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Of Truth as Related to Self and Society 2010 EDITION
Part 2 The WORD lives in the Order of Life. 7 Our Future: Now! 8 The question of sacrifice 9 The Gospel of John dispute 10 Creation revealed by modern science 11 The Dolphin Mystery 12 Ancient Writings Revisited
Of Truth. Part 2: Chapter 7. Our Future – Now
“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” W. Churchill.
What is revealed in Of Truth may seem simple but it is not simplistic: now a more direct look at our times.
Think of a pile of stone, lumber and metal and of all that can be made of these. Think of a great Gothic Cathedral, how complicated and majestic it appears; but yet it is still composed of simple everyday materials. Construction may be intricate but it is still a simple progression of order.
Yes, we know so much in our everyday lives yet many now decline to think for ourselves. We reject our power to see the meaning of what we know. We do not want to work things out: we want to remain babies in a frail womb. Even when our science tells us that the order of all physical creation is mathematical, that mathematics is the way to prove our understanding right, we still ignore that neither chance nor natural selection know anything of this! Mathematics is the base for "order" and chance could not create the plan that must precede the creation.
We refuse to use our intelligence to reach logically balanced conclusions. Strange but true! We do not want to admit that once we face the reality of common knowledge all the infinite possibilities of creation can become available to us.
We must continue to face the challenge of the future and for clear vision, the challenge of the past; though some may glory in it and some hate it.
“My load is light;” the Lord says; and it is. “The truth will set you free;” the Lord says; and it is beyond any scientific logic to show it otherwise. Are we too proud to listen – or too ashamed?
Think of all the office buildings in a city; of the millions who work in them; the truckloads of produce that enters but just serves to record transactions. Think of the roads and hospitals; the food and housing: the world’s needs! Then think of the human energy used in those buildings to no human benefit.
What a difference it would make if the energy of these workers was used for human benefit – if the work and materials in those time-wasting, non-productive, commercial buildings went into constructions and goods useful to people – were we educated to human morality and governed ourselves to improve efficiency rather than waste time and minds on fashion, sport, political dispute or entertainment trivia?
Our philosophy of life causes us to waste, totally, about two thirds of our productive capacity including much of what we actually produce. Are we now too ‘dumbed down’ to understand the enormity of the looming catastrophe we have created?
It is both foolish and futile to fight against truth. Truth is our life support!
Truth gave us life and the world we live in. Truth gave us intelligence to be individual; to participate in creation by allowing us the freedom to create new reality. When in ignorance we deform truth, we are self-destructive.
As we have seen there is infinity of truths and yet all are encompassed in one truth. The need for flexibility in life means that there is infinity of part truths, untruths and unknowns.
Truth does not force us to behave in accordance with the random desires of self-indulgent gods or arrogant control-freak people. We are not programmed, as are common animals although, of course, we could be were we intended to be nothing more; but what would that achieve as reward for the huge effort of creation? We are encouraged to develop; to find and serve our own true nature.
God is not like a human government! We were not created to serve a program as animals, mind manipulating to reduce us to animal level is the ultimate inhumanity!
Humans can advance in understanding, the closer we get to truth the better our lives become and the more options for achievement. Restricted in use of intelligence we retreat from truth, restrained by chaos our creative options vaporize. To advance order our minds must be open to the challenge of truth.
Lack of physical restraint is freedom only so long as our minds are free. With minds restrained bodies are restrained – behavior misdirected – suffering expands and life descends into chaos.
Three great untruths now rule our lives: 1/ The self-contradiction that says: there is no truth. 2/ The deceit that creation occurred by chance. 3/ The lie that elections create democracy.
These untruths were created by (and to serve) man-made concepts; these in turn serve the greed, pride and arrogance of those who desire to enslave humanity.
We trust our kind not suspecting we are manipulated by lies! Those seeking ownership of the earth feed on pride and arrogance as reward for clever deceit.
In false pride and desire to avoid human responsibility, the greedy lead the way (the blind lead the blind) but we all have some responsibility for our blindness and for love of false gods.
Thoughts on Truth: Truth is absolute but man is fallible and unable to comprehend the absolute. For man, what is predominately true or which leads toward truth – is sufficient.
Certainties are enemies of truth – certainties are like great logs that jam the stream of the mind to restriction and enslavement. Knowledge without understanding is of little value, only reasoning based on understanding is of value.
Spiral of Life: The way to life is through Truth The way to Truth is through Sacrifice The way to Sacrifice is through Courage The way to Courage is through Character The way to Character is through Discipline The way to Discipline is through Authority The way to Authority is through Life The way to life ………
Three laws of Truth: 1/ To know truth – speak truth. Knowledge of truth requires practice of truth. The liar deceives himself. 2/ To know truth – develop love of truth. A biased mind fails to know the truth because bias compromises truth. 3/ To know truth – learn of good and evil. There is a truth of life which lives and a truth of life which dies. Without discernment we are without direction.
