The burden about Britain

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

The real war

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

Three heavenly human colleagues

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

Jesus Christ’s knowledge of scriptures

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

What greatest being might exist?

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

Baptism

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

Only in Christ

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

What is life?

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

Mistaken historians

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

One True God

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

Holy communion

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

“Just do your job!”

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

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

The Way of Balaam

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

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

One God

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

Greatest sermons in history

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

God and a god

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

Is Jesus a ‘mighty god’?

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

A false kind of monotheism

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

Zaccheus

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

Exasperating

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

Truth and the word of God

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

Above the law

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

The price of the vaccine

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

The folly of modern science

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

Real Chrustianity

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

The End and the New Beginning

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

I love it

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

Dark origins of the science of chemistry

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

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

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

Book of Enoch chapter 65

Verse 1: 

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

Verses 6ff

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

Ch 6

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

Ch 7

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

Ch 8

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

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

ch 9

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

Contrary to Modern Science

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

A sanity check for Christians considering a career in Science

 “The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

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

It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

It rises at one end of the heavens

and makes its circuit to the other;

nothing is deprived of its warmth.”

— Psalm 19

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

Real church

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

Good news

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

The Way Ahead

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

Appeal for Unity

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

Some historical background to Enoch, of the Book of Enoch

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

Christian life

 Honesty check. Wonderful people who have no use for idols and have made God, the Father of Jesus, our one God above all gods, how do we realistically live godly, Christian lives? There will always be hours to fill which provide a vacuum which can be a struggle to keep free of vice, even if we do as much evangelism, building up of each other and encouraging as our spare time, opportunity and energy allows, with God’s help. We may read some scriptures, as much as we can take in, perhaps doing so in a shared community context to aid understanding of what we read and provide for spiritual help. All that might fill an hour of spare time. We pray a short prayer (God is in heaven so we keep our prayer short), similar to the Lord’s Prayer, along those lines or maybe using those words, which might take minutes, given time to focus and prepare or a lot less, maybe a couple of times a day. We spend a bit of time kindly reaching out to the poor who ask for our help. We try to get some Christian meeting attendance into our day, perhaps a couple of times a week for a few hours a week. We keep such time free of dishonesty and keep only truth on our lips and in our minds, That is all well and good. We do not want to get ritualistic or to unrealistically overdo it. This is perhaps in addition to caring, spending family time, working full time or part time to provide for needs, keeping our environment civilised, getting sensible hours of sleep, eating, all leaving hours to try to relax. We might be working seven to ten hours a day to have something to give. In the restorative relaxation hours what do we do? It makes sense we still look at maybe some fashion magazines or celebrity gossip TV (if we are female, especially), watch some movies, maybe try to get informed together with being entertained by watching documentaries or reading factual books or browsing interesting subjects online. It might seem worldly, but we do need ways to both relax and gen-up on knowledge with a broad range of interests, perhaps with some hobbies in mind such as gardening or home improvement. We are humans and there are only so many ways we can learn and socialise even if we seek to remain as godly as we can be. What if we were stuck in prison or hospital or on an oil rig or remote lighthouse, with nothing but a TV or computer and only worldly people as colleagues and company. We need to try to avoid extremes of worldliness such as violence, porn, promiscuity, drugs, darker scientific interests, self-harm, alcoholism, hating, trolling, fraud, dishonesty, stealing, idolatry and the many vices thrown towards us by darker sides of society, but it is a battle, depending on circumstances, needing God’s constant help through Jesus Christ, and mutual help of believers by prayer and encouragement. We have not too much control over what we can do in our days, especially if income is low and we are poor. Mainly we keep struggling to eliminate vice from our day and try to include the positive, beneficial things as much as we can. We need to include self-development so we can stay productive and work profitably as we know and obey our Lord, who is Jesus. This might require that we learn from both worldly and godly sources, if we are realistic and honest about it. It depends on circumstances often outside of our control. So it is an ongoing need for wisdom and grace from God, who gives from above only good and perfect things, and we have to trust what God actually gives, not just what we think God might give. Reality is the thing. We should filter out the excessively ungodly, worldly, harmful vice, but we need to accept what is put into our lives from above and accept that God is real and knows what is good for us and that might involve things we do not relish such as hardship, boredom, difficulty and sadness. In all our struggling we can remember that Christ provided for us the crucified sacrifice which affects our behaviour and God raised Jesus Christ from the dead so that we have help at hand forever. God made with us a covenant by that cross. He is in the struggle with us.

Down through time the cross of Christ

The cross of Christ is like a rebuke of our sin that reaches our consciences down through time even to today and forever. Christ provided it for us by that crucifixion. God raised Jesus Christ from the dead once the good was done. God loves us. The cross of Christ crucified affects our behaviour but struggling against sin is still tough. God raised Jesus Christ from the dead so that we have help at hand forever. God made with us a covenant by that cross. He is in the struggle with us. All this love lavished on us by God, the Father of the Lord Jesus. We owe it to God to put effort into building up the believing followers of Jesus and building these together into the united body that is the new Temple for the glory of God’s name. We should openly pass all these things on to our children and write them for ourselves and our close neighbours to read and even make them known widely and loudly. This is how we can love God back.

Time travel

 If we can predict the future, and obviously not everyone believes we can, but given a belief exists that prediction of the future and precognition do exist, it means we can communicate to people in the past by the possibility of some in the past predicting what we communicate today. So since information can travel to the past from the present, maybe that information carries some of ourselves within it. Something of our spirit is conveyed by information travelling back to the past. 

Reason enough for monotheism

 The resurrection of Jesus in real history. It shows the power and love towards us of the God who sent Jesus, with prospect of our resurrection too. This gives us reason, believing it, that God should be our One God to whom we pray. No other god, though they exist, offers such a prospect as we have before us in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Monotheism is misunderstood

Monotheism is misunderstood. We cry to God not because we think no other deities exist. We know there are many who do exist and indeed many have been creators involved in creating from the beginning, even creating life. We cry chiefly to God because God more than anyone should be our God of choice, having sent Lord Jesus to be our Anointed One and die for our sins and having lovingly raised this Lord Jesus from the dead. We cry to God because He is king above all gods. We cry to God because He alone is father over all, under whose authority all things are made to be. We cry to God because no other god can save like our God saves, because He is more mighty than they and none of them can undo what our God does or prevent it succeeding. God has first place and the right to be our God more than other gods. We look to the Lord Jesus for salvation, not because we think no other lords, no other masters, no other saviours exist. We know others do exist. We look to Jesus Christ because He is lord above all lords and because Jesus is alive forever from the dead and has the keys of death and Hell and because He is the one for whose sake His Father has authored the creation of all things. The love extended by God towards us in sending Jesus Christ to give all of us the teachings and truth and provision of sacrifice on the cross for our sins, this love is our reason to make God our god more than any other god when we believe this message and believe in Him and in Jesus His only-begotten Son. 

