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Sunday 25 February 2018

The Resurrected Righteous One

"1. The book written by Enoch--[Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, (which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the earth] for all my children who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.

2. Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.

3. And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
[Shall arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace.

4. He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with goodness and righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light."

(Book of Enoch 92:1-4)

When times are changing and troubles increasing and with an outlook of worse trouble yet to come (as we might regard times now), surely it is the natural human fear to fear whether we will survive - survival is threatened. God's prophet Enoch (Idris) recorded the message that repels that fear - that there will be a righteous one who will overcome death and rise from it. This will show righteous living to be a way to overcome death and survive the worst of the troubles ahead. This Righteous One who is not stopped even by death is ever alive to help the righteous ones who look to Him for protection.

Saturday 24 February 2018

Two Lakes of Fire

Chief angels showed Enoch two lakes of fire for ultimate judgement by God: one for fallen and excessively aggressive angels and the second for spiritually blind and umrepentant humans. The first is described as currently existing. The second will appear at the judgement. The description of the first sounds like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge discovered below the seas stretching north to south in the Atlantic Ocean where the ocean floor of the whole planet splits apart constantly with endless fire and magma constantly spilling out. There is no known feature on Earth like it - a chasm of fire stretching deep into the abyss of the earth's crust and running from Iceland to Antarctica. This sounds so similar to the description given by Enoch so it serves as an ilustration of what awaits us if we die in our sins.

The Two Great Messages

Enoch has two great messages - a message to the sinners who do what is wicked and a message to the righteous who do what is right. To the sinner:
"Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,
If ye die in the wealth of your sins,
And those who are like you say regarding you:
'Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.
And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth,
And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;
And they have died in honour,
And judgement has not been executed on them during their life."
(Book of Enoch chapter 103)
To the righteous:
"I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven. " (chapter 104)
In John 8 in the New Testament scriptures we see how the Son of Man bridges the gap between these two messages and tells those sinners in danger of dying in their sins that they must believe He is the Son of Man who existed before the time of Abraham and tells those who believe this that they must simply hold to His teachings "then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free" - free from what amounts to slavish service to sinning.

The reward of the righteous who are free - or freed - from sinning is manifold but one such benefit is seen in Enoch's relating of the events of what was to him future and to us past and present: The Holy Spirit to lead into all truth including truth related to the fundamental nature of all things (such as how it is all mysteriously controlled day to day by the power of the name of the Son of Man) :
chapter 93 verse 10 relates to the time of the latter part ("close") of the "seventh week" (and onwards)
v10
"And at its close shall be elected The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness, To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation."
So truth consists of underatanding creation as the Holy Spirit teaches about it. And truth sets free from sinning. And elevates those set free.

