I came across a devotional writing recently from an old book in my library. I found it very enlightening, and its message rang true. It also came in perfect timing to address an old grumble of mine (perhaps yours too) I.e; why doesn’t God answer my prayers?.

Well, the fact of the matter is he ignores most of them. Why? Read the Scripture from James chapter 2: verse 15 to 17.

“If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?”

You see, He won’t answer selfish prayers. He will only act upon issues that he expects us to do ourselves. As believers, we have delegated authority. However, if we refuse to move in that authority i.e. feed the poor, clothe the naked, give alms to the destitute, our prayer requests won’t even have the power to reach the ceiling let alone the throne room of God!

Faith without works… Never works! In the natural, wouldn’t your children be crippled if, from birth, you carried them everywhere.? Strength only comes from resistance. As one who has spent several months exercising with a bullworker machine, I can tell you the Jane Fonda phrase -” no pain – no gain” is absolutely accurate.!

We must accompany our prayers with works. Why would our Father in heaven answer our prayers when he has given us the wherewithal to deal with the issue?

Once upon a time, there was a farmer who had much grain in the large barns on his land. He was waiting on rising market prices prior to selling. He was accustomed to praying for the needy, and pleading with God to remember the poor – to supply all their needs. However, he fully believed and expected that God would do it, and did nothing himself.

One day, after hearing his dad pray the usual prayer, the farmer’s five-year-old son said to him, “Daddy, may I have half of your corn in the barns?” His astonished father replied “Son – why? What would you do with all that corn? The little lad said

“I would answer your prayers!”

There are a lot of movies out these days, but let’s be honest. Most of them are pretty forgettable. There are a few, however, that catch our attention because they have such unexpected twists. I’m thinking about the 1982 movie starring Robert Redford named “Sneakers.” Or, for a slightly younger crowd there is the 1999 movie starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment entitled “The Sixth Sense.” Remember how surprised we were when we suddenly realized that the psychiatrist-Oops! I don’t want to give it away for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet. But you get what I mean. We remember these movies because they took us by surprise. They were unpredictable and yet satisfying.

Well, guess what? God is like that. It is impossible to pin Him down, to fully comprehend Him or even guess what He’s going to do next. Certainly there are some things we know about Him because He’s revealed them to us. For example, God has revealed that He is infinite and eternal; He is merciful and loving; He is gracious and patient. I could list a hundred different Scriptures to demonstrate my point. But you get the idea. God has told us many things about Himself, and we understand them.

But there are things about God that we just can’t grasp no matter how hard we try. So we need to add to the list above such adjectives as inscrutable, unpredictable, unfathomable, unreadable, inexplicable, mysterious, and enigmatic. Try as we might to box Him in, He refuses to be pigeonholed. God is always about doing His own will and gaining His own glory. The problem is that we finite creatures don’t always know what that will is. So we can’t predict what He’s going to do next. For example, take His coming to earth in human form (Jn. 1:14). No one could have predicted that! And who would make something like that up? It’s too unexpected, too surprising. It sounds crazy, except that there is enough evidence to know that it actually happened.

Now, if you heard or read the message on how “The Time is Now,” to start serving God with all your heart, and you have decided to do it, then it is time to get to know this seemingly incomprehensible God. But, the first thing you must know is that God is not a heavenly Sugar Daddy. He is not a fairy godfather, waiting to grant your every wish. Many people think that God is there to fulfill their every whim. They are quickly disappointed. God loves us beyond measure, and His goal is to mold us into His image. His goal is not to make us rich and happy in this life, but to prepare us to reign with Him in glory in the next life. It means we might not get everything we wish or ask for here on earth. But in heaven it will be glorious!

Nor, on the other hand, is God a cosmic cop, waiting to crack down on our every infraction. Many people see God this way, and can’t get past it. Guilt rules their lives, and this should not be. Feeling guilty enough will not earn forgiveness from God. All sins were already forgiven two thousand years ago on the Cross of Calvary. We need to just ask. If we mess up we should be sorry, ask for forgiveness and move on. This is what God wants us to do.

So what is God, then, anyway? That is what God wants us to discover! God came to earth in the form of a man, Jesus, and He showed us what God is like. He is just like Jesus: loving, caring, graceful, compassionate, forgiving. Yet He is also holy and perfect. He wants a relationship with us, but He also never wants us to forget who He is.

So, is it possible to get at least a little clarity on His character and aims? Of course. We do that by examining what has been revealed about Him in Scripture. And there is one Scripture that sums things up pretty well. Isaiah 46:9-11 says:

“Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure’; calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.”

We must remember, first and foremost that He is God and we are not. He is not here to serve us. Rather, we are here to serve Him. But He doesn’t treat us like slaves. We are so lucky to be a part of “His good pleasure.” We must just trust that He loves us and will work in us and through us for both our best and for His glory. It is important to keep all of this in mind as we look further into His character.

