Just Talk To Him

 Happy Lucky Friday the 13th. I say that because, although it isn’t today, my birthday is on the 13th and I used to love it when it was on Friday so I could dispel any superstitious comments.

This week I’ve listened to a few videos from different people with a different topic yet each had a section in the message that said the same thing in a different way, and it led me to think I need to focus on that here.

Someone I know and are Facebook friends with, Almost every Sunday he posts all the things that can’t save you, religion, pastors, baptism, a church or being good. While I’m not saying this isn’t true, he goes on to say, only Jesus saves. And I’m not necessarily that is totally false either, it does strike a nerve with me, because we grew up in the same church and I know the context that he means it. Like a lot of evangelical Christian churches if you walk down to the front of the church, tell the minister that you want to ask Jesus into your heart he’ll ask you if you believe Jesus died on the cross for your sins, God raised Him from the dead, and do you want to ask for forgiveness for your sins? You’ll say yes an viola you get baptized and you get to go to heaven when you die. Even at 5 years old, you know, all the parents are applauding, and that’s all nice and sweet, but does the child really get it? I can say that like that because that was me. Nowhere, at least in that church did they teach that repenting of your sins means a turning away from the life of those sins. That now praying the prayer that you ask for forgiveness means the Holy Spirit has come and given you a change of heart. That you have been transformed as in Romans 12:1,2. Do not conform to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. No classes to teach you what being a follower of Jesus means.

Before I get too far off, let me clarify why I am bugged by these posts. Yes Jesus took on the sins of the world, died and rose again that we are able to repent for those sins. Before this an individual who had sinned had to bring an offering to the priest at the entrance to the Tabernacle, the priest then performed a ritual of sprinkling the blood of the offering and burned the fat. Leviticus 4 and 5. For cleansing like leprosy the person had to also present to the priest, Leviticus 13 and 14. In Numbers 5 it talks about when a man or woman sins they need to confess the sin and it states that it is just generally understood that it needs to be to a priest. In the Tabernacle, which was basically a portable church in a big tent, there was a section there was a section behind a curtain designated as the holy place and symbolized a separation between a perfect God and imperfect humanity. The Ark Of The Covenant was in the Holy Of Holies. This wasn’t used for the peoples daily confessions, it was used once a year. The High Priest would go in through a cloud of incense so he his eyes wouldn’t directly see the glory of God.

What I don’t feel is taught near enough is, when Jesus cried out and gave up His spirit the Veil was torn from top to bottom, Matthew 27:51. That means we don’t have to consult a priest to enter the Holy Of Holies. We can consult God any day any time of day. The way I think about it, yes Jesus did this for us. You commonly hear it said that Jesus took on the sins of the world. I can’t find that exact phrase but, 1 Peter 2:24 does say Jesus carried our sins in His body to the cross. I’ve also heard it said that during the time that Jesus was dead, He went to hell and defeated Satan. I can’t find that anywhere. Ephesians 4:9 says “He descended into the lower earthly regions.” In addition to being thankful that Jesus died on the cross and was raised again after 3 days all for us!! We can now go straight onto Holy Ground like Moses, into the Holy Of Holies because the veil has been ripped and talk to the Lord Jehovah ourselves. Jesus teaches us to repent. Without writing them all out here, the verses are

Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:15, Luke 13:3.

Along with the verse in Romans about being transformed, other verses that teaches a change of heart are Matthew 22:37. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Part of the great commission.

Joel 2:13 says Return to the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.

And maybe the most popular—Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (right) spirit within me.

In another video by Francis Chan, who I’ve mentioned before, he references Proverbs 26:11. As a dog returns to it’s vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Jesus did this for because of His love for us, and yes He did this even though we didn’t didn’t ask. But the phrase “Freedom isn’t Free” comes to mind. Our freedom in Christ does require some responsibility from us. A relationship with God is necessary. Conversations with God is critical. We’re used to praying For Things. Because of the way I was raised I was never taught that relationship. I raised my kids in a church that taught how to have that relationship but I taught and never really practiced. I am finally trying to develop that. I encouraged everyone to read The Bible, The Ethiopian Bible, The Nag Hammadi. Everywhere your interests lead you. God will meet you where you are.

Keep Searching,

Paul.

Melchizedek-Mystery or Mystery Solved?

