Truth Supression and Control

When I was growing up in a home of a pastor it was the dogma to keep to Bible scripture for inspiration and read other religious books with caution but freedom. I knew scripture has a badge of agreed authenticity of being from God but I was encouraged to read other books too and learn the knowledge that focuses on providing a background to scripture to help my understanding of scripture and of people to whom I might be reading scripture and preaching. I learned the churches lacked the power of God but power of God is recorded as being made known to the churches to whom scripture was primarily written as they were blessed by God. I wanted that too. I would leave churches to find it. Then after three decades asking God to reality He sent out to me what I needed and found me and showed me His power and glory. Part of it was manifestation of the same Holy Spirit who had come to the first church on the first Pentecost after Lord Jesus Christ ascended. The thing was, now I knew for real for myself and on behalf of my hearers what is real truth from God which came to a blessed church I attended and to me especially as one marked out to know this truth of what God actually teaches. Not a translation of scripture by scholars but inspiration directly and through another too of the very words of the Holy Spirit. So I had this plus my background reading to help me understand scripture. Yet what helped with scripture in the Bible agreed 'canon' also applied to scripture I came across from outside that Western-controlled canon when I saw a book of it in an SPCK Christian bookshop. I knew this was scriptiure just as much inspired by the Holy Spirit as Bible scripture. Confessing contributed to me being banned from a church - the very church blessed by God that time. (Though my 'sins' conributed too and my human misdemeanors might have warranted it.) I was out on a limb. All I had was my God and these manifold scriptures. Which got me thinking there is more scripture out there inspired by the Spirit who leads into all truth as Lord Jesus had promised. Lord lead me into truth as I discover and read it - and my hearers too. God bless those who read these words, especially you who seek unbridled truth.

Perfect Template

God looked to create a great many children to share His Kingdom and serve Him as priests. It would mean creating such a people as a new creation starting with children of Satan who lie and murderously hate and creating them anew into children of His own who lovingly obey Him and behave like Him. So He needed a template from which to make copies but it had to be a template that was right and true and the plumbline God uses is perfect at measuring what is right and a proper right angle to the ground when it has to point exactly upwards as in a well built building. So the template has to be as good as the standards God is applying and conform perfectly to those standards or else the outcomes of copying children as building blocks based on this template will be imperfect from the start and get worse as more copies are made from the copies. Well He chose His Son from all time  to be the template and sent Him into the world to start His Kingdom and they called His name Jesus, The Christ.

What Lord Jesus is Like

He, the Lord, Jesus, The Christ, did take human form and was born and He did die so He was mortal and when He rose from the dead He was no ghost but flesh and blood. The disciples who saw Him alive after the crucifixion and resurrection testified that He ate food in front of them to show He is no ghost and said "See no ghost has flesh and blood like you see I have". So what is He now He is with God. Still flesh and blood and no ghost surely. We do not know from scripture alone but the Holy Spitit can inspire our hesrts and spirits to know what He now is, now that He had back the glory with God The Father He had before the foundation of the world. This is foretaste of what the future people of the resurrection will be.

A Building Of Stones Not Cut With Human Hands

I notice that some people over time change their thinking about Jesus from seeing Him as an important teacher in Jewish history who lived around 5 BC to maybe almost 30 AD to thinking with increasing certainty that Jesus existed before being born and even before the Universe came to be. This corresponds with contemporaries of Jesus recognising Him to be the Christ because the Christ or Messiah was considered someone who would come into the world. Into the world might have been a concept that people understand differently over time too from being merely born to being incarnated, as pre-existence become better understood to apply to the person prophecy had called The Christ, The Anointed Prince, The Messiah. Simon Peter was one in the time of Jesus' ministry around Roman era Judea and Samaria who came to an understanding that Jesus was the Christ who was to come into the world. Jesus firstly said this understanding was blessed because it came from the Holy Spirit as from God The Father Himself and secondly that Peter, renamed from Simon to Peter meaning stone or rock  at that time, was to be first of many such stones with which Jesus as The Christ would build His Church, in fulfillment of prophecy of what The Christ, The Branch, would come to do - build the Temple of God. So to me it becomes clear that God's Temple is being built of the stones not cut by human hands by the Messiah Jesus and this temple is built by the forming together of people inspired by the Holy Spirit to understand Jesus is the Messiah or Christ who came into the world having pre-existed with God from before all things.

Deflation and Life

A rubber tyre on a wheel can lose its air and get deflated. Air is lost from the tyre as time goes by and this is normal. It is like death. We feel deflated as death creeps into us because we are mortal. We lose life as time goes by like a tyre loses air. This makes us weaker and less able to take on the challenges of life. God has given an answer. His Son is Jesus Christ alive from the dead and if we love Lord Jesus He can give us revelation of Himself as He is. The very thought back to such a revelation is like pumping air into that tyre. The very nature of living Lord Jesus, The Christ, imparts life into a deflated person such that they no longer feel deflated. Dwelling on the knowledge of Jesus imparts life. Jesus Himself imparts life just by who and what He is. He is so full of life that it spreads to those who dwell on Him, on a revelation of Him. This is God's gift to those who believe. God The Father's gift. God has given life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life.

Ghost Baby

The baby enters the world being born. No allegiences. No mistakes. It looks around for its mission and reason to be there. It looks for its God to love who brought it into this existence. It is born. Like a ghost. No territory. No home as yet. Everything that will happen is yet to happen. Ghost baby. "See I have come to do Your will O God." Be born again of spirit - of The Spirit. Be a ghost baby again.

Things Above

Prophecy and the 'translation' of Enoch, seventh from Adam, points to heaven and the place of the throne of God The Father as being in an immense crystal cave joined to another immense crystal cave inside a high mountain north of three volcanoes and west of three other volcanoes. A mountain like this might be Cocopaxi in Ecuador and crystal caves maybe of much smaller size are found in the mountains of Mexico normally not connected to the outside world but one or two were revealed by very deep mining shaft digging. So we have a picture of a revelation of where God is enthroned in the Book of Enoch made clearer by modern discoveries and other knowledge distributed by Internet and television. It shows a single crystal cave of huge size where is enthroned God and Jesus The Lord with Him then another cave connected to it. Thoughts about this: Perhaps the second cave emphasises that it is important to pause in the outer cave before entering the throne cave. Do not instantly rush straight to the place of God. The prophet Enoch might not have known what we know that there is one reason alone a person can hope to be allowed to approach the place of the throne of God The Father and that is that The Lord Jesus, The Son of Man as He was known to Enoch, was crucified to shed His blood in sacrifice like a sacrificial lamb. This even allowed Enoch thousands of years earlier to approach God because the sacrifice counted good in God's eyes even before it happened such that God shows Jesus, in the Book of Revelation, to be the lamb slain since the foundation of the world.

Care

Taking care of people is a principle part of what God The Father does. He wants people to do the same and teaches it. He especially watches out for those who believe and have received the Holy Spirit and manifest the Holy Spirit in spiritually gifted ways. He watches that they are gotten out of difficult or unfortunate situations. He teaches this is what He wants done. Learning this behaviour by watching what God does and doing it was first practised by Lord Jesus Christ. It is what He then teaches others to do in immitation of God The Father. Learning it by watching Jesus do it was what the first Apostles did. Jesus told Peter after Jesus rose from the dead to look after and take care of the followers of Jesus. When Peter did this it must have been imitated by disciples who observed it as they listened to and followed Peter's preaching and teaching of God's counsel. The influence spreads. Just as God The Father still does this today, so does Jesus. He still imitates His God-and-Father's actions with the immense power God has now given Him and He does it gloriously. He illuminates us with it, showing forth the care of God, especially getting His followers out of bad situations with almighty faith in God. Nothing is beyond His power in this. Ever alive to do it too. Yet now Jesus has returned to the Father who sent Him: Not very far away for someone so almighty but out of sight and in the presence of God and gloriously divine like God. So He still visits followers at special times but is not usually seen with the eye (exceptions have happened though) but in His place He gives the Holy Spirit from before the throne of glory who brings the same power and authority and care of God and Lord Jesus. The Holy Spirit shows delightful care and absolute ability to watch out for the believer to get them out of problems and look after their needs. He is not seen with the eye usually but shows it is Him by the words and powers and miracles and other spiritual gifts He gives when He visits in His caring way; God's way. He will always be around to watch out to see who fears God and believes what God says and teaches. He brings help and comfort to such people and delivers from tricky situations constantly all around the world wherever people are. Never will He leave the followers of Jesus as orphans. He certainly cares. Jesus promised that when He returns, far sooner now than when He said it, He will be as all pervading in His coming around the world as lightning is when it fills the sky with light. His care will be as far reaching then as lighting is across the heavens. The awakened sleeping saints martyred in all history will be with Him. The lion will lie down with the lamb in all the places His care is extended. This time of the Spirit now is but a foretaste of that time to come - soon.

Getting Heavy

Due to the real authority everywhere in the world and beyond the Lord Jesus has now that God has given Him to power-share God's throne it is truly amis to refuse His teaching. He said this, that, in view of all authority being given Him, we can go everywhere to make every creature - every human - a recipient of the gospel of His teachngs and a disciple of His commands to obey them. And He follows up with His power demonstrations. The Spirit of Truth testifies but we also testify of what we too have seen and heard and touched of Lord Jesus in following Him. So backslidng is denial of the authority of His Name.

