The Book of Enoch - Again

 Going to church all my life until the age of forty, then recently being cut off (probably deserved it) by lockdown and then by conscience, it seems inevitable that you get to encounter this phenomenon, this being, this spirit which is called by Christians the Holy Spirit, a spirit which brings Christ's blessings to people in churches, to believers in Christ. I had to beg though. Some churches were getting lots of blessed encounters with this Spirit. They were never the churches I went to. I went to the dull, sit-in-a-pew-every-week-and-count-yourself-blessed kind of churches. Yet these churches in some cases had redeeming things in their favour such as some great preachers, and I got to at least know a bit about what I was missing, even though these churches didn't seem to object to us missing it. All I could do was plead with God to give me this Holy Spirit, and plead, and plead and search my soul, and plead and plead. For years. Until I pleaded most earnestly in the early 1990s. Something must have stirred me up around then. Anyway, it all started happening. It culminated in miraculous spiritual experiences in which this Holy Spirit spoke in my heart and the words were clearly from heaven and from Jesus and from the Father's side. But it was particularly awe-inspiring that the words were words I later found in a book I never knew existed, but which I later found was a very strong influence on Jesus Christ and was endorsed by him, as the gospels show. Clearly this Holy Spirit had been at work in producing this book. The Book of Enoch. I never expected to find a new scripture book, which is probably the very oldest scripture book, predating the Bible originally, given the provenance ascribed to it by Jesus and the epistle of Jude in the Bible. It got forgotten by the time the Anglican Protestants printed their Bible so it was not available for translation, although not long after that it did get translated into English and found its way last century into some Bible bookshops. That is where I found it, in a corner, as it were, on a shelf. I read it and saw those very words, near as anything, that the Holy Spirit had spoken to me in a Pentecostal service in the nineties.

Why believe in God and religion?

 Why believe in God and religion? When I type my password into a computer it never gets documented (even if it stored, persisted, it would be a hash of it which is stored, not the password), so nobody can prove what it is. But I still know what it is and know it works. To me, the fact my computer starts, is proof that what I remember it is, IS what it is. Nobody but myself has that proof because only I know what it is. What I am trying to say is, it is tacit knowledge. I know what I know. I might let someone see me type my password, and see that the computer accepts it, and similarly I might let someone see me pray and see the miracle happen. I know it happens. One or two others know too. I know the miracles happen. I document them. I let a couple of others see, in the will of God. It shows me conclusively Jesus tells the truth about God. I learned it from Bible teachers with faith. Others can read those scriptures too. If any other religion documents miracles people see in their lives it helps my faith too sometimes. Bible-believers have no monopoly on faith and God. There were believers long before Abraham was born. Jesus spans that time too in a mysterious way of spirit. The Holy Spirit was teaching the same things then as he teaches today. 

Prospects

 The Christ who died for you is truly committed to dealing with your sins, my sins, as is the Father, the God who sent him. Exciting prospects.

What a mess

 O Christianity in the UK  in 2022. What a mess. All compromised by the devil into hating Russia to please Ukraine. Yet the hated Russians are many of them brothers and sisters of Christ, who is being hated. Are there any who have not been compromised, that need to be plucked from the fire? Satan takes the hindmost but who is there who can be saved? What a mess. Jesus is the Lord who saves. If he is willing he can clean up this mess.

Satan has sifted them as wheat. But as Jesus said to Peter before Peter denied Jesus "When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers". When the real believers in the UK turn back, God permitting they do so, maybe they will strengthen the Russian church. That might be redemption.

Backup your life

 Don't worry about a thing. If you feel a sense that God is making you into His kingdom you need to consider 'backup'. You have no cause the worry, as the Bob Marley song goes, and as Jesus taught, but there is the need to backup your life. Like backing up files to the online 'cloud' there are spiritual clouds where we can backup our lives, our worldly achievements and wealth, for later when we really need it. Backup that life of yours. Protect it from tomorrow's misfortunes. Don't worry, but everything won't all be alright. God will care for you and so the worst is not too bad, but the worst will come eventually and all you have now will be gone when you die or when calamity comes. It is like an insurance policy. You pay into it and others get the benefit of being able to make claims, and eventually you too might claim. Those claims they make are paid out of your premiums. Backing up our lives is like that. We give out while we have enough to do so. Others benefit when they are in dire need. Eventually we too might be in need and their generosity and plenty might be there for us too. While we are not in need we give to help those who are. God keeps a tally, a cosmic ledger - karma if you like to call it that. The good we do to others comes back to meet us when we need it most - even after we have died and lost everything. It is kept in heaven - backed up in the spiritual cloud - for us. That is how we can back up our lives. Treasure in heaven will make us more spiritual too as we change our focus from worldly wealth to heavenly imperishable wealth and we get cleaner in our minds as we think more of how to help the poor and we start to actually send our wealth their way. But we must do it secretly so we do not seek honour from others as we give. Such honour is a benefit that invalidates our heavenly claim - our karma - our treasure in heaven. Giving secretly takes a bit of doing but is not entirely impossible. It is a matter of not publicising our giving at all, unlike those who do not know this secret process, who do not have this kingdom of God. God gave this teaching to Jesus to pass on to us, if we follow him. 

Nature and human nature - two natural worlds

 Notice how there are two different Natures, two different natural worlds. There is the Nature that is humans, There is the Nature that is everything else. The humans have a broken Nature, that does not do what God requires. The rest of Nature does obey God day after day. It is quite noticeable how, if look at things in a kind of spiritual way, you can be inspired by looking at how Nature works and how marvellous it all is, until you look at the humans' world of Nature, the way humans behave and the kind of inspiration you get from humans usually - full of fear of criticism, fear of not conforming even when conforming is daft, fear to show your true self which leads to foolishly putting on appearances of being better than you are, and fear to do what is right in case it gets disapproval - all this fear and how it distorts behaviour and warps us and how this affects us in our social environment. Folly of humans affects all we do. Look at how Nature beyond the human world, in the natural world is so much more worthy than us. Even the angels invisible around us must pour scorn on our disappointing world of humanity and wonder when finally humans will learn to live more honourably. Shame on us. Consider the birds, as Jesus and Bob Marley told us, and how their message to us is not to worry. Consider the trees how they drop their leaves at the right time of year and still manage to produce leaves again just months later (unless their are coniferous of course). Consider how orderly the planets are in their orbits around the Sun and consider the stars keeping their paths as the Earth rotates so faithfully, all constantly keeping its natural order. One day God will put things right, but how many of us will He have to discard in doing so, throwing out our souls like salt that has lost its saltiness? Jesus save us while we are still saveable.

Satanism

 As Putin condemns the West's open support for what he calls Satanism, I think his a analysis is sadly correct.  I too feel very sad at the extent to which I see people in UK embracing constantly what amounts, on a close analysis, to be a kind of Satanism. Even Christian churches seem to have a death wish culture where if something stinks of immoral hellishness, they openly show support for it, in a kind of defiance against the traditional knowledge of right and wrong. It is the British support for the underdog gone mad, taken to a vile extreme. They admit to going astray like this and that they are determined to keep on going that way. Sad, sad, sad. Bad, bad, bad. Like King Saul hating the rising star David, love-hate hatred, claiming to be a friend while openly trying to have him killed. A mad spirit has taken hold of the UK, so perhaps this is happening throughout the whole of the West, as Putin implies. 

On it's way to Egypt

 The West's church is on its way to Egypt (figuratively) and will not turn around. It has embraced Ukraine together with Ukraine's sins and it will not turn around. Being handed over to Satan as a result, this is no deterrent. It is what it is. Sharing in these sins is too much to overlook. Sad, sad, sad. Woe, woe, woe. Maybe some have not become haters and have not colluded in their hearts. They are like Lot in Sodom.

They did not repent of their murders

 As I look today at what is happening and going to happen over the coming hours in Lyman in Ukraine, as Ukrainian troops move into the city where civilians had no time to flee. Look at what they will do, perhaps doing right now, to civilians who were previously under Russian control. Think what King Saul did to those who helped David, if you know that part of the Bible. West leaders and West Christians support all this openly, even announcing support in church services: Those who have a dog which maims and kills people and who do nothing to stop it or put it down, they are liable for what that dog keeps doing. Support Ukraine? you cannot be in fellowship with Christ and with his disciples and keep being in charge of this dog without stopping its atrocities. "They did not repent of their murders" says the book of Revelation. This is Christians supporting such things. They are all unwelcome in the true churches of Christ, or should be unwelcome and shunned. Cancel culture is often silly but this is deadly serious. Even those at the top should be handed over to Satan, if they profess to be brothers in Christ but support these atrocities. 

Happy rebirth day Russia

 Sadly the West had sinned so bad that God had to build up Russia and the church there in a move away from Rome and the hegemony of the West. God will always ensure He has His temple, the body of people we call the church. The Russia miracle is putting forth buds and leaves and it is all by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Israel has sinned, says the LORD. Jesus will cover the church with the shadow of his wings and it will find rest in him. We can stop pushing for hegemony and West supremacy because Jesus has the keys to the kingdom and will build his church according to the will of God. Oh that the West would repent and turn back to God. But God will do things around the West and He will have His church, His temple. God injects the newly risen Russia with His love and grace in the name of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ and the spirit God gives to Russia will prevail. But I still hope the time is not over for the West to return to this grace and there can be a united church. Of course there are those who have not embraced Satan and have not followed hatred and have not persecuted the believers. We can all be united in the same spirit to the glory of God. Happy rebirth day Russia.

