The MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
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In this section, we will be treating subheadings differently since we will be covering so many important topics in one page. This page will be explaining the fundamental truths behind All of reality. Since reality is multifaceted, nothing exists with reference to itself only. NOT even Jehovah. Since everything has tangents, we have to be very careful. If I were to give attention to everything the blog would never end. To be as simple and precise as possible, then, we will cover the main point(s) and I will touch on tangents if - and only if - they themselves are main points that I would have had to treat somewhere else. Where and when that happens is solely at my discretion. That is why in this section headings and subheadings must be treated differently! Each major topic will start with its own prominent heading and its sub-points will have smaller subheadings after it. However, when we go to the next major point under the same overall topic, we will again, start with a prominent heading and follow it with smaller subheadings. We will repeat this formula for as many times as there are important topics to explain.
Enough of the heavy stuff, let’s talk about the MCU. We won’t be focusing on the characters though but on the sci-fi depictions of super-luminal space-travel (traveling faster than the speed of light). Whenever Thor, Loki, Thanos want to cover vast distances they use warp drives to bend space and use that bent space as their propulsion drive. That's what "Warp Speed" means: it means speeding from one place at one end of the universe to another, on the other side by "warping" or bending Space. Thus bent Space becomes the mechanism for intergalactic travel. We remember from Hossenfelder that the speed of light is a limit within Space, but Space itself - whatever it is made of - is not limited to the speed of light. Recall her words,
Einstein's theory of general relativity says you cannot accelerate objects from below to above the speed of light because that would take an infinite amount of energy. However, this restriction applies to objects in Space-time, not to Space-time itself. Space-time, can bend, expand, or warp at any speed. Indeed, physicists think that the universe expanded faster than the speed of light in its very early phase. General Relativity, does not forbid this" Sabine Hossenfelder - Warp Drive News: Seriously* (1:08 - 1:39)
Of course, every science commentator agrees with her, as none of them would dare to question Einstein. In the MCU this is usually portrayed when we see Thanos arriving somewhere to cause trouble. A circular portal opens up, he walks through it and it closes behind him. Usually, when its baddies who are using this technology, the portal is depicted as a very dark circular cloud that shrouds the villain on all sides. Exactly like a tunnel, but one made of dark clouds, and that fits snugly around the size of the person using it. You can see this sci-fi special effect in the scene of Thanos arriving on Titan, when he has a chat with Dr. Strange. We see the tunnel represented in a similar dark way when Hela uses it to travel from one place to another. That's an artist's impression of what it might look like. When it is in the form of a dark cloud, this Space tunnel, also always, has constant and multiple flashes of lighting while it is open, and in use by the villain. The depiction changes when the people using the technology are heroes. Then it is represented as having walls that seem to be made of light rays. It is still a circular hollow cylinder, but there is now no darkness associated with it. To see that effect, you can do a YouTubble search of Thor taking Jane on a ride to Asgard, from the movie Thor: The Dark World.
This is what most casual science-fiction lovers would call a wormhole. That is, something that connects one part of the universe to another. That is a science fiction staple, but that is not what is happening in all these movies. This technology is a transport system that manifests as a tunnel that transports the passenger between one location and another in Space. Granted that sounds like the definition of a wormhole. But the difference is a wormhole is when Space is bent to brings two different locations in the fabric of spacetime near to each other, by shrinking the Space between them. Then, you create a connecting tunnel between them, to allow for passage between one location and the other. That tunnel is the "wormhole." Whereas with warp drives, you just do the first part - bend Space: there is no need for a tunnel. At this point, you may be asking yourself: why is a tunnel needed with wormholes, but not with warp drives; and if there is no tunnel needed in warp drives, then why do the sci-fi effects depicting them show a tunnel as I have alluded to above? Good questions and understanding the answers is the point of this section!
The first thing I can tell you is the major difference has do to with how Space is defined. Moving from A to B in Space is different from moving from A to B with Space. The former relates to 'wormholes,' while the latter relates to 'warp drives.' If you pay careful attention you can see how using a warp drive differs from using normal transport to get from A to B. A scene from Thor Ragnarok where Hela jumps into Thor's and Loki's tunnel of light and uses it to get to Asgard shows interesting details. Upon arrival, and after she has introduced herself in the way only villains can, the camera pans past a felled soldier, and through the back window and starts to move through the Cosmos in the normal way - the way astronauts going to the moon might. In the movie it is the ending of the Thor, Loki, Hela Space fight while traveling to Asgard scene, but if you don't have access to the movie, it is cut into different clips on YouTube. Again just YouTubble Hela arriving in Asgard, to see the last part of the scene. You can have a fast or slow rocket, but "normal way" means you pass every point of Space in a route connecting two different locations. Whereas, a wormhole means you don't travel through spacetime, but you bend it so that the two locations are much closer together, and then the connecting tunnel is the only distance you actually have to travel. With warp drives and Space: again you bend Space, but doing so has nothing to do with bringing two distant locations closer to each other. The locations are still the same distances away from each other, but the portion of Space, that is being bent is a transport system that takes you from the one location to the other at faster than light speeds. The thought of bringing two distant locations near each other is a complete misunderstanding of what Space is - and how it works. Everything seems murky now, but it will become clear. Understanding the differences seems hard at first, but all will become clear, once we demonstrate and explain the differences, below. In particular, we want to know two things: why there is a tunnel involved in bending Space through warp drives; and secondly, you might have noticed I refer to "spacetime" in connection with wormholes, but "Space" in relation to warp drives: why is that?
In that scene you might be forgiven for thinking that the transport tunnel was just a 'special' part of Space that was marked out by light, sort of like a spotlight on an actor on a dark stage. But that is not the case. If the actor were to move out of range of a static spotlight on stage, he would just be harder to see in the dark, but there would be no barrier preventing him from leaving the area lit up by the spotlight. However, that is not the case with our Space bending tunnels - because they are made of something! Some material. We see this in the same scene of Hela fighting against Loki and then Thor. She throws both of out of the tunnel and continues on to Asgard, by herself. The part that is of interest to us, is that when she throws the brothers out, they hit the walls of the cylindrical light tunnel and crash into it. When they do, they puncture a hole into the sides, where they have made impact and then fall through the holes into the Cosmos. Please watch the scene again. Do you see the point? The walls of the warp drive tunnels are made of something! What could that something be? Once we know the answer to that, we will know why warp drives are accomplished through tunnels even though they are not wormholes. We will know the difference between wormholes and warp drives. And, we will also understand the difference between Space and spacetime!
An AWKWARD Detail!
I must tell you something rather unpleasant as an aside. But it will help you understand what comes next and also why the striking similarities between the two models of reality we are about to explore are exactly similar, though they were written 3 000 years apart. Its about angels - and demons. Actually its about demons, but since the Bible and I don't care about demons, the detail is revealed in the Bible with respect to angels, but applies by extension to demons, who are nothing more than fallen angels! I love and respect God's holy angels, so I want to emphasize that the following in no way disparages them. Only humans would take offense at it, angels are quite happy with the way God created them. This aspect of their nature has to do with the fact that they were created to be public servants!
Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 11:14 | New World Translation With References
I am going to quote a few scriptures here, just so I can paint you a picture of the types of roles God created angels to fulfill in the universe. Then you will understand clearer why they have the personalities that they do. It will all make sense shortly. Is that angels were all created to be "public" servants. In other words, they all work for the government - sort of like police officers. Next, let's see what kind of roles God uses them in:
So he drove the man out, and he posted at the east of the garden of Eʹden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning continuously to guard the way to the tree of lifeGe 3:24
How long did these angels have to be stationed there? We don't know, but we all know how long trees can last. And the flood only came 1600 years after Adam and Woman sinned. Have you ever seen the Queens guards, outside (I think) Buckingham palace? The ones with the furry black hats? Can you imagine doing that job for upto 1600 years - without taking a break? Neither can I. Let's take another example:
And as for the four living creatures, each one of them respectively has six wings; round about and underneath they are full of eyes. And they have no rest day and night as they say: 'Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.'Re 4:8 | New World Translation With References
Now I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Jehovah, but I cannot imagine doing what this verse describes. I actually once tried it, when I was growing up, saying: "holy, holy, holy is Jehovah" continuously. I got bored after a little while. I've forgotten how long I lasted for. I remember coming across this verse as a small child and thinking "how do they do that?" That's impossible! When I was growing up - that kind of task was punishment at school! If you had misbehaved in some way during class, the teacher would give you detention at the end of school and you would have to write a 100 times: "I will not do x,y,z again." It was a form of punishment. And you felt the pain, if ever you got detention. Later - at some other time - I asked my father about it, I've forgotten his answer. But you can tell how intrigued I was about the whole thing. It occupied my mind for many years. "Day and night" and with "no rest?" Wow! Even your most boring human cannot imagine doing the same thing "day and night." Humans need variety. We find that boring. Not so angels! What is it about angels that allows them to faithfully and joyfully complete the most monotonous of tasks? Standing idly by a sword for upto 1600 years? Check. Saying the same thing over and over continuously "day and night?" Check. Angels do that with joy and zeal.
The reason why is not complicated. It has to do with their personality traits. God, knowing the kind of monotonous public service roles angels would have to fulfil did not give his spirit sons the gifts of imagination and creativity when he created them. Here's another example of that basic truth in action,
Mi·caiʹah then said: “Therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne and all the army of the heavens standing by him, to his right and to his left. Jehovah then said, ‘Who will fool Aʹhab, so that he will go up and fall at Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad?’ And one was saying one thing while another said something else. Then a spirit came forward and stood before Jehovah and said, ‘I will fool him.’ Jehovah asked him, ‘How will you do it?’ He replied, ‘I will go out and become a deceptive spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ So he said, ‘You will fool him, and what is more, you will be successful. Go out and do that.’1 Ki 22:19-22
In heaven Jehovah has regular meetings where he is surrounded by all his angels. They all attend. It was one such meeting when the scene accounted in this scripture happened. Now this scripture only says "all the army of the heavens" where standing by him, but it doesn't tell us large this army is. However Revelation 5:11, says of another such occasion that Jehovah is surrounded by "myriads of myriads," which the footnote will tell you is "tens of thousands times tens of thousands." (Re 5:11) Since 10 000 times 10 000 equals a hundred million, and since plural numbers are used "tens of thousands," then the lower count for angels that exist is 200 million spirit creatures. That is only relevant to us because that is at least, how many angels are at Jehovah's "cabinet meetings" if you will. Out of all those angels, the best way plan for tricking Ahab was the one given above. This is after Jehovah listened to different suggestions from this or other angel. Using their supernatural powers to fool Ahab was the best idea from all the gathered angels.
I should not have to tell you that any 14 year old girl who wants to go to a friend's party can come up with 50 ways to try and convince her parents - without even trying! Not so with mighty angels. Having understood that, I hope you can appreciate two facts that stand in stark contrast: humans have the capacity to be creative - and a minority, endlessly so. Angels do not! All that serves as a backdrop to this next statement: Satan and his demons are not creative! They are after all angels - fallen angels, morally corrupted angels, but they were created as angels. The thing with Satan of course, is that he thought he was too special to be a "public" servant to puny humans. He wanted to rule us instead! Thus he rebelled against Jehovah and acted opposite to the role he was created to fulfil, thus becoming "Satan," which means Opposer! Be that as it may - he remains uncreative. Becoming evil didn't suddenly endow him with the gift of creativity. That is why the extent of Satan's creativity is to just negate whatever Jehovah says or creates. Jehovah created morality; Satan creates immorality. Jehovah creates fidelity; Satan creates infidelity. Jehovah represents truth; Satan originated the lie. Now that we are no longer in Eden, Jehovah says stay "Awake," Satan says stay "Woke." Most people think Satan is a creative genius for having worked out how to fool Woman, and Adam into falling into sin, but nothing could be further from the truth. The whole essence of his argument was again negation. All he did was take what Jehovah had said, and make it the opposite - by adding the word: "NOT!" Jehovah had said "You will certainly die" (Ge 2:17) Satan's approach? ...
At this the serpent said to the woman: 'You certainly will not die.'Ge 3:4
The only thing noteworthy about this attempt was how risky and brazen it was - not that the strategy was innovative or creative. "NOT!" That's the extent of Satan's creativity. This applies also in how he tells lies. For instance, in ancient times he influenced mankind to believe that the universe was like a big machine and all the heavenly bodies were held in place by perfect spheres made of a perfect material. It was the turning of these perfect spheres that was responsible for the observed orbits of the planets. It took Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo to work through the lies. But what do the details of those lies give us insight of? The fact that Satan has no imagination. Does the universe have perfect spheres that hold the heavenly bodies in their orbits? YES! It does. Certainly in that description you recognize the Halo part of the scaffolding, which is indeed made of an eternal material of God. Halos, the "interior rooms" of the sky do indeed hold galaxies in place, and they are responsible for guiding the movements of galaxies. So all Satan did in promoting this lie, was to change the scale of the function and thus effect. Whereas such entities exist on the galactic and galactic cluster scale, he made them much smaller: on the scale of the orbits of planets, their moons and the stars. That is the extent of his creativity: adding one variable that changes the narrative and confuses proper understanding.
Christ did not speak much about the demons when he was on Earth, because they are not a matter of interest to lovers of truth. He only gave one or two details when it was relevant to clarity some other point. That is the situation with us now. We are going to compare the similarities between between how God uses the Heavens and how comic book heroes and villains use spacetime. You will see an exact one-to-one feature-to-feature similarity. So I must explain why. The technical reason for why the similarity exists is simply because, that is what Satan saw happening when he was in Heaven, and since he has no imagination that is what he promotes. However, he can't do it in an obvious way, he must mix up the details so onlookers can't discern the origin and true nature of what they are seeing. That part is simple. But so is the next: we understand that's how Satan operates, but how did he communicate that to people who work on the special effects of currently popular sci-fi movies? In the olden days, Satan used to communicate with humans through spiritism and the magic practicing priests, who - essentially - were card carrying members of the Church of Satan. But in current times people are less inclined to be outright Satanists. So how does his influence filter through to popular culture? There are many innocent looking false religious practices that people regard as a form of spirituality, which actually introduce people to subtle occult practices. That's one way. But another, is much more direct. Consider the findings of American professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Diana Walsh Pasulka,
If you look at the history, there are space programs, both Russian and American, you're going to find some pretty weird stuff - pretty weird history there Lex. ... If you look back at the history of our space programs, the viable space programs are, both Russian and American. And each has an amazingly strange history, because the founders of the calculations that got us up into the space, the rocket scientists basically, were doing some pretty weird rituals and religious things. Jack parsons on our side was out in the desert ... doing really intense rituals - believing that they were opening stargates and things like that, okay! And they were really doing that. So then you go to the Russian side.... And they believed that they were interacting with angels, okay. Non-human intelligences! ... And so when I started to talk to people who were actually in the space program and who were in these programs that now, the government has said: "Oh yes, we do have these programs" - they have the same belief structures. They believe that they were also in contact with these non-human intelligences and they were getting what they called, "downloads of information" and creating ... technologies that were real and they were selling them on Nasdaq for, you know, a lot of money - undisclosed amounts - but a lot of money. And these things are viable technologies that we use now and they make our lives better and we progress as a species because of them. Now, that has nothing to do with the scientific method! As much as I know [that] anybody's going to get angry at me for saying that: but you know, sorry - those were strange encounters that created our ability to go into space! I don't know if they were real or not. But these people believe they were real. I was really surprised by it!" Diana Walsh Pasulka - Lex Clips | Aliens are Part of the History of Russian and US Space Programs
It is no different than in Egypt at the time of the Exodus, when Jehovah sent Moses to Pharaoh and his fellow Israelites. In the beginning every miracle Jehovah performed was matched by the magic practicing priests through their "secret arts." (Ex 7:22) That was why Pharaoh's heart "continued to be obstinate." Only with the later miracles did Jehovah create a distinction to show who he was. When the magic-practicing priests could not perform the same miraculous acts, they knew what it meant: "It is the finger of God!" they told Pharaoh. (Ex 8:16-19) The key factor in that account is that they only knew the limit of their secret arts after trying - and failing - to perform the miracles. This shows that the power behind their miracles was not scientific. It was not theirs, but belonged to the demons behind that ancient religion. This is what Walsh Pasulka means when she says, "Now that has nothing to do with the scientific method! ... Sorry!" Of course, Satan and his demon minions hardly ever present themselves as demons. Unless, I suppose they are dealing with someone as evil as they are. Instead, they insist on projecting themselves as helpers and benefactors to mankind. Satan rebelled because he thought he wanted fame and worship. Jehovah renamed him Satan (opposer) and the Devil (slanderer) so no one knows his original name. However Satan tries to counteract that by promoting himself as Lucifer, which means "shining one." Poor fool! The lord of darkness trying to portray himself as an object of light. The continuous PR stunt is documented for us in the Bible:
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light2Co 11:13,14
We care nothing about Satan and his demon minions. This foray into their lack of imagination and how they slyly influence human culture and scientific progress is just a background for you to understand what comes next.
God's Transport System
Remember when we covered how God moves about - when we went over the functionality of his Celestial Chariot. It was so we could do a side by side comparison in this section! We will do so, as always, by examining the Evidence Profiles of what seem to be two drastically different phenomenon: Jehovah's celestial chariot; and the intergalactic movements of gods and superheroes in the MCU! Isn't science exciting!
First, let's refresh our minds about the salient features of Jehovah's chariot. What we will do this time, is to look at different scriptural passages that generally describe Jehovah traveling through the universe. They have different levels of detail, going from mere mentions to more informative declarations. There are three such passages of scripture we will be looking at. Thereafter we will revisit the specific, detailed account of Jehovah in travel that we find in Ezekiel. Our aim will be to pore over its intricate details again, this time, based on our newfound knowledge of the very real, but subtle differences between the various realities that all fall under the term "spirit!" This will help us to realize that we must look deeper than mere apparent meaning of everyday words and focus on the Evidence Profiles furnished by all hyperlinked scripture, if we are to come to an accurate understanding of the true meaning behind Scripture. The scriptural passages that deal with how Jehovah travels from one part of his universe to another are: Ps 104:3; Ps 144:5; and Isa 64:1. Let us take each of them in turn ... starting with the poetic version - Psalms 104:3,
The POETIC Version
The One building his upper chambers with beams in the very waters, making the clouds his chariot, walking upon the wings of the windPs 104:3
It is verses like this one that convinces atheists and people who generally do not want to worship God, that the Bible is a book of fantastical stories. It is of such scriptures that Galileo wrote so many centuries ago, when he said:
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned" Galileo Galilei
The "bare meaning of the words." What did God mean when he inspired these holy words to be written? Did he want to convey to humans that the wind has wings? What does it mean that he makes the "clouds his chariot?" Remember that the key to understanding is unlocking common meaning by discerning the relationships between interlinked parallel scriptures. That is different scriptures that are commenting about the same event, entity, system or circumstance. We will find out more about what God meant by using the words "wind" and "chariot" shortly. For now, we want to know how he traverses Space. Does Jehovah travel from A to B the way humans do - by covering the Space separating the two points. Or, does he use warp drives?
A More Detailed Version
O Jehovah, bend down your heavens that you may descend; touch the mountains that they may smokePs 144:5
Immediately we recognize the answer: Jehovah uses warp drives to cover great distances. We have already determined that the radius of the halo within which the Milky Way is housed is at least 50 000 light years. It would take 50 000 years, traveling at the speed of light to cover the distance. We have also covered that out of all the halos Jehovah could have chosen for his personal residence, he has chosen the one that surrounds the Milky Way. Thus were he traveling to Earth from his heavenly abode using traditional transport mechanisms, it would take him at least 50 000 years to get to the Earth. However in the Bible, Jehovah is spoken of as coming to the Earth in response to the sufferings of his precious servants. He comes down to remove the causes of their pain and suffering. Since, humans have a life span of 80 to a 100 years, it is quite obvious that his mode of transportation has to be significantly faster than the speed of light! The scripture tells us directly that he uses warp drives. That is what the phrase: "bend down your heavens" means. Recall how Hossenfelder defined warp drives:
A warp drive is a new method of travel. It brings you from one place to another, not by moving you through Space, but by deforming Space around you. Alright. Easy enough. Just one thing. How do you do that? Well Einstein taught us that you can deform Space with energy. ... So you're traveling even though you didn't move" Sabine Hossenfelder - Are Warp Drives Science Now?
That deforming of Space is exactly what this scripture is describing Jehovah as doing in order to come to Earth at velocities that are faster than the speed of light. But what part of heaven is Jehovah bending because we remember that he explained to us in Isaiah that the heavens were like a "fine gauze?" Well we also remember that that "fine gauze" was in turn made of "ropes" or "cords" of Invisible Zint. And that such cords can be tied or loosened. We can only imagine the amount of energy it would take to tie or loosen Inzintian filaments that span whole galaxies! Our next more scientific hyperlinked scripture includes that detail.
The SCIENTIFIC Version
O if only you had ripped the heavens apart, that you had come down, that on account of you the very mountains had quakedIsa 64:1
So for Jehovah to "bend down" the heavens and descend, he must "rip apart" the heavens. Put another way he must separate one of the cords or filaments from the halos so that he can use it for faster than light travel. If you remember our original scripture about the "structure" or "dome," it had a detail that we glossed over at the time but need to pay careful attention to now. Because the detail represents a significant feature of Jehovah's galactic halos or "domes." Here again for your convenience is the scripture in question:
He who is building in the heavens his stairs, and his structure over the earth that he founded ... Jehovah is his nameAm 9:6 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
That feature is the "stairs" that Jehovah has built into the heavens. What are they and how do they work? Jehovah's complete transport system is made up of two parts: his chariot for covering local, or short distances (the way we use trains, planes and automobiles); but secondly he has what he describes variously in the Bible as "stairs" or as a "staircase." This second mode of transport is what he and his angels use to cover vast distances - such as the estimated minimum distance of 50 000 light years between Heaven and Earth. There are multiple examples of it being used in the Bible. Here is a famous one, that is - of course - widely misunderstood!
Jacob departed from Beʹer-sheʹba and kept going toward Haʹran. In time he came to a place and prepared to spend the night there because the sun had set. So he took one of the stones of that place and set it to rest his head on and lay down there. Then he had a dream, and look! there was a stairway* set on the earth, and its top reached up to the heavens; and there were God’s angels ascending and descending on it. And look! there was Jehovah stationed above it, and he said: 'I am Jehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, to you I am going to give it and to your offspring.'Ge 28:10-12
Other translations use the visual of a "ladder." The footnote in the New World Translation with References even mentions, Or "rising flight of stones." So this is the structure angels and Jehovah uses to descend and ascend between Heaven and Earth. But we have seemingly conflicting details. When Jehovah uses it the Bible tells us he riding upon "the wings of a spirit." In other words, the cherub is flying. But here with Jacob, we are told the angels use it as a "rising flight of stones." This description was obviously to make it more palatable to Jacob, who is the first person Jehovah revealed this structure to. The other scriptures that mention it are much later in the history of the nation of Israel, after the people had become used to receiving angelic guests, and to different descriptions of the "stairway." This is obvious because if it was a stationary stairway and the angels had to go up to heaven one step at a time, it would defeat the purpose. How long would it take to get to heaven - 50 000 light years away? Alternatively if the angels were moving on it as fast they could, the motion would be a blur to Jacob and he wouldn't be able to make sense of what he was seeing. Imagaine if you could "see" the individual rays of sunlight coming to your eyes. The sensory overload would wreck your brain. System shutdown - similar to breaking the internet. I think it was Elon Musk who said whenever a radically new technology is introduced to the public, it's designers make it as similar to the old technology as possible so people can get used to it slowly. Making it too radically different overwhelms people. He then gave the example of the car. The first cars looked like horse carriages, and the engines were rated in "horse power" for that reason. I believe this was when he was launching his solar power company. He explained that they could have made the solar "tiles" out of any material and they wanted but they purposely made them look like old terracotta and slate tiles for the reasons I have already explained. Well if Musk understands human psychology, how about the person who designed it!
It is clear from later descriptions of humans seeing angels ascending and descending, that the action of the angels was not of climbing stairs, but of "flying." Here are three hyperlinked examples:
He further said to him: 'Most truly I say to you men, you will see heaven opened up and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of man.'Joh 1:51
That was Jesus speaking to his disciple Nathanael at the beginning of his ministry. Three and a half years later, his prophecy was fulfilled when, after his resurrection, Jehovah sent angels to escort him back to Heaven! What a momentous occasion that must have been - Christ arriving in Heaven after a successful sojourn on Earth. Anyhow, here is the scriptural description of the fulfillment of Christ's earlier prophecy:
Then he led them out as far as Bethʹa·ny, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. As he was blessing them, he was parted from them and taken up to heaven. And they did obeisance to him and returned to Jerusalem with great joyLu 24:50-52
What do you think? When the Bible says Jesus was: "parted from them and taken up to heaven," does it mean his disciples saw his him going up a flight of stairs? Is that what you've imagined in your mind, whenever you've come across this scripture before? Of course not. You think of Christ and the angels who accompanied him as flying back home - as this next, parallel text, confirms:
After he had said these things, while they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud caught him up from their sight. And as they were gazing into the sky while he was on his way, suddenly two men in white garments stood beside them and said: 'Men of Galʹi·lee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into the sky will come in the same manner as you have seen him going into the sky.'Ac 1:9-11
I hope you know that in aviation, the technical term for "taking off in flight" is called Lift! Enough, let's move on.
Let's put it all together. We have multiple details that must all add up to a single understandable picture: this mode of travel requires the Heavens to be ripped apart, that is, a "filament" or "rope" of the Heavens to be loosened from its "halo" or "dome" in order to be bent into a different shape that extends from Heaven to Earth; this "rope" "cord" or "filament" is called "stairs" or a "stairway" because of its function of connecting a higher and lower realm together, not because it is made of literal steps (angels prefer flying rather than walking); lastly, when this "filament" or "rope" is thus arranged between Heaven and Earth, it allows people standing on Earth to see into Heaven! Why have I emphasized the word "when?" Because not every occasion of people seeing he "heavens opened up" relate to the warp drives. In the case of the three scriptures quoted above, the Bible does not mention that the humans saw into heaven itself. In this instance the heaven referred to is our common "sky" and the part about it "opening up" can be likened to the weather clearing up. As Christ ascended, he was blocked from their view by a cloud. This is exactly what Christ meant when he said the reverse would occur for the angels that would descend to fetch him, and then ascend with him. In their case: the instead of clouds blocking the line of sight of the witnesses, they would instead "open up" so that his disciples could see the descending angels! No mention is made in these verses about seeing into heaven. We cannot go beyond the things that are written! The purpose of quoting these verses was not about corroborating the Inzintian filaments, but to show how angels accomplish their "descending and ascending." This is in contrast to Jacobs vision which directly tells us that the staircase was from the Earth and reached clear to the spiritual heavens, for the Bible adds: "And, look! there was Jehovah stationed above it...."
Alternately, sometimes faithful ones just see the heavens opened up without the aid of an Inzintian rope. Jehovah just gives them a vision into heaven - like a floating scene superimposed onto open space. Consider Stephen's case below:
Well, at hearing these things, they were infuriated in their hearts and began to grind their teeth at him. But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand, and he said: 'Look! I see the heavens opened up and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand.'Ac 7:54-56
Stephen merely saw "the heavens opened up...." There is no mention of the bending of Heaven, or staircases. So we must be careful to read the accounts carefully, and never to go "beyond what is written!" (1Co 4:6) We have covered different scenarios. One where earthlings just see angels flying without the need for an Inzintian cord (as in the case of Christ being ministered to by angelic escorts). Another - as in the case of Jacob's supernatural dream - where an Inzintian rope or "staircase" is seen. In such cases, it is the mechanism that facilitates quick access between the spiritual heavens and earth. Put another wary we can say it makes quick travel between the Spirit realm and the Cosmos possible. Lastly we have our original scripture for consideration as found in Ps 144:5 "O Jehovah, bend down your heavens that you may descend...." Jacob's example helps us to discern a detail about the construction of these heavenly filaments - THEY ARE HOLLOW. Like looking through a straw! This feature is why they are used to transport Jehovah and his angels from a higher to a lower realm and back again? To understand this critically important detail more clearly, consider Ge 28:12,13 again:
Then he had a dream, and look! there was a stairway set on the earth, and its top reached up to the heavens; and there were God’s angels ascending and descending on it. And look! there was Jehovah stationed above it, and he said: 'I am Jehovah the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, to you I am going to give it and to your offspring.'Ge 28:12,13
What we are interested in, is determining where "Heaven" was positioned when Jacob saw it - in relation to where we see clouds? Where was Jehovah "stationed" in Jacobs dream relative to our sky? Are these "Heavens" at the same eye-level as Earth's cloud layer? Are they below it? Or, are they higher? When people fly on long journey international flights are they flying higher than the place God calls "home?" (Isa 57:15) Is the International Space Station higher than the throne of God? (Isa 66:1) Where in relation to our "sky" is Jehovah's "Heaven?" The visions of Paul as documented in Acts help us out:
I have to boast. It is not beneficial, but I will move on to supernatural visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in union with Christ who, years ago — whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know; God knows — was caught away to the third heaven. Yes, I know such a man — whether in the body or apart from the body, I do not know; God knows - who was caught away into paradise and heard words that cannot be spoken and that are not lawful for a man to say2 Co 12:1-4
The Bible was inspired by God, so it can only be rightly credited to him, but I love that he chose to inspire different individuals to write down his thoughts. That's because each Individual's personality also comes through in the accounts. So writers like Luke and the Apostle Paul bring a unique flavour to their writings for they were professionals - with Luke being a physician, and the Apostle Paul a lawyer. This enabled them to add certain technical details which were a result of their special, focused training.
WHICH "Heavens" are Bending?
In this scripture the relevant detail the Apostle gives us is the descriptive term "third heaven!" What does that mean? In all cases the Bible describes "Heavens" as a place for habitation. Even what we call "heaven" is referred to such because it enables the preservation of life through an atmosphere. Here's NASA:
For a planet, the habitable zone is the distance from a star that allows liquid water to persist on its surface – as long as that planet has a suitable atmosphere" NASA - What is a Habitable Zone?
What NASA here refers to as a suitable atmosphere is what humans refer to casually as "heaven!" That is why Musk has as his Twitter banner, the greening of Mars by creating an atmosphere. This is in accord with Jehovah's words when he described the criteria for "heaven" in Isaiah 40:22: "He is stretching out the heavens like ... a tent to dwell in" So dwellability is a requirement for something to have the title of Heaven, in addition to other factors of course. Since the Holy Spirit has here introduced a numbering system, it must also provide a mechanism for corroborating how the numbering system works!
Of course, you already know what that mechanism is, and how it works. It is the correct ordering of hyperlinked scriptures to discern the true meaning behind everyday words. When this is done correctly, it will always agree with all any and all empirical evidence! Let us get to it ...
The Universe is STRATIFIED inTO Concentric Layers of DWELLABILITY
Top-Down Open System
The first thing to say is to repeat what we have previously asserted: the universal hierarchy is a top-down open system between its two realms, or orders of existence. We recall Jehovah's question to Job, which gave evidence of this top-down dynamic:
Do you know the laws governing the heavens, or can you impose their authority on the earth?Job 38:33
Obviously the instructions themselves come from the person of Jehovah. So is his dwelling higher still than the Cosmos? That is the question we will now answer. Together with classifying all the heavens into their ordered system - as per the Bible and all empirical evidence. Let's start with the only directly numbered heavens in the Biblical record - the "third heaven."
The THIRD Heavens!
Our classification of the third heaven is made infinitely easy by the fact that the Apostle Paul also identified the kind of beings who dwell there. They are not human, because, as you will remember from the scripture in Acts, his vision of that domain included hearing words that were illegal for humans to utter! Thus this realm is not in the Cosmos, but is the spirit realm. The place where Jehovah, Christ and all the righteous angels dwell. The fact that the inhabitants were identified is the key to understanding both the numbering and ordering system of the universe's "Heavens." That's because other hyperlinked scriptures that also speak of the heaven that is inhabited by spirit beings, give other relevant details about it. For instance, they describe it as the "highest" heaven, or alternately as the "heaven of the heavens." This all helps us discern where it fits in God's universal scheme:
You alone are Jehovah; you made the heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens and all their army, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. And you preserve all of them alive, and the army of the heavens are bowing down to youNe 9:6
How do we know that the "heaven of the heavens" mentioned here is the one where God, Christ and the angels live? Because "all their army ... are bowing down" to him, thus this army is not the inanimate kind, but the angels. (Ps 148:2) Moreover, Jehovah is "preserving" everything in the listed entities: the heaven of the heavens; the earth; and the sea "alive." That includes how he created angels to be everlasting. Third, the phrase "heaven of the heavens" means the original heavens, or the prototype of all heavens, if you will. There is no debate there, as Genesis 1:1 tells us clearly which heavens is the original one - the spiritual heavens of the stretchable "fine gauze!" We know that because the heavens that the Sun and moon and all the stars were placed in was only created on Day 2 of Jehovah's creative works, and represents the physical heavens of the Cosmos because it is defined as an expanse between two physical entities: "the waters beneath the expanse" and the "waters above the expanse." (Ge 1:6-8) No such parameters exist for the "fine gauze." Lastly, as previously mentioned Genesis 1:1 is unique because the entities mentioned there are COMPLETE! This is borne out by the fact that the "fine gauze" is a complete one-piece eternal structure. The structure can be manipulated and stretched, tied together in certain ways, or loosened to create certain effects - but it is complete! None of those variations are creating additional heavens, they are just manipulating the heavens that were already there. So we must have it clear in our minds that the events of Genesis 1:1 which occurred before the creative days even started are different from the creation of a Cosmic heaven on the second creative day! IT IS THESE ORIGINAL "HEAVEN OF THE HEAVENS" - THE SPIRITUAL "THIRD" HEAVENS THAT JEHOVAH BENDS IN TRAVELING THROUGH THE UNIVERSE. He tells us so, himself!
Genesis directly lists the creation of two heavens: one at Genesis 1:1; and the second at Genesis 1:6. Their order of appearance is chronologically determined so obviously the heavens of Genesis 1:1 - before creative days were established - predate those created on the second creative day. Thus the Holy Spirit's description of the heavens Jehovah bends to use as a warp drive, that is, his universal transport system to get from one distant point in the universe to another - makes clear which of the two heavens he is talking about:
To the one who rides the ancient heaven of heavensPs 68:33
It can't get any simpler. Not only does this scripture tie Jehovah's transport system to the "heaven of heavens," which we know means the prototype, the original one, but the adjective it uses to describe them - "ancient" - fulfills its role of distinguishing these heavens from any other. By stating that they are ancient we settle the question of which heaven Jehovah bends definitively! Only the original heavens of Genesis 1:1 can fit that description!
EXPLANATORY NOTE
From now on we will introduce the convention of depicting all Habitable Zones as special by marking them in green! It is for this reason that this galactic halo has green bands. This, in our example, is where Jehovah, Christ, and the angels would live - within Heaven! We must not take a simplistic view. Just because Heaven is described as a place where spirit beings dwell, does not mean that the whole Heavens are useful for this purpose. No, just like on Earth, there are some places that are suitable for dwelling - and others that are not. Even in your own home, you have 'living rooms,' but there are some places you would not "live": like in your bathroom, or garage. Similarly, Christ showed that in Heaven living spaces have to be prepared, just like you might
own a vacant plot of land, but still need to build your house: "In the house of my Father are many dwelling places. Otherwise, I would have told you, for I am going my way to prepare a place for you." (Joh 14:2)
Thus, the green outer sphere, shows that Heaven is a Habitable Zone. But the green bands show the exact location of the "abodes" or "dwelling places" Christ spoke about! The last thing to note is that, although Heaven is a Habitable Zone, it is a very special habitable zone - only spirit beings can inhabit Heaven: "Where I am going, you cannot come," Jesus told the Jews. (Joh 8:21) That is because, "... Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption." (1Co 15:50) The "corruption" and "incorruption" spoken of here include, but mean more than just moral qualities, they are also terms meant in the most technical, scientific way. For instance, Satan and his demons are not moral, yet as spirit beings they are made of incorruptible
Invisible Zint. That means, the only way for them to die is to be judged - and killed. There is no death from natural causes in Heaven - even if your are a premier sinner! (1Jo 3:8; 1Ti 3:6; Re 20:10)
Do not get confused. The fact that the legionous spiritual heavens are stretched and more and more of them appear as they are being stretched does not mean there are more heavens being created. Remember the "Legion" of demons that came out of the demon possessed man, but that then separated and went into a herd of swine. What was happening as they were being expelled? Were more and more demons coming into existence? Of course not. They were just separating from each other. They were merely going from being in a combined legionous arrangement to one where they were separated. That is what is happening when Jehovah "stretches" the previously legioned Invisible Zint of the fine gauze! The only difference is that the Universal Web will always be one-piece: it is either compactly legioned, or stretched, but still one unit. Below is another example of identifying the original heaven by yet another variable:
Look, to Jehovah your God belong the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens,* and the earth with all that is in itDe 10:14
And ...
Praise him, O highest heavens* and waters above the heavensPs 148:4
I have left the asterisks in, because it is the footnotes that we are interested in. And the point is that both terms: "heavens of the heavens" and "highest heavens" are interchangeable and used synonymously! In Deuteronomy where the phrase "heavens of the heavens" is used, the footnote reads: Or, "the highest heavens." And in Psalms were the phrase "highest heavens" is used, the footnote reads: Lit[erally], "heavens of the heavens." The point is clear: the terms have equal meaning, and are thus interchangeable! That is great news for us, because it gives us the final important link in our chain of reasoning. We already know that the "heavens of the heavens" means the original heavens of Genesis 1:1. We have already confirmed that these prototype "heaven of the heavens" are indeed the "ancient" heavens of Ge 1:1. (That makes them the spiritual heavens, since the physical Cosmic heavens are the ones created on Day 2!) We also know that the spiritual heavens are exclusively occupied by spirit beings, for Christ plainly told his disciples: "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later." (Joh 13:36) Later, of course would be after they have been resurrected with incorruptible spirit bodies, for "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom." Human bodies have to be "transformed" into spirirual bodies before they can enter the spiritual realm!
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. ... It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. ... But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:42,44,50-52
Additionally, we know that the Holy Spirit calls these heavens the "third heavens" by the hand of Paul. Further, we know that the "third heavens" were Jehovah, Christ and the righteous angels live, is also the "heavens of the heavens" or to use its synonymous term, "the highest heavens!" How can the original heavens be listed as the "third" heavens? Because that number does not indicate which heavens appeared first, but rather, how they are ordered in relation to each other! Conclusion? In Jehovah's numbering scheme: the "fine gauze," the spiritual "heavens of the heavens" are the highest heavens, and the highest heavens are numbered as the third heavens. Fantantic! Jehovah is MIGHTY in all that he does! You will understand shortly. We will all understand shortly. For now, we have positively identified the third heavens - we have two more to go. If you are paying attention, you would have immediately recognized a numbering problem. There are only two heavens directly mentioned in the Genesis account: the original spiritual heavens of Genesis 1:1, and the baryonic heavens of the Cosmos that were created on the second creative day and first mentioned as an expanse called "Heaven" at Genesis 1:6. Wherefrom then, another heaven? One thing at a time. Let us tackle the easiest problem first.
The FIRST Heavens
Having understood that the highest heavens are heaven number 3, it should be easy to identify heaven number 1. If heaven number 3 is the penthouse in a skyscraper, then heaven 1 should be ground zero! Fortunately Jehovah makes it even easier than that for us, because in the Genesis account he labels ground zero at a time when there can be no confusion as to its location because there was only one object that existed (remember) - the Earth! In verses 6 to 8 Jehovah takes the waters, which only exist on Earth at this point, and separates them into two concentric portions. He then calls the space between them - the expanse - "Heaven" (Or "Sky" ... says the footnote). We know that at this point both the spiritual heavens and the now newly created Cosmic heavens existed as nested concentric spheres because the Christ tells us that the realm he is from is "above." Since his words must apply to all humans whether they live in Australia or Canada, such heavens must be above the Earth on all sides, just our atmosphere surrounds the Earth on all sides. Do you remember when people used to pull their hair out when they thought one part of the Earth was losing its protective atmosphere - whey they thought there was a hole in the ozone layer? That just underscores the understanding that such concepts are only valid if they encompass their entire globe!
We are almost there. The actual dynamics are a little more nuanced than first meets the eye, so let's nail down the actual Evidence Profile of the first heavens. We have actually already touched on it. The NASA quote we had earlier, showed us that two factors were needed for a planet to be habitable: an atmosphere and its orbit around its home star must be in the star system's Habitable Zone! Another quote from NASA,
In our solar system, Earth sits comfortably inside the Sun’s habitable zone. Broiling planet Venus is within the inner edge, while refrigerated Mars is near the outer boundary. For larger, hotter stars, the zone is farther away; for smaller, cooler stars, it can be very close indeed. Finding these 'just right' planets in the habitable zone is one of the keys to finding signs of life" NASA - What is a Habitable Zone?
Fine. We have identified two heavens and they both indeed meet our criteria of the heavens being habitable as outlined by Jehovah - the Creator of Heaven and Earth! I have already given you the answer for where the third heavens lie - in that last sentence. The key is in being able to look at matters through Evidence Profiles rather than how they appear at face value. Doing so will make it clear to you what God means when he uses the word "dwell" in reference to the heavens. Everything having to do with sustaining human life has to do with finding the right range. Just because the Earth has an atmosphere doesn't mean that you can live anywhere on Earth with equal ease - some places are more hospitable than others. Some locations are so harsh, no one lives there. Range! Two factors are needed for the range to be "just right" as NASA put it: a planet within its home star's solar Habitable Zone, and that the planet must have an atmosphere! Please see illustration 25, below, to demonstrate this fact to yourself!
In our above example, only Earth meets both "dwell[ing]" factors. Even if Saturn, somehow had a rudimentary atmosphere, it would not meet the criteria to be a suitable exoplanet, because it is outside of the targeted Sweet Spot - the Solar Habitable Zone. It may surprise you to learn that, that such a range even applies in heaven. But there it has to do more with how Jehovah organizes different comforts, more than with whether angels would die if they were not within a certain range of factors. A special group of Christ's followers called the "Anointed" have been invited to live with him in Heaven. As discussed above, they can't just show up. Christ must first prepare a place for them:
In the house of my Father are many dwelling places. Otherwise, I would have told you, for I am going my way to prepare a place for you. Also, if I go my way and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you home to myself, so that where I am you also may beJoh 14:2,3
So, even thought the spiritual "fine gauze" is like a tent to "dwell" in, there are spaces dedicated for dwelling and places that are dedicated for non-dwelling activities within that spirit realm. Just like in your dwelling. You perhaps have spaces for living, and spaces to park your car - and they are not the same space. The same is true in heaven. Angels have quarters where they dwell. And there is a different area where Jehovah regularly meets with his angelic sons for discussions and other matters. (Job 1:6; 2:1; 1Ki 22:19-22) This is why it is called a "realm." Because many different structures are found, and functions performed there. If range matters in heaven where everything is eternal, how much more so in the Cosmos? Thus, dwellability, or its scientific equivalent habitability is the key to identifying the individual ranges of the three heavens. The universe is not made up of just the spirit realm, which means the spiritual heavens have a range! They exist in some places, but not in others. Likewise, the universe is not all baryonic Cosmos. Which, similarly means the Cosmos, and the structures within it, have a range - they start somewhere and end somewhere. Lastly, something cannot be labeled as "Heaven," if it does not have a Habitable Zone within it!
Consider the vast voids of the universe. The vast empty spaces between the halos and connecting filaments of Heaven. Can any part of such voids be considered "heaven?" NO! FOR THEY DO NOT CONTAIN HABITABLE ZONES. Let's resolve the elusive second heavens.
The SECOND Heavens - Where are They?
Since our numbering arrangement is coordinated by concentric spheres of habitable expanses, figuring out where the second heavens are should now be common sense. Basically there should be a habitable expanse between the first heavens and the highest or third heavens. In other words we now have a scale which goes from one to three and we have to identify a Habitable Zone that fits in between - the second heaven!
We don't even have to go outside of our own Milky Way galaxy to find it. Since the Milky Way, like all galaxies, has an Inzintian halo surrounding it - a third heavens. It must also, therefore, have a second heavens! The halo surrounding our Milky Way, as we have already established is our local heavenly "dome." And per his choosing, it happens to be the particular dome or halo that Jehovah has chosen - out of all the other billions of estimated domes - as his personal home! This dome is our local "third heaven." Within it, as we scale down, in the Milky Way galaxy we realize that there is another Habitable Zone that fits below the Inzintian "dome" of the third heavens, but above the Solar Habitable Zone of the first heavens: it is the middle-scale Galactic Habitable Zone. THE GALACTIC HABITABLE ZONE IS THE MISSING SECOND HEAVENS!
EXPLANATORY NOTE
So, the sun is in the middle of the Milky Way's Galactic Habitable Zone, but the Milky Way has billions of star systems. How many of them have exoplanets that can be terraformed to be like Earth? This is a crucial and unique point to realize about the second heavens: each 'second heavens' contains millions of suitable 'first heaven' candidates. Only when humans explore, find a suitable exoplanet candidate and then terraform that planet to make it suitable for habitation, does it turn into a 'first heaven!'
Putting it All TOGETHER
Thus, we see how all three heavens fit into each other concentrically. But since there is more than one solar system in the Milky Way, it follows that there should be more than one "first heaven" in the Milky Way. Indeed there are. Everywhere NASA finds a suitable exoplanet under "just right" conditions, they have identified a viable "first heaven." Similarly, there is more than one galaxy in the the universe. Thus, there must be more than one "second heaven" - all observable data suggests there are trillions. But how does that dovetail with the "third heaven" since there is only one "fine gauze?" Perfectly. Because, whilst, there's only one Universal Web, it has trillions of estimated third-heaven "domes" in its universe wide network. That is there are estimated to be trillions of spiritual realm "halos" throughout the universe, and they all contain galaxies. There are more domes than there are galaxies, because every galaxy has a dome, but some domes also surround constellations, which are groups of galaxies - as per Jehovah's own words to Job, when he referred to the "ropes" of the Kimah and Kesil constellations. Every halo, whether on the galactic scale; on the scale of much larger galactic superclusters (many galaxies); or on the yet larger scale of constellations is a THIRD heavens (Spiritual realm) that nests the local aggregation of SECOND heaven galactic habitable zones (Cosmos), which in turn nest FIRST heaven solar habitable zones (also Cosmic). And so each halo forms a pattern of three scales of habitability: one spiritual; and two physical - that repeats itself trillions of times throughout the universe! Thus, the Habitable Zones are nested in concentric spheres, Russian doll style, one inside the other - with the spiritual layer being the outermost shell, and ground zero being the first heavens of Earth - or all terraformed exoplanets.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This illustration demonstrates an unique point about constellations: the individual stars that form a constellation are often the brightest stars from different galaxies. I lost interest in finishing the illustration, because the point it makes is too basic - we should all know this. I am only interested in illustrating new knowledge. In any case from the Earth we would see an 'X' or 't' constellation, if there was one particularly bright star, in each of these four galaxies - as viewed from Earth. Now, as per the Bible's words at Job 9:9, and Jehovah himself at Job 38:31, we understand that not only is it Jehovah who created the relevant galaxies from which the stars that made up those ancient constellations were to be found, but that he groups some galaxies together in a group halo! That is the real aim behind this illustration: to demonstrate that, not only do individual galaxies have their own galactic halos, but groups of galaxies can also share a halo. All that is captured in Jehovah's words: "Can you tie the ropes of the Ki'mah constellation or untie the cords of the Ke'sil constellation?" (Job 38:31) These "ropes" and "cords" are, of course, the filaments of the "fine gauze" that make up each halo!
Of course, NASA put an evolutionary bent on their definition of habitable zones and exoplanets, saying "Finding these 'just right' planets in the habitable zone is one of the keys to finding signs of life." They are speaking of alien life. There is no such thing as alien life. They are signs of something else - but more on that later.
We couldn't have separated fact from fiction in discussing how Jehovah uses the bending of the heavens as his intergalactic transport system without taking this time to properly understand the different heavens (or habitable zones) found in the Bible - and reality! Having now done so, we are ready to complete our earlier task of understanding what the MCU has to do with how Jehovah uses the heavens as his transport system. Let us pick up our earlier trend of thought, by studying the fourth and fullest version of the Bible's explanation of how Jehovah uses celestial warp propulsion - to go warp speed.
The FULL Evidence Profile Version
Previously, we considered three different versions of the parallel scriptures, from poetic, to a little more detailed, to the scientific version. Each time a little more detail was added, allowing us to discern more and more of the true meaning behind the words. Now we look at the last version of these parallel scriptures. One where all the details come together to paint a full picture of how Jehovah moves at faster than light speeds, through his universe! Please find it below:
He made the heavens bend as he descended, and thick gloom was beneath his feet. He rode on a cherub and came flying. He swooped down on the wings of a spirit. He then covered himself in darkness, all around him as a shelter, dark waters and thick clouds. From the brightness before him hail and fiery coals broke through the cloudsPs 18:9-12
There is much to unpack here. We are going to focus on four aspects: "He made the heavens bend as he descended;" "He rode on a cherub, and came flying. He swooped down on the wings of a spirit;" "He then covered himself in darkness, all around him as a shelter, dark waters and thick clouds;" and lastly, "From the brightness before him hail and fiery coals broke through the clouds."
The first point to make is that there are two different transport systems being spoken of here. The first is the bending of the third heavens. We have already established through Psalms 68:13 that the heavens Jehovah "rides" are the "ancient heaven of heavens." And those are the spiritual heavens. The description of the second transport system tells us that Jehovah God "rode on a cherub and came flying." Here the propulsion system is the cherub itself, as the next line bears out: "He swooped down on the wings of a spirit." To distinguish between the two methods of travel we need to refer back to our detailed analysis of Jehovah's chariot. In that section, we learnt that Jehovah's chariot is actively steered by four mighty spirit creatures called cherubs. Each of these cherubs control one of the four independent wheels, for Jehovah's chariot has no axel to coordinate movement between the four angels/wheels. While Jehovah's chariot is steered by four cherubs it is Jehovah who pilots it. How can that be? Just like we had to delve into the three heavens to gain insight into how they all relate to each other and to discern in what ways they are similar and in what ways they are dissimilar to each other. We now likewise have to come to an accurate understanding of how the spirit realm works. And all the different kinds of Inzintian entities it contains!
We want to make the very special point that these deep dives into different aspects of the spirit realm are not meant as by-the-way detours into one or other side area so we can better understand some central issue. THEY ARE THE ISSUE. The reason we are talking about the mundane is so that we can explain the exceptional - not the other way around! For the spirit realm is by far the most dominant realm in the universe. Therefore, whatever the true nature of reality is, it is based on, and largely defined by spiritual factors - not physical baryonic ones. Remember the conclusion of the scientific community: dark matter, together with the hideously named dark energy (especially when you know it's true identity!), account for roughly 95% of the mass energy content of the universe. Recall also, the conclusion the Holy Spirit declared through Paul's hand in the book of Hebrews - after a thorough evident demonstration of unseen realities:
By faith we perceive that the systems of things were put in order by God’s word, so that what is seen has come into existence from things that are not visibleHeb 11:3
Put another way: By logical reasoning, we have come to appreciate that the baryonic realm is a product of the Inzintian realm. The physical Cosmos are a product of the spiritual realm - Heaven. Or, if you prefer - here are Christ's words:
It is the spirit that is life-giving; the flesh is of no use at allJoh 6:63
Science and the Bible agree: of the two realms of the universe, the more important to understand if we are to crack the code of reality is the Invisible realm - the spiritual realm. Let us continue ...
A Comprehensive List of All Entities that Can Be Labeled - "SPIRIT"
The fact that the third heavens are a spiritual realm means that there is more than one kind of entity that qualifies to be called "spirit" or "spiritual." For a realm is a dominion of different types of things. As it relates to the spiritual realm, there are in fact SIX distinct types of entities that can be labeled "spirit!" Below, we list them all in their most logical order. The order in which, as much as possible, each successive definition is building up on the one that came before.
BREATH
The most basic definition of the original Hebrew and Greek words that are translated as spirit is the term, "breath." As the publication Insight on the Scriptures points out, these root words have "extended meanings." And it is from these extended meanings that we get the other five meanings of the root terms. They are: the breath of life; the vital force within all living creatures - physical or spiritual; spirit beings; God's holy spirit, also commonly referred to as his active force; and lastly - the wind.
Insight on the Scriptures adds this fascinating point:
All these meanings have something in common: They all refer to that which is invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion. Such invisible force is capable of producing visible effects" Insight on the Scriptures
In understanding why "breathing" which is physical process, i.e, respiration is classified as a form of a spiritual reality we have to come to grips with the fact that human life and all baryonic life is not the gold standard! Spiritual life is superior to human life in composition and functionality. (Ec 3:18,19; Ps 103:14; Heb 2:6,7) Angels have a quality of life that does not depend on external factors for its continuance. Humans on the other hand are breathers. This breath has the function of sustaining the life force, which is active in our bodies, and is responsible for making us alive.
And as for me, here I am bringing the deluge of waters upon the earth to bring to ruin all flesh in which the force of life is active from under the heavens. Everything that is in the earth will expireGe 6:17
This scripture makes clear that "all flesh" - human and animal - is alive due to something the Bible calls the "force of life." We are further told that this force of life must be "active!" for fleshly creatures to be alive. What does that have to do with breath? Breathing, that is the respiratory system, is the user interface by which the force of life gives life to fleshly organisms. In a similar way to how data brings the internet to life on your cell phone. It is the interface. Thus, let us correct the statement we made above: breathing is not a physical process. It is a user interface between physical components, like oxygen and the lungs, and Inzintian components, like the "force of life." The product of this interactive system between baryonic and spiritual factors is called "life" or the "soul." That is what the soul IS!
And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soulGe 2:7 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soulGe 2:7 | King James Version
Let me test your comprehension and willingness to not go beyond the things that are written. Will you listen to God who created human life, or will you answer according to your own preconceived ideas? Your answer will reveal a lot. Here is the question: If breathing and the respiratory system is the user interface between the Inzintian "life force" and baryonic organic life, where in the myriad systems needed to keep humans alive will you find the "soul?" "Man became a living soul" we are told. Where is that "soul?" In what system? Think carefully. From the above scriptures the answer is obvious - but not direct. It is nuanced! Breathing is centered on the lungs. But, what system takes the benefits of breathing to the whole body? We know about capillaries that make sure different parts of our bodies stay alive. But, what are capillaries transporting to every corner of the body? If your answer was "Blood" or the "Circulatory system" you are brilliant. Hearty congratulations! That is it. Straightforward and logical. Nothing more. Nothing less:
As for any man of the house of Israel or some alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst who eats any sort of blood, I shall certainly set my face against the soul that is eating the blood, and I shall indeed cut him off from among his people. For the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul [in it]. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: 'No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.'Le 17:10-12 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
If you have properly understood the foregoing, then you also know why Abel's sacrifice of animals was superior to Cain's - of vegetables! You will also understand why people who love and fear Jehovah God do not accept blood transfusions. The reason people want blood transfusions is to get access to the "life force!" To someone else's "soul!" If that sounds demonic - it is. You are in effect disrespectfully trying to play God. And in the process - storing up long term losses for yourself, for what you imagine, are your short term gains. Only Jehovah has the right to make decisions about life. Both the oxygen-sustained "breath," and the Inzintian "force of life" belong to Jehovah. Thus the "soul" which is the sustained emergent product of those two entities also belongs to Jehovah - and only he can determine what must happen with it.
Look! All the souls — to me they belong. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son — to me they belong. The soul who sins is the one who will dieEze 18:4
Thus when people slaughter animals, Jehovah's rule in Israel was that the Israelites could not use the blood for any purpose. They had to pour it out like water onto the ground:
But you must not eat the blood; you should pour it out on the ground like waterDe 12:16
Why? Because of the principle found at Ecclesiastes chapter 12:
Then the dust returns to the earth, just as it was, and the spirit returns to the true God who gave itEc 12:7
This scripture explains what happens when humans and animals die. It's a way of returning the components to their original condition, or to the rightful owner. Jehovah allows humans to kill animals for food. But when they do, they must follow this process as a way of naturally allowing the "spirit" or "life force" to return to Jehovah - who owns it. As such, Jehovah is the only being who can decide on its proper use. Anything else amounts to arrogantly trying to steal from Jehovah what belongs to him! If you were paying attention, you should have seen a 1:1 ratio running through our last 5 scriptural passages: the "soul" and the "person" are equivalent to each other. Put another way: when man comes to life, the soul comes to life; when man dies the soul dies. Let me put it plainly: man IS the "soul," he does not have a soul! You might have noticed something else about our last scripture. It is the direct reversal of the one at Ge 2:7 that we covered earlier.
