Happy New Year 2015

Lisa wrote:

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could catch but a glimpse of understanding. To really understand that it is such a great blessing to have a Father that desires to reveal Himself you us. If we could catch this understanding, there would be no reason to have to guard any beliefs. We could get past our need to be “right” in order to come to a wonderfully true understanding of our Father. We truly are wasting our time on such nonsense. To realize that our Father has gone to great lengths just for us to be able to know Him in truth and become one with Him is so amazing. I am so grateful that He has given me eyes to see and ears to hear. How wonderful He is!

JLuxum wrote:

 

Yes indeed. Once we recognize it we enter another realm of which Jesus spoke, the realm of freedom and much more that follows.

Everything in this life can be healed, restored, only doctors give us finality but according to what they know. Once you carry that message it is hard for another message (reviving and restoring) to penetrate the sufferer. Yes, because the other message (doctors' and medicine's, science's finality messages) occupy the mind, the soul, the spirit and of course the body.

Spirit does not change, but the soul can be changed and when that happens the body follows the suit. After knowing God's true nature then according to what you know you can address Him on an intimate level. He hates death and any kind of sickness. He is in business of loving, caring healing and restoring 24/7.

Read this Psalm 42:5 "Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence." David speaks to his own soul.

Then in Psalm 103:1-2 he says, "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits."

Realization: The Psalmist commands his soul to bless, to not forget and to not despair. Ratson (Hebrew: mind, ruler, crown) governs the Nephesh (human soul, the emotional sphere). Just this knowledge alone can release great power to overcome to triumph and experience freedom that comes with joy.

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THE BRIDGE

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Imagine yourself to be God. Sort of come out from your own fleshly enclosure, forget time, locale and distances. Forget what you physically feel, like hunger or thirst, and any other physical senses; and try to see yourself in God’s place. Look ‘down’ on yourself, which would not be correct because God is not above. See yourself from His point of view. How does God see you.

We do not need to intonate a somber melody or repeat our prayers. That would still be from the old view, subjective and fleshly. So we will not correct or undo something, but we will just be.

God sees you and through you all, at once. He sees your feelings, thoughts and your silhouette 100%, totality. You do not need to please Him, beg Him… oops, here I go again; I used negatives as in correction. So I snap out of it again.

God knows everything. Before Him time is not; so the past, present and future are all one. He says hello, what do you say? He watches feels you because He is the all-encompassing Spirit. God does not have a human body, so I do not need Him to have one in order to sympathize. God the Spirit is way more sensitive than we have imagined; precisely because He does not have a human body on Him. He penetrates even the densest molecular and atomic structures in existence. He is all knowing and all aware. Before I think something new He already thought it; that’s why I thought it. He does not bombard you with new thoughts because if He did you would perish. It would be overwhelmingly too much. So He is gentle and yes, very delicate, He feels your vulnerabilities to the max.

Every new imagination comes from Him because apart from Him we are not.  This awareness is an eye-opener, the spiritual eyes, which the organized religion closed for us. But let’s not try to undo what has been done, but let’s go further and all the rest will be taken care of quite naturally. 

God does not sit nor He stands. He is. Omnipresence is transcendence… and here we lack expressions when describing God. He exists and does not exist. When you are dead, God is not. God is only when you are alive for you declare Him. If none of us exist then there is no one to declare Him; so in that sense—to us—He is not, but He is, even when we are not because He is beyond all (material) existence.

These exercises in perceptions are beneficial because they lead to self-nullification and away from partiality. Partiality or subjectivity is because of the physical body, which God does not have.

Do not seek cheap sympathy like, ‘I know I was there myself and I know what you are going through.’ Before you think He knows. Before you pray He knows, such was the teaching of Jesus His firstborn Son. It all comes down to this awareness, which is knowledge. So let’s know God His way and according to His truth and never subjectively according to our "own" imaginations.   

[Matthew 6:7-8]  And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. [8] So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 

The meaningless repetition is religiousness. We have houses of prayer, organized halls of meditations, as if God really needs it. He is there all the time. It is the substance and not many prayers, even deep repentance and intensity rather than some long mantra. A quality of our turning to Him makes it happen. If it happened to me; it will also happen to you.
  

[Matthew 23:13-14]  But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Because those others (present day pharisees, hypocrites) have hijacked your mind, you are unable to stay positive, but as I do right now we all seek correction. Again... I snap out of it and climb higher still.

Jesus had to do it. He had to point out hindrances. The same is with us today. If we do not point the problems that hinder we won't repent. So what I teach is already beyond repentance. But then those who have not yet repented will only criticize me labeling such teachings as influences of Eastern religions' because man must accuse, label and attribute our teaching to one or another religious camp with which they disagree. So it is indeed a bondage from which Jesus came to free us. My elder brother the Firstborn taught me to be merciful. So I try as hard as I can to be merciful.

I see Hinduism and all other Eastern religions as complete blindness for just as Jesus said (above in Mat. 23) they have not entered and prevent others from entering the simple way, because of the "altered states of awareness, mantras, and some special ways of ascendancy to higher levels of awareness etc."

NOTE: Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a veiled form of Hindu yoga, though it claims to be a religiously neutral method of relaxation and rejuvenation. Initiates to TM receive a mantra (Hindu holy word) to repeat while sitting in yogic postures and engaging in yogic breathing. The goal is to find God within their own beings, since God (Brahman) and the self (Atman) are really one.

