Straight Talking

If we want it put simply and clearly, a spirit is lord over all spirits and has seen our suffering at the slavish control of our own wrongdoing from which we cannot escape on our own a by which we burden ourselves with ever increasing moral debt to right living. We cannot repay the right living we have neglected by wrong doing. The debt will kill us but the divine spirit saw this and sent a sacrifice. He sent somebody always seen at his right hand who pleased him from the time he made all things. This one he sent he calls his son because he made him so like himself but a prophet of the start of civilisation and leaders and sages down the ages called him The Son of Man. This son became flesh and we know him now as Jesus, The Christ. He died a crucifixion hung up to give life to all because that act of allowing himself to be so killed pleased God his father as the necessary sacrifice to forgive our moral debt and this truth and the truth that Jesus is alive now from the dead forever liberates us to obey what is right and cease from what is wrong. His teachings such us truthful speech instead of lies and love instead of delight in murderousness can be held to and with ensuing freedom be obeyed. In return he shows us his glorious present state and that of his father and befriends us as a near neighbour not a distant threat. He will judge us all but his freedom gives us all the hope we need. He joins us with him as we obey his command of baptism and find others too are joined to him who we love more and more. He gives miracles among us and the Holy Spirit alongside us. We learn and follow all this and become children of God dearly loved by God who sent Jesus His own Son.

How to Read Scripture

It is important how you read God's scriptures, that you realise they need to be used correctly and do not provide a substitute for faith. They can make you aware that faith or trusting persistence following the teachings of The Christ sent by God is the way to be made by Christ into the kind of person you need to become to escape eternal judgement. He died for you. Believe it and don't just nod to it. Then scripture provides stepping stones to escape this world's corruption but you have to walk on them and not just look at them. If you study scripture alone or in a study group or listen to it being read or preached, remember this.

Who is Like The Father

Who is like The Father; a spirit reigning over all spirits and all things because He created all spirits and all things at the beginning and the name by which He rules and governs the things created is His. Who is a spirit like this spirit in such fatherly care and faithful regard to those who follow Him as Father. Who cares so consistently day after day after day. Who is so powerful yet He still allows humble nobodies to know Him when their hearts are pure and their belief in His truthfulness strong. Who is so authoritative; nobody can command Him but He can command everybody and anybody and anything and they should absolutely obey. Who sends such a perfect Son, made perfect as the firstborn Son of God before anything else was created but always it has been true that He would come to the human race as a person born a human although long before He had been the Son through whom The Father had created all. Who sends to the cross so perfect a Son so that wrongdoers like us could be freed from wrongdoing and its guilt - The Father did it two thousand years ago and it is known around the World. Who so deserves our love returning love for His love and who so deserves our obedience just as soon as we understand His commands and believe in Lord Jesus Christ His Son.

The Mornng After

God the wonderful Father did it on June 23rd 2016 in the UK (gently with a few storms stratgeically targeted it seems).

Now let God lead on, UK, and be God

Isaiah 55:12 King James Version (KJV)

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.


Hebrews 13:13 King James Version (KJV)


Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

What I Know About God

There are three heavenly beings I know personally as they have revealed themselves to me and they are in unity. They are unique like no other. The Koran seems to teach we should not use the word Trinity about Allah. There is God Himself (Allah) a spirit who is the most high spirit above all spirits and all things. There is Lord Jesus who has always been with God except for a short time being completely human but then He has gone back to God, who He calls The Father. The spirit side of Jesus is apparent because He projects Himself to people by sending out what is called His Angel which makes Him spiritually real to them and manifests Him to them. Then of course Holy Spirit manifest in various ways. I put it that their home when not abroad around us is a pair of Crystal Caves in a high mountain. Such caves cut off from man clearly exist we know (from the Cave of the Crystals found in Mexico). Enoch left a description having been there. We have it preserved very well in the Book of Enoch.

Come Out And Be Separate

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."    Revelation 18:3-6  "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double."

