Product withdrawal

 Humans are a creation. Science would never tell you so. Oddly, because Science has no way of knowing whether human beings were ever created by another intelligence, except if one day scientists succeeded in it, yet even then they would probably deny it could ever have happened in the distant past. But if scientists ever created a human and it proved to be dysfunctional they might think of a product withdrawal or recall and scrap the dysfunctional version on a mass scale. Well Bible accounts tell us this is going to happen with the humans God has made. Not all are write-offs. Left unchanged we would be but some can be converted and not need withdrawal, recall and scrapping. Jesus does the fix. He can lead us to conversion and lead us back to our Creator for the necessary fix. Even an upgrade like Jesus had by his own resurrection. God is good. But we are bad and we have to accept the fix.

Truly a man

 Jesus: truly a man. The most special man in all of history, so much so that his name and spirit transcends history, but a man. Now if you think of a god as a non-human entity then Jesus is not that. If you think of a god as someone mighty who can judge the rest of us, then he is that, set aside by God for this and sent into the world for it. Special because this is the one man who is to God the only begotten Son of God. Now among many brothers, but to God this is His one and only son, and we can be sons through him. 

What a guy

 What a guy Jesus is. What a guy. Master. Mediator. Friend and Lord. But amenable and humble to treat us like he treated Zacchaeus, despite what Zacchaeus was. And he's got such rich wealth of teachings to give us. Still today, all in line with what he said back then and more besides which the Holy Spirit brings in his name. What a Son, this One Son God has. Making us sons. United with us so we can sin no more like we used to sin.

Biblical implications of One God

 What are the implications for understanding the Bible of the Unitarian-like view that God is just one person, not a Trinity?

It leaves it more open as to the reason and implications of the plurality of Elohim. Probably God is regarded in a context of His council with sons of God as we see in Job 1. Then that is assumed through scripture.

"Let us make man in our image". God is not a man. God is one, not a plural. So despite rabbinical teachings, this probably means man is made like the sons of God and God - the nature shared by God and the sons of God. Like the angels, in other words, and with qualities the angels share with God Himself. Intellect and speed of thought. Tendency to reason and work out what is to be done, as well as listening for commands to obey. Not like brute beasts.

Abraham would have known the one Jesus called the Father, in particular as the one God. He believed that only this one God, the Almighty, is above all responsible for creation. He met this one God. He heard the voice of this one God and received promises from Him in visions over a period of many decades. If he met others who some would say include the Son of God before the incarnation, he understood that there is just one who is the Almighty God, not all three he met at Mamre. By 'Almighty' his understanding would have been of one God who is stronger than all the others (the Semitic word for Almighty is similar to the word for the mightiest creature, a shedu, a lama or lamassu, like a huge winged lion, like a very powerful angel more powerful than a sphynx, hence 'Al Shaddai'). He would have contrasted this God known personally to him, as much more powerful than any of the gods worshipped around him, king over them all, superior in wisdom and power and love, and ultimately responsible for all creation, even creation that happens through other gods or angels, being highest over all these angels, these gods.

Visions seen by many through the scriptures of the one they called God, even sometimes pagans such as Abimelech and Balaam, but also many Israelites, where they saw someone called God, this would have been the Father. God Himself was seen in visions. And sometimes very, very rarely this same God was seen physically, such as by many Israelites of the Exodus.

True prophets, although not usually directly communicating with God Himself, were always indirectly at least, sometime on rare occasions directly. communicated with by the Father, often as a result of the Father Himself personally speaking something, other times by the Holy Spirit communicating to them the thoughts of God.

Christ is seen when there is truth

Truth. Christ is seen when there is truth. 

