Recognise the evidence

It is sensible, so they say, to know your enemy. Those who defy God and attack His prophets and other servants should try to find out what they can about the One they are deriding because Vengeance is His name, not only on His own behalf but on behalf of His servants the prophets. If atheists who attack God and His servants learn who they have made their enemy they might decide to stop being silly and seek peace before it is too late. A cross makes it possible to be put right if they trust the mediator sent by God, God’s Son. In the mean time sit back and watch, those who rail and say “where is evidence?“ God shows Himself mighty on behalf of His servants and children. Do not mistake His mercy for weakness.

The Kingdom of Heaven: an invisible superpower on your doorstep.

The Kingdom of Heaven: an invisible superpower on your doorstep.

Alive today

You need to believe in the one who gave the world the Good Samaritan phrase. You need to hold to that phrase and the others like it. Then the truth will set you free from your dishonest ways. This one will set you free.  I encountered one who I have every reason to believe is this one. The one who introduced me to him gave me every reason to believe it is this one who gave the world the Good Samaritan teaching. These do, I’m convinced, live today. Forever. You need to believe in these and hold to their teaching. To anyone who lies in whatever ways: You each need this or you’re going to be in serious trouble with the one I encountered who gave the world the Good Samaritan teaching.

Your need

You need to believe in the one who gave the world the Good Samaritan phrase. You need to hold to that phrase and the others like it. Then the truth will set you free from your dishonest ways. This one will set you free. 

The fall of angels

The fall of angels. What if it is happening, as prophesied? Who will they influence? My guess is Big Pharma. 

2020

You might happily break some silly rules, like not really reading those terms before clicking the box to say you did. But I bet you wash your hands and wear a mask when WHO is watching you. A kind of innocent recklessness doesn’t do what it is told by WHO. Such recklessness costs lives, they say. If it really does, then too many lives and you incur a severe penalty. Too few and you save yourself. But washing your hands a lot is just hypocrisy. The real problem is cruelty. WHO would be guilty of cruelty? Mmm.

God appeared to Solomon

It was obedience that led to God appearing to Solomon. Solomon had completed the main task God gave him of building the Temple. That was Solomon’s obedience. The sacrifices were the consecration of that Temple. If you seriously want God to appear to you or come to you as a fellow, you need to learn to lovingly obey His Son. I found this to be true having prayed for God’s appearing to me, praying on and off through thirty years since childhood, but it was only when I read in John 14 about obedience to Jesus being necessary and set about that duty, that then God did appear to me like He did to Solomon, and not only God but the Son of God and Holy Spirit too, just as I had prayed. Interestingly it was just a while after the Holy Spirit told me “Build the temple” and I had started to preach to obey this command. God has His ways and His will.

How reliable are the scriptures for finding life in Jesus?

How reliable are the scriptures for finding life in Jesus? I would tend to rely on scriptures overall but be mindful that any individual verse might have translation errors. It is possible to read them with both of these in tension. I guess historians acquire the skill more than the rest of us when reading translated texts. Some scriptures are not even available in the original languages. Taking to heart what is the gist of a passage is good but if a particular verse is important to your understanding, best to research it a bit. I offer my contribution in this matter by saying that my overall understanding of John’s gospel led me into actual meetings first hand with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit as those passages said Jesus promised so the English translation must be pretty good. I did try cross referring to the Greek using an interlinear a lot but the overall meaning in most English translations of passages such as John chapter 14 is good enough. Now when it comes to obeying the commands of Jesus we have to be careful and research them fairly well or it could be dangerous. If we misunderstand them or use a poor translation and then go and try to obey it on that basis, that could be disastrous. Once sure of the meaning, obeying is how to show love for Him and His promise ensues. How reliable are the scriptures for finding life in Jesus? I would tend to rely on scriptures overall but be mindful that any individual verse might have translation errors. It is possible to read them with both of these in tension. I guess historians acquire the skill more than the rest of us when reading translated texts. Some scriptures are not even available in the original languages. Taking to heart what is the gist of a passage is good but if a particular verse is important to your understanding, best to research it a bit. I offer my contribution in this matter by saying that my overall understanding of John’s gospel led me into actual meetings first hand with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit as those passages said Jesus promised so the English translation must be pretty good. I did try cross referring to the Greek using an interlinear a lot but the overall meaning in most English translations of passages such as John chapter 14 is good enough. Now when it comes to obeying the commands of Jesus we have to be careful and research them fairly well or it could be dangerous. If we misunderstand them or use a poor translation and then go and try to obey it on that basis, that could be disastrous. Once sure of the meaning, obeying is how to show love for Him and His promise ensues.  I tend to think it best to hold onto the sayings even when it isn’t clear what they mean or how to obey them, until it becomes clear. For example for years I pondered what “keep your lamps trim and burning brightly” means in practical terms. Clearly nothing to do with actual lamps. Now writing all this it makes sense. I must keep my words clear and in tune with His teachings. That takes discipline and effort. But getting lax and fuzzy is not what He wants from me. So as you serve, you learn. Obeying in what you have already as much as you find you can do so, and getting ever ready to do more as becomes possible later, that is acceptable to Him. That is love for Him. He rewards it with visits, fellowship, and with blessings from the Holy Spirit, eventually when the time is acceptable to God the Father. Fellowship from the Father too.

Time perspective of Jesus

The time perspective of Jesus is huge. He is. This is where that present tense is used to say something is now, is ages ago, is ages to come. I think some languages have a special tense for it. Not English unfortunately.

Slave to the Ultimate Master

I love being a slave to Jesus, who is indeed the ultimate Master. By having Jesus as master, nobody else can claim me as their slave. Yet slavery to Jesus means freedom, ultimately from the death sentence of ethical downfall. How foolish to fall slave to lying and hating just from fear of belief and courage.

A faithless predicament

A faithless, blameful death is to be feared. That is why, in times before being fully assured of faith, I was afraid to find I did not have a worthy faith. The realisation pulled the ground from under me. It had to dash home from overseas fearing I’d have a nervous breakdown. Years later I realised believing and following Jesus was the way out of this predicament. It led me to the assurance from God Himself that created real faith within me. Faith created by God. Beliefs about the Son of God fathered by God the Father Himself.

Fathered by God

You are fathered by God when the beliefs you have about the Son of God are created within your heart by the Father. So the Father makes occasional checks on these beliefs like a baker checks the progress of a cake cooking in an oven. 

The Son of Man in the Book of Enoch

With regard to the Son of Man seen so often in the Book of Enoch and believed to be there in the versions of the book known to Jesus, who identifies with the Son of Man teaching, why ‘the Son of Man’? The parallel with the Book of Daniel chapter 7 passage on “one like a man” is clearly important to understanding the title. Likewise the reference back to a similar passage about this man in Daniel chapter 10 from a passage by John in Revelation chapter 1 describing Jesus is more important still, bringing into the picture the humanness of Jesus, the Christ Himself. Yet Enoch parallels Revelation in importance because to be called Son of Man is more precise than Daniel’s passage and mirrors John’s Revelation contribution to the understanding of this person because even angels are described like men in the Book of Daniel but describing a being as LIKE a man is not as precise as describing the being as the Son of Man. If Jesus merely became a man it would not be saying as much about that humanity as when scripture, by calling Him ‘the Son of Man’ says this person humbled Himself to actually be a child of humans taking cellular form and embryo and foetus form growing in a womb and being born from that woman’s womb, growing up as a child of human parents. Adam was called Man, yet did not live as a Son of Man because as a direct creation he had no earthly parents, whereas the Christ would be born as a Son of Man, as humble and fully human as we are, yet having existed as the Son of Man mysteriously in Enoch’s time of ascension into Heaven. So this utter humanity (yet without sin and fully the son of God) is what the righteous humans need to help them cope with life in this world and eternally continue as children of God, and what every human needs in a mediator with God the Father.

Soundness of mind

If people spend a long time wanting to know about something important but unable to find out reliably (such as the well-being of a distant loved one or the success or failure in an exam), especially if the mind is weakened by isolation or illness or fear, it is easy for involuntary thoughts to take the place of that missing knowledge. With a weak mind that might turn into delusion. That might be why we place such importance on social interaction, churches, government agencies, media and families to help us stay sound in our minds and opinions. “Be careful that the light within you is not darkness.” Our natural tendencies are not the thing to live by, because left unchecked it can lead to sometimes deadly errors.