Instruction of Shurapak

Who and what is Jesus? There are means available of knowing the spritual nature of The Lord Jesus but discernment is needed to see it (scripture tells us to ask God for discernment): We today have 'The Instruction of Shuruppak' as an extant text from a time when prophets saw what Jesus was in spiritual nature long before Jesus become well known and people like Noah and Enoch and Methuselah were writing about such wisdom they had back before 2500 BC. It is worth examining this text The Instructions of Shuruppak to see that these people existed and combining this evidence with 'The Book of Enoch' to see evidence of the pre-incarnate Jesus called The Son of Man. If your discernment can see it. 

Wherever the Surveillance Eagle Flies

Wherever the surveillance eagle of spyplanes and police helicopters and cameras has been flying these past decades since the mid nineties, here it is that wrongdoing has been causing alarm to God. The axe is at the foot of the tree and every tree that bears no fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire. Love God and love Him with your voice.

Causers of Stumbling

Jesus Christ gave stern warning indeed against being someone through whom comes something that causes a believer to do what is wrong. The prophecy of His own return and thousand year reign is that He will destroy artefacts that cause wrongdoing. His warning is one of His sternest that we should all beware of being the instrument through which is bought a cause of wrongdoing. Even stumbling blocks should not come through us. Better to have a stone tied to you and be thrown into deep water than cause a believing disciple of Jesus to fall. And inaction can cause wrongdoing by another just as action can. Failing to warn.

From Whence Comes Your Life?

Life is like a mysterious force for good. Life is what we need most but what we control least. It is not really in our hands. A health service might seem to be able to keep me alive when I near my death but even if it can it can only do so for a little while then mortality takes over. But life is more than a beating heart and an active brain. It might be better with some light relief and a little luxury but there is still more to it. I have spiritual yearning for input to mind and soul and spirit. I need to know. I might not know what it is my spirit craves but I need to know God and know He is there for me. This gives rest to my soul. Rest is a major source of a fuller life. Soul rest even more than mental and physical rest. Singing helps. Why it helps is little understood perhaps and underappreciated. Much helps but I cannot guarantee those things I need nor can society. There is one side of life I know is most important by the teachings of The Christ. It is the source of life to which I have a link and that is not some political or social system or institution and not a life support machine or even Mother Nature but God Himself. The greatest life comes from having Christ as part of me and me part of Christ who is Himself part of God and God part of Christ. United with Christ means a life that is to the greatest measure is directed at me and eternally available to me as long as I keep the connection and He keeps me. Keeping Christ's teachings is key to this once you believe that Christ truly is.

Persistence

The trouble with faith is that people think believing is all there is to it. There is more: Persistence. The John chapter 8 crucial sermon of Jesus was towards its end addressed to believers. Believers can as much as anyone have to hallmarks of a dark spirit in charge of things among humans on Earth - prince of the powers of the air. They can be liars who use lies to cover their murderous tendencies like believers who wanted to kill Lord Jesus the Christ back when Jesus gave the sermon and led its ensuing conversation just before that awful crucifixion remembered ever since. What might not be so well remembered is that many of the crowd who sought Jesus of Nazareth's death were probably, given the testimony in John's Gospel chapter 8, believers in Him. Same might well go for many who believe today and at any time. It takes a lot more than just that initial belief to cleanse away the tendencies inherited from the influences of the dark spirit who pervades societies everywhere. Lies and murderous hatred and love of killing even if the killing done by the one hating then lying to make things worse or lying in order that killing is more likely or easier. These tendencies are what Jesus rose from the dead to conquer in believers but it takes a lot to make it happen in a person. It takes spirit and power and the true word God speaks and the true testimony Jesus and the Holy Spirit gives. For this to happen takes not just belief in Jesus, belief He actually is and belief He is the Christ sent by the Father who is God, it takes persistence in keeping in mind Christ's teachings and the truth of His crucifixion and resurrection. And in all that persistence Jesus Christ is still there with God to intercede and intervene and bring the persistence and belief in Him to perfection and this produces those who are joined in spirit to Him and love eachother and speek truth to eachother. 

