Merging

 Merging. When in my day job, developing software and websites, you get two developers working on the same parts of the system, you have to merge what one does with what the other does. Likewise, outside of my day job, I am having to be careful in considering church merging. When God puts straight a doctrine that has gone wrong, we end up with strands of church doctrine - a corrected one and the original strands and maybe strands which have been corrected in other ways too. Each might have its own hymns sung in churches, books written, preachers trained. Merging all these is quite a challenge. Yet it has to be done, even if it takes many years. Faith requires it. Truthful honesty requires it. It seems God requires it. I must try learning the hymns and which ones match the corrected doctrines.

Gospel at length

The production of divine offspring by divine beings taking humans for conception is unholy. There was no sanction for it from the topmost One True God. Only in one case was a holy divinity produced in history with full sanction from the Most High, One True God and that was when the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus from the virgin Mary. So Jesus is a truly holy divine human being, the only begotten Son of God. Some think it means Jesus is Himself God as a kind of component person of a Triune God, but Jesus teaches and the Father teaches that the Father alone is the One True God while Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of this Father God. The focus of the two Virgin Birth narratives in the gospels Matthew and Luke is the holy nature of the conception of Jesus. The archangel divinity brought this highly important message. In the gospel of John it is simply stated that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God. The bible Epistle of Hebrews calls Jesus the firstborn son of God. Even the Book of Enoch, near the end of the book, has a passage of prophecy in which God speaks of the Christ as His Son. So first consideration in the gospel is that Jesus came into the world by truly holy conception by the Holy Spirit and is rightly considered as begotten of God, truly the only begotten Son of God. Next consideration is the immediate family to whom Jesus was born. He was born from Mary who would marry a man descended from David. The promises of prophecy given to the ancient Israelite King David from God were that David would have a descendant who would build the Temple. The immediate fulfilment was Solomon, son of David, but so much was prophesied about a descendant of David being a son of God that it seems unlikely it was all fulfilled merely in Solomon and David elaborated in some of his psalms by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in what became regarded as foretelling of a Christ who was to come into the world as his descendant but also his lord. Over time prophesies came more fully proclaiming this Christ as the spirit of this coming Christ worked in prophets such as Isaiah. It all started to be fulfilled in Jesus as He grew to adulthood and eventually started a ministry of teaching and preaching and working miraculous signs given Him by God to do. He gained disciples who believed He is this Christ, the Son of God, descended from David. So the next consideration was how Jesus was fulfilling prophecies of ancient prophets. Ultimately Jesus focused on prophecies about a person Jesus described in the third person but also clarified to some was a direct reference to Himself as this person, someone proclaimed in prophecies of the Book of Enoch as the Son of Man, likewise in Exile prophet holy writings by Daniel and Ezekiel. This Son of Man, human messenger ordained specially by God Himself, had a prophetically designated ministry. It would involve suffering, dying at the hands of evil men, and being raised from the dead by God in vindication and in order to be the judge over all at the end of the age. The fact this Son of Man was also the only begotten Son of God would mean God would severely exact vengeance on those who killed Him, as history tells us happened when Rome utterly destroyed them around forty years later. The prophecies had foretold how this Christ, who believers identify as the Son of Man and the Lord Jesus Christ, would help believers by taking the wrath of God against their sins upon Himself as He died after severest torture. “He was bruised for our iniquities.” “By His stripes we are healed.” Yet He would rise from the dead. “He will not let His Holy One see decay.” The miracles were direct testimony from God the Father proclaiming Jesus’ glory. The focus then is on the lordship of this Master, Jesus, over the household of God. Finally it is on the lordship power of His name over all of Nature, as the Holy Spirit came and started to teach the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, leading them into all truth. This truth included the true beginning of Jesus as the Word of God, through whom God made all things. The end result of faith in this gospel is to believe that Jesus is the same now as He was then and will always be so, and then to hold to His teachings and be set free from binding, enslaving sins, to be cleansed and sanctified by God through Jesus’ blood sacrifice and to share in the overall extension of Jesus as each is added to Jesus as part of His body, covered by a covenant from God in Jesus’ blood, becoming effectively the outworking of the righteousness of God. This leads to eternal life, surviving the terrible judgement to come by not dying in your sins. It is all the outcome of the workings of God Himself by spirit in the gospel words and by the Holy Spirit workings in the believer, and by the effects of Jesus’ resurrection on improving the believer’s prospects. So the believer becomes in actuality a child of God, progeny of God, brothers or sisters together of Jesus, sharing His inheritance, living forever in fellowship with God and His Son, provided the believer continues to hold to Jesus’ teachings. The love of God is obediently reciprocated by believers among each other in love for God and Christ. The influence of Jesus as master over all grows forever as His disciples grow in number, obedience and good character, doing greater things than even Jesus did, now that Jesus is with the Father in Heaven. The Holy Spirit works among the believers in private and as they meet to encourage and console and counsel. The sins are put aside, inappropriate for this scenario and since sins are not of God but of the devil who will come to nothing. The believers receive grace from God and focus their worship around a memorial of Jesus in the bread and wine of communion showing His death on the cross for our sins. Until He comes. He will soon come in the clouds to set things right, bringing saints in glory to share His ministry of judgment and rule, many raised from the dead for this and others transformed into similar immortality. It is all this that we can call the gospel as God has sanctified it. God boundlessly loves Jesus His Son and Jesus lives up to that love in a way God is well pleased with and God fully acknowledges Jesus as His pleasing Son. Yet only God, God the Father, says of Himself “I am God”. Jesus has believers, God’s household, as His household, and is over them as Master and is over all creation too but that does not make Him God, it makes Jesus Lord. The Holy Spirit acknowledges that all creation operates under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ’s name but still it is not the case that Jesus is the Only True God. The Father alone is that. Love is what most characterises God: love for His children even before they turned from their sins in faith and love for the command of Jesus. Love for His Father and faith in the Father’s love for Him characterises Jesus. The name of Jesus controls even Nature and sustains it, upheld by the faithful angels governing Nature. God deals with our sins, helping us deal with each other’s sins, correcting, cleansing and forgiving as we confess our sins, with Jesus ever living to intercede with God, knowing our human weaknesses, yet Himself sinless. We have a great high priest if we are in the household of God. We have hope. It is unacceptable that we sin still. Sin must end in our lives. This is the salvation Jesus brings. That is why He was named Jesus. Salvation. 

Heard about the ancient giants?

 Heard about the ancient giants? Unholy conceptions by divinities with humans producing these unholy divinities? One greater than the giants came by holy conception.

There is a lot of content these days about Giants. Around 3000 BC there were these guys, subject of many ancient legends, who were offspring of supernatural and natural parents, human mothers but divine fathers. Lots of legends existed over the following millennia about these monstrously powerful guys: Gilgamesh and Heracles/Hercules are perhaps the most well-known, although probably from a later time. Monsters of Greek mythology hark back to these times: Cyclops, Perseus, Medusa and so on. Having divine fathers and human mothers. Even the Bible book of Genesis mentions such beings, Nephilim, in Genesis 6. The Book of Enoch, a holy scripture well-known to Jesus and Jesus’ disciples and many Jews of that time, has much to say about the origins of these giant divine humans. The divinities who produced them were punished for it severely because God, the Lord over all divinities, the Father, did not intend their liaisons with human women because God made the divinities immortal in Heaven, not in need of procreation for persisting their presence on Earth. The production of divine offspring by divine beings taking humans for conception is unholy. There was no sanction for it from the topmost One True God. Only in one case was a holy divinity produced in history with full sanction from the Most High, One True God and that was when the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus from the virgin Mary. So Jesus is a truly holy divine human being, the only begotten Son of God. Some think it means Jesus is Himself God as a kind of component person of a Triune God, but Jesus teaches and the Father teaches that the Father alone is the One True God while Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of this Father God. The focus of the two Virgin Birth narratives in the gospels Matthew and Luke is the holy nature of the conception of Jesus. The archangel divinity brought this highly important message. In the gospel of John it is simply stated that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God. The bible Epistle of Hebrews calls Jesus the firstborn son of God. Even the Book of Enoch, near the end of the book, has a passage of prophecy in which God speaks of the Christ as His Son. 

Putting the record straight

 The conception of Jesus in the virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit meant Jesus is divine and holy and the only begotten Son of God but does NOT mean Jesus is literally God, the one and only God. Only the Father is the One True God. That is the confusion I must correct because God the Father corrects it. God boundlessly loves Jesus His Son and Jesus lives up to that love in a way God is well pleased with and God fully acknowledges Jesus as His pleasing Son. Yet only God, God the Father, says of Himself “I am God”. Jesus has believers, God’s household, as His household, and is over them as Master and is over all creation too but that does not make Him God, it makes Jesus Lord. The Holy Spirit acknowledges that all creation operates under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ’s name but still it is not the case that Jesus is the Only True God. The Father alone is that. 

My burden concerning the USA and the UK

@Americans: Speaking as a UK ally of Americans, sharing a fairly common path and heritage and culture, there are things happening in both our cultures and regions which stand out in recent years, decades. Our guys spy on your guys. Your guys spy on our guys. Like Edward Snowdon revealed. The violence on the ground mirrors the eagle of military surveillance in the air. Moving us both towards police state tightened bonds. We each culture gets violently and dishonestly sinful. So God judges us. Reliance on burdensome laws instead of love of God and His teachings through Christ means this will only get worse. But it is the just judgment of God upon us which we deserve in our respective societies. God is true even if every man is a liar. There we go. A prophecy from God. 

