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Is 2017 "The" Year?

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<span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">All true prophecy is from </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" rel="wikipedia" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a><span style="font-size: large;"> for His glory and the sake of the "elect". Yet, in our day it is common, even among people of faith, to pay little or no regard to any prophecy and to consider one who does pay attention, a conspiracy theorist. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Word of Yahweh uses Prophets to talk to His people. We find that approximately one third of the Bible is dedicated to these servants of the Almighty, warning us and translating Yahweh's plans. Besides the Bible, there are many nations who have recognized prophets that were not recorded in the biblical Canons, yet delivered Inspired word from the Creator.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: purple; color: white; font-size: large;">A LION HAS ROARED! WHO WILL NOT FEAR? THE LORD YAHWEH HAS SPOKEN! WHO CAN BUT <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Prophecy">PROPHESY</a>?” (AMOS 3:6-8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">God speaking is not just God talking. When God speaks, what God says comes to be. So, when a prophet speaks a Word of God, he or she is not merely transferring a message. It is a proclamation of a change to come that allows the seed of the change to germinate. It becomes an act of creation. It is an announcement of the future, yes, but rather than merely predicting the future, creates the future. So, we find that Prophets almost Remember the future as if it be done!</span><br>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">While the Magi searched the stars, the other faithful searched the prophetic Word. They found the coming of Christ in Old Testament Sabbatical Law and in Daniel:</span></div>
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Amos 3:7 “Will God do anything unless He reveals it to His servants the prophets?”<br>
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Scripture prophecy the end times quite clearly and we should recognise it:</div>
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While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief. For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.… 1 Thessalonians 5:3-5</blockquote>
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Jesus Christ and his apostles quoted from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch">Book of Enoch</a> (also called 1 Enoch) as authentic scripture. Enoch gave us the way to calculate the year according to Yahweh's Timeline<br>
Yahweh's Calendar according to scripture, explains that the Jubilee Cycle consists of 50 Civil Years.<br>
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And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur">Day of Atonement</a> cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land. ‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.’ “Leviticus 25;8-10<br>
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On 10 June 1967 war break out between Israel and their neighbours, known as the "6 Day War". During the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War">6 Day War</a>, Israel reclaimed more land from Gaza to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights">Golan Heights</a> in upper Israel, a return of land to the inhabitants and a fulfilment of one of the requirements of a Jubilee1967 (The Six Day War - Jerusalem was re-united).<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ans. It fulfilled such prophecies as Ezekiel 36 and 37 and heralded the soon end of the age. Palestine was a desert land before Israel recently made it "like the garden of Eden."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ezekiel 36:33-35 (ASV) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded. And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Que. What is the connection between the measuring of the temple in Ezekiel 40 and Israel becoming a nation, aside from there being 1260 years plus 1260 years?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ans. The prophecy of Ezekiel 36 and 37 about the return of Israel to her own land flows naturally into the subject of the rebuilding of the temple in Ezekiel 40. Simply put, Israel is not fully restored until God Himself sits within His temple in Jerusalem. Thus, there needs to be a temple. The temple is the climax of a restored Israel. Note the last verses of Ezekiel 37.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There has been some confusion concerning what I believe about when Ezekiel's temple will be rebuilt. I try to clear up that matter on the forum. Click here. In a nutshell, there will be a temple or sanctuary desecrated by antichrist, and then there will also be the temple of Ezekiel built during the Millennium. Why it will be rebuilt is also discussed on the forum!</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eze 37:27-28 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Que. Why wasn't Israel restored completed in 1948, including the temple mount?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ans. In Ezekiel's account of the fall of Jerusalem, God's Spirit departs from the temple and leaves Jerusalem in specific stages (beginning 592 BC) and then comes back in stages 19 years later in 573 BC, (Ezek. 8, 40). In the same way, Israel is now being restored in stages --- each stage on a timeframe predicted by the bible. The next stage in God's plan for Jerusalem also happened exactly 19 years after Israel became a nation in 1948: The 1967, Six-Day War.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next stage in Israel's restoration was the six-day war waged exactly 19 years later, to the day on the 360 calendar, June 5-10, 1967. In the war, the temple mount was captured along with east Jerusalem. Thus, June 5th, 1967, was also Pentecost on the 360 calendar.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Que. But why 19 years later?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ans. Because, from Ezekiel's vision about the temple (573 BC) until when Israel became a nation are 1260 + 1260 years, that is 2520 years. (2520 days represents a seven-year period on the 360 calendar. {360 x 7 = 2520 days.}) Thus, 2520 years, plus 19 more years equals 2539. And so, from 573 BC to 1967 are 2539 years.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It happens that seven years on the regular Jewish calendar amounts to 2539 days in both 1948 and 1967. Thus, the seventh anniversary after Israel became a nation occurred exactly 2539 days later on the regular Jewish calendar, (i.e., 1948-1955). And the same is true of the seventh anniversary of the 1967 War, (i.e., 1967-1974). Hence, in God's heavenly schematic, 2539 days correspond to the previous 2539 years back to the prophecy of Ezekiel in 573 BC! (The 1973 Yom Kippur war fits into this scheme too, but to stay focused on 1948 we will not digress.) </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thus, in stage one of Jerusalem's restoration, seven years of years on the 360 calendar transpired from Ezekiel's vision of the temple unto when Israel became a nation. Likewise, in the next stage of taking the remainder of Jerusalem, seven-years of years again transpired, except this time on the regular Jewish calendar. