The Biggest Bubble of All

May 19th, 2009

The Internet bubble burst back in 2000 and was followed by the housing bubble.  We are now facing the biggest bubble of them all: the Monetary Bubble.  This bubble is a precursor to hyper-inflation and this environment will take no prisoners.  The megabanks have operated as drug addicts and the Fed has become their “enabler”.  Their actions moved them to insolvency and the Fed has endorsed their actions by funding their addiction.  Bankruptcy of these institutions was the best solution in order to cleanse the system of unfruitful works.

The following is an example of insolvency:

Mat 21:19  And when he (Jesus) saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

We are not to judge the heart of man, only the fruit.  Jesus became a fruit inspector of Israel and found it lacking.  It was bankrupt.  Our Heavenly Father had been longsuffering with the sins of Israel and had once “married” Israel only to divorce later.  The people no longer loved The Lord and chose to live according to fleshly desires.  They gave lip service to serving The Lord but their actions communicated a different direction.  Revelation was converted to tradition and the Glory of The Lord had left the Temple.

Today, the financial industry is no different.  Rather than serve the public, these institutions are exploiting their customers with predatory practices of high and hidden fees, high interest rates relative to their cost of money (nearly 0%), and misleading information about their financial status.  Effectively, they have exploited customers and the government at the same time.

Irresponsibility-a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions.  The last fifty years has seen the monetary system go from a conservative, stable system to a casino-style system of greed.  Don’t get me wrong, greed was always there but was in check until Congress lifted the restraints.  Those restraints had been in place since the Great Depression.  Once again we have confirmations that man’s sin nature is alive and operational.  Community banks generally did not participate in the instruments of greed because they knew that they are too small to save.  They simply had to make money through normal, prudent lending and investing practices.

The economic environment is changing.  Baby boomers will swing to the ultra-conservative side by curbing consumption, cutting back on luxury goods, and looking for more secure investments.  It is no surprise that Home Depot and Lowe’s home improvement centers are topping Wall Street estimates.  People will repair and enhance their current homes rather than increase their square footage.  The repair industry will show signs of life.  Homebuilders will shrink to pre-1990’s levels.  Commercial real estate will be the next topic of the network nightly news anchors.  The contraction is rapidly reducing the retail space needs around the country.  Some of the large mall operators have already been mentioned in the financial news media as having serious cashflow problems.

Credit card companies are attempting to keep the current paradigm intact by raising rates and fees while reducing credit limits.  Many of us have received notices of a reduction in credit limits due to lack of activity on the account.  The credit card companies have abused many cardholders with these changes and will force Congress to respond with new regulations.  Leadership maintained the status quo of consumer exploitation until the cries became too loud.

When you add up all of the woes in the current system, you find no good fruit.  The summation of Irresponsible actions over the last forty years has produced the current perfect storm.  Leaders around the world are desperately trying their best to keep the current paradigm intact.  “Hot” money is smelling blood in the currency arena and is now making large investments in precious metals expecting notable appreciation in gold and silver in the coming months and years.  Purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar will substantially decline in coming years with the current economic policies in place.  Stockholder rights have been shredded by the current government intervention in publicly held companies.  Mankind will hold on to recent history as their hope to restore things back to the way they were.  Is the writing on the wall?

Daniel 5:25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE,TEQEL, and PHARSIN. 5:26 This is the interpretation of the words:  As for mene– God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end. 5:27 As for teqel – you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking. 5:28 As for peres  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes (middle land) and Persians (pure).”

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Christ and Creation

May 16th, 2009

Christ and Creation

The experimental method has limits in documenting all of the factors involved in the creation of the universe. We simply do not have the tools or the understanding to measure everything that is involved. So we must rely on other ways to understand the creative process.

There are two sources of knowledge: experience and revelation.

Experience results in knowledge obtained by observing events in space-time. Human experience gives knowledge that comes from outside of the individual through the senses such as observing a beautiful sunrise or by feeling a warm breeze or experiencing an exciting sports event. Science is experience that is organized for the purpose of obtaining knowledge

Revelation is knowledge that that is perceived as coming from outside of oneself and is of human or divine origin. Human revelation may come from human reasoning as in that expounded in the world’s philosophies.

Much of divine revelation is knowledge communicated by God to inspired writers who canonized their revelation. Divine revelation may be given directly to any of us when we hear God’s voice.

By divine revelation certain characteristics of God can be known.