The killings of civilians who help an enemy army. We see this in Ukraine when Russian troops are forced out of an area and Ukraine soldiers move in. The civilians who helped the Russians often wear the armbands worn by the soldiers. You see in videos how these civilians are killed and their bodies are found in the streets. It all takes me back to the childhood years when I used to read the Bible my parents bought me and I read how King Saul, first king of Israel, was hunting down David who he saw as a rival because God had anointed David to one day be king and David had great popularity after miraculous military success (we all know about David and Goliath, even today, three thousand years later). David entered a town and received help there from civilians including the local priest. When David left and King Saul entered the town, chasing after David, Saul killed all the town's people including the priest because of their help for David. Then a thousand years later, Christ Jesus lived life knowing he had descended from this same David, the David who became Israel's greatest king. Christ knew this same hatred David had suffered would be levelled at Christ. The friends who helped Christ would be in danger of being killed. Christ knew this was his heritage and this would be his badge of honour, that he is descendant of David, yet the Lord of David. When Ukraine events are truthfully reported, then the picture of Christ too becomes clear. 

Truth reveals Christ. Christ reveals truth.

Daniel 3

 That fiery furnace in Daniel 3. The height of the neo-Babylonian Empire and three Hebrews in exile were being punished for refusing to bow to a statue of the King of kings, Nebuchadnezzar. Wow, did he the king get a fright. It wasn't the three men who were thrown into a fiery furnace who suffered but the guards who threw them in who died. Reminds me of sanctions. The three men were in that furnace. In ancient Hebrew lore, probably true. (Jasher and Midrash) Abraham their patriarch ancestor had been treated the same way by the first old Babylon emperor Nimrod and survived. This was a thing. God protecting in fire was a thing for which God was known. God Himself revealed His imperviousness to fire when He spoke to Moses from a burning bush because the presence of God kept the bush from being consumed by the fire, so it seemed. How this should encourage us too. Fear of God is key to survival in the direst situation. The three men in Babylon feared God more they feared the Emperor King and more than they feared fire and death. They would rather, they explained to the king, have suffered death than sin against their God and they knew God could save them but did not know that He WOULD save them, yet they would not sin against Him by bowing to a statue of the king. In this case God did save them. An angel from God, some say the spirit of Jesus Son of God before Jesus became flesh, whatever it was, God provided it, and it surrounded them with protection against such raging fire that the fire had killed the men who threw them in there. The angel of God, the LORD, surrounded these men who feared their God, and Nebuchadnezzar wrote a decree about it found there in Daniel 3, that said no other god had ever saved like this God who saved those who feared and worshipped this God. This angel sent by God had even been seen by the king there amidst the men in that furnace, and by guards guarding it. We today can have that same angel surrounding us if we fear this true God, this One True God. The Holy Spirit sent in Jesus Christ's name by this One True God the Father who sent Jesus tells us this. The Psalm says it clearly too: The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear Him.

Liberalisation

 God says in our times "Israel has sinned" but this Israel is not meaning the country we call the State of Israel but rather the people everywhere who are covenanted to God, especially those who are brought to God through Jesus Christ. I was awakened to this sinful state of those covenanted to God and alerted to it in the mid and late 1990s. It was a time when churches were starting to be influenced by liberal church thinkers, authors and leaders who politicised the gospel and downplayed traditional doctrines. Many started to leave these liberal churches and yet the liberalisation continued and we started to see the introduction of the neo-liberal concepts such as gay marriage and ordination of openly gay clergy. The Bible was being reinterpreted along the lines of the previous century when people were claiming that scientific analysis could be applied to scriptures to 'discover' things previous church generations would have regarded as heresy, such as a notion that the scriptures were heavily edited to combine various strands which never originally said what these combined texts ended up saying and are passed down to us today. Now we see countries in Christendom such as Russia starting to reject this excessive departure from tradition and a turning back to traditions such as those concerning the family and leadership. What went wrong? It is good to use our intellect to examine what we are taught and 'kick the tyres' so-to-speak. Yes, Jesus taught his followers to know all the scriptures available in those times, not just the five books of Moses upheld by the Sadducees. Yet there is a limit. The morals we hold dear are a compass and a guide in our search for truth, not a hindrance to be set aside. The second Psalm tells of the folly of the nations saying "Let us throw off their shackles" when talking about the faithful of God. The sin has now been done and cannot be undone and we might be heading to a third world war over it. But if we start to hold to teachings given by God and teach these to our children we might just escape the worst of it.

