The burden about Britain

 “Israel has sinned”, says the LORD. The powers look to the church to serve their own ends instead of serving God with love. The people look to the powers to rule instead of looking to God to provide the rulers. The UK is supposed to be a covenant country, an Israel of God. Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, all your strength, all your mind. Love God with your voice. With your vote. Seek the will of God in the selecting of your rulers. Bring God into the power system. Teach God’s words to your children. If not? There is looming war, even a hint of possibility of a nuclear aspect to it, with generals and politicians all discussing it even now. The eyes of surveillance are eyes of war. Where will it end? The nuclear option? The bombing planes flying out from a mushroom cloud behind them? Tell it from the rooftops. Love God, your God. Jesus help us, the Lord who is Jesus alive today. 

The real war

 Rumours of wars that don’t yet exist. But some of the mighty will find their actual problem does really exist. There is a living lord who has something against them. This lord is Jesus Christ.

Three heavenly human colleagues

 Presumably there are three human colleagues we know about today who are alive in heaven: Jesus (the Son of Man), Elijah and Enoch. All three are mentioned in the Book of Enoch. All three intercede for the ‘sheep’. I hope they are all good friends. They must get a lot of company with each other.

Jesus Christ’s knowledge of scriptures

Jesus Christ has good knowledge of ancient scriptures. The Book of Enoch turns up in scripture scrolls of the stashes we call Dead Sea Scrolls very frequently, one of the most frequently found sources as Dead Sea Scrolls were being discovered during the last century. A significant proportion of these scrolls date from the time of the first century BC so were likely in circulation also in Jesus’ time. Jesus referred to scriptures about angels not marrying and of all known scriptures of that time, only the Book of Enoch records this detail about angels. Jude, brother of Jesus, wrote about and quoted the book too (Epistle of Jude). Jesus clearly keeps good knowledge of the Book of Enoch and promotes it to believers. It appears to be top of the main list of scriptures endorsed by Jesus Christ. The contents of the Book of Enoch permeate Lord Jesus’ teachings, it is clearly close to Jesus’ heart, and this permeates some of what the Holy Spirit still teaches today in Jesus’ name. “We do well to pay attention to it as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in our hearts.”

What greatest being might exist?

What are the odds of no other beings existing in the universe other than those known to scientists? Of all the beings in the universe, what are the odds of humans being the greatest beings? What are the odds of the greatest being in the universe being greater than humans? Considering the age of the universe, if scientists have calculated it correctly, and the relatively short time humans have existed, if scientists have calculated it correctly, surely the greatest being alive today would in all probability be far, far older and greater than any human beings born in our lifetimes. So how likely is it that atheists are correct in thinking there is no god? The greatest being in the universe, and there must be one, must surely surpass humans so much that we could call this greatest being a god. Anything else would be too improbably to consider a scientific possibility. Why don’t atheists agree? The greatest being in the universe or universes must be a probable certainty, not a myth or a theory or a lie or a fiction. It is inevitable that there is one being who is greatest. By probability alone, the likelihood is almost certain that this being is greater than any of us. Why do atheists not agree? Surely it is not really debatable. What is astounding is that this greatest of all beings has made Himself known to humans and given an only begotten son to save humans. 

Baptism

 Baptism or faith alone? Isn’t it a bit like asking, can you live with a partner as husband and wife or must you get married to be husband and wife? Ceremonies are important in life in societies. Laws hinge on them. We make commitments in our hearts but open, ceremonial commitments are important too. But like living with a partner or getting married it is a choice and depends on circumstances.

Only in Christ

 The answers are only to be found in Christ, when we lose everything that we may gain Christ. 

What is life?

 How could life come from chaos and gravity alone, unless it already existed from the very start of the Big Bang and before? Can life not exist and then exist? Is that consistent with physics? It seems consistent with physics that life existing before the Big Bang would be necessary for life to ever exist after it. This leaves the question: what is the nature of life that could exist before the Big Bang and to survive the Big Bang without ceasing to be alive so that life can exist now, after the Big Bang? What is the nature of that life? It clearly has nothing to do with matter as we know it. It has no hypostasis like gold or silver. 