Dreams and Superpowers

It seems from the Gospel of John that Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, took special care to ensure the Holy Spirit would be sent to people believing in Jesus. The Holy Spirit makes dreams into special private lessons when He comes and gives us one-to-one counsel from God through the living Jesus. Maybe this one-to-one capability of spirit to spirit is much more effective than one-to-many instruction Jesus would have given believers if He had stayed among the people after His resurrection. The possibilities of receiving each one direct revelations of God from the sevenfold Holy Spirit (literally seven Spirits, described in 'Revelation' in scripture) are such that many many people can have comfort of being led by Him and be children of God. His leadings are not just through dreams and visions but in spiritual gifts shared in church services and outside church services like powers similar to the concept fictionalised in comics and prophecies and acts of inspired mercy and angelic utterances and their translation into intelligible words. All the Holy Spirit's work in humans who believe what God says.

Virgin Birth

When it is considered true that the birth of Jesus of Nazareth called Jesus Christ came about as a virgin birth and that there were prophecies fulfilled from the Book of Isaiah written centuries earlier matching other details like the name given this baby Isa or Jesus or Yeshuah, considering this was all so mysterious and astonishing and other things happening involving Jesus ever since are not unbelievable. It was the time Jesus came too that was prophesied by Daniel in the Book of Daniel. It is the existence still of bone fragments likely to belong to the cousin of Jesus recognised as having truly lived and become well known, John the Baptist, that adds weight to the Messiahship of Jesus. John the Baptist had a ministry fulfilling prophecies from centuries earlier involving his teaching of economic levelling of the playing field by richer giving to poorer, ministry akin to Elijah of old, ministry in the wilderness to prepare the way for Jesus his cousin. Then there is the teachings of Jesus  about the Son of Man who was prosphesied in the Book of Enoch found now among the Dead Sea Scrolls in fragments preserved in the Ethioptic scriptures. The Son of Man mentioned in the Second Book of Parables described so well the person Jesus professed to be having existed before the Bronze Age and even before cosmic beginnings. So to say Jesus lives and works miracles today still is hardly surprising yet everything about Jesus is astounding and takes me aback even though I remember much in my own memory of what I have witnessed. He is the ultimate being of perfection besides the God who is His own Father and God. Devoid of deficiency and defect. Wondrous with glory reaching out to the depths of the human heart from His own now Human heart but firstborn from the dead, alive forever. This Son of Man has been crucified, has suffered ultimate death by crucifixion yet lives and lives forever. This Jesus is High Priest over the true House of God, those who believe and keep His words forever no matter what, even to the point of death. This Jesus is hope of acquiring righteousness which is His own freedom from slavery to doing wrong. Jesus who is hope of being made worthy by Him for resurrection. This Jesus, Himself Resurrection and Life, who can of Himself by power God has given Him raise the dead and give them life to eternally know Him and God who sent Him. This Jesus who will raise those worthy of resurrection when He comes so they escape the future death which is beyond death at the Final Judgment. "Have faith in God" He says and He practices what He preaches too, gloriously as Son of the Most High God who alone is the true living God, The Father who sent Him. Your work given you by God is to have faith in God and faith in Jesus who God sent. Jesus has completed His own work of dying and rising from death having testified to the truth. Now He can complete what is deficient in yours by completing what is lacking in your faith.

Key To Knowledge Stolen

"You have stolen the key to knowledge. You yourselves do not enter and you prevent from entering those who want to enter." The words of God given by Jesus Christ in His ministry in early first century AD. This is still relevant and the words never pass away. The knowledge necessary to understand scripture and obey commands of God in scripture according to true knowledge and understanding remains available to some educated in religious history sufficiently well to understand but so many with this knowledge fail to follow it through to actual true obedience because of lack of love towards God. Others who love God are unable to understand scripture confidently enough to obey the commands of God like the Christ Jesus taught and the knowledgable ones do not help enough. The dicotomy widens. The hypocrisy of the knowledgable is merely a stumbling block to those willing and wanting to be true followers of God. Holding to the life-giving words of God as testified to by Jesus Christ His Son is key. The teaching against such hypocrisy chastens and cuts to the heart the knowing hypocrite if they are not too hard hearted. The teaching encourages the budding would-be disciples to know that Jesus and the Father and Holy Spirit are aware of the problem and concerned for the ignorant who want to learn and understand. The Holy Spirit can and does break the deadlock by revelation of the true counsel of God and testimony of Jesus applying it in real situations to those who believe God.

Ruler of All Rulers

When the Apostle John wrote in Revelation words about Jesus being Christ and faithful and true as God's witness but also Ruler of the kings of the earth it might have been a striking revelation indeed that even the Ceasars of Rome are ruled by this Lord. Now today He still shows supremacy over kings of all kinds. Yet surely He often leaves them alone in their decisions to see what is in their hearts, as God His Father did with kings in ancient times scripture writers inspired by Him tell us. So Jesus can call the shots or refrain from doing so as and when. We cannot assume rulers are acting in His will or God the Father's will even rulers who acknowledge Jesus as being their own Lord. But what a Ruler Jesus is, completely devoid of defect. Full of faith. Son of God.

Unlimited

God doesn't confine His circles of influence to meetings and services or religious buildings. His influence is most marked when people exhibit gifts of grace given by God. It might be a timely miracle. It might be a startlingly well worded poem. It might be a flash of inspiration of some other kind. It might be supernatural utterance in an angelic language spoken or sung. It might be a sense of overwhelming awe or a sudden moment of liberating peace. It might be in private. It might be in company. It might be in a religious service. It might be in the workplace. It might be sudden. It might span days. It might be perceived to span decades. It is often unrecognised as God. It might be recognised years later or hours later. It is sure and faithful and true and edifying though when it is God and it manfests God as the Father and Jesus as the Son of God and the Holy Spirit as coming from God in Jesus' name as God's word and Jesus' testimony and that of His faithful servants is believed. God with us.

Cotopaxi

Enoch described Heaven so clearly but where is it? In a mountain surrounded by six in an L shape perhaps volcanoes and there might perhaps be a cave below in the depths underground like the crystal caves in the mountains of Mexico found recently during mining but normally unconnected to the surface.

In Book of Enoch chapter 14 verses 12 and following

And drew nigh to a spacious habitation built also with stones of crystal. Its walls too, as well as pavement, were formed with stones of crystal, and crystal likewise was the ground. Its roof had the appearance of agitated stars and flashes of lightning; and among them were cherubim of fire in a stormy sky. A flame burned around its walls; and its portal blazed with fire. When I entered into this dwelling, it was hot as fire and cold as ice. No trace of delight or of life was there. Terror overwhelmed me, and a fearful shaking seized me.

A candidate might be Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador, east of which are volcanoes Antisana, Cayambe and Reventador and south are Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Sangay. Cotopaxi is thought to be home of gods in local lore and is truly majestic like a throne of a god. The match to the description in the propecy in the Book of Enoch seems worth considering.

Love God with your Voice and Vote

There is a duty of every created human who has their Creator as their one true God to love Him with their voice as well as with all their heart and soul and mind. Love towards your Creator needs to reach the voice you have. Voting for leadership choices and in referendums and the like might be part of that voice you have. I believe it is a command of God to let that love you have and ought to have for Him as your God influence your voting and any other voice you have so that His will is more likely to be done on earth as it is where He resides and reigns. His judgments can be turned aside and tragic disasters averted by allowing His will to influence politics by people who love Him using their voice and voting rights to bring about His will with leaders appointed and referendas decided according to the love people have for their one true God. This is all the more so if people know and rightly discern God's will in who to appoint or what referendum decision to make. A sign of all this is found in the existence of that eye in the sky, mass surveillance in all its forms (Hosea chapter 8 and modern prophecy too).

Nothing New - Conclusion

My conclusion to my previous post (http://stephendgreen.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/nothing-new.html) is that Jesus Christ is and for all of time been the one who was there with God the Creator Father as a son with a father by whose name nature has been obeying God doing His will in all natural lifecycles and planetary movements and stellar processes since they came into existence with God involving His beloved Son in all His creating and ruling from His glorious Throne. So He, Jesus, is Lord now He is risen but was with God reigning over all things and all angelic spirits since the very beginning. This was known by this prophet Enoch (it seems from archaeology the contemporaries or later decendants of Enoch called him Enmenduranna, meaning 'ruler between earth and heaven') who wrote about this Jesus so long before Jesus was born a flesh and blood baby knowing Him in His ancient times preincarnate form as the Son of Man who went always with God the Lord of Spirits. So Jesus knowingly invoked this truth known since ancient times when He introduced Himself and taught of His divine mission and purpose as the Son of Man who had come to die at the hands of evil men and rise from the dead.