(October 1st 2022)

Western threats and persecutions

 Should I be afraid of Russia and potential nuclear poking of the bear that the Western leaders have tended towards? We Christians love each other. "There is no fear in love because perfect love drives out fear ... " Putin has no plan to dominate nations, only to protect Russians, countrymen for whom he feels a responsibility. But if the West chooses to threaten Russia then there are instruments of course to deal with it. The West needs to recognise the responsibility Putin has for those who put themselves in his care. He cannot abandon them to those who would persecute them. Bringing them all into full primary statehood in Russia is best for their protection and for Putin's fulfilment of his sacred responsibility under God in Christ. By his fruits we know him. The West should be shamed by this into backing off from being a monstrous persecutor. The persecuting of believers is the very worst kind of sin. We in the church punish our own.

Neither God nor Jesus are subjected by temptation

 Now that it is Jesus and God together in the highest status and position holding us all together, we need to know that neither can be subjugated by evil force, that they are always sovereign and free of such subjugation to be able to keep on supporting us in the faith and righteousness they have given us. It is important that neither Jesus nor God, the Father, can be tempted. Yet for Jesus, temptation involves a different process than it does for God the Father, in that Jesus is human and 'temptable', but does not give in, while the Father is not human and is not subject to fleshly weaknesses and no evil can force Him to give in. Job suffered a lot because God could be influenced by Satan but God did not let Satan influence Him without limiting what He would let Satan do and would not agree to let Satan call the shots in regard to Job. Job suffered as a result of the fact that Satan had God's ear for a period of time but in the end God put it all back to how it was without Satan's involvement, and better than that. For eternal life's sake, we must be assured God and Jesus with Him are not going to be won over by any evil influence and turned against us. We cannot merely take it for granted. Balaam was able to make Israelites sin by sending foreign girls among them knowing they would take these girls and God would therefore turn against them. This almost destroyed the Israelites completely were it not for one who killed a couple in judgment and saved the day. It can be dire. We need both the Father AND Jesus to keep us from being destroyed in similar ways. We always need Jesus' mediation as our Great High Priest. He advises us how to keep at peace with God and helps us do it, helping us overcome temptation, and at the same time intercedes on our behalf with God.

Actually keeping Jesus' teachings

 How realistic is it to actually practice what Jesus Christ taught? For me personally, the basic teachings of Jesus are very much 'keepable'.Although Jesus taught sometimes in riddles or parables, there are many commands he gave which are clear enough to put into practice. Other, more hidden sayings of Jesus require a long time, perhaps years, of pondering and comparing them to what happens in life, to get better insight. This is clearly what he wants us to do. Other teachings are possible to put into action as soon as we grasp their meaning. It is not hard to give to the poor secretly, It is not hard to pray secretly. It is not hard to sell possessions unless you are rich, to give to the poor. I found that practising all of the commands of Jesus really led to him revealing himself and the Father too. His promise of this is kept by him faithfully. Now, faith is tough, believing without doubting is tough, takes a lot of self-control and the word of his grace being preached - but it is not impossible and he was right about its effect being miraculous. So much of the body of teachings of Jesus Christ is readily doable. Even the miraculous teachings are doable. It is a weight lifted. Not as heavy as Torah of Moses which needs a lot of community aspects we cannot reproduce today. Jesus' yoke is lighter. I admit that over the years of trying to carry out what Jesus taught, I sometimes stumbled over certain teachings, until I realised that understanding them literally is not always appropriate since some of his teachings are expressed in idiomatic terms. You need to learn the lesson he was teaching and work out how best to apply it in your life. You do what you can when you can and try to get ready to do things when opportunity arises. For example, feeding your enemy means you first need to have a hungry enemy and some food, so it is about being ready to respond as appropriate. You know what he means, that you should not withhold good completely just because someone is an enemy or not particularly a friend: you give something perhaps less than you would give a friend but you do not completely deny them what they need if they are desperate. It takes time to both understand his sayings and his commands and to work out how to apply them and then to change former habits into something more obedient and wise according to what he taught. This is the best way to act on what he taught. He is an example of his own teachings. He is no hypocrite. He loves those who love his teachings and this love is genuine. The Father too loves such people because the Father gave the teachings to His Son and wants those teachings observed and recognises the love we have when we observe them and He honours it. Ultimately this all leads to eternal life because Jesus Christ is now Lord with all authority and able to make our lives eternal and able to raise us from the dead. It is the will of God who sent him.

What is God like?

 What is God like? He is a person who sets two laws in the hearts of those He chooses. The law to look out for the needs and concerns of others, averting their distress, helping them enjoy a fulfilled and righteous life. The law to love Him, your God, with all of your heart and soul and mind and with your voice too, so you use your voice to tell His commands to others. This is the God who calls Jesus Christ His true, beloved Son and gives the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. This is the God who says "I am God" and judges the nations righteously and fairly and who has appointed His Son to do the same. This is the God whose spirit has been working these things out for millennia and has told of the glory of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in whose name Nature functions day after day. This is the God whose temple is being built from the lives and bodies of those who have this persuasion which God Himself inspires. This is the God who sent His Son to be crucified to bring us to Him and who raised His Son from the dead and seated His Son at His right hand in glory. This is the God whose Son will come again to raise the dead who believe and give to all the worthy believers the gift of immortality. This is the God who has given His Son to be fully human so that he can fairly judge all those who share that humanity, on the last day, before the endless eternity begins when God and His Son will live forever together with those He has created as new living immortal righteous beings, children of God. This is the God who gave the inspiration to our predecessors to write out the holy scriptures which teach us that these things are true. 

Great project

 Great when you are starting a project in a company which will breathe new life into those involved in it. You get the go-ahead and immediately you face the challenge that you need to announce this project to get people involved in it who will benefit from that involvement and this is the purpose your company asked you to do it. Well that is nice. It means communication is essential, though. Jesus Christ was doing something just like this, along similar lines. His project was the will of God who sent him. His mission was given God’s go-ahead and he needed to tell people because their involvement would breathe into them new and actually eternal life. The commitment of Jesus continues today, and always. He will even raise up from the dead those involved. This was guaranteed by raising Lazarus and then, after Jesus was cruelly crucified by his persecutors, rising from the dead personally, all by the life-giving power and personal working of God who sent him. It is a foretaste of his bringing later the full resurrection of his followers who are found worthy, who wisely do what Jesus gives instruction to do, staying always with the program to the end. Never quitting. No wonder Jesus announced it so enthusiastically. It irritated his peers, other leaders, no end. They got so irate that they became the persecutors who crucified him together with leaders from Rome. Yet it did not stop Jesus going through with this eternal life-enabling work, teaching us all who listen and believe and hold with hope to his teachings. Miracles accompany those teachings still today as Jesus works still and the Holy Spirit takes his workings out to many who follow wherever they live in the world. That is how powerfully God spreads this gracious work. It all reveals that God is real and is truly loving and kind, wise and powerful, able to save, able to do so forever unto eternal life.

Gospel

 When we get a taste of heaven through the gospel, when we hear it preached, we learn that Christ died for us, to lead us to God.

Back then

 What was it that entered the world when Jesus Christ started preaching? Something was introduced back then. Lazarus was raised from the dead back then. Jesus Christ died and rose again back then. This should be a clue. Yes, resurrection, and with it the prospect of eternal life. No small thing. It all changed. The benefits of listening to what Jesus started teaching back then and understanding it and learning to actually carry out those instructions, those benefits are immense. Eternal life. The prospect of resurrection. Not to be missed.

Hope for Britain

 I am hoping that as God is included in our making of our United Kingdom king, as Hosea 8:1 -4 tells us (see below), and God becomes more a part of our national power system, we will see less of what Hosea 8:1-4 laments and more of what happens when we leave Babylon the Great and have God as our God and ultimate leader.

Hosea prophecy in the Bible, chapter 8

1 “Put the trumpet to your lips!

    An eagle is over the house of the Lord

because the people have broken my covenant

    and rebelled against my law.

2 Israel cries out to me,

    ‘Our God, we acknowledge you!’

3 But Israel has rejected what is good;

    an enemy will pursue him.

4 They set up kings without my consent;

    they choose princes without my approval.

With their silver and gold

    they make idols for themselves

    to their own destruction.

Violence

 If ordinary, non-Na*i, people in the West knew what violence their governments are now supporting in places like Donbas, would they personally support this violence and wickedness? 

Do some worthwhile digging

 We die. We are still conscious. We remember our living relatives. We can appeal to spirits of saints in that state. Where will we spend this time before the final resurrection and judgement? Can we do anything now to help us then? Find out these teachings taught by Jesus Christ. It could well be worth the effort. 

“Extending Russia”?

 What did Rand mean by ‘extending Russia’? “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground;  This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia” Is that an Americanism? There is no explanation in the infamous report of “extend”. Stretching Russia? Like stretching an elastic band until it breaks? 

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

Necessities Sept 2022

 22 Sept 2022. Yesterday Putin drew attention to the necessity of being thorough in defending Russians in Donbas from barbaric mistreatment and persecution. It leaves him no choice but to fight on, increase numbers of troops and put all weapons at military disposal rather than betray the DPR and LPR people. The leaders in the West who deny this necessity are blind, or just plain immoral.

Deadly sins?

 On the day of very deadly strikes killing civilians of all ages of in Donbas, are UK, US and EU politicians and military commanders and militia committing deadly sins? If so, prayer for them is useless. It is sin that ends in death.

God save our king

 Holy Spirit confirming to my spirit in the Queen’s funeral that Charles is my king through God. Hosea 8:1 shows the importance of God being involved in who becomes our king. This can save us all from nuclear war and from a dystopian police state future.