Even from these defensive measures one must snap out and move on. Do you see the difficulty? Eventually the teacher will have to stop teaching and be a student to himself and then altogether leave this world. It makes me so sad. God is sad. We are sad because of the present state of humanity. So God and His intercessors carry the burden, but for how long?

Religiousness is the thief that steals the truth and why? Because of our flesh, locale and distances; hence self-identity; we filter things subjectively. No one can understand God the Spirit through the eyes of (any) religion. One must be free to get it. Hence, Jesus also came to free us. Ah freedom. What a wonderful thing. The simplicity of His teaching comes down to the simplicity of a child.

We are still on the bridge. I open your spiritual cognitive perceptions to bring you over to a place where I am already. Because I am gracious and forbearing and I would not condemn nor ridicule you God chose me for the task of leading you to Him. You may say, “If you are already there then why won’t you just say what’s on the other side of the bridge?” If I told you, my words would only be empty and meaningless.

Because words alone cannot express that realm, there must first come understanding. Only grasp, digestion and assimilation of the given knowledge can result in wisdom. No one is wise without understanding and knowledge. So what I do is take you step by step and while I do; you will begin to realize, grasp and understand. The Spirit of God in me will communicate with your spirit until we are one in the same Spirit. There are not many spirits but one, even God’s. And that Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot receive nor understand because the world is in but only the physical mindset, which cannot grasp spiritual things anyway.

[John 14:16-17] I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

FOREVER & CANNOT

The eternal Holy Spirit cannot ever die for His mission is to abide in His nature, which is everlasting. Like wind, which is everywhere for it is air, it can be more in some areas and less in another areas; and in some areas we have hurricanes. Yet, it is the same power of air (Hebrew, Ruach). So we attract the Spirit presence to our localized presence because we are physical, while He is not. We cannot be everywhere at once, but He is. Because we can be only in one place at a time we maintain but fragmented way of thinking and these fragments get us into trouble when it comes to dealing with God the Spirit.

The world cannot receive because it is unable to. This inability stems from physical perceptions only. Anything purely physical cannot grasp something spiritual. Anything placed in a locale and time would interpret spiritual things accordingly—measures, time and distances—and this is a fragmented orientation, a characteristic of the (physical) world. The masses are called the world, the field, but in that field God hid His treasure; so now we dig that treasure out. 

The planet earth is a globe, which turns and orbits around the sun. 1 AU equals 149,598,000 kilometers between the Sun and Earth. Our planet is between Venus and Mars. Venus is located 0.72 AU and Mars is 1.52 AU from the Sun. Localizations can fight with the assigned to them territory; and if they do then we would have a cataclysmic chaos. Some believe that it was the case before Genesis one, but they attribute it to Lucifer’s rebellion and his subsequent fall. Oops, here I go again trying to undo something erroneous and preposterous. Discipline yourself oh man.  

 Let’s use God’s gift of understanding.

[Exodus 31:3] “I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge”—God.  

God filled him with three: understanding the given knowledge and when that knowledge is grasped the man was wise, but how? He did artistically beautiful things for the house; be it sculptures, painting, cloth weaving or music-; these are God's gifts for His glory.

[Proverbs 18:2] A fool does not delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own mind.

This is typical of being proud of knowing something. It takes humility to gain understanding (first which absorbs knowledge).

[Proverbs 20:24] The LORD ordains man’s steps, how then can man understand his way?

One must receive the LORD’S understanding, which is timeless, unbroken and unlimited.

[Proverbs 21:16] A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

 

Lack of understanding brings death. Anything fragmented dies anyway, anything one lives forever.

So, planets have distances, which we can measure and they stay in their respective regions. As already said, if they forsake their territory and run to each other the result is destruction of cataclysmic proportions. So they dwell in the all-encompassing God Creator the Spirit (John 4:20). The spiritual realm keeps order, which is always physical. Spirit realm needs no such order for it is harmony itself.

The moment an angel crosses the bridge between the spiritual and physical realms that angel acquires a visible and discernible image. An angel becomes a singular entity, but the moment he slips back into the spiritual realm he loses that image for God has no image. Elohim—God and His angels—are image-less. Any visible contour is only visible on this side for so we perceive things through our physical senses, but that ability is unnecessary on the other side. Hence, “I was in the spirit” expression means to be on the other side of the bridge.

Standing on the bridge is not possible for the mix of spiritual perceptions and the physical ones only results in a man-made religion and subsequent religiousness. We even go further. We organize it and then go even further; we define things, which are invisible, and uncontrollable. We cannot control God, but He controls us already just as He keeps Venus and Mars and the sandwiched between them planet Earth in their respective domains.

The moment we seek to define God in our own religious terms we try to control God and that is sin in His eyes. It is harmful to us and to Him for He loves us.

Through the understanding these aspects we can surrender our lives to Him, but to do that it would be hard if we do not know God, but only ponder on many isolated thoughts, borrowing things from different philosophies, cultures and religions.

LOCALE VS. LOCALE

Imagine Mars boxing the Earth and the earth boxing with Venus. They can do that because they are three separate physical entities. Imagine the same but in reverse, over the bridge on the spiritual side. 