Hope even for the unsound mind

It takes a sound mind to reason so some are unable to be reasoned with. So if reasoning were the only way then there would be no hope for those with unsound mind. But there is bit more hope because there is the effect down through time, rippling out from the crucifixion of the Christ for every one of us.

The Nietzsche Nightmare

Having probably caused both WW2 and the Cold War, and foresighted awareness of it possibly leading to his madness and suicide, Nietzsche knew full well about gazing into the abyss and the angel of the abyss seized the opportunity. So yes, prewar Germany fought the nightmare of imperialist religiosity and defeated the pseudo-faith of the enlightenment sorcerers making the masses believe atheism had triumphed but every action has a reaction and the alternatives became a worse nightmare with first Communist atheism, then Nazi atheism then both waging war on nominally religious imperialism and on each other to find the overlording master ideology, but imperialism came back like a boomerang and mastered the West, leaving just the Far East outside its imperial reach. The real war is the attempt to escape the clutches of religious imperialism. Brexit shows the peaceful way - just walk out.

Stochastics and Soul

It might be that free will and soul and spirit can be detected scientifically as being beyond the laws of physics. If you sum many different possibly physics-consistent stochastic equations with many ranges of Eigen vectors and Eigen values and reality matches a field of all possible values it might be feasible that reality is devoid of wills. If reality does not fit such possible results then will might actually exist, and therefore soul. Possibly spirit too. I think we discern spirit because inwardly our brains do all that maths to work out the physical nature of our environment and when something is outside the normal range we discern it is spiritual. Such as with dreams. We can guess all the normal kinds of dreams we might dream, by extrapolation and interpolation and intelligently summing possibilities, then we recognise a more cognisant externally inspired dream, perhaps by clarity of a prediction within it and this prediction coming true, for which stochastic models could not possibly allow. Stochastics by nature only takes the recent state and predicts the imminent. Nothing beyond the imminent is predicable by known maths. If it were the insurance industry would be far richer, as would bookkeepers. Spirit can predict it.

Einstein used Brownian motion as use case for his calculus and that calculus is normally used for things like predicting share prices, insurance premiums, etc. Black Scholes is the usual further development of the calculus used for these. Stochastic modelling. So human behaviour is no different. It has a random element and a vector (direction and speed) based on most recent data and a variation component. My memory is a bit rusty so I might have the details wrong. But it is usual to extend such calculus and partial differentials to cater for biological processes such as behaviour, population modelling, force field analysis, etc. No problem using it for looking at predictable behaviour of all kinds except when the system is very volatile. Then you compare predicted behaviour with actual behaviour. The harder part is modelling based on physical laws. That is alright to land a probe on Jupiter but not so good with modelling a disease or pandemic or betting on a race. But not impossible. So why isn’t it being done, with high profile? Perhaps fear of discovering God, soul, free will.

So take a set of laws affecting humans, such as tendency to stay stood upright and the mechanics involved in that. Add a random factor plus preconditions at time immediately before monitoring. Write an calculus equation (partial differentials) to predict very next movement based on these factors. Observe actual next movement in many cases. Adjust the equation to see that randomness is correct and orders of magnitude of forces affecting outcome are correct. Then wait and monitor occasions when actual movement exceeds expected. This is the kind of thing along with machine learning, neural networks, they probably use to monitor people in smart systems, so the maths must exist. Investigate anomalies to see whether physical laws plus randomness alone explain observed movements. If not, look into it further. Was there free will involved? Spiritual effects? Evidence of soul?

If you look at micro level. Macro effects like social ones have too many unknowns. Start with what is supposedly fully understood. Movement is a good fit with the maths. Lots of the factors of movement are known well such as energy availability in form of muscle phosphorus content which can be monitored using a scanner (CAT, NMR). Movement is physically limited to phosphorus I think. ATP, etc. Impulses into muscles can only come in finite ways. These could be monitored and modelled. Physics and chemistry account well for movement and topological freedoms of movement. Movement is well analysed philosophically and metaphysically too. So it should be predictable at microscopic level and it should be subject to only finite physical laws and the randomness should be knowable too. I know that the God series presented by Morgan Freeman mentioned similar studies in brain activity of meditation as example of scientific study of theology.

Spirit and life

Living without help to stay out of trouble is like a released convict living without a probation officer. There is a huge risk of offending or reoffending resulting in a possible harsh sentence. Ultimately, taking justice beyond the justice systems and social vengeance also into account, it might mean death. And religion says this all extends beyond death too, where further justice applies. So people need more than just guiding, they need saving. We each need a Saviour. The extent of saving power is not a matter of religious system or culture or heritage but it extends beyond these things just like natural laws of nature. It is spirit. Spirit keeps people on track. Jesus said His words are spirit and are life. Jesus’ words like all of the Spirit given in His name provides a guide but more than just a guide, a liberation, leading into liberating truth. Liberating and saving from ways of judgement and death.

What do we mean by ‘God’?

Really the concept of God is a matter of history. It requires context. Even children learn the concept of God, learning it from society as they grow up so it is not too complicated to learn, but they learn it for their context. It is harder to generalise it universally. There are several components to the ancient world concept of God. The context of that world changed, though. It became more polytheistic, judging from Hebrew and Sumerian scriptures, including the Book of Enoch, and extant texts. Initially it meant the topmost being. Only one Father is father of all beings and Lord of all and maker of all and highest over all. Topmost Creator. The tree-like status hierarchy of all beings has just one at the top. (Note that later in the time of Christ Jesus, the Son called God His own God, the Father. So the Christ declared one greater than Himself who gave Him His existence.) Top of hierarchy is singular. God is the One God. None other besides is God the way the Father is God. The matter of blessedness of this topmost being is important. Praised by many as such. This too is singular. Only one Father deserves all praise because He of all beings is so praiseworthy. God is the one who answers prayers and saves those who trust in Him and call on Him. Eternal might is also implied. God will remain God forever, always able to save. Lastly, everyone will acknowledge God as topmost God and only God, as all other gods are recognised as subject or submissive to Him and recognised as those required to worship Him. This is not an exhaustive description but it attempts to capture the essence of what the ancients and the scripture writers meant by God and what God Himself means by God. Into this context we find there is one special other being sharing many such characteristics but not God, rather the Son of God. The Christ. God plans to share eternity in this Son’s company but also in the company of many righteous children brought to God through this Christ.

Book of Enoch chapter 105:

“In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.”

Heaven?

The Book of Enoch description of the place where Enoch saw God is like the geological phenomena of crystal caves within mountains, an example of which is found in Naica, New Mexico. Yet one detail is puzzling. The description tells of the ceiling of the cave being like the path of the stars in the heavens. It occurs to me that another geological structure might be involved, in addition to the crystal cave. A transform fault running deep into the mountain. This could manifest as a slit going from the cave up to the surface. Archaeology and geography of one region fits with the description and with other ancient sources about a mountain cave abode of the supreme God, that of the Lebanon and Hermon mountain ranges through Lebanon. It matches accounts from sources such as the Epic of Gilgamesh about the Cedar Forest associated with God’s habitation. It runs South even towards Jerusalem too via the Jordan valley. It runs on further into the Red Sea and then the Rift Valley. It is such a fault. Light from the stars might somewhere in the mountain ranges of Lebanon penetrate down to deep mountain caves. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Transform  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transform_fault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals ) 

The Christ

The Christ is distinct from God. He is very similar, being in the image of God and without sin and from everlasting to everlasting. Yet God has made Him distinct, just as we too are distinct. It is the Father who is God and there is no other who is God. The Christ is the Son of God. Now the Christ is manifested as flesh and bone, it is clearer why He is called the Son of Man, but He was called this before becoming flesh too. God is not flesh.

Trinity confusion

The Trinity confusion might stem from the way it is expressed about the mystery of how Christ’s history came about, from His origin from God (step 1), through to His being given life in Himself, through to His existence in Heaven before becoming flesh, through to His becoming flesh. That first step (I labelled it step 1) is possibly what gets misunderstood or misrepresented. John 1 expresses it as past tense. Many Trinity dogma adherents express it as present tense and so falsify it.