Lord over the household of the One True God

We who are aware of being in a household over which Jesus is the Lord, the house’s master, are not in a position to reject kingship of a monarch just because we have Jesus as our Lord. It does not work that way. We can still submit to a monarch, as Jesus submitted to Pilate and to Caesar. A household master under Caesar still submitted to Caesar just as the servants and children and slaves of the house submitted to Caesar. Having a lord, a master over their household, did not negate the submission to Caesar, and we show proper submission to a monarch in addition to submitting to our Lord, Jesus the Christ, as we ought to do. There is no conflict of loyalty, except of course when our duty to God supersedes our duty to mere men. Being commanded by mere human leaders, albeit monarchs, if it causes a sin against commands of God, we must obey God rather than men, but normally we can submit to both. No need to say our acceptance of having Jesus as our Lord means no king is acceptable. Being in a household with Jesus as its lord, albeit a mighty great household, that of the Father, the Almighty, does not negate the possibility of also having an earthly king. Not at all. Rather our master expects and commands us to submit to a monarch if they are established by God.

No enduring city

 Those regenerated by the Holy Spirit, freed from bondage of lies and lying, have no enduring city for God to heal it, but we build the kingdom we have been entering and the temple of God that in Christ we are becoming. We build it with our God-given tasks and our prayers prayed in spirit and truth. All by the blood and body of our Lord and Master over this house of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. To the glory of God his Father who sent him.

The Eternal Spirit

 The Eternal Spirit

When Jesus spoke back in the first century, the Spirit by which he spoke was a wellspring of life and it later welled up in his disciples. Yet this was not only the same Spirit welling up today, but from my own witnessing of this first hand in a pentecostal church a few decades ago, the same Spirit also spoke through a prophet known as Enoch three thousand years before the gospel record events of Jesus Christ. My testimony of hearing Spirit words is that they said almost exactly the same things as I later learned Enoch had prophesied five thousand years earlier, around 3000 BC. So truly, i know first hand, this is an eternal Spirit, by which Jesus also spoke, giving life to the world. 

If we let him

 Maybe Satan really exists. Satan was not a god mentioned frequently in ancient writings but Egyptian god Seth is described in similar ways. Do we say that Seth exists? No. I have not heard that said. Lots of people say Satan exist, though, mainly I think because Jesus spoke about Satan as a real being. In our consciousness, yes we might accept Jesus as authority on such things but do we let that filter into our modern thinking? I admit to holding some things in scripture at arms length until I get reasons to really take it on board. With this one we see a lot of behaviour persisting in even the most morally robust areas of society such as our lawmakers, top judges, royals, PMs and top diplomats, which is behaviour akin to pro-murder hatred, anti-ethnic group lies couched as propaganda 'in the national interest' and this is like the behaviours Jesus called Satanic. I thought such things got filtered out by our institutions and HR departments as people rose in the hierarchies of power. If they reappear I find myself giving credence to the teaching that a hidden being is behind it, fostering it, raising people in these ways to murder and lie. Society fails to stamp it out because a powerful hidden being keeps on bringing it back invisibly in our leaders and also in us, if we let 'him'.

Fighting in Ukraine 2022

 Ultimately this special military operation by Russia could end the Ukrainian bombing of Donetsk civilians and could establish a truer way for separatists to gain rights to live normal lives. Kiev presumed the right to separate but did not allow that right to others. The West should be forced to accept that if Ukraine can separate then so can Donetsk, there should be fairness when ascribing political rights to self-determination. Russia wants a fairer world than the West typically provides. Self-determination rights must be applied fairly without favouritism. That is a great goal even for a military operation like this. We should minimise how we resort to military violence, or any violence, remembering that those who live by the sword will die by the sword, but given good reason and faced with ongoing killing of compatriots year after year, a ruler of compatriots in suffering might have no choice. 

The Dabela

 Prophecy from 3000 BC tells us, with help of confirmation from Christ two thousand years later, that nations will be hawkish in the last days and attack sheep righteous from all sides and above until those sheep cry out and their lambs cry out in anguish but older sheep will not hear them. The wolves and lions and hyenas attack them and the eagles and hawks and ravens bomb them from above, pecking the lambs until they cry out. Only a he-goat, a billy-goat, a dabela, will heed them and stand up to save them. The billy-goat will be given a sword for protection of them. All those predators will turn on him all at once. He will defend some sheep and the sheep will start turning to him. They will get courage and strength from him. Yet the predators will come against him but fail to stop him. At last he will lift his voice to heaven for help and the Lord of the sheep will come down to help him in front of the frustrated predators. Sounds like someone today. Sounds like the predators are those we were told by propaganda were the sheep. No they are the predators. 

Dabela the billy goat

 There is a scripture rejected by the Western churches which I believe called the Book of Enoch and it foretells someone so, so very much like Putin that I wonder whether the rest of what it says about him is about to come to pass. If you know the Book of Enoch you might know who I mean, described there. The 'dabela' in Ge'ez language (the language the scripture is preserved in by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church). The billy-goat among the predators, defending sheep but a bit more rough than a sheep and yet not like the predators. If this is Putin, and believe me, the description of the context of this foretold person and the person himself seems an exact match, then we are perhaps very close to seeing Christ return. Perhaps just years or a couple of decades away rather than several decades. It tells how the sheep cry our under constant attacks from the air and from around them and he defends them and then it says that all the predators, wolves, lions, hawks, eagles, they will all try to stop him and will hate him and fail to stop him, even though it seems like the whole world is turning on him as he defends the oppressed sheep from these predatory attackers. Then he will lift up his cry to heaven and the Lord will come down and save him in the eyes of the whole world. Then there will come the end and the powers of heaven allowing this oppression will be judged by the Lord. This prophecy ties in with the millennium rule of Christ because it comes a thousand years before the final judgement. Could this mean Putin will live to see Jesus come and that Jesus will be helping him by his coming? It seems a plausible interpretation of the prophecy to me. Jesus loved the Book of Enoch and called it scripture which was essential to know if you want to escape being in error.

Izyum

 Why did Putin lose Izyum? I suspect Putin lost some moral 'karma' when he failed to attend Gorbachev's funeral. Such 'karma' (for want of a better word) really does matter a lot in this kind of situation.

The ups and downs of a monarch

 Look how in scripture we are warned that even rising to the top and having wisdom from God, we can still badly fall. There was Solomon and how his life turned out. There was Josiah. Look at Moses. There was Uzziah. Even Hezekiah was shown by God's test to be a bit selfish and untrustworthy. So, when a life of devotion is lived by a monarch, there can be things done which, especially when done at the end of a long life when they should know better, they can go the wrong way and die for it. Even Moses died because he failed God in what might to us seem a small way. God is holy. He expects a lot of those in power, especially those whose lives He sustains and nurtures. But the rewards are great if service is good and overall God weighs what we do at the end of time when all is said and done.

The crossroads

 Now that the UK has gone it alone and left the EU, I find the USA is hugging up to us. "Will you go it alone and without us too?", they appear to be intimating. Well the USA seems to be where the 1930s and 1940s German leaders got their leadings from. And where the arms and money is going from the USA today indicates no major shift in ideology. So for the man in the street who was brought up hating racism and abhorring the Holocaust, it is not a cosy relationship to foster. "I met Jesus at the crossroads," went the sogn of my youth, "Where the two roads meet. Satan too was standing there and he said 'Come my ay. Lots and lots of pleasures I can give to you this day". But I said No, There's Jesus here and he says "Come my way. Down there your sins forgiven. Up here a home in heaven" Praise God that's the way for me.

The new N word

 The new N word is four letters long. Nations are using it to defend against loss of territory. Especially in Eastern Europe, this is the main strategy for many. Behind this word there were mass killings of first thousands of Jews, Russians, Poles, Gypsies, in the 1940s, then Poles in the 1950s. Thousands upon thousands daily until it reached millions. Not all were prosecuted for doing this, most were allowed to go unpunished. Some carried on after release from prison and from Siberian exile after returning home. They started groups. The USA and NATO funded the building up of this revival to defend Eastern Europe territories. Possibly the love of this N word in the USA, UK ruling classes and NATO has fed this monster. Now it is out of its cage and still being fed. Where will it go? What will it do? Who will suffer, be tortured, be inhumanely killed? You?

O Leaders of the UK

 Oh the dear leaders of the UK. None of them could do it. Only the later Queen could teach the teachings  of Christ and the commands of the God who sent him. The Brexit reset was not completed because it should be, still can be, a reset towards God. Not a reset towards Europe and the West and the new world order. The Brexit that was done was done. Leading up to it David Cameron was bold and courageous enough to call on religious believers to be more vocal about their faith. Then he quit. Those who took over either had not faith to shout from the rooftops or lacked the wisdom or the courage to announce it and proclaim the teachings of God. We need the vacuum left by the EU membership to be filled. We truly need it filled with hearts devoted to God and to His teachings given through His Christ, His Son, the Lord who is Jesus. The Queen, God bless her soul, as able to do this but her voice was dimmed with her age. The monarchy owes it to God to be vocal about Him and teach His ways to the wayward, Brutish Brits that we are. This country needs God. Vitally. Maybe desperately as winter approaches. Where are the leaders who will boldly teach God's commands and Christ's sayings which all are from God? Who will fill the Queen's holy shoes? We are under a cloud of war and mushroom clouds. We need to give God some love, on a national scale. Set an example to the world. Love God with all your hearts and all your souls and all your minds and all your VOICES! Be Great Britain again!

What is wrong with Babylon?

 What is wrong with how Europe produces the West's shiny wealth and luxury? What is wrong with how it buys up luxury from the world's suppliers and merchants? What is wrong with its priorities? What is wrong with the civilisation and world order based on the vestiges, the remnants. of the heritage of Rome? What is wrong with the city of power in the midst of modern Europe which goes back to Europe's roots in the Roman Empire? What is wrong with the powers who trace their lines of the right to rule right back to the powers of the prince electors of the Roman Empire whose power originated in Rome? Well the wealth, the luxuries, the opulence it still today gives to the West and beyond is all at the expense of bodies and souls of people. It does not draw the line in a moral place. It lets people die to produce the trade, and lets the essence of what a person is like, their character and who they are, get enslaved in the process of producing such wealthy and luxurious and opulent products. It throws away the baby and keeps the baby's bath water, so to speak. This is what is morally wrong with the world order based on the heritage of the ancient city of Rome. That is why we needed Brexit and still need to leave this Babylon today. That is why we need God's ways to displace Babylon's ways.

