The Secret to a Long and Happy Marriage

When people find out that my wife and I have been married 46 years, they ask "What is the secret to such a long and happy marriage?" We are like, "Happy? Why ask us?" No, seriously, my daughter happens to be getting married in September, and I think I will share at the wedding what is the secret of a long and happy marriage--which has set me to thinking, "Well, what IS the secret?"

For me the secret to a long and happy marriage--as well as a long and happy life--is the Guy we make our vows to in marriage, the Milta, the Manifestation of God. The Milta, Who is God actually, is BECOMING the Manifestation of God, and you want to be a part of that process. I recognize that in our marriage my wife and I became joined in THAT world, the world wherein the Milta is making us into Him. Joined not just to each other, but joined in our world becoming that world.

Looking at us, or at least at me, you would think, "I do not see a lot of progress in your becoming like God, if that process is what is truly underway. It looks like it could 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. We just need to co-operate with Him, with His will, with His becoming. God's will is number one. The core of this is MENTAL: think positively, lovingly, nobly, caringly, humbly, in submission, with faith, integrity, fidelity, &c. For God is imagining all of this; we are to do Him, for we also are to be His Manifestation. He manifests as multitudes of people, of minds in harmony. It is MENTAL--His mind, into this world.

The marriage ceremony performed today in this world touches that world. There are links established--the two become one, not just between the man and the woman, but between this world and that world--if you will take it. That world is to us tiny, like a seed inside us. There was a Garden in Eden LIKE the place the seed of the Milta is in us. God placed it in a special, perfect man to follow His will and to become His Milta. Yes, not following God's will messed that up, but JESUS' REDEMPTION OF US PUT US BACK THERE AGAIN. Being back there--recognizing that you 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 you make your vows to. Keep Him in your world, and your world in His world, every day.

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.

God Takes The Blame

There is only God. In Jesus Christ's taking our punishment for our sin in his death on the cross, he also took the CREDIT for our sin. He made us = He made our sin. In His birth, death, and resurrection He was and is saying, "There is nothing but Me. Points 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all ME(!)."

There is only God, and He the Consciousness of the Ineffable-Mystery-Beyond-The-Nothingness AND THAT CONSCIOUSNESS'S MANIFESTATION. The two are one thing. In Jesus Christ's--the Manifestation of God's--taking our punishment for our sin in his death on the cross, he also took the CREDIT for our sin. He makes us to make Himself = He makes our sin to make us into Himself. He was and is saying, "There is nothing but the Ineffable-Mystery-Beyond-The-Nothingness, which includes Me, the Manifestation of Its essential connotation. What the Ineffable did to become Itself, I do, too, to become Me, for I am It."

By Its actions the Ineffable-Mystery-Beyond-The-Nothingness says to us, "I am." By Its action, Its Manifestation, the Milta, says to us, "I am that 'I am.'"

Think It Now Answer Continues

I recently purchased The Return Of Glory, 1969 Lectures (Vol. 7) by Neville (Trafford Publishing). I got the book specifically for the July 25th, 1969 lecture "Test Him and See." It turns out that lecture is not in the book, which is apparently a selection, but not all, of Neville's lectures from 1969 (at over a thousand pages long, though, it is enough). I noticed among the included lectures "Revelation of the Word Within Us" (pages 512-522). This lecture answers very neatly the questions raised concerning my post "Think It Now":

"'It was loyalty to THAT world 24/7, regardless of whatever was happening in this world. The Jews were to be focused on THAT world, be keyed up for it, believing they received it NOW, not just when they went to sleep.'
This above part....does this mean dwelling in the past?.... what is "that world"?....is it the imaginal or the past/old world?"

Okay, I just put an emphasis on the word 'now.' And I digress here to T. L. Osborn's outline of the Gospel:

1) God created everything great, wonderful, beautiful, pleasant, in harmony, loving, open, connected, and man and Him mono y mono.

2) Satan deceived Eve and Adam, "He didn't mean it," introducing sin, sickness, and death to man and his world. Man became guilty and separated from conscious awareness of God.

3) The Milta, the Manifestation of God, became manifest in Jesus and in his purity offered himself a substitutionary--and complete--sacrifice for man.

4) With repentance of self-lordship, humility in surrender, submission to God's will, and accepting Jesus the Manifestation of God as Messiah, MAN IS RESTORED TO POINT 1.

Point 1. THAT is the world we are to be loyal to.

As for receiving it now, there is a double-down on that. When we remember all God's faithful works of old, of his mercy and deliverance, of his care and grace and by faith receive those things as ours now, we generate those things in our future. And as we imagine the wonderful things to come in the future AS RECEIVED and remember them with gratitude, we generate those things in our future.

The Word, the Milta, the Manifestation of God--God Himself--is within us, sleeping. Wake Him (and yourself) up to point 4!