Holy Names

 If we follow Jesus, we honour the Father by reverencing His name, while we reverence Jesus as Lord. Jesus is Lord, the Master of us, because he is so close to the Father who knows all. Yet there are many who insist on stating that Jesus is God,. Now, although we take care in not speaking the name of the Father irreverently, and refrain from rushing to speak that name on our lips, yet the ones who insist Jesus is God are very quick to speak his name, in all kinds of contexts. They do not afford his name the same reverence afforded the Father’s name. Clearly, despite their theological stance, deep down there is reverent fear to treat the name of the Father the same way they treat the name of the Son. Deep down they know it is the Father who, as Jesus taught his disciples, is the one true God: Even as whenever they pray the Lord’s Prayer they are confessing to the Father that it is His name which should be hallowed and that it is His kingdom, power, and glory which is forever.

The meetings for the sake of the name of Jesus Christ

 The reason to gather as a church is for the sake of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the power of this name which drives Nature itself: The trees grow by it; The planets move in their orbits around sun or stars by it. Thus, to give devotion to a meeting for the sake of this name is the very source of growth of life. If we abandon such devotion in our meetings, no longer prioritising his name, but setting aside this cause, we lose the driving force of growth, and we become spiritually blind. This is sin. The dark clouds then gather and the dark eagle soars above, as the sign of it.

Like a mighty wind

 To receive the Holy Spirit is for those who believe in Jesus, the light of all the world sent by the Father. Like a mighty wind, like living water welling up within Jesus’s disciples, imparting spiritual gifts, enabling the building of the Temple of lives lived for God. It is for those who by believing in Jesus and learning his teachings, become Jesus’s disciples who hold to his teachings. Do not miss out. Christ died for you.

Authenticity of New Testament rather than a later fabrication

 God’s truth is that He, the Father is the One who says “I am God”. Jesus is not Son of a Trinity. He is Son of the Father. When scripture says he is Son of God, it means he is Son of the Father, and the Father is God. That is the Divine truth of God. The Father is the one God, while Jesus is the one Lord, the Son of the one God. Jesus, Paul, John clearly taught these things, for example Paul proclaiming of Jesus that he will forever be subject to the Father so that the Father is forever God, all in all? They preached this truth, in reverence to the Father, whose is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever, Amen. Now it is evidence today that the gospels and epistles record their teachings authentically, in that if any of these writings were later creations by Christians, the Trinity doctrines or their earlier precursors would have been included in those creations, not teachings opposed to Trinity and heavy use of philosophies such as Neoplatonism. 

The Divine Truth

 God’s truth is that He, the Father is the One who says “I am God”. Jesus is not Son of a Trinity. He is Son of the Father. When scripture says he is Son of God, it means he is Son of the Father, and the Father is God. That is the Divine truth of God. The Father is the one God, while Jesus is the one Lord, the Son of the one God.

Jesus, the Gospels, and the Book of Enoch: Parallels and Their Significance

 Jesus, the Gospels, and the Book of Enoch: Parallels and Their Significance

Stephen D Green with ChatGPT 5

Introduction

Among the Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) held a prominent place. Though excluded from the later Jewish and most Christian biblical canons, it was highly influential in the religious imagination of Jesus’ time. The discovery of Enoch manuscripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls confirms that Enochic traditions were respected by Jewish groups in the first century.

The Gospels themselves contain sayings of Jesus that appear to echo or align with ideas developed most clearly in Enoch—ideas not present in the Hebrew Bible. These echoes are most apparent in two key teachings:

1. Jesus’ promise of “living water” welling up from within believers (John 4:14; 7:38).
2. Jesus’ declaration that angels do not marry (Mark 12:25; Matt 22:30; Luke 20:35–36).

That Jesus may have drawn on Enochic tradition here is not only plausible but historically significant. It suggests that Jesus recognized authority in texts later discarded by the church, and that the Gospels preserve authentic traditions rooted in his own time rather than inventions of later Christians.

Parallels Between the Gospels and 1 Enoch

1. Living Water

• Gospels:
  John 4:14 — “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
  John 7:38 — “As the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
• 1 Enoch:
  1 Enoch 48:1 — “The chosen one will be the fountain of wisdom, and those who learn from him shall drink and not thirst.”
  1 Enoch 108:13 — “He will open the fountain of righteousness and the fountain of living water for the righteous.”