Propaganda and staying sane

 How do we stay sane in a world of vicious propaganda which might kill us or make us do deranged things? A serious problem. Jesus Christ had visions of our plight even in biblical gospel times and his main mission given by God was to help us stay sane and not be deceived by all this propaganda and lies, which he ultimately attributed to the devil. His solution is valid today and effective today: to hold to the words of life and truth and spirit which he taught. Now the Holy Spirit in believers continues this ministry, bringing teachings from Jesus today. Believe in Jesus and keep his words in the back of your mind to counter the lies and brainwashing hate-filled propaganda. Keep his teachings until you can understand them well enough to let them guide your actions in obedience. God be with you as you do so. If we all do this we are truly brothers in him. 

A losing battle

 November 4th 2022. UK seems to be getting a warning now from Russia which some are interpreting to mean the UK is getting closer to being actually at war with Russia. The warning seems to be pointing out the UK's evident role in provocations. Of course only an unprovoked attack triggers the NATO article allowing NATO countries to be called in to help. UK must be foolishly thinking USA is in it with us. The UK must think it will win and get a return on the huge investment it would entail to engage a superpower in actual war (or effectively war). Maybe it is eyeing the natural resources in Ukraine and even maybe those in Russia thinking it could get a share. Oh dear. oh dear. Thinking this is politicians blindly leading the blind: Then I remember the biblical passages about how evil spirits led kings into fighting wars these kings would only lose - as punishment from God. They might seem to be mad, our leaders, but the reality is that it is not just the mind that gets unhealthy but our spirit can get cranky too and we can be given badness at a spirit level as punishment by God, and this bad spirited state of unhealthiness can indeed lead leaders into losing battles. Oh dear, oh dear. It could be worse than madness and inner blindness. 

Blind UK

 The UK blindly follows blind leaders in various walks of life. These leaders have personality issues which compel them to get the minutiae 'right' in a way that hardly matters while they make huge mistakes that can even cost people their lives. The people like to have leaders who are like themselves and largely the people are similarly dysfunctional so these leaders are a comfort to their egos and they just keep on following them. Others in turn follow these people, others such as their clients, their children, people in their care, and  they all go off towards the nearest cliff, oblivious to their folly and predicament. Such is what I notice about the UK which matches the teachings and warnings of that great teacher Jesus Christ. He taught that the desk workers and administrative function people, in his time they were called scribes and Sadducees, were what he called hypocrites who strained out the gnat but swallowed the camel and were blind guides so people should leave them, not follow them. This seems to be the problem today with a nation that is made largely of desk job workers guiding, managing, advising everyone else, so all together walk into a ditch, oblivious to what is actually up ahead as they do what seems 'right' to them without actually looking where it leads. The outcome is going to end badly for the UK and for the blind countries taking the lead from the UK and the West in general.

Communion

 Communion is a sacred rite in Christian denominations but is quite varied in how it is practiced. The first time I took communion in a Catholic Church I had just professed to a street evangelist in the church my need to receive afresh the message of Christ having been crucified for me. He had been preaching it in the shopping centre and I went with him into this nearby church building which was Catholic. We went to the front row and there he prayed for me, out loud, and then asked me to pray aloud. The gospel message had sunk in so much that it was as if I had never heard it before, even though I had been in a church all my life and had been a leader in Christian circles. I knew my biggest sin had been a compulsion to lie and give a better that true impression of myself. Now as I prayed aloud, there was a power in my voice I never knew before or since, but as soon as I started to revert to my lying, self-exalting way of speaking in the prayer, the power went away. When I prayed humbly and honestly it came back. This went on a few minutes maybe. I think the voice I had when filled with the heavenly power must have resounded in the church and people nearby were having a service. The evangelist took me to join the service just in time for communion. Now it was like taking my first communion even though I had been baptised and taken communion many times before. This was new, a new me. The lying habit was getting broken. I had a resolve to please heaven’s power by keeping the fellowship of the power by only telling the truth. I was given both bread and wine. This is a bit unusual for some. Sometimes both bread and wine is protected in its sanctity by only being offered in exceptional circumstances in some Catholic churches under some bishops. I did not know this till recently. My profession that moment earlier meant that this was an exceptional circumstance anyway as I was under special holy influence and had not sinned wilfully against it so I was free to receive both bread and wine, both body and blood of Christ. It is clear to me now as I learn about Catholic communion. In Eastern Orthodox and in Protestant churches the bread and wine are usually given. That is what I had been used to. It is all a depiction of the crucifixion of Lord Jesus Christ. The power in my inner being which affected my voice and taught me honest speech was in response to my open acceptance of a simple message from heaven “Christ died for you” and my hope in response to it of cleansing from my sins. The power continued a day or so longer and kept teaching me until my lying habit was broken. It gradually faded over coming days but my habit changed by then to one of persistence in speaking truthfully. Heaven has a language of truth. Lies, said Jesus, are the language of the devil. The message of the cross brings power to switch language and learn to speak only truth despite having been compelled to lie previously. Such is God’s power. Power is in the gospel message Christ died for you. He did. It is hope for you, if you simply receive it. The Communion depicts this sacrificial death for sins, shedding body and blood in Christ’s crucifixion. Heaven has come to us. God has supplied a mediator, who is a lamb sacrificed to take away the sins of the world, yours and mine. Let us keep the feast in holiness. 

