The Holy Spirit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Within God The Father

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

Beyond Blogs

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

Where God Might Be

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

Fellowship With God

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

Standing Class

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

God is Real and His Word Is Real

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

Wealth And Glory

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

Weakness and Mortality Triumphed Over Oppression and Might

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

Christ's View On Some Prevalent Evils

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

Not Everyone Has The Holy Sprit To Lead Them Into Truth

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

50AD Rome Visited and Now Revisited

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

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

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

She Was There

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

Hell-bent

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

Human Love

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

The Word Of God That Lord Jesus Actually Is

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

The Futulity of Unbelief

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

How Tenuous Faith Can Be

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

It is Written

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

Believe He Cannot Lie

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

How it was Proven to Me who Jesus Is

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

How The Spirit Proves He Is He

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

Finding the Father

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

The Living Resurrection

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

Submissive Learning

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

The Truthful Spirit

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

Remember Jesus the Lord and His Crucifixion and Resurrection

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

The Reality of a Holy Spirit is Proof

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

The Lord and The God Saves

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

The Scourge

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

Aeons

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

Truth and Virtue

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

Milennium of Rest

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

God's "Israel"

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

Camail

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

You Are Created

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

The Light of the Moon

Just looking at the moon some days it looks just like a flat disc but other days it looks so clearly spherical. Scientist have shown it is sperical. Some like ancient Greek Pythagoras and modern physicists too have believed and taught that there are laws of mathematics inherent in the Universe to cause such bodies in space like the moon to become spherical. Not sure whether to believe it can be proved that this is so and applies to the moon. Yet there is precedent for teaching that logical rules so govern how the Moon and other such bodies have come to be as they are and one teaching so clearly applicable here is the faith that this came about because the Creator God created the logos before any other creation and all creation then came to be according to this logos. Logos is the word given this entity by either John the Apostle or perhaps translated by translators into Greek from the Aramaic word of similar meaning. He wrote this in the opening verses of his Gospel book: The Gospel of John. Clearly it is pertinent that he had learned over several years from Jesus Christ. So he knew that Jesus Christ was this logos made flesh. The architect had become like the human creation in every way. He still is though now with His original glory restored. The word logos and the similar word in Aramaic for thought and reasoning and concepts of logic and knowledge conveys a similar meaning as we get from those teachers of previous times like Pythagoras and the magi he might have learned from and their great teacher Zoroaster who noticed the existence of mathematical order and rules behind so much of nature and the Universe. All things behaved like they all had common reasons to do as they did and be as they are. So both the Sun and Moon are spherical. The movements of the Moon and stars are in paths which circle other objects. The modern scientists and mathematicians continue these teachings be using symbols and rules about symbols to logically describe such things and apply them to all the more and more entities they discover to show us all there are these common patterns and they are called laws because there is a weightiness about their consistency throughout the Universe. So there is this logic behind all things making, it seems, them as they are and scientists try to discover and record in symbols of mathematics more and more of what this logic is. Now it is all the more clear that there is a reason the Moon is spherical perhaps related to its size as scientists say. It is still mysterious in part. Yet it is likely the same rules make the Moon a sphere as make the Earth and Sun and planets spheres (albeit with slight departures from mathematically perfect sphericity). The clarity is there that some logic is behind all of nature. This logic can be believed to be itself a creation of God embodied in His first creation The Word (logos) and that Jesus is this Word of God made flesh.

Warning not to be too Engrossed in Internet

Do not get too engrossed in the Internet and technology - the systems of this world will not last forever. Great to use for reaching out but we are warned not to get engrossed.

Stillness

Thankfully God provides stillness sometimes. If a disciple obeys God according to Christ's testimony there is seeing God and Christ and experience of the Holy Spirit that comes to the disciple in dreams and visions and miracles and spiritual gifts. These mean it is possible to let the mind take on board the reality of the existence of God and His Son and the Holy Spirit and millions of departed saints made perfect and serving spirits. Yet it takes stillness for the mind to catch up. This is a rarity for some of our lives in a busy crowded world at odds with God and His truth. So thankfully God eventually provides moments of stillness. Grab then when you can and use them to allow the reality of God's existence and His Son's existence and Holy Spirit's existence to sink in and the knowledge of it to reform your mind and instruct your thinking. God gave the words long ago that are addressed to us all "Be still and know that I am God".