Here, the Johannine imagery of living water flowing from within mirrors Enoch’s vision of the Chosen One as a fountain of wisdom and righteousness. This connection is striking, since no such “living water” prophecy exists in the Hebrew Bible.

2. Angels and Marriage

• Gospels:
  Mark 12:25 — “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like angels in heaven.”
  (Matthew 22:30 and Luke 20:35–36 preserve the same teaching.)
• 1 Enoch:
  Chapters 6–15 describe the “Watchers,” angels who transgressed by marrying human women. Their punishment makes clear that angels are not meant for human marriage and exist in a different order of being.

Jesus’ teaching resonates with this Enochic interpretation rather than with the plain reading of Genesis 6, which alone could suggest that angels did marry. By aligning with Enoch’s interpretation, Jesus positions himself within apocalyptic Jewish thought that sharply distinguished angels from humanity.

Observations

1. These Gospel passages reflect knowledge of Enochic traditions, which were still authoritative in some Jewish circles during Jesus’ lifetime.
2. The parallels are absent from the later Hebrew Bible, meaning they are unlikely to have been drawn from canonical Jewish scripture as defined after the first century.
3. That the Gospels preserve these sayings suggests they represent authentic traditions, since they do not neatly serve later Christian doctrinal agendas.

Significance

The implications are profound:

• If Jesus drew upon Enoch and even implied its authority, then the scope of “scripture” in his world was broaderthan the canon later recognized by Christianity.
• Later church leaders excluded Enoch because it lacked Hebrew manuscripts, contained speculative angelology, and was favored by groups deemed heterodox. Yet Jesus’ words preserve echoes of precisely those Enochic traditions.
• This means the Gospels carry authentic memory of Jesus’ teachings that run counter to later Christian dispositions, reinforcing their historical reliability rather than undermining it.

Conclusion

The Gospel references to living water and to angels not marrying highlight how Jesus’ teachings align with the Book of Enoch. While later Christianity suppressed or ignored Enoch, Jesus’ sayings suggest that it informed his understanding of God’s truth. Far from undermining the Gospels, this strengthens the case for their authenticity: they preserve a window into the scriptural imagination of Jesus’ world, even when it conflicted with the later church.

Jesus, the Gospels, and the Book of Enoch

 Jesus, the Gospels, and the Book of Enoch (Stephen D Green with ChatGPT 5)

Scholars of Second Temple Judaism note that 1 Enoch (especially the Book of the Watchers and the Parables of Enoch) was widely circulated and regarded as authoritative by some Jewish groups in Jesus’ day.

• Some Gospel sayings appear to allude to ideas that are explicitly developed in Enoch but are not found in the Hebrew Bible.
• Two prominent examples are:
1. Jesus’ teaching about “living water” welling up from within(John 4:14; 7:38).
2. Jesus’ teaching about angels not marrying (Mark 12:25; Matt 22:30; Luke 20:35–36).

The fact that these sayings align closely with Enochic ideas—but not the later Jewish or Christian canon—suggests the Gospels preserve authentic traditions rooted in Jesus’ actual milieu. It is less likely these sayings were fabricated by later Christians, who largely excluded Enoch from the canon.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Theme	Gospel Passage	1 Enoch Parallel	Notes
Living Water / Spirit	John 4:14 – “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 7:38 – “As the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”	1 Enoch 48:1 – “The chosen one will be the fountain of wisdom, and those who learn from him shall drink and not thirst.” 1 Enoch 108:13 – “He will open the fountain of righteousness and the fountain of living water for the righteous.”	The “water welling up from within” imagery in John closely resembles the Enochic idea of a messianic or righteous figure as a living fountain of blessing.
Angels Do Not Marry / Resurrection	Mark 12:25 – “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like angels in heaven.” Matt 22:30 / Luke 20:35–36 – same teaching	1 Enoch 6–15 – The “Watchers” (angels) who married human women are punished; angels are spiritual beings who do not naturally marry humans.	Jesus’ statement reflects Enoch’s angelology: angels exist in a different order of life than humans. The Sadducees’ knowledge of Genesis 6 would have made this saying resonate, showing a connection to Jewish apocalyptic tradition.