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(There are numerous other reasons why the Six-Day War happened when it did. In part, it has to do with the span of time from when Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC, and the 1290 of Daniel 12, and the leap month, and the symbolic-day-years. But of these things we cannot digress now! Also note that from 592 BC, when God's Spirit began to leave the temple in stages, unto 1948 are also 2539 years! </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One final note: On the regular Jewish calendar, the 1967 War began on the anniversary of when Jesus rose up into heaven {Iyar 16}, which was 40 days after His resurrection, Acts 1. However, as said earlier, on the 360 calendar Iyar 16 happened to be the 65th day of the year in 1967, which is Pentecost.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are the words that Jesus spoke, just before he ascended up to heaven on Iyar 16 --- His last words were to 'wait until Pentecost when the Spirit would be poured out'. And the last question he was answering at the time was, 'When will the kingdom be restored to Israel?' </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(Act 1:6-8) "They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority. But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." (For further investigation, calculate the prophecy and timing of Daniel 2.)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">  J</span>esus talks about the fate of self-deceived false converts who merely had come to the edge of saving faith - but they eventually reject or walk away from the truth when tested with the cares; lures of this life. So many people are positive they are saved because they think they are a: good person, have once said a "sinner's prayer", or go to church. Yet the bible clearly states you must: repent; believe the gospel, forsake all sin, and obey God's word. Then our faith will be tested to see if it's genuine or not. (Deut 8:2, Deut 13:3; James 1:12; 1 pet 1:7) even Jesus was tempted by Satan. (matt 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13) faith that fizzles; fails before the finish line is not a saving faith.<br />
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…” Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths” 2 Timothy 4:3<br />
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The lukewarm professing so-called "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Christian">Christians</a>" of Matthew 7:21-23 which are unsaved people who: thought, talked, looked like they were saved but were not. Christians who are lukewarm and lost might have lot of head knowledge like the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Pharisees">Pharisees</a> had, and look outwardly godly, but have no true heart change. Peter said the Word of God is not the private interpretation of man, meaning that the Word of God did not originate from man no matter how great an intellect he may be (II Peter 1:20-21). They might be people who appear to have much godly wisdom; have memorized <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="God">God</a>’s word, but they might be breaking God’s commandments in their thoughts, and by their deeds! No matter how godly and amazing you appear to people on the outside, we can’t fool God.<br />
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Romans 8:19 “for all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal <i>who his children really are</i>.”<br />
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"No man knows a person’s heart like God." (matt 23:1-33, mark 7:1-20, mark 12:38-40, Luke 11:39-52, mark 8:15, Isaiah 1:11, 1 Tim. 4:2, Jeremiah 23:11, matt 6:2)</div>
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God is setting up his eternal kingdom, and he uses suffering, trials & tests to someday eternally reward true believers at the judgment seat of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Christ">Christ</a> (2 Cor 5:10, 1 Cor 3:10-15, Rom 14:10-12). Those who did what Jesus told them to do through obedience to God's word, doing so out of a love for Jesus:</div>
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They possess the following traits:<br />
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acknowledge; obey god's will for their lives<br />
are always very thankful to God for his kindness, provisions, protection, etc.<br />
are co-<a class="zem_slink" href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/the-chosen-ones.html" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jehovah's Witnesses and salvation">heirs with Christ</a>: and share the sufferings of Jesus by "crucifying their flesh"<br />
are doers of the word, not merely hearers- faith without works is dead.<br />
are generous; are givers whether they are poor or have much.<br />
are humble and have child-like faith.<br />
are not full of: selfish ambition, strife, quarreling, jealousy- but are peacemakers.<br />
are not hypocrites-giving God mere lip service<br />
are not prejudice- they show no partiality to the: rich, poor, skin color, race, etc.<br />
are ready, waiting, and eagerly anticipating the soon <a class="zem_slink" href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/10/behold-day-of-lord-cometh.html" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Second Coming">return of Jesus Christ</a>.<br />
are separating themselves from all ungodliness and the things of this world.<br />
are surrendering all to follow Jesus-they are "taking up their cross daily".<br />
are walking down the narrow road of God's holiness-they are God's holy remnant.<br />
are winning their battle against sin through Grace; keeping the full <a class="zem_slink" href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/i-will-fight-by-pastor-steven.html" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Armor of God">armor of God</a> on!<br />
clearly understand the gospel & clearly preach God's word with boldness<br />
display Christ-likeness in their thought-life; attitudes - a beatitude attitude<br />
do everything for the glory of God, not themselves.<br />
do not allow the cares; worries of this life to dominate their mind & conversations<br />
do not believe false teachings; anything that is contrary to God's word<br />
do not compromise with the world by listening to worldly music- true worshippers<br />
do not conform to the things of this world-their #1 goal is to be like Jesus<br />
do not look up to worldly idols such as: singers, movie stars, sports figures...<br />
do not look upon worldly magazines & books from celebrity magazines to pornography...<br />
do not partner up with unbelievers and those who compromise their walk with Jesus<br />
do not seek the approval of man, but seek only to please the Lord<br />
do not watch worldly (lustful, evil...): tv & movies, internet pornography, computer games<br />
fear the lord and turn away from evil.<br />
have integrity, hard work, & pursue righteousness- they do not lie, steal, cheat.<br />
know that financial gain does not mean godliness.<br />
know they are merely passing through this world, and their real home is with the Lord<br />
let their light shine-their face; life exudes Christ.<br />
love and do good to fellow Christians.<br />
love god's commandments; his word, reading it daily and memorizing it.<br />
love the lord their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.<br />
make use of every opportunity to do good; preach the gospel - they're "fire snatchers"<br />
obey God's commandments, his word, and the <a class="zem_slink" href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/10/yeshua.html" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jesus">lord Jesus Christ</a>.<br />
pray fervent prayers, and pray often with fellow believers.<br />
produce much fruit for Jesus- they're productive with the gospel; are godly.<br />
pursue pure and godly friendships that inspire them to be more like Jesus<br />