What is the significance of that? Well if when you run a chemical reaction in one direction and it produces something that wasn't there before, what would you say happens if the chemical reaction is a reversible one? What happens when we run it backwards? The new entity will cease to exist! And so it with souls. When Jehovah God puts dust in the form of an organism together with his "breath of life" it creates a living soul - whether of mankind or of animals. In the case of Adam in Genesis 2:7 - the result was a living human being. But the opposite is also true: when these two "ingredients" are separated life ceases - the soul dies! That is why in our earlier scriptural reference at Ezekiel 18:4 Jehovah spoke of souls dying! Souls can live; and souls can die - depending on whether the two key ingredients: a body; and the "breath of life" are combined or separated. It's that simple. Don't complicate reality in an effort to hold onto cherished but unfounded emotions. Genesis 2:7 = life; and Ec 12:7 = death. Thus:
If you take away their spirit, they die and return to the dust. If you send out your spirit, they are created, and you renew the surface of the groundPs 104:29,30
This scripture is in Psalms, so it is of course phrased in a poetic way, but what it lays out is sober and as clear as black and white. It outlines the life cycle and we see that, whether it relates to death or life - humans are not involved. In both cases what happens to the "spirit" or "life force" relates directly to Jehovah. Humans have not veto. Never try to insert yourself into this sacred process - for some imagined short term gains. NO ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS ISSUE WILL EVER DISMISS JEHOVAH'S COMMAND AND EITHER DONATE THEIR "SOUL", OR HAVE A "SOUL" TRANSFUSION.
Now, we move to another telling detail. Have a look at the scripture below and try to discern what it is telling us about "breathing" being our user interface:
Everything in which the breath of the force of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, diedGe 7:22
From this scripture alone, it is obvious that in the flood, only humans and land animals died. Fish and animals with gills did not. That's why I call breathing a user interface. Of course fish also use oxygen, but their user interface has different parameters. I really want you to view breathing as a technology that allows baryonic creatures to benefit from Jehovah's "life force" which is a spiritual reality - depending on where and how Jehovah activates it. With land animals it is activated in our "nostrils." With sea life it is activated in the their gills. Is Jehovah not beyond all your wildest imaginations. Are his works not worthy of our highest praises? Who - in the whole universe is like Jehovah Almighty? Jehovah has made sure that breathing and the "force of life" or the "spirit" are so closely allied, that he, himself, and the Bible often uses the terms interchangeably.
This is what the true God, Jehovah, says, the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One who stretched them out, the One who spread out the earth and its produce, the One who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on itIsa 42:5
Before we move on, we must clarify a possible point of confusion. After God had finished creating Adam's body, but before he activated him to life by blowing into his nostrils, Adam was surrounded by oxygen - but he was not yet alive. Why? Because the presence of oxygen is not a sufficient condition for bringing something to life. It sustains carbon based life, but it does not generate it! This is true also of fresh corpses - people who have just died. They too are surrounded by oxygen, but they are not alive. That is why we have to clarify what might prove to be a source of error for some. "God," said the King James Version, breathed into Adam's nostrils the "breath of life; and man became a living soul." Thus, what God blew into Adam's nostrils was not common air - otherwise we would all be able to resuscitate people who have died. When we breath out, we are not exhaling the "breath of life!" Our breathing is a user interface between oxygen and our respiratory system (the sustaining mechanism) and the breath of life that resides in our blood! Jehovah has engineered it in such a way that our breathing supplies a continuous stream of oxygen to our force of life, keeping it "active" - and us alive. Whereas Jehovah's "breath" is not a user interface - it is the real deal. When he breathed into Adam's nostrils 6 000 or so years ago, it wasn't oxygen - it was the "breath of life." It is this "breath of life," which is active, and whose function in baryonic life forms needs to be sustained by "nostrils" in land based creatures - a continuous supply of oxygen intake - in a process we call "breathing." So our breathing is not "spiritual," but we can only breath as long as the life force is within us. Hence, for humans "breathing" is shorthand for I'm still alive. I still have a life force. According to the range engineered by Jehovah, there is only a limited amount of time that this activity can be suspended and continue again. Most cells die within minutes if deprived of oxygen. I think we all know those figures, so I won't detail them. The point is physical carbon based life is based on a physical body being activated by Jehovah's "breath of life." Thereafter, the continuance of such life depends on breathing: the user interface that keeps the life force "active" - in the nostrils for land based creatures; and in the gills for sea based creatures. Which leads us naturally to our next kind of spiritual entity: a deeper understanding into the breath of life - itself.
BREATH of LIFE
Many people imagine that the "breath of life," is the person. This is clearly wrong, as we have already established that the person is the "soul," and that souls are a combination of two entities: a physical body - "the dust" - and the spiritual "life force" as outlined in Genesis 2:7. Any confusion you may have about this is due to false religion - not because the Bible is not clear on this matter:
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heartHeb 4:12 | King James Version
If the soul and spirit were the same thing, you could not divide them, could you? Of course, the reason they can be divided is because they are not the same entity. The "spirit" is only one of the necessary ingredients in creating a soul - the other being a body, made of "dust." For genuine people who want to sincerely settle any misunderstandings they might have, Jehovah has provided a holy grail in the form of Jesus Christ. A master legend for decoding all reality. If you want to understand reality - study Christ! Inversely, no one can understand reality without a thorough knowledge of the Christ! That's because:
Carefully concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledgeCol 2:3
That's why Christ is called the "sacred secret of God." (Col 2:2) Well, how does Christ's life shed light on the problem at hand? The being we would eventually come to know as Christ had existed in heaven before he came to be born - by holy spirit - as a human on Earth:
So it is written: 'The first man Adam became a living person.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, what is spiritual is not first. What is physical is first, and afterward what is spiritual. The first man is from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven1Co 15:45-47
And ...
You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of that one. ... That one must keep on increasing, but I must keep on decreasing.' The one who comes from above is over all others. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks of things of the earth. The one who comes from heaven is over all others. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, but no man accepts his witnessJoh 3:28,30-32
And lastly,
Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God’s form, did not even consider the idea of trying to be equal to God. No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and became humanPhp 2:5-7
After his 33.5 year sojourn to the Earth, Christ was murdered. But God resurrected him - as a spirit being - back to Heavenly life! All the "apparent salient features" as Steinhardt likes to say of that sojourn are recorded for us in the Bible. And through them, we can resolve all the questions about life and death that no other human life can furnish: the answers to the question that has plagued most of mankind for all of human history: "What happens to us when we die?" It is true, that Christ is not the only person to have ever been resurrected. But his life is special in more ways than one! I am going to use terms you will not immediately understand, but will understand shortly enough: Christ is the only person who has experienced both a resurrection AND a transformation. He experienced his resurrection when it was time for him to go back to Heaven. And he experienced his transformation when his spirit body was transformed into a physical body by his Father through holy spirit, at the nine or so months before he was due to be born as a human on Earth! There's no other way to say it: Christ is SPECIAL!
His LIFE
According to Genesis 2:7, Christ being alive as a human must have married two things together: a body made of "dust" and the "breath of life" - as is the case for all humans. So far, so good. Christ came to be on Earth, for as the Apostle John says: "the Word became flesh and resided among us." (Joh 1:14) He was not a materialized angel, he was an actual, fully formed human! A man.
Therefore, since the 'young children' are sharers of blood and flesh, he also similarly shared in the same things, so that through his death he might bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the DevilHeb 2:14
So Christ met the Biblical definition of a living creature: "dust" + "spirit" = "living soul." How about the definition for death - did Christ, the Son of God meet that definition? To remind ourselves: death is the opposite of life, that is Genesis 2:7 is the opposite of Ecclesiastes 12:7 - and vice versa.
1) Body + Spirit = "LIVING SOUL"
Therefore ...
2) Spirit = "LIVING SOUL" - Body
And ...
3) Body = "LIVING SOUL" - Spirit
You know simple arithmetic: when you bring a variable across the equal sign, you must change it's sign. The fact that the sign becomes negative, means the "living soul" is now missing one of its two vital ingredients. What does that mean? First, here are some questions for you. Which of the three equations represent life? Alternatively, which of the three equations represent death? The answer is: only the first equation represents life. The second and third equations represent death - according to the Bible. I'm not making this up!
If you take away their spirit, they die and return to the dustPs 104:29
And ...
In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will returnGe 3:19
Those scriptures both define death but from two different approaches. The first scripture represents equation number three - where it is the spirit that is taken away. The second scripture represent equation number two: where it is the deterioration of the body that determines death. Thus, we now know what labels to put on our earlier equations after we have subtracted one of the two key components of a "LIVING SOUL":
1) Body + Spirit = "LIVING SOUL"
Therefore ...
2) Spirit = "DEAD SOUL" - Body
And ...
3) Body = "DEAD SOUL" - Spirit
It often helps to translate equations into everyday words to make sure we understand what the equation is telling us. The above equations are saying: the body plus the spirit results in a living soul, or living human being - in Adam's and all our cases; when the living soul is without a body that is death and the "spirit" we are told by the Bible returns to God who gave it; lastly: when a living soul has it's spirit taken from it, it leaves us with a lifeless body - a corpse! The last two cases turn the "living soul" into a dead "soul" as Jehovah the Creator of all life says!:
Look! All the souls — to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son — to me they belong. The soul that is sinning — it itself will dieEze 18:4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
That's what Samson meant in the account of his death:
And Samson proceeded to say: 'Let my soul die with the Phi·lisʹtines.' Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetimeJu 16:30 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
He understood that bringing down the pillars would destroy his body, effectively separating it from his spirit. This action would mean he was now in line with Ecclesiastes 12:7 NOT Genesis 2:7 - that is, he would be dead; not alive! This is what Jehovah himself meant, when he told Adam:
From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly dieGe 2:16,17
He meant Adam's breath of life would be separated from his body: Adam would DIE! We have already established that all forms of Invisible Zint last forever and are incorruptible. Thus old age and death are not the deterioration of the Inzintian part of the equation, but of the baryonic "dust" portion. Thus, we come to understand that there are two ways for people to die. One is the destruction of our bodies: through the deteriorating effects of old age (Adam and Eve), or through violence (Samson), or fire etc. The other is merely for Jehovah to take away our spirit and breath. This happens naturally, of course, when we and animals die, as we learnt about in Psalms 104:29. But it can also be carried out as an order from Jehovah. In that case all mankind would die together - instantly:
If he fixes his attention on them, if he gathers their spirit and breath to himself, all humans would perish together, and mankind would return to the dustJob 34:14,15
We now want to study if Christ's death met any of these descriptions!
His DEATH
Christ was a perfect man. The significance of that reality might not be immediately apparent to you - but it is profound. It means that - unlike with Adam and Woman - THERE WAS NO WAY FOR HIM TO DIE NATURALLY! According to his own sense of justice, Jehovah could not take away the spirit from Christ's blood, for Jehovah never acts unrighteously! As: "For a certainty, God does not act wickedly; the Almighty does not pervert justice." (Job 34:12; De 32:4) Secondly, Christ could not die from old age! As a perfect man he was not under the "curse" that Adam and Woman and all their children are under which makes death natural for us! This is because "The wages of sin pays is death...." (Ro 6:23) But Christ was sinless!:
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tested in all respects as we have, but without sinHeb 4:15
That only left one way for Jehovah's Christ to die - violence! I hope you clearly understand the courage it took for Christ to accept his Father's assignment to come to Earth - knowing that it could only. End. One. WAY!:
Because of restraint and judgment he was taken away; and who will concern himself with the details of his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people he received the stroke. And he was given a burial place with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no wrong and there was no deception in his mouth. But it was Jehovah’s will to crush him, and he let him become sick. If you will present his life as a guilt offering, he will see his offspring, he will prolong his days, and through him the delight of Jehovah will have success. Because of his anguish, he will see and be satisfied. By means of his knowledge the righteous one, my servant, will bring a righteous standing to many people, and their errors he will bear. For that reason I will assign him a portion among the many, and he will apportion the spoil with the mighty, because he poured out his life even to death and was counted among the transgressors; he carried the sin of many people, and he interceded for the transgressorsIsa 53:8-12
Above is the prophecy of how Christ would die and I have highlighted the seven mentions in it, that showed his death would be violent! What a soldier! What a Son! What a king! What a god! Christ is SPECIAL!
But for the world to know that I love the Father, I am doing just as the Father has commanded me to do. Get up, let us go from hereJoh 14:31
Of course we all know that that sad prophecy was fulfilled in exacting detail. We will not be focusing on those details here. But, the particular details we do want to focus on are: what the Bible says about his condition at this time in his life. For instance the Bible tells us that at death the spirit goes back to God who gave it. Was that true of Christ as it is for all other human beings (good or bad!), as well as for all animal life?
And Jesus called out with a loud voice and said: 'Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.' After he said this, he expiredLu 23:46
Again Jesus called out with a loud voice and yielded up his spiritMt 27:50
And ...
When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said: 'It has been accomplished!' and bowing his head, he gave up his spiritJoh 19:30
That agrees with everything we have learned so far about what constitutes life and what defines death. That was the opposite of Genesis 2:7. It was Ecclesiastes 12:7! The error many make is believing that scriptures like Ecclesiastes 12:7 apply only to "good" people and represents them going to Heaven. Nothing could be further from the truth. Firstly it applies to all people! Regardless of whether they are good OR bad. Remember what Ecclesiastes 12:7 actually said: "... and the spirit returns to the true God who gave it." The penalty for being imperfect sinners is death ITSELF - not something that happens to us after we die. For Jehovah the Creator of life knows there is no "US" after we die! We are dead! Non existent. We and our thoughts have "perished" as Psalms 146:4 tells us. The Bible is clear that "All are going to the same place. They all come from the dust, and they all are returning to the dust." (Ec 3:20) That means the grave is our FINAL DESTINATION. There is no "hereafter!" How do we know? Because of two scriptures that show us why we die, and the fact that death is our final punishment. Here they are:
For the wages sin pays is deathRo 6:23
Versus ...
For the one who has died has been acquitted from his sinRo 6:7
The first scripture is the fulfillment of what God rightly told Adam in the Garden of Eden. Sinful humans deserve death. Since all humans sin - we all die. The second states that having died, God has no further justification for announcing judgement against humans - positive or negative. Taken together, the scriptures tell us that God judges fallen humans and thus we all go to the grave; but since our death is the price of our sins - it also acquits us of our sins. Thus death must be our final outcome. For what basis would God use for sending us to Heaven - or Hell - as the false stories go? So our punishment is not what happens after death - but death itself. What returns to God, then, is not "us" but a key part of what made us - his breath of life! Certainly, you know that humans are more than 50% water. What happens to that water when we die? It returns to the ground - and the water table. Have we then gone into the water table? Of course not. We are not that water. It was merely a part of what we were made of. God's spirit is not us. It is only a part, of what makes us. In fact, in describing our essence, what defines humans, Jehovah himself identifies humans, not with his breath of life, but with the dust. We are Earthling Man. Whether alive or dead. When we are alive, we are a living Earthlings. When we die, we are a dead Earthlings. But at all times we are Earthlings. Here is the same message from our Creator himself: "For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Ge 3:19) Was GOD - mistaken? Did he actually mean to say "For spirit you are and to spirit you will return?" Of course not! THEN WHY IS THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE? The truth is humans do not survive death. In that case Satan would have been telling Adam and Woman the truth in Eden - and Jehovah God would have been the one who was lying to them. Furthermore, what God said about Adam returning to the dust applies to all humans - good or bad:
When you hide your face, they are disturbed. If you take away their spirit, they die and return to the dustPs 104:29
And ...
All are going to the same place. They all come from the dust, and they all are returning to the dustEc 3:20
And lastly, an explanation of what happens to both parts of what make us up as found at Genesis 2:7,
Then the dust returns to the earth, just as it was, and the spirit returns to the true God who gave it
This is why Solomon lamented that - outside of personal satisfaction - there was no advantage to being wise or righteous - because all mankind has the same "outcome" - death!:
So I took all of this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hands of the true God. Men are not aware of the love and the hate that took place prior to them. All have the very same outcome, the righteous and the wicked, the good and the clean and the unclean, those sacrificing and those not sacrificing. The good one is the same as the sinner; the one who swears an oath is the same as the one who is cautious about swearing an oath. This is a distressing thing that happens under the sun: Because all have the same outcome, the heart of humans is also full of bad; and there is madness in their heart during their life, and then they die!Ec 9:1-3
So we have established through the Bible that we are not the spirit of God that returns to him. That is just a very vital ingredient to all life - human, animal, angelic and otherwise (i.e insects). If you believe the Bible proves otherwise because of a scripture you have read and believe you understand in Revelation, you are sadly completely wrong! Trust me when I tell you, you understand NOTHING in Revelation! Literally NO THING. Nonetheless, some people believe that it was after Christ died, but before he was resurrected that he went and "preached to the spirits in prison" - that is, to the demons. (1Pe 3:19) Their reasoning - since they believe in life after death - is that immediately at his death Jesus was magically transformed into an angel and went to preach to the demons. I say magically, because since God didn't perform such an act I don't know what else to attribute it to. This, in large part, is what they think happened to Queen Elizabeth - save for the preaching to demons. Too rough a crowd for her. I suppose she must have gone straight to Heaven. Is that true? No! For ...
His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perishPs 146:4
As soon the "spirit goes out" the person is dead or "expired." The Bible says under such conditions that a person's thoughts have "perished." The Bible makes clear that "the dead know nothing at all." (Ec 9:5) More than that:
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are goingEc 9:10
Of course, this scripture is directed at mankind in general. But, it also applied to Christ in the three days that he was dead - before his resurrection. No, Christ could not have gone preaching to the fallen angels at this time, for he didn't have a living body. And he certainly would have needed a living body to carry out the functions listed above such as "planning" or working, or having "knowledge" or "wisdom." We have already learnt how bodies function. So how would Christ have carried out this preaching without a body? We know his physical body was in the tomb, and God had not yet given him a "spiritual body" as described about the Heavenly resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:42-45. How then would he have carried out the function of talking to demons? No. The truth is Christ - like all other dead humans - was inactive during the days he was dead. We don't have to guess. The Bible tells us so! It is the Bible that lists all his activities as occurring after his resurrection to life:
After he had suffered, he showed himself alive to them by many convincing proofs. He was seen by them throughout 40 days, and he was speaking about the Kingdom of GodAc 1:3
This holds true for his preaching to the fallen angels as well. Let us dig deeper into his resurrection to see those details.
His RESURRECTION
You noticed that the "convincing proofs" Christ showed the disciples were of him being "alive." That is because a person or soul that is dead, doesn't have a body - nor do they have a spirit. The body is in the grave; and the spirit has returned to God. It was after he was resurrected - that is, after God gave him a spiritual body and Christ's personal vital force or spirit back (that he had entrusted to God), that Christ could start doing activities again. It was at this time that he went to preach to the "spirits in prison.":
For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit. And in this state he went and preached to the spirits in prison1Pe 3:18,19
This scripture creates a contrast between life and death. But it also contrasts "flesh" with "spirit," In this case this contrast is between a fleshly body and a "spirit" body! We know that because 1 Corinthians 15:45 in contrasting Adam who killed all mankind, and Christ who gives us all the chance of everlasting life says: "'The first man Adam became a living person.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." Thus, since his resurrection, Christ has once again been a mighty spirit creature. We know that, not only from what the Bible says directly, but because of the "proofs" he furnished to his disciples of him being alive. Remember what Nick Lucid said about Invisible Zint? You can't put it in a container. Now consider this scripture:
When it was late that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them: 'May you have peace.'Joh 20:19
How did Christ come to in the middle of a room that was locked to keep people out. Because he was now Inzintian and could not be contained. He could materialize and dematerialize - like all righteous angels can. He was resurrected "in the spirit", not the flesh - otherwise he couldn't thereafter have entered locked rooms! On several occasions during his time on Earth, Christ made it clear that flesh and blood cannot access Heaven:
Jesus then said: 'I will be with you a little while longer before I go to the One who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.'Joh 7:33,34
And ...
So he said to them again: 'I am going away, and you will look for me, and yet you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.'Joh 8:21,22
However, there are many who believe that something about the essence of man escapes death and lives on in the spirit realm forever. Many who believe this, do so because they have no no first hand account of what the Bible actually says on the matter. The truth is when we argue that the "soul" survives death, we are directly contradicting Jehovah - the Creator and owner of all souls!:
'As surely as I am alive,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah ... ‘All the souls — to me they belong. ... The soul who sins is the one who will dieEze 18:3,4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the peopleAc 3:24 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
And ...
And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, [yes,] the things in the seaRe 16:3 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Of course in the first of our scriptures, the one that quotes Jehovah directly, the idea of the soul dying means the spirit will be separated from the body. That is what death is, as demonstrated mathematically by our three earlier equations. If you were not aware that this is what the Bible actually says on this matter, that should be a stiff lesson for you that you cannot outsource your Bible reading to anyone else - be they clergy, priest, pastor, minister or any other title they wish to employ. If you know these scriptures exist, but insist on arguing with God - thus making him a liar! you are on your own: and deserve all the hurt that is coming your way. Good luck with that! No nanosecond will be wasted here to try and persuade people who presumptuously insist on fiction over fact. On those who presume to tell God - the Creator of reality - what is real; as opposed to obeying his Word as to what is real. But my inclination is to treat you with kindness and to take the view that you were unaware of these scriptures because you didn't read the Bible for yourself previously. Bible reading is a personal activity between God and his worshippers - it cannot be outsourced!
Souls, then, are the same thing as individual lives - and they consist of both a body and a the breath of life (or spirit). In the case of human beings, it means "souls" are the actual person. Put another way: people don't have souls; PEOPLE ARE SOULS! As such, souls can die. For people die. That is, they can be in state which is the opposite of life. That happens whenever either of the two ingredients is separated from the other. Life is when body and spirit are united in one entity (physical or spiritual); and death is when they are separated. Since, you cannot have these two ingredients separate and together at the same time, it means there is no such thing as life after death, or the hereafter. All such phrases are oxymorons, since they put two binary states into one reality. These states are mutually exclusive: you can only have one OR the other! Remember that God told us that the soul is to be found in the "blood." If that is the case, where is the soul then in a dead person - since the blood has dried up? There isn't one. That's the whole point! Death is the dividing of "soul and spirit" - a principle we discovered existed at Hebrews 4:12. In such a case a decaying corpse is all that is left behind, and that quickly turns to dust. Thus no one can be in a state of being both dead and alive at the same time! Not even Christ. In fact - especially not the Christ! For he is the one, above all others, whose unique life experiences prove that we are either alive or dead - but never, ever both! Notice that detail come through clearly in our next scripture:
And to the angel of the congregation in Smyrʹna write: These are the things that he says, ‘the First and the Last,’ who became dead and came to life againRe 2:8
What is significant about the word "again?" The holy spirit which is responsible for inspiring the writing of the Bible is telling us that there was a back and forth in the states of life and death that Christ experienced. He was alive; then dead; but then "came to life again" - that is, Christ came back to life. If there was such a thing as life after death: it would be factually incorrect for Christ to state that he "came back to life!" But Christ always speaks the truth. He says so himself just a few verses later in Revelation 3:14. Further, if there was such a thing as life after death, God wouldn't have had to take any special measures for the Christ to come back to life. Immediately after his death he would have entered the state of so-called "life after death." But that is not the Bible's testimony! In fact, the exact opposite is true! It required a mighty act from Jehovah to bring his beloved Son back to "life again.":
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the accurate knowledge of him. He has enlightened the eyes of your heart, so that you may know to what hope he called you, what glorious riches he holds as an inheritance for the holy ones, and how surpassing the greatness of his power is toward us believers. It is according to the operation of the mightiness of his strength, which he exercised toward Christ when he raised him up from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly placesEph 1:17-20
Do you see the problem? Quite contrary to what many are taught by their false religious teachers, Christ being alive after his death was not the result of some natural transition that all dead people go through. Some automatic sublimation, like dry ice turning from a solid into a gas. No. The exact opposite is true. It took a special application of the "mightiness" of God's strength for the Christ to be "raised ... up from the dead!" Why would your so-called religious instructors have lied to you? Why would they want to make something so special and mighty seem commonplace and inevitable? Because that's what it takes to make you believe the Devil's original lie - that there is no such thing as death: "You certainly will not die" he brazenly told Woman in the Garden of Eden. (Ge 3:4) But over 6 000 years of reality has proven that God was telling the truth. In fact death has a 100% hit rate. So overwhelming is the evidence of people dying that today we have the saying: "There's only two things you can be sure of: death and taxes." So unless Jehovah had taken action to release his Son from the pangs of death, that's just where he would have remained! But since he was a perfect man, justice demanded that he could not continue being dead, for death is the wages sin pays. Christ was sinless. Thus:
God resurrected him by releasing him from the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held fast by itAc 2:24
God released Christ from death - which is real - not from "life after death," which is a non-existent fantasy, created by the Devil and his minions. He did so by resurrecting him. Resurrection is the only way for someone who has died to come back to life again. Have you never asked yourself why resurrections - which Christ promised to perform on the last day - are necessary if there is life after death? Now you know why - because there is no "life after death!" Did you catch that? Christ according to John 5:28,29 will perform resurrections of both the good and the bad people who have died on the "last day!"
This is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none out of all those whom he has given me, but that I should resurrect them on the last dayJoh 6:39
Since resurrection is the only way for people who were dead to "[come] to life again." (Ro 14:9; 6:9; Re 1:18) And since Christ will only perform resurrections on the "last day," it follows that no one else has been resurrected to eternal life - in Heaven and on Earth! That is what Peter meant when he pointed out that David was still in his grave and had not ascended to Heaven. (Ac 2:29,34). But as with everything in the Bible we need corroboration to establish the validity and truthfulness of anything. Is there a scripture, then, that hyperlinks to prove the above scriptures to be true? Indeed there is! There are many. We will consider two:
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death. For since death came through a man, resurrection of the dead also comes through a man1Co 15:20,21
In that scripture "resurrection of the dead " being so clearly contrasted with "death" shows that it is exactly equivalent to life. Lastly, we consider ...
Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but the one who descended from heaven, the Son of manJoh 3:13
Christ's life is unique beyond all measure. It covers all the bases - as long as you're willing to "concern [yourself] with the details" of his life! (Isa 53:8) For instance, only Christ has gone from spirit being to human being and back to spirit being. This wonderfully unique arc of life allows us to get rid of all misunderstandings and falsehoods concerning so-called immortal "souls" that somehow survive death. Christ's life defines "life." It defines "death." It tells us if anyone has gone to Heaven - and who they are. It shows that good people go to "hell," showing that hell is just the common grave and not fiery eternal place of punishment. (Ps 16:10 King James Version versus it's fulfillment at Ac 2:31) When Christ was on Earth he resurrected individuals. And before he came to Earth, some of God's other prophets also resurrected individuals. But all such people - like Lazarus - eventually died. Christ's resurrection is everlasting. That is why 1 Corinthians refers to him being "raised from the dead" as "firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death." Jehovah gave us the full details of Christ's unique life so we could know the truth behind these vexing questions. (Joh 1:17; 14:6) This is where our previous statement about the Christ's unique life course including both a resurrection and a transformation from one life form to another comes to the fore. As we have previously pointed out Christ went through two changes to his state of life: once when he came from heaven to be born as a human child (Php 2:5-8); and again, when he went from being a human to being a "life giving spirit." (1C0 15:45) If death, as is claimed, is merely a transition from one form of life to another, then the Biblical record - which is ALL ABOUT THE CHRIST - should reflect that fact! In other words, the Bible would document the fact that Christ DIED TWICE! Since he transitioned into different life forms twice. However that is not what the scriptural record reflects. The holy scriptures tell us that Christ died only "once!"
For we know that Christ, now that he has been raised up from the dead, dies no more; death is no longer master over himRo 6:9
And ...
For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit1 Pe 3:18
What does that mean? It means when Christ transitioned from heavenly life to come and be born as a physical human made of dust - there was no death involved; even though he underwent a transition from one form of life to another! The false claim about what death actually means is proven to be a lie by the very transformation that is supposed to define and verify it! It's another case of "dephlogisticated air." A complete misunderstanding of the topic at hand. No. The truth is that death has nothing to do with transitioning from one form of life to another! Death merely means the dividing of the "living soul" - making it dead. How do you divide a soul? By separating the two ingredients that make up a soul - a body (either physical or spiritual) and the spirit - from each other.
If you take away their spirit, they die and return to the dust. If you send out your spirit, they are created, and you renew the surface of the groundPs 104:29,30
Clear and precise. Separating these two components equals death. Putting them together equals life. But was that the case with Christ? Were his body and spirit ever separated? Did his body go in one direction and his spirit in another? Yes. Of course. Otherwise the Bible would be lying when it says he died:
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Incidentally, there was a garden at the place where he was executed, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever yet been laid. Because it was the day of Preparation of the Jews and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus thereJoh 19:40-42
So we know what happened to his body, but what of his spirit?:
Again Jesus called out with a loud voice and yielded up his spiritMt 27:50
The footnote on "yielded up his spirit" says: Or, "and expired." Christ's body and spirit were then separated. By the time his disciples had finished preparing his body for burial "according to the custom of the Jews," his spirit had long been separated from his blood - rendering his soul, i.e. him, as "dead." His death represented the saddest moment in history: when the perfect Son of the only-true God Jehovah of Armies, "expired." This separation of body and spirit is in line with the scriptural definition of death ...
Then the dust returns to the earth just as it happened to be and the spirit itself returns to the [true] God who gave itEc 12:7
The different directions the separate components take couldn't be clearer. The body goes downwards to the earth; and the spirit goes upwards - back to God. Christ dying means there was a period of time when his body was separated from his spirit, not that he was transitioning from one form of life to another. But some will say when you're transitioning from spirit to flesh you don't die, similar to how angels can transform into human form without dying - as has been recorded many times in the Bible. However, it is the transitioning in the opposite direction that requires death, because "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption," as we have previously shown. (1Co 15:50) Thus, Christ had to "die" in that his so-called immortal "soul" was then free to go to the spiritual realm. The only problem is that, that goes against the evidence from the Bible itself! It is true that flesh and blood cannot go to heaven, but death is not necessary for flesh to spirit transitions! We know that, because the Bible tells us so! There are people who will follow the same path as Jesus in going from having a fleshy body to a spiritual body - but without the 3-Day interval of having their body separated from their spirit: i.e., without dying! This is where you have got to pay special attention to understand the nuances of the reality behind life and death. This is where the exquisite details of the unique life of Jesus the Christ are so valuable. I keep telling you ... Christ is SPECIAL! The details of Christ's special arc of life are described in detail not in his own life, but through the foretold changes that those who follow him to heaven will go through. Pay careful attention!
The first thing to realize is that there are TWO DISTINCT GROUPS: those who die and thus need a resurrection to get to heaven; and those who will be alive at the time Christ comes to fetch them. What is under appreciated if at all understood is that the second group NEVER DIE! They - like Christ transforming from a Heavenly to an Earthly life form - are always alive through the entire process! Let's take the details one at a time. First we lay out the bird's eye view, we define the big picture. Then we will zoom in ... to understand the finer details:
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
Christ has been gathering special Anointed followers for almost 2 000 years now. That subject will not be covered in this episode. The relevant detail for our current discussion, is that these anointed followers fall into two categories: those who have died in the intervening period; and those who will still be alive when Christ comes to fetch them. In all scriptures that speak of Christ coming to fetch the members of this special group, they are separated into their relevant groups, with the dynamics for how each of the two groups gets to heaven being slightly different! Below, I quote the above scripture twice: each time highlighting the relevant portion as it relates to each of these two groups. I will first quote the scripture focusing on the part that is relevant to those who are dead and need resurrection:
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
Then we do the same, but this time focusing on the portion that relates to those who will then be living:
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
To make sense of everything, we firstly acknowledge that the holy spirit makes clear that some will "not fall asleep in death." That - as we have already learned - means their bodies will not be separated from their spirits! Thus how will they transition to become spirit beings, since "blood and flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God" and "corruption" cannot "inherit incorruption?" Because Christ will change their bodies from fleshly to spiritual ones - WITHOUT SEPARATING THEM FROM GOD'S LIFE FORCE! Christ has the power to perform this powerful transformation as the book of Philippians tells us:
But our citizenship exists in the heavens, and we are eagerly waiting for a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our humble body to be like his glorious body by his great power that enables him to subject all things to himselfPhp 3:20,21
This "transform[ation]" only applies to the those who will still be alive at this moment. For those who had died will have no bodies to "transform." They will simply be given new spirit bodies as is outlined in the step-by-step description of the resurrection of Christ's anointed followers as per 1 Corinthians chapter 15:
Nevertheless, someone will say: 'How are the dead to be raised up? Yes, with what sort of body are they coming?' You unreasonable person! What you sow is not made alive unless first it dies. And as for what you sow, you sow, not the body that will develop, but just a bare grain, whether of wheat or of some other kind of seed; but God gives it a body just as it has pleased him.... So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. So it is written: 'The first man Adam became a living person.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit1Co 15:35-38, 42-45
It is clear that in the case of those who have died, something similar to what Jehovah did in Genesis 2:7 with Adam again happens: "And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person." That is why verse 45 equates that event with Christ being resurrected with a spiritual body. In like manner all of his anointed followers who have died will similarly be resurrected with spiritual bodies and brought to life by a "life force." And that's the problem! People who wrongly believe in immortal human souls, do so because they are ignorant of the fact that there are "SPIRITUAL BODIES!" That's why they imagine that as soon as the "spirit" leaves the body at death, that the dead person is now an angel! They have misunderstood the very simple formula for life: SOUL or LIFE = God's Spirit + Body (either spiritual body; or physical body). All spirit beings have bodies - otherwise they would not exist. Even Jehovah himself has a body - he is not an ether! We know that because he is a person - a Spirit person, but a person!:
So Satan went out away from the person of JehovahJob 1:12
All "person[s]" have two things in common - whether they are spiritual or physical - as per the formula, that God himself gave us in Genesis 2:7: a body + a spirit equals a "living person." Thus God "the Spirit," being a person means he has a spiritual body! (2Co 3:17) If God were an omnipresent ether people couldn't move towards or away from him, as Satan did in the above-mentioned scripture. More than that he wouldn't have a front and a back as he demonstrated with Moses:
Jehovah went on to say to Moses: 'I will also do this thing that you request, because you have found favor in my eyes and I know you by name.' Then he said: 'Please show me your glory.' But he said: 'I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will declare before you the name of Jehovah; ... But he added: 'You cannot see my face, for no man can see me and live.' Jehovah said further: 'Here is a place near me. Station yourself on the rock. When my glory is passing by, I will place you in a crevice of the rock, and I will shield you with my hand until I have passed by. After that I will take my hand away, and you will see my back. But my face may not be seen.'Ex 33:17-23
Jehovah sits on thrones. (Da 7:9,10) He has feelings. (De 32:26,27) He travels in his chariot. (2Sa 22:10,11) He plans and take action (Isa 48:3) This is what makes him SO scary - realizing that he is a "person!" If he were a lifeless force - he wouldn't be threatening, but a person can get angry! And it is the possibility that Jehovah can be angry that is scary.
Who can fathom the power of your anger? Your fury is as great as the fear you deservePs 90:11
And ...
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living GodHeb 10:31
I especially like the direct word-for-word translation from Greek:
Fearful (thing) the to fall in into hands of God livingHeb 10:31 | The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
So all persons are beings. That is, all living persons share two components: bodies and the life activating spirit. This is true whether they are physical persons; or whether they are spirit persons! Having understood that, we return to our discussion about the two groups of Christ's anointed followers and how they get to heaven as brought out in 1 Corinthians 15:50-52. It is important to note one distinguishing sentence in the following passage of scripture:
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
It is so important, that it is worth our while to isolate it, so we can study it properly! It is verse 51:
Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed1Co 15:51
It is SO important, that I will now quote it in six more translations of the Holy Bible - so that you can get its full flavour:
μυστήριον ὑμῖν λέγω· πάντες οὐ κοιμηθησόμεθα πάντες δὲ ἀλλαγησόμεθα,1Co 15:51 | The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
Translated into direct English below, it reads:
Look! Mystery to you I am saying: all not we shall be laid to sleep all but we shall be changed1Co 15:51 - Direct Word-for-Word English Translation
Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed1Co 15:51 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Here I tell you a secret: we shall not all go to our rest, but we shall all be changed in an instant1Co 15:51 | The Bible in Living English
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed1Co 15:51 | American Standard Version
Lo! a sacred secret unto you do I declare: — We shall not all sleep, But we shall all be changed1Co 15:51 | The Emphasized Bible
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed1Co 15:51 | King James Version
The King James Version is not a translation of the Bible I put much value in. For one thing they have removed the name of God - Jehovah - from the text. Something which Jehovah strictly forbids doing to his inspired message. We are to remove nothing from what he inspired, least of all his most holy name! (De 4:2) Yet in this instance, this translation has managed to capture the essence of this Bible verse. You will notice that it, together with the American Standard Version as well as The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures all use the word "mystery." The meaning of this word is of course, a "secret" - as is brought out by the other translations. However, in this scripture it is fitting in more than one way, because the secret in question requires nuance to understand, for two SEPARATE categories of life are defined at the same time. And, in the very next verse these two categories of life are both dealt with, but in two different ways - all "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," or in a split second - to put it in current English. What are the two categories, and what are the two functions that are performed on them?
PREMISE FOR CATEGORY ONE: "We Shall not All Fall Asleep [in Death]"
In function one, we are instructed that Christ's special anointed followers will NOT ALL FALL ASLEEP IN DEATH! Put simply they will not all die. Hence when Christ arrives, some will be dead - but not all - some will survive until he comes to fetch them. This group will not need resurrection, that is a combining of their breath of life from God together with a "spiritual body." They already have a body. It is just of the wrong type to go to Heaven, hence they need a different kind of operation from those who are dead - and do not have bodies! Thus, the background for the first part of verse 51 is that Christ's special anointed followers are split into two categories of life: those who have fallen asleep in death; and those who have survived until his return.
PREMISE FOR CATEGORY TWO: "But We Shall All be Changed "
While the first part of verse 51 separated Christ's anointed followers into two distinct groups; we see that the second part describes them under ONE UMBRELLA: "We shall all be changed!" Regardless of whether they are of those to be resurrected; or those who survived and thus can't be resurrected as they are still alive. Now we must look at what operations the Christ performs on each group in order to get them to Heaven. It is easy to understand how the resurrection is a change as the previous verses - including verses 37 and 42 to 44 - have well illustrated:
And as for what you sow, you sow, not the body that will develop, but just a bare grain ... So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body1Co 15:37,42-44
It is clear enough to recognize that "you sow not the body that will develop." Since what is sown and what develops are not the same, the resurrection is by definition a CHANGE. Later verses also highlight the contrast between what is sown and what is reaped: and the differences are stark. Thus the "change" in the resurrection of the dead is clear cut. And what changes and even how it changes are easily understood. Here is the scripture that lays it all out. Again it includes BOTH groups of Christ's anointed followers. So be careful not to combine the functions in your mind. First the scripture, then it's explanation:
THE OPERATION OF THE FIRST KIND OF CHANGE: The Resurrection
In a moment, in the blink of an eye, during* the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:52
I have left the asterisk in to highlight its connected footnote: Or "at." That is, what is being described will happen in the "blink of an eye during " the last trumpet, or "at" the last trumpet. Both statements are equal. What is of concern to us is the function Christ is going to perform towards the dead: "They will be raised up incorruptible." That is they will be resurrected with incorruptible spiritual bodies.
But what of those who have not died: how are they CHANGED? First let us restate the relevant passages of our current scriptural text each time highlighting what is relevant to each category of life:
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
Versus ...
But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed1Co 15:50-52
Next, we use the Bible to explain itself through hyperlinked parallel accounts that clarify what is happening.
THE OPERATION OF THE SECOND KIND OF "CHANGE": The Transformation
Did you see the difference? The dead get resurrected with "spiritual bodies" as we learnt from 1 Corinthians 15:44. Whereas the living do not get resurrected because they never die; instead at the sounding of the trumpet, they "will be changed!" The room for error comes in confusing the statement: "we will all be changed" in verse 51 with the later statement in verse 52: "the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed." In the first occurrence of the phrase "we will all be changed" the term "all" includes both groups of Christ's anointed followers. However in the next verse the word "changed" that affects both groups of Christ's followers is now broken into its two distinct types: one is the change through resurrection; and the other, is simply referred to as being "changed." At first glance, you might think verse 52 is describing the resurrection as a change. That is, you might think the Apostle Paul is saying, "the dead are going to be raised up incorruptible, and thus we will be changed." But that cannot be what he is saying. Sometimes help in understanding what is being said comes from clarifying in our minds what is not being said. This cannot be the meaning of Paul's words since he has already stated that there are two groups - the dead and the living - and he belongs to the one made up of those that are living. Thus when he says, "... and WE will be changed" that term "changed" cannot be referencing the change of being resurrected - since he is then alive! No. The meaning of Paul's statement is something very different. Here Paul is differentiating between "the dead" and the "we," who have not fallen "asleep in death," that is, "the living" - which at that point included him. Both groups will be changed in some way, and he now plainly states the kind of "change" the dead will undergo; while still labeling the change of the living merely as being "changed." The dead will be "raised up incorruptible," he states; whereas "we" (the living) will "be changed." Both groups must undergo some change in order to fulfill the requirement of becoming incorruptible - as verse 53 next states!:
For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and this which is mortal must put on immortality1Co 15:53
In each case, the term "must" is emphasizing the fact that whether living or dead, all of Christ's anointed followers must be changed in order to be able to go to Heaven. This is in keeping with the earlier statement, "we will ALL be changed." For "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom." Paul left the detail of how precisely the "living" will be changed, out, because he covered it in another letter. That corroborating scripture is found in the book of Philippians. In it, the Holy Spirit (through Paul) confirms just how those alive with fleshly bodies will be changed. But it is the second scripture we are going to look at. First, let us look at one that more clearly distinguishes that there are two different groups, with two different operations to be performed on them! See if you can spot the two different ways it creates a distinction between these two categories of Christ's anointed followers. As always, with the Bible, corroboration is accomplished through hyperlinked scriptures. In this case, the parallel account is found at 1 Thessalonians. Again, we include the whole passage at first (for context). Thereafter, I will repeat a condensed version of it twice for clarity: once focusing on how the "dead" will be changed; and secondly on how the "living" will be changed:
Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death, so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope. For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus. For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord1Th4:13-17
DISTINCTION Through Chronological Order
In this parallel account we see that the holy spirit makes a clear distinction between the two groups in two ways: first by using the highlighted terms "first" and "afterwards" when referring to the two groups and the "change" that each will undergo! This creates a chronological order between the two groups, showing clearly that - although they fall under one big umbrella (those that will be ALL be "changed") - that change falls into two separate categories. So whilst the changes to both will happen "in a moment, in the blink of an eye," they are separate, different and staggered! Christ will first give his attention to the dead, and only then will he attend to the living. First. And Afterward.
DISTINCTION by the STATE of Being: Either Dead OR Alive
The Holy Spirit makes a second distinction by clearly stating that the first group is made up of "those who are dead," while the second group is made up of "we the living who are surviving." In this scripture we recognize the clear meaning behind the earlier statement in 1 Corinthians that: "We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed." (1 Co 15:51) It means: we will not all be in the same condition when Christ arrives; but, we will all need to be changed in order to get to Heaven.
DISTINCTION by the TYPE of Function Applied in Getting "CHANGED"
Lastly, the third way this scripture issues a difference between the two categories is through how Christ changes them in order to fulfill the edict that "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom." For the dead cannot go to Heaven while they are in the grave, and neither can the living go to heaven with fleshly bodies! We are told that when Christ utters his "commanding call with an archangel's voice," and when he blows "God's trumpet" that two things will happen: the "dead" will RISE; and "we the living who are surviving will be caught away in clouds" to meet the Lord. We note that also in this parallel scripture, we do not get a clear definition of the type of change that the living will undergo! How will those with fleshly bodies be able to gain access to Heaven. We know only that they too must be "changed." For 1 Corinthians told us that "we will all be changed." That being the case, the only remaining question is HOW? Recall that our look at 1 Thessalonians is only to help us make a distinction between the two groups: the dead and the living. It is not to inform us of how the living are going to be changed. That will come next. For now, we concentrate on clearly defining that there are two groups. So we continue with our analysis of 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. First, we deal with the dead who must be resurrected:
For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord1Th4:15-17
Then, we concentrate on "the living" who survive!:
For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord1Th4:15-17
Having satisfied ourselves that there are two distinct groups it is time to establish how the second group: "We the living who are surviving" will be changed, for we know that the change the dead will undergo will be to rise with SPIRITUAL BODIES. The parallel account at 1 Corinthians 15 already gave us some key details. Recall two facts from that account: all of Christ's anointed followers "will be changed." So the "living who are surviving" being "caught away in clouds to meet the Lord" does not happen without them undergoing a change! Secondly these verses in 1 Thessalonians help us to discern that at the time of writing these books, the Apostle Paul was clearly alive, and thus identified himself with the "living." Thus, when he says in the parallel account: "For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed" he is speaking of the living! NOT THE DEAD. (1Co 15:52) We now understand the clear distinction he is drawing. The "dead" will be resurrected; while "we" - the living - will be changed. Thus the terms and conditions of the sacred secret at 1 Corinthians 15:51 are both met. "Not all fall asleep in death" and yet - "we will all be changed," for both groups undergo "change!" In the above scripture from 1 Thessalonians, do not be confused by the term: "will rise first." It doesn't mean the dead will rise first, and the living will rise second. Rising just means coming "back to life again." Thus the living who survive cannot rise, since they are already alive. In this case "rise first" just means the rising of the dead will occur first - before the living are given attention. We know that because "afterward" when they - "the living" - are given attention they are said to be "surviving" which means they never died - hence THE NEED FOR THEM TO STILL BE "CHANGED" AFTER THE CHRIST HAS ALREADY RESURRECTED THE DEAD! It follows logically, then, that since not all are dead, the change that all experience cannot be resurrection. There must be a second type of change. And it is to this change that we now give attention!
Since they are already alive, what about the living needs to be changed? Their bodies and user-interface, of course! Since the unbreakable rule will always stand: "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom." Thus, the need for the "Lord Jesus Christ" to "transform our humble body to be like his glorious body by his great power!" Do you see the difference? Both operations of being "changed" require "great power" to pull off. But in one great power is needed in order to resurrect; and in the second, great power is needed in order to transform humble physical bodies into glorious spiritual bodies. Compare the two following texts - each of which focus on one of the two types of CHANGES THAT CHRIST'S FOLLOWERS WILL NEED TO BE PERFORMED ON THEM IN ORDER TO GET TO HEAVEN:
And how surpassing the greatness of his power is toward us believers. It is according to the operation of the mightiness of his strength, which he exercised toward Christ when he raised him up from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly placesEph 1:19,20
That same "mightiness" of strength will be required when Christ similarly raises all his fallen anointed followers. Compare that with the operation he must perform on his faithful anointed followers who will still be alive when he arrives to take them to Heaven as he promised in the book of John ...
But our citizenship exists in the heavens, and we are eagerly waiting for a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our humble body to be like his glorious body by his great power that enables him to subject all things to himselfPhp 3:20,21
In the second case: the "living who are surviving" never die because the transformation that changes their physical bodies into spiritual ones "in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet" does not separate the transforming body from the spirit that animates it - thus such people never experience death! In the very same way that when Jehovah transformed Christ from a spiritual body to a physical body when he left Heaven and started growing as a baby in Mary's womb - the man whom we eventually came to know as Jesus - was also continually ALIVE! We know that because in that case, there was also no death involved! For Christ died once - and we know the exact date: 33 C.E. No one can claim ignorance of these facts. The whole calender of the Western world is based on these facts! It's now 2022. 2022 after what? Isn't science wonderful!
Critical TAKE-AWAY
NON-DEATH TRANSFORMATIONS then, and the change in user-interface that they require, happen in both directions: Jehovah through his Holy Spirit can transfer the life of a living spirit being into human form; or transform the life of a living human into spiritual form - that is, a spiritual body, such as the angels have. In both cases the participants are always alive! In the case of humans going to Heaven: this is the only way for "living" human survivors to fulfill the rule that "flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom." That is why after 1 Corinthians shows how both groups will be "changed" it concludes by showing that these changes allow for entry into Heaven:
... For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and this which is mortal must put on immortality1Co 15:52,53
It's telling us that only through such changes will both subsets of Christ's anointed followers be granted entry into Heaven! ONLY when we realize the difference between living transitions and a resurrection, can we fully appreciate the true nature of life and death - and of what it takes to get to Heaven. The amazing thing is that CHRIST'S UNIQUE LIFE INCLUDES BOTH! CHRIST IS SPECIAL! To summarize the Biblical reality: Jehovah - and now Christ - can perform living transformations from spiritual to physical life forms, or from physical to spiritual life forms, on other individuals. (Joh 5:26; Php 3:21) In both cases these transformations are changes to the makeup and constitution of living beings, because they always involve a living body! Christ's life proves that such living transformations are NOT the definition of death, since Christ did die once, but it was not when he went through such a transformation! That happened more than 34 years later, when he was brutally killed on a torture stake. And in that instance his death met the Biblical definition of not being alive - for his body was separated from God's spirit. If we have the full arc of Christ's existence clear in our mind, no one can ever fool us as to what constitutes death; or what defines life! If you understand that, you realize there is no such thing as robots or AI EVER coming to life as a demented Google employee (now fired) was claiming earlier in 2022. Life is not a complexity threshold that a system passes as Musk and others would have you believe. To be alive requires spirit! And where would a fat incel Google coder seeking fame have gotten spirit? Please! I cannot say for sure that this lonely fool who was trying to play God is an incel. But the likelihood that a socially awkward, obese computer programmer who spends his free time talking to AI robots is NOT an incel is so low as to be virtually indistinguishable from the number zero! Empty Intellectuals have the same Evidence Profile as all Idolators:
Every man acts unreasonably and without knowledge. Every metalworker will be put to shame because of the carved image; for his metal image is a falsehood, and there is no spirit in themJer 10:14
It doesn't matter if the "image" is a carved metal image, or a coded and welded silicon image ... as long as it's missing spirit - it is not alive. This point is clearly made by the Holy Spirit when it says through Christ's half brother, James:
Indeed, just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is deadJa 2:26
People who believe in the "hereafter" - an oxymoron, if ever there was one - have not thought the matter through sufficiently. They have a misformed notion that somehow, the spirit is the essence of what makes "us" - US. Somehow they imagine, somehow! the VERY act that defines "death " - the separating of body and spirit - is actually the true meaning of "life!" The fine details of the life of the greatest man who ever lived puts paid to all such false notions. If you held them, due to ignorance, it is time to shed them. If you hold them due to stubbornness - good luck with that. Again, the key to understanding reality is to understand Jesus the Christ - the wonderful, mighty, glorious and matchless Son of the only true God - Jehovah of Armies! Christ is SPECIAL! As we have already established mathematically, the LIFE ARC of the Christ looks like this:
SOUL = spiritual body + spirit
SOUL = physical body + spirit
SO UL - physical body = spirit
SOUL = spirit body + spirit
So Christ has had two transitions but only ONE death! You will now notice that Christ's anointed followers, and the two categories that they are divided into: those who will be dead when he comes to fetch them; and those who will be alive or "surviving" are both encompassed in Christ's Life Arc. This was so that as the holy spirit puts it, Christ: "Might become the one who is first in all things." (Col 1:18) It matters not to Jehovah which way the transformation is proceeding - whether from spirit being to human, or from human to spirit being. As Job said: "Now I know that you are able to do all things and that nothing you have in mind to do is impossible for you." (Job 42:2) Or as Christ put it: "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you...." (Mr 14:36) For, Jehovah's Holy Spirit can cross any energy threshold to accomplish his will. It is after-all the most powerful force in the whole universe! Thus Christ's Life Arc incorporates the life arcs of both categories that his anointed followers, chosen over about 2 000 years, fall into: the living and the dead. The life arc for those who have died and need resurrection to get to heaven, looks like this:
SOUL = physical body + spirit
SO UL - physical body = spirit
SOUL = spirit body + spirit
The life arc of Christ's anointed followers who "survive" until he comes to fetch them, and thus need their physical bodies to be transformed into spiritual bodies, looks like this:
SOUL = physical body + spirit
SOUL = spiritual body + spirit
When we put them together, they mimic Christ's total life pattern of two changes; but - one death. The equations in red signify death. I have visually separated half the letters of the word SOUL, to give a visual representation of what happens at death: the soul is divided because the components that make it up are separated from each other - with the body turning back into dust; and the spirit going back to God. No one who understands the foregoing will ever again fall for the confusing lie of "life after death" or the "hereafter." Once you understand what constitutes life and what constitutes death, you realize that the two can never occur simultaneously! You also understand that both humans and angels have bodies. And thus people don't turn into angels upon death - since the "spirit" that goes back to God, does not have a body: fleshly or spiritual!
You understand that for something to be living requires a body and the spirit. This was the case with Jesus when he left heaven and had to start the full 9 month gestation period to be born as a human. (I keep hearing women say it's 10 months - 40 weeks. I'll take them at their word.) Christ's transition from heaven to earth demonstrates the fact that requiring a body to be alive is valid all the way from being a zygote at conception, to undergoing cell division, differentiation and the myriad other miraculous changes we all go through as we grow through the many stages of human development - ending in our being fully formed babies at birth! In all that time Christ was ALIVE! - for the Christ only ever died once. And it was not during this period in his Life Arc. If you understand that, then you also know that abortion is the murder of a defenseless human being!:
And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soulEx 21:22,23
I think we all know that "fatal accidents" only happen to living persons. Back to our main discussion. We have taken the time to properly treat the issue of what is the "breath of life" because it is confusion about this topic more than any other that condemns people to lifelong misunderstandings about reality and the true nature of life and death. I don't know how many paragraphs it took to cover it: but that's because it is the oldest lie in existence! Nevertheless, we have conquered it through knowledge about the magnificent life of the greatest man who ever lived: Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living, and only true God - Jehovah Most Precious!
Bringing it HOME
Knowledge is only truly relevant when it applies to us. That brings us to you - and your personal relatives. Do you have the courage, honesty and integrity to use all the knowledge you have learned to answer the following questions correctly? Where is Grandma? Queen Victoria died recently. Where is she? Princess Diana died some time ago - where is she? Are they together with your grandma - and mine? It's not a matter of intellect, but of integrity of heart. Some people refuse to have it - it costs too much! I'll leave you to answer those questions. Understanding the difference between the various kinds of entities that fall under the umbrella label "spirit" is critical to understanding reality. Next we tackle the "vital force," which is different from the "breath of life." Careful attention has to be paid at all times in these discussions, because all the subcategories we are talking about can all rightly be called spirit. Thus separating them from one another calls for a keen mind that meditates, so as to grasp, the smallest differences in detail.
THE VITAL FORCE
The vital force in humans is not God's spirit, it is the person's spirit! Let us explain. It goes without saying that such spirit is the product of God's spirit via a combination of the dust and the breath of life. When those two ingredients combine a new entity starts to exist known as that person's spirit. It is not the life activating "life force" that comes from Jehovah, but a combination of the person's attitudes, power, strength, mental disposition, emotional state, life outlook (whether they are optimistic or pessimistic) etc. Essentially, it is how you and your genetics take advantage of Jehovah's life activating force. Some people are very laid back, and we can say "they have a mild spirit." While others are hot tempered and aggressive, and we say "he has a feisty spirit." But such spiritedness is a result of being alive due to Jehovah's active force or spirit. Because, there is so much overlap between the two, we need to differentiate them through the ways they contrast with each other. God's spirit and his breath of life do not have personalities. They are impersonal - like water molecules; or air molecules. You know that the amount of water on the Earth is limited. That means it must be recycled by the water cycle. That in turn means we drink water that other people have drunk before. What happens if you drink a cup of water, that has some water molecules that were drunk by Hitler before? Nothing - it's just water, and water is impersonal. It does not have a personality. You will not suddenly start looking at people with dark intentions:
Are you not aware that whatever enters into the mouth passes through the stomach and is discharged into the sewer? However, whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and those things defile a man. For example, out of the heart come wicked reasonings: murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man; but to take a meal with unwashed hands does not defile a manMt 15:17-20
Through that scripture Christ shows us that what we ingest - whether food or drink - does not defile us. What defiles us are the wicked things that come out of our heart. Those wicked "reasonings" are a reflection of our spirit. See the difference? It becomes plain when see these kind of wicked reasonings play out in real life:
Then God let develop a bad spirit between A·bimʹe·lech and the landowners of Sheʹchem, and the landowners of Sheʹchem proceeded to deal treacherously with A·bimʹe·lechJu 9:23
A person's spirit is unique to them, and only them. Even twins have different spirits - even if they happen to be born as conjoined twins. They are different people - with different spirits. Below, I will give two renderings of the same verse to show how our spirit reflects our temperament:
Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earthMt 5:5
And ...