For example:

In Gen 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Read from right to left

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

earth and the heavens the divine ones made In the beginning

ha-eretz v-eth ha-shamiyim eth elohiym bara bereshiyth

It is evident that God (elohim-the divine ones) created (bara) the heavens (hashamiyim) and the earth (haeretz). Scholars of ancient Hebrew accepted the fact that God created the cosmos.

בָּרָא (bara) comes from the Qal Hebrew vowel stem in the active voice and means to create, always with God as subject. It is a theological term and is appropriate to the concept of creation by divine fiat. The term denotes the initiation of something new but does not necessarily require that creation was made from nothing, ex nihilo. This was the level of revelation given to Moses during the Passover Age.

There was a greater revelation regarding the creator given to the Apostle John at a later time, in the Age of Pentecost. It read as follows:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

The same was in the beginning with God. John 1:2

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being John 1:3 (NASB).

The term word is important because God spoke space and time into existence.

Paul, like John wrote of his revelation during the Pentecostal Age. Both attest that Jesus Christ was the creator of all things. This revealed knowledge to Paul is found in his following writings:

Eph 3:9 …the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ and

in Hbr 1:10 “you, lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands

The Law of the Double witness has been satisfied by John and Paul, so the matter has been established that Christ is the creator. What is the evidence that this is indeed the fact? Ultimately it is a matter of faith since no one was there to observe the process but there are certain statements in the revelations that agree with current scientific understanding.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Gen 1:3

Read from right to left

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי אֹור וַֽיְהִי־אֹֽור׃

owr hayah owr hayah ‘elohiym amar

light and there light let there the divine and uttered

was be ones

The consonants that make up the first hayah (he-yod-he-yod) is contracted to (yod-he-yod) because it is a Jussive conjugation expressing a mild command or a strong wish. This means that within the Godhead there was not only a desire to form light in the creation but an agreement to do so and indeed “there was light”.

The Jussive conjugation also expresses the relationship of the Father with the Son. There was a relationship of the Creator as being both a servant and a son. A servant being obedient to his master’s command and a son being in agreement with his father out of love. This love relationship existed even before space and time. It was ever present. It was God’s plan to create an imperfect cosmos, so He could perfect it Himself through Christ over time in love because, God is love 1 John 4:8

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life John 3:16.

Christ had to be the foundation of the universe because He alone could perfect creation and present it to His Father.

Creation will be complete when God is all in all.

Basics of Biblical Hebrew 2nd ed., G. Practico, and M. Van Pelt, Zondervan Publishers 2007, pg 133

Light

Light was uttered into existence. The word amar means to utter or to speak and caries with it a subvocal creative intent. In Genesis it is used 10 times in this regard. (SWOT 118) Theological Wordbook off the Old Testament

John records Jesus saying:

While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.” John 9:5

ὅταν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ὦ φῶς εἰμι τοῦ κόσμου

Hotan en to kosmos o phos eimi tou kosmou

This, then, is the first evidence of Christ in a pre-incarnate form in the earth.

It was important for Christ to be present in creation from the beginning because the process of restoration leading to perfection had to start at the beginning through Him. From the beginning, God’s plan for creation was to reconcile all things through Himself in order to make them complete. This was to be done by faith, one of the elements of the restoration process.

“I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. John 12:46

Light is electromagnetic radiation, particularly radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye (about 400–700 nm), or perhaps 380–750 nm

In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.

Light exhibits properties of both waves and particles (photons). This property is referred to as wave–particle duality

So light in the created space time realm, can be understood a two levels:

· As a series of electromagnetic frequencies from the very lowest to the highest

· As a particle, a Quantum, as a foundational unit of creation

According to Richard Feynman, a quantum physicist, light behaves like a particle even though it has characteristics of a wave. For convention’s sake it was called a particle instead of a new word like a “wavicle”

Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 15

Time

Oscillations take place over time, and are measured as cycles per second. Since light and time exist together, the creative process took time as revealed to Moses, so too the perfecting of creation is a continuing process that will take place over time.

Other Dimensions

According to Calabi-Yau string theory there are six dimensions other than length-width-height and time that cannot be measured by normal scales of sight. Other dimensions have been suggested.

Calabi, Eugenio (1954), “The space of Kähler metrics”, Proc. Internat. Congress Math. Amsterdam, pp. 206–207; Tian, Gang; Yau, Shing-Tung (1991), “Complete Kähler manifolds with zero Ricci curvature, II”, Invent. Math. 106 (1): 27–60

The smallest quantum that can be measured electromagnetically is the dipole, which is made of positive and negative charges. These particles oscillate to form a continuous wave that radiates.