Mistaken historians

 Why do historians call people such as Enoch ‘mythical’? They are mentioned in contemporary texts, extant texts, so why say they are mythical? The mythical are only mythical until archaeologists can substantiate their existence beyond the contemporary texts such as the Sumerian king lists and scriptural texts such as the Book of Genesis and Book of Enoch. They just need more sources. So ‘mythical’ is a label. It is a misnomer because there is no evidence that these people were NOT real people. There is no evidence they were mythical in a true sense of the word. Lack of known evidence of existence is not evidence of non-existence. This is therefore a mistake on the part of historians and ordinary people who are influenced by these historians and their writings. 

One True God

There are many gods who are spirit beings to whom many prayers have been made and in whom many have hoped. One spirit being stands out above all others because this One is most mighty, most high, king over all others, eternal, and yet most of all this One True God saves those who call on Him and hope in like no other gods ever really do. Yes, gods save, but one is so much greater in saving, so much that true faith can be put in Him, as Jesus taught and does: Jesus the Christ He sent to provide real salvation through all time. It has meant Jesus dying for our sins on a cross and now this same Jesus is the one this One True God resurrected and made the Lord over us all forever. Repent and be baptised in Jesus’ name and you will receive the promised Holy Spirit. Stop prioritising gods who do not save like this God. Serve and prioritise above all others the One True God who sent Jesus Christ for our salvation. When you have received the Holy Spirit you will be led into the truth and spirit anointing you need to serve this God, the Father. 

Holy communion

 Thinking now, it is Saturday evening, so it is Sunday communion online tomorrow morning. Letting Jesus in. Such a powerful yet simple ceremony introduced by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, extending the Passover introduced by the Father more than a thousand years before that. Remembering Jesus and taking in Jesus’ body and Jesus’ blood symbolically but spiritually in this ceremony, showing the death Jesus offered of the holy body and blood of this holy only begotten Son of God on the cross. It started the covenant between God and the disciples of God’s holy Son. Food of eternal life. We kept the feast online during lockdown and we all know what time to attend bringing our own red wine and bread, so though we are many in various houses, we link up at once knowing others do the same. I like to continue it even now lockdown is ending. So simple yet so powerful. So holy. Jesus present in spirit. Lord over us all. Lord having died and risen by the will of God who sent Him.

“Just do your job!”

 “They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.” (2 Peter 2:15)

We must be so careful when we have a choice of the kind of work we do for a living or the kind of employer who employs us. I remember agonising over my line of work decision and I remember the choices of jobs when I was young and unemployed. I tried selling double-glazed windows but they insisted I must lie to potential customers to secure a follow-up visit. I tried scientific lab work but they insisted I must experiment on live animals. I tried IT consultancy and did well for years but it got nasty when foreign not 100% friendly countries wanted ability to control our sensitive document systems. I was very zealous for following Christian gospel teachings in my work and it ruled out so many jobs. Yet now, looking back after forty years of work, it was good to shun any work where wickedness was necessary to earn the wage. Do governments sympathise with this? Do workforce leaders, leaders of industry and heads of government departments influencing work available to us realise that wickedness pays a wage but destroys the moral wellbeing of the worker of that wickedness and threatens to undermine the ways of righteousness laid down by the One True God? Like Balaam mentioned in scripture, it is too easy to start life with good intentions but become professionally wicked. So many professions today involve wickedness. But the answer of society is to tell us there is no such thing as wickedness or righteousness and we should: “Just do your job!”  

