Same Thing Only Different---Back To Better

Hi Everyone, just a quick post (maybe) to include you in my recent thoughts lately before i post another Book Of Jubilees tomorrow. This has been in my head since the weekend and I needed to get it out of there, and didn't want to include it in a post about the Ethiopian Bible, since it's more personal. I don't journal but if I did this would be in there. So, you guys have a front row seat to watching the waves rolling and crashing around in my brain. 

I looked back and saw that last October was when I revived Nite Reflections. I didn't read it all but I'm pretty sure I mentioned the journey I took and Andrea and I took. From checking out the Baha'i faith, to Taoism, Hinduism, looking into Islam although not to practice but wanting to have some knowledge to be able to know the pros and cons. Most recently Paramahansa Yogananda. Yes, Yoganada connects Jesus in his teachings and gives a connection to The Bhagavad Gita. He mentions meditation and you can buy a course on Kriya Yoga. You start out with Raja Yoga and through daily discipline you can possibly get to, but more than likely not, get to a state that's like the mystics. I'm not saying that to be critical. In one of their videos they say to reach the Kriya Yoga level it takes a lifetime that most people don't accomplish. 

In my last post I mentioned a guy named John Bevere. He/His Organization has an app called MessengerX. It's on the Apple App store and Google play store. On the google play store there's actually an item in the search items that says messengerx John Bevere. The app has a short daily video to listen to, and they also have A LOT of other content that I'm pretty sure you can find something to interest you. Last Saturday night I was listing to a daily video called Spiritual Seasons, by a guy named Will Hart. He read 1John 2:12-14. It says

12) I am writing to you little children that your sins have been forgiven because of his name. 13)  I am writing to you fathers that you have known Him from the beginning. I am writing to you young people that you have conquered the evil one. 14) I have written to you children that you have known the father. I have written to you fathers that you have known Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you young people that you are strong and the word of God resides in you and you have overcome the evil one.  

In another video today in a series called Near To God John talked about his relationship with his wife and when they're with a group of people she can give him a look and he will know what she's communicating to him. When they were first married he wouldn't have known what she was trying to say, but over the years they've learned to know what each other means by the things they do. In the passage in 1 John, and other videos I've watch this past week I've learned that all these other paths I've gone down and the other faiths I wanted to check into because I was so frustrated with "Christianity" has actually brought to a teaching that, from what I've seen so far, has put me on a path that I was already on but with the teachings of Jesus, not an alternative spin to the teachings of Jesus.

Getting back to the 1 John passage, I remember in Sunday School and Wednesday night classes growing up, I used to absolutely HATE memorizing Bible verses and have to do stuff like that to get some type of prize, gold star or some type of performance based rewards. Looking back, it was a good thing because the Bible says we should hide God's word in our heart. So, as a child I learned, because of that, as a young man I was strong in my faith and now as a father and grandfather I can share these things because I have known Him from the beginning.

 In John's video about his relationship with his wife, it took years for them to learn how to silently communicate with each other. With us it isn't instantaneous that we know when God is trying to communicate with us, but in time we learn, and you don't need to buy an expensive course in Yoga to know. I remember a little over a year ago someone was talking to me about a situation because they were  upset. Later that night I was in bed reading before going to sleep, an idea came to mind that might help them. I tried and tried to read but the thought was too persistent. I texted the person. They said  "thank you for thinking about me." I said "I wasn't, I was trying to read but I couldn't get this thought out of my head." Recognizing when God is leading you to do something is a good way to start recognizing how He communicates with you. Spending time reading God's word. Reading what Jesus says. I think I mentioned recently, Read a Psalm a day, read Proverbs to understand the wisdom of God.  I've heard it said a lot that if you want to know about the love of Jesus read the Gospel of John. 

I still don't know what I'd say if I was asked if I was a Christian. I'd probably start out by saying, "Not like you're thinking." I'd probably have to say, I follow the teachings of Jesus. I think Christianity these days puts a bad taste in people's mouths. If it takes a lifetime to recognize how God is going to communicate with you, why not Be Still and Know That I AM God. Go straight to the source. God will communicate with you different than He will with me. We are all unique and will understand differently in our own way. 

Another video I listened to this past week was by John Bevere about the end times, the rapture and the second coming. To summarize that video, it's interesting to learn about, if that's something you're interested in, that's great! But, we can't get hung up on when, we just have to always be ready. Always be learning, always be meditating on God and His word so we can understand his method of communication. Pray without ceasing means, even though we go about our day and have to focus on our work, we always recognize when things happen that bring our thoughts back to God. 