The day and hour

 There will come a time when everyone will know the day and hour of Christ’s return: When He is actually there before their eyes raising up His worthy ones for immortality. Obviously when the trumpet sounds many will know. Leading up to it some will know, because of their knowledge of God and the scriptures. The people who know their God will do exploits. Yet the actual coming will be a surprise. But not all will be completely in the dark about it. Then when He comes the clock of prophecy will be ticking the countdown of the thousand years. So after that coming the scripture-knowers will know there will be a thousand years before Final Judgement Day. Like Daniel knew because of the prophecy of Jeremiah that seventy years must pass and had passed. Enoch saw heavenly planning documents of God back in the days before the Flood. Noah knew the Flood was coming. The plans include clues about the coming of Christ to rule a thousand years but do not give the exact day and hour, yet they reveal a rough set of possibilities and related events. They reveal the time of the final judgement. So it is easy to subtract a thousand years from that. They are not precise enough to give an exact day and hour or even year or decade. But they give a rough idea. 

My personal message to those who say the Book of Enoch is not inspired

 My personal message those who say the Book of Enoch is not inspired: 

Jesus trusted the Book of Enoch and taught the Sadducees to trust it. Do you trust Jesus?

Personally, I know Jesus and trust Him. He taught the Book of Enoch and led me to it and I know He taught it back in the days of His first disciples and the Holy Spirit brings teachings in Jesus’ name which I found matched the Book of Enoch. All this I rather trust than the modern equivalent of Sadducees today. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You have to really know the scriptures and power of God well to escape being in error. God gave me the best Master/Teacher in the universe. God commends Jesus to us all by the things God did through Him. Trust Jesus. Adhere to Jesus’ teachings. He is the Christ. He is of God. He is holy. He knows what is holy and what scriptures have holy inspiration. Trust that reliable testimony.

Is the Book of Enoch holy?

 The most important question to answer about the Book of Enoch: Is it holy? Over the millennia it seems many have talked and written of Enoch. Some tales told of him teaching divination. Some tales tell of his visit to Heaven and subsequent teaching of what he learned there. In Hebrew and Greek scriptures of the Abrahamic faith he is venerated. In Islam it seems he is venerated as Idris. The Book of Enoch itself teaches that Enoch’s wisdom and knowledge did come from heaven and the teachings of the New Testament confirm that it is true and is prophecy from the Holy Spirit. Jesus confirmed it as scripture. Jude confirmed it as true prophecy and as coming from Enoch a true prophet. So if you really believe Jesus and the New Testament and delve into what they say and mean about the Book of Enoch, it is necessary to regard it as inspired, not by ungodly divination but by the Holy Spirit. Likewise this requires a conclusion that Enoch existed and in the times before the Flood wrote much of this book, together with Noah and Methuselah as the writings of true prophets and holy teachers. Holy because it is from the Holy Spirit, the same Spirit by whom Jesus also spoke.

Holy son of God unlike the Nephilim sons of gods

 The Book of Enoch tells how Noah was very wonderful as a newborn baby such that his father grew afraid that he was born from a supernatural conception like with the Nephilim. This helps explain the virgin birth nativity story in Matthew and Luke. The focus of the exhortation of the angel to Joseph in Matthew chapter 1 seems not to address the scandalous possibility of Mary being with another man, but rather to address the question of what kind of supernatural conception happened with her. The exhortation to Joseph is that this conception was very much a holy eventuality because it was from the Holy Spirit, (i.e. not some other spirit like with the Nephilim). This means the people to whom Jesus was born have a real sense of God being so very close to them in that God’s very essence is in some senses carried in Jesus. The essence of God Himself is present in Jesus by this Holy Spirit virgin conception holy means in which He becomes flesh. It is thus truly actualised that God is with these people to whom Jesus is born. The essence of God’s miraculous working and spirit formed Jesus and continues in the human flesh existence of Jesus. 

A supernatural virgin conception that is truly holy

 The virgin birth is by the Holy Spirit meaning that the essence of God’s miraculous working and spirit formed Jesus and continues in the human flesh existence of Jesus. https://biblehub.com/matthew/1-23.htm Here the first matter of importance is the holiness by which the virgin conceived and gave birth to the son of God Jesus - in this sense a son of God because it is a human conceived by miraculous means so called a son of a god yet not just by any spirit (Nephilim were conceived by angelic spirits Gen 6) but by the Holy Spirit so truly holy. Then the writer, Matthew, took the theme matter further to say that the essence of God Himself is therefore present in Jesus by this Holy Spirit virgin conception holy means in which He becomes flesh. So it is truly actualised that God is with these people to whom Jesus is born. 

Life before life

The pre-existence of Christ is one of the greatest secrets of the kingdom of God. It is little evident in Hebrew scripture what is put into an unborn being to make it a soul. Where a person begins before physical life begins is not revealed in Hebrew or Greek scripture. Yet there is a revelation of the beginnings of one person: The Christ. Before a zygote, a foetus,an embryo became an unborn baby and was born, there was something, someone, the Son of Man, the Word of God. Not just a twinkle in God’s eye. A being, a person. A living spirit. The Spirit of Christ. Yet of other people there is precious little if anything to say what of us exists before we take form as a soul with a body. “A body you have prepared for me. I have come to do your will O God” in prophetic writing Jesus speaks. Yet of the rest of us, do we inhabit a body given to us? What ‘we’ is it that inhabits a body if that is how it happens? Questions, few answers. Life before life. More mysterious than the afterlife.

Surviving the biblical perils to come

 Pretribulationists say God would never allow believers to face the biblical perils around the corner. But God saves us in the midst of perils like He saved Daniel in the den of lions. God will put an angelic seal on believers who serve Him before the worst perils, global fires, global quakes, come. They will still go through it but will have a special status that leaves them untouched by the worst of it. At the end of it all Jesus will return to judge and rescue. Then the worthy dead believers will be raised immortal and the living ,worthy, mortal believers will be transformed to immortality. All will be judged. First the fallen and deadliest of angels. Then the believers. Then the reign of Christ will be followed by the judgement day of all.

Stealing the keys of knowledge

 Trinitarians, by substituting so many scripture verses’ real meanings with Trinitarianism, subverting their original meanings, lose the keys of heavenly eternal life knowledge of truth and keep others from attaining it too.

Two sides of the coin

 Two sides of a coin: Jesus crucified did the big work of God; we too need to quit sinning and the Spirit empowers it.

Purest water

 If some of us love Jesus (surely millions of believing children love Jesus and have not heard Trinitarian philosophies like autotheos and hypostasis) enough we will take to heart His wondrous words of spirit in John’s gospel and elsewhere and know that the Father of Jesus is God over all. Then the Trinitarian sayings muddy the water. Let us shun muddy water and the slimy pit and let the pure water be in our hearts and mouths. 

Westminster Confession and Self-referential inconsistency

 The Westminster Confession, of post Civil War England in the late 1600s, pushes Trinitarianism but not because of true scripture but because of reliance on writings of Trinitarians such as the post-200 AD reputed ‘church fathers’, church councils such as Nicea and Chalcedon, and reformers such as Calvin. This is ironic since that same Westminster Confession inconsistently also pushes sola scriptura, insisting essential doctrines must only be based on canonised (by them) scriptures. 

Shamefully twisted Bible translations

If you know how to compare Bible translations online, and compare with the original Greek of New Testament scriptures, see how the Revised Standard Version RSV translates Romans 9:5 correctly compared with the Greek, unlike the others which push Trinitarianism into the verse: RSV “to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.” The others almost all try twisting the scripture into saying that the Christ is God. Just like Peter warns in 2 Peter 3:15-16. They do so to their own destruction, wrote Peter. From the Greek we can make out that Paul, not a Trinitarian of course (*), wrote that Christ according to the flesh was born to the Jews and then Paul praises God for it, saying “God be blessed forever”. Bearing in mind the Greek was originally written all in capitals with no punctuation.

(* It wasn’t until 200 AD that the Hellenistic theological philosophies of Origen paved the way for Classical Trinitarianism.)

Freedom

 Freedom is possible under rightful subjection or submission to God. Subjection to God becomes submissive service, becomes voluntary bond-slavery, becomes eventual freedom when you know the Master’s will. And Jesus provides the Mastery that sets free the knowledgable servant. 

Human trafficking

Is human trafficking legal if undertaken by the military? If the military can legally traffic humans, that could be the answer for the deaths at sea of migrants to the UK: Legal interception at sea of the migrants by the military.

The Yoke of Christ Today

 “Take my yoke upon you” — Jesus Christ.

Yoke. That’s an idiom for discipleship. The yoke like a cattle yoke. It ties one ox to another to pull a cart or attaches an ox or pair of oxen to a plough. Taking Christ’s yoke is submitting to Christ as teacher - the disciple submits to being tied to the teacher in order to learn from the teacher. The apprentice commits to the trainer for a course program. Even if you think maybe the scriptural records of teachings of Christ and Christ’s apostles is mistranslated, misunderstood, muddied water, when we read versions we have today, the yoke of Christ as teacher is still there to be taken, in submission to the living Christ as our living teacher, allowing Him the responsibility to reach us with His teachings. He is so powerful, as the spiritually empowered human lord there in Heaven next to God the Father, that He can reach us to teach us. And He will never again die now He is alive from the dead forever. The same as He was long ago and the same as He will be forever. Let us take His yoke upon us. The Holy Spirit will take from what is Christ’s (and all things are given to Christ by the Father) and make it known to us. Blessed be God forever. 