The first quantum or particle in creation was Christ. He was spoken into creation by the Godhead, as a wave, and manifested himself as a particle of light. He is the light of the world that continually radiates between God and the created realm.

We should look for qualities that reflect the character of Christ in the yet to be defined, non-measurable dimensions of creation.

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Arresting Aggression against the Kingdom

May 13th, 2009

When Jesus arrived on the scene, the Jewish leadership was expecting a conquering king to redeem the land back from the Romans and establish the kingdom of Israel.  Instead, Jesus came to redeem the people back to the Kingdom of God.  Although He was called to suffer at the cross for mankind, that calling did not prevent Him from “arresting aggression” against the Kingdom.  The following passage takes place during the last week of His earthly ministry:

Mat 21:10-14

10  And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”

11  So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12  Then Jesus went into the temple of God[fn6] and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

13  And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’[fn7] but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.'”[fn8]

14  Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

This facet of Love seemed a little unusual for Jesus for the Gospels projected Him as a man of peace and compassion.  What made this different?  What caused Jesus to take action against the money changers?

Previous to this incident, Jesus had prophesied that the Jewish nation would never produce any fruit (the parable of the fig tree) and was preparing to teach in the temple.  Upon His arrival, the temple had become a commercialized market for “sacrifices” and had lost its significance as a house of prayer.  Revelation had been replaced by tradition. 

The temple had been known historically as where the glory of God resided but the people knew that HIS occupation had long since been removed.  The priests continued their sacrifices and supplications as prescribed by the Law, hoping against hope that HIS presence might return.  The leadership had lost the revelation of the importance of holiness and the “Fear of the Lord”.  What was once protected against exploitation had now become the center of commercial activity.  Jesus called it a den of thieves.

Today, we are faced with the same aggression.  People, circumstances, trends, media, laws, and our own ego are attempting to turn our temple into a den of thieves.  This is applicable on a personal, corporate, and national level.  Mystery Babylon has become blatant in its attempt to replace the Kingdom of God.  In the past, men have met behind closed doors to promote their plans of greed knowing that the consequences of their actions would hurt millions of unsuspecting souls.  Christians have become passive and silent hoping that things would just turn out alright.  Now, those plans have come out of the smoke filled backrooms and are openly touted as the answer to all of our problems.  Governments around the world have taken on a character of their own, failing to serve mankind.  Now, self interest, greed, exploitation, genocide, and invasion of sovereign land are the characteristics of global thinking.

Jesus walked at the expression of Love.  Every action, every word, and every encounter were all guided by Love.  Love does not start a fight but it does not back down when confronted by sin.  Spiritual intercession and warfare is critical but don’t think for a minute that there will be no physical outworking of this warfare.  The key is to respond to aggression with Love, not vengeance.  Jesus found it necessary to arrest the aggressive behavior of the money changers.  You may be called on to do the same. 

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Toxicity in Life

May 3rd, 2009

A toxin (Greek: τοξικόν, toxikon, lit. (poison) for use on arrows) is a poisonous substance produced or consumed by living cells or organisms.  My close friend Dr. Vince Speckhart, a highly successful oncologist who practiced medicine for forty years, once told me “the human body is designed to live forever”.  His success rate for treating cancer improved dramatically when he found a methodology that detected “toxic” interferences in the body thus allowing him to isolate a remedy for their removal.  Once the toxic substance or “signal” was removed, the body began to heal itself.  If you get a splinter in the finger, it will not heal until the splinter is removed.  The needle and tweezers used for the removal are not the cure, they simply facilitate the cure by removing the “toxic” substance.  In Dr. Speckhart’s practice, this simple understanding led him to an alternative way of treating his cancer patients.  Rather than promoting consumption of a toxic pharmaceutical, he focused on the removal of what appeared to be “triggers” or precursors to cancer.  Once he began to focus on toxin removal rather than “treating the symptom”, his success rate notably improved.

I had a friend who served as a medic in Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange (dioxin).  Within twenty years he was diagnosed with cancer in the lung area where his lungs were fusing with the wall around them (a layman’s description).  He went through the standard treatments and the doctor confirmed that Agent Orange was the trigger.  His immune system ultimately became overloaded and those “rebellious” cells began growing as cancer.

