Solidarity

 “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.” Hebrews 13:3. 

Tortured believing prisoners might be ill-treated for reasons besides their faith, perhaps for loyalties or nationality or race, yet still we should identify with their suffering. God hears our prayers for them prayed in genuine sincerity and earnestness. Such sincere earnestness comes from spending time identifying with them as though we were there with them such that we feel a bond, a sense that what is happening to them is happening to us. Fervent prayer like this makes a difference because it reaches Heaven and the heart of God. Believers are one in solidarity and spirit.

Foundational trust

Not a time to trust any superpowers right now. Their power is as a foundation of sand when a storm is coming and the house needs to withstand rising water levels and torrential rain. Now is time to trust God and trust the Christ, Jesus, sent by God. Their teachings are the most solid foundation for our lives.  Some foundational teachings of Jesus Christ:

Give to those who ask of you - without letting anyone know you are doing it.

Have faith that God will make happen what you command with undoubting faith to happen.

Be watchful for opportunities to pray and for causes to pray about for the overall cause of Jesus Christ.

Forgive those who do you wrong, especially forgiving them as you ask God for forgiveness of your wrongs.

Do not worry about how you will get by, just like the birds do not worry how they will get by. Trust God to care. 

Build back better with your focus on those who believe in and obey Lord Jesus the Christ. 

Turn from lying and hating, idolatry and fornication. Let the teachings of Jesus cleanse your life from all such things and the Holy Spirit work within you to cleanse you and make you pure.

Continue in all this and let the words of Jesus remain within you. Then Jesus will raise you to life at the resurrection and give you life forever, as promised for those who believe in who Jesus truly is. 

The way of God

 Knowing what the Bible says is not the same as knowing and obeying the Father. Jesus helps us know God and obey what God says.

Springtime

 It is spring. The buds are appearing, opening, blooming as flowers on trees. The authority of the Lord Jesus Christ’s name is in full swing. We look forward to resurrection of the ones who hold to Lord Jesus’ teachings. 

Put down your umbrella!

 “Put down your umbrella” said Jesus to me. Jesus is the umbrella we need: the teachings of Jesus are what we need above us as protection from the wrath of God the Father. Storms are coming. Make sure you have Jesus as  your soul’s umbrella. Accept the teachings of Jesus as the commands of lord and master. Aa the hymn says, “Hide me, O my saviour hide, till the storm of life is past”.

Power and influence

 Trinitarian doctrines are a way for chief priests to retain power and influence. Many of us forsake these people and trust Jesus Himself. 

Hidden power

 Though hidden, Jesus is raised to power. Being hidden is no weakness for Jesus. 

Three resurrections

 First God raised Lazarus - for His own Son, Jesus. Then God raised Jesus - for Jesus’ disciples. So next, God is clearly going to raise the many disciples - through Jesus His Son.

Freedom

 The lie is to think that Jesus is not lord and master. Having Jesus as master to release you from your sinful ways, this is freedom.

Not alone

 “I and the children You have given me” God did not send Jesus to be isolated. God gives others from among us to Jesus. Jesus has some of us as His own. He is our Master and the Lord of us.

What it means that Jesus is the Son of God

 What it means that Jesus is the Son of God? The Father, God, produced the Son, producing the Son’s existence personally, bringing about the Son’s natural human body, giving the Son grace to be ever stronger and stronger is spirit and to live righteously, giving the Son the commands to lead to eternal life, works to do, words to teach,  and chastening during mortal life such that Jesus was perfected in righteousness, then directing towards obedient death and raising from death and personally making the Son both Lord and Christ, now eternally alive from the dead. All the personal workings of God the Father to produce all that Jesus the Son is. Making Jesus in spirit a man who reaches through time to the distant past and eternal future, the same yesterday and today, and so forever. The Father produced all this in Jesus His only-begotten Son. Much of this is produced by God to some extent in other children of God too, yet all epitomised in the firstborn Son, putting His glory in Jesus and the other children bearing Jesus’ own glory, all the work of the One True God, the Father. The faith all this produces by persuading others to believe, this faith is produced by God who is Father of this faith and the hope and love it all produces is the work of God through Jesus, by the Spirit. It all brings about rebirth by sprit. 

Rebirth. Faith and hope and love

 Yesterday I was asked by noble, local street preachers, was I born again. Today it is clear. The truth I knew long ago is that there is a mighty lord, a master, invisible to our eyes but perceptible by spirit, as this lord sees fit to reveal this to those who are positive in accepting this. What comes clear too is that this lord is Jesus - Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. Let every human tremble at this. What is clearest of all to the reason is that this lord, this Jesus, is alive from the dead. So this is hope. God the Father made this hope possible by raising Jesus from the dead. So this faith, this hope, is real and made by God Himself, and this is the rebirth that counts, hopefully leading to sincere love towards all who have this hope within.

Crisis of heritage

 We are in a crisis. But the real crisis is not gas and inflation, sanctions and combat operations. It is the crisis of respect or disrespect for the commands of God among supposedly Christian roots nations. Britain. USA. Russia and in the middle, Ukraine. War clouds loom. Mushroom clouds are foretold. Do we keep disrespecting God?  Where is the Christian heritage the strongest?

The new way

When I was a child I grew up in a world of traditions loosely based on eroded forms of Christianity filtered by Western history, passed down from generation to generation, mostly orally, with loss of accuracy with each successive hand over. So it was a mixture of concepts I received. The teachings given me included a denial of credibility of information about spirits. Materialism replaced such information. Risk aversion perhaps motivated such denial. Children were taught to not believe that ghosts exist. Spirits of natural elements such as living things, elements of wind and rain, any attribution of spiritual existence to anything natural, attributing real veracity to supernatural things, all was denied. The maturity of growing education and help of scriptures gradually persuaded me these denials were foolish. The denials would lead to atheism. Science supposedly justified such denials. The idea given by traditional Western post-Christian supposedly enlightened society was (is) that it is evil to believe there is any reality in traditional teachings about spirits and rituals of magic. Only medicine in its Western form was to be accepted. Yet mature understanding makes me realise that God enshrines in the gospel and the way of Christ some important applications of traditions about spirits. The wrongdoing is not in accepting the reality and wisdom of things pertaining to spirits. The wrongdoing is in refusing to put aside lesser spirit worship and refusing to be devoted to worship of the Most High God. The wrongdoing is in failing to be a servant of Christ. We need not reject truthful information about how witches use rituals and drugs to draw spirits into inanimate objects or their own bodies. We instead accept the ritual of eating the bread of communion of Christ’s body and drinking the blood of the covenant to identify with Christ and receive Him into our human bodies having been baptised into His name. We have the presence of Christ joining with us in this identification with Him and know by persuasion that He is alive from the dead having died a sacrificial death on a symbolic cross. The traditional ways of spirit persist, yet we are given over to receiving the living human Christ alive from the dead and the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit of the Most High God, rather than serving elemental spirits and angelic gods. The other spirits do exist, we know this, yet we are freed from slavery to them as lordship of Jesus Christ supersedes any lesser mastery over us. God Himself, the Father of Jesus, in sovereignty over us frees us to serve only the Father who is God.  This is eternal life.

The lord’s day

 When Jesus said, “the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath” it was clearly the seventh day (which we call Saturday) that He meant. The true lord’s day is clearly the day of which Jesus is lord, hence the seventh day sabbath is the lord’s day. 

Love peace

 So much focus towards aggression, violence and war, even thoughts of total war, as a means of rebirth and of fixing economic woes, but the message from heaven is to move the focus away from involvement in violence and seek to be stablished in peace, turning swords into ploughshares as the ultimate mark of maturity, with violence and warfare being as temporary a measure as possible. The sheep receive heavenly protection from the wolves and eagles, as a billy-goat is given to the sheep to stave off the wolves and eagles, until the great shepherd comes. King David was not permitted to build God’s temple because he shed too much blood. Solomon his son was a more peaceloving king full of wisdom and he could build the temple in peace.

Woe

 Where are the true believers who do not hate other believers? True believers repent of any hatred of a believer. They do not try to justify their hatred. We in the West live in a sea of hatred and haters, lies and liars. Woe.

Trust and worship

 Distinguish between the wind and rain elements and the Father God who commands them when we ask Him to bring about our prayers. Praying to God with faith or commanding Nature with faith without doubt is a way to know when we are bowing to God rather than bowing to the elemental forces around us in the Nature which are subject to God’s authority. We are commanded, in Christ, to refrain from bowing to elemental forces of Nature and natural elements. We instead must bow our attitude and target our service and servitude towards God the Father. So we can focus our trust in God as we pray and our service can follow the answers to prayer from God. 

Trust

 The Father, God, is to be trusted. You, or anyone who trusts God, can command Nature and, through God the Father, your command will be obeyed if you believe without doubting. This Father is fully righteous in His teachings of love for those around us, especially believers, and in saving the day for such folk wisely and powerfully. Trust God. Jesus has this faith too and uses it miraculously. Trust also Jesus. Jesus Christ, the living Lord, having emerged triumphant, the one begotten Son of God, is the firstborn from the dead. His powerful name drives Nature. Trust Jesus. 

Having emerged triumphant

 Jesus Christ, the living Lord, having emerged triumphant, the one begotten Son of God, is the firstborn from the dead.

