WHAT ELSE IS THERE?

 If we do not believe in God, then what else is there? What does the world have to offer for the short time that we are here? Is there anything of great value here or do we just elevate useless things and make them our gods.

In past times people made statues that were to represent their god who was the one who brought good fortune or evil disaster. Nowadays we no longer worship idols of that nature but we worship idols all the same. We collect items that are only valuable if we can show them to others to attract their admiration. If no one were around to admire our house, our furniture, our vehicles or our clothing, would they be of any value to us?

Would there be any purpose in spending hours each day at a job we don’t even like in order to acquire these things?

The ancient kings had their riches buried with them and we think how ridiculous they were, we know that we will just have to abandon ours, maybe that’s even more ridiculous. At least the kings expected to have some use of their riches in the spirit world, we collect riches with no long term goal in mind.

Yes, it is very difficult for us to give up our vanity. Our vain attempt to be admired by our fellowmen. And even though we do not believe in the real God, He stills brings us good fortune and allows us to experience disasters just like the make believe gods of old. And even if we do not believe in God He is still there forgiving us as we play at life not even planning for our real life after our demise.

EVE AND THE APPLE

   As children we were told that Eve was tempted by Lucifer to eat an apple. We still meet adult men and women who believe that it was an apple. Even to this day, there are bibles printed with the story of the apple. The apple was the forbidden fruit and God had told Adam and Eve not to eat from this particular tree.

 This is a way to teach a small child about the disobedience of Adam and Eve. The story is not about an apple, it is only an analogy. The term “forbidden fruit” is also an analogy , the phrase is still in use to this day.

 Adam was a very high spirit in the kingdom of God, Eve was his dual. When they and their followers decided to pledge their allegiance to Lucifer rather that to Christ, they were cast out of heaven. But God gave them a second chance and so a location lower than heaven, but still in the spirit world was created for them, to try them once more. This location was not as beautiful as the heaven they had left but it still was much more beautiful than earth. The earth and the material world had not yet come into being.

 In order to test them God gave them a prohibition. We do not know exactly what this prohibition was, but since they had replaced Lucifer as their leader rather than God’s anointed leader, who was Christ, His first born, we can only guess that the prohibition may have been something to do with following instructions from Lucifer rather than from Christ. But this is only a surmise, and it doesn’t really matter what God had forbidden them, but you can be sure that it was nothing as simple as not eating an apple or eating anything else for that matter. The bible is replete with analogies and this is one of them. So go ahead and have an apple.

 THE TENT OF TESTIMONY

     What was the tent of testimony and why was it so valuable? In the days of Moses, God gave specific instructions to build the so-called tent. It was to be made using very particular and rare materials and it was to be built with exact measurements. Once the tent was built, the people were to sacrifice their choicest animals and bring the best of their crops all to be burned. Was God acting like a spoiled person to expect the people to give up all of their most precious materials and sacrifice their most valuable animals and crops?

 God had a definite purpose for all of these requirements. The tent was to be used for communication with His spirit world, not through mediums as is the most common method but by direct voice. In order to communicate with spirits we need energy or od. When God’s spirits communicate through mediums, the energy or od comes mainly from the medium who has been trained to release his or her od at will to allow the spirits the use of it in their communication.

 As we know, anytime that a human is used to communicate with spirits, there is always a chance for error. God wanted to make sure that there would be no error in the messages, therefore He wanted his spirits to communicate directly with the people thereby bypassing humans altogether. The only way to do this was to provide the energy or od to be produced by the burning of animals and grains etc. Only certain parts of the animal were used, the parts that produced the purest od and the tent was built with materials that were also of the purest lest the materials contaminate the od. The smoke from the burnt offerings provided the od that the spirits could use to materialize the voice. The tent of testimony was built in such a way as to trap the od that would be used.

 God used whatever methods that were understood by the people of that time to achieve his purpose, that of direct voice. In the future, God will again find a way to communicate with mankind by direct voice but nowadays He will be able to use currents produced by high tech means since this is a different time. Can you just imagine what it will be like to hear God’s spirits talking without any intermediary, now those truths imparted to us by this means of communication will have no room for error.

TEMPTATION

    We pray “Lead us not into temptation” and we think of temptation as the breaking of one of the commandments, but it is more than just that. We are surrounded by spirits at all times. Each of us have high spirits who accompany us throughout life just to help us through the ordeal. At the same time, we are also accompanied by low spirits who would like us to fail at our attempt to rise higher in our progression. They assail us day and night, hoping we will make the wrong choices, but not only that but interfering with everything we do, say and think. If we want to know what their attitude is, we merely have to check our own thoughts. Every negative thought regarding another or ourselves come from them. All of our missteps are incurred with their help.

We only need to review our thoughts to know who our companions are. Do we feel guilt over small failings? Are we jealous of others? Do we feel like giving up on life when things become difficult? Do we speak out of turn? Are we sarcastic? Do we have adulterous thoughts? Do we grumble? Do we try to drown our misery in liquor or drugs? Do angry thoughts replay themselves in our minds? Are we sad for no good reason? Do we hear endless chatter? Are we afraid of insignificant things? Do we constantly put down others? Are we pretentious? Do we belittle others? Are we suspicious? Are we impatient? Do we try to intimidate others? Are we lazy? Are we apathetic? This list is without end and it gives us an idea of how low spirits can influence us..

We only need to look at our weakness and realize that most of them are exaggerated with the assistance of the low spirits, and then we can begin to make the necessary changes and the result will be that they are removed from our presence. This takes a great deal of prayer and work and time, sometimes a lifetime, but each step will improve our character and raise our vibration.

  MIRACLES

   Whenever anything happens that is out of the realm of human understanding it is called a miracle. If we could see what transpired, we would understand that there really are no miracles. 

God created everything by setting up laws that do not ever change; even God observes His own laws. The word “miracle” is used to describe an event that is beyond human understanding of nature’s or God’s laws. Perhaps mankind is not cognizant of all of God’s laws, so the use of the word “miracle” is really demonstrating our ignorance of the laws. Just because we do not know all of God’s laws does not mean they do not exist.

In past ages mankind believed the earth was flat and that the sun moved around the earth. Nowadays, we would laugh at someone who still believed this, so why is it acceptable to believe in miracles for lack of knowledge.

When someone is healed by the touch of a hand, it is no miracle, what really happens is that the energy of God passes through the body of the healer and allows for the energy to be used by holy spirits who are actually doing the healing. A clairvoyant person can see the hands of the high spirits and the tools they are using to do the healing. Heaven has its own doctors as we do on earth, of course their knowledge and methods plus their tools are much more advanced than those on earth. God’s holy spirits do not sit on a cloud all day, they all have jobs to do and they have their professions as we do on earth. Heaven has its doctors, teachers, record keepers, guards, soldiers etc. Remember, everything we see on earth was in heaven first.

On every occasion that someone is saved or helped in time of physical danger, it is a spirit of God who intervenes and assists. Nothing can happen of itself, there is no such law as things happening without any reason.