The end of a peace

 Sadly this is probably the end of a peace. HM Elizabeth II was probably the reason for many to stay relatively peaceful. This will probably change. Those holding back violent tendencies and dispositions are probably no longer feeling the pacifying, restraining influence of HM Elizabeth II. We have had seventy, eighty years of relative peace in Europe itself and the West, probably associated strongly with her reign.

Christ in us the hope of glory

 Somehow the Messiah concept is burned into folk-knowledge and oral tradition of our society. People use the word in phrases like "he was a Messiah-figure" and people know what it means. Yet formal definitions are lacking. Simple lexicon translations like "Anointed One" do not say much because anointing is not a major feature of our daily lives and general knowledge. When the UK monarch is anointed it is done behind a screen so there is no film of the Queen being anointed to which we can refer in our minds in the UK. As for Christ in us, or Messiah in us, it is not something any translation can help us to understand or lexical meaning. Really the anointed concept seems to be about divine approval. So it is the divine equivalent of official or definitive truth and teaching and authority. Hence we can have divinely approved knowledge of truth and hope of salvation. It overflows from our Messiah himself. We share in his approval status if we share in him and are permeated with his teachings and authority and hope of salvation (his name Jesus means salvation so definitive divinely sealed truth is that our salvation is at hand). The sealing of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit is a heavenly sign of approval of being in Christ. When we see the Holy Spirit gifting us it helps us realise that heaven has directly laid a seal of approval on our state of being persuaded of the truth from God Himself. It is the ultimate status and recognition greater than any approval mere humans can give. Having this heavenly, God-Himself-given, seal, bestowed by Jesus the one approved above all others, is the greatest recognition anyone can have and it is a source of hope like none other. Not everyone can be sure they have this seal of the Holy Spirit. It is a great gift. Many rely on being associated with others who have it, yet even that is a source of hope, that they can know that those teaching them are themselves heaven-approved teachers. In the UK we have gas boiler workers who have to be registered and tested to gain a certification to allow them to fix domestic boilers. It is a bit like that. We have people with Messianic approval from the Messiah and from the Father among us or we ourselves have that seal of approval and so we have assurance of hope. Really folk-knowledge tells us a Messiah figure is one whose approval is such that it gives genuine hope to all this person's followers that they will be utterly safe to follow this Messiah and will experience salvation as a result. That is the kind of status we get when we trust in and follow Jesus, holding to his teachings.

The moment of redemption

 At the time of his death by crucifixion, Jesus of Nazareth was numbered with the criminals. Unless you really knew what was going on by closeness to Jesus, you would merely think Jesus was at last being recognised as a criminal and was being punished severely for it, along with others who had been convicted as thieves. It was a sad moment for those who knew him well, seeing how others would be regarding him, unable to affect what was happening, with death the only outcome on the horizon. Today it still happens that saintly people end their days as one of the criminals. It is sad that we do not know whether this is just or not. We just have to go along with what is unfolding. There are others who are justly numbered as criminals. Yet another unusual event is when one of the criminals, justly convicted and punished justly but severely, has a last minute moment of redemption. They suddenly gasp out that they recognise in that deadly ordeal that one is convicted with them who in fact did no wrong. This happened alongside Jesus on the cross next to the cross of Jesus. A thief cried out at the last hour of his life that Jesus did not deserve this and was surely there as part of the mystery of the will of God and kingdom of God and would soon be restored rightly in that kingdom. He begged Jesus to remember him when this happened, believing death was surely not the end for Jesus. Jesus was still, blood in his eyes, able to recognise this miracle of grace happening in this thief's life and he affirmed it and promised the thief that he would share the imminent Paradise experience with Jesus after they died. Still today there are moments to be recognised when those numbered rightly with the criminals and coming to a criminal's end eventually, nevertheless have a redemptive moment of recognition of the kingdom of God and the righteousness of God in Jesus the Christ and reach out to him in this moment of belief. The times are terrible as criminality takes hold of so many lives and determines their nasty ends, yet there will be moments of persuasion as people are strongly persuaded to reach out in faith to God's own faithful and true word, the Christ. Watch for this redemption taking place. Seek it for yourself. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and will be so forever. The Lord you see, it is Jesus.

Sayings

 ✝ The good news of God: Jesus will raise his disciples from the dead to live forever.

Nowadays we need hope. Wealth is obviously hopeless right now. Try prayer.

A good time to get away from West dependency: God's a better bet, don't forget.

Realising Jesus must be alive is an epiphany. Find the Lord out there. It is Jesus.

Jesus can help us find peace with God, but if we go too far, Jesus will judge us too.

Focus on love and remember to include the poor in your love: There you find God.

If you find Jesus and you find God, the Holy Spirit will find you.

A quiet private place is a place to pray. Do not waste it. It is treasure.

Even without a Bible, you have the best of its teachings in your mind. Heed them.

Soon people will see that Jesus is the Lord out there, but get to know him now.

Do not despise the truth that Christ died for you. That cross is what you need.

Jesus rose from the dead so you can rise from the dead too, to live forever.

Amazing what Jesus did. Miracles! But he says you can do them too if you believe.

If Jesus picked up a Bible today he'd ask: Where's the rest of it? Find and read it.

Don't worry what words might mean. Being persuaded of the truth is more important.

There is one, individual spirit who alone is God who never fails. Jesus is His Son.

God and His Son are gonna have family around them forever, raised from the dead.

If we tell lies, we speak the language of devils. Learn the language of heaven.

If we hate without good reason we have become as murderous as devils. Manage anger.

Get into the family of God and of Jesus by baptism and persuasion. All one united.

We know there is lots of sin today because there is such a hawkish threat of war.

Science tells of planetary orbits and cycles of Nature but Jesus is behind it all.

To fear God is to shun evil and then your protection will be angelic.

Let the Lord Jesus be your umbrella: His faith your protection from the storm.

God's family is based on persuasion that Christ died for all and therefore all died.

God actually withdraws mercy when those receiving it fail to show it in turn to others.

Spiritual warfare: Do not let courts be used to convict people just for their race.

Envy and provocation

 So the USA is trying to force Russia to over extend itself. Envy and provocation is the strategy of the USA, and it has even seen the light of day in various RAND publications. The big mistake, which will, apparently, bring down the USA and its 'West' followers, is to think that the truth about the situation and the risks of the provocation strategy are merely propaganda. Unfortunately this is short-sighted. God seems to be ensuring that Russia is given by heaven itself the land wherever it sets its feet, like God promised to Joshua in scripture. The envy by the USA of this success and heavenly blessing is driving this strategy the USA is tragically implementing, a strategy of provocation. There may be another heavenly purpose to all this to judge the haters and the children and followers of the perpetrators of the 1940s and 1950s Eastern Europe atrocities. If the UK is unable to extricate itself from these USA plans it could be about to be destroyed.

To the UK Kurdish Chancellor and the UK media

 As the UK media contemplates desertion from their anti-Putin support and struggle, as counter-offensives start to fail, the UK government Kurdish Chancellor has to warn them of the cost of doing so. It looks like the anti-Putin powers that be are now calling the shots within the UK government itself and not just the deeper public sector and related industries. Irrespective of corruption and losing battles this fighting must, it seems, go on, no matter whether God is on Putin's side. Anything else would be too costly for deserters. The only off-ramp is full-blown repentance, but that means little to the apostate UK establishment who left the following of God back in the pandemic and followed first the science and now the gods of the Vikings and their neo-paganism. Woe, Woe, Woe. But Christ died for all, the just for the unjust, to lead us to God. Take heed UK chancellor, UK media, UK people. Christ Jesus who died, crucified for sins, is alive to help those who truly repent and turn to God. This faith might seem foolish, but what other hope is there. This is the time to love God first, who first loved us. To look to God for hope and to His son the Lord Jesus Christ and to love the believers whatever their nationality or race. Irrational racism can pit people against not only against believers of that race who have God protecting them in love, but against God Himself. Time to repent. Time to turn to God for leadership and for sight to see in order to lead rightly, fairly and safely. Time to believe in the Son of God, sent by God, who died for sins and lives again to ever help those who seek God and seek God's right way of living. Let God send the signs to follow this message.

The real beginning

 How did the Messiah begin his ministry? With his crucifixion. "The beginning of the gospel about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God" wrote the gospel writer Mark. Yes Jesus did miracles and preached and led tens of thousands who his disciples were baptising. Yet this was a lead up to the real beginning. Because that crucifixion started everything. It set the conditions for disciples to be saved from their shortfall of standards in their lives and have peace with God in which they could truly follow Jesus without fear of death and dread of doom. The crucifixion of Jesus also paved the way for his resurrection. So Jesus, now clearly the Lord who reigns in the presence of God, this Jesus is a new being who leads us forward to becoming what he now is: the immortally resurrected human being of total spirit power who can reach out spiritually to anyone he chooses and enter their lives with the master key. This is just beginning! Praise God.

Failure to serve God wisely

 Not everyone on God's side is actually supportive of the Father and those He sends. You can be on someone's side but serve Him so foolishly and poorly that you do more to help the opposition. That is the case with the vast majority of servants of God today. They are like Nabal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabal who by being so foolish in failing to 'step up' for God's servant, king David, was almost treated as an enemy by David. In the end God gave a due comeuppance. When you step out in God's service you come across so many like this that it looks like the whole world serves Satan when in fact there are many of them who merely serve God with great foolishness and incompetence. This is why it is harder for the rich to enter the kingdom of God, because a lot is expected of them and it is easier to fall short in meeting those expectations. Wealth makes it harder to serve God and muddies the water of distinguishing who serves God and who serves Satan or Mammon.