To be a child of God

Christ could work closely with God, and still can, by faith. His utter belief in God’s love for Him along with knowledge of God’s power enabled Him to do what He did rather than being any different from any other human like ourselves. Ignorance of this can make people mistakenly think Jesus was not made fully human but is somehow God in a bodily form. God gave Jesus life to have as the Son of God distinct from God Himself. Then this life became human flesh. So Jesus is both Son of God and human like us, Son of Man. God is in Him and He in God in just the same way God is in those who confess all this and they in God. So there are many sons of God. A son of God is not to be called God. Neither is Jesus to be called God. Jesus calls the Father His God. We can only hope to have this Father as our God too and our Father too through Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. Believing all this, that is the first step in discipleship leading to permanently becoming a child of God and being freed from the kind of compulsive wrongdoing which can get a person into serious trouble and even lead to deadly results. The next step is to take on board the teachings of Jesus about how to behave rightly. Holding to these teachings is what makes a disciple. The promise of Jesus is that this disciple will know the truth and be set free from the wrongdoing by the freedom which comes from this truth. So stop that wrongdoing where possible. Learn to believe in these things and that Jesus is, that His existence is from before the world began. Believe that His living existence will be forever. Believe that He is the one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Then hold to His teachings to truly be His disciple. Then, and only then, you will know the truth and be free to cease wrongdoing and live forever as a child of God.

The Book of Enoch

Through the Book of Enoch, God catches the wise in their craftiness. Do not underestimate it. God keeps something hidden for that purpose. When Jesus warned the Sadducees they were in error for not knowing the scriptures it was the Book of Enoch He was pointing to. Only this book of scripture tells about angels not being allowed to marry, which was what answered the Sadducees’ trick question. Jude knew Jesus well enough to know He would approve of Jude quoting it. At that time it was one of the most popular scriptures in circulation, as the Dead Sea Scrolls now show. It was addressed to our generation so no coincidence it has resurfaced after centuries lost to the West. It is like an auditor’s check sum to shine light on church doctrines.

The Person of Christ

Much truth hinges on knowing the way the power of God works together with a believer. Ignorance of this can lead to misconceptions about who Christ is. Christ could work closely with God, and still can, by faith. His utter belief in God’s love for Him along with knowledge of God’s power enabled Him to do what He did rather than being any different from any other human like ourselves. Ignorance of this can make people mistakenly think Jesus was not made fully human but is somehow God in a bodily form. God gave Jesus life to have as the Son of God distinct from God Himself. Then this life became human flesh. So Jesus is both Son of God and human like us, Son of Man. God is in Him and He in God in just the same way God is in those who confess all this and they in God. So there are many sons of God. A son of God is not to be called God. Neither is Jesus to be called God. Jesus calls the Father His God. We can only hope to have this Father as our God too and our Father too through Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God.

Misrepresented truth

Misrepresenting truth but telling it as truth is more damaging and wicked than outright lies. Outright lies are guarded against and tested as fake. Truths distorted to hide real truth are more damaging because they are like a Trojan horse and are accepted into holy places and yet the receivers of them think they have truth and so do not seek it, plus they reject real truth when they hear it because it differs subtly from what they already received as truth. Thus they stay ignorant and enslaved but are very difficult to set free. Antichrist knows this full well.

The Son

Only the Father IS God. The Word WAS God in the beginning but the Father gave the Son life of His own: Life in himself.

Jesus has life in Himself

https://biblehub.com/text/john/5-26.htm
 Jesus is not God. Jesus has life in Himself. He said so. The Father gave Him this.

Do you want to know the truth about Jesus?

Do you want to know the truth about Jesus? Do what Jesus said to do in John 8. Stop sinning. Believe that He is. Believe that His existence is from before the world began. Believe that He existence will be forever. Believe that He is the one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Then hold to His teachings to truly be His disciple. Then, and only then, you will know the truth.

Evolution or Creation looking the same from the fossil evidence

If a being is created, precedence can be used to create that being using existing beings as a template. There might be subtle variations each time it happens. An almost extant record of such an event is found in the early texts of the Epic of Gilgamesh with the creation of Enkidu, a wild man created to subdue the roguish Gilgamesh. Each creation can therefore improve on or modify the previous one to better fit the current environment. In effect this kind of creating will leave all the same fossil evidence as if there were macro-Evolution taking place. 

The Cross

The cross has great, ancient meaning, before the Christ was crucified. That is why it is so prevalent in medicine too. In most ancient times the cross (‘MASH’) meant a sacrifice opening the way to the gods giving revelations to humans. Christ’s crucifixion opened the way for God to give the Holy Spirit to those who believe and receive Christ and His teachings, holding to them. This Holy Spirit wells up within them and leads into all truth. This truth sets free from the sinful ways that lead to death. This Spirit therefore gives life. Abundant life. All purchased by that cross of Christ.

Trust and Obey

Meeting the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and receiving a teaching from them and a commission gives my life meaning, purpose. It starts with faith and obedience. Initially that obedience is to the teachings of Jesus and truth of Jesus in scriptures but when the Holy Spirit gives vision from heaven it must include obedience to this too. The outcome of meeting the Father and Son and Holy Spirit proves these scriptures are a true enough record of the teachings of Jesus that they can lead to this outcome once obeyed. Translation issues come to light but the tenets are sound enough to start things off and the Lord fills the gaps and makes essential corrections. His grace is sufficient.

Scriptures

A chief value of religion is its preservation of scriptures. When I personally found God and Christ and the Holy Spirit the words of Jesus in John’s gospel helped when I found Jesus is indeed a doorway to God. The man whose existence and proximity to a disciple and also to God makes Him the one door. The mediator. Discovering this truth personally is helped by the scriptures of John and Paul because they confirm in words what I find in reality. They prove what I discern. My reality in turn confirms to me the truth of these scripture writers’ testimonies.

I am He

“I am He”. Jesus was explaining to men that He is the One mediator between God and man. That unless they believe this, they will die in their sins. He was explaining that before Abraham was born He exists. His existence as mediator covers all time, is from everlasting past to everlasting future.

The real meaning of Christ

By zealously insisting that Jesus’ use of the phrase recorded in John’s gospel “I am ...”, insisting it is tied to Trinitarian ideas that He declared Himself Yahweh people are in danger of missing what Jesus actually said and meant. Don’t mess with this. John’s gospel, such as chapter 8, provides a document of the terms of covenant which is the basis for your eventual salvation (if you ever listen well enough to receive it instead of merely looking for Trinitarian support verses). See the end of John’s gospel where he writes about the reason for the gospel, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ. By “I am He” Jesus meant “I am the Christ”, “I am the Son of Man”, “I am the Son”. There are many such “I am ...” sayings of Jesus recorded in this gospel and they all amount to the same thing, building up a description of what it means that He is the Christ. It is essential to not only assent to calling Him the Christ but to believe what it is that He is. Remember He said that unless you believe He is this one, you will die in your sins.

Two new commandments

The Christ effectively added two more commandments to the Ten Commandments. 1. To live by the truth revealed by His appearing in history. 2. To recognise how He loved His disciples (and does so still) and imitate that love towards His disciples too.
These are not entirely new commandments but are extensions of the existing ten, extended to include the event of His coming in history and His impact on people then and now.

Trinity ideas and the KJV

I always thought the KJV was quite a good Bible translation but look at Titus 2:13 to see how it and so many other Bible translations distort the original meaning to push the Hellenistic Roman ‘Trinity’ idea of Christ being God. The original Greek means “Jesus Christ is the blessed hope and is the appearing of the glory of the great God and is the Saviour of us.” (Literally translated it reads “the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and Saviour of us, Christ Jesus”. See https://biblehub.com/text/titus/2-12.htm). Yet the mainstream translations twist it to make it say Jesus Christ is the great God, rather than the appearing of the glory of the great God. https://biblehub.com/titus/2-13.htm

Absolute Truth

Truth is made in heaven. Truth is against the nature of mankind. All Cretans are liars, said the Cretan. Yet the Cretan was the prophet of Zeus and so was able to tell the truth by prophecy. Truth starts in heaven where truth is still the regime. It comes to humans chiefly by the power of the message that Christ died for us. This is how we know the truth of God. Then the power of heaven can make us truthful. Then it’s up to us to persist that truthfulness by making it habit. This breaks the cursed cycle of lies. Once the lying is broken the truth can be known and since its source is heavenly it can be pragmatically absolute, a phenomenon of real religion.