The Uniqueness of the Gospel of John

The gospels are messages in the form of accounts of the works and teachings of The Christ, Jesus of Nazareth around 20 to 30 AD. They capture content shared between some of them put together and preserved among earliest disciples of Jesus but one gospel stands out because the content is unique and the memory of one very special disciple who was close to Jesus perhaps most of all during those years and known as the one Jesus loved. He captured the very essence of teaching from sermons and final conversations before Jesus was evilly crucified. This is what Jesus had to say in the final testimony of the truth of The Father who is the heavenly spirit proclaimed by Jesus as God. The testimony of Jesus about the word that came from God from before the start of time is found here in this Gospel of John as the testimony that drove Jesus to the cross. In this last time of preaching the message centres on truthful speech in contrast to human natural tendency to lie because a dark spirit with immense influence over humans is by nature a liar and a murderer from the beginning. So lies and murderous hatred go hand in hand because they both come from this dark spirit. This starkly contrasts, Jesus was so keen to point out in those days while humans nursed hatred against Him, with the truthfulness and love of love Jesus knew was in The Father who people called God but did not truly follow, obey or immitate while they were hating Jesus. This is a message reflected in some places in teachings of other Apostles such as Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians but is best outlined here in the Gospel of John (see John's Gospel chapter 8).

Artefacts

There was a time around 3000 BC when many were being influenced by rogue spirits to make weapons and forge an alchemical alloy later developed into bronze to make such weapons and magical amulets and artefscts associated with magic spells and curses. What a terrible time for humans as this and other spirit-led ungodly fashions and culture took hold first around what is now the Golan Heights and Hermon and from there around the Levant and as far as Egypt and Cyprus and Babylon and the rest of the settlements of Sumer. Then the Lord over all spirits took action sending his prophet who was a city king En-men-dur-ana ('Enoch, seventh from Adam' as new testament scripture called him) to prophecy judgment to the rogue spirits then sending obedient spirits to bind them underground then many spirits to make the offspring of the rogue spirits borne and human women fight and eliminate eachother. Eventually the evil took such hold that most of the public went off the rails and the Lord of spirits sent the great flood in the time of Noah in the middle of the third milennium BC. Yet even after the flood there was a persisting evil. Artefacts from the times of rogue spirits could still be found under the mud layers left by the great flood. One man is reported to have dug something up and it lured him back into the evil folk culture so he was punished for what he was lured back into. There are past evils which remain as a haunting memory of past terrible times, even times of our personal lives we have put behind us. We might turn away in our minds from errors of the past but artefacts can remain and lure us back. This is dangerous because we need fresh encouragement to repent again but it might not be around to help the second time. Lucky for us there is a righteous one who is eternal as the one promising to make righteous those who keep His teachings - Jesus Christ the Great High Priest for those who turn to the Lord of spirits, God His Father. He can pray to God for us. God can give us life. But we do well to avoid those artefacts.

The Promised Manifestation of God

It surprises me that some important truth has been almost missed from modern Christianity that is central to what is recorded in the gospels that The Christ taught, this being His promise that He and The Father and The Holy Spirit will come to those who lovingly obey Him and make themselves known and effectively reside with such people. There is a major blessing being perhaps missed from teaching. This is a true promise, naturally since it is from God whose word is a word of truth and whose Son testified about it in truth before laying His life down and being restored to resurrection life.
Reference about this is found to some extent throughout the preaching of Jesus before His crucifixion and death found in The Gospel of John chapters 13 to 17, but especially chapter 14. Jesus gave assurance of it after Judas (not Iscariot) asked a question. Maybe the implcation is missed but it is there regarding the Father making Himself known as well as Jesus promising to make Himself known to individuals or group who obey Jesus. The Father's manifestation was (and is) promised because of the nature of Judas' question being answered by Jesus which is about Jesus being manifest to disciples and not to everyone in general and Jesus brings God The Father into the answer and says the  words are God's not His, that both Jesus and God would visit and dwell with the one loving Jesus enough to obey, which by implication includes God showing Himself to such a one.