Tattoos and 666

 All this new surge in tattooing. I thought I'd look online to see what tattoos are really about, thinking about whether this sudden boom in tattooing is going towards the notorious 666 foretold in Revelation. Very interesting what I start to find out looking superficially online. Tattoos were very much the rage in the Roman Empire before the rise of Christianity. The main use was to brand a gladiator or a slave. If gladiators were killed, their tattoos would help in dealing with the bodies. With slaves there were various words used in tattoos on their hands, such as a word to say the tax had been paid on them or a word to say they had escaped (no idea how you tattoo an escaped slave unless you capture them first of course). The words tattooed on escaped slaves, I suppose after they were captured again, were the first three letters of a word, such as FUG for the Latin for fugitive. A slave who stole or escaped (escaping is really stealing yourself from your owner) might get the letters FUR (for Latin fure, meaning thief). Moving to recent history, concentration camps used them to ensure bodies could be identified, even after burning. So maybe in warfare times, like today, tattoos on soldiers, like with gladiators in Roman times, would help count bodies on each side of the battle. A general or commander could have all their own troops tattooed so they can see how many of the bodies lost in a battle were their own soldiers, so they can do their counting and accounting. This seems to be the 666 tattoo purpose. Actually 666 is three letters, because Greek used in the writing of Revelation used letters for numbering. Now normally a tattoo in those times was the first part of a word, including a vowel. 666 is actually ChXS but there is one ancient copy of Revelation which instead has what looks like ChIS. So I did some digging to see what old European words perhaps used in Roman times started with Chis. The first one I came across rings true. Chislo or cislo means in slavic languages numdering, accounting, counting, calculating. This fits with Revelation saying "if anyone has a mind of wisdom let him calculate the number of the beast ... 666 (ChXS or ChIS) for it is (a) man's number". So maybe the tattoo of each person with something like ChIS will be for numbering dead bodies to identify which ones belong to the Beast empire system.

What is coming on the world?

 When the early indications are there that dark clouds are coming and a storm of oppression is brewing, and we have all seen it happening in history and far away but reason told us it might come near, then we can only find refuge in the healthy fear of God, not the snaring fear of mere men, and the truth is that "the angel of the Lord surrounds those who fear Him, to protect them in times of trouble". "A thousand will fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only stand and see what happens to the wicked." "So do not fear the arrow that flies at day or the terror that stalks at night" but let your trust be in God as you fear Him. This is better for your heart than letting it dwell only on what is coming on the world. Can your heart stand what is coming? It is helped if you learn to rightly fear God, the judge of all the earth. "Fear Him ye saints and you will then have nothing else to fear." Delight in the love of God we see He had and has still now for His Son, Jesus Christ, because this love will be for you too if you trust in Him and take Christ's flag of his name and teachings to wrap around you before God. God will adopt you as His child and you will need no fear of the troubles to come.

Naughties from the forties

 All those naughties from the forties never prosecuted or returning after prison sentences, where did they all go? It is documented that many were kept on in police forces in Eastern Europe and many went to South American countries and many found their way into the USA. At some point they might have returned to roost in their old haunts. I bet the CIA took a lot of them on then dropped them as hot potatoes, but once a CIA ... Probably some found their way to power. They are surely behind the things we see today and the threat these things pose to us all. The things they taught their children and followers before they died. These are dark times. It reminds me of Revelation "they had over them the angel of the bottomless pit". The angels presiding over the persecutions of God's people all end their tenures waiting to be thrown into the bottomless lake of fire. The present incumbent must be no exception. We will soon find out why.

Salvation Baptism

 Jesus gives us a salvation baptism. With it, we wrap his flag around us before God. Then God adopts us as His own.

Big Witchcraft

 If there was real witchcraft today it would be industrialised by the West and taught in universities throughout the world. There would be something called Big Witchcraft and governments would pass laws mandating its products led by a global body. But God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ would still condemn it to the lake of fire.

The devil has gone down to you

 "Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.” 

-- Revelation 12:12

I remember years ago a dream of Satan flying across the sky and descending like a meteor - landing with destruction in Russia. Now I look at what is happening and the effects of Satan are hatred and lies. Satan is rising in the earth having crash landed in fury, "as his time is short". The flare up in anti-Russian hatred and phobia and the lies thrown at it from all directions only assure me that this prophetic dream was true and the devil has directed his wrath at Russia in a very big way. Woe to the earth. Woe to the sea. The sea is boiling to the point of worldwide war. Out of the war will emerge empires which will be deeply regrettable and apocalyptic. Beasts. Do not give way to the devil. Do not give his hatred a foothold. Do  not learn the language of lies, the devil's native tongue. Fill your words with truthfulness. Do not fall morally short because of your anger. See how we are brothers in truth and love if we learn the ways of Christ and make this our guide. Set aside immorality and unlearn the ways of Satan, the deeds of darkness. Reject lying tongues and hateful speech. Else we will all be destroyed by each other and the devil will be rubbing his hands in glee.

When we look back on 2022

When we look back on 2022

This will have been the year when hatred reared it's ugly head in the West and true colours were shown which perhaps had been hidden for a long time. That is not all bad. It is an indicator that people and politicians with a veneer of religion or morality did not really hold to teachings of love and good faith, truthfulness and honesty. It is good that we know our leaders. It helps people to face up to their inner nature when they have openly acknowledged angry hatred and bitter envy and lies. In the Gospel of John, chapter eight tells us how Jesus took the opportunity of the manifesting of people's hatred towards him to point out the true origin of their behaviour as Satanic. This opened the way to contrast this with the behaviour towards which he aimed to lead them if they followed him, towards the love for God and for himself that would indicate that they have been transformed by holding to his teachings, having believed in him. This too should be our goal. To be marked as children of Satan is miserable but it is necessary to face up to it and so be spurred on towards adherence to Jesus having believed in him. This is our real hope as humans, especially now that God the Father has raised this Jesus Christ, His son, from the dead after evil humans crucified him. Let us hold to love, not hate. Even if they want to kill us for it. This is the way of God. Love for God and love for those who follow God and believe in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

A warning for all, whatever our religion or lack of religion

 I remember my days listening to long sermons in church and always worrying how to tell people around me about the risks of the hereafter that be impressed on me in church and in my religious reading. My earliest religious memory is of hearing that Jesus taught about when we die we could go to a place of suffering or to a place of comfort, depending on our fortunes or misfortunes in this life and what we did or didn't do to help the unfortunate. This gave me a deep trust in Jesus that he more than anyone told the truth according to what people need for not just this life but the next and the judgement day after that and eternity. Now looking back it strikes me that Jesus did see my concern for what to tell others and God heard my prayers about it. The answer in the teachings of Jesus recorded in scriptures tells how the warnings are all there in scriptures, but Jesus knows that most today are oblivious to the fact that there are scriptures he had in mind that people today do not even know exist, even if they are raised religiously and have had religions, sects or denominations instructing them. There is the Holy Spirit who today imparts what Jesus knows and makes it known to believers. By this spirit I came to know that there is a genuine book of scripture little known outside African Ethiopic churches and Beta Israel groups: It is the Book of Enoch. Without knowledge of this book, I'll try putting this carefully (many would argue with it), it is not well-known what really awaits us after death. We should all take warning from the Book of Enoch, no matter our religious leanings and traditions. We all have to face the same choices in this life and results in the hereafter when it comes to looking our for others and avoiding violent ways, while understanding whether we are fortunate in only this life with misfortune stored up for the next.

Something New

 The cross ended and perfected a life of true obedience but the Father started something new, which had been from the beginning, the resurrected spirit. Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ditch them

 The wisdom of Jesus Christ: "Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” 

Leaders today are leading us into a pit. Ditch them. Leave them. Pray.

God is light

 Children of Satan want the narrative twisted in Satan's favour but when the narrative is established in truth, God is glorified. God is light.

Trouble looming

 The troubles arising again in Kosovo take me back to the word I received in the nineties just before the NATO countries UK and US invaded Yugoslavia, fighting Serbs and creating Kosovo and other Balkan breakaways. Israel has sinned, says God. And the eagle overhead with the white eye is the sign of this word. Albanians were being driven out by Serbs and NATO’s USA and UK suspected it might be genocide and intervened. UN decided it was a driving out but not a genocide but the intervention continued despite protests from Serbs and Russia. God allows hawkish surveillance to continue because sins are committed by those God regards as covenanted to Himself. It is a sign of this covenant but also a sign of the covenant being neglected by those covenanted to God. God has believers in many countries, not only State of Israel, USA and UK, but many in Serbia and Russia too. The West should remember this. Love is commanded between all people of this covenant as part of this covenant Christ brought about by his body and blood. Love one another as Christ loved us. Love God who sent Christ for us and raised him from the dead. In all our communications and words, love God and love ome another. When the eagle is overhead, war looms and even nuclear war. 

Realisation

 Realisation is tremendously important in spiritual life, as Jesus often taught. We realise things personally. No committee of church leaders, no council, can realise something. We realise each one individually as we progress through life and progress in discipleship with Jesus. Jesus tells how his crucifixion would lead to realisation that he is the Messiah, the Son of Man sent in the flesh from heaven. The centurion at the foot of the cross realised this. "Surely this was the Son of God" is the gist of what he said (translation disputed). We can individually reach a point when we realise two things: firstly that Jesus is this premier person sent by God and is the very Son of God, acknowledged fully as such by the Father when raised from the dead; and secondly that the Father and Jesus are utterly united in all they do. These are the goal realisations of the gospel of John: "That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ and that, believing, you may have life in his name". The crucifixion lifting up Jesus like the snake on the pole lifted up by Moses, is mysteriously the crucial thing to bring about this realisation.