How blest are those of a gentle spiritMt 5:5 | The New English Bible
These are versions of the same scripture as rendered by two different translations of the Bible. The link is clear to see. Important to note is that humans can only fine tune their spirit, but we have no control over when it leaves our body - i.e., when we die:
Just as no man has power over the spirit or can restrain the spirit, so no one has power over the day of deathEc 8:8
On the other hand: Jehovah does not control how we fine tune our spirit - because he gives us free choice. But no matter how feisty we are, Jehovah can take our spirit! A contrast in both of the ways we have just previously defined:
If he sets his heart upon anyone, [If] that one’s spirit and breath he gathers to himselfJob 34:14
This is a great scripture because it includes both a man's spirit - or vital force - and his breath, so that we can see that they too are different to each other, in addition to both of them being a different entity to Jehovah's own spirit. Understanding these realities requires that we recognize that they are a supreme example of a nested reality. A three level nested reality featuring Jehovah's life force as the foundation for life, his user-interface of the breath of life, and our spirit. Here's how they fit together. Jehovah's spirit or life force is the starting point and the most fundamental consideration. Without it nothing else matters. But for it to operate inside creatures independently of Jehovah, he needs to automate its function in living baryonic matter. He does that by marrying it to a user interface. This interface is a way for the creature to stay alive on its own. We will consider three different examples: one in land creatures; another in sea creatures; and a third one that contrasts with both of those! This will help us to really understand how it works.
In LAND Creatures
In land creatures the user interface is the "breath of life" and it is a go between two systems from different realms: the Inzintian "spirit" of Jehovah's - his "life force;" and the baryonic respiratory system in land creatures that is engineered to use oxygen and carbon dioxide as raw materials and waste products respectively to maintain the user interface on an ongoing basis. In other words for us to keep on breathing. Where the two meet is called the "soul." In our case that is in our blood!
In SEA Creatures
The very same "breath of life" is tweaked to function differently in sea creatures. There, the breath of life is not a force that is in the "nostrils" of the creature, but we will say - for simplicity's sake - in the gills! We said two paragraphs ago that creatures being alive is a: "three level nested reality." The breath of life represents two out of three of those levels of nesting. In it: Jehovah's life force is nested in the apparatus that houses it and the relevant respiratory system - depending on whether the creature is a land or water based creature. The mechanism that houses God's spirit, the mechanism that stores the "living soul" - blood! So the soul is stored in the same place; but uses a different two-tier nested user-interface to sustain itself. Next we consider creatures for whom the user interface is not the breath of life! Yes, they exist. NOT ALL LIFE IS CARBON BASED!
The CONTRAST
The third type of creatures are, of course, angels. Angels also have bodies (as we have learned). We know that when Christ died he "entrusted" his spirit to his heavenly Father. That is, he entrusted his Father with his three-tier nested vital force. "Entrust" means to give someone something, in expectation of getting it back:
This is why the Father loves me, because I surrender my life, so that I may receive it again. No man takes it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. This commandment I received from my FatherJoh 10:17,18
So when Christ entrusted his spirit to Jehovah, it meant he knew he would get it back when resurrected to the Heavenly realm with a "spiritual body." (1Co 15:42-45) From this fact we confirm that: BOTH PHYSICAL LIFE FORMS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE FORMS NEED GOD'S ACTIVATING "LIFE FORCE" TO BE ALIVE! So we have verified that the formula for life found at Genesis 2:7 applies not only to Earthly (carbon-based) life forms, but to all life forms: baryonic and Inzintian! It is the body that changes according to the realm the life force will inhabit, but the Genesis formula - a body plus God's spirit - holds! That is the formula for all living things.
While spirit beings also follow the Genesis 2:7 formula for life; they do not have a "breath of life." Why? Because, they as spirit beings are eternal and non-decaying. Those properties, you will remember, are common to all forms of Invisible Zint. As such, angels - and yes, even demons - do not need a user-interface. User interfaces are a mechanism for sustaining the organism by taking resources from the outside environment and introducing them to the internal system. In the case of humans this applies to our need for regular intake of oxygen, nourishment and water! Angels do not need all three for their continued survival. Humans have to do something to keep living. Angels need something done to them to stop living. The difference is immense and critical to understand. The former need a user interface between their sources of external energy and God's life force; the latter only need God's life force - no user interface necessary!
From a very basic sense we understand that not all life can be carbon-based, for the following reasons. Angels were present when Jehovah created the Earth and thus the first elements of nature. We know that was the origin of the periodic table of NATURAL elements because we have already established that Earth was the original object in the Cosmos. And when that first object was "founded" angels were there to witness the moment!
Where were you when I founded the earth? ... When the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause?Job 38:4,7
So the angels were all there from the very beginning of the Cosmos. That means they can exist in the absence of oxygen! For this reason: ANGELS DO NOT HAVE A "BREATH OF LIFE!" IN FACT THEY ENJOY A QUALITY OF LIFE THAT IS EVERLASTING (BUT NOT IMMORTAL - SINCE THEY CAN BE KILLED, AS SATAN WILL BE). THEY DO NOT NEED ANY EXTERNAL MEANS OF SUSTENANCE - WHETHER OXYGEN OR FOOD OR WATER. The absence of an external means of sustenance is what removes the need for a user-interface! The user interface remember is the go-between between the "soul" - blood in our case - and the means of sustenance (oxygen) through the respiratory system. Thus, the user interface is the "nostrils" for land creatures and gills for sea creatures. (Ge 7:22!)
Angels, then, live through a 2-level, not a 3-level "spirit"-nested reality! They have a spiritual body + God's "active force," according to the fundamental recipe for life found at Genesis 2:7: that's LEVEL ONE! Then, they have, as all living creatures do - their own spirit. This is their personal vital force, which allows them to either obey Jehovah, as all the millions of faithful angels do. Or, oppose him: as Satan and his demon minions do. As usual the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe is Jesus the Christ. Only through his life does Jehovah give us the details that pertain to all angels: righteous and fallen!:
For all things I have the strength through the one who gives me powerPhp 4:13
Those are the words of the faithful Apostle Paul. Of whom was he speaking? Whose "spirit" gave him strength? The Bible answers:
For I know that this will result in my salvation through your supplication and with the support of the spirit of Jesus ChristPhp 1:19
Let scripture explain itself:
He is the one we are proclaiming, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in union with Christ. To this end I am indeed working hard, exerting myself with his strength that is operating powerfully within meCol 1:28,29
This scripture identifies the being whose strength Paul is using to exert himself with as being the Lord. Let us corroborate that fact with further scriptural evidence:
Just because of receiving such extraordinary revelations. To keep me from becoming overly exalted, I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to keep slapping me, so that I might not be overly exalted. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it would depart from me. But he said to me: 'My undeserved kindness is sufficient for you, for my power is being made perfect in weakness.' Most gladly, then, I will boast about my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ may remain over me like a tent2Co 12:7-9
Yes, the "Lord" who was active alongside the Apostle Paul throughout his preaching campaigns of the first century in our common era - was Christ himself. Not only did he commission him to declare his name to the "nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel" ...
Now as he was traveling and getting near Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him, and he fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him: 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' He asked: 'Who are you, Lord?' He said: 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.' ... There was a disciple named An·a·niʹas in Damascus, and the Lord said to him in a vision: 'An·a·niʹas!' He said: 'Here I am, Lord.' The Lord said to him: 'Get up, go to the street called Straight, and look for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, at the house of Judas. For look! he is praying, and in a vision he has seen a man named An·a·niʹas come in and lay his hands on him so that he may recover sight.' But An·a·niʹas answered: 'Lord, I have heard from many about this man, about all the harm he did to your holy ones in Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those calling on your name.' But the Lord said to him: 'Go! because this man is a chosen vessel to me to bear my name to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel. For I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.'Ac 9:3-6, 10-16
... But he steadfastly stood side-by-side with him through all of Paul's trials. What a soldier Christ is!:
But the following night the Lord stood by him and said: 'Take courage! For just as you have been giving a thorough witness about me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome.'Ac 23:11
Now that we know definitively the identity of the "Lord" that was regularly interacting with the Apostle Paul, it is easy for us to confirm that Paul's supply of power was from the person of Christ:
In my first defense no one came to my side, but they all forsook me — may they not be held accountable. But the Lord stood near me and infused power into me, so that through me the preaching might be fully accomplished and all the nations might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every wicked work and will save me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen2Ti 4:16-18
The "spirit" of power that Christ "infused" Paul with was not Jehovah's life activating "life force" but his own vital force. So every sentient creature - whether physical or spiritual has their own "vital force" which is a result of being a "living soul." In spirit beings it is a two-level nested reality. LEVEL ONE: God's "spirit" activating life in the relevant body type according to Genesis 2:7 - the life principle. In the case of angels this is an invisible "spiritual body." (1Co 15:44) And LEVEL TWO: Their own "spirit" or "power" or "vital force," which is internal to them, but which they can send into other objects. If inanimate objects: it affords them control of those objects, as when the angel who rescued Peter opened the gate, or the cherubs controlled the wheels of Jehovah's chariot. This control is just like when we control items, but from the outside - like when we kick a ball or move a cup.
Humans, on the other hand have three levels. TWO OF THE LEVELS ARE THE SAME FOR BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRIT BEINGS. However, humans do not have a quality of life that is independent of external resources for sustenance. We need to take in oxygen, water and food in order to continue living. As such, we need a THIRD INTERMEDIATE LEVEL between the first two. It is this third intermediate level that is our user interface between our "souls" - in the blood - and the external energy sources we need to function and sustain our lives. "Interface" is defined by the Wordnik online dictionary as: "A point at which independent systems or diverse groups interact." Our intermediate level user-interface is the point at which God engineered the soul to interact with our three sources of external sustenance: air, food, and water. It is defined as being in our nostrils because breathing is the most fundamental of those life sustaining functions. Again we can last many days without food, I believe its only 3 or 4 days without water. But where air is concerned, the time frame is measured in minutes! It is also called the "breath of life" because of the three means of sustenance air is the one that fits the definition of spirit accurately. Again that definition is: something which "is invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion." Clearly air fits that definition; while food and water do not. Jehovah lovingly engineered this third, but intermediate level into humans (and indeed all baryonic life forms). It makes us dependent on external factors for our continued survival. In contrast to angels who are indepedent of such factors. Thus for each land creature - including humans:
The breath of the force of life [is] active in its nostrilsGe 7:22
Do not balk at the fact that Jehovah created humans to be dependent on external factors to keep living. These interactions of ingesting external energy sources were not meant as a curse, but as a source of great pleasure - just ask any foodie! Today many people struggle to live above the poverty line. But remember that Jehovah created mankind to live with abundance:
Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eʹden, toward the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. ... Jehovah God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eʹden to cultivate it and to take care of it. Jehovah God also gave this command to the man: 'From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.'Ge 2:8,9,15-17
We were commanded to "eat to satisfaction!" In fact, so pleasant is the daily routine of ingesting external energy sources that the Holy Spirit inspired wise King Solomon to pen the following words:
There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in his hard work. This too, I have realized, is from the hand of the true God, for who eats and who drinks better than I do?Ec 2:24,25
People have built billion dollar business empires just from specializing in the different kinds of coffee that God created to partaken of with pleasure. So true are Solomon's words that for many, especially secular minded people or atheists, indulging in such activities constitutes the meaning of their lives. You have heard the saying "some people eat to live, some people live to eat." But even for lovers of Jehovah, good food and good wine brings much joy - as Solomon testified. Here is his father David making a similar point:
He is making grass grow for the cattle and vegetation for mankind’s use, to grow food from the land and wine that makes man’s heart rejoice, oil that makes the face shine, and bread that sustains the heart of mortal manPs 104:14,15
This wonderful user-interface only became a source of possible pain with the fall of mankind:
And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return."Ge 3:17-19
But why do we label it as the intermediate level of spirit in the nesting? Why do we not simply say angels and humans share the first two levels of spirit nesting, and humans have a third level that angels do not? Why do we insist on placing the user interface between the first two defined levels? Because of the principle of defining what it FUNDAMENTAL that we learned from Jordan Peterson. The thing which is fundamental is that which other things depend on. The "breath of life," our user interface is fundamental to our "vital force" not the other way around. If we don't have a breath of life, that's is God's spirit, we are die instantly. However, humans can slowly deplete their vital force - without dying immediately. Such as in a hunger strike. Old age also mimics that pattern - of our vital force getting weaker and weaker while still being alive:
The span of our life is 70 years, or 80 if one is especially strongPs 90:10
Clearly, vital force is a product of the breath of life, but the breath of life is not a product of vital energy. Thus the breath of life is more fundamental. Hence, our user interface must slot in between the other two levels of spirit-nested life. The two levels that we share with spirit beings! In summary, this added layer of life-sustaining requirement pertains only to physical life: for land animals this user interface is active in our nostrils; for sea creatures it is active in the equivalent of their "gills." In order of being fundamental then, our levels are as follows. LEVEL ONE: God's "spirit" activating life in the relevant body type according to Genesis 2:7 - the life principle. In the case of all Earthly life, it is a visible "physical body" made of dust - carbon based life, (1Co 15:44; Ge 2:7) In the case of heavenly spiritual creatures, it is an invisible Inzintian body (1Co 15:44) LEVEL TWO: Incorporates God's "life force" into a nested user interface that has as its essence the "life force" but then packages it in a way that allows said life force to be sustained by physical external factors, like breathing oxygen; eating food; and drinking water. This 2-level nested user interface is called the "breath of life" - and that is what Jehovah blew into Adam's nostrils 6 000 years ago. Immediately after Jehovah blew the breath of life into Adam, Adam started breathing. Later in the day when he became thirsty he drank water. When he became hungry, he ate some food. His user interface was working. He was alive. Only physical creatures have this level - creatures with spiritual bodied do not! On that great day then, Adam, came to be a fleshly "living soul." That meant he was a sentient being with free will! He had his own temperament. This temperament is a rough way of describing his personal energy, which represents LEVEL THREE in our nested reality: the "vital force" common to all living Earthly creatures. This force is a product of the first two levels, but it is important to understand that it belongs to us. If this "spirit" was referring to something that belonged to Jehovah it would mean we were robots without free will. However the Bible shows that that is not the case. Indeed, this spirit can be in opposition to Jehovah, proving it is not his!:
Then they would not be like their forefathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was unsteady and whose spirit was not faithful to GodPs 78:8
Our focus is only on the very last section of this verse as highlighted above. While we are hear quoting a scripture that shows Jehovah's displeasure with his people, we caution: never make it your practice to criticize Israel. Jehovah strongly prohibits such behaviour (Ro 11:17-21) For worshippers of Jehovah this respect for the ancient nation of Israel is a matter of life and death! Thus, whenever we quote such scriptures, it will be for technical reasons. It will be to prove some aspect of whatever topic we are currently studying and never as a means to look down upon God's chosen nation. In this case, we are only focused on understanding that the "spirit" people have can be in opposition to God - because although a product of his spirit, it belongs to us; not him! You can see the distinction of these two spirits in the next verse. As you study it, notice how the personal possession switches from humans to Jehovah:
When you hide your face, they are disturbed. If you take away their spirit, they die and return to the dust. If you send out your spirit, they are created, and you renew the surface of the groundPs 104:29,30
Life AFTER Death?
Just like our breath is founded on Jehovah's original breath of life, our spirit is also similarly founded on Jehovah's spirit. Our spirit is an emergent property of the breath of life coming into a fleshly body. "Emergent property" or "emergence" means it's not in the original parts that make the whole. Put another way the result is more than the sum of its parts. Put yet another way, it's when the parts that make something display a property or behaviour when they are together that they do not have individually - when they are separated. As such, emergence appears only once those parts have been put together - never when they are apart. To put it another way, our vital energy is not in the carcasses of our lifeless bodies. It is also not in the spirit, and breath of life that Jehovah gives humans. BUT, when those two factors are put together, we get a vital force that is unique to us! Another way to understand that these are different entities is to reason on where you think your temperament lies. We know the soul is in the blood, but when you are expressing yourself, when you say "I feel" or "I think" you are referring to your heart and mind, not your blood. Your mind dies if it doesn't get oxygen rich blood, but is not the same as your blood. In like manner our vital force depends on our soul being alive. Since it is an emergent property: we understand that it is not part of the two critical ingredients that make us up, but appears only once they have been put together. If that is true, the opposite process must also be true: when our two vital ingredients - a body and God's spirit - are separated, the emergent property of our vital force MUST DISAPPEAR! You never get emergence from separating components, only from adding them up. Since death the separating of components, and our vital force or spirit is an emergent property - our spirit cannot survive our death. THUS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LIFE AFTER DEATH! Isn't science wonderful!
Asking for an emergent property to be present after you have separated the components that would make it emerge is nonsensical anti-science - and anti-Bible. And that is precisely what the foundationless emotional belief in life after death amounts to. I CANNOT MAKE THE REALITY OF LIFE AND DEATH ANY SIMPLER - AND I DON'T HAVE TO! If you are struggling to understand, it's not because the subject is complex, it's because you are complicating it to avoid facing the truth. That is not a matter of intelligence - but integrity. You are emotionally tied to the wicked anti-scientific falsehood of life after death. Perhaps that's because you loved and respected the person who first told you this lie. Maybe they were your family priest, or one or both of your parents. Indeed this lie is one of the most common and repeated lies in all societies Western and otherwise. Even people who are non-religious keep this one close to their hearts. Nevertheless - it is a lie! Your struggle with it then, is not one that is about intelligence - but emotions. If you find it hard to let go of this falsehood, it is because you are emotionally invested in the common misconceptions of your family or tribe, or whatever echo chamber defines your social group. It has nothing to do with intelligence or some inability to understand this very simple truth! I leave you with two quotes before we go onto how all the truths we have learned - apply:
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thoughtRichard P Feynman
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simplerAlbert Einstein
Understanding how Jehovah's Celestial Chariot FUNCTIONS
Having studied these nested realities in great detail we can now properly understand what is happening with the steering of Jehovah's mighty chariot. For those dynamics too, are a nested reality! First an overview of the whole scene and then we will parse it out:
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth [day] of the month, while I was in the midst of the exiled people by the river Cheʹbar, that the heavens were opened and I began to see visions of God. ... And I began to see, and, look! there was a tempestuous wind coming from the north, a great cloud mass and quivering fire, and it had a brightness all around, and out of the midst of it there was something like the look of electrum, out of the midst of the fire. And out of the midst of it there was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was how they looked: they had the likeness of earthling man. And they would go each one straight forward. To wherever the spirit would incline to go, they would go. They would not turn as they went. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire. Something like the appearance of torches was moving back and forth between the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire there was lightning going forth. And on the part of the living creatures there was a going forth and a returning as with the appearance of the lightning. As I kept seeing the living creatures, why, look! there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, by the four faces of each. ... And when the living creatures went, the wheels would go beside them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up. Wherever the spirit inclined to go, they would go, the spirit [inclining] to go there; and the wheels themselves would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. When they went, these would go; and when they stood still, these would stand still; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse like the sparkle of awesome ice, stretched out over their heads up above. ... And there came to be a voice above the expanse that was over their head. (When they stood still, they would let their wings down.) And above the expanse that was over their head there was something in appearance like sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And upon the likeness of the throne there was a likeness of someone in appearance like an earthling man upon it, up above. And I got to see something like the glow of electrum, like the appearance of fire all around inside thereof, from the appearance of his hips and upward; and from the appearance of his hips and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and he had a brightness all around. There was something like the appearance of the bow that occurs in a cloud mass on the day of a pouring rain. That is how the appearance was of the brightness round about. It was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. When I got to see [it], then I fell upon my face, and I began to hear the voice of one speakingEze 1:1,4,5,12-15,19-22,25-28 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Now, let us divide the passage into four main sections so it is more manageable. They will be Ezekiel 1:1,4 and 5; then verses 12 to 15; then verses 19-22 and lastly verses 25 to 28. They follow, together with an in-depth analysis of the standout features and the explanation of the nested "spirits" at work - the primary focus of our interest.
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth [day] of the month, while I was in the midst of the exiled people by the river Cheʹbar, that the heavens were opened and I began to see visions of God. ... And I began to see, and, look! there was a tempestuous wind coming from the north, a great cloud mass and quivering fire, and it had a brightness all around, and out of the midst of it there was something like the look of electrum, out of the midst of the fire. And out of the midst of it there was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was how they looked: they had the likeness of earthling man.Eze 1:1,4,5 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Our primary focus is on the "four living creatures" and on their function relative Jehovah's chariot. We have already learned from our earlier treatment of Jehovah's chariot that the "four living creatures" are in fact angels. They are mighty cherubs. Next, the bible focuses on their movement and the functions that are related to it:
And they would go each one straight forward. To wherever the spirit would incline to go, they would go. They would not turn as they went. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire. Something like the appearance of torches was moving back and forth between the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire there was lightning going forth. And on the part of the living creatures there was a going forth and a returning as with the appearance of the lightning. As I kept seeing the living creatures, why, look! there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, by the four faces of eachEze 1:12-15 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Here, then, we get introduced to the first "spirit" in our account. We are told that the cherubs go "wherever the spirit would incline to go, they would go." That is in the plural. In other words this "spirit" is synchronizing the movement of ALL four cherubs! That's the first part of the passage, as highlighted above. The last portion of this passage of scripture gives us two additional details: the living creatures move with the appearance of "lighting." That is, they move at lightning speed. Secondly, we are told each living creature has a wheel beside it, by its face. (Eze 10:9,15,16) In other words there are four living creatures and four wheels. So far, so good. Let us continue:
And when the living creatures went, the wheels would go beside them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up. Wherever the spirit inclined to go, they would go, the spirit [inclining] to go there; and the wheels themselves would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. When they went, these would go; and when they stood still, these would stand still; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse like the sparkle of awesome ice, stretched out over their heads up aboveEze 1:19-22 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
We start to see synchronized movement between the four living creatures and the wheels, for the wheels follow them in lock-step. This means we now have two synchronized movements: the first is the coordination of all four angels to move in unison with each other. Secondly, we see that there is a synchronicity between each angel and the wheel it is in charge of in Jehovah's chariot. Two-level nesting! We know that the synchronized movements between the angels and the wheels is a function of the angel's own "spirit" because the Bible plainly tells us so:
When they went, these would go; and when they stood still, these would stand still; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheelsEze 1:21 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
That is singular. In other words each angel is controlling one wheel. The wheel that is beside it. And it is that feature that introduces a new dynamic: nesting! That is, the dynamics of the four individual spirits that are controlling the wheels are NESTED within the direction of another "spirit," the one that all the angels are following! Whose spirit is that? Jehovah's. The spirit that is directing their movements does not belong to one of the cherubs. The spirit that is "inclining to go" and which the cherubs then immediately follow belongs to Jehovah. The principle is found in the book of James:
Look also at ships: Although they are so big and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the man at the helm is inclined to goJas 3:4
In the Bible no spirit being outside of Jehovah is ever spoken of as sending their spirit into another spirit being. In this case it facilitates the communication of his inclinations to all four cherubs instantly! Again, we can easily find a Biblical example of Jehovah sending his spirit to another being as a means of communication. Here is an example of how Jehovah used his spirit to communicate his intentions with all the prophets!
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the undeserved kindness meant for you made a diligent inquiry and a careful search. They kept on investigating what particular time or what season the spirit within them was indicating concerning Christ as it testified beforehand about the sufferings meant for Christ and about the glory that would follow1Pe 1:10,11
The only proof you need of how Jehovah can use his spirit to communicate his instructions is the very book you are holding in your hands as you look up all our quoted and cited scriptures. The Bible is the ultimate Evidence Profile of how Jehovah uses his spirit as a communication tool, for that is how the Bible was written. (2Ti 3:16; 2Pe 1:21; 2Sa 23:2; Mr 12:36) The point is clear. Remember Jehovah's chariot is his transport vehicle whenever he wants to travel from Heaven to Earth, or in fact to anywhere in the universe! Like any chariot it is steered by the "man at the helm." (Jas 3:4) In this instance, that "man" is the person of Jehovah himself! Something that is different about this chariot is how it is structured - the placement of the cabin and engine in relation to each other. Most chariots are like a horse and buggy. The engine - the horses - are out front, with the chariot cabin being behind. That is not the case with Jehovah's chariot. Jehovah is not sitting behind the angels (the engine) and the wheels, but above them! He tells the cherubs where he wants to go and they use their wings to take him there. Remember Jehovah's chariot is described as him "riding upon a cherub ... darting upon the wings of a spirit." (Ps 18:10) He does the directing from above; the cherubs do the flying from beneath. Between them is a large ice-like expanse that extends over all four angels - and their respective wheels. In a two-level nesting of "spirits" Jehovah tells them individually where to go, and because they all faithfully obey his orders, they all move in sync in following the instructions! In turn, the chariot moves with them because, their individual spirits are correspondingly "in the wheels!" If you thought ride-by-wire was impressive, it pales in comparison to ride-by-spirit! The ultimate system where different components with no mechanical links to each other: move as ONE! Isn't science wonderful!
Thus, we have the complete scene unfolding before us. Let us read the details of the account again. It should be easier to follow along now. Now that we have a better understanding of how the nesting works. And, of how its two-tier of system of movements are the results or functions of the inclinations of the spirit of Jehovah activating the angels. The instructions received by the four angels in turn, nest the instant reactions of his angelic chauffeurs: each faithfully following Jehovah's orders so exactingly that NO AXLE IS NEEDED BETWEEN THE WHEELS! - Ps 103:20
And out of the midst of it there was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was how they looked: they had the likeness of earthling man ... And on the part of the living creatures there was a going forth and a returning as with the appearance of the lightning. As I kept seeing the living creatures, why, look! there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, by the four faces of each. ... And when the living creatures went, the wheels would go beside them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up. Wherever the spirit inclined to go, they would go, the spirit [inclining] to go there; and the wheels themselves would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheelsEze 1:5,14,15,19,20 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Jehovah's chariot teaches us the value of his creatures having their own spirit, or energy! It allows them to follow through on his orders - whether they are spirit beings or humans. (Ps 103:20; Mt 4:4) Just to drive home the point that when the Bible refers to our own "spirit" it is speaking of amongst other things the power we have to do things I include two additional scriptures to verify the point:
When my spirit* fails within me. Then you watch my roadway. In the path where I walk, they hide a trap for mePs 142:3
And ...
My spirit* is failing; my heart is numb within mePs 143:4
In both these scriptures I have left the asterisk after "spirit" in, because I wanted to show that there was a footnote attached to the term. The footnote reads: Or "strength." Our spirit then, is among other things, our ability to respond obediently and of our own free will, to Jehovah's direction - or (sadly) not.
But another critical lesson to draw from Jehovah's chariot is that there is no axle between the wheels. Put another way: the angels don't have to coordinate their responses with each other, either mechanically - or in any other way. They each just carry out Jehovah's instructions for them and the effect looks coordinated - as if there were a linking mechanism between them, so perfectly aligned are their movements. And remember, all this is happening at "lightning" speed! The aspect of Jehovah's chariot not needing an axle to function is a defining feature of heavenly life. It is made possible because in heaven Jehovah's word is the only ruling statute. Unlike in the Cosmos, where everything from the smallest atom to the simplest single celled organism to the largest planetary and galactic systems have statutes governing them. There is no private life in Heaven. All the creatures that are there are public servants - including the resurrected Jesus! First Jesus:
Now as to the things being discussed this is the main point: We have such a high priest as this, and he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a public servant of the holy place and of the true tentHeb 8:1,2 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
And then the angels ...
But with reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: 'Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet?' Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 1:13,14 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
How faithfully do Christ and such angels carry out their public service?
I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.Joh 5:30
And the One who sent me is with me; he did not abandon me to myself, because I always do the things pleasing to himJoh 8:29
Jehovah your God will raise up for you from among your brothers a prophet like me. You must listen to him. This is in response to what you asked of Jehovah your God in Horʹeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Do not let me hear the voice of Jehovah my God or see this great fire anymore, so that I do not die.’ Then Jehovah said to me, ‘What they have said is good. I will raise up for them from the midst of their brothers a prophet like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him. Indeed, I will require an account from the man who will not listen to my words that he will speak in my nameDe 18:15-19
Whoever disregards me and does not receive my sayings has one to judge him. The word that I have spoken is what will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken of my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment means everlasting life. So whatever I speak, I speak just as the Father has told meJoh 12:48-50
Heaven must hold this one within itself until the times of restoration of all things of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets of old. In fact, Moses said: ‘Jehovah your God will raise up for you from among your brothers a prophet like me. You must listen to whatever he tells you. Indeed, anyone who does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.’ And all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed him, as many as have spoken, have also plainly declared these daysAc 3:21-24
Remember that Christ is the Archangel. (1Th 4:16) In other words, what applies to him - applies to all! Is there any doubt in your mind that the Heavenly realm moves to Jehovah's will and has no need for laws that regulate user interfaces? Many people have a completely wrong notion of what heaven IS. They think it is a wonderful place of elevated earthly pleasures where they can indulge in all the comforts that they may have missed out on while they were alive. So you hear in popular songs that in heaven people are always BBQuing. Others imagine there are virgins just waiting for them to arrive. But is that really so. If you were an incel on Earth, will you be Don Juan in Heaven? The angels who disobeyed Jehovah and became demons, where the "public servants" who wanted to live like private citizens. They had to leave Heaven and come to Earth to indulge in such behaviours! Which begs the question of why Earthlings think such pleasures exist in Heaven. The lesson from the angels is fundamental. For it means more than just the fact that the realm where private lives exist is the Cosmos, not Heaven. It means even in principle - or theorectically - such fleshly indulgences CAN NEVER EXIST IN HEAVEN. We know that because for the Bible tells us that the demons who came to Earth to live as humans had to give up their citizenship in Heaven to do so. It's like being a citizen of country that doesn't allow dual citizenship, but you want to gain the citizenship of another country that is more desireable to you. The only way you can do so is to give up the citizenship of your home country! That is what the angels did!
And the angels who did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place, he has reserved with eternal bonds in dense darkness for the judgment of the great dayJude 6
Hence, when Jehovah's time to do so came: all the demons were thrown out of Heaven! For they were no longer citizens. (Compare Php 3:20 and Re 12:7-9;) This gives us the realization that beings with spiritual bodies can be defined as fleshly if they choose not to be public servants but are focused on having a private life. While humans with flehly bodies were designed to be spiritual because they were designed to have a strong relationship with their God, Father and Creator - Jehovah. For this reason any angel who forsook his "proper dwelling place" to pursue pleasure is now identified with being Earthly:
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above; it is earthly, animalistic, demonic
But such pleasures only exist where there are private citizens. Heaven is a place for administrating the affairs of a great King. It is a seat of government (Isa 66:1). All the creatures that inhabit Heaven are ONLY there to serve Jehovah - and NONE are there to indulge in Earthly pleasures. Remember that that level of existence - the intermediate one is exclusive to physical creatures! Jehovah created pleasures to be associated with the user interface. It should be obvious to you that sexual reproduction - the way humans procreate is part of the user interface. Just like oxygen, food and water, it is an external resource - for no one can procreate on their own. Parents always come in pairs - we need partners to procreate. And children needs parents to generate and give birth to them. Outside. Resource. On the other hand, all angels were created individually by Jehovah - through Jesus Christ. (Col 1:15-17) While humans - in keepin with the user interface - were created to procreate. That is why there are no women in Heaven! This is more than just the difference between outside and internal resource. When it comes to angels and the ability to procreate it is not "outside resource," but: No. Resource. This is because everyone who lives in Heaven is there to serve Jehovah. They have no private lives! Interests such as: wanting to start a family, eat good food and drink fine wine.
The only creatures in the universe who have the right and ability to be both spiritual and live a righteous life of pleasure are humans - not angels! And not animals! Did you catch that? Animals are not engineered to be spiritual (Ge 1:26) That tells you how far fallen angels have fallen! In rebelling against Jehovah they fell past a whole level of existence, the very one they wanted to possess: the unique honour of having being created HUMAN. Instead they went fell from being a little higher than men to being lower than men. To being animals! (Ps 8:5 versus Ja 3:15; Ge 1:26) Demons are thus animals. Mighty animals, but animals. Anyhow, in contrast to humans who were designed to enjoy a variety of pleasures as private spiritual beings; angels are engineered as public NOT private individuals! As such Heaven has no user interfaces. Because Heaven is FREE of the need of a user interface - it is FREE OF RULES! Rules: every law Jehovah has put in place to guide the Cosmos is to ENABLE and REGULATE the user inferface of the human race! That is why the Bible lists all the physical laws that Jehovah has put in place as acts of loyal love from Him! The whole 136th Psalm is about that! Jehovah creating the Sun and the solar system and placing the Earth in the habitable zone is about humans living on a planet with an atmosphere for breathing and liquid water for drinking. All the laws of chemistry are so that liquid water can run all the chemical processes humans need to function and stay alive. Plants and vegetation are there to serve as food. Rainforests have been called the "lungs of the Earth" because they clean the atmosphere so humans - and animals - can breath clean air. The statutes of the Sun and moon that regulate seasons are there to drive food growth to support our user interface. The purpose of the Cosmos and the physical laws that regulate it, is to create an environement that can host life!:
For this is what Jehovah says, the Creator of the heavens, the true God, the One who formed the earth, its Maker who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, but formed it to be inhabited: 'I am Jehovah, and there is no one else....'Isa 45:18
Once again: Physics: EVERY LAW JEHOVAH HAS PUT IN PLACE TO GUIDE THE COSMOS IS TO ENABLE AND REGULATE THE USER INFERFACE OF THE HUMAN RACE!
In contrast, Heavenly creatures do not have a user interface. For this reason Heaven does not have REGULATING STATUTES! I don't simply mean that there is no Physics in Heaven. It is obvious that if there were a set of laws that regulated how things behave in Heaven, such laws would not operate according to the principles of baryonic matter. But that is not what I mean. I mean there is no need of such laws in Heaven - for there is no user interface for them to support. As such, Heaven is a very very very simplified enviornment. Don't misunderstand the main point: Heaven is much grander than the Earth! By simplified, I don't mean simple - boring or ordinary. I mean the term technically! Heaven is simple for two reasons: every structure in Heaven - including Heaven itself - is controlled directly by Jehovah; and two: because every being there has only one focus - OBEY JEHOVAH! Thus Jehovah has total control of Heaven and what happens there! That is why it is called his throne! Jehovah rules from - and in Heaven:
Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earthMt 6:10
But there is more. There are TWO IMPORTANT LESSONS this realization teaches us. One has to do with how Jehovah navigates his vast universe. The other with how Heaven works - if not Physics; what? For it is obvious that while Heaven is not ruled by statutes, there is a system for how things work in Heaven. We are not here talking about rules for automating the regulation of processes. As we have already established, that does not exist in Heaven. What we mean is when a bird flies on Earth, it follows certain principles of baryonic flight. What we call "Aviation" - how to achieve lift and so on. It is the same principles NASA used for the Artemis rocket, that recently flew around the moon. What of angels in Heaven, they have different principles of flight (as shown by the 90 degree dynamics of Jehovah's Chariot), but nonetheless - they are principles. What do we call those principles and how do they work? We will take one at a time. Starting with how Jehovah nagivates the vast product of his creation - the universe. We previously described Jehovah as traveling by bending the Heavens. But lately, we have been focused only on his Chariot. They are obviously different entities. How are they connected? Does Jehovah use the Heavens to travel, or his chariot? Or does he use both? And if so, how can we tell when and how he uses each? Let's look at that scripture again:
And he proceeded to bend the heavens down and descend. And thick gloom was beneath his feet. And he came riding upon a cherub and came flying, and he came darting upon the wings of a spiritPs 18:9,10 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
You will notice that the scriptures refers to BOTH modes of transport. The two modes of transport are complementary and can be used together - depending on the distance! Yes, distance to be covered is the criteria. Using the Heavens as a warp drive is for covering vast distances - instantly. For instance in the situation where Christ in the garden of Gethsame told his apostles: "Or do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father to supply me at this moment more than 12 legions of angels?" (Mt 26:53) How would the angels have arrived from heaven - many lightyears away - timeously, to prevent harm to Jesus? By Jehovah bending the Heavens - by using a warp drive! Of course Christ did not actually make this appeal, for: "In that case, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must take place this way?" (Mt 26:54)
But why is bending the Heavens necessary? Why can't angels cover those distances by themselves? Because as Ezekiel's vision details, they move at the speed of light. There is a difference between the speed of light and the speed at which lightning travels. Lightning is much slower. However, human vision cannot track objects moving at the speed of light, so in this context, moving at the speed of lightning is equivalent to moving at the speed of light itself. The limit has to do with the speed at which humans can perceive fast moving objects, not the ability of angels to move faster than lightning - to move at the speed of light. That is, to move at the speed of massless particles. The Cosmic speed limit. How do we know that that's the speed being traveled at in these scenes? Because of another telling detail: the way the chariot moves. It moves at right angles! Speaking of the wheels, the inspired account tells us:
When they went they would go on their four respective sides.* They would not turn another way when they wentEze 1:17 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
If you read all of chapter one, you read that the design of the wheels was "their structure were just as when a wheel proved to be in the midst of a wheel." (Eze 1:16) That is, two wheels in one. We are then later told that they do not turn, but go on "their four respective sides" to change direction. (Eze 10:10,11,16) That means the orientation of the two rims that jointly make up each wheel is at 90 degree angles to each other. That's the only way two rims can be aligned to create four sides! The footnote reads: Or, "towards their four directions." That would be north; south; east; and west. In any case, as the wheels move at lightning speed they do not turn, but change direction, instantly - and WITHOUT BANKING. Put another way they change direction at 90 degree angles, without making an arc. They turn at right angles - while moving at the speed of lightning - a baryonic impossibility! This means they don't carry momentum; as baryonic matter with mass does. Lack of momentum means there is no inertia. Inertia is caused by mass. Lack of inertia means an absence of mass. That can only mean one thing: Jehovah, his throne, his chariot, the expanse between him and the cherubs underneath, the cherubs, and the wheels are all massless. Invisible Zint doesn't have mass. Hence the futility of physicists who are trying to find the source of dark matter by looking for exotic baryonic particles such WIMPS and MACHOS (explained in Nick Lucid's earlier video on dark matter). Inzintian entities are massless! Just like light. Light has a unique property: 300 000 kms per second is not the fastest speed at which light moves - it is the only speed at which light - and massless particles move! Of course, the angels are not regulated by statutes, hence, in the vision they are sometimes described as moving upwards in a way that makes it clear they are not traveling at the speed of light. But when in full motion, they move at the speed of light! (Eze 1:14 versus 10:18,19) The fastest speed massless entities can move in the Cosmos, is the speed of light - 300 000 km per second. Thus these angels, and hence, the chariot is moving at that speed. They too, follow the Cosmic speed limit.
Think of Satan and the demons. They no longer have access to the heavenly realm, so as powerful as they are, they can only travel as fast as light does. In other words: according to NASA, the Milky Way galaxy is 100 000 lightyears across ... that means, that's how long it would take for Satan, or one of his minions to travel that distance. Again, that gives us a radius of 50 000 lightyears. If the righteous angels were not using warp drives to travel intergalactically - but were flying at the speed of light - it would mean Christ's request would not have received its reply for 50 000 years! This is part of the reason why Jehovah intelligently created warp drives - his "stairs" in the halos of galaxies! To allow for these kinds of otherwise impossible journeys between the realms of a vast universe!
However, once the angels are in Earth's vicinity they don't make use of the heavenly ropes for travel. Then, they just fly around through their own powerful abilities. Understanding this makes it easy for us to now see the difference between the two modes of transport described in our earlier scripture: Psalms 18:9,10. There are two major differences between the two modes. One: the warp drive has to do with bending "the Heavens," while; the engine of the Chariot is the wing power of the cherubs. Two has to do with direction: the Heavens are always bent "down" when Jehovah or the angels are visiting Earth; whereas, the cherubs fly in many directions - they "dart" at right angles, depending on the exact location of their final destination. The third difference has to do with whose power is being used: it takes much power to stretch or bend the Heavens, thus only Jehovah is ever described as performing these functions in the Bible (Isa 44:24B); whereas the Chariot moves through the power of the angels, themselves. Three key differences between the modes of transport described in Psalms! Recall that scientists have estimated that the power it took to stretch the universe to its current proportions is 70% of the energy budget of the entire universe! This power belongs to Jehovah exclusively. Thus, as we have seen before when the angels needed a semi permanent structure for travel between Heaven and Earth, Jehovah stationed the status in Luz, in the middle East because that was the center of the majority of the human population at that time. And it was central to his future plans regarding giving the land of the Canaanites to his future people Israel. Once arrived, angels on Earthly missions flew around the Earth freely, as evidenced by the following scripture:
And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and peopleRe 14:6
"Midheaven" is, of course, just the sky where birds fly and clouds move across the sky. There are many examples in the Bible. Once on Earth, angels do not need to use the Inzintian filaments to get around. It is calculated that you can travel around the Earth's equator 7.5 times in one second when moving at the speed of light. So, when on Earth the angels have more than enough power to travel to any location in the blink of an eye - without the need of warp drives. No. Instead, the Bible exclusively shows us angels using the "staircase" only when they want to go to Heaven from Earth or vice versa. Recall Jacob's dream of the ladder, and why the angels were using the "staircase." The account is VERY instructive. It gives us all the details we need! First it establishes that the staircase was in one location. In other words it was like a cable car. Take the cable car at Table Mountain, for instance. It moves between two fixed points: the base and the top of the mountain! It is not like the famous tourist bus in Cape Town called the Red Bus, which gives you a tour of the whole city. The point: the staircase is in Jacobs was more like a permanent structure between two fixed points. In that case Heaven and Earth. And just like the Cable car its starting and end points did not move. (In the times of ancient Israel, Jehovah might have dedicated an Inzintian rope - part of Heaven - for this purpose, since the angels were making frequent visits to the Earth on varying assigments - compared to our times.) Further, we know the end on Earth was fixed, because Jacob referred to it as a "the gate of the Heavens" and he ranamed the city, which was previously known as Luz, to Bethel - which means: the "House of God." (Ge 28:17) He used those labels because his impression of the vision he had seen was that that structure was permanent! Remember he was a nomad who was used to living in tents. If the structure were mobile he would have used the relevant term - tent. No, the location of the stairway and Jacobs impression of it as presented by Jehovah, tells us that its utility was in providing a mode of travel between two point, a central starting point in Heaven and central destination on Earth; and not between Heaven and multiple locations on Earth. The angels who used it would have used other means for getting around once they had arried on Earth. You know on Star Trek (where the science fiction concept of warp drives was popularized) warp drive was only engaged to get between far away places. But it was never used under local conditions! In exactly the same way, angels use this mighty transport system to cover the vast distances between realms exclusively and never locally. This is a case fo art imitating life. Or, rather, science fiction ... imitating science!
That gives us pause for thought. Because there is a big inconsistency between how space-time is treated as a concept and how it is depicted in big budget movies when used for covering vast distances. Essentially, the concept of space-time is defined as an ether - recall Einstein's words; but every functional illustration of it shows not an ubiquitous, omnipresent ether, but something totally different - a finite entity tyhat connects two distant points. What's going on? We will show both below, then confirm which is real via elimination.
The CONCEPT of Spacetime
I would say that what you would find is that the catch was in our notions of Space and spacetime. That it is not that ordinary. That it is different. And that when we understand what it is, it would probably have been pretty obvious becasue its all around us and we are missing something" Fotini Markopoulou - What is a Theory of Everything? (9:42-10:03)
Despite any impressions you may have to the contrary, no scientist understands what Space is. All their theories are just that - hypothetical theories. Their models, which most prominently center around Einstein's theory of General Relativity that merges Space and time into one unified entity called spacetime is their current go-to starting point, not because it is flawless, but because it is too big to fail, as Bjorn Ekeberg puts it. Sadly his theories of special relativity published in 1905, and general relativity, published a decade later in 1915 have proved to be the last word in critical thought on the subject. Einstein's spacetime suggestions require some mathematical understanding to work through. But you do not need to be frightened of that. His conjectures about the nature of spacetime are very counterintuitive, so we will not be attacking this subject as we have other topics, where we go through the details of the theory and then falsify them at the end. Here, the process will be much simpler, because the theories combine to give us an entity called "spacetime," which marries Space and time into a four-dimensional entity. Thus all the details of the theory flow from that foundation. If Space and time are indeed a unified entity then Einstein's hypothesized dynamics are true. However, if Space and time are not the same thing, then they fall apart and his theory is falsified. I will show at the end that this is the case: there is no such thing as spacetime. Time is not a coordinate of Space, and as such is not relative in the technical sense suggested by Einstein!
1905: SPECIAL Relativity & FLAT Spacetime
To briefly go over what Einstein proposed in these two papers, we will mention the supposed effects of time being one entity with Space - the subject we are interested in. It would be an understatement to say Einstein's views have had a large impact on the notions of Space, that scientists are willing to entertain. In the first of his two theories about the nature of Space, Einstein made a radical departure from the writings of Newton:
Isaac Newton believed that time was like an arrow. Once you fired it, it went in a straight direction: one second on the Earth, was one second on Mars, was one second on Jupiter. It never reversed directions. Along comes Einstein, who says not so fast. Time is like a river ... that meanders around stars - speeds up and slows down. The new wrinkle in all this, which is causing all the excitement and the dismay of philosophers is that this river of time can fork into two rivers. Or perhaps the river of time can have whirlpools - and time can go in on itself. In that case, time travel is something you have to take very seriously! Because, Einstein's equations do allow for time travel" Mihio Kaku | Closer to Truth - Is Time Travel Possible? (2:21-3:09)
What did that mean? The "forking river" has to do with avoiding logical inconsistencies in time traveling to the future. The second "Or, perhaps the river of time can have whirlpools" that bend and circle in on themselves, like water going down a drain, is the scientist's notion of how spacetime can allow time travel into the past. In each case time travel is only possible if time and Space are both different properties of the same entity. If they are, the scenarios might indeed possible. If they are not, the scenarios are completely impossible.
Most scientists have only the very simplest notions of what time is, because they simply have not given the matter enough thought. This is obvious from the glaring contradictions in their theories about it. They feel comfortable in coming up with these theories, because "Einstein said so, so it must be so." As if Einstein is the being who created the universe, and it was his Word that made it a reality. Because, mankind does not want to accept the irreversible passage of time, it has come up with all sorts of fantasies of how time - and its effects - can be reversed. All such reversals are based on the same concept: marry the passage of time to some physical entity or property and then by manipulating that entity you can reverse time! Consider the 1978 movie Superman. In it Lois Lane, dies before Superman can reach her, and not able to accept her death, he sets about trying to reverse it. How? He flies as fast as he can in the opposite direction to the rotation of the Earth. With what effect? The Earth first slows down in its daily rotation, comes to a stop - and as Superman keeps flying in the opposite direction - slowly starts to rotate in the opposite direction. Superman's direction. Superman thus rewinds time until he has rewound it by enought that Lois is alive. He then changes direction and flies in the original direction of the Earth's rotation, restoring the Earth's original daily rotation - and the forward orientation of time.
In this scenario, time was connected to the physical property of the turning of the Earth. Change the rotation of the Earth, and you can turn back the hands of time. All that is needed is someone who can harness enough power to perform such an act. Of course, no such thing exists. Looking at the 1978 depiction through the eyes of 2023, it looks foolish and childish, but such science fiction was the result of the best scientific minds of the time. And to them and their contemporaries, it seemed just as plausible as the time travel scenarios today's scientists paint. For such scientists, and the people who believe in their fantasies, only two things are required. One: marrying the passage of time to some manipulatable physical entity. Then, when you manipulate the entity, you can manipulate time! Because you remember, they, like Robert Jastrow, and Keating, are "materialists." They don't believe in non-physical entities. That's the whole point: explain reality only through phyical realities - and thus disregard God, the Spirit. Two: in addition to marrying time to a manipulatable entity, you must then harness enough energy to control that entity. Ta da! Time Travel. It doesn't matter what the manipulatable entity is. It could be the Earth, or spacetime, or any other feature of the pyhsical realm of the universe ... around which a plausible story can be formed. Those are the only two requirements: an entity; and the power to control it. In 1978, that entity was the Earth, today it is spacetime and its various proposed features, such as wormholes, string, blackholes etc. The dressing doesn't matter, the formula is the same two ingredients. When we are finished, today's theories and their effects, will look just as foolish and ill thought out, as that 1978 portrayal of time travel.
Reversing the rotation of the Earth would have no effect on the passage of time. It would just change the order of day and night, as you performed such an operation. And thereafter, day and night would continue in their regular cycle. All the while time would have been moving forward. Similarly, making the Earth stand still would not stop the passage of time, and for the same reason. The passage of time is not tied to the rotation of a planet! Such varibale movements, as we have already learned were created for the measurement of seasons and days, and years. In other words they were created for the subjective measurement of time, not to control its inevitable, irreversible progress forward. Reversing the rotation of the Earth would have no effect on the passage of time. Just like winding you watch back when you set the time doesn't reverse time. The varibale movements of your watch and the Earth both serve the same purpose. They are instruments for the measurement of the forward progress of time; NOT, the cause of its irreversible forward progress. We know as much because someone who has the power to stop our Planet in its daily rotation, once did so - with no stoppage to the progress of time! We know the results:
It was then, on the day that Jehovah routed the Amʹor·ites before the eyes of the Israelites, that Joshua said to Jehovah before Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gib'e·on, and moon, over the Valley of Ai'ja·lon!" So the sun stood still and the moon did not move until the nation could take vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of Ja'shar? The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to set for about a whole day. There has never been a day like that one, either before it or after it, when Jehovah listened to the voice of a man, for Jehovah was fighting for IsraelJos 10:12-14
Two points. We are not geocentrists - like Aristotle. We are heliocentrists, and believe the Sun, not the Earth is at the center fo the Solar System. Do we not? Thus, we know that the apparent movements of the Sun in the sky are due to the Earth moving - and not the Sun. Of course, the moon does move around the Earth. So, what was actually happening in the first highlighted part of this scripture? Jehovah stopped the rotation of the Earth and the orbit of the moon! Secondly, we consider the effects. Did this action stop time? No! All the Israelite soldiers carried on fighting and routing their opponents, even though the tools for measuring the progress of time were at a standstill. Thus, we know definitively that the spin of the Earth is not the cause of the forward march of time. If you had been on the field with a watch, would it have stopped, or continued ticking? It would have continued ticking. Similarly the people could estimate how long Jehovah had stopped the apparent movement of the Sun for - "about a whole day!"
FORWARD Time Travel
That was 1978s theory. You will notice that in that version of time travel, the same cause was responsible for both time travel into the past - and future! Current ideas for time travel are even less savvy. They propose two different causes: one for time travel into the future; and another for time travel into the past. This is a declining standard. If you know anything about work and how to get things done - as opposed to being an ideas only Intellectual - you know that any reversible process is defined by the same ingredients producing the same results. Or, vice versa: the same products are always produced by the same reactants. In other words, whatever would be responsible for forward time travel, would be responsible for backward time travel. Not so ... say the Intellectuals. In this small section, we will consider how they propose time travel into the future works. The reason we have split Einstein's ideas into his two influential papers, is because Intellectuals have attributed each type of time travel two one of the papers. The 1905 paper on special relativity is said to be responsible for the time travel into the future! While the 1915 paper about general relativity, is supposed to be responsble for our understanding of time travel into the past.
Einstein's 1905 paper proposed that time was not independent of Space as Newton understood it to be. But that, in fact, time was merely another coordinate, in the now, 4-dimensional spacetime! So in addition to the tradinal 3 coordinates of Space, we could now add a fourth one t for time, giving us (x,y,z,t). In uniting the three dimensions of Space, with the one dimension of time Einstein was now creating a scenario where these separate dimensions now influence each other! Practically this would mean, when someone is traveling through Space, they are also traveling through time - not in time, but through TIME. For in spacetime, time is now just another coordinate (x,y,z,t) of Space. That means time is not just passing as you travel, but the rate at which time passes - is itself affected. One second is no longer one second. His theory then, was that TIME WAS AFFECTED BY THE SPEED AT WHICH ONE TRAVELED! The faster one traveled, the slower time would move for you relative to someone moving at normal everyday speeds. For the effecct to be noticeable, Einstein said, a person, would have to be moving near the speed of light - at least 99.995% the speed of light. This creates unresolvable paradoxes. Here is an explanation as to why. It is taken from a video discussing spacetime and how it affects travel - at high speeds:
The speeds at which our current spacecraft move are nowhere near fast enough to travel a significant amount through time. But this may not always be the case. If you were an astronaut on the first ever spacecraft to travel 99.999% the speed of light, you would time travel into the future in a significant way. At this speed, every second on Earth is just under 20 hours for you, on the light-speed spaceship. This means that if you traveled just under the speed of light for one day, you would have been speeding along for 86 400 seconds. When you return to Earth and stop moving you will only have aged one day. But on Earth, 72 000 days will have gone by. In simpler terms, you would have actually traveled about 197 years into the future. This form of time travel is theoretically possible, once the technology exists. Traveling forward in time is the easy part. It is traveling backward in time that leads to some problems." The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (1:52-2:45)
So, the theory is that, at the speeds that current vehicle technology moves on Earth, the change to our "time" coordinate in spacetime is neglible. But as we perfect new technologies and learn to travel faster and faster, this variable will start to become noticeable. Until, if humans can make spaceships that will travel almost at the speed of light: "every second on Earth" will translate into just under 20 hours in such a vehicle. So, if there were two identical twins, and one stayed on Earth and the other took this flight for 24 hours, upon his return, he would be 197 years older than when he left. And his twin would be long dead! Time travel into the future. Are we supposed to overlook the glaring internal contradiction in this hypothetical scenario. The astronaut brother has not traveled into the future at all, for he was always "present" in his reference frame. He has instead, traveled into the future of his identical twin - an obvious impossibility. It is for such reasons that scientists have to create parallel worlds and universes. So that two incompatible scenarios can take place at the same time. That is why Michio Kaku spoke of the forking of the river of time into two separate timelines. The reality is that multipile timelines are a figment of the imagination. The whole point of time travel is to go into the future of the place where you are currently. Not to go to the future of another world that has no link to your current life! Thus time machines defeat the very purpose for which their dreamers up, have conjured them. But time travel into the future is the nuts and bolts of his theory, for that falls under his 1905 work, which we now know as the theory of Special Relativity. That dealt with flat spacetime, that is, spacetime that is free of gravitational effects. No. What we are interested in is what he says of our world - where gravity exists! It is important for us to understand how Einstein arrived at this conlcusion before we study its implications.
Newton VS Maxwell
The linked video does a good job of summarizing the developmental history of Einstein's theories.*
It was [a thought experiment Einstein] devised ... that revolutionized modern physics forever. While receding away from the ... clock tower Einstein imagined, what would happen if the tram car were receding at the speed of light. He realized that if he were to travel at 186 000 miles per second, the clocks hands would appear to completely freeze. At the same time, Einstein knew that back at the clock tower the hands would tick along at their normal pace. For Einstein, time had slowed down. This thought blew his mind. Einstein concluded that the faster you move through Space, the slower you move through time. How is this possible?Science ABC - Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained! (0:28-1:14)
If this story is true. It should be obvious to all where the flaw in Einstein's thinking was. It is true that the hands of the clock would stand still if he was moving away from them at the speed of light, but not for the reasons Einstein claimed. The image of the clock that his eyes received when he started moving at the speed of light would be the only image he could see. No new photons of light bouncing of the clock at the speed of light would reach his eyes, since he was moving away from them at the same speed. That's if the image would linger on his retina. Otherwise he would just see the last image and then no new photons would reach his eyes. In either case, the reason the clock seems to be standing still has nothing to do with the actual passage of time. Again like the planet and moon and Sun, which are all instruments for measuring, not producing time, clocks and the rate at which they tick are just human instruments to tell time. Not to create or alter it. That's why time doesn't stop when the battery on your watch dies. That's why time kept marching forward when Joshua asked Jehovah to stop the Sun and the moon.
Einstein's mind was blown away by this realization. It needn't have been. The realization - and its resulting conclusion: that the faster you go, the slower time moves were wrong! This is the basis for current theories about time travel into the future - as we shall soon see. There is also a mathematical description from Einstein of why time slows down:
You might ask, ok I get it. I get space curvature. But it's called "space-time." How does time enter into the picture? Why is this not just a distortion of Space, but also of time? This is where Einstein's first theory, 'special relativity' comes in. The essential presumption in special relativity is that light always moves at the same speed regardless of perspective, or reference frame. This means that light will have the same speed in an accelerating reference frame as it will in a resting reference frame. If this is the case, then it means that the speed of light in the presence of gravity will be the same as its speed in empty Space. Speed equals distance over time. S = D/T. But since the distance traveled by the beam of light in a gravitational field is longer due to the curvature of Space. In order for the speed of light to remain constant, time itself must pass slower in the gravitational field relative to time in empty Space. ... This is why time is considered distorted by gravity along with Space. It is really just part of the same fabric called space-time" Arvin Ash - General Relativity Explained Simply & Visually (10:14-11:35)
Please look at the graphic from 10:34 to 11:36.* (That's the value of my using these professionally produced video tutorials as my references - they have already done the artwork and illustrations.) But where did Einstein get the urge to formulate such an idea? It was from the seeming contradiction between Sir Isaac Newton's work on the laws of motion and that of James Clerk Maxwell, who formulated the laws of electromagentic propagation (how light travels). Here is the Science ABC channel again, explaining the seeming stalemate:
Newton's laws insisted that velocities are never absolute, but always relative. So that their magnitude must be appended by the phrase 'with respect to.' For instance, a train travels at 40 km/h with respect to someone at rest. However, it only travels 20 km/h with respect to a train traveling 20 km/h in the same direction. Or, it travels 60 km/h with respect to another train traveling in the opposite direction at 20 km/h. This is also true for the velocities of the Earth, the Sun and the entire Milky Way galaxy. On the other hand Maxwell found that the speed of an electromagnetic wave - such as light - is fixed at an exorbitant 299 792 458 m/s regardless of who observes it. However, Maxwell's notion seems incompatible with Newton's notion of relative velocities. If Newton's laws are truly universal - why should the speed of light be an exception? This presented Einstein with a daunting dilemma" Science ABC - Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained! (1:32-2:42)
From his theory of special relativity, you know that Einstein chose to go with Maxwell. Thus his formulation in the equation Speed = Distance / time, since Speed is constant, and Distance has increased, it must mean the time needed to cover the distance has increased too, because as you can see when the numerator goes up, the denominator must go up with it to keep the speed of light constant! 5/5 is equal to 1. But if the numerator goes up to 10 (10/x), then the denominator must also go up, in this case to 10, if the answer is to remain constant at 1. The logic seems foolproof. Especially as there are only 3 variables and the relationships between them are so clear. There's only one problem. It's wrong.