put no confidence in their flesh - they are decreasing; Christ is increasing<br />
rather suffer & be poor & not compromise with the world than be rich & famous-content.<br />
refuse Luke warmness-having "one foot in God's word, and one foot in the world"<br />
seek first God's kingdom, not worldly wealth; possessions.<br />
seek to please the Lord through good deeds & having a servant's heart.<br />
speak out; warn people of God's coming judgments, and preach the gospel<br />
stopped practicing sin-and when they do sin there is deep sorrow.<br />
study; teach God's word; his ways to sinners; believers-making disciples.<br />
suffer persecution; beatings for standing up for Jesus.<br />
understand God's eternal purposes for his holy people vs. This temporal evil world.<br />
words; speech are encouraging, edifying, and wise-not corrupt.<br />
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Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus warns us, "not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my father which is in heaven." On judgment day, many will say to me ''Lord! Lord! We prophesied (or preached), cast out demons, and performed many wonderful works. And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that do iniquity"<br />
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Now it is true that the Bible teaches that in Adam all die (1 Corinthians 15:22), but it also teaches that men are capable of responding positively to God's calling (Acts 2:38-41; John 6:44; Revelation 17:14; Matthew 20:16). There would be no point in fulfilling the following teachings of Jesus if humans could not respond:<br />
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(Matthew 24:14) And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.<br />
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)<br />
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Harsh as this may sound, on judgment day, many good people who do good deeds, who are even "religious" will be sentenced to spend eternity in hell. Only God knows the secrets of your heart.<br />
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In Sophist, written in 360 BC, Plato wrote:<br />
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“My notion would be, that anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another, if only for a single moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect, has real existence; and I hold that the definition of being is simply power.”</blockquote>
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Since ancient times, a strong and pervasive belief in the efficacy of prayer for the living and the dead reinforces the notion that consciousness is not limited to the physical body. Not only do traditions throughout the world share a belief that prayers may in some way help (or invoke help from) deceased ancestors, many cultures throughout history have believed that prayer can bring about changes in the physical circumstances of the living.<br />
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If prayer affects things in the physical world, its effects should be measurable, and science should be able to investigate it. There is a very scattered literature on this, but when you bring it all together as Larry Dossey has done in his book, Healing Words (HarperSanFrancisco, 1993), you see there is quite a large number of interesting experiments with challenging results. Out of 131 controlled experiments on prayer-based healing, more than half showed statistically significant benefits. One of the best known is a double blind study of 393 patients in the coronary unit at San Francisco General Hospital. In this experiment, 192 patients, chosen at random, were prayed for by home prayer groups, the others were not. The prayed-for patients recovered better than the controls, and fewer died.<br />
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In order to make sense of these data on the efficacy of prayer, science will have to change its underlying assumptions about the nature of causality. Currently, the standard view is still purely mechanistic- notwithstanding all the recent talk about chaos and complexity theory. When applied to the life sciences, chaos and complexity theory even with the help of highly sophisticated computer modeling still explain the world in terms of mechanical causes involving known physical and chemical processes.<br />
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The data from empirical studies of prayer, as well as from the large literature reporting psi research in telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis, seriously challenge the mechanistic view. Some other causal agent besides the mechanics of electrochemical interactions is required to make sense of the observed phenomena.<br />
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Holistic thinkers generally divide into two main categories. The majority want to have holism on the cheap. They want a holism which doesn't conflict with science as we know it. Instead of exploring the possibility of new causal factors, they prefer to explain holism in terms of complexity and self-organization of conventional mechanical forces, modeled with sophisticated mathematics and the latest computer techniques. Nothing essentially different from physical and chemical interactions is considered to account for the properties of living systems.<br />
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The other group of holists, a minority among which I include myself and Larry Dossey, think that there is more to it than just what we know about chemistry and physics and clever mathematical models. My view is that there are other causal factors in nature, processes that make actual differences causes in nature which bring about new kinds of effects that we have to take into account in order to understand our experience and the world. <a href="http://physic-spirit.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/rethinking-time-space-consciousness-and.html">These new causal factors are involved in things like paranormal phenomena, prayer and healing.</a><br />
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The whole thrust of my morphic resonance theory is to say there is more to nature than just the standard forces in physics. And what's more these other agents are at the very heart of the way things are organized in chemistry, in life, and in consciousness.<br />
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Prayer and Mental Fields<br />
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How might prayer fit in with the scientific view of things? I shall focus on two broad categories of prayer: petitionary and intercessory. In petitionary prayer we ask for something for ourselves; in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Intercession">intercessory prayer</a> we pray to a higher power for the benefit of other people (either living or dead).<br />
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In praying for other people and for ourselves we ask a higher power to bring about a particular result. For me, this is what distinguishes prayer from positive thinking. Positive thinking involves nothing more than ones own mind, ones own desires and wishes, but petitionary and intercessory prayer are put in the context of a higher power. For this reason positive thinking does not fit into the category of prayer even though it is often confused with it.<br />
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Whether petitionary or intercessory, prayer clearly poses a challenge to the mechanistic view of the world. According to this view, there is no way that thoughts going on in your head, which at most create small electrochemical disturbances barely detectable a few inches from your head even by highly sensitive apparatus, could affect someone or something at a remote distance.<br />