Do reliable scriptures ever call Christ ‘God’?

Do reliable scriptures ever call Christ ‘God’? One scripture verse is easily misconstrued as calling Christ ‘God’ but it is probably not written with that intended meaning. Romans 9:5. Some unscrupulous (or wishful thinking) translators translate it as “... Christ who is God over all forever blessed” but it probably means “... who is Christ. God over all be blessed forever” Sorry Trinitarians. Nice try.

The Giants Event

 The ‘Giants Event’. The Spirit of God must be highlighting the historical ‘Giants Event’ on Mount Hermon 5000 years ago because this was backdrop, the Book of Enoch tells us, to the heavenly adoption into angelic governance of the name of the Son of Man. Here the fabric of the angelic governing of all the workings of Earth and human life and all natural life took a turn and needed bolstering with Jesus’ name. The success of these measures are the background to the introduction of Jesus Christ, the Anointing this Jesus brings and teachings of spirit and truth and grace and sacrificial provision of Jesus’ crucifixion and the power of Jesus’ resurrection on which our faith relies.

Missing the Obvious

The atheist scientists and intellectuals are missing the obvious. Given the age scientists attribute to the universe and the speed they attribute to evolution, the possibility of there NOT being a Being capable of creating Earth and life on it is negligible. So they must be looking in the wrong direction. The atheist scientists and medics and other intellectuals must be distracted from the obvious, perhaps by a focus on merely disproving Ancient Classical philosophies of theology, such as omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence. To dismiss the likelihood the Earth and its inhabitants are creations is absurd given what scientists are concluding about evolution in the universe far beyond the time life on Earth has existed.  What this does not tell us is about any possibility of creation of the universe itself, the birthing and distribution of stars and the establishment of natural laws. For that we need inspiration of truth. Here the ignorance of scientists is in many cases profound. Here we are in the realm of spirit and spiritual beings and how we all interact.

Hollow Philosophies

 Maybe the churches will repent and turn back to the teachings of Christ, away from the hollowness of mere philosophies. Christ will receive a returning apostate. God the Father will welcome a returning prodigal. The Lord will receive back the wretched adulteress, as is told in the prophet Hosea’s scriptural book. The dry bones can live. The churches talk of revival. They need to think about returning to Jesus and His teachings first. Then the embrace of the Father can come once the prodigal actually returns. 

Want to know the truth?

 If you want to repent and follow Jesus, you need to believe that He is the same yesterday and today and forever and hold to His teachings. Then you will know. 

Strength in weakness

Immortal, eternal Christ makes His reputation, fame, name, and teachings dwell in us, so we become the Temple.

How rightly He fared in weakness is central to Christ’s reputation, fame, name, and teachings.

Christ’s strength in His weakness drives all Creation, all Nature, holding it together.

Christ is Lord because He grows as we are added to Him. And so He will fill all things.

Becoming the righteousness of God

If you believe in Christ, did your belief lead you to put off old sinful ways in order to be the righteousness of God? That is true faith. Christ died and rose to make it possible. Many doctrines around today muddy the water, cloud the issue. Get back to what it is all about. Sharing in Christ is about becoming the righteousness of God, actually, not theoretically. God made a way to be righteous showing God’s righteousness as saviour. That involves the end of lying, murderously hating, being immoral, stealing. It involves the sacrifice of Christ in body and blood for the past sins so that a new, clean life can begin. It involves embracing that new life, putting off the former more depraved and unethical life. All made possible by God sending Jesus to do what is needed and lead us into this life, eternal life. Faith is in vain if it does not lead to this. Continuing in sinful ways after believing in Christ, that is completely unacceptable. 

Health and life by spirit

 Jesus gives health and life by spirit and God gives you health and life because Jesus died for you and prays for you and you believe.

It is all about spirit

 All the theology has problems because spirit is poorly understood and philosophy and science cannot handle it. Jesus works so much by spirit. God is spirit always and His work by His word is done as spirit. Spirit and time and space have a mysterious relationship. Spirit and matter and energy have a mysterious relationship little known to our sciences. Jesus is all about anointing of spirit. The Holy Spirit is so fully given to Jesus that it makes a growing impact on the universe and the kingdom of God. ‘Christ’, we call Jesus. Anointed with the Holy Spirit so fully that it essentially defines Him. It all comes from the Father through all time and filling all space mysteriously. 

Against the Father Son form as ‘God’

People cannot have a philosophy of God as a ‘Father Son form’ (a combination which is ‘God’) and have Jesus’ words too. “If only I testified about myself my testimony would not be valid. Another testifies. The Father testifies.” Paraphrased, but Jesus did say this. If there is a Father Son form of God then it would make that saying of Jesus a perjury. Then there is the teaching of Jesus (and of Paul) that the Father alone is the Only True God and Jesus is the Christ sent by Him. (Interesting that in John 17:3 Jesus gives Himself a name title ‘Jesus Christ’ - the name we use of Him ‘Jesus Christ’ is apparently one He used of Himself in the third person.) It is the Father who Jesus says is the Only True God and it is the Father who Jesus identifies as His necessary second witness. If you hold to Jesus’ teaching you have to let go of that ‘Father Son God’ philosophy. People in following Jesus are going to have to drop their erroneous philosophies about God in order to hold to Jesus’ words to stay in fellowship with Jesus. Inevitable. People would ask/retort, What philosophy should we have then? Well forget philosophies for a bit until you know the truth. Just believe Jesus is. Hold to Jesus’ teachings. Be set free by truth. Then you might be content without a half-baked philosophy.

Jesus’ heritage

 Jesus acknowledged being a Jew when non-Jews impressed it on Him, but He did not really identify as a Jew. He was from another place, another world, another kingdom. The kingdom of Heaven. The Father is His origin. That is paramount to Him in His teachings.

Stick with what Jesus taught

 Trinity is not a teaching of Jesus. Rushing into it, you rush away from Jesus’ fellowship and God’s. Stick with what Jesus taught.

Christ’s Teachings Paramount

 “Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” 2 John 1:19

This is a striking verse. John could have taught that his own teachings were paramount, having himself been sent by Christ. Yet he taught that still it is Christ’s teachings which need to be followed for a person to have fellowship with God and with Christ. If we want to have Christ and the Father in our lives, we must follow Christ’s teachings now, and always. There is no second phase. It is Christ at the start and forever to the end. Yet if you do follow the teachings of Christ constantly through your life you can be assured, if you believe that Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever, and hold to His teachings, you are promised to have Him with you in life, and the Father too. 

God’s side of the story - as told by Christ

 God disowns liars and haters. He says liars and haters are not His children, they are Satan’s. God only has permanent children. Temporary repentance is just a mark of slavery because slaves are only in the household temporarily. God is looking for true children who permanently cease from sin. Minor relapses are disciplined just as a son or daughter is chastened. That is what Christ came to bring about. True children for God. Children who do not sin. That is the point of Christ coming. That is His ongoing work, having died for sins and risen to live forever. Christ wants it. God wants it. We need it. We need it lest we die in our sins and incur the wrath of God and the lake of fire.  

Scriptures and Bibles

 Scriptures, holy scriptures but not found in the Bible: 

* Tobit - one major early church council made it mandatory to read it in the churches 

* Enoch - Jesus referred to it as scripture, NT quotes it

* Jubilees - along with Enoch, it was widely read and regarded as scripture in the time of Jesus

Remember that at one time books such as Revelation and the epistles of John were not in the Bible and were even banned. Some other genuine Christian cultures have Bibles with many extra books. Could Western Christians actually be in error because their Bibles are too limited so they never get to read important truths?

Nature’s underpinning

A mysterious gospel teaching found in the Book of Enoch is how the name of the Son of Man was intertwined thousands of years ago by angels into the fabric of what holds Nature together, into the very basis of Nature which is called the Oath. An Oath honoured among the angels who govern Nature. Today the authority of the Son of Man’s ‘Name’, the authority of His teachings, His way of living, His noble reputation, underlies all of the natural world. In the Book of Enoch, it explains that this came about because the angels governing Nature needed to shore up, to underpin, to strengthen the way Nature is governed, for which God had made ‘the Oath’ (all most mysterious), and this strengthening was needed because there was a danger of it all being undermined by the evils resulting from angels falling and teaching worthless teachings to humans. Today we do witness Nature and the order of our planet being undermined by the knowledge of Mankind, the technologies and sciences of industrialisation and human advancement. Species are wiped out, ecological balances are disturbed. The angels needing to address this initially had to give extra power to their basis of government of Nature. They used the good teachings and reputation, the Name, of the Son of Man. Fallen angels undermined the governance work of faithful angels whose work it is to keep balance and order in the Natural World. Jesus’ reputational authority alone could bring the balance back. His teachings have the necessary authority and reputation to bring order and stability. If we were in charge of maintaining global order and Nature’s order we would need to be sure what logic to be using. For that the angels of heaven use the logic found in Jesus raised from the dead by God to assure them (and us if we believe it) that this is the primary Name to use and represents the very best reliability which God has available. I get situations in my work where bad practices are best overcome using teachings of Jesus. So I can appreciate how it would be this way, from ancient times, in heaven. This Son of Man, whose good teachings and reputation the angels use to redress the undermining of the governing of Nature which was caused by the fallen angels, this Son of Man is the one who God sent into our world for us, bringing Mankind that name, those teachings of great reliability and reputation, that name given formerly among angels. Yet this Son of Man was slain by men. Nevertheless He was resurrected from death by God to continue saving and to preside over the judgment of us all. He is coming in the clouds of heaven and all will see Him soon.