God was before Mars. God has no beginning for only physical things can have a beginning. Just as Venus, Mars and Earth were but only thoughts in God's mind; they could not have boxed or bump into each other, but remain in their respective thought positions and domains. 

EXAMPLE: If you start a war between a number 5 located in the left lobe of your brain and fight number 7 in your right lobe; do you go with it anywhere? Either you make out of these two numbers 12, or keep them as 5 and 7. You can extract 5 from 7 and make a 2 and then you split the 2 into 1 and 1. God the Spirit vs man the flesh. But is that a war? As long as these numbers are only in your cognitive sphere you will enjoy but only the stirring energy of life and nothing else.

PERFECTION

Before we were, God had us in His mind. Then He gave birth to souls and then these souls were enclosed in fragments of earth’s dust. Each mineral particle was transformed when God’s thought passed through them. Muscles, bones, organs and human DNA contain that original thought of God’s creation. That is the reason we can think the way He does and we can be as perfect as He is (Matthew 5:48). If you think that it is totally impossible then you still filter your thoughts through the fragmented flesh. You do not do the perfecting all by yourself, but the Perfect God does it. All you do is allow Him. It takes time perhaps, but you learn His ways.

You are already in Him; you move and exist in Him (Acts 17:28). So what’s the hindrance? Why filtering everything through only the fleshly perceptions and senses? The same God who made you the way you are also suspended you but in Him. You are not in your own anything... You are not self-existent and self-sufficient. Get this delusion out of your head first.

All you need to do is open up your mind to greater possibilities and forsake your blindness. Go deeper and further. Walk with God as Enoch did who explored the endless possibilities of God.    

By this example we see that in the realm of no competing fragments opposing or confronting each other God and His realm are one.

Imagine pomegranate. It is one fruit, but contains many chambers with clusters of seeds. When you have finished eating the juicy flesh off of each seed you have not finished eating the seed, nor the flesh, but the pomegranate. So it is with God and His angels. Therefore, no angel can rebel against something he dwells in. It would be like a war against the bed in which you sleep. Based on this simple logic everything else that has evolved is not God’s thought but man’s, which comes from flesh and physical locale.  

We will cross the bridge to the other side, if you want me to. But if I hear no feedback from you I will keep it all to myself. Anyway, I have a real feast sharing these things with my wife and we are crossing the bridge until one day there will be nothing to cross anymore.

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OVERCOME YOUR INSECURITY

Sarah

I have been dating my boyfriend for 6 months now, and the only time I feel secure is when I am with him. I want to go everywhere he goes, even if I really do not enjoy what he, and his friends have planned.

I love to workout, but I will not go to the gym, until he has to go to work, or be somewhere. I get so jealous about anything related to other women. I even get upset, when I see a naked woman on TV.

I am sad that he will be starting college this semester. I am worried that he will see beautiful college girls, and will want them, instead of me. Sometimes I scroll through his cellphone, to see whom he has talked to throughout the day.

He has never cheated on me, and all the time gives me compliments, but I have major issues with trust and insecurity.

I have such low self-esteem. I never want him to have "guy night" because I want to know what he is doing all the time.

I know this behavior is unhealthy, but who can afford counseling these days?

There have been times that he was going to break up with me, and I thought my life was over. I even had thoughts of suicide. Please help.

I don't know where else to write this, where I feel safe enough to express what is going on in my head. It hurts so much it wants to explode.

Lydia

My family is dysfunctional. My mother, who has never given a toss about me, she is being abusive when she sees me, but usually indirectly, making out that I see myself as above them all.

Her recent words were that I was spoiled, and that I need to wake up. They don't like the fact that I am living my life the way I want to, and do not wish to live by their dysfunctional reigns of control.

Anyway, I have been distancing myself for a while, and usually after a while, my mother texts, me saying she misses me and how ‘am I’, etc. Usually this is after a week. It's been 2 & 1/2 weeks now and no message. Instead, I hear how she has been phoning my brother and they are all carrying on, as if I am not even alive.

It hurts and I know I am doing the right thing by walking away, but at the same time, after 30 years of my life, it hurts that my mother is letting me go. I have no contact with anyone else. I used to only spend my free time around them.

Redirection is the best way to cope with bouts of insecurity. Those who are insecure all the time must be retrained. The habitual patterns of thinking, imagining and visualizing must also be retrained, although it takes considerably longer to achieve a lasting success. 

The insecurity creating factors:

1.     Not taking responsibility and instinctively looking for someone else to blame.

A.  Upbringing, parents, school, society, country and its government.

B. The primeval blame game tree has taken long roots and to poison those roots takes but a diluted solution of poison.

C.  As it is the case with weed killers; it does not take much of the solution to kill weeds all the way down to their roots. It takes sometimes a week before one sees the effect. Almost the same is with the urge to blame someone else.

D.  The urge to blame and be rid of the annoying guilt is almost automatic. Rational mind must face this reality and cope with it the hard way.

2.     In order to grow and mature we need to overcome obstacles. If we don’t overcome them; then the obstacles will become our slave masters, and we their slaves.

A. This knowledge alone should help us refocus and tackle the problem head on. If we do not tackle this problem we will fall victims of commercialism and religious indoctrination.

B. We develop dependence on external dictation as to what I need and want, and how it will solve many of my problems. Buy helps, read and hear… endlessly so.