Difficult words

Picture a child faced with a word like Saviour and the concept of Jesus being able to save them from what bad deeds they might otherwise do in life. I remember the difficulty growing up in a church environment hearing words like Saviour and singing the word in hymns, it was so frustrating not understanding the words but being expected to just go along with whatever they meant despite not knowing what they meant. Some end up as adults still not understanding. Yet I also had dreams in which I learned how Jesus can and does save me from dire situations, especially when I was in trouble on His behalf for standing up in support of His veracity. So I did know Him as my Saviour even before I knew this by that word. Now I realise how saving me during troubles is all part of how He saves me from committing sins which could render my life forfeit, and saving me from having to take matters into my own hands. So this leads to a dynamic peace in which to live for Him, which is what His way is all about. Just a pity the English language doesn’t have easier ways of expressing it so a child can understand. Yet heaven filled that gap once I started to believe in Jesus. Today I know it as by His crucifixion, dying to sin in order to live to Him.

Not in His own name

If the Son of Man came in His own name, what glory would that be? It is His glory that He comes in Yahweh, His Father’s name and the glory is that it is not His own name. So the glory of the Father is seen in Him. Rejecting this truth blinds a person to seeing the glory of Yahweh in the face of the Son. 

Your God

People look for a better option than 911. Very sensible. Especially if a pandemic ever destroyed the health services. For a better option than 911 you need an entity to call on who hears such calls, loves you enough to answer, powerful enough to help. Enter the human, Christ Jesus, always heard by the Father, crucified out of love the Father has for us, raised from the dead by the power of the Father to save. And in His name the Father sends believers the Holy Spirit, working miracles among those who believe His message. This Father is God. Make Him your God.

Son of Man

The Book of Enoch repeatedly teaches us about the Son of Man. Jesus repeatedly called Himself the Son of Man. The Book of Daniel chapter 7 links the Son of Man with the Book of Enoch. It describes the Son of Man just the same way Enoch did using such similar words and concepts that they could not be coincidence. Revelation chapter 1 links Jesus with the Son of Man in the Book of Daniel chapter 10. It describes Jesus just the same way Daniel described the Son of Man using such similar words and concepts that they could not be coincidence. So this Son of Man is the same in all three scriptures and is Jesus. So what is so important about the term Son of Man applied to Jesus? Jesus’ own teachings tell how the reason God gives Him authority to judge is because He is the Son of Man. In scriptures we see God makes His teachings targeted at all of us no matter what stage we are in life. God takes this to the ultimate degree by targeting the very beginning of human life. So He made His Son start from the very beginning of what it is to be the tiniest stage of human life and grow from there to bring God’s teaching to all making it relevant and fit for the tiniest human to the greatest. For this Jesus became what a son of man is. A cell growing to an foetus to a baby to a child to an adult. So God can put everything into Jesus that He wants to give for the benefit of humans. All authority, all of the Holy Spirit, all of His glory, all of His life, even the life force authority to raise the dead. All because Jesus is the Son of Man. But Jesus had to be human unto death. Yet also human unto resurrection from the dead. And now Lord to fill the universe with His authority and glory. Do you believe all this? You need to believe it.

Still human

Jesus, the Son of God is still human, hence He will still be called the Son of Man even when He manifests Himself soon. “Men will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven.” He can act as spirit though, reaching out from the throne of God to a believer to strengthen them, as He did with Paul, coming and standing at Paul’s side in the night. He did it even to me a couple of times. Others testify to it too. He can reach out by ‘His angel’. He entered the upper room His disciples were meeting in even though the door was locked. Yet He at that time told them “a ghost does not have flesh and bone as you see I have” so He is not a ghost. He is really a unique first being who is raised from the dead and human having been mortal but is now immortal, and He had some angel-human-like existence from before Abraham was born and was before all things yet became flesh. 

Jesus before John but born after John

It is a bit bizarre to me that people think that the only way Jesus could exist before becoming flesh was for there to be a Trinity or for Modalism to be true. Neither is true. Jesus called Himself Son of Man because there were scriptures in His time showing the Son of Man in prophesy having existed centuries beforehand and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus was ‘greater than me because He existed before me’ even though John was born first. Jesus was happy to be regarded as a deity in a loose sense, the sense in which any great, mighty person who judges can be regarded as such but Jesus is not in any sense the God He called the Father. He is not God in that sense. He was not telling anyone to break the first of the Ten Commandments. 

A right spirit

Heritage, birthplace, race. It is not what matters. What matters is spirit. The kind of spirit we each of us has within. We need to discern the spirit within us. We need to have a spirit acknowledging that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Thinking of Jesus wrongly hinders our salvation through Him. He is human. The Father is not human. When Jesus says ‘God is spirit’ He means the Father. When Jesus says ‘a ghost does not have flesh and bone as you see I have’ He means Himself. We each need to check what our inner spirit leads us to think and if it is not like this, then to ask God ‘Renew a right spirit within me’.  We also need to believe that Jesus is ‘before Abraham was born’ for our salvation. It is essential. It is all about pursuing saving faith and a right spirit within.

If it were not so

When Thomas exclaimed “my lord and my god!” Jesus could have said “blessed are you Thomas for you have discovered the Trinity!” But He didn’t. He had already assured them He would not keep from them anything important for them to know “if it were not so I would have told you”. So this would have been a perfect opportunity to tell them about the Trinity. Obviously Jesus knew the Trinity was not so.  So He did not tell them about it.

Misconceptions about the Bible

It is a misconception that the Bible comprehensively describes the faith of Christianity. There are important aspects of this faith which are only very briefly mentioned and only believing itself provides the clarity of what those verses mean to make them unambiguous to the believer. For more comprehensive descriptions of the Christian faith it is necessary to look at books of scripture such as the Book of Enoch excluded from the sixty-six book Bible and included in less known canons such as the Ethiopian Orthodox greater canon and other sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. On certain matters of belief it is necessary to refer to later Christian writings. Indeed much of the modern norm of Christian doctrine is not found in scripture at all. So scripture has only ever provided a springboard and reference for major Christian beliefs. Many believers claim their beliefs come as much from the work of the Holy Spirit among them as they do from the Bible. Of course there are questions as to how much other influences have crafted doctrines, and limits of a sixty-six Book Bible might account for divisions over debated doctrines and dogmas.

Faith is Persuasion

If you are persuaded to trust the veracity of something then you have a belief, but who or what persuaded you? If your persuasion, your faith, is from human argument and reasoning, will you be persuaded later that those arguments were wrong and then have to change your practices based on those persuasions? If your persuasion comes from miracles you have witnessed or which those you trust have witnessed, and from works the Holy Spirit has done in you or those around you, perhaps in church or meditation, then the persuasion is from God and is religious faith. This is more rock steady than faith based on scientific arguments.

Washing our robes in the blood of the Lamb

We consider that His blood absolves us from the guilt of what we sinfully used to do so we do such things no more, once we are sure they are wrong but also sure that the sacrificial covering of His blood is for past sins and sure that to continue wantonly to repeat those sins mocks that sacrifice. Sins we later learn are sinful as time goes on, we set aside too, as and when we recognise them, understanding and believing that the blood pays for the guilt of these as well.

How old is Jesus?

It is extremely remarkable (and therefore hard to believe because it is rare for things to be so remarkable) that Jesus actually is, right now. Even those who believe this because of the resurrection, yet deny the existence Jesus had before conception,  have to concede this means extreme longevity, and never dying or ceasing to exist in the future means such longevity only increases. Personally I find the evidence compelling that Jesus existed an extremely long time even before conception as a being similar to angels yet far more like a human than they are and in a more special sense the Son of God the Father. John the Baptist is recorded in gospel of Apostle John as having said Jesus is greater than him because Jesus existed before him, despite John having been born before Jesus, and Jesus said “Before Abraham was born, I am”. Daniel the prophet saw one exactly matching Apostle John’s Revelation description of Jesus. The Book of Enoch said Enoch went up to the Son of Man and gives descriptions of the Son of Man which match Jesus. The name power and authority over all Nature ascribed to Jesus by the Holy Spirit only makes sense for a person, a being, existing from before the beginning of Nature. Apostolic statements affirm this.