Melchizedek

Holy Bible Mystery, Enoch Book Of Secrets Explanation

Mar 09, 2026

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Hi everyone, welcome to what was going to be another Sunday dinner message, but my research went a little long yesterday. So we’ll call this an eye opening Monday, instead of the Monday Blues. For a Sunday post I was going to explain what I found about what the Protestant Holy Bible calls a mystery, the Ethiopian collection, and also found it was in the next chapter I needed to discuss in the Book Of Jubilees. That is the man named Melchizedek. All searches of my searches said it was in the book 2 Enoch. What I eventually found out was, it is in Enoch Book Of Secrets. If you tap the link the story of Melchizedek is all the way at the end, in the Appendix. The whole book is good though. You can download it there if you’re interested. It talks more about creation and Enoch having visions and conversations with the angels.

For those who are just getting to know me, I’m the kind of person who wants to know what’s in the missing time periods. Where was Jesus between the age of 12 at the temple and age 30 getting baptized by John the Baptist? I that search I found Paramahansa Yogananda who says documents were found in India that says Jesus went there on the silk road to learn from the wise men who came to visit Him in the Christmas story. Take it or leave it. All the Bible says was He grew in wisdom and stature. So for me it’s as good as any other explanation. We don’t know what we don’t know.

I use the terms Protestant Bible because it contains 66 books. The Ethiopian Bible contains 88 books and they have other manuscripts. So I’m not using Protestant Bible as a derogatory term, it’s just to distinguish what I’m referring to. With that being said, on to Melchizedek.

In the Protestant Bible and The Ethiopian Bible Melchizedek is mentioned a couple of times. In Genesis 14: 18-20 Abram had gone to rescue his nephew Lot that had been captured, Melchizedek King of Salem brought out bread and wine and blessed Abram. Then Abram gave Melchizedek one tenth of everything he had. Melchizedek was a king AND a priest of God Most High, which was practically unheard of. It was usually one or the other. Back then you either had political status or religious status. Psalm 110:4 is a prophesy about the Messiah. It says, though art a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Then in Hebrews 5:6 it refers back to Psalms saying “So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a High Priest but He (God) said to Him Thou art My Son then Paul says that God quotes the same passage from Psalm. Then again in verse 10 quoting Psalms again. Hebrews 6:20 actually uses the name of Jesus being the forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

My question is, why isn’t more said about Melchizedek since the Bible is saying Jesus is a “High Priest according to the Order Of Melchizedek?” Here’s what I found

In the book Enoch Book Of Secrets, God told Methusala just before he died to take Nir, Noah’s younger brother, to the alter and consecrate him so he can be the leader of the people. They did. They had the animal sacrifices. After Nir became the leader he did not sleep with his wife. During this time there was peace on the earth. It was shortly after that that “the devil began to reign for a third time.” The 1st was the serpent to Adam and Eve, The 2nd was Adam and Eve’s sin, and now. Nir’s wife’s name was Sopanima. Sopanima was barren. But during the time of her old age she conceived. Nir was ashamed and she stayed hidden. When it was time for her to give birth, Nir went to her. They had such an argument that he told her “depart from me lest I do thee an injury, and sin before the face of the Lord.” When Nir said this Sopanima died. Nir grieved so much thinking he had caused her to die. He hurriedly shut the doors and went to his brother Noah, told him what happened and they went back to get ready to bury her and hide Nir’s shame.

When they returned from digging her grave Sopanima, they walked in the door to find the “infant” she had been carrying on the bed. I used quotes for the word infant because it says “the infant was sitting by the dead Sopanima and wiping it’s clothes. Noah and Nir had great fear because the child was complete in it’s body like one of a three year old and spake with it’s lips and blessed the Lord” They hurried and washed it, clothed it in priestly raiment and gave it blessed bread and it ate. Realizing that God was renewing the consecration they took black robes off of Sopamina and clothed her in bright robes and built a church for her. They named the child Melchizedek.

By this time because the world had become increasingly evil, Noah and Nir knew God was going to destroy the earth, and wondered what was going to become of Melchizedek. Nir was asking the Lord and the Lord said to him, “I will send my chief captain Michael and he shall take the child and place him in the paradise of Eden in the garden where Adam was….and the child shall not perish with those who perish in this generation, and I will appoint him that he may be the chief of the priests who were before.” After 40 days Michael came and got Melchizedek and told Nir that Melchizedek will stay in Eden. Then after 12 generations and a thousand and seventy years a just man will be born and the Lord will tell his to go to the mountain of the ark of Noah and he will find another Melchizedek who has lived there 7 years and he shall lead the people and be the first priest of Salem.

This was confusing at first since it said another Melchizedek. After reading it a few times I figured it must mean, after so many years, the Melchizedek that was the child must have grown and after the flood the world populated and he trained other priests. it says he was concealing himself because the world was worshipping idols again. And from THAT Melchizedek, the new one, there will be 12 priests.

In my mind this still isn’t clear, if there was 2 Melchizedeks or if the baby was the one that Abram talked to, but in either case if it was the baby or a descendant of him this tells us what the history could have been.