C. Often, that which really would solve your problem is subconsciously and oddly avoided. The reason for that is the heavily commercialized mind. The Bethlehem manger of Jesus’ birth was not flashy enough, nor was Nazareth an impressive town.   

3.     The Truth: diamonds and gold are hidden in the ground for which one must dig, and that takes an effort, and often much time.  

A.  Anything praiseworthy is rather expensive. There are no quick solutions to anything in this life, and that’s where overcoming plays the most significant role. For example artistic gold and diamond studded jewelry carries labor costs: finding gold and diamonds, the artist’s skill and sense of beauty, design and the assembly. Taking these factors into account one comes up with the final price.

B. Sensitivity is fine, but if you want to make it praiseworthy you must encase it with something resistant and hard. You cannot cater to your sensitivity, and pamper it.

C.  The enclosure for your sensitivity is being tough on yourself, as if hammering down on yourself demanding the best. Those in performing arts do that all the time. They can’t afford to flaunt their sensitivities to the public, so they play a role of secure people.

Now, let’s wrap it all up. A ballerina mercilessly works her toes. An actor demands from himself the best, which is to portray a character most convincingly. It’s been said in Hollywood that Robert De Niro is the most disciplined actor. Al Pacino knows the secret of screen chemistry. These are tricks of the trade. Eventually, any portrayal of secure people creates a self-image, which may not be real, but what is real? Only God is real and the world He had created. Everything else is illusion.

Anyway, the real “you” is indeed dependent on the Higher Power all the time. There is no escaping from it. Call it the Big Bang or God, that force is real, and it gave you life; hence, life is not yours and you can’t live your life as you want to, because it is not yours to take, turn and twist. No woman is God. Humanity comes through women. All are vehicles, vessels and vassals, instruments of life, which the Creator is. This thinking helps us in decimating insecurity.

Find an area in your life that gives you satisfaction, be it artistic, mechanical, or scientific. Like a spark you can fan it until it turns into flames. Keep on perfecting that area of your life until you feel confident enough to share it with others and yes be proud of it. That pride is healthy because you worked on that God given gift. You have not squandered it however small it might have been. Not like the wicked steward who dug a hole in the ground and hid his one talent because he was afraid.

[Matthew 25:24-28] And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. [25] And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ [26] But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. [27] Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. [28] Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

“You wicked, lazy slave…” From this we learn that all normal people have hidden talents, large or small, but we all have them. Hiding behind sensitivity like fear and insecurity, which can be overcome, did not help the poor slave, did it?

Based on this story, also you can arise and polish that golden coin until it attracts divine light. The one who made ten talents received that excavated talent, and its steward was thrown into darkness. That means: his fear became the dreaded reality. 

Everything in this life is there on purpose; it relates to overcoming, triumphing, and arising; be it codependency, insecurity, or even fear. It is in you to be conquered and ruled over. These emotional factors will always be in us and they are there to be mastered by you.

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JORDAN RIVER BAPTISMAL SITE

[2Kings 2:6-14] Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” And he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on. 

[7] Now fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan. [8] Elijah took his mantle and folded it together and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground. 

[9] When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.” [10] He said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” [11] As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven. [12] Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. [13] He also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan. [14] He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and struck the waters and said, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over. 

AMMAN, Jordan: Substantial new evidence from archaeological excavations may have located where Jesus was baptized. Scholars long identified Jesus' baptism as taking place at the lower reaches of the Jordan River, east of Jericho - prompted by a combination of biblical references, Byzantine and other mediaeval texts, and the uninterrupted traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, which has custody of the area.

Following the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace agreement, archaeologists promptly resumed the search for the place the Bible called "Bethany beyond the Jordan." That search had begun over a century earlier.

In a region of some 8 square kilometers on the east bank of the Jordan River, archaeologists have identified and examined over 30 different archaeological remains. Numerous artifacts confirm the area was inhabited in the Early Roman period, the time of Jesus and John the Baptist.

Located some 11 kilometers north of the Dead Sea shore, about a 40-minute drive from Amman, Bethany beyond the Jordan is fast becoming a major new destination for Christian pilgrims.

The key discoveries are the Byzantine monastery and earlier Roman-era remains at Tell al-Kharrar; several smaller Byzantine churches, chapels, monks' hermitages, caves, and hermit cells; a large Byzantine multi-church complex; a ceramic pipeline bringing water to the site from several kilometers east; a large plastered pool and adjacent khan halfway between Tell al-Kharrar and the Jordan; another pilgrims' rest station and khan several kilometers east, on the ancient pilgrimage route to Mount Nebo.

The discoveries have excited archaeologists and biblical geographers alike. This seems the only site where textual, archaeological and traditional evidence converge.

The puzzle about the precise site of Jesus' baptism is complicated by several factors: the different ancient names used to designate the area, the imprecise narrative in the biblical text, and the different modern sites where pilgrims commemorate the baptism.

John 1:28 explicitly names "Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing" as the location - though John is unclear as to whether the itinerant preacher was passing through, or lived there on a semi-permanent basis. John 10:40 mentions Jesus' escaping Jerusalem and going "away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized ..."

This place where Jesus found refuge on the east bank of the Jordan seems to be Bethany beyond the Jordan.

The main mound at Tell al-Kharrar has long been called Elijah's Hill, Tell Mar Elias in Arabic. This reflects its identification as the place from where the Prophet Elijah ascended to heaven (2 Kings 2:5-14). Today the area is called Al-Maghtas, "the place of baptism" or "of immersion."