Another thing we discover from the very first words in the Bible is that He is very creative. Genesis 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” He did not have to create anything. But He wanted to. Why? We may never fully know, except that it glorified Him to do it. So He did it.

But we’re not done yet. Let’s look at what He did create. He set up a world teeming with life and beauty and goodness. He made it wonderful, with sights and sounds and smells and tastes and textures that could only come from Him. He did not have to. He could have made the world black and white, and food could have been tasteless, and so on. We would never have known the difference. But He didn’t do that. Why did He create such extravagance and beauty? He did it for our pleasure. This is yet another thing we learn about Him. He loves us and wants us to enjoy His creation.

And back in the beginning, there was little need for rules. In fact, God had only one rule for Adam and Eve. Sadly, they chose to break it. That is why there is so much sin and pain and death in the world now, and why we need so many rules. And yet the world is still a beautiful place.

Yet another thing we learn about God as we read and study the Bible is that God is constantly pursuing man and creating relationships. In fact, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, in their article “Why It’s Both Possible and Impossible to Know God” said, “Certainly, if theology were man’s quest to discover God, it could never break free from agnosticism. However, Christian theology arises from God’s pursuit of man.”1 In other words, if it was always just us trying to understand God, then it would be hopeless. But it’s not. God continually pursues man and reveals Himself. Why? Because He wants to. Because He wants a love relationship with us.

We also know that God is about restoration, not retribution. Retribution is a last resort with Him. And it all began way back near the beginning. For example, take a look at Noah, found in the sixth chapter of the very first book of the Bible. If the math in the genealogies is close, then Noah was born a little over a thousand years after Adam and Eve were created. It sounds like a long time, but since Adam lived to be more than nine hundred years old, Noah literally just missed him! But we know that by then mankind was so corrupt that God was already planning on destroying them. However, since God had called mankind good in the beginning, He would never fully destroy them. And to prove it He chose Noah, the only faithful person left (Gen. 6:8). Through Noah, God saved mankind from the devastating Flood.

Then, God chose Abraham, a descendant of Noah’s son Shem, on which to bestow His love and care (Gen. 12:1-4). As we know, Abraham had a son named Isaac. Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. God chose Jacob and renamed him Israel (Gen. 32:28). Jacob/Israel had twelve sons, which became the twelve tribes of Israel. God’s plan was to bestow so many blessings on the tribes of Israel that the other nations would come streaming to them to serve this marvelous God (Gen. 22:18). The Israelites were supposed to follow God fully, and tell the world about Him so that they could come and worship, too. As a side note, this is the very same thing Jesus has called His disciples to do: remain unstained from the world while sharing the love of God to the world and freeing them from their sin.

Sadly, the Israelites chose not to share the love of God with the other nations. Instead, they turned inward and kept everything a secret. But God never stopped loving them. He never un-chose them. He may have disciplined them for their wrongdoing, but He always promised them restoration.

And speaking of discipline, this is one of the objections I hear the most often. People say that the God of the Old Testament was not loving at all. Rather, He was always punishing people. He was nothing but a great big meany, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting, innocent humans. The truth is far different, however. What people miss is just how long it took before God started to punish anyone. He told Abraham He was going to give him the Promised Land, but He couldn’t do it just yet, because the “sin of the Amorites is not yet complete” (Gen. 15:16). In fact, God waited 400 plus years before having Israel come in and destroy the inhabitants of the land and take it over (see the books of Joshua and Judges for the full story).

Even after the Israelites had moved into the Promised Land and fell into their own sin, God waited. And He sent prophets to warn them, and warn them, and warn them. See the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and some of the minor prophets like Hosea for more information about this period of time. You see, decades and even centuries would pass while God waited. Only when the sin became too much would God act. And it was never His first choice. Not only that, but God never did anything without first telling everyone what he was going to do (see the verse above, along with Amos 3:7). And, He always had a message of restoration to accompany the message of wrath. The Israelites knew what they were supposed to do and they knew what would happen. If they chose to sin, it was their own fault when God booted them out from the land. But, being His chosen people, He promised them restoration. And this is still true today. Though the Jews have been set aside temporarily while the fullness of the Gentiles comes in (Rom. 11:25), God will again deal with Israel at some point in the future.

The God we know today has not changed one bit. He tells us exactly what He expects from us, and He provided the Holy Spirit to help us. Yet we act surprised when we get caught in our sin. But we shouldn’t, because God has put into our very hearts His moral code. So some things about God are very easy to understand.

However, some things about God are difficult to understand. Why doesn’t He shower blessings on His beloved children? Look at Mary – she carried Jesus yet she had to travel and have a baby in a stable (Lk. 2:7). Couldn’t He have made her life more comfortable? And look at Joseph, having to take Mary as his wife even though he wasn’t sure about her circumstances. Was she out playing around on him? He had to take it on faith and live with the consequences (Mt. 1:18-25). And then they had to flee into Egypt to save baby Jesus’ life (Mt. 2:13-15). God could have miraculously saved them, but He didn’t.