Observations

1. In both examples, the Gospel texts reflect knowledge of Enochic ideas, which were authoritative in certain Jewish circles during Jesus’ lifetime.
2. These allusions are absent from the later Hebrew Bible and therefore could have been “embarrassing” or irrelevant for a later Christian editor to invent—they align with Jesus’ own cultural and religious context.
3. The parallels suggest that at least some Gospel sayings preserve authentic traditions, not later doctrinal inventions.

Human like us

 Jesus is human just as we are human, thus his teachings are truly relevant to us. If Jesus was not just like us, his teachings would be hypocrisy, because he would be telling us to do what for him simply came naturally, which did not come naturally for us. So he would not be truly practising what he preached. He is human as we are human. So faith runs contrary to his natural self, just as it does for us, yet he has the very same faith he commands us to have too.

Ghosts of the coming wrath

 Ghosts of the coming wrath.

We see these glimpses today of wrath decades from now. Decades ago it was the police helicopters, and the high up spy planes, and the internet tracking, and browser history records, and backdoors of apps, and the cameras on street corners and in the city squares. Now it is all this plus we have drones which in some trouble spots are notoriously armed, and backdoors of chips, and smart cities, smart meters, and smartphones monitoring our almost every move. How much will all this too become armed against the right-living ordinary people of tomorrow. Dystopia by stealth. Yet the spirit of it all angelically hails its intent as we are given the vision of the what and the why of it all: Showing us the people who have sinned. This is why we are given this sign of the black eagle of foreboding, with the white eye of surveillance. When that eagle soars above us, evil follows on the ground. Eventually it leads to war. Then comes dystopian ‘peace’, like bad forcing us into the arms of worse than bad.

Knowing the truth

 People do not necessarily know truly about the Father and the Son, because this knowledge comes only with recognition of the enlightening power of the teachings of Jesus. Finding light in the teachings of Jesus is typically on two levels. Firstly we recognise how they shine light on deeds done by others, which are shown up as lacking. For example, the command to do unto others as we would have others do unto us, this we find shows up the fact that others do not always live this way towards us. The deeds we would prefer them to do unto us are not what people do unto us. This sheds light on lack of righteousness in others. It tells us there is a better way, which is the way of behaving we find captured in the commands of Jesus, and this way is called righteousness. We want others to do right by us, and the commands of Jesus support our concern because they teach us what that would look like. We are made aware, in Jesus’ teachings, that others are not doing this, so we are being let down by those around us. We might therefore afford a deep trust towards Jesus for bringing it to our attention, and hopefully providing a solution. Yet, there is more. Secondly, we recognise how our own actions are falling short too. We find the trust we direct at Jesus might be the solution to how we might learn to do unto others as we wish others would do unto us. It needs time. Yet Jesus has provided the light we need. The challenge is to persist in applying the teachings of Jesus to our own actions. It hurts because it starts with painful recognition that we probably fall short. But the teachings are there teaching us, if we let them, if we allow the light from them to enlighten our deeds towards others. We need to let the logic of the commands to instruct what we do. We need to pause enough to let them change our habits when the occasions arise. If we succeed, we have passed into a new status of hope. We have become those who truly learn from Jesus. He taught that his commands must be applied to our own actions, more than the easier alternative of merely letting them be our tool of judging others. If we do as Jesus taught, trusting the way his teachings enlighten us, we become his own people, his disciples. That opens hope up to us, because he seeks out and saves those who are his own. This is his highest power, the power to save, to give eternal life, to even give resurrection to those who are his own. God sent him for this purpose, in love. Central to this purpose is the knowledge of knowing the Father and the Son. It is the truth Jesus uses to save his own. 

The gospel people hate

 People do not like the possibility that they too can do miracles. It shows up their failure to achieve their potential. If Jesus can do them, so can anyone with faith, because Jesus is human like us. They do not like this. So they make Jesus their only God. If Jesus is God, their reasoning goes, then no wonder we do not do miracles like he does them. We are not God. This gospel they are preaching is not the gospel revealed to the apostles of Jesus. In the true gospel we are like Jesus as humans and can therefore do what Jesus does, if we have faith. Sure, he succeeded where we fail, but we can learn. That is why he teaches. He teaches what he himself does, because he is teaching humans who are like he is. Where is your faith?!