OF Truth Part 2: Chapter 8. The Question of Sacrifice:
The question of Christian sacrifice has not been adequately understood. You will have noticed “sacrifice” in the “Spiral of Life”.
Sacrifice is a Christian revelation so vital to the development of our human nature and understanding of life that it is right up there at the threshold of truth. It is the very doorway to knowing Truth better.
Sacrifice is a vital element of human love; so important to the spiritual ‘gene’! The nature of human sacrifice is also evidence that Christian Revelation is genuine. The true meaning of human self-sacrifice has never, and would never, be apparent to humanity without guidance from agents who knew our Creator represents truth; without this, intellectual self-sacrifice (willingness to sacrifice false belief) has no value. In a mindless creation (were it possible) self-sacrifice would be as meaningless as pity in a world where deceivers say ‘there is no truth’ apart from their claim.
Be assured, sacrifice to God is sacrifice to Truth i.e., John 14:6 “I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the father except by me.”
Who is the great beneficiary of human sacrifice? Not God the Father, but the father gets satisfaction from the advance of the child. So our sacrifice is for our own spiritual and intellectual growth. Parents want their children to grow spiritually strong, and intellectually competent. Would our Creator not want this for his children?
Jesus called us “stiff-necked”. Meaning we are too proud to turn our heads to face the truth. Those who dismiss intellectual growth are not God’s children. We need build on our talents; Jesus told us, “Don’t bury your talents”! “to those who have, more will be given and those who have not, from them will be taken even the little they have.”
Leave self behind! Sacrifice the old self for new! We are not gods, we can never be so proud of our knowledge that we can afford not to sacrifice false beliefs and attitudes for truth. The better we know truth; the better (more beneficially) we live.
“We Know” – yes we do know so much but even those practiced may fail to recognize every step in the stairway they climb. We can all overlook the need to think things through to logical understanding.
Thought and self-sacrifice is vital to all who want to know truth better. Those who encourage sloth and self-indulgence try to mislead because they are misled.
Understanding of our origins is vital to human development; that is why Globalists have been so determined to fix evolution theory in our minds. They work to cloud our vision so as to aid our destruction; it is to their advantage that we be neither healthy, wealthy or wise – they fear our competition.
Biblical limitations: The Bible, corrupted by worldliness, is not the limit of knowledge. Israel suffered many hardships; the Old Testament needs particular caution after stress of rescue from scraps and memories. Jesus confirms that our Creator created in truth so we put aside for further study all not a logical component of a rational creation.
But it is not only the Old Testament that is corrupted by the ideas and desires of those putting the pieces together. A recent find of an old manuscript in Egypt re-ignites the question of who actually wrote the Gospel of John.
The reason for this doubt rests squarely on the bias of the men assembling the New Testament from memories only a few generations old. However, knowing the creation is a construct of intelligence we have a useful base for referral.
The Christian Bible tells us to have faith. What are we to have faith in? Is it human law; education; ideology or government? No! Is it the Holy Bible? No! Is it some human idea of God? No! Our essential need is faith in TRUTH.
Bible study should question where, through the eye of reason, it is logical to suppose that what is written supports the logic of the creation. Put aside what is in doubt! It is truth that is of value, not man-made preferences! We cannot use the intelligence we were born with; or make best use of life; or be true Christians, without wanting to know truth better.
Of Truth Part 2: Chapter 9: The Gospel of John dispute
In 2005 TV reported an academic dispute as to the “Gospel according to John” author, because of a papyrus discovered in Egypt.
That there should be dispute about such things is not unusual or unimportant. What is unusual is that the challenge is made that the original writer was Mary Magdalene. If this seems to open a door for knockers, it is the truth that is important and what we stand to gain from such efforts.
Like the myth that apes came down from the trees to walk on open plains long before forested areas of Africa died out (follow up later) we also find evidence and logic in challenge of creation myths and emotions.
The behavior of the apostles (Biblical record) makes clear that these were not free of childish pride or prejudice.
Later authorities, compiling the New Testament from memories and writings, have weaker inspiration for truth and gain more comfort from changes to defend their desires and prejudices. Advised to see with the “eye of reason” we have no excuse for ignoring our intelligence or for accepting the Testaments as entirety the Word of God.
The case made by Ramon K. Jusino is reasonable. See: http://www.BelovedDisciple.org for the complete article.
by Ramon K. Jusino, M.A. © 1998.