A Personal Mission Statement

As a disciple is called to come out from the 'beast' (beast in the prophetic apocalyptic sense) as it is an empire continuing on from the Roman Empire and still has the same attitude against God and His Truth and since that separation does not deny the need to trade with the opposing empires it seemed sensible to me to produce tools for trade with any empire or beast or apocalyptic Babylon the Great. To allow those obeying the call to come out and be separate I helped to ensure there are tools for trade and one such tool is an electronic invoice and business document standard. So the call is there to be separate and the commands are there to trade with worldly wealth to increase it for returning a dividend to Christ when He wants it and another command to help lift the burdens we impose so a standard for trade across boundaries made sense. So promotion of trade using invoices that can be read anywhere by electronic modern methods is really part of my personal discipleship mission statement. (End result to date: ISO/IEC 19845:2015.)

Physical Reality

Jesus is a physical reality with a body which can be touched and that has been evilly crucified but raised by God and alive right now and always. This reality of His having died comes back to mind when there are visible crosses to see such as on church religious buildings and yet some know with absolute certainty too His is very much alive today so the resurrection is to such people a perceived fact. Obviously unbelievers object to the subjectivity they attribute to a fact like this but not everyone is so unbelieving and the He is not without witnesses who have even touched the physical body of Lord Jesus for themselves. So on top of this is a mystery of the power by which Jesus gloriously reaches out in spirit too to give life to believers and convert unbelievers to faith. The Spitit testifies too that this same Jesus is Lord by whose name every little bud forms on every single tree and of course it means He has always been in existence as long as trees existed and before to have been intrinsically involved in their very origins by which in the creative work of God the Father of Jesus they have come into existence. Likewise each planet orbiting a star in the vast Universe. So we have a physically embodied man having been born and lived mortally and died crucified and raised immortal who was from the start of all things and will live forever. What mystery. Meeting Him is a well won rest.

Warning Against Magic

As the person who believes the things God says is blessed they receive the Holy Spirit as part of that blessing who is given them by God in the name of Lord Jesus Christ His Son. As the Holy Spirit works in them and in others blessed as they are then there are lessons learned which are characteristic of this Holy Spirit and what He teaches a believer. First is that God is a truthful person and no lie comes from His truthfulness. Second is that the truth is what He has been teaching from the very beginning and all through the ages. This truth has been captured by prophets in ages past and some has been written down and much of what is written is acknowledged as scripture but some writings more widely than others. The writings of En-men-dur-ana are not as widely known as other scriptures because many have tended to ignore them or leave them out of their recommended lists of scriptures, yet by knowing the teachings of the Holy Spirit first hand some such as the early Apostles and others gifted with the Spirit today have found the Book of Enoch to be inspired and genuine and not a facsimile written later in history like some have claimed. Over the ages the lessons from these writings have shown up origins of dangerous teachings like astrology and alchemy and other magic arts as being from fallen angels and not by the will of God. So there is this ancient warning which explains other later scriptures condemning such magic art teachings and practices. That is not to say that all teachings called magic over the ages are condemned since some teachings include messages like the Golden Rule to love each neighbour and treat others as you want to be treated. Yet if we want to escape the firey lake judgment of the future we must forsake such things and seek out instead the teachings and testimonies concerning the words God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ has spoken and to which Lord Jesus and Spirits coming in His name have testified. I find the Book of Enoch (of En-men-dur-ana, as ancient texts call him or Idris as he is known in Muslim circles) to give ample warning of what is of fallen angels as distinct from what is of God who is the Creator and who is Father of Lord Jesus the firstborn over all Creation through whom all things were made.

No Excuse for Ignorance About God Now

When you look at history of religions there are so many times of revelation like Zoroaster's and Buddha's and long ago En-men-dur-ana (Enoch, Idris) and most of all the coming of Christ Jesus and the revelations to prophets since His time on Earth and the great revelations to Mohammed and other prophets since then too and the normal believer having simple humbler revelations by the Holy Spirit. Yes there are greater revelations and lesser ones. Some merely see a supreme and unique God while others have detail on what He is like and that He is a person and He really is the one 'good guy' and the Father of Christ Jesus. Some hear that it is required of us all that we love others treating them how we would be treated (want to be treated). Some realise a judgment is coming and realise what behaviours will result in God damning with eternal judgment. Some teach what is revealed to them. Some keep it to themselves and just live by it. All in all there is now so much we can find out about the revelations God has given that ignoring God has become inexcusable.