Nothing New

The modern day work of the Holy Spirit in Pentecostal churches and some of what He teaches through charismatic gifts leads to a conclusion that some or all of the ancient prophecies collected in the Book of Enoch were inspired by the same Holy Spirit in ancient times.
The Holy Spirit's lesson is truthful speech and truthful written testimony so those prophecies must be a work of truth since they are inspired by the Holy Spirit of Truth.
Archaeology findings found in the last century dating from the time when the prophesies and testimonies in the Book of Enoch themselves record that they were first written down are evidence supporting these deductions.
They show a sudden emergence in Mount Hermon in Lebanon and in the surrounding areas of certain cultural arts that were previously not found anywhere. The evidence of these arts is found later and later in the local archaeological layers as you look further and further from the epicentre of Hermon, in places such as in the Levant coustlands, Cyprus and Egypt (Predynastic). This evidence is consistent with the testimony of the Book of Enoch which states that spirits watching over humans conspired on Mount Hermon to take very attractive human girls as wives and that they taught these wives and other people these same arts. The spread of these arts was a great evil in the world. The prophecy relates how God severely judged these spirits for spreading such worthless teachings. The evil was even greater when offspring of the liaisons between these watching spirits and the girls became sorcerers of spiritually gigantic greatness. They wrought great evil and ruled over humans making the humans worship them.

Truth in the Book of Enoch relevant to our own times includes on one hand the truth that demons are real and include the ghosts of these sorcerers of such ancient times (around 3500 to 2500 BC) and on the other hand that supreme over the spirits of that time and now is the God who created all things and the Son of God called the Son of Man and the Elect One through whom God created and whose name spirits since such ancient times have invoked to overcome evils in the Earth like these demon ghosts. So clearly it means the coming Christ we know as Jesus who called Himself the Son of Man was there with God in ancient times before the pyramids or the dawn of races like the Semites.

Never Forget

It is good to take time out to remember the mighty thing Jesus did when coming from heavenly home of His Throne and His Father and taking up the mission to die in saving humanity. The circumstances of the thing He did are complex but as simply understood amounts to guilt of centuries of multitudes of lives through time resulting in ammassed liability for great judgment and the need for a substitute sacrifice of the purest kind and Jesus alone being worthy and doing what He did in ancient Roman times in Jerusalem. It is such a worthy action that it is all the justification God needed for putting His Son once He had raised Him back to life to reign on His own most glorious Throne. The shedding of Christ's blood is the greatest invocation we can make in interceding for humanity to God and only this plea it seems can turn aside God's most awful wrath when terrible situations arise because of masses committing atrocities over years of abuse and greedy power struggle. We get pretty bad sometimes - this human race - and then the balance goes from bad activity on man's part to awful retribution on God's part and simetimes back and forth like that worse and worse till the whole world gets to be at risk. Then we so need to be able to invoke a mighty good to counter the mighty bad and the blood Jesus Christ The Lord has wondrously shed is all there is to count in the pure and perfect eyes of God The Father. It took a great big blessed act of love to bring about this grace in history that counts for all time. How awful if any sin against it and ignorantly or unbelievingly set it at nought. How much worse if after knowing better, still a person gets to despise it by neglecting the benefits of taking in the ministry of the Holy Spirit who encourages us to hold high the cross and never forget what Christ Jesus did.

The Most Huge and Ancient Bird

If spirits are in many ways like birds then there is one bird greater than all other birds and more ancient like an ancient dinosaur of a bird and this is a way the Holy Spirit can show what He is like. He came as a dove upon the baptised Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth as The Father from heaven by His Angel spoke to testify that Jesus is His Beloved Son. He can be like a huge bird of dinosaur proportions and ancient eternal life to show He is greater than any spirit in this world. Having Him as someone you know at your side is triumphant and a mighty comfort. Even His offspring made by His power as disciples of Lord Jesus are huge baby birds even if the haven't learned to fly yet. That which is born of Spirit is spirit.

Live On

Stay alive to know God better and better. The new Way opens up for whoever wills to come a means to live on. To live on and on. A new way of survival and real life by intervention of the Holy Spirit who comes to the person in this way who believes what God speaks and Jesus testifies. The Holy Spirit comes when life is waning to take it forward and break the power of death and danger. These interventions keep a believer alive over and above what the old way of the Law from God could do for the person under it. The keeping alive of the believer who follows this Holy Spirit sent by God the Father allows this believer life as an opportunity and time in which to gain ever better knowledge of God The Father and Jesus Christ His Beloved Son who died and lives and ever lives. So therefore since you can know God if you believe Him and love Him as you live on, live and let The Spirit give you life. Ahead is The Resurrection and The Life. Embrace it; embrace Him.

Isaiah and Jesus

The coming of Jesus as The Christ was such a big deal there was a whole book prophesying it written hundreds of years beforehand by a great prophet whose name even reflected Jesus' name being just like the name for Jesus in Arabic, Isa. This was the book of prophesies of Isaiah. The prophesies hint (ch 8) of the name sign. There were other prophesies by other prophets especially Daniel. Isaiah has a theme prophesying Jesus throughout. Why such a spiritual big deal as to be prophesied like this? Because there is a new way to be saved from the divine wrath and become the kind of person God sees as right and so be saved from the worse judgment of the Final Judgment when all will be judged. This is by loyally sticking with the teachings of this Christ Jesus.

Ninety Degrees

Why believe in God? Why believe He exists? Why believe He is true? I like to think a right angle proves there is such a thing as right. A ninety degree angle is very special. It exists and its existence has immense importance for human buildings and civilisation in general. Yet the existence of a concept of right and true as shown by a plumbline used to keep a building at right angle to level ground is not quite enough. God must be behind the need for keeping things right and true like a building or the walls of a room to eachother and yet governments get things wrong and can be evil and subject themselves to evil rather than rightness and goodness. So the existence of God can be found higher than that. It can be seen when there is true and good and right government that aligns with God's right and true and good plumbline. This is faith. God's existence is seen in faith and yet where can we see faith? In Church which might have become too close to evil government to show the true existence and nature of God? Even the best believer with the purest faith might not be enough to convince some. Yet the purest truest faith is seen in One man, Christ Jesus, chosen by God Himself as the best proof of what God is and how real He is. If you see Jesus you see the best faith which best proves God. Faithful and True.

A Watchman's Warning

As we live a life led by the Spirit we get told to watch and to pray. Watching the news has been a lesson I've been taught over the years as my prayers are answered by God in ways that make it to the TV news sometimes and remarkably often when the Spirit was teaching me this years ago. Some news you have to be very cautious how you watch and listen when persuasion is incorporated into it like yeast in dough: There is good yeast, said Jesus, and bad and be wary of the bad. Today it proved worthwhile to be watching. Last week too. The signs in Revelation Apocalypse are coming to pass these days and worth noting. The monarchs of Europe and use of the name "I AM". The far eastern use of names like CH X on trains and railways built by the undaunted masculine spirit that overcomes barriers like the mountains of Tibet by sheer determination. These aspects of empires are there in the news and I find them in the Apocalypse of Jesus in Revelation too. Watch out for 666 as it  might not appear as evil but cloaked as good.

Small Beginnings

Do not despise small beginnings. Lord Jesus stood alone on a lakeside shore after His greatest achievement and saw the fruits of His most momentous achievement of all time as a small group of fishermen were out on the lake in a boat. His work of agony and solid obedience unto death on the cross was done and now God had raised Him from the dead. Those fishermen were a small group who had believed in His position as Christ and were together that night before catching nothing. Now He saw them His first beginnings as the tiniest following but certain to grow and little did they know what they were to receive because of Him. He now showed the sign of the living power available to them in Him now that He was victorious over temptation and even death. Did they have any fish from  a night of fishing? No. Just put the nets on the side He told them to put them and obedience would reap reward showing it was Him they were obeying. When they caught so many they knew it was Him. Then they found He had fish cooking for their breakfast already and friendship and fellowship with Him was set before them as they ate what He had cooked. God with them in Christ Jesus The Lord.

The Lord is the same today and forever.

Authority

Authority. All over the world things are done and duties fulfilled concerning authority. In the UK where I live the police are called Her Majesty's Police and bear the badge of the Crown as a mark of authority and people are generally required to obey police officers because of this 'name' of The Queen, Her Majesty. Usually this helps people understand their duty I would say and usually people comply so if police direct traffic or control crowds there is usually order (with notorious exceptions we can recollect and are reminded of constantly in the news these days with blame sometimes directed at official failings and sometimes at the people failing to obey). In nature there is authority too, the Holy Spirit teaches, although scientists might deny it. In nature the name of authority obeyed as required by natural things is the name of authority of the Lord Jesus the Christ. Trees put out buds year after year by it. Tides ebb and flo by it. Moons orbit planets by it. Always as aeon succeeds aeon. This same Jesus as has always bourne this authority since time began and whose name has commanded nature's obedience became a human with flesh and blood and was crucified and raised from the dead and now has again forever this position and glory He had with God The Father, His Father and God, from the beginning. Holding to the truth from God which comes to us through Jesus by the Spirit as we hold to His teachings we can be made as obedient as nature is to the authority of His Name, just as He too has been obedient to The One True God, His Father and His God, ever living.

The Lord Elected By God

In Bristol, UK, where I live, we have two mayors, one elected by the people of Bristol and the other elected by the City Council each year. What gets me thinking is that the mayor elected by the council is called The Lord Mayor. In the case of much more heavenly things it occurs to me there might be something to derive about God and The Christ. The God who Jesus Christ calls The Father is always referred to in scripture of the New Testament from around Jesus' time on Earth "The God". In English it is translated "God" but in the language of those scriptures, Koine Greek, it is "The God" which means The Father, whereas "God" can sometimes mean divinity or anyone divine and not just The Father, The God. Now Jesus Christ, on the other hand is always referred to, including, by allusion, by Jesus Himself, as The Lord. Sometimes the Holy Spirit is called The Lord too but usually it is Jesus who is entitled "The Lord" and "Christ". It is worth considering that He too is Lord by election by the top authority. In His case The Father has elected Him as The Lord.