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If you were practicing positive thinking or some of the more specifically directed forms of petitionary prayer, you could resort to explanations in terms of telepathy, or if it were a prayer affecting physical objects, you might say it was psychokinesis. But such explanations serve only to replace one set of explanations which lie outside the scope of modern mechanistic science with another set. There is nothing in mechanistic science that could allow mere thoughts inside my mind, whether cast in the form of prayer or as positive thinking, to affect things at a distance. It just cant happen.<br />
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The key to understanding prayer as a scientific phenomenon requires, in my view, getting away from the idea of the mind as somehow inside the brain. <a href="http://physic-spirit.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/quantum-entanglement-and-esp.html">If we think our minds are confined to our brains the standard view then since what goes on in our brain occurs in the privacy and isolation of our own skull it cant affect anyone else.</a> However, I see minds being field-like in nature (part of my general view of morphic fields), and I see mental fields as the basis for habitual patterns of thought. Mental fields go beyond, through, and interface with the electromagnetic patterns in the brain. In this way mental fields can affect our bodies through our brains. However, they are much more extensive than our brains, reaching out to great distances in some cases.<br />
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As soon as we have the idea that the mind can be extended through these mental fields, and over large distances, we have a medium of connection through which the power of prayer could work. We are no longer dealing with a purely mechanical system in the brain, with absolutely no way of connecting the brain and the observed effect for if that were the case the phenomenon of effective prayer would have to be dismissed as delusion or coincidence. With a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_%28esotericism%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Energy (esotericism)">mental field</a>, however, we have a medium for a whole series of connections between us and the people, animals and places we know and care about with the rest of the world, in fact. When we pray, those extended mental fields would be the context in which prayer could work non-locally.<br />
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Non-Localized Mind<br />
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Clearly, this does not amount to a fully articulated scientific theory of prayer; it is highly speculative. But, I believe, it is also very clear that we need to have a much broader view of how the mind is extended beyond the brain. We need a theory of what I call the "extended mind" as opposed to the conventional scientific view of the "contracted mind" holed up inside the skull. This view of a contracted mind came from Descartes in the seventeenth century. It is a model of consciousness which separates our minds from the whole world around us into a small region in the brain a model of the mind which plainly contradicts direct experience. For example, when you see this page in front of you, you experience it as being outside you, not inside your brain. To say that this and all your other perceptions are located in your brain is a theory, not an experience.<br />
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It is important, however, not to envisage the extended mind as some amorphous field, a kind of undifferentiated Universal Mind. I dont think we should make a large leap from the concept of a contracted mind to a boundless universal mind. Such a jump isn't helpful scientifically.<br />
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My idea of morphic fields is that even though they are extended and non-local in their effects, they are still part of our individual and collective mind, but not to be equated with some ultimate Universal Mind. The morphic fields are not God. <a href="http://physic-spirit.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/scientific-understanding.html">They are non-local in the sense that they can spread out over immense distances</a> (as, for instance, gravitational fields do), so that if I were praying about somebody in Australia from my home in London the morphic field would carry the information and the prayer could work. But my mental field wouldn't usually spread out to Mars, for example, because there is nothing connecting me to someone on that planet. If someone I knew had traveled there on a spaceship, then there would be a link. For morphic fields to have a mental connection I believe there has to be something that links you to the other person. Even if you have never met the other person, I believe just knowing their name or something about them seems to be enough to establish a connection, though this connection is likely to be weaker than that between people who know each other well.<br />
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You could picture it something like this: When two people come into contact and establish some mental connection (perhaps experienced as affection, love, even hate) their morphic fields in effect become part of a larger, inclusive field. Then, if they separate from each other it is as if their particular portions of the morphic field are stretched elastically, so that there remains a "mental tension" or link between them. There has to be something like this that relates the two people.<br />
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Nested Sets of Morphic Fields<br />
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Morphic fields are organized in nested hierarchies (see below). For example, there are morphic fields surrounding the atoms in our bodies, which are within the higher level morphic fields of molecules, organelles, cells, organs and limbs, all of which exist within the morphic field associated with the entire body. The body field, in turn, would be within the field of relationships that constitute a family, within a larger social group. Societies, in turn, are embedded within ecosystems, and ecosystems within the planetary system, "Gaia". And by extrapolation, we could extend the series of nested morphic fields until we reach out beyond planetary, solar system and galactic limits to encompass the entire universe.<br />
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Even Einstein's space-time field of gravitation is a universal, cosmic field holding everything together and linking the entire universe, in fact, making it a uni-verse. It does the same thing as the World Soul or Anima Mundi of neo-Platonic philosophy. It embraces the whole cosmos. There are levels upon levels of morphic fields within fields, within which we are embedded. Human life is embedded in vastly larger fields of organization. To what degree they are conscious still remains in the realm of speculation. But I would assume that higher-level fields are not less, and probably more, conscious than we are. I would think they are more conscious than we are not simply because they are larger in size, but because they are more inclusive, contain more complexity, and encompass more possibilities.<br />