As Long a Time as it Takes

There is One Man who has as much time as it takes to make you perfect and keep you that way. The Lord who is The Christ is the one man who has all the time to perfect people who believe that this is so. He is unique. Only the Father is greater. He is called Jesus or Isa and is actually known to some today by what he still does. However, two thousand years ago he lived and died (he was crucfied), and then, rising from the dead, he lived again. By the Holy Spirit it is made known that Jesus was alive long before he came. Jesus was even known to a prophet in the Late Stone Age (a prophet who was also a king and was named Enoch and Idris today and called En-men-dur-ana in the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age). By the Holy Spirit it is made known that this Jesus made all things from the beginning by working together with the Father so he predates time as we know it. So we can know in this that he will be alive in the most distant future imaginable too and always will keep those who believe this.

The Kingdom of God and How to Enter It

God took a great kingdom away from the ancient Israel nation who rejected His Son - the Kingdom of the Throne of King David. He gave it to the disciples of His Son who had not rejected His Son Jesus, the Messiah or Christ (anointed prince) and to enter it means to become a disciple too and submit to the authority of Christ on King David's Throne. How to do this? By holding to His teachings and receiving God's testimony of the truth, living in the freedom that results.

Going Through The Eye of a Needle

Through the eye of a needle. It is the Lord Jesus whose teaching is that the salvation of a rich person is very hard. The translation of His words on this usually states that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There is an ancient version of this which suggests the teaching might better be translated a rope through the eye of a needle or a play on words with camel with the word for camel used in the language Jesus spoke on Earth being like the word for rope - not just rope through a needle eye but even harder - a camel (a play on words being there in the word camel being similar to the word rope). Either way the meaning is perhaps better understood still when considering the incarnation of Jesus. He who was rich as second only to the Father, Jesus being the Son from before time began, the same was by God's doing of the impossible made a poor baby in a poor family. What, said Jesus, is impossible for Man is possible for God. And what is this Kingdom? God took a great kingdom away from the ancient Israel nation who rejected His Son - the Kingdom of the Throne of King David. He gave it to the disciples of His Son who had not rejected His Son Jesus, the Messiah or Christ (anointed prince) and to enter it means to become a disciple too and submit to the authority of Christ on King David's Throne. How to do this? By holding to His teachings and receiving God's testimony of the truth and freedom by it as a result.

What God is Like

A poor child was given a watch for his birthday. It was his first. He was finishing a paper round the first day he wore it and when he looked down at it at the end of his round he saw the pin that held on the strap had fallen out. Aghh! He knew to pray so earnestly he did so. (His mother had taught him that.) Then he looked down and it was in fromt of him on the pavement.

Years later a colleague at work in the next office was about to get married. The bank holidays started the next day and the wedding would take place over it. A wedding card was circulating but was going to be late getting back to its organiser. The night before the grown up young  lad who learned to pray and believe to get the salvation God in love provided was given a special dream. Since those childhood days he had longed and prayed to see God in a dream like he had read in the Bible had happened to the lucky few. The last weeks and days it had boiled up to boiling point as he had to preach and never felt he could do so without seeing God like that. The night before the card was needed on time signed by the staff he had been so earnest and God took notice and stood before him in a dream saying firmly "I am God." Then God said how the next day in front of him would be put something with a list of names on it. It needed to go to a certain lady - a lady he hadn't met but whose name stuck with him. "Look at it", God said about this list of names on this special item. So as soon as the card arrived in front of him he gave it special notice, although the shock of it having been a real dream of God hit home hard so he almost forgot to look at it. He saw the card needed to be with the lady mentioned in the dream by 4pm. It was 4pm. He rushed it to her. Days later he saw her on the office building stairs singing the hymn "One more step along the road I go ... keep me travelling along with You." A Christian.

God saves - He saves the day. He saves from trouble.

But with the prayer to see God he earnestly had asked to see the existence of The Son of God and the Holy Spirit. These came days or weeks later. Now He knows not just that God saves and is so clearly The Father who is so fatherly but also that it is Lord Jesus the One who came a was written of in John's Gospel who is that Son of God - from the way Jesus came to him - and that it is all true about the Holy Spirit and His being manifest in spritual gifts in church. All true as it all happened to him just that exact same way.

So I only saw Him in a dream, yes, but a real vision of Him for certain. So visually what appearance of His form did He choose to show me? Some might be curious. A similar apprarance to what ancient Greeks represented for the gods such as Zeus, and like an ancient man but dressed in a gown-like robe to His feet. His voice calm stern and serious but loving and kind and very dignified saying simply "I am God". He was simply dumbfounding.