In the Book of Enoch, "The Son of Man" clearly seems to me to be a title and reference to the Christ, Jesus, before He came in the flesh born of Mary by her overshadowing as a virgin mother by the Holy Spirit. In these scriptures which precede the Old Testament scriptures there is clear indication that God The Father (entitled in those scriptures as The Lord of Spirits in translation into English) has elected or chosen or designated the Son of God who is called usually the Son of Man to be regarded as the Elect Righteous One. So God sets Him above all others. So the dedignation The Lord indicates perhaps that He is the One supremely elected by God The Father.

Overcome the World by Faithful Adherence to Truth

How very strange that it is not usual for humans to persistently obey or submit to the authority of God and even justice itself and right behaviour is distant and alien to many humans. Faith is needed to overcome this. It overcomes the 'world'. It overcomes humans driven by desire and not justice and right behaviour and the authority of God. The judgment will be against those who persistently forsake what is right and includes a lake of fire in the future new order but in this life there is the promise of being made righteous if we adhere to Christ's teachings. One major teaching is to have such faith in God that you or I commamd nature and by the power of God nature obeys. It is a sign of the greater order of things like this to come when Christ returns. It is a fortaste.

The truth we need to adhere to is not so much out there but is bound up in testimonies of faithful and true witnesses and especially found as the word that God gives on things which He sends people to testify concerning it. Jesus is most renowned as one such faithful and true witness. The people we are when we are part of the 'world' is characterised more by lies and illfeelings however but Christ promises transformation to us if we hold to what He has said and continues to say and teach. Then we too can become truthful and this as we know the truth that sets us free.

Even the Dead Can Rise

Everything taught and preached by Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, comes from God The Father, the One True God who does not ever lie. So the word God speaks and the testimony Jesus gives of it must be truthful and lies are abhorrant to God and The Son of God and The Spirit of God. So exciting and astonishing is the teaching and word from God in truth that anything in nature is subject to command and to the authority of God such that if God stands by a command given to something in nature - trees, mountains, beasts even - He, God, will ensure by His supreme power over the natural world that the thing commanded in good faith and unwavering certainty and singlemindedness will come to pass. So a storm can be commanded to stop and if done with undoubting faith in God it will stop. It will stop in good prompt time too the way I have witnessed. An animal can be commanded and will obey if God's power is without doubting imvoked in the command. A battle can be won. A goal scored. Victory ensured. If there is no doubt and the faith is true. Be wary lest it be subject to temptation to vanity though as it is not overlooked if you take God's name in vain. But when it is for the glory of God or salvation of the situation rightly in His name in good faith even the dead can rise.

Be Led by the Spirit

The leading of the Holy Spirit takes several forms. He actively seeks out those to lead and interacts directly with them by powerfully connecting with their inner beings sometimes by verbal communication (which can seem like telepathy) and sometimes by powerfully strengthening them in a way that communicates as much as a hand on the shoulder does from human to human. There is indeed a sense in which this is human to human in that what comes from the Spirit comes from God the Father to the Lord Jesus the Son and from Jesus who is resurrected in flesh and blood but now become more than just flesh in glory and this is through Jesus to each disciple with the faith to receive the Holy Spirit. Then there are indirect leadings of the Spirit through His use of others. Then there are writings inspired by Him including recognised scriptures. In essence the dealings of Lord Jesus with people is spirit and truth. He makes Himself and His truth and grace known to people like He did with Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus and to the Apostle John on the island of Patmos. The Father too can reveal Himself as He did in a dream to the disciple who He sent to lay hands on Saul of Tarsus. These dealings include signs or miracles sometimes which are direct testimony of The Father who originates them yet all are spirit and truth which leads into truth.

Obedience to God

What is it to be obedient to God? God commanded that people love Him as their God and obey Him. He commanded that people turn from idols and believe that He sent Jesus Chirst into the world showing Jesus to be His Son by raising Him from the dead. Obedience starts with love for God and necessarily for His Son too. Love for His Son includes allowing His Son to make you right in your living and actions with a righteousness from Him. Love for His Son means belief that He is and was and that He will ever live even though He died and that His name is supreme and invoking it conquers evil and brings salvation and peace from God. Believing means always enduring in this loyalty as loyalty to Him is tested. The apostles of Jesus have given by God's authority commands too as has Jesus Himself. First is love for other believers and this means having and recognising other believing fellows and being dovoted to each other as friends. The Apostle John taught this command plus a command to live by truth and that this truth is known by the love between you and Jesus as you are loyal to Him in believing and learning from Him and He in turn is liberator to you in giving you knowledge of the liberating truth. Truth is to be lived by as others too have attested as being a major necessary part of obedience. Truth includes a judgment which will come as others have testified and the judgment of immorality and evils like it means setting aside such things in this life as the truth liberates you to do so. The Apostle Paul taught in his letter to Galatian believers and his letter to  Roman belivers to live by following the Spirit who you receive as leader when God recognises your belief in what He says and in the living Word of God that is His Son.

What Can You Say?

What is to be believed when a spirit can start and stop storms in this modern age and communicate to the inner mind of a person without technology and when another spirit attributes to this spirit the authority from all time to bring about the processes of nature by the power of their own name? When you just know within you that this spirit is Jesus risen from the dead and there is nothing he cannot do now he sits with God you believe only one thing is rational to say about Him - that this Jesus is Lord and the Master of you.

John the Baptist

John the Baptist was a real person whose human remains might even have survived to this day. The preaching he gave centred on social justice and balancing wealth yet most notably he pointed to the mysterious Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah in whom people are to put their trust and to whom people are to give allegience. John has died and what may be fragments of his bones are known today but the Messiah ever lives having died. There were prophesies in scriptures at the time of John the Baptist it seems which surely he fulfilled: "I will send my servant ahead of you. A voice of one calling in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord. Every valley shall be exalted and the mountains made low and the glory of the LORD will be revealed." The last of these so well matches the cries of John the Baptist to give to one who has no coat if you have two. This levels the field. On a level field there is a better view by which the many are to see an approaching light and the Lord who comes would not need the distraction of having to curse the hearers for social inequality but could concentrate on delivering the message and teachings so important as to warrant His coming and the glory of the One who sends Him could be revealed. Yet John the Baptust in particular foretold the then coming sacrificial death of this Jesus of Nazareth as The Lamb of God to be slain for the sins of the world. This was before John the Baptist himself met a terrible end being beheaded by King Herod.

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit says things and causes things to be said but sometimes shows to the doubtful that these things are from Him by the sign of causing one person to say it in a mysterious language they do not know (tongues of angels) then causing another who does not know the mysterious language to understand the message by spiritual power. Words He gives this way include words like these (given in a church in Kingswood near Bristol, UK in the mid nineties):

"Consider the trees how they bud and put out leaves. They do this by the authority and power of the name of The Lord Jesus."

Now compare this to words from thousands of years ago written by a great prophet and it is clear that this same Holy Spirit was inspiring the prophet (written by the prophet 'Enoch' also known as Enmendurana, seventh king of Sumer, around 2500 BC):

"Consider how the trees, when they put forth their green leaves, become covered, and produce fruit; understanding everything, and knowing that He who lives for ever does all these things for you: That the works at the beginning of every existing year, that all his works, are subservient to him, and invariable; yet as God has appointed, so are all things brought to pass."

The way I came to know this was quite extraordinary because I sat in the church in the nineties and heard those words in tongues spoken by a leader there (who I had never met before) and minutes later the words were interpreted and spoken in English by him. However, before he interpreted them, the words in tongues had already become English words by the Spirit within my mind as I heard them. This was before I ever saw the words in the prophesy of Enoch so when I saw such similar words in a copy of The Book of Enoch in a bookshop (SPCK in Park Street, Bristol, UK in the mid nineties) I knew they were from the same spirit as inspired them in the church assembly.

So I knew this was the same Spirit inspiring me as inspired the leader speaking in church but not only us but also the wellknown ancient prophet whose writings are in the Book of Enoch. And the early Christian writers knew and quoted from those writings as being inspired by the same Holy Spirit who inspired them too and most of all who came by the promise and petitioning of The Lord Jesus, The Christ.

Some weeks or months later another series of words came into my mind like subtitles on a TV screen as I meditated on what I might say to another church where I attended and they were "Israel has sinned and there will be this sign to you" and I saw in my mind as a vision a great black eagle or vulture with a white eye overhead. Later I found a similar prophesy in the Old Testament I never knew was there which was so similar I had to conclude that the same Spirit again as had spoken to this prophet Hosea had spoken those words in me. The words had their sign fulfilled over the coming days first with spy planes on the news on TV then a police helicopter on local news with white searchlight and camera at the front then the mass surveillance ever since and still today. The police called their helicopter Operation Vulture.

Hosea chapter 8 starts "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken my covenant..."

That same week after I mentioned the words in that church the police helicopter was over the church building as police below chased a man up on the roof of a nearby house. Later the eyes in the sky became so commonplace that a film of that name has been released but in the time I had the vision it was unheard of and the police helicopter had been the first of a new inprecedented police helicopter service back then in the nineties I could not have known would happen.

