Heading For Healing 25: Have You Tried Crying?

I do not have any doctrine on this. Christ cried before the big one, the raising of Lazarus (John 11). I asked Jesus for the gift of tongues, found myself rejected of Him, and cried. He then walked me through to the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I fantasized what Jesus had done for me. I saw Him flogged, going into shock - dying - carrying the cross FOR ME. I cried. Then He spoke to me, transcending from His spirit state to the audial nerves in my brain so that I heard Him audibly. As they were about to drive the spike into His right hand, He turned His face toward me and said, "Come unto Me."

Were there any doctrine here, it would be: be humbled and appreciate the Beginning with deep feelings to the point of tears. For He, the "Son" of God, died from the state of God to the ignorance of the universe. That we might become the Godhood with Him. Surrender, submit, and appreciate what He has done to give us Life. Accept it with praise and gratitude. And cry a bit. It's okay. It's all right. He promises to wipe away every tear.

What Would You Be Doing?

If you had what you want and were doing what you want to do, what would you be doing? In your imagination, do it. Neville in his books and lectures often says, "What would it be like if it were true? If you had what you desire? What would it feel like? What would you do? Well, DO IT!" Do it in your imagination, that is. Imaginally, do it as you experience life right now - thoroughly and intensely. Do it as illustrative speech to God. Praise and thank (...?) for it, for He says that if you believe you receive, you will have it.

If you HAD what you desire, what would you be doing? Well, DO IT!

When Cain-Abel Works

It suddenly dawned upon me that Cain, which means acquisition, could be our believing that we receive - acquiring what we desire in our imagination; and that Abel, which means transitoriness (see Bullinger/Companion Bible for these definitions), could be God's invisible influence upon transitory states in our existence to the manifestation of those desires. We think; He works. Neville Goddard often repeated an axiom relating our causational imagining to its answer: "When it works, you have found Him."

God, who is spirit, is our own, wonderful, HUMAN imagination. For we and God are one. In Him there is this part manifesting through Him that part. When Cain and Abel work, we have every part of God, and that, I think, is what He is after: HIM MANIFEST, which is Him manifesting.

How is God Imagining You? Let Him Compel Change

With patience we imagined us. Now we are here. How is God imagining you? Pretty intense and thorough, isn't it? The earth is expansive, the breezes soft, hurricanes horrible. Gravity is a gentle, measured force, rocks are hard, weathering slow and permanent. And imagined. Everything is so real - love, friends, events, wars - life is real. And imagined. How is God imagining you? You are the answer.

We are part of the Ineffable, the (...?) Who is everything. The key is everything is imagination. Us, too. God gives you an imagination, a desire. It is a seed. The seed of an experience. What do you want? You want that experience. One of my favorite lectures is Neville Goddard's God's Law and His Promise. Neville wanted to be in his home in Barbados. Another time he wanted to be home instead of in the Army, and then to leave Barbados, or to hear a friend say, "It turned out just as I wanted." Rising on the tide of falling asleep, he imagined him as them - as him in Barbados, as him home permanently from the Army, as him leaving Barbados, as him hearing his friend. He changed his mind from his state to those states. That is repentance. He called it prayer. And God compelled change from his experience to those experiences. We call it answer, evolution. A lot of people are now calling this "manifestation," as if there were no God beside themselves.

Take your seed and imagine you in the experience of your seed fulfilled. Imagine it harvested. That is your speech, your naming what you desire. Sleep in it. And then let God compel its growth and eventual birth. Just be loyal to the seed planted, that in time it will be harvested in experience. Imagine you, like God imagines you, in the harvest, and He will bring it - compel it - to pass.

Heading For Healing 24: The Moses Mystery Regarding Cain and Abel - A Big "How to Pray"

Moses, in Exodus, learned from God. What he learned he wrote as Genesis. He put the most important up front. The people there are FEATURES of God's nature. "God" is the consciousness of the ineffable (...?), the incomprehensible Source of everything. The Ineffable is the "No-thing" everything became from. The Ineffable is in the process of Itself becoming manifest. That is what we are doing here.

The whole thing here is prayer. Prayer, which is assumption and compulsion, is God's self-treatment for the ignorance we are born into. All is consciousness. Psychological. Whatever feature of God we were was ignorant of the rest of God's nature. We are the manifestation of that ignorance: we have been "ignoranced." The task here is to overcome this ignorance. See Neville Goddard's lecture "Unless I Go Away." The "away" is from our consciousness and awareness. We are going to associate this with Abel.