God with us

 Book of Enoch “For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.” (105:2) A unity which Jesus said amounts to taking up abode with such people does not necessitate physical location (just like I can work with my colleagues remotely but still feel I am with them, together), Rev 21:3 “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.’” However, ultimately there will be an onsite location unity, Rev 22:3-4 “The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.” For some there is already some of this “We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” 1John 1:3, as Christ promised John 14:23 “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”

The feast of the Messiah

For a memory of Jesus’ sacrificial propitiating death on the cross, there is a memorial to this taught by Jesus Himself for those who keep His teachings, believing that He is. The memorial is like the Jewish Passover, extending it, but now the blood is no longer that of a Passover sacrificed lamb but the blood of Jesus Himself and wine to symbolise it and remember is drunk, not painted on door posts like the original Israelite Passover in Egypt. There is the link back to the first time. In the Passover, the lamb eaten is a link back to the lambs of the first time whose meat was eaten and their blood painted on door posts to turn aside the wrath of angels of death. In the memorial to Jesus, there is a link back to the first time. The link is the wine drunk which resembles and commorates and symbolises the blood of Jesus when He gave His body to die on the cross. He died to shed His own blood and offer His own body. There is a second link which is the bread eaten symbolising the body broken on that cross. So these symbols extend to the partakers that body and blood of Jesus the Christ, a propitiation for all. Now the whole big important crux of it all is this. The body is eaten as bread and taken into the body of each disciple of Jesus who partakes, believing that Jesus truly is, now as back then, and forever, alive again having died that death, and alive forever to help deal with sin and come close to the Father, God, holding to Jesus’ teachings with Jesus’ anointing of the Holy Spirit dwelling within. The blood is taken in too, as wine drunk in thanksgiving. And therefore the disciple is, in accordance with Jesus’ own word, the word of God His Father, part of this. Part of Jesus Christ. In Christ. A new creature with new hopeful eternal prospects given by God when God raised Jesus from the dead. What great salvation. Thanks be to God. What a great eternal living Temple to the glory of God, for the glory of the Name of God the Father. 

The Law and the Commands

 The Mosaic Law is for a society bound by that law and includes many things of social, not just individual, implication, for that special society. For example, working on Saturday is made illegal for that whole society, not just a matter of conscience and personal devotion. Straying as a society or village or town from that law becomes a capital offence punishable legally by death. God has commands for all people, not just for that special social group. God has commands for another social group too. These could be called law too, but constitute a separate system, the Kingdom of God.  There are commands of God which do not only apply to Jews. We can seek them out and apply them to ourselves. The Good Samaritan principle is one. The greatest command is love. Love God. Love those looking out for you and those needing you to look out for them. The command for the putting off of vice is essential in this Kingdom of God. It is essentially a putting off of lying and hating and a putting on of truthful speech and love. That is where to start and that is a great goal to aim for too. Immorality is to be put aside too. This is the way of truth we find in Christ Jesus.

WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS TEACH THAT ALCOHOL AND GAMBLING ARE SINFUL?

 WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS TEACH THAT ALCOHOL AND GAMBLING ARE SINFUL?

I don’t think we should let such Christians put us off from following Christ’s teachings. There is a historic tendency to teach that alcohol drinking and gambling are sinful, unethical. It goes back thousands of years. Maybe it was a way to discourage excesses and vice. Nowadays a drug den is something society abhors, not so much a bingo hall or public house (if you have those in your country). Jesus Christ’s teachings were to Jews familiar with the Laws given by God to Moses and it was the duty of every Jew to stick by such laws. Christ endorsed such adherence and regarded disobedience to these laws as a sin, unethical for a Jew. Today we have less clear guidance. Society has underlying alignment of laws with the Jewish Laws but much is left to discretion of politicians. Yet to keep a clear conscience is a good way to avoid slavery to politically corrupted lawmaking which lines the pockets of the rich and oppresses the poor. Gambling might be easily corrupted and serve the interests of such rich oppressors and alcohol might make us prone to such enslavement too but they do not flout any laws of God. There are commands of God which do not only apply to Jews. We can seek them out and apply them to ourselves. The Good Samaritan principle is one. The greatest command is love. Love God. Love those looking out for you and those needing you to look out for them. If putting off vice is essential for a Christian then let it be a putting off of lying and hating and a putting on of truthful speech and love. That is where to start and that is a great goal to aim for too. Immorality is to be put aside too. This is the way of truth we find in Christ Jesus. Don’t be put off by other traditions.

RESURRECTION COMING SOON

 AS GOD PREPARES BELIEVERS FOR THE MASSIVE RESURRECTION IN CHRIST LET US BE SURE TO BE LOVINGLY KEEPING THE COMMANDS OF GOD AND TEACHING THEM TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

Your descendants

 A thousand years from now Satan will be globally recruiting the masses. Will your descendants be recruited or will your traditions handed down be saving them? Teach your children Christ.

The timeless spirit of the Christ

 Maybe everyone today has heard of inspiration. Inspired songs. Inspired inventions. Inspired geniuses, inspired scriptures. There is a very special kind of inspiration throughout history since most ancient times: the heavenly inspirer who is the Christ, the spirit of the Christ. In Hebrew scriptures and other holy scriptures there are several notable passages where this inspirer is evident. In Isaiah’s prophecies, Daniel’s prophecies, Enoch’s prophecies and of course, when this Christ had come in the flesh, in the Gospels and other scriptures we call the New Testament. These all are the inspiration of one person, the person named in more recent history ‘Jesus’, ‘Yeshua’, ‘Isa’ but throughout history evidently manifest by the Spirit of Christ working in events, prophets and other writers of scriptural psalms and chronicles. The Book of Enoch has some of the most striking of all such passages in the section in the middle which we call the Parables, or the Similitudes. Here the formulation of the person of the Son of Man is revealed. The same person is mentioned a lot in the New Testament scriptures. Jesus spoke about this persona, this most important being, in the third person, to better put across the concept of the existence of the Son of Man and the implications of this for all humanity. 

The One True God - the Father

 I would say to both Oneness and Trinitarian advocates that the Father alone is the One True God and that Jesus is His Son and is a human being. Given that both Jesus and Paul are recorded by scriptures as stating unequivocally that the Father is the One True God, it is odd how both Trinitarians and Oneness advocates cannot recognise this. Indeed, having grown up in a house with parents from both sides, I feel a silly voice within me, instilled by years of learning their views, when in genuine faith I acknowledge to the Father that He alone is the One True God and that the mediation by the man, the Lord Jesus, allows me to come to this One True God, the Father, that silly voice tells me erroneously ‘Jesus won’t like you saying that, it isn’t fair on Jesus’ as if it is leaving Jesus out of being God, as if He wants a share of that special glory. It is a spiritual influence which blinds people, in the past myself included, in the present trying to still blind me, to the simple truth that the Father alone is the One True God. No Jesus is NOT offended when we confess this truth. He came to proclaim it and bring humans to this realisation and peace. Shut out that imposter voice. Listen to the true Holy Spirit instead. 

Modern Living

 It is important that we live in the light. As we go about our activities, it is important that the memories of inspirational teachings and sayings which guide us are dependable and good, such that they can be called ‘light’. Various sources of light from the past surely include the Book of Enoch. It contains important information about how modern life originated in the time of the most ancient dawn of civilisation. Look at almost any aspect of the culture, tools, advertising, politics and teachings which strive to guide us and we are likely to find the origins of it, the germ of it, described in the Book of Enoch. Even apostles of Jesus Christ and very likely Jesus Christ Himself, leaned on the sayings of the Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate was extremely popular as scripture in the time of the gospels. So the gospels reflect this influence. The gospels reflect the sayings we find in the Book of Enoch and elaborate on them and augment them. So we get a multiplication of the light source to shed light on our activities today. We find that many aspects of culture around us, on which we might have been raised and educated, have murky origins. The origins of much of our modern life were not at all endorsed by God but condemned as harmful to the wellbeing and good progress of civilisation. Yet somehow those influences have risen to great prominence today. As the saying of Jesus says, “What is highly prized among men is detestable in the sight of God”.  Armed with the Book of Enoch and the Gospels absorbed by attentive reading into our hearts we have light that can guide us away from such things and leave us more open to what is more healthy for our lives. It also shows up the strong influences of society. Much of the modern world dogma depends on ancient practices which were warned against by these teachings of the light. Various unhealthy sectarian practices have merged over centuries, some over the millennia, to produce what politicians, school teachers, parents, guardians, influencers, fashionistas, scientists and religious leaders tell us are essential for our lives today. One day these things will be brought down like humbled mountains and despised but more worthy light exalted like the valley which is raised up. Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed. Until then we have these prophetic books as a light in the darkness. This light we should let come to mind in what we do to spur us on or hold us back or steer us aside to keep us from harm and from unethical pursuits. But do not expect much help from society. More likely we will lead society and rule, teaching the next generation, with God’s favour, which we can put above the favour of Society. 

