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REWARD CHRIST'S MESSAGE

Did you know that you can give yourself to God and that He will accept you for the sake of Christ's sacrifice for you?

You, accepted by God as completely forgiven, innocent and guiltless for your sins against Him, as though never had you sinned against Him.

For Jesus, the manifestation of the Milta (Miltha, the Manifestation of God), took YOUR sins upon Himself as YOUR sacrifice to God for YOUR sins, and paid the price for YOUR sins--YOUR death.

YOUR punishment paid, Jesus is now free to forgive YOU and to accept YOU as His, if YOU will but give Him yourself as your reward to Him for bringing this revelation of God to you.

You give Him you; He gives you Him.

Such a deal!

GIVE!

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And he told them, "Go to all people and preach my faith in all creation. Whoever believes and declares it, shall Live, and whoever does not believe, will be held accountable.

"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 (tongues), 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."

Jesus then the Lord, after he spoke with them, went up to heaven, and sat from the right of God.

They then went out, and preached every place, and the Lord helped them and began filling them with signs that they performed.

*16:18.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression retained: "Take up snakes," or "Deal with evil people."

*16:18.2 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression retained: "If they drink poison of death," or "Whatever happens to them."

Mark 16:15-20 Alexander

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You willing to give it? Call on the Name of Jesus.

Don't Forget The Devil--He's Still Here Working, Deceiving Like Crazy: ARE YOU HIS VICTIM?

It's not always the other guy. Satan is the deceiver of THE WHOLE WORLD. I think you and I are in there somewhere. Democrats are deceived, Republicans are deceived, the whole world is going crazy. Watch yourself; be discerning; look at lies for what they are, and they are EVERYWHERE.

The Gospel (Euaggelion--Reward) of Christ

I hold that the Greek word euaggelion did not mean message, but was the reward given to the message bringer. Christ brought us the message, the revelation of God through His work on the cross. What now is his reward FROM US?  US!  The miracle is that when we surrender our sin-filled lives as our reward to Him, He accepts us. We are Milta building material.

"Repent, and believe that the Milta accepts you as His reward."

Verities of Passings: Afterlife not a Box

Neville Goddard suggested that after a person passed, he or she would be found to be a twenty-something year old human in another terrestrial experience progressing to become a fully spiritually-awakened individual. His mentor Abdullah had said that they had been together in ancient China.

Neville also said that he would NOT be having any more of these terrestrial experiences, but was graduating to something higher; that he was moving up, and staying there.

Hebrews 9:27 states: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (KJV per Google). Neville said that this life is actually the amnesiac death, and we may experience many such "lives" in this death before the judgment to graduation. If we are restored to lives as twenty-somethings, we are not men yet. Grow to be a Man first, and then the judgment.

But, if we are restored as twenty-somethings, where do kids come from? Why do some kids recall prior lives? And many near-death experiencers recall previous lives they have had? Or is it really straight to heaven or hell, and the rest are deceptions?

It occurs to me that we might have any such afterlife experience; what happens is not locked into any one conclusion. One person might go to hell, another to another terrestrial maturing process, still another to whatever experience is had after graduating. Not all planets are the same, nor stars, nor galaxies--God has got a lot of options to bring Himself, His Milta (Miltha), into full manifestation (and we don't have much say EXCEPT to get with the program, the BIG THING God is doing, through repentance, surrender, submission, and service).

The Enveloping Order

I said in my last post to eliminate everything back to nothing. Beyond the nothing we would find (...?), "God", an unknowable no-thing that would be infinite if there were an infinity for it to exist in. We wouldn't actually find the no-thing, because apart from the Milta the (...?) is unknowable. I catch myself envisioning the (...?) as a vast expanse of emptiness, but that is dimensionality where there is no dimension. Real nothingness has no point in it. Nothingness isn't an empty universe; it is NOTHING, and my point here is that beyond that nothing is (...?).

How would THAT (...?) manifest itself? Everything that is is the answer to that question. The universes, the angelic realms, the dimensions, you and I--all these are the Milta in the process of manifesting the (...?). Notice that it has everything to do with attitudes. The Milta manifests as myriads of people in relationship, like something in or some quality of the (...?). Is the (...?) myriads of individual minds? of thoughts? of personalities in relationship?