That eagle circling overhead

 “They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: of their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.” Hosea 8:4 

When will we say enough, giving power to people who only lead us into war or try to incite war in their belligerence?  When will we let God Almighty, Father of Lord Jesus Christ guide us in our appointment of our rulers? That eagle of war just keeps on circling over our heads. 

The dead who suffer and the living who suffer

 We see times of tribulation starting but we should remember that there are billions of the dead in torment in their spirit state in Hades too, now and continuing like that for the next thousand years. The living have tribulation but so do many of the dead. For us, now is the time we are alive, and in this time it is best for us to notice and help those who are suffering because they are poor, because we can actually do something to alleviate their suffering, lest we too end up in tribulation after death, as bad as tribulation many will suffer while still alive.

The wars

Do not be discouraged at the wars. The Father must deal with the way we fall short of the heavenly standards. It is grim but it must happen because we are too slow to repent of monstrous things we do. The natural way is not like this. Nature does not grieve God like us humans do. We especially grieve God, those who under the covenant with God, those whose wrong-doing is all the more grievous to God and to Lord Jesus because it violates God’s holy covenant. The trees and planets keep to their obedient order of natural, God-ordained behaviour because the name of the Lord Jesus Christ keeps that order powerfully maintained. So awful that we are under this cloud of war because humans fail to even live up to Nature’s faithfulness, certainly failing to live up to Lord Jesus the Christ’s faithfulness. Jesus wants us under His protection so that we can rest from our warring and self-protection. Have faith in Him. Let His wings shelter you. Those of you who trust God, trust Jesus too. The Father is God and Jesus rests in the Father’s protection. Rest in Jesus’ protection and cease from sinning lest your end be grim.

Pharma

 If only pharma workers would repent. Mostly they won’t, says the Spirit of prophecy in Revelation, but if they don’t they will end up grimly, says Jesus and the Father. (Revelation 21 and 22.)

Not long now

 Before God judges the world He first requires that His angels identify and mark the truly religious so they are not harmed when the trees and grass are destroyed. Then the true Apocalypse begins.

Know the forces

 Besides the ongoing influences of both God and Satan all around us, there are two forces important to know are there: there are those rulers who exercise their power under Jesus, the lord alive and right next to God Himself, and then there are those rulers under influence of the seventieth angelic shepherd who for forty years will destroy the righteous in persecutions. Know the difference.

Mushroom clouds

 For many in the world a mushroom cloud is something we see in action movies. Growing up I had to regard it as the ultimate threat, the ultimate doom, as I lived through the seventies and eighties under the shadow of the Cold War. When I met God in the nineties He turned it into a prophetic likelihood of the outcome of sin. It became for me a symbol of the ultimate destination of the way children, supposedly of God, the spiritual Israel of God, miss the true path, missing the way of love and follow a path of sin and ensuing judgment. Israel has sinned, I was told in a vision from God. The result is looming war and the eagle of war, dark with its white watching eye, flying overhead, while generals thrash out their analyses and war plans down below, until the horizon is finally haunted by the rise of the mushroom cloud and the sight of military jets fly towards us away from that cloud. This was in the nineties on a day that subsequently saw the news announce the start of spy plane trips from the US to the Balkans before war broke out a little later and since then mass surveillance has become the norm. Today the mushroom cloud threat looms larger. Why? Because still the path we follow despite our heritage as children of God, as Israel, is a path of sin. Many were revived into proclaiming in social media the commands and teachings of God in love for God, yet the words fell on deaf ears, were read by blind minds. Teachings of God are still banned in schools. Governments still lead us down hypocritical blind alleys. God gave us all a lamb of perfection in a sacrifice of His Son but do we love God back? Not enough, it seems. That eagle is still overhead, watching.

How Christian is a tree?

 How Christian is a tree? Answer: very Christian, and that is how it grows and buds and produces leaves.

When I was young I learned in Biology classes about the biochemical cycles of plants and their photosynthesis. It compelled me towards a university degree in Biochemistry, in which I was bitterly disappointed. The true instruction we might seek comes not from the wise of this world who know not God and who keep not God in their knowledge. God selects, elects, some of us to be instructed in His creation by the Holy Spirit. Such a privilege. The Holy Spirit gives instruction through spiritual gifts such as messages given in angelic language and supernaturally interpreted - gifts known in scripture as the charismata. It is by such gifts that I was once instructed about the trees, and planets and the creations such as these, that the tree buds do their growing and the planets do their moving through the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. To my mind it is as though Natural things are really deep down in their workings effectively Christian. The name of Jesus is the true facts that Jesus is a faithful witness of the fatherhood of God and that Jesus is firstborn of the children in the family God fathers as His own. The Lord Jesus bears witness having risen from the dead, alive forever. This and Jesus’ teachings and ways and miraculous works are all part and parcel of His name, what He stands for and is known for. This underpins the very fabric of Nature and keeps the planet going round. To have such instruction is a great privilege and is a sign of election. Living up to this can make it sure. Hold to Jesus’ teachings, believing who He is. That is the way that leads to all truth. The truth sets free from sin’s dominion. This leads to eternal life, eternal life which is in Jesus the Son of God. The ancient prophet Enoch foretold these things and wrote about the angelic oath underpinning Nature and the weaving of the name of the Son of Man into this oath. Only together with us is Enoch now made perfect. Enoch is with us in our fellowship as we hear these instructive counsels from the Holy Spirit in our churches or read them and receive them in the persuasion of faith. 

Dabela the billy goat

 The Enoch prophecy of the dabela or billy goat is a little known prophecy of our times or near future times. The Book of Enoch was preserved mainly and most completely in the sacred ancient Ethiopian language Ge’ez, similar to Hebrew but written in Amharic-like script. This made it hard for Westerners to translate it two hundred years ago and the Ge’ez word for billy-goat, or he-goat was left untranslated as dabela. The prophecy foretold future events using analogy of animals for key people, where sheep are the righteous, other domestic animals are innocent in comparison to fierce aggressors known for unbridled oppressive violence which are depicted as preying animals such as lions and eagles. So a he-goat is a strong defensively aggressive but relatively innocent ruler. The prophecy of end times shows sheep being widely persecuted and living under threat and frequent attacks from eagles and other birds of prey attacking from above but there arises a protecting champion for them who rebuts the attackers and cannot be defeated even when all the world seems to try to destroy him. A sword is given to help the fending off of attackers and to defend the sheep against oppressors. Eventually heaven comes to his aid. This is all part of events leading up to a time of heavenly judgment and the rise of righteousness and judgment of angelic dark forces which are behind the persecutions. This has strong consistency with events today. 

Inscriptions

 In March/April 2018, in an archaeological review in the Biblical Archaeology Review journal, a team published the finding of a seal in a archaeological dig in Jerusalem bearing the name of Isaiah from the eighth century BC. It bears the Hebrew text transliterated “leyesha‘yah[u]” which means ‘belonging to Isaiah’. In the book of Isaiah in scripture the prophet foretold (chapter 8) that he and his children were signs of salvation coming in the future from God. The names of the children of Isaiah had prophetic meanings as signs and therefore it implies that Isaiah foretold his own name being a sign too. His name indeed means ‘Yah saves’, yesha‘yah[u], but more that, the one foretold by Isaiah is a Christ and possibly a son of either a maiden or a virgin, but the fact that Jesus bore the name Yesha is significant here. Roll forward a thousand years to a sarcophagus in Cyprus, in Larnaca. The Byzantine emperor Leo VI found this sarcophagus and tomb in 890 AD with the inscription “Lazarus, four days dead, friend of Christ”. It had been lost during the centuries of Arab occupation of Cyprus but Leo had the remains contained in it moved to Constantinople but a church building, the Church of Saint Lazarus was built to house the sarcophagus which can be seen today. Two inscriptions. They intersect on the person Jesus Christ and the raising of Lazarus from the dead and the promise this held, first of Jesus rising from the dead a little time afterwards, and then of a resurrection in the future of all who are worthy of it. Salvation is the meaning of Jesus’ name. Yet another thousand or so years later to the present day and Jesus reveals himself to believers and even to me by spiritually interacting with us in ways that imprint upon us awareness that he is alive still and just the same as the Jesus we read about in gospels such as that of the apostle John. This is like a further inscription but one of faith imprinted in the human heart. It tells of the veracity of accounts such as John’s which carry the records of words and teachings and commands of Jesus by adherence to which we can show love of Jesus and get to meet him ourselves. That is the salvation way foretold by Isaiah that saves the people of God from their sins. 