Adam means the blood (Life) of the Divine. Eve is Its power to become. That is what our inner man is of. Cain means acquisition. When we pray, we are to acquire (Mark 11:24) what desire God has given us (Psalm 37:4). Name it. Define it. The Hebrew word for 'name' is Shem. It is almost always translated as name, but it means the nature of the thing. When we pray, we are to acquire what-we-pray-for's nature. We ASSUME its nature, that it is real, existent, and received. This is "Cain." That is OUR part. We play the part of Cain (don't forget it is of and from God).

Abel is God's part. Abel means transitoriness. God compels the universe's existence to transit into what is assumed by us. Whatever states exist morph into His answer to the prayer. THE THING ABOUT GOD'S COMPULSION OF THE UNIVERSE IS WE DO NOT SEE IT. It is "dead" to us in the field, for His omni-everything works invisibly. He and we are one: we ASSUME whatever desire He has given us, and He COMPELS its manifestation. God does the moving. WE do our part assured HE does His. This tit-for-tat interplay is the way God is supposed to be.

Seth means a substitute (a weak and feeble, sickly one at that) put in the place of Abel. Religion. Our own righteousness. Idolatry. It pretty much fills our world until we learn to trust God to do His part. We need to believe the He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him. How do we seek God? We do our part. We pray. We assume we have received. We float in our boat until He compels the world to become the fulfillment of the desire He has given us. We praise with thanksgiving. We do NOTHING of ourselves to compel the universe. The COMPULSION belongs to Him. His power, His Kingdom is what does it. ABEL STILL SPEAKS!!

This is a united effort. We are one with God. The power to fulfillment is "Christ" - His Anointing. We are the Father of Christ. We are learning to assume our Godhood, to overcome the ignorance which plagues God. Our oneness with God is the discovery of a lifetime! What do you want? NAME it by ASSUMING that it IS!! You have got to praise and give thanks for that!

The Neville Goddard School of Prayer

"I call it prayer," Neville said. What 'it'? Assumption. "You are in Barbados." That is what Abdullah, the old, Ethiopian Jew who mentored Neville in Jewish mysticism, told him when Neville said he had a deep desire to visit his family home in Barbados. Abdullah taught him emphatically: "You are in Barbados, and you went there first class!"

Yeah, right. Neville was penniless - literally - an unemployed dancer in Great Depression New York. But he undertook the mysticism and believed he was in Barbados, feeling he was literally walking tropical paths and lying in his family home bed when he went to sleep.

Then the letter came. All expenses for a trip to Barbados, first class. It had worked.

Coincidence? Neville spent the rest of his life studying the Bible and teaching this type of prayer. By whatever name - revision, I remember when, creative or causative imagining - he called it prayer. Because Jesus and the Bible called it prayer. The idea was assumption that what was desired was already had. Getting the mind to that state became Neville's "technique," and teaching that technique his mission. His life became a school of prayer. That is how he read the Bible, how he practiced his life.

I think the assumption (the peace, rest, trust, faith) of "You are in Barbados" was the "certain place" Jesus was in when his disciples asked Him, "Teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1). Jesus taught them:

"Which one of you that has a relative, and who goes to him in the middle of the night, and tells him, 'Kinsman, I need three loves [of bread], since a relative has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to place before him.' And he replies from inside and says to him, 'Do not bother me. Behold, the door is locked and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise and give you [the bread.]' I tell you, that if not out of a sense of kinship he does it, then surely because of his integrity he will rise and give him as much as he wants" (Luke 11:5-8 Alexander, emphasis mine).

I read "because of his integrity" as "because of his (the asker's) integrity and trusting rest in assumption." Assumption. Jesus had peace because of his faith in his assumption. That was where he was. Not hocus-pocus, Jesus had been "there," creating where he was going. Assumption was his "importunity." "Teach us to pray like that!" THAT is how to pray. Getting our minds to the state of assumption is the technique we need to learn and then teach from Neville's - Jesus' - school of prayer.

Several years ago I wrote "The Best, Most PRACTICAL Neville Goddard Lectures." There are several good leads there to the School of Biblical Prayer technique.

A nice YouTube e-book: With Christ in the School of Prayer. Listen to at least the intro. Schools of Prayer: that is what we are supposed to be.