INTRODUCTION “This article makes a case for ascribing authorship of the Fourth Gospel (the Gospel of John) in the New Testament to Mary Magdalene. As far as I know – no previously published work has made an argument in support of this hypothesis. Most biblical scholars today assert that the Fourth Gospel was authored by an anonymous follower of Jesus referred to within the Gospel text as the Beloved Disciple. It is posited here that, in an earlier tradition of the Fourth Gospel's community, the now "anonymous" Beloved Disciple was known to be Mary Magdalene. It is further posited that Mary Magdalene is the true founder and hero of what has come to be known as the Johannine Community (i.e., Mary Magdalene was one of the original apostolic founders and leaders of the early Christian church)”.*
[Note: As we saw earlier: (quotes from official documents from the times of the crucifixion) a woman called Joanna accompanied Mary Magdalene to the tomb for the purpose of embalming the body of Jesus. Women were not irrelevant among the disciples. Did these two: Mary Magdalene and Joanna lead the Johannine Community? Who is the “Beloved Disciple”. Is it important? Ed.] Quote continues:
“I realize that this hypothesis may seem very radical and perhaps unorthodox to you. However, I believe that it is well-founded and I respectfully offer the following in support of it.
The evidence supporting this thesis includes some of the Gnostic Christian writings of the Nag Hammadi Library, and internal evidence from the text of the Fourth Gospel itself. This study also relies heavily on the Johannine Community research done by Raymond E. Brown (America's foremost Catholic biblical scholar).” End Quotes.
Editor: The rationale of Jusino’s proposal appeals to me because of what it reveals of the serving role of women apparent in today’s Christian religion. Those times were male dominated. That men and women are not equal in all ways is of course obvious to rational view, but it should also be obvious that both, equally, have special duties and cultural responsibilities. In the end it was women rather than men who stood by the cross.
As said (and is in honest culture reasonable) the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Men administer this world. The church has never, it seems to me, given women their rightful place in the moral and intellectual life of the church. Now, cultural backlash, pushed by Hegelian Dialectic promotion of Humanism, has resulted in many women demanding responsibilities not theirs and still apart from their natural moral responsibilities.
Understanding and promotion of human moral development is everyone’s business, but, most specifically, women’s business. So would it surprise if Jesus chose a woman among his leading disciples. For this reason I would like to suggest that before Christians jump to the defense of tradition; you read, with open mind, the full, Ramon Jusino essay. As a matter of interest my favorite of the Gospels happens to be that which is called The Gospel of John.
Sacrifice for today. Humans now inhabit a criminal culture: a culture that is deliberately destructive of human values, morals and ideals. Until we accept a moral base for our culture it will be increasingly corrupt!
Some claim to be saved because of their faith but the test of faith is how you serve: see Matthew 26-28.
Few see the real consequences of corrupt belief but creation belief is the base for philosophy/ideology, these define our morality – the base for cultural health. It infuriates those who want us to believe that there is no truth and be free of all moral responsibilities.
To expose false belief is more important than curing cancer, heart problems or wars because false moral beliefs, or false foundations for moral beliefs, are the main cause of our rapidly growing problems.
The beliefs now imposed on us play a big part in the creation of our problems and only the adoption of true beliefs will cure these problems. To create a better future we have to remove the cause of today’s problems.
Of Truth Part 2. Chapter 10 Creation revealed by modern science!
When life first appeared on earth the life we know today could not survive. Special life-forms were needed to prepare our world for human development.
All creature life is based on one system! The force that created “our life” needed to also create an earth development to allow the human form to achieve its purpose.
As example: To begin there was no coal, gas or oil and the earth was too polluted for comfortable human development! Special life-forms cleared the atmosphere of the surplus carbon and produced our needed energy resources.
That clean-up also allowed the earth to cool and ice to form at the poles as was needed to start-up heat exchange ocean currents that made the greater part of earth habitable to humans. A well-planned, remarkable achievement!
No doubt there were other such needs met by living things in past ages of earth to allow human-life development. Our needs could not be met without the early creation and programmed activity of specialized life.
To say that we are the descendents of apes is no less silly than saying we are descended from donkeys; to create animal life is the hard part – shape and use, mere details!
By nature all complex systems decay: the human is more complex and is also more recent; the specialized-decadent ape is running out of genetic reserves for adaptation, we, just beginning, cannot be more closely related to this than with other animal life.
Life is by design; i.e. trees and apes were designed to serve human development. We, be assured, are part of a plan based on a genetic structure of such flexibility as to be able to carry the design of all life needed for the life enterprise. This enterprise provided the needs for a form of life that, in development, would have the intellectual ability for its own further advance.
The human creation could be likened to the creation of an egg! It ensured that the food and environment needed for its survival after hatching would be present as it hatched. Yes, elegant is the word to describe this design program.
That is a logical (scientific) understanding but, as our Creator told us thousands of years ago, the WORD: (the idea) came before the plan. Yet even now we are just beginning to see that complex creations HAVE to be planned ahead.
Humanity is now at ‘hatching’ stage of intellectual development. Laws of nature do not offer foresight; life-forms cannot happen by chance. So now we have the science to see it, are we so stiff necked in accepting it?
Creation is not done by magic. Creation, be it a universe or a bridge has to be in accord with the law of order.