How to follow Jesus

Many teach the way of Jesus and you might know teachers commended to you in some way by miracles and loving care. Teachings of Jesus Himself I find are best suited for me because I don’t really know very much about others who serve Him. Jesus Himself always helped me even when teachers and leaders failed me. You have to find the best teachings of Christ’s way that are available to you. I use the Bible to tell me Jesus’s teachings and this works for me because I have learned gospels such as John’s gospel all my life. Alright so how do we practice these teachings? If it were me (suggesting otherwise would be hypocrisy) I would go through all His teachings and see which are clear enough to me to practice, then keep practicing them, while aiming to bring on board His other teachings and teachings of those He sent (Paul and other apostles and maybe modern teachers we know are ultimately from Him) as soon as I can understand how they apply. All this while holding to the belief that He exists and is always there to help and intercede for us with God and that His blood seals it. Then God does miracles and gives signs by the Holy Spirit in our lives to seal it for us individually and together.

The New Covenant

The Gospel of John chapter 8 is like the terms and conditions for God’s covenant through Christ, while the covenant itself came later - the crucifixion. The woman caught in adultery is like the definition of terms for you and I. The “he who is without sin cast the first stone” is the sample of what Christ, the Son of Man has on offer - able to negotiate a way out even for a convicted felon on death row - on condition they go sin no more and trust His continuing support forever. Details come later - terms are as follows: You believe He exists, then you hold to His way, His rules, His sayings, His teachings. He leads you to truth. Truth sets you free from the sinning that could get you killed, that could lead to a fatal demise. That means lying too. Lying is prime example of what you, I, need freeing from to become a permanent child of God (only kind there is). Then soon after giving this formal statement of intent, the covenant is sealed and put into force by His crucifixion. God shows good faith by the resurrection, a promising turn of events for us all raising our prospects anew as a kind of rebirth coming directly from God Himself, the Father Himself. Now the Holy Spirit has been given us because Jesus took His completed victory back to heaven, to God, mission accomplished. Not bad at all.

Saint Peter’s Dream

The dream of Peter recorded in the Bible, in the Book of Acts, is perhaps the most groundbreaking scripture of all scriptures. It happened in the first stages of the spread of Christianity, not long after the crucifixion and resurrection and ascension of Christ and initial growth of the church before it spread to include Romans or Greeks. Peter would possibly never have preached to Romans or Greeks directly or allowed the church to include such people if it had not been for this dream. It was while he was praying that he fell into a kind of trance sleep and saw a vision. Now move forward two thousand years to today when Christians tend to insist no dream can ever change Christian doctrine or add anything to Christian mainstream beliefs and teachings which is contrary to what is found in scripture. Yet this ignores the dream of Peter. He saw in his vision dream a cloth full of unclean animals the eating of which is explicitly forbidden in scripture. Yet despite the scriptures and in direct contradiction to them, Peter was told by the vision from Heaven to “kill and eat” these animals. In spite of his protests the heavenly vision told him not to regard as unclean what God called clean. Peter accepted it. Yes Peter always tested visions so as never to be deceived by misleading spiritual experiences, and taught doing so. Yet Peter did not use scripture to rule out accepting this vision or reject it as phoney. He accepted it as coming from God and accepted that God may overturn scripture. Wow! Eat that!

Mediation

The idea of living nowadays by the Torah, the Old Testament Law, is not understood by those who teach it. The Law imposed a slavery system on Israelites by requiring the execution of family members or even entire villages who stopped worshipping God and starting worshipping gods of other nations instead. This harshness is little known even though it is hidden away in the Old Testament. The answer was the coming of a mediator who would stand between humans and the Father who commanded this harsh imposition of Law. The alternative these days is to imply there is a distinction between the God seen in the Law and the Father worshipped in Christianity. That is not the way Christ taught. Rather we can acknowledge this God is the Father and is one throughout history but the mediation of Christ mitigates this harsh scenario by providing a once-and-for-all crucifixion sacrifice of His blood and pleading for mercy on our behalf, just as is recorded in the beginning of John chapter 8 regarding the way Jesus mediated for a woman about to be legally stoned for adultery according to the harsh Law, the Torah. He is alive forever now to continually mediate this way, setting before God the sacrifice He has made by God’s loving will.

Inaccurate Doctrine

Saying Jesus is God is a prevalent religious tendency these days but God is the Father and is not human. Jesus existed before coming in the flesh. He was even a kind of human, hence called the Son of Man. Becoming flesh did not mean He had not already been a kind of human; angelic but human as distinct from other angels. His preexistence was called Son of Man. That is what He meant in John 8 and 9. So insisting Jesus is God is too inaccurate and prone to misinterpretation.

How reliable are the gospels?

How reliable are the gospels, since they are by far the greatest source of information about Jesus’ ministry in the first century? That depends what kind of person you are, whether you take them on trust, because those who do so find the promises within them are fulfilled in their lives, which proves for these people the gospels’ veracity. Believing in the veracity means believing in the Christ. Believing the Christ leads to understanding that these gospel writers influenced by Christ were influenced to hate lies and lying and learned veracity of word, which in turn would mean they would write truthful accounts about their trusted Master. Those who trust the gospels discover their trustworthiness. 

The Ultimate Reputation

Underpinning natural entities there is authority. This powerful authority is determined by a name, a reputation, the essence of a person. It is not merely a set of physical laws. It is a person whose very essence has power to underpin and drive all natural entities, right back to the beginning of all things. The name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But is this ‘name’ all about power of reliability of reputation or is it the teaching and what He stands for; or is it what He is good for, His credibility? What is the primary meaning of ‘name of the Lord Jesus Christ’? It is important to know because it is by this name that we are saved.

A name authorises. It backs promises. It sometimes empowers such as when it motivates students to learn from a good teacher because of that teacher’s name. A good family name can motivate a marriage.

Now thinking of those first disciples who followed Jesus around, watching His actions, hearing His sayings, sharing His food and even places He stayed in sometimes, saw His crucifixion and saw Him resurrected - they were learning one thing - His entire name. The Holy Spirit took them further as they later learned what He represents in Heaven among angels and next to the Father, learning that all creation is held together by His name, His teachings, His word of power.

The English concept of name is usually thought of in church circles as a monicker identifying and differentiating someone. However, the eastern or ancient concept is as much about Nomos as about name monicker. Nomos is an eastern concept of the teachings and customs and rules by which a family lives and is known. I think that is the concept in the Hebrew Hashem. Reputation and fame of God, not just monicker used for identification and differentiation.

You only get a decent, resolved, sensible picture of Jesus when you learn to trust in His reputation and fame (His name) as you consider any particular aspect of His life and teachings.

Islam and Christianity compared

In Jesus terms in Christianity (and my understanding of them which feels inadequate) my behaviour is matching the description ‘wicked’ not ‘righteous’. I hold to His teachings, while ever trying to kerb that wickedness, in hope He will make me righteous and keep me righteous. But that wicked lack of righteous behaviour needs paying for and His blood on the cross, His death on the cross pays for that. Islam offers some of this information about this way of salvation but leaves out how that payment by the cross has happened. So it leaves you feeling something is missing. 

The Way of Salvation

In Jesus terms  (and my understanding of them which feels inadequate) my behaviour is matching the description ‘wicked’ not ‘righteous’. I hold to His teachings, while ever trying to kerb that wickedness, in hope He will make me righteous and keep me righteous. But that wicked lack of righteous behaviour needs paying for and His blood on the cross, His death on the cross pays for that.

Authority versus Ego

It cuts across our ego and self-interests to be told someone outranks us in authority. Nobody would invent such outranking. It must exist. Lord Jesus Christ is an authority. He exists. No one’s ego would let a person invent Him.

The Cross turns lives pure

The cross turns people’s lives pure by paying for their impure past and persuading them to do better with help from the ever-living one who died on it and rose.

Fulfilling the Law

Not many people can erase a person’s poor ethical rating then persuade them to do better and help them achieve an acceptable rating permanently. That is how Jesus fulfils the Law and Prophets. 

Being Human

My philosophy? Being human. Human plus. I look at Jesus Christ in the gospels and I see a man very similar to any human in behaviour, mannerisms, human condition, yet not falling short ethically. This is the ultimate any of us can be. Son of Man. He only walked on water when God gave the ability and only because of faith and because of God’s love. The truth is this Jesus is not so different from God so although God is not human and Jesus is human, human is cool with God. So I cannot beat being human. Lucky since that is what I am. So I am almost there; almost at the pinnacle of what life can be: the ultimate. God will not despise it so why should anyone else. I just have to focus on that failing ethically I tend to do and that is where Jesus comes into the picture, and stays there perpetually, eternally. Thank God. 