True Monotheism

Monotheism is mistaught, misunderstood, misconstrued. I am eager to understand it in the way that Elijah understood it: True monotheism as taught by God Himself. In its true form it does not correspond to denial of the existence of gods, of elohim, but it is something else. As far as I can so far understand, it is about the true meaning of the second commandment out of the ten “No לֹֽ֣א shall have (yih- yeh-) יִהְיֶֽה־ You לְךָ֛֩ gods אֱלֹהִ֥֨ים other אֲחֵרִ֖֜ים before (‘al-)  עַל־ Me פָּנָֽ֗יַ .” ‘al- “upon, above, over” and ‘yih- yeh-‘ “come to pass, shall have” seem to be the crucial imperatives. “You shall not allow other gods to come to be before, above, over Me.” It is not a command to deny that other gods exist. It is about not letting any of these other gods come to be over, above, before God, the Most High God, the king above all gods.

Origins of dark science

 In the Middle Ages, as alchemy spread in Europe, when Persian writings were translated by monks, the small groups of leisurely men interested in alchemy started to print their theories and beliefs using the newly invented printing presses. The Church tried to police it. Darker science publications were burnt, especially when ceremonial invocation of spirits was involved, but theories linked to results of scientific studies based on experiments were allowed to circulate. However, the sorcery, when covered by experimentation, was allowed to circulate too. So sciences today still have a dark core of animal experimentation (the sacrifice), weaponisation, medical and eternal life potions and ambitions to discover dark secrets of how create animal life from plants or inanimate matter (the homunculus and golem) and mixing of completely different species (the chimera).

A gospel of encounters

 When people experience Jesus, by an honest response it can lead to confessions which are effectively the substance of the gospel. This happened around the Nativity, played out by Christian school children at Christmas, but in reality, two thousand years ago coming from a collecting together of many religious supernatural experiences concerning the baby Jesus. The epistles of the apostle Paul emanate from his supernatural experience of Jesus on the Damascus road. The others who wrote New Testament scriptures did so because they encountered Jesus risen from the dead and realised it was the one they had all called ‘the Lord’ before the terrible crucifixion took Jesus from them. Whether to call it supernatural is questionable because it was no ghost that they saw, but the flesh risen walking and talking Jesus who still did miracles in front of them. I have met people who claim encounters with Jesus in these times in which we live today. Even I encountered the Lord in a miraculous moment out in a street near my home. The way the voice told me to put down my umbrella in a serious flood torrential rain storm and immediately as I lowered the umbrella the rain stopped dead so not a drop, it seemed, touched me, that made me say to myself in certainty ‘it is the Lord’. The further encounter to help me be even more certain, that night, over night, left me certain this was indeed the same Jesus found in the gospels and that this Jesus is so very much the master, even of my deepest being. We can know these things by testimony of others and even by, some of us, experiencing Jesus for ourselves. The truths we can express from these encounters supplies the content of the gospel message. It all contributes to the gathering of a body of many believers around this risen Lord: the Lord who we can all confess is the Jesus of the gospels risen from the dead. Want to not die in your sins? This is the way.

Jesus’ endorsement of the Book of Enoch

 When Christians decide whether to read the Book of Enoch in their private devotions and in their church services, the chief consideration ought not to be whether their denomination endorses this, but rather that Jesus endorses it. Jesus is after all the risen lord and master over the whole house of God. The gospels provide evidence, which we can take together with historic evidence from the prevalence of the Book of Enoch in those times, that Jesus did endorse the Book of Enoch as essential scriptures to be known, together with knowing the power of God, to keep us from error. Being saved from error is a key part of salvation which is by the truth that is in Jesus. 

The saying to confess with heartfelt belief

 The saying to confess with heartfelt belief: “It is Jesus, risen from the dead, who is the Head over all God’s household, the Lord.”

Stars and the Universe

 It might seem that believers are guessing that maybe all planetary and stellar objects in the universe are made by God and His angels but it is more likely that actually the Holy Spirit, whose knowledge of the universe is true and real and from the very beginning, has made it known to believers by revelation, because the psalmist of some of the scriptural, biblical psalms, was inspired to compose psalms stating that all the stars are God’s handiwork.

2021 Black sciences

 Goodbye 2021, the year we pondered if the black sciences of USA, UK, EU, China, WHO too, give us both pandemics and vaccines.

This same Jesus

 When Christ comes into our world again, the Jesus of the gospels is the same Jesus who will come. He has not changed. He is dependably constant. He comes in smaller ways even now, as a foretaste, and is recognisable as the very same Lord as the apostles and disciples of the first century gospels knew. Best that we get to know those gospel sayings well. Many will not survive that swordlike tongue wielded by Jesus, the same as in ancient times. That time long ago they heard those words and then were allowed to crucify Jesus. This time there will be powerful enemies who will fall to the sword coming from Jesus’ mouth. Some are falling to it  now as a foretaste. Know Jesus’ sayings, and believe that Jesus is, and was dead, and is alive forever.

Conscience

 With baptism I gain the description, CHRISTIAN, and association with the name of Christ, Jesus Christ. But I have to keep to this in good conscience and good faith, with genuine persuasion, holding truly to the full teachings of Christ and hoping in all this for salvation from my sins and from dying in my sins. Conscience is essential in this. Love comes from keeping it clear. Being forced against conscience or forcing other believers to act against conscience or if I or others do things thar wound the good conscience of believers it is not love. It is not loving our neighbours to make people act against their conscience, nor will any love come from it. 

I need the name of Christ

 Christmas. Christianity. Christ. Having association with the name these represent, the name CHRIST comes with baptism. We who have been baptised in order to bear this name, ought to be proud of it: proud of the title CHRISTIAN. Yes, leaders of so-called Christian churches and kingdoms let down that name, giving Christianity a tarnished name. But we are not baptised into the foolishness of worldly leaders. We are baptised to receive Christ because we need another name in addition to our own. I need this name of Christ in addition to my name so I was happily baptised. The name of Christ saves me. I need its salvation. I might happily do without the other things associated with the name and Christianity. I can even live without Christmas, take it or leave it, but I need the salvation that comes with association with Christ and Christ’s teachings, and with fellowship with the one who brought it all into the world, Jesus Christ, and with the God who sent Him and created this way, the Father.

Writings of Noah?