Like I say, take it or leave it but this is one theory, and the only historic option we have right now.

Until next time, here’s a Google Gemini Nano Banana picture of Melchizedek after he was born.

Keep searching,

Paul

Noah To Abram And Lot

 Happy Thursday Everyone, Welcome to Thursday's Child

Today we'll touch briefly on chapters 7,8 and 9. The beginning of chapter 7 talks about Noah getting drunk with wine like the Protestant Bible. His son Ham walked in and saw him naked. He went out, told his brothers, they walked in with their faces turned away and covered Noah's body. Noah wakes up and knows that Ham had seen him naked and curses Ham saying he will be a servant to Shem. Not really understanding the culture at that time, it makes you wonder why he lost his temper so bad when it seemed like an accident and Noah was the one that had gotten drunk. After that it goes into how Noah divided up the land between his sons and grandsons, and teaches them to obey the all the commandments, ordinances, judgements, observe righteousness, to cover the shame of their flesh (maybe that was passed down from Adam and Eve when they realized they were naked after eating the fruit) and to Bless their Creator, honor their mother and father, and love their neighbor as their self, and to guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.  It talks about if you shed someone's blood then your blood should be spilled. However someone kills someone they should be killed that way.  

Chapter 10 it talks Noah's sons being led away from the spirits of the giants that are now roaming the earth as demons and when Noah died. Noah's after flood drunken celebration was in the year 1317A.M. Noah died in the year1659 A.M. Between the years 1645-1688 A.M. the men had become evil and started building a tower so they can "ascend into heaven." Remember, angels are dictating this to Moses to write down, it says "The Lord our God said LET US go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech." and THE LORD DESCENDED AND WE DESCENDED WITH HIM to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built, and He confounded their speech and they no longer understood one another's speech and they ceased then to build the city and the tower." Now the whole land of Shinar is called Babel and they were dispersed into their cities according to their own language. 

 I put those couple of things in bold italics because I've mentioned before how I haven't been a big believer in God being a Man with a white hair and beard in the sky. Here again we see that "He descended." How did He descend? In what form did He descend? We also saw in a previous post that there are angels in the various tiers of heaven. Some protecting the throne of the Holy One. Are they entities of light? Are they like we imagine and put in our artwork, that wear armor and carry shields and swords? What we do know is it says here The Lord descended and the angels came with Him.

From the tower of Babel in 1688 A.M. to 1876 A.M. to the descendants of Noah are Shem to Arpachshad to Peleg to Reu to Terah to Abram. Now we're in chapter 11, in chapter talks about Abram as a child starts to understand the errors of the earth, that all went astray after graven images and uncleanness. Here is something else that made me wonder how except for God guiding Abrams thinking. Abram was 2 weeks of years old, so 14 years old, he separated himself from his father that he might not worship idols with him, and he began to pray to the Creator of all things. What is unique, I was going to say weird but I guess it's not totally unheard of, but a 14 year old would probably have already been influenced by his father by now. 

During this time of the men worshiping idols a fallen angel Mastema sent ravens to eat all the seeds when the men were planting so they had no crops. When Abram came along and started praying, as the men were planting Abram could command the ravens to leave. Everyone who saw were amazed. In the year 1891 A.M. Abram taught those who made implements how to make a plough to bury the seeds so they couldn't be eaten right away.  In the year 1904 A.M. Abram goes to his father and says what does it profit you to worship these idols? They are dumb forms that have no spirit. (paraphrased) Terah said if he stops worshipping the idols and tells the people he did so they'll kill him, so keep quiet. 

In the 2nd week of the 7th year of the fortieth Jubilee, year 1925 A.M. Abram took a wife. Her name is Sarai. The daughter of his father. (Doesn't that make her his sister?  😲🤔)  In 1928A.M. Haran, Abram's brother took a wife and 1932 A.M. they had a son and named him Lot. When Abram was 60 years old in 1936A.M. Abram burned down the house of idols. No one knew it was him. Haran joined the other people to try to save the idols and was killed. Abram and Terah and their families left to go to the land of Lebanon and into the land of Canaan until 1951 A.M. On this night he was up all night looking at the stars thinking We are in the hand of God. If He desires it to rain, it rains. If He doesn't He withholds it and it doesn't rain. 

Then he said, and this stopped me from reading and really dwell on this because this is the place we all need to get to. He said...

My God, God most high. Thou alone art my God, and thee and Thy dominion have I chosen. Thou hast created all things and all things are the works of Thy hands. Deliver me from the hands of evil spirits who have dominion over the thoughts of men's hearts, and let them not lead me astray from Thee, my God. And stablish Thou me and my seed forever that we may not astray from henceforth and forever more. 