Dr. Sherry Rogers, another physician who began to search for alternatives to the current medical traditions, became deathly sick from her exposure to chemicals used on her parents’ farm.  Like Dr. Speckhart, she found that “detoxification” methodologies were her only solution.  Once she detoxified her body, her health returned.  She has written several books on using detoxification methodology to restore your health.  In her writings, she provides proof that chemicals ingested through commercially supplied means are poisoning our bodies on a daily basis.  Plastics are leached into our drinking bottles and are being stored in our bodies causing abnormalities.  Herbicides and pesticides used around the house are adding to the immune system burden of the body.  At some point, sickness and disease spring forth.

“Toxins” are occurring in our society as well.  Gradual introduction of perversity in society promotes illicit sex, violence, and destruction of the family unit.  With this path comes the consequences of death and destruction to society.  With the hippie movement of the 60’s and 70’s came open sexual relationships.  The 80’s brought unbridled greed.  The 90’s ushered in the demise of business ethics.  The “I’m OK, you’re OK” attitude meant that any act can be redefined as being acceptable.  This lawless attitude is promoting cancer to form and mastisize where only major surgery can remove it.

In the economics picture, removal of restrictions in the area of finance created a toxin-rich environment.  In the Great Depression, leaders found that the absence of regulation and allowing banks to be both commercial and investment banks created an environment conducive to lawlessness.  In 1933, in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and during a nationwide commercial bank failure and the Great Depression, two members of Congress put their names on what is known today as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). This act separated investment and commercial banking activities. At the time, “improper banking activity”, or what was considered overzealous commercial bank involvement in stock market investment, was deemed the main culprit of the financial crash. According to that reasoning, commercial banks took on too much risk with depositors’ money. (See: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/071603.asp)  Under the direction of President Clinton and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999.  This was the first step to lifting protection of risky banking practices that have led to the current crisis.

The Bush’s administration continued to provide an environment that would lead to a toxic environment by removing or reducing regulation of the financial industry.  This photo from 2003 shows two regulators: John Reich (then Vice Chairman of the FDIC and later at the OTS) and James Gilleran of the Office of Thrift Supervision (with the chainsaw) and representatives of three banker trade associations: James McLaughlin of the American Bankers Association, Harry Doherty of America’s Community Bankers, and Ken Guenther of the Independent Community Bankers of America.

Cutting Red Tape

Once you remove the rule of law from any subset of society, greed and self interest will prevail.  Lawlessness and rebellion will prevail until the organism becomes toxic and ultimately perishes.  Only by removing the toxic origin will the organism repair itself.  By feeding the organism with an opiate, you simply provide it with a temporary “high” while it continues to die.

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Protecting the "Status Quo"

April 22nd, 2009

As I have written in the past huge amounts of bailout money have been made available to financial institutions.  Some local institutions were forced to take the money, and expect to send it back as soon as possible.  It would paint the picture that bailout money is being widely distributed rather than targeting a narrow audience.  Over time, we have consistently seen the “paint a rosy picture” scenario by various administrations tinkering with government statistics- employment numbers, consumer price index, core index, money supply, etc.  The latest “tinkering” is the accounting standards applicable to the banks’ valuation of toxic assets.  Effectively, the banks can play with their balance sheets thus effecting a drastic improvement of income and painting a better financial picture.  If you or I did the same in an effort to receive a loan from the bank, we would be convicted of fraud.  If those banks with toxic assets were to value the toxic assets at current market value, they would be “insolvent” and that is a scary prospect for the current financial system.

Why are the world leaders pursuing this path?  They are attempting to protect the counterfeit reality that keeps them in power.  The current structure promotes and protects its power structure from any outside interference.  Students of history know that this will not last indefinitely.  Rome fell, the British Empire lost its status, and the United States is on the same road to ruin.  There is no way in the current system to pay back the money committed other than defaulting on future obligations or inflating the currency thus devaluing individual wealth.  Either option will be devastating to the American taxpayer and future generations.  It is important to remember, government has no real money of its own, all the money it spends or commits comes from the taxpayer or is created out of thin air.

In the current system, economies require energy to grow and the “easy” energy is gone.  All of the easy to reach oil has been discovered and is being extracted.  We have not run out of oil but it is now more expensive to find and extract.  The same is true for the other commodities.  Cheap prices mask the problem and the current leaders have mechanisms in place to paint a rosy picture.  How unfortunate is short-term thinking!

2Kings 7:1 THEN Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.'”

