The Book of Job Explained by Neville

Tonight we will speak on the Book of Job, possibly the most misquoted book in the world. I dare say all day long passages from this book are quoted, without the knowledge that the book of Job is being done a lot of injustice. For no one knows who wrote the book. It bears the title of its hero, as do so many books of the Bible: the Book of Joshua, Nehemiah, Ezra, Daniel, Ruth – so many bear the name of the hero of the volume. That is the Book of Job for you. The word “Job,” so claim the famous scholars, by analysis means: “Where is my father?” You and I have heard it as “the persecuted one,” but the central point of the narrative is that Job was completely innocent – not guilty of any offense, but simply the victim of the cruelest experiment by God. The very last chapter reveals that it was all by God. Some scholar along the way, or some scribe, inserted some little story in the first chapter which is suspect, because they couldn’t believe that God could do that to any man. So they claim that a pact was made between Satan and God, and God allowed Satan to do it: Satan the accuser, Satan the doubter. But Satan disappears in the very first chapter and never reappears. He does in the second chapter just for a moment, but he doesn’t in the forty-two chapters thereafter, not even in the epilogue. And so we know that this cruel experiment on Man was by none other than God.

Do not read the story of Job as another story, The bible is your biography, full of hidden allegories, waiting to be sought out and unravelled, that you may resurrect as God from manhood. Now, understand that you are Job, I am Job, the world is Job – the world of humanity. And to approach it as if it were an object lesson in patience – patience under stress, under trial – is to go astray at the very start. That is not the purpose of the story. I hope I can get it over to you as I see it. If I were to place it in the Bible, I would place it at the very end of the Old Testament, for it seems to lead right into the revelation of the New Testament. But I am neither rewriting the Bible nor rearranging it – but were I to place it, that is where I would put it. It simply leads right into the unfolding of the vision as we find it in the gospels and the epistles.

First, if you are not familiar with it, let me just tell you a few of the highlights of Job. The scene is laid in Edom and all the characters are Edomites, renowned for their ancient wisdom, semi-nomads. Job, as the story tells us, was an upright and very rich Arab sheikh, owning thousands of sheep, thousands of camels, hundreds of she-asses and oxen, numbers of servants and ten children – seven sons and three perfectly beautiful daughters, So we are told in the story. It’s a prologue to tell us this much of the great hero who was Job.

Then come the four woes, based upon the pact between Satan and Yahweh. The first one comes in and announces the fact that the Sabeans came suddenly and slaughtered all the servants who were taking care of the sheep and took away all the sheep. While he was yet speaking, the second woe appeared and he said that they took away all the camels and slaughtered all the servants. Then comes the third woe: they took away all the oxen, the she-asses, and slaughtered all the servants. Then comes the fourth woe, that his children –all of them –were dining in the house of the oldest son, and while they were all together there came this mighty wind that crushed all the four corners and the house caved in and they were all killed, and he the message bearer was the only one who escaped to come and bring the news to Job ehh!! This is beyond misfortune.

And Job rent his robe, shaved his head, threw himself upon the floor, and then said: “Naked I came into the world, naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return.” Then he blamed himself – not for the act, but for having said: “Naked I came into the world and naked I shall return.” He saw nothing to condemn in God, and so he did not see anything wrong that God had done.

And then, after the four woes, and everything is taken from him – all his peripherals i.e all his children, all his possessions, everything around him, the dude is left alone – then starts the physical destruction of the man himself, and it started with boils. And that’s when Satan disappears from the scene and all these things followed one after the other – the boils from the sole of his feet to the crown of his head. And then his wife said to him: “Are you still going to be honest about it? Your integrity is unshaken? Curse God and die.” And he said to her: “You have spoken like a foolish woman. Shall God who gave us the good not give us the evil?” And so nothing came from his lips that could in any way induce any form of condemnation from God.

Then there came his comforters. They’re spoken of as “Job’s comforters.” There were three friends. They came to comfort Job. They heard of his plight. Heard how he'd lost everything, being the richest sheikh in all of Edom, and they couldn’t recognize him, he was such a horrible-looking creature, a far cry from his former self. When they saw him, they too rent their robes and sat with him for five days and five nights without speaking in silent mourning for their friend. Job breaks the silence stating, that the very day of his birth should disappear from the calendar year. “Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night which said a male boy is conceived.” And then he has this tirade against being brought into this world. He didn’t ask to be brought, he was brought. And he finds himself now without any guilt and all these things happening to him. And after he makes the terrific defence of himself, then comes the first comforter, who doesn’t comfort at all.

This is because he is trained – as Job was trained, as you and I are trained – to believe in divine justice. So we all believe in divine justice, in retribution. For we look at a person like a Hitler, who lived to the very last moment in his fifteen gloating years; or a Stalin, for his thirty-odd years – how they slaughtered millions. And what happened to Stalin? He died the same way you will die, same way I will die – the fella dies of a little brain haemorrhage and in no time he was unconscious, but that was after slaughtering millions of human beings. So where is the retribution? Because Man always wants retribution. Where is Stalin’s retribution, where is Hitler’s retribution, where is any tyrant’s retribution? They live just as we live – they live on the fat of the land, murdering unnumbered millions, and they simply die as we die. And so priesthoods will tell us they will have their day. God will punish them beyond the grave – or in some future embodiment, if you believe in reincarnation. How could you live and how long would you have to live to repay the debt of thirteen million, when you burned them alive and you slaughtered them – how long would you live?

And so they bring argument after argument after argument to persuade Job that he, in some way must have violated this code. Maybe in his youth, maybe in the past – and he can’t think of what he has done. Maybe as a child, said he, some little infraction. But this is far beyond the proportion of anything I could have done, this so called judgment of God...overpaying for what? What has he done to me now? This far transcends anything that any just judge would place upon me for anything I might have done in my youth. They still try to persuade him. And so, as the Father said: “Even- handed" is the justice of God. Even-handed.”

Then come the three comforters – who aren’t comforters at all, like alll our friends often are. May I tell you: may you not have something physically wrong with you after having confessed you believe what I talk about. May you never be financially embarrassed after having once gone out on a limb and confessed to everyone you believe it. They will come like this Uriah Heap, and all will lament. “It shouldn’t happen to you,” they will say, “certainly not to you.

You mean you who know that the states are real and all you need to do is to get into a state and the state blossoms into your world – and you?”

These are the comforters of Job. And so they come to comfort Job.

And he said: “Merciful comforters you are, and so were I in your soul rather than in my soul I would not say to you what you said to me.” But they persisted. Each had three chances to deflate him and each time that they tried he comes back with a direct answer. But he is so self-righteous. He showed all the things he did: he never turned away any infant, any fatherless child, any widow, and any stranger from comfort, from shelter, from food. He was fabulously wealthy, but he never once turned away anyone in need. And he itemizes them all, all the way down. But he never understood what I hope you understand – which comes in the flower called the New Testament of “grace” – that no one in this world can construct a direct passage to God. You can’t be good enough to earn coming into the presence of God – no man in the world can. It comes by “grace,” this strange elective love. And he calls us one by one. So he did not know there is no such thing in this world as divine justice. He didn’t know it. The fathers didn’t teach that. And they still – in all the contemporary churches, the orthodoxy the world over – they teach and preach divine justice and retribution. And it isn’t. There is no such thing as grace!

