of Brown With White Paws And Under Belly And Face.
She Is A Pretty Cat. AJ
Is A Tuxedo Cat, And Handsome And Likes To Pose, (Came In 3rd Place In A Photo Contest).
Well, Someone Told Us About A Homeless Cat That Was Wandering
About Near Her Home That She Was Feeding And She Was Very Concerned That This Cat Would Get Run Over
And She Could Not Take It In Because Her Husband Was Disabled And Might Trip
On The Cat. So, We Rescued This Cat Also And Since We Got Her On
Father’s Day, We Named Her “Poppi”, The Italian Name For Father, Even Though She Was A Female.
So, Now We Had Three Cats. At First When I'd Open The Door To Let The
Other Cats Out, Poppi Was Afraid And Would Not Go Out At All. Now,
Just Like Our Other Cats, She Is Now Both An Inside and An Outside Cat.
But, Unknown To Us. Two Female Cats Are
Very Territorial And Poppi And Zoe Would Fight And Poppi Being Raised
Outside With Dogs And Other Wild Animals Knew How To Fight; And Zoe Had Never Even
Seen Another Cat Other Than AJ. So, One Day I Heard That “Kerrrrr”
Sound That Cats Make When They Are Hissing and Spitting At One Another, {Zoe
Had Even Never Made That Sound Before Poppi Taught It To Her ~ Now That Is Her
Distress Call For Help}. I Ran To
Them And Zoe Had A Spot Of Blood Coming From Her Forehead. AJ Pretty
Much Had Kept Them From Fighting Each Other, And AJ Was Like A Dog And Everyday
I Go Out To Feed The Deer In My Neighbor’s Yard And AJ Would Walk Beside Me.
Enter Here And Go To The Bottom Of This Website To See AJ Walking Beside Me.
Poppi Would Follow And Stay Close To AJ, (We Should Have Named Her “Shadow”,
As She Was A Poppi Cat, {Copy Cat}).
Zoe Is Totally Different And Is
Your Typical Stereotype Aloof Independent Cat, But Still Likes To Cuddle
When She Thinks No One Can See Her. But Zoe Is A Fierce Predator And
Being That All Our Cats Can Go Outside Or Inside Through A Cat Door, Zoe
Constantly Brings In Lizards, Dragon-Flies, Bugs, A Bunch Of Chipmunks, And Birds,
And Don’t Tell My Wife, But Five Snakes.
Zoe Sleeps Under Our Bed In Three Different Cat Beds, (But It
Is Also A Hierarchy Thing With Cats, That Whoever Is “Top Cat” Gets To Be On
The Highest Place Of Prominence). We Have Tried To Get Zoe Cat Beds,
But She Doesn’t Want One. She Likes Her Tall And Private Place Under
Our Beds, (And No Other Cat Better Dare Go Under There As That Is Considered
Her Territory). Then Later In The Night, Zoe Transfers To The Place On
The Couch Where I Sit. AJ Slept At The Foot Of Our Bed On A Chest, On A Large
Cat Bed, (AJ Was A Big Boy). And Poppi Likes To Sleep Close To Me On
Our Bed.
But AJ Must Have Ate A Mole That Had Been Poisoned And After 4½ Wonderful Years,
AJ Passed On, And Now There Was No Buffer Between Poppi And Zoe.
However, Poppi Is Similar To AJ And Likes To Be With Me. She Will
Follow Me Like A Shadow To Every Place I Go, Every Room, Always, Nearby Just
Watching For Sometimes Hours While I Am Working My Computer, But Never
Leaving Me Now That AJ Is Gone. Zoe Who Is Somewhat Nocturnal but More
Crepuscular, [Active At or Around Dusk, Dawn or Twilight]; Also Adapted To Us And All Of Our Cats Head
For The Bedroom At 9;30 pm As They Know Our Routines}.
This Is Background, But Did You Know That For Some Cats, {Not Zoe}; That If You Leave A Cat
Alone And Go To Work, That They Will Not Interact Or Play Or Do Anything.
They Will Just Wait Beside The Door Until You Come Home. Once Someone
Dropped Off A Cat Near Our House. I Believe They Were Thinking, We
Have Cats, And They'll Be Friends And We'll Board Them As Well, (Which I
Would Have). However This Little Teenage Cat Had Already Bonded With
The Previous Owners And Just Felt Abandoned and Frightened. It Didn't
Know Where To Go And So When A Car Came, It Thought It Was The Owner Coming
To Take Her Home Ran Towards The Car And Got Run-0ver And Died Than Than A
Few Hours After Being Dropped Off. I Found Her The Next Day And Buried
Her. AJ Also Likes To Be With Me And If We Left Them Alone For A While
Even With A Friend That They Know Feeding Them Everyday, AJ Would Sulk And
Not Have Anything To Do With Me For A While When I Returned.