Friday 23 February 2018

Heavenly Perceptions

A vision is an inner perception: Like a blind person perceives who is there with them without needing their eyes. They perceive by a combination of senses and all other forms of knowledge available to them. Just over twenty years ago I was delighted to be given a perception of God and His Son and His Spirit without physically seeing either individual person and yet the sum total of what I was given was more certain than sight and gave me more assurance than any sermon. The Father appeared to me in a vision like a dream at night in my sleep and told me things that showed His love for my fellow people and predicted things that would hapoen the following day to show me this love and how He saves people from bad outcomes and it all happened just as He said. The dream was in answer to my prayer to see Father and Son and Spirit. It was more than a dream because God Himself was personally interacting with me. "I am God" is how He introduced Himself to me in the dream vision. Months before I had been given another vision when asking earnestly for the Holy Spirit and to know with certainty that I had been given me. The vision was a bucket of building sand tipped out in front of me and words like subtitles said "Build the Temple". I asked for threefold confirmation and at a church meeting three messages were given by members: three little girls had written a song that went "Build, build, build the Temple. Build, build, build the Temple. Build, build, build the Temple" A man with a guitar who often spoke and sang preached about David being told his son would build the Temple. Another man then spoke about building the Temple. So this vision was a very real event to me. I later said to God I would preach to build the temple that is His believers - building up by His word - but I needed to know Him so I was not speaking without knowledge. That is why I asked to see Father and Son and Spirit. Then after God came in the dream just days or weeks later (mid January 1995 I think it was) a torrential rain storm period hit locally and flooded rivers and I read in Psalms how the Lord presides over floods and we should "Come and see the works of God" so I went to stand on a bridge near home and watch the flood water and rain. I had a big gold umbrella up because the rain was torrential. As I came back up the road a 'voice' only I could hear but clear as crystal with tremendous certainty and assertive authority said "PUT DOWN YOUR UMBRELLA". As soon as I did so the rain stopped so suddenly not a drop hit me. I said "It is the Lord" and remembered the way the disciples said this after the resurrection. Asking Jesus to prove it was Him I later at night asked for a dressing gown I had never used hanging on my bedroom wall to come off the nail by the morning and then went to sleep. In the middle of the night something or someone got into the hiddenmost depths of my mind and made me wake up and get up. As I did I reached for the dressing gown and took it and suddenly remembered my sign request. This made me perceive Jesus so clearly and the fact I had asked to see Father and Son and Spirit made me certain God regards Jesus as His Son: Not just a son, His Son. That is what I had asked and what was being shown me. Then weeks later I was taken to the church where for the first time I was given interpretation of a message in toungues that went: "See the trees how they put forth buds and leaves; they do so by the power of the name of Lord Jesus Christ." So now I had certainty who Father and Son and Holy Spirit are and was set on a path following them into all truth.

Thursday 22 February 2018

Signs and Times

The heavenly bodies are signs because natural things are parables as well as showing seasons and times. See how the sun subtends exactly the same angle as the moon and looks the same size even though the sun is much bigger. The eclipse is like it is because they overlap so closely by these angles they subtend. Then see the sign of design in nature by how we only see one side of the moon because it rotates at exactly the same angular speed as the time it takes to orbit Earth and always has done constantly in history. It shows it is created deliberately and keeps to God's design obediently. The times as God revealed them to mankind include a 364 day year and heavenly records seem to record years as 364 day years. The ancient Greeks did not like the year to not be the same as the time it takes for a natural year to complete but they did not change the year to 365.25 days. The Romans did follow Greek astronomer and Roman astronomer advice about the natural year length being :365.25 days long and they changed it under Julius Caesar's leadership and he made a new calendar on advice of these astronomers including a month named after himself and making sure this month July was one of the longest. Augustus changed it again and got himself a month named after him and changed February to decrease it so his month August could be just as long as July. The calendar stayed like this up until the time when popes ruled the empire and astronomers found the year was slightly too short and it made feast days less and less accurate so they persuaded Pope Gregory to change it again. Gradually the whole world came to switch to this Roman Empire calendar. Some countries only switched in the last couple of centuries. Heaven probably still uses the calendar they always used and taught to humans as recorded in the Book of Enoch - 364 days long. The Hebrew calendar included in the Law is similar to the Enochian calendar because it combines solar and lunar.

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Detail of Calculating Holy Timeline of History

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe096.htm http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe097.htm
Creation of Adam 3940 BC
3940 BC is the start of 'week' 1 where 'week' is 700 364-day years
Flood c2600-2640 BC
'week' 2 end 2640 BC
Abraham c1900-1850 BC
'week' 3 end 1850 BC
Law c1200-1150 BC
'week' 4 end 1150 BC
Temple completed 500-450 BC
'week' 5 end 450 BC
Ascension between 450 BC and 250 AD
'week' 6 end 250 AD
The Final Judgement between 2940 and 3040 AD (seventh part of 'week' 10)
'week' 10 end 3040 AD

Return of Christ between 1940 and 2040

Monday 19 February 2018

The Time of Christ's Return

The all-history timescale foretold in the Book of Enoch means a second coming of the Christ by 2050 AD at latest and most likely before 2040:

