Science and Atheism

Since Robert Boyle a supposedly Christian alchemist (can there be such a thing?) started in seventeenth century England and Ireland the presumably European strategy of turning alchemy into chemistry to sidestep English witchhunts modern science has given purpose and power to atheism. Science was based largely on hermeticist sorcery but witchcraft was made illegal punishable by death so science needed a disguise to gain acceptance by Christians and ironically atheisn provided that disguise because by claiming to be atheists the scientists could deny spiritual aspects of alchemy and sorcery to produce chemistry and modern medicine. This has meant that even Christians who want to get careers in science had to be friendly in a symbiotic relationship with atheists. Atheists got to do science by Christians accepting it and getting it past the witchtrials. Christians got to do science by atheists making science look indifferent to matters of spirit so it looked unlike sorcery. Atheism has prospered ever since. But Wikipedia is here and wool pulled over eyes is getting pushed aside. Atheists beware!

The Good Message

What are the big benefits resulting from what Jesus Christ did when He was here? His name gives clues. Jesus means deliverance. Christ means someone who has an anointed head because he has no need of repentance and has full approval from God to take important office and fulfil a vital work. Because of this, hope is a major benefit from the sacrifice His death on a cross provided. The demolishing of guilt is now possible if you find you can hope for it. The cross death was long known to be payment for sins. This means God needed a sacrifice because of human wrong doings. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross provided this. The subsequent raising of Jesus Christ to life again after that death gives hope because it proves God was satisfied by the sacrifice and accepted it and also because it means God will raise others too, which could be you, and also because it means the work of Jesus Christ can continue - deliverance work. What is the deliverance work? Helping to free hoping believers from ongoing sins and guilt by bringing about a change of status from compulsion to do wrong to freedom to stop doing wrong and start just doing right and keep on like that all through life until purity results. The prospect is therefore very real now of being saintly and adopted by God as a potential permanent son or daughter forever and being made eternal. The hope this can produce in receptive people makes way for growth into loving members of a family of faith along with others like yourself, putting off lying and hating and speaking to eachother truthfully with willingness to admit sin and help eachother get free. To support those who are becoming part of this family God sends the Holy Spirit into their hearts.

Don’t Ignore a Major Referendum

What if politicians and sovereign ruling classes who call themselves Christians or Jews or Muslims ignore the result of a major, high-participation national referendum? Well then this happens; they must be shunned as national traitors (publicans) and as the heathen: 

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“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a publican.”

“Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

— Jesus Christ

(Matthew 18)

Why trust medics?

Medicine, like other sciences, avoids witchcraft allegations by denying spirits exist and blessings and curses work but true religion says such denials are disinformation. So why should religious people trust medics?

Ebola

EBOLA

The current Ebola virus outbreak in East Africa is doubling every four months. It has reached 1000 already so if it continues at this rate of growth it will reach Europe and USA by mid 2021. The last most major outbreak reached Europe after claiming 28,000 victims in Africa. God very mercifully gave grace to end it when it reached Nigeria, thanks to the power of the blood of the Son of Man to intercede for humanity. Has anything changed since then? There is now more awareness of the need to protect airports. Yet the best protection last time did not prevent a lying aid worker getting through checks. Will the plagues promised to the Babylon the Great empire (Rome’s legacy) now see a new fulfillmemt? Coming out of her and being separate is important to help prevent spread through airports in 2021 to 2023. Ceasing from the guilt of sharing in her sins is vital lest the Ebola spread be deserved and intercession be in vain. God might take this incident as means to counter the destruction of the global environment by the indistrialised countries. Less people means less cars, less pertroleum, less plastic waste, less air polution, less distress and bombings. Will God be so merciful this time around? The Son of Man’s sacrifice prevails but ignoring the truth incurs a cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Kivu_Ebola_outbreak

Following the Lamb wherever He goes

Revelation 14:4 “These are they who have not been defiled with women; for they are pure, these following the Lamb wherever He shall go. These have been redeemed out from men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.”