My child – were I the father of one born demented, where not only the child but the mother suffers, I suffer, the brothers suffer, and the whole vast circle suffered – then should I suffer because of it? And that is divine justice? And you try to justify it by telling me that in some past embodiment he did this, that, and the other; that is why he is; and we were related in some strange way in the past and that is why today we all have fallen into the same net?

Well all this is adressed in the new testament, when a similar question arose and the answer by Jesus, helps us answer, this divine Justice and retribution perception that the entire world feeds off. The answer is in the 9th [chapter] of John: it says there And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" The answer given: Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him." (John 9:2-3).” No retribution whatsoever. There is something entirely different: that God as we now see him is the God of grace, the God of mercy. Were I pure I would never know that there was such a thing as a God of mercy. And God has consigned all men to disobedience that he may have mercy on all of them [Romans 11:32] that not one can crow and boast of his own purity.

So, to the very end Job is still giving arguments of his own self-righteousness – how good he is, how kind he has been, and all these things – that this thing should not have happened to him. And that’s Job’s argument, while all these so-called comforters are still lauding it on him. And then at the very end he is demanding that God will appear. He wants to meet God, to confront him. He says: “I know he will slay me, I have no hope, but I will present my case to his face.” And then he makes this statement: “This shall be my salvation. For the godless shall not stand before him, and so if I can so persuade him to see me, to present my case, then I stand before him, and only the pure in heart can stand before him. So if I stand before him, that is my salvation.”

To the very end of the story, he still insisted on justifying himself. He never heard of the great story of vicarious suffering, never heard of it. Or the author of the book never heard of it, for Job didn’t write it. He is simply the hero of the narrative, of the story. So the very end, by demanding that you listen to my case, how righteous I am (he still believes – although it is not stated – he still believes in retribution and is demanding by his own self-righteousness that a verdict be brought in his favor because he is self-righteous) he feels he should be acquitted, that this thing should not go on as it has gone on for so long in his life. So you see: he has not yet abandoned the belief in retribution, though he denies it when the friends argue the point of retribution. The friends try to prove to him that he was wrong at some time in the past, because there is such a thing as divine justice, and therefore he could not possibly have these sores, and lose his kingdom, lose his family, lose everything – were it not that at some time he had earned this judgment.

And so he brings in his righteousness. And then comes the voice of God. For the first time God speaks. God refuses to answer all the other arguments brought by Job's men. He refuses to answer the arguments and requests of Job. Job is fuming in his own self-righteousness, for in hell the only voice is the voice of self-righteousness. In heaven all is forgiven and the voice of heaven is complete forgiveness – complete forgiveness no matter what a man has ever done. In heaven the voice is complete forgiveness. In hell all is self-righteousness. He was in hell though he was walking on earth, as we all are in a hell of sorts if we are filled with this self-righteousness and self justification.

Then God answers him out of the whirlwind. And may I tell you: it is a perfect expression: the “whirlwind.” That is how he comes. When he comes, he comes through the medium of a whirlwind. You hear it and you feel it and you think it is the most frightening storm you have ever encountered, that any man could experience. When you hear it and you feel it, you’ll know by the wind it’s the whirlwind, then God is about to speak. Either you hear the words or you have the scene, and it begins to unfold the most fantastic vision, more real than this room now – when you hear the voice of the whirlwind. So God answered Job out of the whirlwind and he asked all the questions concerning creation, for Imagination is creation, and creation brings forth reality, therefore imagination creates reality.

Where were you [where was your self righteousness] when I created the universe [when you thought yourself into this mess]? He asked one question after the other, all pertaining to creativity [imagination creates reality], and Job couldn't answer. And then God shows himself, he displays himself.

In the 42nd chapter he now repents and covers himself in ash when he sees how audacious he had been in the past demanding that God answer him. Then he said: “I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see thee.”

His religion, like all our religions before the experience, was inherited. The oral traditions of the fathers and churches. And then I heard it, I didn’t experience it, I only heard it. Mother told me and took me to church, and the minister or the rabbi told me – and so I heard it from seeming authority and so my religion was inherited. Thus I expected to find a different kind of a God – a God that man made in his own image down here, a "God" that he called a just "God" – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I couldn’t conceive of another kind of a "God" – one of infinite love, where there is grace, that it doesn’t matter what a man has ever done in this world – no, not even a Hitler or a Stalin. In whom everything in the world would be forgiven. “Though your sins be like scarlet they shall be white as snow.” “And so I heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.”

Now Job turns to his friends, and Yahweh calls the friends and he tells them to sacrifice, because: “You lied about me. Everything you said of me was false and what Job said about me was true.” Job’s rebellion was against orthodoxy. His rebellion was against all ecclesiasticism, all rituals that said this is the way to God. He did them all, yet he suffered. He kept every law of the ancient church: he sacrificed, he did everything – and yet in the end he suffered as no man has suffered. And he knew it wasn’t true. So he commended Job, for what he said of Yahweh was true, and what the righteous ones said of Yahweh was false. He made them sacrifice and told them to go to Job and ask Job to pray for them. If Job would pray for them, then they would be set free – it would depend upon Job. And Job prayed for his friends and his own captivity was lifted.

Now that is where you come in: to completely forget yourselves in the love of a friend who is in need. Without raising a finger, you lift him mentally out of one state and put him into another. No matter what he has been in the past, forget it and put him in another. He was only expressing in a state, he was never the state
that he expressed. We condemned him thinking he was the state, but Job prayed for his friends, lifting them out of that state of self-righteousness and divine justice, and he saw them in the state of grace. It doesn’t matter what they have ever done in the past. It is now what he sees them to be – and at that moment Job’s captivity was lifted. And so the whole thing hinged upon man’s ability to forgive. This story of a glorious man descending down to this terrible predicament, and becoming totally wretched, but in that state of wretchedness being able to set so called "righteous and Justified men" free; is what Jesus did for you and me, drawing us out of that state of self righteousness into grace, the undeserved favor of God; while He was on the cross. Where sin abounds as we see in Job, much more grace abounds, as its Job who sets the "normal" men free.

"There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus?"I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Silo'am fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."" (Luke 13:1-5).

We are told in the 13th [chapter] of Luke, when they came to him and said Pilate slaughtered the Galileans and mingled their blood with their sacrifices, he said to them: “Do you think that they were worse sinners than those who escaped? I tell you: no. Unless you repent you shall meet a like fate. Do you think that when the tower fell in Jerusalem and crushed eighteen that they were greater offenders than those it did not crush? I tell you: no. But unless you repent you shall meet a similar fate.”