It is clear that John the Baptist came to this place (Wadi el-Kharrar) where Elijah had come before him and had been caught up to heaven. So John chose this place and began to act in the spirit and power of Elijah. Though it should be emphasized that John the Baptist was not Elijah (Jn 1:21), he was the voice of one “crying in the wilderness.”

The Roman remains discovered during the excavations indicate a considerable settlement near Wadi el-Kharrar. The area was known to pilgrims and many people started visiting the area, reaching a high point during the Byzantine period.

This site is ever since considered to be the birthplace of Christianity and fittingly so.

[Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2005/May-20/94909-have-jordanian-archaeologists-found-the-place-jesus-was-baptized.ashx#ixzz31WikWo7d (The Daily Star, Lebanon News, http://www.dailystar.com.lb)]

FROM THE LOWEST TO THE HIGHEST

The Dead Sea valley is the lowest place on earth. Elijah was taken from that same spot where some 1000 years later John the Baptist baptized Jesus. From the lowest place we ascend to God's heights. One must be converted and become like a child. God chooses the low places to draw us up to Himself. [Matthew 18:4] Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 23:12] Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. 

ABOUT HEAVEN

Traditionally, we have grown accustomed to believe, like the ancients did, that heaven (Hebrew, HASHAMAI'EEM) is above us. Hebrew uses one word for sky and heaven, only Hashamai'eem is plural for heavens; hence, Paul's allusion to the third heaven (2Corinthians 12:2). We do not know if there are three or seven heavens, but plurality speaks of endlessness. For example, mercy, in Hebrew (RAHAMEEM) is plural, mercies; hence, David wrote in Psalms (136) that God's (lovingkindness) mercies are endless, eternal or everlasting. Anything plural in Hebrew may denote endlessness and therefore eternity.

As an additional note, the Old Testament (The Tanakh) was written without tenses. God speaks from the present and from timeless eternity.

Please also note that the location of heaven  is not among stars, or is it the cosmos, it is within us, among us and it comes when we speak the words of the truth. Also note the verse at the start of this article. Whirlwind obscured Elisha's view just as the cloud obscured the view of disappearing Jesus who was crossing over to heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God, or heaven are all one and the same - spiritual realm (God is Spirit - John 4:22-24) from which we stepped out and stepped into this physical world. It was up to God when we stepped out of God's realm and now it is up to us how we will exit matter.

[Acts 1:9:11] And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. [10] And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. [11] They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

They kept on looking up even though Jesus was no longer visible. Our farfetched minds often wander away from the here and now. Our faith has become mystical and God wants to change it, even now. Our education in the Truth must start somewhere. Why not right now?

After I have written books and this blog-post I came upon TIME'S special edition about heaven. The author is Jewish. Sometimes it seems as if he actually has read my stuff. But then he rambles in circles citing many beliefs as if beliefs are so important. Anyone who studied knowledge knows; and anyone who believes does not know, but believes. Based on what? The laziness in acquiring the knowledge of God is often replaced with a cop-out-belief because the knowledge we supposed to get is hijacked by another religion. One then goes into camps, Jewish, Christian or Muslim and sorts out things as to believes what and why. That's not knowledge that's escapism.

STUDY GOD

The Bible (the Tanakh), which was before Christianity, or Islam; has enough of information about heaven and the afterlife, if one wants to use this term. (I am not speaking about what Judaism beliefs or teaches here.) The Bible speaks of the overcoming life and of the possibility of never dying; physically or otherwise. All one needs to do is read between the lines with the right spirit; and that spirit is the spirit of God's Logic and never man's.

You may ask me "do you know this, and do you really read between the lines, are you sure?" My answer is: "Yes." If so, you may ask me again, "Can I test you?" The answer again is "Yes you can and will prove it to you." But be warned, it may take some time. If you have the patience to wait for me to explain it all to you in detail, and your mind is able to grasp it all; then I am ready.

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AUTHORITIES & SIN

INTRODUCTION

God establishes earthly authorities (Romans 13:1). Pilate’s authority was therefore from God; Jesus stated so. It is foolish and useless to do spiritual warfare with principalities and powers since no one else is establishing them but the Almighty Himself.

The cup of wickedness of any authority on earth must run full, just as God told Abraham in Genesis 15:16 that the inquire of the Amorites is not yet complete. So there is a measure, which when complete gets terminated. Also one should consider Romans 11:25 where Paul speaks of the fullness of the Gentiles. Israel has been blinded, but only partially, until the fullness... We are living in days where things become complete. So get ready for something unprecedented and completely new. 

(If you understand this then please share your thoughts with us. This writing is for exchange and interaction; otherwise it can be a waste of voluble time.) 

It is so important because this divine setup affects our lives. We are better off understanding and knowing than yielding our minds to idiots and get lost in religious imbecility. A time lost cannot be recovered. Clouds in the mind obscure light, the pride of this life shortens life, and then we do not know God's Kingdom and our position before Him. As a result people not only waste time, but also pollute our straight thinking with their books, sermons and false teachings. Fools make fools, the blind leads the blind, and the pride of life keeps them bound up. Who will make them free but only the Truth, but do they love God's truth or their own creations? One must first accept and then absorb (internalize) the Truth; only then one becomes wise and starts to think, speak and act wisely. 