I always wondered what it means ”following the Lamb wherever He shall go”. Once I thought it means physically where the Lamb of God, the Son of Man, goes, going there physically too. Of course the Lamb is physically mainly in the vicinity of the throne chamber of God as described by Enoch. So no, not physically. You cannot physically go to His actual location. Nor does He allow people to accompany Him when He goes anywhere physically or by spiritual means. No it must mean more a metaphysical following as a turn of phrase, an idiom like when we say in conversation or debate, when reasoning with someone “I know where you are going with this”. Can we follow where Jesus is going today? Yes if we learn from Him as a perpetual teacher and leader: If we let His actions be part of our lives. We can let Him make His workings evident to us and let Him guiide our ways and thinking and as we realise what He is doing we can go along with it and welcome its outcomes and fit our plans to these.

Mutual Feeding

Taking the Book of Enoch to heart you kind of know when the Son of Man comes into the world He and all His deeds were always going to be food for the righteous to live on. So He admitted pointedly (John 6) “My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink”. Yet in Revelation the fuller picture emerges that we who believe Him are food for Him too. What kind of food are we? Easily eaten food is usually served hot or served cold. It is not easy to swallow and enjoy when it is luke warm. You tend to want to spit it out and find a better meal. Here is what He said about some:

“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”

His deeds are so utterly wholesome we can be thrilled to dwell on thoughts and memories of Him. How thrilling His warmth and the vibrancy and appropriateness of His deeds. What about our deeds? We can focus on seeking that our deeds thrill Him too. He will be feeding on us like He wants us to feed on Him. 

Covenant Drift

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” (From Deuteronomy chapter 6)

The people who know God loves them dearly - those to whom God makes this known - have drifted away from the kind of covenant this love established with them. This problem is not unsolvable. It just takes a well-heeded reminder that there is a way to renew and maintain this love again by setting God’s words in full view where we will frequently see them and learn to obey them and having learned obedience, teach them. What better way to love the Creator who made you than to write words from Him and put them up in your house and use your internet voice to publish them on social media. He has said things of special value to you as an individual if you love Him and you can love Him more by teaching these words to your children and putting them on your social media wall or profile. There are several kinds of commands of God which can be written out for a constant reminder and aid to understanding: 

- the commission kind (such as to build eachother up and thus build His kingdom and temple); 

- the direct kind (such as when He is intending to do a miracle and tells someone what to do to achieve it); 

- the general kind to all such as to love Him and eachother; 

- the truth kind such as when He reveals to us truth and implicitly commands we live by it.

How to love God

LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR VOICE

What better way to love the Creator who made you than to write words from Him and put them up in your house and use your internet voice to publish them on social media. He has said things of special value to you as an individual if you love Him and you can love Him more by teaching these words to your children and putting them on your social media wall or profile.

The Formula and the Person

THE FORMULA AND THE PERSON

The Son of Man is the healer of souls. He is a person so it is not about formulas alone. It is about the person too - this Son of Man and God who sent Him. What He has spoken and still teaches does include formulas to apply in practice. What His servants teach does include formulas. But these formulas include the Son of Man personally and God the One who sent Him. “Forgive and you will be forgiven” - that is a formula but also a person - God who will forgive you if you forgive others. Healing can come with forgiveness and that too is a formula taught by the Son but including the person who is God who heals. “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed” is a formula and there is the Person God who will heal you. “If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” is a formula but involving the One who will forgive us and cleanse us.

John the Baptist

I went a few years ago on a business trip to Rome and was reading the guide book and was surprised to find John the Baptst mentioned in it as a historical famous person. I had not realised his existence was known as fact in the secular world. Then some small bones possibly of John the Baptist were scientifically tested by atheists and found to quite possibly be his. It all helps my faith intellectually because it is just a small step of thought from John the Baptist to Jesus Christ and His baptism by John as an accepted historical event.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120618-john-the-baptist-bones-jesus-christ-bible-bulgaria-science-higham/

Publicans

PUBLICANS

“And Jesus, having entered, was passing through Jericho; and, behold, a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.”