So when you hear someone is hurt, don’t gloat that God is getting even, that they have received their retribution. God doesn’t get even. If you hear of anyone being hurt tonight, don’t gloat: “It serves him right.” No retribution at all, not in this revelation. We end up where are because we thought our selves there, whether we remember or not. You are the cause. That you escaped the hurt does not make you better, unless you have raised your imagination to higher and nobler things such as whatsoever is lovely, praiseworthy, noble, of good report e.t.c... Of spirtual mindedness and godliness.

In simple terms, a man unknowingly falls into a state; falling into a state it could be a good state or an evil state, but he reaps the fruit of the state thereoff. He is neither good nor evil. Until you understand that you are a free flowing King, whichever state or country you choose to sit on their throne, the people and systems of that state will serve you diligently without fear or favour, and their service will be seen in your harvest. That is why it is important to guard your heart, guard your imaginations and your words, for this is how we flow freely from one state to the other. So Blake said: “I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a Supreme State, but to be every one of them States which the Soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil when it leaves Paradise following the Serpent.” Who’s that serpent? God himself! For he consigned me, consigned you, every being in the world, to disobedience, and we left through
disobedience, for he stated: “You shall not surely die.” And who told me that? The serpent, and who is the serpent? Just a symbol of God himself.

So he told me I wouldn’t die after first telling me if I ate a certain thing, did a certain thing, I would die. Then he tells me I will not really die, but my eyes will open and I will become as wise as the gods. And so he enticed me into disobeying him and so I left the state of innocence for a world of experience where I fall headlong into different states. After unnumbered experiences falling into states and redeeming myself from these states, he redeems me from it all and lifts me into a world completely subject to my imaginative power, where I completely awake. Here, I am in a state of sleep, so I don’t know I am in a state and I think this is my very being.

Blake made the statement: “Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horrors of the world. Everything is ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to attain perfection. Seek this path and you will attain from your own Soul an even deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You will attain an ever increasing release from that which now seems so sad and terrible.” Not a thing to be judged in this world, not a thing to be condemned, only to be redeemed. So you and I play the part of redeeming individuals here, and at that moment of God’s own good grace he lifts us out of the whole vast world of states. But until then we
can redeem each other. You don’t feel well? All right, I will persuade myself you have never felt better. I’ll persuade myself you never felt better and to the degree I am persuaded I am pulling you out of one state into another. I have to seek to falsify the record I have of you, and replace with an Image of a "fit-like-a-fiddle" you . Don’t try to pinpoint why he is not feeling well. It’s a state. Don’t try to pinpoint it and say it serves him right, I knew he was no good. What you see in others indicates what you see in yourself, so if he was "no-good", it started by defining "no-good" within you and you are so condemned about it that you cause it in another. Forget that and learn to administer forgiveness upon yourself, that you may be free and see that freedom in others, and ultimately falsify the entire record about your friend! The being that was never any good at a certain time, you pull him out of that state
into another, so that though his sins are like scarlet, because of you they become white as snow - that is falsifcation -Justification.

And then you keep on redeeming people, one after the other. Regardless of how many times you fail, try it anyway and you pull them out. Then one day when you least expect it, God will reveal himself to you and you will say: “I have heard of you. I really didn’t know you existed. I believed and hoped you did, but I heard of you with the hearing of the ear – that is, the oral tradition. My teacher in school talked about you, and my father, the churches – all the people who believed in you talked about you, but now my very own imaginative eyes see you vivdly.” It doesn’t matter what the whole vast world will say. I see something entirely different. You are not at all what they told me you were. You are
not a judge. There is no such thing as righteous judgment with you, no divine justice – only grace.
“The law came through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” So, now I see. I don’t have to be taught any more who you are. I see you. And then, may I tell you, he is going to embrace you, because when he asks you, he answers in you.

Now, what do I mean by vicarious suffering (mentioned earlier)? In the english dictionary vi·car·i·ous is an Adjective and it means Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: for example you sleep in a lodge and then you hear the sound of lovemaking, and hear the lady moan with pleasure, but it affects you so intensely as though it is you making love to her, so much so that you discover that you are compelled to ejaculate in your pants ...that is the closest example of " vicarious pleasure", why..the action is being done by another but the pleasure is affecting you who is not in the action. It is also Acting or done for another : " a vicarious atonement" that Jesus suffered on the cross and paid the full payment of all sin, and we who believe have this vicarious advantage of paying fully by atoning for the sin as though we too were crucified and rose with Him -"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20). .Vicarious is the most difficult concept in the world for man to grasp. Every time I have used it with someone who at the moment suffered, I invariably got the same reply. Someone said to me recently in San Francisco: “I am suffering. You said God suffers for me?
Well, maybe he is suffering somewhere in eternity but I am in pain, I am suffering.” I said: “What is his name?” “God” “No, that is not his name. His name is ‘I AM.’ Who is suffering?” “Well, I am. “ “Good, that’s God.” “No God here, I am suffering.”

It’s the most impossible thing to get over to man, that man who seems to be alive, is alive only by reason of the fact that God became him – that God became man, that man would become God. He sunk himself in man, that man could say: “I am,” for that is God’s name, and that all things are done by God to God, to individualize you, me, all of us. When in his eyes the work is done, after unnumbered ages of pain – it takes pain like putting gold in the raw state of ore into the furnace and bringing out molten gold, pure gold, nothing but pure gold. It takes heat, it takes fire. These are the furnaces of experience, and we are put into the world of experiences and brought out as pure gold. When we are brought out, in his presence we are just like him.

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." (1 John 3:1-2).

For we become what we behold - we become what we contemplate. I must behold it to become it.

"And we all, with unveiled face, beholding[contemplating] the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit." (II Corinthians 3:18).

So, “I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees thee.” And as you see him you are stamped with the image of eternity. You are one with him, one with God, as God. It is he – doing it in you, in man, and when he has completed the task, we are told: “He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” He will bring it to completion. He initiated it and he will complete it.
He took eternity and put it into this clay that is man, that is himself, and he works upon it, brings it out, and individualizes you. You become one like the being that created you.

That is the story of Job. It is the most glorious story, but I think if not the most misunderstood, it is not far from it. You and I have quoted it and we have misquoted it. We speak of the patience of Job - which is none other than the lonsuffering of Jesus typified in the Gospel of Mark as the Ox face on the Cherubim. We take patience from this story but there was no patience of Job – he rebelled. We start from the very third chapter and it is a rebellion, and there are only forty-two chapters. The first is only an introduction, the prologue, and it starts in the second part of the second chapter where the prologue comes to an end. By then the four woes have been accomplished. The whole kingdom and his family are gone. Then come the sores on himself. The boils appear suddenly on the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Now you find rebellion: “Let this day perish wherein I was born and
the night that said a man, a male child, is conceived. Let it be so hidden that God cannot even find this day.”

Job doesn’t stop the rebellion until he hears the voice of Yahweh out of the whirlwind. That comes at the end of the great narrative. Then he repents. He repents and sees Him, for the first time really sees Him – a God of grace, a God of love. He sees why he went through what he did. It was his own voice in hell of
self-righteousness.