Clearly God doesn't treat lightly the breaking of His covenants and is letting it be known to His House.

Within God The Father

We have a Creator whose design of our inner beings came from His own inner being. What I see in a mirror is not what I sense I have as my inner being. Inwardly I have more and I have constantly and increasingly more than what I see as the outer person reflected back at me. God the Father and Christ Jesus the Son have an inner being that contains the blueprint of my inner being so what is inside me as the inner person is wonderfully there inside God who made it "in His image". Being within Him is a realisation that is part of learning truth. Hence God is truly The Father and to be loved wholeheartedly in truth.

Beyond Blogs

All blogs do is log things. In a way scripture too has logged a thing called righteousness. A log does not produce what it logs. To produce righteousness there is another way. Truthful testimony and loyalty to both the true testimony and the One through whom it has come, Jesus Christ. He is righteous and true and loyal to the one true God who sent Him. This is God's new way of not just logging what righteousness is but producing it in people who are loyal to the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Keeping Jesus' testimony of His Father, God's, words leads to this loyalty and to righteousness from God through Him.

Where God Might Be

Heaven as an actual place is either the sky and above the clouds or a place where there are spirits including the Spirit who is God, the one true God, and His Son. The possibility that God and Jesus Christ live in a particular location is especially evident in the existence of the prophesies recorded from ancient times called The Book of Enoch which has descriptions of a location containing the Throne of Glory which is the seat of power of God and shared by Him with His Son, the Son of Man or Christ as He is known today. How reliable is this evidence? In conparing parts of it with prophesy today it is so very similar to words of the Holy Spirit given in prophesy today. Plus a knowledge of recent finds of archaeology impressively match the descriptions of times when Sumer was ruled as city states before a Great Flood occurred around 2500 BC. Predynastic Egypt finds compare very well too such as face painting pallettes and magic weaponry and earliest alloys like bronze. All adds modern authenticity such as probably was not known until the advent of archaeology in the past couple of hundred years. So quite good evidence in this collection of prophesies points to there being a real location inhabited by spirits including God. The description is of a pair of immense caverns surrounded by crystals like the geodes often found which are conpletely enclosed and in which watery solutions grow huge crystals and sometimes later lose this water leaving the crystals such as those of gypsum. This means the Earth has places underground that are hidden from the outside world and surrounded by crystals as found only recently when mining exposed huge examples in Mexico. The descriptions in the prophesies match what was found but seem to be bigger caverns and two particular ones are described as located high in the midst of the rock of a high mountain surrounded on two sides by six volcanoes. One cavern is like a vestibule to the other and the greater one has the throne of God.

Fellowship With God

After asking God to let me see Him since I was a child having heard and read about Him doing so for others in dreams and visions (I was always hearing and reading such things in scriptures even when a few years old) eventually I learned that He only gurantees that for disciples who love and obey Jesus His Son. (John's Gospel says Jesus said it.) So I did just that and kept on asking till when I reached my thirties He did as I asked. I asked to see Father and experience Son and Holy Spirit. First the Father came in a dream and introduced Himself as God. Then along a road a little later near my house Jesus spoke and worked miracles like those in the gospels. Then later still the Holy Spirit met me through tongues and interpretation in a church miles from home. Yet it is the fellowship they give in these meetings that gets to me most. The fatherliness of God in teaching He gave through the dream and the events of the following day at my workplace. The exalted joy of Lord Jesus outside then inside my house. The teaching and faith imparted by that manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Then His word came out of the blue in a vision about sin and surveillance and war. All still relevant today and showing His priestliness and kingdom. He is real and He imparts His fellowship too, Father God, Son of God (Jesus the same as ever) and mysterious and ever true Holy Spirit fully able to lead us into truth.

Standing Class

On larger UK trains there are first class passengers, what I would call reserved class passengers (who reserve seats and largely make up most of the seated passengers) and what I would call standing class passengers who like myself commute and have season tickets and don't reserve a seat every day so often end up standing. Jesus Christ came standing class. He was put in a manger with animals after His birth. He told people to expect to be standing class if they followed Him. He lived and died poor but God raised Him first out of all who rise to never die.

God is Real and His Word Is Real

God is very much real and the Father truly is and the Son is and the Holy Spirit is. They each reveal or manifest themselves personally to a disciple and today it is the same God the Father and the same Jesus the Christ the Lord and the same Holy Spirit as it was thousands of years ago and thousands of years before that. The fact is that this real God still speaks today and gives His word to people to carry around and this word He gives is much as it was thousands of years ago when much of what God the Father said to individuals to carry and proclaim was also written down so it can still be read now. The word He speaks is good but sets the hearer's life on fire and yet is refreshing like living water. It is very real even though it is known in the spirit rather than the eyes and ears. It is known by spirit speaking it to the mind but the signs accompanying it can be seen with eyes and heard with ears so as to prove the word is real and is given by God and His very own words from His mouth.

Wealth And Glory

Did ever such wealth meet such glory as in the resurrection of the crucified body of The Lord, Jesus, The Christ. Was there ever in the history of the Universe such wealth as purchased by God as the mortality He gave His Beloved Son at the height of Jesus Christ's trading of His body and blood for a new covenant between God and human disciples and indeed all humanity in need of this sacrifice. Was there ever such glory as when God raised this Christ in the crucified body from the dead. Such perfect glory meeting such supreme wealth. See God wanted to show love for us and the supreme way to do that was in the sacrifice for us of His Own Beloved Son yet His Son was immortal next to God Himself from the start of time and before Creation so He made His Son flesh and blood with mortality and His Son traded the glory of His supremacy of the Universe for mortal flesh like we have now and gave it up in sacrifice so as His blood was being shed and the crucifixion of His holy body carried out by men He was at the height of the riches of love in that He had at that point the greatest live for those for whom He died and the greatest love for The God of Him, for The Father of Him in obeying His God and Father. This love and sacrifice was so great in value as to be worth all the glory of heaven He set aside to provide it. Then when all was said and done The Father accepted this as complete and as all that is necessary as sacrifice for all our fallings short and failings and moral debt and took it as righteousness and perfect love and proper shedding of holy blood and after a couple of days He raised His Son from the dead, the first resurrection to immortality. The glory of that resurrection crowned this act of supreme love and set Christ apart as firstborn from the dead such that His worthiness is worshipped by angels in God's presence for all eternity and He the Lord Christ is owed all obedience and all supremacy over all He together with His God and Father has created. Most of all it deserves our fullest obedience and loyalty for all aeons to come.

Weakness and Mortality Triumphed Over Oppression and Might

Kindness is such a worthy thing and having mortality to lay down for froends is the height of riches of the spiritual essense of anyone, divine or otherwise. To be rich with true riches Christ became poor in human terms and took both humanity and mortality so He could make an act of true love for God and be the means of a true act of God in love for mortal humans whilst laying down mortal life for His friends. The supremacy of love was thus revealed and crowned with glory in His resurrection from the dead. Kings now take note that kindness is elevated as weakness takes a higher place than strength. Now He is positioned over the strong and can judge the strongest king in terms of love and kindness over oppression and power so kings are subject to Him as they are subject too to God the Father of Him. Greatness and majestic power belongs to God and to this Lamb of God but so does love and supreme kindness only weakness and mortality could fully show.

Christ's View On Some Prevalent Evils

One teaching of Jesus (maybe two) is found in letters dictated to John recorded by John in Revelation regarding types of teachers sometimes found in churches of the time. I reckon they are still found in churches today. One type is the teacher epitomised in the ancient person of Balaam who taught on one hand about God and the Holy Spirit and following God but also set a trend of ignoring the rights and wrongs of idolatry and so led followers of God to do what God would punish. Around today we have believers who still think it is no big deal to cause other believers to do what for those other believers amounts to going against their conscience. There might even be ill intent in this as a kind of competitive sabotage on other believers' lives and discipleship. Then there are teachers who flout the rights and wrongs of morality such as with deviant behaviour like promiscuity and ignoring the rights of others to have a life of simple devotion to one partner of the opposite sex as honorable marriage. These follow a trend set by Nicolaitams as they were called who considered it alright to ignore morality in marital and other such relationship matters. Today we have had a moral revolution out of which have appeared many such teachers and practitioners. Moral honorability does matter to Christ who is alive from the dead and no longer subject to worldly trends and deviant dogmas so His teachings truly represent the Father's view on things without the need to keep to worldly agendas. He hates the Nicolaitan and Balaam teachings and practices. He applauds others who do so too.