I got that passage from 1 John from the Ethiopian Bible. It read the same as the version they read on the video. That tells me the translations are the same or at least very similar. Right now this is my interest. To bring to you scripture that wasn't included in the Bible. We will always or at least try to bring it back to how God is working. If we're learning, we're watching, waiting. It won't matter when the end times occur. we're excited and ready. 

We'll get back into the Book Of Jubilees tomorrow or Friday. I just wanted to post this by itself and not included it in a post with a different topic.

Thank you for experiencing the thoughts that I experience 😛😊

Keep searching,

Paul

The Google Gemini image shows how I feel my path has brought me to needing to learn these other things just to bring me around to the path of recognizing the love of Jesus in the things we do.

 

    

It Was Worse Than You Imagined

 Hi Everyone. I hope everyone is having a great Sunday. Today I want to explain a little about the Jubilees, but just a little because I don't want to lose you. Starting when Cain was born.

 In the 3rd week of the 2nd Jubilee Cain was born. Each jubilee being 49 years and a week being 7 days the 3nd week would be 64-70 A.M. 49+ 21(3,7 day weeks)=70 (Anno Mundi - Year of the world)

Able was born in the 4th week 71-77 A.M.

In the 5th week a daughter Awan 78-84 A.M. was born

In the 1st year of the 3rd Jubilee Cain killed Able. 49 years X 2= 98+ 1year it says year but only calculates a week. It says (99-105 A.M.) But if it's a year I think it could be 99-51. It doesn't give anything more specific than that.

Adam and Eve mourned Able 4 weeks of years 28 years (99-127A.M.)

In the the 4th year of the 5th week (130 A.M.) they became joyful again and Adam "knew his wife again" and they had Seth

In the 6th week (134-140 A.M.) Adam and Eve had a daughter Azura

  2)Seth and His wife had Enos in 235A.M, (4 Jubilees + 5 weeks+4 days)

I think that's as far as my brain can go. The rest will just be a lineage list up to Noah

  3) Enos who had Kenan, 4) who had Mahalalel, 5) who had Jared, 6) who had Enoch, 7) who had Methuselah, 8) who had Lamech, 9) who had Noah

Chapter 4 vs. 17-19 It talks about how Enoch was the first among men to learn writing and knowledge. He wrote down the orders of the months so men would know the seasons. He was the one that made known the Jubilees and the Sabbaths as the angels showed him. This is important because in Chapter 5 it gets into what it talks about in the Book Of Enoch. Genesis in the Protestant Bible mentions Enoch. The Book Of Enoch and The Book Of Jubilees corroborate each other. So in my head I don't understand how they could be excluded.

           In vs 29 Adam died in 930 A.M. and his sons buried him in the land of his creation. He was the first one to be buried on earth.

In vs 31 Cain's house fell on him and was killed by stones. The same material he killed his brother with. It was then that "it was ordained on the heavenly tablets that "With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbor with the same shall he be killed." The same things goes with if we wound someone.

In the 25th Jubilee (1205 A.M.) Noah took a wife. They had 3 sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. I wanted to bring this up so we can see how far it is from Adam and also how far we'll see it is from here to the flood.

Chapter 5: Here's where we see how Jubilees and the Book Of Enoch corroborate each other. During the Jubilee when Noah married and had his three sons, the angels of God noticed how beautiful the daughters were that had been created on earth and decided to take them as wives as many as they wanted and their sons became giants. Lawlessness increased and all flesh became corrupted. All men, cattle, beasts, birds and everything that walked on the earth. In the Book Of Enoch it says, the Giants appetite couldn't be satisfied. Once they ate what they could from plants and animals they started eating humans. This is when God decided to to destroy all of mankind, all flesh and all He had created. But the angels who had defiled the humas God became extremely angry. He commanded His angels to bind them in the depths of the earth and are kept separate. And against their sons (the giants) they should be smitten by the sword and removed from under heaven. This was when God said since we are flesh we will only live 120 years. It was then that God decided everyone great or small everywhere will face judgement according to his wickedness or righteousness. It was also written If the children of Israel turn to Him in righteousness He will forgive their transgressions and pardon their sins, and that He will show mercy to anyone who turns from their guilt once a year. So, evidently this is where we see an example early of us being to to repent.