We have a brain of complexity for intelligence. Its need could not be seen by chance. This brain, so far as science knows, was only designed once and then given to a family of mammals who carried it for millions of years before we, the ONLY life-form with the physical ability to develop its potentials, appeared. We had to wait in embryo until the earth was ready for us.
The creation of this earth and its life had to be planned by an intelligence that was timeless in itself. Life had to be intelligently planned because no complex creation can occur by chance. Creation only occurs when the design is in mind. The genetic difference between animal life-forms is small; deceivers have led us to believe similarity is exclusive to apes and man but the big leap, the specialized brain, came with the dolphin not the decadent ape.
Science now accepts that important basic features of life-forms (such as head, tail, eyes, limbs) are, as intelligence requires, inherent to original design. So we see that the unsolved needs of genetic creation and massive time needs for chance theory to create life-forms never happened and is impossible. The greater part of creature design is duplicated.
As environment changes, life-forms emerge from basic stock then specialize to serve their purpose; they use up their genetic reserves (environmental time niche) – lose genetic adaptability and become extinct – any student interested to make independent reading of the literature will see that this is what the scientific evidence supports.
Chance and natural selection do not foresee coming environmental needs; both totally blind to future. Neither exists before creation exists; both are themselves the products of creation and one is destructive of order.
If chance damage ever produces a new gene it is useless as chance destroys unused genes. So a chance created gene would, by chance, be destroyed long before it could become part of any new life-form.
The most dangerous virus in the world today is the ideas virus called “Theory of Evolution”, it helped create a teaching that there is no truth. This theory is a “Weapon of Mass Human Destruction” designed to deform our thinking and undermine our reasoning ability.
Note: The truth of what we are and what is being done to mislead us is what all humans now need to know; we need to develop and make use of the abilities we were given.
Further Human Development. Readers, by now, should see that humanity is in development. Our entire history; the "Holy Bible"; the coming of Jesus; the “New Testament” and the “Revelation of John”, all make clear that we are in process of development.
Also raising of humans by animals show that we, unlike common animals, are not born human but are born with human potential.
An intelligence setting up a human development program will first set up the conditions and situations for this development. The non-livable had to be made livable and challenge was needed for the intellectual development.
The human kind needed provision for both survival and development of intellect when the earth had reached a level of stability for this. We appeared when the time was right. There is no mystery, no room for miracles or chance creation. We are in a planned program. If what is happening was developed by our own intelligence this is how it would be because intelligence is the same everywhere.
There are intellectual abilities in different quantity but, like water, intellect it is the same everywhere: different amounts but the substance is the same.
We develop in our creator’s image As we emerge from adolescence we will accept our responsibility – throw off unneeded emotion – develop our ability and advance with yearning for the truth! We don't need more evidence to see that the “theory of chance creation” is fraud!
Humanist philosophy was designed as an upgrade of the ancient system of a “worship effective but imperfect for the profane”. The philosophy is not about science, it is about Hegelian Dialectic control.
Time on earth is not “infinite”. The earth has an age and this age is divided into time unsuited to life and a variety of times suited to various forms of life.
The life being created has to suit the level of earth’s development; more life-forms have been eliminated by inability to adapt to earth change than now live.
The challenge will be met! Those who believe the chance creation theory insult humanity; love notoriety and publicity; work to gain public positions; stand for parliaments; accept bribes; ignore corruption and legislate so that children become slaves of the State.
False creation belief is designed to support false ideology, create artificial emotional values, deform truth and undermine human development.
“You can’t change human nature.” Is often held up as a victory banner! Well, we may not change our nature but, far more important, we can understand and develop it!
Let’s filter out the poisons now sickening human culture. We have a choice! How often we claim “human rights” – so seldom human responsibil-ities! So much we want – so shy to pay!
We demand Big-Brother love and care for us ‘Peter Pan’ adolescents and they, in their adolescence, take advantage of this and use us for their own benefit.
Globalism lives on the adolescent gullibility it has created. Our own strength is used against us! Blaming others for our troubles belittles us.
We are not born with rights we are born with responsibilities!
When we use our intelligence we will no longer be the playthings of others or of blind fate. When we acknowledge our responsibility then we will earn our human rights.
Of Truth Part 2: Chapter 11 The Dolphin Mystery
How did we get here? You may think the following has no place in a serious book but, unlike chance evolution, this has realistic claim.
In June ‘03 a new African find announced three modern-kind human skulls 160,000 years old. We also find a South African Internet site that offers a new (to blinkered science) theory to explain the upright stance that, so we are taught, began the evolution of modern man.
Selective quotes from: http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/199901080127.html Posted to the web January 8, 1999, Johannesburg.