Experiencing Jesus, risen from the dead

 How righteously pleasing Lord Jesus is, providing the pleasing turning aside of wrath that is needed for our sakes to turn aside the Father’s wrath and win the Father’s favour. Jesus is all of that. Experiencing this Jesus is awesome. Life-changing. Life-giving. Peace-giving. Seeing that He is coming in the clouds to judge us all, and to raise the dead. 

Modern Governments

 Governments give themselves more power to “cause these little ones to sin”. We know what Jesus said about those who “cause these little ones to sin”. It were better for him to have a millstone put around his neck and thrown into the sea.

God is Not a Trinity

 God the Father came to me in a dream at, I think, the end of 1994, then did me a tremendous favour in 1995 in showing me Jesus, sending Jesus to me albeit very briefly, and then God graciously did even more by allowing me to experience the Holy Spirit so markedly in a church service not long afterwards. All after I spent time repeatedly asking God, who I thought was a ‘Trinity’, to show Himself, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. In fact God the Father said in the dream “I am God”. NOT “I am God together with my Son and the Holy Spirit”. That struck me. Just the Father telling me “I am God” and going on to tell me more and show His loving, saving kindness towards someone I knew. I remained Trinitarian though for years afterwards, not putting it together with scripture. Only much later did it dawn on me the significance of it regarding the Father, that He alone is the only true God and that Jesus is His Son sent by Him. Someone challenged me about the scriptural descriptions of the Son of God NOT calling Him ‘God the Son’ and the penny finally dropped. So all this was God showing me knowledge by experience. It took years to turn that tacit experiential knowledge into something I could explain to others with use of scripture too. All for the purpose of building the Temple. “Build the Temple” is the command the Holy Spirit told me that started all this off earlier in the 1990s. But the details I have omitted to keep it shorter and because the details would be lost on people without knowing the background. 

Christ’s Spirit

 Jesus Christ’s spirit is able to pervade time and knows what happened in the past and influenced things in the past and influences the future. That does not mean He is not a human. It does not make Him God. The One True God is only what the Father is. Christ’s spirit authors life and stretches across time and works wonders even today, yesterday and forever but Christ is still man, the Son of Man, but Lord with it. 

The Book of Enoch and the Pyramid Texts

The historic place of the Book of Enoch, when it is considered that Enoch wrote much the Book of Enoch before the time of Noah, is centuries before the Pyramid Texts were written inside the oldest pyramids of Egypt. This is an important sequence of events because the theological progress is very logical and enlightening. First we have Enoch telling the world that there are four places where people go very soon after death, and which of the four mainly depends on the behaviour or experiences of the person during their lifetime. Then time passes, there is a Flood, after Noah and Methuselah added more to the Book of Enoch, then some more centuries pass with Noah teaching the growing population descending from a few Flood survivors in Noah’s family, and then the pyramids are built which contain texts written on internal walls. These texts, among various ceremonial sayings and depictions concerning death, provide advice to the deceased ones buried in the pyramids, on how to approach the events that happen after death. The logical sequence makes sense. If there are these several places where spirits of newly deceased people go, then it follows logically that some kind of court-like hearing would be conducted with the deceased as a kind of defendant to determine their appropriate destination. Part of the purpose of these Pyramid Texts seems to have been to give lawyer-like advice, counsel, about this process and to provide some appropriate words to use to help towards the best outcome. So the historical sequence of the development of human thinking fits with the Book of Enoch coming before these Pyramid Texts, to first establish the facts of the afterlife, then the Pyramid Texts would be building on this knowledge, potentially handed on to post-Flood families by Noah and his disciples, based on the teachings of Enoch we find in the Book of Enoch. We too can learn from Enoch and realise that on death there must be some kind of adjudication to determine our destination after death. 

For permanent deliverance from sin

 For permanent deliverance from sin: 1. Believe Jesus Christ exists. 2. Adhere to His teachings.

Humbly Confess

 The Pharisees not only refused to enter the kingdom of God but hindered others from entering. Their proud refusal to humbly confess their sins before John the Baptist meant they were not ready for Jesus Christ and they undermined Him. If we confess our sins and our need for the deliverance from sin that Jesus bought with His blood, we have each other’s fellowship and we have fellowship with those who ultimately find fellowship, companionship with Almighty God and His Son. I need this deliverance, I do indeed. God knows it. There, that is all the Pharisees needed to say an we can so easily go their way too. It is tough to admit we are the sinners needing deliverance from sin’s chains. Yes, that deliverance as costly to Jesus and the cost overflows into our lives when we join with Him in fellowship for truth. Speaking truth is costly, especially admission that we are not as worthy as people think and we should not be exalting ourselves. The power of God flows in when ego and lying pride are thrown out. It hurts but that power heals and soothes the pain. Oh for grace to be truthful and not proudly boastful. 

My Theology lesson from God

 Once upon a time I was wrong in thinking that being ‘God’ is a shared thing, shared between Father and Son and Holy Spirit. The truth is that Jesus and the Father each truthfully point out that it is just the Father who is God, while Jesus is Son of God, in other words, Jesus is Son of God the Father. This is what I now believe, and I hope the old error evaporates from my mind more and more with time.

The way of truth

 When you seek God and He lets you find Him, you may find God teaches you and gives you teachers. The teachings of God do not follow denominational doctrines but truth. Then you might find you have to go a different path, living and speaking according to truth. It happened to me. It can be lonely but in time God can give you companions in the truth. 

If you love scriptures

 If you love the scriptures, why not take your doctrines from them, instead of from church fathers? As I grew through attending church preaching it sometimes seemed to me even the best preachers got so far with scripture, building up faith, then at the last hurdle abandoning scripture in favour of church fathers doctrines such as Augustine’s. I made a great effort to read the scriptures more intently and find out why the preachers so often abandoned scripture and hung onto church father doctrines at the crucial bits. So much better to learn from the greatest teachers who wrote scriptures, even if some scriptures are mistranslated to fit with later church father doctrines. There is enough accurate scripture to enable us to be led to the Lord Jesus Christ and find the truth in Him. 

Sad but True

 If you cannot take this from me, take it from the Apostle Paul: For Paul there is one God, the Father. For Paul there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. Preaching a different Jesus incurs Paul’s curse. Even if popes, reformers or church fathers did it. Even if angels did it. Take it from Paul. 

The Pearl

 The Pearl of Great Price - having companionship with God and His Son - this is the chief benefit of the Kingdom of God

John 14:22-23 

‘Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.’

Enoch 105

“In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.”

1 John 1:3

“We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”

The benefit of having fellowship with the Father and the Son or with those who have such fellowship, through confession of sin and genuine, sincere faith and love, this benefit is counteracted by hypocrisy of those who feign true authority - those who sit in seats of authority but do not live by it.

So many will maybe say that confession of their sin is important as a virtue but shy away from doing it, hyping up their ethical standing and wellbeing, afraid of admitting shortcomings to those who have fellowship with God and with His Son. They thus undermine and obscure this way. Those Pharisees failure in this regard kept them from confessing their sins before John the Baptist and receiving baptism. They continued this refusal then with Jesus too. This meant their stance detracted from the validity of the way preached by John the Baptist and Jesus and their disciples. So even now there are many through the centuries till today whose refuse to enter and confess and believe hinders others by detracting from the vital importance of this path into such holy fellowship. 

The Lord’s Name

 The Lord’s name is how we characterise Him or how He characterises Himself, and sums it up in a word or phrase. It is not merely the letters, spelling or pronunciation used for that name. It is His reputation.

Climate Responsibility

 Climate Responsibility is now on us. While we are still in lockdown, we should be looking for new jobs closer to home or with remote working, or our employers should be planning changes to working practices for once lockdown ends, or risk losing us. Just forcing workers to continue as before is unethical madness. This is the opportunity now, pandemic or not. Missing it will incur the responsibility for failures to meet climate targets.

Obscured Teachings of Jesus

 The vain zeal to find Trinitarian dogma in the teachings of Jesus obscures how people receive the words of Jesus. The meaning gets twisted in people’s minds caused by historical Trinitarian orthodoxy.  We need to try to put it aside and focus on what Jesus is actually saying. He is the same yesterday and today and will be so forever. Trinitarianism does not change the true nature of Jesus, yet it sometimes obscures it. 

Location

 “The dew of Hermon falling on Mount Zion.” The Book of Enoch points to the meaning of this scripture: That God lives deep within a mountain like Hermon but makes that dwelling fall like dew on Mount Zion too. Though God’s physical location is high within a lofty mountain distant from the walks of life of humans, it is also true that God dwells within the love that a group of humans have as brothers and sisters together. The dwelling extends beyond that lofty mountain place right down to the ordinary habitations of those who live in love.

Being Slain in the Spirit, the Pentecostal Experience and the Second Blessing

King David had the Holy Spirit (hence the Psalms) but so did King Saul. The latter was even, in modern terminology, ‘slain in the Spirit’ - forced to lie prostrate for hours by the Holy Spirit to keep him from killing David https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2019&version=NIV after the Holy Spirit put him into a trance of compulsive prophesying, as had previously happened to guards Saul sent to kill David. But hopefully we receive the Holy Spirit in better circumstances when the gospel opens our hearts, cleansing us from compulsive mortal sins. Of course the spirit that made King Saul so jealous of David that he tried to kill him, that was not the Holy Spirit but was given Saul as punishment for poorly serving God. So the Holy Spirit came upon him but was not the only spirit to do so. It is all more complex than the revival preachers like it to be. Nevertheless the way it should be for those being saved and kept pure in heart like David is to have the constant home made in the heart by the Holy Spirit. So we need to stay at one with God’s will and at one with Christ by the word of Christ being nurtured in our hearts unto obedience so we are always given the Holy Spirit visitations and His influence is always there within us controlling our lives. For the first disciples of Christ it was all complicated somewhat by the Holy Spirit only being given to Jesus at first. They had to wait till that glorious Pentecost to receive the full benefits of the completion of Christ’s mission and His return to heaven. They were not without the benefits completely though because they initially had Christ’s words which were spirit too. They could dwell on those words and those words could work within them achieving the remoulding of their minds and ways by the Spirit that was within Christ without measure. So too when waiting for the Holy Spirit, who for many (not all, as Acts relates regarding the centurion’s family) is given by laying on hands, not always within reach, a believer can still have the benefits of letting Christ’s words, sayings, dwell within them richly.