And look at Jesus. He had to live a life just like us, and suffer and die. God could have done something else. But He didn’t. Look at Peter, Paul and the other apostles. They died for what they believed. There was no picnic, no prosperity gospel, no fancy living. God often lets His most beloved suffer. Why? As I said before, we often forget that God is preparing us for eternity. In eternity, it will always be His perfect will. So here on earth, He does what glorifies Him most, and what is the best course of action for the most people for the longest time. It may not be what we think we need. But we have to trust that God knows best. After all, we can see down the road only a little ways. God can actually see around the corner!

And yet…

Sometimes God surprises us by answering a prayer that we honestly did not expect Him to answer. Sometimes He is so close and personal we swear we could reach out and touch Him. Sometimes He makes things so wonderful we wonder why we ever doubted in the first place. Is God capricious? Not at all. We just don’t understand how He works. And we never will. We just need to trust that He has our best in mind.

Unfortunately, though, it is this uncertainty that causes us to doubt Him and His goodness and His wisdom. We think He doesn’t care, or we think He’s not paying attention to us. Because we can’t understand what He’s doing, we don’t trust Him. And because we don’t fully trust Him, we can’t fully commit to Him. This is the whole sticking point right here. We want to trust, but we feel like God has let us down. So now we’re scared to commit. It is easier to sit on the fence, hedging our bets.

How do we resolve this dilemma? There is no magic formula. You have to see God in the big picture in order to trust Him in the small one. That is why I advocate so strongly for daily Bible reading. Only when we can see His constant goodness and unfailing love to those whom He calls His own can we let go of our doubt and start to trust that, no matter what happens, this is exactly God’s best for us at this time.

You see, when God chooses a people for Himself, He never un-chooses them. It is forever. He bestows His love and mercy without measure on those He loves. It may not always come across to us that way. But we must understand that one of God’s attributes is love. He simply cannot not love His children. It is part of who He is. He came down to earth two thousand years ago and was born of a woman… for you and me. He, I’m talking about Jesus now, who was God in the flesh, who died on the cross two thousand years ago, already knowing every sin we would ever commit, died for us anyway.

I am reminded of a Hallmark greeting card I saw once. It said, “You’re the answer to my prayers. You’re not exactly what I prayed for, but apparently, you’re the answer.” We may not understand everything He does, but that’s all right. We just need to know that God loves us more than we could ever comprehend. And He has our best in mind. He will deal with us in this life until we are perfected. It may be painful, but it will be worth it.

So here’s the thing. Because our own personal stories are not finished, we should start from here and make the ending way better than it might have been. As James R. Sherman said in his 1982 book entitled Rejection, “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”2

It’s time to get to know the God we are choosing to love and serve. He is a great God, a caring God, a loving God. And He wants to perfect us here so that we can enjoy eternity with Him in absolute bliss, free from sin, and pain, and tears and doubt. Will we start seeking Him?

Bibliography

1. Beeke, Joel R., Smalley, Paul M. “Why It’s Both Possible and Impossible to Know God.” 2019, Crossway.org, www.crossway.org/articles/Why-Its-both-possible-and-impossible-to-know-God.com.

2. Sherman, James R. Rejection. Pathway Books, 1982, Golden Valley, MN.

The word of God can be described using various forms and symbols. It is powerful, infallible and carries so much potential which can be positively applied to every situation. What are the various forms which can be used to describe the undiluted word of God?

Sword

The sword is an instrument of warfare which was made famous by the Roman soldiers. It can be used as both a defensive and attacking instrument depending on the situation. It can be compared to the sword. It is not just an ordinary sword, but a doubled edged sword which can pierce even to the very marrow of the human soul.

hammer

The hammer is an instrument usually used for breaking stones and other objects during construction. It is also referred to as a hammer because it can be used to destroy every works of the enemy especially during spiritual warfare.

seed

A seed is usually used during the planting of crops. It appears very small, but when it germinates, it can grow up to become a giant tree producing thousands of fruits. That is exactly what the word of God represents. It is like a seed which is sown in the human heart. If the heart is fertile enough, that seed will eventually blossom and produce fruits which will abide.

mirror

A mirror is an object that can be used to give a true reflection of an image. Women often spend hours looking at themselves in the mirror to ensure they are well dressed. It is a basic item which is found in every home. The word of God can also be referred to as a spiritual mirror which is used in looking into our individual hearts. When we meditate on it, we see ourselves as we truly are and make amends where necessary.

fire

Fire is a great instrument which can be useful as well as dangerous depending on what we are using it to accomplish. When used for cooking, it can become useful, but when it gets in contact with our body, it can be devastating. The word of God is also referred to as a consuming fire. It devours any element of sin and creates a cleansing effect in the individual.

lamp

The word of God is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. A lamp is extremely useful especially where there is darkness. Through this instrument, when can see hidden things in our life and become focused in whatever area we find ourselves. It illuminates and guides the believer.

food

When we eat physical food, it acts as nourishment to our physical body. The word of God can be compared to spiritual food which can enrich our spirit and feed the soul.