At this point he also asked if he should return to the land that he came from. At that point the word of the Lord was sent to him to saying get up, leave your father, go to the land that I will show you and I will make you a great nation, make thy name great, thou shalt be blessed on the earth, thee and all thy families. Whoever blesses you will be blessed, whoever curses you will be cursed.

In the year 1953 A.M. he told Terah that he was leaving. Terah told him to take Lot since Lot's father was killed in the fire but leave Nahor til Abram finds a place to settle and he comes back for everybody else and they could all be together.

Now we have Abram and Lot heading out on their own to find what God has in store for them.

I just couldn't think of any more that should be said after that. I hope this impacted you as much as it did me, and that you'll take awhile and reflect of that prayer. Until next time.

Keep searching,

Paul.

Google Gemini - Abram commanding the ravens to leave  

   

Special Sunday Dinner Message

 Hi everyone, I have a few things to let you know about before I dig in. My delay this time was, hopefully something that will benefit us all. Yesterday I joined Substack. There is a feature on Substack to create a chat. I've been wanting to have a way to have dialogue, instead of just making comments on blog posts. The Substack name is also nite reflections. Search nitereflections in the search bar or hopefully this link works. The posts will be on here. I have been sharing them to facebook, but now I'll be sharing to Substack then the Substack link to facebook.

In the last post I mentioned a pastor named Francis Chan who left his mega church a number of years ago  because he recognized his pride and arrogance was was putting his accomplishments and success on himself and not on God. One sermon he had years ago was a rope sermon. He had a white rope as long as the stage, with red tape wrapped around it a few inches long in the center. The message was, our lives are the red tape. We tend to live for what we can accomplish in that red tape area. We save all our lives for a little section of the red tape at the end. We tend to be so focused on our lives while we're alive we miss living for the eternity past the red tape. Sometimes our past before the red tape creeps in and causes us to lose focus on the red tape now and also distracts us from eternity. And if you are a person that holds to the belief of reincarnation, our past lives are also part of our souls journey even up to our red tape today. What are we doing now to ensure our eternity past the red tape? We talked a little bit about repentance recently. Let's look at that and some new stuff about salvation. As we saw repentance means turning from our self centered nature and feeling sincere regret and remorse the the things we've done and turning our focus to living our lives focused on God.

In a message on the messengerx app they mentioned Act 10. Acts 10 talks about Cornelius is a Centurion and a devoted God fearing man as well as his household. He prays every day and lives his life devoted to living a godly life. One day an angel appeared to Cornelius and told him God has heard his prayers and noticed his acts of charity. He is to send men to Joppa and bring Peter back to his house. While the men were on their way Peter had a vision that Cornelius was coming, so when the men got there Peter knew to leave with them. When Peter got to Cornelius's house and they were talking, Cornelius told Peter about his vision. Peter told Cornelius vs 34 "I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people, vs 35 but in every nation the person who fears Him and does what is right, is welcome before Him." Peter reminded Cornelius of all the things that Jesus had done because he was anointed with the Holy Spirit. Peter did say that the prophets said that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name. While Peter was speaking the Holy Spirit fell on those who heard the message. Everyone was amazed that Gentiles and Non-Gentiles alike received the Holy Spirit. So he instructed them all to be baptized. 

In the past I've heard it explained that "Believing in Jesus" means to believe in His teaching. Love the Lord your God with all your heart soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. To me that also means to live our lives according to the Beatitudes." So many current Evangelical Christian churches want you to think that if you walk to the front of the church, tell the preacher that you Believe in Jesus, get baptized, then you'll avoid hell. 

I'd rather focus on the teachings of Jesus and not Paul but in this case Paul tells the Romans in Romans 12 to present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God. Do not conform to the world but Be Transformed by the renewing of your mind. It's not enough to believe. Remember, the devil believes. He tempted Jesus in the desert and the demons didn't want to be casted out of the possessed man and into the pigs. It isn't really enough to believe we need to move away from our godless ways and transform into a life holy acceptable to God.

Like repentance we need to be transformed and work towards that transformation. Work by reading your Bible. Naturally I prefer the Ethiopian Bible. Right now while writing this I've been using an online Ethiopian Bible. It isn't a download. I have it bookmarked on a tablet. I like it because you can select a book in the table of contents and it goes there. If you search "online Ethiopian Bible" this should come up

Fliphtml5    https://online.fliphtml5.com

Thursday we'll get back into The Book Of Jubilees, until then,

Keep Searching,

Paul

Here's an image from Google Gemini Nano Banana, I thought of when I thought about this title