Spirit and truth

 Do we expect to have the spirit of Christ with us when we meet to uphold the Nicaean doctrines? It might be disappointing. The spirit of Christ comes to those whose meetings uphold the teachings of Christ himself. Upholding Christ draws the spirit of Christ. The Holy Spirit blesses such. We receive this Holy Spirit and find the Holy Spirit upholds what is Christ’s given by the Father. The test is in whether there is manifestation of the spirit Christ among those meeting for his sake. To those truly believing in and adhering to the sayings of Jesus Christ and those sent by him there is given the Holy Spirit to impart blessings of Jesus from the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ blesses their meetings with his presence when they meet for the upholding of his name. God finds His place of peaceful glory in this temple, and all are built up in His will. 

The Sixties

 WHAT WILL THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES BE LIKE? NO, NOT THE NINETEEN SIXTIES. THE TWENTY SIXTIES.

THE WRATH WILL COME, OR BE ABOUT TO COME. WRATH? THE WRATH OF GOD, FORETOLD IN THE BOOK OF ENOCH AND BOOK OF REVELATION.

GOD SETS A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH KILLING OF HIS RIGHTEOUS SAINTS CAN BE PERPETRATED, AT WHICH POINT HIS TIME OF WRATH WILL BE TRIGGERED AND THE CHRIST WILL OPEN THE SIXTH SEAL. IT WON’T BE GOOD TO BE LIVING.

The salvation sent by God the Father

  Remember Genesis: How God spoke, saying “Let this and that happen”, and it happened. Well, before it happened, there was that Word going forth. It existed there until it came to pass as God had spoken. When God created, He pronounced what must be, and the word He spoke existed, to bring about what He said. The word was spoken and there was spirit that received each wisely spoken word, like a dutiful son learning from the Father teacher. All that was spoken mounted up into a corpus of words of wisdom from the Father, embodied in this Son. This is the Word, the Logos. It is a spirit matter. The spirit of the student of the words existed from the beginning. John in his gospel states that the Word then became flesh. Jesus Christ. This Word, the Son, brought light to all when the Creator, the Father, sent him into the world. God commended him for a span of several years by the miracles He gave His Son to do. God taught the disciples to hear and heed Jesus, His beloved Son, with whom He was well pleased. The Holy Spirit testifies of him too. “Consider the trees. They put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider the planets. They orbit faithfully. They do so by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” This is a divine message spoken in tongues, in a worship service, then interpreted identically by two people gifted with interpretation of the tongues. The Lord Jesus Christ’s name is so powerful in the universe. It all goes back to him being the Word of God, the Word of the Creator. We should listen to this man, the Son of God: Believing. Holding to his teachings. Christ died for you. He died on a cross. God than raised him from the dead and he lives today and forever, by God’s power. God has made this Jesus both Lord and Christ. By heeding his words, with belief in him and his name, people become disciples of him and he saves them from their sins. He was given the name Jesus because of this. It means he saves. He is the salvation sent by God the Father. 

The Cosmic Ledger (extended version)

 “Consider the trees. They put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider the planets. They orbit faithfully. They do so by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Holy Spirit (message spoken in tongues interpreted identically by two gifted with interpretation of the tongues) 

It was long ago, centuries before Christ came in the flesh, when the doctrine of the ‘Logos’ was taught. Heraclitus and then the Stoics were among the main teachers of it. The Cosmic Ledger. Yet Genesis taught it too. God spoke, saying “Let this and that happen”, and it happened, but first, before it happened, there was that Word going forth. It was metaphorically etched onto the fabric of existence, and it stayed there until it came to pass as God had spoken. The Logos teaching is rather like saying this Word must be there on the fabric of existence, like in a kind of Cosmic Ledger. Think how people place orders for their business, and keep a ledger, perhaps setting aside budget codes or commitment codes for each order placed, so that ledger record exists to say an amount will be spent to pay for what is ordered, and the record will sit there as evidence of the transaction which will settle the payment for the order. The universe has a ledger. When God creates, He pronounces what must be, and the word He speaks exists, like in a ledger, to bring about what He said. The word is spoken and the ledger receives each wisely spoken word, like a dutiful son learning from the Father teacher. All that is spoken mounts up into a corpus of words of wisdom from the Father, embodied in the Son. This is the Word, the Logos. It is a spirit matter. The spirit of the ledger—of the student of the words—existed from the beginning. John in his gospel seems to have taken this a step further and given this teaching as the start of the Gospel, in which he states that the Word then became flesh. Jesus Christ. 