Witnessing the visit of the Son and Holy Spirit later shows me that this was a vision of the Father because that had been my ardent request - to see Father and Son and Holy Spirit. So it is the Father who said to me "I am God".

Put down your umbrella

Simple words spoken by Jesus with the utmost affect. "My power is made perfect in weakness." What  awesome dumbfounding power it is too. Worth becoming weak for. He said that to one of His own while they followed Him and endured a time of trial. To another disciple He said (not so long ago of course but this same Lord and Master and Teacher saying it) in the midst of torrential flood-causing rain "Put down your umbrella!" So the weakness of having no umbrella up in that rain immediately gives way to His Almighty stopping of the rain in an instant. Lord is what Jesus is by nature and by the ordinance of the Father, His Father and His God who gives Him this power, eternally.

The Enviable

To be a lowly Gentile is enviable as far as the Gospel of Truth of God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is concerned. It puts you in line to freedom from debt to keep religious feasts and freedom from bondage to the Laws given by God through Moses and instead offers you a free bondage to truth and grace in the teachings of God given by God through Lord Jesus Christ. So many are missing this freedom today for historical reasons which exalted a false gospel in place of the true Gospel from God preached first to Gentiles by special revelation from God for this purpose by the Apostle Paul previously known as Saul of Tarsus in the first century AD. Read about his letter to Galatians and read what he wrote about feasts. Free to receive the Holy Spirit given if you sinply believe this true Gospel and free to then follow this Holy Spirit as He leads you into all the truthful testimony of God.

Ghosts

Ghosts are officially largely ignored in the world of the Beast - of Western power since Roman times. They go beneath the radar of science and official knowledge. Descartes was the philosopher whose ideology ensured this. He put it about successfully that if you cannot find true facts by repeatable experiments they aren't worthy to be regarded as true facts - or at least for geeky people that is how Descartes gets interpreted. Of course knowledge exceeds science and includes humanities so not all are so geeky. Many believe ghosts do exist. So ghosts get ignored when official knowledge excludes experience in preference to experiment but unofficially and in societies not so controlled by Cartesianism (Descartes' followers) but subject to other influences like Locke favouring experience the possibility or fact of ghosts is accepted. Ghosts can be a plague though when the powerful sorcerers of ages past exist as ghosts and wander the Earth and don't easilly get driven away. Jesus took them on though and have His followers power to do the same using their faith and His powerful name for invocation against them.

Rome in the First Century AD

Rome 50AD. Physically not much different to how it is today. Bustling. Chariots then and cars now. Magnificent buildings. Many streets and houses. Looking out from there towards the Eastern Mediterranean shores where decades previously and still in this time much trouble had ocurred and decades before extraordinary events had ocurred. Into this city come two men arriving in separate circumstances but perhaps living there at the same time in the next decades after 50AD and these two witnessed back there in the Eastmost lands around the Mediterranean the same extraordinary - most extraordinary - man. Not just man but Son of Man. They witnessed what He did like the changing of water into wine, the giving of sight to the blind and the blinding by heavenly glory of the violent opponent on the Damascus Road. These two men each had aliases having had changed names after being changed by this amazing Son of Man. One became known as Peter (Rock) and the other became known by his own choice as Paul (Small). This Rome was a city of immense reutation for tyranny but this Son of Man is still alive having been slain by the army of this city in response to demands by leaders out there in the Eastern Mediterranean who wanted to put to death the Son of Man whose Father in Heaven had first formed their nation centuries earlier. The East was the forum for a visible earthly contest between a murdeous powerful ancient spirit called Satan because of his constant accusations against saints and the heir to the throne of Glory over the entire Universe known as Son of Man among Heavenly spirits but Jesus there in 50AD. Jesus of Nazareth called The Christ. Now this city of Rome itself had crows coming home to roost as it too became unwitting host to the continued battle between Satan and his human children of lying and murder on one hand and Jesus and His saints on the other as Peter and Paul too would be put to death and it is said their skulls are kept in a cathedral there to this very day. Jesus came alive as death cannot hold Him who rules over death and has the keys of death and the places of the dead but one day this same Jesus who was crucified by Roman leaders at the demand of Jewish leaders (predecessors of the Beast and the Babylon the Great of today and tomorrow) will soon return and bring back to life this same Peter and Paul together with those saints executed like they were and other saints set apart to rule with Christ a thousand years before Christ Jesus returns all His Kingdom to His Father, The God.