The lost tribes of Israel

The Lost tribes of Israel: Around 745 BC Tiglath-Pileser III came to the throne of the Assyrian Empire. His predecessors had not made great attempts to expand the empire but Tiglath-Pileser III was different. Conquests marked his reign. For a hundred years the Assyrian empire had been growing, but had been held back, around 850 BC, by an alliance of nations which had created a combined army to repulse the Assyrians. There was at this time a kingdom of northern tribes of the Israelite people, under a king named Ahab. For the coming century from 850 to 750 BC this kingdom, called the Kingdom of Israel, was prosperous but was swinging like a pendulum between the biblical God and a Canaanite god they called Ba'al. Ahab had a sequence of short-reigned successors during this time. In biblical terms this was a time of prophecies of warnings against the unfaithfulness of these northern tribes towards their founding God who had led them out of Egypt. Assyria had been gaining strength as an empire, since the 850 BC alliance against Assyria had failed to completely stop it. Tiglath-Pileser III had enough power to overthrow the Kingdom of Israel, which he did around 740 BC. This was a time heralded in many prophecies, and the Book of Enoch records a prophecy from more than two thousand years earlier, which told how there would be angels put in power over these Israelites, (the Israelites are called the sheep in the prophecy), as shepherds, who would punish the unfaithfulness by allowing a sequence of conquests and oppressions lasting over what appears to mean 2800 years or 70 successive angelic shepherd terms of office (apparently 40 years long, considering the other prophesied events). The tribes of the north, in the Kingdom of Israel, were conquered by the Assyrians and the tribes were dispersed deliberately through the Assyrian empire which later spanned most of the Middle East. Some of these people remained in the countryside but those from the conquered cities were taken away and never returned in their lifetimes. Their descendants merged with other peoples, although some groups might have survived as intact groups of Israelites (for example some think that the Bene Israel people long established in India might be such a group, many of whom have who have now moved away from India and settled mainly in Israel, plus some in the UK and some in Canada). The judgment from the 2800 years of shepherd rule from heaven is nearing completion. We seem to be in the last term of the seventy terms of office, with what might be the last angel in charge out of the seventy. The last twelve such angels, the Book of Enoch foretold, will permit so many excess deaths during their terms that these excess deaths will outnumber any of the previous terms. The last few centuries have seen many persecutions and genocides but this next few decades will be no exception. Then the time will be over. The Lord will return in wrath and will judge the sheep and destroy those who are still spiritually blind. The blindness, the prophecy tells us, is due to their original historical forsaking of the temple, back in the ninth and tenth centuries BC, and the lack of faithfulness to God since that time. A champion will have arisen before the Lord returns, who though opposed by the oppressing nations, will stand firm and be helped by the returning Lord from heaven. In the last times of the oppression before the Lord returns, the prophecy says that what the prophecy calls the eagle will instruct the oppressing people. The prophecy designated these oppressive nations as predators and as birds of prey. None of the predators and birds of prey will defeat the champion, called the 'billy goat' in the prophecy. A sword, it foretells, will be given to the 'billy goat'. Then the Lord will come. In Early Church teachings such as the Revelation and the Epistle of Barnabas, this marks the beginning of a seventh millennium of civilised human history when the Christ will rule, like a sabbath millennium. So it seems the merging of the prophecies all points to this millennium starting at Christ's return and that it would be 2800 years after the time of punishment began with the Assyrian conquests around 740 BC, so this means around 2055 to 2065 as a rough estimate. No precise time can be given, as Christ Jesus himself taught: nobody, not even the Son, nor the angels of heaven, knows the exact time, only God the Father.

