What Adam did

Adam was made perfectly but with a design that required God to be honoured in his life and he would only keep living if that was so. Adam erred because he started as a life choice to live a life that put God second and removed God as total master. This meant he could still continue to live but not perpetually. God had not made a mistake in making Adam that way. It was Adam who made the mistake to start down a road as if life could be lived without keeping always to what God told him. It could but not perpetually. He had not been designed that way. So death became inevitable.

What He Nailed to the Cross

He nailed to that cross the idea that Torah can save people because those who nailed Him there were keepers of Torah. He nailed mortality to that cross because when He died the next step was He rose and by this the resurrection immortality became available to others too. So the idea that mortality must be permanent was nailed to that cross. He nailed to the cross the possibility of anybody living forever without Him because those without Him will never become immortal like Him. He nailed to the cross the permanence of dominion of Torah because Torah is for the mortal and the resurrection leads to immortality dominated by Him instead.

Was there a Great Flood and if so, when?

The Book of Enoch seems to have been written centuries before a great destruction we call The Flood. It contains no records after such a flood but only predictions of it; numerous graphic predictions. It therefore seems to have been completed prior to any such cataclysmic catastrophe occurring; completed including any later editorial comments. So did such an event occur and if so, when? Archaeology has the answer. The Sumerian King Lists are records written by Sumerians after the flood which record that flood and record which kings reigned before it and which kings reigned after it. They record the cities from which they reigned. They notably highlight that the capital city at the time of the flood was Shurappak and the first capital city after the flood was Kish. So the city of Shuruppak in ancient Sumer (now in Iraq) is a focal point from which to see the archaeology of this flood recorded by the Sumerian King List. Does it show arcgaeological evidence of such a flood as is recorded in the Sumerian King Lists? There is a flood deposit layer in the archaeology of the site of the city, a site now called Tell Fara, and it coincides with the time and archaeological sequence of the flood recorded in the Sumerian King Lists (in agreement with the Book of Enoch and Genesis). The period before the time this flood layer was deposited is the Jamdet Nasr Period and early Fara Period. The archaeology above this flood layer is from the Early Dynastic Periods. So this is entirely consistent with the Sumerian King Lists. Archaeologists very cautiously describe this flood as a local river flood. Probably this is related to embarrasing claims made by early archaeologist of Sumerian archaeology, Sir Leonard Woolley, who jumped to conclude that a similar but probably older flood layer in the site of ancient Sumerian city Ur was the result of the Noah flood when later that was shown to be fallacious because it was from a much earlier flood and floods of Ur were frequent where it was situated by the rivers and oft changing Persian Gulf coastline. Yet the Tell Fara flood deposits are very likely to coincide with the flood written about in the Sumerian King Lists. So it appears from archaeology of the most historic extant text of the time and the archaeology of Tell Fara that a flood did occur when predicted in the Book of Enoch and around 2600 BC between the Jemdat Nasr Period and Early Dynastic Period. 

Have Faith in God

Growing up my mother taught me to pray and that God answers and always, always, always God did answer my prayers. My mother taught me the words of Jesus and read from a children’s bible to me and I always looked to follow Jesus. At a certain age I started to say to others the matter of following Jesus must include doing the miracles He teaches His followers to do - miracles like He does. A new phase was starting for me even while young. Later I went to university and attended a famous church and one Sunday the famous preacher spoke at length expounding the saying of Jesus “Have faith in God. If anyone says to this mountain ‘Move and plant yourself in the sea’ and does not doubt in his heart, it will be so. The Father will make it so”. That morning I had burnt my finger on the toaster and it had a bad blister and the pain was severe. I tried to listen to the preacher with my eyes closed to help me concentrate but I could not concentrate with the pain like it was. I knew this was a situation like Jesus had been addressing and I must tell the pain to go. I listened to the preacher preaching with sincere faith those words of Jesus and I obeyed. In the quiet of my thoughts I said to the severe pain “Go!”. My eyes stayed shut so I did not see what happened but the pain completely vanished. I carried on listening as the preacher preached at length and fought off fierce thoughts of what doubting worldly people might want to say - that the pain would come back. It didn’t. After the sermon I looked and the blister had gone. It never came back. I told the preacher afterwards and he glofified God saying the preaching of the words of Jesus faithfully must lead to such things. Nowadays I often enjoy watching him preaching such things on mainstream TV. God is so faithful. I learned over the following years to do more and more like that and did great things in exercising of this faith. I learned to use it to command storms and make them stop immediately - well God did the stopping and I just did the commanding. Once years later Jesus met me in a severe storm which was causing local flooding. I had a big golfing umbrella up as torrential rain poured down and He said into my mind “Put down your umbrella!”. It was with such authority so I immediately folder it down and as I did so the rain stopped so instantly that not a drop touched me. I knew this was Jesus but asked a sign that night to seek confirmation and He caringly did it. So I know He affirms His lesson on faith in God by practising it too and showing it is right.

