Mark 1:15 and Genesis 15:1 : On the Great Confusion About Gospel and Reward

I have stated many times that the original meaning of the Greek word euaggelion ('euangelion') was reward for bringing glad tidings. Yes, the literal meaning of the word is "good news," but there was more to it than that. Because the good news was immediately efficacious; i.e., it effectively made its change right then and right there in the announcement, although more may be coming in the future. With the news . . . was what it was about. Because the messenger was as his sender, the gift or reward to him was honoring to the one who sent. I read this stuff, and I feel the recipients' sense of unity and oneness with the sender.

Here is a 5 1/2 page summary of euangelion from Wenstrom.org that could easily have been a twenty dollar book. The writer did an excellent job of collecting information.

We tell people to repent and believe in the gospel. That is exactly what Eashoa told them at the beginning of his ministry. Er, uh, wait a minute; at the beginning of his ministry? There wasn't any gospel to believe in yet, was there? Well, there was this kind of unity and oneness thing with Allaha and them. In Genesis 15:1 in the KJV, the Milta states: "I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." How is the Milta our reward? An assumed end, He is building His own fulfillment: us! We become Him, the Allaha! Greatly desired and beloved of Allaha, the Milta is our restorer (to His likeness), and our compensation is great indeed (Alexander). Eashoa--the Milta--was saying that the time given in Daniel 9 was about completed, and He was about to open the doors to the reward He is through the acts of Daniel 9:24, "so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophesies* may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Alexander).

One last thing: repent means to radically change one's thoughts or worldview, and to believe the Gospel means to assume that the reward and the Kingdom are presently existent. So, change your thoughts and assume that the Kingdom is, NOW.

On the Change of Saint Paul's Name from Saul to Paul

About ten out of ten comments found online about how Paul's name switched from Saul to Paul state that Paul was his Roman name from birth. That may be, but why the switch then, in Paphos? In the Aramaic New Testament, translated by Victor Alexander, Acts 13:8-9 (footnotes added) reads:

He then stood up against them, this magician Barsum, whose name translates Alymus* (footnote: Lit. Aramaic name retained: "Sorcerer"), because he wished to get the proconsul off the faith. Saul however, who is called Paulus* (footnote: Lit. Aramaic name retained: "Paul" in English. "Sorcerer," Alymus and "undoer of sorcery," Paulus) became filled with the Holy Spirit and stared at him.

Even if Paul's Roman name was Paul from birth, perhaps his Aramaic nickname, undoer-of-sorcery (think something like "Saulus the Paulus") became his moniker from that time forward, as he desired to live in that spirit.
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Edit: From Abarim Publications, Paul : Meaning: Small, Cessation, Stopper. Etymology: From the Greek verb παυω (pauo), to stop, and Latin adjective paulus, little or small. "Will you not cease (παυω, pauo, see below) to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?"

Edit: Some suggest that Saul adopted the name of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. He adopted the name of Eashoa: the One Who Makes Sorcery To Cease

The Life of Eashoa, the Life-giver (Jesus, the Milta), AS the War

"Life is a battle," we are told. Yes, life is a battle, but we think of the battle in the wrong way; the battle isn't just to get by, it is to manifest Allaha (God, or the Godhead in Aramaic) in our lives. I read recently that John somehow knew about the Revelation before Patmos. Where had he learned it? He had been a disciple of Eashoa ('Jesus' in Aramaic, meaning Life-giver, the Milta [Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High, Allaha, in man], pronounced long 'e', sh, long o), THE Revelation of Allaha. John had seen that the whole life of Eashoa was the war:

"And there was a battle in heaven, and Michael and his angels fought the dragon, And the dragon and his angels fought [back]* (or: prevail). And they could neither [fight back,] and nor could they regain* (find) their place in heaven. (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]" (Revelation 12:7-9 Alexander).

John was saying that "this (our lives) . . . is that (the battle in heaven)" I.e., we are now IN the war, like it or not. The dragon and his angels prevail only temporarily; Eashoa has prevailed in the battle and has won the war. It is here for us now to fight for Eashoa's manifestation in us--for the Milta's manifestation of the Ineffable to become complete. This present life IS the great war in heaven, which war is in our minds and spirits. This is a war between the unspeakable, barbaric cruelty and coldness of heart of the animal nature still prevailing in man, and the rightness of the loving, merciful and just Allaha. The Milta, the Manifestation of Allaha, does win out. THAT is evidenced in the imbuement with the Holy Ghost in baptism.

Eashoa's whole life was a war of recapitulation. The way to look at Eashao's life is as THE battle. Turning the other cheek and loving your neighbor as yourself are of its tactics and strategy. The actual doing of them in this War of Amazing Love are salvos of the spiritual power we are channels of. Our lives are to be "good news for you and yours," for the animal man can only be saved through the revelation of the loving, just, and merciful Allaha. What is RIGHT for us . . . because Allaha IS . . . was exemplified by Eashoa Msheekha. Eashoa did what is right in a war of recapitulation. The war is in heaven, in the MIND, and in our actions; "the Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes" (Dr. John Messer). The Holy Ghost imparts Eternal Life to man when She comes in, when the lordship of the animal man, his heart, is truly submitted to Her.