From The Gospel of John chapter 14 verses 19 and following:

 "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

A Nation and its God

When words were given me out of the blue as a prophecy the first time, not long after I found God does indeed make Himself real and show Himself if you truly seek Him, it became apparent He speaks like He did in ancient times and time is on another scale for Him as it is for us because the words could have come straight out of Old Testament Hebrew Scripture "Israel has sinned", "This shall be the sign to you", "Shout from the mountain top 'Love The LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind - and your VOICE!". Just like prophecy in the Bible. So then followed signs pointing to the church I attended as house of God and not just that but the UK too as target of this prophecy. So it makes me wonder if God is treating the UK too like He treated Israel in ancient times before Christ came and was crucified. Then I recollect it was prophesied that the axe can be against the tree ready to cop it if it bears no fruit. And then Christ said a parable about a gardener telling the owner of the tree not to chop it down yet even though it had bourne no fruit but give some time for digging around its roots a bit and see if it bears fruit - common practise with fruit trees - and if after three years it still doesn't then go ahead ... So maybe all this talk of Brexit is digging around the roots. Beware the axe. Get bearing fruit. Get joined into the Christ as a branch in this Great Vine that Christ is so you bear fruit. Constancy long term is key. Keep on doing right all through the future and for that you need the future-proof Righteous One that Jesus Christ is and was and will be, who died and is alive forever.

How to See God

The miracles everyone knows that Jesus is credited with are a way to see God if you let them give you faith because in them God has revealed His own statement of testimony about His Son. So belief is needed to turn mere words in a Bible into a revelation of what God is like in how He regards His own beloved Son, Jesus Christ. People can read with a hardened unbelieving attitude all they like but if they do the Bible will not show them God. We have to be softened and have courage and belief as we read or think of scripture so a revelation of God appears in those words. And not just in reading and hearing being read and pondering scripture do we need a softened heart of courage to allow the words to turn within us into the revelation of God but the same is when we think about Jesus Christ His Son who Himself is The Word of God. Thinking of the miracles Jesus did but without the useless hardened fearful unbelief that is human nature but rather with an encouraged faith will allow revelation of God to appear to us in the miracles God gave Lord Jesus to do. Encouraging each other daily opens us up to this. Jesus must have meant something like this when saying what is translated:

"The Father who sent me is himself a witness about me. You have never heard his voice. You have never seen what he really looks like. And his word does not live in you. That’s because you do not believe the one he sent." (Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 37-38)

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Spirit

Dark energy, dark matter and how they relate is a mystery to science. Spirit is a mystery to science. Since dark matter is by definition dark because it is elusive and dark energy equally difficult for us to know it fits well with a lord over all spirits who is spirit and something and someone science does not know. These words translate what was spoken by the Messiah, by human nature a Jew, to a woman considered a Gentile: "You gentiles worship what you do not know while we Jews worship what we know as salvation is from the Jews". Being no Jew myself I have to agree at the poignancy that spirit being so unknowable to science is what I have duty to accept as real because of my duty to worship the lord over all spirits who is spirit and must, as Messiah said, be worshipped in spirit and truth. So spirit and truth has to be sought out and there can be found the One of whom Jesus spoke. A tall order with just science to help but luckily there is the testimony of Jesus to lead and a Spirit from God to lead too. This leads to knowing this spirit who is lord over all spirits as The Father. Knowing what the Father is like is realising that He saves people - that is what He is like. Even when you see what He named His Messiah: 'Jesus' means that God saves. Believing in this is a step toward salvation.

The Truth that is Confined to Believers

The truth comes with a struggle, not easily. When the Lord Jesus Christ was here and was baptised by John the Baptist it was a struggle to testify to what happened at that moment because it was witnessed by people present but interpretations after the events that occurred might have varied. To the insightful the events went like this: the sky changed gloriously and a voice came which the insightful knew was the Father speaking in some way through some kind of angel of His and the discerning heard words which have been translated to "This is my much loved Son in whom I am well pleased". There was a bird-like entity that descended on Jesus but some would say it was merely a dove but John the Baptist knew it was the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. John the Baptist had the experience of a fulfillment of a sign given him by spirit to spirit only he could know had happened and only he could know the significance except those believing his testimony about it that it proved to him that this Jesus, his cousin according to human nature who God had proclaimed to be His own Son by spirit, this Jesus was the one who would baptise others with the Holy Spirit and this Jesus is Jesus The Christ who would die as a lamb-like sacrifice fot the sins of the world designated for this by God. This Jesus was the one for whom he, John the Baptist, had been sent to make a way. All this from a moment of events. But so many would not know all this. To the whole world the facts are limited even today to the bare event that John the Baptist baptised Jesus who came to be called Christ. The message of The Father is for the few who believe it happened. The descent of the Holy Spirit is reserved for believers while for others there might have been a dove around when Jesus of Nazareth was baptised. Few accept that a prophet sees what is really going on. Most insist on provable scientific facts and what leaves physical evidence for science to interpret. So the truth is confined to believers.