This story reflects a “black swan” event.  The Samarians were living life as usual, expecting the linear progression of their lives to continue.  “Then suddenly” Our Heavenly Father evoked a change to the Syrians’ future.  HE told Elisha to expect the change to the local economy and it happened as expected by the prophet who heard the voice of THE LORD.  The Book of Job reminds us that there are larger cycles in the universe than what we can comprehend and that when sudden change comes, don’t be surprised.  Job had everything stripped away so that he could prepare for a greater ministry.  That method goes against what most believe is optimum but we must shed the counterfeit realities that we have created in order to clear the way for Our Heavenly Father’s plan.

Below is a little humor to offset the dismal financial picture described above:

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$1,600 Gold by 1/11/11

April 11th, 2009

As people attempt to protect their life savings, they are constantly bombarded by market noise of where to invest.  Although I do not believe in the “all in” investing strategy, I do believe in increasing the weighting of investments toward precious metals and related stocks.  The following video clip provides perspective on gold versus other investments:

 

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Cause and Effect at Two Levels

April 5th, 2009

Most of us understand cause and effect at the natural level.  If you release a ball, it will drop thus reaffirming the law of gravity.  We count on this natural law daily and never give it another thought.  This and other physical laws were placed into existence and were in effect before man’s discovery and understanding of the detailed nature of these laws.  The laws of lift and thrust allow birds and airplanes to supersede the law of gravity.  One law did not negate the other, it performs under different criteria.  Once you relax the laws of lift and thrust, gravity becomes dominant again and propels you back to earth, hopefully with a smooth landing.

The same is true with mankind.  If you eat, hunger goes away.  If you drink water, your thirst is satisfied.  The list goes on.  In the area of economics, if you invest wisely and understand the macro-trends, your wealth will increase.  If you live debt free (or near debt free), you can take advantage of financial opportunities that arise where others must simply sit on the sideline with regret.  Unfortunately, the church historically taught us that “money is the root of all evil” except of course if you give it to the church.  That premise caused many to become passive toward applying the law of cause and effect allowing those who are opportunistic to ruthlessly master the predictable and seize control over passive and unmotivated masses.  The tragic result is that the masses promote servitude to those in control and are robbed of blessing others through the laws of God.  All of their resources go toward “keeping the lights on and food on the table” with nothing left over to help brothers and sisters in need.  It is the ministry of “me and my four and no more”.  This level of cause and effect works the same for everyone, good or evil.  The question is often posed: “Why do those evil men seem to financially prosper?”  It is because those evil men have mastered cause and effect at the lower level.  However, these people are not aware of the higher level of cause and effect.

There is a second and greater dimension of cause and effect and very few people truly understand the way it works or its impact on each of us.  This level is associated with the laws of God.  There is a universal equilibrium of the Spirit of God that is not subject to man’s manipulation.  It’s the bigger picture that most do not see.  The laws of God arm and protect the virtuous and disarm and judge the ruthless.  Nobody operates outside this equilibrium which operates in all dimensions because Our Heavenly Father designed it that way.

The law of faith operates in this second dimension and supersedes the lower dimension.  In 1984, I was stricken with Hepatitis A by eating tainted shellfish. Due to my abuse of the laws of rest and nourishment, I was susceptible to the disease.  As it turned out, I had the worst case my physician had seen and he wanted to hospitalize me.  He told me to contact my employer and let them know that I would be unable to work for a minimum of six weeks, probably eight.  I was devastated.  In the lower dimension of cause and effect, I was destined to six weeks of recovery as my body fought the virus.  However I sought Our Heavenly Father concerning the situation.  HE spoke to me and told me to study and dwell on HIS Word concerning healing.  I did just that since I had nothing else to do and nobody was interested in seeing me due to the health risk.  In twelve days I was healed and back to work on day fifteen.  This higher dimension overruled the lower dimension.

Love operates in the cause and effect realm.  Have you ever wondered how some people just seem “lucky”?  Have you ever asked why some people take an obscure path that seems destined to failure but then end up being abundantly blessed?  These people are probably operating in this second level even though they may be unaware of its operation.  This level cannot be manipulated for self interests because it is activated by something outside of effort.  I am convinced that Love is the activator of this dimension.  Love cannot be bottled up and sold, manipulated, or controlled by the ruthless.  I am also convinced that most people are unaware of this dimension and unable to consciously operate in this dimension.