We are to recruit others both to this Life and to this war. Wrote Frank C. Laubach in 1909: "I suppose in the long years to come, when the people shall take a backward glance over four centuries in history, they shall call the seventeenth century the period of freedom from religious intolerance, the eighteenth the century of the freedom of a race from bondage, the twentieth, the century of the freedom of the whole human race from the curse of war." Note that we are running far behind. Laubach also said, "If we are to make the spiritual discovery that will save our age, it will be in the direction Jesus took: intense, unwavering, day-after-day listening prayer, and instant, unwavering, daring obedience when God speaks—listening and saying yes at whatever cost." THAT is the way of the Warrior.

On Prayer/the Christian Disciplines: Frank C. Laubach: Man of Faith

I just discovered a pdf of an out-of-print book on Dr. Frank C. Laubach, whom I have always considered to be my real pastor. I cannot encourage you enough to read at least chapter two of this enlightening document.

FRANK C. LAUBACH: MAN OF FAITH

Copyright © 1991 by J. Gregory Lawson

ISBN: 0-9624512-23

For some reason I cannot get the pdf's url to form a link. Please copy the address below into your browser, which does appear to work (or search for the book title in your browser and link from the result):

https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/frank-c-laubach-man-of-faith-pdf-free.html

The text does has some minor typos: treat for threat, that for than, they for thy, this for to, od for God, literacy for illiteracy, etc., but I trust you will bear with them. I will be asking the author, Dr. J. "Greg" Lawson, to give me written permission to publish at least the whole of chapter two here.

Hint: Dr. Frank C. Laubach was arguably the most brilliant Christian to walk this earth since Christ Himself. Yes, he did stand on the shoulders of Paul, but in my opinion he stood still taller. You cannot go wrong by reading everything you can by him or about him. Except, of course, beware of computer viruses.

A World Without God; Worlds with Wrong Gods

Sadly, I got into the habit of watching YouTube videos of the terrible things happening in the world. I was going to say the terrible things happening in communist China, but it is much greater than that. My point is that what is happening in this world is indicative of its being a world without God. Very much of this world is without consciousness and recognition of the reality of God. People can be so cruel, unsympathetic and uncaring to others. "If you can cheat, cheat" is an axiom I have heard. So they conspire to rob and to steal, to take, inflict harm, and destroy others. What is to stop them? They believe there is no God, no judgment, no penalty, no reason not to serve one's self or one's family--the party--supremely. "The elbow bends inward," I am told. "I control others . . . for me."

What do poor people do when their government and society are heartless monsters? They turn to whatever gods they imagine, to whatever they are told will give them salvation or relief. They may revolt, militaries may coup, they may establish new governments or economies. But without the real God, they only create new monsters. Socialism, capitalism, communism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity (etc.)--without the real and true God (as the Source of love, mercy, grace, empathy, righteousness, and justice)--are monsters.

As Biden would say, "Just think of it"--you're in a world without any knowledge of the true God, and you can only go to false gods you hope will help you, but they do not really exist. You beg without answer. This IS the world we are in, into which we are to offer hope of the Kingdom.

See Missing the Milta

The Other Half of Neville Goddard's Law of Attraction Technique

Abdullah, the Ethiopian who taught and mentored Neville, was a Jew. Salvation is of the Jews, for they know what--Who--they worship. To the Jews, God is immanent--present, within, fundamental to and sustaining every thing that is. And to Neville, our lives are to be prayer--praise, worship, and thanksgiving--to God. God is the Power; we are blessed to be agents, channels of His spiritual power.

Remember that all things are made out of the No-thing. If you are seeking wealth and pleasure for yourself using the so-called Law of Attraction, recognize that any spiritual fulfillment of your desires indicates that Abdullah and Neville were and are correct: there IS a conscious, caring, and all-powerful God with Whom we must do. Believe, and do with Him who is within you.

Is the Lord YOUR Lord?

Niece sent wife a clip of people doing nice things. They were doing nice things because they believe in a lord of sorts, and that because he did nice things, they should do nice things. It is one thing to call him lord, and quite another thing to be submitted to Him as your Lord. The Milta, the Manifestation of the Eternal One-and-Only God, is the Lord of all. He is not "over there," but is "in here." In "here" make Him First, the Head, Lord and Master of YOUR life, which is, after all, HIS Life.

The Jews Call Upon the Milta--the Manifestation and Name of YHWH--When They Call Upon Hashem

It occurs to me that when the Jews, out of respect, reverence, and possibly a superstitious fear of incurring God's wrath, refuse to pronounce the sacred name of God, YHWH (left unmarked so that no one knows how to pronounce it), they instead substitute the word Hashem: "the Name." So to call upon YHWH, they call upon the Name of YHWH, who the Milta! -- the One who became Jesus, their Savior.

A Man Who is Power, a Man Who is Love, a Man Who is Any Part of the Above

Names. I believe the Lord has been teaching me about names. I believe He has shown me that the Milta, the Ineffable's manifestation, is the "name" of the Ineffable--His revelation and His identity.

In the Bible, names are more than appellations. The Hebrew word shem (pronounced 'shame'), means "an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character" (Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary #8034). In other words, a mark or memorial of an individual which conveys honor, authority, or character. A name may indicate a the quality--the nature or character--of a person, place, or thing.