Nested Smokes & Mirrors
Disproving Einstein's claims can only be done directly for people who know what Space IS! Otherwise, we have to note that his conclusion is based on a nested, multi-tier argument: ONE: Space and time are the same 4-dimensional fabric called spacetime; TWO: since time is a coordinate of spacetime, time dilation is a consequence meaning all observers in the universe perceive light as moving at the same speed regardless of whether they are rest or in motion (accelerating); THREE: gravity is not a force, but an effect; FOUR: acceleration and the effect of gravity are equivalent; FIVE: thus, the speed of light traveling in empty spacetime (non-accelerating rest frame) is equivalent to the speed of light traveling in curved, gravity inducing spacetime (an accelerating frame); SIX ... THE CONCLUSION: according to the formula for speed: speed = distance/time, since the speed is constant and the distance is greater in curved vs flat spacetime, the time taken to traverse curved spacetime where there is a gravitational field must be longer - hence time dilation. Expressed in another way that believers in general relativity like to put it, Einstein's conclusion is that time slows down in a gravitational field! There is no need for us to go down the rabbit hole of disproving these one by one. Firstly, because not everyone agrees on the facts on the table, thus we would not be able to generate consensus that way. It is similar to the situation with the issues around Covid. Do masks work, or are they useless? Depends on who you ask. People have chosen sides dependant on their ideology, not the facts. And both sides have experts! Stalemate. Instead we will take another appraoch. There will be no need for us to entangle ourselves in something as common and debased as debate, for I will tell you shortly - WHAT. SPACE. IS! You will then clearly see why Einstein's theory is invalid. From that vantage point, you will be able to furnish the reasons yourself for why this or that aspect of General Relativity is wrong! For now, it was just necessary for us to know what it claims are. So that when we falsify it, we know what we have disproved - and how!
Let me state my position clearly. The speed of light is not the same for all observers. If you are moving at the speed of light, and there was a light beam beside you, you would be moving at the same speed as that light beam. The photons would not somehow be moving at twice your speed. Again if you were moving faster the the speed of light, you would leave a parallel light beam behind! It would not be able to keep pace pace with you. Secondly, Light does not have the same speed in all circumstances! When light enters a transparent medium, it slows down. This is true when it enters water, for instance. Evey little child who's ever stood next to a pool knows this: light bends in water. This is why when you put a stick under water it looks like its broken. The portion under water looks bent because the light rays under water that are reflecting to your eyes are not in-line, but at an angle. They are no longer in a straight line with the reflected light rays above the water line. THIS FACT IS KEY! Pay more than the usual attention to it. I am walking you through a minefield of ideas. This is necessary even though many of the ideas are wrong. This is so that at the conclusion of the matter, you will have not only the conviction of knowing what is true, but also the ability to prove it to others - and most importantly to yourself. When you are alone ... and not reading this blog. I appreciate that in the meantime everything seems kind of foggy. But endure a little longer and it will all make sense. To help you in navigating all the information, I occassionally tell you to pay more than the usual attention to some fact. That fact is not to be used immediately, but it is important for later. So bookmark it. Keep it at the back of your mind - until the time for it arrives! One such fact is the difference between the speed of light in a vacuum and in a medium. Here is Sabine:
Okay, so we have some reason to think general relativity is wrong. But how can we find out whether that's indeed the case? The best way to do this is by testing the assumptions that Einstein based his theory on. The most important assumption is that the speed of light is the same in all directions and everywhere in the universe. To be precise, that refers to the speed of electromagnetic radiation at all frequencies, not just in the range of visible light. And, it's the speed in vacuum, usually denoted 'c.' The speed of light in a medium depends on the rest frame of the medium. According to Einstein, the speed of light in vacuum doesn't depend on the energy of the light, or its polarization. If the speed depends on the energy, that's called dispersion, and if it depends on the polarization, that's called birefringence. We know that these effects both exist in medium. If we'd also see them in vacuum, that would mean Einstein was wrong indeed" Sabine Hossenfelder - These Experiments Could Prove Einstein Wrong (3:10-4:09)
Now a quote. Some guiding words of wisdom - from an old friend:
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into accountGalileo Galilei
Many people are focused on the predictions of Einstein's theory. As we have said before, that is a hornet's nest. As Fotini said, "The notion of Space has a problem, but you don't know where the problem is." We do not need to prick that nest. For all of he so-called experts are pulling in different directions. The quicker and much more elegant way is to focus on Einstein's assumptions because everybody agrees on the science behind the ideas upon which his assumptions are based. If there is an overlooked error in the assumptions it cannot be disputed. For the evidence is in. Debate is an ignorant man's sport. Now you know what we will be ignoring and what we will be taking "into account" so as to make progress, according to the great Galileo. In the end, the answer will depend on the speed of light, but not as derived by Einstein! Rest frames and acceleration frames have nothing to do with it! That is NOT how we arrive at the truth. They are red herrings. The holy grail lies somewhere else entirely! Speaking of Einstein, Hossenfelder said: "The most important assumption is that the speed of light is the same in all directions and everywhere in the universe." Is that true? THAT IS THE CENTRAL QUESTION, FOR ITS ANSWER IS THE RESOLUTION TO UNDERSTANDING WHAT SPACE IS! AND, HOW IT BEHAVES - HOW IT AFFECTS LIGHT. More on that in a little while.
Before debunking, we clarify, and then show how the practical examples of spacetime as professionally illustrated in blockbuster movies are radically different from this concept! First, the reason the essential presumption in special relativity (which is that light will travel at the same speed in both accelerating and motionless reference frames) is applied to the curvature of spacetime is because Einstein, through his Equivalence Principle, said that the sensation humans feel when they freefall due to gravity is the same as the sensation we would feel if we were in an elevator that was accelerating upwards in a gravity free environment - like outer Space. That last point is the big divergence with Newton. Newton says gravity is the force of an unidentified entity pulling us down (or towards the center of the other body). Einstein says: No. Gravity is the ground coming up towards us. In Einstein's mind the two are equivalent, hence the equivalence principle. This is the foundation of Einstein's theory of special relativity and how he sees gravity. To him it was not a force, like Newton had proposed, but an effect. It was not due to the Earth pulling down on us, but on the Earth pushing up - accelerating ... like the elevator in outer Space. Do you see the problem in Einstein's formulation? Here's Markopoulou describing how difficult it is for scientists to work aroud their preconcieved notions or biases:
I think the real difficulty is that it's actually really hard to think of the world without Space and time. And what you find is often that people have built it in. They think that it's not there, but their intuition is based on it" Fotini Markopoulou - Why is the Universe so Breathtakeing? (12:10-12:24)
In the above example Markopoulou is talking about the concepts of Space and time. But of course her point is valid for other ubiquitous realities - such as gravity, in our case. Even as Einstein is arguing for the non-existence of a force of gravity, he invokes it. In the following example of his principle of equivalence, he speaks about how there is no force of gravity, but then speak of a man walking off the edge of a building as "free falling." If there was no gravity, such a person wouldn't fall, they would float. His biases are woven into his example. Calling a rose by another name doesn't change how it smells. Let me have Hossenfelder restate the equivalence principle for you again and see if you can catch how Einstein had a blind spot:
Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us that the effect we call gravity is different from normal forces. In General Relativity, Space and time are not flat, like a sheet of paper, but curved.... This curvature is caused by all types of mass and energy, and the motion of mass and energy is in return affected by the curvature. This gives you a self-consistent, closed set of equations known as Einstein's Field Equations. In Einstein's theory then, there is no force acting on masses. The masses are just navigating the curved spacetime. We cannot see the curvature directly, we can only see its effects - and those effects are what we call gravity. Now, Eintsein's theory of General Relativity rests on the equivalence principle. The equivalence principle says that locally the effects of gravity are the same as the effects of acceleration in flat space.... Special relativity is the special case in which spacetime is flat, and there is no gravity. The equivalence principle was well illustrated by Einstein himself. He said, let us consider you are in an elevator that is being pulled up at constant acceleration. There is one force acting on you, which is the floor pushing up. Now, Einstein says, gravity has the very same effect without something pulling up the elevator. And again, there's only one force acting on you, which is the floor pushing up. If there was nothing pulling the elevator, so if there was no acceleration, you would feel no force at all! In general relativity, this corresponds to freely falling in a gravitational field. That's the key point of Einstein's insight: if you freely fall, there is no force acting on you" Sabine Hossenfelder - Is Gravity a Force? (1:36-3:41)
Don't let the details fluster you. The logic needed to unravel this is really simple. And the problem in attacking such a theory is also the solution to getting its wieldy parts under control. It seems to have may layers. But that also makes unraveling it that much easier. All we have to do is focus on one layer at a time. I have highlighted two portions of interest from the last quote. The second section has an A and a B to it, so in all we will be addressing three points about the mistake Einstein made in trying to overhaul Newton's understanding of gravity.
Masses DO NOT NAVIGATE Without Forces
As per Fotini's quote about scientists and their biases, here we see Einstein including the assumption of gravity in his argument against it. What do I mean? We know what makes things move in Physics. Forget gravity. When we consider sliding a cell phone acrosss a table, what does it take to accomplish that? Newton's accepted laws of motion tell us: an outide force acting upon it. And we know the resultant movement will be in the direction of the applied force. Recall Newton's first law of motion:
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it" Newton's First Law of Motion
You have often seen how scientists try to illustrate Newton's concpet of general relativity and gravity due to the curvature of spacetime, with the trampoline example. Where a bowling ball is placed in the center of a trampoline and smaller balls are thrown on the trampoline until they fall into the valley made by the big bowling ball on the trampoline. What they don't understand is that that illustration requires gravity being a force - to work. For instance, the first law tells us that "every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion unless, acted upon...." The curvature of spacetime is imagined to be like the sides of a bowl, guiding obects down until they meet the ground. But what they don't appreciate is that in the absence of forces - if gravity is not a force, but an effect - placing something on the side of a slope WILL NOT MAKE IT SLIDE DOWN. Sabine says of Einstein's theory: "We cannot see the curvature directly, we can only see its effects - and those effects are what we call gravity." But curvature doesn't matter! Its forces that move things! Curvature in the absence of forces, move nothing! You can tell that Einstein himself didn't consider his thought experiment carefully enough. For his theory "rests on the equivalence principle," but that principle does not match to reality.
The Absurdity of Einstein's Equivalence Principle
In the first instance Einstein, (as quoted by Hossenfelder), speaks of an elevator being pulled up, and the floor of the elevator pushing up on you. He lists this as one force, when it is clearly two! The pulley of the elevator, and the force it generates on your feet. When he then talks about the elevator without the pulley, he says, "... gravity has the very same effect without something pulling up the elevator. And again, there's only one force acting on you." Clearly this is slight of mind. The reason there was a force acting on you in the first instance, is because it restulted from the force of the pulley on the elevator. Without that force, there would have been no secondary feeling of acceleration underneath your feet. You can't take away that initial force - but keep the end results! When an elevator goes up in a building and you feel the sensation of acceleration upward, it is not just a sensation. The elevator is actually going up. When Einstein says the ground does the same under our feet: that is FALSE! I feel no sense of upward acceleration when standing on the ground. Do you? I feel electromagnetic repulsion, which is comforting - because then I know I'm standing on solid ground, and not quicksand! Secondly, in such a case, the Earth is not going up under my feet. Is it under yours? I know what going up in an elevator feels like. I know what standing on the ground feels like. They are not the same feeling!
Believers in this notion of Einstein's, often describe its effects as being like a ball rolling down a hill. But balls roll down hills, for the same reasons cellphones slide across tables - forces. If there is no force, the object will remain at rest - whether on a table or on the side of a hill. It is forces that move things, not gradients (or slopes). When objects slide down a 45 degree slope, for instance, it is because the gradient is working together with the force of gravity. Take away the force and the slide will stop. Let me prove the point to you by dissecting how Einstein himself described the thought experiment that he says gave him the idea of the equivalence principle.
SAME Cause: Two DIFFERENT Effects
Einstein famously said: "consider you are in an elevator that is being pulled up at constant acceleration. There is one force acting on you, which is the floor pushing up." Einstein says this scenario is equivalent to free-falling in a gravitational field. Thus, the sensation we call gravity is just an illusion, an effect. In that description, it is obvious that the force beneath your feet is due to the force exerted on the elevator by the pulley that is pulling it up. In this scenario Einstein says "There is one force acting on you, which is the floor pushing up." He then goes onto make a second statement: "Gravity has the very same effect without something ulling up the elavator. And again, there's only one force acting on you, which is the floor pushing up." HOW CAN THAT BE? Physics tells us that the first law of motion is that bodies continue in their state of rest or uniform motion unless compelled to change that state by forces. If there are no forces, the state will not change. "If there was nothing pulling the elevator, so if there was no acceleration, you would feel no force at all!" That's the point! Any acceleration felt is due to a force. But then Einstein's inborn bias works itself into his argument without him noticing: "In general relativity" Sabine says, "this corresponds to freely falling in a gravitational field. That's the key point of Einstein's insight: if you freely fall, there is no force acting on you." Incorrect. Do you see the bias? It is most glaring in this last of the three examples. If there was no "force acting on you" you wouldn't be falling, but floating! Curves, as we have alreasdy seen don't create movement - forces do. Listen to the difference of how Einstein and Newton describe gravity according to Hossenfelder, and see which one agrees with reality:
That's the point of Einstein's insight: if you freely fall there is no force acting on you. And, in that Einstein and Newton differ. Newton would say, if you jump off a roof, the force of gravity is pulling you down. Einstein says, nope, if you jump off a roof, you take away the force that was pushing you up" Sabine Hossenfelder - Is Gravity a Force? (3:35-3:53)
Let us take the argument at face value. Is gravity an effect that pushes you up; or an effect that pulls you down through the curvature of spacetime, for it cannot be both. Say you are on the roof of a 10 storey building, and you walk off. What happens to you? Newton's laws of motion come into play. When you were on the roof, gravity was pulling you down. That's why you felt the pressure of the floor underneath your feet. Without gravity, the force of electromagnetic repulsion would have separated you from the floor, the way like charged magnets separate from each other! Once you walked of the edge, gravity kept tugging at you but now there was nothing to counter it so you fall. And you will continue falling until you reach the ground which will break your fall. On the other hand, Einstein says, there is nothing pulling you down. Only something pushing you up. But if that were the case, simply pushing off with your feet would allow you to float - or fly. Also Newton taught us that: "To every action, there is always opposed, an equal reaction." That was his third law of motion. And it is responsible for why you don't fall through your chair. Your weight is pulling you down through gravity and the chair is pushing you up through electromagnetic repulsion (as we have already discussed in detail). The forces are equal and opposite in direction. Hence, the resultant truce, is that you stay on you chair - and you can feel that pressure on the pants of your seat. Einstein says those forces are in the same direction - both upward. But if those two forces were in the same direction, the result would be completely differentt! Instead of being planted in your seat, you would feel no pressure as you sat, and in fact, you would start levitating of the ground. Again the way two magents with the same charge do when stacked one on top of the other. The combined effect of gravity pushing up on you and the force of electric repulsion would add up to create a net positive force that would move you upward - i.e. floating! In harmony with the laws of motion.
Curves are of no use at all in the laws of motion. Motion is a function of forces, not curves. Imagine you are hiking on the side of a rather steep, slippery hill. If you lose your grip you will slide down the hill. But this is due to forces - not curvature, or the slope of the steep hill. Say this hike was in Canada, or Europe (somewhere in the northern hemisphere) and you slipped, you would slide down the hill until you hit the ground. What would happen if you were doing the hike down under - in Australia? Again, of course, you would slide down the hill - until you hit the ground. However, in the second scenario "down the hill" is the opposite direction to the "down the hill" of the northern hemisphere! We can argue that this invisible cause of the effect they call gravity is acting in the same global way Newton's gravity laws function, in funneling objects towards the center of the Earth. That means the curvature somehow produces the same results, even when oriented in opposite directions. How? No one can illustrate how that works. They just state it as a brute fact. Because ... "Einstein said so!" When something, anything produces two contradictory results, it means the results are NOT THE PRODUCT OF THAT MECHANISM! In such a case some other mechanism is responsible for producing the function. I'm shouting because this should be obvious - but it isn't. Do you remember the Michelson-Morley experiment that was designed to validate the existence of the stationary luminiferous ether? The one Matt O'Dowd of PBS Space Time called the biggest null result in the history of science? It was supposed to prove the existence of an invisible medium which carried electromagnetic radiation in empty Space, as the authors didn't believe that electromagnetic waves - including visible light - traveled without a medium. After all sound waves and ripples in water travel through mediums, why not electromagnetic waves? When they performed the experiment, they saw no sign of the luminiferous ether. They put it down to the ether being aligned with the Earth at that time making detecting it difficult. So they waited six months - until the orientation of the Earth was opposite to the original test. Now this ether wind would be facing the Earth head on and detecting it would be vastly easier. Again, no detection. The conclusion was devasting for Albert A Michelson. Einstein wrote that it brought "serious embarrasment."* But the fact that the curvature of spacetime produces the same effect even when the curve is oriented in opposite directions leads to the same conclusion as the Michelson-Morley experiment: it is a null result. The stated mechanism cannot be the cause of this dynamic. This function is due to something else, another mechanism. For, in the absence of forces, a curve that should have caused free fall to the ground in the northern hemisphere, should logically cause free fall in the same direction in the southern hemisphere, resulting in free fall off of the planet and into the sky down under!
That is true of Newton's explanation also, some might say. Not so. Newton's reasoning was that gravity was a force that emanated from the center of objects and pulled other objects towards that center - from all directions. Thus when you are hiking in Canada, the force pulls you down the slippery force towards the center of the Earth, which motion is only arrested by the ground. The same force produces the same effect in Australia, pulling towards the center of the Earth, and again only the ground stops your fall. The same is true for any other point on Earth regardless of the slope of the country you are in on the globe. Because it is forces that move objects, not curves or slopes. People who live on the equator don't slide of the side of the Earth. Because gravity pulls them to the center and glues them to the ground, as it does globally in any location you care to mention. The reason Newton's gravity produces simarly results regardless of the orientation is that no matter where you on Earth, when you are above ground, the center of the Earth is always downwards. Hence gravity always follows that dynamic no matter where we are on the planet. Simple. Elegant. Real. That's the so-called curvature of spacetime.
What of the ground pushing you up once you reach the bottom of the steep hill? It is clear that the ground is performing no such function as as object - the Earth in this case - cannot maintain a constant size if it is pushing out in two opposite directions at the same time. But of course, the Earth exerts gravity on people in both the northern and southern hemispheres all day, every day - without growing in size. How? How is that possible, since the Earth's unchanging size makes clear that it is not pushing up on us beneath our feet - like Einstein's rising elevator? The curvature of spacetime and the rising elevator are only analogies, some might say. Don't take them literally, But analogies are useless if the point of comparison is invalid.
TWO DIFFERENT Causes: SAME Effect
Another problem with Einstein's idea of jumping off a building is that it applies on contact. He says "if you jump off a roof, you take away the force that was pushing you up." That is the opposite of the laws of motion! Not the laws of gravity. The accepted laws of motion. The first law is that objects stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force. Einstein is saying the opposite: objects stay put when acted on by a force and move (free fall) when you take the force away. He equates gravity with a force that pushes up - as opposed to pulling down. Let's walk through his own example to see the flaw in his thinking. We firstly acknowledge that gravity is always at play. There is no on/off switch. As long as two or more bodies are near each other, there will always be mutual attraction between them - gravity. Now, as we said the building is ten stories high and you're on the roof. According to Einstein, You feel gravity at two locations: when you are on the roof and when you hit the floor. In both cases gravity will be felt when the floor beneath you is pushing up on you. What happens in between, when you are in the air? Why do you "fall" through the 9th to 1st floors until you hit the ground? Here, Einstein's followers will say - as Hossenfelder did earlier - that you are just falling as a result of "navigating the curved spacetime. We cannot see the curvature directly, we can only see its effects. And those effects are what we call gravity." Again we recall Newton's principle: "To the same effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes." The contradiction should be obvious to you. Einstein invokes both the curvature of spacetime, and the ground pushing up on you as the mechanism that produces the same effect - gravity. One effect. Two causes. Inconsistent with the scientific method.
Some might say, well its the curvature when you are in the air and the ground when you are stationary. But that doesn't fly. Because curves don't make things move. Forces do - as we have already shown in detail. If the curvature of spacetime and the accelerating groung pushing up on you are a tag team that both ensure the effect of gravity, which is at play, when you're on the side of a steep slope? Einstein's general relativity is the theory of how Space and gravity work. Quantum mechanics is the theory of how matter works. The two must be in harmony, for matter gravitates. For this reason, both Fotini and Hossenfelder point out that there are problems with the theory of general relativity. It cannot be the correct understanding of gravity, because it is incompatible with quantum mechanics! And we know quantum mechanics is real. Here's Sabine:
But still, most physicists are pretty convinced Einstein's theory is wrong. And that's why they constantly try to find evidence that it doesn't work - after all. The most important reason physicists think that general relativity must be wrong is that it doesn't work together with quantum mechanics. General relativity is not a quantum theory. It's insted a 'classical' theory as physicists say. It doesn't know anything about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, or about particles that can be in two places at the same time and that kind of thing. And this means we simply don't have a theory of gravity for quantum particles. Even though, all matter is made of quantum particles! Let that sink in for a moment. We don't know how matter manages to gravitate, even though the fact that matter does gravitate, is the most basic observation about physics that we make in our daily life! This is why most physicists currently believe that general relativity has a quantum version, often called 'quantum gravity.' [It's] just that no one has yet managed to write down the equations for it. Another reason that physicists think Einstein's theory can't be entirely correct, is that it predicts the existence of singularities, inside black holes, and the big bang. At those singularities, the theory breaks down. So general relativity basically predicts its own demise" Sabine Hossenfelder - These Experiments Could Prove Einstein Wrong (1:44-3:10)
The last reason given by Hossenfelder for the race for an updated theory of gravity is that Einstein's theory bookends itself on either side in singularities. Singularities are the death knell of a theory, because they signal its breakdown. The Big Bang is supposed to be how the universe began and black holes are supposed to be how stars die. That is, at its beginning and end, general relativity is broken. And in between? It cannot explain how the fundamental parts of matter gravitate, "even though" that's the "most basic observation about physics that we make in daily life!" Fotini goes on to explain the significance of singularities in the context of Space:
... That brings you back to the question of why do you want a quantum theory of gravity. One possible way to say this is that Einstein's theory of general relativity breaks down. So, for example, it predicts there is a black hole, but it doesn't tell you what's in a black hole. It just gives infinities all over the place. It's the same with the beginning of the universe - you get infinities all over the place. So, also in quantum field theory, which is the best theory we have to describe matter, you also don't have a very good understanding of what happens when you go very small in Space. So, it tells you that you could go infinitely small in Space, but it - your theory gives you infinities. So, when your theory gives you infinities [it] means you have no useful theory - really. So, what we know, is that, um, if you look close - the notion of Space has a problem! But, you don't know where the problem is. So, people have tried to make all sorts of solutions to that, for example make quantum versions of Space, which have various degrees of success. But in some way, the question you really want to answer is: 'when do you have ordinary Space?' So that seems to reasonably special, because there are places where you do not have ordinary Space, such as inside a black hole. So, in order to make a distinction between ordinary Space, and the Space - if there is such a thing - inside a black hole, you have to start trying to think of physics without Space" Fotini Markopoulou - Why is the Universe so Breathtaking? (10:31-11:57)
Fotini is not the only physicist to realize that Space CANNOT BE AN ETHER. That is to say, it cannot be a uniformly expanding fabric, because there are obvious differences between the regions of the universe where there is an increase of distances between matter, such as inter-galactic Space, and the sections where matter remains grouped together - such as in galaxies and solar systems. Particularly alarming for her is the fact that general relativity and its theory of how the curvature of spacetime causes gravity tells you nothing about what happens at the most basic level of physical reality, the atom. As Hossenfelder put it: "In some way, we have to combine the standard model [of particle physics] with gravity, because the particles in the standard model do gravitate! We know it! But we don't really know how it works. That's certainly a big shortcoming. So we need a theory, which is called quantum gravity - that no one really has any idea [of] what it looks like."* It is this aspect of general relativity that concerns Fotini most. As an aside: You might be noticing that it is often women who are leading the charge to find real, actual solutions to the problems plaguing the sciences. For some reason, it seems men are more prone to fantasy. While women are more practical and realistic. When they see a problem, they address it head on and redirect their focus to trying to find real solutions. In any case, Fotini - in the same interview as before, but in a video published on a different date goes on to stress why finding the solution to quantum gravity, that is, a theory that shows how both, Space and matter work together is so crucial:
First of all, you have to have a quantum theory of gravity! You just have no choice. You know that it has to be there. Why? Because, nothing else works. And you know when nothing else works. So take general relativity, the best theory we have of spacetime - and of gravity. What it tells you is: it predicts black holes exist, and we've basically checked and that's correct. But, it doesn't actually tell you what's inside a black hole. What is says is, it's infinity inside a black hole, which means it says nothing. Then you take another great theory, which is quantum field theory, which is the best theory that we have of matter. We've also tested [it], [it] works great, but then you ask what answers do I get when I look at very small distances [in quantum field theory through the lens of general relativity]. Again, I get infinity. Now, what does this mean? It means I don't know what's going on. And I know precisely when I don't know what's going on, which is when the force of gravity becomes really strong. So, you know with every other force that when it becomes really strong, you have to have a quantum description of it. So what happens inside a black hole is the force of gravity becomes very strong. And you need a quantum description of that! You do not have it. You know it has to be. All your theories break down. YOU NEED IT!" Fotini Markopoulou - Why is Quantum Gravity So Significant? (0:22-1:43)
The signs of general relativity not being correct are cropping up on many fronts. But the science community is dangerously slow to get rid of old ideas. Especially when they were presented by someone as revered as Einstein. As Bjorn Ekeberg said: "'Fatally flawed' supposes the science will sort of die out the moment [it] is shown to be wrong, or inconsistent in some way. This is a very idealist notion. Instead, I would suggest it's actually possible in practice, and this is what is happening: is that the model can be flawed, and it will keep persisting as the only operative model. ... It's become too big to fail."* Do you remember Dianna Cowern, of the popular Physics Girl YouTube channel? While she is not a physicist, she is a science communicator. What is she communicating lately? In a video entitled: It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang, she takes a very humble tone in correcting what amounted to dogmatic and yet, completely wrong views about how the universe must have come to be. The subscript to the video is the question: "Do WE Expand with the Universe?" It has finally dawned on some that Space cannot be an ubiquitous ether that expands everywhere at the same rate, because then the countless galaxies strewn throughout the universe would not be able to hold their shape as the expansionary force of stretching Space pulled everything apart. Even Matt O'Dowd of PBS Space Time put out a video on May 4, 2022 entitled, Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere. It's subscript are two expressions superimposed on two graphics that each form half, of the thumbnail of the video. "NOT EXPANDING" is emblazoned across a picture of a galaxy; and "EXPANDING" is similarly superimposed across an image of a section of the universe with multiple galaxies in it. His explanation in the video is that Space is NOT expanding within galaxies and solar systems, only between them*. Clearly, as Fotini said, there must be ordinary Space and a secondary type of space that is a nested subset of the ordinary Space. I always use capital S to denote absolute Space. Here is Cowern:
The 'initial singularity' I think they call it. Which is when everything in the early universe would have been just like, all compacted into a singular point, where the laws of physics break down. Infinite, infimnite mass into this single point. Are you aware that that's an outdated idea? ... It's actually crazy: that's one of the misconceptions about the universe that really sticks. Because what we understand now, is more of this concept of, of rapid expansion of Space. That the universe all started very very small. But not at a single point. (Laughs nervously). What really happened, is that the Big Bang happened everywhere. And it wasn't a bang. It was really much more of uh - an expansion. The Big Expansion. Everything was closer together, but it was like an infinitely closer together and it just expanded everywhere! So hard to conceive of! ... So Hubble came along in 1929 and we got evidence for the expanding universe. It's pretty amazing. So spacetime is not stagnant. It's this ever-changing, dynamic fabric and it stretches and expands. And because that can happen, new Space is being created between galaxies all the time" Dianna Cowern - It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang (6:13-8:41)
As you might be able to tell from the various timely references throughout this blog, I have been compiling and coding it over a period of about 3 years. In that time, the Big Bang theory has started to crumble under the weight of the abundant evidence that falsifies it. "Are you aware that that's an outdated idea?" Cowern asks her videographer, looking into the camera. This video from Cowern was published on November 21, 2021. In it, the essence of her revised worldview, is in sync - on the important points - with what I wrote earlier. (Of course, being a Big Bang believer, a believer in the standard model of cosmology, she will believe in non-realities such as infinite universes, or multiple universes etc., just as Fotini spoke of black hole being real, in her quote. I will not always address these inconsistencies as they are mentioned. But in the end they will all be addressed!) The main points of agreement between myself and what Cowern now believes are that the universe started out small, at "initial conditions" and Space was stretched outward from that position in all directions as matter was added to maintain Critical Density. This is the evidence of redshifts as discovered by Edwin Hubble. In those earlier writings, I had laid out just why the universe was stretched, not exploded! I declared, that there was no such thing as a Big Bang. I pointed to what the term singularity means. It is a statement about the breakdown of a theory. NOT a final destination, or endpoint - some great final conclusion of an idea - as so many seem to think it means. Quite the opposite: it signals the complete failure of a theory! If someone tells you a story that ends with a singularity, it doesn't mean: a grand climax to the story, like a movie with a satisfying ending. It means everything I've told up until now doesn't matter - because the conclusion doesn't make sense. Have you ever seen a movie like that? Do you remember how frustrating the experience was? Similarly, if the story starts with a singularity, it means: everything past this point is nonsense and is based on nothing. What would you say then of a story that starts and ends with singularities? That is essentially what Einstein's theory of general relativity is. For it starts with singularities at the Big Bang, and ends with singularities in non-existent blackholes at the death of long-living stars. In such a case: what is the value of all the details - including the vaunted 4-dimensional spacetime, and his explanation of gravity as an effect - that go in between? Fotini said it clearly, singularities mean "I don't know what's going on." Make sure to look at Cowern's video to get a feel for the general sense of "not knowing what's going on." She's completely flustered by what the narrative is supposed to be now. Look particularly at the still image at 6:45. Quite telling. It shows graphically what they were WRONG about. What does that tell you about Einstein's theory of general relativity, which is where those concepts were predicted?
All the above, has been to show that spacetime is an ill-thought out notion. One that does not agree with the evidence. Some will point to this or that verification of its predictions. But, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Have you heard that expression? The test of a theory is getting all the details right - not just some. No matter how impressive those correctly predicted ones may have appeared at first glance. But our reasoning so far has been what I would call circumstantial evidence. The reasons are contributing but not deciding factors in falsifying Einstein's theory of general relativity. The definitive proofs are black and white with no room for doubt. The evidence should be as clear as dephlogisticated air vs oxygen. Of course we will always have the Joseph Priestleys and the Michelsons who will insist until their dying day that spacetime - or this or that ether - exists. That is the immense value of the role of ethers to those who invoke them. They serve a critical purpose in advancing their versions of reality, because you, the scientist, decide how ethers work. Whenever someone invokes an ether and tells you how it functions, whether it's Aristotle, Becher, Priestley, Lavoisier, Maxwell, Michelson and Morley, or Einstein, invokes and ether as an explanation for some phenomenon of nature, they have made up the functionality. Only after the ether is falsified does it become clear that the ether is debunked, does that become clear. True science experiments on the entity in question and finds out this or that property about it. But since ethers do not exist, their proposers do not have the luxury of running experiments. Hence, whatevery functionality they attribute to the ether is actually just a figment of their imagination. The only rule is that that their explanation must seem plausible when fit to observations! Not data! But observations. Because ethers are always, always proposed in the absence of data. If there were data, the nonexistence of the ether would be obvious from the beginning. That is the game of etherists. In the absence of data, they are free to dream up and attribute any functionality they want to the ether. But as soon as there is evidence the game is up. Read one historical example of how ethers and those who believed in them were called out once the evidence was gathered. You will remember that Tycho Brahe was the astronomer in history who was perhaps the best known for his meticulous records of astronomical observations. He compile volumes and volumes of accurate data, and used to come to this stunning conclusion:
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination" Tycho Brahe
In that quote, you have all that you need to understand ethers and those who use as a placeholder for scientific discovery. Firstly there is never any evidence. They are devised by authors, in the exact same way science fiction is a product of human authorship and not nature. Their descriptions are meant only to "save appearances." That is, the descriptions of the ether is meant to convince someone who is only interested in observation - not data backed Evidence Profiles. And lastly, since they are not based on evidence, and they are a product of devised authorship, not the real world, they "exist only in the imagination!" Their real purporse is not to further the knowledge of mankind, but to provide their authors with fame and perhaps fortune during their lifetime. Depending on well crafted such ethers are, they can last for hundreds of years as in the case of Aristotle, or less than a lifetime, as in the cases of Becher and Lavoisier. Ethers have alwas existed throughout the history of man, for there is always some phenomenon for which we have not yet gathered the evidence. Into this vacuum of data slips the etherist. When ethers are exposed, it often requires the death of their most ardent believers before the evidence can firmly take hold in society. That is what the historical record shows. The public hate to have their beliefs overturned! Even if they don't know why they held them in the first place - because they had outsourced the vetting and fact checking of the idea to Intellectuals. And this feeling intensifies the more highly regarded the scientist who introduced the ether was in society. Emotions can wreak havoc with people's lives. Unfortunately, you don't have the luxury to view the destruction of an ether and the misery that can introduce to people's lives in the rear view of history, for you will have to contend with the debunking and destruction of the ether that has occupied the minds and hearts of mankind for the last century - spacetime! However, for all who are honest, free of agendas and are just happy to know the truth, there will be the immense joy of knowing how things really work!
Since, it is a figment of Einstein's imagination, and not a structural entity in the universe, it is impossible in practice to illustrate just how spacetime works. Spacetime is supposed to be responsible for not only how time travel works, but for how faster than light travel works It is for this, and many more reasons that when it comes to illustrating how faster than light Space travel actually works, big budget movies utilize something that does not resemble spacetime at all. We now return to the quotes from Infographics that outline time travel into the past, and discuss how it is supposed to work according to general relativity's spacetime; and show why that doesn't work in the movies. This will in turn show that it is not time travel - either to the future or past - that is possible, but faster than light travel. Recall that Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity was supposed to explain time travel into the future. That is unworkable. Time travel to the past falls under his 1915 paper on general relativity. It is this subject that we now turn our attention.
1915: GENERAL Relativity & CURVED Spacetime
The subject is vital because of one clear reason: the universe provides ample evidence (through the redshifting of galaxies) that matter can be moved near, at, or faster than the speed of light, yet there is no way to demonstrate that reality through spacetime! That presents a huge problem, similarly to the one Fotini and Hossenfelder highlighted earlier about the relationship between the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics. We know matter gravitates, yet the theory which is responsible for explaining how gravity works says nothing about how the most fundemental constituents of matter gravitate. Hence, Fotini's alarm when talking about the theory that would unify these two incomptible theorirs - quantum gravity: "First of all, you have to have a quantum theory of gravity! You just have no choice. You know that it has to be there. ... You need it!" How does she think the search will turn out? Asked by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, what she thought the next 25 years of research and development would reveal, she answered that the catch: "was in our notions of Space and spacetime." She is right. That IS the key, for it is the model that guides thought processing, and if the model is wrong, it will always produce incorrect "notions." What are some of those notions?
In 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity. This is a paper about curved spacetime, in other words spacetime where there is gravity. His 1905 paper on special relativity is for flat spacetime. Spacetime where there is no gravity. The difference between 1905s special relativity and 1915s general relativity is the presence or absence of gravity. Einstein claimed that the presence of energy curves spacetime and this curvature creates the effect we know as gravity. Another way of saying "flat" and "curved" is stationary and accelerating. Flat spacetime then as published in 1905 was a special case Einstein's 1915 theory on curved spacetime. What is a little confusing from the naming of the two theories is that special relativity came before general relativity. Did Einstein know in 1905 that he was going to write about general relativity 10 years later? No. That is an accident of history, in much the same way we refer to WWI and WWII. When WWI was fought (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918) it was known as the Great War. Only after WWII did both wars come to be commonly known as WWI and WWII as they were both similar global developments. In similar fashion when Einstein published his theory of special relativity in 1905, that is not what he called it. His paper was entitled: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." The names special and general relativity were labels given after the publication of his 1915 work. When it became clear that second paper was a generalization of the circumstances of the first paper - on "flat" or gravitationless spacetime!
In this instance, when Einstein speaks of "flat" he is not talking about the density of Space, whether it is in Critical Density, or not. He just means not possessing gravitational properties. You don't have to know the intricate details of Einstein's theory, the fact that its based on an ether means you already know much about how it treats the supposed makeup of Space, for all hypothesized ethers have some features in common. The most obvious being that they exist everywhere at the same time. Think of being underwater in an olypic sized pool. The water that surrounds you is like an ether in the context of the pool, in that it is everywhere simultaneously. In Einstein's theory of general relativity, if we liken the pool to the universe, Space is supposed to be like the water. Something that exists everwhere at the same time. And like the water it can be disturbed, causing ripples in its "fabric." These are the so-called "gravitational waves." This "notion" of Space and how it is realized through Einstein's spacetime has met with serious problems when people try and figure out practically, how to use such a structure to travel across the universe at high speeds. Again, this is not an effort at science fiction. The reason many scientists are actively working on the solution for this problem is because the universe did it with ease, when it was being stretched and the galaxies were moved vast distances from each other. The question is how? For to the same effects, we must as far as possible assign the same causes! The problems start with the ubiquitous nature of spacetime:
The second point I want to emphasize is that the term 'warp drive' refers to a propulsion system that relies on the warping of spacetime. But just because you are using a warp drive does not mean you have to go faster than light. You can also have slower-than-light warp drives. I know that sound somewhat disappointing, but I think it would be pretty cool to move around warping spacetime at any speed. Warp drives were a fairly vague idea, until in 1994, Miguel Alcubierre, found a way to make them work in General Relativity. His idea is now called the Alcubierre Drive. The explanation that you usually get for how the Alcubierre Drive works, that you contract spacetime in front of you and expand it behind you, which moves you forward. That didn't make sense to you? Just among us, it never made sense to me either. Because, why would this allow you to break the speed of light barrier? Indeed, if you look at Alcubierre's mathematics, it does not explain how this is supposed to work. Instead, his equations say that this warp drive requires large amounts of negative energy. This is bad! It's bad because, well, there isn't any such thing as negative energy. And even if you had this negative energy that would not explain how you break the speed of light barrier. So how does it work?" Sabine Hossenfelder - Warp Drive News. Seriously! (2:20-3:46)
Houston, we have a problem! An ether that exists at all points or locations in the universe cannot explain how matter can be moved at tremendous speeds throughout a universe, whose evidence-backed expansion tells us that matter - whole galaxies and superclusters of galaxies - did just that! THEY WERE MOVED AT TREMENDOUS SPEEDS AS SPACE WAS STRETCHED - IN THE PERIOD WHEN THE UNIVERSE WAS EXPANDED! That's the fate of the ether known as spacetime as the means of forming the expanded universe we live in. "That didn't make sense to you? ... It never made sense to me either" Chimes Sabine. I do not know if she has put 2 and 2 together yet, to realize that the function of the Alcubierre drive and how such warp drives work must be the same mechanism responsible for how the redshifted galaxies of the universe - which is all of them except ours, since we are at the center - were moved when the universe expanded through the stretching of Space. Thus, the search for how warp drives work (they cannot be called Alcubierre drives for he didn't understand what was going on and invoked non-existent negative energies in using them), is not a science-fiction dream about how humans can one day travel to distant galaxies. It is the ANSWER to a critical question: how did Space manage to carry vast galaxies at tremendous speeds when the universe expanded? That is the value of knowing how warp drives work. Human access to them is a minor, minor secondary concern. Whatever moved galaxies apart, is also the solution for how warp drives WORK. That's the point!
Einstein's theory of general relativity says you cannot accelerate objects from below to above the speed of light because that would take an infinite amount of energy. However, this restriction applies to objects in Space-time, not to Space-time itself. Space-time, can bend, expand, or warp at any speed. Indeed, physicists think that the universe expanded faster than the speed of light in its very early phase. General Relativity, does not forbid this" Sabine Hossenfelder - Warp Drive News: Seriously (1:08 - 1:39)
What we have just determined, is that whatever caused the expansion of the universe by being stretched - it was not SPACETIME! It could not have been the fabric of the ether known as spacetime, because that theoretical ether does not have the ability to bend, expand, or warp at any speed. The two seeming vastly different searches: one for faster than light travel for humans; and the second for what was being stretched when the universe expanded, are actually searches seeking out the same solution! However, for the people who are interested in warp drives and how to make them a reality, this coin might not have dropped yet. Being that as it may, they are the ones who are doing the most research in this field, trying to work out possible solutions. So it is to them we once again turn, for what they have excluded as possibilites tells us much about why spacetime is not what Space is made out of! So spacetime is said to be able to allow us to travel into the future, but .... That is not the only way Einstein's treatment of Space through his ether of spacetime can be used to travel, for not only can magical spacetime take you into the future; but it can also take you to the - past! Before I give you that scenario, let me first quote what they think the past IS - and thus, why they think you can travel there:
Whenever you observe the moon, you are actually looking into the moon's past by about a second. This is because it takes the light reflected from the moon around 1.3 seconds to reach Earth. So, observing the past isn't so hard. But actually traveling to the past is a whole other animal. One way that someone could travel back in time is by using natural phenomena in Space called "wormholes." It is hypothesized that these "tunnels" connect two different opint in the universe. But wormholes may not just connect Space; they might also connect various point i ntime as well. To be clear: no wormholes have ever been found, but science seems to suggest that they are not only possible but may be more common than we think. When talking about the universe it is important to remember Space and time are closely intertwined. In fact, they are sometimes treated as one variable called "space-time." The way a wormhole may work is that a massive amount of gravity folds space-time in on itself and connects two points that are incredibly far apart, making traveling between them almost instantaneous. If this is the casee, the wormhole might do the same thing to two point in time as well. Therefore, if traeling through a wormhole is possible without being crushed by gravity ... time travel may be possible by entering one end of a wormhole and coming out the other. But wormhole time travel leaves us with a couple of problems. First and foremost, we haven't found one yet, and second, we have no idea what would happen once inside of the wormhole. However there is some good news: scientists have been cooking up other ways to travel through time" The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (3:31-4:56)
I hope you can see for yourself what the problem with such theories and searches is. It is not science! Science is about studying nature, i.e., what actually exists and figuring out how it works. It is not dreaming up non-existent entities and then wasting billions of never again to be had tax-payer funds, only to eventually rule them out. That is Scientism. The art of Intellectuals paying off their mortgages by spending all day dreaming up unrealities! For their part, Intellectuals are honest about what they do. The arrangement they have with society to play the shaman at your expense, is a social contract most citizens are quite happy to fund because they want to hear what they want to hear. That would include God is not real and don't worry if you die, one day we'll be able to travel backwards and forwards in time and the alternate versions of you will come to make everything alright. Or something like that. I'm not on drugs. I'm not quite sure how this half-reasoning is supposed to work. Some people choose fentanyl, some people choose scientism. Your life, your choice. But - as always - there are consequences. Under the 1905 paper we covered forward time travel. Now we look back:
Traveling forward in time is the easy part. It's traveling backward in time that leads to some problems. That being said, you are somewhat of a time traveler yourself everytime you look at the night sky. Since everything in Space is really far away, it takes a long time for the light from stars to reach us on Earth. That means when you look at stars you are actually looking back in time - at how the star looked hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years in the past. For instance, the North Star, also called Polaris, is located in the handle of the Little Dipper, or Ursa Minor constellation. Polaris is approximately 323 light-years away from where you are standing when you go stargazing. Whenever you see Polaris, ,you are actually looking 323 years into its past. If Polaris exploded right now, it would not disappear from our night sky for another 323 years. ... So, observing the past isn't so hard, but actually traveling to the past is a whole other animal" The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (2:42-3:44)
Once again, a failure of imagination and a complete lack of understanding. Have you ever had a long distance call with someone where there was a time delay? Or haven't you seen an interview during on TV or YouTube where there wa a time delay between the participants. Or have you never been in a forest or some sort of wilderness where you shout to someone some distance away? In all those circumstances, what must you do to have a decent conversation. After noticing the time delay, you account for it, by factoring in how long it takes. Practially speaking, that means you wait a couple of seconds before answering because you don't want to talk while the other person is still talking. Have you ever said, when you found yourself in that situation: wow, I'm interacting with the past? In his earlier quote (one quote previously) the host of Infographics said: "Whenever you observe the moon, you are actually looking into the moon's past by about a second. This is because it takes the light reflected from the moon around 1.3 seconds to reach Earth. So, observing the past isn't so hard." Why is it a time delay when its a long distance call; and time travel when it's light from the moon. These delays are of exactly the same kind. If you are talking with someone in a valley, but they are some distance away from you, say across a river. And you have to shout and there's a time delay due to the distance. Is that conversation taking place across parallel dimensions? Time delays are not time travel. In that time delayed conversation, is one of you in the future, and the other in the past? If that is a riduculous way to label such an everyday occurrence, then you understand that neither is looking at the moon, nor at polaris time travel. The principle applies equally. Such delays are a consequence of the vastness of Space. And they are a designe feature, not a bug of reality. The vastness of our universe is an integral part of the REALITY of Space - as we will soon learn!
The REALITY of Faster-Than-Light Travel
Warp Drives OR Wormholes - Which?
Let's swith gears. A fine detail to note is the difference bewtween Heaven as a means of intergalactic travel and wormholes. Wormholes are favourite intergalactic way to achieve faster than light travel in science-fiction. They are an hypothesized property of spacetime. When we talk about space in general we mean something that introduces the concept of locality and distance. That is to say, something which creates a difference between things that are close to us and things that are far away. In creating the universe, God created an environment with locality and vast distances. And with those two realities, come how long it takes to cover distances between localities. This presented Jehovah with a special challenge as the sovereign of the universe: how to cover the vast distances without the taking the normal amount of time it would require. Remember, God did not create the universe to operate on magical grounds. God is a worker. He accomplishes his will by bringing it into reality from the ground up. He creates systems. The solution humans prefer are wormholes. The ability to access any part of Space from any other - by creating a shortcut through Space, that connects the two distant locations. The problem with this solution is that it undermines the very notion of Space. Fotini Markopoulou explains:
Let's say that you have a network where everybody is connected to everybody else. Would you call this Space? If you are one node in this network, but you are connected to everybody else - wormholes everywhere - then one step takes you to everybody. So then, this thing has no notion of locality. So, you would not say that this is Space - something that has no locality, where if you just put out you hand you [can] reach everybody in the whole universe. There is no Space there! You can start from such a description and then try to see how such a thing becomes a network that has notion of distances: where it takes you actually a while to get somewhere. And you get to some people before other people - and that's what you really mean by Space. You mean neighbourhoods, locality, closer, further, here and there. But, you could pretty easily construct a network that has no such useful notions - such as [where] everybody is connected to everybody else" Fotini Markopoulou - Why is the Universe so Breathtakeing? (9:06-10:01)
That "easily" constructed network where there are is no Space and where: "everbody is connected to everbody else" is Fotini's definition of wormholes. Her analysis is very discerning. The hypothetical wormholes in hypothetical spacetime, that most scientists promote as the best way for humans to travel faster than light cannot coexist with Space! Pause on that thought for a second. Wormholes, are not shortcuts through the fabric of Space. They are anti-Space: the very definition of what Space IS NOT! Wormholes mean any part of Space can be connected to any other - giving you local access to distant locations - without delay. But that means there must be no neighbourhoods is such a network. Defeating the whole of purpose of Space - delay ... due to vastness. To make the point clearly, let me use something you are familiar with. The movie The Matrix. One of the horrible sequels. The one with the character called the Keymaker (or something of that sort). In it, this Keymaker provides access to such "local" wormholes. That's what you have to realize all wormholes provide instant local access to distant locations. So if you have one of his keys, you can shut a door and when you open it again it leads to somewhere totally different. That's a wormhole. In the same movie, Neo flies at incredible speeds to go and save Morpheus and the Keymaker when they are fighting an agent on top of a truck. You know the scene. What Fotini is pointing out is that in a universe where there is instant access to faraway places through wormholes there can be no neighbourhoods - no here and there. In such a place there is no "locality," There is no "space!" In other words the movie got the science wrong. Had Fotini been the Science consultant on the movie, she would have advised them accordingly. In a movie where there are wormholes, there can be no neighbourhoods. And in a movie with neighbourhoods, there can be no wormholes. The two concepts are incompatible! Neo being able to fly at high speeds to cover vast distances in The Matrix, and the Keymaker and the Merovingian being able to use wormholes are incompatible scenarios. Everyone who understands the world building of comic book movies knows you can't put things that don't go together in the same movie. It's like how Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. In it, Batman cannot exist in the same universe as Superman. Children, explain it to your parents.
In our last quote, Fotini uses the term "network," just to mean a way to organize things and create relationships between them. In contrast to a world where wormholes exist; Space - as a network - dictates that it takes longer to travel farther away! If you live in Pretoria, it takes longer to get to Durban, than it does to travel to Johannesburg. That is because Durban is farther away. Similarly if you live in Cape Town: it takes longer to fly to London England, than it does to fly to Johannesburg - for the same reason. That's the relationship between locality and duration of travel. As sovereign, Jehovah decided to create the universe in such a way that Space would exist, otherwise we couldn't have different galaxies and here and there. At the same time, his creation could not limit HIM from accessing any part of the universe instantly! Through his endless imagination (just look at the variety in nature) he designed the Heavens in such a way that the universe would have Space and he would have the ability to bend the Heavens instantly, and since they are legionous, to stretch them to any location faster than the speed of light. Thus, we have a world in which both Space - that is, somewhere where the notions of locality and distance and neighbourhoods - exist, and he has a means of traveling to anywhere in the universe faster than the speed of light. Truly incredible! It is no empty declaration when the Bible says of the Supreme One:
He is the Maker of the earth by his power, the One who established the productive land by his wisdom and who stretched out the heavens by his understandingJer 10:12
Through the mere fact that the scripture mentions "stretching," we know it is talking, not about the physical heavens, but about the spiritual Heavens: about the one-piece structure that spans the entire universe and acts as the "scaffolding of the galaxies." It is talking about the fine gauze. It took extreme intellegence to create it as a one piece stretchable structure that had: halos, fimalemtns and voids! That fact is verified in this scripture:
He skillfully made* the heavens, for his loyal love endures foreverPs 136:5
The footnote for "skillfully made" reads: Or "made with understanding." Thus the points are clear: He both "made" and "stretched" the Heavens with understanding! Our newfound appreciation for the differences between wormholes and warp drives makes that clear! Jehovah is King in Heaven and on Earth. Who is there, that is like Him? Isn't science wonderful!
While science might be wonderful, we cannot say the same for the foolish, empty talk of the science-fiction which is being peddled as science by Intellectuals. Having come to understand what works, and why and how it works. We now look to the crazy world of wormholes:
One way that someone could travel back in time is by using natural phenomena in Space called wormholes. It is hypothesized that these "tunnels" connect two different points in the universe. But wormholes may not just connect Space; they might also connect various points in time as well. To be clear, no wormholes have been found, but science seems to suggest that they are not only possible, but might be more common than we think. When talking about the universe it is important to remember Space and time are closely intertwined. In fact, they are sometimes treated as one variable called space-time. The way a wormhole may work is that a massive amount of gravity folds space-time in on itself and connects two points that are incredibly far apart, making traveling between them almost instantaneous. If this is the case the wormhole might do the same thing to two points in time as well. Therefore, if traveling through a wormhole is possible without being crushed by gravity ... time travel might be possbile by entering one end of a wormhole and coming out the other. But wormhole travel leaves us with a couple of problems. First and foremost, we haven't found one yet, and second, we have no idea what would happen once inside of the wormhole." The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (3:45-4:51)
From the above quote it is clear why "first and formost" no wormholes have been found: because there are no natural phenomena in Space called wormholes! Wormholes and Space are incompatible concepts. They cannot coexist. Since we know that Space exists, we thus know that wormholes - do not! But Intellectuals never take a loss lying down. After all, it's their job to dream up new fanciful ideas. It's what they got credentials for:
However, there is some good news: scientists have been cooking up other ways to travel through time! One idea is by using what's called a Tipler Cylinder - named after the astronomer who proposed the it - or an Infinite Cylinder. Basically, this time machine consists of a very long, indestrubtible tube. The tube would be filled with matter equal to 10 times the mass of our Sun, which would create a very dense spaghettified black hole. The whole cylinder containing the stretched-out black hole would then be spun billions of revolutions per minute. The rotation of the elongated black hole would cause space-time to distort in a way that would allow a ship traveling on a precise trajectory through its ripples to travel back in time and end up in the past" The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (4:55-5:28)
How do you prefer your scientists, hard nosed investigators of the wonders of nature? No thanks. I prefer Intellectuals who are paid to stay in airconditioned glass buildings and "cook up" nonrealities which they can then never find in anywhere in the universe. Where is the Inflaton field of the Guthmeister? Or the parallel universes that have been all the rage lately? Where are the wormholes? Where are the aliens? Where are the extra dimensions? Where are the strings of string theory? Where are the new forces? Where indeed! Immediately, from the second sentence in the quote, you should have known that everything that follows is indeed cooked up and has no link to reality. Why? Because in that second sentence, the the means scientists have dreamed up to achieve time travel is called an "Infinite Cylinder." Immediately upon that description, everyone who has been paying attention knows there is no such thing. For, actual infinities are not real, as previously discussed in detail. As you read the rest of the description of this impossible structure, I trust that you are struck by the mythological fairytale air that the description takes. This cooked up "idea" does not even remotely resemble science. But it gets worse. For these empty theories create more problems than they solve:
The researchers who are studying this form of time travel have concluded the only way only way the device would work is if the cylinder was infinitely long, or made out of some unknown material that could contain the black hole and allow for it to somehow curve back in, on itself. So, we're a long way from making the Infinite Cylinder a reality. This type of time travel would be on a 'closed time-like curve,' meaning that to avoid any sort of paradox the time travelers who went back in time would have previously existed wherever they ended up! This is incredibly confusing, and science has found no way to explain this phenomenon yet, but the time travelers would somehow need to be part of the past and of the future - at the same time. Trippy right?" The Infographics Show | Scientists Reveal How Time Travel is Actually Possible (5:29-6:06)
Since, the mechanism that is supposed to accomplish this feat is an "infinitely long" structure, we know that everything that follows is empty speculation. As such, we will not waste time addressing all the unknowns, i.e., the "unkown material" from which it is composed, or the fact that it is not known how it will work. The technical description for how it operates is "somehow." No. If we were to attack those points, we would be going after low hanging fruit. Our point of interest is the section I have highlighted. There, we are told that this type of time travel machine would be on a "closed time-like curve." What does that mean? It means: "To avoid any sort of paradox, the time travelers who went back in time would have previously existed wherever they ended up!" In the movies, people use time machines to go and visit ancient civilizations, like Egypt. What this is saying is that the best hypothetical technologies scientists have come up require that whoever is time traveling should have existed at the time they are traveling to. Thus, somehow, (a word which often seems to come up in these types of discussion from the so-called experts), such travelers would "need to obe part of the past and the future - at the same time." Do you want to go back and visit ancient Rome? You would have to have been alive at the time of the gladiators! Defeating the whole point of the exercise. Time travel is a foolish non-starter. It is another, in a long list, of scientism's unrealities!