Serving the Lord

 Power is not a bad thing per se. We are each obliged to obey lords over us. Even without such lords, we are still obliged to obey and serve our hidden lord, who is Jesus Christ. We might find we have clarity in how duties are allotted to us. Personally I found myself in my twenties working in local government in ‘public service’. Public service is a wordly, diplomatic euphemism because really to service duty of public servants, at any level, is collectively and maybe individually to the ultimate lord. Those in public service make profit from receiving taxes and providing services and seeking efficiencies in how this is carried out. We might improve the profitability and productivity of our work, whether in private sector work or public service, by maturing our methods and improving them continually. Then we have something to provide for needs of fellow humans. This is a service not only to society but to the lord, if we seek to serve this lord in doing all this. Virtue improves this. Faith inspires it and fuels and motivates it. Difficulties improve character which further improve our work and work ethic, if we endure those difficulties graciously. Knowhow can be fostered with self-study, organised training, reading, research and experimentation. Human kindness and consideration based on a godly way of life can help greatly to keep us productive. Personally my productivity was hugely increased by gaining direct spiritual experience of God through following Christ’s teachings. I suddenly went from local government office work to developing technology and laws for public procurement around the world. I am sure this was the grace of God. Love is the topmost piece of the pyramid of productivity, doing the best we can for colleagues, public and even mankind in general. The lord receives this service. He rewards it by assigning us spiritual duties, heavenly domain work. Putting life and soul into our service, wholeheartedly, leads to a fulfilling life and career and good standing and hope. 

When a new Empire arises

 Zion is more than an ideal or a symbol. We have in the world today a glory of empire days of first Rome with its dominus status and its Renaissance, which gave way, in a shifting of power to other parts of Europe, with multiple empires rising with the Holy Roman Empire, and then successive empires continuing in its wake. Coronations in these empires have all been glorious. Even in the wake of waning empires, vestiges of that past glory remains. Globalisation distributes that glory around the world and magnifies its skill. technology and spirited positivity. Yet this is nothing like the new coming empire which will arise after the dark empires have had their day. Today we have the darkness of night which will last a while longer and our children might see the worst of it. That continuing darkness will have glory in its evoking of past empires and its reviving of their futility and vanity, with great fanfare and flourish. Yet there is coming a Zion. A new kind of Israel, not based on any worldly state but on a promise, will gain the status of having a great coronation. The true Israel will come out from the Babylon of past empires and their heirs. This new Israel, which already exists invisibly, will have as its king the anointed one appointed to be son of God on Earth, the true Christ. The coronation glory will outshine anything before. Yet the rising empire of this new king, the lord we know to be Jesus Christ, will not be meek and mild but powerful to the overthrowing of dark powers and setting aside of blind guides. Terrible in might, glorious in wisdom, truth and love. Darkness will perish and shadows vanish. A true way of holiness will be established to truly last. This will be a Zion. It will be the rule of all under subjection to God Himself brought about by the rule of the only begotten of God. Come Lord Jesus. 

Heavenly places

 Magma chambers. Crystal caves. Giant geodes. Inner places within the world’s mountains and volcanoes. Crystal-lined walls. Smooth walls. Jagged walls. Lava flows. Rivers of fire. Rivers of water. Darkness. Underground light. Great heat. Coolness. All these aspects of the innermost structures of Nature as it occurs deep beneath the hidden roots pf mountains and the Earth’s unseen crust. We find all this in ancient scripture endorsed by Jesus Christ as essential reading. The Book of Enoch evokes all of these geological phenomena when describing places of heavenly and earthly spirits, God, the Son of Man, angels and human ghosts. Wonder where heaven is? Wonder where God is? Wonder where the dead go as ghosts? The answers might surprise you. 

The Future

 You notice how troubles are happening in rapid succession. It behoves the things of the last days to happen quickly and not to linger. It is like tearing off a wound dressing. Short sharp shock so there is no time for dread. These days are a build up. The deaths by pestilence. The conquering tyrant. The trees burning. The volcanoes erupting. The weather changing. There are going to be more trees burning till it brings on a reduction in sunlight around the world and crop failures as smoke from burning trees and grass fills the atmosphere worldwide. The pestilences will be frequent. The conquests intensive. The inflation and financial depression miserable. The rise of the Middle East and Eastern Europe and Balkans will be shocking. Even Israel will fall into its clutches. The preaching from Israel will not just shock Israel with revelations of truth but will torment the global public. The bad treatment of the preachers will bring wrathful earthquakes from so deep in the planet that globally widespread destructions will result. A dystopia will follow and there will be terrible consequences of going much too far with human ‘progress’. The end game scenarios we all watched in futuristic movies will be all too real. The rising empires will be tyrannical like none before them and more will die from tyranny and dystopian laws than ever in history. Then the one man who can rule rightly will come, Jesus Christ sent again by God. Only Jesus Christ can worthily be authoritarian without being dishonest or hypocritical. Come Lord Jesus.  

Truthfulness

In times of lies, make truth your native tongue.

The spirit powers are rather beyond our understanding and imagination, and science does not help us here because scientific materialism tells us they do not exist. They exist. Some spirit powers are good, in particular the being we call The Father, The Almighty, God. Some spirit powers are not good, in particular a power being we call Satan. God is truthful. Satan is notorious for lies, the father of lies and liars. In a time such as this. Let’s be honest here, it could be said of any time. In times of lies, we could take the worst path and just keep in with lying and with liars. The end of that path is highly undesirable, unless you love the fire. There is another path. It might take an act of God to start you upon it. It takes conviction and that comes best from lessons given by God’s power that comes from Heaven. It is the conviction of lies being unworthy and deprecated, and of pride being deprecated too, when it leads us to lie. Heaven-ordained discipline can persuade us of this, powerfully imparted by conviction by the spirit of God. The truth of the news that Christ Jesus died for you on the cross is a powerful message that came make way for this powerful discipline. Lies bad. Lies unworthy of Heavenly endorsement. Truthful honesty good. Truthful candour and humility receives endorsement of heaven-sent power and wellbeing. This is the way that leads to life. Few there are who find it. Be humble. Admit your need. Allow your standing before God to be real in sober self-judgment and self-awareness. Then hear it that Christ died for you and is raised by God from the dead to improve your prospects. Then let the power from heaven persuade you to stop lying and practice only telling the truth, to make truth your native language by a change of your inner behaviour-driving mentality and intentions. Train yourself to consciously tell only the truth despite your proud urges to gain admiration by deception. In the grace of God it can become your nature. It can become your language. Lying can become a foreign language. 

Restoration

 There are various kinds of people shouting out vehemence against Russia right now. Clearly some voices rise above others. God is above the vehemence, though and we should not confuse ourselves into thinking God takes sides along partisan lines. God’s love comes alongside even those we tend to readily condemn. God looks at the accused the way Jesus looked at the woman caught in adultery when Jesus said “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”. It is horrific to have the crowd baying for your blood but Jesus did not side with that crowd but sided with restoration of the one accused. Then come the words, “If you adhere to my words you are truly my disciple”. It is not the one who shouts Lord, Lord who is the true disciple but the one who gives Jesus’ words central place in their thinking who is set free by being a true follower of Jesus Christ. “Go and sin no more.”

Leave Request

 A leave request: Brexit might be more complete by leaving NATO too. It might even save the world from WW III. “Come out and be separate.”

Spiritual things

 To understand death, disease, guilt, life, wellbeing, wrongdoing, debt on a cosmic ledger, and creditability on a cosmic ledger, you must accept the existence of immaterial things invisible to science such as soul, cosmic ledger or rights and wrongs extending beyond our lifespan, persistence soul and spirit and consciousness long after death, sacrifice for sins and its efficacy, divinities keeping records of right and wrongful actions and knowing which is which, resurrection possibilities, final judgement and judgments and karma in this life and afterlife, all things hidden from a mind trapped in scientism and scientific materialism.

Spirits

The scriptures were written for an audience who knew what spirits are. They knew about three kinds of spirits. More ancient scriptures show this. They knew about 1) ghosts = spirits of humans, 2) gods = spirits of non-human and non-animal beings (like ghosts which have never had a human existence or animal existence), and 3) partial human, partial god spirits. Cuneiform symbols capture this knowledge. There is a symbol for ghost, a symbol for deity, and a symbol combining the two. Scientific materialists have forbidden this belief in the last century or so. Obviously not everyone believes scientific materialists. A subset of non-human spirits is elemental spirits. Elements of nature have spirits. This is behind a lot of pagan ritual but also forms part of godly life, as seen is weird passages of scripture and mysterious doctrines such as some of the more mysterious things sometimes commanded by God. A concept or quality can have an essence which has a spirit. 

Ezekiel and Kievan Rus'

Israel lobbying is to some extent driven by scripture understanding, prone to misunderstanding. It has huge influence on US and UK foreign policy. Iraq war. Intentions against Iran. Lybia invasion. Palestinians. And now attitude towards Russia. Key to some of this is clearly a prophecy in the scripture book of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. One influential conservative evangelical book I read as a teen in the 1980s told me to interpret Ezekiel 38 and 39 as a future invasion against Israel by countries it lists. In that list is Persia. Clearly, the book says, this is Iran. The writer became famous in Israel. Lance Lambert. In the UK many conservative evangelicals read the book and were inspired to lobby based on its interpretation of Ezekiel. Lobbyists seem to want the countries listed to be preemptively attacked by US and UK. Look at how this has influenced wars. The list includes Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Egypt, and all because interpretations of Ezekiel’s prophecy point to these as modern equivalents of names given during Ancient Greece times. Also in that prophecy is mention of ‘prince of Ros, Meshech, and Tubal’ (Ezekiel 38:1-3, 39:1). The ‘understanding’ in the conservative evangelical view of this is that it points at Russia. Ros (Rosh) being Russia, Tubal being Tublinsk, Meshech being Moscow. Could it really be that influence on wars and attitudes driving Western countries towards wars, led by US and UK, influenced by lobbying, has been based on how this list of Ezekiel future enemies of Israel is interpreted? It seems so. Now Russia gets singled out. Nobody wonders if the interpretation is wrong. Yet nobody involved is asking what history tells us about possible meanings of ‘Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal’. Rus was possibly (etymology is not an exact science) an ancient Greek term for a people of Eastern Europe and for a taxation system associated with them. The term over the centuries was used for a region based, not on Russia, but on Ukraine, Kiev in particular. It was for centuries called Kievan Rus. The people known as the Rus might have included descendants of Eastern European Scythians, Tartars Cossacks, but also, perhaps most of all, the Vikings who used that region for trade. They had very fierce warriors in Byzantine times. Belarus and Russia have Rus in their names today but the historical leader of the Rus region was Kiev, Ukraine. Could the focus today on Rus as apocalyptic Armageddon future enemy of Israel be behind the current Western Russophobia? Could this all be because of a misunderstanding of Ezekiel 38/39? How awful if WW III starts from a misunderstanding of a prophecy.