Not Everyone Has The Holy Sprit To Lead Them Into Truth

A Holy Spirit for some and not for others? He is sent to some in particular, yes, but not with any distinguishing of who you are but a particular benefit and counselling spirit to those who hear the true sayings of The Father, the God of Jesus Christ the Lord. He does minister conviction to all around the world but when you or I believe truly by taking the Lord at His word, by receiving a faith within that the word of God as taught by the Christ is true then you or I are put in line to receive this Holy Spirit personally. Not everybody receives Him personally as He is not given to everyone but the right to receive Him is especially to those who take God at His word and give real credence to what God has said through His servants and His true children and friends and His Son. Some still need a laying on of hands or similar ministry from a servant of God but this alone does not warrant receieving the Holy Spirit but rather the gift is to those who God sees as believing, and He sees what is real and true. So seek out faith by seeking out true testimony from believers and by seeking good preaching of the testimony of God. Scripture can help of you read or hear it properly and properly applied and understood. It is given by God to have Him reach out to you as you seek Him and seek personal faith and knowledge of Him. This is called the grace of God. The grace that comes together with the true testimony of Christ since He came into the world as a baby and grew and became the great Teacher and Lord who builds God's Church. The Spirit is given in Jesus Christ's name, the same power that builds and persists the ordering of the Universe of all God and Christ first created. The Spirit truly knows this Creation and comes from the throne that rules it and extends to those who fear and believe God. He can come as an awesomely sensed presence or a still small whisper within your inner being. He can be mistaken for something sinister when we do not yet know Him or set aside as a random thought intruding in our minds as we meditate but He is patient and used to dealing with others who have yet to know Him. Yet He is Lord over us as well as teacher and helper and He truly cares and applies to us the thoughts and mind and wisdom and living care of the living Lord Jesus who works forever with God the Father to build His own and make them all they should be. Thanks be to God and glory in the Church.

50AD Rome Visited and Now Revisited

Rome 50AD. Physically not much different to how it is today. Bustling. Chariots then and cars now. Magnificent buildings. Many streets and houses. Looking out from there towards the Eastern Mediterranean shores where decades previously and still in this time much trouble had ocurred and decades before extraordinary events had ocurred. Into this city come two men arriving in separate circumstances but perhaps living there at the same time in the next decades after 50AD and these two witnessed back there in the Eastmost lands around the Mediterranean the same extraordinary - most extraordinary - man. Not just man but Son of Man. They witnessed what He did like the changing of water into wine, the giving of sight to the blind and the blinding by heavenly glory of the violent opponent on the Damascus Road. These two men each had aliases having had changed names after being changed by this amazing Son of Man. One became known as Peter (Rock) and the other became known by his own choice as Paul (Small). This Rome was a city of immense reutation for tyranny but this Son of Man is still alive having been slain by the army of this city in response to demands by leaders out there in the Eastern Mediterranean who wanted to put to death the Son of Man whose Father in Heaven had first formed their nation centuries earlier.

So there in Rome these Jews who knew the resurrected Christ were far from Jerusalem where Christ had died then risen and returned to the Heaven from which God had sent Him. The people around them maybe mostly knew not much of Jerusalem nor this Christ and perhaps their memories of the events of Christ on Earth and places where they had all been happening in the sight of all were now a bit distant. What was their focus? The Church was in no way hindered in its growth in Rome as these men aided the preaching and growth of faith. In no way did the paling memory lead to waning of the Churches being built for God. Why? What focus did not pale or fade? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit who took things from the there and now Heaven over the clouds where Christ reigned with His God, His Father, and made such things known to the here and now people of that time there in Rome far from Jerusalem and long after the Christ had gone away to His Father's Throne. The life of the Spirit which did not fade and was always here and now.

So this life of the learning from the Holy Spirit is not one which fades and dies with time. It is a life for here and now whenever and wherever we are who willingly follow this messenger of God in Christ Jesus' name. This Lord the Holy Spirit is today and for ever to bring the things Christ sees before Him and present them to us as the Father presents them to Christ His Son. Those who follow the Spirit of God are sons and daughters of God. He is truth and light and love and He never dies and neither really do His faithful followers even those who die physically in one manner are never really ever fully dead and love and faith and hope remains in them and the resurrection is ahead of them. Indeed some in future will never die completely who remain at Christ's coming again and become immortal in His power.

She Was There

She was there. So few remained at the cross as Lord Jesus Christ the King of the Jews was crucified by many Jews and Romans. Mary the mother of Jesus did. She is a chief witness of what they did and what He did and what the Father did for us all in that supreme over all sacrifices. This is the highest greatest showing of God's love. She saw this. She too endured her soul being pierced with a terrible piercing. She can testify in heaven to it. Blessed, yet Jesus said it is all the more a blessed thing to hear God's word and obey it. Her obedience was to be there with her Son to the bitter, bitter end and then to see a few days later it was the end of His obedience unto death and the start of His resurrected life building the Temple of The Father - her Father and His Father.

Hell-bent

Hell-bent determination the essense of maleness? The essence of masculinity is said to be summed up in an ancient symbol related to the number six. Resolute hardiness leading sometimes to impudent insolence but resulting in sheer determination to dominate and fulfill ambitions like going to Mars as a symbol of machismo. This attitude seems to me behind a prohesy that six six six will be the symbol of the Beast. The determination chatacteristic of male impudent spritedness to succeed in something with or without help from above. It leaves room for involvement by those who believe there is no need to acknowledge any power higher than human power. Watch out in case I got this right and this is what Christ's prophesy of the mark of the Beast that will be imposed at pain of death on everyone. The prophesy says an angel will warn everyone that receiving the mark of the Beast of 666 (in the Greek of scripture - chi-xi-sigma) will be punished by God with the lake of fire.

Human Love

Love is ideally seen in a human. A human who can die. Christ became flesh and in being someone who can be touchrd and seen having a body it shows we can be loving in the human state we are in because in being able to die we are able to show the greater love that dies for a friend, just as Christ Jesus in mortal flesh and blood died for those who do as He commands, calling them friends. This is the word of God that God is love. Humans can have love as God has love. Jesus Christ's humanity and flesh and blood which can yet still be touched and seen shows this. His flesh and blood state was greatest when He was yet mortal before He rose from death and before He ascended to become a life-giving spirit as the scriptures have it written yet now in immense power and spiritual wonder He still shows us that our humanity is a state in which we can have love as He showed love. He can give such love to us if we follow Him and receive the promise righteousness He imparts.

The Word Of God That Lord Jesus Actually Is

He, The Lord Jesus Christ, did bring the teachings of God The Father to all who will learn them and be His disciple by holding them, yet there is more. There is Jesus Himself who is Himself the word of God. God has always and will always have as His Word this Son of His. To know Jesus in person allows a disciple to have this ideal way to listen to God, by knowing this Jesus and considering Him and increasingly improving in knowledge of Him. This comes by not only holding fast to His teachings and commands and promises but obeying in acts and attitude of love for Him. Putting Him first. Then it is His promise to such as love Him so as to obey Him that they will be shown Him by Himself and be shown God the Father by Himself and know the truth which is Him and the word of God that He is.

The Futulity of Unbelief

The Lord's words in the scripture of the Gospel of John chapter eight show futility is in not believing that He, Lord Jesus Christ, is. Not believing He exists. Not believing He lives now and ever as He lived. Not believing He lives having died. Not believing His life and existence predated people such as Abraham and Moses in ancient times. Not believing He is pre-eminent as Lord and Christ. All this unbelief leaves a person falling short of the prerquisite to being cleansed of unworthiness by Him and by the washing of the Spirit and the word of God the Father and the application of that word by believers.

How Tenuous Faith Can Be

How tenuous the basis of faith can be. The woman who gave birth to Lord Jesus Christ when He having become flesh and blood from having been Lord in heaven was a woman to whom we can give credit for raising Jesus and His brothers and maybe sisters during troubled times. She was of only a few to witness that He died during the crucifixion He suffered. She was the only true witness of having given birth to Him by virgin birth. Such tenuous evidence yet so important to our faith. You might learn from the Spirit and only you know it in terms of human witnesses. Jean de Arc had to persuade the Dauphine of France God had spoken to her and everyone was in anguish trying to tell if this was true. You might have angels and God as witness but few or zero humans. Angels knew Mary gave birth to Jesus by virgin birth as a result of the Holy Spirit overshadowing her in His life-giving power. Joseph had to believe them by just a simple dream. Only he had the dream so he had no witnesses to the dream. Yet millions or billions have rested their souls and spirits on this fact.

It is Written

There was a time long ago when a prophet was shown by angelic spirits and a holy God how from the beginning there had been a being known to him as the Lord of Spirits (or some Sumerian equivalent term because this prophet was a Sumerian king born in the Stone Age as we call it now) and always since before time began there was one with this Lord of Spirits called the Son of Man whose name was invoked to create all things and make them behave as the Lord of Spirits commanded. This Son of Man continued with this Lord of Spirits and over the centuries and thousands of years that followed few knew He existed until one day at the time the Lord of Spirits appointed a baby boy was born who was the incarnation of this Son of Man so that He could grow to adulthood like any child and become a lamb for sacrifice. At an appointed time in fulfillment of prophecies written in scriptures He was handed over to evil men and suffered a was crucified and rose from the dead and by His blood great forgiveness of wrongs committed by humans around the globe throughout time against the Lord of Spirits and even against other humans can be forgiven. The present day has times when He is revealed yet still to those who love Him enough to keep His sayings and commands. Soon all will see Him as He comes in the clouds. Then for a thousand years the Lord of Spirits will give Him to rule the nations and He in turn give His overcoming followers to rule the nations with an iron rod. Then when all enemies of His are subdued and the thousand years ends He will hand back the kingdom to the Lord of Spirits, His God and Father. Then all things will be remade anew and all will be judged eternally either in fire or eternal life with God and His Son and His sevenfold Spirit and all the saints made holy by Lord Jesus Christ's blood. It is written.