The Science Behind Warp Drives
We now know with certainty that the mechanism for the expansion of the universe, and the transporting of whole galaxies and galactic superclusters away from the Earth in all directions could not have been wormholes! Furthermore, we know that Space has neighbourhoods, that is, it has "here" and "there" and that it takes time to cover the distances between such localities. Since Jehovah is a being with unlimited capacity for creativity. His solution to the need for covering such vast distances is both elegant and simple. It allows the occupants of the Inzintian "ropes," the fine gauze-like "filaments," his "stairs" in the Heavens, his "structure" in the domed "interior rooms" of the Heavens to travel elegantly in total comfort though moving at unimaginable speeds. Very much the same kind of ingenious thinking that he employed to make you fly through the solar system without feeling any sense of movement. So much so, that for thousands of years, people passionately insisted that the Earth does not move - the Sun does! But how does this work when it comes to bending Space? Listen to the endlessly useful Hossenfelder explain how warp drives work. Please read the quote carefully, but also view the video as she has an illustration of what the warp drive looks like. This will greatly aid your understanding. We have already looked at how the ether of spacetime is supposed to accomplish superluminal travel and come out with the conclusion that it cannot do so. Now you will be able to compare the two concepts and more than that - see how they compare in achieving a feat we know the universe has already gone through more than an estimated 200 billion times, for that, is the estimated number of galaxies in the universe, according to Wikipedia. Hossenfelder's quote follows:
In this paper Bobrick and Martire describe the geometry of a general warp drive space time. The warp drive geometry is basically a bubble. It has an inside region, which they call the 'passenger area.' In the passenger area, space-time is flat, so there are no gravitational forces. Then the warp drive has a wall of some sort of material that surrounds the passenger area. And then it has an outside region. This outside region has the gravitational field of the warp drive itself, but the gravitational field falls off and in the far distance one has normal flat space-time. This is important so you can embed this solution into our actual universe. What makes this fairly general construction a warp drive is that the passage of time inside of the passenger area can be different from that outside of it. That's what you need if you have normal objects, like your warp drive passengers, and want to move them faster than the speed of light. You cannot break the speed of light barrier for the passengers themselves relative to space-time. So instead, you keep them moving normally in the bubble, but then you move the bubble itself superluminally. As I explained earlier: the relevant question is then, what does the wall of the passenger area have to be made of? Is this a physically possible distribution of mass and energy? ... Suddenly, it all made sense!" Sabine Hossenfelder - Warp Drive News. Seriously! (7:52-9:36)
By the phrase "the geometry of a general warp drive" Hossenfelder just means the "shape" of the warp drive. What it would look like. And it has three parts. A bubble wall; an inside passenger area; and the outside of the warp drive bubble. For people on the inside, everything carries on normally, while it is the bubble itself that is moving at faster than light travel speeds. Please take a careful look at both short explanations for how spacetime is supposed to accomplish superliminal Space travel and at how Space accomplishes the feat. Both explanations and graphics are in the same video from Sabine: Warp Drive News. Seriously! The spacetime portion is from the 3 minute mark to 3:10. The illustration that relates to Space is from 7:52-8:30, and of course the extended explanation is the quote above. As you can tell from the quote, everything is based on the theory of space-time and Einstein's assertion that gravity is not a force, but the effect of bending space-time. That's why she speaks of "flat spacetime" and a "gravitatinal field." This is wrong! I will shortly clearly prove to you that space and time have nothing to do with each other. And there is thus no such thing as spacetime. But more immediately, why do I say the two illustrations she gives are speaking of two different concepts, with one referencing spacetime and the othe Space? Sabine certainly made no such suggestion. According to her presentation, everything she is talking about is spacetime. It's because, whether she knows it or not, her illustrations were depicting two separate concepts. Spacetime is an ether. There is no such thing as a bubble, or passenger area, in spacetime! Once again Matt O'Dowd on Einstein: "It's commonly stated that the aether is disproved - but let's be clear. The aether as a classical medium for light is dead. However, the general concept of the aether sort of has an afterlife. Einstein talked about the 'new aether' as the medium of the gravitational field, and which we now think of as the fabric of space-time." It couldn't be clearer. From the inventor of spacetime himself: spacetime is the "'new ether!'" Ethers do not have bubbles, for they are ubiquitous: existing in all places at once. Hence the first illustration at the 3 minute mark relates to spacetime. However, as we have seen Space to be functional must have bubbles, or passenger areas to fulfill its functions.
Einstein also totally misunderstood gravity. We will explain what exactly gravity is, and how it works. But everything in its own time. The difficulty of such an exposition is not only explaining the truth behind reality, but the troublesome task of having to painstakenly undo decades and decades, sometimes centuries of deeply entrenched false beliefs about how nature works. That is what takes so much time! The truth itself is quite straightforward and simple to understand. It's the falsehoods that require time to undo mentally. When someone believes something in error, it is not enough to just tell them the truth because it is how they process information that is wrong, not just the conclusions they reach as a result of such processing. Falsehoods put a bias on everything - even matters that are so nuanced you would never think of them. Blindspots.
A Brief Introduction of TIME
How does that apply here? The warp drive does have to be a bubble, but not for the reasons Hossenfelder suggests. Einstein was wrong. There is no such thing as space-time. There is Space and there is Time. They are two separate realities. And when you understand everything you will realize that there was a period of time when Time existed without Space; and a time when Space existed without Time. It will all make sense shortly. First let's remove the current cobwebs when it comes to Time, so we can see the matters at hand clearly. Einstein in his most famous work, declared that time is relative - IT IS NOT! The arrow of time in the Cosmos is established by the forward march of entropy, not by the speed of light barrier. That's just a Cosmic speed barrier. In this regard, Einstein is like Joseph Priestley before him. And like Johann Joachim Becher before him. And like Aristotle and Plato before them! They have proposed a concept that has gripped the imaginations of men great and small. In the case of Einstein, that grip still currently holds sway. Most people believe in Einstein's Ether of "spacetime." HERE IS WHY THAT IS A PROBLEM. Einstein's theory, in merging Space and time into one unified entity called "spacetime," fused the two distinct realities into one! He did so in a special way: so that you cannot alter the one without changing the other. And in such a world, the speed of light becomes more than the barrier that controls how fast baryonic matter and massless particles - like light - can move. It becomes a portal to fantastical fictions that create paradoxes of logic. All of a sudden breaking this speed means more than that you are just going very fast; it means you can time travel - going backwards in time!
The local highways where you live have a speed limit. Breaking that speed limit, just means you're going faster than the allowed limit; it doesn't mean you can suddenly travel back to yesterday. Here is the sci-fi: The speed of light is the speed of causation. Breaking that speed means you're traveling faster relative to other people who are not traveling superluminally. Hence, time moves slower for you than for people who are moving at regular Earth speeds. That is what scientists and many people believe happens if you were ever to break the speed of light. However the same people claim that there are galaxies that are moving faster than the speed of light away from the Earth - yet those galaxies don't time travel. No one thinks critically!. Nevertheless, Space and Time are independent entities. And traveling faster than the speed of light - which spirit beings regularly do - does not result in time travel into the past. It just means you get to wherever you are going really fast. There is no such thing as time travel in the universe God created!
In the following Biblical account, notice that time is always moving forward, though the angel Jehovah sends to comfort his beloved servant traveled faster than the speed of light to reach Daniel, before he finished praying!:
While I was still speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request for favor before Jehovah my God concerning the holy mountain of my God, yes, while I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gaʹbri·el, whom I had previously seen in the vision, came to me when I was extremely weary at about the time of the evening gift offering. And he gave me understanding, saying: 'O Daniel, now I have come to give you insight and understanding. When you began your entreaty the word went out, and I have come to report it to you, because you are someone very precious. So consider the matter and understand the vision.'Da 9:20-23
That is the same kind of speedy response Jesus was speaking about in the garden of Gethsemane. Did you notice that there was no inversion of the arrow of time, or any such paradox? Even though Gabriel covered approximately 50 000 lightyears so quickly that Daniel had not finished his prayer. This holds true even if the "passenger" is not a spirit being but entities from the physical baryonic realm. After all, this is how God stretched the heavens on Day 4 when he created the Sun, moon and all the stars! The "interior rooms," the galactic halos were the warp drive bubbles that safely carried their contents (galaxies), while God was stretching the heavens. For, to the same effects, we must as far as is possible assign the same causes. This is why the galaxies all have redshifts away from the Earth - in all directions! What is valid about Sabine's earlier words are that there is a difference between the inside and the outside of the warp drive bubble. Outside the Cosmos is whizzing by, but inside everything is calm because you are ensconced in a walled bubble. Only of course it is not a walled bubble but a walled long hollow Inzintian rope! You have had a look at both illustration of the warp drive as a function of spacetime and as a function of Space. The one didn't make sense as Sabine said, but as soon as the explanation included a passenger area, she said: "Suddenly, it all made sense!" In the first instance detailing the Alcubierre drive space-time is viewed as existing everywhere - it is an Ether! And that's the problem: how to "bend" such an ether to travel faster? The difficulty might not be easily apparent so I'll add an explanatory quote from Alex Filippenko to show why an ether cannot be used as a warp drive:
Then there's this idea - the Alcubierre drive - where you warp space-time in front of you so as to greatly reduce the distance. And you can expand the space-time behind you. You're sort of riding a wave through space-time. But, the problem I see with that ... a fundamental problem I see is that you'd have to get to those places in front of you, so as to change the shape of space-time - so as to make the journey quickly! But to get there you got there in the normal way - at a speed considerably less than the speed of light! So in a sense you haven't saved any time, right! You might as well as have just taken that journey and gotten to where you were going, right? What have you done? It's not like you snap your fingers and say: 'Okay, let that space there be compressed and then I'll make it over to Alpha Centauri in the next month. You can't snap your fingers and do that!" Alex Filippenko - Can We Travel Through Wormholes in Rotating Black Holes? (5:17-6:28)
The misconception of Space being a continuous Ether called space-time has troubled scientists for decades because they couldn't even visualize how space travel at faster than light speeds would work. This is exactly like when Max Planck first realized that energy was not continuous but discrete! It's that fundamental. If you have the wrong model, you can't make sense of the data. When physicists thought energy was a continuum, their calculations gave them the ultraviolet catastrophe - data that didn't match reality. But once Planck realized energy was not continuous but formed of packets (quanta) scientists were able to correctly build charts that matched blackbody radiation! You can't fit a square peg into a round hole. Only once you understand that warp drives work through hollow filaments that exist in some places and not in others, do you come to appreciate how superliminal space travel actually works. THINKING OF SPACE AS BEING CONTINUOUS INSTEAD OF DISCRETE IS THE EXACT SAME KIND OF MISTAKE AS THE THINKING THAT RESULTED IN THE ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE. Here is the brilliant Fotini Markopoulou, a theoretical physicist realizing the need to ask a simple question regarding the true composition of Space:
If you're a physicist, is asking for a unified theory a good question to ask? It seems to me that a physicist should be asking different kinds of questions. Like can I explain a specific phenomenon. So for example, can I tell you why the world has three dimensions? Could I tell you whether Space is continuum or discrete? And how would I test it?" Fotini Markopoulou - What is a Theory of Everything? (6:39-7:00)
She is asking questions that her colleagues are taking for granted. Because they assume the know the answer: a continuous ether. They think they know the answers because Einstein told them so. There are difficulties that come with thinking of Space as space-time - one continous ether that fills all reality, since no such thing exists. This is like you swimming under water in an olympic sized swimming pool. Think of the water surrounding you as space-time. Now can you manipulate the water to get you from one end of the large pool to the other? No, in such a scenario you have to swim through all the water that is in between you and your destination. That is what Alex is pointing out. You have to get to your destination BEFORE YOU CAN CHANGE IT. And that defeats the whole purpose, as you got there in the traditional way! The way scientists used to think of warp drives then was the exact opposite of how they actually work. Think of yourself sitting - reading this blog. Look around. There are probably a few items that are within arms reach: your cell phone, a cup etc. Space based warp drives are not a magical way of somehow controlling a distant location and moving it closer to you. Quite the opposite! The mechanism has to be where you are! So warp drives are not the phone mysteriously coming closer to you because some "space-time" between you and it has shrunk. That's magic! Magic doesn't exist! Warp drives are you extending your arm and until your hand makes contact with the phone. Your hand is like the warp drive bubble in this case, with your arm being the Inzintian filament that can bend, stretch, or contract - legionate - faster than the speed of light. When your hand reaches the phone, you have reached your destination. That's what happened with the angels Jacob saw in his vision of God's warp drive - the "stairway." Remember that it ended on Earth (the destination), but its starting point was heaven itself. And that's the point! The warp drive must be located at the starting point of the journey! It can then extend to wherever the destination is. We know that the starting point of the stairway was in heaven because: "Jehovah" - who was not traveling, but was at home - was "stationed above it." (Ge 28:12) Once again: the mechanism for warp drives, the entity you are bending has to be where YOU ARE! IT HAS TO BE AT THE SAME LOCATION AS YOU! Otherwise, how can you use it to travel? If you are sitting at home and need to go buy something at your local store, what choices do you have for transport? If you have a bicycle, you can cycyle. If you have a car, you can drive there. Or you may decide to walk. Whatever your choice, the point is that your only options are the choices you have where you are! If you call an Uber: can you take a ride in it before it arrives? And that's the point. Read Jehovah's description again of his mighty structure and pay careful attention to where the "stairs" are in relation to his domed Heavens:
The one who builds his stairs in the heavens and establishes his structure* over the earthAm 9:6
As we have detailed before, the heavens mentioned here are the spiritual heavens. They are the "structure," or again, as we have already covered, the "dome" (as per the footnote) that is far above the Earth. This of course refers to the halos of the one-piece web that spans the entire universe and acts as the scaffolding of the Cosmos - the nodes of the fine gauze. This, is the invisible Inzintian "heaven" that is spoken about in the first part of the verse. Thus the "stairs" are built in the dome. This is because the dome is effectively made from a collection of many such ropes, which Jehovah uses for varying purposes. He fashions some ropes into "abodes" or "dwelling places," and others, he uses as warp drives, to travel. (Compare Joh 14:2 vs Ps 18:9) Just like you have bedrooms and living rooms where you live, but you also have garages for other purposes. But all these structures are part of the same "house." In the same way Jehovah dedicates different ropes of his Inzintian "interior rooms" that house galaxies and constellations for different purposes, but they are all part of the same entity - Heaven! To travel, he must "rip" his stairway away from the rest of the halo and thus free it for use as a warp drive. (Isa 64:1) In the very same way that you would open your garage door to allow your car to drive out. Jehovah then bends them into any shape and in any direction to reach a desired destination. All at speeds much much faster than the speed of light! Think of the Inzintian filaments like a long water hose let loose with water running through it. Do you have the image in your mind of a hollow rubber hose that bends this way and that? Good. Jehovah's ropes of heaven are just like that. Except of course, they are not uncontrolled, and they don't move wildly. No. Jehovah bends them in an intelligent way to cover the vast distance between where he is, and where he wants to go. Of course the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Indeed when Jacob saw the vision of the stairs, he had a straight line of sight through the hollow rope all the way to Heaven. So why does the Bible describe them as bending? The "bending" is at the source point. Jehovah "rips" them out of their normal configuration in the halo. Effectively "untying the ropes" of the "interior rooms" or chambers, as he told Job. He then "bends" them downward to the Earth and moves the passenger area - as Hossenfelder describes it - inside the hollow filament at superluminal speeds. Since the third heavens are far above the Earth the description of their "stairs" is always one of them being lowered as they are bent - showing the direction of the Earth relative to Jehovah's "structure over the Earth.":
O Jehovah, lower your heavens and descendPs 144:5
He made the heavens bend as he descendedPs 18:9
And lastly ...
If only you had ripped the heavens apart and come downPs 64:1
The pattern is clear. All three scriptures are parallels of each other so we know that the term "bend" is equal to "lower" is equal to "ripped." They are all explaining the same action. In all scriptures describing this dynamic the heavens are always bent downwards, and Jehovah or his angels "come down" to the Earth using the bending Heavens! That is why it is fitting that the Bible depicts them as a "stairway," for stairways always connect higher and lower levels of a structure. In this case, they are connecting the higher and lower realms of the universe - they are connecting the invisible spiritual realm to the visible physical realm. That is, they are connecting the Cosmos, to Heaven:
He went on to say to them: 'You are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.'Joh 8:23
Why is this connecting stairway necessary? Because of the vast distances that have to be traversed in the universe. This proves that the reality in which Jehovah and his angels use such dynamics is one made of Space, not spacetime and its Space destroying wormholes. There is "locality," there is here and there, there are neighbourhoods in Jehovah's traveling through the universe. Jehovah uses a supernatural Spirics based transport system to nagivate the universe. But his use of it is in line with all the laws of Physics. As opposed to fanciful metaphysical notions of the instant local access to distant points in the universe. While the vehicle and transport infrastructure Jehovah uses to travel are Spirics based, how he uses them is easy for us to grasp. Here the objections of Filippenko do not apply, for both the chariot, and the filament of Heaven Jehovah bends are at his point of departure. And that's the point! Jehovah's fidelity to his own laws never ceases to amaze me. People often imagine that when God acts, it is in a way that breaks physics, or the laws of nature. Nothing could be further from the truth. When Jehovah acts, it is always in harmony with the laws he himself has established. Even if it comes at great cost to himself. (Isa 53:10-12; Heb 9:15-26) For Jehovah is a lover of justice and always acts within the bounds of any laws he has established. (Ps 37:28; Job 37:23; De 32:4) There is no hocus pocus in the universe. When Jehovah performs a "miracle" he is just employing future technology! Put another way he is applying science before it is discovered. For instance, he asked Job over 3400 years ago: "Can you send out lightning bolts? Will they come and say to you, 'Here we are!'" (Job 38:1-3,35) Recently in the Gaurdian, there was an article published under 'Science' and then 'Physics,' that had the title: Scientists Steer Lightning Bolts with Lasers for the First Time. So science is starting to catch up to the knowledge Jehovah had labeled Job as being ignorant of in verses 1 to 3! We know that Jehovah's command of lightning was based on applied science, and not mysterious abracadabra, because he prefaced his question to Job about the lightning bolts with the statement: "Do you know the laws governing the heavens, or can you impose their authority on the Earth?" (Job 38:33)
Technology, or the applied sciences are a way to gain access to that "authority" - as established by God - and apply it for beneficial uses, as the scientists mentioned in the Guardian article are just now learning to do. (Ro 13:1; Col 1:16) How do we know that this is true? Because Satan, having being an eyewitness to God creating the Cosmos, had access to such knowledge - and used it to try and persuade Job after being granted persmission by Jehovah. (Job 1:11,12,18,19) In that case, Satan used "a great windstorm," but the point is clear. He knew the laws governing the heavens and how to access their authority: he used advanced technology. Of course, Jehovah has such access to not only Physics, but Spirics. What's more, there are certain authorities that Jehovah reserves for himself, and those two him he wants to grant them, such as the ability to give life. (Joh 5:25-27) The take-away point from this section is that Jehovah created authories, so that humans and angels could have a measure of authority to do the same things he does - as long as they have the knowledge, and in the case of angels Jehovah's express permission. Remember all the plagues Jehovah brought to the nation of Egypt? Do you know who carried them out? Angels! (Ps 78:44-49) Now you know what a miracle is!
The Chariot or the Warp Drive?
In Ezekiel's vision, Ezekiel only sees the chariot, and no mention is made of the bending of heaven to travel intergalactically. This is because Ezekiel's vision starts when Jehovah is already arriving on Earth. Basically it starts after Jehovah's chariot has entered Earth's atmosphere and - like an airplane losing altitude - is coming in for a landing! When the text describes that Ezekiel saw "the heavens were opened" and he "began to see visions of God" it is the physical heavens were the birds fly. We know that due to two reasons. The first reason is because of the environment. "Look! there was a tempestuous wind coming from the north." That reference is a geographical one relevant to the Earth. North is with reference to earthly directions, and does not represent Jehovah "coming down."
Thus, within the Cosmos the angels can fly at the speed of light and that is all that is needed. Think back to Jacob's vision. The end of the warp drive filament is like a gate that you enter - OR - exit:
Then he had a dream, and look! there was a stairway set on the earth, and its top reached up to the heavens; and there were God’s angels ascending and descending on it. And look! there was Jehovah stationed above it ... Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said: 'Truly Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it.' And he grew fearful and added: 'How awe-inspiring this place is! This can only be the house of God, and this is the gate of the heavens.'Ge 28:12,13,16,17
Once these angels were on Earth they flew around without the use of the bent Inzintian filament - the stairway. We know that because the stairway was "set on the Earth." That means the "gate of the Heavens" was stationary, set in ONE central location. Once the angels had covered intergalactic Space, they then went out of the "gate" to wherever their mission from Jehovah sent them on Earth - through their own flying abilities. That is why it is called a "gate" because enter or exit it. The scripture clearly explains that when the angels are in the "stairway" they are ascending and descending to and from Heaven. No mention of them moving around Earth is made. Thus such movements occur after they have exited the gate. The second reason we know the environment for Jehovah's chariot is earthly is that Jehovah shrouds himself in dark clouds whenever he is described as visiting Earth. This is because no man can see God and live:
He made the heavens bend as he descended, and thick gloom was beneath his feet. He rode on a cherub and came flying. He swooped down on the wings of a spirit. He then covered himself in darkness, all around him as a shelter, dark waters and thick clouds. From the brightness before him hail and fiery coals broke through the cloudsPs 18:9-12
Notice that only after he starts his descent to Earth does Jehovah "then" cover himself in darkness. He uses it "all around him as a shelter!" Yet in heaven there is no darkness around him. In fact Scripture informs us that he lives in "unapproachable light.":
Which the happy and only Potentate will show in its own appointed times. He is the King of those who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, the one alone having immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see1Ti 6:15,16
And that's the clue as to the difference. That's the clue as to why God needs a "shelter" when he comes to Earth. The statement: "Whom no man has seen or can see!" Jehovah is the most powerful being in the universe. He is the Almighty - the source of all power. He doesn't need shelter from any negative conditions or against any source of harm. He conceals himself in a shelter, not to protect himself; but to protect us against his magnificence. All lovers of Jehovah really want, is just to "see" their loving God and Creator. Speaking to the Christ, "Philip said of him: 'Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.'" (Joh 14:8) Jesus was incensed with Philip for this reply. If you know the account Christ had just finished telling his disciples that whoever has seen him, has seen the Father, because of course he is the exact representation of his Father. We can all appreciate that spiritually. But all of us lovers of Jehovah also sympathize with Philip. We understand that Christ is the exact reflection and essence of his Father's personality, but that doesn't dent the desire we all have to "see" Jehovah for ourselves - so much love and admiration do we have for his person. It's an awkward situation: we understand both Christ and Philip's points of view. (Lol). So deep is this need that Moses - "the man of the true God" - directly asked Jehovah for just such a privilege, since he had an extremely close relationship with the Creator. Here is his request and Jehovah's reply:
Jehovah went on to say to Moses: 'I will also do this thing that you request, because you have found favor in my eyes and I know you by name.' Then he said: 'Please show me your glory.' But he said: 'I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will declare before you the name of Jehovah; and I will favor the one whom I favor, and I will show mercy to the one to whom I show mercy.' But he added: 'You cannot see my face, for no man can see me and live.'Ex 33:17-20
"No man can see me and live." For that reason Jehovah kindly always conceals himself in a dark cloud when he visits Earth! Contrast that with his regular environment when he is at home surrounded by angels who interact closely with Jehovah in Heaven. (Lu 1:19,20) Under such circumstances his glory is on full display:
I kept watching until thrones were set in place and the Ancient of Days sat down. His clothing was white like snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool. His throne was flames of fire; its wheels were a burning fire. A stream of fire was flowing and going out from before him. A thousand thousands kept ministering to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The Court took its seat, and books were openedDa 7:9,10
In this account, Jehovah is being ministered to not by an entourage of servants, but by millions of mighty angels. While those gathered in his court to hear the matters at hand are described as "ten thousand times ten thousand," which equals 100 000 000 angels witnessing his glory. In all such heavenly scenes there are never any day clouds of "concealment" mentioned, for the spirit beings are a life form that can accommodate seeing Jehovah face to face
Beloved ones, now we are children of God, but as yet it has not been made manifest what we shall be. We do know that whenever he is made manifest we shall be like him, because we shall see him just as he is1Jo 3:2
While this verse is speaking specifically of Jehovah's anointed servants who will inherit immortal life in heaven, the principle applies to the 100 million plus angels that already live in Heaven! They all "see him just as he is!" No dark clouds.
GLORY Nested Inside Darkness
You will not have failed to note that the descriptions of Jehovah's immediate vicinity are the same in both cases! That is, whether he is in his Heavenly Court or he is away from Heaven in another corner of his universe, his immediate surroundings are the same. As described in detail in the book of Ezekiel. Those features are important, for reasons that will not be immediately apparent to you, but that you will shortly appreciate. So we will discuss them briefly. Starting with his immediate vicinity and going outward.
Jehovah's Immediate Vicinity
His throne was flames of fire; its wheels were a burning fire. A stream of fire was flowing and going out from before himDa 7:9,10
How close do these flames get the person of God?
And above the expanse that was over their head there was something in appearance like sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And upon the likeness of the throne there was a likeness of someone in appearance like an earthling man upon it, up above. And I got to see something like the glow of electrum, like the appearance of fire all around inside thereof, from the appearance of his hips and upward; and from the appearance of his hips and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and he had a brightness all around. There was something like the appearance of the bow that occurs in a cloud mass on the day of a pouring rain. That is how the appearance was of the brightness round about. It was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of JehovahEze 1:26-28
So there is fire "all around inside thereof" referring to his throne. But Ezekiel also tells us that "from the appearance of his hips and upward; and from the appearance of his hips and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and he had a brightness all around." Thus the fire starts or emanates around the person of Jehovah. And all around him there is "brightness." This brightness is then surrounded by "something like the appearance of the [rain]bow...." These are the immediate surroundings of Jehovah God. The common denominator is light. Constant, intense, light. One of the reasons Jehovah's surroundings look the same whether he is Heaven or Earh, or elsewhere is that his chariot and his throne are the same entity! That detail comes to the fore in Daniel: "His throne was flames of fire; its wheels were a burning fire." So the wheels of Jehovah's chariot belong to his throne. The chariot and the throne are one and the same thing. Above the expanse of the chariot is a Jehovah's glory with all the light and fire that that included. Also - 2 Samuel tells us: "From the brightness in front of him burning coals of fire blazed up." (2Sa 22:13) Additionally, Revelattion tells us that "From the throne were coming lightning." (Re 4:5) The theme of fire and lightning carry one below the vast expanse that separates Jehovah above, from the four cherubs and the chariot's/throne's wheelwork below. The mind picture you get is one of bristling energy - like a live, dynamically visible, and highly charged electric field!
When Jehovah is in Heaven, that is all there is to it. However, when he leaves Heaven for Earthly regions, then clouds appear. Firstly, beneath his feet as he approaches Earth in the descending warp drive:
And he proceeded to bend the heavens down and to descend; and thick gloom was beneath his feet2Sa 22:10
At this point the clouds are between him and the Earth. But on his final approach to Earth the area the clouds cover grows from being just beneath his feet to enveloping him as a whole. They completely hide him completely on all sides:
And he came riding upon a cherub and came flying; and he was visible upon the wings of a spirit. Then he put a darkness around him as booths, dark waters, thick clouds2Sa 22:11,12
We realized that he is now within Earth's vicinity, for he becomes visible. That is to say he is now within human eyesight range. At the same time the cloud cover now fully envelopes him and it is specifically said to be gloomy - in other words dark. This is so no humans can see him: since no man can see him and live! That covers Jehovah's immediate vicinity from the inside out. Now we want to consider the opposite perspective, what an onlooker would see if he were looking at such a scene from the outside. We will consider two examples: what Ezekiel saw in vision; and what the Isrealites saw in real life, at Mount Sinai. First Ezekiel:
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth [day] of the month, while I was in the midst of the exiled people by the river Cheʹbar, that the heavens were opened and I began to see visions of God. ... And I began to see, and, look! there was a tempestuous wind coming from the north, a great cloud mass and quivering fire, and it had a brightness all around, and out of the midst of it there was something like the look of electrum, out of the midst of the fire. And out of the midst of it there was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was how they looked: they had the likeness of earthling manEze 1:1,4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Now we have to be alert to the fact that this is a vision. In visions Jehovah shows humans details that they could never see in real life. This was the case when the Paul saw many details about Heaven in the revelations of the Christ. Something he could not see with his literal eyes because Heaven is invisible, and it is at least 50 000 lightyears away. In other cases, such visions show the prophets images of Jehovah himself, something we know no human can "see" and continue living - according to Jehovah's own Word. That applies in this instance too. The purpose of the "thick gloom," the cloud mass, is to hide Jehovah from vulnerable humans. In other words, if Ezekiel were not seeing a vision, he could not have seen into the cloud mass. That would defeat the whole purpose of the dark cloud mass. The cloud mass "conceals" whatever is inside it from human view. Nevertheless, the purpose of visions is to show us details that we would not otherwise be privileged to observe. Hence, Ezekiel sees into the thick gloom. I have shown were natural eyesight stops and where supernatural visions start by highlighting the "natural" part. The portion of the scripture that ends with: "... and it had a brightness all around" represents the limit of human eyesight when viewing such a spectacle. We will see that shortly with the example of the Israelites.
In contrast, here Ezekiel now sees into the cloud mass. Whenever the phrase, "... and out of the midst of it there was ..." is used, it means: seeing into! Thus Ezekiel goes on to describe what the cherubs looked like. In later verses he describes the wheelwork, and later still he describes Jehovah himself and Jehovah's throne! That is background information. What concerns us is the highlighted portion of the scripture. What humans would naturally see were they to see such a spectacle in real life.
What the Dark Cloud Looks Like from the OUTSIDE
Ezekiel presents three interesting details that must be taken together to be understood:
I began to see, and, look! ... a great cloud mass and quivering fire, and it had a brightness all aroundEze 1:4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Wtih References
We have a dark cloud mass; quivering fire; and brightness all around. This is explained by our earlier scriptures such as Psalms 18. This time let's extend the scriptural passage to include more verses:
And he proceeded to bend the heavens down and descend. And thick gloom was beneath his feet. And he came riding upon a cherub and came flying, and he came darting upon the wings of a spirit. He then made darkness his concealment place, all around him as his booth, dark waters, thick clouds. Out of the brightness in front of him there were his clouds that passed by, hail and burning coals of fire. And in the heavens Jehovah began to thunder, and the Most High himself began to give his voice, hail and burning coals of fire. And he kept sending out his arrows, that he might scatter them; and lightnings he shot out, that he might throw them into confusionPs 18:9-14 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
In the final part of this passage we see that out of the dark place of concealment, there are "burning coals of fire" and that Jehovah "thunders" and shoots out lightning - like bullets! That is how the three details given by Ezekiel add together to create the image he described. Yes, the thick cloud is dark, but within it there is a quivering fire, i.e., a source of on-again, off-again lighting. Additionally there is thunder and a constanst stream of lightning bolts. All these factors add together to create a dark cloud that nonetheless has "brightness all around" because it is so heavily charged with energy! Make sure that you have that imagery firmly in mind. Let us now see what we can learn from the real life example of the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
And Jehovah went on to say to Moses: 'Go to the people, and you must sanctify them today and tomorrow, and they must wash their mantles. And they must prove ready for the third day, because on the third day Jehovah will come down before the eyes of all the people upon Mount Siʹnai.' ... And on the third day when it became morning it came about that thunders and lightnings began occurring, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain and a very loud sound of a horn, so that all the people who were in the camp began to tremble. Moses now brought the people out of the camp to meet the [true] God, and they went taking their stand at the base of the mountain. And Mount Siʹnai smoked all over, due to the fact that Jehovah came down upon it in fire; and its smoke kept ascending like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain was trembling very muchEx 19:10,11,16-18 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
The term "heavy cloud" just means a dark cloud. In the same way that clouds that are heavy with rain are always dark. The portion I havd highlighted focuses our attention on the cloud mass of our interest. And we see that it has the same three features. It is dark, it has "thunders and lightnings" and it has brightness all around. We know that last detail from what we are told about how the Israelites perceived the cloud mass:
And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the sight of Jehovah’s glory was like a devouring fire on the mountaintopEx 24:17 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
"Like a devouring fire," hence the perception of the dark cloud mass having a "brightness all around" it. Notice that that is ALL THE ISRAELITES SAW. They did not see into the cloud mass, like Ezekiel, because this was real and not a vision! We can prove that by contrasting their experience as a whole, with that of a select group of 74 individuals, made up of Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 of Israel's most respected older men. Unlike the Israelites who only saw the cloud and fire, they got the rare privilege to ascend up the mountain and see into the cloud - they saw Jehovah!:
And to Moses he said: 'Go up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Naʹdab and A·biʹhu and seventy of the older men of Israel, and you must bow down* from a distance. And Moses by himself must approach Jehovah; but they should not approach, and the people should not go up with him.' ... And Moses and Aaron, Naʹdab and A·biʹhu and seventy of the older men of Israel proceeded to go up, and they got to see the God of Israel. And under his feet there was what seemed like a work of sapphire flagstones and like the very heavens for purity. And he did not put out his hand against the distinguished men of the sons of Israel, but they got a vision of the [true] God and ate and drankEx 24:1,2,9-11 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
The wonderful thing about Jehovah and his word is that there is no magic. Jehovah is the Creator. That means he is a worker. He produces actual reproduceable results! The beauty of that is that because of Jehovah, reality is always CONSISTENT. For instance, we know that when he travels he does so with his chariot. The sighting of these 74 men, confirms that, for "under his feet there was what seemed like a work of sapphire." That agrees with the earlier descriptions of his chariot - though we didn't include them then because it wasn't relevant to the content of our earlier discussion. You can find that detail in Ezekiel 1:26. Understanding that God is consistent, can you explain why the Bible tells us that no man can see God and live, but here 74 men hiked up a mountain, saw him - and they all lived? The answer is that: though their hike up Mount Sinai was real; when these 74 men "... got to see the God of Israel," it was in a "vision."" Jehovah kindly arranged a AR experience for them. That is, an Augmented Reality experience. The same thing Google tried with their AR glasses and Apple is reportedly busy trying to create. The experience of the 74 men was a mixture of reality and a vision! Though Jehovah was present on the mountain they couldn't see Him directly - for reasons we already know. So that portion of the experience he made safe for them by turning it into a vision - no ugly AR goggles necessary. I hope you see and appreciate the role of visions in Jehovah's arsenal of supernatural communication tools. Isn't science wonderful!
We now come to the crux of just why we are studying Jehovah's Celestial Chariot in such detail. Aren't we supposed to be talking about Space? And by the way, didn't we say this section was going to be about the MCU? It will all make sense soon enough. You should have clear in mind the dark cloud, that bristles with energy, thunder and lightnings, and thus has a "brightness all around," though it, itself, is dark. I have included this link* to the official trailer for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War movie. You must watch the whole 2:24 clip. You will see the cloud from 1:08 to 1:14. How could that possibly be - you may ask? Remember what I have told you about the very, very, very limited - in fact non-existent imagination - of Satan and his demon hordes. As an example of his limitations, think of the Inzintian halos that are responsible for holding galaxies and constellations together. The domed "interior rooms" as the Bible describes them. They really exist, both in the Bible, and in Science. How did Satan try and confuse mankind as to the true structure of the universe for thousands of years? By invoking perfect eternal spheres that were made from a "divine substance." But then he moved their actual position from outside the galaxies to within the galaxies. In fact he placed them within solar systems. According to the ancient Greeks and others, these perfect heavenly spheres were supposed to hold and move all the planets and the Sun in their perfectly circular orbits. The orbits were perfectly circular, because the revolving heavenly spheres that were responsible for producing them were perfectly spherical and rotating in place. Ta da! What I want you to appreciate is that Satan isn't creative enough to hash out a lie from scratch: he must always, always just repurpose something that actually exists and twist some aspect of its reality to suit his current purpose! Once you see that pattern - you have figured Satan out. It is for this reason that although he has lived for so much longer than the current average lifespan of humans, and besides the fact that he is invisible and knows about supernatural realities; an honest human can figure him out in a relatively short period of time. If you are well trained to spot his methods - before you are out of your teens! Thus the Bible says of him:
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices2Co 2:11 | King James Version
Basically, Sam Bankman Fried is vastly more creative than Satan. Bernie Madoff is vastly more creative than Satan. And they are not geniuses. As I have said before, Satan's powers of imagination pale in comparison with a popular 14 year old girl's. The extent of his persuasive powers is adding "NOT" to whatever Jehovah has created. How does that play out with Jehovah's chariot and Thanos? He kept everything, including the darkness, the lightning strikes, and the resulting "brightness all around" contrast. He kept that it shrouds the person who is using it while traveling intergalactically. He only changed obvious details such as: in reality Jehovah's cloud is dark, but on the inside there is nothing but light and fire etc. With Thanos the cloud is all dark on the inside. Also Jehovah's cloud is not the actual warp drive vehicle, whereas with Thanos it is the actual warp drive vehicle. If you Youbble Thanos arrives on Titan, you will see a more detailed version of in. In that scene Thanos walks through it for an extended period ot time, and you see that it is shaped like the Inzintian filaments. In other words, it is hollow on the inside. So Satan has mashed together two different aspects of Jehovah's transport system: the warp drive filaments - i.e., the "ropes" of Heavenly zint that Jehovah uses for virtually instant intergalactic travel; and the personal dark cloud that Jehovah conceals himself with, whenever he travels to Earth. Satan is so boring! He even stole the "tempestuous wind" that Ezekiel spoke of before he saw the "great cloud mass." Recall this scripture:
And I began to see, and, look! there was a tempestuous wind coming from the north, a great cloud mass and quivering fire, and it had a brightness all aroundEze 1:4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
He's so BORING! How empty can you be? Please Youbble "Thanos arrives on Earth," or "in Wakanda." In that scene, before Thanos arrives, the wind blows hard, and Cap realizes something out of the ordinary is about to happen. He then looks around and says: "... We have incoming." Suddenly, we see the dark, energy rich, cloudmass - and Thanos appears. All Satan can do is recycle things he has seen happen in the Heavenly realm and base his "science fiction" on them, changing only one or two details in doing so. But he never, never has an original thought! If this was literature we would call it plagiarism!
A CAVEAT: Many talented humans work tirelessly to innovate the technology and graphics to create these scenes. They are not Satanists. They are talented coders. Satan's influence comes in determining how everyone within his system of things views these concepts NOT in dictating that the hordes of SFX gurus who work for Marvel Studios illustrate such and such a scene in a particular way. (Eph 2:2) So Satan can influence the way a group of people see things without communicating with each individual directly!
You might think we are veering away from the focus of what this chapter was supposed to be about: proving that Science and the Bible are one and the same. We are not! In fact the opposite is true. Through our detailed discussions on Biblical scenes and the depictions of sci-fi concepts from the MCU and other comic book movies we are laying the groundwork for proving exactly THAT! You will plainly see the connection shortly. We delve into the MCU and other commic book depictions of sci-fi concepts because that is the ONLY landscape where they are accurately and professionally depicted. If you look at the credits of a Marvel Studios' movie (as all lovers of such movies do ... for reasons we all know), you see the sea of special effects masters that it takes to create the impressive visual effects. No other kinds of media have the sci-fi budgets to pull off such impressive work. Children are a big market and only movies that are aimed at them can have such large budgets. It's why Kylie Jenner became a billionaire before her much more famous sister Kim. It's why JK Rowling is much much richer than whoever wrote 50 Shades of Grey. So don't look down on the fact that we will be concentrating on comic book adaptations for our source material. It's the only place where the science is explained - and, in stunning visual detail to boot! Martin Scorcese looks down on the MCU, but it turns out to be the sole source of science fiction illustrations that are actually depicting real world phenomenon! I don't have the coding skills yet to illustrate Jehovah's dark electric cloud (and the many other stunning entities, we will yet talk about). WHERE ELSE BUT THE MCU COULD I HAVE POINTED YOU - to give you an idea of Jehovah's surrounding cloud mass, his place of concealment - and of how he uses the bending of Heaven as a transport system? All features of Jehovah's dynamics I am going to outline for you will have a counterpart, either in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or in another big budget comic book movie! Isn't science fiction wonderful?
Warp Drives are Technology, NOT Magic
The most fascinating aspect of all this, is the fact that Jehovah uses technology to get things done. Think of all the fantastical stories of bygone cicvilizations and the mythological stories about the exploits of their gods. None of their stories resembled the application or use of technology. They were all magical! Not so with Jehovah, for he really exists - and is not the product of man's imagination. I find it most reassuring that Jehovah is not a magician, but the inventor of Science and that he sets up entities to accomplish his thoughts. In reading all these scriptures, you should be getting a feeling of awe at the wonderful works of Jehovah. That alone, the fact that he is a worker is amazing! False gods - made up gods - are too proud to be workers. They just think a thought and things magically appear or disappear. For instance, has it not surprised you that God and his angels do not teleport? They travel when they want to go somewhere - like all real beings (physical or spiritual) do. They don't magically disappear in one location; only to appear in another. There is nothing fantastical about their existence - no mythological details. They are real beings. Their invisible bodies have dimensions, and form - and ACTUALLY EXIST! (Re 21:17) Their eternal spiritual bodies persist over time. If you had the technology, you could track an angel, just the way cctv cameras track humans on Earth. What a breath of fresh air. You can sense the difference between something that is real, and the falsehoods of magical, infinite, non-existent deities. As such, Jehovah and his angels are a part of a realm that constitutes the most fundamental part of reality and use technology, just like we do! In the case of warp drives: these structures can be used by anyone (with a spirit body). Jehovah alone controls it. For it takes tremendous energy to "tie" and "untie" and "bend" these filaments. (Isa 44:24) But like the subway system in major cities: in Heaven, warp drives are a public transport system that all the angels can make use of to fulfill their Earth-bound assignments. In the past Satan abused this warp drive infrastructure, but he and his demons have since been banished from Heaven and confined to the Earth. Being bound to the Cosmos, it is this "gate" of Heaven, that all of them are now restricted from entering! Compare:
Now the day came when the sons of the true God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and Satan also entered among them. Then Jehovah said to Satan: 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered Jehovah: 'From roving about on the earth and from walking about in it.' ... But, for a change, stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your very face.' Then Jehovah said to Satan: 'Look! Everything that he has is in your hand. Only do not lay your hand on the man himself!' So Satan went out from the presence of JehovahJob 1:6,7,11,12
Versus,
And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him ... On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.'Re 12:7-9,12
Depictions of Warp Drives in the MCU
But that was the scriptural proof. What depictions of Space travel do we have from popular fiction - and do they match the details we have thus far uncovered? It should be noted that in popular fiction, warp drives are sometimes used as Jehovah uses them: to cover vast distances in short periods of time. But other times they are shown as mechanisms to time travel. We have already thoroughly debunked that, but we can't expect any less from popular culture where time travel remains an intriguing fantasy for so many. We started this page with some descriptions of wormholes vs warp drives, spacetime vs Space. We have learnt much since then. Differentiating between the two concepts was difficult and murky at that early stage, but now that we have unpacked the topic piece by piece, understanding what is going on should be much easier to understand - in fact, intuitive. Let's do tha now by looking at five illustrations that demonstrate how warp drives work!
Avengers Endgame - Hawkeye Time Travels are Technology, NOT Magic
Let's start with Hawkeye, who agrees to test warp drives on behalf of the rest of the Avengers. Remember that our main argument is that warp drives are not like the ethers of spacetime, that have to do with shrinking the spacetime in front of you, and expanding the spacetime behind you. No Warp drives are the filaments of Invisible Zint that God and the angels use as intergalactic transport. These filaments are hollow and. It is the filament that covers vast ground at superluminal speeds. Insided it the passengers can themselves be moving within it, or just standing still as it does all the work.
In this particular scene with Hawkeye, we see him entering a cylindrical machine that then takes him to something that represents a network of tunnels. By choosing which tunnel you travel through you are "choosing" your final destination. This tunnel structure looks like the inside of a network of blood vessels, or the map of connections between firing synapses. From this depiction, we see that the "passenger area" Sabine spoke about is a hollow filament. We move on.
Thor: The Dark World - Thor & Jane: A Ride to Asgard are Technology, NOT Magic
Our second example is of Thor taking Jane to Asgard. This time the hollow filament is illustrated as having walls made of a material that looks like different types of lasers, but as we will soon see, this appearance can be deceiving. While from appearance the walls might look like light. They are an actual material. In any case the filament connects Earth to Asgard, without shrinking the Space between them. Just like the "stairway" that connected Heaven to Earth for God's angels. The purpose of the filament is merely to transport them from the one location to the other at faster than light speeds. Just like the "stairway" that transports Jehovah and his angels from one location to another throughout the universe. Imaginery Asgard is the same distance away from Earth, before, during and after Thor and Jane make their trip! This is a major difference between warp drives and wormholes.
Another telling difference is that it is the filament that is moving and covering vast distances, not the fabric of the whole universe being folded in half, just to bring two farway points closer together, the way you would fold an A4 sheet of paper in half then run a pen through it to demonstrate a wormhole, the way it was done in Interstellar, the movie.
This scene, also helps us with a third detail. We know the filament is hollow, and this scene, shows us that it is also cylindrical. After Jane and Thor takeoff, a circle of about 3 to 4 meters in diameter is burned into the ground. That's obviously left by the shape of the warp drive filament. Thus the warp drive filament is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
Lastly, an incosistency. When Thor and Jane leave Earth, they fly upward. Throughout their journey, they remain in this orientation. In other words they are parallel to the direction of the filament itself. The way you might be when standing in an elevator that is going up. However. when they arrive their orientation has turned 90 degrees. Now they are at right angles to the direction of the filament. The way you are when you walk out of an elevator, having arrived at your floor. The only prooblem is the filament is unlike the elevator in that its exit is directly above, not on its side. So, when did they turn 90 degrees? The explanation is coming shortly.
Thor: Ragnarok - Thor VS Hela Fight Scene
This scene is particularly interesting, because it is the one that shows that shows that that the sides of the warp drive filament are made of something as opposed to being a false surface created by light. As explained earlier, when Thor and Loki fight with Hela as they ascend to Asgard, she throws both of them out of the filament. Not only does this create a hole in the side of the filament at the point of impact/exit, but that hole remains. Look carefully, at the holes left by both Loki and Thor as they thrown out by Hela.
Additionally, we see that people can both be stationary inside the warp drive filament as it does all the work. Or, they can move through it, as it moves through vast distances. Both Loki and Thor are in stationary positions when they fight with Hela. After she has thrown them out, she makes a motion with her right leg which we all understand to mean go faster. So, she is moving through the warp drive filament as it is moving towards its destination. Again she flies in parallel orientation to the filament, but land in Asgard orthogonal to it. (At a right angle with it.) We deal with that next....
Thor: Ragnarok - Hela Arrives in Asgard
This is a seperate scene. Again YouTubble it. Jehovah says he bends the Heavens, and now you know why. The right angle comes from the bending of the filament itself. The movies overlook this point. But we must consider it, for we want no inconsistencies in our explanations. Lastly, we look at a different franchise to see another illusration of a warp drive filament.
Transformers Official - The LAND BRIDGE
For these examples, I will provide a link*_____ and timestamps, because this movie seems to have been released by the official representatives of the Transformers franchise. In this movie, the warp drive filament is called a "land bridge." AGain, it is a hollow cylindrical filament. You can move through it, or it remain stationary as you brings you to your destination. Please look at the following scenes timestamped from: 9:13 to 10:40; 23:01 to 23:04; 31:24 to 31:32; and 38:30 to 38:35. The concept in this movie is not as well thought out and executed as in the MCU, but the filament itself is very well illustrated.
The wonderful world of comics has helped us to visualize that would have been very hard for me to illustrate at this stage. For that I have Stan Lee and Kevin Feige to thank, not Martin Scorcese.
So Jehovah's chariot is controlled by Jehovah through a nested application of "spirits" - his spirit and the spirit of each cherub, which inturn controls one wheel. There is no axle to coordinate the movement of the wheels because it is the fact that all the angels are getting the same instruction set from Jehovah that coordinates their movements - since they all obey him implicitly. All angels - obey instantly and without hesitation!
That was a proof of how our own spirit - or vital force - works. In summary: God's life force activates life in the body, through his breath of life, which starts the user interface between blood - where God's active force dwells - and oxygen which sustains it through man's breath. That in turn gives rise to the emergent kinds of spirit we are covering in this section: man's own spirit - and the spirits of the animal creation. In humans this vital force is an emergent property that sits atop the "breath of life" from God, which itself sits atop the most fundamental, life activating force: God's spirit. All sentient creatures whether human or Inzintian have a vital force - their own spirit. Thus angels have two levels of spirit. But humans have three, for we have the added layer of a user interface. I will not spend any time here explaining the full meaning behind man's spirit because in a little while I will tell you one phrase which will give you complete clarity as to what it is! Hint: it's true identity is something you are extremely used to, but that nobody knows how to define! For now, let me just give you a scripture to reinforce what it is not:
For I will not oppose them forever or always remain indignant; for a man’s spirit would grow feeble because of me, even the breathing creatures that I have madeIsa 57:16
One thing should be obvious to you by now: Jehovah is the most powerful being in the universe. In fact, he is God Almighty. (Ex 6:3) As such it is impossible for his spirit to "grow feeble." So, when he gives spirit to mankind to bring them to life, that process creates an emergent reality that is separate from his spirit - it is man's spirit! As promised, all will become clear very soon. The true identity about what man's spirit is will tell you something great about Jehovah himself - something it is not yet time to make clear. All will become clear soon enough. For now we continue with the next and most important form of the manifestation of the spirit - Jehovah's own Holy Spirit!
HOLY SPIRIT: GOD'S ACTIVE FORCE
So important is the Holy Spirit that Christ placed it above himself, saying:
For this reason I say to you, every sort of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven. For example, whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the holy spirit, it will not be forgiven him, no, not in this system of things nor in that to comeMt 12:31,32
That being the case, we have to give it the greatest respect! But ... what is it? Put simply: it is God's active force or power in action. It is different from the "spirit" that God gives to all mankind, and in fact, to all earthly life. For one thing that spirit is COMMON TO ALL LIVING ORGANISMS - whether physical or spiritual; good or bad - even Satan and the demons are alive because they are activated by God's spirit. We proved that spirit beings, like angels, also have a spirit by considering what Christ meant when he asked he "entrusted" his spirit into his Father's hands. This was because he had authority to receive it again through a resurrection to Heavenly life. Thus all Inzintian beings also have a spirit. Recall that the demons are not some form of unique creation. They are just fallen angels. So while all living creatures in Heaven and on Earth have souls and thus God's life force; God's Holy Spirit is distributed exclusively, to people he declares to be righteous. Compare the following scriptures:
For there is an outcome for humans and an outcome for animals; they all have the same outcome. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spiritEc 3:19
And ...
They kept going to Noah inside the ark, two by two, of every sort of flesh that has the breath of lifeGe 7:15
Versus ...
And we are witnesses of these matters, and so is the holy spirit, which God has given to those obeying him as rulerAc 5:32
So the holy spirit is different from the breath of life in that key aspect. But it is unique in many other ways too. For instance, the life force has only one function while it is part of a living "soul." Whereas there is no limit to the number of different functions the holy spirit can perform! As the following scriptures testifies to:
Now there are different gifts, but there is the same spirit.... But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for a beneficial purpose. For to one is given speech of wisdom through the spirit, to another speech of knowledge according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one spirit, to yet another operations of powerful works, to another prophesying, to another discernment of inspired expressions, to another different tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. But all these operations are performed by the very same spirit, distributing to each one respectively just as it wills1Co 12:4,7-11
Why has the Bible so heavily emphasized that it is the same spirit that performs all things differing functions? And why have I so heavily highlighted the Bible's emphasis on this fact? The answer to both questions is: because understanding how the spirit operates, answers another age old mystery, "Is the holy spirit a person or a force?"
First, let us allow the Bible to answer for itself. At the end of our last quoted scripture, Jehovah - through the hand of Paul tells us: "the very same spirit distributing to each one respectively, just as it wills." From this a myriad other references to the holy spirit, one can easily get the impression that the holy spirit is a person. However we remember what it is - God's active force: his form of power. By the way, have we established that yet? Let's do that now:
But if it is by means of God’s finger that I expel the demons, the Kingdom of God has really overtaken youLu 11:20
And its complementary scripture ...
But if it is by means of God’s spirit that I expel the demons, the Kingdom of God has really overtaken youMt 12:28
These scriptures are parallel scriptures that are identical in detail except in one area. In this case where the former referred to the means by which Christ effected his miracles to the "God's finger," in the latter scripture, he attributes his power to God's finger. Thus when we read in the Bible that Jehovah has performed some great feat through his "finger" "hand" or "arm" (all variations of the same analogy) we understand that they are referring to his power, or holy spirit! Here are some examples below:
When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have preparedPs 8:3
And again ...
My own hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand up togetherIsa 48:13
And ...
And: “You at [the] beginning, O Lord, laid the foundations of the earth itself, and the heavens are [the] works of your handsHeb 1:10
Together with ...
The right hand of Jehovah is demonstrating its powerPs 118:15
Lastly,
O Sovereign Lord Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty arm, for what god in the heavens or on the earth performs such mighty deeds as you?De 3:23
In all these instances the reference to "fingers," "hands" or "arms" all have to do with his holy spirit. For we remember that he is the "Maker of the earth by his power." (Jer 10:12) His power is his holy spirit. His holy spirit is described variously as different parts of his arm: from finger, to hand to the arm itself.
In addition to these basic definitions, the Bible also makes clear that when it describes the holy spirit as taking an action, it is just short hand for Jehovah himself taking that action, since he uses it to carry out the action in question. Here is an example:
But all these operations the one and the same spirit performs, making a distribution to each one respectively just as it wills1Co 12:11
And compare it to ...
While God joined in bearing witness with signs as well as portents and various powerful works and with distributions of holy spirit according to his willHeb 2:4
Do you see that the Bible is written for reasoning people? Otherwise you cannot understand it! The truth about the above-quoted scriptures is not readily apparent. It only becomes clear when you take the time to peer beneath the surface into its Evidence Profile layer. At first glance, it seemed the Bible was suggesting that the holy spirit was a person. Only on closer inspection do we realize that the opposite is true: the holy spirit cannot be a person - for it is a force: God's invisible force. It is the Inzintian force used to create all matter in the universe - whether Inzintian and baryonic:
Alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Look! You made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. Nothing is too wonderful for youJer 32:17
And ...
You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were createdRe 4:11
It is the Inzintian force God used to stretch the heavens:
I myself have made the earth and have created even man upon it. I — my own hands have stretched out the heavens, and all the army of them I have commandedIsa 45:12
It is the Inzintian energy Jehovah used to create all other kinds of energies. The energies that all natural systems use to run. In the following example he applies it to the fact that he renews the baryonic matter of the Cosmos - such as stars. As he so dutifully promised to do through prophecy:
Long ago you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; just like a garment they will all wear out. Just like clothing you will replace them, and they will pass away. But you are the same, and your years will never endPs 102:25-27
And the fulfillment ...
Lift up your eyes to heaven and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who brings out their army by number; he calls them all by name. Because of his vast dynamic energy and his awe-inspiring power, not one of them is missingIsa 40:26
It must be said about this prophecy and how it's fulfilled. Initially it seems as if the scriptures are saying that the sun will pass away for instance, and Jehovah will replace it with another one. But it is to be understood as an ongoing process. In the same way that the cells in your body that are continually dying every minute, are regularly replaced by new ones - and through it all you exist as the same person. What is the statistic: on average every seven years, much of your body is new cells and the old have died? These scriptures taking together have the same meaning. Because, whereas one says "they will pass away," it's fulfillment says "not one of them is missing." So you have to take the statements together - in which case they mean I have just outlined! This all leads to one conclusion ...
The HOLY SPIRIT is ...
The Holy Spirit is our long-looked-for zero entropy force. The one we have thus far called - "PURE ENERGY!" It is the original form of energy in the universe. this is obvious, since it was the one Jehovah used to create everything else. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Only changed from one form to another. That is why evolutionists are caught in a bind. Since, they are looking for a baryonic, not Inzintian cource of "pure energy," it must all be present in the singularity of the Big Bang, as energy cannot be created, or destroyed. However, then, maintaining Critical Density as the universe was stretched cannot be true - as all the evidence shoes us it is! ITS A CATCH-22 OF THE WORST KIND - THE EXISTENTIAL KIND. For, Jehovah will destroy all those who knowingly lied about his Creatorship of, and Godship over the universe! (Ro 1:18; 2:5; Eph 5:6) When we talk about "pure energy," we are talking about the Holy Spirit! It is the source energy that makes that statement possible. It is the energy that sits at the top of the hierarchy of all existing energies. No less a personage than Einstein claimed as much! As we noted before many people imagine that the energy in his equation E=mc2 refers to radiation. Einstein died before he could discover the truth behind his thinking process. But as far as he developed the idea: he did not attribute the existence of matter to any baryonic or electromagnetic source. No, he had something altogether different in mind. He made three profound statements on the subject - some original and some a restatement of what was already empirically known:
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to anotherAlbert Einstein
We all recognize that one from the development of physics and the great pioneers who came before Einstein. Nevertheless, it was something he understood well - and believed.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matterAlbert Einstein
This was much more original. It is at this point that Intellectuals clamour to insist that the energy Einstein was referring to must have been the intense radiation that existed - in what we know to be a non-existent - hot Big Bang plasma soup. What a throwback! Talking about nonsense again. After establishing and synthesizing so many Biblical and empirical scientific facts. I got a feeling of disgust as I was I writing that sentence - and once again - had to conjure up the Big Bang in my mind! Back to Einstein. The wishes of Intellectuals were not his thoughts at all. It may surprise you to find out, to what, he ascribed the original "pure energy":
Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibilityAlbert Einstein
Einstein was a complicated figure. His most celebrated theories: Special and General Relativity are wrong - as you will soon see conclusively. However, some of his less well known beliefs are 100% correct. Especially this last quote. We will get to the proofs soon enough - for now, just try to meditate on what that actually means.
