The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage 1

When people find out that my wife and I have been married 46 years, they ask "What is the secret to a long and happy marriage?" Which has set me to thinking, "Well, what IS the secret to a long and happy marriage?"

The secret to a long and happy marriage--as well as to a long and happy life--is the Guy (the Son of God) we make our vows to in the marriage ceremony, the Milta, the Manifestation of God. The Milta (also Miltha), Who is God actually, is in the process of BECOMING the completed Manifestation of God, and you want to be included in the finalization of that process, for that is where length of life and happiness is.

I recognize that in our wedding, with our vows, my wife and I became joined to that invisible world, the world wherein the Milta is making us into the completed Him. We are joined not just to each other, but our world is joined to that world. We touched that becoming world in our vows, and it sticks in our spirit as we hold to those vows in Him. That world is a consciousness thing: "The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes" (Dr. William Messer).

Looking at us, or at least at me, you would think, "I do not see a lot of (or any) progress in your becoming the manifestation of God, if that process is what is truly underway. It looks like it would take an eternity." Well, what do you think eternity is FOR? "He (God/the Milta) has placed Eternity (the development of Himself) in the hearts of men" (Ecclesiastes 3:11, parentheses mine).

The Milta is the work God is doing in this world, in this universe, in all universes, from their beginning to their end. The manifestation of God is one big ACT, and God is the DOER. We just need to co-operate with Him, with His will, with His becoming. God's will is number one, for it is Him, and He, the Source of all things, is the only thing that matters.

The core of manifesting God is SPIRITUAL--being imbued with His Life in humility and submission, and MENTAL--thinking positively, lovingly, nobly, caringly, humbly, with faith, integrity, fidelity, kindness, patience, &c (i.e., manifest the nature and character of God as much as you know of them and can).

The Most High imagines. The Milta is His "body": spiritual, mental, and physical--Mind . . . into this world.

A marriage ceremony performed today in this world touches that world. There are real links established, or at least are available. The two become one, not just between the man and the woman, but between this world and that world--if they are taken. That world is to us tiny, like a seed implanted inside us. There was a Garden in Eden LIKE the place the Seed of the Milta is in us. In the Garden God placed the Seed in a special, perfect man to follow His will and to become His Milta. Yes, not following God's will then messed up that becoming, but JESUS' REDEMPTION OF US PUT US BACK THERE AGAIN, IF WE ACCEPT IT. Being back there--recognizing that you and your spouce are--is the secret of a long and happy marriage.

In other words, the secret of a long and happy marriage is the Guy, the Milta, the Manifestation of God we make our vows to. Keep Him in your world, and your world in His world, "that" world, every day. Submit your will to Him and let the Seed grow. Learn of Him and talk to Him and listen to Him, and share that world with your partner.

Love your spouse as Christ has loved you.

"Come to me, all you mourners and carriers of burdens, and I shall give you Peace. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, as I am peaceful and gentle of heart, and you shall find Peace in your souls. For my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-29 Alexander).

Was Abraham an Old Man or a Teen Age Do-over? Genesis 18:9-15; 20:2; and Hebrews 11:11

Abraham and Sarah both may have become kids again to have Isaac. Because God is faithful and He COULD do it. Abraham believed God, and SARAH BELIEVED GOD, TOO.

"And they (the angels) said to him, 'Where is that Sarah, your wife?' And he said, 'Behold, here at home.' And he told him, 'She will truly return to you* (return the return), as she is alive in this season, and Sarah your wife shall conceive a son,' and Sarah was listening at the door of the abode, she was behind it. Abraham and Sarah were old and aged in years,* and Sarah was beyond the age of child bearing women.* And Sarah laughed in her heart and said, 'After being all worn out, I will become young again, but will my husband remain an old man?'* And the Lord said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Truly, could I bear a child in my old age?" Is that too great a feat for the Lord? That she return to you in this season revitalized* and a son is born to your wife Sarah?' And Sarah blasphemed and said, 'I did not laugh,* it is because I was scared;' and He said, 'Do not laugh henceforth'" (Genesis 18:9-15 Alexander, parentheses and emphases mine).

Sarah had a question as to how all this was going to work out. "God will make me young again to bear a child, but will He make just me young?"

"Through faith also Sarah, who was barren, received the vigor to conceive an offspring and she did not give birth in the season according to her years, because she upheld that faithful is the One Who bequeathed her the Kingdom" (Hebrews 11:11 Alexander).

So Sarah became revitalized--NOT ACCORDING TO HER YEARS, BUT ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL--to the form of a young woman to bear Isaac. But Abraham?

"And Abraham had said regarding Sarah, 'She is my sister.' Abimelech, the king of Gadar, had sent for Sarah to be fetched" (Genesis 20:2 Alexander).