An Example of True Prophecy Today

 I went to a church where God was giving true prophecies. There was a leader telling everyone to prophesy. I was troubled by that. I prayed before the next church service and I asked God, since I was new to the church and was advised not to speak until they knew me a bit, for God Himself to give a message to warn people there that not everyone has to prophesy. Some do good service by just listening. Some are not supposed to speak in church (women). So I went to the service. We were split into two groups with around twenty in each group. In the group I was in one by one three or four spoke up speaking about Mary sitting at Jesus’ feet and just listening. One of the prophets who spoke was new to me. He so clearly said what I previously had asked God to say that I asked someone who this fellow was. They told me he was a prophet who rarely came to the church so God must have sent him just to say that. The following service I spoke saying how in the previous service it was if God Himself had been the visiting speaker. The leader said he thought he knew what I meant. Later afterwards I was going there hoping to speak a prophecy. As I meditated before going the word of God came to me, “Israel has sinned” and “this sign will be given you, the eagle will be flying overhead” and a vision of the eagle was given me showing it with a big white eye. I told someone in the church and later overheard him telling it to others saying “It is like those Old Testament prophecies”. I turned on the TV news at home and it showed spy planes from the US (this was the mid to late 1990s) and that night the first ever police helicopter in our area was flying all night overhead with a searchlight on. I read in the news paper that the helicopter was flying over that church trying to stop someone on the roof of houses nearby throwing roof tiles down on people below. The news on TV later reported that the new helicopters were called Operation Vulture. The next few years saw the beginnings of cameras being put up in streets and mass surveillance. All this according to that few words of prophecy “Israel has sinned”.  God gives prophets and apostles still today. They should shout the words from rooftops. We must love God with all our Voice.

The Unnamed Sect

 We live in a society dominated by an unnamed sect similar to the Sadducees of Jesus’ time. It dominates everything.

The Context of the Flood

 The Book of Enoch gives us a context for the Flood: That great event known in cultures throughout the world, happening in early human history. The event was a future event when the ancient writer wrote about it as a prophecy. Yet the book points to a few historic sites, not mentioning them by name but giving pointers of people we can find in other ancient texts of that time before the Flood, copied by later scribes a few hundred years after it took place. These people are leads towards places of Sippur and Sharrapak in the Near East in the Tigris and Euphrates region of what is now Iraq. The book points to a time of turmoil ravaged by semi-supernatural giants made to fight each other to the death by gods or angels under the rule of the highest god, the Lord of Spirits, the Father of the Son of Man. Never did any editors edit the Book of Enoch to note that the Flood ever took place, it all happens as a foretold future event. This contrasts with other books of the time such as the Sumerian King Lists which bring the reader up to date with later characters who ruled the region after the Flood but also includes textual history of the kings before that Flood which we can align with the people mentioned in the Book of Enoch. The cities ruled by these kings were Sippur and Sharrapak. Archaeology fits consistently with all this in that it reveals a flood layer deposit from 2900 to 2500 BC in Sharrapak (Tell Fara). Later dynasties used these same places and others nearby as capitals from time to time, long after the Flood but before the time of patriarchs such as Abraham.

Jesus and the Book of Enoch

 Jesus was a great proponent of the Book of Enoch, not recorded as having mentioned it by name yet clearly recorded in several gospels as having endorsed its teachings as vital truth to know, teachings found in no other scripture. Church councils, on the other hand, historically tend to have people in them who are administrators like the Sadducees. They tend to like to restrict people’s reading to books that are less likely to challenge the administrator career path. Safe books. Nothing too prophetic. Nothing that reflects too much that God is higher than administrations. Thank God for Jesus still being alive to challenge these kinds of leaders. Alive forever and Lord even over the bosses of religion, the clergy. The Holy Spirit does not come with authority of clergy but with far greater authority and truthfulness, that of Jesus Christ. The same anointing as that with which God anointed Jesus and it is given to us who believe in Jesus.

Power of God

Already a foretaste of Jesus’ judgements is happening in the earth, presided over by Jesus, the Son of Man, being seen by some in the clouds of heaven, even as it draws near to the time of His rule. These judgements are beginning with the house of God. Most churches have had a year of closure. There is far more to come. The mass surveillance is a sign of what the LORD says, “Israel has sinned”. Look in Deuteronomy at the commandment to love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul and strength and mind. Jesus called it the first and greatest commandment. It is in a section where it tells the children of the covenant of God to write out and put where they can see it the words of God. The Lord Jesus includes “all your strength” in the way He relates that commandment. You have a voice on social media, we all do. Use all that voice as part of your overall strength in love for God. Tell the true words of Jesus there. Put what Jesus actually says up in or around your house. Jesus’ words are with the Spirit of prophecy, they are given by God the Father who sent Him. If you are not sure something is truly the words given by God, then by all means, do not put it up. Stick to what you truly believe and put up in your house or on social media what you believe is surely from God. But that belief will grow, if it is a belief which God is giving you and you are becoming a child of God through it.

If you are believing that Jesus is the Son of God you have Jesus embodying the word, and Jesus IS the word. The word of Jesus is spirit.  Not letter. Spirit. Look to Jesus. He architected our life. He lived our life. He mastered our life. He died and rose. He lives our eternal life. He is perfected in our life. He perfects our life. If you believe He is God’s Son you need to let His word remain in you, adhering to it, so Jesus will remain in you and you in Him. We in Him. Let Jesus’ authority be our only authority as we build this Temple of God by Jesus. We need to look very closely at what Jesus said. And He still says it now. He does not drop what He said back then. He confirms and persists it in perfected power and authority. Let the churches be one united church in this authority. God bring it about. Amen.

Jesus told the Sadducees they were in error because they did not know the scriptures OR THE POWER OF GOD. Know the power of God by the message that CHRIST DIED FOR YOU sinking in and becoming your hope.

We are all in this together. Let us correct and encourage each other accordingly. Perfecting what Christ has started, with Christ’s eternal help.

We don’t have to get it all sorted out on our own. That old way of doing it alone is dead. Christ crucified it in His own body. We are together as His body. We can help each other know, love, live, building each other up, not tearing each other down. To live in understanding of Christ and His teachings. The anointing from God teaches us and leads us into all truth, that we bear much fruit.

Warning concerning angels

 The Book of Enoch warns us against us serving angels. Look at angels in the Book of Enoch. There are those which teach magic arts. There are those which, among them Satan, berate and falsely accuse the righteous and will try to attack them at any opportunity. There are those given by God great power in worldly affairs to punish and preside in judgment over the righteous, causing persecutions. There are some who are better than all this. Some protect the righteous. Some serve only God. So if you allow angels to influence you unwittingly you might find yourself doing service to them many a time when they want to use you, but which ones and for what purpose? It could be good but it could be for great harm to others. Persecutors of many could be serving an angel. Victimisers of the godly believers could be doing the service of a satanic angel. So serve God alone. If God sends an angel to help you and serve you in doing God’s will all well and good but do not give yourself over to the angel in service. Serve God and do God’s will, lest you fall into the clutches of the wrong kind of angel as many tragically have done through history, ending up on the wrong side of history.

Enoch’s Calendar(s)

 The Book of Enoch has two calendars, one solar, one lunar, and a way to keep them synchronised. I think the Egyptians used this, or a very similar approach around 2000 BC. This is pragmatic because sometimes one calendar is easier and sometimes the other calendar is easier. The sun angle and where it sets and where it rises are needed for the solar calendar but what if the weather is cloudy for a couple of months? Finding the midpoint between extremes of its setting and rising positions is difficult if you do not have much time to devote to it. But it gives you the year length clearly if you can use it. On the other hand the moon phases are easy to keep track of and predictable so you can work them out even if the moon is hidden. But the moon months do not precisely fit into a year. So having the Book of Enoch allows you to use both calendar methods - sun and moon because it tells how to fit lunar months into a solar year. It is slightly inaccurate though and all history has seen the accuracy gradually improved. The intercalary days were simplified in the Book of Enoch. Sophistication and priesthood and astronomy knowledge later in history allowed better intercalary insertions. Today even a second can be added now and then, not just a whole day, because we have computers and atomic clocks. Then there was no such technology but God did not advocate such magic technology and so a simpler version which did not need it was provided in Enoch’s teachings. It worked for a thousand or more years. Egyptians and then later Greeks  all knew the solar year was really 365,25 days approximately but technology limitations and human pragmatism prevented them using that knowledge. Only the Romans eventually used it, led by Julius Caesar and Greeks, then Gregory perfected it in the 1500s. 365.242199 days is supposed now to be the tropical solar year length. The Gregory calendar allowed for something close to it. I think the accuracy of Enoch’s calendar fits it well into pre-Egyptian history because later in history the year length was measured more accurately.