The EVIDENCE PROFILE of the Holy Spirit
We now bring all our learning to a head by coming to grips with the true nature of the Holy Spirit! We have established from the Bible that it is not a person, but a force, but for us to synthesize that with science, we have to have a scientific Evidence Profile that we can match such Biblical proofs to. And we have one. Look again at the scripture that describes how the holy spirit functions. I have highlighted what is important to us:
Now there are different gifts, but there is the same spirit.... But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for a beneficial purpose. For to one is given speech of wisdom through the spirit, to another speech of knowledge according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one spirit, to yet another operations of powerful works, to another prophesying, to another discernment of inspired expressions, to another different tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. But all these operations are performed by the very same spirit, distributing to each one respectively just as it wills1Co 12:4,7-11
When we think back to our section on functionality, do you remember the two categories? They were phase-functionality and embodied functionality. Which of the two do you reckon the Holy Spirit fits into? To give you a quick refresher: phase functional entities or systems work like the water cycle. Where the same entity achieves different effects based on the phase of matter it is in. On the other hand, we determined that embodied functionality worked by another principle. It was like the oxygen-carbon cycle: where different parts of the system are responsible for creating the final effects. If you need a complete reminder of the topic: I have included the following paragraph from that section. Otherwise you can skip the next paragraph, and move onto the next.
On earth, the breathing processes of human and animal life are balanced by the activites of plant life. Humans breath in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide as a waste material. With plants it is the other way around, with them using carbon dioxide as a raw material along with sunshine to produce carbohydrates and oxygen, which humans and land animals need to survive. This virtuous cycle thus repeats to the benefit of both - humans and animals and plant life. What mechanism does the oxygen-carbon cycle use as a means of exchange, as this process does not proceed due to phase transitions? Carbon dioxide and oxygen are completely different substances and phase transitions are not possible between two different substances. That would amount to the discredited practice of alchemy; as previously outlined. So how does the oxygen-carbon cycle work? It uses the component structures in human and animal life (lungs and the respiratory system), and photosynthesis in plants to convert the raw materials into the desired products. This type of functionality we will call emobdied functionality, as it uses different structural components of a unified system, to produce the defined aim. Did you catch the distinction between phase functionality and embodied functionality? Phase functionality uses different phases (or systems) of the SAME entity to produce differing outcomes; embodied functionality, uses DIFFERENT parts (or systems) of the same entity to accomplish its outcomes!
So which of the two do you see as fitting the operation - or as our last quoted verse puts it: "the manifestation of the spirit?" Is it phase-functional? Or does it display embodied-functionality? It is obvious - isn't it? But in case you need more examples, let's consider some. On Pentecost 33 C.E the holy spirit enabled the Apostles to speak in the languages of all the people who had come to Jerusalem to worship at that holy festival:
Indeed, they were utterly amazed and said: 'See here, all these who are speaking are Gal·i·leʹans, are they not? How is it, then, that each one of us is hearing his own native language? Parʹthi·ans, Medes, and Eʹlam·ites, the inhabitants of Mes·o·po·taʹmi·a, Ju·deʹa and Cap·pa·doʹci·a, Ponʹtus and the province of Asia, Phrygʹi·a and Pam·phylʹi·a, Egypt and the regions of Libʹy·a near Cy·reʹne, sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Creʹtans, and Arabians — we hear them speaking in our languages about the magnificent things of God.' Yes, they were all astonished and perplexed, saying to one another: 'What does this mean?'Ac 2:7-12
I counted sixteen languages or distinct regions that the Holy Spirit enabled about 120 of Christ's disciples to speak in. Of course, if there had been more languages represented, it would have allowed them to speak those languages also. The Holy Spirit allowed the man Jesus, and others like the Apostle Paul, to cure all sorts of infirmities:
Moreover, through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people; and they would all meet together in Solʹo·mon’s Colonnade. True, none of the others had the courage to join them; nevertheless, the people were speaking highly of them. More than that, believers in the Lord kept on being added, great numbers both of men and of women. They even brought the sick out into the main streets and laid them there on small beds and mats, so that as Peter would pass by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them. Also, crowds of people from the cities around Jerusalem kept coming, carrying sick people and those troubled with unclean spirits, and they were one and all curedAc 5:12-16
I am trying to show you the range here. The range of the Holy Spirit's functionality. But it is pointless to go through individual examples, because this is the force Jehovah used to create the whole universe! The catalogue of examples would never stop - for it constitutes all reality. It is enough, after already considering numerous examples, to merely state the obvious conclusion - as Job himself did after Jehovah similarly took him through multiple examples: whatever Jehovah wants to accomplish he does so using his amazing power called - the Holy Spirit:
Then Job said in reply to Jehovah: 'Now I know that you are able to do all things and that nothing you have in mind to do is impossible for you.'Job 42:1,2
It should be dawning on you that although, the answer is obvious, I am not stating it directly. That's because I want it to be clear to you from your own reasoning! Which of the two types of functionality does it "manifest?" It is easy to arrive at the correct conclusion. All we have to do is to define one of such "functionalities" - it doesn't matter which - through the Bible and just compare that to how the holy spirit operates. Is it the same or opposite? Whatever the answer is for that definition: we know the opposite is true for the opposing definition. So let us define embodied functionality and see whether the holy spirit agrees with this definition, or is the opposite of it. In this way we can reach a firm, factual and unambiguous conclusion.
EMBODIED Functionality
Of course "embodied functionality" is not just an empty phrase. Something that is unlinked to reality. It is based on how the body functions. Happily the Bible has much to say on the topic. Let's pick up the account at 1 Corinthians chapter 12:
For just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of that body, although many, are one body, so too is the Christ. ... For, indeed, the body is made up not of one member but of many1Co 12:12,14
This scripture properly orients us as to what is most important in the labeling of something as a "body" by openly stating the defining feature of a body. Anything that qualifies to be describes as a body MUST have multiple and different members! Question: Is a single-celled organism a body? Yes. Because that single cell is composed of multiple parts or members!
However the significance or necessity for multiple and different members is not made evident until we consider the scriptures that follow:
If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I am no part of the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am no part of the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has arranged each of the body members just as he pleased. If they were all the same member, where would the body be?1Co 12:15-19
In this amazing passage of scripture we gain more insight. Jehovah's thinking behind creating bodies was to distribute the required functionality across different structures. That is why is not enough to have multiple members of the same type - the members have to be of different types. Put another way for something to function as a body it has to fulfill two criteria: multiple members; and the members must be different. Why? Because the each member is designed to fulfill a specific function! As the scripture asks: "If they were all the same member, where would the body be?" The conclusion:
But now they are many members, yet one body1Co 12:20
There is a further dynamic:
The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I do not need you,' or again, the head cannot say to the feet, 'I do not need you.' On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary, and the parts of the body that we think to be less honorable we surround with greater honor, so our unseemly parts are treated with greater modesty, whereas our attractive parts do not need anything. Nevertheless, God has so composed* the body, giving greater honor to the part that had a lack, so that there should be no division in the body, but its members should have mutual concern for one another. If one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it; or if a member is glorified, all the other members rejoice with it. Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you individually is a member1Co 12:21-27
The members of a body need each other! That is how Jehovah designed bodies to operate. So much so, that contrary to what one might suppose: "the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary." This is brought out in the footnote to the word "composed," hence my leaving the asterisk in - to alert you that there's a deeper hidden meaning. The footnote in this version of the Bible reads, Lit., "mixed together." I prefer the wording in the main text of the NWT - With References. It reads: "God compounded the body." Like compound interest, that means the only way to get the effect (or return) you are seeking is if every member is accounted for and included in the calculation. If you understand compound interest, you know that is what makes it the so-called "8th wonder of the world!" So the effect is more than mixed together, but it's mixed together cumulatively - like the number 'e.' (More on that later)
You don't have to concern yourself, right now, with why - at the end - this is all applied to the Christ. As I told you before: all reality is centered around the Christ - to the glory of Jehovah:
This is according to the eternal purpose that he formed in connection with the Christ, Jesus our LordEph 3:11
And again ...
For no matter how many the promises of God are, they have become 'yes' by means of him. Therefore, also through him is the 'Amen' said to God2Co 1:20
If you understand the Christ, you are properly oriented to be able to navigate the coming troubles better than others. If you don't understand the Christ: no matter what other qualifications you have or resources you think you control - you don't even know what game is being played! You can't bring a certificate, some bitcoin, and a latte mocha wat wat wat to a Space fight! Good luck with that!
Back to embodied functionality.
We need multiple members. The multiple members have to be of different types, since each are responsible for specific functions. Only the combined functionality achieved by multiple different members constitutes a BODY! For, "If they were all the same member, where would the body be?" We are now ready to test the functionality of the holy spirit against this definition. They DO NOT MATCH. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT EMBODIED-FUNCTIONAL, AND HENCE, MUST BE PHASE FUNCTIONAL!
PHASE Functionality
The Holy Spirit operates through phase functionality: because it is the "same spirit" that is producing multiple and varied operations! This is the opposite of embodied functionality, that uses multiple and varied "members" to perform multiple functions. Additionally, the body is "compounded" in such a way that each member needs the others! You know this is true because when you are sick or injured you don't operate at your maximum capacity. Yet, the holy spirit is not like that! Whenever Jehovah uses, it accomplishes the whole task by itself, without recourse to anything else:
But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and bring back to your minds all the things I told youJoh 14:26
And as for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to be teaching you; but the anointing from him is teaching you about all things1Jo 2:27
If you are completely unfamiliar with the Bible, the "anointing" is equivalent to the holy spirit.
Putting it All TOGETHER
The Holy Spirit being phase-functional means it cannot be part of a TRINITY! The Trinity is defined as,
The unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead according to Christian dogmaTrinity - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Wikipedia says of it:
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one homoousionTrinity - Wikipedia
Don't ask me what "homoousion" is. Who knows what's happening with this absolute garbage. It's beneath my dignity to investigate any portion of these empty delusions. In the history of mankind there has never been an institution that has been more closely allied with Satan than the Catholic Church! I can tolerate the failed, false, vain, reasonings of Intellectuals like Alan Guthnoramus because he limits his fantasies to science fiction. And he's only an Intellectual. Shame he gets paid to build castles in the sky. Poor sop! It's not his fault. He's just a nerd who was born in the last age of empire - and he's doing the best with what he was given to work with. "Not strong enough to dig," and "ashamed to beg." (Lu 16:3) Only out is getting credentials so you can be paid simply to "come up with ideas all day." It's a futile waste of one's life - but I understand why morally bankrupt, end-of-empire people are drawn to it. However, I absolutely cannot stomach the vile blasphemies of idolaters, as they are a direct attack on the person of Jehovah! The mysteries of the Catholic Church are mysteries only because no one can make sense of nonsensical voodoo musings - or turn a lie into a truth! They are mysterious because:
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding" Sir Isaac Newton
The "mystery" of the trinity has three pillars. They are: Three coequal persons; three coeternal persons; and three consubstantial divine persons. We falsify each in turn.
THREE COEQUAL Persons
It is obvious, even from a casual reading of the Bible that the Christ is subordinate to his Father and not his equal. Every interaction between the two communicates that! But no matter, we will not rely on circumstantial evidence. We want to highlight foolproof Evidence Profiles to that effect. Here they are:
But I want you to know that ... the head of the Christ is God1Co 11:3
What does that mean?
If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I amJoh 14:28
The point is clear. Let me put it in mathematical terms to make even clearer:
> ≠ =
In words that is: GREATER THAN DOES NOT EQUAL "EQUAL TO!" We move onto the next pillar ...
THREE COETERNAL Persons
Again, it is obvious that Christ and Jehovah cannot be "coeternal" since Jehovah is the source of "pure energy" which cannot be "created or destroyed." What I am highlighting is that Jehovah is UNCREATED! While Christ is always and everywhere referred to in the Bible as the "Only-begottten Son," or as Jehovah's "Firstborn." Then there are verses that directly state that he is a fellow creature, that is, a product of the Jehovah's creative activities! Here's a small sampling:
He rescued us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, by means of whom we have our release by ransom, the forgiveness of our sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creationCol 1:13-15
I included verses thirteen and fourteen for context - so you could know who was being spoken of in verse 15. Our main focus of attention. Christ is: "the firstborn of all creation."
To the angel of the congregation in La·o·di·ceʹa write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by GodRe 3:14
But there is an even more damning scripture, one that proves that he cannot be "co" anything with Jehovah:
And he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all thingsCol 1:18
This scripture puts the label of "first in all things" on Christ!" If that was true of his existence, it would mean he somehow preceded Jehovah himself! An obvious absurdity. But the greatest testament to the fact that Christ is created is the fact that he could die. As we mentioned earlier energy cannot be created or destroyed, thus the owner of the holy spirit is himself IMMORTAL - he cannot die. True after his resurrection to spirit life, Christ "dies no more; death is no longer master over him." (Ro 6:9) He is now immortal! But this condition relates to all of his body members - the entire 144 000. For, "So it is with the resurrection of the dead. ... For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and this which is mortal must put on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: "Death is swallowed up forever!" (1Co 15:42,54) Those are part of the blessings Jehovah bestows on his anointed ones! But I don't want to you miss the point: if Christ was coeternal with God it would have been impossible for him to die in the first place! Only Jehovah holds the title of King of Eternity - because he is immortal in both directions: future and past! (1Ti 1:17)
For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusableRo 1:20
The phrase "eternal power" is of course referencing the scientific "pure energy" which cannot be created or destroyed - and is hence Eternal. This "eternal" pure energy is allied only to Jehovah. His exercising of it is what makes him God. That's why the prophet Isaiah records him as saying: "Before me no God was formed, and after me there has been none." (Isa 43:10) Remember: when Christ performed miracles, it was because Jehovah had given him his holy spirit:
On one of those days while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the Law who had come out of every village of Galʹi·lee and Ju·deʹa and from Jerusalem were sitting there; and Jehovah’s power was with him to do healingLu 5:17
Thus since this "everlasting" pure energy belongs to Jehovah, it verifies his unique Godship. The fact that he is the only person who is its source means Christ cannot be "coeternal" with God. Christ is the product of this force; Jehovah is its SOURCE. Hence, he is the only one who is eternal in both directions:
From everlasting to everlasting, you are GodPs 90:2
You'll run out of life, before I run out of scriptures. Red pill. Blue pill. Lastly, we cover ...
THREE ... PERSONS
Three persons! Our current topic, for which we have already supplied the Evidence Profile. The Holy Spirit is phase-functional and thus does not have a body, like angels, Christ and of course - Jehovah himself. This also gives us the tantalizing realization that the Holy Spirit - though it is the source of all the other forms of "spirit" and is thus - in its guise as "pure energy" - the source of both of the components that constitue life: matter (a body whether Inzintian or baryonic); and the "breath of life" and its Inzintian equivalent since they don't breath - is itself, NOT ALIVE! It is the greatest force in the universe, but it is not alive! Can you explain why?
Because, the definition of life is the principle from Genesis 2:7: body + spirit = LIFE. Anything that does not meet that criteria is not alive! Even if it is the technical "pure energy" source that Jehovah used in producing all living things. Does that not shock you? The amazing works of Jehovah! Will you really not laud Him? Will you really try and hold back from the acclaim of the King of Reality? Do you not see how many things had to put in order in just the right way - for you to exist? Does that not make you realize how precarious your life is? Do you realize how easily things could go wrong for you? You. Personally. How many different ways Jehovah can punish those who hate him? Are you so hateful that you would bite your own nose off to spite your face? These are not "yes" or "no" questions. They are rhetorical. The answer is in how you respond to what you have learned. And your answer will have an immediate, paradigm-shifting and eternal effect on your life - for good; or for bad! THE DESICION IS YOURS!
THE WIND
We now tackle the most humanly intuitive of the different extensions of the term "breath" - the wind.
All of the examples of spirit we have thus far considered are firmly entities in the spirit realm. While "breath" is not technically in the spirit realm, it does work in tandem with the "breath of life" which mostly definitely belongs in the spiritual realm. In other words breath, without the breath of life is of no use, the two must work in tandem. However, lovingly - as he always is - Jehovah has provided an intuitive example to humans of how spiritual entities function - the wind. Through the wind, everyone can come to understand how an invisible force can cause motion in the baryonic real. Everyone understands the wind blowing the leaves of a tree. In the same way Heaven was discovered through the motion it caused in the visible galaxies!
Previously, atheists and Intellectual scientists were sure that they would never have to factor God into their research. They believed that since the spirit realm was invisible, there would never be any evidence of its existence. They didn't count on Jehovah's "greatly diversified wisdom." (Eph 3:10) It is not for no reason that the Bible proudly declares that:
He skillfully made the heavens, for his loyal love endures foreverPs 136:5
In his unmatchable wisdom, Jehovah established the Tully-Fisher Relation between Invisible Zint and baryonic matter on the galactic scale, knowing that once humans were advanced enough, we would not fail to detect the entity that was "invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion!" That is the value of Jehovah kindly including "wind" in the list and definitions of entities from or related to the spirit realm. He uses it interchangeably with the word "spirit.":
He rode on a cherub and came flying. He swooped down on the wings of a spirit.*Ps 18:10
The footnote on the word spirit reads: Or "the wind." By making the suprenatural reality understable to humans through someone we all experience in everyday life - the wind - Jehovah empowers us to grasp the dynamics of the invisible realm! And in the process, to correct an age-old misconception. Remember that the ancient Greek philosophers actually put the spirit realm outside the universe, in some unreachable realm. But that was never the case! The definition of "spirit" is not limited - as has been promoted by false science throughout history - to just "invisible." It is invisible true, yet ... critically - also DETECTABLE THROUGH EVIDENCE OF FORCE IN MOTION! CHECK MATE. Who is like our God - in the Heavens above or in the Cosmos below? He manoeuvered matters in such a way that posterity would vindicate him and correct all historical errors - once the evidence was in. The evidence is in! In the meantime he had the true account of what happened recorded. (Isa 42:9; 46:10) Thereafter, all he had to do was sit back and wait until our technology caught up with his Evidence Profile! If that is not the definition of brilliant - you tell me what is:
Make your report, present your case. Let them consult together in unity. Who foretold this long ago and declared it from times past? Is it not I, Jehovah? There is no other God but me; a righteous God and a Savior, there is none besides meIsa 45:21
Tying Up a LOOSE END
To the six types of "spirit" entities we add a seventh - and an eighth! The periodic table of Inzintian elements is an additional type of "spirit" entity. For scientists have discovered an Inzintian one-piece structure that spans the universe and acts as the scaffolding of all Cosmic celestial bodies. This one-piece structure, identified as the "fine gauze," Heaven, in the Bible, does not accord with any of the six previous variations of the word "spirit" that we have considered thus far. It is something ELSE. Though spiritual (1Co 15:46,47), and thus made of the same kind of substance - Invisible Zint: it is not God's active force; it is not man's vital force; it is not the "breath of life"; it is not a spirit being; it is not the basic meaning of the original Hebrew and Greek words - breath; and it is not the wind. Yet, the "fine gauze" meets the common theme of entities that are defined by the word "spirit." For, the one-piece universal web - Heaven - is "invisible to human sight" but "gives evidence of force in motion!" Recall how Vera Rubin figured out that the must be some invisible matter surrounding galaxies: they were moving too fast for the amount of matter that was visible - to be responsible. Hence she concluded that there must be some invisible matter - as much as six times - that must be acting on the visible cosmic matter. Of course this relationship has since been been verified and established empirically through the fabulous Tully-Fisher Relation!
Thus our addition of Heaven as a seventh type of "spirit" entity is faithful to our definition of the category of things which are considered to be "spirit," for it accords with both a scientific Evidence Profile and a Biblical one. We are not going beyond what is written. We are formally recognizing and documenting what was long ago prophesied to be discovered! The very first words in the Bible are about the creation of the spiritual heavens! Over 3 500 years later, we document it, specifically; and more generally, the Inzintian table of periodic elements as the seventh and eighth types respectively, of "spirit" entities. The Inzintian Periodic Table is the eighth type of "spirit" becasuse it is clear that in the Heavenly realm, there is more than one type of Invisible Zint. The Bible says as much! As for a complete catalogue of the Inzintian periodic table of elements, the Bible does not specify, we just know there are spiritual bodies as outlined at 1 Corinthians 15:44, and that means many members with different functions, that are from different Inzintian elements. Just like our bodies are made of dust, but we have bones and sinew and hair and teeth - all of which are made from different substances. Anytime something is composed of a body, it means different substances make up the whole. This is what differentiates embodied functionality from phase functionality! As to what the complete catalogue of Invisible Zint looks like: that kind of knowledge is wholly unnecessary for you to make the right decisions in your life. The tough but necessary ones. If you haven't realized it yet - that's what all knowledge is FOR! The Inzintian table of elements is more an eye opener alerting us to the fact that there isn't just one kind of zint in the spirit realm, but many - as opposed to it being a useful catalogue that is available for us to use for our benefit. Like the baryonic table of periodic elements is on Earth, in applications of different materials in certain technologies, for instance. The Heavens are God's THRONE and belong to him. He has given us our own realm and made everything in it subject to us. We have utterly failed at taking care of what is under our control! (Ge 1:26; Isa 66:1) Some humility and perspective are necessary here:
May you be blessed by Jehovah, the Maker of heaven and earth. As for the heavens, they belong to Jehovah, but the earth he has given to the sons of menPs 115:15,16
Drilling Down: What are the DIFFERENCES Between the Two Realms
There is a lot information that we are covering. Alas, along the way, it is also allowing us to correct age-old human misunderstandings. Subjects which have mystified humans throughout all human history. All the material might confuse you as to where we are currently.... We are still under the MCU! All these spiritual Evidence Profiles that we are uncovering are essential for us to if Science is compatible with the Bible. To do that we have to delve deep into the Evidence Profiles of each. For it is obvious that if we were to judge these books by their respective covers they look nothing like each other! There are fine nuances which produce very different effects when applied. So, to have any chance of being able to follow once everything starts fitting together we have to have a strong grasp of the fundamentals of the Biblical Evidence Profiles. Otherwise we won't know if the Evidence Profiles are compatible - or not. The reason we have to be so granular in covering the details is because the Devil is in the details. He has had 6 000 years to try and confuse mankind. And in a very real sense, humanity is like Jim Carrey in The Truman Show. To get to reality we all have to peel away layers and layers of deceit. It is exactly equivalent to peeling an onion. And, like that experience: if it's your first time - it will make you cry! The hardest substance in the universe is not Black Panther's Vibranium - but the truth! Vibranium will bend, if you apply enough pressure to it. The truth never bends! So expect some bruises.... Along the way you will come across some facts for which you cannot find an easy explanation. Something which might set off our Spidey sense. One such fact now follows.
It's one thing for spirit beings to legionous, whereas all baryonic materials have electric repulsion - which makes us solid; and them spirit. Which is another way of saying physical versus spiritual. But is quite another to be able to send your spirit outside yourself. For instance Jehovah sends out his "spirit," in the form of the "breath of life," which has an activating effect on baryonic matter, turning corpses into living creatures, whether man or animal. Have you asked yourself in going through this information "why that is?" And is it only limited to Jehovah, or can all spirit creatures do the same?
Understanding the DYNAMICS Behind Jehovah's Chariot
Immediately, our effor in understanding the fine seemingly minute details between the different definitions of "spirit" come to our aid. For all angelic creatures have the ability to send their spirit outside of themselves. But there's an important detail not to miss. The "spirit" that angels send outwardly is not the same one as Jehovah sends. Let's start with Jehovah. He can send out a "life force." This is the spirit that allows people and animals to come to life. Secondly - and most importantly - he can send out his Holy Spirit: this is his personal power, which God only sends to those who are righteous. No wicked person has ever been sent Holy Spirit. I write it in capital letters to let you know how special it is. This is one that Christ said there is no forgiveness for - if one speaks against it!
Neither of these spirits are the ones that angels send out. Their spirit is equal not to Jehovah's "life force" but to the "active force" that is individual to each new creature in the universe. The one that results when a body is joined to the breath of life. Do you see how well you have to understand the basics to grasp the intricacies of reality? The learning is worth your every effort. Keep up your diligence. We continue. As we said previously this active force in creatures is very strongly related to their temperament! It is the vital energy they have, to get things done - and the attitude that goes with it. In humans this spirit is limited to being contained in our bodies, and is unique to us. It is also unique to each individual angel, but they can send it outside of themselves. Let's get some scriptural backing for that:
The angel said to him: 'Get dressed and put on your sandals.' He did so. Finally he said to him: 'Put your outer garment on, and keep following me.' And he went out and kept following him, but he did not know that what was happening through the angel was real. In fact, he thought he was seeing a vision. Going past the first sentinel guard and the second, they reached the iron gate leading into the city, and this opened to them by itselfAc 12:8-10
What is happening here? Iron gates don't open by themselves! Everything we discuss is vitally important, but this section is one of the special pillars of understanding that you need, if you are to master the knowledge of the true nature of reality. So "pay more than the usual attention." (Heb 2:1) As per usual we use hyperlinked scriptures to resolve the paradox. In this case it's passages of Scripture that we have already covered in some detail. The ones related to Jehovah's chariot! In Ezekiel. We are trying to find out how inanimate objects, like the "gate" in the case of Peter being broken out of prison can move by themselves:
When they went, these would go; and when they stood still, these would stand still; and when they were lifted up from the earth, the wheels would be lifted up close alongside them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheelsEze 1:21 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Einstein once remarded about his hesitation to believe in "spooky action at a distance." We see that even in the spirit realm - there is no such thing. Every action must be attributed to a force - and the force's mediating agent. Spirit beings can send their vital force into objects, and thereby gain control over them. The angels in this account - all cherubs - control the Inzintian wheels of Jehovah's chariot because they can send their "spirit" into those wheels - the object being controlled. Applying this principle in the account of Jehovah's angel freeing the Apostle Peter, we realize that this is what was happening in that instance too. The gate "opening of its own accord" was due to it having the "spirit" or "vital force" of that particular angel inside it. For you remember Newton's priniciple: "To the same effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes." (I am paraphrasing. But I think that's wor-for-word.) Previously, we have spoken about the fact that the spirit realm being free of statutes does not mean it is devoid of a WAY OF DOING THINGS. Jehovah loves the meek, and I love what Jehovah loves. In an ode to the great, humble man Rudolf Clausius, we will follow his example in naming this way, that is, the way of how things "work" in Heaven. You will rememeber that Clausius took great pains to make the word he coined to describe the esssence of the second law of thermodynamics as "similar" as possible to its related entity Energy. Thus he named it Entropy - in an effort to show how closely related they were! Since the way things "work" in the PHYSICAL REALM - the Cosmos - is called Physics, we will, like Clausius, give the name to how things "work" in the SPIRITUAL REALM - the Heavens - a name which is as similar as possible, in order to show how closely related the meaning of the two terms is. We will call it Spirics! From now on we will be using those terms exclusively. The point of this section - after all our previous learning - is to bring everything together so we can clearly see the differences between the physical and the spiritual realm. Between spirics and physics! We will first state the differences, and then furnish their proofs. Lastly, we will synthesize their Scientific and Biblical Evidence Profiles.
By design, the dynamics of Jehovah's chariot give us the insight we need to understand spirics. Not only do they show spirics in action, but they show it in action from the ground up - all the way to Jehovah himself! That is, we see how the whole realm works. All, in this one vignette, of heavenly life. One of the biggest lessons it gives us, is about nested spiric dynamics. In other words a "vital force" communicates with some entity, and that entity in turn communicates with another entity! How does that work? Look out for it! An important point: when speaking of Jehovah, it is not accurate to refer to his Holy Spirit as a "vital force" because that implies someone else gave it to him; whereas He, of course is the origin of all life. So let's refine that previous statement: in other words, Jehovah's Holy Spirit communicates with some sentient being, and that entity in turn communicates with an inanimate entity! Originally when we studied Jehovah's chariot it was to familiarize ourselves with details of the account. Now, it will be for a deep dive investigation into Spirics - and to see how it differs from Physics!
How Force is APPLIED
In physics, force is applied from the outside onto bodies. Below I include Newton's first two laws of motion, in current everyday English. I will also highlight the relevant portion of any quotes to focus our minds on the imporant details. They are:
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces applied UPON itNewton's FIRST LAW of Motion
And ...
The change of motion of an object is proportional to the force applied UPON it; and is made in the direction of the straight line in which the force is appliedNewton's SECOND LAW of Motion
So objects move when actued UPON by an oustide force. And the amount of movement is proportional to the force applied. In Spirics the second law holds. However, the force is applied from the INSIDE! I.e., the angels with the chariot wheels: "For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
LOCATION of the Energy Source
In physics, the energy source is always external to the engine. Have you been reading or watching all the news about the energy crises all over the world? Have you been paying attention to how everyone is decrying how you can't "run" an economy without reliable sources of energy? Whether oil, natural gas, wind turbine, solar or any energy source or technology you care to name: all them exist outside the engines they operate on. Even with objects such as stars, which are engines themselves. This is because they received their original quantum of energy from Jehovah when he created them. And, as we have learnt: it is him, who again "tops them up" once they reach their end of life - as all baryonic matter does. End of life in their case doesn't mean the chemistry of nuclear fusion stops working. It means they have exhausted their energy reserves and need new ones, if there fusion reactions are to continue! Recall Goodstein's words about the relationship between engines and energy in the baryonic physical Cosmos:
Throughout the cosmos, when and where heat flows, entropy flows with it. All engines extract heat from somewhere, the Sun perhaps, or the boiler of a ship, use some of it to do their work, and then release the rest. ... Engines designed by humans operate pretty much the same way as the ones mother nature cooks up. ... All of nature's processes can be seen as a constant drive to increase entropy. All the time. Throughout the universe!" Professor David Goodstein - Caltech
The point is clear, all engines "extract heat from somewhere." That important detail highlights a critical variable for getting anything done in the Cosmos: you need an OUTSIDE ENERGY SOURCE! This is the reason the Earth being the third orbit away from the center of the solar system is not a sign that we are not special, but a sign of the exact opposite! Without an energy source we would not exist, since we are made of baryonic matter! Being in the third orbit from the Sun is determined entirely by the size of our host star. Had the Sun been smaller, we would have been closer. Where the Sun bigger than it is we would have had to be farther away. In all cases what makes us special is that we are right in the "sweet spot" at the perfect location within the Habitable Zone. Anyone who uses the fact that the solar system is NOT geocentric but has the Sun in the middle as an arguement for evolution instead of creation is showing their utter lack of understanding of how things work - and what it takes to get things done ... in the BARYONIC Cosmos! Idiocy. Our being in the Habitable Zone is a feature not a bug in God's design of the Solar System:
In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole" Nicolaus Copernicus
Things are wholly different in the invisible non-electromagnetic spiritual realm. With spirics: the force that spirit creatures use to move things around comes from inside them. That is, the source of motive power for engines is both free of heat (zero entropy) and internal to the engine itself. Well, if the energy source is internal to an angel for instance, then how does that angel move something like an inzintian wheel or a baryonic gate if the motive power is inside it? It can send its power to move things out of itself and into the objects themselves, and thus move them from the inside. To the physical observer, this has the effect of looking like something that is operated in this manner is moving "by itself!" (Ac 12:10)
HEAT Engines VS NON-HEAT Engines!
Heat is central to all baryonic matter! And to all it's functions. That is why absolute zero can never be reached: because it is a temperature that represents the removal of all heat from baryonic matter - which is impossible. For heat is how energy is stored within objects: both at the large and atomic and subatomic scales. The transfer of heat is also how all work gets done in the physical realm. Without the transfer of heat - no work takes place. That is why the fantasy scenario where everything in the Cosmos reaches universal thermal equilibrium is called the heat death of the universe! Only baryonic matter generates heat through the movement of heat, and that movement of heat, in turn, always generates entropy. By this, we realize that Inzintian engines do not work on heat and heat reservoirs: SINCE THEY DO NOT GENERATE "ENTROPY!"
The ASYMMETRY of Power
Since baryonic matter uses external energy sources, power in the Cosmos is always asymmetrical. As discussed under the Location of the Energy Source subheading, all baryonic matter and systems require two factors: an energy source; and that energy source must be external! This applies everwhere in the Cosmos! Do you know why the majority of businesses fail? Is not because the entrepreneurs lack skill, or dedication, or qualifications, or a bright business idea, or anything like that. They run out of resources (energy) before the business reaches sustainability. Good business ideas are a dime a dozen. The hard part is execution, and execution calls for someone (usually a team of people) who know what it takes to get a business from A to Success. This is why you hear sayings such as "I prefer a good team to a good idea." The hard earned knowledge of a successful group of individuals who have a track record of demonstrating that they know how things actually work in the Cosmos is worth it's weight in gold.
Due to the dynamic requirements of getting things DONE in the baryonic cosmos: a knowledgeable person knows what the structure and ingredients of success look like? What does that mean. ALL APPLICATION, USE OF, AND EXERCISE OF POWER IN THE COSMOS IS ASYMMETRICAL! What does that mean? We only learn through examples. So let me give you one. Graham Bensinger is a YouTuber who does many high profile sports oriented interviews. In one episode he interviewed Lorenzo Fertitta, one of the previous co-owners of the UFC brand. Fertitta and his brother were the sons of a very successful casino owner in the USA. They were brought up running the business as a family business and their father handed them the reigns to the business when Lorenzo was in his mid 20s and his brother was in his early 30s. They had always gotten along, as they had the same approach to business. They had cooperated in many ventures by the time they got involved in the UFC, and that's where our story picks up. Following is a transcript of Fertitta's conversation with Bensinger:
Graham Bensinger: Tell [me] what the dispute resolution clause, is, in your UFC contract. If that's true?
Lorenzo Fertitta: No. Yes, it's a 100% true. When we were putting together the partnership and the documents to acquire the UFC, one of our attorneys came to me and he said, "Hey, you know, we have to have a partnership agreement between you Dana [White], and Frank [Fertitta]." And I'm like yeah okay, we've got like a hundred of those - like what's the big deal? Just copy something, and we'll go. He goes: "Well, it's a little bit different. Because you and Frank [are] owning the exact equal amount, you know, if you don't agree - there's got to be a dispute resolution." And I looked at him like: "What are you talking about. We'll always figure it out, we'll always agree!" He goes, "Yes, but legally you [have] got to have something in the document." I said okay fine. Do this: in the event that we can't agree on something, then the way it'll work is that we will have a sport jijutsu match - which is a point system match. Dana will be the referee. And whoever wins ... gets to vote the other guys shares. And that absolutely is in the document!
That lawyer knew how to get things done! He had to break the symmetry as both brothers owned equal shares in the company. The "dispute resolution" clause was how he added in asymmetry! This applies everywhere IN THE COSMOS! Are you starting a relationship - perhaps a courtship? Do you believe relationships are 50/50? That is a recipe for failure. Are you married, but don't believe in the headship arrangement? Your marriage has been set up to fail. The law of asymmetry applies everywhere! That's why every value system organizes into a hierarchy. This law means when we consider a system or function, we must always factor in the energy source. We must look for the presence of asymmetry. For without it, we can accomplish nothing. The problem comes when people confuse asymmetry with beauty. Beauty is based on symmetry. But WORK - what it takes to get things done is based on asymmetry. Thus many dreamers are averse to asymmetry because it comes with "non-beautiful" aspects. But that's why it's called "work." Otherwise it would be called "fun!" No scripture better captures this principle than the wise words found at Proverbs chapter 14:
Where there are no cattle the manger is clean, but the crop is abundant because of the power of a bullPr 14:4 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Clean manger = no food. Dirty manger = plentiful crop at harvesttime! It's surprising how many people continually choose the former in life because of not understanding the non-negotiable, unchangeable relationship between power and asymmetry. This is because they confuse end results with the work that's necessary to produce them. Work itself is asymmetric. It is the end result that is beautiful ... if you have done a good job on your work! In each of the six creative days Jehovah performed mighty acts of work and he did so asymmetrically (as I will shortly prove). It was only at the end of each of those periods of diligent work that he assessed his efforts and commented on their beauty:
But compare that with thinking beauty is a pre-condition to start work. You would never get anything done! Power and the exercise of power are asymmetrical!:
The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reapEc 11:4
And again ...
The lazy one does not plow in winter, so he will be begging during the harvest when he has nothingPr 20:4
These scriptures are describing farmers who are looking for "ideal" conditions before they start to work. THERE ARE NO IDEAL CONDITIONS! Do you think the conditions were "ideal" when Jehovah decided to start creating? Today we work within systems - like the water cycle and the changing of the seasons, for farming - which are the results of Jehovah's creative works. But when Jehovah started - there was nothing! He was the only entity in existence. That is the ultimate unfavourable condition to start a project - and it reveals a truth that runs through all achievements of excellence: beauty is the end result of a job well done - not its precondition! The reality behind all reality and how to get things done - is the asymmetry of power. Look for the asymmetrical factor in the following principle that describes all jobs done well:
Those sowing seed with tears will reap with a joyful shout. The one who does go out, though weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will surely return with a joyful shout, carrying in his sheavesPs 126:5,6
That is from the being who created the heaven and the earth. That is from the person who created work! That is from the being who created reality. If he gives the formula. The formula cannot be short-changed. Beauty is the end result of a job well done - not its precondition! This is what Sabine Hossenfelder continually complains about when she tries to correct the approach to science of her fellow physicists. She often laments that physics is in crisis specifically for this reason! Her colleagues are labouring under the misconception that beauty is a guide, an infallible guide to new scientific discovery. Whereas, the sad reality is that the exact opposite is true! Here's Hossenfelder:
So, this whole idea of a theory of everything is based on an unscientific premise. Some people would like the laws of nature to be pretty in a very specific way. They want it to be simple. They want it to be symmetric. They want it to be natural. And here I have to warn you that 'natural' is a technical term. So, they have an idea of what they want to be true. Then they stumble over some piece of mathematics that strikes them as particularly pretty and they become convinced that certainly, it must play a role for the laws of nature. In brief, they invent a theory for what they think the universe should be like! This is simply not a good strategy to develop scientific theories. And, no: it most certainly is not standard methodology! Indeed, the opposite is the case! Relying on beauty in theory developent has historically worked badly. In physics, breakthroughs in theory development have come instead from the resolution of mathematical inconsistencies. I have literally written a book about how problematic it is that researchers in the foundations of physics insist on using methods of theory development that we have no reason to think should work; and that for a matter of fact - do not work! The search for a theory of everything and for grand unification began in the 1980s. To the extent that the theories which physicists have come up with were falsifiable, they have been falsified! Nature clearly doesn't give a damn what physicists think is pretty math!" Sabine Hossenfelder - Do We Need a Theory of Everything? (4:34 - 6:02)
Nature is beautiful. ... What about the laws of nature? Most physicists today think that the fundamental laws of nature are beautiful and simple. But the natural laws that they have discovered so far, are not as beautiful and simple as could be. And so, when they develop new theories, they want those to be simpler and more beautiful, than the theories that they know already. In the past 40 years, criteria for beautty and simplicity have become mathamatical requirements. And they have worked badly! They led physicists to predict new symmetries which were not found! They predicted unified forces, which were not found! They predicted new particles, which were not found." Sabine Hossenfelder - Are the Laws of Nature Beautiful? Book Trailer "Lost in Math" (0:00 - 0:47)
Fotini Markopoulou weighs in, making the same point:
Usually people translate beauty into mathematics. So what is usually considered beautiful is mathematics. So, if your physics has a lot of mathematics, then it is beautiful. Mathematics is simple, it is elegant. It can tell you a lot of things. It's powerful. And it is a miracle that so much of our world ... translates into beautiful mathematical equations. ... The question though that comes next in my mind is: Is that true? Is this what is beautiful? There are many things that we would deem beautiful that nature doesn't care about. And we have plenty examples of such a thing. There [are] many beautiful theories that are wrong! So, I do believe that what nature does, once we eventually understand [it] - is beautiful. It's just I don't trust our sense of picking what is beautiful. So, I prefer to do it somehow in consultation with nature - even if it looks really ugly while you do it" Fotini Markopoulou - Why is the Universe So Beautiful? (0:17-8:40)
That, is a person who knows how to get things done! The common thread between all three of these quotes is what we have already stated: beauty is the product not the cause or process of work! Scientists are mistakenly thinking because nature is beautiful, the process which created it must also be beautiful. But the Creator of work has already told us that work is messy! Anyone who wants to produce beautiful results with a "clean manger" is in line for total failure. (Pr 14:4) Since we are in the late stage decay of Empire, the last gasps of the Western system of things, we realize that the people manning the ship are not courageous pioneers, but morally bankrupt Intellectuals whose only interest is securing their piece of the economic pie. As a result, there is no innovation, no daring out of the box thinking, no paradigm shifts, no forward movement - nothing works! Everything is talk and ideas, and conferences. With no action, no production of anything useful, no results, nor any scalability of such results! Instead we find an abandoning of the very scientific method that originally built the credibility of the Sciences. As Hossenfelder says of how they practic Science: "This is simply not a good strategy to develop scientific theories. And, no, it most certainly is not standard methodology!" Her conclusion? "For a matter of fact" the theories of current scientists she says "do not work!" If Science is not science, then what is it? It is Scientism! That is, Intellectualism pretending to be Science! This is what Allen Savory was alluding to in the video entitled What is Science? Remember his words?:
What is Science? People talk glibly about Science. What is Science? People coming out of a university, with a masters degree, or a PhD, you take them into the field, and they literally don't believe anything - unless there's a peer-revied paper. It's the only thing they accept! And you say to them, 'But, let's observe, let's think, let's discuss. They don't do it. It's just: "Is it in a peer-reviewed paper or not?" That's their view of science" Allen Savory
Of course, that has nothing to do with Science. That is the "credentialism" we quoted Heather Heying and Peter Thiel - among others - speaking about earlier. This is Science capture masquerading as genuine inquiry and research. It is Scientism - Science practiced as a form of false religion. Under such conditions, Science is no longer the engine of new paradigm shifting discoveries, but a safe haven built on the blind "faith" necessary for the cult of cookie-cutter thinking to take hold. It is a form of false religion. By the way: that's the kind with the loudest, most dogmatic followers. Because empty, evidence-free drums always make the most noise. (2Pe 2:10-12; Jude 8-13) Again, Here is Sabine:
I have grown up in Germany. And throughout my education I have been told over and over and over again: to not form my opinion based on the opinions of others. And, I have been warned by everyone from the neighbours to my grandparents that people in large groups can come to believe unbelievable things - if only sufficiently many other people believe those things too. It's not knowledge I thought I'd ever need! I mean, it's not like I'm in the military - I'm a theoretical physicist. But then I was at this large conference and one speaker after the other repeated the same arguments. Arguments to believe in a particularly beautiful theory called supersymmetry. It was like a professional faith, really - and it freaked me out! I wanted nothing to do with that: and I began working on something else. That was fifteen years ago. I had assumed that this belief would go away if no evidence was found to support these ideas. But that hasn't happened! Instead, it has become accepted practice to amend theories that run into conflict with experiment. The result is that now, in the foundations of physics, most theories are pretty - but unfalsifiable. And no one sees anything wrong with it, because everyone does it. It's a failure of Science to self-correct. It's something that shouldn't happen. But, it's happening. And it's not just physics" Sabine Hossenfelder - Groupthink in Science: Book Trailer "Lost in Math" (0:00 - 1:31)
No, it's not! Credentialism has spread everywhere. As she said: it's form of "professional faith" - a false religion. And, so we get the sad reality that the thought "leaders" of society are non-thinkers. The people you have outsourced the difficult thinking to are incapable of even the simplest feats of critical thinking. That is why they conclude - wrongly conclude - that the Earth not being in the middle of the Solar System represents some sort of demotion from us being special to being "a tiny speck on a speck" - or whatever Carl Sagan said. (Who has time to research this idiocy?) The truth, is that even a low-level engineer can tell you the placement you would want for the Earth is the place where it would get all the benefits of it's host star's Habitable Zone! For our Sun, that "sweet spot" is in the third orbit from the Sun. The position we call "HOME." For them - even though our solar system is in the middle of the universe - the fact that the Earth itself, is not inturn in the middle of the solar system means humans are not special, and not created. They disdain asymmetry because they are Intellectuals not workers. They have never accomplished anything of value in their lives. And thus have no clue about what it takes to create something of true and lasting beauty. Their goals, training and employement are all based on coming up with IDEAS, not solutions!
On the other hand, those who are hyper accomplished learn to look for asymmetry - and not to get involved unless they see it clearly defined. The Sun being in the middle is not a bug, but the most critical feature of our solar system! IT IS BY DESIGN! BY INEGINOUS DESIGN - FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO WORK - HOW TO GET THINGS DONE!:
Thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. And by the seventh day, God had completed the work that he had been doing, and he began to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had been doingGe 2:1,2
That "work" included positioning the newly created supplementary objects of our solar system around the Earth - the original object in the Cosmos - so that it could fulfill its purpose of supporting life, for that was God's underlying reason in creating the Cosmos:
For this is what Jehovah says, the Creator of the heavens, the true God, the One who formed the earth, its Maker who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing,* but formed it to be inhabited: 'I am Jehovah, and there is no one else'Isa 45:18
The footnote for "nothing" says, Or possibly, "to be empty." Do you see the connection? Since the original purpose for physical creation, i.e., the Cosmos was meant to not "be empty," that is, "to be inhabited," it had to be in the third orbit from the Sun! We have hammered home the existential importance of asymmetry in the baryonic realm. What about asymmetry in the spiritual realm: does the exercise of power also require it there? The question is a valid one since the only reason asymmetry is a requirement in the Cosmos is because the application of energy is always from outside - as forces act "upon" whatever object or system they are impacting. Secondly, and in similar vein: power sources are always external to the engine that will use them. These two factors mean when we look at a system that uses power to accomplish work in the Cosmos, it's layout - like the Earth in our Solar System - WILL ALWAYS BE ASYMMETRICAL. On Earth, different systems have been been innovated to try and make access to such resources equitable to all. Without this veneer revolutions break out! The current system of doing so is called Capitalism, but that too has its detractors. It is important to note - as Jordan Peterson rightly does - that this system aims to ensure that only access is equitable, not outcomes. That means it aims for everybody to have equal access to resources, but there is no way for it - or any other system - to ensure everybody has equal outcomes. Put another way: not everyone will be successful. Or as Jesus Christ put it, quoting his Father: "For you always have the poor with you." (Mr 14:7) This was despite Jehovah establishing the nation of Israel with the express intent that everyone will have resources and no one should be poor. Compare Deuteronomy 15:4 with 15:11! So, the asymmetry of power in Physics, in turn creates hierarchies within mankind - the rich and the poor. As I heard one woman joke on TV: "I know the righteous will inherit the Earth. In the meantime, I just want all the mineral rights." But this goes to an even deeper level. As one social commentator put it:
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on forceAlbert Einstein
How Asymmetry MANIFESTS Itself in Spirics
If that is the nature of power in the Physical Realm, what does it mean for the Spiritual Realm, where all sentient beings have their OWN internal power source? Are they all thus equal, creating the situation that the UFC ownwer's lawyer said had to be resolved? No. We know that both physical dynamics are overturned in the spirit realm, where we learned that the forces which move things operate internally - and are internally sourced. The holy spirit comes from the person of Jehovah. And the vital force which angels use to manoeuver objects, also comes from within them. Secondly when such forcese act they do so from within the objects they are effecting. As was the case with the "gate" in Peter's case; the "wheels" of the chariot as controlled by the cherubs; and Jehovah's spirit operating within the mighty cherubs in directing them where to go. But this does not mean that there is no asymmetry in Heaven. It means it manifests itself differently! Asymmetry is related to power - not to the operating system of the respective realms: be they Physics or Spirics. Put another way it is the presence of power that establishes asymmetry, not how power is applied! When God created Physics to regulate the Cosmos, he was engineering into physical reality, the most fundamental concept in all reality: outside of Jehovah, everything needs that would ever exist needs to get its power from one source - Jehovah God, the Almighty! In Heaven, that manifests itself in two ways. The FIRST, lower level reality is that all angels are created with a certain amount of unchanging and i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t power. Seraphs are different from Cherubs, for instance. These differences are ongoing. Having being created in these categories Seraphs cannot morph into Cherubs, nor can Cherubs turn into Seraphs. Remember they have bodies. And they cannot change from the bodies God gave them. Unlike humans who can change their station in life. Angels are created one way and they remain so, for all eternity. On Earth Mafia bosses change, through family wars and other factors. But Satan is always the leader of the demons, because he is the most powerful fallen angel. Part of the reason he is their leader (Re 12:9; Lu 4:6) and cannot be toppled by the demons. Satan was a high ranking angel before his fall. That's why he was in the Garden of Eden! He wasn't trespassing! Jehovah put him there! He was on assignment:
You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eʹden, the garden of God. You were adorned with every precious stone — ruby, topaz, and jasper; chrysʹo·lite, onyx, and jade; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald; and their settings and mountings were made of gold. They were prepared on the day you were created. I assigned you as the anointed covering cherub. You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked about among fiery stones. You were faultless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in youEze 28:12B-15
Unlike Jesus, he saw what he thought represented an assured opportunity to usurp Jehovah's position in the universe. (Php 2:5,6) Instead this mighty cherub whose original name Jehovah has forever renounced, turned himself into a Devil, by slandering God, and thus was born the opposer you know as Satan. What a miscalculation! This he did in an effort to escape how power manifests itself among powerful sentient beings who have all been gifted with internal, and never ending power supplies. Additionally, these power supplies are independent of God, that is to say, the angels - and demons - are not dependent on God for their continual use of such powers. Satan's personal strength didn't diminish when he turned against Jehovah, So, we have established that the first way power manifest itself in the spirit realm is the classification of the anglels, - with Jehovah being above all. This leads to the SECOND way in which power manifests itself. While the "vital force" of the angels is independent of further inputs from Jehovah, it is under his authority. It being independent of Jehovah, only means he affords his angelic sons with a sense of personal dignity. It does not mean they are independent moral agents! On Earth, power hierachies are decided by who has access to energy resources - and that is determined by who is stronger (more violent - or ruthless: for the physically weak). How, then, is the power hierarchy determined in Heaven where Jehovah has dignified everyone with their own eternal power source? Obedience! Thus the second and most important way the asymmetry of power is manifested in the Heavens is in the worship of Jehovah by his spiritual Heavenly army! Let me say that again. ASYMMETRY IN THE HEAVENLY REALM IS MANIFESTED THROUGH THE W-O-R-S-H-I-P OF JEHOVAH!:
You alone are Jehovah; you made the heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens and all their army.... And you preserve all of them alive, and the army of the heavens are bowing down to youNe 9:6
Do you understand why Devil the Opposer could not bear to be under such a regime? Though he has created exactly - nothing! (Re 4:11) He wants the glory and honour of ruling over Jehovah's creative works - just like a late stage, failing Empire Intellectual! In the Inzintian realm all spirit beings were created to take, and follow, the orders of Jehovah:
Jehovah has firmly established his throne in the heavens; and his kingship rules over everything. Praise Jehovah, all you his angels, mighty in power, who carry out his word, obeying his voice. Praise Jehovah, all his armies, his ministers who do his will. Praise Jehovah, all his works, in all the places where he rules. Let my whole being praise JehovahPs 103:20-22
"Carrying out" Jehovah's word, means you recognize and welcome his asymmetrical superiority to you! It is this quality that allows all of Jehovah's righteous angels to be his "minister[s]:"
Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 1:14
This requires humility, a firm grip on reality and most importantly - LOVE FOR JEHOVAH ALMIGHTY! This is shown in willing obedience
Praise him, all his angels. Praise him, all his armyPS 148:2
It is this praise that Devil was not willing to continue giving Jehovah. It is this praise that Devil wants for himself. And he is willing to give up everything he has to get it!:
Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him: "All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me." Then Jesus said to him: "Go away, Satan! For it is written: 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.'"Mt 4:8-10
So the worship of the angels to Jehovah is not defined only by formal acts, such as "bowing" down to him. Whenever they carry out one of his commands, they are worshipping him. Their service is "sacred" because of who it is done for, and every act of such "sacred service" is an act of worship! Jehovah's Chariot doesn't need an axle because all four independent wheels are steered by angels who faithfully worship Jehovah. (Eze 1:20 NWT W/References) When Christ would not speak of his own originality, but said exactly what his Father had commanded him to say before he left Heaven - he was worshipping God. (De 18:15-19; Joh 12:48-50) When Jehovah stationed cherubs at the entrance of the Garden of Eden, and they remained on that assignemnt until there was no longer any danger of someone accessing the tree of life - they were worshipping Jehovah. (Ge 3:24) When Gabriel came to inform Mary of her privilege, he was worshipping Jehovah. (Lu 1:26-28) The chorus of angels who appeared to the shepherds when Jesus was born, did so in worship to Jehovah. (Lu 2:8-15) Some acts of worship are formal. (Re 4:8) While others are mundane. () Some are voluntary. (Isa 6:3) Some are decreed (Mt 4:10) Some are exciting. (Re 14:6) And, some - to humans, seem boring. Such as the angels who stood guard at the entrance to Eden, for what could have amounted to about 1600 years - until the flood came! The common denominator among all these holy acts of "sacred service" is that they are equivalent to acts of worship to Jehovah!
This is why Gabriel was incensed when Zechariah, John the Baptist's father, would not believe him: he was calling into question Gabriel's worship of Jehovah! (Lu 1:18-20) That's a key difference between Jehovah and the fool we know as Devil the Opposer. Satan's bets the farm to get temperory satisfaction - as he did in Eden - but Jehovah deserves permanent everlasting worship simply based on who He is! It is a product of his work ethic and the fine thoughts he had that spurred him to create in the first place:
You are WORTHY, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were createdRe 4:11
When such worship is carried out faithfully it always, always, benefits ... MANKIND! There is a link between faithful acts of worship to Jehovah by his angelic Ministers (remember Heaven is a government) and benefits to mankind - and it is a direct LINK! This is why Jesus wouldn't deviate from the commands his Father gave him!:
For I have not spoken of my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment means everlasting life. So whatever I speak, I speak just as the Father has told meJoh 12:49,50
That's how serious and knife's edge, scalpel sharp the holy service of angels is! Christ, is of course, the Archangel! Thus all faithful angels can only but follow his example. In Hebrews chapter 1, we are treated to some insight about the role of angels in the universe. Verse 7 tells us they are "ministers" in the same way your country's government has a cabinet of ministers to administer the country's affairs. What is interesting is the meaning of the original Greek work used for minister: "lei·tour·gous" ... it literally means "public workers." Hence, the word "ministers' in this verse is alternately translated as: "public servants." Later on, in verse 14 we are told:
Are they not all spirits for holy service,* sent out to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 1:14
The footnote for "holy service" reads: Or "for public service." This is so immportant, that again, I am going to include another six translations so you can see the common thread in the significant link between faithful angels and humans!:
Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?Heb 1:14 | New World Translation - With References
οὐχὶ πάντες εἰσὶν λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα εἰς διακονίαν ἀποστελλόμενα διὰ τοὺς μέλλοντας κληρονομεῖν σωτηρίανHeb 1:14 | The Kingdom Interlinear translation of the Greek Scriptures
And its word-for-word translation ...
Not all they are publicly working spirits into service being sent forth through the (ones) being about to be inheriting salvation?Heb 1:14 | The Kingdom Interlinear translation of the Greek Scriptures
Are they not, all of them, servient spirits that are sent on errands in behalf of those who are to inherit salvation?Heb 1:14 | The Bible in Living English
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?Heb 1:14 | American Standard Version
Are they not all spirits doing public service, — for ministry sent forth for the sake of them who are about to inherit salvation?Heb 1:14 | The Emphasized Bible
And lastly ...