If I can this night reflect upon any good thing I think was good that I did, that is self-righteousness. It doesn’t earn me one little step towards where I am going. Do something because you want to do it, but to feel you
are adding up and putting something in the bank for yourself – forget it. And so he was so good, he was so self-righteous, he never once turned anyone away from his place, no widows, no fatherless, no strangers. And he always abided by the law. He made all the sacrifices designated by the law. At the end of this special feast, Job not knowing what might have happened in the home of the individual brothers where the feast met today, each in a different home – he went and he sacrificed generously, that should they in any way have violated even in their inner will that which Yahweh designated, then he by his sacrifice would atone for them. So he atoned for his sins. He did everything that the law demanded. But still he broke out in all the boils and then he learned that you can’t be good enough to earn God’s gift. Self-righteousness is only the voice in hell. So you were right, Job: there is no such thing as divine justice, no retribution at all, none.

Did he not say: “O the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hands is my indignation”? [Is. 10:5] So I will use him, for I have made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Even Judas[Praise] have I divinely purposed.

And so, just as I have planned it so shall it be, as I have purposed so shall it stand. I will not turn back – “[The anger of] the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.” (Jeremiah 23:20) Only in the latter days will he reveal himself. You will see that all the sufferings that you went through, the God of love put you through. Just like the great
artists who are putting ore through the heat to extract the gold, he wasn’t concerned about the heat, just extracting pure gold for his labor, for his work – any more than the great sculptor is concerned about the clay. And Job said: “You made me of clay, are you going to return me to the dust?” What does the potter think of the clay when he puts it through every form to fulfill his purpose or what he purposes for it? He isn’t
concerned. So you and I are the clay in the potter’s hand and he is bringing us out into his own image.

I heard someone gloat in NYC when these lovely little children, in their early twenties and teens, on the eightieth-odd floor of the Empire State Building, and this plane came too low. He was simply showing off because they were warned time and again not to fly over NYC low, and here was this 102-story building plus this enormous antenna that goes way beyond that, and the chap coming through with one aboard, and two passengers that were not supposed to be there, showing what he could do, and he couldn’t maneuver the plane. He went right into that building and he snuffed out the lives of something like thirty-four or forty young girls in a Catholic charity. And if someone, like this one who spoke to me, is anti-Catholic, he would then say that is what God did. Well you have to be silent, because they express complete stupidity. What can you do? If my daughter were among them and he said it, chances are he would be in the hospital. He could judge that God did that because he was against this charity work of some Catholic. These sweet little children, all Catholic, work in the organization (or maybe they were not all Catholic). And he dared to say
that. They could have been a Jewish organization and some anti-Jew would have said the same thing, etc.

Here, this is the story of Job. There is no such thing as divine justice. We are all coming out, and when we all come to the end we will all see it and then we will understand. But don’t tell me the six million Jews who were walked right into the furnaces of Germany, that that was divine justice. Job didn’t see it, or the author of the book didn’t see it. They did not understand the mystery of vicarious suffering, because the Father said it and then the three friends who came, they echoed it, and then he said, “Nonsense, it’s a lie.” That’s what Job said.

But still in the last confession in the end when he rehearsed all of his good qualities, all of his virtues, expecting to be exonerated by this rehearsal of virtues, that surely an acquittal must be brought in that must be the only verdict that could be brought in. That was his last soliloquy. And then comes the voice and then he realizes
that all the so-called good things that he did don’t mean a thing in the eyes of God. God started it and God is going to complete it and God is working us into the image of himself. He has to put us through these experiences, but he has laid the foundation of infinite states. So when you see someone who is unlovely in the world by his actions, he is only expressing a state into which he has fallen, and chances are unwittingly. Not deliberately, but unknowingly and he has to occupy it while he is in it and then because he is alive he simply radiates it, it grows and bears the fruit of itself. So know that you can forgive every being by simply pulling him out. This is the supreme test of one’s ability to forgive. To identify the one you would forgive with the ideal that so far he has failed to express. To the degree that you can become self-persuaded that he is that ideal, to that degree he will express it, and then you deliver him, you save him – you forgive him by putting him into another state altogether.
Job didn’t see that. Job thought if he gave out things and was kind and generous that he would have played his part, that he would be justified and remain pure before God – but little did he know that actually he had nothing to change them and to transform their lives. The orphan who came begging would remain an orphan without a consciousness of the True Father , the widow remains the widow without the consciousness of her true husband, for the bible says the Lord your Maker is your Husband, in Isaiah 54:5 and they all remained as they were. This is to those who follow Jesus for the hand outs, for the bread, and are unconscious of the Spirit within. Same applies to those who remain in the custody of the Pastors, to maintain healing and deliverence, not knowing that Christ within is the hope of Glory, and just as he dwells in any pastor so does He in you.

And so they were fed from this generous table of Job, but all remained what they were before they were fed. Don’t let anyone remain what he was after you see his need. You see him differently — pull him out of his state and put
him in another. Poor man, it is so easy to put your hand in your pocket and say: “Here’s a dollar.” It’s so easy, but to see him gainfully employed and to persuade yourself that he is, that he really doesn’t need that dollar, is difficult. If you give him the dollar, like Job you will recount your virtues: the day you once gave a man a dollar — he didn’t earn it, you gave it. So He said: I the Lord, who gave from his hand the good, also
gave the evil. Who gave it? And so I say: you can forgive forever.

It’s fun giving, but it’s far better if you still give to him by transforming him in your mind’s eye and see him not in need. If men were not in need, what a balloon would be broken, starting with our government. Just imagine if they were not in need, for then their own claims to us, across the face of our country, and on radio and TV,
how generous they are because they are giving balloons away. So, suppose we were not in need of balloons, what deflation of balloon personalities! If you meet someone on the street that really is in need of your dollar, switch it around that they are not in need of any of your dollars. And now you have the power, greater than the dollar, to take them from where they are and put them where they would like to be, in your mind’s eye.

And now, in closing, when you read the book in the future, see the whole drama taking place in the mind of Job. It didn’t take place between three friends and the fourth one who was brought in and Yahweh and all the others. The whole thing takes place in Job. This argument portrays Job himself as the accuser and the
accused. So as you read it in the future, see only one being playing all the parts, and it is Job – you – and he is in conflict with himself, and at the very end he is integrated. He is torn apart between the one accusing him and the one defending his rights, but suddenly he becomes an integrated soul. At that moment of complete
integration where there is no one but himself, he finds God. For God becomes him that he may become God, who is sunk in us. The confusion goes on until finally there is no other to whom we can turn.

The whole thing was contained within us, and at that moment of perfection he appears seemingly coming from without. He doesn’t come from without at all, for when you look at him he looks just like you, and so you see, he really isn’t coming from without. He appears to, but really he is coming from within and gives the appearance of coming from without that you may see what you look like. “I have heard of thee with the
hearing of the ear, but now my eyes have seen Thee.”

Now let us go into the silence.

Question & Answer Period

Q. What would have happened to Job if he had not prayed for his friends?

A. Then he would not have known concerning the state. He would not have known he was only in a state at any moment of time when he was complaining. He could deliver those from their state, but it wasn’t Yahweh who did the praying. Yahweh said to them: “Ask Job to pray for you.” So who is Yahweh? As Blake said: “When Jesus Christ arose from the dead he became Yahweh.”