Through all this corruption God saw that Noah and his family had not become corrupt and decided to save them from the upcoming destruction of the flood, so He commanded Noah to build an ark to be saved. Noah built the ark according to the instructions God gave him. God told him this in the 27th Jubilee, in the 5th week in the 5th year on the new moon of the first month (1307A.M.) {A little over 2 Jubilees. About 100 years} Noah, his family and the animals he took entered the ark in the 6th year (1308 A.M)

The rains started and continued for 40 days and forty nights, and the fountains of the deep sent up water until the whole world was filled with water. The water stayed on the earth for 5 months, 150 days. On the new moon of the 4th month the fountains of the deep were closed. On the new moon of the 7th month the mouths of the abysses were opened and the water began to descend into the deep below. On the new moon of the 10th month the tops of the mountains were seen, and on the new moon of the first month the earth became visible. NOTE: A ten month year. The waters disappeared from the earth the 5th week of the 7th year (1309 A.M.). On the 17th day of the 2nd month the earth was dry. then on the 27th day He opened the ark and everything inside could leave.

That brings us from Adam to the end of the flood a little over 26.7 jubilees.

Next it brings us to Noah's new rules God establishes. What to eat, not eat ect.

Once we got past figuring out what the Jubilees are and how to figure them, I found the timeframe of how it all unfolded interesting. I hope you did as well.

Til next time, Keep Searching,

Paul

This time the artwork is by Google Gemini adjusted by ArtSpaceai

What Are Jubilees and Why Was The Book Excluded

 Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday from an 85 degree day in Central Florida. Unfortunately in South Dakota where my kids still are and where I used to live it's noon right now and it's 12 degrees. Yikes! If you're also where you're still having a cold winter, Stay warm you guys.

The other day I was asked why I'm so focused on the Ethiopian Bible. I knew that there were many other books in the Dead Sea Scrolls that didn't qualify to make it into the Protestant Bible when the official list was voted on during the Council Of Nicea during the time of Constantine. Then I thought why weren't they included? I don't want to drag this on and be boring but I also feel everyone should know. We'll get into more book content after this explanation. This information is regarding only The Book Of Jubilees  from questions directed to my friend Google Gemini, and not any of the other books. So here goes.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection around 900 manuscripts found in caves near the Qumran settlement between 1947 and 1956. They contain every book in the Protestant Bible except Esther, plus many others that weren't allowed. If we go with number 900, and there are 66 books in the Protestant Bible that leaves 834 books that potentially had vital information that inquiring minds (old tv commercial reference) like you and I want to know, that were rejected. WHY?? I want to know what's in there. Some people are satisfied going to church 1-3 times a week, maybe having a daily or weekly bible study. That's okay. Personally I'm not, but then again I never have been satisfied with the status quo or being compliant for that matter. 

When I read the guidelines for why books were excluded a couple of things were a little startling. Maybe it's something maybe it's nothing. But one document in the Historical& Textual category called Community Rule or War Scroll was specific to The Essene sect, granted this document was community specific not universal to everyone but it has become accepted by some that Jesus was part of the Essenes. I heard a guy this week named John Bevere say Mary was an Essene. 

In the Jewish Rabbinic category some were excluded because they were written in the "post-prophetic" era or weren't written in Hebrew. Some were written in Aramaic. Also what Jesus spoke. The next category was Theological.  These were excluded because they were either apocalyptic or Conflicted with the Mainstream Lunar Calendars and Temple practices at the time. We'll see more about this. Other factors were Sectarian Identity, too community specific for the general Bible, like The War Scroll. Were they considered Divinely Inspired or just helpful to read? And Popularity. Were they popular in the scrolls but rare elsewhere? Jubilees were in the scrolls 15 times. 

This is the main thing that bothers me. Exodus was written by Moses. The Book Of Jubilees written by Moses being spoken by angels. Throughout history we've seen a division among people over things they just couldn't agree on. In this case the rest of the world has missed out on and ridiculed for reading books other than the standard canonized books of the bible. Admittedly, the Bible the Catholic church uses has the Apocrypha. Here's how the different sides looked at their solar and lunar decisions. As we'll see in the Book Of Jubilees God gave requirements that the festivals were to be celebrated on the same days each year, and the solar calendar allows for that. 