The New Testament

Can we igmore a loved one’s last will and testament? What about the Lord’s? The will and testament of Jesus Christ from before the awful crucifixion? It was a crucifixion endured for us. Can we ignore the will left behind to us, for us to keep, as recorded in the gospel of John? Love one another while Jesus is gone. He will not be gone forever. Risen from the dead just days after dying, now with the Father, yet that last will and testament is enshrined as holy writ, we call the New Testament of the Bible after it. If a believer is in charge of a country at war with a country seeking a treaty with us, are we to forget the testament of Jesus Christ and hate that believer? God’s fellowship is promised to us in the will, if we keep its terms. Should we forfeit that fellowship and that of God’s beloved Son? No. God forbid.   

Secret of God

 As Jesus said, those who love God are those who keep the teachings of God taught by Jesus, and to these people God shows himself, and Jesus shows himself. 

Topmost authority

 There are spirits, despite what materialists say. There is a mighty spirit who is God over spirits and ultimate Creator. This is the Father. There is another spirit who is a human who is the begotten son, the only begotten son, of this Father. This human spirit is Lord in nature, having topmost authority in Nature under this one God the Father. This lordship can be experienced directly in how this lord, this master over the believers, can interact with us in utmost authority even over our innermost being. This Lord has the fullest backing and love and favour of the Father. Nature bows to this authority, the authority of this Lord’s name, standing, ways, teachings and reputation. This Lord is Jesus Christ, whom evil men crucified but God raised from the dead to live forever. Believe in God and believe also in Jesus. To know the truth about Jesus, follow Jesus’ teachings. They will set you free. 

Russophobia

 Russophobia is no good for anyone, especially no good for russophobes. Hatred clouds the mind and blurs the vision. It sucks people into wars in which their children suffer. It enslaves the haters. It blocks dialog and undermines diplomacy. The haters lose God’s favour and risk His protection.

The living and loving God and His Son

 Contrary to the opinions of some, God (the top one) does do a lot today and does it often: Mingling with believing disciples in fellowship with us, saving the day in small or big ways, answering prayers, making things turn out well for us, directing us to love one another. Likewise God’s Son. They (God and Jesus) thus fulfil Jesus’ last testament before dying for us. We love them by following their teachings, and they in turn live in fellowship with us by answering our prayers and showing us themselves. This is the New Testament today and forever. Ever real.

The last angelic session

 As Germany joins an arms race to counter Russia and supply Eastern Europe with weapons, it looks like the prophecy of the last invisible angelic shepherd in the Book of Enoch (Dream of the Beasts) is starting to prove plausible. Essentially the last reign of seventy invisible shepherd angels is foretold for our next few decades, leading up to 2800 years since the Assyrian invasion of ancient Israel. The last twelve angels in control of world events affecting the people of God are foretold to be each more deadly than their predecessors. The last angel would be starting their forty year session around now. Previously there were angels presiding over judgmental persecutions of people of God in which more deaths were counted than in previous sessions since centuries before Christ came. The last angel session (spanning forty years) is predicted to be of the same order of deadliness as the previous eleven (spanning a little over four centuries). This means it is a prediction along the lines of the next decades being similar in terms of deaths of people of God to those decades which included WW II. This is all in judgment for the apostasy which started among the people of the covenant with God before the Assyrians invaded ancient Israel. A covenant with God must be honoured. We should love God with all our heart and honour and teach His teachings to our children, not ban them in our schools. God lets these angels rule invisibly with deadly force and does not relent from anger. Yet soon it will be the end of this 2800 year punishment period and the Christ will return to judge more directly and in righteousness.

Ancient markers

Since ancient times, people worldwide have been following encounters with divinities and elemental spirits, sometimes becoming effectively slaves to spirits. Markers of places of divine or elemental spirit encounters were set up, like you see in Shinto shrines and folk religion spirit houses and elf houses. It is even mentioned in scriptures that when patriarchs encountered God immediate thought went to setting up a stone to mark the spot, or when disciples saw Jesus transfigured, immediate thought went to building a shrine to mark the spot. The spirit it is hoped, might return to that place if it was marked by a stone or might return habitually it and to go inside that structure if it was a small building. The hope was that this spot could be returned to for worship and seeking blessing. Places of spirit encounters were places where further communing with spirits and gaining of spirit blessings could be hoped for, sometimes sought by making offerings. Special days in the calendar were designated to help organise this. Rituals take place to further such spirit communion. The Christian gospel of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Christ allowed the freeing of people from the slavery to the elemental spirits which had been encountered and so that the spirits serving the Most High supreme spirit who had sent Jesus Christ could be regarded as ministering spirits and this Father God alone worshipped together with His Son Jesus, the Lord. The body of the believing receiver of the Holy Spirit from God (God the Father), with their own spirit awakened, then becomes the site of visitation, the temple, and the joining of believers by this fellowship becomes the special house of God. To this day, though, the shrines are still built and visited and the special days and ceremonies used to seek after and appease those elemental lesser spirits. It is the way it always has been for many in their traditional culture because not everyone believes the gospel of Christ.

Snake on a pole the symbol of healing

 The Israelites were led by Moses in the desert when they left slavery in Egypt. Then they grumbled. So God sent a plague of snakes. They were bitten. Moses begged for mercy on their behalf. God gave an odd but spiritually effective way to heal them. Spirit is odd. We have scientific materialistic doctrines taught us about spirit not existing, so we do not learn about spiritual matters. Science either dismisses them or calls it all mystery. Anyway the spiritual power of symbols is real sometimes. God told Moses to use a symbol to convey God’s healing. A snake made of bronze was put on a wooden pole and held up in the camp of people. They looked at it and there it was symbolising that snake nature which afflicted them with poison. That snake nature was spiritually held up there crucified, and it got spiritually destroyed with a spiritual curse, so that they would have healing from the venom. It worked. Spirit is real sometimes. They were healed by looking at it. That is power of the spirit of God. Now we have a much bigger problem. The venom we suffer is not from snakes. It is from humanness: our own and the humanness of those around us. It makes us do wrong. We fall short. Our ethical standards are beyond our human ability to achieve. If we cannot meet even our own ethical standards, so much more with God’s. This poisons our lives. Jesus Christ got crucified on a cross to make the spiritually healing symbol of a human on a cross of wood. That humanness was made a curse on a cross for our healing and ethical shortfall. That was effectively our humanness up on that cross being crucified and its poisoning power was being destroyed. We died on that cross. Our human venom was rendered into nothing. The Lord Jesus rose from the dead and the curse was finished forever. We therefore share that end of the curse. We have newness of life because we are dead on that cross, and because Jesus rose from the dead, ending that curse. The symbols are more effective than mere symbolism. They are spiritually the power of the spirit of God for our healing. It works. We have life welling up in us because the humanness is crucified in the crucifixion Jesus endured. He bought us life. With the holy blood of the Lamb of God that Jesus is. We should no more let failing be our thing. It is for life that we are healed.

That eagle overhead

 That eagle of war over Eastern Europe believers is not much different than the eagle over Western believers too. We have sinned: That, says the LORD, is why the eagle is overhead. It looms over us all. We have all broken the sacred covenant. We appoint our leaders without God’s approval. We ignore God’s words. We neglect to teach God’s teachings to our children. We even ban God’s teachings in our schools. Mushroom clouds are foretold. Forewarned we should repent and maybe our Father God will relent. This is so, so serious.

God’s arm is stretched out still

 God does not like war and destruction. There is no pleasure for God in the death of criminally behaving people. God likes people. God likes cities. God finds shade in the umbrella of a city of humans He has created. God does not happily destroy a city or watch over its destruction. This provides a pathway of hope. Repenting from criminal and unjust behaviour and from violence can lead to an averting of a crisis. Love towards God and the advertising of His teachings is a pathway of health, life, freedom and every blessing. Yet falling short of this leads to impending war and heaven-sent scrutiny. God’s arm is stretched out still.