Creation of Adam c3950-40 BC
Flood c2550-40 BC
Abraham c1850-40 BC
Law c1150-40 BC
Second Temple c460-40 BC (reference point for these BC/AD dates)
Ascension between 460 BC and 250 AD
The Final Judgement before 3050

Source: Book of Enoch chapters 90-91

Saturday 17 February 2018

God's Timescale

The timescale from the Book of Enoch:

Creation of Adam c3950-40 BC
Flood c2550-40 BC
Abraham c1850-40 BC
Law c1150-40 BC
Second Temple c460-40 BC
 (reference point for these BC/AD dates)
Ascension between 460 BC and 250 AD
The Final Judgement before 3050 AD

This leaves barely time for a thousand years of Christ reigning but means a second coming by 2050 AD at latest and most likely before 2040.


How this was determined:
In the Book of Enoch, it says (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe096.htm)
“And after that in the fifth week, at its close, The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.”
Then later it says (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe097.htm)
“And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part, There shall be the great eternal judgement, In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.”
Enoch effectively tells us the Final Judgement will be between 3400 and 3500 years after the building of the second temple in Jerusalem. This is because the rest of this account shows a week means seven centuries. Note: the year for Enoch and for angels was 364 days. So his 3500 years is 3490 years by our modern reckoning of years.

Thursday 15 February 2018

The Reign of Christ

"I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." -- Revelation 20v4-10
When will this happen? Well it is just before the Judgement. The Book of Enoch shows the Judgement will happen at a time we can determine (from the Artaxerxes' command to rebuild Jerusalem Temple in 458 BC) is around 3030-3040 AD. So given the war of Satan takes place before this final judgement and the reign of Christ and imprisonment of Satan is for a thousand years before that, we can deduce the reign of Christ will start very soon, as early as 2030-2040 AD.  But note too that it (Book of Enoch) says "in the tenth week in the seventh part" so 3030-40 AD is the latest this could be and anytime between 2930-40 and 3030-40 would be in the seventh part of the tenth week. It is just that Jesus has not yet returned (He did say it might be at the eleventh hour - just before the latest time it could be) so His return could been in line with this prophesy at anytime from 1930 to 2030-40 AD - yet quite a lot needs to happen apocalytically first and there is little time left to keep in accord with the heavenly books from which Enoch was recounting.

Obviously this first resurrection can only happen once. So God seems to be waiting till the very last minute to ensure people still struggling to repent of major sins and learn the truth in Jesus have as much time as possible before time is up. I was never sure enough information existed in scripture to say how soon this resurrection might be when the Book of Enoch was hidden from me (and most people) but now I know what much of it says I believe we can be in the light about it. If God leaves it much longer I think there will be not enough time for Christ to have His promised thousand year reign with His saints before Satan is released and the Final Judgement begins. Azazel and the other fallen angels must be judged by around 3030-3040 AD at the latest according to the heavenly written plans, it seems to me now. Then the second firey opening will appear in which the human wicked and spiritually blind will be cast. So fitting in the full thousand years of rule of Christ will be a tight fit now. Such is God's mercy to the strugglers and stragglers (like myself) to give us all the possible time to get sorted out in the grace and truth of Jesus Christ the Son of Man (with God from before time, we believe, and now crucified and raised forever).

The Judgement

"Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire." -- Revelation 20v11-15

When will this be? The Book of Enoch tells us (if we combine it with the 458 BC decree of Artaxerxes to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple): circa 3032 AD

Approx timescale from Book of Enoch:
Creation of Adam c3950-40 BC
Flood c2550-40 BC
Abraham c1850-40 BC
Law c1150-40 BC
Second Temple c460-50 BC
The Final Judgement c3030-40 AD

But note too that it (Book of Enoch) says "in the tenth week in the seventh part" so 3030-3040 AD is the latest this could be and anytime between 2930/40 and 3030/40 would be in the seventh part of the tenth week. It is just that Jesus has not yet returned (He did say it might be at the eleventh hour - just before the latest time it could be) so His return could been in line with this prophesy at anytime from 1930/49 to 2030/40 AD - yet quite a lot needs to happen apocalytically first and there is little time left to keep in accord with the heavenly books from which Enoch was recounting.