Doing, thinking, and working has no entrance into this dimension.  The entrance is in your prayer closet, your tabernacle.  This higher dimension is a relational dimension with Love providing the conductance pathway of hearing.  Division causes the door to be locked.  In the following passage, Jesus reminds us that you must forgive before entering in:

Matthew 6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (from the Lord’s Prayer)

Matthew 6:14  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Matthew 6:15  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

We must operate in restoration rather than condemnation and division.  As we walk and function in love, this higher dimension opens up and we are able to enjoy a closer relationship with Our Heavenly Father.  As you pursue a walk in this realm, there is no limit to the blessings available to you.

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Attributes of the Overcomers

April 2nd, 2009

Healing an Issue of Blood

Mat 9:20-22 “… a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, if I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” Jesus turned and saw her. “Take comfort, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that moment.

Luke, a physician, goes into more clinical detail in the case.

Luke 8: 43-48 “And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

When Jesus saw her He was aware of her physical problem of uterine hemorrhage and He was also aware of her soul problem of mental anxiety. After all, she was bleeding for 12 years with no assurance from her physicians that she would ever be cured. Jesus also recognized the faith and her humility of her spirit. By telling her to go in peace, He comforted her in knowing that she was healed completely in body, soul and spirit and that she would no longer have to fear a recurrence of her abnormal uterine bleeding.

And when you pray,,,

Mat 6:5 “.And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth; they have received their reward in full”.

Mat 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”.

Notice there was no great theatric display by Jesus that a healing had taken place. Not even His disciples were aware of it. The woman prayed in silence But Jesus knew that power (δύναμις dynamis) had gone out from Him and the power went to a person.

Notice, also, that the woman never even touched Jesus, only His garment. Did the garment she touched have an intrinsic healing power? No. It was probably a woolen garment Jesus wore as a priest when ministering to people. Jesus was ministering under Mosaic Law and a woolen garments was required while ministering to the people. After the death of John the Baptist, Jesus became the high priest but He was not recognized as such by either the Sanhedrin or by the majority of the people. He was only recognized in his human form. His power as the Son of God was hidden by his human body. As a servant his glory was covered by a fleshy body. As Jehovah-Rophe, healing power radiated from his human body and was captured by his garment in such a way as to bring about a healing in the woman who touched it. We know that the healing power came from within him because He said He felt “the power go out”. Where did it go? It went into an area outside of Jesus’ body where the cloak was worn and into the woman’s body when she touched the garment. The space surrounding Jesus contained the same energetic power that came out from within Jesus’ body. It was a continuum of energy from within Jesus.It carried specific information that brought about healing and had specific direction… no one else was healed.

Jesus turned and saw her

In Greek (εἶδον eidon) means to see, perceive with the eyes or senses, experience any state or condition

When Jesus looked at the woman what did He see? What was it about her condition that was distinctly different than others who were crowding around him? What did He experience about her present state of being? What information did Jesus’ brain record that came through his eyes, and was transmitted neurologically to His visual cortex in the occipital lobe of his brain? Was there a signal coming from the woman’s body that Jesus could sense? Was there something about this woman that related to the Kingdom of God? After all Matthew generally presented Christ as King and the theme of his writing was about the Kingdom of God.

He saw a woman who had uterine bleeding on the physical level. On the emotional or soulish level, He saw that she was discouraged because of her chronic illness. On the spiritual level He saw her faith. He recognized that she had confidence that she could be healed by Him.

The act of seeing her was not a prerequisite by Jesus to heal because she came up from behind him. Even Jesus asked the question “Who touched me?” Actual healing occurred at the moment the garment was touched.

Jesus attributed her healing to her faith. In effect, Jesus was saying that the physiologic process of healing was affected by a discrete spiritual entity of faith; that the immeasurable spirit affected the measurable body. By being healed of uterine bleeding she demonstrated that this relationship held true.