See the Bible through the eyes of Blake. In Blake’s engravings, when the left foot is forward, he uses the devil. And in the state of love it becomes a man, but the foot becomes a cloven hoof. When God is speaking in the most marvellous way, the right foot is forward; the other place, the left foot is forward. The left foot is the state which is doubt. So the symbolism is perfect with Blake in his illustration. But for sheer beauty of English, read the book. What English! Carlyle said it is the greatest piece of literature of all time. Tennyson said of it: “It is the greatest poem ever written.” Luther – who gave us a great religion when he broke away at the beginning of the reformation – claims it is the most magnificent book of all scripture. So, he makes extravagant claims for the Book of Job. But for sheer beauty of English read the book. You are Job. I am Job, and when you ask these things: “Why did it happen to me?” – not only physical things but the loss of a friend, loss of a child. What is more heart-breaking than a Father who has raised a child and loved that child, and hopes he will transcend him in time, and will leave an estate for him – to go to the graveside and bury him? And he buries him, the same way Job lost his estate, lost everything, and his ten children all snuffed out.

But the play is taking place in him. In the very last chapter, not only they all came in the very end after he was redeemed – his brothers and sisters, all of his friends of old came to sympathize and to comfort him for the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. His seven sons and his three daughters were there, yet in the first chapter they were dead. In the last chapter they were there.

He lived 140 years. Every letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value and symbolical name. In symbolism, 100 has the letter “qoph” [pron. "koof"] – “the back of the head.” The hundred is simply this, and forty is “mem” whose symbolical value is “womb.” So, here is the womb where he lived (the back of the head). In the back of the head this womb becomes man’s tomb. It infers that man is actually buried but doesn’t know it, and one day he will awake. He will awake within himself to find he is entombed. He never knew before that he was entombed; he thought he was walking the earth. He didn’t realize all this was like a dream unfolding, until one day he awakes and the tomb is his own skull. Mem-Qoph. Here is the mem and here is the forty, the womb. It is here that he is begotten by God himself. And so he lived 140 years.
Qoph-Mem.

Dont be a Rat, you are a Cat

"Be well balanced (temperate , sober of mind), be vigilant {and} cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon {and} devour." (1 Peter 5:8).
Most of us believers are too lax with monitoring the traffic inflow and outflow of our thoughts, yet thoughts determine our mentality[ Proverbs 23:7] and our mentality creates our realities. David had the mentality of a Cat when he faced a giant with the mentality of a rat, physical size was not the issue, but mental size was. The rest of the Children of God[Psalm 82:6] were small cats, that they were so small in their thougts such that they thought of themselves as rats. No matter how big a rat may be it is will always be cat-food. Start weeding your mind of every ratlike thinking and remember it is you who is a devourer, an all consuming fire of whatever is unlovely.. ..every situation is an opportunit y for you to recreate the good life by turning within[Luk e17:21], and imagining a better life as though it has happened[M ark11:23]. Stop thing like a rat, ratlike thoughts attract roaring lions.

Desire + Feelings = Manifestation

What you choose to feel profoundly and deeply about is far more important than what you only think about. You may think about doing something for quite a while, but until you decide to deeply feel that thing, you will never get round to doing it or acting upon it.The day you choose to feel deeply about something is the day you will be spurred to act - and that is the day the formless takes on form, it is the day when you become that thing, from thought to deed. It is the day of your awakening when things take shape.

It is God’s day of moving or taking action! People argue that God has His own timing, but the truth is that, it is the day you choose to feel deeply that He actually acts upon. As long as your feelings are locked onto the result unwaveringly and they are deep enough, God within you has the leeway to act. He who is the cause of all life acts through the sense of feeling. You can think of a thousand things, yet not be moved to act upon anyone of them. A deep conviction - felt, is far more important than any thought.

Let us turn to the first chapter of the epistle of James.

James 1:5-8

"If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him Ask in faith with no doubting, for he who doubts is like the wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. Let not that person believe that a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, shall receive anything from the Lord."

And then...

James 1:22-25

But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourself. For if you are a hearer only and not a doer, you are like a man who observes his natural face in the mirror and then goes his way, forgetting what manner of man he is like. But if you are a doer of the word and not just a forgetful hearer, you will look into the perfect Law of Liberty [God's Grace], and persevere. That man shall be blessed in all his doings.”

To transition from merely imagining something or thinking about it, to deeply feeling it, is what makes you a doer and not just a forgetful hearer. This is how you go about being a doer in the place of a hearer only? By acting in faith. Scripture’s central character, called Jesus, set no limit upon the love of God and the power of faith. In fact his great deeds were prefaced with the words as: “--According to your faith...”  for example in Matthew 9:29 Jesus touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

Now ,its quite possible to perceive that a person is acting in faith, because you will get the sense that their feelings are involved, in what they are doing because, faith encompasses feeling. When you have faith you will act, and once you act, then God who dwells in you and wears you like a garment will not be limited in acting, because God inside you is your own wonderful human imagination whose eternal name is I AM. He acts only when you feel it. This is true even in the most practical of ways. The supernatural power behind that action, depends on your imagination, and your imagination needs your feelings to transmit that power from within you into the world of form. God is acting when you exclaim your deep feelings saying "I am ...."

Supposing you have had a deep seated desire to get out of the doldrums of poverty, and lets say its something you have thought about for long, but after learning to feel deeply, now you have learnt to direct those thoughts to take on the tone of deep feeling, such as the feeling of absolute elation or gladness, then that is the moment when words such as "I am Joyful or gleeful" will be said instead of words as "I wish" or even "oh boy."

Now Lets turn to Matthew 8:13

"And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour."

From the above episode in the bible, lets say I approached you and asked you for something  that I badly need or some thing that I would like to be - such as to be healed, and then in your response you told me to go my way, as that which I desire is already fulfilled or that, that which I want, I have become it - and then lets say for one fleeting moment I was able to see the world as you described it to me, the way I ought to see it, and that is,  as though it were true, but then in another moment I turn and walk away, forgetting what the world looked like only a fleeting moment ago - then I would have become a forgetful hearer.

But if I were a doer of the word and not just a forgetful hearer only, then what would happen is that I would persevere; or as the King James version puts it "continue in" that desired state. I would keep on keeping on, I would stay focused, stay unwavery, stay single minded in feeling the end from the beginning. Faith Abides in the expected end, as all things are possible to them that believe and those that believe abide in the end. Faith without works is dead – James 2:20, and work in that verse means believing with the only work being “deep feeling.”

When you look into a mirror, you will see a reflection of your face, but there is another mirror in which you can look into. That is the mirror of your close pals; if they heard some good news about you, their faces would beam to reflect their joy, would they not? Assume your desire is now a fact. Feel its substance and reality. Then let your friends see you in that state. They are your living mirror. One of the best techniques to try this imagined joy out is to remember one event in your life that really made you happy. Relive that moment and look at all the joyful faces that rejoiced with you then, feel the joy of the moment. When you step out of that episode back to your current state, you realise how you have travelled between two different states - the rehearsed victory and now. Now back into your current predicament if you are not careful, it is easy to forget what you were imagining a moment back and instead get freshly swamped by your current predicament.