May. I know. I get it. Names may just be names, BUT THEY MAY ALSO BE SOMETHING MUCH GREATER. I know I cannot impose English grammatical rules on other languages, but I find it very interesting that in my KJV Bible (I use Bullinger's Companion Bible) that it is often the name that is "named," not the person. Did I lose you? We read many passages phrased like this: "And Adam called the name of his wife 'Eve,' because she was the mother of all who would live" (Genesis 3:20 Alexander). In English, Adam did not call his wife Eve, he called her NAME Eve, for she was the mother of all who would live. As I read it, Adam, the Blood of the Divine (i.e., the Ineffable's Consciousness), called the NAME of his wife "Eve," for that was her QUALITY, her NATURE. Philosophically, I would say that Eve was imagination--the creative life-force of God.

The Milta is the Manifestation of the Ineffable; He reveals the quality, the nature and character of the Ineffable. The Milta is verily the NAME of the Ineffable. God's qualities are presented as PERSONS. Of God there is a Man who is power, and there is a Man who is love, and there is a Man who is salvation. All conscii are of the Ineffable, who manifests as the Milta, as a MAN, and all His qualities as PERSONS.

From Neville Goddard's lecture "Power," "For everything here is God, and God being man, his every attribute is personified. So when you meet God as power, it’s man. Meet him as wisdom—it’s man. Meet him as love—it’s man."

Also from Neville Goddard: "I am speaking from experience when I tell you that I stood in the presence of the Risen Christ and spoke the words of Paul: 'Faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.' Then I was embraced by Man who is infinite love, who is God. And what I have experienced you will experience also.

"There are those who speak of God as an over-soul, or impersonal force. They have become so abstract in their concept of this creative and redeeming power. But God is not an over-soul or intangible force, but Man, and he speaks with a voice as I speak to you now. You hear me in the tongue in which you were born. When God speaks to you, you will hear him in your natural tongue. And when you stand in the presence of Infinite love it is Man, and yet you will know he is all love."

"God's first revelation to Man is Power, Almighty God, El Shaddai. His second revelation is I AM. 'My name is in you, listen, take heed, harken to my voice, for my name is in you.' And his final revelation is that of Father."

Exodus 34:14 Alexander: "Do not worship another God, because the Lord's name is Devoted,* for He is the God of Devotion." The Milta is devoted to both being and becoming exactly as the Ineffable is. THAT is our Lord--faith, and faithfulness.

Things Missed: the Theology of the Milta (Miltha)-- God is Different than We Thought

I have long heard it said that the existence of God is assumed in the Bible. That is not the half of it. I am finding that the God that is assumed in the Bible is different than the God we think was assumed. Typically in orthodox theology, God is the great uncaused cause, a Being that has always existed and who created all things from nothing--separate from It--simply by the power of Its Word. I am finding that this is picture of God is inaccurate, a misunderstanding of the initial assumption.

Moses' assumption, as I now see it, is that God is one uncaused Being without and with form. Moses starts with the revelation of the Milta (Alexander's Aramaic designation, Babylonian pronunciation 'Miltha'). The Milta is the manifest component of the Uncaused Being. IT TOO IS ETERNAL AND UNCAUSED, IS THE ETERNAL AND UNCAUSED CAUSE IN FORM. Hence, It says, "I AM." Moses was talking to the Milta. THAT is his assumption: God is the Milta. The Milta is the communicative form of the Ineffable: Its body, Its glory, and Its name. All things come from It and are of It and are for It.

The present weirdness is that the Milta is the Eternal Uncaused Cause's assumption. The unmanifest Ineffable Being has imagined what it would be like to be in form, and the Milta is becoming that. The Ineffable's imagining is done, and its fulfillment is becoming. But it isn't the Uncaused and the Caused; it's the Uncaused without and with form--one and the same Being. It's just the with-form component takes time. Hence, time exists. We're in the oven, cooking. The Mosaic Law provides some heat.

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Why God is Persons

Before the beginning, the Ineffable Most High, the No-thing (...?), had consciousness. It thunk, and It thunk, and It thunk. In Its thinking It assumed that It was fully existent in form. It believed that It HAS a body. You and I are portraits of THAT. As William Blake demonstrated to Neville Goddard, the universe is one Man appearing as many persons. We are all are Him, personifications of that one Person's qualities. We go through states of personification.

"Awk!" you squawk. "There is evil in us. There is no evil in Him." No, evil is t.a.d.--temporary assigned duty. The Manifestation of the Eternal is ASSUMED by the Eternal to exist. It has not fully become YET. That takes time to develop. We are THAT, the assumed Manifestation's becoming fully existent. Evil is immaturity. It eventually goes away. When the Person is fully existent in form, evil will no longer exist. Until then, you do not want anything to do with evil.

How do we unevil? The Ineffable Most High is both the unmanifest and the manifest, consciousness and body. The manifest follows EXACTLY the unmanifest. The unmanifest component is the manifest component's lord. The assumed manifest Ineffable who is becoming is the Milta. We are His becoming. MAKE HIM YOUR LORD. Follow Him as He follows the nature and the character of the unmanifest Ineffable Most High. Humble yourself, submit, and constantly re-up His Lordship over all of your life. Because it is HIS life.