Believe He Cannot Lie

Believe He (the Spirit called Holy and the Spirit of Truth and the Lord Spirit) cannot lie. What He says you might not perfectly understand so relying on the understanding of what He says could leave you in error, mistaken. Trust instead that though you ponder His words as best you can with His help when He gives it, as you pray He will, trust that He Himself who speaks clearly cannot lie. There is no lying ability or tendency of any kind in Him. Take what He says and hold it with this in mind. He teaches honesty and teaches powerfully and authoritatively against lying and He has no hypicrisy in Him so He always tells truthfully what comes to Lord Jesus from the God who never lies. The word from God has the immense quality of being truth because it is the word of God. Lord Jesus is just like God who is His Father and never lies and gives true testimony always of what God gives Him as His word. So the Spirit takes from what is Jesus Christ's and, as Christ said, this is what He makes known, with faithful testimony just as Jesus in whose name He comes testifies in faithfulness and truth. This attitude leads to knowledge and faith and builds you up in His love for you and the others who so receive Him too. Thus are all who hear Him united in the faith.

How it was Proven to Me who Jesus Is

Following the proofs given me related in my previous posts, how the Holy Spirit message I received as translation of tongues and proven without room for any doubt was also there in the second chapter and following of the Book of Enoch, it was clear that the ancient prophesy of the Son of Man in the Book of Enoch must be true and authentic (as my knowledge of archaeology verified from details given in the book of predynastic Egypt not widely known until recently). So the picture of the Son of Man is inspired by the same Spirit inspiring the Apostles and now me and the same Spirit by whom Lord Jesus spoke and this leads to the conclusion Jesus of Nazareth is this Son of Man and when He taught "I am He" that is what He meant. (As also written in the prophesy scriptures of Isaiah.) So this proof extends to proof that Jesus is this person and leads to faith that this Son of Man who is Jesus of Nazareth is now known to be The Lord who God the Father makes Lord. This same one who then died on a cross and who God then raised from the dead and who afterwards stood on a beach and called out to His disciples as they fished in a boat off the shore to put their nets on the other side and they caught an abundance after which He fed them breakfast with fish He had cooked. This same Jesus who just twenty years ago revealed His existence and power to me too in answer to my prayers to God.

How The Spirit Proves He Is He

We have the Gospel accounts of Jesus the Lord telling Simon the Pharisee not only the wise answer to a criticism Simon was thinking but also did so without Simon telling Him the thought or even thinking Jesus would know he had one in mind. So Jesus demonstrated the power of the Spirit within Himself plus the wisdom of the Spirit with a wisdom from God. A while ago I found the same characteristics evident in the Holy Spirit we receive in Jesus' name when we believe. It was on my mind that there might be an explanation to noticable things happening to me since I started fearing God rather than the people around me and it was about the deliverances I had started to find happening to me when I preferred fear of God over fear of opponents, even if the opponents had temporary power over me or I found myself at their mercy and they were abusing this. Rather than mishap befalling me when they took advantage of their situation it was instead befalling them and I had no power myself to affect this. As I pondered it after years of it happening it suddenly occurred to me as clear as ever that the verse I had always been taught as a child might be applying to me. This was a verse I knew by heart but did not know where it was in scripture: "The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him." It occurred to out of the blue this might be appropriare and explain these happenings. Then suddenly as clear as a bell some words were spoken in my mind by a spirit - no idea how but I knew it was a spirit and was fairly sure it was the Holy Spirit but could happily be helped by some evidence it wasn't just my subconscious mind. It or rather He said: " Daniel three." So assured it would come clear if I looked that up in a Bible I went to the one in the next room I keep open. The chapter at first baffled me as to its relevance but I persevered because I was sure this was the Holy Spirit and a leading into truth. Near the end of the chapter there was the word "Angel" with a footnote. I almost guessed what that footnote would be and yes, never having seen it before (this was not my familiar Bible version) still there in the footnote was a cross reference to a Psalm. I guessed the next bit but looked it up. "The Angel of the LORD encamps around those that fear Him to deliver them..." Now it was proof to me this could only be a spirit outside myself plus that I was understanding rightly what had been happening to me and those around me and it had happened all the more to others in the past. I was being delivered. It was the LORD doing it and His Angel bringing it about and now His Spirit was so wisely proving it to me knowing what I was thinking too. So much like Jesus the Lord with Simon the Pharisee now the Lord the Spirit with this Stephen D Green thousands of years later but so much the same.
Another proof He gave was the way He let me witness speaking in tongues as a manifestation of Him. He let me hear it from a leader in a church I never knew before and at the same time He gave me the English words in my mind by spirit inspiration as the words were being spoken in the language of angels by the leader. I was too unsure of the people there to say out loud what I heard. Then the leader himself gave the English translation as it was given him by The Spirit from God and it was the same as the Spirit gave me in my spirit just before. This proved it was the same spirit in me and in the leader. It also proved the wisdom of this Spirit in how it was achieved. The power and wisdom. The words themselves proved the Spirit to be from the God of scripture because they matched the test scriptures give that the spirit acknowledges that Jesus is Lord, which was what the message was about. It even proved later to me that the same spirit inspired scriptures I never heard in a forgotten book of scripture I found later called the Book of Enoch whoch had words so similar in it that they could only have been inspired by the same Holy Spirit. Here I found a trove of other inspiration all about Jesus who it called The Son of Man.

Finding the Father

In what way a person finds the one The Lord, Jesus Christ, called The Father can be understood from experience as it becomes clear looking back how a combination of The Lord, Jesus Christ's teachings and the persevering work of disciples and churches leads to an understanding that The God who is The Father and The Lord who is Jesus the Christ make themselves known to those who hear their words and, having believed, obey them as best they can. This leads to obedience which in turn leads to the benefits of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit reaching out in faithfulness to the promise. It all comes about through the teachings and faithfulness of the man Jesus Christ who was crucified after giving these teachings but raised by The Father from death. His disciples and churches work with Him in our lives to lead to our understanding of these teachings and commands to obey and the promises He and The Father, whose teachings they are, and the Holy Spirit fulfill in reaching out to those who obey and seek God.

The Living Resurrection

Everything about Him now is that He is alive from the dead. Sure He is the Son of the One Creator God who created the very first creations and all creations since then and future. Sure it was all created with Jesus since Jesus was firstborn of all God's works and firstborn over them all. Sure He was and is and is and will be. Yet so much about Him is the joy that being alive from the dead means all His very existence now among the living and all He does so amazingly well with it all being done by power of Him being with God it is all now because God who is His Father raised Him back to resurrection life from the dead. Jesus is not only Lord and Christ; He is the Resurrection and the Life.

Submissive Learning

Once people with Holy Spirit realise they have a teacher who is also their master - a Holy Spirit who is Himself a Lord - the humility follows where the attitude becomes a willingness and indeed a humble duty to learn from what this Lord Teacher has Himself to teach. The teaching He teaches is not even His own but comes immediately from Jesus The Lord and ultimately therefore from The Father The God. It is not for disciples to dictate what is the teaching they follow but to learn what that teaching is as they follow the Master of them who should be in duty of their allegience the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit who comes in His name. His name is a mighty force in the Universe by which all creation comes to be and continues its various paths of obedience to the God who was and is and is and will be the Creator.

The Truthful Spirit

How mysterious is spirit. When something pervades our inner being and acts on it we might be experiencing a spirit. When we hear a truthful saying originating with the truthful God the Creator God it is His practice to allow our inner being to receive such a spirit and for it to be one who imparts truthfulness and righteousness and holiness to us to teach us and enable us to be truthful and to learn true righteousness like God's own true righteousness. This is the true righteousness seen in the life and actions of Lord Jesus when living among people two thousand years ago and proclaimed by His disciples ever since. It is a life-giving spirit who turns us away from an evil pattern of behaviour to live the way God wills us to live and start to become closer to God Himself in an improved and hope-giving relationship like Father with son or daughter. It continues as we continue to believe and hold to the true sayings from God through Jesus Christ, if we do so. It continues until we are truly those God is pleased to call His children and then continues for aeons with Christ Jesus keeping us who is alive and all powerful for all the aeons and always God's Son as He has been from before time began as we know it. So this Spirit of Truth from God is the Spirit of hope that is part of the ongoing partnership we have with Jesus who is the Christ and is The Lord living forever with God His Father.

Remember Jesus the Lord and His Crucifixion and Resurrection

The first people to recognise that Lord Jesus Christ is a being of similar eternal characteristics as the real God and to hold to His teachings with hope of those teachings making them righteous did it seems put an emphasis on keeping His crucifixion and subsequent resurrection well remembered as part of staying true to it. This is perhaps due to the importance of these most outstanding events as part of the testimony of the being who is the God and Father to Him in that by raising Jesus, God the Father was testifying to all these disciples and to some extent to all humanity that Jesus is His beloved precious and pleasing Son from aeons past and for aeons to come. The first disciples were mainly Jewish and already kept Saturday as rest day for God but they made Sunday a day of remebrance of Jesus' resurrection too by making it a day to rejoice in The Lord, Lord Jesus the Christ.

