Something in heaven

I can’t sleep because… God may have a plan. I opened the Bible and my eyes pierced the words as if written afresh. It says in Isaiah 8:10-NAB: ‘Form a plan, and it shall be thwarted; make a resolve, and it shall not be carried out, for “With us is God!”’

The Lord gives me courage that I may tell everything… I prayed, ‘your words is more than enough my Lord.’… I’m consumed. And stood still. I will never forget this evening when the Lord visited me. He asked me to take courage for he will guide me, as the plan is sought.

It is a beautiful evening, for the Divine Mercy manifest a mirage. I hope he could cure me. I offered a decade of rosary for one suffering cancer. Teary-eyed, I was blocked. Thoughts, though, continue to seep in. “St. Jude Thaddeus help me,” was my prayer.

Actually, I’ve taken two shots of Tanduay with Extra Joss, which the youth offered to me, as I gave them assorted candies worth ten pesos. God has a plan. And it is revealed to me as a body in-filled. Tomorrow I hope the youth who took courage to say yes to our invitation for Charismatic will attend the prayer meeting in form of praise, worship and talk.

Jesus became the Trinity for as he was one with the Father, I was one with the youth, and I seem to copy their form looking young too. I’m becoming more a man that has the courage to speak out even from rooftops, and reveal the nature of God as the Father Holy Ghost that in-filled the Son and they share bodily form.

God is good as He manifest in Triune. He is wiser above all, having revealed himself through Solomon and behold, one is more than Solomon, Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom…” and it follows, “All of us gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

So it was clear, the Father in Holy Ghost form that fathered Jesus is Jesus Himself as he was the image formed, and that it was God that was manifested in the Lord. The Lord Jesus is God Himself. The Lord was the God which we call Father.

So God is good, speaking through His vessels, and He continues to manifest bodily, and differentiate things, from God and god, from ‘He’ and ‘he’. And we see that even the youth are considerate to whom who suffers from lack of sleep, as they ended their drinking spree that I may have silence at about 11:00 p.m. Tomorrow is Sunday.

This day now as I continue is Sunday, and I hear the bell rang calling for the first Mass. I looked at my Bible and I was surprised that it had turned its pages almost at the back cover. It says in 2 Corinthians 4 (with title Integrity in the Ministry): “Therefore, since we have the ministry through the mercy shown to us, we are not discouraged. Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things: not acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.”

It is an exact message for me to tell the truth and nothing but that one, which I could reveal, honestly, that others may learn from my story. God is indeed so good that if I would write all my thoughts and experiences they could not fill many books on earth. Likewise, I am not Jesus but function perhaps as I may fancy that I am his ‘walk-in’ as disciples, apostles, and prophets are in accord with the Master.

Nothing can separate us, as the bond I have with family and friends. Moreover, though no one knows the hour, for me the hour has come that I may give myself like parted bread. As Jesus has shared in my life, I continue to share Jesus to others to allow their faith in God to grow.

I, though I don’t take it as pride, continue to function as the light to the world and salt to the earth. I remember one time when I served as sacristan (being a seminarian) at St. John the Baptist Cathedral; I was shocked with something in heaven. Somehow a red ball of fire arose from a crescent moon and with its light, it pierced the Bible and me.

I was horrified with such visual vision, that I ran crying till I’m in our room which awakened the other seminarians including the now Fr. Charles. They comforted me but I could not be stopped from my crying. As I was running from the terrace to our room, repeatedly a voice followed me saying, “I am the Light of the world, he who ever believes in me shall have the light of Light.”

The following morning, I went to Ng Lilian Chua and barely related what happened the night before as I continue to shed tears. She gave me a fare to the seminary in Numancia, barely of ten kilometers from Kalibo, seven perhaps, for me to see Fr. Vic Martelino, that with him, I may seek comfort. Accordingly as I was riding in the back ride, I could not be stopped from crying, and as I am closing my eyes, the beautiful face of Jesus stayed in my inner vision all throughout the ride.

As I get my GSIS dividend, I used it to Xerox the chaplet of the Holy Spirit and part I spent in procuring red rosaries, which I gave around till in Capitol. I wrote a letter to the Franciscan under the encouragement of Fr. Boy, and went along with Uncle Ernie and Auntie Baby to Manila, as they were to attend Couples for Christ Convention while Auntie Molac accompanied me to Tagaytay that I may enter in Order Friars Minor Conventual. Auntie Lelie was visiting me as the group of Aspirants went back to Novaliches in the formation house of Franciscan. As I was already with the monks in the convent, Dad visited me and embraced me in the chapel. Mom was writing letters to me during my stay in Novaliches. Later, Dad and me went to buy my clothes before he went back to Aklan.