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?Heb 1:14 | King James Version
What we learn from all of the above verses is that the angels are defined as ministers (in fact the word angel means "messenger"), and this ministry is in turn defined as "public service." Hence, angels are "public servants!" And their reality is a two-fold nested public service. They are firstly created to be public servants (Heb 1:7); and secondly their very roles in the universe are defined by public service. (Heb 1:14) The first two translations make the point even clearer, for there, they equate two terms: "holy service" and "public service!" Thus we learn that "holy" and "public" are equivalent terms. In the same way that "minister" is equivalent to "public servant." So Jehovah engineered angels to be public servants in both their nature and their nurture. To put it in contemporary fashion: both their hardware and their software is desinged to carry out public service! To put it another way: UNTIL God created Man and started resting on Day 7, angels didn't have a job - so to speak. They were created as public servants; but before mankind came on the scene, they had no "public" to serve. As we have already established, they, themselves are not private citizens. So they couldn't fulfil their reason for existence on themselves, or within their community, for angels enjoy a quality of life that is void of personal pleasures. When Christ was emphasizing how humans can have constant devotion towards God, he highlighted that this would involve their not indulging in regular human experiences. (Mt 19:10-12) The Holy Spirit makes this same point through the Apostle Paul. (1Co 7:29-38) Angels have this disposition naturally - for as Hebrews testified, they were created that way! They were created without a user interface, and thus without an internal system that needs regular inputs of pleasure. God could have made food and beverages tasteless. He could have made exercise and breathing fresh air anticlimactic; instead it provides a "natural high." He could have made sexual reproduction routine, indeed he could have restricted it to the utility of reproduction, but he didn't; instead he created LOVE, family and the wonder of childbirth. Some people are so focused on pleasures, they reject God, and make pleasures their God. But that is foolish. If they were wise and acting selfishly, they would embrace God, and then they would be able to indulge in the pleasures he created for mankind eternally! The word Eden means "pleasure." The Garden of Eden was the Garden of Pleasure! Is it your belief that God wants to keep humans from pleasures? Just like angels have a two-fold nested engineering that is defined by "public service," humans have a three-fold design that is focused on pleasure. ONE: We were created with a pleasure based user interface. TWO: The home Jehovah put us in at our beginning was literally, literally called PLEASURE. THIRD: Unlike animals and incidentally, angels, we can reason on our existence and build faith. This is the greatest pleasure a human can have ... and one angels cannot build. Humanity is the universal sweet spot for pleasure! With the greatest being spirituality:
O God, you are my God, I keep looking for you. I do thirst for you. I am faint with longing for you in a dry and parched land, where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the holy place; I have seen your strength and your glory. Because your loyal love is better than life, my own lips will glorify you. Thus I will praise you all my life; in your name I will lift up my hands. I am satisfied with the best and choicest portion, so my mouth will praise you with joy on my lipsPs 63:1-5
In answer the Lord said to her: 'Martha, Martha, you are anxious and disturbed about many things. A few things, though, are needed, or just one. For her part, Mary chose the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.'Lu 10:41,42
Always be rejoicing. Pray constantly. Give thanks for everything. This is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus1Th 5:16-18
Always rejoice in the Lord. Again I will say, Rejoice!Php 4:4
THE GREATEST SENTIENT PLEASURE IN THE UNIVERSE IS REALIZING GOD EXISTS, AND THAT HE LOVES YOU! AND IT IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO HUMANS - THROUGH FAITH. NOT ANGELS. NOT ANIMALS. This is why it is righteous on God's part to take vengeance on those who rebel against him. (Ro 12:9; 1Joh 4:8,20,21; Ro 13:8-10) For they have rebelled against their own best interests. The foolishness of atheists flies in the face of all the evidence. Which evidence? All reality! As a couple of wise social commentators once said:
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God" Sir Isaac Newton
And ...
The more I study science, the more I believe in GodAlbert Einstein
When God RESTED - Angels Started WORKING!
Understanding the above makes clearer to us, exactly what the role and place of angels in the universe is. The principle at Proverbs 14:28: "A multitude of people are a king’s majesty, but a ruler without subjects is ruined" applies to both kings and public servants. That's why bureaucracies and government employees hate small government! Before God created mankind, all the angels were spectators. Recall that only Jehovah and Christ are involved in the creative discussions and actions of the Genesis account: Jehovah as the Creator; and Christ as his "master worker." Angels participated in the unraveling marvels only by applauding - nothing more:
Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you think you understand. Who set its measurements, in case you know, or who stretched a measuring line across it? Into what were its pedestals sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause?Job 38:4-7
You will recall that angels themselves are not private citizens. We have already established what differentiates a private individual from a public being: personal desires - and the need to fulfil them. Those are the driving forces behind all human societies. Angels enjoy a quality of life that is void of such personal concerns. And they had no hand in creation, other than being awe-struck observers. Only once mankind came onto the scene, could they too shine - as public servants. And when they do this faithfully, it always benefits humans. (Heb 1:14; Joh 12:48-50) But. Not. All. Angels ... OBEY.
20/20 Vision
Jehovah created angels to be greater than humans in power. All angels saw this! For God created man on the last creative day - Day 6. You will remember that these creative days were extended periods of time. We can say with certainty that, at a minimum, they last longer than several thousand years, as we have proved elsewhere in this blog. Jehovah started creating creatures that were made of dust on Day 5. Thus for thousands of years, the angels, eager spectators, were watching and taking careful note of how things work. (1Pe 1:12z; Job 38:7) (When I mark a scripture with 'z' at the end, it means only the last sentence is relevant to our discussion. A 'b' means the second half of the scripture is relevant; and a 'c' the third.) Even under perfect conditions animals die. So, over those thousands of years before Man was created, angels could readily see that "dust" is indeed limited in many many important ways that Invisible Zint is not! (Ps 103:14) They saw this through the lifespans of Earthly creatures, some of which have lifespans that are numbered in weeks. It was through this same principle that Adam knew what God meant when he said: "If ... you will certainly die." In his time studying the animals and insects in Eden - so as to give them names - Adam saw creatures, which were engineered with short life spans die. It wasn't an intellectual concept to him. He had seen it. He had seen decomposition. He understood what returning to the dust meant. Likewise, by the time Adam was created, angels knew from the other creatures that baryonic life was "lower" than they were:
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honourPs 8:4,5 | King James Version
Just as David knew this fact, so did every angel in Heaven. Thus, when humans were created and the time for angels to contribute to universal order arrived, it was a special time for them. What would their role be in Jehovah's grand scheme of things? They were bristling with expectation and excitement. Remember they are "mighty," but up until this time they had not had a chance to expand that energy. (Ps 103:20) God was designing, engineering, and directing all creation and executing in certain areas where only He could. Such as stretching the Heavens because only He has such power available to him. (Isa 44:24b; 40:26b) And Christ was similarly busy, actually fabricating all of God's designs into reality from scales smaller than a nanometer all the way to the largest galactic superclusters, and incredibly, the one-piece structure we know as Heaven! The largest structure in the universe! All that constituted "work." And all the while, the angels were mere spectators. Then came the time for them, to participate! What would their roles be? Out of them all, Jehovah chose a high ranking, and powerful cherub, and anointed him to be the "covering cherub" in Eden - the Garden of God!:
You were in Eʹden, the garden of God. You were adorned with every precious stone - ruby, topaz, and jasper; chrysʹo·lite, onyx, and jade; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald; And their settings and mountings were made of gold. They were prepared on the day you were created. I assigned you as the anointed covering cherub. You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked about among fiery stonesEze 28:13,14
In the NWT W/References, the phrase "I assigned you" is expressed as, "I have set you" and comes with two footnotes. One equates "set" with given; the other expands on the word "you" by explaining that other translations render this as "You are the cherub stretched out and protecting, and I set you." In other words, God created a beautiful garden of "pleasure" as a home for mankind and put Adam there to enjoy and take care of it. But, he also put a mighty cherub there to take care of, or to, "protect" Adam. Do you know what the value of the following principle is?:
You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milkEx 23:19
It was part of the Mosaic Law that Jehovah gave to the nation of Israel. This regulation kept people from perverting the natural use of an animal mother's milk! Jehovah had intended that such a resource would nourish the young animal, thus he forbade his nation from using it to perversely prepare that mother's offspring as food - insted of helping it to grow to adulthood. This was the principle that the "anointed covering cherub" broke when instead of protecting Adam, he abused his authority to subjugate him into slavery as a sinner. Why so much hate? It wasn't hate - that came later. It was disdain. As we said, angels were created mightier than all baryonic life. And by the time of Adam's creation, they had been observing for at least 20 000 years! As their time to contribute and find out their role in the universe approached, they were excited. They were all glorying and applauding Jehovah's marvellous creations! Now, imagine the reaction of 200 million+ angels, when Jehovah announced the following development:
What is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and a son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than godlike ones, and you crowned him with glory and splendor. You gave him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put everything under his feetPs 8:4-6
Everything? Everything! Under the feet of the lesser beings? Correct. All the angels marveled at the Wisdom of Jehovah's ways. All. Except. One. The anointed covering cherub. As Jehovah says of him: "You were faultless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you." (Eze 28:15) Christ expands on the thought:
Jesus said to them: 'If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I have not come of my own initiative, but that One sent me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot listen to my word. You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lieJoh 8:42-44
Thus the anointed "protector" of mankind became its "murderer." He rebelled and broke the sacred principle of Exodus 23:19. All so he could usurp the surbodinate Kingship from Adam and rule instead! (Ro 5:17; Lu 4:5,6; 1Jo 5:19) He was created perfect, but "unrighteousness was found in" him. Jesus, who was there, details his downfall. The first thing that he did wrong was to have "desires." He was a public servant with no user interface, he wasn't created to harbour personal, private desires. The second was that he couldn't "listen" to Jehovah's word, just like his children couldn't listen to the word of Jehovah's Child! Next, he perverted himself, forming an evil disposition, whereas Jehovah created him perfect.... We don't know his original name - nor do we care - because he is an irrelevant nobody, a poseur, a desperate short-sighted loser who's been sniffing dephlogisticated air for millennia - and has now run out of time! Are you ... is it possible that you could be one of his children?
Michael means "Who is like God?" A wonderful name. Gabriel means "Able-bodied one of God." Again a wonderful name. Angels don't generally tell their names to humans when they interact with them - even when asked. On one such occasion, an angel - when asked - simply replied: "Just why should you ask about my name, when it is a wonderful one?" The two exapmles we have, both reflect on the person of Jehovah. The weak abusive creature who came to be called Devil and Satan, meaning "Slanderer" and "Opposer" could not possibly have kept his original name because he is an abject failure. He failed to live up to whatever way his name glorified Jehovah! He is the worst and sleaziest kind of person, a "public servant" with private "desires!" Satan is an Intellectual!
What Defines Something as a PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE?
Since baryonic matter uses external energy sources and the transfer of energy is always and everywhere accompanied by entropy, no baryonic machine can be a perpetual motion machine.
The opposite is true for the spiritual realm. Not only does all the zint in the spiritual realm share the common properties of being incorruptible and eternal, but the angels - and demons - who are made of insible zint are also everlasting. Unless, as in the case of the demons who are judged as deserving of death, Jehovah's ruling determines that, Satan for instance, deserves to be destroyed. This means that all righteous angelic creatures are perpetual motion machines. That's what we meant earlier when we said that Jehovah has dignified them with an internal power source that is independent of Him. We didn't mean they are independent moral creatures. The word was meant technically, as in the sense of being a perpetual motion machine. For the power to act is always within one's control! Also, every structure in the heavenly realm, like heaven itself - the invisible one-piece web that spans the entire universe - are also perpetual motion machines. They - unlike the stars and moon etc. of the baryonic Cosmos - will not need to be refurbished at some later stage. (Compare 2Co 4:18 & Heb: 1:10-12) This is because they don't degrade over time due to wear and tear, or running out of fuel - as is the case with all stars. Psalms 102:25-27 (NWT W/References) contrasts the physical heavens and the earth with Jehovah. It shows how they are perishable and suffer wear and tear, and as such come to "finish their turn." At which point they need to be refurbished, as we have discussed. But of Jehovah the scripture says: "But you are the same, and your own years will not be completed." Note the important technical detail the Bible makes, Jehovah's years "will not be completed!" That is different from saying something is infinite. As we have established, there is no such thing as an actual infinity. You will always be able to add one more year to Jehovah's years. In that way his existence is in agreement with actual reality. Such everlasting life is what it means to be incorruptible and eternal - it means you do not change over time and you have no end - or expiry date. As all Invisible Zint shares these properties, we then know that Heaven itself, also has a similar outcome - its years will "not be completed," whereas baryonic matter wears out and finishes its turn. (Ps 102:26; 2Co 4:18) Those two factors, then, determine whether something is a perpetual motion machine - or not. Another way of saying: it lasts forever and does not need an outside source of energy to function! Physics determines that everything it regulates and describes is a non-perpetual motion machine. In contrast everything over which spirics holds sway is perpetual, and if it is alive - has an internal, independent energy source.
The Role of STATUTES
Can you tie the ropes of the Kiʹmah constellation or untie the cords of the Keʹsil constellation? Can you lead out a constellation in its season or guide the Ash constellation along with its sons? Do you know the laws governing the heavens, or can you impose their authority on the earth?Job 38:31-33
This passage of scripture tells us two things. In the invisible realm Jehovah controls the functions of the different inanimate entities found in that realm without use of governing laws. While in the Cosmos, Jehovah creates statutes or laws to "automate" the functions of all entities, so that they can operate without his further input. Thus in the visible realm Jehovah's will is realized through the authority of the laws he has established to regulate baryonic matter. In the Cosmos, the only time he steps in, is to renew objects once they reach the end of their baryonic life. Or, when he wants to create a specific effect, as he did when he split the Red Sea for the Israelites to cross over, or when he made the Sun stand still for a whole day in response to Joshua's plea. The Sun, stars and planets and moons go through a complex dance that establishes seasons through their variable motions. This is programmed to operate independently of Jehovah's ongoing input - by virtue of the authority of the laws that regulate such activities:
He has made the moon to mark the appointed times; the sun well knows when to set. You bring darkness, and night fallsPs 104:19,20
And ...
This is what Jehovah says, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws of the moon and the stars for light by night.... ‘If these regulations should ever fail,’ declares Jehovah, ‘only then would the offspring of Israel cease as a nation before me always.’Jer 31:35,36
And that's, the POINT! That's the difference. IN HEAVEN THERE ARE NO REGULATIONS! In the Heavens, Jehovah has not given "laws" for different entities. Why?
Now Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom2Co 3:17
Again: we ask "Why?" The reason is that the spirit, or vital force of Jehovah can only do good - and never bad! Thus laws are completley irrelevant to its operation, or the results it produces:
On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no lawGa 5:22,23
In other words all the things God's spirit produces cannot be regulated by law - for three reasons. Firstly, because God's spirit produces nothing negative, which is one reason why laws exist - to regulate against negative effects:
Let every person be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. Therefore, whoever opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of God; those who have taken a stand against it will bring judgment against themselves. For those rulers are an object of fear, not to the good deed, but to the bad. Do you want to be free of fear of the authority? Keep doing good, and you will have praise from it; for it is God’s minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God’s minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is badRo 13:1-4
The principle is quite clear. When we do good, we are free from the law. In fact, we are due for praise from the "superior authorities." Have you ever heard someone vouching for the character of another person and say something like: "He has never broken the law. He's never even gotten a speeding ticket." When we do good: we are free from the law! The second reason is that you cannot legislate for good behaviour! You cannot force people to be good. Certainly that is not the kind of relationship Jehovah wants to have with his worshippers! No. He wants willing subjects:
Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for indeed, the Father is looking for ones like these to worship himJoh 4:23
Who are the "true worshippers?" Those whose worship of Jehovah is offered willingly and without coersion. Jehovah only wants worshippers who love him and who are wholesouled in their devotion to him:
For the eyes of Jehovah are roving about through all the earth to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him2Ch 16:9
Such people are not under the law. Like the citizens who are free from fear of retribution from the authorities - people who are led by God's spirit, people who produce works that are worthy of praise are free!:
Furthermore, if you are being led by spirit, you are not under lawGa 5:18
And ...
You were called to freedom, brothers; only do not use this freedom as an opportunity to pursue fleshly desires, but through love slave for one anotherGa 5:13
If this is how the spirit of God effects humans on earth, how much more so does such freedom exist in the heavens. And the principle extends even to inanimate objects in Heaven, because the only variation they have is determined directly by Jehovah. As an example the physical heavens are continually going through their regulated motions, as they need to, in order to keep serving as signs for "seasons and for days and years." We remember that such seasons are caused by the movements of various bodies in relation to each other. Such movements repeat at regular intervals and are ongoing. Non-stop. On the other hand the Inzintian "fine gauze" of the spiritual heavens is static - for it serves as the scaffolding of the universe. It has the opposite role in the universe. Instead of constantly changing; it stays the same and constant - until Jehovah needs to use it for some reason. In which case, he then manipulates it directly so that he can execute his will. Such as when he "rips" the heavens apart so he can perform a particular function - such as the bending of heaven to descend to the Earth! At other times he needs to loosen the scaffolding by untying the ropes - or filaments - of the halos (or interior rooms) of the constellations, so that the constellations and stars can perform certain seasonal changes. In such instances, Jehovah altering the constant nature of Heaven has to do with baryonic requirements, not Inzintian ones. There are no Inzintian requirements. And when such baryonic requirements are fulfilled, it is by Jehovah himself! For, again the energy requirements to move the Heavens rest only in the person of Jehovah the Almighty. Thus, in the spiritual heavens, Jehovah is the only authority! Hence, there are no supplementary laws. This point is crucially important! And is the defining difference between the Cosmos and Heaven; between the visible realm and the invisible realm; between the physical and spiritual. Visibility and invisibility might be the most obvious differences between the two realms, but this is the most fundamental!
To drive the piont home, consider the point of rebellious Satan and his demons. When they turned against Jehovah there were no restrictions placed on them in heaven. This is obvious when you realize how freely Satan continued to operate long after he had slandered Jehovah:
Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among themJob 1:6 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
Of course Heaven is God's throne and Satan's attitude was a major disturbance to the otherwise peaceful conditions that exist there. Satan, ever desperate, was a constant source of agitation. Rather than add rules and regulations to heaven, Jehovah chose to kick the rebels out. And the righteous angels rejoiced when that day came:
And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven say: 'Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God! ... On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!Re 12:7-10,12
Heaven is Jehovah's throne (Isa 66:1). In it he exercises complete control - over both its inanimate structures and entities. Additionally, all the spirit beings who reside there, from the greatest to the least, from the Christ to the least - they all worship Jehovah with rejoicing! Lastly, when there are entities such as the Chariot, where Jehovah uses the power of the angels as its engine, the angels power this vehicle at the direction and inclination of Jehovah. (Eze 1:12,20 NWT - With References; Ja 3:4) In this way, Heaven is free of laws! For where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom! Let us now group the various findings we have established by studying many different subjects under one roof. We will divide them under their relevant subheadings: either Physics, or Spirics.
Physics
Force
In the physical realm of the universe, force is always applied from outside. Morevover, such force is always external to the engine that is going to use it. This causes efficiency issues. Additionally, in the physical realm of the universe, run as it is, by heat processes, or to use the more common term thermodynamics, entropy is a part of all natural processes leading to wear and tear and the impossibility of baryonic machines becoming perpetual motion machines.
Definition of Entities
In the physical realm of the universe, physical entities are defined by being formed of baryons. Baryons is the name given to subatomic particles like protons and neutrons. Together with electrons they form atoms and molecules. This combination is what is responsible for making baryonic matter electromagnetic. In turn, electromagnetic properties give atoms electromagnetic repulsion, as the electrons are always on the outer shell of the atom, and like charges repulse each other. Thus when two atoms - both with electronic outer shells - are brought close to each other, they repel each other. This property is what makes baryonic matter solid. Baryonic matter has mass.
Definition of Energy
No baryonic substance can reach the temperature of absolute zerto because they are made of energy converted into solid form through the structures explained above. But energy is not contained in the particles that make up the atom only, it is also stored in the heat content of those atoms. This is manifested in motion. What Clausius called disgregation. The more heat, the more motion, the more energy. Heat is integral to the definition of energy within baryonic matter. So much so, that is temperature - a closely related concept - is shorthand for the internal energy of a system. In the physical realm energy is defined and measured by the vibrations of an elements atomic particles. It is for this reason that no baryonic substance can be at absolute zero. A temperature which represents no atomic vibrations! Understanding that covers the 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics.
Entropy
Closely allied to Energy and the first law of thermodynamics is the very similar reality of Entropy. This thermodynamic property regulates the movement of heat and shows that whenever heat is transferred, entropy - a way to measure the irreversability of a thermodynamic process - transfers with it. In fact, all spontaneous thermodynamic processes, that is, those that happen by themselves are accompanied by an increase in entropy, as a one-way arrow of time: marking that process as irreversible. Non-spontaneous processes, like the operation of a fridge, require the input of an outside source of additional energy. In this way, though the local entropy decreases (inside the fridge, for instance), the overall entropy increases (as hot air is exhausted out of the rear of the fridge into the surrounding environment). Thus, Entropy, the 2nd law of thermodynamics is always preserved in the universe. Clausius' understanding of entropy was far, far superior to Maxwell and Boltzmann's. He understood that there was no statistical odd that would allow a spontaneous irrervisible event like melted ice cubes in a glass of water returning to their original ice cube state. In reality there is no possibility of such a thing ever happening. The laws governing it not happening are not statistical, but absolute! Irreversible spontaneous events never occur in the physical realm of the universe - the Cosmos.
Dynamics of Motion
Due to the fact that baryonic matter has mass, and needs outside forces acting upon it to move, it has certain characteristics. The most obvious are inertia, momentum and banking. The motion of physical matter with mass is defined by the three Laws of Motion formulated by Newton. We are only interested in the first two, as the third is just a statement explaining the dynamics of solid matter. I take it for granted that you know that you are solid. If you are unsure, jump off the first story of any building and make notes of the experience. Nonetheless, we will state all three and then briefly discuss the first two:
1st Law:
A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force
2nd Law:
When a body is acted upon by a force, the time rate of change of its momentum equals the force
3rd Law:
If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directionsNewton's Laws of Motion - Wikipedia
Inertia
The first law explains Inertia very well. Due to mass, physical objects have a resistence to changing their current state. If there are at rest they will remain at rest - unless "acted upon by a force." Similarly, if they are in motion, their mass makes them want to remain in that state of motion. And they will do so at constant speed, unless again, they are "acted upon by a force." The resistance to change due to mass is called "inertia." The greater the mass, the greater the resistance - or "inertia" - and the greater will be the force needed to change it! That is Newton's first law.
Momentum
Closely related to it is the reality of physical momentum. The simplest definition of Momentum is, "equal to the product of the body's mass and its velocity." (Wordnik online dictionary.) We have understood that to change the inertia of a body, we need to apply an outside force "upon" it and it will then move or be retarded in the a straight line with the force being applied. For moving objects, the product of that force and the mass of the body being moved equals its momentum. That's why Newton's second law states: "the time rate of change of its momentum equals the force." Another way of saying that is that momentum is the "force or energy exhibited by a moving body." That's an important difference. Inertia applies to both moving and still bodies. But momentum applies only to moving objects. Anyhow, the momentum of a moving body tells you how much force was applied to get it to move at that velocity.
This leads us to Velocity. Velocity brings two concepts together: speed and direction. Because these are the two factors of velocity, if you change one of them you are changing the velocity of that body. Put another way, you cannot change direction without changing velocity; and again, you cannot change the speed that an object is moving at without changing its velocity. But we remember that the application of force is in a straight line and that produces motion in the direction of the force applied. So, what happens when you want to change the direction, i.e., velocity of an object moving in a straight line? How does its momentum affect that change in velocity. That brings us to our last topic under Newton's laws of motion - banking.
Banking
If you are driving a car and want to negotiate a bend, you have to slow down, so you can change direction. If you don't slow down you will drift the car. Both scenarios factor in momentum - and describe the dynamic of banking. When planes turn in the sky they have to bank. Banking just means taking making a turn in a curve because of momentum. Objects with mass cannot turn at right angles. They have to bank - due to their mass and resultant momentum! Tha's is how the laws of motion work in the physical realm.
Perpetual Motion
According to the laws of thermodynics, perpetual motion machines are impossible in the physical realm, due mostly to limitations imposed by the first and second laws of thermodynamics that relate to energy and entropy. You might have noticed that whenever a proposed perpetual motion is debunked it is labeled as either a perpetual motion machine of the first, or second kind. These labels refer to which law the proposed device would have broken: either of energy; or of entropy.
For instance, since all physical engines require a transfer of energy from an outside source to function, a machine which claims to get around this unbreakable requirement by claiming to somehow take an initial investment of transferred energy and turn into a limitless supply of internal baryonic energy (through engineering, or any other clever manipulation of the system in question) would be in violation of the first law of thermodynamics. It would thus be a perpetual motion of the first kind.
On the other hand, we know that whenever energy is transferred from an external source to a machine to accomplish some task, it is always accompanied by entropy - the one-way arrow of time and irreversibility. Because entropy and hence irreversibility always accompanies the transfer of energy, no machine that requires energy can operate in an entropy-free manner. People who claim to have designed such machines, which somehow - once started - operate in a way that doesn't turn energy into its most useless form heat (through entropy producing processes such as friction and the exhaust of waste heat into the surroundings) are also misguided. Such machines would be no different from Sadi Carnot's ideal engine, which we know can never be built in real life because all its processes are REVERSIBLE. Reversible, means free of entropy, since entropy is the mark of irreversibility! That was the lesson behind Clausius ingenious derivation of the second law of thermodynamics. The law of entropy. Thus no baryonic machine or process can be truly reversible, for that would mean it is free of entropy. This truth means any claims of building such machines are false claims of perpetual machines of the second kind.
Our conclusion? No physical machines, engines, or process can be perpetual because of the need to draw energy from an OUTSIDE SOURCE; and just as importantly because all such drawing of outside resources is accompanied by the unavoidable entity of entropy, for in the physical realm of the universe:
Throughout the cosmos, when and where heat flows, entropy flows with it. All engines extract heat from somewhere, the Sun perhaps, or the boiler of a ship, use some of it to do their work, and then release the rest. ... Engines designed by humans operate pretty much the same way as the ones mother nature cooks up. ... All of nature's processes can be seen as a constant drive to increase entropy. All the time!" Professor David Goodstein
The Asymmetry of Power
Since in the Cosmos (the physical realm of the universe), forces are applied externally - that is, upon bodies - to change their inertia; and because energy always has to be sourced externally; and because after having been sourced the energy that runs an engine is always external to the engine itself, there is always a lop-sided appearance to working systems! This is the reason our solar system is heliocentric, and not geocentric. NASA uses this principle to search for exoplanets in throughout the Cosmos. Exoplanets are planets that fall within the Habitable Zone of their host stars. It is a simple enough calculation. The Habitable Zone is determined by the orbit away from the star where water would exist in its liquid state. The bigger the star the farther away the Habitable Zone; the smaller the host star, the closer the Habitable Zone. Asymmetry! It is critical to all WORKING systems. It incorporates all the requirements a functional physical system needs to work: an external energy source, a force that is applied from the outside, and a source of energy that is applied from the outside through a temperature gradient. For heat cannot be transferred under equilibrium conditions. That is why all engines requie two heat reservoirs: a hot one that drives the engine, and a cooler one that allows for the transfer of heat, so work can be done. And as as we have already established, the efficiency of all engines depends most critically on the difference in the temperature of these two reservoirs. All these factors contribute and define the lop-sided nature of power. What we have termed, rather more elegantly, as the Asymmetry of Power.
Lastly, we realize that this asymmetrical dynamic to all power and indeed work in the visible realm of the universe points to a "supernatural" origin for the Cosmos - and the universe as a whole. For, when we follow the arrow of time all the way to the initial conditions, it leads us not to a materialistic or naturalistic "origin story," but to a ZERO ENTROPY ORIGIN STORY. That is highly significant, for it tells us at once that whatever is responsible for the existence of the initial conditions and thus the Cosmos is not baryonic in nature. That means, it is not electromagnetically repulsive, i.e., solid. That in turn means it is not visible, since it doesn't interact electromagnetically (it doesn't interact with light). It also means it doesn't work through heat, and thus entropy. Taken together, the last two factors mean it doesn't decay: there is no wear and tear, since there is no entropy. Put another way: even without any other evidence, the one way arrow of time leading us to initial conditions that are entropy free in three important ways (as we discussed in detail on the section with Paul Steinhardt), tells us that the initial conditions were put in place by the existence of a supernatural entity that is invisible, eternal, and non-physical! Under such circumstances, our next job would have been to look for such a substance. As it happened, quite independently of each other, as data was being gathered about the initial conditions from the Mighty CMB/MUMBR, slowly, but surely discoveries were being made - starting with the great Vera Rubin - of just such a substance! Initially it was called Dark Matter, but for reasons, we have expounded on in detail - it's proper name is Invisible Zint! From Invisible Zint we connected the dots until we realized Invizible Zint represents, not just an entity, but a whole realm of existence - the second realm of the UNIVERSE!
Regulating Statutes
Thus by the exercise of reason we come to percieve that the "system of things were put in order by God's word, so that what is seen has come into existence from things that are not visible." (Heb 11:3) Part of that "word" from God was the establishment of statutes by which the Cosmos would be regulated and run. The purpose of such laws is to provide all the necessities of the living organisms on Earth. For all such living organisms have a user interface that requires external energy resources to function properly. Such external resources include: food, beverages, and mates for sexual reproduction - or mating. This can be seen through a scripture that makes it clear that that was God's reasoning behind putting in place the statutes of the Cosmos that regulate seasons and days and years:
All eyes look hopefully to you; you give them their food in its season. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thingPs 145:15,16
All eyes look to Jehovah to provide the different needs of their user interfaces. How does He provide for them and satisfy all their needs? NOT by personally supplying them with food and other necessities food bank style. But, rather, by establishing the laws of seasons that will automatically produce their food for them "in its season." It is these automated, ubiquitous, eternal, and unchanging laws that Jehovah has lovingly decreed, that we call Physics. (Mt 5:45; Ac 14:17; Ps 147:8,9; Jer 5:24; 31:35,36 Job 38:1-5,25-28,36-41) That definition not only inludes the discovered body of knowledge that outlines and catalogues the laws themselves - but also, the fact that there are laws!
Spirics
Force
In the spiritual realm of the universe, force is always applied from inside. Moreover, such force is always internal to the engine that is going to use it. This causes 100% efficiency. Additionally, in the spirit realm of the universe, there is no heat, for no Invisible Zint is electromagnetic. Thus there is no thermodynamic processes in the spirit realm. With the absence of thermodynamic processes there is also an absence of entropy! This is a maajor difference between the two realms and allows for Inzintian entities to be perpetual motion machines.
Definition of Entities
The major difference between physical and spiritual objects is mass. While Inzintian objects take up space, they are massless. We know that from the zero momentm dynamics of Jehovah's Chariot.
Definition of Energy
In the Cosmos, Threr are many forms of usable energy, such as electricity, hydro power that can turn a wheel, thermal energy, wind energy and many others. However in the invisible realm, as we have noted, there are no systems that happen own their own - as in the water cycle on Earth. When things need to be done they are always done through living beings, be they the angels, Christ, or Jehovah himself. Thus in Heaven, the only source of power mentioned in the Bible in getting things done is the personal force of spirit creatures. Jehovah uses his Holy Spirit to accomplish his will, if He must take action himself. Angels use their vital energy, both on Inzintian objects (like the wheels in Ezekiel and the flaming sword in the Genesis account); and on physical objects (like the gate in the example of Peter being freed). The personal spirit of living beings is the Inzintian definition of energy. That is why they are locked in to their created roles. A seraph can only ever have a seraph's strength, and a cherub can only ever have a cherub's strength.
Dynamics of Motion
Since, Inzintian objects are massless they can move in momentum free manner. This is what the wonderful account of Jehovah's Chariot tells us. This kind of movement is characterized by 90 degree turns while moving at speed. On Earth such movements are impossible without the object first coming to a complete stop before changing direction.
Perpetual Motion
There are two reasons perpetual motion is impossible on Earth: external energy sources; and not all the heat can be used for work - some will always have to go to waste. That is why every machine has two heat reservoirs. Both these dynamics are absent in the spiritual realm. Power is interal, and since work is done under heat free conditions, a 100% of the energy can be turned into work. Inzintian process are thus 100% efficient. This is how the initial conditions for the Cosmos, were at zero entropy at the advent of the Mighty MUMBR. The simple conclusion is that since work in the spiritual is 100 efficient, the Inzintian realm - and every object and being in it - are perpetual motion machines!
The Asymmetry of Power
Because both the factors which make power asymmetrical in the Cosmos, namely, external energy sources and the external application of motive forces, are inverted in the spirit realm the asymmetry of power - a universally applicable principle - is manifested differently in the spirit realm. The fact that these variables are inverted in the invisible realm does not mean that power is not asymmetrical in Heaven. If that were true, then Heaven could not be described as Jehovah's throne - as it so often is in the Bible! At its most fundamental level asymmetry of power means "who is in CHARGE?" Since, Jehovah is in charge, then Heaven too has asymmetry of power. How then is it manifested? In Heaven the asymmetry of power is realized through the worship Jehovah recieves from every living person in Heaven! For they are all surbodinate to Him! He alone is God Almighty. The Supreme One!
If both realms are subject to the principle of the asymmetry of power, is there a deeper purpose, a more fundamental reason for the difference in how the asymmetry is manifested? Yes. There is. For the type of asymmetry in use, signals the fundamental principles at work - whether natural or supernatural. Let me put that another way. The asymmetry of Physics, the laws of motion, inertia, momentum and so on have to do with naturalisitc or materialistic explanations. On the other hand the asymmetry of Spirics relates only to supernatural causes. That means if we trace the story of "nature" back to its starting point, we can determine WHY there is something, instead of nothing. We can discover the "origin story" - as Brian Keating put it - of the universe! The initial conditions of the universe then, are an unforgeable signature of whatever caused the universe to exist. The Evidence Profile of that signature, the zero entropy nature of the initial conditions of that signature ... identify the cause to be a SUPERNATURAL MIND! Why mind? To jog your memory, as Keating attested to earlier: if the explanation is not a naturalistic process (governed for instance by the laws of thermodynamics), or a materialistic cause defined by the composition of matter, then it can only be due to a MIND! The steps - from physicists who don't believe in God - leading to this unavoidable conclusion are important enough for us to briefly review them. We will do so through three of their quotes. Two from Keating and one from Robert Jastrow: The asymmetrical nature of power and work always leads to a supernatural orign story of the universe!
The universe has certain properties that are unexplained if not imposed by fiat, and cosmologists hate fiat. It's another word for God ... by insertion of external conditions that then determine the initial conditions of our universe. We'd like to do away with that. Especially for many cosmologists who don't believe in some supernatural designer.... And, we'd like to find a naturalistic, or materialistic origin story of the universe" Brian Keating
"Imposed by fiat" refers to a mind. The greatest mind imaginable: the mind of God. Keating's alternate solution is to find answers through "naturalistic, or materialistic" means. But what does Brian mean when he says: "... We'd like to find a naturalistic, or materialstic origin story of the universe?" His next quote makes things a little clearer:
So, in other words: the fine-tuning of the initial curvature of the universe ... is almost exponentially challenging to explain - unless you put it in by hand! Which, we don't like to do. We like to have a physics explanation. ... We don't necessarily like to impose the imposition of a mind at work" Brian Keating
A naturalistic, or materialistic explanation is summarised by the term "physics!" For that is what physics is. The body of knowledge that defines the elements of nature and tells us the rules by which they operate: move, change and behave. Once again such physical explanations are pitted against the "imposition of a mind at work!" IT CAN EVER ONLY BE, ONE - OR THE OTHER. NEVER BOTH, OR NEITHER. Lastly,
I am an agnostic ... and a creator is not compatible with agnosticism… I’m what’s called a materialist in philosophy ... it means that I believe the world consists entirely of material substances and when you specify those substances - the atoms and molecules - and the laws by which they interact, you’ve done it all. There isn’t anything more to be said or inserted into your model of the universe. That’s what my science tells me ... but I find it unsatisfactory. In fact, it makes me uneasy, I feel I’m missing something" Robert Jastrow
Here, Jastrow explains the allure of Physics for atheists and agnostics. For them it holds the promise of being able to explain everything through NATURE - without the need for admitting that the fine tuning of the universe is the result of a MIND. Unfortunately for such people, as Jastrow himself admits: they are "missing something." Of course, what they are missing from their calculations is the evidence, for the zero entropy Evidence Profile of the initial conditions shows that neither nature, nor materials could be responsible - leaving us with the only remaining option. The universe is the product of a mind. Therefore, contrary to their expectations of what physics would prove - it has done the opposite! It is physics - by defining its own limits - that tells us that the cause of the initial conditions was a mind! Put another way it is "nature" that establishes the veracity of "supernature." Physics is nature. Spirics is supuernature. Isn't science wonderful! That little review to jog our memories of what the only possible causes are, for the existence of the universe, is critical to remind us why a supernatural mind is the only correct answer, if "physics" i.e., elements and how they behave, are proven to not be the cause of the "initial conditions." As the zero entropy of the initial conditions proves.
Thus, it is by exercising REASON that we come to understand that the "system of things were put in order by God's word, so that what is seen has come into existence from things that ar not visible" - not blind faith. (Heb 11:3) It is that same word of God that holds absolute sway in the Heavens. It is the first and last word. Hence Heaven is the Throne of God. (Isa 66:1) While the visible Cosmos are regulated and run by statutes, Heaven is run by Jehovah's spirit with an absence of statutes and laws. This is what we call Spirics. That definition not only includes the reavealed body of knowledge that outlines and catalogues how the Heavenly realm operates - but also, the fact that Heaven is free of user interfaces and the laws that are put in place to regulate the provisions that support user interfaces! Jehovah made sure that ther was one realm that was founded on the freeness defined by his Spirit, because that is where He is resident. Do you get the point? There must be a separation between where Jehovah is and where user interfaces are. For Jehovah does not change! (Mal 3:6) Jehovah would not constrain himself, making himself less than he was, to create man! But pleasures are dependent on user interfaces. And user interfaces are in turn dependent on functioning statutes:
'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” declares Jehovah. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughtsIsa 55:8,9
While the above scripture also applies to sin versus perfection; it's first and most important application is to Spirics and Physics. This scripture applied in the Garden of Eden when Adam was still perfect. This scripture applied to JESUS, which is why he never did anything of his own initiative. That is what it means to be spiritual. Which is the real motivation behind looking for a materialist, in the mold of Jastrow - an attempt to escape from accountability to our Creator. Sad. What solution though, for our pressing problem? If God engineered creation to be free - like his Spirit - it would mean we would all be angels. The consequence: there would be no pleasures in the universe! If Jehovah created pleasures, but no statutes, the only way to support physical user interfaces would be for God to micromanage the human experience to the last, finest detail - robbing humans of autnomomy. Autonomy is different to free will. (Look it up.) In such a world: for the Sun to shine, Jehovah would have to turn the planet on its axis, for there would be no system to turn it automatically. There would be no agriculture, for Jehovah would have to grow our food for us. Every carrot, or potatoe we ate, would have to be produced by Jehovah himself - as if in a factory. To put it another way: after working for six creative days, he could not have RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY! In such a world there would be no sense of human accomplishment, or expertise, because instead of mastering the laws of nature to our own benefit, there would be no natural systems to learn, master and control. That mastery and control is what God was giving Adam when ...
Further, God blessed them, and God said to them: 'Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth.'Ge 1:28
People mistakenly focus only on God's granting Man the right to rule over animals, but overlook the more important permission to rule over the Earth! This scripture makes the point clearly: At the point God blessed mankind Adam - and later Adam and Woman - already had the all Earthly creatures in "subjection" to them. However they had not yet subdued the Earth - just like they had not yet filled the Earth. That was their assignment! Part of subdueing the Earth was conquering the laws of Physics. This is what the Bible means to convey when it says that:
As for the heavens, they belong to Jehovah, but the earth he has given to the sons of menPs 115:16
Earlier, we read a scripture about the whole world lying in the power of the wicked one - Satan. (1Jo 5:19) From whom did Satan take this power from? From God? No, that is impossible. He took it from Adam. Satan took from Adam, what Jehovah had kindly given him - rulershiup over the Earth! God is still the universal King and his Kingship continues for generation after generation - as the Bible repeatedly attests. (Da 4:1-3) This is a lesson Nebuchadnezzar learnt the hard way. If Jehovah were NOT continually King - Heaven could not be called Jehovah's Throne! And Matthew 6:10 would not make sense. Satan stole the universe's DEPUTY rulership; not its ABSOLUTE One - he stole the rulership of the Earth. He stole Adam's Kingship not Jehovah's. This point is made clear by contrasting two scriptures:
Then the Devil said to him: 'I will give you all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wishLu 4:6
Who handed the Kingship of the world over to Satan? Consider the next scripture:
Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast outJoh 12:31
That is the rulership over the Earth. The rulership over the Heavens has always remained intact as per Psalms 115. The same being who authorised Satan to rule is the One who will rule against him, when taking the Kingship away from him: "For there is no authority except by God...." (Ro 13:1,2; Eph 6:11,12; Lu 4:6 versus Da 7:22)
This is WHY Jesus Christ came to Earth: to be King instead of Adam - and Satan:
So Pilate said to him: 'Well, then, are you a king?' Jesus answered: 'You yourself are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is on the side of the truth listens to my voice.'Joh 18:37
The "truth" is that the Kingdom of the World BELONGS TO A MAN CHOSEN BY JEHOVAH, for the Earth, God "has given to the sons of men." Angels are not men; nor do they have sons. Satan doesn't qualify an all counts! (Never mind being Dr Evil. For thrones were designed to be established on righteousness - Pr 16:12.) Thus to be the Messianic King, Christ had to come to the Earth and be born as a man! God's Son - though he existed before Adam - is a man! I am not making this up. It's in the Bible:
The first man is from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven1Co 15:47
Do you get the sense of what we are discussing? It would be horrible to understand the words, but not grasp the meaning behind them. The deputy kingship is due to the existence of statutes! If Jehovah had not created the physical realm - the Cosmos - there would have been nothing for Satan to try and steal. Jehovah's Kingship is not based on authority - but POWER! He is the owner of "pure energy" you will recall. But Earthly dominion is about enjoying pleasures forever! However physical structures need OUTSIDE energy sources to function in the first place, which requires a transfer of energy! This transfer of energy means not only are they not self sufficient, but a life of pleasures, by definition, can never be a perpetual motion machine. For the transfer of energy is always, but always, accompanied by entropy: which means irreversibility; which in turn means wear-and-tear; which means limited life span. That, of course, means the existence of pleasure would not be everlasting - defeating the whole purpose of the exercise as brought out in Isaiah 45:18: for the Earth to be inhabited. To achieve the sweet spot for humans required the cleverest and most ingenious engineering solution imaginable. It comes in TWO PARTS: the first is an operating software to automate physical processes so humanity can do two things at once: experience pleasures; and experience pleasures without effort! That's why all the funcitons of the Earth carry on without need of human attention. When Adam was created he didn't even know how to farm, he ate fruits, which didn't require his input to grow. God planted the garden! For the planet, a complex system, to run efficiently in supporting our user interface and the interface of all animal and plant life there had to be tight integration between the software and the hardware - humans, animals, plant life, ecosystems, weather patterns, tectonic plate movements etc. In fact the hardware had to be built from the ground up to be in sync with the operating software, to create the best user experience. In very much the same way people spend more for Apple products because the tight integration between hardware and software heightens the user experience. Jehovah has named the operating system of the Cosmos - "Statutes":
Have you come to know the statutes of the heavens, or could you put its authority in the earth?Job 38:33
Plainly, we can tell from that scripture, that although the "statutes of the heavens" are also imposed on the Earth, since they are of the heavens, the physical heavens are the best place to study them. And - historically - so the best scientists have found:
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens" Galileo Galilei
It is that operating system of "statutes" that humans call Physics! Physics is God's way of ensuring that humans enjoy two things: pleasure; and effortless existence. (Mt 5:45; Ac 14:17; Ps 145:16) These provisions come from Jehovah, not the WEF. BUT, that's only the first part of the engineering solution. God's intention in creating humans was not to create an apex physical creature. It was to create man in "his likeness." Part of being in his likeness is being intellegint creatures, unlike the "unreasoning animals." (2 Pe 2:12a) Another aspect of being created in the likeness of God is that we are supposed to live forever. (Ec 3:11a) Thus, humans are unique in all God's creations: we have physical, visible, baryonic hardware, like animals - so we can enjoy pleasure; but we are reasoning and meant to live forever like intelligent creation - the angels. Thus we exist in a sweet spot with a species count of one! The Bible refers to these Sweet Spot benefits by various names which we can summarize as "living forever on a paradise Earth!":
Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; you will look at where they were, and they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, and they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. ... The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it. ... Hope in Jehovah and follow his way, and he will exalt you to take possession of the earth. When the wicked are done away with, you will see itPs 37:10,11,29,34
I am sure you can connect the dots for yourself. "Living forever on a paradise Earth" is shorthand for "living forever in pleasure." For the name of the original paradise home of eternal mankind was called the Garden of Eden - or the Garden of Pleasure! Thus paradise is shorthand for "HOME OF ETERNAL PLEASURE."
What it MEANS to be Human: We are NOT Animals
But what should be of even greater interest to you is that the purpose of "statutes" is directed to the Earth - not mankind! Why is that significant? Because it means mankind wasn't created to be shackled. When people think of God, they think of restrictions. To be direct, that's because they know neither Jehovah's personality, nor the Bible. As of right now, we realize there are two types of authority over the Earth: the authority God gave to "the sons of men"; and the authority of the heavens that has been imposed for the proper functionining of the planet and Cosmos. Which is greater?
You should know the answer from scriptures like Ge 1:28 where God commanded Man to "subdue" the Earth. The purpose of physics is to create and regulate the physical parts of the sweet spot, not mankind. Man is not physical. Animals and demons are physical. (Ja 3:15) What do I mean by "physical parts" of the sweet spot? Remember that the Sweet Spot is a merging of two things: pleasures + living forever. BUT THERE IS NO PHYSICAL PROCESS WHICH CAN GRANT EVERLASTING LIFE! That would be a physical perpetual motion machine! A subplot of the whole blog is understanding the science behind the impossibility of such an entity. HOW then, can mankind live forever? Because we were created as spiritual - not spirit - but spiritual beings! Though possessing physical bodies, unlike animals, humans were created in the "image of God" - "according to [His] likeness!" (Ge 1:26,27; Jas 3:8,9) Of course Adam failed dismally at living up to this. He had one job. One! Job! But....
Adam chose to be non-spiritual and thus came under control of Physics - instead of the other way around. Think of the accounts in the Bible of when Christ was on Earth, and the many ways he showed supremacy over the elements. (Mr 4:39-41) In the end Adam died - because all physical creatures DIE! Otherwise they would be physical perpetual motion machines:
And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ ... In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”Ge 3:17,19
That's why he also had to be thrown out of Pleasure, because of access to the tree of life. God's guarantee of everlasting life. Now that he had directly contradicted God and become fleshly, he could no longer have access to this provision. As we have said, there is no physical entity that can produce the effects of a perpetual motion machine. Thus, the tree of life represented an assurance from God, not a physical means to achieve immortality. There is no physical means to achieve immortality, or its sister state everlasting life. There is a difference. Obedience to Jehovah is the definition of spirituality. Not listening to him is the definition of a lack of spirituality - or being a physical man. Adam was created perfect - as a spiritual man - but he chose to become a physical man. Thus he had to die! It's that simple. Because the everlasting part of the Sweet Spot comes from spirituality. The physical portion is useless in that regard:
It is the spirit that is life-giving; the flesh is of no use at all. The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit and are lifeJoh 6:63
And ...
Because the one sowing with a view to his flesh will reap corruption from his flesh, but the one sowing with a view to the spirit will reap everlasting life from the spiritGa 6:8
The Sweet Spot means putting the two TOGETEHR! The only way for humans to live forever is for them to obey God:
But he answered: "It is written: 'Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every word that comes from Jehovah's mouth.'"Mt 4:4
Let's test our understanding. Is there such a thing as the "fountain of youth?" The next paragraph will give the answer.
Defining the SWEET SPOT
It is those men, who live according to Matthew 4:4 that will be able to attain to Psalms 37 and live forever, at God's appointed time. (Joh 5:28,29; Ps 37:10,11) We know that mankind has taken a horrible 6 000 year detour through hell due to Adam's choice. But Christ was sent to boomerang us back to God, and fulfill the original purpose of God - to subject the Earth to mankind, not for mankind to be a subject of the Earth. The Sweet Spot is a combination of two things: pleasures + living forever. The Sweet Spot is available only to humans! Not animals. Not angels. Animals have a lessened sense of Earthly pleasures. They eat, but there are no foodies in the animal kingdom. Angels live forever, but they don't experience sensory pleasures. Those who tried, had to forsake their proper dwelling place, to do so - with stiff penalties! (Jude 6; 2Pe 2:4; Mt 8:29; Ja 2:19) As to the question posed in the last paragraph, the answer is yes: there is such a thing as the fountain of youth, it is the knowledge of God and Christ as published in the Holy Bible - and only in the Bible! Like us, the Bible is a physical manifestation of a spiritual entity. (Ge 1:26-28; Joh 6:63; Heb 4:12) The Bible is a sweet spot! If you found the fountain of youth, would you drink from it? Since you have now found it, will you humble yourself to drink from it? You are currently not in the Sweet Spot, because it is reserved for you to die. (Heb 9:27) But you now have a roadmanp to how to enter the Sweet Spot of everlasting pleasures. Is your pride about your strongly held beliefs greater than the humility it would take for you to recognize and more importantly accept the life saving truths found in the Bible? Only you know that answer - and it is not transferrable! (Eze 18:20b vs Pr 9:12 = Ga 6:7) ONLY HUMANS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THE SWEET SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE: BY JEHOVAH'S DECREE! AMONG INTELLIGENT BEINGS - ANGELS & HUMANS - ONLY HUMANS CAN RIGHTFULLY EXPERIENCE SENSORY PLEASURES. AMONG PHYSICAL CREATURES - ANIMALS & HUMANS - ONLY HUMANS CAN LIVE FOREVER! = THE SWEET SPOT!
The Opposer ROBS Mankind
The Sweet Spot, then, is just the scientific name for what the Bible calls "everlasting life.":
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up, so that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life. 'For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting lifeJoh 3:15,16
Right now, mankind exists OUTSIDE of the Sweet Spot - I am sure you will agree. You will note that this new provision from God to get us back into the Sweet Spot came at great cost. The Christ - the "Son of man" - had to be "lifted up." That meant die a horrible death on a torture stake! (Joh 8:28; Ga 3:13) God is working tirelessly to give us back his two original gifts: pleasure + everlasting life! Right now we have neither! (Job 14:1; Ps 90:10) When Adam was in the Garden of Pleasure he had the best of both worlds: He was the Ruler of the Earth (the only time the saying: "The Emperor has no clothes" was a positive statement); and had everlasting life. King of Pleasure + perpetual motion machine. The Sweet Spot. But, Adam didn't fully appreciate what the Sweet Spot was - and how to stay in it. Do you?
Mankind's authority is greater than the authority of the heavens for another reason: the heavens are themselves, part of the dominion of mankind!
And when you raise your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars - all the army of the heavens - do not get seduced and bow down to them and serve them. Jehovah your God has given them to all the peoples under the whole heavensDe 4:19
So which is it? Did God give mankind dominion over the Earth, or over the Cosmos? Jehovah has given the whole Cosmos to mankind, but the proof is technical, scientific. So I will only describe it when we get to the relevant point in our story. For now, merely put in the back of your mind the fact that mankind owns the whole Cosmos. Not the universe, but the Cosmos. The physical realm of the universe. Here's the scriptural proof:
For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come, about which we are speaking. But a certain witness has given proof somewhere, saying: 'What is man that you keep him in mind, or [the] son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than angels; with glory and honor you crowned him, and appointed him over the works of your hands. All things you subjected under his feet.' For in that he subjected all things to him [God] left nothing that is not subject to him. Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to himHeb 2:5-8
That is the crux of the matter. It is Jehovah who subjects the "inhabited Earth." That is, it is Jehovah who decides who rules it. And Jehovah has not given it to angels: good or bad - including Satan! His control of the Earth is just a futile blip in the history of the planet and Cosmos. Adam, allowed Devil to bully him out of what was rightfully his. That is why "we do not yet see all things in subjection to him." But Jehovah has made provisions for a second Adam. One who knows EXACTLY what the Sweet Spot is, appreciates how to stay in it, and can help all mankind who exercise reason in him to get there too. (Joh 3:16 8:29; 15:9,10) Faith is reason! (Heb 11:1-3):
So it is written: 'The first man Adam became a living person.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, what is spiritual is not first. What is physical is first, and afterward what is spiritual1Co 15:45,46
That's all good and well, but what guarantee is there that such everlasting life can come to people who exercise reason concerning the Christ? You will not find it surprising that more than 2 000 years after he was born - JESUS IS STILL ALIVE! That is why the Bible calls him the firstruits. (1Co 15:20-23) He is the first person to be resurrected to eternal life - and that's how God guarantees to all men that such a thing is possible!
True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the deadAc 17:30,31
So mankind was robbed, but Jehovah has lovingly organized a second Adam who will right all wrongs. The power Christ has to effect paradise on Earth is not because he had some secret knowledge about the invisible realm that Adam didn't have access to. It's not because he's lived for so much longer than Adam had. It's not because he knows how weak and measly Satan is, and he's not scared of him. All those things are true. But the reason Christ succeeded as the second Adam, where the first Adam failed is due to LOVE. Christ loves his Father! (Joh 14:31) Do you? Then you know whether you will fail, or succeed. In summary, we have discussed what it means to be human. We have defined the Sweet Spot. We have shown why it is only available to humans, and not animals or angels. We have discussed how Adam allowed himself to be robbed of the Rulership of the World. And we have shown that man's authority is greater than the authority of the heavenly statutes which God imposed upon the Earth. We will expand on this last point when we prove that God gave the whole Cosmos - the visible part of the universe - to mankind, not just the Earth. We have also discussed that if humans were created without a pleasure defining user-interface, we would have been like angels. And if we were not created in "God's image" we would have been like animals. Lacking spirituality, we would not have been able to live forever, for we would then be purely physical. And like all physical entities - subject to entropy. Recall that the only way to achieve zero entropy is through Inzintian dynamics. In a phrase - by being spiritual. But earlier, we said of the arrow of time and how it stopped at the initial conditions of the universe, that its stopping was evidence of where nature starts/stops (depending on direction) and another factor zero entropy supernature becomes responsible for what came before - setting up the initial conditions. Thus since zero entropy can be described by both terms: spirituality and supernatural, we understand that being spiritual is a superpower! That's why spirituality can ebable us to take hold of everlasting life - it's a supernatural superpower open only to humans. For no natural entity can be a perpetual motion machine.
That leads us to another realization: humble reasoning on the facts is a property of supernatural, i.e., spiritual beings. While being unreasonable and being led by our desires and emotions is an act of weak animal, demonic behaviour. (Compare Ro 12:1,2; Heb 11:1-3 vs Ja 3:15; 2Pe 2:12; and Jude 10) Contrary to Neil deGrasse Tyson's assertions recorded at the start of this blog, it is not believers in God who are without reason, it is believers in the God whom they know as Jehovah of Armies, that are the ones who use reason. For, as we have seen you cannot come to know God unless you exercise your mental faculties. (Tit 2:1,12) It is nonbelievers who are overwhemled by their quest for sensual pleasures and entrenched emotions that in the final analysis will be left clutching at straws. Jehovah is not a God of the "gaps" as deGrasse Tyson so arrogantly declared. And his followers aren't ignorant. Quite the contrary: To be able to live forever requires knowledge, the most intense and highest form or knowledge. (Joh 17:3) After accepting such knowledge, such humble ones then reason on it and then start exercising that reason by taking appropriate action. (Heb 11:1-3; Joh 3:16) This is a course everyone must actualize for themselves. Children are not covered by their parents. Husbands can't delegate it to their wives. Wives can't pretend their husbands integrity applies to them. Thus, when we began the deGrasse Tyson presented the matter as if it was long settled and secularists were the victors, but after engaging on the issue it becomes clear that those assertions were false (Pr 18:17):
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary" Galileo Galilei
In the final anaylysis, as you will soon see clearly, it is the false scientists - the Intellectuals, who prove to be retreaters to the "gaps"
In the past 40 years, criteria for beauty and simplicity have become mathamatical requirements. And they have worked badly! They led physicists to predict new symmetries which were not found! They predicted unified forces, which were not found! They predicted new particles, which were not found" Sabine Hossenfelder
Leading to "Intellectuals of the gap" behaviours. There is no dragon that is harder to kill than pride (Ps 59:12):
But then I was at this large conference and one speaker after the other repeated the same arguments. Arguments to believe in a particularly beautiful theory called supersymmetry. It was like a professional faith, really - and it freaked me out! I wanted nothing to do with that: and I began working on something else. That was fifteen years ago. I had assumed that this belief would go away if no evidence was found to support these ideas. But that hasn't happened! Instead, it has become accepted practice to amend theories that run into conflict with experiment. The result is that now, in the foundations of physics, most theories are pretty - but unfalsifiable. And no one sees anything wrong with it, because everyone does it. It's a failure of Science to self-correct. It's something that shouldn't happen. But, it's happening" Sabine Hossenfelder
Speaking of failures of Science. Did you see the recent Valuetainment podcast clip of our esteemed Mister deGrasse Tyson shouting angrily and condescendingly at hearing a very reasonable counter argument from the host Patrick Bet-David about Covid? DeGrasse Tyson had based his conclusions on concensus vs critical thought, and couldn't handle the discomfort of being caught in the act. After the interview, many started to ask, "If he got this wrong, what else has he gotten wrong in the past?" Bret Weinstein, noted: "People don't understand how a famous astrophysicist like Neil deGrasse Tyson could be so wrong about Covid 'vaccines' at this late date. As a Covid dissident it doesn't surprise me at all. I feel for the guy. Huge sums were clearly spent to keep people like @neiltyson in the dark." As it turns out, deGrasse Tyson's whole career is based on misunderstanding the fundamentals - as you will soon see.