“Characteristics that distinguish us from apes may have been forced on our ancestors by the presence of water, writes Ruben … “If the proponents of a revolutionary theory of human origins are correct, our ancestors abandoned the trees not for the Savannah, but for the water – and humans share more physical traits with dolphins than with apes. … “This means that the story of how our ancestors developed the characteristics that distinguish us from the apes will have to change. … “At the recent Dual 98 Congress on Palaeontology and Human Biology … Elaine Morgan. … For the past 27 years she has been promoting an alternative hypothesis on human origins which was put forward by scientist Alistair Hardy in 1960. Hardy noticed that humans share certain physiological attributes with aquatic mammals. …
“Hardy was advised by his academic mentors not to pursue the subject for fear of damaging his career. [as] In the savannah hypothesis palaeontology already had a "good enough" story to explain bipedalism.
Complete article available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SOS_/message/443 Or: http://www.themindweb.com/truth/congress.asp
So again we see how truth is suppressed and why some theories or new research get no publicity. Globalism protects its “good enough” lies and ‘plausible’ explanations by taking advantage of ‘scientific’ reluctance to admit error.
There is evidence to show the savanna, in fact, did not appear until long after it was assumed to have caused ape-man to stand erect! Will discovery of ancient (modern-form) skulls be ignored or discredited?
Only those making the discovery and doing the tests may ever know the truth of it. Theories on our closer relationship with aquatic mammals make valid points but public mass media does not question our indoctrination to belief in plausible lies.
How do dolphins fit in? Let’s not go into details of the skulls discovery here, look that up on the Internet. Chance evolution is a fake so why is this ‘aquatic’ theory of interest to us?
It is of interest because this evidence offers an explanation of how the design for the human brain was carried through the ages to a time when the earth was ready to support human development.
This special design brain had to be kept apart from creatures with ‘human like’ manipulative abilities.
If evolution answered the creation problems a better brain would advantage all animals, all would progress and the intellectual brain, the most complex of creations designs, would be common rather than exclusive. But, since the first fish swam or the first worm turned no creature has had more than its programmed need.
That is, none except two; us and those strange friends: the only wild animals to befriend humans by their own choice despite what humans may do to them.
Why do the only two who share this super-brain appear to like each other though apparently a world apart in every other way?
Does the dolphin have a memory of our birth – a memory of babies with arms and legs instead of fins – creatures that left the oceans to challenge the dominance of land animals with no more than a big brain to defend vulnerable bodies?
Comparative average brain-weight: Chimps 0.75 lbs.: Dolphin 3..5 lbs.: Human 3.00 lbs. The dolphin brain is heavier than the human because of the observed fact that the part of brain that operates heavier bodies is heavier, but the intellectual brain formation is similar. Apes have never had a like brain! It is not in the fossil record! They cannot be of our line!
http://home.snafu.de/ulisses/tursiops.htm#top Quote: “Think about it. The human brain has existed in its complexity for a hundred thousand years [They now say 160 thousand. Ed.] The dolphins have had theirs for 10 million years. No, it is not the dolphins – it is WE who have finally reached Primate status! All these facts tell us that dolphins have a big brain and excellent cognitive abilities. Stories, as well as scientific experiments, give us this knowledge.” …
“Why are humans so fascinated by these mysterious creatures? The earliest signs of contact between humans and dolphins are the drawings in Stone Age caves in Norway and in South Africa. Romans, Polynesians and Americans write about the mysterious rescue of victims of ship accidents.
“The ancient Greek culture was also very interested in dolphins; poets described these marine mammals as smooth and gentle creatures. Aristotle studied dolphins because he was a biologist as well as a philosopher, and he thought that dolphins were interested in getting closer to humans.
“An Australian tribe included the following in their version of the creation of the earth: " ... (the dolphins) never forgot that all these “two-legged” humans on land are their cousins. And that's why nowadays the dolphins come to find their human relatives, to play with them as they did in the days of the dreamtime.” End quote.
You see the point? The dolphin/mankind stories of friendships are wide-ranging and endless, they extend into mythology and we too love the water.
Here we see significant evidence, a once only development attached to a mammal form that is also the only logical carrier of the human genome. Only Dolphins could have carried our genes, including that once only designed brain, for over 10 million years until the earth was ready to support the human adventure.
Why should dolphins be chosen to carry us through time? A/ because the oceans are our most stable environment. B/ because, without hands and surrounded by water dolphins could not construct a storehouse to accumulate knowledge and so could not exploit this brain to their own destruction.
When earth was ready for the human development this triggered our genetic birth; we and they breathe air: we stood upright in the water and only dolphins share the mental capacity of our brains to remember.
Do they love us as only ancestors can because of being our surrogate parents? Evolutionists claim we are related to apes because they think we look like apes. How pathetic: how simplistic! Such theories are OK for primitive man but childish for modern man.
Different or similar, physical forms are (relatively speaking) such simple genetic rearrangements that physical shape is irrelevant to family origin. We could not get our brain (the most difficult challenge of creation) from ape genes, they have never had it! But the dolphin, a sea mammal had it and also, according to science, this creature had a land-based pre-history!