We understand and know that all of us were born innocent and then gradually become corrupt. Corruption is a departure from innocence. We grow up, but too often in the wrong direction. Children absorb the new at phenomenal speed and are hungry to know more. But as we mature we get hurt and often disappointed, as a result we gradually look for secure places where to lick our wounds. As we do that we resist anything revolutionary and new because we do not want to be hurt again. Again, as a result, we do not overcome anything, but retreat into our safety nest. The exploring child is then replaced with a rigid "mature" person. What's next? Such person tends too look back in time.

An example. Let's take the words of Jesus of John 8:51, "He who keep My words will NEVER SEE DEATH." Any kind of death, physical, spiritual or eternal, etc. Because most run on the premise of believing, which is pumped into our brains over and over again resulting in blind faith, we grow religiously cautious. Yet, it is Jesus talking here and not the devil... True interpretation vs. false... it is all about one philosophy labeled 'right' against another labeled by the former as being 'false'. Man erects fences and ever thicker and taller protective walls, which the unsuspected confuses with the Truth and a lie. So, if you "believe" that you will never die, then your faith must have substance, but here we run into problems because one hates to be disappointed.

It is the KEEPING of His word and not just believing it, studying Him and God's Kingdom, walking with God as Enoch did. THEN... one's faith grows as one approaches his or her destination. That faith has substance and then it turns into 100% knowledge. Indeed, one truly knows.

Now. You lived your entire life believing in John 8:51, and you were seeking the Kingdom and its righteousness and then oops... you died. Did you have any consciousness of your disappointment with your faith then? No. You lived a full life with hope and faith exploring God and His realm. It is all up to Him to keep you, take you or let you shed the earthly garment. It is Him and His will. Period. 

BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, ONCE YOU START EXPLORING THIS TRUTH AND CONTINUE EXPLORING; THE ALMIGHTY WILL KEEP YOU ON THIS PLANET FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD; UNTIL YOU OVERCOME. 

THE FRUIT OF SELF-DISCIPLINE

The last fruit of the Holy Spirit is self-discipline, which has been replaced with church goings and hearings of sermons. Belonging to a church and taking sacraments turned into a religious observance because we are guilty, I suppose, and we must do it just in case.

If we are all born corrupt, because of Adam’s fall, then God should only judge Adam and not his descendants, and yet all of us individually will be judged separately. Precisely, we will be judged because incessantly we keep on mourning the fall of our first parents (* but they were not first, there were other people before Adam and Eve in Sumer), as if we can do nothing about it and then we blame Satan for all the evils in the world.

* Sumerians existed before Adam, but according to my knowledge of the Bible, they did not have the Free-Will as we do, or the NESHAMAH. They were not made according to God's image and likeness, TSELEM. There were from the pre-Adamic first creation. The Jewish Bible traces Adam's lineage because he was different and brand new. Hence, the Bible keeps on emphasizing the new, the fresh, new heaven, new Earth, new Jerusalem, new wine and new garment; something unprecedented. Only the world believes that Adam (but partially) was the first human; thus another religion had been created, which Darwin undermined with his theory of evolution. As a result those that were formerly religious turned atheists. That's the foolishness of any religious indoctrination. And just like those who believed that the earth was flat so today we still have a long way to go before the Divinely inspired NESHAMAH reveals to us more of the fresh and new. 

“Now gird up your loins like a man,” God said twice to Job (38:3 & 40:7).  

All authorities, monarchs and governments start (in democracies) the same way: with promises to clean up their predecessors' act or at least improve it. They run on a clean moral ticket until they themselves fall prey to (gradual) corruption. Authorities come and go and the righteous must wait until God's allotted time is complete. In the same way (Romans 11:25 read, UNTIL the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Also Ephesians 4:13 read, UNTIL WE ATTAIN to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge...) Fools grab but only pieces of isolated information (like Ephesians 6 [15] gospel of peace and not of war) and create elaborate doctrines and then enslave their followers to it.

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SIN GRADATIONS

[John 19:11] Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” Then Jesus said that the one who delivered Him to Pilate (Judas who betrayed Jesus) committed a worse sin.

Not all sins are equal. Sin is not just sin as I heard many say, as if in God’s eyes there are no differences. However, there is sin that leads to ultimate death.

[1John 5:16] If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.

This is not eternal life in hell’s torment, is it? Death through a complete annihilation, for there is nothing after that but nonexistence. Thus Judas perished for the term ‘son of perdition’ means utter destruction; having no consciousness of any existence.

Disciples asked about the man’s or his parents’ sin. Jesus said, “neither” for He was after this sin obsession and He was about to let them hypocrites have it.

Just as the priests and Pharisees were obsessed with sin through which psychology they kept the “sinner” under their “saintly” control so is the same today in Christianity. To the blind man, whose eyes Jesus opened, they said that he was born in sin.

[John 9:16; 33-34] (…) But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” (…) [33] "If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.” [34] They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out (expelled from their synagogue or from today’s church).