The testimony of the writers of the Gospels of New Testament scripture have hope within their words because if you follow the words and find they are a truthful account because of the wondrous consequences of following them it makes you realise their insights and discerned meanings are true too. The fact forms in your mind that Jesus is indeed Christ sent by God and spirits called God The Most High and the Holy Spirit are real and Jesus is real and alive and will always be and this gives hope. And seeing Jesus Christ is so constant and is today just what He was then and you realise this will always be so that joyful hope is all the more heightened.

Is God Real? Today?

Is God real today? The real God is a real spirit. When you become aware that there are spirits, recognising there is a heirarchy is acceptable and one spirit has always been the 'most high', the spirit who is lord over all spirits. History links this Lord of spirits to Sumerians who knew this spirit personally, the patriarchs of Israel, the Jews, godfearers around the world, Jesus who came from this spirit speaking of Him as The Father. Finally, disciples had the Holy Spirit sent among them by The Father even to this day. When we believe in this spirit as the true God, and find we actually receive the Holy Spirit and miracles as a result it cements that reality.

History and Geography of the Most High Spirits

The story so far. Enoch was seventh king of Sumeria, the first empire with capital cities in one of which Enoch held court and ruled. Enoch received inspiration from the Holy Spirit even in that time long before the Old and New Testament covenants. The advent of writing in around 3000 BC allowed him to turn his inspiration into not just the teaching of the masses but writings of scripture-like books of which he was author of many. The substance of these books he received from spirits serving the highest spirit over all who took him to many places - spiriting him there - even to the inaccessible places were only spirits could normally go. They taught him the first sciences such as the times of seasons and passages of Sun and Moon. He was sent by the most high spirit to infamously wayward spirits who had taken human girls as partners against the order of things and had intriduced harmful teachings we have around today like magic arts and divination and even some now extinct from among us. This was the time humanity lost the Stone Age innocence and turned to violence and sophistication and the Bronze Age began. This prophet king Enoch left behind his books in safe keeping of godly descendants one of whom is now known to us as Noah who is reported to have buried then so they survived the great and most terrible flood we call Noah's Flood. The books seem to have been passed down via godly descendants over centuries because they are found as fragments among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls and some Christians too have kept them as scripture. Jesus Christ seems to have regularly said sayings about Himself that alluded to the teachings about a Son of Man who in the passage of The Book of Enoch called The Second Parable of Enoch as always being together with the lord over all the spirits. The writer of the Epistle of Jude who followed Jesus, perhaps a biological brother of Him, quoted from The Book of Enoch and confirms it was truly Enoch, 'Seventh from Adam' who wrote it by insoiration of spirit these disciples of Jesus called The Holy Spirit. The lord of spirits mentioned in the writings of Enoch was called The Father by Jesus as Jesus identified Himself with the Son of Man who had been ever with The Father and had ruled angelic spirits serving The Father since the beginning of all things. The writer and teacher Enoch had written about awesome caverns lined with crystals in a mountain sided in two directions with volcanoes and one such cavern was devoid of any life or spirit and was full of dread like a great air-lock vacuum chamber adjacent to another greater crystal cave (apparently a crystal cave from the description which seems to describe something similar to the Cave of the Crystals in Mexico cut off from outside through antiquity) where the Lord of Spirits had His Throne. When Jesus was about to be crucified by evildoers and then raised by The Father, He said He was going where they and disciples could not come but disciples would be taken later, apparently after death or after resurrection. He was raised from the dead and went to The Father who sent Him to receive again the glory He had had before creation, as Enoch had described. To go to The Father where the throne of lordship over nature and spirits was installed Jesus visibly rose in the air from the top of a hill outside Jerusalem and was hidden from sight by clouds. When He had been first seen by disciples after His resurrection prior to this ascension on one occassion He seems from their accounts to have entered a room locked from the inside ('for fear of the Jews'). Now it is my proposed conclusion He was given a body of resurrection that has properties of spirit but is still flesh and blood so that He could enter the cavernous throne chamber of the most high spirit, God, high in a mountain cut off from the outside yet accessible to resurrected Jesus and to angelic spirits. The descriptions Enoch gave having been there and been sent back to give his writeup to his children and the people of his generation suggest a mountain surrounded by three volcanoes south and three east. It looks like a divine throne. I suggest at least one mountain matches this but there may be others. The one that matches is in Equador in the Andes and one of the highest points on Earth called by us today Cotopaxi. No I cannot be certain it is this mountain but it does have a local reputation as home of divine spirits. It sure looks majestic too.