The Reality of a Holy Spirit is Proof

So much truth of God is revealed in dreams and visions and miracles but their reality is a personally discerned as their grace gives this ability to discern. God the Father is. This can be known and is known by revelation and then proclamation. Jesus is alive and Lord. This can be and is known by His revelation of Himself then proclamation. Jesus reveals real lordship and the life He has though once dead a while shows the power and reality and life of God the Father who raised Him. Yet the crowning seal and proof of all this revelation yet personal discernment and faith is given by God in Jesus' name in the real manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the churches where God is believed. Manifestation is in powerful gifts of grace like genuine toungues of non human origin interpretated by gifts of this same Spirit corroborated by others with such gifts and telling the glory of Lord Jesus the Christ and the marvels of God and Lord Jesus in their Creation of planets and stars and this Earth and its living things. This happens from time to time in churches, I believe having witnessed it a little. The real and present Holy Spirit proves the truthful veracity of the reality of God and of Jesus His beloved Son.  And seals those who believe.

The Lord and The God Saves

The opening chapter of the Book of Revelation has two passages of words from The Father, The God being, and from the Lord being, His Son, Jesus (The Christ) after which comes a passage of words quoted from 'The Lord, The God' who is and who is and who will be, the all-powerful Ruler. Here the God (The Father), united with The Lord (the Son of God) in one title shared between them in their unity as one - The Lord The God. In the name 'Jesus' is the truth that The Lord The God saves. Saves from unworthiness and from death and gives faith that overcomes the world. Faith that God is. Faith that God is and is. On and on living and real. And will be. Ever over aeons to come. All-powerful ever and ever. Faith that The Lord is. The being who is Jesus The Christ come from God having been in company of God over aeons past called The Son of Man among the spirits around The God who is and was and will be His Father. Faith The Lord is and is - continuous. Faith that Jesus was and is and is and will be. Once dead a little while having been made a human being then raised by power of The God to be ever and ever over all future aeons and aeons full of almighty power to rule with the Father who is and ever was and ever will be His Father, aeons past and aeons future. They are united and can speak as one The Lord The God almighty in rule. Blessed. One throne shared. Seven spirits coming out from that throne to seek us out who fear Him and deliver is from death in accordance with God The Father's will in Lord Jesus the Son's most high and blessed name.

The Scourge

Through my lifetime I witnessed not just the majesty of God and of His Son but elements of judgment of greater and lesser scale and intensity. I saw the end of the Berlin Wall. The merely low key end of The County of Avon in the UK but no mere trivial eventuality as I lived in Bristol and worked in the authority headquarters. The twin towers ending so terribly. The rise of the fury of the West against the Middle East and the start of an age of surveillance. Now a resurgence of horror in the Middle East. But Jesus highlighted a prophesy of more terrible judgment and rage on the Earth when He alluded to Joel's prophesy of scourge. The sun turning black as crops burn and house after house is invaded by God's army. It seemed to happen in ancient times around the time of Celts appearing in history and the spread of conquest by Medes and Scythians and others around 600 BC yet Jesus alluded to a time of it leading up to or at the time before He comes, it seems to me. Perhaps worldwide. Terrible. After all, He will bring greater judgment still in His coming day so we cannot deny such things being in scope before He reigns a thousand years and then the End. Best seek Him and life from Him now while we can. The darkness comes.

Aeons

On reading the first chapter of Revelation it is marvelously all about the way both the God who is Father to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ Himself exist constantly across the aeons of time both past and  future. Each is a real being. Each is supreme. Believing this is essential to being transformed from someone who is worthy of the lake of fire many years from now and transformed by Christ into a person (a priestly person) worthy of the Resurrection at Christ's return. Future aeons await you.

Truth and Virtue

People choose what to accept and what to trust or put faith in by various criteria. One is how legal something is. Another is how magic something is (science fits the bill here quite often) or in other words whether it is derived from ancient values held by cultures adhering to customs carried forward through generations from Calcolithic times (divination, weaponry technology and the arts of war, cosmetics, magic arts, astrology and so on). Another is how true and virtuous something is. Try keeping to the latter.

Milennium of Rest

If you take the scriptures in the Bible seriously and other scriptures too perhaps, you might take it that  human history started with the beginning of the life of the man who in the Bible is called Adam and in ancient writings from the earliest civilisation called Alulim. The scriptural years from this first man of history's beginning to now including help from reliable sources gives us around 5900 years (with up to a dozen decades of inaccuracy possible). This puts us anything from decades to a century or more away from 6000 years since he was made, history from the time and scripture too says, from clay or mud or some other such material like an inanimate sculpture by God (Adam or Alum may have meant sculpture) and breath from God breathed into his lifeless nostrils to bring that body form to life. Now if you take this account and view history as a week of milennia then this approaching time up to say 100 to 150 years from now, perhaps a few decades sooner, God knows (literally) is comparable to a sabbath milennium. A milennium of rest. To some this provides hope that it will be the thousand years when Christ will rule the Earth. 

God's "Israel"

It is wonderful to believe God calls Israel "Israel" even though He says "Israel has sinned" in the spirit that brings His word today. That He has a way to regard those who prophesies of the past and Christ's teachings showed that a divide had grown between God and His people like between a husband and unfaithful wife and so much water flowed under the bridge since Christ came and was crucified there seems to be now a people God can again call Israel. Yet in Christ's teachings recorded by John in his Gospel (chapter 8 as our chapter divisions make it today) the teaching from God the Father is that only those who are set free (and truth from His teachings sets free, He said, those who hold to His teachings and believe in Him) can truly be children of God. So I can only conclude the fact a spirit from God can say of Israel "Israel" calling the nation by that name again and saying their mass surveillance over them shows God is dealing with them today that this must mean the ones He calls Israel have held to Christ's teachings and been set free from lies and hating. Redemption. The wind is in the leaves of the Sycamore Tree. The Fig Tree is putting out its buds. Spring is surely near. There is no division though in that all are one who are thus in Christ, whether from Israel biologically or from any other race.

Camail

A camail is a piece of chain mail armour designed to fit over the head and shoulders to protect them. The spiritual equivalent of this is hope. You need in your inner being to keep hold of hope to keep your mind protected. The kind of hope needs to be true hope in the true God. Hope in all the power available from Him to act toward you to save you. When you have it do not lose it; do not let yourself be without it protecting your mind and keeping you of sound mind. The main hope is that the Lord Jesus, though not necessarily imminently, will come raising the dead who are worthy of it and reign with these and those in Him who are alive still at His coming. What then will it be like after He arrives? Remembering the coming of Moses first to the Pharaoh of Egypt then with his people into Canaan, it was like God Himself had declared war and started to wage severe war. The sins of the Canaanites had reached a threshold. Egypt was hardened against the fear of God prefering their own gods to the real Creator. The time was full. Now things were to get very serious. Many lost their precious firstborn sons. Whole nations were all but wiped out. This was what happened when God then turned the tables on wantonly wicked nations and cities and on oppressors of His people. Christ is far greater still than Moses having been architect of all things on behalf of God who is His very Father. This will be His time and His chosen most worthy ones with Him. This is the great hope that if you have it you should keep it as armour for you mind as the days become dark and the end looks ever nearer if you are enlightened enough to see it coming. The further protection of the mind in the midst of stressfully troubled times in this world before that day is provided in meditation which is by dwelling mentally on worthy subjects of thought. There is much that is taught disciples as they follow the Holy Spirit and righteous spirits sent by God the Father in Jesus Christ's name. Dwell on what the spirits from God teach. Some gets called esoteric because the truthfulness of it can only be known by the receiving of spiritual gifts from God and the witnessing of miracles which comes to those who believe rather than by the World's wisdom and science and magic arts. Magic arts might lead to what can also be called esoteric but good discernment distinguishes what the Father wants people to be taught by spirits He sends and what other spirits teach. Dwell on the things the Father teaches. Invoking the authority of the name of Jesus and meditating on the truths you receive from the Father in His name all leads to a peace which protects your mind in troubled times until Jesus comes. Another aspect of this protection of the mind is mental dependence on God by mentally acknowledging inwardly that God is and that Jesus is and that the Holy Spirit is and resting quietly on this faith. Some say religion is a crutch. Having a mental crutch to stay the mind in troubled stressful times is a major part of religion and ought not be despised. You need a carmail in times when holding onto faith in Christ and in the Father gets fiercely opposed.

You Are Created

Building on my previous posting; the wise and magi and philosophers and scientists have told us the Universe and all in it (or even all in multiple universes) adheres to mathematically describable patterns and laws which they have sought to elucidate and define using symbols of mathematics and logic. Then we have those past and present who followed and follow one named Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ who believed and believe the reasoning behind the Universe was itself created by God and was embodied in a person from the beginning described by God as His Only Begotten Son and this 'logos' of God became flesh and is Jesus Christ Himself. So following this it leads to a conclusion you yourself as an existing entity in the Universe have nature that obeys and is determined by these rules and logic, described in sciences and philosophies and religious teachings too. So the very makeup of your body and mind and all that is your existence is based on the logic found to be embodied in Christ and conforming naturally to the authority He has always had as Son of The Creator and firstborn over all Creation. This is a knowledge you might even come to know personally by encountering this Jesus in an indescribable but real way. Then it becomes evident your will needs to obey His authority and believe in the name He has as God's Son. It is a new take on Descartes' or his followers' saying "I think therefore I am" but now it is "I think therefore Jesus Christ is".