The Way of Balaam

 What god would require humans to cultivate human foetus cells, harvested from a wholly unnecessary abortion sixty years earlier, and inject an extract industrially produced from those cells, all in exchange for some kind of overestimated assurance of immunity from a plague, a plague likely produced by the very studies undertaken by the communities who follow such thinking? Does this god also want governments to force these injections on those whose faith requires rejection of such abhorrent practices and ill treat those who have legally succeeded in avoiding such injections? The medical ‘sciences’ following this god are largely made up of those who profess atheism and teach a metaphysics in which gods do not exist, claiming this all comes from experiments on Nature alone. The god of this age is a god who blinds and lies and kills and forces decent people to act against their consciences, even attempting to force such things on those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and follow Jesus’ teachings. Woe to the blind guides. They have followed this ‘way of Balaam’.

“They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.” (2 Peter 2:15)

One God

 The God who parted the Red Sea and led a new people out of Egypt and over a thousand years later was called “Your Father in Heaven” by the Lord Jesus Christ, this God is one person, one being, one God, faithful and true. Love this God with not just your heart, your soul, your strength and your mind but also with all of your voice. Publish His words online, post them around your living space, tell them to others, teach them to your children. Make Him part of your leader elections. Make His commands your goal to understand and follow. Let Jesus His Son lead you by the Holy Spirit. Lean on the teachings and ways of Jesus so they influence your inner understanding and outer actions. This is life and peace. Let Jesus in. Let Him be our Lord and we one people for Him under God.

Greatest sermons in history

 If we look at the great speech of Moses in Deuteronomy - Hear O Israel ... There is first an emphasis on who God is, God the person who led them out, then on God being one person, one God, and then on how to show love to this one person who is God of Israel by keeping this God’s words and giving them high prominence in daily life and teaching them to children to persist them through future generations. It is practical love based on truth. It was possibly the greatest sermon in history, until the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount does not replace it at all, but augments it and completes it. The Sermon on the Mount is in perfect continuity with the Moses Hear O Israel sermon, and Jesus maintained the focus of Moses on “Your God” by then continuing by referring to this same one God as “Your Father in Heaven”. Hence One God becomes in Jesus’ teaching the One True God, the Father.

God and a god

 One of my main religious and theological aims is to understand why the Father says “I am God”. And of course Jesus never says “I am God”. Of course God does not tell us whether the word is god of God, but in English the absence of ‘a’ or ‘the’ (indefinite or definite article) invariably means ‘God’ rather than ‘god’. Any powerful person to whom people make supplication can say “I am a god”. But the Father says “I am God” so I would love to understand that. Jesus did imply “I am a god” (recorded in John chapter 10). But never “I am God” in the sense the Father says it. I think even Trinitarianism would accept and acknowledge this. 

Is Jesus a ‘mighty god’?

 Is Jesus a ‘mighty god’? He is a resurrected immortal human so in this sense Jesus is effectively a mighty, godlike man: A ‘mighty god’. Plus the status of Jesus, given to Jesus by the One True God, makes Jesus a god, once among men, now among believers in meetings in Jesus’ name, and above all in lordship, the Son of Man who comes in the clouds (as with Paul on the Damascus road). Yes, quite a guy!

A false kind of monotheism

 I think there came a time in Jewish history from 300 AD onwards spreading into Christian history when it was fashionable to deny the existence of gods apart from God. The Book of Enoch didn’t fit that narrative. Actually neither did other scriptures but translation tricks could hide this. The tricks would not work on the Book of Enoch, so it got suppressed. The Jews after destruction of the Temple took a new stance on monotheism, but not monotheism where God is king above all gods and where Elijah was answered by fire while prophets of Baal were ignored, no a different definition of monotheism where gods did not even exist. A false monotheism. I could understand it that the destruction of the Temple weakened the original case for monotheism where gods failed to deliver from God’s hand, because it must have seemed like now God had failed to deliver from the hands of those who worshipped those other lesser gods, so maybe, I expect they felt pressure to say, God was the lesser god. The salvage operation might have been a plan B outright denial of other gods existing: Playing a patriotism card requiring patriots to join in by denying gods even exist, besides God. That would make sense. In which case the Book of Enoch might have been collateral damage in fallout from destruction of the Temple and destruction of the argument of Moses and Elijah. If God could not be regarded as Most High god, they would insist God is the only god. This persists in Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish faiths, even in Islam. The result would be to argue with Hindus by saying that their gods do not exist. The real truth, however, is still that the resurrection of Jesus Christ proves that God is the Most High, king above all gods, and that the gods cannot elevate us like God can elevate and perfect us now that Christ has died for us and risen.  It is not a denial of the existence of other gods. 