Spiritual Things

After hearing tongues interpreted and hearing the characteristic way the Spirit of Truth speaks it makes me realise I’ve been hearing this in dreams since a child and it transcends intellectual logic the way the Spirit speaks in truth about nature being commanded and nature obeying. Even inanimate objects have a duty to obey what is commanded them in accordance with the authority and reputation and teachings of Jesus Christ. So too when we command nature in this name - it must obey if we are devoid of doubt as we give the command. So too we have a duty to obey and daily to ever keep obeying what is commanded us in this name. I need to let this heavenly spiritual logic sink into my inner being and build it in the ways of God.

The Pre-eminent Immortal Resurrection

What does it mean that Jesus is firstborn over all creation and the only-begotten Son of God? Firstly He is firstborn over all sons of God. Like any firstborn, they are born before any other sibling exists. The Son of Man was born before any of the angels so when He was born they did not exist and when they were born He already existed. He is firstborn of creation too which means when He was born none of creation existed and when creation was born He already existed. So He is over creation as firstborn over it because He existed before it existed because He was born first. He is firstborn from the dead because when He rose there was no immortal raised from the dead and when anyone else is raised to immortality He is already raised so He is over them as a firstborn. This I’m sure is what it means. A firstborn is greater due to preeminence and has a kind of superior rank while still being one of the siblings. That is the significance of being born first. John the baptist was born before Jesus physically, biologically but proclaimed that still Jesus is preeminent over him having existed before him. He knew. He, the Son of Man, is before all things and in Him all things hold together.

Since the Son of Man is always and always will be preeminent by preexistence, the resurrection to immortality of anyone could not happen until first it happened to Him. And now it has, so now it can.

Words from God

I notice how the command in the Law of Moses to love God is accompanied by commands to write out His words and put them around the house and teach them. This is a perfect way to exercise love for God. So I decided to write down words the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit has given me over that time of visitation in my life. Now I wrote them I notice they look so symmetrical and planned. 

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“Build the temple.”

“I am God. Tomorrow at work a piece of paper with a list of names on it will be put in front of you. Look at it.”

“Put down your umbrella.”

“Consider the trees how they put out buds and leaves. They do so by the authority/power of the name of Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Israel has sinned”

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The first was the Holy Spirit when I asked to receive Him.

The second was the Father when I asked to see Him (in a dream). It resulted in a lesson on loving my neighbours at work.

The third was Lord Jesus out in the pouring rain. The rain stopped as soon as I obeyed.

The fourth was the Holy Spirit in church through tongues and interpretation.

The fifth was a word of the LORD that came to me as a prophecy with a sign.

I wrote them on a whiteboard in my bedroom so I see them every night. They so encourage me and warm my heart towards God.

“Let him who has a dream tell his dream but let him who has the word of the LORD proclaim it.”

“What is whispered in your ear shout from the rooftops.”

Be not afraid

Many seem to be too afraid to read the Book of Enoch. They love praise from their fellow men rather than setting their hearts on the “Well done good and faithful servant” that God and Christ can give. The Holy Spirit reminds those who hear Him how good praise from God can be. There will be a day “when the saints come marching in” and we should long to be among that crowd. There will be a ceremony when the myriad or myriads stand side by side in a ceremonial line all eyes ahead as the Lord of Glory walks down the line and surveys His willing troops and honours those who served Him well. There will be praise that really counts. Seek to be there in that ceremony of those who served Him willingly and readily in this life. Ignore the condemnation of those who want to stop you reading the Book of Enoch. Read it and live and jump for joy to the glory of the Son of Man.