Written Revelation and God's Truth

Oil in jars the scriptures? In the parable the Son of Man told, it is important to carry your oil along with your lamp and to have the oil not only in the lamp itself but also stored in a separate jar that can be used to top up the lamp and so keep it burning over the entire length of the potentially long wait till He returns for His Great Wedding with His Bride. This long wait and this lamp and oil is a picture of how to get and remain prepared. It is known we (disciples of this Son of Man) have to remain in Him by keeping His words in us. In us means both in each inner mind and memory and corporately among the groups and overall group of disciples. So how to keep a separate supply too of His words and other words of the Spirit and awakened spirits of disciples given in His name? Writing them down.

The Great Decision

At some point the decision has to be made whether the opposition to believing the Christ is worth listening to or whether to set it all aside and take Christ's miracles as reason enough to put trust in Him. The result of trust is bound to be what He is about: being made righteous by Him. He said that comes by following this decision to put trust in Him with keeping to His teachings so they do their cleansing and transforming work to turn a disciple into a child of God made by God the way God intends - righteous. Not lying. Not murderously hating. Moral. A faithful follower of the Spirit which God sends disciples in Lord Jesus' name when you receive this Spirit in faith and Christ finds a believing and loving place in your heart. Don't just believe Him, love Him and follow Him faithfully. Great promises are to those who do so persisting to the end.

The Truth Is Not Easy To Hold Onto

Truth from Jesus Christ has a counter-World stance. It gets suppressed and opposed by the strength of individuals and networks of the people who surround us. It requires responses that run counter to the World view of people around us. It is like the people who opposed Jesus and what He stands for and supported those He will defeat in future produced descendants who carried on anti-Jesus attitudes and  dogmas who like the prongs of a broom appear now all around us to carry into our time the struggle against what Jesus gave as testimony to the truth. It is like the broom wants to sweep truth aside and impose a replacement of Worldly power that can be traditionally disguised as truth itself but with painstaking faithfulness to Jesus' testimony we can discern the World from the Truth. Like a massive court case drama with Jesus' testimony and God's testimony standing against the World with believers required to testify too and the Spirit of God pitching in alongside. Come Lord Jesus.

Heaven Like The Crystal Caves in Mexico?

Enoch described Heaven so clearly but where is it? In a mountain boundaried in two directions by six volcanoes in an immense, high temperature, firey, geodic crystal cave below in the depths underground like the crystal caves in the mountains of Mexico found recently during mining but normally unconnected to the surface. It is such an extreme environment close to God's actual form that it has an electric storm climate of its own with unapproachable heat and light. Again it compares to those much smaller geodic caverns found hidden below mountains in Mexico whose heat makes them uninhabitable but a human can spend a few minutes exploring them in special costumes cooled by cold water for safety. God's caverns seem much less approachable but all the more awesome and perhaps quite similar in type of geological structure, judging by this ancient account by the Chalcolithc Age Sumerian prophet-king taken to them by spirits but then allowed to write for humans at least some of what he saw and heard there.

In Book of Enoch chapter 14 verses 12 and following

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

Enoch (in Book of Enoch) Inspired by The Holy Spirit

In the book of Enoch chapter 6 I read this "They consider how the trees, when they put forth their green leaves, become covered, and produce fruit; understanding everything, and knowing that He who lives for ever does all these things for you:" I heard a message in tongues in church translated by my spirit as this "Consider the trees how they bud and put out leaves. They do this by the authority and power of the name of The Lord Jesus." So when I soon after read the words in Enoch chapter 6 I knew it was another work of the inspiration of the spirit who gave the message in tongues in church and gave me the interpretation (the same given to the speaker in tongues just afterwards too and I didn't tell him mine). This is the Holy Spirit.