Will technology finally allow us to break the language barrier between dolphins and us?
When honest research and reporting puts the same effort into knowing dolphins as wasted on maintaining the childish connection between man and apes, then one breakthrough may well uncover far more of our past than has been uncovered by a hundred years of misdirected effort.
From Greek History From Oppian, (approx. 200 BC) a Greek historian.
So Dolphins teem, whom subject, Fish revere And show the smiling Seas their Infant-Heir All other Kinds, whom Parent-Seas confine, Dolphins excel, that Race is all Divine, Dolphins were men (Tradition holds the tale). Laborious swains bred on the Tuscan Vale; Transformed by Bacchus, and by Neptune loved, They all the pleasures of the deep improved.
When new made fish the God’s command obeyed, Plunged in the Waves and untried Fins displayed, No further charge relenting Bacchus wrought, Nor have the dolphins all the men forgot, The conscious Soul remains her former thought.
The above is ancient, we are fortunate that the thread of thought remains visible. Science also says that Dolphins were once land based but how could Oppian know! Did he communicate with Dolphins to learn of their transformation?
Australian aboriginal mythology says dolphins bore the infant human! Neither Oppian nor Aboriginal could have direct knowledge of either. Mythology we know so often has a factual base, but no human mythology can link to actual events that happened before we existed.
Our Creator tells of the human creation but says nothing of its means of transmission to earth life or to its maintenance on earth until earth was ready for our occupation.
Jesus advises that we take note of the old as well as the new! Let's now look at what we need to know of “Revelation” and ancient writings. We see who it is that is really carrying the little scroll and the sweet tasting story it told.
Of Truth Part 2: Chapter 12. Ancient Writings Revisited:
Information from Revelation of John, The Book of Enoch and other ancient writings that support and reveal evidence of vision and knowledge beyond their times.
Relating to Revelation 10: 1-11 I Bible use the “New English Bible” as authorized by eleven Christian denominations and organizations.
They say in their introduction, “We have conceived our task to be that of understanding the original as precisely as we could (using all available aids), and then saying again in our own native idiom what we believe the author was trying to say in his.”
This "New English Bible" is the first serious attempt at a translation to take advantage of ‘modern’ scholarship in the years immediately before Humanist corruption made this research dubious. It is our best, probably only, serious attempt at a modern scientific translation.
As we relate to the old for witness I call on original Old Testament remains in association with Revelation, plus quotes from some lesser known documents to reveal witness and authority to our Christian heritage:
Revelation 10:1-11. “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was wrapped in a cloud, with the rainbow around his head; his face shone like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire. In his hand he held a little scroll unrolled.” I interpret this to represent the ‘anti-Christ’ Archangel. A personage shown in ancient writings as similar to Jesus in power and reflected in the Cain and Abel story.
This mighty angel is, by some, thought to be Jesus. A premature interpretation! This is the leader of the “Watchers”: angels sent to earth to watch over the human development and in the Book of Enoch called Semihazah. Semihazah saw his commission as an opportunity to rebel against God and set up his own kingdom. Some of the angels of Satan are known in today’s Bible but their history has been hidden.
Quote: “Then he gave a great shout, like the roar of a lion; and when he shouted the seven thunders spoke. I was about to write down what the seven thunders had said; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Seal up what the seven thunders have said; do not write it down.”
The “seven thunders”: voices in authority during pre-flood times to re-appear in our times. They are linked to this cloud wrapped Angel because when he shouted they responded. The order not to record what is said means that what they reveal is to be, for a time, hidden.
This clearly foretold of the Old Testament revision in the early half of the 1st., Christian millennium when parts of the original Hebrew Old Testament, including much of the “Book of Enoch” were deleted from our Old Testament.
This revision also ignored Old Testament-like fragments, as found in the “Egyptian Book of the Dead” and the “Gilgamesh Epic”.
Old Testament revision was needed so as to allow time to “weed out” the consequences of the evil introduced by the Watchers.
Jesus describes it in the parable of the ‘darnel’ sown among the grain; here the darnel was allowed to grow until the harvest when it could, with safety to the good grain, be destroyed.
This revision gave Western Europe and much of the world its present Old Testament. A veil over the corruption of the “earth-human project” allowed repair.
“Then the angel that I saw standing on the sea and the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them: ‘There shall be no more delay; but when the time comes for the seventh angel to sound his trumpet, the hidden purpose of God shall have been fulfilled, as he promised to his servants the prophets.”
Jesus tells us we should not ‘swear by’ anything “our word” is all that is needed of honest people. The wrapped (bound) Satan is made to announce his own limited time. As these things can now be revealed we may assume it is near time for the “Seventh Angel” to sound his trumpet.