The concept of ‘gods

 The Rabbinical Judaism assignment of a twisted ‘majestic plural’ meaning to the god(s) word Elohim allowed Genesis to not be heresy in the rules of the Rabbinical Jews of the second century AD and following. This get-out allowed the Rabbinic Jews and Talmud to label as heresy any attempt to attribute the work of creation to any being but the Most High. All rather convenient. But the real meaning is revealed in other scriptures where the LORD God (Most High) is called the king above all Elohim. Elohim are a nation’s gods. Usually nations had multiple gods in a kind of pantheon, but Abraham had only one god in his Elohim ‘pantheon’. So a clumsy but fairly accurate translation of Elohim might be ‘god-set’: Your national set of gods. The singularity of this god-set of Abraham led to this word applying to one being in some contexts, the Most High, El-Shaddai. In other contexts such as a context of a foreign nation the word would mean all the nation’s gods. In a very general context it would mean all the gods, such as when Yahweh is called the king above all gods. 

Enoch 93:7

 Enoch 93:7

“Woe to those who build up their houses with crime; for from their very foundations shall their houses be demolished, and by the sword shall they themselves fall. Those, too, who acquire gold and silver, shall justly and suddenly perish. Woe to you who are rich, for in your riches have you trusted; but from your riches you shall be removed; because you have not remembered the Most High in the days of your prosperity: [you shall be removed, because you have not remembered the Most High in the days of your prosperity.”

These words follow instruction of Enoch to his son to tell him of the final judgement and the events of history in predetermined times leading up to that judgement. So Enoch is strongly advising his son, and those who listen to his son, about the way to live rightly and not be condemned in that judgement. We only need to read our news today to find evidence of many, many using criminal or near-criminal ways to build up their careers and property. Once the criminality of people is exposed we might think that punishment should follow but might not follow as it should. Especially the rich and powerful get away with actions the rest of us would be punished for, and we know we would forfeit our wellbeing and future if we acted so criminally. Yet we know that God judges. There can be justice from heaven when none is metered out by society and the legal system. Now this passage in the Book of Enoch confirms that God even uses war to bring about such punishment. Violent death is sent as punishment, typically through war or similar means, and it even reaches the rich who prosper from criminality and deception, swindling and cheating, trickery and craftiness. Stand back and let it be. Intercede by all means, but do not stand in the way of God’s justice or pervert it or obstruct it. Live a right lifestyle that does not warrant such punishment. 

Scientific naivety

 In the West and increasingly globally we live in an age of scientific naivety. Scientists have deliberately suppressed any knowledge of spirit and only acknowledge material things, a universe of gravity, matter and energy. There is more than this. There is a whole ‘ology’ of spirit to be known and understood. The naivety is dangerous. You cannot understand truth if you deliberately ignore spirit. 

The trickery of science and scientists, medicine and medics

 Many published scientists do not recognise the trickery in sciences. For me it is a lifelong sadness to see how dishonest scientific work can be and how easily people are tricked by its devices, deceptions and ability to mislead and frighten people into parting with their money and public money. Look at how it all started. Rosicrucianism. Invisible colleges like the Royal Society. Sorcery - secret groups of esoterists who were forced to rely solely on experimentation rather than black magic and white magic, by the church which was burning their books and arresting them. If it wasn’t for book burning there would be no experimental modern sciences, no natural magic arts as the sorcerers used to call it. Many scientists despise the inquisitions and book burnings that took place when the printing press invention started spreading sorcery ideas and beliefs by the esoteric groups which included originators of modern sciences. Yet without those actions by the church there would be no formation of the experimental scientific process and the scientists would still be blatantly practicing sorcery today. At least today we find that there is a modicum of decency about use of experiments instead of invocation of spirits to find secrets of Nature. Without church censorship this change would not have happened. Yet the agendas of scientific studies still have great overtones of the aims of the sorcerers who started it all: philosopher stone, reanimation, crossing of species, homunculus, chimera, immortality, gold from base metals, and so on. These can all be discerned in modern counterpart scientific and medical goals. Medicine still tricks people into buying drugs and chemicals they do not need and are better off without. Trickery is so much part of what we see from medical and scientific officials. The leopard does not change its spots. It learns to blend in by its spots to hide from the hunter while terrorising its prey.  

Woe in the UK

 What a day when we find everyone is duped and possibly complicit in it. Trickery of medical science. Enmity against all that is right. The profits made from fear of death rates inflated by the statisticians by reporting deaths WITH covid persistently as if they were deaths FROM covid. The movement of money on a huge scale, not just in UK but globally, from public purses to pharmaceutical private purses. The poverty we will all now experience, if outside of the circles of pharma and medicine, as the currency value plummets due to the ‘printing’ of extra money to pay for the medical supplies, tests and vaccines. May their money perish with them. Just a little more than 17,000 actually dying in UK FROM covid, as distinct from huge published figures of those dying WITH covid. That is in comparison to 700,000 normal annual deaths in UK in any years. Woe. The rich have robbed the poor. Woe to them. The guides have been tested and found to be blind. Or if they claim to see, then their guilt is profound. Either incredibly stupid or incredibly guilty.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2013%3A10-12&version=NTE

So now we know

So now we know! Or partly know.

Only 17,500 deaths in UK actually FROM covid, as distinct from WITH covid. Office of National Statistics figure, yet even there they only published openly the figures of deaths WITH covid. It took a legally binding request to get the figure of FROM covid deaths.

The collusion to this has been surely unprecedented in history. Not just government. All those such as Big Pharma who profited. All those who held back from questioning such high death rate figures being published, failing to ask for actual figures of deaths caused by covid, in those not having other causes of death. So, so many caught up in this and profiting. So many fearful to question it. Who can we trust anymore? Not many. And all that dishonesty just waiting to be manifest in another way soon. Unpunished this will just keep recurring in other ways. Trickery is the new norm. Woe. Woe. Woe.

Refusal

 When we refuse to believe tricks, propaganda, misleading news and advertising, there must be a danger that their whole system would fall apart, otherwise they would not go to such lengths to try to trick us and make us believe it all.

Trickery

 It is increasingly obvious that the world is filling up with tricksters. Snake oil salesman is the new template for not only careers but for the common way of life. Medical sciences are now highly funded but looking at the past concept of medicine you find that trickery has long been a major part of it and the prominence of this career path in global society makes trickery prominent too. It seems trickery is here to stay. Yet there is a silver lining because there is a Lord. There is a Master. There is one who has a right claim to the ownership of our innermost being. This of course is Jesus Christ, alive from the dead. His testimony highlights the trickery, the deception, and the enmity at large against all that is right. His teachings offer personal purification, as does the blood Jesus shed on the cross which can cleanse our tarnished consciences. We must cling to this one life boat before our Titanic of society sinks forever.

Children of the rich

 The children of super-rich people might get so used to buying all they want that they know they can buy people too. It is a bit despicable because it is too much like seedy corruption, like the vices of Babylon the Great. Yet the son of the richest person ever, did buy people, with his holy blood, and this son is not despicable but is the real deal, faithful and true. The reason it is no Babylon the Great, but rather the Kingdom of God, is that this person is totally genuine, totally legit. Nothing seedy. No vice. He really did purchase us with his blood, holy blood. The only-begotten. The Son of the Creator, God. This lord over us is Jesus Christ. 

The gods of the nation

 A nation must have its gods. There is no word for this concept, is there? Pantheon is not the same thing. A nation can acknowledge that other gods might exist and might even be part of a pantheon with that nation’s own gods. That leaves no room for considering their own gods to be a pantheon. Part of a pantheon, maybe. What to call their own gods? A godhead? Same problem as pantheon. There was in ancient Hebrew, as part of a concept shared by the ancients, a word Elohim. It is copiously threaded through the Hebrew scriptures. A nation’s gods are its Elohim. Yet for Abraham, patriarch ancestor of the ancient Israelites, the Elohim he knew and owned as his own, was one single being, El Shaddai, the Elohim of Abraham, the gods of Abraham, one god, who to many of us today is simply God. Abraham’s great descendant Moses knew this one God, the Elohim of Abraham’s descendants who walked in Abraham’s faith, as Yahweh. To me this One God is simply God. Jesus teaches us to call this One God ‘the Father’. In all this the initiative has come from this God Himself. To Abraham this God came down to speak to Abraham and to tell Abraham “I am El Shaddai”. To Moses this God came to visit and said “To Abraham I was El Shaddai, and to you I will be Yahweh”. Then Jesus came, with the word to us all that this God is the Father, his own father. Even to me this God once came and said “I am God”. Maybe others have been visited like this too. Yet, it is all one being, God. For many of us this One True God who sent Jesus Christ is our Elohim, our single person sufficient as our gods, content to have no other gods but God. Other gods do exist, yet only the Father is our One True God and Jesus Christ is His only-begotten Son. This One Lord of us all sent by this One True God. This Lord is Jesus. Son of the One True God.

The Father

 El Shaddai: In Genesis 17 verse 1, this is the unique name for God, the Father, which God gave Himself when speaking to Abraham. He is identified as Abraham’s Elohim in verse 22: The whole Elohim of Abraham, Abraham’s godhead, his set of trusted gods, is one person El Shaddai. Clearly this is what God later referred to with Moses when He said “to Abraham I made myself known as El Shaddai”.  So from the passage about Moses in Exodus we find that this is the same being as Yahweh. The closest meaning of El Shaddai I can find is God-the-Shedu. A Shedu is a huge wondrous male creature seen later in Assyrian statues, head of human, body of lion, wings, legs of an ox. Like the cherubim described by Ezekiel. People say this represents power in all areas of power. (It is also known by the female equivalent called a Lamassu.)