The One to Know

The One to know. The one person who, even if you know nobody else, you should know this one person. 'Whom to know is life eternal.' You need to believe that there is such a person. The person who is most important to know and trust. Most worthy of your attention and following. There is this person who when among men was deemed the one true Messiah above lesser messiahs and teachers and prophets and apostles and sages. The one who died and who now lives. The one of whom all this will always be so. The one to lead you to God. The one the holy Spirit from God speaks of and glorifies. The One to whom the holy Spirit from God draws attention. The One in whose name the universe and life itself functions. Know Him. And through Him know God. Love God so much you can know His Son, The One to know. The One to watch. The One from whom to learn and be made righteously free of wrong doing as He truly is righteous and free of wrondoing. This One of righteousness and faith. Alive from the dead having conquered death righteously by God's power and approval. Because of what He is. And He is! Love Him. Love God His Father too.

Enoch the Prophet of Old on Tours of Heaven

To recap, Enoch was a prophet from before Bible times who was an ancestor of people the Bible mentions and was revered in the ancient world for his insight after angels visited him and took him to a normally inaccessible place from which a spirit over all other spirits ruled and with him one called a son of man. The place he visited along with many other wondrous places on an angelically conducted tour is described in several places in a collection of his writings that seems to have survived to this day, though many sceptics will object to saying this. It seems there are details in the writings (The Book of Enoch) which correspond so well with recent knowledge of the period that it suggests the book is authentic to some extent, if not in its entirety.
Enoch's visit to the heavenly mountainous crystal caves seems to have been during the Predynastic Period of Egypt around 3000 BC, coinciding with the start of the Chalcolithic Age which the historical accounts he relates also describe and explain. The introduction of strange new alchemical alloys and new magic arts and culture he explained in detail. I don't see any reason why the holding of court of the most high spirit over all spirits in a mountainous crystal cave like the Cave of the Crystal in Mexico but higher and bigger isn't the same today. Jesus Christ said when about to die, rise again and ascend that He was going where others could not come. Only spirit empowered beings can enter caves with no link to the surface. It makes sense. He entered a room of disciples locked from the inside when He had risen. Enoch described someone so like Jesus it demands consideration that Jesus ruled with these spirits as a 'son of man' before His advent, presumably from these Caves.