And I again endorse the Victor Alexander translations of the Bible from the ancient Aramaic. I think Vic translated having an entirely different worldview than all the other translators. It is not a matter of what version of the Peshitta did Vic translate, but what version of worldview was in Vic's mind when he translated. I believe he was projecting the Aramaic-speaking church of the first century, hearing as if he was one of them. In my humble opinion, if you do not have Victor Alexander's translations, you do not have the Bible. Yes, he was ill for awhile, and he had for a time mind-debilitating treatments. Cut a mortal man some slack. Still the best version available to my mind.

As I am writing this Christmas morning, 2020, Merry Christmas to you and Liv, Vic. Your translation - immortal in its own right - has illumined and inspired me. I thank you very much. The Ancient Aramaic Church thanks you. Stay healthy and warm, and Allaha Ashur bless you richly.

- Dan

Rebellion! Rebellion! Pitchforks and Torches Against God

I am surprised by how quickly ignorance becomes rebellion. Of course, that is how we are born. Tabla rasa in the amnesia of being incarnated - God consciousness flipped into an ignorant, human body - we rebel against just about everything. "I don't want to. I won't!" No particular reason necessary. Even our religions are "I will do this instead of that." This surprisingly called to mind Joel Goldsmith, a character I have until now studiously avoided. I once stumbled upon a micro-bookstore of everything Joel Goldsmith. Kind of like a Christian Science reading room. I thought the woman who had devoted her life to it was more than a little bit loopy. Goldsmith (I still have read very little about him or by him) apparently saw "the infinite way." I think that was the Kingdom of God he was speaking about. The Kingdom of God - the Infinite Way - is the PRESENT reality of God all our religions are supposedly about, the "that" we find so hard to accept to do.

Rebellion is rejection.

Proverbs 23:6-7 -- As a Man Thinketh the Wrong Way

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7). It is true that this is indicative of manifestation. The point of the verse, though, is that you have to watch out for hypocrisy. A creep is still a creep even if he treats you to an expensive meal. The 'is' appears to be a supplied copula (italicized in the English text): "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he." Despite whatever illusions he puts forth of righteousness and generosity, he is still lazy, selfish, and greedy.

Alexander translates the verses: "Do not dine with a lazy man, nor desire his food. It is like a man swallowing his pride that you eat and drink with him, and his heart is not with you. And the bread that you eat, you shall throw it up, and you shall degrade your pleasant words." I.e., you are going to be the victim of his manifestation.

This passage reminded me of Carl F. Rehnborg's analysis of the Kingdom of God (Jesus and the New Age of Faith, Buena Park, CA: Carl F. Rehnborg Foundation). I do not think I have ever heard it taught by anyone else. Carl worked it out himself. I do not have the book here in Arizona. On a scale of 1 to 10, I think it is one of the most worthwhile books I have ever read. Rehnborg comes to the most interesting conclusion: goodness and beneficence are the natural order. THAT is the Kingdom of God. Not that there isn't a consciousness Who is God, but that Its ("His") natural manifestation is like It. The natural goodness of God is inherent in the Manifestation, and that resident Power is the "Kingdom of God." That blows my mind. Good God, I'm crying right now. Not only is God good, this, His manifestation, is naturally good.

Can I put faith is this? In His natural order? That as I trudge across the barren desert, there will be water? That if the children held their peace, the very rocks would cry out? That though I die, I shall live?

We are of the Ineffable's Consciousness, so what we believe in our hearts is generative; it is the creation of our lives. What we think in our hearts is true prayer. Like it or not, it becomes. So what we want to be, we must think. With faith in God and the natural order. There isn't anything but Him. Er, Us. Er, Me.

Messiahship After Death: Racing to Martyrdom

It is, I think, something the ancient Aramaic church understood. That's the church the actual Jesus person left, be He historical or illustrative. The Season of Grace church that KNEW Him. He became messiah AFTER He died. It's got something to do with the sign of Jonah. I read that when the Caesars rounded up Christians to try and execute them, they raced to line up. Because they KNEW God: "It isn't on this side." That is faith and confidence that speaks volumes. Our consciousness messiahed. Isn't that our hope? Our being there has been paid down, and the way showed.

I wonder what the ancient Aramaic church saw, how they thought of the world. As I understand it, it is as the inner man thinks...that he is (Proverbs 23:7). For this I wrote Listen To Your Self. As you are thinking/speaking inside is your world. An interesting observation of ancient Hebrew in the introduction to Young's Literal Translation of the Bible by Robert Young is that there was no future tense in it. I suspect the ancient Aramaic church thought that way: "It is because it has become." I am sure they understood the futureness of messiahship with assuredness that it is. Through the valley of the shadow of death is just the way to make the transition.