The Milta, the Manifestation of the Unmanifest Ineffable Being, is the "Name" of that Being

The meaning of the word "name," from Strong's Hebrew Dictionary #8034: Shem: a primitive word (perhaps rather from suwm through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare shamayim); an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character (emphasis mine). Some note that a name denotes the nature of the thing or person named.

The ineffable No-thing, the unmanifest (...?), has no name as such. The closest thing It would have as a name is that which reveals Its nature and character as an individual. That would be Its manifestation, the Milta. When Moses encounters the burning bush, God (the Milta) identifies Himself as I AM. What is? The Milta, the manifestation of all the (...?)'s nature and character as an individual. The Milta IS the Manifestation of God. What did the Jews call Him? YHWH: "HE IS." The Milta serves as God's "name."

So God's name--the unmanifest manifested in and by the Milta--is glorious, wonderful, Almighty God, the Everlasting Father, etc.

An Associative Thought Inspired by Exodus 15:3

When I edited Exodus 15:3 (Alexander) into my previous post, I felt its translation was not quite finished:

The words "The Lord who is the champion, and the conquering Lord is His name," gave me an odd sight.

The Lord, YHWH in both cases, is the Milta, the Manifestation of God who became Jesus Christ (John 1:1 in the Aramaic). The Milta is the Champion, and He is the Conquering Lord. The second half of the verse, "the Conquering Lord is His name," struck me as especially interesting: the word 'conquering' means prevailing, and "Eil's Prevailing" is the meaning of the Hebrew name 'Israel'. In Genesis 32:24-28 (below), Jacob, man's inner man who wrestled the Man the Milta appears as, earned the name Israel, "Eil’s Prevailing" :

24. And Jacob remained alone. And the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
25. And he noticed that he could not overpower him, so he attempted to extricate himself from Jacob's clutches, but he could not, for Jacob grabbed him by the foot, as he wrestled with him, and he said to him, "Let me go, for dawn has ascended."*
26. And he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27. And he asked him, "What is your name," and he told him, "Jacob."
28. He said to him, "Your name will not be Jacob anymore, but Israel, because you proved yourself against the angel and against the man, and you were found to be capable."*

The people 'Israel' are the Milta's prevailing to inculcate and cultivate, to generate the likeness of God in man. The Law is of incalculable valuable; it is the Milta's action in us. Israel is the Milta's nature acting in and around us. Yes, those who escaped Egypt were singing about God who had freed them, but it was to "He who is in us!" I will let you count up the faces of the one Revealer (John 1:18)*. By the way, this is what "the two shall become one" is about.

*This refers to an earlier post, Revelation/Power Bent (7/25/2020), wherein I said something like:

This revelation/power mindset started over forty years ago, when at Melodyland School of Theology I learned that the last word in John's prologue (1:1 through 18), because it does not have a specified object in the Greek text, has to be translated 'revealed' rather than 'declared'. I understood the logic, and found that none of the English versions so translated it. I wasn't surprised, knowing that he-who-deceives-the-whole-world has been especially active in the church. We have to fight to get to the truth.

I found that the Greek word exēgēsato (ἐξηγήσατο) is the last word in the Gospel of John's prologue (John 1:1 to 1:18). Exēgēsato, from which we get the words 'exegete' and 'exegesis', is usually ands normally translated "declared." Hence the King James Version's translation: "He hath declared Him." The commentary I was reading, however, pointed out that when the Greek word exēgēsato has no specified object, it must be translated "revealed" rather than "declared."

The Exēgēsato in John 1:18 is just such a case, for THERE IS NO OBJECT FOR IT IN THE GREEK TEXT. Unfortunately, because there is no object, the translators have supplied one, "Him," as the understood object. The understood object "Him" is italicized in our Bibles because IT IS NOT THERE IN THE GREEK TEXT--IT HAS BEEN SUPPLIED. Yes, the object is implied in the normal use of the word, but by supplying a specified object according to English grammatical rules, the translators violated the Greek grammatical rule of exēgēsato's meaning when it is without a specific object, which is "revealed." Thus our Bibles variously say that He (Jesus) "declared," "explained," "proclaimed," "spoke of," "made known," "told about," or "interpreted"; rather than just clearly stating what the GREEK text says, that "God-the-Father He revealed." The difference is stupendous. 

Genesis: the Milta's War

"This is my God, give Him praise,
the God of my father, exalt Him as the most exalted.
The Lord who is the champion, and the conquering Lord is His name.
Your right arm, Lord, is ready with power,
with your right arm, Lord, you broke your enemies" (Exodus 15:2b, 3, 6 Alexander)

The Book of Genesis is a book of war. The God who creates is the Milta (Aramaic), the Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High assumed by the Ineffable to exist IN ITS FINAL STATE OF BEING THE INEFFABLE BEING MANIFESTED (Proverbs 8:22-31)*. Absolutely equal with the unmanifest Ineffable Being, the eternal Milta is beyond time and space. The problem is that the Milta is an ASSUMED Being, and Its manifestation is gestating. It takes time even for God to make God. I call this period of time for the Milta's generation, from Its beginning as the assumption of the Ineffable to Its fulfillment as the Ineffable manifest, the twain.