Cave of the Crystals

God as a concept or force and of the place God lives in as something like another realm of existence or another dimension but evidence exists in ancient writings (Book of Enoch) that there is a pair of immense caverns below a certain mountain where the Spirit who is the most high spirit over all other spirits can live and hold court even though these caverns are cut off and only accessible to spiritual beings and not mere mortal humans. Such caves were said to have been visited by the writer of the account to allow him to describe them to the first civilisation and his description matches presumably much smaller but similarly magnificent crystal caves only recently discovered in a mountain in Mexico and featured in nature programs on TV. The similarities are striking but how coincidental that such things were known to the ancients, unless of course the account is true.
One of the descriptions in The Book of Enoch could be a large crystal cave as found in a Mexico mountain ('Cave of the Crystals') deep underground and normally cut off from the human world yet by being inside a mountain it is high up above sea level. The description reads (except from The Book of Enoch chapter 14:12ff):
"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."
This was presented as an eye witness account and Enoch seems to have been revered in the ancient world for insight given him about such things, all scepticism aside.
It seems (Enoch's visit to the heavenly mountainous crystal caves) to have been during the Predynastic Period of Egypt around 3000 BC, coinciding with the start of the Chalcolithic Age which the historical accounts he relates also describe and explain. The introduction of strange new alchemical alloys and new magic arts and culture he explained in detail. I don't see any reason why the holding of court of the most high spirit over all spirits in a mountainous crystal cave like the Cave of the Crystal in Mexico but higher and bigger isn't the same today. Jesus Christ said when about to die, rise again and ascend that He was going where others could not come. Only spirit empowered beings can enter caves with no link to the surface. It makes sense. He entered a room of disciples locked from the inside when He had risen. Enoch described someone so like Jesus it demands consideration that Jesus ruled with these spirits as a 'son of man' before His advent, presumably from these Caves.

A World View by Inspiration

A world view takes shape now that I have had time to reflect on things taught by the Holy Spirit over the years and it seems surprising to me what it has become. I get the picture now that there is a mountain perhaps in South America where deep underground caves lined with huge crystals are probably cut off from humans but not from spirits and not from one named Jesus since He rose from the dead and from here this Jesus ministers throughout the world as High Priest of all God's believers. From here there are messages sent out as the Holy Spirit takes treasures of God's hidden knowledge and wisdom of His truth embodied in Jesus Christ and makes it known gradually to believers all around the world. The throne of God, the most high spirit of all spirits, is in this hidden place too as God extends His spiritual rule around the world among these believers making them permanent priestly members of it who eventually can be truly called His own children and co-heirs with this Jesus. This throne will become the throne of Jesus when He reigns a thousand years from it in the not-too-distant future and for now He is called Lord as He sits at God's right hand and shares this throne with God. Yet eventually God has promised to make all things new, even these things, and reign forever.

The Well Spring

The wellspring promised by The Christ as recorded in the Gospel of John is very real and is fulfilled even today to those who believe God.

I felt the Holy Spirit for sure after pleading with God earnestly for days or weeks to know I had received Him. I was praying especially earnestly when a vision went on my mind like a TV program with a builder's bucket of sand tipped out in front of me and words like subtitles saying "Build the Temple". I knew building the temple was a way the apostles and Jesus described lovingly encouraging believers and prophesying to them to build them up and bring them together into the Temple which is the corporate grouping together of those who are untited with Christ in faith and baptism and the Holy Spirit. So I asked God to confirm this was truly His Spirit within me giving me this vision and the same day or next day, not sure I remember exactly, I went to visit a church where anyone is allowed to speak and first one then another in speaking then a group of Sunday School children in a song they had written each gave the same message "Build the Temple".

So to me it meant I must prophesy to build up believers. But it didn't work out too well. I was barred from the church where all were allowed to speak by what seemed to me a jealous leader zealous to guard against preachers on his turf. I found another church after years where they let people speak. As a newcomer there my girlfriend warned me not to speak until I had been attending a while. When there was something I just felt had to be said one day I asked God before the service to make others say it so I would not upset by being a newcomer telling what to do. Three prophesied just that very thing. Some time later after going elsewhere a bit but being made to leave yet after major experiences of God I went to this church again and this time was determined to speak. Yet as I meditated waiting for God to give me words it was like a spring of spirit welling up within me as words again came into my mind out of the blue "Israel has sinned!" Then a vision of a bird like an eagle black with a white large eye flying ovehead came with a welling up message to me that this would be the sign this was God speaking. It seems God was speaking like He did in 'Old Testament' scripture to show me He was The LORD who spoke to those prophets giving me these words. The TV news showed the sign that morning before church - first a black spy plane being sent on missions then the first of a new helicopter in police service with a white searchlight and camera at the front ( this was the mid nineties when this was very new). I told one person at church what happened and I heard him saying to others "... just like Old Testament prophecies ..." so the message was being heard.

In all this and other occassions it felt like words just were coming up within me from an inner spring of spirit. No wonder Jesus Christ described in words 'living water welling up to eternal life'.