 “1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children’.”

That is from the Book of Enoch chapter 6, first two verses.

This is from Genesis chapter 6, first two verses:

“1. And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2. that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.”

There is no possibility these are coincidentally so similar. Maybe one is quoting the other or both are quoting a common source. So which came first? Is there another explanation? Those of us who believe the Book of Enoch is genuinely from Enoch, great grandfather of Noah, might say Genesis came later. Yet not necessarily so, since Genesis might be quoting Noah and Noah might be the editor of the Book of Enoch, having written part of it, so maybe Noah simply wrote both passages, and neither quotes the other. They are just written by the same person.

Revelation that is not in need of improvement by dogma

 Peter knew that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

“Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.”Matthew 16:17

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17

We should discern what comes from God the Father because of how good and perfect it is. Jesus discerned the revelation by which Peter knew Him because Jesus discerned its goodness and perfection. You know it was a good and perfect revelation, coming as it did to Peter from the Father. Not some mediocre revelation that would need to be revised later to fix the imperfections and defects. Not a shadow of truth that would change. 

Augmented Intelligence

 If computer augmented intelligence was truly a new stage of human evolution, by now humans would have evolved ploughshare hands or evolved to have horses’ legs from all those centuries working the countryside. A major strength of humans is that we DON’T get too attached to our tools. We can use them then lose them, and move on. The original information revolution people were a little too obsessed by their own importance. Thank you for computers and smartphones and internet but we reserve the human capacity and right to drop it all when changes come along and we need to move on. Shut off the electricity supply and I still remain a complete person. No evolution would stop that.

Dark Science

People ought to distinguish science and dark science, like they distinguish other magic and dark/black magic. The dark science would be science using techniques likely to appeal to dark forces. Dark forms of experiments on animals (or humans, even). Uses of resources gained by dark methods such as human foetus killings and animal experiments (especially deaths of humans for the sake of the studies) should be seen as dark. These dark studies and processes are processes where appealing to evil forces cannot be ruled out, even if they cannot be proven, where there are hallmarks of possible dark magic origins and thinking. Immoral science, unethical science and science which just seems dark, rather than clean, genuine, wholesome experiments, these darker practices should be regarded the same way we regard black magic. There’s dark science and dark medicine which will get its practitioners thrown in the fire of judgement day. We shouldn’t be teaching it to our children. 

Natural vaccination January 2022

In 2022, in the UK, COVID infections seem likely to be rampant after the first week in January increasing to maximum before the end of January. Staffing problems are surely to be expected. If this is one wave, subsiding after mid January, it does look like a natural or God-sent mass vaccination programme. Staffing problems might be completely unprecedented. Worse point mid January. Nobody catching it before Christmas recovering in time to cover for those catching it after first week of January. That is going to lead to all kinds of problems. Forewarned is forearmed. I’m hoping the sickness will be mild for most and not lead to more than usual winter deaths. Yet the effect of lack of staff in nursing homes due to staff sickness could be dire.

Dark

 If the medical mages wanting us all to inject something had really only wanted full acceptance, I wonder why they based that injection on things that would make it seem so dark. It makes it look like they were bound to use dark arts to do it.

The ultimate victory

 God, together with the Christ sent by God, defeated Rome and its gods. The gods worshipped by Ancient Rome, though powerful when invoked, were unable to prevent God raising Jesus Christ from the dead after Rome under its gods crucified Jesus. God showed that He is king above all gods. Now the worship of gods of ancient Romans is in so many countries gone. Now God who is king above them, God the Father, can be known and prayed to and worshipped. Even if not everyone knows God, king above all gods, there is scope and an open chance to know Him and live in service to Him. Centuries earlier the Israelite people had been formed in another similar victory showing that this same God is king above even the gods of Egypt. Coming out of Egypt was not easy for Moses and his people. Gods were invoked against them by Egyptian shamanic magicians. The magicians had huge power by invoking the spirits who were gods to Ancient Egypt who had power even to create life. The gods empowering the priests were real. Are still real. One particular god worshipped by some of the Ancient Egyptians was Seth. He was possibly the same being the Israelites and later their Jewish descendants called Satan. Many characteristics of Seth recorded by Ancient Egypt also apply to characteristics associated with Satan. These gods, these beings, do not cease to exist just because their worship dies out. Some of these gods had even been involved in historic events behind the creating of the Natural world we see today. During the Exodus the One True God above all gods overcame all the gods invoked by those powerful Egyptian shamanic priests and magicians and God sent plagues that even those powerful priests and the gods of creation could not stop. The gods did enable those magicians to mimic some of the plagues but they could not end them. Eventually after the tenth plague, it proved too much and the Pharaoh gave in and let Moses lead out the Israelites, out of his clutches as their overall slave master. Whether Seth was one of the gods or angels invoked by the magicians is not recorded in the Bible scriptures, but centuries later the same or similar being Satan is recorded in the gospels as having sought to cut across the path of obedience of Jesus Christ and was instrumental in the betrayal which led to Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus said that the betrayal was Satan’s hour. Yet the refusal of Jesus to disobey God or let God down was a beginning of this god of the age, Satan’s defeat. The crucifixion provided for your sins and mine, when we believe and let it turn our consciences away from sin, purifying our consciences. Then the resurrection of Jesus from the dead by God completed this victory over Satan and showed the ultimate power over all gods does indeed belong to God and to His Son, showing Jesus Christ to be the Lord over all, made lord over all by this One True God. 

God the King above all gods

 God, together with the Christ sent by God, defeated Rome and its gods, those gods worshipped by Ancient Rome who, though powerful when invoked, were unable to prevent God raising Jesus Christ from the dead after Rome under its gods crucified Jesus. God showed that He is king above all gods. Now the worship of gods of ancient Romans is in so many countries gone. The king above them, God the Father, can be known and prayed to and worshipped. Even if not everyone knows God, king above all gods, there is scope and an open chance to know Him and live in service to Him. That is the astonishing glory of God through the crucifixion and resurrection of the one who is now shown to be Lord over all, Jesus Christ. This Jesus is the same today as in that ancient time, and is the same forever, alive forever.