So the word of God convicts, breaks, regenerates, reveals, consumes, illuminates and nourishes the individual.

What’s next for the Church of God? Malachi’s Message has served its purpose. (A book written by Gerald Flurry, pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God). Those who have ears to hear have listened to what the Spirit of God has had to say to the Church of God. It’s now time to move on.

The Work of God must go forward. The only work that’s left to do now is focus on the NATIONAL LEVEL. We must get out God’s ultimatum and fast! Europe is on the rise and Jerusalem is getting international attention (Zech. 14:2). Soon God’s two witnesses will rise and shine in a world of darkness (Isa. 60:1-2). God’s about to restore His lamp to the Middle East! (Rev. 11:3; 1 Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11; Zech. 12:8).

By Gerald Flurry’s own admission, Malachi’s Message has nothing to say about nations. That’s proper, because it was basically his commission to focus in on the Church. Does Mystery of the Ages warn the world? (Herbert W. Armstrong’s crown work). How can it when it doesn’t even include the words Germany, Beast or Europe in its index? Mystery of the Ages is undoubtedly the most important book written since the Bible to preach the gospel around the world. But doesn’t Gerald Flurry understand that’s already been accomplished? BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.

The Work of God must go forward, not backwards. It’s true that we must always preach the gospel, but now it’s time to emphasize a WARNING MESSAGE. The Church has been warned. The world hasn’t. We must warn them like they’ve never been warned before!

There is only one book on earth today (other than the Bible) that clearly warns THE GERMANS ARE COMING! Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall is a hard-hitting book that details the events concerning the rise of the prophetic Beast in Europe, the fall of our Israelite countries, the Two Witnesses, and lets you know why it all has to happen. If you haven’t already read it, check it out for yourself! It’s available for free online.

Malachi’s Message is the Little Book to God’s Church today. Beyond Babylon is the Little Book with a big impact, destined to become a NATIONAL DEBATE and an INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY. It must reach “the largest audience possible”. There exists a Little Book for the Church of God and there’s a Little Book for the nations. This follows the biblical principle of duality. I hope and pray the People of God perceive this to be true, even if their leadership remains too proud and stubborn to see (Ga. 2:9; Rev. 11:8).

After prayer, years ago, God promised that His GREAT INSPIRATION would result in a GREAT PUBLICATION (Prov. 1:23; Ps. 68:11). Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall showcases those precious truths to the world (Isa. 45:3). I realize the two witnesses are considered controversial figures (Rev. 11:10; Jer. 15:10), but they must boldly declare God’s judgments (Micah 3:8). After all, it’s the LORD’S CONTROVERSY (Micah 6:1- 2). The wise will hear this INTERNATIONAL THUNDER and take shelter (Rev. 10; Prov. 27:12).

The message of God will roar from Jerusalem, and both the heavens and the Earth will tremble at His Word (Joel 3:16). Herbert W. Armstrong said when God’s time comes, the plain truth about traditional Christianity would drop like a BOMBSHELL (USBIP). God’s Time has come! Beyond Babylon explodes that “news bomb” with FULL FORCE! There’s no holding back. (During my interrogation by Israeli Secret Service agents, I told them my book is the only explosives I’m involved with).

Gerald Flurry recognizes the need to offer something to the general public, other than the meaty booklets about prophecy that basically preach to the converted. That’s good and right. But which book would God have us publish? Beyond Babylon fulfills the need to proclaim the gospel while emphasizing a warning to the world; it includes the truth about our Israelite identity and responsibility; about God’s Sabbath and Holy Days versus Satan’s Sunday and pagan holidays; about Israel’s demise and Europe’s rise – these are foundational truths. Beyond Babylon builds upon that sure foundation by pointing out that it’s the sorcerer-pope, the false prophet, who presents Europe’s imminent leader as the Savior of “Christian Western Civilization;” he’ll perform miracles in his presence urging Europe to remodel themselves after the “Holy Roman Empire” (Rev. 13:14). Together they’ll create a counterfeit Kingdom of God.

Beyond Babylon also explains – FOR THE FIRST TIME – why there are two witnesses, what their mission and purpose is, why they’re stationed in Jerusalem and how they fulfill the Elijah role.

PCG minister Wayne Turgeon, during our wonderful correspondence (before PCG minister Dennis Leap turned him against me), wrote concerning my book: “It’s certainly not my place to determine if what you believe God has shown you is true or not, but would you mind presenting Mr. Flurry with an abbreviated version of what you feel is inspired…”. What does he mean it’s not his place to determine whether Beyond Babylon is true or not? Whose place is it? How did he determine if Malachi’s Message was true or not? Are we to rely on men to make up our minds for us? What if he had gone to Joseph Tkach for his approval of Gerald Flurry’s work?