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I think that is one way of interpreting traditional doctrines about super-human intelligences, or cosmic intelligences, usually thought of in Christianity as the hierarchy of the angels. The word "angel" normally conveys the image of a good-looking youth with wings; but that's simply a pictorial representation. The traditional doctrine behind that image, however, is of a super-human intelligence. And if the solar system and galaxy have intelligence, then one might be an angel and the other an archangel. In some traditional Christian doctrines there are, for instance, nine hierarchies of angels or levels of intelligence. And I would see these as equivalent to intelligences, minds or organizing fields at different levels of complexity. The galactic angels, for instance, would embrace or include those of solar systems, which in turn would include those of planets.<br />
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This is a description of a cosmos which has intelligence at every level, not a view that sees consciousness as something that emerged from unconscious matter. Conscious intelligence was there to start with. The place to look for it is not going to be in atoms or quanta (although there may be some kind of consciousness there), but in solar systems and galaxies and in the whole cosmos. There may be all these different levels of imagination, intelligence, and mind throughout the whole of the cosmic organization. All traditional doctrines that I know of have recognized something of that kind.<br />
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Notes & References<br />
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1. For an extended discussion of these theories, see R. Sheldrake, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (Tarcher, 1981), and The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature(Vintage, 1988).<br />
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Opening Up To The Numinous<br />
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As a scientist I wasn't always interested in prayer. In fact, in earlier days I believed it was all nonsense. I was an atheist; God had no room in my scientific education. After graduating from Cambridge, I thought I had outgrown childish belief structures like religion, and that rational science was the way forward. I had a typical secular-humanist atheistic worldview for a long time, well into my thirties. And this, of course, is the worldview that most of my scientific colleagues still have. They regard religion as a relic from a superstitious age. In that context, prayer is completely meaningless, except insofar as people believe in it they may derive some psychological benefit a kind of "placebo effect".<br />
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Then in 1968 I visited India, and all the materialist assumptions I took for granted just didn't seem to work any more. What struck me most was the experience of being immersed in a culture that worked in an entirely different way to what I had been accustomed. In this exotic culture, the idea of what we might call "other realms" the supernatural or spiritual was simply taken for granted by practically everybody. There was a palpable sense of another dimension to life, everywhere you looked, and everywhere you went.<br />
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As an atheist, of course, my initial reaction was to think they were deluded in their beliefs. Yet on the other hand, these beliefs produced a fascinating culture. <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/the-didache-teaching-of-twelve-apostles.html">Even people living in the extremes of poverty seemed to have more joy in their lives than most people I knew who lived in the lap of plenty.</a> I was touched deeply by the natural human warmth, and the quality of the people and of their way of life. According to the materialist beliefs I had, poverty equaled misery; wealth and good medical attention meant, if not happiness, then at least a much better quality of life. In India I saw it wasn't as simple as that. The people there were poor beyond the comprehension of most Westerners, yet everywhere they walked about with the most radiant smiles. Walk along a street in London, Paris or New York and you see mostly harried, worried faces. That difference impressed me very deeply.<br />
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The contrast between the sense of inner joy and peace I experienced all around me in India compared with the tense way of life in the West was so striking that I decided to investigate meditation. For about four years I did various forms of Hindu practice. This didn't conflict with my scientific attitude because meditation didn't challenge my whole scientific worldview. On the contrary, I could approach my study of meditation in a truly scientific spirit. Its appeal is that you do it and see if it works. It's empirical. You sit, you calm your breath and you observe what happens. I started with Transcendental Meditation which sounded scientific in that it was supposed to lower lactose levels in the blood, have beneficial effects on the circulation, and calm brain activity. I found that meditation did indeed work. I experienced within myself that calm I was seeing all around me in India.<br />
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As a scientist I wasn't troubled. I could understand meditation by explaining to myself that it wasn't opening me up to other realms of consciousness, but that it was simply changing the physiological state of my brain. To say that breathing in a particular way and doing a particular kind of mental activity could affect my mental and physical state did not challenge my worldview.<br />
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Nevertheless, although I could follow Hindu practices, India was such a completely different civilization and culture that there was no way I'd ever be an Indian. I began to have a sense that I would need to recover my own tradition if I were to share in the deep perceptions and peace that I saw in the people around me.<br />
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Furthermore, after living there a while, I also saw the shadow side of the Hindu tradition, which I hadn't seen in my earlier brief visit. There is a fatalistic lack of concern for other people that was alien to me. That view was at variance with my more optimistic, progressivist Christian culture.<br />
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In India I came face to face with the realization that rooted in the Christian tradition is the sense that you can, and should, help other people; we can aim for some better state of affairs on Earth, for the whole of society. When I talked with my Indian friends and colleagues, it became very clear that I had this view deep within me. I realized that this sense didn't come from Hindu philosophy, nor from my atheistic outlook. Instead, I saw it came from a deeply embedded Christian view of the world that I carried with me unwittingly. In fact, I realized this partly because in conversation with my Indian friends they would frequently point out that so much of what I was expressing was a Christian view. The repeated revelation of this, even to an avowed atheist, was difficult to ignore.<br />
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I spent some time living in Father Bede Griffiths ashram, and I found that coming back to a Christian path made sense to me. I began praying and discovered that it was more helpful to me than meditating. I would say that meditation involves a kind of separation between the practice and the rest of ones life; it is going into another space altogether. You could say that contemplative prayer would have the same effect. But for me, ordinary petitionary and intercessory prayer, such as the "Lords Prayer", links the events of my daily life directly with my practice. I pray about what I've done that day and whats coming up the next day. It's a matter of bringing the very fabric of one's life -relationships, work, and personal concerns into the context of the spiritual life.<br />