Revitalized Sarah was a teen/twenty-something knock-out. Gorgeous. The King of Gadar saw her and said, "OMG! I want THAT!" Abimelech believed that Abraham was Sarah's brother, not her great-great-grandfather, which he might have assumed if Abraham still looked a hundred years old. I think Sarah and Abraham both got revitalized, a do-over as a young married couple.

Would Abimelech have believed that Abraham's FATHER fathered Sarah when Abraham was nearly 80? Or that an 80-year-old Abraham had wed such a beautiful young bride? Or was Abimelech attracted to grannies? What kind of miracle are we talking about here?

We are talking about believing that God is faithful, that God WILL do anything He says he will do, regardless of anything else, because He IS God.

May I ask what directed you to The Becoming God Blog?

Hi. Dan Steele here. I am just a guy who puts his theological thoughts on line, and I am curious as to why on certain weekends my blog gets visited by many more people than usual. I am happy to see a hundred visits a day, but on some days my visit count goes up into the thousands. Would YOU mind to tell me why you visited today? I suspect some teacher is providing a link or a suggestion, but I do not know who.

Thank you so much,

Dan Steele

The Milta (Miltha) Is The Truth; i.e., It Is God

The Milta is the truth, for He is the Manifestation of God Who is the truth. The Milta, the Manifestation of God, is all those things Jesus said He was--the Light, the Life, the Door, the Way, the Shield, the Savior, the Son, etc. All those are the Manifestation, the Milta--God in manifestation. And He is PRESENT, right now, right here, in (as, actually) your imagination. He said, "Come to me, all you mourners and carriers of burdens, and I shall give you peace. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, as I am peaceful and gentle of heart, and you shall find peace in your souls. For my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30 Alexander). You learn of Him through study of the Bible and observing His spiritual ministrations, and you HEAR Him as the Holy Spirit from within you. In you, because He is your imagination. Listen!

Adams Are Special

Reading the Hebrew word Adam as "man" is super confusing It means much more than that, and it means that man is much more than that. Dr. Roy Blizzard said that dam in Hebrew means red or blood. The aleph (a) prefix relates it to the divine, i.e., it means that Adam is God's blood. I believe that God's blood is His consciousness, His imagination. "The power of life is in the blood."

I presume that in the sixth day of creation God created men and women like all the other animals, and then made a super man. Forming him from the dust of the earth, probably as the seed of a virgin (yes, Adam would have had a belly button), God quickened His consciousness and the power of imagination in him. For Jesus' recapitulation of the first Adam, he had to be like the first Adam in every way. The plan was that these conscious human beings would become Milta (Miltha)--the many manifestations of God. You see Miltha in the hospitality to be given to other traveling Miltaites. The first Adam was given a lot to share with others. But Satan went the other way, to steal, kill, and destroy, and when Adam went the other way too--like Cain--they lost what they had.

Then the Second Adam came, the dust of the earth formed as the seed of a virgin, quickened with God's consciousness to keep God's will to correct the harm the first Adam's independence had caused. In the second Adam we are, if we repent and convert, restored to becoming Miltha again, acting in God's chesed. We live as men, but we are to become the second Adam's body, the Milta's Manifestation, so repent and put on the MIND of Christ.

Bible Correction: Mark 1:1-3, 14-15, The Greek Word Euaggelion Means THE REWARD THE RECEIVERS OF A MESSAGE GIVE THE MESSENGER WHO DELIVERS THE MESSAGE TO THEM--John The Baptist Was An Old Testament Prophecy, Actually THE Old Testament Prophecy: The Destiny Of The New Testament MESSENGER

I have been striving to understand the Gospel According to Mark a little better. I am pretty sure we have misjudged Mark's perspective. I have, anyway. For instance, the first word in the Greek text of Mark is apo, a preposition meaning "motion forth FROM, or away FROM, the surface of an object" (Bullinger, Companion Bible app. 104 iv; emphasis mine). It seems to me that in "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God," we automatically think of the beginning of the message being formed about Jesus Christ, that the story is going toward the formation of the gospel, not developing from it. Mark is speaking of a departure FROM an object, and that object was the subject of certain Old Testament prophecies as a unit, the prophecies of the Messenger: "As it was written by Isaiah the Prophet, that, 'Behold, I shall send my messenger before your face, to lay out your path. The voice that cries in the wilderness, "Consecrate the path of the Lord, and lay down his avenues"'" (v. 2-3 Alexander).