How did they know that Jesus was a sinner, by whose standard? They ruled that all men are sinners, why? Actually, of all the people, they were the greatest sinners and their sinful stench disgusted God. Christians borrowed from their philosophy of sin, but call it the ‘original sin’ in, or with which, supposedly, we all  are born. (One can say that it is written so in the Bible. Yes, it speaks of corruption and not of the original sin doctrine). As if that sin is so embedded in our genes that there is no way we can ever be free from it. Why? The only hope is the church, ceremonies, confessionals, liturgy, public declaration of our faith, marches with banners and more proclamations of this. Etc. What a nice septic tank we chose to bathe in. This sort of “curse” mentality keeps many in bondage to this day. Oh, Jesus saw His people in this bondage and came to set them free, but many were not willing because of fear.

No one inherited the original sin of Adam and Eve, for Adam and Eve did not sin, to say it precisely, but only transgressed the commandment, which God wanted them to transgress anyway. (No Christian knows the difference, between, uncleanness, sin, transgression, abomination, fault, violation, iniquity or wickedness, but the Hebrew people do. So to make matters worse, in Christianity everything is lumped together and made into sin, then many theologians preach that sin is sin. Like heterosexual sex (outside marriage), homosexuality, children molestations, rapes, bestiality or murder are all the same grades of sins. No they are not. Children are scarred for life. A life taken is no more with us. If you kill with the sword, you will die from it. Without the Torah we would never grade these things, but since without the Torah sin remains undefined, 'for the power of sin is the law' (Apostle Paul) then the law defines it all. But if you want to tell God that it was immoral for Him to permit, forbid and then create a desire for no other tree but the tree of knowledge then go ahead. And since your faith in God’s absolute rule over all of His creation is weak you’d rather dwell in dualism, God vs. Satan. Instead of studying God you define Him like the Pharisees did and like many do today by boxing Him in. Next, they'll label Him with their own speculative theologies and then they stamp Him too and then ship Him out of their lives. Where is God? – I don’t know? I have not seen Him around lately.

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I hope that your brain has not yet overheated. If so, than read on...

THE BIBLE SHARPENS YOUR BRAIN

The Kingdom of Heaven is also gone. Where the truth is not preached and taught the kingdom of God stays away.

[Luke 10:8-9; 11] “Whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you; [9] and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ‘[11] 'Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’

After Adam and Eve’s transgression God taught them the difference. They did not fall; they were learning the new lessons of life, for their mission in life was to fill the entire earth with their kind. Teaching is good but learning is better. They did not learn much, but God did not give up on us. Look where we are today. By the way, the Almighty will take care of Adam and Eve in His own gracious and most merciful way. He sacrificed them for you, just as He sacrificed the entire Nation of Israel and finally His Firstborn Son. No more sacrifices. This is it. So let’s learn for we are the most privileged generation.

[John 11:51-53] Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, [52] and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. [53] So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

This means this: [Matthew 10:5-6] “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; [6] but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. So the Samaritan woman was not really one and that is why Jesus waited for her to come and draw water. He tested her as to her affinity with Jews (Salvation is from the Jews, John 4:22). Most likely she was also a lost Jewess from Judah or from another (lost) tribe, but now found. There is no other explanation.

Many are called, but few are chosen. God wants all to come to the saving grace, but not all will be saved for they actually do not belong. They were born without the “heavenly gene” but only to populate this earth and then be no more. Many already know that, so they use this short moment on earth to fill their cup to the brim. They say that they love life. They hold on to that life until they must let go off it when they are satisfied with days. And that is okay.

Patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were satisfied with days. They had a mission in this life, which was to bring a nation that would write the Bible. Israel had to go to Egypt, multiply and then be delivered from slavery so that we would learn that God hates slavery and all forms of oppression. God seeks to free you, while man seeks to bind you, all the time and in many departments of life, politically, financially and religiously. It was not for Adam and Eve’s sake or for the patriarchs, nor for Israel; and not for the Christian church’s sake, but for the remnant made up of overcomers. God’s sons the peacemakers will be the final variety of people.

If you start with God’s loathing of earth’s violence then you must end up with His perfect peace that surpasses all (earthly) understanding. It is the same and final word, which God utters in Aaron’s benediction (Numbers 6:26). That’s how precious to God peace is.

It is better to be nonreligious then only religious… just in case, not caring to know the Creator as He really is, seeking and studying Him. Religion is only a label impregnated with lots of hope about going to heaven and skipping hell.

When people’s mission on this planet is complete they will not exist and that, above all, is God’s love and His righteousness, even fairness. The physical death is only a quiet prelude. Then comes the judgment. That which has been harvested will be sorted out like wheat, chaff and straw. Only the wheat will be gathered and the rest completely burned up as if it never existed, so that’s not hell, that’s God’s mercy.

[John 10:26-28] "But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. [27] "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; [28] and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

As the message of salvation became increasingly popular throughout whole Europe, starting in Greece, the Kenites found in it a business opportunity. That same itch for political power, like that of their Jewish predecessors who conspired against Jesus never goes away. As it drove the Jewish authorities to insanity so it was the same with the Christian wars. Christ and the cross were used only as a “holy” pretense. From this insanity emerged hell; concocted from Jesus’ loose allusions to fire, which He used when He spoke about or with the priests, scribes and Pharisees the inventors of hell. So now the Christian authorities enlarged their empires with depictions of eternal torments in hell. If you do not join the church you go to hell. If you leave the church you also burn. There is no escape from the threat of hell, which the Kenites laugh about because they know that there is none. As tares the Kenites will be burned up and that is it. They have no life eternal. What they are after is not salvation or heaven, but rather to rule over fools here and now to fleece them like sheep each day. They do not ever have enough of the shiny metal. Their heaven is power now. They know that when they die they will not be.