Sanctioning the sanctioners

 So the facts seem to check out which have immense implications and repercussions: sanctions placed by ‘United Kingdom’ on video blogger Graham Philips. I admit I love his pure video blog reporting, devoid of Russophobia. Now I have to say, it is my only right response, now it checks out, reported in Press and there in  the UK Gov sanctions list (https://docs.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.html), that I have to hand over to Satan, spiritually speaking, all of those complicit in this and perpetrating it, at whatever level, because the UK claims to be a Christian kingdom, by its heritage but also by the profession of its royals. So this is a Church matter. Sanctions are without trial. Confiscating without trial is grievous. Grieving like this is hateful. Only citing Russophobic justifications is grievously unjust and un-Christian (Russia is predominantly a Christian nation these days). So we who believe must do as Apostle Paul commanded in 1 Corinthians 5 and hand these governing people over to Satan in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Justice is done this way. The Church must maintain righteous balance this way, the way of Christ in whose name we all believe. Sadly it will not end well for many in the UK power echelons. . . Satan is a hard task master but they have put themselves into subjection to him and will not end well. Sanctioning the sanctioners spiritually by Christ’s power is not to be done lightly but seems to be the most just and honest way to proceed. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/british-pro-kremlin-video-blogger-graham-phillips-added-to-uk-government-russia-sanctions-list

Salt of the earth or salt without saltiness?

 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot."

-- Jesus Christ 

The leaders of the West, its sovereign heads of state, heads of churches, leaders of governments, aristocrats, nobles, parliamentarians, top civil servants, public sector leaders, all used to be salty - having a certain quality of leadership which tended to preserve the West and through them the whole world, from corruption and regression and strife. Those days appear to have gone. The so-called Free World is not characterised as free any more. Cancel culture has meant that sanctions are placed on people arbitrarily at whim, even for not agreeing with errors made by these leaders. This is not good. This is the end of the saltiness of the salt. The salt only gets thrown out when it loses its salt qualities. A shake-up might help, the figs falling like late figs in autumn when the tree is shaken, but it seems to have gone too far for that to make enough difference. To warrant rule by consent there must be a fit for purpose rulership. When rule is no longer by consent then divine forces must determine whether the continuation of this rule is warranted. Divine forces are open to prayer from the believers. The prayers are gathered before the heavenly Throne and their overall savour noted before judgments are cast upon the earth. Let heaven decide, but my own prayers are that something is done to remove the saltless salt, and quickly.

The UK's next PM

 What would it mean for the UK to have a Hindu PM? 'Principle' but what principles? The UK's principles were chosen by our ancestors more than a thousand years ago and we should not forsake them but should establish them and seek to teach them to all subjects of this kingdom: Truth. Kindness. Forgiveness. Equality. Serving God. Right and wrong. Moderation. Sobriety. Modesty. Faithfulness. Persuasion. Hope. Love to each other and to God. The ethics, teachings, principles of Christ. The only hope of eternal life.

Isaiah 6

 Jesus’ statement “He who has seen me has seen the Father” explains the response of Isaiah recorded in Isaiah chapter 6 when he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke of him. He exclaimed that he had seen Almighty God YHWH, even though he had explained that he had seen his Lord (who is Jesus). Jesus is the agency and model of the Father because he is the Son, in whom alone is eternal life from the Father. 

Impersonal Trinity or Personal God

The theological Trinity does not exist in the sense that the Catholic leaders in Nicea agreed on a Trinity. If such a trinity really existed there would be nobody able to give the necessary second independent testimony about who Jesus is. The Father and Son are only one in the way that many believers can be one. They are not one being. They are multiple united beings whose individual testimonies are therefore multiple and verify each other. To have belief in a Trinity is to have a dry impersonal God who is conceptual: Not a single being the adherents can call “My Lord and my God”, but merely an intellectual agreement to endorse an idea. Jesus was sent by God the Father to die to enable his true disciples to believe that the Father is their God and their Father who raised Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. This Father becomes for them their very personal God. This is true spiritual rebirth.

No more the dry and impersonal God

 Is the God in your religion dry and impersonal? For Israelites since the ancient timers it might have seemed that way. Their God had forsaken them because they first had forsaken Him centuries earlier as a people. They went dark-side then all went dark. No God to defend them from the Assyrian 'military operation' in ancient Samaria, once Elijah and Elishah had been and gone. Elijah might have pleaded for them but God was done listening. No personal god for them now. Until the Messiah came along and spoke to a woman beside a well in Samaria centuries later, 2000 years before today. This Messiah told her that a time of change would soon come and had come when worship would be restored among them towards God in spirit and in truth. No more pretending God was their God, God would really be their God, their personal God to answer their prayers for salvation and personal Lord to obey. How did it happen? Jesus died on a cross as a sacrifice for all that sin and God the Father raised him from the dead. Suddenly God was back. God was with them. God was theirs. Like Thomas when he saw Jesus alive from the dead, belief in God could return as a personal hope and a personal lord. My Lord and My God. This is how it can now be for all who believe: For all who follow Jesus' teachings, believing that Jesus is this Messiah. God becomes your God and your Father because Jesus died for you, and remember this is for a disciple who believes Jesus is the Christ, sent by God for salvation, and holds to Jesus' teachings. It is only if you hold to Jesus' teachings. God becoming your God and your Father is for you a rebirth. You gain a true father you did not have as father before your discipleship. Jesus died for all but it is the disciples of Jesus who benefit by God becoming personally their God and their Father. 

More about eternal life

 How is it that Jesus alone can offer truly eternal life? No other religious teacher can offer this. No leader on earth can offer it. The only god who can truly offer it to us is the God who is the Father of Jesus Christ. This is the king God above all gods, as the ancient origins of Israel and the Jews shows. Yet no other god in any religion can offer eternal life. Only God the Father offers it through Jesus Christ His Son. Why? Why only these? Because it takes the highest form of righteousness embodied in a human who actually has this perfectly right way of living. That is one factor. It takes this person having the highest God, righteous and true, as actual Father who preserves the life of this Son forever so this Son and the Father together can maintain this eternal life which they alone can both have and impart to others. The way they impart it is firstly by persuading followers that Jesus is this one Christ and Lord, and secondly by teaching these followers the teachings which lead to this eternal life if the followers hold firmly to these teachings. Only the Father and Son can offer these teachings with a firm, eternal guarantee of effectiveness, if they are followed. What is more, the Son lived obediently to please the Father perfectly and in that perfected life on Earth Jesus died on a cross as sacrifice to take away the curse of ethical failings of these followers to free them for the life that is eternal, and most importantly Jesus promised to raise these followers, if they become worthy, from the dead in a great day of this first resurrection to eternal, immortal life, aa the Father has first raised Jesus from the dead to live forever. The teachings become all the more effective because a spirit from the Father, the Holy Spirit, is abroad among believers even today to elaborate on the teachings and apply them powerfully and bring more of what the Father gives to Jesus to further aid believing, true followers. The Father works in the believers to further this eternal life developing in the spirit of the believer even though the body keeps ageing and perishing towards death. Jesus proclaimed that he came to accomplish this, as Jesus ministered to the Jews and the Gospel of John records it. Holding to these Gospel of John teachings of Jesus while being persuaded by this gospel that Jesus is this Christ is one way to become a follower and embrace the prospects of this eternal life. Jesus teaches through other apostles and ministers too. It can all be a means of taking in this persuasion and these teachings, holding to them and letting them influence you as you convey the morality it teaches to the wider community of other followers, the ‘church’. Do not, if you value instruction, miss this kind of instruction which alone offers such a magnificent outcome: Life eternal. This is the only way to receive this incomparable benefit, this pearl of immense value and price. It is costly but so worth the cost. 

Eternal life

 Lots of gods are sought after and prayed to and believed in - especially when we consider Hinduism and the like - and yet in all of these there is only one God and His Son in whom is found eternal life. The name, the way, the teachings, the ethics and the reputation and all that the Son of this Most High, King-over-all-gods stands for and represents and lives out forever in action, this is the only name by which there can be eternal life.

A true prophecy

 “Israel has sinned”, a modern times (30 years old) prophecy from God recalling Joshua 7. The sign given was accurate and precise. What does it mean? The Israel-linked allies should not rush into wars because God will not be blessing it. Wars by the West since 1995 have been marred by failure and loss of Western lives. The sign was an eagle of watchful surveillance overhead, trouble down below, nuclear threat eventually too. Look how sanctions backfire too. Weapons donated probably end up destroyed or black-marketed. In Joshua 7 the sin of the Israelites resulted in deadly, costly, humiliating military failures. Historically the sin of the Israelites of the northern Israelite tribes later known simply as ‘Israel’ (distinct from Judah or Judea) led to invasion by Assyria and a series of tragedies spanning 2800 years till today. God let it happen, not intervening. So for God to recall this by saying “Israel has sinned” is a dire warning. It means God is giving up supporting the people who thought God was on their side, because sin is blocking the diplomatic channels to and from God. So common sense dictates the curtailing of risky military operations until the wound is healed. Woke culture and moral decline make a resolution unlikely for the West. Shock and horror if we have to learn about benign morality from those despised by Western right wing leaders. The West is flying on one engine. Beware. Choose leaders known to God, allied to God and maybe they will have foresight and heal the wound and close the gap. Pray humbly. Not a time for boastful propaganda. Not when nuclear war looms. Consider this a true prophecy. 

What might bring an end to civilisation?

 What might bring down civilisation? The computer. How can that be? Well computers deal with data. What is data, as distinct from, say, prose or literature? Data is compressed prose.