Creation

I was a teenager when I heard the whisper perhaps the first time. And the miracle came with it. I was playing chess at my friend's house and as we played chess we discissed scientific theories like evolution and relativity. I had wanted to believe still in Genesis in the Bible and we were considering the challenge posed by light coming from stars over thousands of light years away and the age of the Universe it implied and evolution of life as an idea and what it might mean about the age of the Earth. Could we still have faith in scriptures like Genesis and the belief that God is the Creator of all things and inspirer of Genesis scripture about it? As we played we did the usual tradition to choose who would play white and start the game with the first move. One time doing this it came to me: The whisper. The tradition is to take a black and white pawn chess piece and with your hands behind your back to mix them around a lot (so perhaps you forget which piece is black and which is white) then put one piece behind your back in one hand and the other in the other hand and put your tightly closed hands in front of you wothout showing the pieces so the other player can choose a hand. If they choose the hand with the white piece they play as white and start with the first move having a slight advantage in the chess game. As my friend and fellow follower of Christ did this he did not know a whisper inside my mind told me to choose the hand that looked most white to me. I did and it was with the white pawn. I remember we did it again (perhaps at my suggestion) and it worked again. Again and again it always worked. I remember about thirty times we did this and every time I chose white. Then we both stopped out of fear to carry on. It shows me God can control chance and determine outcomes. Therefore creation is well within His capability.

Daniel 3

Get the feeling you have a guardian angel protecting you? No surprise it might be so. Just as we start believing truth from God and turn from lies and lying we show up on the radar of Heaven as seven Spirits before the Throne of Glory go out into all the Earth to see who fears God and keep His commanded truth and truthfulness and protection is given when they find these. One whispered 'Daniel 3' and there in that chapter I found a footnote cross reference to a verse in Psalms to this effect just as I was pondering that verse. The Angel of The LORD encamps around those that fear Him. Just how He protected three men as recorded in Daniel 3. Don't fear Man, taught Lord Jesus, fear God. As the hymn goes: Fear Him you saints and you will then have nothing else to fear.

The Words of The Christ

In a day when teachings are flying all around about what it means to be Christian and born again and devout as a follower of the Creator who made each one, there is a way that still stands out as authentic and eternally effective - STICK TO THE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST. His teachings found in gospels like Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and in the book of Revelation written according to a vision He received and passed on to John after He had risen from death are all in the Bible as are follow-on teachings given by the Holy Spirit and apostles such as Peter and Paul and John and Jesus' own brother Jude. All are available translated into so many languages and in many versions of translation in some languages plus the initial languages like Greek and then both Latin and old Syrian or near the original language spoken by Jesus of Aramaic. The promises are great to those who learn and stick to what Jesus actually said (and He speaks still today). Spirit words He called them. Words that give life. Words that change - like His miracle of changing water into wine that The Father gave Him to do. The miracles He did and does even still today for the lucky few are messages too. All this from the Father. Don't waste it. Don't waste His sayings and in ignoring them waste, I think, your life.

Hopeful Partnership

In a day of all kinds of partnerships there is one most important that excels all others: The Christ can partner with you for your eternal life. It is not just that He became a human born by virgin birth and the sacred Spirit of God some two thousand years ago and crucified by evil men but risen from the dead and with the Almighty God He proclaimed to be The Father, Jesus is Lord over all with such power (and faith and righteousness)) He can reach you in power and make you a partner in the fight against your own failings that bring you down and get you out of favour with God. Not bad for a hope to have in this life.

Truth

Truth
The truth. Well this is what it is all about: Truth. Truth is the way to life. Even eternal life. Lies are the way to just the opposite. Falsehood is the way to death. It only needs to be put aside in favour of life though and it can all change. Truth comes from revelation. It comes from accurate historic accounts by truthful people. The paradox was well known to ancient Greek scholars where a poet says "All Cretans are liars" but he being a Cretan himself: So what made this paradox meaningful? He was a prophetic poet and so "All Cretans are liars" really comes from a non-Cretan source - a Spirit of true prophesy. So a true prophetic spirit can break the stranglehold of lies by introducing truth in a spirit way which transcends the lying of the mouthpiece and audience. The Spirit of Truth therefore brings life into a situation of only death. It transcends the hopelessness of the situation by entering the situation without being corrupted by it. The Spirit comes into the heart when faith overcomes falsehood in that heart which can only happen when another individual speaks by that same Spirit - prophetically. The problem is you need a starting point - a reliable first speaker of Spirit-imparted truth who does not need it from someone else and then a reliable perfect person to impart this to the rest of us: Enter God the Father and His eternal Son from the beginning, Jesus the Christ, the Lord sent by the one true God who inspired Him and trained Him from the very beginning then sent Him to Earth filled with Spirit - the Spirit of Truth by whom He preached. Now the way is made open to all who believe this to receive the Spirit-inspired true preaching (like this) and learn the truth by adhering to the preached word. The power enters the heart that listens to the true preaching and that heart though lying by nature learns truth. The real truth is this: CHRIST DIED FOR YOU. You probably already knew about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ but you need to let it into your heart. Perhaps over and over through your future life. There is more to receive from God who loved the world so much He sent this only begotten Son of His and gives you more that you need to fully save you. He gives Spirit. Graciously. Receive truth by receiving the Spirit of Truth who God can send you in Lord Jesus Christ's name. Put away all useless, foolish falsehood which is so weak and speak truth when you know and trust it exists and has real power for good and not evil. Live the truth you learn from this Spirit which is a command to you from God leading to love. Obedient love for God and your neighbour which comes from persistent adherence to this truth.