Anyone desirous to obtain eternal life is of the God’s children material. These sheep Jesus sent to find and so He commissioned His disciples to do.

Those who are of the truth listen to Me. “You are not my sheep, not of the truth…” said Jesus. Not of the truth?

[John 18:37-38] Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” [38] Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”

So let’s not define what is truth, but let’s study the truth. Turn it upside down, shake it, turn it, eat it, drink it and never eliminate it until it completely transforms you.

I say the same: those who have used me and than abused me; and because of me expelled members of their church; they are not of the truth, they are Kenites (of Cain's descendants the first murderer and liar, according to the Bible, John 8:44). These people fell in love with the political power, dominance and money. They hold on to the few people they have caught in their nets and are afraid to loosen their grip on their minds. Anyone who says something different from their well-established dogmas is deemed as a serious threat to their establishment, and that is kenite.) They saw their sheep running to me for liberation, education and healing. As they were being cleansed from all religiousness they no longer fitted in the old religious barn and found in it no fresh bread anymore. Some wandered from place to place seeking rest. But finally they had realized that they could stand on their own two feet. What, too much light, too much truth? Jesus was persecuted for it, so am I, and it’s going to get worse. But what I know no one knows on this planet.

Where I am going they cannot follow. They will seek me but won’t find me for the unclean cannot enter therein.

Those who have seen the multiplication of bread and fish, and many miracles, but after they heard His teaching they departed and stopped following Jesus. They were not of the Truth and not His sheep anyway. Learn this truth and learn it fast.

Jesus said to the Pharisees, “I know that there is no love of God in you.” Why? Because you hate Me; you are as empty drums manipulating the people with illusions and fears just to be in control. The pleasure of control can be addictive, but in fact it is demonic.

[Matthew 23:27-28; 29-35] "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. [28] "So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Obviously, as a Jew, Jesus knew that anything dead is unclean. Today, not only the Orthodox Jews venerate tombs, but also Catholics who keep the *‘All Saints’ Day. Holy people do not visit graves and do not touch anything unclean and they do not seek any merit or special blessing from the dead (Orthodox Jews pray at the graves of famous rabbis).

* All Saints' Day is observed by Christians in many countries around the world. In countries such as Spain, Portugal and Mexico, offerings are made on this day. In countries such as Belgium, Hungary and Italy people bring flowers to the graves of dead relatives. In other parts of Europe, such as Austria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania, it is customary to light candles on top of visiting graves of deceased relatives. It is also observed in parts of Asia, such as the Philippines, where people visit graves of deceased relatives and clean or repair them. They also lay flowers on the graves and light candles.

Since we study Jesus and not man’s traditions then what is He saying? For many in religion the dead are saints and the living are sinners. We live in memories for time sort of cleanses lots of things and everything after an elapsed time begins to look sweet and beautiful. To this day it is the rabbinical, and not only rabbinical teaching, to never say anything bad against the dead. Even if your father was a rapist or a murderer, still you must speak of the deceased only nicely. As if you must not disturb the dead by reminding the decomposing corpse of its sins. But this mystical malady leads to demon possession, which starts with uncleanness. Therefore, Jesus spoke of unclean spirits in no uncertain terms. Stupidity costs nothing. Wisdom is expensive, but can you afford it?

[29] “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, [30] and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ [31] "So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. [32] "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers. [33] "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

Oh Really? Looking back we tend to romanticize things and even imagine as if they had never taken place. Then we move on to legends and myths. This is the attempt of many Holocaust deniers like KKK, Nazis, Iranian Ayatollahs and now the united in the same Fatah and Hamas Palestinians. Why? Hatred.

[34] "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, [35] so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Here we have the ancestral lines of the ancient hate gene. Since Ishmael and Esau this gene went on a journey into the future. It passes on from generation to generation and new circumstances awake these sleeping gene. “By their fruits you shall know them” (Matthew 7:16-20).

[John 5:41-43] I do not receive glory from men; [42] but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. [43] have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Because they loved their glorious positions they received it daily and sought more glory as they went, for by then it became too addictive to give it up. So they exchanged the love for God—in whose name they held high positions—for the love of self. Today religious illusion is being exported from the US all over the world and many seized the opportunity. Just go on YouTube and you will see the turmoil. People’s faith in the devil is so powerful that they give themselves over to their own creations, body, mind and soul. The nonexistent "Lucifers" are crying out and demons from hell—although they not supposed to be yet in hell—but all these false imaginations with which people have been  fed throughout the years; they now project out. They are loaded with deep frustrations. They only vent out their indescribable angers, which they kept suppressed for the sake of being nice in a civilized society. You only need a platform to allow this. You make people laugh, they will laugh. You allow them to go hysterical; they will go hysterical. You permit demons to talk, which Jesus never did allow, you will have demonic circus that would make a believer out of any uneducated greenhorn. Yet, all this trash can be swept away with one swipe of the heavenly truth. But the learning of the truth is very slow and is approached with a timid suspicion. Why? It is not popular like that other trash. The religious theater must go on, lest they lose their audiences to the preachers of the Truth. Result? Many are called but only few … you know the rest.

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