The real secret of life

 What is the real secret of life? It is understanding with truly practical understanding that Jesus Christ who came two thousand years ago is trustworthy and his teachings are a guiding light, especially in a life of practical obedience to the light those teachings give. Gain this understanding and everything else will start to fall into place and true power will follow. Nothing in this world can overcome that power. Jesus is Master and the Father is Highest God. They give power no worldly force can overcome and wisdom to accompany it. Love, a sound mind and power.

What is at hand

 There is something which comes into our lives from time to time and has been going on like this for the past two thousand years. People need to respect it because it has our life and death in its reach. The fables around Christmas reflect it. Be good, say the fables to children, because Santa is coming. Well the message is correct though the context is contrived. Repent because the kingdom of God is at hand. Indeed. We have it at the door from time to time when the hidden saints who shine like cities built on hilltops are close to us and are under orders from God to oversee our actions and judge us for misdeeds. We are not like the pagans before the birth of Christ, or even the |Jews before he came. They could hide in anonymity or go unpunished if they had the necessary resources and connections. Now there is no hiding. The Holy Spirit is sent out to believers and witnesses to the world about all misdeeds. We cannot afford to be drug-pushers, prostitutes, thieves, liars, murderers, idolaters, vile, immorally disposed, adulterers, or the like without the possibility the kingdom of God will reach us with divine vengeance and justice. It catches up to us, if not in this life then in the next. But ideally we need to be on the inside with this kingdom. That is a most precious place to be, worth losing everything to gain it. The only door to it is through Jesus Christ's teachings and presence and intercessions to the Father. Mediating between believers and the Father, he brings people to God who believe. 

Feet of the statue

 Feet of the statue. Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream recorded in Daniel 2 is a curiosity that has intrigued people down the ages. It portrayed as a huge statue, the central thread of empires, including Nebuchadnezzar’s neo-Babylonian Empire, down the ages. The head of gold is Babylon. The iron legs are interesting because for the time of the Book of Daniel it was a future empire. It is usually assumed to be the Roman Empire. Then the dream foretold feet of the statue made of iron mixed with clay. We might be seeing today how Rome-like iron fascism can be mixed in with the ordinary masses when we look at Ukraine where fascist groups of iron hard fighting men mix in with less steely fighters. Now the future foretold by the dream might be a spreading out into Europe and beyond pf this mix of ordinary people with fascist fighters. Yet the dream goes on to a final countdown in which a stone from a mountain runs and hits the feet and down comes the statue. The rock that hits it is in the Daniel 2 dream interpretation explained to be a kingdom of God which will go on forever.

The folly of the world order

 What can we say about this new world order? Is it fair for all, or just fair for the West? Is it bringing lawfulness or is it lawlessly ignoring fair justice for all the poorer nations and the less imperialistic nations? Is the ever-looming nuclear threat a threat against or a threat because of it? I would like to know. Back in the 1990s this was just beginning as US President George H W Bush aimed to impose the USA concept of rule of law upon the whole of the world through the vehicles of US invasions and the United Nations organisation.  Eyes in the sky started to appear in the skies around the world. US spy planes appeared first. Then police forces started to impose helicopter services to watch and monitor the public. Then as the late 1990s came along the Internet was born and after a while we started to have the spying eyes right there in our living rooms and bedrooms, unbeknown to us, watching what we watched. Meanwhile the imposition at a military level grew ever bolder and the weapons of mass destruction pretext was used by George H W Bush's son later US President George W Bush as justification for finishing the war of his father by re-invading Iraq and the Gulf Wars continued. Now I am no historian or politician but I know that God is concerned about the sinfulness behind the eyes in the sky and the threats of war on the ground and the lives we live under this kind of surveillance governance. What is the main sin in all of this? It seems to be the focus on law without fairness and without true justice for the poorer nations. Only the wealthiest benefit from this world order and especially the wealthy West. The many smaller nations of the West are disproportionately represented compared to the fewer, larger nations of the East and South. We need to seek a better form of justice where all are equal beneficiaries and countries with non-Western heritage are not forced to adopt Western customs and languages along with Western imperialism. Otherwise those eyes in the skies will be flying over turmoil escalating down below and mushroom clouds might be the way this planet is destroyed rather than climate change. God will be avenged of the destructions we are causing whether by our Science or our folly.