Energy Within the Body

Energy exists in all living beings, both plants and animals. It has been known as chi in China, ki in Japan and prana in India.(Editors. Energy Conversion. Volume 18 ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1998; Hendrix ML. Encarta Encyclopedia Microsoft , 2000)

In traditional Chinese medicine internal energy, chi, flows in channels called meridians. (Kaptchuk T. The Web That Has No Weaver, NY: Congdon & Weed, Inc., 1983). Chi moves as an electric current in channels with specific velocity and direction. Electromagnetic energy in these channels is organized as codes of information that are conducted throughout the body and beyond. Subtle electromagnetic signals originate in the body, each with its own specific site of origin. For example, the uterus has an electromagnetic signal that originates in uterine tissue and is conducted to the skin where it can be detected on the bladder meridian, on the outside part of the foot. The lining of the uterus, the endometrium is detected on the meridian located on the inner part of the thigh. (Speckhart VJ An Electrodermal Analysis of Biological Conductance, 2002). For details of how to detect these signals see: Electrodermal screening.www.servias.org

In the created realm everything vibrates. The following diagram shows the progressively increasing frequencies of structures in biological specimens that are able to be detected by electronic instruments. There are other dimensions of structure yet to be discovered which cannot be measured directly at all. It is theorized that space time is not just 4 dimensional but 10 dimensional, the remaining 6 dimensions being too small to measure.

The following signals can be detected in animal subjects:

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Source:V.Speckhart, (Electrodermal Analysis of Biological Conductance 2002)

This diagram shows that waves are derived from a variety of sources radiating throughout the body. These waves can be measured as oscillating (+) and (-) electrical charges that combine to make more complex waves such as subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, cells, tissues and organs. Each of these wave forms produce signals that produce low levels of energy or subtle energy. The energy radiates from discrete sites of origin in the body through discrete electromagnetic pathways to detection sites on the skin. Ancient literature described these energy pathways as meridians. Signals in the skin can be detected by electronic means. In the body, waves have a positive and negative charge. As a result of being closely packed, electrical charges interfere with each other. The net result is a wave that projects information from a specific site in the body to the surface of the skin and beyond.

Each electromagnetic code conveys information that affects every other electromagnetic code. This means that every electromagnetic signal in the body is continually affected by every other electromagnetic signal. As an example, your left ear is always electromagnetically aware of your right big toe. Every electromagnetic signals in space-time affects every other electromagnetic signal to some degree.

In the present case faith in Jesus Christ affected the uterus and was one of the essential elements needed for healing. Is this one of the 6 dimensions of creation yet to be recognized?

Light

When we use the term “light,” we are referring to types of electromagnetic waves which stimulates the retina of our eyes. Visible light consists of a spectrum of wavelengths which range from approximately 700 nanometers to approximately 400 nanometers. Expressed in more familiar units, the range of wavelengths extends from 7 x 10-7 meter to 4 x 10-7 meter. This narrow band of color consisted of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet waves.

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Picture Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linear_visible_spectrum.svg

Electromagnetic fields surround plants and animals. These fields represent electromagnetic waves with a variety of frequencies. When the waves are in the visible spectrum they are perceived as color.

Color Vision

Color vision is the capacity to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect or emit.

Cone photoreceptors in the eye are sensitive to different portions of the visible spectrum. For humans, the visible spectrum ranges approximately from 380 to 740 nm. There are normally three types of cones according to their wavelength: short (S), medium (M), and long (L) cone types, also sometimes referred to as blue, green, and red cones. These are more active in daylight (Photopic). The other kinds of photoreceptor are rods which function at low levels light such as at night (scotopic). They are most sensitive to wavelengths near 555 nm. Between regions for rods and cones there is another region with both rod and cones (mesopic) that also sends signals to the retinal ganglion cells. Electromagentic waves from sources that emit or reflect light pass through the following structures: cornea> anterior chamber of the eye> lens>vitreous body>retina>retina ganglia>retinal nerve, crossing the midline>thalamus>optic radiations> visual cortex in the occipital lobe in the brain. Numerous hues of color can be distinguished by the brain.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina

Healing must have occurred during the daylight hours since we are told that he “saw the woman”. Since cones operate in daylight, Jesus’ cones were most active and capable to respond to color

Auras

Subtle energy within the body produces color. Once in the space outside of the body, subtle radiations of energy no longer have a restricted to meridian pathways as when they are within the body. They now appear in the peripheral field of vision as electromagnetic fields of color called auras.

Auras produced by subtle energy radiations of the body should not to be confused with Photographic auras. Photographic Auras are computer generated images of electromagnetic aura fields that are color coordinated electronically by sensors on a screen. A camera generated photo image of a person is superimposed on the colored electronic aura image generated by the background screen. The amplified image of the electromagnetic field is an artificial representation of the natural, low energy electromagnetic aura. It is not the same as the natural aura that can be visualized by the unaided visual apparatus of the normal eye. Much information has been gained by the study the photography of electromagnetically amplified fields especially in bio feedback training for various emotional disorders.