Zaccheus

 I think of the account in the gospels in the Bible of the man Zaccheus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacchaeus). He was despised by his locals for his work as cheating tax collector for the occupying Roman forces. No wonder. His life was stunted by this disgraceful stigma. His height was stunted too. He had to get a view of Jesus when Jesus passed by a crowds prevented Zaccheus seeing Jesus because Zaccheus was rather short. So Zaccheus climbed a tree to get a view. He was used to doing things out of initiative to compensate for his height and poor social stature. He reminds me of myself I hate to admit. Having worked in local government almost twenty years and been a conformer to the authorities of officialdom since school days, sucking up to teachers and to the system, I too was of low esteem in the eyes of my peers. Hated for conforming and benefiting from it, when others were unfairly treated by that system and not so able to get along with its impositions. What makes me feel I have much more in common with Zaccheus was the way Jesus treated Zaccheus and treated me too 2000 years later, that same Jesus. Zaccheus got noticed. Jesus didn’t shun him. Jesus went up to him personally and introduced Himself and then actually went along to this man’s house and gave despised Zaccheus a one-to-one lesson in the ways and power of God, converting Zaccheus and freeing him from his trap of vice and ignorance. Jesus is still like that today. He came to me in 1995, I think that was the year, and spoke a miracle into happening when I was walking in the heavy rain, me out there with a massive umbrella up. “Put down your umbrella!” Jesus said it invisibly but right inside my head with absolute authority. When I put the umbrella down in that torrential rain the rain stopped instantly. Then when I said to myself “It is the Lord!” the Lord helped my uncertainty by visiting me later in my house that night. I kind of knew it was Jesus out there in the rain but I really wanted Jesus to confirm it. I asked for a sign it was Jesus Himself. I went to bed that night and saw a dressing gown, never really used, hung on the nail on the wall. If it was Jesus, I said, let it be off the wall by the morning. In the middle of the night an extremely authoritative feeling got right inside my head waking me up. It got right through my mental defences, like the master of my soul alone could do. I so remembered that power all the years since. I woke and felt compelled to get up immediately. I simply reached out a took the dressing gown. As I took it off the wall I suddenly remembered the sign I had asked for. The Lord truly was Jesus. Wow! I knew it with a calm I had never known before. That calm returns to me just by remembering it. Jesus truly is the same Jesus as spoke to Zaccheus and calmed storms and walked on water and even did miracles after rising from the dead. This Lord is truly Jesus. The Master of my soul. Now I know what Zaccheus knew. Despised by men, and rightly so, but visited for salvation’s sake by the Lord Jesus Christ, by the kindness of God who gives Jesus these things to do, God the true Father of Jesus Christ. What a man Jesus is. A true gentleman, alive today. Alive, thankfully, forever. The same forever. 

Exasperating

 It is exasperating that ‘Christians’ continue to reject the teachings of Jesus (or ignore them, perhaps unable to understand them), accepting instead their human traditions and denominational teachings based on human traditions. Even the trees of Nature are growing by the power of the teachings and the name of Lord Jesus Christ. Why do people expect to prosper while rejecting this glorious name of Jesus and Jesus’ teachings? It is exasperating. 

Truth and the word of God

 Truth coming through Christ is packaged with implicit or explicit commands to be carried out. It is called ‘God’s word’ in scripture. The teachings of Jesus and the truth and grace coming from Jesus and the apostles and gifts of the Holy Spirit are called God’s word and are to be carried out with their implicit and explicit commands.