We must trust in God’s Spirit of truth and judge everything by God’s Word. Every Church member must prove to themselves, prayerfully before God, whether Beyond Babylon is biblical (1 John 2:27). Those who exercise this spiritual responsibility will come to understand what’s next in God’s Plan: reaching the cities of Judah!

Beyond Babylon’s sudden appearance should serve as a SIGN, an indication of where we are now in prophecy (John 12:20-23). Soon God will remove the mountain of opposition that blocks my return to Zion and I’ll continue to build upon the foundation that God has laid in Jerusalem the last time I was there (Zech. 4:7-8). From here on out it’s FAST FORWARD!

Everywhere there is fire devouring large portions of the earth, and that is only the start of it. As global warming increases and drought takes hold the crops die, the animals starve to death, and the temperature soars. There is no man-made solution to the problem as it is our doing that caused it. Nor did it happen in a few decades because it started when men created their own gods and changed nature to suit their greed.

Every fire raises the temperature a little more and the massive super-fires, such as that raging in California, increases it a lot. No country is spared as trees are replaced by money hungry destroyers and the rainfall diminishes.

So efficient is the land-clearing of forests that great swathes of trees are removed in a short space of time. The oceans too are dying as the heat warms their temperature and plastic and other pollutants kill off the life within it.

Man thinks he is so clever that he can alter the will of God and so he prays to his statues and fake divinities and the destruction continues. He has given himself permission to reign over the earth as a god and he created his own eternal masters to make it right.

How wrong is man? The real God is the Spirit of the Universe and this is what has been buried and blocked out by religions born of dreams put forth by the ancients and reworked into modern religions. That is man’s folly but what, if anything, could have changed it.

According to the prophecies there is nothing man has done that is not in accordance with the plan of God. It is laid out in the prophecies for all to read. Few, however, do!

They have been made to appear related to past times because of the lies in the New Testament. This is the book that put up the image of Jesus Christ, the work of Constantine who established the Catholic Church in 325 AD. He is 666 according to the Revelation 13:12-18.

Following him Jerome compiled and wrote the New Testament based on ancient beliefs. He then formulated the Catholic Church and earned himself the title of ‘doctor’ of it.

The fake gods reign as powerful entities that followers cannot do away with because they are joined to them as a baby is to its mother in the womb. They are nurtured and fed the milk of deception by the so-called Mother of God, Mary, whose identity is derived from the sun. She was so-named in Babylon where the female image was created so men could die on crosses to ‘marry’ Mary.

So the Spirit of the Universe has created a world of corruption and few can find their way out. The purpose is described here and it’s happening now:

“… my determination is to gather the nations… to pour out upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.” Zephaniah 3:8

Many years ago, before becoming a daily meditator, I heard a disagreement on radio, on God, where one accused the other: ‘does he think he has his own personal hotline to God’? the person questioned. At the time, I too thought having a hotline to God was a strange statement. Now, after thirty-five years of meditation, I can say with confidence, that, not only it is possible, but easy.

In describing, God, it helps if we move beyond titling God as a noun, as a single entity of sorts, for God’s name is not God as we understand the term “name” – biblically, name means nature. Therefore, God translates, Divine Nature, which Nature is Absolute, transcendental and universal – everywhere, both relative and absolute in totality all at once. Once we grow beyond the imprisoning mind-sets of formal religions and the literal interpretations of the Bible, then does hotline reality really begin opening for us – a new dimension of higher consciousness and soul wisdom reveals itself which heretofore was bluntly conditioned over by formal religious teachings during those vital early formative years.

With Divine Love being Transcendental, and human emotional love being of the material world, therefore, human love is imperfect, it is not Divine Love. Divine Nature, in its purest experience for humans is profound natural compassion and deep contentment, or, in yoga, its Bliss. In this context, no matter how sincere human love may be intended toward others, it is still innately contaminated by the material world influence, by non-naturally-occurring compassionate nature. Human love, therefore, amounts to non-purified emotionalism and, for the most part, selective in expression. It is selective because it is usually reserved only for those close to us, such as family members and trusted acquaintances – it can also be contrived love. Beyond the comfort zone of selective love, particularly where compassion is concerned, we become spiritually challenged on all fronts.

When love is conditional, there are usually unresolved, non-integrated emotions acting out at the subconscious level, emotions which are contradicting our heart’s natural desire to express authentic Divine Love. Prior to spiritual soul awakening, we’re each subliminally driven by deeply-rooted fears and insecurities, by the myriad of ego-contrived mind-sets resulting in our every actions being automatically played out on the screen of life- hence conditional love sourced of spiritual ignorance. Tending toward those we feel are more tolerant of these unresolved deficiencies, we cling to their emotional security rather than freeing ourselves of our own inherited programming — from the loop-feed of the subconscious aspect of overall mind.