Technologism

 Nothing will persuade people away from obsessively using drugs and chemicals every way possible for every slightest problem. In this faith of technologism, people are utterly convinced technology solves every problem. Scientism goes along with it: thinking all facts must be scientific. It is the new way, the scientific-materialist religion. No technology will cure it, until it becomes like a terminal illness killing off many species of animals and eventually humans too.

Hosea 8

 “Put the trumpet to your lips!

    An eagle is over the house of the Lord

because the people have broken my covenant

    and rebelled against my law.

2 Israel cries out to me,

    ‘Our God, we acknowledge you!’

3 But Israel has rejected what is good;

    an enemy will pursue him.

4 They set up kings without my consent;

    they choose princes without my approval.

With their silver and gold

    they make idols for themselves

    to their own destruction.”

Hosea 8

Israel has sinned

What does a cross do?

 What does a cross do? Why have exorcists since ancient times used a cross to repel possession and heal their patients? What power is in that cross? Moses lifted up a serpent on a pole, akin to a cross, to heal mass snake bite victims and repel the snake poison. The serpent on pole and the cross are symbols used by medics and pharmacists in modern times as well as by sorcerers and exorcists since ancient times. The cross propitiates. It takes the brunt of the divine judgment within a situation of punishment for wrongdoing. It substitutes for the judgment of recipient of punishment. It holds up towards the patient a symbol of the evil being dealt with. The one upon the cross has to be in the form of that evil, in order for the evil to be overcome by this combination of propitiation (bearing the punishment instead of the patient) and substitution (bearing before the creditor the debt of the patient’s wrong doing). This was the meaning of a cross symbol in ancient times. The symbol was called MASH. (This might be a root of words Mass, and Massiah, we associate with this cross today.) The Messiah took this position of becoming sin on a cross to deal with sin and bear the brunt of wrath of God against us because of our sins. This heals us when we look to the cross in faith. It heals the punishing effects of sin and repels the power of sin by bearing the divine punishment and wrath so that we do not have to. So we should turn from our sins and live rightly, grateful for this cross and remembering its bearer, its substitute sacrifice.

Knowledge beyond science

 Most scientists look at the universe as scientific materialists leaving God out. They make God ‘out of scope’ of their science and deny the existence of anything except matter, energy and gravity. So the evidence of the nature of God is deemed by their definition ‘unscientific’. Yet God gives us both reasoning ability and faith and moral compass to lovingly include Him in our knowledge, once we discover this knowledge from the cross of Christ. The testimony of the apostles becomes more important to us than the science of the materialists. What is out of scope to scientific materialists is in scope to believers. 

The most important messenger

 God takes a human who can eat and drink to speak certain things to humans, for the salvation of humans who need to be able to identify with the speaker of the saving message. Human ghosts and non-human spirits are useful in some situations but limited in use because they overly scare the human recipients of the message. So for utmost important saving messages and truly vital works of salvation, God uses a living human messenger, whether alive as a mortal or risen as an immortal resurrected human. Even the resurrected human can scare the hearers so in the main a mortal human, not yet having died, is used for the truly vital and saving messengering. The Book of Enoch describes the ultimate messenger from God, the very son of God, to be in fellowship with humans for their salvation and to help and counsel them to keep them ever righteous and at peace with God, the Son of Man, the anointed Elect One. Jesus proclaimed this Son of Man as himself, sent by God. 

Health warning

 The Book of Enoch is a health warning about the world we live in: about the world’s technologies, cultures, sorceries and sciences, fashions, customs, superstitions, military ways and the behaviour of its people. It shows the unfortunate spiritual origins of these things and the downsides of our objects of desire. The outcome is that we should have our eyes more widely open as we live in this world and we should practice a strategy of daily avoidance of what it has to offer. It does not forbid anything. It does not legislate. It cautions. It enlightens. It explains. It leaves the decisions to us on how we will apply its lessons to our lives. Overall we should practice a strategy of knowledgable avoidance and live by the guidance and truth of the Holy Spirit of God.

Message in a bottle

 If you believe in the veracity of Jesus Christ and the gospel testimonies of Jesus endorsing the Book of Enoch, you can eventually understand that the Book of Enoch is a message in a bottle to you. You were known 5000 years ago when Enoch wrote much of it and you were its target audience. God can transcend time by foreknowledge and predestination. The Spirit who inspired Enoch inspires us still today and has the same things to say as then. Much of what the Holy Spirit says to us today is right there in the Book of Enoch just waiting for us to read it and be astounded.

Looming

 Let’s not get hysterical about it but nuclear war involving UK and US is looming. UK and US sin is the cause. Time to involve God in our appointment of our leaders. We are covenant nations under God. 

Divine imperative

 If your old life has died and your new life is hidden with Christ in God, if so, then the mysterious and distant crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ has your life mingled with it and that event has formed part of the makings of your inner being: The most important brick in the wall. There are others too who have these same components in their life and so there is a mysterious unity running between those who are joined to Christ in this way. Love one another. Speak truthfully to one another. 

Divine fellowship

Remaining in Jesus’ love is as important as Jesus remaining in the Father’s love. Jesus remaining in us is compared by Jesus to the Father remaining in Jesus. Jesus remains in the Father and the Father in him by Jesus keeping the Father’s words and doing what pleases the Father and having the Father’s constant devoted love. So too with us. As you get to know Jesus and find you have fellowship with Jesus by holding to Jesus’ teachings, you suddenly find you actually know the Father too and have fellowship with the Father and have the Father in your circle. That is because the Father is in Jesus’ circle, in Jesus’ life, in Jesus’ whole way of doing things, in the outcomes of all that Jesus does and in all the workings of Jesus’ actions and teachings and miracles. Seeing Jesus, we see the Father. Seeing the Father we see He has a beloved only begotten Son who we find is right there with the Father. The two are inseparable. 

Christ died for you

The cross in ancient times was symbolic. It was symbolically used to hold up a bronze figure of the enemy of a demon in order to exorcise that demon or defeat that enemy. The bronze figure depicted on the bronze cross was a lord or enemy with power over the evil being. This was a practice from the dawn of human civilisation. Moses was told by God to deal with a plague of snakes among the camp of people by making a bronze snake and putting it on a pole and holding it up in the camp to cure those bitten by the snake. These kinds of practices were known among ancient peoples as the way evils were overcome in exorcism and healing. The cuneiform ancient writing symbol of a cross came to be associated with exorcism and divine healing. This was so from the start of civilisation even back when writing first came into existence. Holding up a figure of a powerful spirit would fend off other powerful spirits. Artefacts from long before the crucifixion of Jesus Christ show this very well established practice. Even today we see that ambulances have images of the serpent on the pole and have crosses on them. Medical pharmacy stores do the same. The Red Cross organisation does this too. God did it with His Son. The Christ on the cross is held up - against an evil. We are that evil. Our wrong behaviour. That powerful person held up before us to overcome the evil of us is our Lord. That Lord over us is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ crucified. Now risen as both Lord and Christ. Looking to this Lord Jesus Christ and learning from him, believing his veracity, believing God sent him, this overcomes our evil consciences and leads to powerful divine healing from our wayward behaviour. Dwelling on this truth of Christ crucified for you opens you to the healing and restoring power of God, allowing the correcting Spirit of holiness from heaven to enter your innermost being and lead you into truthfulness and truth. Look to this Lord Jesus Christ crucified for you and be healed from your evils and be cleansed in your conscience. 

Resurrection

 Resurrection is important to God. It is such an important part of His agenda that He does it three times, first on Lazarus, then on Jesus, God’s own son, then ... well we just have to wait for what is next.

The banquet buffet

 Jesus is like a banquet buffet laid out before us. Faced with a banquet buffet, some pick around the edges and are satisfied with a taste; others dive in. They all get satisfied and tell the story. Some have more of a story to tell. 

Omicron and providence

 COVID19. A lot of factors come together to cause the ‘evolutionary’ variant changes to ‘stick’. Proximity to other variants. Distance from antigens for a prolonged time. Chance is one of many factors. Darwinian ideas might play a role but that seems to be belittled nowadays. What nobody fully understands is the role of providence. Call it reversed entropy if you like. Convenient changes. Serendipity. Things moving towards a beneficial outcome such as Omicron. Omicron combining several changed properties resulting in rapid spread plus reduced threat to life. An overall benefit. And after there had been just a few variants. Coincidence? Understanding coincidence is like understanding providence. Very remarkably beneficial changes or very noticeably harmful changes, remarkably varying from the expected statistical average. Luck - good or bad. Here we should ask “Does God throw dice?” Answer: perhaps not but God determines outcomes. Science cannot comment on that because it is the unknown, non natural, untestable, undetectable metaphysical universe where science only sees matter, energy and gravity, but cannot tell us if that is all there is because it is unable to see that far.