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Enoch's World History Chronology Elucidated

Heavenly tablets seen by the Sumerian prophet Enoch who was taught a 364 day year by archangel Uriel give a clear (perhaps clearest and most reliable) chronology of all world history. It is set out in seven period chunks of time which can be determined with good confidence to be seven hundred years long and most likely 364-day years. There were ten such periods called 'weeks' when translated into English. Several such weeks had significant events at their close. One week helps us determine the complete chronology because it forms part of another much later prophecy of Daniel which also uses weeks to describe periods with seven equal slots plus secular history helps with sanity checking this event: the decree by Artaxerxes to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem which Daniel tells us marks 483 years before the killing (cutting off) of the Christ. This can therefore be estimated with good confidence to be 458 BC. Then when we apply the Enoch weeks (698 years long) we get this very enlightening chronology:

Creation of Adam 3948 BC
Flood 2552 BC
Abraham 1854 BC
Law 1156 BC
Temple decree of Artaxerxes 458 BC
a man ascends
week 7 ends 240 AD
week 8 ends 1636 AD
week 9 ends 2334 AD
The Final Judgement 3032 AD

But note too that it (Book of Enoch) says "in the tenth week in the seventh part" so 3032 is the latest this could be and anytime between 2933 and 3032 would be in the seventh part of the tenth week. It is just that Jesus has not yet returned (He did say it might be at the eleventh hour - just before the latest time it could be) so His return could been in line with this prophesy at anytime from 1933 to 2032 AD - yet quite a lot needs to happen apocalytically first and there is little time left to keep in accord with the heavenly books from which Enoch was recounting.

Monday 12 February 2018

When the Christ shall come

In the Book of Enoch, it says (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe096.htm)
"And after that in the fifth week, at its close, The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever."
Then later it says (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe097.htm)
"And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part, There shall be the great eternal judgement, In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels."
Enoch effectively tells us the Final Judgement will be 3500 years after the building of the second temple in Jerusalem. This is because the rest of this account shows a week means seven centuries.
The Book of Daniel has a revelation concerning weeks of years which tell us when the command to start the building of the second temple was given working back from the crucifixion (cutting off) of the Christ.
The Book of Revelation tells us the time of the Second Coming of the Christ as being a thousand years before the Final Judgement.
So through these scriptures we can tell the time of the Second Coming of the Christ from the date of the crucifixion of the Christ.
Note: 3500 Enochian years (as Uriel taught Enoch) is possibly years according to the 364 day year so it might be 3490 modern years.

The History (and Future) of the World

A scriptural chronology of history excelling any other chronology is found in the Book of Enoch (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe096.htm http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe097.htm) which is immune to scribal errors in copying numbers which plague other scriptural chronological records because it is recorded in a sequence of seven hundred year timespans and especially records what happens at the end of each such period.

It starts with the birth of Enoch at the end of the first seven century 'week' after Adam.

"And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
'I was born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still endured."

I estimate the 'weeks' of centuries correspond roughly to these periods:

c3900 BC start of first week
c3200 BC start of second week
c2500 BC start of third week
c1800 BC start of fourth week
c1100 BC start of fifth week
c400 BC start of sixth week
c300 start of seventh week
c1000 start of eighth week
c1700 start of ninth week
c2400 start of tenth week
c3100 end of tenth week

Enoch based the foretelling on records of God's plans he was allowed to see when in Heaven and tells of what seem to me to be these events which in his time (when he recorded all this for his descendants) were future events.

Flood around 2550 BC,
first law codes 2500 to 2000 BC, Abraham's call around 1900 BC,
eternal Law given around 1200 BC,
house of glory built forever around 500 BC,
a man (Christ) ascending somewhere between around 300 BC and 200 AD, elect about to enter enlightenment around 900 AD,
elect and righteous dominating around 1650 AD,
reign of righteousness and demise of wickedness up to 2350 AD,
Final Judgement around 3050 AD

This implies the enlightenment and rise of Western learning among believers in Christ from 1000 AD onwards was possibly at least partly the work of the Holy Spirit in teaching elect people about nature. This led to domination of enlightened people over the whole world up until around 1700 AD. After that and until today and in centuries from now onwards the wicked will start to be suppressed and eliminated with righteousness taking more and more lead (especially when Christ returns - other scriptures say).