Lake of Fire Judgements

Comparing the Book of Enoch and the Apocalypse of John (Book of Revelation) we find several future uses of lakes of fire for judgement and doing away with grievous offenders. First Enoch tells us about angels who oversee persecutions of Israel, twelve angels in particular. These are thrown into a special lake of fire in one place on Earth. Then a second lake of fire will appear (which is figuratively called Gehenna in some teachings). Enoch and the Apocalypse each describe how judgment will be passed to sentence people to this lake of fire. Enoch tells us it will be by whether people have spiritual sight or not. Those who don’t (“blind sheep’ as the prophecy puts it) will be done away with in the fire. The Apocalypse of John has the Son of Man’s description of this, the one who will exercise this judgement, and a key factor to determine this fate is the 666 ‘mark of the Beast’ as it is known. Comparing these two descriptions it seems plausible to me that the mark is a test of spiritual sight. Those who are spiritual blind (even though religious’sheep’) will receive the mark but not those who are righteous and whose spiritual eyes are open and alert and discerning enough will refuse it even though threatened by the Beast system with death. So the eyes opened sheep will escape this lake of fire. In the gospels there is further clarification saying that spiritual ‘goats’ are distinguished from ‘sheep’ by how they ignore the needs of disciples of the Son of Man and these goats too will suffer the lake of fire (“weeping and gnashing of teeth”). The last lake of fire judgement is mostly described in the Apocalypse of John (but alluded to in the Book of Enoch) when after a thousand years of Christ’s rule all the dead and living people who were characterised in life by deeds of lying, murder, idol worship, druggery, and other such acts are cast into the lake of fire too. There is much description in the Book of Enoch of how the sighted spiritual sheep and other sighted spiritual ones who are not judged so severely are going to gather willingly to God’s house and have fellowship with God and His Son forever. 

Creationism

Underpinning natural entities there is authority. This powerful authority is determined by a name, a reputation, the essence of a person. It is not merely a set of physical laws, like the Standard Model. It is a person whose very essence has power to underpin and drive all natural entities, right back to the beginning of all things. At the beginning and before all natural entities this person existed and was produced from the essence of another person, His Father. We call the Father God and we call the person whose name is the power driving natural things the Son of God.

Evaluating Jesus

It does take time (in my case decades) to assess Jesus’ reliability to be trusted with your future. Is Jesus wise enough to save you? Does Jesus truly have God’s ear? It all takes time like evaluating a new product except here it is so personal and utterly vital. Eternal. So give it time but speed it along.

The Right to Bear Arms

In Gethsemane Jesus did not swing a sword but accomplished more than any other person in history as a result. Perhaps that was the point of telling the disciples to carry swords then telling them to cease using them. Jesus was acting agent for God so what Jesus achieved was achieved on behalf of the Father, God. After telling the disciples to carry swords, Jesus then told the police to let the disciples go since Jesus was the one they sought. This ensured there were disciples alive to witness the crucifixion and carry that news around the World. These later witnessed the resurrection of Jesus too, proving Jesus is the Christ chosen by God to save us.

Comforter

There is a spirit who speaks with an absence of hatred, absence of malice, absence of vice, absence of opposition to God. That is why He is called the Holy Spirit. 

The Case for Religion

ATHEISTS DEMAND THAT THE RELIGIOUS PROVE THEIR CASE

The religious prove their case but atheists don’t like the proof. Take Jesus’ words in John’s gospel, all those promises are fulfilled if you believe Jesus is Christ and adhere to the commands given in this gospel, so when you see the promises fulfilled you know the gospel is a faithful account and Jesus Christ died for you. It is reproducible proof on which you can depend. But atheists don’t like it that reproducing it requires adherence, which is too big a price to pay, they feel.

The case for atheism, on the other hand, is fundamentally flawed; “I think therefore I am” is subjective nonsense and makes science self-referentially incoherent. Religion is merely an absence of atheism. If atheism is nonsense, that alone is enough of a case for religion. 

Assembling of an Angelic Army

The times we now live in might be evidence of assembling of an army of angelic beings, advancing on mankind. Such times are prophesied. Joel prophesied it. Jude tells us that Enoch prophesied it. Jesus prophesied it. As we see such events unfolding we should look at the prophesies, see how there is worse to come, far worse, and resolve ourselves to humbly pray for mercy, especially the church, whose gifting by the Holy Spirit is for times like these. In Revelation, the Apocalypse of John, Jesus foretold that on the whole mankind won’t repent but will be forced to admit to this time when it comes and will long for death that will not come. This might be just the beginning. The cause might already be the emergence of the angelic army of God, an army not seen in history with might such as might be assembling now. The Kingdom of Heaven is near.

It is written

In John 8, what did Jesus write in the sand? He maybe wrote “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” since now it is indeed written and quoted by many. He did better than the Torah commands. He upheld the commands but seemingly did the impossible in saving the woman without denying the commands. He did so with a new command. That is symbolised by His writing in the sand with His finger like the Father wrote on the stone with His finger. He saved without changing what His Father wrote. That is why God sent Him.

Weapons and Police

Jesus advised His disciples to carry weapons, only in preparation for dealing with police who were planning to arrest Him.

Book of Enoch - Scripture

“Whoever believes in me [Jesus], as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38

Which scripture says this?

Jesus believed in the Book of Enoch being scripture (as evidenced by His teachings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the writings of Jude)

Book of Enoch 48:1 “In that place I beheld a fountain of righteousness, which never failed, encircled by many springs of wisdom. Of these all the thirsty drank, and were filled with wisdom, having their habitation with the righteous, the elect, and the holy.”

Book of Enoch 49:1 “For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.”

Mesîh hemî lê Xwedê (Kurdish)

Sembolên kevnar * û + nîşan dan ka Xwedê Xwedê çawa ye - sembola stêrk, dema ku Mesîh hemî lê Xwedê ye - sembola plus. Shamans nîşana plus bikar anîn da ku bi xerabiyê şer bikin. Mesîh ji Xwedê tê ba me. Lê ew di kirinên xwe de tarî bûn. Ji ber vê yekê Xwedê şexsî Mesîh şand da ku li ser xaçek sembolîk bimire. Naha ev ji me re hemî eşkere ye.

Standing in the Truth

It takes a long time and lessons through extended hardship to be able to stand in the truth. Through all of that you have to cling to the living Jesus and to His precious teachings. Then you’ll get there. Then you keep clinging in order to stay there.

The Hiding Away

The first half of the Book of Revelation describes a period of frightening ‘apocalyptic’ plague. It starts with warning shots of four horsemen of the apocalypse. Then comes two waves of massive global pandemic, angelic in nature. The first wave kills nobody but the victims wish they were dead because of pain. The second wave kills on a huge scale by three kinds of death at once. During the four horsemen build-up there is sudden panic of awareness of apocalyptic events becoming imminent, preparing the world for these two waves of angelic plague. People rush to hide. The global events we see in 2020 put this in a new perspective not known before to the extent we now know it today. Everyone shutting themselves away on a global scale is something with which we have become familiar now. The panic is not as extreme but we have now received a foretaste. Now we shut ourselves in houses. We never thought such lockdown on a global scale was possible, yet it is real to us today. In this Revelation prophesied event everyone will shut themselves even more away by taking to caves and almost inaccessible hideaways. This has happened before in history. Around 3300 BC there was a time when people sought refuge in caves so hard to reach in mountains that only recently did anyone manage to get to those places and there find items these people left there, such as the Nahal Mishmar horde of ancient magic alloy implements. It was extraordinary the lengths people went to to escape something. They also dug hideaways underground. It was possibly the time of what Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch call the Nephilim: Rampaging massive sorcerers of partly angelic parentage. So this future apocalyptic, global panic might be like that panic long ago. Suddenly people will realise the apocalyptic prophecies are coming true and imminent. They will hide from God. Then a few signs will follow as angels identify those who are to be protected from the two waves of final pandemic. Then the first wave will be like a pandemic we see today but will be supernatural and only a plague of miserable illness, not death. Then the second wave will be three-fold in its deadliness, colour coded red and blue and yellow: red for fire, blue for smoke, yellow for sulfur. Injuries and deaths will accompany such a plague as you might expect from something like wide-scale, global volcanic cataclysm. All this precludes the geo-political apocalyptic events of the rise of several totalitarian empires called ‘beasts’, last of which is global in its reach and imposes the 666 ‘mark of the Beast’. Then Christ will return.