Event or Command

Is your wish an event or a command? Even a prayer can be an event. Make it like a command by believing it will happen without doubt. Telling a sick person “Get well soon” is either an event or a command. If you do not actually intend that your wish will result in their recovery your kind word to them is an event. Simply you said it. End of. If you intend it to happen by some miracle of faith, it is a command. You said it to bring a result. Not just a smile on their face but a recovery of health. Likewise your prayer. Do you intend your prayer to be answered? If not then the prayer happened and that is the end of it. That prayer was an event. If you pray without doubting at all that it will be answered then it is more like a command. It results in something. This is when the prayer or the kind words have no doubt attached, only belief in God. These are more than events. These are commands that have an effect, a result. Something happens. “Have faith in God” said Jesus Christ. Excel in Jesus Christ.

The Contrast

Two thousand years ago we see Jesus Christ there in history. All kinds of evidence points to this. The Book of Enoch highlights the significance of this. It contrasts this with others who came into history leaving turmoil more than three thousand years previously, the fallen angels who came to women bringing magic arts and metallurgy and with it promiscuity and violence. The difference with Jesus is: God sent Him.

That is the problem faced by God. Does He let a person grow in influence without stepping in to stop it? Fallen angel wisdom had to be curtailed. So we got the Flood disaster and other divine interventions. If allowed to grow and grow and fill the world and fill all history on into eternity that would be dire so God stepped in. Even now God interrupts that spread of earthly wisdom, science and technology. A big intervention is coming soon too. On the other hand there must be an alternative which is more positive and hopeful: A person of promise who once perfected can be allowed to fill all future earth for eternity without limit. That is what Christ is. A person with full approval to grow forever in influence with no need for God to ever intervene - ever. Lord, ever growing and Christ, ever approved. Anointed with full approval. 

Even a most famous alchemist admitted chemistry came from fallen angels

In 300 AD a Roman Greco-Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis wrote:

“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.

Jacob and his stripey posts

 Sympathetic magic? How about Jacob putting steaks in ground with stripes to attract likelihood of his uncle’s sheep and goats producing speckled lambs and kids? Genesis 30:25-36. Magic? I think most likely it was standard practice in most ancient times and known to well-educated Jacob. Look at Stonehenge origins. Posts arranged in a circle possibly to attract mating ancient cows and bulls. Seems they knew posts attract mating livestock. But was sympathetic magic a part of it, the stripey posts attracting livestock with markings. Maybe just normal wisdom of the ancients.

Deceptive medical mqgic

 One of the UK’s medical public-funded salespeople, Mike Hancock MP, told UK Parliament today “I want to update the House on some new information that we have on this. As of 3 June our data show that of the 12,383 cases of the Delta variant, 464 went on to present at emergency care and 126 people were admitted to hospital. Of these 126 people, 83 were unvaccinated, 28 had received one dose and just three had received both doses of the vaccine.” 

So 31 out of 128 emergency covid admissions had been vaccinated. Mmm. Magic. Deceptive as magic. Medicine as magic.

Push forward with spirit

 When Jesus was facing death and was in a garden with His disciples and praying but His disciples in tiredness at this sad time could only sleep, Jesus said “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”. Years later the apostle Paul who was sent by Jesus wrote that we should live not by that weak flesh but live by that spirit which is willing to watch and pray. We should let that spirit press on, despite the flesh being weak: Then we shall live. Jesus pressed on that way. He kept on doing the will of God, despite that way ahead being darkened by a bloody cross and a temporary death. The way ahead for Jesus was extreme suffering of the flesh and death of the body but beyond it was joyful resurrection and glory in the fullness of God’s kindness and graciousness extended out to us all in the resurrected Son. We should press on. We should find the way ahead which the spirit within wills for us when it is sanctified by God’s grace and we should not be swayed from it by the weak flesh but press on towards it by the willingness of the spirit. The end of this is life, life for us and life extended from us to others, though death might be temporarily darkening our path.

Jesus, the smile of God

 When someone smiles, they show an expression of their kindness so we can see their disposition is warm towards us. They reveal their inner attitude towards us. Well, God is revealing by Jesus that His kindness goes on forever and His attitude towards us is a reaching out attitude of graciousness. I’m not saying God actually smiles, but this expression of His seems much like a smile to me. It brings joy to the soul, joy which begs to be expressed in praise, song, clapping. Expressing it gives God a place to inhabit. Somewhere for the Holy Spirit to enter in visitation.

Magical Thinking

 The Book of Enoch tells of ancient fallen angels teaching what might today be called magic or folk medicine or root work or whatever a particular culture calls such things. The angels who taught such things were severely punished by the Lord of Spirits (God) for doing so. Look how far these teachings have mingled into societies, passed down from ancient times to today. Magic is not just about practices but about the thinking behind those practices. An angel, fallen, condemned by God, taught the cutting of roots. Look how magic today uses roots cut to human form to emulate a person and try to cause effects to happen based on the likeness similarity between root and person. Perhaps this is what was taught by the angel. Hermeticism is a word for magic which was in use five hundred years ago in Europe. It included Alchemy. It also included what seems to have been incorporated today into modern medicine and pharmaceutic industrial thinking and practices. The modern counterpart of the magic thinking of sixteenth century Europe and Britain might be mingled with modern medicine. Scientists claim it is all about fact-based and evidence-based studies but the thinking that goes into the devising of the studies seems to carry forward to our times the thinking of magic centuries ago which seems to be the same kind of thinking found in magic today, such as is found in many cultures around the world. How often a medical technology uses likeness as a strategy. A vaccine is like the bacteria or virus being fought. An animal is used to study a drug based on a likeness of a feature of the animal to a corresponding feature of a human. Commonalities are sought out. Assumptions are made that equalities of effects correspond to equalities of features. Science uses facts discovered but it also requires that scientists adopt certain ways of thinking and these ways trace historically back to ways of magical thinking still very much present in various cultures. We might do well to ask: How far does God’s condemnation of magic, and the fallen angels who have introduced it, extend into our modern medical health technologies and ways of thinking? The Lord Jesus’ famous lesson of the Good Samaritan shows how a kind and responsible person acted to help and injured man using techniques devoid of medical thinking and drugs. No drugs, just pouring onto the wounds of wine and oil and wrapping with simple dressings before kindly and wisely taking the victim of crime, not to a place of medicine and magical thinking and drugs but to a place of common hospitality and daily care. Eternal life thinking must replace magical thinking, if we are to follow Lord Jesus the Christ, being freed from sins that lead to deadly punishment by God and punishment beyond death.

Orthodoxy and the Consensus of Errors

 Lots of silly things got said even by disciples. Like John never dying. Like Jesus and the Resurrection being new deities. Like all the many gnostic doctrines. Plus the later Trinitarian philosophical ideas. And the thirty nine articles and 66 book canon. Disciples aren’t immune from error, even mainstream dogma errors. Just by an error going mainstream it doesn’t cease to be an error. Orthodoxy is not a way to avoid error. The errors just get baked in to the orthodoxy. People think they are wise tempting God, forcing God’s hand, like in divination, or human sacrifice, by trying to gain consensus as an orthodoxy thinking that God would never allow error to get set in stone so would intervene to make only truth get agreed: Foolish because God steps back like a father with a toddler, and watches the mistake being made, but loves us all the same, errors and all.

Confession

 When we believe in Christ to wash us from sin, we end up washing each other on His behalf: Washing away sins with rebukes, correction, discipline, teachings, miraculous signs, Holy Spirit gifts and intercessory prayers. The fellowship one disciple may have with Jesus Christ can be shared by those whose receptiveness to this disciple’s testimony leads them to openness of heart to truth from God. Such openness, if maintained, will lead to confession of their inner real state before God and the Holy Spirit turns around their thinking, adjusts their attitude and inner behaviour. Thus you find the receptiveness to the gospel truth, in the light of the cross, can open up a person so they confess truth about themselves openly to others. Forgiveness and fellowship and ongoing washing from sin are the result. Also intercession and tendency to rebuke and correct each other within that bond of fellowship in this cleansing way of Christ. This is why Christ came and was announced by John the Baptist who made way for this to happen as part of faith in Christ. This is the way, the truth, the life, as found in Jesus Christ the Lord and Master, the true Rabbi sent from God, the Lamb of God whose crucifixion and intercession and life and pathway takes away sins. 

England

 Historic sins of England: England and its followers. Heaven’s purest wisdom must replace the errors with truth. Intercede. God forgive the historic opposition.

Washing feet

 We believe in Christ to wash us, and end up washing each other on His behalf. Washing away sins with rebukes, correction and prayers.

Anglican Bible

 It was the Anglicans who removed the Apocrypha from the Bible. The English Civil War produced the 66-book Bible. The Puritans and the Westminster Confession. The Thirty Nine Articles. So a 66-book canon Bible was first published in 1666. I suppose nobody counted the significant numbers.

Resurrection

 What all the fuss is about with Jesus? Resurrection. It pervaded His ministry. It pervades Him still. Now it pervades us too.

Laws of Nature

It makes sense that there were laws of physics and nature before the universe began, right from the very start of all things. Nothing known to Science seems to suggest the laws of interactions and space and time have ever changed. So it makes sense that these were ever coming forth from God, when you think there is an originator. This means they are part of what philosophers and theologians called The Word. Which means the coming of Jesus was an incarnation of this Word: Now the first perfected, immortal, resurrected human being, again made glorious in spirit as of old before this all began.