Another UK PM

 So Rishi Sunak now UK PM. He classically exemplified Lord Jesus' teaching that the children of the world are more shrewd than the people of the light (Luke 16) when he used the worldly wealth in his care to budget the furloughing of millions during lockdown, gaining many, many friends from it like no other. However, did the UK even have that money? He will now find out. So will we. He wants us to believe he will not burden future generations with paying for that shrewd ;'gift' but will ensure it is paid off soon. If we don't have the money, we don't have it, no matter how much you print to extract funds from those with cash. They only have so much cash, and many of those with cash are banks who could go bust over it.

Lamenting for the West

 Better things are happening outside of the West. God's attention may well have shifted to the East. The eagle instructs the hawks but the billy goat rises for the lambs and the raven tries to turn the world against the billy goat and fails and the Lord of the sheep comes to help the billy goat in full view of all the world. So it ends. (An analysis based on the Book of Enoch and the current events.)

Commands of God

 God puts the spirit into people which writes His commands on their hearts. And He provides a sacrifice for the failures they already made. That works better than dumping a bible in their laps and saying "do all this". The "do all this" approach did not work. Nobody did it. Those who tried merely ended up as sanctimonious haters.

A son of God and the Son of God

 If you have the ear of God, if God hears your prayers, and you ask Him to let you meet a son of His, you might find He brings a righteous believer your way. If you ask Him to let you meet His Son, the Son of God, if He agrees He will let you meet Jesus when Jesus comes your way.

Times of looming catastrophe

 How different are we today to the time before the Great Flood of ancient legends when people lived oblivious to the coming threat and living licentiously without reverence? (Genesis chapter 6.) If you include the knowledge preserved for us in the Book of Enoch alongside Genesis you have a richer resource to answer it. What stands out in my mind from the years of study of Enoch and Genesis and Sumerian texts from after the Flood? Sorcery was a key factor. Powerful individuals invoked powerful responses from angels. They were able to summon angelic changes in the nature of metals, using this to create alloys we are unable to produce today even with all our Science and Metallurgy. Such sorcerers competed with each other (a major translated text from 2200 BC tells of one such contest) and did amazing things in the sight of people such as parting a lake (reflected in biblical counterparts which tell us that God competed with such sorcerers too and won hands down, as Exodus records in relation to Moses and Pharaoh a thousand years later). The sorcerers ran things rather like the Druids ran them in the leadup to the Roman conquest of Britain. The sorcerers terrorised and terrified people and many of these sorcerers were descended from angels, adding to their mystique and power. It was a reign of terror everywhere in the Fertile Crescent and in Sumer (biblical Canaan and Shinar as Genesis records the place names). Kings were not all bad at the time. There were some religious ones who taught strongly and influentially against violence and promoted merciful giving and avoidance of magic arts. Yet mostly people went with the magic and the pagan practices of using cosmetics to entice men into fornication, developing weapons with the help of magic (we would call it Science today, mainly the difference being the open use of angelic invocations at that time), drugs use, and the like. These are all things practiced today. If anything, the apparent elimination of some more overt aspects of sorcery such as invocation of angels makes us think we can just carry on as in times of Genesis but with church sanction. The feeling of impunity this adds to the culture makes us more rampant in our use of the same technologies but with a downplaying of the supernatural side of things, yet still people swear and curse and seek inner inspiration irrespective of its source, mixing this with the pursuit of the Science. Have a look at the use of fear today in how Science rolls out its answers to the world. Times are not much different. Perhaps globalisation makes it even more sinister.