The 'walk-ins'

The Father and Jesus shares the same spirit for God has sent Jesus and His spirit, and that spirit is the Holy Ghost. God actually living in the person of the Holy Ghost or Spirit was a deep mystery abundant of revelation though experienced only by a few. In fact you can find nothing in this world than the mystery of God, which to some people in their desperation have divided the Father as almighty and Jesus as mighty.

Likewise Isaiah 9:6 is clear that Jesus is also the everlasting Father and being the basin of the Holy Ghost indwelling, Christ functioned seemingly as the “walk-in” of the Father making Jesus somehow as a stinger in duality with God the Father. The Father and Jesus feel the same emotion, even desperation as they share the same spirit Holy Ghost.

The two of them is in one accord in the mission of saving the world and its inhabitants. Somehow those who experience union with God function also as “walk-ins” of whosoever’s spirit. I don’t know of whose spirit am I such, but I feel the same saga of St. Francis of Assisi with the two of us having similar experience, with mine applied to the modern world.

Somehow, during my stay in Franciscan, I don’t only experience possession of male spirit but of female as well like of St. Therese’s perhaps because I was empty, which later made me possessed by demons also. As I am freed and cleansed, I was unconfined of evil spirits who are in struggle with my God. In my case, the spirits that possessed me first are of human spirits, but I had occasional indwelling of the Father, unlike Jesus who was formed in the image of God since the beginning not only of his likeness but that he was God in appearance since the beginning and did not lose his Divinity in his stay on earth.

This is the wonder of Jesus being completely human yet was absolutely Divine, and with the Holy Ghost entwining them they as Trinity are not separated though each was in oneness with the other. You too are shaped to become bodies indwelt by the Spirit, as God lives by his spirit. This is deep thing to understand but this is the truth because Jesus is an expressed image of the Father united with him though being sent is not superior to the Father but is closely in union that though the Father is not the Spirit or Jesus; Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit are one not just in accord but as One God being the Holy One or the eternal Godhead. They are not just fused as one in dispensation to Tri-Theism or the belief in three gods, that is a fallacy, but one in exact meaning of the word one as in “Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is One Lord.”

God is giving us the chance to repent and has opened his nature for our eyes to see, that the light be placed in a lamp stand on the table for all of us to see. He lives in us as we make people happy, even along with us exchanging jokes and making each other happy. As a seemingly acclaimed “walk-in” and a dual stinger with my Creator, there are times that I feel that I have no gender, but simply as an existence with no name to be proud of, nor reputation to protect but as a property of all in a mission to fulfill the salvation in the world of men, with me seemingly classified as man in plain nature of it.

I have a notion that men should act as men meant for God’s purpose feeling divine possession of the spirit Holy Ghost. Narcissus did fall in love to himself and turned him a flower while I’m deeply in love with God in three Deities but is one, making the Trinity and its oneness indivisible.

God is wiser than all of his creation and he speaks in perfect timing through the Holy Spirit paraclete possessing the Jesus paraclete sharing life, body and soul in a union of Masters for the perfection of the world which they created for their sanctification. They are not slaves of doctrine or religious affiliation but are independent of any human philosophy, not reduced to philosophies of the Romans or the doctrine of just one church.

All become body parts of this God, which different churches become one body of Christ. As we may analyze God is perfect in all his ways, and just to forgive us of our sins, and is gentle and kind and merciful having all qualities rolled as one, truly a person and not just a spirit, and desires a pure vessel for proper indwelling.

God is also silent and meek and knows all and Jesus though a Son being somehow frail is not imperfect but he has the perfection of the Father for the Father and Jesus are not just in accord but are one as in Deutronomy 6:4. Jesus in modern times now speaks plainly of the Father not as my own witness but that there is a Father in heaven that becomes his witness as the spirit Holy Ghost speaks in churches through the gift of tongues, interpretation and prophecy.

God is truly a man or person of his own in the expressed image of the Son though forever divine, holy or sentient being pure, and God can manifest in the person of Jesus Christ truly a God that we may enjoy of his wisdom to our delight. On my part I remain the same ordinary person fancying as a walk-in though I believe in such and had not power except that my chakras are open.

