I have died…

April Fool! No, I am very much alive. Planning to do some sketching tonight. Thinking of the Rapture, my salvation, of Charles’ cancer, my body and mind problems and general human frailty. Life is so tenuous and unpredictable. And here I am, almost middle aged, with ailing parents, and nursing a brain disability. Made to carry the weight of many sinful souls who fight among themselves and hit me for kicks afterwards. Back to coding -eating that frog.

I’m not dead! And neither is God dead. We talked about Charles, Steve Jobs and how money, fame, and pride come before His judgement through the holy angels, through the wise and faithful, through the innocent, blind with love. We have so much to say to save as many as possible. The judgement of God is a natural “Gaia” thing. For men are appointed once to live, once to die, then comes the judgement. Be afraid of the Father for he holds open the door to Heaven where none mortal are worthy to enter except by His grace which is in Jesus (for Christians at the very least).

I know Easter is just past but we have been given clues to the identity and purpose of Jesus. All religions should hear it who have ears for it. 

Do not be afraid; for see —I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.

Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

The key to understanding scripture is not to interpret it, not to gloss it with our own culture, nor necessarily to understand it in the original tongue, but to listen to your heart as you read it. One of the reasons the Koran is recited in song, and so too the Sanskrit scriptures. Both are beautiful to the ear if not the heart-intellect.

We have no real need to debate “afraid” but in Greek it is roughly: mega-phobia -a huge natural reaction of rejection, a throwing up of the presence of the Almighty. Then the angel tells why he came. The same said to Mary as she was afraid and subsequently implanted with God’s seed.

But Nathanael, in praising Jesus received His assurance that Heaven itself would open before him and its angels course ceremonially over the figure of the Messiah. What could be more awesome to see?

It is hard for the low man (shepherd) to accept God. Yet it is also hard for the proud man (disciple) to accept God. That is why I cry at the image of Christ holding the stars of heaven in his authority, and were an angel to suddenly appear, I would be humble immediately. Therefore do not say what we read has no meaning -no God in it, all man-made indoctrination. Rather it is special, a conveyance from the divine within each one of us.