All universes are the Milta’s gestation. Two problems here: 1) Creation is ignorant of what it is; 2) Creation is not like what it is supposed to be. A third problem is that the nature and character of the Ineffable Being has to be GENERATED in the Creation during the twain. THAT is the kind of evolution that is going on, and it is a WAR between the Son of God's drive to become manifest and the stupidity of Creation to not.

Thus the back and forth throughout Genesis: "And the earth was for Him and by Him,* and the darkness was over the face of infinite space, and the Spirit of God was over the layers of the water,* ('Everything was within his power, otherwise nothing would ever exist')" (Genesis 1:2 Alexander; John 1:3 Alexander). The war is going on strong. 'Adam' means the Divine Blood--conscience, and 'Eve' is imagination, Divine Conscience's life-force. These Ineffable and Milta qualities are attacked by ignorance. God blasts back. The stories are like naval ship battles; the enemy is detected, God blasts it. We read salvo after salvo. This is man's progress. Man does not look too good, but over time God's character is cultivated in man through the conflicts.

The lesson: look at how God wars. He saves, He delivers, He provides, He protects, He corrects, He transforms, He responds. He gives mercy and grace. He imagined everything good and beautiful in its creation, its ASSUMPTION, and He keeps things going that way in the twain: "As the beginning, the Son of God CREATES the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1 Alexander, emphasis mine). He is CREATING the Manifestation unto its fulfillment! Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are war heroes--personifications of what He wants to create in us. They are eternal states we must pass through. We are in the twain; fight to get to the end of being the Manifestation.
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* This sentence is a mouthful, and a big idea. I hope you will read it carefully. The Ineffable No-thing, the Most High (...?), imagines Itself to be fully and completely manifest. That ASSUMED-TO-EXIST-BY-THE-INEFFABLE-MOST-HIGH Being is the Milta, the agent by which It is becoming. The trick is to remember that it--all this action--is just one Being that we are in the middle of.

Euangelion--"Gospel"--Means the Reward for Producing the Word

The Greek word euaggelion properly means the reward or payment given to the messengers who bring glad tidings. It did not originally mean the message itself. In fact, its use for the message brought in the New Testament is among the first, if not the very first, occurrence in history. So in general colloquial use, the population hearing, "Repent, and believe in the Gospel," HEARD "Repent, and believe in the reward for producing the message."

Apply this to the Milta. Now we are Him. We produce the Word. There is a reward for that: the Word's becoming.

See my post Mystery, scroll down to post from June 20, 2020 for scholarly article on euaggelion meaning reward. 

Neville Goddard Technique in a Nutshell

Think of and feel the feelings you DON'T have, but want to have.  Answer Neville's question: what would it be like if it were true?  Whether it was the first time Abdullah told Neville he was IN Barbados (when he wasn't), when the grandfather practiced "I remember when," when NOT climbing a ladder, or when he was stuck in the army, Neville FELT the feelings he did NOT have, but wanted to have.  Have the feeling of receiving when you want to receive.  To be avoided is any feeling of deprivation, of lack, want, or need, for that is what you will then receive, and you have already got it in spades.  WE GET WHAT WE BELIEVE AND FEEL, so feel the feelings you DON'T have, but wish you did have. Feel the feelings you would have if you DID have what you want. Feel relief, gratitude, thanksgiving, joy, rejoicing, peace, satisfaction, and serenity.  Unhappy is the feeling you've already got; happy is the feeling you DON'T have.  Feel the happy.  Feel being there, feel having it, feel that it is, feel what you WANT to feel, but do not feel wanting it.

Envision and feel, but do not do.  At least make no effort to FORCE it to happen.  This is prayer.  It is cooperative.  The principle is miraculous.  Your assumption that it is done--the feelings you have--is your "said."  Now let God DO it; in faith let Him bring forth your (His) manifestation.

The Milta Sacrificed Its Man For Us: Unless You Believe I Am He

Daniel chapter 9. Four hundred and ninety years. Verse 24 got done. The Milta became a man. He was He. He died for me, rose for me, and now I am He. Because John 8:24 got done, too.

The Milta has Muscle

The thing about God's manifestation, the Milta (which we are in and part of), is that there is meat to it. As Popeye the sailor would say, "It's got mus-cle. " When I say that Jesus is the Word of God, we are talking philosophy. When I say that Jesus is the Manifestation of God, God's Milta, we are talking about a Being who has all the powers, attributes, and characteristics of God because It IS God.

The unmanifest No-thing imagines. I do not know how, but It has consciousness. It imagines. It knows, and I think It got tired of knowing No-thing. It imagined things it could be, what It would be if It were. I hold that the intelligence of the unmanifest ineffable No-thing, the (...?), has the power to become manifest as the thing It believes that It is. It assumes that It is that thing, and that assumed existence BECOMES EXISTENT. So yes, the universe is intelligent, for it is the Ineffable's intelligence manifest, and it is imagined. Prayer changes things, for we pray to God, the Milta, who holds all things together by the power of His imagination. THAT is real mus-cle.