Coming out of slavery

The Book of Enoch was clearly read as scripture in the times of Jesus and this is clear from its prevalence among the Dead Sea Scrolls and its influence on New Testament scriptures and Jude quoting it and Jesus alluding to it as scripture. Clearly it was well known to adherents to the Book of Enoch that there are angels which have similarities to gods, controlling Nature and governing mankind according to allotted tasks and positions of governance given them by God, the Lord of Spirits, Lord of Hosts, king above all gods. So we gain an understanding of gods by reading the Book of Enoch which makes the ancient Old Testament scriptures concerning gods make better sense. Coming out of Egypt was not easy for Moses and his people. Gods were invoked against them by Egyptian shamanic magicians who had huge power by invoking the spirits who were gods to Ancient Egypt who had power even to create life. Yet it was not impossible to bypass the will of these magicians and these gods. It was possible by having the spirit who is Lord of spirits, the one great king above all gods to lead the Exodus. Nothing short of this would have succeeded. The gods empowering the magicians were real. Are still real. Only God, the One True God could overcome all this and send plagues that even those powerful priests and the gods of creation could not stop. They mimicked some plagues but could not end them, until it proved too much and the Pharaoh gave in and let Moses lead out the Israelites, out of his clutches as their overall slave master. The New Testament scriptures concerning gods also make better sense with the Book of Enoch explanation of gods and the position of God above them all. It becomes clear that this God has sent Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, to be our master and save us from a worse kind of slavery than that of the Israelites in Egypt: Slavery to our bad actions that lead to judgement and condemnation. This Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in holy conception as unique son to God. This Jesus suffered crucifixion by evil men but this Jesus was raised from death by God, God who is the Father and the God of Lord Jesus. The only way to know this salvation is by the teachings of Jesus and by believing in Him. Holding to the teachings given by Jesus and by the apostles sent by Jesus and by the Holy Spirit who inspires and powerfully influences those who believe. The power of God ministers miracles to testify to us when we believe this message. This is all a cleansing influence on our behaviour to lead us out of our wrong ways. This saves us. Then we can serve this God above all gods. We can do so in a special sovereign freedom only God and His Son and Holy Spirit can give. This leads to hope. Hope grows when we also suffer in this holy way, so we grow in character and become children of God under the covenant God made by Jesus’ blood shed for us and body broken for us. The Christ died for you. The Christ died for us all. The Christ, the Lord Jesus, alive from the dead, very much the same Jesus as in the gospels, lives forever. The Son and the Father are together: To be joined for ever by those they save.

Gospel

 The angels, gods, created creation in the beginning, and have God as their king, responsible overall. It is this king who is God. Maybe some can realise the one at the top should be acknowledged above all. The Lord Jesus Christ is His unique begotten Son, conceived of the Holy Spirit. This Jesus is the one crucified who God raised from the dead. Who better to serve and worship and look to than the one God who raised Jesus and made Jesus lord over all, including over all the angels, the gods. Angels can be overcome but God who can overcome all others can never be overcome. Who better to worship. He commands that idolatry cease and that no god be put first over Himself, before Himself when we come to Him as our one true God. The crucified Son, Lord Jesus is alive and very much the same as when the gospels were written of him and will be so forever. His crucifixion death provides for the debt of our sins. Holding to Jesus’ teachings, with belief in Him, alive forever from the dead, leads to cleansing from the sinful behaviour, the kinds of behaviour that will be the death of many who do not believe. We need to stop such behaviour in order to be saved from the destruction that will come at the final judgement when living and dead will all be judged through Jesus.

Alive

 Lord Jesus is alive and very much the same as when the gospels were written of him and will be so forever.

What links Historical Petra and the Arch of Titus?

 You might have seen pictures of the famous ancient city of Petra (found in what is today modern Jordan). Cut into rock cliff faces, there is a great treasury, the picture usually shown, there are tombs cut into similar cliff faces and a temple from around 20AD. You might also have seen pictures of the famous (or infamous) Arch of Titus in Rome, similar in appearance to the Arch de Triumph in Paris and Marble Arch in London. It is a monument to the victories of Roman Emperors Titus and Vespasian in overcoming a rebellion in Roman Judea and destroying Jerusalem around 70AD. How are these related? History might relate them but scripture relates them in a special way, with God in the link between them. Petra was capital of an Arabian kingdom, Nabatea (now Jordan) close to the Roman-ruled kingdom of Judea (now Israel). There was a king of this kingdom, Aretas IV Philopatris, whose daughter, Phasaelis, was married to a Herod, king of Perea and Galilee, bordering Judea. Now this Herod divorced Phasaelis in order to marry his brother’s wife, Herodias. You might have heard of her daughter portrayed in raunchy operas and plays as Salome. So how does this relate to the Arch of Titus and to God? Well Aretas took revenge on Herod for this immoral divorce by waging war on him, but before that, the great prophet known as John the Baptist rebuked Herod for illegally marrying Herodias, because presumably her previous husband was still alive, this Herod’s brother, also called Herod. Hey, Herod was a common name in this dynasty. Even Herodius’ brother was also called Herod. But no matter. Anyway, John the Baptist, who, by the way had baptised Jesus, was beheaded, for rebuking Herod, one of the many Herods (you couldn’t make this stuff up). Now Jesus too was handed over to death by this same Herod who killed John the Baptist. Such an immoral and blood guilty ruler. God is now involved. God, yes, the Almighty, highest over all gods, is direct father to Jesus by holy conception, and John the Baptist was sent as prophet by this One True God, so this was not going to work out well for Herod or his subjects. God sent something pretty bad to avenge John and Jesus. That is where the link is to the Titus Arch. Jesus and prophets before Jesus and John foretold it. God sent Titus as vengeance. Titus destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple to put down a rebellion. He killed many Jews and continued destroying strongholds of rebels. It is commemorate in pictures on the Arch of Titus in Rome.  Of course a different reasoning is given by Jews today, namely that God was punishing not specifically the killing of John the Baptist and Jesus, but that it was punishment for a general murderous tendency of the people of that time. Yet the link to God is still there. This is corroborated history, not just scripture, but it is the explanation of scripture that links it to God.

Asked what I think about Satan

Asked: What I think about Satan

I do not know much about mafia bosses and their networks and whether any have global networks, but I believe they do exist. Likewise in the spirit realm there are such powerful antagonist entities who have existed much longer and whose networks are surely much more highly matured. Do I believe these hidden beings have a big boss? Yes, if Jesus says so, yes. The knowledge of this was peaking in Jesus’ time, with rabbinical teachings about it being advanced. I think ancient Egypt had similar knowledge and called Satan ‘Seth’. The Seth accounts are very similar to biblical Satan descriptions. It all adds up to an angel immense in power, influence, power system globally, who is more at odds with God than other angels and tends to come to different conclusions and approaches to things. An antagonist to God. God tolerates and even uses this being, it seems. It is important to God to be able to work around this being and to deal with the problems this being’s antics present. Eventually God will tire and put the being away, but no being of immortal nature is destructible by death the way humans are, so the being has to be eventually neutralised but in the righteous way God always does things. The ‘lake of fire’ exists for that purpose but what it is and how it will neutralise such an influential and far-reaching spirit is mysterious. Typically a powerful immortal being can be confined. They do not die. They can be confined somewhere geographical. Something maybe like the Mid Atlantic Ridge will exist where there is deep lava and where magma rises close to the surface and it seems this is where Satan will be kept, but the future of Earth includes a total melting of the crust so the future of angels put in this magma has an element of mystery about it, whether the molten crust will be their final home and they will be kept out of a new cosmic centre called the New Jerusalem. That is just how I piece together what information I have within reach. Others might piece the jigsaw together differently. I might piece it together differently later, perhaps as more information becomes available. I believe Jesus has access to excellent information but that he usually shares what we might really need, so this is probably enough for us for now.