Is God a human invention?

The idea that God is invented, if true, logically means everyone is an atheist since an unreal, invented god is no god at all. If you believe in no god at all then you are an atheist. If everyone is an atheist, where is atheism? There is no need to call it atheism since it includes everyone and something that includes everyone needs no name. So by using the word atheism, atheists prove that there is a god who is real. Not invented. 

Layered or Real

 For most of us Christianity is a layering of Christian principles on top of our bad behaviour and bad character. The grace of God overcomes this. The work of God in Christ goes deep within us by the message of the cross of Christ and by the Holy Spirit. It converts the innermost person of us. It teaches us a holy, heavenly form of right and wrong and makes us determined to only do the right: determined so much that we change our behaviour in response to it. We put off the wrong, the bad, and start to only do the right. We continue this way with Christ interceding for us and we influence each other and pray for each other to do the same. We so become inwardly the children of God. 

Believing in Jesus

I suppose what made me, as a young child, probably not even yet in school, believe Jesus and trust in Him, when read the things He said, was the way He championed our eternal needs by what He said. It was the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, and I remember feeling deep trust in Jesus for telling what I need for escaping Hades torment. He was able to tell it clearly and He did not fail to tell us the tough truth because we need it so much. I never stopped trusting Him from then on. Over the years He lived up to that trust, meeting my eternal needs in many ways, proving He is alive and perfected in glorious power. The Father saw Jesus perfect enough to be our sacrifice and clearly has truly raised Him from the dead, since Jesus has made Himself known to me so clearly, once I had eventually learned to obey His teachings. It proved to me too that the teachings in the gospels must be true because Jesus so faithfully honours the promises in them.

The shed blood

 Having God as your leader you really don’t want to get on the wrong side of Him but because the blood of His perfected Son was shed, God was willing to make an unending undertaking with believing disciples to treat them forever as sons. To fulfil this undertaking, to provide these disciples of Jesus with an unending perfected High Priest, God raised Jesus from the dead.

“Does God throw dice?”

The Evolution theory covers changes in genetic make-up and covers adaptation of organisms to challenges in the organism’s environment. It covers some sort of dependency on chance. It doesn’t seem to cover the dependency on spiritual influences over chance. It doesn’t seem to cover the organism’s dependency on these influences for its adaptations. Religion fills this gap. It shows a cosmic scale influencer influencing the chance events. Does God throw dice? No but when the die is thrown, God influences, even determines, the outcome. The Spirit of God conveys this truth, demonstrating it to an adherent who believes. God shows how in our innermost being we have spirit and the key to this spirit is in the hands of God’s Son who lives forever, having died as the sacrifice for the High Priestly ministry of entering the innermost place in us and in Heaven and interceding, bringing the innermost places together. The result is our spiritual relationship with God the Father, the Creator, the one who determines outcomes. The Spirit of God tells a believing adherent that it is by the power of the name of this Son, the Lord Jesus the Christ, that Nature carries on in accordance with the will of God. We should do so too.

Did Jesus write a gospel?

The doctrine of how Jesus worked is the Jewish rabbi method of working. You can see it in other peoples too, such as the guru in India. The rabbi, teacher, guru, teaches by taking on disciples who follow them around watching their actions and not just hearing their words, their sayings, but seeing how the rabbi behaves in accordance with those sayings. The note takers are the disciples, not the rabbi. The disciples write what they witness the rabbi say and do. The rabbi teaches by action, works, not just words. The words are often directed at the disciples, applying to them, not theoretical, but words requiring actions or changes of behaviour. This way of rabbinical teaching required disciples with time to devote to close contact as much as possible. The ones who had this contact become primary witnesses and authorities on the way of the rabbi as well as practitioners of that way, behaving accordingly (vitally important). It makes sense that they be the ones to write the accounts. Like a student taking notes and eventually becoming a teacher too. The gospel continued this way for decades, person to person, combining words with witnessed actions,  before the emphasis turned towards written accounts and the reading of them to churches. The disciples themselves were Jesus’ document.

The Team

 Jesus did not write a gospel. He came to make others of faith who do things like He did things. He could have written a gospel but creating apostles and disciples with faith to do it was His purpose and still is His purpose. “Where is your faith?” He asked. Yes He could calm a storm telling the storm to be quiet by faith to save the day but He rebuked the disciples for not doing it themselves. He is the same today (and forever). Jesus could today do all the work of God by faith, as He sits at God’s right hand, but then the pictures in God’s album or up on God’s wall would all be of Jesus. He wants us to do things by our faith. Then our picture goes in the photo album commemorating what we do and the pictures of God’s wall are of us together with His Son Jesus. Jesus came to die and in so doing to bring forth many seeds, many disciples doing even greater things than He did. He now lives, alive from the dead, and still does what He did, and in greater glory, but He delegates acts of faith to us, to do as He did, to do as He does. He wants a team to expand His work as He the master works with us.

The new worship and temple

 In the old days a community might have to offer an innocent human son as human sacrifice in order to come with clear conscience to worship. A lamb was offered later in substitute for the human but it was not adequate. God eventually provided the lamb Himself in an absolutely adequate way, His own innocent beloved Son, the Lamb of God as John the Baptist proclaimed concerning Jesus. This is our sacrifice in coming in worship to God. He makes the coming in worship acceptable enough such that God provided the Holy Spirit for building up the worshippers and leading the worship. That was what happened at Pentecost in Jerusalem the year Jesus died and rose and ascended back to God. It happens in many churches still today. The resurrection gives us hope but does not negate the holy blood that was shed, innocent Jesus’ own blood. This is proved by the Holy Spirit manifestations to believers in their services. Now believers can assemble for worship of God without bringing human or lamb sacrifice because the sacrifice of Jesus the holy Lamb of God has been made. This opens up the possibility of assembling where God comes to meet with us too in fellowship not possible before. God makes His place among us. This is the new temple of God of which Jesus is the archetype.

Come into my heart Lord Jesus

 Because of Jesus’ blood shed, offering as sacrifice His own body in crucifixion, Jesus has authority to enter into my innermost being, my spirit, my holy of holies. That is the sense in which I find Jesus to be both Lord and Christ. 

Science and Religion

 Religion and Science have historically intertwined and coexisted. Theistic alchemists developed modern versions of Sciences such as chemistry and physics and astronomy. The Bible book of Exodus tells how Science and Religion once clashed, with Pharaoh’s priests using their magic science to try to imitate the plagues of God presented by Moses. The Ancient Egyptians had sciences such as medicine (sorcery of drugs and incantations) and astrology (precursor to astronomy). They could construct right angles for their buildings and had Mathematics to help. The Babylonians used star charts and complex mathematics. Often it was priests who knew these things and combined them with oracles. Mosaic Law was an astonishing innovation compared to law codes of the surrounding nations and it banned the magic knowledge of hidden things which the surrounding nations were mixing with their Science. Surely it is no coincidence that the widespread distribution of Mosaic Law in the 1500s and 1600s in England, Ireland, Wales and Europe preceded a crackdown on such forbidden magic knowledge of hidden spiritual things and that this was followed soon after by the development of modern Science out of the arts of medicine, alchemy and astrology.

Life in Himself

 The life Jesus has is His own to offer to others as illustrated in raising Lazarus, His own friend, from the dead. In this sense Jesus is like the Father, as the Father made Him to be. So the life that lights the world is from Jesus who receives it from the Father. Jesus, in other words, is not merely a conduit of the Father but is living life which belongs to Jesus Himself, as the Father gives to Him. The life Jesus lives in this way is a light to us, if our eyes are opened to it. Jesus is. That is real. It applies whatever time we are in. We have this light ever before us. Unless the devil blinds our eyes.

Authority

Atheism has no self-referential coherence if it states that unsubstantiated belief is to be shunned but offers no evidence to back up this statement. It is like saying “please ignore me”. If I ignore you, I will ignore your request to ignore me. If you say, please ignore me if I offer no logical proof or evidence, the same applies.

Christian religion on the other hand says, “please ignore Christ’s authority if it does not come from God, but if it does come from God then God’s kingdom is right at your doorstep and should not on any account be ignored”.

Ultimately Christianity says Christ’s authority is that by which planets move and plants put out buds and leaves. Not to be ignored. It commands constant adherence forever.

The Old Testament

 The Old Testament. Jesus says we should certainly take notice of the Old Testament for eternal life but it is not enough. We should follow Him, and that requires a trimming down of wealth in favour of the poor, and entering into a kingdom where we are all brothers, led by one Lord, Jesus Himself. 

Escape

 Are you all missing out on the righteousness of God, trapped in a downward spiralling dystopian world of your own making? Follow Jesus, know and understand the teachings of Jesus and apply them in your life, believing that Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever. Escape the downward spiral.

Less than ten thousand years in the making

 Viewing human civilisation as less than ten thousand years old fits so well with archaeology of major civilised administrative centres like Eridu, Uruk, Ur and Susa. The pyramids and famous architectural achievements of human civilisation all date to less than ten thousand years ago. Nothing major of indisputable human homo sapiens making date from older periods. Even the exceptions are so hard to pinpoint with certainty that they prove the rule. It is consistent with documented contemporary historical records that the human at the beginning of this whole timespan had no earthly parents but originated with the gods.