I Used To Take AJ With Me On Long Tasks In My Van,
And He Would Sit In My Lap And Purr. And Poppi Looks Like The Same Tuxedo Type Cat As AJ,
So I Thought Poppi Might Enjoy This Also. I Got Poppi And Put Her On
My Lap In My Van Still In Our Garage. I Never Even Cranked Up The Van
And Poppi Started Trembling And Clinging To Me. The Vet Told Us That
Poppi Had Previously Been Neutered. So She Used To Belong To
Someone, And She Probably Bonded With Them And Like The Dropped Off Cat May
Have Felt Abandoned Also. So, I Let Poppi Out Of The Van. Later
On As I Pondered About This, A Word Of Knowledge From The Holy Ghost
Revealed To Me That Poppi Had Been Intentionally Dropped Off Because She
Fought With The Other Cats And Caused Too Much Turmoil.
But, Still I Thought I Can’t Continue To Let Poppi Hurt Zoe. So, Like Joseph; I Had Privately Thought To Put
Poppi Away. I Didn’t Tell Anyone. But, I Was Contemplating
Finding A New Home For Poppi. So, The Next Time They Did Their Spitting & Hissing Thing, I Scooped Up Poppi
And As I Had Done Before, I Started To Take Her To The Study And Leave Her
In There And Shut The Door. This Room Does Have A Glass Door, And She
Can Still See Us. I Thought This Was An Acceptable Deterrent To Avoid
Bloodshed.
But, As I Held Poppi In My Lap, (Something She Rarely Lets Me
Do), I Just Really Sense Her Not Wanting To Be Put In That Room And Not
Wanting To Be Separated From Us.
But, I Did It Anyway. I Couldn’t
Stand By And Let Poppi Attack Zoe And Then Watch Zoe Cower And Try To Find A
Hiding Place Under The Bed In The Home Where She Used To Roam Freely As A
Kitten. But, Later That Night. Poppi Would Not Come To Bed With
Us, And Remained Sulking And Would Only Come To Our Headboard On The Bed.
I Reached Up And Rubbed Poppi And I Connected With Her And I Knew Then That
The Worse Punishment That I Could Have Done To Poppi Was To Separate Her
From Me. I Knew That She Was Hurt, And Remembering How She Was
Trembling In The Van, I Went And Got Poppi And I Apologized To Her For
Isolating Her From Me. The Punishment Was Too Severe. I Mess Up
Myself. I Have Sinned. Yahweh Doesn’t Just Say, “Well, That’s It. Three
Strikes And You’re Out”. In Fact, Our Loving Father Has Forgiven Me Ample
Amount Of Times; Even Things That I Promised Him That I Would Never Do Again. And As I Held Poppi
In My Arms, (Something She Normally Doesn't Like For Me To Do, But This Time
She Just Melted Into My Embrace), I Told Here She Would Always Be In Our
Home And Always Welcomed And That I Will Never Separate Her Again From The
Rest Of Us Again. I
Promised To Never Leave Her, Nor Forsake Her, And I Tossed Away The Thought
Of Finding A New Home For Poppi. We’ll Figure It Out. Perhaps
When She Starts To Attack Zoe, It Will Be Time To Put Poppi In Her Soft Cat
Carrier And Place Her Right Beside Me On The Couch; Where I Can Reach My
Hand Inside The Zipper Opening And Pet Her And I Will Never Again Separate Poppi From Me As
Punishment.
Poppi Felt That Love And Quit Sulking
And Then Came To Bed That Night With Us And Purred. And I Have Been Going Out Of
My When I See Poppi To Stop What I'm Doing And Go Love On Her, And She Just
Purrs And Purrs. My Wife
And I Don't Have Children As Both Of Our Children Passed At Their Birth, Which
Also Means That We Also Don't Have GrandChildren. So, The Only
Companions That We Have Are Our Cats, And They Are A Gift From Our Heavenly
Father Filling A Void In Our Lives Allowing Us To Have “Physical Touch”,
(Which Is One Of My Love Languages).
So The Cats Are As Important To Us As We
Are To Them. And Guess What Else Happened After Giving Poppi Assurance
That She Would Always Belong With Us? Poppi And Zoe Quit Fighting~!