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How Do Mental Fields Work?<br />
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My hypothesis of morphic resonance and morphic fields has grown out of the notion in developmental biology of "morphogenic fields". This idea dates back to the 1920s in the work of biologists A. Gurwitsch and Paul Weiss. In modern developmental biology these fields are usually regarded as heuristic devices, or as mathematical abstractions with no causal effect. By contrast, I interpret them to be causal fields with an inherent memory given by morphic resonance; in other words I regard them as one kind of morphic field. Other kinds of morphic fields include behavioral fields, responsible for coordinating instinctive or learned behavior, mental fields, responsible for organizing mental activity, and social fields, responsible for organizing social groups.<br />
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If fields are the medium of mind then what you have in the brain is an interface between one kind of field and another kind of field. All organization in the body has morphic fields underlying it. Morphic fields in the brain interact with electromagnetic (EM) fields in the brain. However, the nature of this interaction is indirect. Rather than morphic fields working directly through the electromagnetic field, they interact through both affecting the same thing in this case, physical activity within the brain.<br />
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I am not saying that there is a linear-type causal relationship between brain-electromagnetic-morphic fields. I regard mental fields as one kind of morphic field that affects the brain, shaping its activity, and this affects the EM field associated with the brain.<br />
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Here you've got fields acting on fields: morphic fields surrounding all the cells, tissues and organs of the body, as well as in molecules and cell membranes, and indeed in quantum-matter fields. This is contrasted with the more usual view of the spirit-matter dichotomy where mechanical matter and ineffable spirit interact in some kind of quasi-miraculous way. If you say that the spirit acts on the EM field, you've got a problem of miraculous intervention.<br />
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On the other hand, if everything in nature is organized by fields, and if mental fields are a more subtle kind of field, you've got no sharp dichotomy- you've got fields acting through fields at all levels of reality. So the mind-body problem ceases to be a sharp dichotomy.<br />
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by Rupert Sheldrake<br />
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     those who curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast for those who
     persecute you. For what reward is there for loving those who love you? Do
     not the heathens do the same? But you should love those who hate you, and
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     someone forces you to go one mile, go two. If someone takes your cloak,
     give also your coat. If someone takes from you what is yours, don’t ask
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     to this rule, for that one is guiltless. But the receiver must beware; for
     if one receives who has need, he is guiltless, but if one receives not
     having need, he shall stand trial, answering why he received and for what use.
     If he is found guilty he shall not escape until he pays back the last
     penny. However, concerning this, there is a saying: “Let your alms sweat
     in your hands until you know to whom to give them.”<o:p></o:p></li>
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     shall not murder a child, whether it be born or unborn.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     covet the things of your neighbor.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     swear or bear false witness.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     speak evil of others; do not bear grudges.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">You
     should not be double-minded or double-tongued, for a double-tongue is a
     deadly snare.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Your
     speech should not be false nor empty, but fulfilled by action.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     be covetous, or greedy, or hypocritical, or malicious, or arrogant.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     have designs against your neighbour.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Hate
     no one; correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than
     your own life.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, flee evil of all kinds, and everything like it. Don’t be prone to
     anger, for anger leads to murder. Don’t be jealous or quarrelsome or
     hot-tempered, for all these things lead to murder.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, don’t be lustful, for lust leads to illicit sex. Don’t be a filthy
     talker or allow your eyes a free reign, for these lead to adultery.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, don’t observe omens, since it leads to idolatry. Don’t be an
     enchanter, or an astrologer, or a purifier, or be willing to see or hear
     about these things, for these all lead to idolatry.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, don’t be a liar, since a lie leads to theft. Don’t love money or
     seek glory, for these things lead to thievery.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, don’t grumble, since it leads to blasphemy, and don’t be
     self-willed or evil-minded, for all these things lead to blasphemy.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">On the
     contrary, be gentle, since the gentle will inherit the earth.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Be
     long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and gentle and good, and with
     trembling, treasure the words you have received.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Don’t
     exalt yourself or open your heart to overconfidence. Don’t be on intimate
     terms with mighty people, but with just and lowly ones.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Accept
     whatever happens to you as a blessing, knowing that nothing comes to pass
     apart from God.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">My
     child, remember day and night him who speaks the word of God to you, and
     honor him as the Lord. For wherever his lordship is spoken of, there he
     is.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Seek
     each day the faces of the saints, in order that you may be refreshed by
     their words.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     initiate divisions, but rather bring peace to those who contend against
     one another.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Judge
     righteously, and do not take social status into account when reproving for
     transgressions. Do not waver in your decisions.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     be one who opens his hands to receive, or closes them when it is time to
     give. If you have anything, by your hands you should give ransom for your
     sins. Do not hesitate to give, and do not complain about it. You will know