Jonah Never So Interesting: The Milta and Matthew

This morning I saw that Jonah sacrificed his man, the physical body he was in, for his unfortunate shipmates. The immediate peace with God they enjoyed was the sign of Jonah, that God accepted the sacrifice of Jonah's physical body--his man--for them. Jesus gave His man--His physical body--for us. I believe Saint Francis called his physical body Brother Donkey. Seeing the sign of Jonah as that experienced by the sailors, I looked up the sign of Jonah in the New Testament, Matthew 12:38-41. Googling around, I see that most people believe that the sign of Jonah was Jesus' resurrection. As always, I fail to see the connection. So I pick up my Book of Jonah from Vic Alexander, and it begins: "The Lord's revelation was upon Jonah the son of Matthew (Lit. Aramaic: Mattai)."

WHAT?! The Lord's "revelation" is the Milta, the Ineffable's Manifestation, who became incarnate in Jesus. The Aramaic name of Jesus' disciple Matthew was Mattai. In the Book of Jonah, the Milta came upon Jonah, the son of Mattai. In the Book of Matthew is the passage revealing the Milta through the sign of Jonah. Just a coincidence? Or the Milta - operating outside of time - working generation of Himself in the past? I think I see Jesus, the Milta, waving through the blinds.

I would never have seen this if it weren't for Vic Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic.

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From RachelStarrThomson.com: "Jesus never ran away from his mission to preach repentance and return, deliverance and welcome. He ran toward it. His entire ministry on earth was a running toward it. And like Jonah, he would soon become a sign — the great sign, the only sign we will ever need. The sign that God is alive and all-powerful. The sign that God is loving and all-merciful. The sign that the kingdom has come, and we can come home. All we need to do is recognize him and respond, as the Pharisees did not. In the NKJV, Jonah 2:8-9 is rendered, 'Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy. But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.' Because the sign of Jonah has been given to us, we need not forsake our own Mercy. We too can recognize, with the ancients, with millions in our own day: salvation is of the Lord."

Jesus Sacrificed the Man He was in: The Sign of Jonah

What was the sign of Jonah? The sign was to the sailors he had caused trouble to. Jonah gave his body, the man he was in, to be sacrificed to God for the sailors' redemption. The sailors sacrificed him. Jonah died, and the storm stopped. The sea became calm.

"Oh. My. God." exclaimed the sailors, recognizing the reality and might of Jonah's God. They worshiped.

Eashoa ("Life-giver," the Milta: Jesus in Aramaic) gave His man to be sacrificed for us, Matey. Got storms, raging seas? Make Jesus your Jonah, His man your sacrifice to God.

Back to Cheryl Craig on Milta Revelation

The e-mail from Cheryl:

Dan,

I have been enjoying your posts on the word Milta. This particular post and your deep dive into revelation is especially meaningful to me and makes me think of Neville Goddard. You wrote that God wants us to reveal Him, and I add He wants us to reveal Him in us. You make the point that prayer and manifestation are ways to reveal God, and I think that this is the only way that God in us is revealed. It's not enough to believe these words, we have to live them, embody them and that is why Neville is probably the one person that I think I trust and believe the most as he walked the walk and shared with us a hope that I had never been given before.

Your post on January 29th "to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" reminded me of Neville's vision where the arm of the garment he is wearing is torn away, revealing his arm. Neville was always encouraging us to put Christ in us to the test and wake up or reveal our own God-self. You are doing the same. Neville actually taught that the "word" in John also meant manifest, so I know he understood scripture deeply despite its limitations. I love that you have found this same meaning too and your passion for the word of God is what keeps me returning to your blog. So thank you so much for sharing all your insights with me.

I don't know why, but your writing on revelation just stirred something within me, and so I am going to pursue what you are sharing. I have always loved etymology, and so when you share the deeper meaning of words it helps with deeper understanding. I also wanted to ask if you could expand on your statement "The Universe is a Spiritual Being." I am reading a book called "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr and exploring the idea that God is manifest in all things and thus all things have consciousness. When you write about the Ineffable Most High God being unmanifest, I can't help but think of dark matter. I also can't help but think of the double slit experiment and how light can be both a particle or a wave, depending on the observer or "assumption," if you will. These speak to me of what you are saying about the Milta and so I was curious to know what you meant by the universe being a spiritual being. Take Care and thank you for all your insights.

Sincerely, Cheryl Craig
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Thank you, Cheryl. I sooo much appreciate your writing. "Your writing on revelation just stirred something within me," indicates that Jesus wants to teach us more, for us to learn more, and for us become more. Perhaps that narrow path. Yes, prayer and manifestation as answered prayer are ways to reveal God, but love, faith, hope, and patience help, too. Revealing God is what the Milta does (John 1:18), because He IS Him faithfully, come hell or high water, or the cross.

 A word that got me on this kick was Tat, used by Goethe to translate logos in Faust (Tag Archives: miltha, February 16, 2016, מֵימְרָא/דָּבַר vs. λόγος, By Prof. Brian Tice, B.Sci., M.Sci.) Here is the passage:

"He lauds Goethe for being “on solid linguistic ground” with his translation of John 1:1 in Faust, for rendering the word λόγος (assuming he worked from the Greek text) as 'Tat,' thus: 'Im Anfang war die Tat' (tr. 'In the beginning was the Deed'). It is worth noting that the Aramaic of John uses a different word – ܡܶܠܬ݂ܳܐ (Miltha), which means 'Word, Manifestation, Instance, or Substance.' The range of meaning is virtually identical between the two."