Above the law

 Political leaders might think writing laws and rules puts them above those laws and rules. Well there is one thing which is above their laws and rules: Truth.

The price of the vaccine

 A politician, in the place of leader, telling me I must be vaccinated, especially now the risk is almost gone, is pushing me not so much into a sinful direction of acting against my conscience by being injected with sorcery baby juice extract, so much as pushing me into a direction of ignoring politicians like this. Tell me it is sinful to ignore the politicians and I’ll tell you that, indeed pushing a believer into sin is a serious matter. The leading politicians and their followers will probably pay a costly price at the hands of the heavenly champion of believers.

The folly of modern science

 It is funny (no, not ha ha funny) that modern science gets conflated with wisdom when really it is about the folly of imposing lies rather than facing up to truth; lies such as the big one that spirit does not exist and spirits do not exist and mind is a set of chemical reactions and electrical signals.

Real Chrustianity

 Real Christianity is not about following denominations without accountability to Christ. It is about Christ, Jesus. It is about teachings flowing from Jesus through the Holy Spirit. It is about taking this as a yoke, like a yoke of oxen. It is about the doctrines Jesus believes. It is about the God Jesus believes and loves, the One Person who is the Father, the God of Jesus. It is about the one man who is Lord over us all, who is Jesus who died on a cross and was raised to life by God and lives forever, the same now as in the gospels. It is about the Holy Spirit teaching such believers and having dominion over us and helping us by leading us into all truth. Are you this kind of Christian?

The End and the New Beginning

 At some point, more than 1000 years from now, maybe not much more than that, after Judgement Day, the Earth’s crust will pretty much all melt. Perhaps it will be caused the the descent of the New Jerusalem, I don’t know. The sea will all evaporate and vaporise into space. Then all things will be made anew. Even Hell will have gone. Only spiritual immortal and imperishable things will remain. 

I love it

 I love it that God exists. And I love it that the Lord exists (Jesus). I love it that the Holy Spirit has dominion. I love it that Jesus is the same Jesus as we find in scripture.

Dark origins of the science of chemistry

 In 300 AD the Roman Greco-Egyptian father of alchemy and chemistry Zosimos of Panopolis wrote about the Book of Enoch and about what it reveals about the dark origins of chemistry:

“The ancient and divine writings say that the angels became enamoured of women; and, descending, taught them all the works of nature. From them, therefore, is the first tradition, chema, concerning these arts; for they called this book chema and hence the science of chemistry takes its name.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zosimos_of_Panopolis https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bQF6Wz-u4yYC&pg=PA299&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

He seems to imply the Book of Enoch is the ancient divine writing from which we learn of this fallen angel origin of chemistry. It alludes to these passages:

Book of Enoch chapter 65

Verse 1: 

“And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh...”

Verses 6ff

‘And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers--the most secret ones--and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent

Ch 6

1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' 4. And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.

Ch 7

1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Ch 8

1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl,

[paragraph continues] (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . .

ch 9

1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they said one to another: 'The earth made †without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying† up to the gates of heaven. 3 ⌈⌈And now to you, the holy ones of heaven⌉⌉, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause before the Most High.".' 4. And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, 〈and God of the ages〉, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! 5. Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. 6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn: 7. And Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. 8. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth. 11. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

Contrary to Modern Science

 Contrary to prevailing scientific dogma, spirit exists and spirits exist. (This disagrees profoundly with scientific materialism.) There is a king over them all. God. And a lord over them and over us all. Jesus.

A sanity check for Christians considering a career in Science

 “The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

It rises at one end of the heavens

and makes its circuit to the other;

nothing is deprived of its warmth.”