Human origins

 If humans were evolving for millions of years and have been around as humans for hundreds of thousands of years, why so few pyramids? Why no beautiful building remains older than ten thousand years old? Why no writing before five thousand years ago? Why no technology? Why no global destruction till now? “They were hunter gatherers,” say the advocates of the current too-big-to-fail, dogmatic theory. Nomadic hunter gatherers exist today and in the last few thousand years but look at Aksum, Timbuktu, the Great Zimbabwe and other glorious cities built by our equivalent in the last two millennia of so-called nomadic hunter-gatherer races, you cannot just sum up thousands of years of humans with such sweeping phrases like hunter gatherers. There are still tribes in Papua New Guinea living as they always lived. Yet other parts of Papua New Guinea have cities. Even the newly discovered cannibal tribes there are still building amazing tree houses. Without outside influence. Humans are a very capable species, irrespective of their lifestyle. Just because some people live as so-called hunter gatherers in known history does not mean those people and others nearby don’t build buildings, sophisticated buildings which last. Look at nomadic Tuaregs and Berbers but then look at the astonishing library and civilisation of Timbuktu in the Middle Ages. Human hunters, gatherers and nomads are a species which does amazing feats of innovation and builds amazing buildings. It is in our blood, whether or not we hunt, gather and migrate. So again I ask, if humans were evolving for millions of years and have been around as humans for hundreds of thousands of years, why so few glorious building remains older than ten thousand years old? Where is real solid evidence of humans living hundreds of thousands of years ago, given that it is in the nature of humans to build, learn, innovate, design beauty and leave behind buildings which can last thousands of years? Typically big, long-lasting building projects have happened among humans several times every millennium, throughout known ancient history. Why no evidence of these before ten thousand years ago? Then they suddenly started. That is not consistent with a slowly evolving species existing in its present state for hundreds of thousands of years then evolving just a little more. 

Genesis according to the modern world

 Once upon a time a couple of unknown creatures wandered into a swamp, settled down in the swamp land and they or a couple of their descendants gave birth to a baby human. Why have creatures ever since then not given birth to baby humans in other places too? Perhaps the couple of unknown creatures were on the very point of extinction and were themselves children of new species, so none of their kind existed before or after that, to have other baby humans. Who did that baby human pair with, to produce its human descendants? It must have been ultra-human because it would have had to couple with the kind of creature its parents were, immediately diluting its humanness. So its descendants were at most slightly human, having had to couple with and breed from non-humans. It is all a nicely far-fetched human-concocted notion, if you ask me. A fairy tale? Or a product of atheistic scientism and scientific materialism. Either way, for atheists who want to cancel God, it makes a nice story to tell their children.

Information and life

Life usually consists of cells. Cells have lots of information and need lots of information. The DNA for example, but also RNA, mRNA, and mechanisms for how these all work together and fit together. The information exists to tell a cell to produce other cells and to change into specialised cells and to stay alive, with all the processes that requires and the information about all the protein sequences that are required, etcetera, etcetera. Even a plasmid or virus needs information to encode amino acids into useful proteins that will help the DNA or RNA to reproduce in host cells, despite being so relatively simple in structure that some scientists say the plasmids and viruses are not really independently alive. Even such semi-alive viruses and plasmids need to store, reproduce and evolve huge amounts of information and to develop within a context in which exists huge amounts of information. Then there is the overall context such as the direction in which these living and semi-living things evolve and relate to each other in an ecosystem. For a bee to hatch and grow into adult there has to be an overall information system that says whether there will be flowers with nectar to gather. For flowers to grow there has to be information that bees exist to pollinate them once they are mature. The information in a planet inhabited by living things is so vast. Then the planet needs information to keep it inhabitable. If it does not persist in a certain orbit from its star it will become uninhabitable. Something has to hold the information about the orbit and the parameters of flexibility of that orbit within which life will continue. All these things are prerequisites of life. Where is all this information stored? Within life itself. So how would life come out of gravity and matter and energy unless it existed before gravity and matter and energy?  Ultimately this information needs more besides in order to result in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the new future that comes about through Jesus. All the prerequisites for the coming of Jesus require the kind of holy information that could not come from mere gravity, matter and energy alone but must be previously stored in Life existing before these material things. 

A prayer for England

The original English king, Alfred, famously established a law code for everyone, based on scriptures and Christian case judgments. It led over the following millennium to the worldwide concept we find today in most countries of the rule of law. For some countries it is only recently that this concept of laws for everyone in a country has been adopted. Yet behind this we have a concept of Christian values of virtuous judgment by priestly leaders and monks. Oddly, England did not allow the English successors of Alfred to continue to rule England and allowed England to be dominated by other countries for a thousand years. Yet other countries in turn adopted the law system of Alfred which he in turn had inherited from both Christian religion and Europe’s Charlemagne empire. England had started from Anglo Saxon mercenaries accompanying Roman imperialists as the hatchet men of Rome and it continued as providers of warrior men for successive foreign rulers of England for a thousand years. Today we have more access to scriptures and we have the revivals of Holy Spirit leadership over English churches, concurrent with similar movements in the other countries of the British isles. Now we know that providing mercenary services to foreign rulers is not the epitome of a Christian country but rather a violation of God’s higher call through Christ Jesus to peace and to a putting away of the sword. Let England no longer be a provider of the sword to every neighbouring or treaty-yoked country. Let us be led towards peaceful life as well as lawful life, with the teachings of Jesus Christ held in highest esteem. God grant us rulers who will lead us towards this. God cease from punishing our wayward folly with leadership by the blind into meaningless war amid a threat of World War III.

Every man sitting under his own tree

 Hitler’s vision was a car for every family - the people’s car. Let’s not follow Hitler. Every household with a garden and some peace and quiet plus a home working cottage industry - more laudable goals: For a healthy outlook and the salvation of this planet.

What is directing us?

 We need there to be sighted leaders who say what they see to the blind who can follow. There are too many blind leaders who say what the blind want to hear but leads to disaster like this horrid threat of nuclear war and the horrid plagues of pharmaceuticals and the old world imperialisms. God judges us by allowing the blind to lead us, but the mercy of God is shown to us by Jesus warning about the blindness of the guides who fail to practice what they preach. If people ignore Jesus then the only outcome is that the things they hear will be directions from blind guides leading to misery, degradation, destruction and war, even a threat of nuclear war. Jesus is still the lord who is our hope, Jesus who is the way, the truth, the life. 

Moral backbone

We listen to things. Sometimes these things are wise things. They are solid and like nails hammered into wood. If we ignore wise things it leaves us flimsy inside. Wise sayings that sink home form a firm inner core in our psyche that directs our thoughts, attitudes, and actions wisely and soundly. It helps our conscience grow truly and properly. We call it a moral compass because it guides us truly. We call it a moral backbone because the words and concepts stick firmly, because they are reliable and sure. The message of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ might seem to an unbeliever to be folly but if we let it take root into a believing inner mentality we find it to be even more sure and true and rightly guiding than words of human wisdom because it is heavenly. It sits there as our moral backbone does only it gives us all the more help towards rightly guided actions than wisdom can give us. It is heavenly. It is like a cross within us, nailing us to it and killing our sinful inclinations even more than moral backbone can do. It strengthens our conscience, inspires our hope and faith and it leads to genuine love. It awakens our inner spiritual being and opens it to the interactions of the heavenly Holy Spirit to cleanse us and make us fitting servants to the service of God the Father, with Jesus Christ as our living lord. It helps us love the world no more, breaking free from the world’s vice grip. To God be thanks. 

Beliefs without evidence

Many atheists say they accept no beliefs without evidence, but theirs is effectively a belief without evidence when they say, without evidence, that no gods or spirits exist, that nothing except the material universe exists. It is not just not believing. It is believing that nothing except the material universe exists. This is called scientific materialism. Many atheists believe in it. It has become a main philosophy of the modern world, underpinning science and much of modern reasoning. There is no evidence for it. For example right now, if you look inside your consciousness, your thoughts, your feelings, your impulses, awareness in your mind, this reasoning will tell you to regard it all as matter and energy and nothing else. It will tell you that material processes can account for all that is going on in your consciousness. This is purely a belief without evidence. There is no evidence that the material universe, the matter and energy and gravity, accounts for everything and is all that exists, that nothing else exists. This is a belief imposed upon us by the modern age, the predominant way of thinking that has arisen in society in recent times, mainly over the last century or so. It is a belief without basis, the very kind of belief that many atheists claim to reject, yet it underpins the atheism of many.

A philosophy of life

 Life cannot come from non-life since too much information would need to accumulate in opposition to entropy. So life must always have existed even before any Big Bang and therefore it must have not been composed of matter and energy. Presumably this life, for it to survive a Big Bang, it would be such that it would not be killed by anything since that Big Bang. So it would be eternal and the source of all other life. At some point it must have made the first life involving matter and energy. The original life would be able to carry the information needed by matter and energy. Since non-material life must exist, it follows that it could have created other non-material life too. No reason to think only the original life created material-based life, several non-material life forms may have collaborated, in all probability. Even material-based life has non-material components such as consciousness, so this supports the existence of pure non-material life going back to before any material universe existed. 

The burden about Britain

 “Israel has sinned”, says the LORD. The powers look to the church to serve their own ends instead of serving God with love. The people look to the powers to rule instead of looking to God to provide the rulers. The UK is supposed to be a covenant country, an Israel of God. Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, all your strength, all your mind. Love God with your voice. With your vote. Seek the will of God in the selecting of your rulers. Bring God into the power system. Teach God’s words to your children. If not? There is looming war, even a hint of possibility of a nuclear aspect to it, with generals and politicians all discussing it even now. The eyes of surveillance are eyes of war. Where will it end? The nuclear option? The bombing planes flying out from a mushroom cloud behind them? Tell it from the rooftops. Love God, your God. Jesus help us, the Lord who is Jesus alive today. 