We all start off as children of Satan. It is quite normal. We learn to lie and exaggerate our good points from an early age to try to get on better. We all learn to hustle. Nothing very sinister. Just that we are not learning those ways from God. We cannot call God our father, nor our God because another being has influenced us more than God, and we know this being as Satan. No horns. No red pointy tail. More like a church worker who isn’t as good or as godly as they make out. An imposter. Satan can achieve far more by sowing imposters among the servants of God. And almost every child grows up learning Satan’s ways before they learn God’s. So look at an average seminary or bible college and it will be full of young people who have learned to hustle more than they have learned the ways of God. It is natural. So we need a zap of heaven. A taste of something better. A taste of heavenly teaching. Jesus says, come to Him for that. Call on Him. Cry to Him. Get a lesson from Heaven. Get a dose of heavenly honesty and humility. Embrace it and value it above your lying ways. Stop the hustling. Start telling truth the way that dose of Heaven tells truth. This is the key to knowledge. They mock it because they do not have it. They do not have it because they refuse it. They do not come to Jesus for a lesson that would give them life. Then they hinder others from getting it too, by impostering as godly. Christ died for us to have that dose of Heaven.

As to whether I believe it all, I find a lot of people tend to limit our belief to what we can imagine. But it is better to admit our imagination is limited and recognise that truth is sometimes unimaginable. I can imagine antagonistic angels being global in their influence and being able to inflict more evil than we have seen before, but being counteracted by God’s holy angels to prevent it happening. Yet that is to be offset with admission that my imagination is too limited. I know that God knows the full picture and lovingly tailors what He reveals to Jesus to pass on to Jesus’ contacts through the Holy Spirit. We know in part. God knows fully. 

A dose of Heaven

 We all start off as children of Satan. It is quite normal. We learn to lie and exaggerate our good points from an early age to try to get on better. We all learn to hustle. Nothing very sinister. Just that we are not learning those ways from God. We cannot call God our father, nor our God because another being has influenced us more than God, and we know this being as Satan. No horns. No red pointy tail. More like a church worker who isn’t as good or as godly as they make out. An imposter. Satan can achieve far more by sowing imposters among the servants of God. And almost every child grows up learning Satan’s ways before they learn God’s. So look at an average seminary or bible college and it will be full of young people who have learned to hustle more than they have learned the ways of God. It is natural. So we need a zap of heaven. A taste of something better. A taste of heavenly teaching. Jesus says, come to Him for that. Call on Him. Cry to Him. Get a lesson from Heaven. Get a dose of heavenly honesty and humility. Embrace it and value it above your lying ways. Stop the hustling. Start telling truth the way that dose of Heaven tells truth. This is the key to knowledge. They mock it because they do not have it. They do not have it because they refuse it. They do not come to Jesus for a lesson that would give them life. Then they hinder others from getting it too, by impostering as godly. Christ died for us to have that dose of Heaven.

Discussion with an Atheist

 To the objection that knowledge of God is subjective: Is the statement “I think therefore I am” subjective? It becomes the basis of objectivity, yet it is so subjective. Philosophies are usually more flawed than anyone realises until new ones replace them. We all need something more permanent so that we can realise our potential to continue. Knowing the only true God and knowing Jesus Christ whom He sent, this releases us to reach that full potential, freeing us from being highly temporary, facilitating permanence.

To the objection that you lose control of your own life by knowing God and Christ, I have never given up control any more than getting a job lost me control of my life. Getting a guide for the areas where we really know we need one is great. I wish someone would guide me through the architecture of the codebase I have to maintain at work but nobody is willing to do that, perhaps because they ironically think they will lose control by doing so, and they prefer me to stay in the dark in case I compete with them. Well a superb guide is available for our lives who has mastered mortal life to the ultimate degree and is now living it immortally.

To be honest, I must say you do lose everything by seeking to know Jesus and the one who sent Jesus, but control is not something you lose. You lose fancy stuff you can do without like popularity, status, ease, favour with some kinds of people, kudos, maybe a cosy lifestyle and sometimes even family links. Yet you gain permanence of what really matters. It is thrilling to know Jesus who is the ultimate human person to know, and to know the one who sent Jesus, who is the absolutely ultimate being to know, and it is worth losing everything. But I do not think you lose any control. You are, if anything, far more free as a result of it than you can imagine is possible. Like a kind of sovereignty. Nobody controls you anymore because the one with the greatest right to control you, instead gives you ultimate freedom. It is impossible to explain or even to put into words in my head. It is a deep peace. Nobody able to tell you you should be aiming higher.

When I first tasted a full sample mouthful of that knowledge twenty five years ago after decades seeking and after losing so much to get there, I just utterly relaxed, fully knowing I had found the most ultimate thing anyone can ever know. Deep deep peace came up from within. Absolute serenity. And that was just a taster. The best is yet to come, I know it.

Better than conquering Everest.

This is absolutely true. I remember that peace, joy I had, that stillness from the very centre of my innermost being, thinking back on it almost every day of the twenty five years ever since. Nothing takes it away from me. It never fades. That innermost knowledge that Jesus has mastered me in my deepest level of existence and was giving me freedom.

Christmas Miracle

 The real miracle at Christmas is to look at the history of a country such as Britain and see how, because of the coming of Christ sent by God, the idolatry of ancient Britons is gone. Even if not everyone knows God, there is scope and an open chance to know Him and live in service to Him. That is astonishing. That is the glory of God through the work of Jesus Christ. 