Interesting to me is that the Greek word apo, the first word in Mark 1:1, is translated as "beginning." Victor Alexander translates Mark 1:1 from the Aramaic as, "The beginning of the Revelation of the Anointed Life-giver, Son of God." That beginning is the Old Testament prophecies; THEY are the beginning of the Revelation of the Anointed Life-giver, the Son of God. John 1:1 identifies the Anointed Life-giver as the Milta (Miltha), "In the beginning was the Milta (the Manifestation of God), and that Milta (Manifestation of God) was with God, and God was [the embodiment of ] that Milta (Manifestation of God)." And Moses, in Genesis 1:1, states that "As the beginning the Son of God creates the heavens and the earth" (Alexander).

Alexander's note on Mark 1:1 intimates that the Aramaic text begins not with apo but the Aramaic awon-galee-yoon, or, "He Reveals." I think Mark 1:1 from the Aramaic would read: "He reveals the Anointed Life-giver, Son of God. As it was written by Isaiah the prophet, that, 'Behold, I shall send my messenger before your face, to lay out your path.'" Could it be we miss that Mark means both John the Baptist AND Jesus are messengers? John the Baptist was a summation of the Old Testament, a type, and Jesus was its fulfillment. John as a messenger laid out Jesus' path. They were adjoining units: "He must increase, and I must decrease," said John; and Jesus proclaimed, "The Age of the Old Testament is over; LET US GO FORTH FROM IT INTO COMPLETION OF THE REVELATION" (v. 15 Alexander, emphasis mine). His point: "Daniel 9:24 is here."

The Greek word euaggellion in Mark 1:14 and 15 is my interest here. For up until the writing of the New Testament, the word euaggelion had meant the REWARD given to the messenger who had brought a message. It wasn't the message; it was the reward for giving the message. Look above at that beginning, "He Reveals." "He reveals" is also the meaning of the last word of John 1:18, "No human ever saw God, except for the only born God, He who existed in the bosom of his Father, [Whom] He Reveals" (my take on Alexander with literal meaning of the last Greek word in John 1:18). I.e., the bringer of the message from God, the fulfillment of the prophecies regarding the Messenger, IS the message itself, and for this giving forth he deserves a reward.

Keep ahold of this idea, that Jesus was the Messenger fulfilling the prophecies, destined to reveal God. According to the Scriptures and Irenaeus, Jesus as the Second Adam recapitulated (think spoke again) the life and failings of the First Adam, of whom we have been, and slaves to sin. In recapitulating man's failings to follow God's will, Jesus at every point adhered to God's will--even to the shame and sufferings of the cross. In Mark 15:34, Jesus cried out, "My God, My God (in the sense of My Supreme Provider), this was my destiny." For he was fulfilling the prophecies and the path laid out by John the Baptist. In John 19:30, Jesus according to Alexander said, "'It is adhered to.' He bowed his head and commended his spirit." FOR THE RECAPITULATION WAS COMPLETE, GOD'S WILL HAD BEEN PERFECTLY ADHERED TO. The price had been paid, the punishment fulfilled, there was a new federal head to whom we could adhere, who had just happened to reveal God, because he was God. The eternal righteousness (Daniel 9:24) was here for you and for me.

So, how are we to reward the Messenger, when we haven't got a thing? The euaggelion is our only hope.

Mark 1:14. After John was betrayed, Jesus came to Galilee, and preached the Hope of the Kingdom of God,
15. And he said, "The Age has ended,* and the Kingdom of God has arrived. Repent and BELIEVE IN THE HOPE [OF SALVATION]" (Alexander).

"My Highest Provider*, My Highest Provider, This Was My Destiny!" (--To Recapitulate Man And To Reveal You To The World; I.E., To Be The Manifestation Of The Savior YOU Are) (Mark 15:34)

'*Illiy Strong's Concordance Hebrew Dictionary #5927, 5942-5946 -- to ascend, be high, supreme, lofty, (most) high. The Lord God Almighty. Reflects Jesus' humility before His Father. Jesus cried out in a loud voice (v. 37), "Behold, it is adhered to!" (John 19:30, literal Aramaic idiom). What was adhered to? The Law of God is His own nature, which Jesus came to fulfill. The first Adam blew it. He had doubted God's words. The second Adam believed them, recapitulating the first's failings. They were adhered to -- the perfect life had been lived. "What ya going to do with it, Jesus?" "I'm going to give it for . . . "

The Essential Connotation of the Ineffable is to Manifest!!

The essential connotation of the Ineffable is to manifest. That is why there are so many of us! God is expanding, growing, stretching, maturing. He has assumed Himself the completion of everything. Now He has to give birth to them. God is operating on an infinite and eternal basis; there are so many things He CAN be, and He is going to be them all. God wants to manifest, to be manifestING. The whole thing of Eternity is it is the ACT of Manifestation of the Ineffable Being. It isn't for nothing that this blog is named The Becoming God. We are all little bits of this act, of His becoming.