     in time who is the good Rewarder.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     turn away from one who is in want; rather, share all things with your
     brother, and do not say that they are your own. For if you are sharers in
     what is imperishable, how much more in things which perish!<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     remove your hand from your son or daughter; teach them the fear of God
     from their youth.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     give orders to your servants when you are angry, for they hope in the same
     God, and they may lose the fear of God, who is over both of you. God is
     surely not coming to call on us according to our outward appearance or
     station in life, but to them whom the Spirit has prepared.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">And
     you, servants, be subject to your masters as to God’s image, in modesty
     and fear.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">You
     should hate all hypocrisy and everything which is not pleasing to the
     Lord.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do not
     in any way neglect the commandments of the Lord, but keep what you have
     received, neither adding nor taking away anything.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;">In
     your gatherings, confess your transgressions, and do not come for prayer
     with a guilty conscience.<u> This is the way of life!</u><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The way
of death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
The way of death, on the other hand, is this:<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in;">It is
     evil and accursed—murders, adulteries, lust, illicit sex, thefts,
     idolatries, magical arts, sorceries, robberies, false testimonies,
     hypocrisy, double-heartedness, deceit, haughtiness, depravity, self-will,
     greediness, filthy talking, jealousy, over-confidence, loftiness,
     boastfulness those who do not fear God.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in;">The
     way of death is the way of those who persecute the good, hate the truth,
     love lies, and do not understand the reward for righteousness. They do not
     cleave to good or righteous judgment; they do not watch for what is good,
     but for what is evil. They are strangers to meekness and patience, loving
     vanities, pursuing revenge, without pity for the needy and oppressed. They
     do not know their Creator; they are murderers of children, destroyers of
     God’s image.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in;">They
     turn away from those who are in need, making matters worse for those who
     are distressed. They are advocates for the rich, unjust judges of the
     poor. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in;">In a
     word, the way of death is full of those who are steeped in sin. Be
     delivered, children, from all of this!<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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See
that no one leads you astray<o:p></o:p></h1>
</div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in;">See
     that no one leads you astray from the way of this teaching, since all
     other teachings train you without God.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in;">For if
     you are able to bear the entire yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but
     if you are not able, then at least do what you can.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l9 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in;">Concerning
     food, do what you are able to do and be on guard against meat offered to
     idols, for that is to worship dead gods.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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Concerning
baptism<o:p></o:p></h1>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Concerning baptism, you should baptize this way:<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in;">After
     first explaining all things, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the
     Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in flowing water.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     if you have no running water, baptize in other water; and if you cannot do
     so in cold water, then in warm.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in;">If
     you have very little, pour water three times on the head in the name of
     Father and Son and Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l12 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in;">Before
     the baptism, both the baptizer and the candidate for baptism, plus any
     others who can, should fast. The candidate should fast for one or two days
     beforehand.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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Your
Fasts and Prayers<o:p></o:p></h1>
</div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in;">Your
     fasts should not be with the hypocrites, for they fast on Mondays and
     Thursdays. You should fast on Wednesdays and Fridays.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo9; tab-stops: list .5in;">And do
     not pray like the hypocrites, but rather as the Lord commanded in the
     gospel<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<br />
Our Father in heaven, holy be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us enough bread day-by-day. And forgive us
our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the
time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l8 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list .5in;">Pray
     this three times each day.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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Concerning
the Eucharist<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Concerning the Eucharist, give thanks this way.<o:p></o:p></div>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in;">First,
     concerning the cup:<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>
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      thank you, our Father, for the
holy vine of David your servant, which you made known to us through Jesus your
servant. To you be the glory forever<span class="MsoIntenseReference">.</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l11 level1 lfo11; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span>Next,
concerning the broken bread:<o:p></o:p></div>
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We thank you, our Father, for the life and knowledge
which you made known to us through Jesus your servant. To you be the glory
forever. Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills, and was
gathered together and became one, so let your church be gathered together from
the ends of the earth into your kingdom. To you is the glory and the power
through Jesus Christ forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Allow no one to eat or drink of your Eucharist, unless
they have been baptized in the name of the Lord. For concerning this, the Lord
has said, “Do not give what is holy to dogs.”<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
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After
the Eucharist when you are filled, give thanks this way:<o:p></o:p></h1>
</div>
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We thank you, holy Father, for your holy name which you
enshrined in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality that
you made known to us through Jesus your servant. To you be the glory forever.