— Psalm 19

I tried studying science at university because of this passage and other such sentiments. Like many, I had hoped that by finding out more about Nature, I would feel more wonder at the glory of its creator and understand the ways of God. One year into my degree and it was clear the atheism of the lecturers had no such sentiment nor would they ever give glory to God or recognise the wonder of what they were trying to understand and teach. They only loved the money they might raise to do more experimentation. All I would learn from Science would be the cunningness of alchemy. So sad. I nearly quit but peer pressure made me continue and complete my degree. I later took a scientific lab job but again there was no love of finding out the knowledge within Nature and glorifying God, only substantiating feedback to funders to keep the lab open. Then they closed anyway and tried to get me a job in another lab, but it was not possible, I was told by the other lab, to continue that career path without experimenting on live animals. I quit. Years later I realised how much ancient sorcery practices still take central place in sciences and drive the agenda. Sad. Jesus warns of this in Revelation.

Real church

 Real church is a circle of those connected to Lord Jesus. Focussing on supporting a building for meetings tends to make the ownership of the building too important. I prefer house churches but even there you get the house owner having too much power. Lockdown has helped put things into perspective.

Good news

 Take comfort from the existence of Jesus and with Jesus being a man and with Jesus being the righteousness of God, the Father.

The Way Ahead

 Jesus walked on water, showing that when you walk with Jesus there will always be a way.

Appeal for Unity

Since the Council of Nicea, the majority of Christians, albeit Catholic Christians (in those times Catholicism was a slightly different concept of ‘Christian’ seeking to incorporate all in the Roman Empire) have sinfully been rejecting that minority of Christians who hold to the teachings of Jesus and find in this that they cannot fully accept some aspects of Trinitarianism. Many of this minority hold to teachings that God the Father is the One True God and that Jesus Christ is sent by this One God; teachings known as Unitarianism. Today the majority of Trinitarian churches continue this sin. Yet we should consider in the favour of both Unitarians and Trinitarians that the Holy Spirit is coming upon all these groups nowadays. We need to see a unity developing between Unitarians and Trinitarians in order to please God and build a single Temple and church for God and as the united, single body of His Christ. The Holy Spirit seems to me to be leading the way in this by descending upon all these disciples, irrespective of whether they are Trinitarian or Unitarian. Neither group should persist the division, because both groups should follow the lead of the Holy Spirit. Those led by the Holy Spirit are truly sons of God. This is what we should all aspire to be, above all else, above all our dogma preferences and philosophies.

Some historical background to Enoch, of the Book of Enoch

 Some historical background to Enoch, of the Book of Enoch. Sumerian was the only language in the region where Enoch lived several generations before the Flood. So writings of Enoch would have been written in Sumerian. Writing in Sumerian was just becoming commonplace around Enoch’s time, written mainly using a stick to press marks into clay, then drying the clay. It is called cuneiform writing. The first records of lists of kings of the people who spoke Sumerian before and after the Flood were written down up until the time of Abraham in cities such as Abraham’s city, Ur. These records are known today having been found in archaeological digs since the 1920s. They are called The Sumerian King Lists. They mention Noah, calling him Zuisudra and Utnapishtim. Mostly writing started in Sumerian cuneiform but after the Flood a new language developed called Akkadian, starting from around 2500 BC. The Sumerian started to be replaced by Akkadian from around 2200 BC onwards, but Sumerian still survived like Latin, Sanskrit and Ge’ez survive today, mainly for religious use as a language for official sacred writings. The first kings documented in the lists of kings after the Flood are not corroborated yet by archaeologists so they tend to be doubted as historical by historians. The first king in the lists to be corroborated is a contemporary of Noah after the Flood named Enmebaragesi. He is usually dated by modern historians to 2700 or 2600 BC, which means the Flood would be dated around 2800 BC to 2700 BC, although its historicity is doubted by historians today. So essentially, although records go back to times of Adam, through to times of Enoch, through to times of Noah, no person mentioned is usually regarded by modern historians as historical unless they are corroborated by extant archaeological  finds from the time. This means that Enoch, although mentioned in Genesis and possibly tied to the Enmenduranki mentioned in the Sumerian King Lists (predecessor of predecessor of predecessor of Noah), is not regarded as historical (yet). If he were (and he might be if more discoveries are made), historians might date him to around 3000 BC.