Jeremiah 29:11 says

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah 29:11).

The "expected end" is what eludes many people, we always expect things to turn out well but do little in defining how the end should feel like, because we are too engrossed with the nitty gritty detail and the "how to", rather than feeling the end. God calls things that be not as though they are ---Romans 4:17. The desired state is what you should lock your mind onto, unwaveringly, impervious to naysayers and single minded against interruptions. Only allow yourself to be sacked into the end. Saturated by how the final outcome feels like.

Now persevere in that desired state and do not turn away only to quickly forget what you are like. Walk through this door of joy tonight in the assumption that you are that man (or woman) you want to be, who comes out the other way with great rejoicing. It doesn’t matter if the outside denies it; be content with what you have seen on the inside, be confident that you have already seen the joyful expression on the faces of your buddies and that you have felt the pats on your back, heard their congratulations... All on the inside, with faith. Now, carry this feeling into the deep and persevere. Lock down your coordinates and lock out any other interfering signals.

In your Imagination, Conjure a living mirror of friends and acquaintances who have heard your good news and accepted it as permanent. See your face reflected in theirs. If they love you, you will see the empathy. They will be rejoicing because of your good fortune. Now, persevere in that awareness and do not forget what you have seen in your living mirror. If you keep this up stubbornly determined not to let go, you will be blessed.

Furthermore You are told in 1Psalms that: “--

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." (Psalm 1:1- 3).

Were you not liberated from your past when you saw your friend’s faces reflecting what you wanted them to see? Did it not give you a feeling of freedom and arrival when their faces beamed at your great exploit? Did you not feel some form of approval and admiration vibrating towards you. Relive that moment and lock your coordinates on that state.

If you had left the state of poverty, sickness, or weakness behind and moved into the state of wealth, health, or strength - and your friends knew it - you would be set free from your former limitation. So, by looking into the perfect Law of Liberty [God's Grace] and persevering, you are blessed in all that you do as Psalm 1:3 says.

Based on my personal experience this thing works, but the power that enables it is not without, we are the operant power, we are the architect of our destiny. This thing does not operate itself. You may have heard this law by the hearing of the ear and read of it in a book, but do you know that the law works from experience and from within you? Have you tested this truth? Have you proven it? If you have, then you can speak with an authority, which you did not have prior to the proving. Through the use of this law you are completely set free.

Here is how you may try it out, close your eyes and picture the cloud nine hospitality in the airport lounge just after checking in, See yourself flying Emirates heading to Dubai to execute a deal worth 500 Million US Dollars.. Assume that you are with your 4 Children, your wife, your Mom, and your Dad and that you are all aboard the Airbus A380-800 and your daughter Serah is carrying little Stacey. Feel the humming sound of the jet Engine from your seat, feel the ear blockage resulting from altitude change in the air, touch and feel the the comfy fluffy seats of the business Class section and the hollow fibre pillows, picture those cute Arab Air hostesses pampering to you and pouring you your favorite dry red wine as you munch away the Sizzled Chicken, Picture Joanne telling you to tone down on the wine imbibing and commenting at how the egg omelette tastes better than the one of "Bikon". Picture the individual TV screens in front of you, the air cabin crew, then narrow compact toilets on board and their pressurized flash, then the check in at Dubai airport and the Hotel, picture the cheuffer drive over the water to your hotel, assume that now you have arrived exactly at that luxurious 7 star hotel  you wish to be. See that well wrapped and packed bathrobes and sandals on on your Water bed. Taste that arabian cuisine, date palms and cool breeze from the sea. Go on and on...suddenly feel the nostalgia of leaving Uganda for a short while... And go on and on... Repeat this whole process over and over again, feeling every step you made aboard the plane, Entebbe through Cairo to Dubai Airport and right into the Family suite well prepared for your Family, a lovely business holiday for you. While in your Hotel, see yourself calling David, Ibra and Martin and telling them how great this trip feels following the application of feeling in this thing. Smell the air of the United Arab Emirates, and a brief test of their hot weather, recount it to your friends, feeling the tone of joy at your achievement. Do everything that makes...the feeling to be brought to bear upon you, until your actions seem natural, then when you are exhausted break it.

Do not be dismayed when suddenly this thing breaks out with such tremendous accuracy, the next day or following week, without any specific reason. Just be content that you got this great exploit following your Imagination, coupled with a deep sense of feeling of the whole episode. This is the only kind of "Works" in the new covenant. The works are not physical or carnal, instead they refer to abiding or dwelling in the end mentally.The end of all revelation being Christ Jesus.  It is to rest from all the toil and the "how-tos" of life. You simply live the moment mentally and then you are able to live it physically. Signs and wonders always follow as a witness, they do not preceed this formidable act of imagining, for imagining creates reality.

Now "Feeling-the-moment" as opposed to "toiling-the-how-to" towards Christ-the end is a place of rest only for those willing to believe. Hebrews 4:3 says "For this is for we who have believed to enter that rest, as He has said: So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world" - whatever you desire is already finished, even before you ask it. What is needed is to transport your physical element, i.e your flesh and imagination to that point, the end. Living in the end, by faith is "Resting-in-the-Finished-work". Faith and resting mean, to abide in the End, where all the work is completed in Christ.

This "deep feeling" of the end from the beginning is where God or "I AM" is said to call things that be not as though they are----Romans 4:17. This is the same rest with which the "I AM" in you may cause the weary - the sense realm, the carnal man who has sweated with the detail and the "how-tos" and is brow-beaten, to cease from his effort and to instead be transported supernaturally to the end through experiencing the result mentally. It is to live in the result mentally by grace and yet have confident expection of the result physically. And, This is the refreshing - even as you speak in tongues--- Isaiah 28:12.

Isaiah 55:1-6

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live.I will make an everlasting covenant with you,my faithful love promised to David. See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples. Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.” Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

Some people wonder if it is a Christian thing to do, to feel your desires, because to them this is like New thought or New Age stuff. But I tell you, this is the only Christian thing to do, if at all you are to operate in faith, these signs follow them that believe ---Mark 16:17  and it fulfills God's law of Mark 11:23 which assuredly says to you, that whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. How it is going to be fulfilled should not be my concern. All I concern myself with is that whatever I desire, if I will but believe I have received it. Simply understand that there is no way God will ever create a desire in the human heart that he has not already provided its satisfaction. This is true of every human desire in this world, as well as the greatest of all desires, which is the thirst for God.

If you really want an experience of God, then apply this principle towards it. Do what I did when I wanted to leave Kampala and go to Dubai. I looked into the perfect law of liberty [God's Grace] and persevered. God doesn’t give you one Principle for your desires of this world and then another Principle for your search for him. It’s the same law. If you have had the experience of which I speak, would you tell someone about it? Is it a consuming desire, or do you want something other than that first? Perhaps you want a lovely home, security in the sense of money in the bank that you can touch, or forex trade in CFDs, Minerals, Stocks and  Currencies that pays super dividends.