The Sola Scriptura Fallacy

There is a teaching practiced by many protestants called sola scriptura. This is where only scripture (only books of scripture in the protestant main canon, ignoring the apocrypha) is allowed to contribute to doctrines that pertain to eternal life. It has a problem of being what is called self-referentially incoherent which is to say that it in itself does not come from scripture. However it is widely practiced such that many protestants will not accept doctrines important to eternal life unless they come from scriptures in their canon of scripture. Yet when it comes to understanding certain scriptures this causes a dead-lock because there are scriptures which cannot be understood correctly without sources outside the protestant canon. One example is the Nephilim of Genesis 6 and other books of Moses. Here is where you need to go outside of protestant canon books to find out who were the sons of God from whom descended the giants, the Nephilim. The Nephilim are also called sons of Anak or Anakim in canonised scripture of the Hebrew Bible. Understanding what that means requires a trip into Sumerian literature and the Book of Enoch. The Sumerians from whom Noah descended, and Noah’s own descendants, they were taught by Noah and Enoch to call the top angels “sons of God” or Anunnaki in their language. So when they were then told that the giants who terrorised the world centuries before the Flood were offspring of these Anunnaki the term sons of sons of God might have been coined and maybe the term “sons of Anak” or Anakim later used came into Hebrew from the Sumerian and Akkadian for sons of the Anunnaki (sons of sons of God).

Who are the sons of God and the only-begotten Son of God?

Who are the sons of God? This is one of the oldest terms in the most ancient scriptures that is indicative of links to our Sumerian past. Genesis 6. Job. Enoch. They mainly used the term to refer to top archangels and sometimes to slightly lesser angels. This shows a link to Sumerian literature that uses the term quite well known today for sons of God - sons of An - the Anunnaki. There are seven topmost archangels and we know them by name, especially the top four. Then there were angels who fell - also known by name. But none of these are singled out by God as being His only-begptten sons. The Son of Man is the one God calls His one son - more His son than any angel - more than even the topmost angels. “Anunnaki” could apply to the seven, as Sumerian writings say Noah taught. The top are sons of God. This is evident in Job. The top angels came together to form the court of God and Satan sometimes joined in too. The Genesis 6 passage calls lesser angels sons of God too - some became fallen angels. This ties in with most ancient Sumerian writings that say many Anunnaki are in the underworld. Inunna stories include this detail. So top and lesser angels are called sons of God both in holy most ancient scripture and less holy ancient writings which provide evidence main holy Sumerian most ancient teachers like Enoch and Noah were teaching these things. In the Book of Enoch God Himself only once calls anyone “My Son” and that is in chapter 105. He clearly meant the Son of Man, His Anointed One. 

“1. In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. 2. For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.”

KUR-GAL

KUR-GAL

The Sumerian people of Enoch’s time had a word KUR.GAL which meant “Great Land” but also Great Mountain and KUR itself could mean the Underworld. The Book of Enoch contains descriptions of a huge throne room of God like a massive crystal cave and describes other huge caverns with smooth walls below a great mountain where the spirits of the dead reside. It leads to the possibility that both the Underworld and the throne of God are under the same high mountain, the place of God’s throne in one of two connected caverns - a chamber and an antechamber - higher up than the four chambers of the Underworld. The Book of Revelation speaks of spirits or souls “beneath the throne” and it might be that they are in one of the underworld caverns literally some way down beneath the throne cavern. Which mountain? Enoch describes it being a very high mountain. Traditions and other Sumerian texts hint at it being in the Zagros range in Iran. The word in Persian (Farsi, language of Iran) for mountain is the word used for Underworld in Sumerian texts, Kur. So this shows there is a historic link and mountains in the great Zagros range are called Kur as are some place names. The highest mountain in the Zagros is the highest in all the Middle East, Mount Damavand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Damavand . Could this be location of God’s heavenly place and of the Underworld too? Ancient traditions support this possibility, either regarding Damavand or the range of mountains around it.

Immortal Beings

IMMORTAL BEINGS

The Book of Enoch is enlightening (indirectly) in how kind God was to keep Adam away from the Tree of Life. Look at Azazel and other fallen angels whose punishment as immortal beings was so grim that Michael objected bitterly: they could not be killed so they were buried alive for thousands of years until a special volcanic chasm will be their eternal home. Adam was lucky to die. To be eternal can be a curse if you are wicked in God’s eyes. Eternal immortality is only a blessing if the Son of Man keeps you righteous throughout your eternity.

The Name and Reputation

The name/reputation of YHWH is that He is the compassionate and gracious God. What then is the name/reputation of the Son of Man? I suggest it is that He is Yeshua, YHWY’s anointed one of righteousness and faith, the Lord through whom YHWH saves His people from their sins. That is surely His name/reputation.

Two Teachings Two Ways

The teachings of the Torah are older than the teachings of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Son taught both. He taught that a teacher of Torah who is also instructed in the Kingdom of God teachings is like a man who brings out new treasures as well as old. And many prove the Son right when they say the old is better. But the way of the dominion of the Holy Spirit is the way to subdue the desires of the flesh in a way the Torah cannot achieve.