IMPORTANTLY Enoch tells us the Final Judgement will be 3500 years after the building of the second temple in Jerusalem

Note
The years above are approximate but an improvement of accuracy would probably adjust them anything up to 50 years earlier to fit better with the time of the giving of the Law so something like this

c3950 BC start of first week
c3250 BC start of second week
c2550 BC start of third week
c1850 BC start of fourth week
c1150 BC start of fifth week
c450 BC start of sixth week
c250 AD start of seventh week
c950 AD start of eighth week
c1650 AD start of ninth week
c2350 AD start of tenth week
c3050 AD end of tenth week
But note too that it (Book of Enoch) says "in the tenth week in the seventh part" so c3050 AD is the latest this could be and anytime between 2930 and 3050 would be in the seventh part of the tenth week. It is just that Jesus has not yet returned (He did say it might be at the eleventh hour - just before the latest time it could be) so His return could been in line with this prophesy at anytime from 1930 to 2050 AD - yet quite a lot needs to happen apocalytically first and there is little time left to keep in accord with the heavenly books from which Enoch was recounting.

Saturday 10 February 2018

Sorceries

Sorcery found a way to hide its spiritual creepiness - it became modern science. Children learn it in school along with the other teachings of the fallen angels. This ensures society always persists the fallen angels' teachings and sorceries of drug addiction and medical 'miracles' that keep the world under the spell and jurisdiction of the god of this age.

Friday 9 February 2018

The ongoing giving of prophecies from thousands of years past till this present day

Various religious groups over the centuries have taken issue with the possibility of ongoing giving of prophecies by the Holy Spirit. There have been those who have labelled this belief in ongoing prophecy as heretical. Yet one thing is proven to me by the Book of Enoch more than anything else: The Holy Spirit does indeed inspire prophecies today just like those He inspired Enoch to write all those thousands of years ago. When I first came across tongues and their interpretation in a pentecostal church it confirmed my belief these things happening today is not a heresy as some suppose but a day-to-day reality. What is more, not long after this I read from the Book of Enoch in a bookshop and found almost those very words and certainly the same general meaning of the words right there in what Enoch had so long ago written so I knew too that this Book of Enoch is a genuine work of the Holy Spirit working so consistently and persistently over thousands of years since even before the earliest Bible books and still exactly the same today.

Thursday 8 February 2018

The Plan

From the ancient Book of Enoch we find that Enoch, seventh from Adam, prophesied concerning the wickedness before Noah's Flood and that Enoch's prayer persuaded God to preserve some people from that Flood so as to later make a population of righteous people so when He destroys the wicked again there will be righteous people to replace them - helped by the Son of Man. The God and the Son of God (Son of Man) would forever dwell with these people.

Tuesday 6 February 2018

"Before Christ"??

Now I realise the truth of Christ's sayng "Before Abraham was, I am" it makes less sense to keep using 'BC' ("Before Christ") - there is no year of earth's history that is 'before' Christ - He is before all things - like John the Baptist said "One who is coming after me has surpassed me because He was before me" - John the Baptist was born before Christ was born but Christ was before John the Baptist (as Daniel found out when a hand was put on his shoulder and a man spoke to him - Daniel 10).

Sunday 4 February 2018

A Great Mystery of God

There is a great mystery of God that starts with Enoch's prayer following the first of his two dreams (in the Book of Enoch chapter 83 and following) - chapter 84
"5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'"

It ends with God saying in Revelation "See I am making all things new".