The gospel and the pagan idolatry

 In the beginnings of the church, as the gospel bore fruit among the Gentiles, the main difference with believers was that they obeyed the truth and the command of God and therefore stopped worshipping idols. They even started to stop ascribing any reality of divinity to idols. Food sacrificed to idols became a sticking point. As did believers eating with unbelievers. Apostle Paul had to provide some good advice to the first converts to encounter these problems, these converts having been converted from among the pagans. First epistle to the Corinthians has his advice. The two issues were whether to eat food sacrificed to idols and whether to eat with unbelievers. The first he answered in chapter 8 saying not to eat the food sacrificed to idols if doing so caused a brother to be offended, but if no offence is caused and conscience permits, he seems to say go ahead. The second he answered in chapter 10 by saying it is OK to accept an invitation to eat with pagans in their home. Both are odd answers for a Jew to give. Eating food sacrificed to idols is condemned in other parts of NT scriptures. Jewish believers did not condone eating in houses with pagans. Apostle Peter got questioned about doing so when he went to preach to Cornelius. So Paul was dealing with the edge case of current doctrine. Interestingly this was the backdrop for dealing with there being one true God. The truth that there is the one true God, who the converts from pagan idolatry were now worshipping because of the gospel of Christ, is the reason Paul could now break the spell of pagan philosophy and state that idols are nothing. This realisation, this knowledge was an outcome of the effect of the gospel and of witnessing accompanying miracles. In addition, he also admitted there are many gods, but only one Father who is root of responsibility for all creation. And with Him one Lord, Jesus the Christ. This is in contrast to pagan thinking. Interesting that pagan thinking clouded this counsel centuries later with Trinitarian philosophy, bringing back into core Christianity some idolatrous Neoplatonism via their concept of divine hypostasis. Perhaps Trinitarianism is push back from pagan Roman imperialism against Paul’s gospel teaching.

Who warns us to escape the wrath of God?

 We need to ask ourselves ‘If the Holy Spirit speaks today, will our denominational leanings hinder our acceptance of the teachings given?” There is a popular Christian song with the words “The Spirit won’t be hindered by division, in the perfect work which Jesus has begun.” Well the experiences of Jesus speaking to the religious people as recorded in the gospels, they show what happens when Jesus’ teachings and words full of the Holy Spirit meet with denominational and sectarian biases. It gets nasty. Someone gets hurt. Eventually Jesus got hurt. Later they all got hurt when the Romans came and wiped the floor with them, because God didn’t like what they did to His only-begotten Son.

I would not call Trinitarianism a heresy as such

 I would not call Trinitarianism a heresy, more a misunderstanding, like doctrines which Trinitarians have called heresies. Some might have been due to pagan influences such as Neoplatonist hypostasis, which the philosopher Origen applied to divinity (apparently ignoring the command of God not to do so). Trinitarian dogma ended up confounding or occluding the teachings of Jesus Himself about how divinity applied to Him. So today we have Trinitarians telling us confidently that Jesus is God, obscuring the whole truth of Jesus being a man born of holy conception from God by the Holy Spirit and becoming set apart by God to judge Mankind and mediate between Mankind and God. It also hides the true nature of the spirit of Christ being a great influencer of prophets from earliest times, even long before coming in the flesh. Perhaps the sticking point started with Trinitarians trying to use human concepts to understand how Christ shares some kind of special relationship with the Father, God, by the Trinitarian founders trying to apply a Greek concept of shared substance of nature existing between Jesus and God the Father, as if divinity could be reduced down to natural substances like gold or silver elements. Of course, God commands we do not think of Him in that pagan way. We must not use the kind of thinking and philosophy which pagans apply to their idols. This pagan thinking seems to have resulted in Trinitarians bringing to the table their idea that somehow the Son and the Father are composed of some special kind of material. This kind of Trinitarian dogma harms our understanding that Jesus was born with a human body exactly the same as our own human bodies, and has soul and spirit like us. Yes, the spirit of Jesus is immense in influence and power, growing to fill all things, but Jesus is like us, nonetheless, meaning we too can grow immense in influence of our spirits over matter and time and space, once God sets our spirits alive through the sacrifice of Jesus and our faith in Jesus and in God. We can do greater works than Jesus if we believe, now Jesus is with the Father, Jesus said. Some of us see that being fulfilled in our lives now and know this is but a foretaste of what is to come, especially after Jesus has returned. Truth matters. Untrue thinking clouds truth. It clouds understanding of truth. It needs cleaning away. Truth sets us free from the slavery we get from our vices. We need to turn from false thinking and embrace what Jesus taught and those sent by Jesus taught. We need to believe in this and believe in the true Jesus Christ the Lord. 

Angels created the heavens and the Earth and God is their king

 Angels are there in Genesis 1:1, Elohim are the top angels. In the beginning the top angels created the heavens and the earth. That is the meaning we find from other scriptures which mention Elohim. Jews have not taught it that way. They teach it means majestic plurality of God. Yet that translation of Elohim is contradicted  by their own scriptures. Maybe the Jews who translate it this way are Sadducee tradition Jews who disregard these other scriptures but I think even Exodus shows that it means angels or gods. Exodus uses Elohim to say that Elohim could not save Egypt from the plagues of Yahweh. Yahweh is king over the Elohim, over all of them. The Father over the holiest of the Elohim and king over all of them. Genesis says this too. So Genesis 1:1 is not polytheistic because it later calls these angels who created everything ‘sons of God’ in Genesis 6. So God is over those who created everything. Therefore God is the over all creator. But angels had a huge part in creating. I think the modern Jewish traditions have battled against this. Obviously this contrary thinking from Judaism has found its way into Christianity too.

The funny thing about believers

Funny how believers only ever believe their own sect or denomination, whatever it happens to be.

Makes me think they don’t actually believe anything. They just want to belong to their group and let the group do the believing for them.

Personally I can’t really not believe. Given what has happened to me. I sometimes think I forget what I believe. Then I remind myself of everything.

I belong to Jesus’ group and most groups would exclude me because I’m not their disciple but Jesus’ and the Father’s and the Holy Spirit’s, and these teach me different things to the groups. 

The lord knows who are His.

That umbrella moment

The reality is that sometimes Jesus speaks in person to somebody. “Put down your umbrella!” Jesus said to me. I put it down. No hesitation. The storm immediately stopped dead. So those few words are frozen into my soul. They revive me. They tell me faith outweighs technology. We need to put spirit above matter. Jesus is more about faith, real active powerful faith, than technology such as umbrellas. 

There was always a favourite hymn I often played on piano in my young days. 

“Jesu lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll. While the tempest still is nigh. Hide me oh my saviour hide, till the toil of life is past. Safe into the haven guide. Still receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, Hangs my helpless soul on thee; Leave, ah! leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me: All my trust on thee is stayed, All my help from thee I bring. Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing.”

He echoed it all for me in that moment.