The Battle of the Calendars

To understand why this led to the book's exclusion, we have to look at the "Calendar War" happening in Judea at the time.

The Solar Calendar (Jubilees) ☀️	The Lunar Calendar (Mainstream/Rabbinic) 🌙
364 days exactly.	Roughly 354 days, requiring "leap months" to stay in sync with seasons.
Holidays always fall on the same day of the week every year.	Holidays shift days (like your birthday or modern Hanukkah).
Claims the lunar system is "corrupt" and leads to sin.	The standard used by the Temple authorities in Jerusalem.

The Jubilees proposes a year that has exactly 52 weeks. Every date falls on the same day of the week every year. The year is divided into 13-week seasons.  One Key Point, In this system the first day of the first month of the New Year always falls on a Wednesday, which I didn't notice it saying, but that's the day, sun, moon, and stars, were created and made the first day. I still don't know why the time frames are called Jubilees, but it really doesn't matter, I don't know why we call a week a week, or a year a year. So to continue on, another copy and paste from our friend Gemini 

The "Units" of Time 🧱

The author breaks time down into specific mathematical blocks:

• The Year: Exactly 364 days (52 weeks).

• The Week of Years: A 7-year period (based on the Sabbath year cycle in Leviticus).

• The Jubilee: A 49-year period (consisting of 7 "weeks of years").

The Total Calculation 🧮

If we multiply these units, we can see the grand scale of the book's chronology:

50 Jubilees X 49 years = 2,450 years

By using this rigid system, the author ensures that every major event—like the birth of Noah, the Flood, or the life of Abraham—falls on a mathematically "perfect" year and day. This was a direct challenge to other ancient calendars that relied on the moon, which the author felt were messy and prone to human error.

This calendar does however have 1.25 missing days over the course of a year. One early 1900's scholar R.H.Charles has what is regarded as a very accurate interpretation of Jubilees, has said he thinks the author of Jubilees was so blinded by "theological dogmatism" that they prioritized mathematical perfection over the actual movement of the sun, and possibly didn't account for the shortfall at all. Because to add a leap day or extra month somewhere would break the 7 day cycle and ruin the Sabbath nature of the calendar. Charles supposedly shows in his 1913 interpretation of Jubilees that the Flood lasted exactly 364 days and not 370 like in a Masoretic Text of Genesis which is considered to be an authoritative text of the Jewish Bible. 

As we saw in the last post A.M. is used to signify a period of time in Jubilees called Anno Mundi. It's a system used to date events based on the number of years since the creation of the world. With that in mind, the world, and everything in it was created in the first week of the first Jubilee {1-7A.M.} The first week of the first 7 year period based on the Sabbath year cycle in Leviticus. 

The first week of the of the first year of the the first 49 year Jubilee. Adam and Eve were in the garden a full 7 years exactly, the 17th day of the 2nd month the serpent came to Eve. {8A.M.) 

Next time I was just going to give a lineage list of from Adam to Noah but well see how it goes breaking it down to include Jubilees. Until then,

Keep Searching, 

Paul 

    

Adam To Enoch To Angels On Earth

 Hi everyone, Happy Sunday. 

Before getting into the Book Of Jubilees I thought I'd share something that came to mind while I was listening to a video about the Book Of Enoch from a YouTube channel called Original Hebrew. The video mentioned the word repent, and made me think about how John The Baptist and Jesus both used the word. Here's a link to the website and also a section of the website Jerusalem Of Gold website explaining the Hebrew Meaning of the word Repent. This was significant to me because, on one hand Jesus came as a sacrifice for the world so we wouldn't have to continue to have animal sacrifices like in the Old Testament, but I also think if a person who doesn't go to church, is struggling with whatever is distressing them in their life and turns to God and truly wants to be free with whatever is going on, I can hear the conversation, pleading with God promising to change with God's help.... As this website says, every day we turn from the things we do that displeases and turn back to God, God welcomes us with compassion. Do I think you have to say The Sinner's Prayer, asking Jesus to come into your heart, that churches recommend? No. If you are truly remorseful and continue on a path to genuinely seek God's guidance, God is a loving God and forgives.   

The first public preaching word out of Yeshua's - the Messiah's - mouth in the New Testament is "Repent." (Matthew 4.17) This is also the same first public preaching word out of John the Baptist's mouth. (Matthew 3.2) So it is a very important word to the LORD and our relationship with Him.