Fascinating Truth about the Christ

Fascinating how Jesus Christ spoke like somehow all the benefits of His existence from before Abraham and even before time were available to Him - must be it was His by the efficacy of the Holy Spirit - like the Holy Spirit had buffered all Jesus' knowledge and veracity from before time began - all given Him by God since the start of things - and could constantly make it all available to Jesus.

Truth that changes things

Chirst died for you and me and all of us - that truth changes things - that truth opens us to His teachings and to the moral compass provided by experientially knowing the power of God.

Saturday 3 February 2018

Whose Children are we? God's or Satan's?


The Son of Man taught that we are born of Satan because we are born liars and we must be reborn so we are born of God with the whole spirit part of us being from God-given Spirit and God-given spirit-words. John 3, John 4, John 8. That this Son of Man exists is amazing and yet real so being amazingly reborn can be real too even though the thought of it is amazing.

I hate relying on what the preachers and teachers say - my motto is to understand it from the best source (I tend to stick with the gospel of John).

To make it easy to check it for yourselves here is a chunk of the Gospel of John chapter 8

9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,”Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

12When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

13The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”

14Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. 15You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 16But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. 17In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. 18I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”

19Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

21Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”

22This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”

23But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”

25“Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26“I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”

27They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” 30Even as he spoke, many believed in him.

31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

33They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

34Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father. ”

39“Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you wouldc do what Abraham did. 40As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41You are doing the works of your own father.”

“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”



Years later John who recorded those words of Jesus would go on to teach things that showed He took to heart and understood what Jesus was saying

In First Epistle of John he wrote (chapter 3):

4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

7Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

Be Born Again

The Son of Man taught that we are born of Satan because we are born liars and we must be reborn so we are born of God with the whole spirit part of us being from God-given Spirit and God-given spirit-words. John 3, John 4, John 8. That this Son of Man exists is amazing and yet real so being amazingly reborn can be real too even though the thought of it is amazing.

Friday 2 February 2018

Jude knew his brother Jesus believed and loved the Book of Enoch

People who are ignorant and unbelieving regarding the Book of Enoch believe in a circular argument (a trick of the uninspired mind) that goes: it is not canonical because it is not scripture and it is not scripture because it is not canonical. How foolish. Jesus cuts through all that by knowing it is true scripture and not just teaching what it teaches but supporting His biological brother in his teaching of it in the epistle Jude was given by Jesus' authority to write. The truth Jesus brought into this world inspired those like Jude who know Him very closely and knew that He believed the veracity of the Book of Enoch such that Jude knew it would be OK with Jesus for him to verify the Book of Enoch in his epistle. If Jude included it then he must have known Jesus believed in it and He knew Jesus first as biological brother then as disciple of the Teacher.

Be Set Free by Truth

There is plenty of truth in the Book of Enoch; this kind of truth as spoken of by the Son of Man:
(John 8:31-32) 'To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
It is the sort of truth that leads a true disciple to make cultural changes in their life along with a change to more righteous behaviour. All kinds of truth about existing social culture and how it got to be like it is in the world which makes us revolt at the fallen angel teachings and want to be less driven by such things and want to take on the kind of culture God intended as we put aside the evils of the world such as lies and murderousness.

The Holy Great One seen by Enoch


Just as John in Revelation tells (by his faith and the Holy Spirit) that the man (Son of Man) seen by Daniel (Daniel 10) is Jesus (before He was incarnated), so too Jude tells (by his faith and the Holy Spirit) that the Holy Great One seen by Enoch (Enoch chapter 1) is Jesus. Some pour doubt on passages in the Book of Enoch about the Son of Man because these passages are said not to be found among the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments of the Book of Enoch. However Jude uses chapter 1 and clarifies from it that the Great One seen by Enoch is this Holy Great One who will come in the clouds at the end time (much like God Himself descended on Sinai): Jesus, the Lord.

Enoch 1
1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and  righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. 2. And he took up his parable and said--Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. 3. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them:

The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
4. And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
And appear from His camp
And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.

5. And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.

6. And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame

7. And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).

8. But with the righteous He will make peace.

And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.

And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.

And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.

9. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:

And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.