If you want to feel wealthy, travel, and have lots of things before you thirst for an experience of Christ, then you are dealing with a secondary desire as though it were the primary, so don’t try it. But if an experience of Christ is your consuming desire then don’t hesitate to put it to the test. Put first things first. If your first desire is to know God, then apply this principle towards it and let the ensuing thirst for God take its own good time to envelop you, and when it does apply this principle towards it.

Feel in depth, for what you feel deeply is more vital than what you think. Every day you can think about how wonderful it would be if... and yet never come round to acting. But if every day you would feel how wonderful it is now, it will become true. Think about it this way, that the joy I am having today is a result of yesterday's imagining. Question is when it expires, do I have to start another process all over again to create the reality of tomorrow? Certainly not. Instead daily I churn out feelings because daily God releases new desires in me and so daily I live out their realities. Each desire sparks off a new episode of feelings.

Shakespeare said: “--Assume a virtue if you have it not.” Assume a Virtue Now, if you happen to have none. A virtue must be felt to be assumed. But if you make a habit of refraining from the assumption now, it will be easy to refrain from it again and again in the future. On ther hand if you will assume that your desire is fulfilled now, and persevere in that assumption through the sense of feeling, it will be externalized as a literal fact in your world. The only reality is in the mind.  All things are yours this way, through assumption. Things that be not as though they are have to be called forth by deep feeling as though they are, and they will manifest - a super irreversible principle of God.

I am calling upon everyone to put this into practice. Every desire contains its own satisfaction to be fed upon and the satisfaction can only be explained or defined to the subconscious mind by deep feeling. It’s entirely up to you. You may feed your hunger by thinking of your desire, or choose to feed its satisfaction by thinking from its fulfillment through deep feeling of the end result. We do not fight for victory, we fight from victory. We are not trying to take back territory but are defending territory. This is the sense behind this principle of resting in the finished work.

Ephesians 2:6-7

"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." It is God who gives you every desire, be it for things of this age or the age to come - as told us in Amos 8:11 that “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

When you want to speak the word of God, and it so happens that your hunger is not for the hearing of the word, but for the glamour connected with the teaching, it is the spotlight you desire and that too has been provided for. Every desire can and will be satisfied, if you will look into the law of liberty and persevere. Then you will be blessed in all you do.

I urge you who are on a sincere quest to know God, to use this principle [Grace] to try and create within yourself a longing for the deepest of all desires, this being to know God experientially. If you can really esteem this thirst for God above everything else, then use the same Law of Liberty [God's Grace]. Take this snapshot in your mind, of all the beaming faces of your pals and see yourself saying to them with deep conviction and feeling that you have encountered God experientially. That you felt the entire episodes of the life of Jesus, from the time He was being baptized in the Jordan, to the descending of the dove on Him, to the teachings and miracles, to the crucifixion and then the resurrection and the asending into heaven. See all those episodes as events unfolding within you. Feel yourself to be Jesus and that His life is now your life, and Feel all the suffering He went through in your mind, feeling every event as an event in your life, I tell you, you will know and understand Him in a way those who have read the Gospels thousands of times and those who have physically interacted with Him, have never known Him as described in ----2Corinthians 5:16[Msg Bible].

It reads "Because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don't look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new.

So you can be united with Christ by simply feeling Him Imaginally and ceasing to read about Him as that unusual character in history, and instead feeling yourself to be the one going through His episodes. Feeling Him this way certainly goes beyond the flesh for we no longer know Christ this way. Movies like the Passion of the Christ will not mesmerize you, because you have felt everything deeply and even more intensely as though it actually, happened to you. Dont just think about it, feel it deeply. When this flow of feelings starts, lock them unwaveringly and then persevere, for God has provided a satisfaction for that hunger and you will know it. If Jesus life as described in the bible was a movie, you would be the one behind the Camera, that as things happen its as though they are happening to you.

On the other hand, if such hunger is not yet upon you and your sincere desire is just the good things in life and to live “Happily-Ever-After”, well... that too is not entirely a bad hunger to fulfil, simply use the same principle of the perfect Law of Liberty [God's Grace] and persevere. Having acted and even achieved your goal, don’t turn and forget what manner of man you are, do not forget how you arrived there in the first place, but sleep in that conviction, and in a way you do not know, it will be yours perpetually.

Another common phenomenon in this day, is the recognizing of special memorial days for those passed on. But until you understand that there is: not one moment in time, that is holier than another because of the indwelling presence of Christ in you the hope of all Glory, and that,  as such there is no earthly place more sacred than the other, that where you stand becomes holy ground, then it is going to be hard to awaken out of the commemoration syndrome. Wherever you stand is sacred ground because you are there. Today is celebration day because, you are here now. The kingdom of God abides within you, the “Gullivers” of this world, and I am saying Arise, and judge the earth! For it is you who possesses all the nations -- Psalm 82:8 

Today here in Uganda several families are celebrating various Memorials for the 711 Al-Shabab bombings as I write, remembering the dead and placing flowers on graves their loved ones do not occupy.I tell you through the same principle of looking "feelingly" into the perfect law of Liberty, you have the ability and power to engage, those who have passed on. Only one who is awakened can penetrate this veil of death consciously. If you have awakened to your "I-AMness" and become established in your "being" of Christ, it is easy now for that new man to transcend consciously; beyond the world of dream and enter into the world of spirit wide awake and meet those loved ones there.

So while men will be busy thinking of the dead, you will be rejoicing in the life that is everlasting - because to you, people never die and you can engage them anytime at will. That’s why Jesus says in Matthew 8:22...Follow me; and let the dead burying their dead." Anyone who has not yet awakened to know that Flesh is but a garment is dead and as such takes after the same kind. However if have come out of that slumber, you have arisen from the dead and you now speak of a Living God who is real, you take after the resurrected kind. So why go to the cemetery to put flowers or a flag on that which is not there? The body may have been placed there, but not the spirit, not the being.

Matthew 27:33-34 Amplified Bible

And when they came to a place called Golgotha [Latin: Calvary], which means The Place of a Skull,...

Calvary is the Skull, it is the place where you died as Christ after the crucifixion, by then you were the old man. The brain, which holds your mind is found in the Skull. You are buried in the skull and in that skull you will remain, dreaming your dream of life until you awaken and are born the second time - until you resurrect as the new man - this whole episode is revolving in the mind- with the heart [mind] a man believes, a man is renewed in the mind, a man gets reborn again with the mind and not the flesh nor the Spirit. In the Skull you will meet David, who reveals you as God the Father. It is from there you are going to be split in two and ascend into the Holy of Holies. You were begotten in that skull and you will end the drama there, to know you are one with the one and only Living God.