Mysterious Telepathic Communication

It is not really a secret that God (the Father), Jesus the Lord and the Holy Spirit each use a form of telepathy to communicate with humans on Earth. The very thoughts of humans can form prayers directed to God and indeed heard without a word spoken from the mouth. The same in the other direction as like in dreams and in waking moments too a spirit such as The Father or The Holy Spirit or a spirit-living human such as Jesus Christ now He is gloriously back to how He took form even before becoming a human born of the virgin all can speak directly to the mind of a human without any use of sound or ears. Not to say this does not sometimes happen audibly too as scripture records but it is often by inaundible process directly to the inner mind. So a prayer does not have to involve the human mouth but still can have immense effect beyond any power of humankind and a word from God can have immense effect without an ear hearing it but only a receptive mind. Thank God.

Obey?

Is it enough reason to obey God that He gave His Son as sacrifice for us. Obeying God in love for Him is commanded of us. When we are commanded to obey someone in power we might feel like objecting unless there was good reason for obedience. A spirit never seen with the eye yet so active in saving.

The News

The monarchies will give their power to the beast - all ten of them - and so will the people. The beast will soon be overcome by the war of words when the Lord of my soul returns. Praise the Lord o my soul bless His holy name. He will then having overcome the beast reign a thousand years before giving the throne of David back to His Father, His God, The God. Then judgment and a lake of fire where unbelieving fearful will be throne along with practicers of magic and the immoral. Then Jesus Lord of me will have His eternal city from heaven of the resurrected saints as bride forever. 

Where are you heading?

Destiny: Where and what is your final destination? To be a child of God or remain a child of Satan? Heavenly New Jerusalem or Lake of Fire? Saint united with Christ or still the fearful unbeliever? You know by the grace of today. If you imagine a train journey where people bring you food as you travel but the food comes from your destination station. You get offered food from the train station where you will end your train journey so my local train takes me to Bristol Temple Meads Station and in this imaginary symbolic train trip the food the train manager feeds me is fish and chips because that is what the Temple Meads station offers. If I was travelling on to Bath Spa I would be offered ham and eggs. This is the parable meaning: If you end up in heavenly places you will be fed with heavenly  food on the way there. If you head for hellish outcome your food will be savage flesh-pleasing lies and no grace from God will be on your plate in front of you. God can offer miracles to His children-to-be to help them become His children. Lies foster lies and liars. Those who believe the truth and cling to the words of Christ Jesus are turned as they go into children of God and their way is marked by miracles and the Spirit of God. Know where you are going. God knows it best.

Love God with all your heart and mind and voice

Love God with all your heart and mind and voice

The Killing of the Lord of Life

The killing of the Lord of life: The Lord who came and took a name 'Jesus' ('Isa', 'Yeshua') is none other than one called 'The Son of Man' and Son of God by the seventh ever king of the World just after the Stone Age in Sumer known also as the famous prophet called today 'Enoch' and in ancient texts of his time on Earth 'En-men-dur-anna'. How could people kill this One? They did though - they crucified Him. This light who came into this World was killed and put in a tomb. This was immense and still is. It was used by God to provide for what was wrong by providing sacrifice of bloodshed then good news God raised Him to life and gave Him back that glory He had all that time ago in Stone and Chalcolithic Ages when En-men-dur-anna of Sumer saw Him in visions of glory. The glory goes on - it now goes on forever.

The Light

We hear and see evidence of God constantly throwing light our direction. The mysterious science of unbelief often kicks in and mostly persists in some or in others fades as belief kicks in perhaps a bit later or perhaps straightaway. The response might be "It can't be so!", "That cannot be", "It can't be true". God is true and there is no darkness in His light - no falsehood in His testimony. The light takes  the form of living natural entities such as trees and even other immense entities like planets and moons in orbits. Trees are a witness to a power pervading space and time - a name by which they grow and go through their life cycles. The planets obey a power that rules one end of the Universe as much as the other end. They do not disobey it and are punished if they do. This all combines with our eyes and brains and minds to form spiritually what is called light. More light comes than even this and reaches our minds when we receive the effects of people of history like John the Baptist. This highlights that the One who produced the light and still has His name as the power behind it did in fact come into this World known as Jesus Christ telling about The Father who sent Him. So light reaches us from these directions but some believe in it and some do not. Believe in it for His sake.