Contacting Divine Love

Because contact is a conscious choice, when acted upon it is this choice which activates our life-journey’s real purpose here on earth. For human love to become perfected into Divine Love, embarking upon a self-purification process is necessary. In this regard, purification means expansion of conscious mind – capacity of deep experiencing as opposed to mere surface experiencing. When contact with our own eternal Pure Soul becomes realized, experienced, then this deeper capacity-nature of soul-silence becomes irreversibly infused into the nature of the mind / heart, then does Divine Love Nature become established within our own consciousness. Divine Bliss or pure compassion is experienced as soul intuition, which, in reality is our personal “Hotline to God”. Of course, the optimum word here is CONTACT. It is deemed contact only when such contact has become established within consciousness. No amount of intellectualizing on contact, verbally or otherwise, produces it. We can say that water is wet, but, until contact with water is made, then and only do we know the texture and fluidity attributes of water, which is immensely greater than the description of water being wet. Similarly, when we say, God is Love, it remains at the intellectual level until directly experienced within the heart, within consciousness.

Establishing contact is not difficult, but requires a committed, disciplined approach. The approach is by way of the various spiritual disciplines such as meditation, Yoga and deep breathing exercises known as pranayama – all very simple and practical practices. These practices reorientate the nervous system to withstanding Pure Consciousness, our own soul — an individualized aspect of God Nature – resulting, over time, in Divine Love-nature becoming unconditionally present in our daily life.

Prior to establishing contact, Pure Consciousness does not exude a quality of Love – for no one could experience such who had not already established contact. Meaning, in its unmanifest state, Divine Love is Potential Purity awaiting transfiguration into the human constitution. Therefore, transfiguration of our spiritual mechanisms, through contact, is how humans get to know, experience our highest pursuit, Divine Nature. This is the understanding behind the biblical quote: “The transfiguration on the Mount” — Mount meaning highest point of inner awareness during meditation. For Pure Eternal Potential to become experiential beyond dogma and belief systems, embarking upon a self-purification practice, of which mind expansion is the by product, is totally necessary. This is when inner Mount nature expands to become established universal awareness – the Will of God alive in our heart.

Divine nature has vibratory qualities which oscillate vastly beyond the level which human emotional love can comprehend or exhibit. In this regard, contact changes everything, for, everything Love passes through it changes into Itself – stepped up into similar energy ratio. The glory is, contact recalibrates our entire physiology; it spiritualizes matter thereby altering and deepening the capacity of the nervous system into perceiving divinely, cosmically. Once realized, and for such to become established contact, Love nature must then be lived, expressed naturally in an effortless way in our daily life. Then, the more we give away — the more that passes through us — then the more we have to further give away – the cycle continues indefinitely. If we do not give Love energy away, express it, then it works against us: we can become angry, moody and even depressed. For, like electricity, energy cannot be stored – it must flow.

The Inner Set-up

To have any experience, there must be a corresponding setup in the nervous system. Therefore, Divine Love becomes realized Potential only when our physiology / nervous system is cultured to withstand Purity – maintain happiness, calm, contentment or bliss, on a continuous basis. And while we may gain token peace of mind by way of literal sound-bites on love nature, the same format does not apply to the heart: to know Love the heart must enjoy direct experiencing. And, when the heart does experience direct Purity, we will sense it as inclination to express un-equivocated compassion, sincerity and bubbliness of well-being in all situations.

The False Ego

In the pursuit of Love contact, ego will always present off-putting scenarios to eternally delay expression of our divine inheritance. Ego, being maintainer of the illusory false persona, will always attempt, by any means, at convincing against pursuing our noblest goal. Because it is a psychological contrivance, in an ego-dominated world Purity is non-existent. Ego has no authentic basis, it is not real, therefore is not constituted to know Love, rather, promote its opposite. This then is the plank in the eye which needs plucking out, which needs integration. Another example of ego is, when we say “God is Love” this is an intellectual observation of a state beyond the intellect’s capacity of knowing. A simplistic overview from ego’s perspective which is incapable of experiencing what it is describing. Because it is transcendental, describing Love through the ego, before spiritual awakening, lacks spiritual maturity and soul-sourced understanding.

For Love to be it must flow. In the absence of flow stagnation ensues — from where we’ve all at one time started our quest for Divine contact. In other words, stagnation equals suffering, which translates as stress, anger, phobias, addictions, depression plus the myriad of side effects these potentially bring at inter-personal and societal level. In the absence of established contact, a tendency can arise where we become over-materially attached, sourcing our happiness through materialism. This can happen when driven to amass endless wealth and possessions as a replacement for authentic peace of mind and security in life. When this is the fact, then matter is dominating spirit instead of the reverse being so – a case of living life’s priorities in reverse — the Bible puts it: “first seek the Kingdom of Heaven [within]”

And, finally, while adherence to beautiful biblical quotations is certainly a great positive, but, more spiritually authentic would seem to be actually living Divine nature, thereby is our own lived experience demonstrated into the world and into Universal Mind. The point being, be sure we’re not moving intellectually from direct means of establishing CONTACT, that we’re not sending the awareness-ball firmly back into ego’s court. By establishing the mind in utter soul silence – like Noah’s Ark (the mind) resting on top of the Mount — ego becomes transformed, integrated into spiritual orientation thus ensuring our hotline to God is eternally pure, open and free-flowing.