In the 25th and 27th chapters of the Book of Genesis, the story is told of Isaac, who had two sons. The first son, Esau, had hair all over while the second son, Jacob, was hairless. Being blind, Isaac calls Esau and asks him to go get some venison for dinner. Jacob through Rebekah his mother, having overheard the request, faked his father by clothing himself in the skins of his brother Esau and took the venison to his father. Isaac, hearing Jacob’s voice began to doubt, until he touched him, to feel his reality and caught Esau's odor. Satisfying himself that the son was real, Jacob was given the father’s blessing. When Esau returned from the hunt Jacob vanished, but Isaac said: “--Although your brother came through deception, I have given him your blessing and I cannot take it back.”

You may ask but why, why couldnt Isaac recall his blessing?

Feelings in the subconscious world are like a password in the computer world, the moment access is granted it cannot be retracted. It is kind of like; once an object is placed before a mirror, it cannot be reflected. So it is with a blessing; that once released with feeling it cannot be retracted because it will have been captured on the subconscious radar. Now after smothering [completely suffocating or drowning] yourself in the feeling, what will ensue is that you have deployed those feelings onto their target, you have sent them onto their way and just as a bullet cannot be recalled once its released, the feelings cannot be taken back.

Sustained and unperturbed imagination with feeling is an extremely powerful form of prayer, as prayer is nothing more than the subjective [inward] appropriation of an objective [outward] hope. Prayer is the most highly accelerated mind action that steps up mental activity into level of consciousness synchronous to the mind of Christ. Imagine by giving objective reality to your hope. In other words you consciously perceive through the objective elements, something that you desire intensely, then within your mind [Subjective element] you act like you already have it and have began enjoying it, then it manifests- i.e, and if you do not doubt in your mind, but believe that those things which you say will happen; you will have whatever you say. (Mark 11:23).

In the Jacob and Esau Story, it is evident that Hair is the most objective thing on a man. If you were blind like Isaac, the most convincing aspect on your son is their body odour and their hair which also carries body odour. So until you bring your hope or your target so close that you can feel it or smell it, the way it would be like when you are actually living it, it will still be far from you. So you have to engage memory and all the inner senses, i.e, inner-smell, inner-taste, inner sense of feeling, inner hearing and inner sight, to imagination, to fully contruct faith and hope and then you will be like He that calls things that be not as though they are in Romans4:17 inside your mind.

This whole episode is what Isaiah 55:1 means by “Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;And you who have no [ a ] money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.” The entire drama is going on within your imagination and you are living through it from within. You are “drinking and eating” which involves all the 5 senses, from within and no money or cost is required. We live in a world where there is a price on everything, but there is no price on accessing these things in the mind. Therefore Money is not standing between you and what you lack or what you desire, your desires at will can be manifested from within and what is within dictates what is without, as all outer change follows inner Change. The answer is lived within first and then it breaks out to the outside- finite realm. This is what being a witnesses unto Christ -[ the end of all salvation] both in Jerusalem [the inner city], and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth[outward - finite realm] in Acts 1:8 means. While still in Jerusalem ask yourself what it would be like if it were up to you to be out there. All men have free access to Jerusalem and can be witnesses of the desired end, and all this takes place within.

Gen 27:22-24  So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his Brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. Then he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

My objective in this missive is that you clothe yourself in that deep feeling – and by so doing, you will have clothed yourself in the reality of an Esau. The world may not immediately reflect your feeling, but you have set your desire in motion and cannot take it back. You have given a subjective state to your blessing by giving it objective reality. Now it must fulfill its destiny so that you will be blessed in all that you are doing. It’s kind of like you have loaded your gun, taken aim at your target, your target being “the desired end”, pulled the trigger and in that instant you wait for the results with confident expectation of good.

If you don’t give your subjective hope, objective reality, you can’t see the fulfillment of the blessing within you, which you desire to manifest. You must clothe yourself in the feeling that your wish is fulfilled. Jacob is your desire, waiting to be clothed in the feeling of external reality. Catch the feeling, and you have clothed Jacob with the external reality of Esau. Now deceive yourself into believing that your desire is externally real, and give it your blessing by subjectively appropriating your objective hope.

Who is the blind Isaac?

You are, for you cannot see what you are asking for in your outer world. It’s a hope and you are blind to it. But when you clothe yourself in the feeling of its fulfillment, you are eating the feeling of satisfaction. Feast upon this feeling morning, noon, and night, and in a way you do not know your desire will become an objective reality in your world.

Gen 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near now and kiss me, my son."

In this story we see the importance of feeling. Feeling makes a lot of sense to people just as tasting, hearing, smelling, and seeing do. In the spirit realm these senses can be engaged profitably, within the mind, and the mind can mimic the physical reaction of the senses mentally, to accurately create the full picture of the desired end. In the realm of the spirit, one can apply all the five senses both to discern and to create. So, Isaac asked Jacob to come close and kiss him. The word translated as “--kiss” from the original bible text written in Hebrew means, “--to set on fire; to burn; to touch.” We know what a kiss does to intimacy; it sparks off a chain reaction of emotions and may result into sexual consummation. Judas applied the kiss in Mathew 26:48, to signal the one to be seized, and that resulted into the crucifixion of Jesus, which is another form of consummation. Therefore a kiss is an emotion, it is an intense feeling, a kiss is of the touch sense, which partners with feeling sense. Reality is felt through the sense of touch. Feeling is touch, it connects. Tasting is touch – it connects. To elaborate this further, when two people are craving each other, their communication is at one level if all they do is think and talk to each other. But the minute they kiss, those intense thoughts and feelings transform into actions, what was within is now consummated – it is externalized as a birth.

Heb 2:9 (Amp)  But we are able to see Jesus, Who was ranked lower than the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because of His having suffered death, in order that by the grace (unmerited favor) of God [to us sinners] He might taste [experience] death for every individual person.

Heb 2:18 (Amp) for because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted (tested and tried), He is able [immediately] ^[3] to run to the cry of (assist, relieve) those who are being tempted and tested and tried [and who therefore are being exposed to suffering].

Scripture is showing us that Jesus faced every form of temptation and even tasted death for all of us. How do you taste death? By experiencing it. Jesus tasted death by dying in all, that all may know who He is. It means Jesus lived your life and tasted death through your mind’s eye, so that there is no pain or feeling that any one will ever go through that He hasn’t felt before. From the primitive aborigine in Australia to the sophisticated IT engineer in America’s NASA, He knows and He is one with the pain at all of those levels. He knows what it feels like.

Now if Jesus had to taste your experience to attain the goal of setting you free, it means we follow the same pattern, that we have to feel the life we desire by experiencing it through sensory perception, before we see freedom. Put this teaching into practice and live the life of your dreams. Jesus taught you to simply appropriate a subjective state which is your objective hope, and understand that it must externalize itself in your world. Do that and it will be released or manifested or discharged.

Ask in faith, without doubting, for those who doubt, are like the wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. They are double-minded, for they know what they are while desiring to be something else.  You must be single-minded by dropping what you believe you are and assuming that you are already what you desire to be, for you cannot desire something you already possess. Look into the wonderful Law of Liberty [God's Grace] which sets you free, and you will see your freedom in the faces of your friends. Persist in your assumption and it must come to pass.

Next time we will investigate the beautiful connection, between understanding – knowing – intercourse and oneness. Let us go into peace.