Lord Jesus Christ’s name is so powerful in the universe. It all goes back to him being the Word of God, the Word of the Creator. We should listen to this man, the Son of God: Believing. Holding to his teachings. 

The Cosmic Ledger

 It was long ago, centuries before Christ came in the flesh, when the doctrine of the ‘Logos’ was taught. Heraclitus and then the Stoics were among the main teachers of it. The Cosmic Ledger. Yet Genesis taught it too. God spoke, saying “Let this and that happen”, and it happened, but first, before it happened, there was that Word going forth. It was metaphorically etched onto the fabric of existence, and it stayed there until it came to pass as God had spoken. The Logos teaching is rather like saying this Word must be there on the fabric of existence, like in a kind of Cosmic Ledger. Think how people place orders for their business, and keep a ledger, perhaps setting aside budget codes or commitment codes for each order placed, so that ledger record exists to say an amount will be spent to pay for what is ordered, and the record will sit there as evidence of the transaction which will settle the payment for the order. The universe has a ledger. When God creates, He pronounces what must be, and the word He speaks exists, like in a ledger, to bring about what He said. The word is spoken and the ledger receives each wisely spoken word, like a dutiful son learning from the Father teacher. All that is spoken mounts up into a corpus of words of wisdom from the Father, embodied in the Son. This is the Word, the Logos. It is a spirit matter. The spirit of the ledger—of the student of the words—existed from the beginning. John in his gospel seems to have taken this a step further and given this teaching as the start of the Gospel, in which he states that the Word then became flesh. Jesus Christ. 

This Holy Spirit

 The Holy Spirit leads into all truth, and knowledge of what is coming. Who is this spirit? How are we to follow and learn from this Holy Spirit? It comes down to becoming a disciple of Jesus, believing in him and following the way of teachings he introduced. In practice that is not necessarily anything deeply philosophical or academic, but rather about getting the gist of the magnitude of fame and worthiness of Jesus, essentially his name, and believing in it, so it is worth giving all we have to follow his path. This makes us his. Then, being his, we are allowed by God to receive the Holy Spirit forever, to lead into all truth, and to save us by this truth setting us free from our severe shortcomings and wrongdoings. This puts us in a right path forever, to accomplish the righteous purposes of God the Father. It is made possible by the death of Jesus on the cross, and his resurrection by the power of God shortly after, such that he now lives forever, to help and save his followers. This turns aside the anger of God about our wrongdoing, and provides for making us pure from it these wrongs. Christ died for you. 

Who God is, and who God is not

 Revelation 1:1 says clearly that God gave the Book of Revelation to Jesus. By ‘God’ it is clear it means the Father.

It seems the Romans thought they could establish truth by Roman might, by forcing bishops from around their Roman Empire to sit and agree what they thought is true, using Greek philosophy to express it unambiguously so it could be enforced by Roman rule. But the Christ is not mocked. The Rome-led churches who conceded to this approach were running ahead and not adhering to the teachings of the one Christ. 

Do not serve the emerging Beast

 THE COMING WRATH WILL CULMINATE IN THE THREE-PART BEAST EMPIRE.

THREE SUPERPOWERS SEEN TODAY FIT WELL GOD’S DESCRIPTION OF THIS BEAST FORETOLD IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. ONE PART PROGRESSES EXTREMELY FAST LIKE A LEOPARD. THE MOUTH PART IS LIKE A LION IN ROARING FEROCITY AND MILITARY BITE. THE FEET ARE STABLE AND LUMBERING LIKE A BEAR. 

BEST AVOID SERVING THIS BEAST AS IT EMERGES, BECAUSE GOD WILL MOST SEVERELY PUNISH THOSE WHO SERVE IT.