Quote: "Then the voice which I heard from heaven was speaking to me again, and it said; ‘Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and the land.’ So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, ’Take it, and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, though in your mouth it will taste sweet as honey.’ So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and in my mouth it did taste sweet as honey; but when I swallowed it my stomach turned sour.”
That this little scroll is ‘carried open and without respect’ is repeated. This scroll represents the “humanism” that has made humanity sick today.
That scroll cannot be confused with The Book of Life, that was secured with seven seals and written on both sides: a scroll of length and held in reverence because it told of the plan for human development, a message of importance, not something to make us sick.
Genuine vision cannot confuse these two scrolls as being one and the same. Nor can the mighty cloud wrapped angel who stands over the sea (of mankind) and the land (soul of earth life) be Jesus. Jesus is, in this revelation, called the “Lamb”. Let us not be so confused as to see Him as this arrogant personality?
The Great Angel of Revelation 10:1 is Satan. Let’s look a little deeper to confirm this. The first clue is the word “wrapped”. Wrapped indicates restraint or subject to other authority. E.g. babies may be wrapped in shawl or blanket; prisoners may be wrapped in chains or, non-physically, wrapped in restraints. Wrapping may disguise or cover a present or a wound but does not mean self-chosen dress. If this were Jesus the description could be “coming on, in, or among clouds”. He might “wear” or even (were it written today) be “dressed” in a “wrap” but to be “wrapped” is demeaning.
Where word from God tells of Jesus we can expect hint of special status, not of restraint.
For example: we see at Revelation 12:1 a woman “robed” with the sun, not “wrapped”, and she wears a crown of authority. At 14:14 we see on a white cloud someone like “a son of man”, on his head he wears a gold crown.
If I were told that this represented Jesus I would be interested to know more as we are told an angel came from the temple to tell this crowned person that his crop was ripe to harvest. Jesus is royal and awaiting his inheritance; the imagery is legitimate. So:
A: If the “cloud wrapped” angel were Jesus, He would be senior in the scene not part of a scene manipulated by some disembodied voice that directs on what to do.
B: Jesus would not swear an oath because he rightly instructs us otherwise.
C: Jesus would not present himself, or be presented as an arrogant, flashy, stand-over person aggressively standing on sea and land which are elsewhere identified as representing people.
The identities of Devil, earth, sea are confirmed at Revelation; 12:12: Q.“woe to you, earth, and sea, for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, knowing that his time is short. ” At 17:15 we see: “The ocean you saw, where the “Great Whore” sat, is an ocean of peoples and populations, nations and languages.”
The “Great Whore”, bedecked in jewels, is the great whore of finance and commerce and confirmed as incorporating seven leading agencies today. It is she who became rich by seduction and usury and promotion of false and immoral values.
This relates to an international empire based on slavery by seduction and usury. A whore who became rich by immoral values and seduction of the ocean of peoples, nations, languages and populations.
We now experience how we, the “ocean of peoples, languages and populations” are being misled and robbed.
Quotes from Book of Enoch: Archeology shows ancient Hebrew scribes to be more reliable than might be expected and the original Book of Enoch is our most revealing book of antediluvian times.
Fortunately we have at least part of these writings translated from the re-discovered Dead Sea Scrolls as a help to authenticity. The following three translations will be referred to: The books of Enoch (Dead Sea Scrolls: a translation of surviving fragments) by J. T. Milik. Enoch (Ethiopic M/S) by R. Laurence.
The Book of Enoch (Ethiopic) by R. H. Charles. Author’s initials at beginning of quote indicates translator.
The situation we find is of raw exploitation and opportunistic selfishness such, we are told, as will not be seen again until the (now happening) end times. If exposed to the world this Watcher corruption would have deformed the program of human development so, for a time, it was hidden (premature knowledge can be a dangerous thing).
It is significant that after being closed for the best part of two thousand years it is now allowed to a more advanced human “earth”.
JTM page 142: “not for this generation but for a far off generation shall I speak”. We are now part of that “far off generation”.
Page 12: “Enoch spent … 300 years walking with God, … and then he came back on to the earth amongst the sons of men and he witnessed against all of them … and also against the Watchers.’
Watcher identity is important. We get a clue when the Watchers ask Enoch to intercede with God on their behalf. Enoch returns to them with the following message:
R. L. page 20: “You ought to pray for men not men for you … You being spiritual, holy and possessing a life that is eternal, have polluted yourselves … have begotten in carnal blood; have lusted in the blood of men and have done as those who are flesh and blood do. These [bodies] however die and perish.”
P 22: “Say, [to the watchers] In heaven have you been; secret things, however, have not been manifest to you; yet have you known a reprobated mystery, and this you have related to women … by that mystery have women and mankind multiplied evil upon earth … Never therefore shall you obtain peace.”
The Watchers overseeing the developing earth/soul of humanity were not possessed of all knowledge.