Today, They Ate Together Within 4’ Feet Of Each Other On The Front Porch,
(Something They Never Did Before). Just Like With Cats; You Can Win A
Lot More Folks To Christ By Showing Them Acceptance, (Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:4-8); Than You Can By Telling Them That God Is Mad At
Them And If They Mow Their Lawn On Sunday That They Could Lose Their
Salvation.
Then The Holy Brought To My Attention, The Scriptures That Say
“I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You”,
(Deuteronomy 31:8; Hebrews 13:5).
Some, Like “The Church Of Christ” Denomination; Say That You Can Lose Your Salvation, And
This Is Used More Or Less To Keep Folks In Check, To Keep Them From Sinning.
Maybe, You Can Quit On God And Leave The Reservation. You Might Quit
On Yahweh, But Our Heavenly Father Will Never Quit On You, {If We Are Faithless, He Remains Faithful. He Can’t Deny Himself,
(2 Timothy 2:13)}.
Perhaps You Can Get Off The Team, But I’m Not Convinced That You Can. If Your Child Got Mad At You And Wanted To
Leave Your Vehicle While You’re Traveling 70 mph Down The Highway, Would You
Let Them Open The Doors And Jump Out? No, On My Van I Have Child-Proof Locks To Prevent
Someone From Accidentally Opening The Sliding Rear Doors, And I Would Have
That Locked Because The Child Doesn’t Know Enough To Not Exit While We Are
In Motion, Even If They Do Want Out.
This Passage Below Is Often Used To Show That You Can Lose Your Salvation.
Hebrews 6:4-8
4 Or It Is Impossible, In The Case Of Those Who Have Once Been Enlightened,
5 Who Have Tasted The Heavenly Gift, And Have Shared In The Holy Spirit, And
Have Tasted The Goodness Of The Word Of God And The Powers Of The Age To
Come, 6 And Then Have Fallen Away, To Restore Them Again To Repentance, Since
They Are Crucifying Once Again The Son Of God To Their Own Harm And Holding
Him Up To Contempt. 7 For Land That Has Drunk The Rain That Often Falls On It,
And Produces A Crop Useful To Those For Whose Sake It Is Cultivated,
Receives A Blessing From God. 8 But If It Bears Thorns And Thistles, It Is
Worthless And Near To Being Cursed, And Its End Is To Be Burned.
Maybe, It Is Possible To Forsake Yahweh, And To Leave The Reservation
That Yahweh Has In Store For Us.
The Devil Did It. But, We Like The Navy Aircraft Carriers Are In A
Different Class Than The Devil, (i.e.. The To Be Built New USS Enterprise
Will Be Built In The Gerald R. Ford Class Of Aircraft Carriers).
We That Are Saved Are Yahweh's Children And As
Such Yahweh Made Promises To Never Forsake Us. Those That Have Not Allowed
Yahoshua To Be Their Lord, Are Not His Children And These Promises Are Not
For Them, (Ephesians 2:11-21; Colossians 1:20-22);
But Could Be
For Them If They Make Yahoshua Their Lord.
However, To His Children
Yahweh Promises Never To Leave Us Nor Forsake Us. The
Key Phrase Usually Not Quoted Is In Scriptures Immediately Proceeding Found
In
Hebrews 6:3 Is “If God Permit”. Just Like You Wouldn’t
Permit Your Child To Open The Doors And Get Out Of A Moving Vehicle, Yahweh
Will Not Permit His Children To Willing Decide To Go To Hell, When They Have
No Knowledge Of Just How Bad and How Irreversible That Decision Is. I
Think This Is Probably The Sin Unto Death, (1 John 5:16).
It Is Better That They Pass On, 1 Corinthians 5:5;
And Get To Go To Heaven And See What They Missed Rather Than To Follow The Devil
Led Thoughts That Are Really Designed To Get Back At Yahweh By Taking One Of His Children To A Place They Were Never Supposed To Go,
(Isaiah 54:9).
“Good People Pass Away; The Godly Often Die Before Their Time. But No One Seems To Care or Wonder Why. No One Seems To Understand That
God Is Protecting Them From The Evil To Come. For Those Who Follow Godly Paths Will Rest In Peace When They Die,”
(Isaiah 57:1-2 ~ NLT).
Enter Here To See How Many Times Yahweh Has Said,
“I Am With You” Or, “Yahweh Is With You”, Or, “Yahweh Was With A Certain Person”.
2 Samuel 5:10; John 14:16; Acts 10:38; Hebrews 13:6 Says, “Yahweh Is My Helper; I Will Not Fear. What Can Humans Do To Me?”
Not “I Am The Yahweh’s Helper”.