Just what do you mean “the oracles of God?” And is the sacred calendar a part of them? There are only four places in the New Testament that speak of the oracles of God:

Acts 7:38 reveals that Moses received “the lively oracles to give unto us.”

Rom. 3:2 states, without apology, that “the oracles of God” were COMMITTED TO THE JEWS.

Heb. 5:12 speaks of “the first principles of the oracles of God” and 1 Pet. 4:11 states that those whom God has gifted to speak should “speak as the oracles of God.”

All of these examples use the Greek word logion (Strong’s Concordance #3051) that means an utterance-oracle. That word comes from logios (#3052) that means an orator-eloquent. And that word comes from logos (#3056), which means something said (including the thought); a topic; the word. The words, thoughts and topics of God given to the Jews (to PRESERVE for all mankind) includes “the covenants, the law, the service of God, the promises,” among many other things (Rom. 9:4).

How can we properly serve God without knowing His plan of salvation as revealed through His holy days? And how can we know the CORRECT DATES to observe the holy days without a SACRED CALENDAR? Besides, what other purpose is there for a calendar? (Gen. 1:14; Ex. 12:2).

WHO has preserved this knowledge? The Asians? Maybe the Greeks? How about the Africans? No! Only the JEWS have kept God’s sacred calendar and made us aware of it and God’s holy days! Without the Jews faithfully fulfilling their commission to preserve this knowledge we would’ve been left in the dark! (Hos. 11:12). But GOD IS FAITHFUL who has left us a witness in every generation.

But what if some Jews weren’t faithful? What if different Jewish groups were divided on these holy issues? Let God’s Word answer: “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yes, LET GOD BE TRUE, but every man a liar…” (Rom. 3:3). God is quite capable of seeing that His light will shine through doctrinal darkness. After all, GOD’S WORD IS AT STAKE! Let’s not limit the Holy One of Israel!

God’s empowered the Jews – despite themselves – to preserve His Word. They are the only people on earth that God has blessed and ordained to fulfill such a calling! God will not retract His Word or renege on this gift and responsibility that He’s graciously bestowed upon Judah! (Gen. 49:10, Rom. 11:29; Num. 23:19).

In Jesus’ day there were different Jewish groups at odds with each other (like Christianity today), and Christ often publicly corrected them where they were wrong. He’s done the same to His Church throughout the ages, pointing out our strengths and weaknesses (Rev. 2; 3). But Jesus clearly revealed WHICH Jewish group had GOD’S SEAL OF APPROVAL! Only the PHARISEES – of all the various splinter groups – had received the GOD-GIVEN AUTHORITY to keep/preserve/retain and teach “the oracles of God.”

The apostle Paul also stood with the Pharisees against the other sects (Acts 23:6). Will we accept God’s Word on this subject or resist change? Are we any better than our forefathers who clung to their vain traditions? (Acts 7:51; Mark 7:7). We condemn ourselves and our religion when we refuse to be corrected and prefer to remain comfortable in our pews! How proud (Sodom) and stubborn (Egypt)! (John 3:20; Amos 6:1; Rev. 11:8).

Jesus didn’t stutter when He taught that “the scribes and PHARISEES sit in Moses’ seat” (Matt. 23:2). Even so, Jesus went on to rebuke certain attitudes and practices that weren’t consistent with the Scriptures, but He didn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater since He testified that “salvation is of the Jews” (John 3:22).

God made sure that the PHARISEES’ biblical traditions would survive and prevail. However, the faulty teachings of the Sadducees and Samaritans (whose blind dates for Passover and Pentecost many in God’s Church shamefully follow) are history!

Today the Jewish nation of Israel follows the correct holy dates as established by the Pharisees/Rabbinic Judaism. They don’t have any question or controversy over it. On this holy topic they all “speak the same thing.” And, thankfully, bold members of the Church of God are beginning to see the light on this subject and are accepting God’s correction and opportunity to change and returning to the Faith once delivered to Jerusalem.

May we embrace the “oracles of God” and overcome the obstacles of men! (Luke 11:52).

Exciting Life

There is one way to experience the exciting life God has in store for you! Experience the fire of God that restores, refreshes, empowers, and promotes us to a life of joy and success!

What’s Inside Of You

What is inside of you will eventually come out and take your life on a path to success or pain! Others will see the results of your inner life expressed in your outer world!

“What you have inside of you is exactly what you will impart to others.” – Rick Renner

Promotion By God

Why would God want to promote you? The answer is simple! He wants to express His fabulous goodness and amazing greatness through you! This makes you a living sign of God’s goodness!

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” – Jesus Christ

Results Of God’s Fire

The presence of God seen by Moses at the burning bush was in the form of a fire enveloping the entire plant! God spoke from the midst of this burning bush and elevated Moses to a great level of influence in his nation!