Sons of God

It is the Father who says who He regards as His son and His truthful testimony is that Jesus is His Son and maybe the Father will at some point testify that He regards you as His son (or daughter) and that testimony will be true. Obeying what He says by believing it and living by it is the way in the name of His Son. He knows who is His. He knows who are His.

The God, The LORD, says "Israel has sinned"

The God whose love as husband for straying but beloved wife has been expressed by prophets of old, says again "Israel has sinned" and He says that the eagle of war and mass surveillance has been overhead as a sign of this with wars and rumours of wars on the agenda as indeed we have seen the past two decades. So He lets me preach this 'from the mountain top' "Love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind" and I have to shout it loud "all your voice".

Good news - oh but not such great news

Revelation 21:8 New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic arts, the idolaters and all liars – they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death.’

Good news - yes great news!

Revelation 21:6-7 New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.

The Truth of God sets Free

Although God requires none of the Gentiles to think they are law-bound to keep the Law of Moses found in old testament scriptures like Deuteronomy or Leviticus or Exodus, He does require that those He has ransomed by the blood of Jesus Christ His Son keep the command to love Him with heart and soul and mind. His commands are to Gentiles given through Jesus Christ to all who believe and those who do love Him will listen to learn from Jesus the commands relevant to them. The Holy Spirit is come now to meet with believers so they can learn all that is from Jesus even beyond the beginning of His teachings found in new testament scripture. These teachings include commands and truth but also marvellous promises of personal neighbourliness toward believers who obey by God and Jesus along with partnership by Jesus who is Lord over Creation that is Nature. The truth sets them free.

Keep it Real

Let's keep it real. We need to let the Lord Jesus guide our feet into that right path and He starts with the worse failings first and rewards progress there with Spirit given for s little faith and repentance then He and we as a body of believers together can build on that. This is His promises at work.

Life of the Inner Man

It is the inner man that is either still of Satan or of God. The inner man that loves doing hateful or dishonest things is still of Satan. People might have to do things at times that are evil but the inner man that is of God hates to do that. The person who loves to lie and loves to feel they have made a believer lie or hate or harm another is still devlish. The person reborn by the transformation of the inner man by words of life and spirit from Jesus the Christ and by action of the Holy Spirit sent in Lord Jesus' name is of God. This person has fellowship with those who are transformed the same way and some have fellowship with God Himself. They can choose to leave their fellowship with each other and with God or be drawn away from this fellowship. To God it is then as if they have died but they can be brought back to life by making a decision to stop straying like this and seek fellowship again with God. God can make that happen. He can do so in answer to the prayers of their brothers - the others born of spirit of God too. The person who sees it and prays for them is answered by God giving the one born of God life again. They were a child of God but they became as if they were a dead son or daughter by leaving fellowship with the Father. This need not be a permanent 'death' because God can bring them 'back to life' by granting them to repent and decide to stop straying in their actions and have a change of inner man again and seek to regain fellowship with God. God sonship is therefore permanent but death is possible yet temporary. And what if nobody interceded? Jesus too intercedes. He ever lives to do so, thankfully. Only in the extreme when all measures by God to bring back to fellowship a very persistent and  stubborn wanderer are exhausted does a person permanently leave fellowship.

When was the Book of Enoch really written?

Some say the Book of Enoch was not written by Enoch around 3000 to 2500 BC but by a pretender around 300 BC. So how, if the writer of the Book of Enoch was born a few hundred years BC, would he have known that the emergence of these things happened in 3000 or thereabouts BC? Face painting, idol making, magic arts, divination, writing, weaponry such as maces, alloys using copper and antimony, warfare, worship of angels and demons and demi-gods (half human, half god - or half human, half angel), sorcery, etc. These appear in archaeology of the time. How would he know it appeared first in the Hermon area and spread out from there throughout the next few hundred years? How would he know it happened just before the time of the Flood recorded in the Sumerian King List? How would he know there were seven kings up to the time of Enoch starting with Adam (Alulim)?