The word "said," Genesis 1:3, was the Milta as the substantive DEED Tat. All that comes from this deed is God's REVELATION. God is seen in His effectual working, His deeds--all of Creation is a revelatory deed, if we are looking. Granted, you have to look. In Malachi, the Jews at the time discounted worship of YHWH because they did not see what He was doing for them: "It would have happened anyway" was their attitude--"worship of God is no quality added." See and appreciate God's DEEDS: God's deeds are all we have to see Him by. This reminds me of the end of Mark 16, God confirming the Apostles' words with SIGNS, demonstrations of power. Verse 17. "Signs then to those that believe, they who adhere to us, In my name, they will cast out demons, and they will speak in new languages*, 18. "And they will handle snakes,* and if deadly poison they drink,* it will not affect them." And they will consecrate their hands on the sick and they will be restored. 19. Jesus then the Lord, after he spoke with them, went up to heaven, and sat from the right of God. 20. They then went out, and preached every place, and the Lord helped them and began filling them with signs that they performed."

If we properly preach out there, will not the Milta--God Manifest--act/show Himself in SIGNS? The right of God is where His blessings come from.

I am not familiar with Richard Rohr. I looked up his books on Amazon; he seems to have a lot of  time on his hands. Published criticism of him, his philosophy and theology is enlightening. He says he is a panentheist, which is a good thing. I have reservations with anything Roman Catholic, though. Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, Baptist, Hindu, Muslim, snake handlers, etc., etc. I think, "Come on, dude, can't you think your way through this?" Sorry, I shouldn't expect consequence rationality from people who have never experienced God, who are just working out philosophies about Him. Back to the idea of substantive REVELATION, Dan. Work from what you KNOW.

Got to go.

Dan Steele

She Says Better Than I Why I Hate the Law of Attraction

The Bible Verse That Spiritually Throat-Punched Me.

An unpleasant visual. She means the verse shook her up and corrected her understanding.

I should mention that the so-called Law of Attraction does work in instances where the Law of Assumption--prayer in faith-- is practiced.

Response to Cheryl, Why I Believe the Universe is a Spiritual Being

Thank you for writing, Cheryl. I often wonder if anyone is out there reading this stuff. My passion for learning and sharing is from experiences of God. I did not know Neville taught that 'Word' in John meant manifestation. I have probably seen it, and it just didn't register. Thank you. I wonder where Neville learned it, as Victor Alexander is the only one I have heard promoting the idea, and he is recent.

I, too, am stirred by what I have found about the Milta. I used to think that Jesus was like an expression of God, an example of what God likes. That was from John's use of logos. Vic's explanation that the Milta who became Jesus IS God paired up with Neville's teachings of assumption, that everything already exists, and gestation of the assumed eventually culminates in reality: click! - THAT's what is going on, on a universal scale. Neville also taught that matter simply exists to facilitate the inner man's experience in this dimension. Power expressed in photons may or may not have particulate mass, depending on whether we think they do, or not. Fascinating. Quantum power somehow knows: "Should I exist, or not?" I have wondered if divine, miraculous healings are just God readjusting His thoughts about us.

Anyway, to your question about the universe being a spiritual being. The Ineffable imagined Itself being fully, completely manifest. Its ASSUMED fulfillment is the Milta, which is exactly Him, but manifest. It is kind of like having two Gods, but it is one God in two states, unmanifest and manifest. I guess that's a dual state. But the Milta is ASSUMED, imagined, proposed. The universe is Its gestation to becoming fulfilled and actual--the Milta becoming what It is already assumed to be by God. "The heavens declare the Glory of God" (Psalm 19:1) & etc.  The entire universe is simply the Milta becoming the Ineffable manifest.

The weirdness: what God has imagined acts in power. THAT is heavy-duty assuming!! Is this assuming the weapon of our warfare? Or our plow for sowing?

Thank you for writing,
Dan Steele

What is a Jesus? (An ongoing post--Y'all come back again now, ya hear?)

The Milta is the Ineffable Most High God, the unmanifest (...?), MANIFEST. He is the ACTOR in creation. When it says, God said, . . . He's the one who said it. The Milta is the assumed end of the Divine's manifestation, and time and the universe (and we in them) are His becoming fulfilled. Like the Ineffable He is the manifestation of, the Milta assumes an end, which then is as if existent, to be fulfilled into its reality. E.g., I am saved, and it is coming.

The Milta is not a philosophy. He is the Ineffable MANIFEST. I know from His ACTIONS. You get whupped up alongside the head with a two-by-four, and you KNOW IT. T'ain't no one ever going to convince you that the whupping never happened. The Milta RESPONDS to faith. Not randomly, but specifically. At THIS moment I or someone else believes, asks, and/or expects, humbly and openly of God, and at THAT moment He ACTS in power and authority. The Milta, like the Ineffable He manifests, is a PERSON, a CONSCIOUS Person, who just happened to create the universe and everything in it by SAYING, "Be." Assumed, the perfect world's end is becoming. The Milta is the Way; His way is the narrow way (hear, and obey). Be sure you find it.
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Genesis 1:3, "And God said . . ."  The Milta said what the Ineffable IMAGINED. The two are one unit, or the one unit is two: the Divine No-thing unmanifest AND manifest. The Manifestation is IMAGINED by the Ineffable: "This is what I would be if I were in form." The Ineffable imagines; the Imagination does - that is the 'said' in Genesis 1:3, the Logos of John 1:1--the "Word," the Milta.