The infinite, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, All Mighty God - Eil Shaddai, the All Powerful Consciousness of the Ineffable (...?) - CANNOT LEAVE ANYWHERE. Our minds can dull to Its presence, to Its being our existence, but we cannot exist without It. It drives me to absolute distraction that there are people who are waiting for It, Jesus, to return. Cannot return What could never leave. Ask Him to amp Himself up in you, in your life. There's a Rolling Stones song that ends with the lyric, "Pot It up!" Crank up the amperage, Lord. Please crank It up.

Wild, Free, Powerful, and Useless: On the Manual

Visiting Arizona. Horse country. Surprising level of gun worship. Shocked by the resistance to wearing masks during Corona virus pandemic. "We are free to do what we want," as if wearing a filter over one's nose and mouth is some kind of imposition. STRONG spirit of rebellion. Got to be wild, free, powerful, and beautiful like horses. Or I'll shoot you. Forgetting that wild, free, powerful, and beautiful horses are absolutely USELESS. They have to be broken, trained, disciplined, and directed to be useful. The horses here have a lot more sense, and are useful to their owners.

The situation reminds me of the training of elephants. Baby elephants are shackled to deep and strong restraints. They struggle and pull until exhausted. AFTER they have accepted their condition, it takes no more than a spike in the ground to hold them - THEY DON'T PULL ANYMORE! A broken animal is useful. Can be put into motion and steered, directed in work. In the BROKEN state. If you do not want to be broken and directed, are unwilling to accept your state before God, you are not a Christian or a Jew but are pointless and useless.

God is a field of consciousness. It is where you are and where I am - throughout the universe. Everything we know of is a manifestation of It. Wild horses and elephants, too. Our destiny is broken unto God. THAT is the message of the Bible. It is a manual of Prayer and Life. Prayer Life. Moses, contemplating God's beneficence and abundance (Hebrew: yithrow), asked God, "What is Your nature?" (The Hebrew word shem, "name," means nature.) In Hebrew, God said, "I am that 'I am'." I prefer the Aramaic: "It's (Yithrow is) My becoming by imagination" (Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh Exodus 3:14 Alexander). God is the Consciousness of the Ineffable Field. Every locality is Its imagination!! Everything is psychological, BEING imagined. That is why the rock is hard. Imagination is transitory, fresh EVERY MOMENT. Seeing this, Moses wrote the Pentateuch. It is how to live in the moment. How to be broken, how to be trained, how to be disciplined, how to be powerful, how to be directed, how to be useful; i.e., how to live the Prayer Life. This psychological book has become the Bible. Written as history, its topic is the MIND. The tribes and disciples are in ours. Jesus is the Anointing of the Ineffable Field's Consciousness upon us, SAVING us by our submission to our state in Him.

My friend, break before Him. Receive the Anointing Who has been given. And for God's sake (for we are for His work), learn how to read and how to listen. Be as a good, useful horse.

My Take on "The Anointed One"

You have to understand that God's being one includes us in that one. So we are all born by the Holy Spirit. 'Jesus' in my parlance is the Father. He is. He is The Anointed One in that He - the Ineffable's Spirit (Consciousness) - is applied to us. This is what I mean by "oneness Pentecostal." As He is Consciousness, He is amped up, as it were, in our awareness and experience to overcome Ignorance. So Jesus is anointed on us, active in our lives: the Father is the anointed one upon us. Jesus is the Father on, active in, us. We, like the anonymous Jewish guy the Father was upon (enlivening) in the New Testament, are to receive the Father anointed onto us and to live as he did. Jesus is the anointed one - the one spirit anointed onto (amped-up in) man. We are to be one with Him, the Ineffable's Spirit. THAT unity is the submission and cooperation exemplified for us by the Jewish guy in the Season of Grace - our hands His (the Ineffable's) hands when He would reach out. Shared identification - pure, real, and accomplished oneness - His Manifestation.

Edit 12/7/2020: Jesus is God saving us, providing what we need, which is Him as He thinks of us. He is the Spirit poured out upon us by the Ineffable, wherein He becomes "anointed" upon us. He is the activity of the Ineffable. We receive that activity, becoming the manifestation of His improvement. Always believe His improvement IS, that we - me, you yourself, and whomever you consider - are on the FAR SIDE of it. In His mind, we are. Halleluiah. Believe with all feeling and confidence that we have received.