All existence is inside the (...?) and all existence is the (...?) working itself out as the Milta--being worked out by the Milta. In this tiny speck of the universes the Milta has manifested individually as the Man Adam and as the Man Jesus. SOMETHING BIG IS GOING ON. ALL OF THIS IS NOT WITHOUT PURPOSE. Jesus came as light to heal the world and is in the process of finishing that up. Only the (...?) itself knows what its final manifestation will be. There is still a long way to go, but it IS progressing.

A New Layer of God

It is the old layer of God. Our conceptualization of God is too small. Eliminate light. Eliminate matter. Eliminate all universes, all heavenly realms of angels, all dimensions of existence. Get to the state of No-thing, and what do you have? God, the (...?), the ineffable existence beyond the nothingness. We do not know what Beyond The Nothingness is or where it came from. We believe that it has always been, a constant power that is conscious and is doing "this", "this" being Its Manifestation, which is existence. The (...?)'s Manifestation has a name: Milta (Miltha, Aramaic, translated into Greek as logos, into English as word). THE Milta is ALL the action of the (...?)'s manifestation from beginning to end--all of it throughout HIS history as a single unit.

The (...?) is conscious, and the (...?) itself is That Which Is Conscious. A significant step above, yes? The (...?)'s consciousness is its first level of manifestation. Its intelligence, wisdom, etc., etc., are levels of (...?)'s manifestation. It manifests as myriads of people, of people's BRAINS. These are "Jerusalem". 

The (...?)'s consciousness is filial--a son's position--to That Which Is Conscious. Every descending level is filial--should be filial--to the level it comes from. It starts in holiness, and the Father-Son relationship stands in each union--love, honor, and respect. Think of the loving gaze the Father has on the Son. All life comes from the (...?) above the top layer, and manifests through the Life-giver, the Milta below.

What is the Milta doing? The Milta does the will of the (...?), which is to become manifest! THAT is the story of the Bible, which is an introduction to the process. When redemption was agreed to, the Son of God began to create the world. The world becomes corrupted, and God introduces light to cleanse the world and to put it in order. The weaker part of man bounces back and forth in becoming, or not becoming, holy like God, and is then chosen or not. HOLINESS REQUIRES EFFORT OF SELF-CONTROL. There is choice involved, which manifests in works. We become channels of (...?)'s spiritual power. And the Life-giver's name is Jesus. In heaven everything honors the (...?) by being holy.

The Milta (Miltha, Translated as Logos in John 1:1) is ALL the Action of God's Becoming Manifest

'God' is a verb, action.  Consciousness is action.  Repentance is action.  Setting apart to holiness is action.  Being perfect is action.  Praying is action.  Intending is action.

Let's act.

The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage 2

This is the right place, the secret to a long and happy marriage, part 2.

People ask my wife and I what is the secret to our staying together for 46+ years. Of course, every couple SHOULD stay together for all of their lives: "Each one gets one," and that is all you get--your one. There is no hopping around.

In 1975 I was living illegally in a pickup truck in Honolulu, Hawaii. I had a homemade camper (a big, windowless box, actually) mounted on the back, and in the yacht harbor I parked it in the police assumed it was just a mobile storage shed.

Only occasionally and informally employed, I listened to rock music, sailed with friends, and read a lot of books about Eastern religions and philosophy, spiritualism, meditation, opening chakras and the like. (I'd been a sixties hippy, literally in San Francisco in 1967 and 68, and had become enamored with "spiritual" stuff while in the Navy 1968-1972.)

During a metaphysical-meditation class, I encountered a demon feigning to be Jesus Christ coming to teach me personally. Suddenly, I could see into the spirit and saw that its light was a façade; it was all darkness within. Three things were immediately apparent to me:

1) the deceiving spirit thing was real, and if it was real, then what it was a counterfeit of and trying to lead me away from was also real.

2) while the deceiving spirit had been influencing my thoughts for years, it had needed me to lower myself to allow it to actually enter me, whereas the one who had opened my consciousness to see the spirit for what it really was did NOT need my permission to act within and upon me.

3) I was going the wrong way.

I went to my camper and dug out the old zippered Bible my mother had given me when I was seven. I looked up the word 'deceive' in the concordance and found Revelation 12:9: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him" (King James Version). Oh, the Devil is still around, unannounced and working continuously to deceive us away from God and lying about Christ. I figured that Jesus was the way to go.