What scripture means by “God’s word”

 The Bible is not what scripture means by ‘the word of God’. Also, when people say that God speaks to us, it is not the same as what scripture means by ‘the word of God’. The words are not literally coming from the mouth of God except rarely it might be that someone, somewhere actually hears the words that come from God’s own mouth - the very Father’s own actual mouth. It is very rare for humans to hear such words, except Jesus and the Holy Spirit and angels do often hear such things. Often what people might say is God speaking to them might be their hearts being opened to something in their spirit, or still rarely, the Holy Spirit speaking. Sometimes an angel speaks to someone like when Mary and Joseph were told about Jesus before Jesus was born, as we see portrayed in Nativity plays. That is rare too. Sometimes people have a heavenly dream, like that Nativity dream when the wise men were spoken to about escaping the plot of Herod: That is not so rare. A minister preparing a sermon might feel led to say something particular ‘laid on their heart’. That is not at all rare. Think of all the millions of anointed sermons preached each week. The Holy Spirit awakens spirits of ministers to lead them in how to speak. Yet the word of the LORD coming to someone like to the young prophet Samuel in the Temple one night: That is very rare. In these cases it is what scripture calls the word of God. It is rare, which is why Samuel didn’t recognise what was happening. We need to be clear what we mean by the word of God. Scripture usually means literally things the Father has spoken from His actual mouth when it says ‘the word of God’. And almost never does scripture call a book of collected scriptures such as the Bible ‘the word of God’ or ‘God’s word’. That concept only started when Protestants started printing and selling and promoting bibles.

Nothing completely eradicates the past

We might find forgiveness but we should not think anything can make what we do be as if it was never done. Even heavenly forgiveness does not erase what was done. If, for example, we go away and torture someone for what they owe us, having ourselves just found forgiveness, that forgiveness can be undone. Nothing erases the past. What was done was done. The best we can hope for, if we turn from the wrong doing and learn to do right, is to have our misdeeds corrected for future well doing and right living, while the blood of Jesus is there to cover the past misdeeds with mercy. But the misdeeds are still there done. No longer held against, when we find forgiveness, but still there in the past. We need to become changed people to find a way past judgement day. Even death is only a temporary delay to judgement day. Jesus offers hope, if we believe in Him and hold to His teachings. He fully knows what judgement day will entail and how to save us as we hold to His powerful words of life. His death and resurrection are part of the plan of God to help us. But if we die in our sins, that day brings no hope. Only if we believe who Jesus is and keep Jesus’ sayings and teachings faithfully given us in Jesus’ name full of Jesus’ truth can we hope to be free of the wrong doings now that allow hope in that terrible day. So go easy on those who wrong you. You do not want God to go looking up in His books what you yourself have done and change His mind about having forgiven you.

God’s word

 It is very Protestant to think ‘word of God’ means the Bible. No. It doesn’t. God speaks and what God says goes out into space and space keeps and persists it in the heavens, among angels who hear it. That is presumably how the laws of Nature came into existence. 

https://biblehub.com/psalms/119-89.htm

When God said “let there be light” there was no Bible at that time, nor was it spoken in English or Hebrew, or Welsh. Yet it changed everything and the word forever rings around the heavens and lies on the hearts of the angels. And not because of the Bible.

Biblical science

 Science and magic are a spectrum but there are indications in the biblical scriptures of innocent, more holy positions on the spectrum. Noah in Genesis and the Book of Enoch, backed up by records of him in contemporary writings of his time, Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian King List, etcetera, is a man who while objecting to the more supernatural magic end of the spectrum, the part of angels in Chalcolithic metallurgical techniques, took pains to run tests we would recognise as early scientific tests, without resorting to the supernatural. He ran a famous experiment. The Flood rain had subsided and the water had not yet gone down. He let loose successive birds to see what would happen, to provide indication of the status of the floodwater out of sight. The first bird came back quickly so he knew the water was probably still at a high flood level. Later another bird, famously a dove, returned with an olive twig in its mouth, the image of which has stayed with us ever since, so Noah knew there were trees appearing above the subsiding flood water. Finally, later still, the bird he released did not come back, and because he chose a carrion bird, this implied the dead bodies from the Flood were now exposed and accessible as food for the bird so it could stay away. None of this required angels. Noah, writing part of the Book of Enoch before the Flood occurred, had lamented the inclusion of angels, invoked by metallurgist alchemists, to help with alloy making. “An angel is in the fire!” Noah was famous for practicing and preaching perfected right behaviour. So we find in the beginnings of modern Western civilisation a similar move, compelled by the Church, away from alchemy magic arts invoking spirits and the supernatural towards natural magic arts with experimentation without invoking spirits in those experiments. This was later known as modern science. Yet it is misunderstood. Just because it carefully has to avoid invocations, does not mean it has to hold to the materialistic and atheistic views that spirits do not exist. Perhaps those who succeed in convincing themselves that spirits do not exist find it easier to practice this art of modern experimental science, but that does not have to be so. Noah is an example. He believed in God and knew about spirits and even interacted with holy spirits at a high level, more than most, but he did not invoke them in his experiments. He did not try forcing the hand of any spirit. He was righteous enough to recognise the invocation of spirits, forcing them to engage with alchemist techniques, as fleshly, unholy, and unworthy. He kept his experiments materialistic but his lifestyle spiritual.

2021 ends with a new virus variant

So here we are again. Another variant outbreak. This time resulting from government policy to allow travel, justifying this by using a vaccine programme. Vaccinated people must have spread the new variant because only vaccinated people are allowed to travel. But my, perhaps naive outlook, is positive. It might be so mild that it could be a natural vaccine. Better that than ephemeral medical varieties based on dark practices. It could displace the previous variants. It could be mild. It could reach everyone very fast. It could leave us immune. This could end the pandemic, in my optimistic view. If my post is still around a few months from now: Dear Reader, Did it work out like I said? Is anyone still around? Or maybe some other plague or war has made it all immaterial.

Our depravity today

 Quotes from God and Jesus in the Apocalypse:

“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”

If the real meanings of words here translated as sorcerers (pharmakoi), immoral (porno), idolaters, liars are considered, it looks like we mostly all of us, or nearly all of us, probably fit the bill. Mostly the world around us brings us down to this level with its devices. But those are our doing too. Our actions perpetuate this whole depraved and evil kind of system. From the technologies of medicine to the ways porn is produced to the lying ways of the media telling what is literally true but told in a way which misleads, to collective actions which look justified on the surface but their outcomes cause misery and deaths, then more besides, we most of us get caught up in it all, and even government programmes, ostensibly for our public health, help to make sure of it. These passages of scripture tell us where it leads. We really must trust Jesus to lead us in the way which fixes our depravity soon, before we die in these ways, before we have that against us on judgement day.