For we are to be like God, Who assumes the End from the Beginning. The End has been defined and assumed, and this Sabbath is His bringing that defined End into being. Isn't It wonderful?

"Jesus" is the NATURE, not the "name," of the Father upon us. His work is psychological, as He is Consciousness, in oneness with matter He forms experiential Manifestation in. Manifestation is TRANSITORY, for the Ineffable is progressing - there isn't any retiring with barns full of all you will ever need. We ARE His progression.

Life is Self-fulfilling Destiny

What we believe in the right way becomes our destiny, INCLUDING our developed belief that even with no more miracles substantiating our belief in Him, we would unflinchingly follow God through death. "Eil, Eil, l'mana sh'wik-thani." This is the correct transliteration of Mark 15:34 from the ancient Aramaic: "Supreme Being, Supreme Being, wherefore did you destine me?" (Alexander). Jesus the Anointed One showed us in the Season of Grace that He, the Beginning of Genesis 1:1, the creating "Son" of God, died for all of us at that time. I.e., as the beginning. We do not HAVE TO die, for He having done it then is our justification.

We Do What He Does

If God wants to resolve His ignorance problem, why the poverty, conflict, suffering, and amnesiac ignorance of human life? I think the correspondence is God Himself has to search out what He doesn't know and discover how to gain what He does not have. God is impoverished in His own ignorance. He has to alter His self assuming that He is what He wants to be after He works out what that is. We are the manifestation of Him, of what He, the Field, is doing. He does it; we do it. We find things that are wrong, lacking in us, and are compelled to fix them. How? Through faith, hope, and love as active agencies.

Your Life Has Been Your Prayer to God Your Mother

I want to say it again: your life has been your prayer God has answered. Our lives are the prayer we have been sending, pronouncing to God as "I want this." Our lives are the message He gets. Feel desperate, frustrated, offended, slighted, rejected, that others are at fault, that you are a victim? Or have you been feeling that you are confident, capable, self-assured? And are you? You are because your life has been your prayer which has been answered. Does God answer prayer? Look at your life. Proof in spades! Try feeling this: "I am close to God Who is my Provider." God will provide whatever you need to fulfill whatsoever you genuinely feel - for God Almighty is Eil Shaddai - the All-Providing Breasts. Trust, love, and thank your loving Mother.

Listen to Your Self

What is your self saying? What your self is saying is your prayer to God. That is what God answers. He gives you what your self SAYS. Life is right in front of you. Are you saying, by what your self is FEELING, "I can't," "I don't," "I won't"? Frustrated, intimidated, inadequate, angry, lonely, ill? That is what these feelings PRODUCE. Our feelings are generative. From what your self feels comes what your self will be. The states are, in a sense, constant: moment by moment they are BECOMING. What states are becoming? Listen to your self. That is what you are becoming. Change what you feel, what you believe, and you literally change the state that becomes. Listen to any success story: "I decided that..." That what? That I could, that I do, that I would. That I would get through, would overcome, could accomplish, was at peace, was lovely, am well. "I am THAT 'I am...'" Believe it, feel it, DO it. Do not be conditioned by the world. Do not react to it. Condition the world by how your self feels by so feeling, and let the world react to you.

An Analysis of Revelation 12: God's Throne and the Test of Vanishing

I told Maia I would analyze Revelation 12, though I know no one in his right mind would try to analyze Revelation for anyone else. The Book of Revelation is a book of symbols drawn from everywhere else in the Bible, so there never is any real end to what it is saying. Indicative of this reluctance is Dr. J. Sidlow Baxter's Explore the Book (1960 Zondervan), which offers only 15 short pages of discussion for the whole book of Revelation. What Baxter said was helpful to me, and with Dr. Ray Summers' input I think I have a good idea of what Revelation 12 means to us.

The title of Ray Summers' book is Worthy is the Lamb (1951 Nashville: Broadman Press). Worthy is the Lamb. THAT was John's message to Christians suffering Emperor Domitian's persecution. THAT is a referential anchor peg I have driven a mile into the earth. EVERYTHING hangs on that - under our persecution, WORTH! IS! THE! LAMB! For He - whatever the Lamb is - abides upon the Throne of God...for us! The Lamb of the Season of Grace is indicator of what God intends for us. GOD SEES US ALREADY THERE!! We are on the throne. It matters not a whit whether the Lamb was/is a historical man of flesh or is a feature of God-the-field-of-the-Ineffable's-consciousness's nature. The Lamb is God's intent, what God is DOING. THAT is unstoppable.