The coming darkness

 As darkness spreads across the world, there are many who rely on circumcision of the body for their religious standing and these people need to tread carefully right now. There are dark forces who pressure them to join in the eradication of those the dark forces hate. If the circumcised hate like the haters then those haters might spare them, but God won't. God sees the hatred and calls it sin. God sees the failure to deal with this hatred and He calls that sin too. Those circumcised in the flesh are caught in the middle, between God and the devil. Between love and hate. If they choose to hate, the haters might let them survive a hateful purge the haters are starting. If the circumcised fight like the Allies fought this hatred in WW2, to stop the purge, and as a result they get purged they are not condemned. Now there are also those who by faith have resisted circumcision and rely on Christ and his grace, and these are better off. Grace saves them. Having grace, they can escape the evil that is coming. But many who seem to live by grace are giving in and letting the haters walk all over them. If they hate along with the haters, they will have to be handed over to Satan who is father of haters. The father of haters will deal with their complicity in the hate. As accessories to genocide it will be the end of them. But their spirits will be saved by grace. They are better off with grace than with circumcision.

The garden and the jungle

 There are 'gardeners' who are not just wanting to tidy their 'jungle' with regime change in Russia. They probably want to remove the 'weeds'. They may well have been so affected by the wave of what is driving Ukraine ferocity, an attempt to revive past evil, that they want a surge of it that can pick up where Ukraine left off in the fifties and the rest of Eastern Europe and Germany stopped short in the forties. They probably think first the 'garden' then the whole 'jungle' needs 'weeding'. This is quite likely their 'solution'. Big mistake of USSR to free the gulag prisoners. Some 'weeds' stay alive by helping against other 'weeds' but for how long? The gardeners claimed before they only rooted out 'weeds' which stood in the way of rooting out Soviets.

@Unitarians

 @Unitarians: True no Trinity. The Father is God. False no Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is very real and is a distinct person who comes to us. God the Father only very rarely comes to visit believers. Usually this is in dreams or the like. The Holy Spirit often visits real believers. Stop teaching false doctrines about the Holy Spirit. You are on thin ice.

A cross that raises me

 "Even though it be a cross that raiseth me"

"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings - becoming like him in his death and so somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead"

A cross is what it takes to attain the resurrection. You, I, in fellowship with Christ, would be elevated to attaining resurrection were we to first attain to a cross. The resurrection of Jesus Christ first and foremost held up this truth. Jesus had endured a cross and now he is resurrected and this same way is set before us too. To be resurrected there is first a cross and we endure a cross in order to find that resurrection follows it, if we endure it because we walk in fellowship with Christ by keeping his teachings and living by them, in the way the Holy Spirit teaches and leads. The resurrection of Jesus Christ thus held up the cross as a holy route to resurrection.

End from the beginning - cause and effect

 The way heavenly things happen is mysterious but not altogether secret. The balances of natural things and events can be maintained from outside of the material universe. The divine ability includes the ability to nudge natural events to push them into a planned outcome. Some events we would think ought to be random: Shuffling a deck of cards; tossing a dice; genetic chromosomes being distributed during sexual reproduction; words picked by a speech writer; movement of molecules in a gas; diffraction of light; all kinds of events we think tend to be random and uncontrolled. God can determine what happens in these events and does so. "Does God throw dice?" Perhaps not but determining the outcome of a throwing of dice is certainly God's kind of thing. So chain long sequences of such events together and you get plenty of room for achieving a planned outcome on a larger scale. God is God who sees the end from the beginning and much of what God sees is under His power to influence and to cause very long term outcomes over thousands, millions of years. God has huge timescales in His scope. We cannot really imagine this. Even Christ does not have access to all the knowledge of long-term event sequences that God the Father has access to. Christ's spirit somehow stretches across centuries and even millennia yet the Father is greater and the Father alone sees the end from the beginning and reveals some of this to His Son. 

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.