The greatest influencers

 There are maybe a few dozen greatest influencers in history who influence us all. We do well to try to limit that list. Among the influencers are both worldly and godly people. Some are influenced by the Greatest, God. Others knew not God. If we limit ourselves to following those influenced by God, those who knew God, we could find it saves us. To do this does not mean we utterly reject anything which comes from the ungodly. That would require living in isolation. The ungodly did have some good influence and we use their devices when we communicate online or just about in every aspect of our daily lives. Yet we can prioritise and give most weight to influences from those who knew God. This can save us. 

Unreasonable Science today

If laws of Nature exist now, they must have had existence originally. Chance cannot do anything without those laws. Gravity and chance alone could not result in the eventual existence of complex living things. Another factor must have existed from the beginning to result in life existing today. The one we know as God accounts for life existing. God accounts for life existing better than gravity and chance alone. Denial of this is unreasonable. For Science to be reasonable it must have a better explanation before it can discount God as explanation. Otherwise scientists are basing their explanations on subjective feelings and not on reason. If Science today requires that we discount God in favour of gravity and chance as explanations for life existing then Science itself is not reasonable today. Maybe one day Science will correct this flaw. Science as it exists today is unreasonable because it is unreasonable to insist on material substance being the only thing that exists, when you consider that life exists. Matter alone cannot account for life. Therefore if Science insists matter alone accounts for life, Science is unreasonable and therefore flawed, in its present state. The existence of living things requires the existence of information. Storing information requires information. So information must start with a finite amount and therefore a finite storage system. Information therefore must have existed from the beginning and to have been stored. The existence of the being we call God would account for this. The existence of God is a better explanation than current mainstream Science is offering. There needs to have been some impetus for information to be stored and to grow, from the beginning, to account for complex life existing today. For the process to be put into motion which results in life, it would require knowledge of what information is worth storing that could eventually produce an information storing, information requiring system, which could eventually become complex life. Only a highly complex living being could have such knowledge. A being with foresight and very great wisdom. (Credit to my medical physicist friend, Dr Paul M, for help with thinking this through, also writer Mathematician John C Lennox for thoughts on information and complex life.)

Heavenly promotion

 Jobs typically require an application or some kind of approach to an employer or receiving of an approach from an employer or recruiter. Promotions sometimes have similar requirements. Heavenly standing has become, by Jesus Christ, like a promotion for which you need to apply having received an approach. The approach is the gospel message from Heaven. The application is faith in Jesus Christ and identification with Jesus Christ through baptism into Jesus’ name and teachings, like enrolment into discipleship to Jesus, Lord and Saviour. This unites a person with Jesus. This in turn confers a share in the same heavenly status Jesus has, with angels as servants. No longer are angels beings only to be feared and worshipped as gods. They are servants to administer to those united with Jesus. The systems of traditions of civilisation revolved around beliefs that angelic spirits were lords over humans, requiring priesthoods and shamans as mediators with humans and sacrificial subservience by humans lest crops fail and wars be lost and potential partners be lost to rivals. Now the One Topmost God who is Father and God of the Lord Jesus Christ is alone the God to be worshipped in awe and homage and angels merely provide administration of the things God sends to His own who belong to Jesus, the one Lord over all God’s house. 

What the problem might be with Pharma

 It is becoming better known that the Biblical scripture called the Book of Revelation, or The Apocalypse contains dire warnings about what in its early language, Koine Greek, it calls PHARMAKOI, in uppercase Greek chatacters, ΦΆΡΜΑΚΟΙ. The similarity to pharmacist is obvious. Clearly the connection is there. Ask online translation tools to translate it to English and you sometimes get ‘medic’. Now the warnings in the scripture book are so dire it warrants some investigation into what it originally meant to the author, to Jesus, to God. The warning is of being thrown into the lake of fire on judgment day. (Chapter 20 verse 8, repeated in 22 verse 15.) What kind of person, then, is actually indicated by this warning? A pharmacist? A medic? A druggist? Or like translations into English traditionally say, a sorcerer or a practitioner of magic arts? There are two explanations prevalent. First kinds of explanations say that the Greek translators of Hebrew scriptures in the centuries before Christ tried to translate the words used in Hebrew law scriptures for witches, diviners, discerners of omens, supernatural shamanic gifted workers (root workers in some cultures), magical or miracle healers, witch doctors, clairvoyants, spell casters, invokers of spirits, masters of the occult and esoteric wisdom, those seeking wisdom of the spirit world, these kinds of workers, the translators decided to use the Greek word PHARMAKOI, ΦΆΡΜΑΚΟΙ, as closest in meaning even though this Greek word focussed as much (or more) on drug and poison administration as it did on dealings with the supernatural and spirits. This explanation then assumes that the readers of Hebrew origin scriptures translated into Greek (The Septuagint) were familiar with this word ΦΆΡΜΑΚΟΙ and associated it with its use for condemnation of the supernatural kinds of workers found in the law and prophets (the Old Testament). So the writer of Revelation, or the inspirer the Holy Spirit conveying words of God, selected this word, despite its usage by secular Greeks for druggers and poisoners. This, if true, might mean it does not necessarily point at pharmacists, Big Pharma, pharmacology scientists, medical scientists, medics and drug dealers. That is not to say the law discounted the use of drugs for supernatural shamanic purposes. Oracles were sought through drug use from ancient times by shamans, priests, witches, miracle healers and the like. But the idea is that this is not the primary meaning. The second explanation is not so convenient for modern legal medical professionals and illegitimate drug dealers. This looks instead at more modern history, long after the scriptures were written. The word ΦΆΡΜΑΚΟΙ always did mean both drug workers and supernatural workers, but in the fifteen hundreds the Church was outlawing the supernatural side of such practices but being lenient towards the research into drugs and administration of drugs developed as long as spirits were not invoked to discover them but as long as they were found by experimentation. This spawned modern sciences and modern medicine. Formerly condemned sorcerers, alchemists, medics, were given a chance to survive and avoid condemnation by joining the search for natural magic knowledge by experimentation in the Enlightenment. That did not mean they did not still practice magic. But they could only openly publish findings found by experimentation, by empiricism. So Revelation’s ΦΆΡΜΑΚΟΙ still applied, but this was hushed up. Maybe there is a mixture of both of these explanations which has led to where we are today. Every reason to be very careful when it comes to trust, with medicine, drugs, public sector organisations pushing these drugs and medicines, and media trying to assure us to behave as if these medical ‘miracles’ are trustworthy.