Think, for example, of a small UK charity publishing the usual record of its Annual General Meeting. It first includes the minutes of the meeting, followed by a table of its annual accounts summary, which can be seen as tabulated data. This data could instead have been written as prose "In the first month of the year, January, we spent £200 on office stationery. In the second month ..." but that would be tedious to write and tedious to read. The table format circumvents the tedium.

The tabulation of data historically preceded prose in Sumerian times around 3500 BC in Uruk where accounts of donations to the temple were recorded with symbols impressed into stone or clay tablets in a table format, and understood by convention. Only around 3000 did prose sentence construction appear to us in the archaeological record of Tel Fara and surrounding towns around 2800 BC, the Fara Period, at which point poetry as well as prose started to be written with symbols on clay and stone tablets. (Examples: Instruction of Sharappak, and the Temple Hymn of Kesh.) So historically the tabulated data idea is very ancient and very well understood and underpins civilisation through all of history in many parts of the world. It allows the recording of financial accounts, for example, and documentation of individual payments. Yet prose is an alternative which is almost as ancient and allows expression of ideas and recording of human sentences, such as the minutes of a meeting. The two have coexisted side-by-side throughout human civilization in most 'advanced' cultures. Arguably the existence of these two forms of writing has brought about civilisation by allowing the persistence of knowledge between generations.

A plausible corollary of this is that civilisation might collapse if both data and prose formats evolve into something which cannot be persisted between generations. This is where computers come in. They have the potential to cause the loss of the ability to read data. They use binary exclusively to store that data. If the world loses the ability to make and use electricity and fossil fuels it would lose the ability to handle all that binary data. A nuclear war could accelerate all this. 

As nuclear war peril looms, maybe we should print data and knowledge considered essential to future generations of civilisation, such as calendars and basic maths, onto sheets of plastic, perhaps by stencil holes rather than perishable ink, and do so worldwide now in case of nuclear war. Making use of the persistent nature of plastic. Before the world loses the ability to read binary and loses the ability to pass down knowledge to the next generation and civilisation collapses.

Choice of leaders

 To know what a potential leader is like, what they are really like, not just what they say about themselves, look at whether they have led their followers into a pit, like the blind do when they lead the blind. If they are like that and you follow them anyway, well, that is on you. 

The mind of Christ

 Having Jesus Christ's thoughts on our minds, having his way of thinking as a guide to how we can think, it is underrated. Believing in Jesus Christ and holding to his teachings allows those teachings to form the way we too can think as we gain insight into how he thinks. The Holy Spirit is a real influence too, behind the scenes in dreams and visions and out in the open too in inspired words, and we gain yet more insight into the thinking of Jesus Christ. This is all underrated. We constantly get challenged in life from commentators, comedians, shining lights, teachers on how easily we slip into folly and fallacy in our thinking. They remind us how easily we buy in to the illusions of schemes, new world order ideas, ideologies, Big Pharma, Big Tech, exiled billionaires, even criminal organisations. Yet we underestimate the power of knowing the mind and thinking of Jesus Christ to keep us from these follies. Get to know who Jesus is and what Jesus teaches. It could be your salvation and with your own salvation it could save others too as you influence us. Those in power have great responsibility to learn all this, as we too have in deciding whether to vote for them. So many pitfalls are ahead of us. Will we walk right into them and lead others into them along with us? Christ's thinking is crucial to seeing clearly ahead and avoiding the traps, and maybe leading others away from such a demise.

UK Leadership July 2022

 The blind UK leaders have led the blind into a pit, like Jesus Christ warned. We now need help from the God who sent Jesus as the World needs to avoid nuclear war. Another leader of the UK leading people into a trench by being blind is too great a risk. Let those who now their God pray that before new Conservative candidates are considered, God will bring it to light whether these are blind hypocrites who do not practice what they preach. Nuclear war is a very dangerous prospect if the leading is by the blind again.  Can we even trust the Conservatives to select a sighted leader though? Not much we can do right now if they don't. All we can do is pray and stay diligently vigilant. This should be a concern for everyone, not just the UK. Look how the leaders of Ukraine were led into prolonging war and shunning peace. Look how the bear was poked.

July 7th 2022

July 7th 2022: So Boris to resign as leader of party. Whose mandate will we want the next leader to have? Zellensky’s? God’s? The country’s? The Queen’s? Prince Charles’? Van der Leyen’s? Time for UK to pray.  Time to involve God. The recess is near. If anything happens during recess, what mandate will anyone have? (None for WW III, I hope.) God have mercy. People: Time to love God with all our hearts, all our minds, all our voices. 

High office and power - a lesson in politics

 British politics on July 5th 2022 sad but it did help me understand by contrast the permanent lordship of Jesus Christ. Boris the PM just sacked influential, important partner of the PM for Brexit, Gove. I asked myself: What if HM the Queen reinstated Gove? It would not happen of course, but what if the Queen made Gove a replacement PM? This would make Gove very strong indeed in standing as PM. The sacking would only add gravity to it. Now I move my thoughts to how Jesus got not sacked but literally crucified by the powers of Rome and the Jewish high priest office in Jerusalem, first century AD. Yet God raising Jesus from the dead reinstated Jesus to such a strong standing, as more than PM, as Lord and Christ. The promotion of a man to office of PM by a monarch is impermanent because the monarch is impermanent, mortal. God is eternal. So Lordship given Jesus by God raising Jesus His Son from the dead after crucifixion cruelly curtailed his life, this is permanent, eternal, supremely glorious. Thank you Mr Johnson for helping me understand how power works in high office. 

The Western Course of Action in 2022

 "Judge not, so that you would not be judged, for with whatever measure of judgment you use, this will be measured to you" --Jesus  Christ. He likewise warned of the blind leading the blind, and all falling together into a pit. Blindness of leaders, Jesus warned, is seen in how they do not practice what they preach.

The world is evidently not listening. It is important to distance ourselves from violence and wars of conquest and aggression but at the same time we must avoid judging others unnecessarily. The Western nations are eager to send a message to Russia that they will not be party to military aggression (woefully inconsistent in this, when you look at simultaneous Western attacks on other countries). I hope the traditionally warlike countries will learn to wind down their eagerness to engage in conflict, and heed Jesus' words that those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. "Put away your sword", Jesus told Peter, even though it had been Jesus who had previously told Peter to get a sword to defend against the governmental guards arresting Jesus. Violence is one key way to lose favour with God and to set foot on a path of regret and woe. Yet in an effort to distance from what is perceived as a potentially aggressive, heavily armed nuclear country, the Western powers are forgetting the words of Jesus and are eagerly engaging in inconsistent, hypocritical, lying judgement of Russia and its leader, and are finding that Jesus' warning is true that when you hurl judgment at others, that same kind of judgement gets hurled back at you, not by those you are judging but by the justice of God. The mistaken belief that no gods or supernatural beings exist is leading the blind Western countries into a delusion that invisible forces of justice do not exist - that actions can be taken without divinely driven consequences. This could be the demise of much of the Western world as sanctions backfire and yet the sanctions continue. It takes humility to abandon a foolish course of action - and humility is in short supply among the foolish. We need the wise words of God we find in Jesus. We need a sighted leader.

Pondering

 Pondering: What did the British, Americans and Israelis (atrociously) do in Ukraine in the nineties and since then to foster the resurgence of pre-war ideologies to counter their competition in the region? Did they open Pandora’s Box and precipitate a nuclear WW III?

Book of Isaiah chapter 6

The biblical prophet Isaiah received many prophecies from the Father but it was only when Isaiah saw his Lord, who is Jesus, that Isaiah exclaimed that he was undone because of having seen the YHWH (who is the Father) - Isaiah chapter 6. Seeing Jesus we see the Father because the bond is so great between Father and Son and the Father sends the Son and the Son is so much in the likeness of the Father. It is important to realise that Isaiah, Jesus, apostles who saw Jesus and were sent by Jesus, all these testify to what we have seen. It is not merely hearsay, testifying to what others have seen, but tacit experiential knowledge, first hand. "We speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony." Jesus said it, Isaiah said it ("Lord: Who has believed or testimony and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed"). I echo it too.

Did they know Who they were dealing with?

 It might amaze the Christians and Jews today to find the Bible book of Exodus is a record of events to prove that other gods beside the Most High, Supreme God, do exist but that God is greater and can overrule them. If Christians and Jews knew this well they might rethink calling God the only real god in existence. This might surprise people today. The well known ten plagues of Egypt recorded in Exodus have an interesting and hugely significant detail recorded about them: Many of them were copied by Egypt’s magicians of the time who were able to make rods of wood turn into snakes on demand. If you have seen the movie Prince of Egypt you might recall the striking scene with the song “You’re playing with the big boys now” in which the magicians and their gods of Egypt stand-off with Moses and his God. The outcome reverberates through the religious history of the Israelites and later the Jews and Christians and even Muslims too. 

What are we seeing in Ukraine in the first half of 2022?

 Is the West and Russia together perpetrating some kind of vicarious mass human sacrifice with Neo-N***s in Ukraine? The daily deaths are in the hundreds and with no chance of a game change. Nobody outside of the USSR  was really punished for what the original N***s did in the early 1940s first throughout Eastern Europe then in the West. Is this an attempt to balance the scales? Should the punishment not be against those who failed to carry out justice in the 1950s? Almost all of that generation died out in the 1980s and 1990s and the N***s in the following decade, all now gone. Is this a visitation of vengeance on their children and grandchildren who seek to perpetuate the N*** ways? Can this appease the wrath? Can it avert the nuclear apocalypse? Love God and preserve His teachings and teach the next generation this too rather than the anti-religious, anti-Russian hateful ways of N**ism. Maybe simply following through with proper justice in humility will avert divine vengeance more than callously throwing the offspring to the frontline ad infinitum. It is our traditional governments and institutions and ruling elite and lords and judges who carry the blame for failure to punish Holocaust perpetrators: In the West where it happened (given justice was carried out on the other side of the Iron Curtain) but then many of the Jews among these left for new-formed Israel in the 1950s. These, instead of self-conviction, are making scapegoats of Neo-N***s. Yes the Neo-N***s are a tinderbox and a ticking time-bomb, but it is failure to follow-through with proper justice which is behind their resurgence. The whole system must change so it does not happen again. Human sacrifice is what this looks like more than justice. But maybe God is in it. God’s will be done.