You, Master Almighty, have created all things for your name’s sake. You gave
food and drink to all people for enjoyment, that they might give thanks to you;
but to us you freely give spiritual food and drink and life eternal through
Jesus, your servant. Before all things we thank you because you are mighty. To
you be the glory forever. Remember, Lord, your church. Deliver it from all evil
and make it perfect in your love, and gather it from the four winds sanctified
for your kingdom which you have prepared for it. For Yours is the power and the
glory forever. Let grace come, and let this world pass away! Hosanna to the Son
of David! If anyone is holy, let him come; if anyone is not holy, let him
repent. Maranatha!<br />
Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
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</span></span></span>But permit the prophets to make thanksgiving as
much as they desire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Welcome
the Teacher<o:p></o:p></h1>
</div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">Welcome
     the teacher when he comes to instruct you in all that has been said.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     if he turns and trains you in another tradition to the destruction of this
     teaching, do not listen. If he teaches so as to increase righteousness and
     the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">Act
     according to the precepts of the gospel concerning all apostles and
     prophets:<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">Let
     every apostle who comes to you be received as the Lord.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     he must not remain more than one day, or two, if there’s a need. If he
     stays three days, he is a false prophet.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">And
     when the apostle goes away, let him take nothing but bread to last him
     until his next night of lodging. If he asks for money, he is a false
     prophet.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">In
     addition, if any prophet speaks in the Spirit, you shall not try or judge
     him; for every sin will be forgiven, but this sin cannot be forgiven.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l18 level1 lfo12; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     not everyone who speaks in the Spirit is a prophet; only he is a prophet
     who has the ways of the Lord about him. <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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By
their ways will the false prophet and the prophet be known:<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l14 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in;">Any
     prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit does not eat it; if he does, he is
     indeed a false prophet.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l14 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in;">And
     any prophet who teaches the truth, but does not do what he teaches, is a
     false prophet.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l14 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in;">When
     a prophet, proved true, works for the mystery of the church in the world
     but does not teach others to do what he himself does, he will not be
     judged among you, for his judgment is already before God. The ancient
     prophets acted in this way, also.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l14 level1 lfo13; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     whoever says in the Spirit, “Give me money,” or something else like this,
     you must not listen to him. But if he tells you to give for the sake of
     others who are in need, let no one judge him.<o:p></o:p></li>
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Welcome
Anyone Coming in the Name of the Lord:<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l6 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in;">Welcome
     anyone coming in the name of the Lord. Receive everyone who comes in the
     name of the Lord, but then, test them and use your discretion.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l6 level1 lfo14; tab-stops: list .5in;">If he
     who comes is a transient, assist him as far as you are able; but he should
     not remain with you more than two or three days, if need be. If he wants
     to stay with you, and is a craftsman, let him work for his living. But if
     he has no trade, use your judgement in providing for him; for a Christian
     should not live idle in your midst. If he is dissatisfied with this sort
     of an arrangement, he is a Christ-peddler. Watch that you keep away from
     such people.<o:p></o:p></li>
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Every
Genuine Prophet<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">Every
     genuine prophet who wants to live among you is worthy of support. So also,
     every true teacher is, like a workman, entitled to his support.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">Every
     first fruit, therefore, of the products of vintage and harvest, of cattle
     and of sheep, should be given as first fruits to the prophets, for they
     are your high priests.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">But
     if you have no prophet, give it all to the poor.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">If
     you bake bread, take the first loaf and give it according to the
     commandment.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">If
     you open a new jar of wine or of oil, take the first fruit and give it to
     the prophets.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l17 level1 lfo15; tab-stops: list .5in;">If
     you acquire money or cloth or any other possession, set aside a portion
     first, as it may seem good to you, and give according to the commandment.<o:p></o:p></li>
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On
the Lords day<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">On the
     Lord’s day, gather yourselves together and break bread, give thanks, but
     first confess your sins so that your sacrifice may be pure.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">However,
     let no one who is at odds with his brother come together with you, until
     he has reconciled, so that your sacrifice may not be profaned.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">For
     this is what the Lord has said: “For from the rising of the sun to its
     setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is
     offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the
     nations, says the Lord of hosts. For I am a great King, says the Lord of
     hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations.”<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">Appoint
     bishops for yourselves, as well as deacons, worthy of the Lord, of meek
     disposition, unattached to money, truthful and proven; for they also
     render to you the service of prophets and teachers.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">Do
     not despise them, after all, for they are your honoured ones, together
     with the prophets and teachers.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo16; tab-stops: list .5in;">And
     reprove one another, not in anger, but in peace, as you have it in the
     gospel. But to anyone who acts amiss against another, let no one speak to
     him, nor let him hear anything from you until he repents. But your prayers
     and alms and all your deeds so do, as you have it in the gospel of our
     Lord.<o:p></o:p></li>
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Watch
Over Your Life<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l13 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in;">Watch
     over your life, that your lamps are never quenched, and that your loins
     are never unloosed. Be ready, for you do not know on what day your Lord is
     coming. Come together often, seeking the things that are good for your
     souls. A life of faith will not profit you if you are not made perfect at
     the end of time.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l13 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in;">For
     in the last days’ false prophets and corrupters will be plenty, and the
     sheep will be turned into wolves, and love will be turned into hate.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l13 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in;">When
     lawlessness increases, they will hate and persecute and betray one
     another, and then the world deceiver will appear claiming to be the Son of
     God, and he will do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered
     into his hands, and he will do iniquitous things that have not been seen
     since the beginning of the world.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l13 level1 lfo17; tab-stops: list .5in;">Then
     humankind will enter into the fire of trial, and many will be made to
     stumble and many will perish; but those who endure in their faith will be
     saved from under the curse itself.<o:p></o:p></li>
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And
then the signs of the truth will appear:<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in;"> 
         the first sign, an opening of the heavens;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in;"> 
        the second sign, the sounding of the trumpet;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo18; tab-stops: list .5in;"> 
        and the third sign, the resurrection of the dead—not of every
     one, but as it is said: “Then the Lord my God will come, and all the
     holy ones with him.”<o:p></o:p></li>
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<span class="MsoIntenseReference">Finally, “Then the
sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the
earth will mourn, and they will see ‘the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven’ with power and great glory.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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