I went with a friend to the House of Praise in Kaimuki. It was a Pentecostal-church-sponsored communal residence. Friday nights Rod Wilson, the overseer, led a Bible study. There was much praise and worship, healings and testimonies of miracles, and almost everyone spoke in tongues. "That" world, the world according to the Bible, was real and present. I went forward and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I felt good about being "saved," but I did not speak in tongues.

At another church I was asked if I wanted to pray for the gift of tongues, which my friend was already praying for. I asked Jesus for the gift of tongues once, I asked twice, I asked once again. Nothing happened. I realized that Jesus rejected me. I had "accepted" him and given him my life, but he did not accept me--wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole! I cried and sought desperately to find out why. What must I do, or stop doing, to become accepted by Jesus?

From that sobbing I entered a trance state. In my mind I followed a trail to a block I could not get over or go around. I discerned that I needed to go under it. Then I was underground. I saw a man's figure scooped from the mud, and the mud-man was formed into a living man. He thought of what he needed to do, and I followed him as he set off to do all those things. I was hearing his thoughts and seeing through his eyes. I became him.

As I was occupied doing all those things, suddenly a realization came to me--I was honestly gob-smacked--for only a moment ago I had been a lifeless blob of mud who was made to live, and here I was directing "my" life. I had STOLEN God's lordship over me!! This wasn't my life; it was His! God must have had a reason to make me, a purpose of HIS to fulfill, and I was robbing Him of that purpose. I directed my life, and I had NOT given that up when I "gave" God my life when I was saved. I was in rebellion, sin as witchcraft.

I was so ashamed and repentant. I resolved to undo my control over my life. I cast my control, my self-lordship out of myself. I thought I'd fall as a spineless blob. Instead I found myself high in the mountains kneeling beside a felled pine tree. Surrounded by aspen-glow, the sky above me became rosy with the presence of God. I dared not look up. In total surrender I submitted to Him: "You are Holy God; I am but a mudman. Whatever you tell me to do, that I will do." I shut up and listened intently. After a few moments I heard a very soft voice say, "Remember this, and it is all right."

"It is all right." I was accepted! My emotions soared. I couldn't express the thrill and gratitude and appreciation and adoration I felt for God. I could feel quivers of living water flooding my bowels. They rose up my throat. My mouth shook, moving on its own. The church minister who all this time had his hands laid on me said, "Don't try to control it." I didn't. Out of my mouth flowed praise and worship and adoration I could not speak in English. It appeared to be a Chinese dialect, most like Cantonese I now think. My mouth ran on its own for some time; I exercised no control or direction over it. I just listened to this unknown worship by the Holy Ghost and agreed with it.

Yes, this is still the secret to a long and happy marriage 2.

After this experience my life took an odd turn. One Sunday morning I saw Jesus scourged and crucified, and He spoke to me. I decided to go to school to find out what He has said to other men. I went back to California, and without any scholastic qualification got accepted into an experimental seminary course as an upper division student. I got funding through the GI bill and found a room in a local apartment for 90 dollars a month. Somehow, I succeeded as a student.

My point is that though I was not qualified, nor deserving, yet God takes care of His own miraculously. There is a Holy Ghost, and He is God loving those who love Him. I completed my Bachelors before my Associate degree, and apart from the AA began graduate school without any accredited schooling. Doors have opened, monies have come, and though I live as an idiot I am still doing okay. I stand in my home and wonder, "How did I get here?" I know that I didn't do it, I didn't deserve it; it's been the grace of God--it's His abundance. God has intent for my good, for the Milta to be advanced to completion, for the world to be in the abundance of His reality. I DIDN'T DO IT, I DIDN'T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING; IT HAS BEEN A GIFT--LIFE, THE HOLY GHOST--AND JESUS IS THE LIFE-GIVER. Life-giver is what the Aramaic word for Jesus, Eashoa, means. His is an invisible force, a power with good intent for us to become HIM, and a plan to get us there from anywhere.

The Life-giver, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, is the secret to a long and happy marriage, and He says He is knocking on YOUR door, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20 King James Version).

Again, "Behold, I am before the door knocking. If a human [being] hears my sound...and opens the door, I shall enter to them and dine with them,...and they with me. And the victor...shall be given to be seated with me on my throne*,...just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on His throne" (Revelation 3:20-21 Alexander).