Dear Sister: My 80 Papers (1) Second Intro to the Milta (Miltha)

I started a new blog, Letters To A Sister, but I really want what I have to say said here, too. The blog is only about 10 posts long, so I am going to transfer them over here. When you get to be about 80 years old, you know you do not have a lot of time left to do the important things that have not yet been accomplished. You get a little (or a lot) more serious, depending on the importance of what you've still got to get done before you, or they, go.

I write because I KNOW from present, personal, and historical experiences that God is real. And that He is playing hardball. This ain't no disco. I am actually frightened, because I am now convinced of the severity of things I have hitherto taken too lightly. Would a loving God cast anyone into a real hell? When Adam disobeyed God, He cast us into death, with the promise of a still greater retribution to come. When people are asked, "Are you saved?" they often respond, "Saved from what?" The answer is, "From the retribution to come."

"He will crush your head" is the promise of a Savior from that forthcoming retribution. Jesus died to save us from God's retribution upon Satan for what Satan did. Jesus knows full well how terrible will be God's recompense upon us for our rejecting Him--so terrible that as Christ He died, taking our punishment upon Himself--that we might escape from it. Satan deceived Man, and God's recompense upon Satan will be delivered by the descendent of the one who was deceived, the Son of Man, Jesus. This is recapitulation, the Son setting everything we've done wrong . . . right. His REWARD (euaggelion in Greek) for doing so is the right to forgive us and to make us His own possession . . . if we repent for real. Repent (for real), and believe in the Gospel (euaggelion in Greek).

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David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash recently passed away. He made an interesting observation when he turned 80:

"Eighty years old is something you mourn, not celebrate. . . . Now I'm 80 years old, so I'm gonna die fairly soon. That's how that works. And so I’m trying really hard to crank out as much music as I possibly can, as long as it's really good… I have another one already in the can waiting."

Yes, I am only 75, but you are going on 82, so I want to communicate to you the REALITY of God being "for real" as clearly and severely as possible in the time we have left. What I want to stress is that I believe in God and Jesus Christ because of present evidence. I haven't just bought into someone's philosophy, a convincing argument, or a shared cultural assumption; I believe in Jesus Christ (as we call Him) because He DOES things here and now. Things change by His hand, now, in the present. I believe their real change means He is real, too.

I need to straighten out a misunderstanding. I say, "He does things," and you might envision a man standing in a place exerting effort or will to accomplish something somewhere else. If, when I say 'God' or 'Lord' or 'Jesus', you see in your imagination a human form, you have got the wrong God. "God" is the Consciousness of the Ineffable Being, the No-thing, the (...?). This Consciousness is the universal medium of this dimension, infinite and eternal, but in form. God is like a field of energy, but is conscious, and It IMAGINES. Its intelligence has the power to actually, literally become whatever It believes it is, and the Ineffable has believed that It EXISTS in form, that It IS manifest. We are playing catch-up in Its becoming THAT. God IS imagination, but not necessarily ours. Ours is of His.

(I am editing this in: Revelation 11:15 says something very interesting and enlightening: "And the seventh angel blew. And there were voices and thunders that declared* (spoke), 'May it come, the kingdom of the people of our Lord and his Anointed One, and may he rule to [the end of] of the universes of all the universes!'" Note the two people here: "our Lord (God, the Milta, Eashoa [Jesus])" and "his Christ." I could translate it as "the Life-giver and His Messiah." The two are one in Him, and the two are one in us. So there IS a guy. -end edit.)

When you look in Alexander's translation of John from the ancient Aramaic, you see in 1:1 the word Milta (Miltha; it's gender is feminine, by the way). Milta is "the essential connotation of a person or thing." John is saying/observing that Jesus--Eashoa, the Life-Giver in Aramaic--is the essential connotation of the Consciousness of the Ineffable; i.e., that He IS God. Jesus, the essential connotation of the Ineffable that creates the heavens and the earth, is that Milta which said, "Let there be light."

Notice the tense: He creates the heavens and the earth. How, when, where, and why? It is an ongoing thing, in and through us. WE create our worlds, which answer the question, "What am I?" "You are the result of your own self-lordship," is the answer--the unwanted fruit of rebellion: a world without God.

So let me tell you a couple of stories. They are reports, actually. For there is no make-believe or exaggeration in them. They are, or were, concrete, historical, literal, and if I could do them again, empirical. They were experienced as real.

To be continued.

Danny