On each occasion the words have been very succinct, often with a vision picture:

"Build the Temple"

"I am God. This will be put before you. Look at it."

"Put down your umbrella!"

"See the trees put out buds. They do this by the authority of the Lord Jesus"

"Israel has sinned"

"Daniel three"

Here with a little context for clarification:

After I had prayed to receive the Holy Spirit having believed Jesus is the Christ and to know I had received Him: "Build the Temple" - this was the Holy Spirit, with a waking vision of a building site bucket tipped out and the confirming sign was the repetition of it three times by three separate prophecies in church that weekend.
After I realised I had to preach but knew nothing with certainty to preach knowing what I was preaching about had so I prayed that God would be known to me - Father and Son of God and Holy Spirit: "I am God. This will be put before you. Look at it." - this was the Father, in a vivid dream I knew was real and the vision in the dream was of Him majestically standing before dressed in a robe to His feet and then I was shown that a sheet of names would be put before me at work and the sign was that it happened (very unusual in my work at that time).
A little later while I walked in a terrific downpour of rain during floods having been considering God presided over such floods: "Put down your umbrella!" and when I did not a drop fell on me because the rain stopped so quickly - I knew it must be Jesus but asked for confirmation in a sign I specified which happened by His power as Lord over me
I still wanted certainty of what it is to be in church and hear speaking in tongues by the Spirit manifested and someone took me to a church where they said I would get just that and there I heard tongues but English translated words came into my mind as I heard the angelic words spoken in tongues by a church leader - "See the trees put out buds. They do this by the authority of the Lord Jesus" - the sign was confirmed when the leader then said these same words in English after I heard them interpreted in my mind.
Years after all this happened I still yearned to hear the Holy Spirit actually speak to me and one day years later after many things had been making me think angels might be looking out for me by what had been happening if ever I was opposed or threatened and I thought of a verse in a Psalm about the angel of God encamping around those who feared Him to protect them but I had no idea which Psalm it was; suddenly a voice clear as a bell within my mind said: "Daniel three". Realising it must be a Bible reference I went to a Bible I had open and looked it up. There in the margin of that chapter was a cross reference to a verse in Psalms. I had a hunch what might happen and yes, when I looked it up it was that verse about the angel of God encamping around those that feared Him to protect them.

Failing Trust

Trust only fades very slowly and needs a boost infrequently once it has gained strength over time but it can be damaged if never boosted, especially when it is new. If you have a trust in Jesus strengthened by experience of fulfillment of His promises the trust takes a lot to completely lose it. A lot of wrongdoing and lengthy time of leaving it dormant and ignored could weaken it so it hades enough to warrant the believer being cast aside by God. Why take that chance? Feed it and feed eachothers' trust in Jesus by encouraging eachother and by seeing your prayers through to God-given or Jesus-given answers.

Tryst of Trust

It must be a bond that forms when promises from the mouth of Jesus recorded in the gospels especially the Gospel of John are fulfilled in a person and they gain a special trust in Jesus Christ cemented by joyful experience of His God and Father's faithfulness to the word from Him that Jesus taught. The bond adds to a joyful realisation, astonishing though it is, that Jesus now has your existence bound to His existence and you gain the unending life that comes from the resurrection life after death He enjoys. You keep those promises holding them tightly plus other words of grace He gives you and the Holy Spirit from God gives you in His name. A tryst of trust has formed and if it remains forever it will be to God's glory and a fruitful life.

Prayer

What use is prayerfully asking for something to be given or action taken if not followed through to the answering of it by God? Maybe the prayer was a struggle with uncertainty over what to ask with doubt that what is asked is right or what is truly wanted but God has taught through Jesus His Son and Jesus' apostles that He does not want partially certain prayers so much as certain ones He cam answer. Try to avoid praying half baked prayers you are not sure about but triumph in prayer by praying prayers God can answer then beiieve He will and this will lead to His action. Pray with follow-through. Pray to result in action from God. Pray with certainty that God will work His work in accordance with His will. Pray like this because Jesus taught it and teaches it still and did and does practice it as well to perfection. Jesus leads this way.

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.