Evolution and information about the future

 The information of a living parent organism that is needed to make a child organism, for that child to be able to produce further children, this information must include the information needed to pass that information on again to future generations in such a way that they can use it. This means the parent needs to possess and pass on information about the future. A parent living thing must include knowledge of the future for their offspring to survive and carry on passing on information for future generations to survive and live and thrive. This must have been so at any point in the history of life. It therefore must have been so even at the beginning and even before organisms existed. We simply tend to regard a parent with information about the future as godlike. So an organism which does not have information in it about the future would not be able to procreate offspring able to themselves procreate further offspring with information needed to produce successful, surviving offspring. This is all the more important if life is evolving because the future would need to have offspring with more information than the parents and a way to store that information and pass it on successfully in the future and therefore need information about the future. This goes back to the start of life. If parents do not have this information and yet evolution is happening as the fossil record suggests, there must in every case be another parent besides the information-deficient organic parents, a parent able to add the extra information needed with each successive generation. This invisible parent must know the future and be able to include information about the future or information needed to deal with the future when a new generation forms. We simply call this parent an invisible god, a creator spirit, visible to science only by its indirect contributions to what the fossil record and studies of life shows. Known yet ignored.

Prayer for Donetsk June 2022

 How long can Anglicans in England support a country which openly and unrepentantly bombs civilians in Donetsk? How long can Anglicans call themselves righteous in Christ and yet the worldly head of the Church of England openly supports the country which does these things? Is this Christian in any way? Is this what people do who claim to have eternal life in Christ? Judge them by their fruits. Isn’t that what Jesus said? If Jesus sent me, it is not to whitewash and justify such behaviour. It is to point to true eternal life in Him which does not support murder and murderers. Be ye separate and touch no unclean thing. Surrender up the devoted things for destruction. Put the wicked out from you. Let all those who call on the name of the Lord Jesus, every one of you, lowly or high in status, whatever status you have from God, forsake evil. This is what it means to be a true church for the glory of the name of God the Most High. In Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.

Worshipping God

The natural thinking we have might oppose us praising the Most High and oppose thoughts of what wonders He does, but the Spirit awakening our spirit bypasses all that natural thinking and brings out in us thoughts of what the Most High does in people everywhere that is praiseworthy and we praise Him by spirit and truth, irrespective of opposing thoughts. I even find this can happen in my sleep which helps to bypass the naturally opposing thoughts and allow praise to the Most High by spirit and truth. All this is what the Most High seeks. Trying to use opposing, natural thinking to praise and worship God is not what God seeks. It should not be what we seek. If a person truly serves God: If they truly are a servant of God, they will receive the Holy Spirit and have their spirit awakened to make them see visions and dream dreams which lead them to worship in spirit and truth.

Unity of faith

 I currently choose to worship online in a church I found on my smart TV. Very nice. Very convenient. Communion is blessed by God, I find, in this form of worship. But how do I contribute? All I can do is receive. So how about returning to normal church worship in a building of worship? Nothing in the gospel about having to have a building of worship - the place is the spirit and the building is the circle of believers joined by faith and the Holy Spirit in the ministry coming from the resurrected Christ. So it is a practicality, not an essential. Yet, it is frustrated anyway. If I go to a building for worship I have to choose one which fits a set of criteria. Why? Historical division. There are three or four basic ontologies about God and you have to pick the one you most accept. Why? Historical division. Christ is not divided but believers are. Trinitarians. Unitarians. Oneness. Binitarians. Take your pick. This is so ugly and unworthy of Christ Jesus who did not bring many versions of faith. He brought the faith which Abraham had. The faith produced among the first believers who followed Christ became in them a faith produced by God the Father through Jesus Christ God's Son. Was Abraham a Trinitarian? Oneness? Unitarian? Binitarian? Abraham worshipped the one God who Abraham knew would some day send a Christ to save the believers and Abraham rejoiced to see that day. So we too should humbly seek to be sure we have that same faith within us and to know that this Christ has come and is called Jesus. Then we will find the teachings of Jesus to be our salvation as the Christ sets us free as we hold to these teachings. Let us scrap our ontologies and return to the faith God first produced in the believing followers of Jesus Christ and let us all worship in unity. That way we have fellowship with the Father and with His Son.

Are you OK?

 Are you OK? Am I OK? Define OK. What if history is repeating itself? Horrible history. We should know our horrible history so we know what happens if it gets repeated. What if police forces far and wide are being influenced to be ready to do something horrible? If this is happening the most assuredly we are NOT OK. Know about the forties. 

The gravity of the blindness of Western leaders

 When the blind lead the blind, they both fall into a pit, as Jesus Christ famously put it. And the gravity of the blind leaders' wrongdoing would be lessened were they merely blind, but their claim to be able to see means that gravity remains.

What is a mercenary? The answer given to this question might be a matter of life and death for those who fight in the wars of foreign countries. To try to circumvent this, there are groups such as the French Foreign Legion which tries to give non-mercenary status to its foreign fighters. Ukraine did something similar in a hurry this year. It set up its own International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine. In an announcement of this, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba gave the game away by mentioning that some of the home countries of members of this legion forbid their citizens from fighting for other countries. [1] Even the UK has such a law, although it is rarely applied. It does not take much common sense to work out that if a country forbids its citizens from fighting in wars against countries against which the UK is not at war, then the reason for this is to do with the common understanding that such fighting is considered mercenary fighting, and is therefore not given Geneva Convention protection. The UK in recent years seems to have sought to play down the distinction between a mercenary and someone fighting in such an international legion. Unfortunately this muddying of the water may have helped to persuade British fighters to embark on actions leading to their deaths. Ref 1[1]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ukraine-says-20000-volunteers-from-52-countries-sign-up-to-fight

Pentecost 2022

 On the Day of Pentecost, 2022, I would reflect on what it means to real Christianity. Many merely imagine what the Holy Spirit visitation on the famous original New Testament Day of Pentecost was like and what a similar visitation might be like today. Yet it is not every believer in Christ who needs to use imagination: Many have memories and ongoing experiences of what happens when the Holy Spirit helps believers and their church circles. For me the first experience I was fully persuaded was this kind of visitation happened as a private, prayerful vision like a movie in my mind after I had pleaded with God for the Holy Spirit - like a waking dream and yet with subtitles - a visual depiction of  builder's bucket of sand tipped out in front of me and the words going across this vision "BUILD THE TEMPLE". I asked for threefold confirmation and this was given soon afterwards. Second experience was in a church service months later when a preacher took the microphone and spoke angelic words but in my ears I heard them inspiring English words inside my head telling of the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ within Nature. The speaker then gave those same English words at the microphone, confirming what I had received by way of interpretation of the angelic tongue. Years later in private ("What is whispered in your ear proclaim from the rooftops" said Jesus) a voice told me to look at a chapter in the Bible "Daniel 3" in answer to a question about angels which I had been pondering. The invisible speaker not only knew my thoughts and the mind of God about the answer to my question but also knew the version of the Bible I would use to look up that chapter - where the answer was a note in the margin in a Bible version edition I had never read before. Yet now on Pentecost Sunday 2022 the simple experience I received was more ordinary but no less helpful. A terribly painful condition hasn't been healed though I have prayed about it for months. I went to a service online on my TV and just felt confident that advice about this would be given me from the Holy Spirit. Sure enough, as soon as I tuned in, one leader interrupted the other to say "You must always persevere in your prayer and not give up". It helped so much that I almost turned off the TV and left it at that. I kept watching and further articles and interviews said the same thing, that healing sometimes requires that we pray for months, and that Jesus taught this. I remembered the lesson in which Jesus had taught it. The Holy Spirit, said Jesus, will remind of all that Jesus said. We can read it in the gospels and then forget it after years, but the Holy Spirit brings it back when we need it. The ministry of Jesus continues with the Holy Spirit bringing us not only things Jesus said long ago but what Jesus receives from the Father in out times today. Pentecost can even become quite normal. But is always the ministry of the Wonderful Counsellor.

A week later an interesting dream taught me why we are sometimes keep praying before receiving an answer. The dream was like a parable of Jesus. Perhaps it was a parable of resurrected Jesus given by the Holy Spirit, coming as instruction ultimately from the Father. In the dream I was newly employed as a personal servant to the patriarchal father of a very rich and powerful family. Many others were employed as servants too and had some pretty tough jobs to do, as you would expect in such a situation. I was just starting. This father came to me and requested in procure a nice-looking box of a certain size. It seemed an easier task than other servants had to do. I got a bit distracted procuring this box, mainly when a child in the family was demanding something. As I was helping get what the child wanted a party was starting in this huge family mansion and guests were arriving and the father arrived too. Another servant told me I had better put on a suit. I still hadn't got the box. I had no idea why getting this box was important. Time had gone by and the father came up to me with some items which he dumped in my hands and walked away hurriedly. I realised it was a gift for me. I suddenly understood that the box had been for these items so he could present them to me nicely. Now, because I had failed to procure the box and take it to him at the party he had unhappily been forced to give me the gift without a wrapping gift-box. He was not happy but he had given it to me anyway. As I woke from the dream I suddenly understood that the command to pray persistently for what we ask from God is like this gift box. God wants us to do the task of creating the gift box into which He will place the answer to our prayer.