In Greek "repent" has been written down as "metanoya."

But, in the Hebrew it would be the word: "Nacham". Nacham means: to change one's mind, be grieved, repent. Yeshua would have known His Hebrew and known with exquisite perfection that Hebrew words share roots.  

Nacham (repent) shares the same root as:

Nocham:  which means 'compassion'

Nachum:  which means 'console'

Nachama: which means 'comfort'

So the Hebrew word for repent literally comes with God’s compassion, consolation and comfort built into it. That understanding really helps me to repent on a daily basis, because His Compassion and Comfort are waiting immediately the other side of that sometimes painful process.

The second  Hebrew word for repent is 'shoov'. It means: "to turn back, to be returned, carry back, brought again" and means a relationship is restored.   

This is a life-pounding-run-across-a-desert-word, like our life depended on it. This is because one of the times it is used in the Hebrew Scriptures is when Moses the shepherd "turns", travels to the other side of the desert, sees the burning bush, encounters God and becomes a changed man with a profound and historic mission to save the Hebrew people from slavery (the book of Exodus). There are no empty or weak words in the Hebrew language for "repent", the Messiah's first public word. The Hebrew word for 'repent' also means to 'carry back'. The second we repent His loving arms are right there to pick us up and carry us back on track.

In the Jewish faith, when we ask the LORD to forgive us, it is called "doing te-shoov-ah", literally meaning "to do turning back" before God's face.  Even today, the Hebrew word  for "before" in the modern Hebrew language literally means "to the face of" and is the same word used in the Biblical scriptures. You can't come before God in the Hebrew and not look Him in the eye and He in yours! It would be a contradiction in terms in the Hebrew language. We cannot repent unless we  turn fully around from our sin and look at Him deeply face-to-face. Although that honesty with our Holy Creator initially can be very painful, His face is where you will find the universe's most powerful eyes of Compassion, Consoling and Comfort.  Repent and Turn.

Now, on with the Book Of Jubilees.

This is when Eve comes on the scene. All of the animals were brought to Adam and he gave them their name, and God said to "US" (an Angel is actually narrating this story") "it is not good that the man should be alone, let us make a helpmeet for him." As in the Protestant Bible it says God caused a deep sleep to come upon him and took one of his ribs to make woman and He Built up the flesh and built the woman. I thought that was interesting it was phrased that way. From verse 8 through verse 15 of Chapter 3 it talks about the rules not being able to touch anything sacred or enter the sanctuary during the times of defilement. 

For 7 years Adam and "his wife" (another interesting use of words since she was given a name) lived in the Garden Of Eden. This is the first week of the first Jubilee. This time period is called 1-7A.M.

This stands for Anno Mundi. A Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the world. A chronological system used to date events based on the number of years that have passed since the creation of the world." 

The Book Of Jubilees actually tells, to the day, when the serpent approached "the woman." On the second month on the seventeenth day. I'll summarize here since it is basically like the Bible, the serpent tempted her, she ate the fruit, and they realized they were naked. Through verse 27 God became angry, cursed the serpent, cursed the ground so now we have to work to provide for ourselves. Verse 28 is where it is different again and gets interesting. It says" on that day all the mouths of the beasts, cattle, birds and whatever walks and moves so that they could no longer speak: for they had all all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue." Then all flesh were sent out of the garden. Adam and Even dwelt in the land of Elda. They had no son. The in the 3rd week of the 2nd Jubilee {8A.M.} she gave birth to Cain. In the 4th she gave birth to Abel, in the 5th she gave birth to her daughter Awan. Here's a new development. 

Then in the first year of the third Jubilee Cain killed Abel. Verses 4,5, and 6 are similar to the Bible where Cain has to wander the world. Then Adam and his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years. {99-127A.M.} Then in the 4th year of the 5th week they became joyful again, Adam KNEW HIS WIFE AGAIN, 😳 and she bare him a son and they called him Seth. In the 6th week they had another daughter Azura. Adam and Eve had 9 sons. Seth took Azura his sister to he his wife and they had a son named Enos. To spare you all the lineage, from verse 13-15 it talks about everyone leading up to Enoch being born. This is the time when angels called the watchers admired the women on the earth and came and defiled them.

Next time we'll get into the fall of those angels and Noah being born, but for now

Keep searching,

Paul

Artspace AI Adam and Eve having to go work for a living