1. God’s Fire Restores

We see that the bush was not consumed or destroyed by the fire! God spoke from the flaming tree to restore Moses’ life calling as a deliverer of Israel.

2. God’s Fire Refreshes

Moses was refreshed and enthused with a new passion to see his people released from chains of bondage! God’s vision for freedom refreshed Moses’s journey!

3. God’s Fire Empowers

God transferred miraculous gifts to Moses at the burning bush! These gifts empowered him to have great influence and ability to fulfil his task.

4. God’s Fire Promotes

The results of Moses’ meeting with God at the burning bush left a legacy of freedom to the nation of Israel. This experience also gave an exciting story for inclusion in the Bible! Moses’ name was elevated to prominence throughout history as a result!

Your Promotion

Let the fire of God promote you. As we seek a personal encounter and relationship with the creator we discover God’s great plan to promote us!

Pray

Pray this simple prayer, “God I want to know You and the plan for promotion that You have for my life. Jesus, give me abundant life. Thank you! Amen!”

The religions born of this patriarch are all followers of the sun-god, Mary. It was the Mother God of Babylon and the start of Islam. The bible relates to this when the corruption is removed and the real God, the Great Creative Spirit of the Universe, is known. In the uneducated and superstitious mind of ancestral man the forces of nature were known but not understood. Anything that moved had a spirit of life within and the greatest things known were the sun and the moon.

In the manner of progress, the start of understanding how things worked was to name and study them. The sun was first and foremost the object of power and intrigue. It moved across the ‘heavens’ and died every night and returned every morning in the opposite direction. This meant, according to the thinking of the time, that it somehow travelled through the earth from west to east.

Ideas associated with this were located in Egyptian tombs of pharaohs whose bodies are taken to the underworld by boat. They were embalmed and wrapped to resemble fish with swimming abilities. That so they would not drown.

This demonstrates how the thinking of the time impacted on beliefs. The heavens were thought to be oceans in which the celestial spheres floated as boats. That is why boats are found in associated with burial sites in Egypt and in the North among the Vikings. It also explains the rock art in Ostergotland and elsewhere depicting men rising to the heavens in boats.

Names were given to various images created by the sun. ‘Ma-r-I’ means ‘mother’s powerful eye’ and Mary is the chief God of religions born of Babylon. She has many names such as ‘Eye-star’, ‘Ishtar’, Isis, ‘Astereth’, and so on. As the rising star or morning star the religion of Babylon was records as ‘Zoro Aster’.

After my reincarnation and following a commission to undo the lies and remove the wall of blindness many things were revealed to me by the Spirit. This happened through visions and in one the Spirit showed me how the morning star was observed. A group on a hill waited for it to appear through a perforated stone set up for the purpose.

The rays that penetrated it dispersed and the magnificent rings of perpetually moving lights were formed. The people fell down in awe and they named it Mary. The hole through which it appeared was named ‘O-b-ra-ma’, which means ‘circle bearing powerful mother’. Over time and changes to interpretation ‘Obrama’ became ‘Abrama’ and finally ‘Abrhma’ was altered to ‘Abraham’.

In Indian scriptures, God is called Paramatman (Universal Soul) while the Soul of the individual is called Atman. This means that our soul is part of the Soul of God. Therefore, we must all be like God since we all have a soul of God. Christianity also believes that the kingdom of God is within you which too implies that God is in us and not out there.

However, we often wonder that if God is indeed present in all of us in our soul, why people behave like animals or evil?

The reason for our evil behavior is that our soul has lost its purity in this world being affected by the needs of the body. It is to be remembered that soul does not exist independent of the body. It exists with the body and gets affected by the desires of the body. Hence it gets tainted from the desires of the pleasures and comforts of the body. Often, it starts hearing so much voice of the body that it stops listening to the signals from God.

A tainted soul is required to be cleaned up to get the reflection of God.

Cleaning the soul is not difficult. The simplest method to clean our soul is to start doing good work. What is a good work? We all know the answers since we immediately get alarm bell when we see a good person around. This alarm is raised by the soul. Everyday, we come across people who are good as they are doing things that are in the interest of the world and not for their own sake. They get nothing in return and sometime they are also ridiculed by the ignorant people. Yet soon people start understanding them and loving and trusting them.

The soul of the man can be cleaned only by doing the good work. The first step towards doing good work is the company of a good man. Just like a dirty cloth gets cleaned in the contact of a good soup, the dirt of the soul is soon removed in the company of a good man. As the dirt of the soul is removed, the person is able to see the presence of God more clearly in himself. He start feeling more divine from inside that gives him the feeling of happiness and love.

Once the soul of a person is cleaned completely, he just cannot tolerate any dirt on it. Such a person can, therefore, never commit any sin or evil act as he shall not be able to see any evil from the eyes of his soul which is shining by the reflection of God. The purification of soul automatically makes the man pure and he achieves his true nature i.e. the nature of God.