Gospel of Luke (ch 19)

The Roman Empire and its EU successor has always maintained power using ‘publicans’. Today we have outsourcing companies for comparison but a more political comparison is becoming apparent in the UK where remainers have maintained EU hold on power even despite a democratic referendum held by the EU in the UK a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican 

Bye bye Rome

ROME IS TO BE FORSAKEN 

The Apocalypse wriiten by John says:

“Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, my people, 

so that you will not share in her sins,

so that you will not receive any of her plagues;

for her sins are piled up to heaven,

and God has remembered her crimes.

Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double portion from her own cup. Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself.

In her heart she boasts,

‘I sit enthroned as queen.

I am not a widow; 

I will never mourn.’

Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:

death, mourning and famine.

She will be consumed by fire,

for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

      — Revelation 18

Yet we in the British Isles who believe in God and want to continue as His people with Him as our God are being frustrated by a luke-warm government system and this is of course welcomed by the European masters who are fully united with Rome. Yet we can be separate completely in our hearts and God will see our hearts and make Himself real as our God in daily life until He delivers us. Even if He doesn’t deliver us we will not bow to this Babylon the Great of Rome. 

As Daniel’s friends told the king of the original Babylonian superpower:

“King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” 

  — Daniel 3

The Location of God and the Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch encourages us to think of an actual place with fire and crystals where God is enthroned. It might be inside a real high mountain somewhere visited by Enoch and possibly even known to others who were around at that time, perhaps hearing of it from Enoch. We might struggle with it. A psalm might be translated: “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?” It might be an expression of this struggle to ponder God when the geographical location of His throne is no longer well known. The answer seems to be for the psalmist the same as it can be for us: “My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth”. We might falter to think where the help we need comes from. The answer is to be certain WHO it comes from.

The Millennium and the Book of Enoch

Without the Book of Revelation the endtime prophecies of the Book of Enoch would be obscure and unclear about the Millennium. It is not clarified by Enoch as far as the Book of Enoch is concerned that there will be a time of the Son of Man lasting a thousand years, hence “Millennium”. It is there in the less attested book called Second Enoch. It is most clear in Revelation which has more certainty for many than 2 Enoch, having been dictated and shown to John by the Son of Man Himself. The Son of Man once told His earthly mother “My time has not yet come”. He was being expected by Mary to sort out a bad situation using power to do what nobody else could do. But it was not time for Him to take that crown. It would come later - in the future a time lasting a thousand years called ‘His time’ in which He will put the world to rights.

UK Reconstruction

Now that the UK has quite possibly left the EU legally strictly speaking (High Court might have to decide if that is legally what has happened) it is likely there will be ongoing attempts by the EU to use its ties in the Houses of Parliament to keep up the current antics as long as possible. Getting the UK out of the EU was just the first step. Getting the EU out of UK politics will be tougher. Reconstruction could be painful. We need God as our God.

Leaving London

All the time in Parliaments they judge passing of a law by voting Yes or No. Not Maybe. One vote extra for Yes makes the law the law. Yet when a Public Referendum goes that way all hell breaks loose.

“Leave them, they are blind guides” —Jesus Christ

Two Peoples Two UKs

“Come out from them My people and be separate”
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They say in the quantum universe multiple realities exist in the same space and time. So too in the UK. There is a population of those who regard themselves as having left the EU according to the referendum result. Then there are those who do not and think of themselves as still a part of the EU.
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“After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. With a mighty voice he shouted:
“ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’
She has become a dwelling for demons
and a haunt for every impure spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment
Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
“ ‘Come out of her, my people,’
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.
Give back to her as she has given;
pay her back double for what she has done.
Pour her a double portion from her own cup.
Give her as much torment and grief
as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
In her heart she boasts,
‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;
I will never mourn.’
Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.
Threefold Woe Over Babylon’s Fall
“When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:
“ ‘Woe! Woe to you, great city,
you mighty city of Babylon!
In one hour your doom has come!’
“The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore - cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.”
— Revelation 18:1-13