Next forty years in prophesied light

In scriptures known today as the Book of Enoch, Enoch’s writings foretold seventy reigns of angelic rulers allowed by God in punishment of Israel. This now seems to be the seventieth starting, given that each reign seems to last forty years and the first was at the time of the Ancient Assyrian conquest of Samaria. This in past times saw antisemitic events of worsening scale and Enoch’s prophecy tells us the last will be no different. For governments right now, it’s all about supporting naive, one-size-fits-all rules and minor laws. It’s not about justice for ordinary people. The initiative is moving again to the world’s biggest companies and what they offer governments and large and medium sized companies, irrespective of small companies and of individual rights. This kind of political backdrop has characterised the forty year periods of the last eleven cycles as many believing Jews and other believers have been killed in persecutions. As the beginning of the last forty year cycle of angelic rule unfolds we will probably see similar events to those of Nazi Germany between the wars but this time on a global scale.
It is recorded in the gospels how the Son of Man spoke indirectly of the Book of Enoch when telling the Sadducees about the dead being like the angels, neither marrying nor giving in marriage, and that this the Sadducees did not know, the Son of Man said, because they knew neither the scriptures nor the power of God. The only scripture to tell of the angels not marrying is the Book of Enoch. Likewise the Holy Spirit power of God inspired brother and disciple of the Son of Man, Jude, to quote the Book of Enoch as true prophecy. Today the Holy Spirit still speaks mysteries in tongues with interpretation that relate the same words of the Book of Enoch. This too is the power of God we ought to know lest we greatly err.

Second only

Jesus is second only to God.

Mercy

In mercy God sent Christ into the world so we could have some hope despite our past sins - and Christ can lead us out of those sins if we trust Him to do so. That is the mercy of God. And because God’s mercy is eternal, so He has made Christ to be eternal despite being made utterly human for us. God did this by raising Christ from the dead to live forever. So we have eternal mercy available to us by way of Christ.

Scripture

We can get to know God ourselves now by Christ’s mediation, so we shouldn’t have to rely solely on words and their translations. 

Permanent Fixes

What a testing time this is for most people. How are we doing with the test? We might be finding it the undoing of us. We need to be fixed. But if we are to be fixed then the fix needs to be permanent, otherwise a future testing time might undo us again. Permanent fixes aren’t like glue, where you glue the pieces then hope they never come undone again. The only permanent fix we can have needs it permanence to be managed and guaranteed by someone always available to manage it. That means permanent management. Who can fix us but also guarantee such permanent management of the fixes? God raised the Son of Man from the dead for that very purpose. Trusting in Him is the first step to a permanent fixing of what is undone about us. Next step He said (John’s Gospel chapter 8 ) is to follow Him by holding to His teachings. Since He said that He has been crucified to pay for the fixes and been raised from the dead forever by God to guarantee and manage them.

Pure Kindness

It is pure kindness that God raised the Son of Man from the dead because now this Jesus is a human there with God mediating for us humans. Forever.

The Heavenly Vision

Things the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit told me and showed me back in the nineties, after twenty five years, all fit together perfectly and come down to this: Jesus can be touched (He actually let me do so) and is truly human so He can mediate with God and He does so in utter competence. He has unsurpassed unity of trust with God His Father and also has taken our nature fully so the potential for ‘putting in words for us with God’ is immense. Even the wheels of Nature turn upon the power of this mediator calling and potential Jesus has because He never lets people down and God always listens to Him, His Son. This His name, all He is known for, all that He is, can and should be used to overcome sin and in doing this service and building the temple of His body of followers in reverence for God there is utterly powerful angelic protection right on hand when needed. (Daniel 3.) So build that temple by this name of the Lord Jesus Christ, risen from the dead. He has received from God and given to the churches the Holy Spirit for this purpose.

The Name of the Son of Man

The most powerful force in Nature made known in the Book of Enoch and by the Holy Spirit is the name of the Son of Man, which together with the Oath was given among angels to hold back ancient evils. The Oath itself is a mysterious entity known to angel chiefs by which Nature fulfils God’s purposes for it. But what is this other entity of mystery? The name of the Son of Man. ‘What is in a name?’ Indeed, everything is in a name, apparently. In terms of meaning, the name of someone is what they are known for, what they are good for, what they are worth, how much risk they can guarantee, their reputation and in some cases fame, the substance of what they represent. No other name commands so much urgency of meeting angelic requirements in governing the universe than the name of one particular person; the Son of Man, as Enoch’s writings relate to us. Peter the Apostle also preached ‘there is no other name made known among men by which to be saved [than the name of Jesus Christ]’, this Son of Man. We must therefore trust what Jesus is good for, represents, is worth, is known for. The teachings, the miracles showing God’s endorsement and testimony of His Son, the commands given, the apostles chosen and how they preached the truth, the faithfulness and the obedience to God His Father and subsequent resurrection vindicating Him. All this is that name, which angels feared and sought in Enoch’s days. Combining this with the Oath of natural order gave them power to hold back the evils of fallen angels and rebellion against God. We too can fend away evils and troubles with it, invoke it to keep even governments in check, straighten our ways, strengthen our commands to our children, build our churches, find a way ahead, receive the Holy Spirit and fulfil the will of God.

For us it isn’t so much fallen angels we have to deal so much as fallen people of God. Sin among us. My sin and yours and sins of priests and sins of disciples and of the flock. These sins cause immense harm in our days amongst us just as fallen angels caused harm in Enoch’s ancient days amongst humans and angels and threatened Nature itself since the Flood was so tragic. Now we, as the angels back then, ought to use the name of the Son of Man, what He does and is good for and known for and push back on the evil of sin with it. We need to save the world and this is how to do it. This Son of Man we know as Jesus. He is known to us as the one who has ultimate sway with God the Father, enough to mediate for us with God while knowing our state having lived it unto death. A human in a living body who can be touched. So He can effectively mediate for us with God. 

2020 Fire Foxes

Fire foxes. Foxes with their tails set alight by the ancient Israelite judge Samson set running through the Philistine crop fields.

Personal Faith

Finding a safe way through this life and having hope for the hereafter, learning the true path and finding a good moral compass is a matter of believing personally. I cannot do that for you. Maybe my faith standing firm might help your growth of faith but my faith cannot replace your need for faith. We each are persuaded individually. So I need to be persuaded well for my faith to grow. You need to be persuaded well for your faith to grow. For me my faith long depended on those around me and how they read and understood each other and scriptures and works God did among them. Then it changed a little to depend on what God did in me personally and on how I understand the scriptures personally, and I started to rely not merely on those who taught me and testified to me but more on what I witnessed personally of Christ. Then twenty five years ago I witnessed Christ in a major way that is now my bedrock. He met me and showed me what He does and who He is and the Father showed that this Jesus who met me is His Son and the Holy Spirit in church sealed it, utterly. You too can become more knowledgeable in this way, with a faith based on works of God like this. Put aside your exaggerated certainty and gain real certainty instead.

My Advice on Hearing God

If you don’t know Christ very well or if you either are not sure you have experienced the Holy Spirit or do not yet recognise the voice of the Holy Spirit with confidence then best to stick with what many testify is from God such as scriptures of Bible until you learn the will of God and ways of God or simply go by what you are taught by those you know and trust, since scriptures are easily misunderstood and mistaught. But hope to have faith and grow in knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus God’s true son and you will receive the Holy Spirit who can Himself teach you to recognise His voice and discern His visions. But it might take time. Give it time. But do not think the Holy Spirit will only show you biblical things once you know Him. He will show you new things not known before if He wishes. There is so much yet to be revealed. So for this you will need to trust His ability to make Himself known to you once you know He is glorifying Christ in Christ’s name. Just know He will only take you further into what Christ Jesus learns from the Father, God. 