The Milta manifests what is RIGHT - the Law of Moses. The Law will never pass away, any more than the Ineffable Itself will pass away. The Milta--manifesting what is right--is our door to Godliness.
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The Milta, who IS God, who became Jesus, the "Son" of God, is exactly what the Ineffable Most High No-thing, the (...?), would be if It were in form, all the powers and attributes included. The Milta, like the Most High (...?), exists outside time and space--infinite and eternal. The Milta is the drive within the (...?) to become perfectly manifested. When we pray to God, we are speaking to the Most High, the Ineffable, IN FORM AND OUT!! For there is still just ONE God--the Ineffable did not become two!! We speak to Eil Shaddai, the All Mighty. I really, really suggest having reverence for Whom you are speaking to.
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I could see as I finished that last segment that this next one would be about speaking. The Ineffable imagined--is imagining--the Milta. The Ineffable imagined light. The Ineffable imagined light being, and the Milta spoke. The Divine Imagination imagined. Who is acting? God. Which one? There is only one, who is unmanifest AND manifest. When they act, it is by imagination, for the intelligence of the Ineffable has the power to become what It imagines--assumes--that It is. THEY AND THEIR SPEECH ARE IMAGINATION. Who would have imagined?

Well, the (...?) is more than imagination; It imagines, but what It is, I do not know. It is, It MUST BE, because we are here, and It acts apart from (but in response to) us. The (...?) is conscious, and chooses to interact as a person. It is, of course, more like a field, but a field that is conscious. It presents Its qualities and attributes as persons, too. I designate unbodied--bodiless--consciences as "conscii." Jesus is a conscious quality in and of the Ineffable, a drive to become fully and perfectly manifest.

The Milta/ The Miltha

From Covenant Nation, a video about the most important thing in the world. It has all of three thousand views. That's about enough to make me cry. The world, the Church, just don't get it. THE MILTHA . . . (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOiUkW0sogw)

This guy got it: Who is the God of the Christians?

Pauline Mind Control

Edit: on Milta

God's Imagination, Concretely

Why is this like news to me? I have been reading and writing about the Milta, the Manifestation of the Ineffable Being, and how the Aramaic term Milta indicates that the Word of God is substantive--it includes the deed the word refers to, which you would not get from its Greek translation, Logos. I Google Miltha, an alternate transcription of Milta, and get directed to Yochanan (The Good News According to John) Introduction & Chapter 1, which see. Here I see the connection, that the 'said' in Genesis 1:3, "And God said," was God's Word, His Manifestation, by Whom He created the world. Gee, it only took 49 years and umpteen years of seminary and teaching and preaching to put the two together. Why isn't it the FIRST thing we teach people? "When God SAID, that Power is here right now, and Its name, from when It became a human to save us, is Jesus. Etc., etc."

Well, it must be right, because God poured on the illumination after the connection was made. First of all, why preach anything else? Secondly, God does not have a corporal body, so He would have had to IMAGINE the saying. Except He DOES have an ASSUMED corporal body, so THAT is who must have SAID, "Let there be light." It says 'said,' not 'thought.'

What I especially liked about the above mentioned article is the author's demonstration, from John's use of words and ideas in his Gospel, that John was talking about a concrete, for real human guy he knew. I still hold that John's writing is symbolic, but it is symbolism based upon his experience with the real human guy: the 'said' Power/ Manifestation of God became a man. Something for me to take seriously.

Again,

Genesis 1:3, "God said. . . " The 'said' was the Word by which God created the world, and was God. God has no corporal mouth, so the 'said' had to be IMAGINED. But it was SAID, so that means His Assumed Manifestation, God Manifest, had to be the one who spoke it corporally.

The Word, the Milta (Manifestation of the Ineffable), is YHWH, "He is."

While the Milta SAID, the Ineffable must have imagined, intended, and that manifested. The Word was first imagined. Every idle word a man speaks will be judged, but "as a man THINKETH, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7). God judges the thoughts and intents of the heart. We might ACT generous, but inwardly be begrudging. The Christian faith is that Christ, the Manifestation, is within us (2 Corinthians 13:5). The Manifestation is the Eternal, the eternity God put into our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). "In Him was life," soul existence, living. Not just chai--life, but Chayim--LIVING.

An interesting (to me) aside: I noticed the Hebrew word asher in the text. Asher is used in Exodus 3:14. Asher does not mean the same as Ashur in Aramaic. The translation for asher given here is "for that which." Applying this to the Hebrew version of Exodus 3:14, "AHWH asher AHWH," = "I AM for that which I AM." The Assumed Manifestation? The Concretizing Word said?

"Think on these things" (Philippians 4:8). We have a powerful 'said' behind our thoughts.

What is a Jesus? What God "said" was His Imagination, which had the power to become. His Imagination with the power to become--that's the Word He said; that's what the Word IS.