They committed the unpardonable crime of submitting to animal lusts, mating with earth people, and establishing themselves as lords of earth. The leader is Semihazah (Satan); they abuse their moral trust and reveal inappropriate information to early humanity.
Superior to ‘Watchers’ are four angels not on earth named Michael, Sariel, Raphael and Gabriel. Six are given in the Ethiopic version. Enough of the Book of Enoch is translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls for our need.
As with all ancient writings, we find irrelevant or misleading additions.
It is clear that the destruction by fire, earthquake and the “flood” left more than one group of people with part memories of pre-flood histories and now provide alternative witness.
AN interesting quote relates to the accusation by Enoch against the watchers: JTM: “.. and (women) are begetting children, who are not like the spiritual beings but creatures of flesh. And there shall be great wrath of God against the earth and flood … and thereafter shall come stronger wickedness than that which will be consumed in the days of Noah and his sons.
For I know the mysteries … the holy ones have told me and showed me … I read … and saw written in them that generation after generation would do evil in this wise, and evil would be more and more until there arose generations of righteousness, and evil and wickedness should come to an end, and violence should cease from off the earth.
So (as we can now witness) evil grew with the good; and we are tested until we become mature enough to reject it. Another interesting item: JTM: “ .. Hence those who suffer affliction there, being punished less in regard to their spirits, they will not be afflicted with greater damage, in the day of judgement. …”
So those who suffer an affliction such as of biased teaching, do, by their actions, less harm to their spirits and may expect justice at the judgment!
RL page 8: “The earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gates of heaven.” [Earth: the human spirit.]
JTM page 167: “Then the earth made the accusation against the wicked concerning everything that was done on it.”
RL pages 10-11: “Thou knowest all things before they exist … restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce life to it, that I may revive it … All the sons of man shall not perish …”
Here again is confirmed that the “soul” or “spirit” of human development may, in Revelation, be referred to as “earth or land”;meaning the solid and everlasting in life.
Page 56: the coming of Jesus: “Others shall be made to see, that they must repent, and forsake the work of their hands; and that glory awaits them not in the presence of the lord of spirits (*; yet that by his name they may be saved … And in those days shall the Elect One sit upon his throne.” (** Elect One: the “Lamb”; Son of Man or Jesus, not an arrogant angel.)
A parallel between the Adam, Eve and serpent mythology of the revised Old Testament and the behind scenes reality of the original report of ‘Watchers’ who seduced earth-women, is visible. Enoch also gives witness to “two days of judgment”.
The Flood here shown to be in attendance with earthquake: RL page 78: “In those days Noah saw that the earth became inclined, and that destruction approached.
Then he lifted up his feet, and went to the ends of the earth, to the dwelling of his great-grandfather Enoch. And Noah cried out in a bitter voice, ‘Hear me; hear me; hear me; three times. And he said, tell me what is transacting upon earth; for the earth labors, and is violently shaken. Surely I shall perish with it … "
What happened to the Watchers? The angels overseeing earth’s development knew they served evil. It is reported: Semihazah said to his angels that they must all agree and not put all blame on him if there was trouble.
When trouble came and the kingdoms and peoples of the Watchers were destroyed, they were devastated and very bitter; but they, being eternal, not destroyed, were confined to earth. The caretakers had set themselves up as Gods and their children were giants. These too were destroyed in the flesh, but their spirits live.
A relevant passage from the RHC. Pages 36-37: “And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and wreck destruction on the earth, and cause trouble; they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against women, because they have proceeded from them …until the day of consummation, the great judgment.
Here confirmed is the true origin of evil in our world today.
In Revelation we see the last great effort of Satan to win control of earth. He is allowed to offer the sweet tasting little scroll (philosophy) that sickens humanity and misguides millions to cause these to turn to selfishness, immorality, drugs, betrayal and crime, but the cause of bad behavior will be taken account of at the judgment.
Conditions during the last days. R.L. page 162: “In those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their children, and forsake them. Their offspring shall slip from them, and while suckling them shall they forsake them; they shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.”
Now, increasingly, women become pregnant from casual sex. They ‘go forth from’ or never know, the father.
Children are forsaken to child minding and nurseries where strangers instruct them in negative, non-human values, crude behavior and rebellion.
Thus we are told, centuries before the event, of the social disintegration caused by the ‘little scroll’.
Parents, worldwide, suffer these social pressures; they are unable to see them as consequences of the ‘artificial loves’, ‘ideals’ and ‘beliefs’ of anti-Christ humanism as promoted by Globalism.
Destruction by flood, fire and earthquake destroyed the ‘watchers’ power but the seed grows in our culture until our time of maturity when it is gathered and burned at time of harvest.
Item 1 The Egyptian Book of the Dead & Gilgamesh Epic Item 2 Our Times: Revelations beyond and within human ability. Item 3 End Piece: A poetic gift of chastisement Item 4 Post Script. |
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