Revelation 12-13 would seem to be an odd duck. It is a repeat of Revelation 6, but from a different direction. The Wrath (12-19) parallels the Tribulation (6-11). Revelation 6 begins the Great Tribulation - the Devil against God's people. Revelation 12 is the Wrath of God against the Devil for God's people. "That nation (people who bring the tribulation) I will judge." In chapters 12-13, the destroyers get destroyed - what goes around comes around. In chapter 6, there are seven seals of actions on earth. In chapters 12/13, there are seven personages in heaven. I think of them as standards. We are looking at the perspective of heaven versus the perspective of earth.

Revelation 12 is the first chapter of the Wrath of God against the Devil. It starts with God's desire and intent: the Whole-Package-Woman. The Devil in my mind is the Ignorance of God in us. Ignorance is a feature and agency of God, Who is actively working to eliminate it. That is why verses 7 and 8 (see below). Ignorance prevails among us, but cannot win acceptance with God. Ever. God keeps squeezing ignorance out of us, until we finally give up to Him. The pretty lady, His desire, is our destiny. Twelve stars - a perfect government IN us. But oh, how for Him to get us to our destiny?

Revelation to John the Apostle, chapter twelve, per Victor Alexander's translation from the Ancient Aramaic:

1. And a great sign* (miracle) was seen in heaven, a woman adorned* (clothed) with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a wreath with twelve stars.

2. And as she is [with child* (she has in her belly)], she cries out and [undergoes] the throes of childbirth.

3. And another sign is seen in heaven, and behold, a dragon of the great fire, that has seven heads and ten horns, and on its head seven crowns.

4. And its tail dragged one third of the stars of heaven and threw them on earth. And that dragon stood before the woman, who was prepared to give birth, so that when she gave birth, it would eat her child.

5. And she gave birth to a male heir, who was destined to shepherd all the nations by the rod of steel, and her boy was whisked* (plucked, or taken) to be with God, by his throne.

6. And that woman ran to the wilderness where she had a place that was set by God, where she would be taken care of* ([fully] fed) one thousand and two hundred and sixty days.

7. And there was a battle in heaven, and Michael and his angels fought the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought [back.]* (prevail).

8. And they could neither [fight back], and nor could they regain* (find) their place in heaven.

9. (And) cast [out] was that great dragon, that ancient serpent, that is called the outcast [maker] and Satan, that leads the entire world to oblivion--cast [down] over the earth. And his angels together with him were cast [out.]

10. And I heard a great voice in heaven that said, "Now is established* (become) the Salvation and the Power and the Kingdom of our God; and the authority of his Anointed One, for cast [down] is the false accuser of our brothers, who [thus] accused them before our God, day and night.

11. "And those who were victorious, [were so] because of the blood of the Lamb, and through* (because) the manifestation of their testimony, as they did not love themselves to death* (and not love their own breath [of life] until death).

12. "For this, rejoice, [O] heaven and those who inhabit therein. Woe to the earth and sea, for the Destroyer* (thrower, or oblivionator) has descended to you, who has a great anger, as he knows that his season is short."

13. And as the dragon saw that he was cast upon the earth, he ejected the woman who had given birth to the Son.

14. And the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she would fly to the wilderness to her place, where she would be taken care of there for the time and times, and half the time [away] from the face of the serpent* (or: she would be taken care of the duration, except for half the time, when she would be exposed to the serpent).

15. And the serpent poured* (threw) from its mouth waters like a river after that woman, so as to drown her in the river* (so as to her taken by the river he would [make] her disappear).

16. And the earth was merciful* (charitable) to the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that was poured out by the dragon from its mouth.

17. And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went to do battle with the rest of her offspring, those that observed the commandments of God, and who possessed the testimony of Jesus.

You are a loser, Satan. Your tribulation makes the harvest that eliminates you! For God performs miracles - we see, we hear, and we heal. We receive every evidence that God really IS. He IS! And in every circumstance, He is Lord. And though He not answer our prayers and circumstance the way we want, we KNOW, we KNOW, His intent is in play. We go His way, for He is growing, sorting Himself out (in and through us). Though we die, we increase; you decrease. Bye.