Motion: the Gyroscope Effect

The universe needs motion. Black holes keep stars and planets and stellar dust moving, sucking them in at points in space but keeping all distant stars pulled in one direction or another, moving. The bicycle rider knows you keep moving to keep order or you fall off. Stability comes from constant motion. The cyclist falls unless they move forward and this is strange and wondrous like the way motion keeps a gyroscope vertical and orderly. The gyroscope is like the stars kept in motion by the black holes. Motion maintains order by giving laws of nature the opportunity to maintain control. In the immediate vicinity of God in heaven, in the place where God is seated on the throne of glory, there are four living heavenly beings (seen by the prophet Ezekiel) which maintain the order of all things by constant motion of a wheel within a wheel, like four gyroscopic chariots, like the orbit of the Moon within the orbit of the Earth. Right in the immediate vicinity of God, the universe is kept in order by laws of Nature determined by God. Here where it is all governed, is the throne too of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, at God’s right hand, and by the Lord, Jesus Christ’s authority it all happens, the authority given Him by God.

The dreaded 666

The dreaded 666: Is that really what this is? Maybe it is heading towards something like that, but technology unknown to us now; a future technology which will make more sense when it happens, perhaps a decade or more from now when I guess those still around might look back at this moment and recognise this as when it all started in earnest. ‘Microsoft published a patent for a "cryptocurrency system using body activity data." This patent is filed under the number WO2020060606A1’ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/microsoft-own-patent-666/ 

Root Causes

In this time of testing let us not forget the root causes of these plagues. The testimony of Jesus is ours to lead us. The shamanism of our ways is one cause. It underpins our medicine. It underpins our cultural customs in the ideas of talisman charms, astrological predictions, pagan festivals, swearing with pagan invocations, drug taking for greater enlightenment and seeking to game the system of the natural world rather than praying to God alone. Then there is the harsh treatment of religious people by those who lack religious conviction. Then there is lying and stealing and shady practices and criminal activities underpinning our systems. Then there is our entranced obsessive ties to ancient systems of Europe going back to the empires of the past and power structures they have bequeathed to us: Babylon the Great, the harlot Rome. These are all the ways we do not repent and turn from. We do not depart fully from dealings with the old empire systems. We do not look into our insistence on use of the old pagan practices of shamanistic past mastering of how to game the natural world in our sciences, so we persist with those practices. We do not change our deception of our minds to turn towards inner and outer honesty. We do not change our criminal ways. So the plagues come upon us and will keep on doing so because on the whole we will not repent. Come out and be separate from the unrepentant and God will be our leader and a father to us, so we can be free of the future plagues to come and liberated from the future testing times that will come, like this one, on all the earth.

Health and the mega-rich

What else can a mega-rich man do? He is at threat from the virus and further pandemics. If he wants to protect himself he needs an effective WHO and vaccines. He’ll obviously think investing in these will help him protect himself while giving him a positive reputation as a philanthropist at the same time. Unfortunately this is very unlikely to provide bulletproof protection for him since medicine might appear to succeed on mass scale but for any individual the success is always limited and side effects or bad effects likely. Yet what else can an extremely rich person hope to achieve? The onus is therefore on society and governments to protect the masses from the private interests of the rich and mega-rich who can afford to make their projects look philanthropic. China has to manage many such mega-rich architects of its new cities and society. The West must do the same.

Porn and Demons

Interesting to look at biographies of Marquis de Sade and Rasputin to see how they handled both demons and porn. They were consumed by both but not necessarily cause and effect, more that the demon caused the porn. Not the other way around. With Marquis de Sade and Rasputin there is another factor too. Both were heavily influenced by false teachings. Sade by his Atheism. Rasputin by the teaching of sinning to defeat sin. Both became teachers of their respective false teachings as well as disciples. Here is the gateway to the demon: discipleship of demonic false teachings. So teachers beware what you teach. You could be opening a demonic gateway. Mental illness could be a side effect of your teachings.

The real problem with de Sade and Rasputin was in how, for different reasons but the same weakness, they gave themselves fully over to porn and fornication. They both had a kind of madness about it, both alluding to a demonic aspect to this citing supernatural visitations which led them deeper into it. To my mind the lesson to learn is that while it is a natural property of being human to delight in sexual stimulation by other people, giving too much of ourselves to that delight is potentially mentally harmful and giving ourselves completely over to it is dangerous to not only our health but the health of society. So keep a lid on it. Restraint. Not suppressing but controlling, limiting: Since giving ourselves over to it completely can lead to us suffering both harm and threat of punishment and anger from those in power who seek to keep society healthy. Plus we ought to keep a clear conscience in living as best we can.

As a side note, I think it’s important to mention that baptism of the kind practiced by Baptists involves pledging to keep a clear conscience which in itself tends to lead the baptised believer into keeping a lid on the natural tendency to gravitate towards sexual stimulation of the porn kind. It does not eliminate the natural desire and delight but it teaches us to keep it controlled and not give ourselves fully over to it in a damaging way. So demonic teachings get less of a foothold. This is a saving grace of Christianity. It is not only about punishment by society and anger of God but about the individual conscience being kept clear by doing your best to live right. This does not mean other religions and non-religions do not also need to exercise these restraints and self-governing ways too. It is important for every individual. Yet baptism in Christ’s grace and Christ’s name helps a great deal.

The Folly of Science

Science was started in the mists of time before even the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians when humans smelted lead or copper and other ingredients and poured the molten metal alloys into moulds and started to look at how to combine the metals using magic to try to make alloys good for making weapons. They also sought ways to make potions to cause abortions or cause hallucinations that might open their minds to magical influences and visions. Their theories of what got best results took them into thinking about their potential for doing all this better without hindrance from fear of God. Their foolish hearts were darkened and they started to think the objects they made might be better as objects of worship than God. 

An Angel is in the Fire!

“AN ANGEL IS IN THE FIRE”

This is a quote from the Book of Enoch when Noah complained to God about the origins of alchemy at a time when metal working was starting to become a science but one involving a kind of primitive form of witchcraft, magic. Did such a time happen in history as we know history today? The clearest evidence is in the artefacts found at the archaeological site of Nahal Mishmar which are magical ritual maces, sceptres and the like made around 3000 BC from metal alloys of extreme sophistication unmatched until modern times. 

Faithful and True

People don’t just need to be moral. They need to stay moral. That is no easy thing when people become eternal. Eternal morality requires an Eternal Christ. Enter Jesus. Christ from aeons past till forever future. Keeping His followers eternally moral, eternally sons of God the Father. Dying on a cross for them and rising again to champion their salvation forever. The epitome of true religion. Faithful and true.

Abuse of Religion

What type of person angers me the most? Religious people who use scripture or doctrine to justify injustice and wrongdoing. People often use religion to justify doing nothing about injustice. They “turn the grace of God into a licence for immorality”. They let religion dull their indignation and use religious concepts as a shield against the feelings of shame which would otherwise prompt them to change their sinful ways. People quote scriptures and denominational doctrines when confronted with inconvenient truth. Some leaders have felt that the only way around this, the only way to achieve justice in the face of such religious opposition to justice is to counter this bad use of religion with a suppression of religion per se. Communism is most notable in this regard. I expect God will forgive some such leaders and many of those who follow their ideologies for the greater good. I expect God will condemn many religious leaders and followers of such leaders for using religion to justify oppression of the poor, or using religion and even scriptures to excuse inaction and lack of repentance. And I do not deny it: I am guilty of it too.

Seven percent

only 7 percent of the world are convinced atheists and most of these are in China

Faith

FAITH: Not giving in to fear. Embracing what is real. Putting aside precautions against the unlikely in favour of protection coming from the real. Taking no steps reversing the right path but keeping on a right path as long as is possible just like the rest of nature does and never wavering. All for the purpose of constructive love to a higher glory. An outcome of persuasive words and power from a higher intelligence. Resulting in protective events which will at some point be traced back to realities unseen and unimagined. Nothing can withstand genuine faith.

The Crucifixion

The crucifixion of Christ seems a bizarre way for Jesus to fulfil the meaning of His name: Salvation. Yet there is more to it. He unites believers with Himself spiritually so that they are one with Him. This means Jesus’ crucifixion was effectively their crucifixion. When He, their head, died they were dying too. So their death sentence for grave crimes and sins already has happened. All share in that death who share in Christ by unity with Christ. Likewise they all share in the resurrection which followed that death. Those who share in Christ have special reason to believe in the Father who sent Him to work out this salvation.