A Complimentary Perspective
But, to see if we really understand the foregoing, let us approach the same subject from another point of view. Let us forget completely about the human factor and ask: "what is it about the Earth, that allowed Satan to take control here?" I think most people know intuitively that God is stronger than Satan. Only when I was a little boy was I anxious about who was stronger between the two. But that was before I came to appreciate who Jehovah is; what energy is; and how the visible universe came to be. Certainly by the time most people are reasoning children they can see that God who created the angels is stronger than all the angels he created! But that doesn't directly answer why the Earth provided the beautiful cherub God anointed as "the covering cherub" with a special opportunity to seize deputy rulership. What was he taking advantage of? We don't care about Adam, in this discussion. (In fact, we don't care about Adam in any discussion!) We are focused only on what variable allowed that cherub to turn into Devil the Satan.
That variable has to do, not with the user-interface, but with its operating software! Understanding why requires a clear grasp of the difference between the Inzintian realm and the Cosmos. What was it that enabled Jehovah to "rest" after creating the universe? It was for two reasons. One: Since, in the invisible realm there are no user-interfaces, there is no need to support the beings that live there. Two: On the inhabited Earth, where there were creatures with user-interfaces, Jehovah had put an operating system we call physics into effect that regulated the provisions that would support all user-interfaces - human and animal alike. Put another way, in Heaven, everything functions according to Jehovah's word. In the Cosmos an independent self-regulating system was now operational - operating software, for the user-interface hardware! It was THAT independent, self-sustaining, self-regulating system that represented a secondary dominion in the universe. Suddenly, the chosen cherub saw an opportunity that had not existed before: an autonomous dominion that was not under the direct stewardship of Jehovah - as Heaven is! It was because the operating software automated the sustainability of a whole realm, that Satan thought he could hack the code and takeover. Especially as the authenticating encryption key had been given to a human couple, whom this special cherub thought he could outsmart. True to his calculations, that cherub got the better of Woman, who got the better of Adam. Also, just as the cherub had calculated, Jehovah did not end physics, when Adam listened to his wife over Jehovah. The Sun still shines, powering our planet, and the rain still makes food grow:
You heard that it was said: 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' However, I say to you: Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you, so that you may prove yourselves sons of your Father who is in the heavens, since he makes his sun rise on both the wicked and the good and makes it rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Are not also the tax collectors doing the same thing? And if you greet your brothers only, what extraordinary thing are you doing? Are not also the people of the nations doing the same thing? You must accordingly be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfectMt 5:43-48
And ...
In past generations he permitted all the nations to go on in their ways, although he did not leave himself without witness in that he did good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and filling your hearts with gladnessAc 14:16,17
There is software in Heaven also - but it is not automated. Spirics runs on Jehovah's every command. And when Jehovah is not giving commands, everything stays as it is, for there is no user interface to support. The only reason for automating the operating software is so it can continually support user-interfaces without Jehovah's active support, for Jehovah "rested" from his works on the seventh day! In Heaven the situation is completely different. There, no one needs user-interface support, for they are all perpetual motion machines. That means there is no work for Jehovah to do is supporting their live. Thus there is nothing to automate. Physics - the automated operating software - is a support system for pleasure, the user-interface. The only time things need to move in Heaven, is when Jehovah wants them to move to effect some particular want he has at that specific moment. Like bending the Heavens when He wants to come to Earth. Or directing his chariot when he is traveling to some intended destination. It is because Spirics doesn't have the layer of automating user-interface sustainability, that it is unhackable!
However, you can't hack the software directly. Satan hasn't changed the rules of Physics or anything like that! The point is that the operating software represents an autonomous, self-sustaining system. That is what Jehovah gave to Adam: dominion over an autonomous self-sustaining system. This dominion is not an emergent quality. It was deliberately engineered by Jehovah to honour his most loved baryonic Creation - mankind! The Earth has a raw natural beauty. But it can be improved into a landscaped beauty. This is what God accomplished when he planted the Garden of Eden. This beautifying of the Earth is part of what God calls "Subdueing it." He gave Adam a finished example in the Garden of Pleasure and taught him how to "cultivate it." (Ge 2:15) Adam, through God's commission was responsible for two things: to fill the Earth, and to subdue it. Instead of giving him this assingment as a worker. God lovingly gave it to him as the ultimate owner of the Garden, the Earth and the Cosmos as a whole. (Ps 115:16) Like a Father giving one of his children an inheritance. The proof for the last claim is forthcoming. (Patience. By the way: Adam's ownership of the Cosmos is nested inside Christ's ownership of everything! Both are loving gifts from a doting Father - Col 1:16: Mr 1:11; Joh 3:16) This was done to elevate and honour Man within Jehovah's universal family, for both humans and angels are sons of God. (Job 38:7; Lu 3:38):
What is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and a son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than godlike ones, and you crowned him with glory and splendor. You gave him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put everything under his feetPs 8:4-6
It was also done to shield mankind from any wrong behaviour by the angels, for the angels have always known the difference between good and bad. (Ge 3:22,5) The Earth wasn't public property. It wasn't a place that the angels could use as an exotic plaground. It belonged to someone - the "sons of men!" This is why when angels did eventually do exactly that (an opportunity opened by mankind's fall), Holy Spirit describes it as them "forsaking" their own proper dwelling place. An equivalent term is "tresspassing" on someone else's own proper dwelling place. They used their superior strength and "godlike" status, to break the principle that fulfils the Mosaic Law. (Ro 13:8-10)
All this, is to show the incredible wisdom of Jehovah in designing the universe as he did. Pleasure comes from user interfaces. User interfaces need support systems. Is is from the combination of the support systems and the statutes that regulate them that user interfaces derive their pleasure. Foodies are foodies, because of gastronomy! As a simple example. Jehovah created this realm to house a race of creatures whose existence would be saturated with pleasure! Jehovah's aim was always to "live" with such Creatures as their Heavenly Father. This theme runs throughout the whole Bible, from His regular visits to Adam and then to Adam and Woman in the Garden of Pleasure, to his "tabernacling" with the Israelites, to his promise to come and abide with mankind in His promised new world - where he will make "all things new." (Ge 2:19; 3:8,9; Ps 9:11; Isa 12:6; Re 21:3,5) But a natural constraint arises from this wonderful plan: creatures with user interfaces don't live forever, for the very reason that allows them to experience pleasure...!!
On the other hand Jeohvah would not dumb himself and his home down to accodomate such a race! Doing that would mean one of two things - or both: making himself not immortal, which is impossible for God cannot die, he is the "King of Eternity" for he has life "in himself!" (1 Ti 1:17; Ps 90:2; Joh 5:26) Secondly, by not having Holy Spirit within himself. Again another impossibility, for immediately that would mean God who sustains all things - the Owner of "pure energy" - would no longer be a perpetual motion entity! I can't even fathom the thought. See, the very thing that limits physical existence is the source of its pleasure. You cannot separate the two. It is the transferrence of energy that defines pleasure. That's why you can't tickle yourself! You need to be tickled by an outside force. And to be pleasurable, something must be limited. Hence terms like "satisfied" or "satiated," which means full, to describe having enjoyed something. No. Such impossiblities to his "divine nature" were never solutions, for Jehovah "[DOES] NOT CHANGE!" (2Pe 1:4; Mal 3:6) Moreover, Jehovah's vastly expanded universe would require an army of Inzintian "public servants." For them to reside with Him in his Home - in Heaven - they would have to similarly be Inzintian, that is possess the two traits of internal energy systems; and everlasting life. What solution would Jehovah come up with to have both of these wants of his, in the same universe?
Separate the two realities into two REALMS: the Spiritual and the Physical. Heaven and the Cosmos. With each realm having its own operating software: Spirics for Heaven and Physics for the Cosmos. ISN'T SCIENCE WONDERFUL! ISN'T JEHOVAH - THE FATHER OF SCIENCE - WONDERFUL! Who will really not praise Jehovah for all his mighty acts? Jehovah is beyond all human thinking, but not beyond our praise, awe, reverence and - worship! Here, we have answered more than just how things work - but why they are so! We have explained the holy grail Einstein searched for.... All. His. Life:
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details" Albert Einstein
Physics is details. Spirics are God's thoughts. For physics is nested in spirics, in the same way the natural is nested inside supernatural realities. As long as scientists are limited by materialism, in the vein of Robert Jastrow, they will always be limited to only knowing this or that detail about reality. They will never grasp the full picture. Indeed by their own admission, they claim to now know about only 5% of the universe. By that, they are referring to the visible realm. For them, dark matter is a mystery. And one they don't want to solve, for they have inklings of what it is ... and those inklings terrify them. We only graduate to knowing God's thoughts, once we accept the Evidence Profiles nature supplies us with. It is Physics that leads us to Spirics. Why is "follow the Science" only practiced when the Science seems to be agreeing with one's preconceived notions? Einstein wanted to know the real story, he wanted to have the full picture. He understood that there were many who knew this or that fact, or thousands of these and those facts, but that that was all to no avail. It was a futile collection of more or less random - unless you could understand them through the filter of God's thoughts! That's the goal! And that goal is only realized when we understand the first and most important realm in the universe - the MIGHTY HEAVENS! And what takes us there? Reason! The end product of reason is ... faith!
Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen. For by means of it, the men of ancient times had witness borne to them. By faith we perceive that the systems of things were put in order by God’s word, so that what is seen has come into existence from things that are not visibleHeb 11:1-3
Jehovah had determined from the beginning, that he would create a two-tier universe. That is why the beginning of the Creative account starts with: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Ge 1:1) The most important part of that statement is in the beginning. It gives us clear evidence that when Jehovah engineers, it is different from humans who engineer solutions as a way to overcome problems. For humans "Necessity is the mother of invention." For Jehovah "Love is the Father of creation." (Re 4:11; 1Jo 4:8; Ja 1:17) The differences between those two innocent looking statements is as vast as the universe itself. Earlier we quoted Isaiah 55:8 and 9. Nothing shows the truth behind those words than the fact that Jehovah's creation was fine tuned for an "inhabited" Earth FROM THE BEGINNING. Jehovah creating is not Apple releasing software, where there is a beta version with a limited release, that gives the engineers some space to fix bugs. No. Jehovah's creations are perfect from inception! We know that because his greatest creation was his very first: the Archangel who would popularly be known as - Jesus Christ.
As we said, the superiority of Jehovah's thoughts is plainly evident in how he desgined the universe to be a two tier home of stratified realms. For if the universe only had one realm it would have presented an unsolvable problem: How will mankind, who like the animals, has been created to experience pleasure - live forever? For unlike animals, humans are God's children. Jehovah always does things with the end in mind, for that is a fundamental definition of wisdom. (De 32:29) Thus the reason the universe has two realms is so humans could enjoy an everlasting Sweet Spot. For, what everlasting Father creates children who will die? That is what Jesus meant when he told the Sadducees that: Jehovah "Is the God, not of the dead, but of the living." (Mt 22:23,29-33) Jehovah rests his Godship, which we know is absolute and eternal, on the human race living forever. In other words if the righteous will not live forever, Jehovah is not God! That's how important humans living forever in pleasure is to Jehovah! If you understand that then you realize that the life humans now lead - that ends in death - is a temporary detour in th history of the human race. As for the answer as to how we as God's children can live forever, it is hiding in plain sight in the question, itself. By creating us in his "image" and "according to his likeness" Jehovah ensured that, even though, we were pleasure experiencing beings, we were not defined by pleasure, but by spirituality, and could in that way - live forever! He did this by imbuing all mankind with a keen desire for, and need of, spirituality! That is why all ancient people's had some sort of religion. All ancient cultures - without exception. Similarly today, all people have a religion. Those who claim to be agnostics or atheists, are either worshipping Scientism, or some portion of themselves: for some, like Intellectuals, it's their belly's; for others, like serial killers, it's their egos, or minds. (Php 3:19) Get off your high horse. You are delusional. There is nothing new under the Sun. You, like all mankind, worship in one form or another. (Ec 1:9,10)
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE Realities
Statutes for ensuring pleasure; Spirituality for ensuring everlasting life. If you understand that, then you appreciete that there is no overlap between the two! More than that, under perfect conditions, where the one is, the other is not. Where the one applies the other does not! (That's what "mutually exclusive" means.) Perfect humans are not subject to statutes, for they are not physical but spiritual - even though they are made of "dust." Adam and Woman walked around naked - and they felt no shame or embarrasment. They were perfect - and free. (Ge 2:25) This is because: "Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom!" (2Co 3:17) As such, the statutes of the Cosmos were not created to control mankind - they are not aimed at humans! Nor are they directly for the user-interface. They are for the backround systems, the seamless operating software that supports user interfaces. A happy child playing in the park can enjoy themselves all day long and then come in for their favourite meal at supper - all without knowing Physics. Birds, no nothing about aviation. The benefit of knowing the statues of the heavens is to understand the details of the universe we are a part of. And to create technology. For, "technology" is just another name for "applied sciences." Statutes, have nothing to do with spirituality - and a spiritual person does not need statutes! He has love. Love is the "fulfillment" of the law. (Ro 13:8-10) Hence, a person who has love is free from the authority of the law - and its penalties. (Ro 13:3,4) Moreover, the effect of love is not constraint, but freedom. (1Jo 4:18) Many people think love is chemically based, like the effect of eating chocolate - and thus a product of the physical realm of the universe. However, as Jehovah's Word clearly explains in Galatians, love is the product of the Holy Spirit. (Ga 5:22,23) Thus, love is a form of spirics. LOVE: is spiritual! (1Jo 4:8; 2Co 3:17)
These definitions apply to everything that inhabits a universe that is stratified across two concentric realms, that are themselves spread across three nested heavens. Two of the heavens are baryonic and form all the galaxies of the Cosmos - all visible matter. The third in number, is the first in appearance and import. It is the magnificent home and throne, of the Ruler of the Universe as a whole - Jehovah, the Supreme One. The third heavens are a realm unto themselves. Both Physics and Spirics dictate how things behave, in the technical, scientific sense of the word. Physics is based on statutes, and is blind to love. God loves you, but if you ignore the laws of physics and jump out of a window: you will crash. Hard! Spirics is based on love - and knows nothing of statutes. The distinguishing variable between these two operating software is defined by the presence or absence of a user interface. For it is the automating of the support system of the user interface that necessitates "statutes," and makes one realm function differently from the other! Both Physics and Spirics fall under the label "Science." Put another way, both the natural and the supernatural can be explained scientifically. When we study Physics, we learn the details of one, or other phenomenon. How the spectrum of one element differs from another, as Einstein put it. When we learn about Spirics, we are gleaning details, but these details are actually fundamental. They teach us about God's thoughts and personality as evidenced in creation. This is intentional. Jehovah created the science to include such details:
Because what may be known about God is clearly evident among them, for God made it clear to them. For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusableRo 1:19,20
When we understand the Divine One through his thoughts, it allows us to answer not just ... what, where and when - but why and how. That is the holy grail of all knowledge. The intersection where Science meets the Bible - and the two harmonize. For God's thoughts are The Greatest Story Ever Told.
In this section we have only been discussing Day 4 of creation. This was a big day, you will agree, for much was accomplished on this day. The universe as we know it was established on this creative day, hence it required some space to unpack its details. And, there are yet more, that we must still explain. Remember that we said the second Adam was from Heaven. Imagine being in his shoes and having the knowledge that he had. Imagine knowing the secrets of the universe. Could you explain them to another person, and if you did - would they believe you?
Jesus is AMAZED!
The one who comes from above is over all others. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks of things of the earth. The one who comes from heaven is over all others. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, but no man accepts his witness. Whoever has accepted his witness has put his seal to it that God is true. For the one whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for He does not give the spirit sparingly. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. The one who exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; the one who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon himJoh 3:31
Jesus, was eager to share his special perspective with all who would listen. He worked tirelessly to give them the knowledge from the Father ...
For I have not spoken of my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment means everlasting life. So whatever I speak, I speak just as the Father has told meJoh 12:49,50
From as early as he could, Christ started practicing for his future 3.5 year ministry. He was 12 - the age Jewish boys started their apprenticeshpis - when he spent all the free time he had to question and discuss important topics with the leaders of Jewish society at the temple. (Lu 2: 46,47,49) He was preparing himself for his real future job, for Christ had not sojourned to Earth for carpentry. As honourable a profession as that is. He was the Messiah. 18 years before that role was due to officially start - he was practicing!
When grown, he tried to relate knowledge to those around him, traveling the length and breadth of Israel to fulfill his commission from Jehovah. Hardly a soul understood. He tried to tell the people of his home town. They balked:
After coming into his home territory, he began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said: 'Where did this man get this wisdom and these powerful works? Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where, then, did he get all of this?' So they began to stumble because of him. But Jesus said to them: 'A prophet is not without honor except in his home territory and in his own house.' And he did not perform many powerful works there on account of their lack of faithMt 13:54-58
You might put that off to familiarity breeding contempt. After all his own family members once sought an intervention, convinced that he had gone mad. (Mr 3:21,31-35) But in both cases it was a lack of faith. (Joh 7:5) That is, a lack of reasoning on the evidence. And this lack of reasoning met Christ wherever he went. He was not only rejected by his home town, but the nation. Now, I repeat that we never critizize Israel for any reason. That is not our focus here. We are focused on hard it was for Christ to convince people of the true nature of reality - even though everything that is real came into existence through him, as Jehovah's "master worker":
All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence. ... The true light that gives light to every sort of man was about to come into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him. He came to his own home, but his own people did not accept him. However, to all who did receive him, he gave authority to become God’s children, because they were exercising faith in his nameJoh 1:3,9-12
When people were willing to reason, they would "receive him." What was the difference between the blind beggar who understood that Jesus must be the Christ and the rich and powerful Pharisees who refused to come to the same conclusion? It was reason!:
So a second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him: 'Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.' He answered: 'Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that I was blind, but now I can see.' Then they said to him: 'What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?' He answered them: 'I told you already, and yet you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?' At this they scornfully told him: 'You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he is from.' The man answered them: 'This is certainly amazing, that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to this one. From of old it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing at all.' In answer they said to him: 'You were altogether born in sin, and yet are you teaching us?' And they threw him out!Joh 9:24-34
You can hear the disdain for basic reason in their last comment: "... Are you teaching us?" Yes. Indeed. He was teaching them - a lesson so valuable, Jehovah had it preserved in his holy scriptures, so future generations can learn the moral of the story and not make the same mistake! (Ro 15:4) From this example we learn that the difficulties Jesus faced in being recognized as the Christ through the power of reason, was not limited to the common uneducated people, but they persisted even with the learned and powerful. Even where there were rare exceptions, such as Nicodemus, people still had trouble grasping everything. Nicodemus, who was a Pharisee - and a secret believer that Jesus came "from God" could not grasp teachings - even through a personal one-on-one session (Joh 3:2) Here is a sample of that conversation:
In answer Nic·o·deʹmus said to him: 'How can these things be?' Jesus replied: 'Are you a teacher of Israel and yet do not know these things? Most truly I say to you, what we know we speak, and what we have seen we bear witness to, but you do not receive the witness we giveJoh 3:9,-11
Christ could discern reasonings of the heart (Lu 5:22); and after keenly observing “the sons of man” for over 4000 years, he knew exactly “what was in man” (Joh 2:23-25). He criss-crossed Israel tirelessly spreading his message and performing many miracles that bore witness to his authenticity and identity. (Joh 9:33; 14:11; 5:36) Despite all his unique gifts, and efforts, many rejected him and did not grasp who he was. (Joh 12:37,38) It is not for any of these reasons that we have titled this subheading "Jesus was AMAZED." His reaction to naysayers was not amazement, but grief. (Mr 3:5) What, then, could have shocked the Son of God, who is the knowledge store for all the "treasures of wisdom and knowledge" in the universe! (Col 2:2,3)
One day, during the time Christ was ministering to people about the truth in Palestine, he entered a city called Capernaum and came across an unusual request. The request was made by some Jewish elders on behalf of a man who was not of the Jewish nation. More than that the man was an army officer, who had some soldiers under his command. His slave was sick and dying. This Centurion, as men with his rank in the Roman army were called, was well loved by the Jews, for he loved the Jewish nation, even building a synagogue in their befalf. Thus the Jews, vouching for the good qualities of the Centurion, implored Christ to help, and heal his beloved slave. Jesus agreed and was traveling with them to perform the healing. But, when he wasn't far from the house, the centurion sent a second delegation to Christ, to say he was not worthy of the Christ coming into his home. "Sir, do not bother ... to come under my roof" he relayed to Jesus. How, then would his seriously ill slave be healed without being in contact with Jesus? The centurion knew a thing or two about authority:
... But say the word, and let my servant be healed. For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."Lu7:7,8
You will notice that the whole quote has been made bold,. That's because every word is significant. The next verse goes on to state that when Christ heard these things: "He was amazed at his, and he turned to the crowd following him and said: 'I tell you, not even in Israel have I found so great a faith.'" How did God's Son, the King of the Heavenly Kingdom (Joh 18:36) define this clarity of understanding of reality? How did he classify this resolving of perspective paradoxes until one appreciates how the spirit realm relates to and controls the visible realm? Faith. The greater the clarity of our resolved uncertaintities, the greater the faith. It was faith because the man had a belief which was born of careful reasoning. The only definition that meets the true meaning of "faith." But what, about his faith so impressed Jesus, that he "was amazed at him?"
What the army officer had just explained to Jesus, was not the details, but God's thoughts. Jesus had just heard someone give not the where, when and what of life; but the why and how! Like Einstein, the centurion wasn't interested in the spectrum of this element and how it differed from the details of the spectrum of another element. He had a clear picture in his mind of what authority is, where it comes from, how it is imposed on the Earth, and why and how Jesus as the Christ was uniquely positioned to exercise it. The centurion knew the holy grail answers to Einstein's deepest and most sincere quest, almost 2 000 years beforehand! A truly startling feat of reasoning. The centurion understood Spirics and how it is fundamental to Physics. To make his accomplishment clear, consider the reaction of another army officer - whom, incidentally, was of much higher rank than the centurion - who had not taken the time to reason on authority - and thus build faith in the everlasting God who created Physics, Spirics and the harmony between them! His name was Naaman:
Now Na'a·man the army chief of the king of Syria was a prominent man who was held in esteem by his lord, because through him Jehovah had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty warrior, although he was a leper. ... So Na'a·man came with his horses and his war chariots and stood at the entrance of the house of E·li'sha. However, E·li'sha sent a messenger to tell him: "Go, wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean." At this Na'a·man became indignant and started to leave, saying: "Here I said to myself, 'He will come out to me and stand here and call on the name of Jehovah his God, moving his hand back and forth over the leprosy to cure it.' Are not the A·ba'nah and the Phar'par, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Can I not wash in them and become clean?" With that he turned and went away in a rage2Ki 5:1,9-12
You realize that the only reason Naaman stopped at "he will come out to me and stand there," was because leprosy was a communicable disease - it spread by touch. If it were up to Naaman, he would have liked Elisha to have touched him in producing the cure. His further statement about "the rivers of Damascus" being better "than all the waters of Israel" showed a further point of ignorance. He didn't understand where the source of the healing would come from! He understood nothing, nothing about Spirics. More than that, the Biblical record tells us he had achieved his victory through Jehovah; something which would not have applied to the centurion, because the Jews were being occupied by the Romans during Christ's ministry. In fact if you look at the two accounts in detail, you will see that they are polar opposites in every important detail. The unnamed Roman centurion had authority over a few men as his title suggests. Naaman on the other hand, "was the army chief of the king." Yet he never grasped the lessons about authority that the centurion not only knew about, but used as the basis of an unshakeable faith! For what the centurion had realized was that: LIFE IS NOT BASED ON PHYSICAL LAWS: THE MORE FUNDAMENTAL REALITY IS THE WORD OF JEHOVAH WHO BY HIS WORD AND POWER, CREATED EXISTENCE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL - AND THE STATUTES THAT REGULATE THE PHYSICAL REALM OF THE UNIVERSE!
Christ was right to be impressed. All that, was gleaned from the officer's experiences in the army, and his contact with the Jews, and what he had learned about their God - Jehovah. His algorithm for arriving at his conclusion fits EXACTLY with the definition of faith as outlined in Hebrews 11:1-3! AS does his conclusion! he understood that there was a layer of reality that was devoid of laws and functioned solely on the word of Jehovah. It is this aspect of reality that allows Jehovah to make "the dead alive," and: "[call] the things that are not as though they are!" (Ro 4:17) This is why Christ when answering the Sadduccees about the surety of the resurrection, said: "Is not this why you are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?" (Mr 12:24) It is this aspect of reality that responsible for Jehovah having a 100% record in fulfillng his prophecies:
The former things I told you long ago. From my own mouth they went out, and I made them known. Suddenly I took action, and they came aboutIsa 48:3
THAT! IS THE SOURCE OF A-L-L REALITY. EVERYTHING ELSE IS EITHER BUILT ON THAT FOUNDATION OR - IF IT IS EVIL - A TEMPORARY ILLUSION! I, too, am stunned by the centurion's grasp of reality. NO scientist who is vainly looking for "naturalistic" or "materialsitic" origin stories of the universe understands what this unnamed man who lived 2 000 ago understood! The centurion wasn't one in a million - or one in a billion. He was far rarer. Think of yourself, are you the centurion, or are you Naaman? Let me put the odds in perspective for you. In the history of the world, there are perhaps 5 people who are at the level of reasoning prowess - and thus faith - as the centurion. I can only think of David.... Pause. And consider what that means. Who can you name. Most people don't even know what variables are on the table! The question of who you are between Naaman and the centurion has far reaching consequences for your life. It's easy to fiugre the answer out without your judgement being clouded by your ego. What life would you choose: a unnamed person with first principle faith; or a prominent CEO with no clue? You may think the choices are too stark. There must be some middle ground. There isn't. Your answer now, tells you which of the two you are. Perhaps, looking back at the history of mankind, it shouldn't be surprising how many people choose promincence over substance - but it is! You might not yet have grasped it, but your choice will have immediate and irrerversible consequences in the time you find yourself living in. I wish you the best.
Thanos & THE AVENGERS
There is another theme from the MCU that is relevant to our discussions: Thanos vs the Avengers. Good vs Evil - right? In the MCU only the villains travel with/in dark vehicles or trasnport systems. Thus, Jehovah's dark cloud with which he wraps himself to save humans, becomes the vehicle of choice of a maniac who is coming to destroy half the human race. This is more than a glancing coincidence with Jehovah, for the Bible tells us that at Armaggedon more than 50% of humans will be destroyed - eternally. (Mt 7:13; 2Th 1:6-9)
In the movies, such acts are always reversible, and the effects never lasting. The reality will quite different. In all movies where Earth is visited by extraterrestrials, and a fight ensues, the outsiders are always the bad guys. And Earth, somehow cobbles together a team of lone wolf fighters who agree to come together for this one mission, and then successfully go on to protect and avenge the Earth against the effects of the invasion. That is the fantasy. The reality is quite different. Sir John Glubb, told us earlier that in the late stage decline of Empires, the heroes of the society are not statesmen, or warriors or great leaders - but actors and celebrities. This means society communicates its beliefs, fears and hopes through such figures. As such the collective beliefs in such an environment are not found in great literature, or powerful speeches by men of valour, but in movies. So, don't be surprised that I use popular entertainment as a mirror of the thoughts of society as a whole. I didn't create the game, I just know the rules. This is what Martin Scorcese doesn't understand about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has been quoted many times putting the franchise down as "not real cinema" - or words to that effect. He does not understand that the MCU is the latest version of the exact same stories he was telling just a few short decades ago! There reason it tells stories through cartoon characters is a reflection of the amount of decay from the society of Scorcese's heyday, to the current day. That's how fast the decline is. It is the society that determines its heroes - not movie directors. Hence, Scorcese is unknowingly criticizing the audience - and society at large, not the directors or studios. As the society deteriorates it becomes more and more fickle. It can stomach less and less reality and sinks more and more into fantasy as a means of communication. Under such circumstances stories with real, hard edged, offensive characters can no longer be told. Cancel culture and wokeness sanitize all discourse to the point where the only stories that can be told are about cartoon characters! Thus my use of the MCU to explain reality is just a marker of how far down the road to destruction we are. Don't be Scorcesed. Pay attention. Pay. Careful. Attention.
Defining Vengeance Technically
In the movies, The Avengers - and thus the act of vengeance is tied to emotions! They did A to us, so we will do B to them! Here is a famous line from the franchise:
You're missing the point - there's no throne! There is no version of this, where you come out on top! Maybe you army comes. And, maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because, if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it" Tony Stark
I might have told you before, I might have not: the purpose of Intellectuals in society is not to ensure technological progress - that comes from "skin in the game" entrepreneurs. No, Intellectuals serve the exact same purpose as magic practicing priests to idolators. They are there to tell the population what they want to hear as justification for disobeying God. In other words: "carry on in your stubborn ways, you will not reap what you sow." I heard this line the other day and found it refreshing: "Went to see some shaman in Malay, to hear some things I wanted to hear." That was a line from the song Move On by Mike Posner. It was refreshing because he was honest about the motives behind his actions. Lines the above quote from Iron Man serve the exact same purpose. They are there to calm the fears of people who know that the time for the chickens to hatch has arrived. It creates false hope that somehow, some-magical-how we will get through what we all feel is on the horizon. Everything in the line is the opposite of reality, but we want to focus on how it negates reality when it comes to the technical definition of VENGEANCE.
Defining AVENGERS Technically
That term is not based on emotions but law. What Tony was saying to Loki in that scene described not vengeance - but revenge. Revenge is a personal payback for some wrong you feel was done to you. Vengence is an act sanctioned by law. It is an act of justice - meaning it is the execution of a ruling by a judge. Tony stars by asserting that there is no "throne." In other words, there is no supreme authority, who can judge as to which party is in the right. Its just "us" vs "them." However, the reality is far different. Romans chapter 13 quoted earlier has this gem for us:
Let every person be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. ... for it is God's minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God's minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is bad. ... That is why you are also paying taxes; for they are God’s public servants constantly serving this very purposeRo 13:1,4,6
I take you know the Western legal system is based on the Bible. This scripture shows us the link between true "avengers" and their source of authority for bearing the sword - the throne of God. (To put it in terms compatible with Tony's language.) The only reason, there authorities have guns and are allowed to kill wrongdoers is because there is a throne - and that's the point! In such cases, vengeance - unlike in the fantasy world of the MCU - is based on Justice and not emotions. Thus, the whole premise for Avengers against extraterrestrial invaders is false. Why?
The True DIRECTION of Vengeance!
We have taken note of the first point: vengeance is matter of objective law, not subjective emotions. Now, let's consider from which direction does such justice come? In the movies - which is to say, in the minds and hopes of the citizens of a dying Empire - vengeance comes from Earth against any extraterrestrials who dare to impose their will on Earth. The rallying call of humanity is "There is no throne!" In other words, we have the right to do whatever we like. These delusions are the result of breathing dephlogisticated air for extended periods of time. Hence, according to these beliefs, makind have calculated the risks and chosen atheism and to self define how they want to live their lives - freedom of choice. They have put all their eggs in the basket marked, "There is no version of this, where you come out on top!" In other words, "There is no version of the universe where humans doing what they want comes out on the bottom!" The reality - again - is far different. You cannot apply CGI to real life. In the real world, the throne and the avengers are not from Earth, but from Heaven against ... humans:
This is a proof of the righteous judgment of God, leading to your being counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you are indeed suffering. This takes into account that it is righteous on God's part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you. But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength2Th 1:6-9
The truth, as found in this verse is the exact opposite of all the claims in Stark's quote. I have highlighted four sections of the scripture, but they contain 5 points. Here they are: 1) The coming destruction is a "proof" of the righteous judgement of God. Thus, this act will meet the true definition of vengeance as an act of justice, for it is the result of a judgement. 2) It meets the definition of justice as and act of retribution "to express wrath against the one practicising what is bad." (Ro 13:4) 3) The direction of the vengeamce is from Heaven to Earth - not the other way around. And there are no "maybe[s]" about it - Christ has a powerful army. (Joe 3:11) 4) The vengeance that will be visited on all mankind will against those who have refused to obey God's righteous decrees. In other words there is a throne! and humans are accountable to God for how they behave. All human history - from Adam to you - has been about this simple fact - and people's utter refusal to accept it! (Ga 6:7; Ro 14:10-12; 2Co 5:10; Ac 10:42; 17:31) Good luck with that. And ... 5) There is no reversing the crushing destruction Christ in the "glory of his strength" will unleash on people who think they have the right to define how they want to live their lives in contradiction to God's standards - which are based on love. As we speak, there is a concerted effort amongst adults to legalize the abuse of children, for their own sexual depravities. Child sacrifice has always been a telling sign of a sick and dying society. (De 12:29-31)
Iron Man has ends with the line: "Becasue if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it!" It makes for great cinema. Not so much for great life. Christ will bring "everlasting destruction" - a reality from which there is no coming back. Starck's line gives the impression that there will be an extraterrestrial attack, and then humanity will regroup - after suffering an initial defeat - to vanquish the invaders. In truth: the judgement; justice; vengence; and power are all on one side - the extraterrestrials and humans will have no power to resist. There will be no round 2! Do not get disturbed by my calling Christ and his army extraterrestrials. That is the correct scientific name. I'm not lying. It's in the Bible. Christ said so himself:
He went on to say to them: 'You are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. You are from this world; I am not from this worldJoh 8:23
And ...
Jesus answered: 'My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this sourceJoh 18:36
Christ's kingdom is a Heavenly Kingdom. It is not from this world - and neither is he. (1Co 15:47) The factual statement: "I am not from this world," is the literal definition of extra: "out of" terrestrial: "Earth." Dictionaries define it as: "originating, existing, or occurring outside the earth or its atsmoshpere." Would you say, someone and his army who are from more than 50 000 lightyears away fits that definition? Christ thought so.
But, there is a last lingering background reason as to how humans fool themselves into thinking, "Surely it will all work out in the end - right! ... Right?"
FIGHTCLUB: The Batman and Joker Paradox
There is an iconic line the Heath Ledger's Joker says to Batman (Heath Ledger's Joker is the only Joker):
Oh you, you just couldn't let me go. Could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me, out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And, I - won't kill you. Because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever" The Joker
Batman doesn't even get the point. His answer is about the Joker going to jail. Of course: the Joker is right. It get's a little deeper. Here's the explanation. No matter how fierce the rivalry between the two protagonists becomes they can never kill each other, for one reason, and one reason only - they are the same person! This theme comes up in various movies, and splitting the two sides of the one individual is a theatrical way of portraying the internal battle people have. You know the story about the grandfather who was telling his grandchild about each of us having two wolves inside us: a good wolf and a bad one. And they are fighting to the death. "Which one wins granddad?" "The one you feed," came back the answer. This use of two characters to portray this internal fight is often used by creative directors. Fightclub with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton made the point more explicitly. Only at the end does the audience learn that the two very different characters were the same person all along! Only when the good guy learns that does the bad guy die. That's why Batman not understanding Joker's point means the Joker is correct: they will be "destined to do this forever." Of course, the movies take creative liberties to make it as entertaining as possible. The truth is that the good guy cannot be good without the bad guy! That's what Jordan Peterson means when he says you must cultivate your shadow (meaning the dark part of you). His statement is that someone who is weak cannot be virtuous, because they have no choice. But if someone is capable of harm and then chooses virtue, they are truly good. So for such a hero to be good, the threat of violence must always be present. That is what God means when he says: "... for it is not without purpose that it [His avenger] bears the sword." Verstaan jy.
There is a second important detail. It is always the bad guy who knows that the two sides are the same person. The good guy can never believe it, even when he is presented with irrefutable evidence. As Edward Norton's character was at the end of the movie. Again, this is for reasons the Joker explains: "You truly are incorruptible." And the good guy has a sense of "self-righteousness" that would never allow him to recognize the bad guy as a part of him.
What you may not know is that these theatrical treatments are trying to explain a reality that is older than the universe itself. That's how fundamental the reality is. Of course Art always takes creative license with its storytelling. The reality is completely different. As I have already pointed out, the two sides of the same individual must be together in real life. The bad guy never dies. For the good guy cann't be good without him. Secondly, the "bad" guy is defined as such because movies are only have two hours to tell their story. They thus simplify some of the details to fit everything in. In reality the other side is not bad, just HARD. Most people interpret that as "bad," so the characterization in the movies is a shorthand that matches most people's sensibilities. Remember government's have the right from God to "express wrath" against bad actors ... and this is righteous - or lawful! Thirdly; how do we know that this concept has its basis in reality? Because of another fundamental truth expressed through the character of the Joker: "This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object." Is there such thing. Yes. Absolutely! Proofs forthcoming. For now, just realize that for such a statement to be true must mean both things must be part of the same entity. Otherwise it would be a contradiction of terms - a paradox! There evidence is found in the Bible, for both qualities exist in the one being - Jehovah. Surprised? You shouldn't be. JUSTICE! is a fourth requirement of being a God - along with love, power and wisdom. "For it is not without purpose" that he is called "Jehovah of ARMIES?"
First, we consider the Joker's claim of an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE:
For Jehovah of armies has decided, and who can thwart it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?Isa 14:27
And ...
All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does according to his own will among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth. And there is no one who can hinder him or say to him, 'What have you done?'Da 4:35
You will notice that this scripture left no stone unturned. It included the Heavenly realm and the Cosmos, so no one, anywhere in the universe, including all the demons has the power to stop the force of Jehovah. With that point clear, we consider the remaining variable: AN IMMOVABLE OBJECT:
What my Father has given me is something greater than all other things, and no one can snatch them out of the hand of the FatherJoh 10:29
When you a child, did you ever play a game where you tried to take something out of you father's closed hand. Once he made a fist, nothing you could do would open it. Christ uses similar imagery to convey the point that no one can force Jehovah's hand! But, there is more. Not only can no one overpower Jehovah, but his presence is so fearsome - no one dares to approach him without his explicit invitation and approval:
His majestic one will be one of his own, and from his midst his ruler will emerge. I will cause him to come near, and he will approach me. "For otherwise, who would dare to approach me?" declares JehovahJer 30:21
Most people do not realize how truly unique the person of Jehovah is! He is different to any other being that exists. For instance do you know why no man can see Jehovah and live? Christ is the exact representation of his Father and people can see him. You will recall that after his resurrection to an immortal spirit body, his showed himself to his discriples over a period of 40 days before he went back to Heaven. So, if people can see the resurrected Jesus Christ, why can't they see Jehovah? The answer has it's own dedicated episode. For now just take note that there is fundamental difference between Jehovah and all his creatures. Some overpowering factor that is unique to him!
Taken together, the fact that Jehovah is both an immovable object, and an unstoppable force, we realize that his will holds supreme position in the whole universe. As the Holy Spirit says: "All the inhabitants of the Earth are regarded as nothing, and he does according to his own will among the army of the Heavens and the inhabitants of the Earth." (Da 4:35) This of course is an essential part of the definition of God of the Universe. Remember how we highlighted that what the movies portray as the "bad" guy is actually just the ability to take hard decisions, and more importantly - to execute them? That factor is crucial. For one can be a God without it! The most fundamental aspect of Godship is the right to decide between good and bad, and to create life and to destroy it - if it falls short of your standards. Jehovah makes the point himself in our next scripture:
See now that I - I am he, and there are no gods apart from me. I put to death, and I make alive. I wound, and I will heal, and no one can rescue from my handDe 32:39
Surely, you noted that this two-sidedness is part of Jehovah's definition of a ... God. Though here he applies it to human life, it is not an afterthought. That is, this required property of a true God is not something that only became necessary after Adam and Woman sinned. It was there - as it had to be - before he Created the universe:
Before the mountains themselves were born, or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth and the productive land, even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are GodPs 90:2 | New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - With References
In fact, it was there before he created the Archangel who later become Jesus. That is an advanced topic that has its own episode of proofs. What should pique your interest currently is that before Jehovah created any visible entities, this two-sidedness already existed. For, he brought forth the Cosmos "as with labour pains." Now, Jehovah has vast dynamic energy and he does not tire when he is working. (Isa 40:26,28) When Genesis speaks of him as resting, it is not in the human context of "recovering," or regaining strength so we can work again, later. It merely means a cessation of work. The main point, of course is: if Jehovah doesn't get tired when he works, what caused him pain in the creation of the universe? The answer is fundamental to reality! (HG) For now, we focus only on the fact that these "pains" reflect tough decisions that Jehovah had to make as part of the constants of nature. Put another way: he had to use his two-sidedness in deciding how to make the universe. So this quality of his, is not an afterthought to the universe; but a prerequisite to its formation.
Lastly, let us look at a scripture that brings everything under this subheading into one neat box, and ties a bow around it. A scripture that shows that the universe does possess both an immovable object and an unstoppable force! Since, these two entities cannot exist separate from each other - they must be part of the same entity. Further the scripture will show that such two-sidedness is not new, or an afterthought. Here it is. 24 words that are the foundation of all existence:
Also, I am always the same One; and no one can snatch anything out of my hand. When I act, who can prevent it?Isa 43:13
At face value, the sentence seems easily understood. But, once you try to interrogate it you will find it has a perplexing property, it has no bottom. What I mean is: there is no limit to where it applies. Understood properly it explains all of existence - or points you to the direct answers of particular questions. Is there such a thing as a Divine Trinity? The answer is in this verse. Does God have the power to stop child abuse? The answer is in this verse. That being the case, why hasn't he stopped it? That answer is an offshoot of the answers in this verse. The answers to all of humanity's valid questions are either contained in this verse, or its direct offshoots. We return to Jordan Peterson's definition of "fundamental." The thing that is most fundamental is the thing that explains all other things. This verse it the most fundamental aspect of reality. It was the equivalent of this verse that the unnamed centurion understood! Take the time to study and understand it - and the manifold realities it embodies: for your own benefit.
The truth is God canno be God without this property. So far we have seen that it is not being "bad," but we haven't given it a name. This quality is Godship, itself! Without it Jehovah cannot sit as Judge of the universe. He cannot punish wrongdoers. The inability to punish wrongdoers is a prerequisite of being loving. For a premier aspect of love is being able to protect your loved ones. Since, God is love, we can appraciate how deeply ingrained Godship is in him. Do you recall the advice that Jethro, Mosess father in law gave to him, to select 70 men to judge minor cases and for the difficult cases to be handled by Moses so he wouldn't burn out. Moses would in turn consult with Jehovah! (Ex 18:21-24,26; Le 24:10-15) It was not just a limit in wisdom, that made him refer cases to Jehovah, but more importantly, a matter of authority. There are some things only God can decide on. It is for this reason we can trust the Christ because he judges, becasue he is seeking not his own will, but the will of his Father. (Joh 5:30) Unlike Moses, Christ is perfect in knowledge, but the Father is greater than he is. (Joh 14:28) Because God is love, his Godship impels him to punish the wicked for causing tribulation for the upright. And his doing so is defined not as badness, but as RIGHTEOUSNESS!:
This takes into account that it is righteous on God's part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you2TH 1:6
Also ...
God is not unjust when he expresses his wrath, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.) By no means! How, otherwise, will God judge the world?Ro 3:5b,6
We shoud all be thankful for Jehovah's Godship, not only because we exist and live, but because it applies in difficult situations that are as far removed from executing wicked people as you can imagine. For it is Jehovah's Godship that enabled him to take the toughest decision of all - sending his only-begotten Son to die for mankind ... "while we were sinners!" (Ro 5:6,8) Without the steely hardness that is the spine of Godship, Jehovah could not have redeemed mankind. The same quality that is the source of Jehovah's judgements against wicked mankind is the source of his undeserved kindness towards humanity. (Ro 5:6; Eph 2:5)
But it was Jehovah's will to crush him, and he let him become sick. If you will present his life as a guilt offering, he will see his offspring, he will prolong his days, and through him the delight of Jehovah will have successIsa 53:10
What kind of steely determination does it take to form such a will. Jehovah demonstrated the intense feelings involved when he had Abraham - without his knowledge - act out the drama, as he tested his allegience for his God. Abraham, the father of "all those having faith" passed the test with flying colours. (Ro 4:11; Ge 22:9-12) Earlier Isaac had asked: "Father, here are the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?" Abrahan, not being able to yet tell his only-begotten son the grim truth replied: "God himself will provide the sheep for the burnt offering, my son" as they continued walking towards the desginated place of the sacrifice. (Ge 22:7,8) In Abraham's case, Jehovah stopped Abraham and provided a ram in place of Isaac! (Ge 22:13) In his own case, the bravest man who ever lived had to go through with the prochecy and die on a torture stake! (Lu 12:50; Joh 12:27)
When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said: "It has been accomplished!" and bowing his head, he gave up his spiritJoh 19:30
That act represented the greatest gifts of undeserved kindness ever bestowed upon mankind - from both the Father and his beloved Son! Why then do the movies not portray this positive feature as it should be portrayed: as a unified aspect of a strong and loving personality. Why split it up into two different characters and then define the steely version as a "bad" guy? Again, it is Mike Posner's shamanism at play. By separating features that cannot be separated, for they are both intrinsic parts of the same property - love - popular culture gives the impression that whatever harm comes towards humans, there is an avenging force that will take revenge on our behalf. More than that, pop culture gives the false impression that the "attack" from outer space is not righteous but random genocidal whims of a madman. "There is not throne" Tony Stark declared in an earlier movie, with the same storyline, just different characters. Against these dark forces rises the goodness, and pureness. The best that planet Earth has to offer. Captain America and his Avengers. Hmm. Nice story. It is the ultimate blue pill that lulls people to sleep - and can ONLY be told when the two parts are separate! For as soon as they are united, it becomes obvious that the attack cannot be random, nor is it genocide. For it is quite clear that when the immovable incorruptble object (we'll say "entity" out of respect, when it applies to Jehovah - the most high!) starts to act as an unstoppable force - it is out of righteousness! For the Joker defined the Batman variable as being "truly incorrptible!" And this Jehovah is. When he expresses his wrath on the human race it will be repeatedly stubborn refusal to heed his warnings. Jehovah is perfect in all his activity, and is a God of justice. (De 32:3,4) The incorruptiblity of his actions comes out in that each person will reap exactly what they have sown - nothing else. And Jehovah cannot be bribed or bargained with. His is "truly incorruptible!":
Now let the fear of Jehovah be upon you. Be careful about what you do, for with Jehovah our God there is no injustice, no partiality, no bribe-taking2Ch 19:7
Schizophrenia?
I love that scripture. It covers all bases: there is no "injustic" so vengence will come; there is no partiality: so it doesn't matter how close you are to him - no one is exempt from having to fear and worship him ... as Satan will soon find out; there is no bribe-taking: for those who don't know him, there is nothing they can offer that will thwart his judgements, for he owns the whole universe! Jehovah is "truly incorrutptible." I love Jehovah! Do you? In any case, that is the reason Godship is separated into two parts in the movies and the unstoppable force is turned into a villain. It is the shaman telling you what you want to hear. The proverbial frog being boiled to death in slowly heated water. That's why when God says he hates certain types of behaviours in the Bible; people counter with "How can a god of love - hate?" (Pr 6:16-19) They have internalized the narrative that separates Godship into two distinct personalities, in their hearts. In their tiny little minds, they imagine that their reasoning - which they cannot trace to first principles (they don't know where it comes from - only that's its popular) is enough to stop any retribution for their acts. They imagine God to be an ooooold frail man ... somewhat like the Popes, who's only ever encouraging and never gets angry. The reality is ... different:
Jehovah is a manly person of war. Jehovah is his nameEx 15:3
We have covered a lot of ground, and touched on lot of different subjects. What is important is to understand the lesson of Isaiah 43:13: Jehovah is One! He does not have a split personality. He is not in emotional turmoil trying to figure things out. It is humans who are delusional. God is ready. ONCE he acts, it will be devastating - and righteous. Reason on matters like the centurion. Review all of your cherished beliefs. "Make sure of all things and hold fast to what is fine." (1Th 5:21) Like the centurion, make sure you fall on the right side of Christ. If you understand what that army officer understood, there is nothing beyond your comprehension. You understand everything. You understand why the Cosmos is regulated by laws and programmed instructions whilst the spirit realm is free of such statutes. You understand how God’s laws for the Cosmos manifest themselves through instinct for animals and mathematical statutes for inanimate matter. You know why there’s a rain cycle and who put in place. You know why nature has constants and how they came to be. You realize why "man," being created in the image of a spirit being means he cannot possibly be governed by instinct. You also realize what effect such spirituality has on his longevity. You realize why wildebeest mothers risk their lives to single-handedly rescue their calves from lions, but humans can sexually abuse their own defenseless children. You know why Satan’s bid for supremacy was doomed from the beginning. Why is man, trying to live a life independent of God, a critical, life shortening mistake? You know the answer. So many evil malevolent people have lived and they died without justice being served, will that ever be corrected? You know the answer. Since the time of Adam humans have been in a life death cycle that seems like it will continue forever. Will it? You know the answer. Scientisimists (Intellectuals who practice Scientism - instead of Science) are telling us about existential threats including climate change and the specter of nuclear war: will the planet survive? The answer is within the grasp of your reasoning powers. You have been traumatized by some horrible event in your past, will God ever restore the universe to order and free you from your fears? You know the truth. You are driven to try and make decisions for other people (e.g., parents: perhaps your adult children). Is your course supported by reality? You can now figure it out. If you don't know the full answers, you know where to look - to find them! If you understand what that unnamed army officer understood you are powerful beyond measure. If you reject it, having come to understand it, nothing else you do in life will matter! THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. This is not a fire to warm yourself with. (Isa 47:7,14) Make sure you fall on the right side of the Christ! I wish you the best.
Day 4: Unfinished Business - How Good Is Your Spidey Sense?
The ELEPHANT in the Room!
In all our disctussions about Heaven we have been using various high budget movies to explain its key features. The reason that should have set your Spidey sense tingling is because while our explainations are based on the invisible third heavens - i.e., Heaven itself; the entity the movies are depicting is not called Heaven. It's SPACE! For the Biblical explanations to be correct then Heaven and Space must be one and the same thing! Can that be? The central entity being spoken about is the one-piece universe wide structure that the Bible calls the "fine gauze" and to which we have given the correct Scientific name: Invisible Zint. Is this incredible structure Space?
Throughout our discussions, I have been repeating one phrase over and over again. As we have learned more and more about the reality of Space travel and what it actually requires, we have expanded on the phrase, making it more and more detailed. Here it is putting together all that we have learned:
If only there was a substance known to man, that spanned the entire universe, and was invisible, made of domed halos, connecting filaments that are interspersed with vast empty voids and was stretchable, non-electromagnetic, and a proven volume - it would have the perfect EVIDENCE PROFILE, to fulfill all the functions of Space!"
Can the Inzintian "fine gauze" that Jehovah calls Heaven fit that Evidence Profile? So far we have proved that it meets all the properties of the above quote except one - "volume!" The fine gauze spans the entire universe; it is invisible, it has domed halos in which it keeps constellations of the sky, connecting ropes (thus making it a one-piece gauze), and vast empty voids; it is stretchable; and non-electromagnetic, for it doesn't interact with light and is not solid, or physical - but spiritual. The only variable left for it to match is volume. If it had volume, three disparate entities, that have become known to mankind through vastly different sources would share an Evidence Profile that is completely unique in the whole universe. This would mean that, although considered to be very different things - they are actually ALL THE SAME ENTITY - SPACE!
To find out if the "fine gauze" can be volume, all we need do is simply requote the key scripture and search for a property that relates to volume. Volume is defined as "the amount of space occupied by a three dimensional object. So, for "fine gauze" to be a volume it would need the ability to house three dimensional objects: both physical and spiritual! Here is the foundational scriptural text:
There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwellIsa 40:22
From this scripture we learn that the whole purpose behind the "fine gauze" is for them to be like a "tent in which to DWELL." Not only does the fine gauze have the property of being a volume; but by describing it as a "tent," Jehovah makes clear that it's main purpose is dwellability. That is, to act like a volume. But not just any volume. This volume is dwellable, meaning it has Habitable Zones! THUS, HEAVEN; & INVISIBLE ZINT; & SPACE ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME THING!
Let's have fun by expressing that understanding in different ways. Space is not nothing, but something. The extent of Space determines the size of the universe: since, Heaven is Space, it is the size of Heaven that determines how big the universe is. The Bible describes three heavens, and heaven must, by definition of Isaiah 40:22, be habitable, thus the 3 heavens in ascending order are: Solar Habitable Zones; Galactic Habitable Zones; and Heaven itself - i.e., the fine gauze - where God, Christ and all the angels live. And, where all the galaxies in the universe are contained. Heaven is the scaffolding of Cosmos. Those are two distinct functions: it is the habitation of all righteous spirit beings; and the "interior rooms" of the galaxies of the Cosmos. (Joh 14:2,3; Job 9:9) Space has been shown functionally to be neither continous, nor discrete; but BOTH continuous and discrete. Continuous in that it spans the entire universe without a break. Discrete because it is not an ether, but a gauze of truly epic halos, which are interconnected by long filaments, with the whole structure being interspersed by vast empty voids of nothingness that appeared as a consequence of the gauze being stretched on Day 4. As such, it is a one-piece networked legionous structure, that spans the entire universe and is uniquely characterized by three components: halos, their connecting filaments, and vast voids. IT IS UNIQUE: NO OTHER STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE HAS THE SAME DIMENSIONS, CONFIGURATION, PROPERTIES AND FUNCTION. IN A WORD - THE SAME EVIDENCE PROFILE. It is for this reason that we can say with confidence that any entities with this profile must be the same entity. Even if there were 50 examples of such differently labeled concepts in our popular culture - instead of the three we have identified - they would still all be proven to be the same entity. That's the power of looking at things beyond their veneer, and down to their Evidence Profile. In the Bible this Space is called Heaven. Scientifically, it has been clumsily given the name the Dark Matter Cosmic Web, but in actuality it is - the Inzintian Universal Web.
Full Circle: BACK to the Hot Bing Bang Plasma!
After coming to the knowledge what the mysterious Dark Matter actually is, we can falsify the unfounded notions of misled Intellectuals of what Space is, through negation. That is, by proving that if Space was what they claim it to be, it could not perform the functions we know it has. Since we have come to understand that the fundamental aspect of Space that allows it to legionate and stretch is its Inzintian property of non-electromagnetism, we ask: in the hot Big Bang model, does the universe stretch due to electromagentic or non-electromagnetic properties?
Of course, we all know the answer, the whole point of the Big Bang is that the particles of the gas were so pressurized that they exploded. That is the very definition of electromagentic, for these baryonic particles were supposed to be the product of intense radiation - light! Thus, the engine behind the Big Bang, the source of its "bang" is baryonic. The only problem with that is, that it is a physical explanation for an Inzintian dynamic. Visible factors cannot impact Invisible dynamics! Self-interfering (solid) entities cannot perform non-self-interfering functions. The biggest shortfall of the Big Bang model of the universe then is that it cannot account for the very thing it is trying to explain: the properties of Space! SPACE IS A SPIRITUAL ENTITY! Who would have known? Who. Could. Have. Known? Thus, is the untouchable genius of Jehovah God. The Creator of Heaven and Earth - or, Space and the Cosmos. Have you not heard, has it not been told to you? Jehovah catches the wise in their own cunning! In their glee to try and create a universe that consisted of only physical particles and the laws that regulate them, scientists fantasized about baryonic this and baryonic that. Only to find that baryonic matter accounts for less than an estimated 5% of the matter and energy content of the universe. It is dominated by spiritual matter that is known as Invisible Zint. All the while the God who created the universe was unperturbed, knowing that when his time to set matters straight arrived, the vaunted wisdom of Intellectuals would be proven to have been foolishness all along! Such foolishness would in turn come to an abrupt end! That's important: Intellectuals will be proven to not only be wrong - but foolish:
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own cunning." And again: "Jehovah knows that the reasonings of the wise men are futile."1Co 3:19,20
And ...
For it is written: "I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject." Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?1Co 1:19,20
Day 4 is complete ... and as we move onto Day 3, it is worth noting that we have not yet found the MUMBR! But, even without knowing its true identity, where in the Genesis account could we expect, to find it? The answer is a simple product of logic. We know from its position behind all the stars that exist that the MUMBR is older than they are. Since the Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation is older than all starlight, it must necessarily have been created before their appearance. That is, the MUMBR must first appear sometime before Day 4! Pinpointing that moment will be part of our remaining challenges as we continue to synthesize the Bible and Science, to explain reality as it actually is. And not as some would like it to be. We continue, by moving farther back in time: to Day 3 - and beyond.