Most people cannot see auras because they are not disciplined to do so, but there are individuals who can see auras naturally, some more so than others. Young children are especially adept at seeing auras. Even in ancient cultures some drawings depict auras surrounding some painted subjects.

Jesus, as creator of the universe, was in complete command of all of the laws in His creation including the biological laws relating to the interpretation of aura patterns and colors and could instantly recognize everything about one’s body, soul and spirit.

Attributes of the Overcomers

The Holy Spirit described the healing of this woman to Matthew in such a way so as to reveal a Kingdom characteristic of those who are of the first resurrection, those who have the character of the Pattern Son, Jesus Christ.

Those who rule during this age will judge in righteousness. They will be able to see things hidden and will be able to see truth and not be deceived by the deception of words or actions. They will be able to look at the total man and determine in his true state. He will not be able to hide anything.

When Jesus looked at Nathanael he saw from afar an aura of an Israelite in whom there was nothing false.When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false (no guile).” John 1:47. Without even talking to Nathanael, Jesus was able to determine Nathanael’s true character.

Those who are glorified in the Tabernacles Age will do even greater things.

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12 Minutes to Understanding

April 1st, 2009

The following video provides you with the understanding of how Wall Street and the financial community could contrive a way to extract taxpayer money and stay in business.

The Geithner Plan provides a back door to bank re-liquification without grossly affecting the stockholder, bondholder, or current bank management but shifting the bulk of the loss to the taxpayer without Joe the taxpayer realizing it.  I guess these guys think we’re all stupid and that assumption will turn out to be a strategic error.

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Preparing the way for the Kings from the East

March 30th, 2009

Revelations 16:12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. (NKJV)

Euphrates mean “fruitfulness”.

The Revelation of John has many applications to our lives and world history.  I do not claim expertise in either area.  However the Spirit of God is an expert in both areas and HE resides in me.  There is so  much information and opinion circling the globe today, it is impossible to discern the truth versus lies except by the Holy Spirit and the voice of Our Heavenly Father.  The complexity of finance, technology, government, and the actions of 6.5 billion people surpasses human understanding.  This Scripture just keeps surfacing in my consciousness as I read about the actions of the world leaders.

“Flexibility to the point of collapse” is where we are at today.  Increased complexity is designed to fail.  Long gone are the days where a teenager could repair his own car.  Complexity designed to tickle our logic has replaced the beauty of simplicity.  Society is forcing us to move away from paper records in favor of electronic shadows of “on” and “off”, + or -, 1 or 0.  Why?  Because of convenience.  I am amazed at the mentality of society today.  It falsely assumes that every person in an organization that has access to your debit card information is trustworthy.  Your information is only as good as the weakest link in the information chain from retailer, retailer bank, clearinghouse, your bank, and all the subcontractors in between.  It is more convenient and profitable for the bank when you use a debit card rather than a check which provides a perfect audit trail of the commercial transaction.  Customer Service is replace by Supplier Servant.

The U.S. Leadership has been taken over by the major financial institutions.  The threat of systemic failure has caused the leaders to mortgage the future of the U.S. in favor of keeping 20 banks from failing.  The other 7,000 community banks in the U.S. will suffer from the action of a few.

AIG’s bailout money is re-capitalizing a few very large multi-national banks who are also receiving assistance;

Goldman Sachs received $12.9 billion

Société Générale of France and Deutsche Bank of Germany, which each received nearly $12 billion

Barclays of Britain ($8.5 billion)

Merrill Lynch ($6.8 billion)

Bank of America ($5.2 billion)

UBS of Switzerland ($5 billion)

Citigroup ($2.3 billion)

Wachovia ($1.5 billion).

See: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/cuomo-widens-his-aig-investigation/

As you can see, the money did not go down a black hole at AIG, they simply paid out contract obligations that were written by their London “casino” office who had absolutely zero regulatory oversight.  The Fed knows where this money ended up but does not want the public to realize the pass through “double dipping” by those banks.  If the public was upset by $165 million in bonuses, what would happen if they understood the preferential treatment of the above list? 

All of this has put China in a position to demand global change favorable to their agenda.  While Western Leaders are printing money to bailout financial services institutions, China continues to invest in infrastructure for the future.  In the 80’s we looked to Japan for their manufacturing prowess.  It appears in the 10’s we will look to China for their governing ability.  The West is certainly preparing the way for the Kings from the East.

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watch out!

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