The real war

 Rumours of wars that don’t yet exist. But some of the mighty will find their actual problem does really exist. There is a living lord who has something against them. This lord is Jesus Christ.

Three heavenly human colleagues

 Presumably there are three human colleagues we know about today who are alive in heaven: Jesus (the Son of Man), Elijah and Enoch. All three are mentioned in the Book of Enoch. All three intercede for the ‘sheep’. I hope they are all good friends. They must get a lot of company with each other.

Jesus Christ’s knowledge of scriptures

Jesus Christ has good knowledge of ancient scriptures. The Book of Enoch turns up in scripture scrolls of the stashes we call Dead Sea Scrolls very frequently, one of the most frequently found sources as Dead Sea Scrolls were being discovered during the last century. A significant proportion of these scrolls date from the time of the first century BC so were likely in circulation also in Jesus’ time. Jesus referred to scriptures about angels not marrying and of all known scriptures of that time, only the Book of Enoch records this detail about angels. Jude, brother of Jesus, wrote about and quoted the book too (Epistle of Jude). Jesus clearly keeps good knowledge of the Book of Enoch and promotes it to believers. It appears to be top of the main list of scriptures endorsed by Jesus Christ. The contents of the Book of Enoch permeate Lord Jesus’ teachings, it is clearly close to Jesus’ heart, and this permeates some of what the Holy Spirit still teaches today in Jesus’ name. “We do well to pay attention to it as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in our hearts.”

What greatest being might exist?

What are the odds of no other beings existing in the universe other than those known to scientists? Of all the beings in the universe, what are the odds of humans being the greatest beings? What are the odds of the greatest being in the universe being greater than humans? Considering the age of the universe, if scientists have calculated it correctly, and the relatively short time humans have existed, if scientists have calculated it correctly, surely the greatest being alive today would in all probability be far, far older and greater than any human beings born in our lifetimes. So how likely is it that atheists are correct in thinking there is no god? The greatest being in the universe, and there must be one, must surely surpass humans so much that we could call this greatest being a god. Anything else would be too improbably to consider a scientific possibility. Why don’t atheists agree? The greatest being in the universe or universes must be a probable certainty, not a myth or a theory or a lie or a fiction. It is inevitable that there is one being who is greatest. By probability alone, the likelihood is almost certain that this being is greater than any of us. Why do atheists not agree? Surely it is not really debatable. What is astounding is that this greatest of all beings has made Himself known to humans and given an only begotten son to save humans. 

Baptism

 Baptism or faith alone? Isn’t it a bit like asking, can you live with a partner as husband and wife or must you get married to be husband and wife? Ceremonies are important in life in societies. Laws hinge on them. We make commitments in our hearts but open, ceremonial commitments are important too. But like living with a partner or getting married it is a choice and depends on circumstances.

Only in Christ

 The answers are only to be found in Christ, when we lose everything that we may gain Christ. 

What is life?

 How could life come from chaos and gravity alone, unless it already existed from the very start of the Big Bang and before? Can life not exist and then exist? Is that consistent with physics? It seems consistent with physics that life existing before the Big Bang would be necessary for life to ever exist after it. This leaves the question: what is the nature of life that could exist before the Big Bang and to survive the Big Bang without ceasing to be alive so that life can exist now, after the Big Bang? What is the nature of that life? It clearly has nothing to do with matter as we know it. It has no hypostasis like gold or silver. 

Mistaken historians

 Why do historians call people such as Enoch ‘mythical’? They are mentioned in contemporary texts, extant texts, so why say they are mythical? The mythical are only mythical until archaeologists can substantiate their existence beyond the contemporary texts such as the Sumerian king lists and scriptural texts such as the Book of Genesis and Book of Enoch. They just need more sources. So ‘mythical’ is a label. It is a misnomer because there is no evidence that these people were NOT real people. There is no evidence they were mythical in a true sense of the word. Lack of known evidence of existence is not evidence of non-existence. This is therefore a mistake on the part of historians and ordinary people who are influenced by these historians and their writings. 

One True God

There are many gods who are spirit beings to whom many prayers have been made and in whom many have hoped. One spirit being stands out above all others because this One is most mighty, most high, king over all others, eternal, and yet most of all this One True God saves those who call on Him and hope in like no other gods ever really do. Yes, gods save, but one is so much greater in saving, so much that true faith can be put in Him, as Jesus taught and does: Jesus the Christ He sent to provide real salvation through all time. It has meant Jesus dying for our sins on a cross and now this same Jesus is the one this One True God resurrected and made the Lord over us all forever. Repent and be baptised in Jesus’ name and you will receive the promised Holy Spirit. Stop prioritising gods who do not save like this God. Serve and prioritise above all others the One True God who sent Jesus Christ for our salvation. When you have received the Holy Spirit you will be led into the truth and spirit anointing you need to serve this God, the Father. 

Holy communion

 Thinking now, it is Saturday evening, so it is Sunday communion online tomorrow morning. Letting Jesus in. Such a powerful yet simple ceremony introduced by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, extending the Passover introduced by the Father more than a thousand years before that. Remembering Jesus and taking in Jesus’ body and Jesus’ blood symbolically but spiritually in this ceremony, showing the death Jesus offered of the holy body and blood of this holy only begotten Son of God on the cross. It started the covenant between God and the disciples of God’s holy Son. Food of eternal life. We kept the feast online during lockdown and we all know what time to attend bringing our own red wine and bread, so though we are many in various houses, we link up at once knowing others do the same. I like to continue it even now lockdown is ending. So simple yet so powerful. So holy. Jesus present in spirit. Lord over us all. Lord having died and risen by the will of God who sent Him.

“Just do your job!”

 “They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.” (2 Peter 2:15)

We must be so careful when we have a choice of the kind of work we do for a living or the kind of employer who employs us. I remember agonising over my line of work decision and I remember the choices of jobs when I was young and unemployed. I tried selling double-glazed windows but they insisted I must lie to potential customers to secure a follow-up visit. I tried scientific lab work but they insisted I must experiment on live animals. I tried IT consultancy and did well for years but it got nasty when foreign not 100% friendly countries wanted ability to control our sensitive document systems. I was very zealous for following Christian gospel teachings in my work and it ruled out so many jobs. Yet now, looking back after forty years of work, it was good to shun any work where wickedness was necessary to earn the wage. Do governments sympathise with this? Do workforce leaders, leaders of industry and heads of government departments influencing work available to us realise that wickedness pays a wage but destroys the moral wellbeing of the worker of that wickedness and threatens to undermine the ways of righteousness laid down by the One True God? Like Balaam mentioned in scripture, it is too easy to start life with good intentions but become professionally wicked. So many professions today involve wickedness. But the answer of society is to tell us there is no such thing as wickedness or righteousness and we should: “Just do your job!”  

The Way of Balaam

 What god would require humans to cultivate human foetus cells, harvested from a wholly unnecessary abortion sixty years earlier, and inject an extract industrially produced from those cells, all in exchange for some kind of overestimated assurance of immunity from a plague, a plague likely produced by the very studies undertaken by the communities who follow such thinking? Does this god also want governments to force these injections on those whose faith requires rejection of such abhorrent practices and ill treat those who have legally succeeded in avoiding such injections? The medical ‘sciences’ following this god are largely made up of those who profess atheism and teach a metaphysics in which gods do not exist, claiming this all comes from experiments on Nature alone. The god of this age is a god who blinds and lies and kills and forces decent people to act against their consciences, even attempting to force such things on those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and follow Jesus’ teachings. Woe to the blind guides. They have followed this ‘way of Balaam’.

“They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.” (2 Peter 2:15)

One God

 The God who parted the Red Sea and led a new people out of Egypt and over a thousand years later was called “Your Father in Heaven” by the Lord Jesus Christ, this God is one person, one being, one God, faithful and true. Love this God with not just your heart, your soul, your strength and your mind but also with all of your voice. Publish His words online, post them around your living space, tell them to others, teach them to your children. Make Him part of your leader elections. Make His commands your goal to understand and follow. Let Jesus His Son lead you by the Holy Spirit. Lean on the teachings and ways of Jesus so they influence your inner understanding and outer actions. This is life and peace. Let Jesus in. Let Him be our Lord and we one people for Him under God.

Greatest sermons in history

 If we look at the great speech of Moses in Deuteronomy - Hear O Israel ... There is first an emphasis on who God is, God the person who led them out, then on God being one person, one God, and then on how to show love to this one person who is God of Israel by keeping this God’s words and giving them high prominence in daily life and teaching them to children to persist them through future generations. It is practical love based on truth. It was possibly the greatest sermon in history, until the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount does not replace it at all, but augments it and completes it. The Sermon on the Mount is in perfect continuity with the Moses Hear O Israel sermon, and Jesus maintained the focus of Moses on “Your God” by then continuing by referring to this same one God as “Your Father in Heaven”. Hence One God becomes in Jesus’ teaching the One True God, the Father.