I want to thank God of being him brilliant about everything and luminous as we may have then an abundance of light. Thank you Jesus!

Threefold nature

It was mentioned in Chapter 14 that, “God is manifested as an undivided unity in a threefold nature of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit being of equal substance and are tangible wherefore are called persons.” We have to define the words applied here to obtain clarity of the terms used.

Being equal in substance here means being of the same essence and not of being of a physical matter. It can be conceptualized having essential significance. The Godhead being tangible does not limit its nature as can be touched or felt by touch. The word tangible here means being definite or precise in purpose wherein you can specify its nature; and you can relate it likely to your own.

Lastly, “being tangible wherefore are called persons”, means they being of definite fashion whether visible or intelligible, are classified like the pronouns, as of the three classes of them in grammar. In the baptism of Jesus, the Father was indicated as the speaker (the first person) with Him saying “my” beloved Son; the Son was disclosed as the subject spoken to (the second person, ‘you’ or as in ‘this’); while the Holy Spirit (falling as the third person, ‘He’ though if indicated was found in other scripture texts) was symbolized as the subject spoken somehow attached and is identified to the Godhead being apparent or visible to John the Baptist.

It is revealed in the Old Testament that the word for God is “Elohim” or ‘persons’ (plural) and is different from “El” or ‘person’ (singular) though God in a threefold nature is considered as one thus forming the Trinity in an undivided unity. This explanation reiterates that God being Triune though the Holy ‘One’ is beyond human comprehension and is therefore classified as “a mystery”.

According to a fellow man of God in one of the other Trinitarian churches, “The Trinity is a biblical concept that expresses the dynamic character of God, not just a Greek idea pressed into Scripture from Philosophical or Religious speculation. He further elaborates that while the term Trinity does not appear in the Scripture, the Trinitarian structure appears throughout the New Testament to affirm that God Himself is manifested through Jesus Christ by means of the Spirit.

In the documentation compiled through a certain Jerry M. Henry, it says that two errors appear in history while considering the Trinitarian doctrine. These were ‘Tri-theism (Three-gods)’ and ‘Unitarianism’. In Tri-theism, the error is made by emphasizing the distinctiveness of the Godhead to the point that the Trinity is seen as three separate Gods, or ‘Christian Polytheism’. On the other hand, Unitarianism excludes the concept of distinctiveness while focusing solely on the aspect of God the Father. In this way, Christ and the Holy Spirit are placed in lower categories and made less than divine. Both errors compromise the effectiveness and contribution of the activity of God in redemptive history.

Somehow in the magazine ‘Know the Truth’, a catholic publication, in its banner statement in an article ‘TRINITY’ IN THE BIBLE, it says that those who deny the Divinity of Jesus are compelled to deny the Divine nature of the Holy Spirit. For them, “The Trinity of God” is beyond human understanding. So they deny it. They just forget the fact that God, who created man, can never be a slave of human intelligence. Furthermore, they consider the Holy Spirit as an angel or one of the seven spirits before the throne of God, this doctrine being erroneous as opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic ‘Trinitarians’.

We can find in Genesis 1:26 the following passage: Then God said: “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” In the succeeding verse, it says, “God created man in His image; in the divine image, He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27).” Thus, herein, the likeness of God is plural as He creates both the male and the female human beings, Adam and Eve. To Fr. Paul Kaiparambadan, as Adam and Eve shared one flesh, the Father and the Son shares also in one substance. Adam and Eve were one spirit, just like Father and Son shares one Spirit (Malachi 2:15). Thus, the whole creation becomes the ‘image’ reflection, or mirroring of the manifold life of Divine nature of Trinity.

Likewise, the Lord who came down to see the tower of Babel said, “If now, while they are one people, all speaking in the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do.” Then he further conveyed, “Let Us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says (Genesis 11:5-7),”

Anti-Trinitarians said that the above occurrence of the name of God in the Old Testament being in plural form was possible because he was talking with the angels and cherubim surrounding him. But the above passages clearly testifies that the Triune God is in threefold nature consisting of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, and they converse together even before angels, seraphim and cherubim are created. A great example of God that is plural being in singular form was that occurrence when Jesus called his Father in singular form while he was about to die on the cross. He had these words while on the cross, “El, El, lema sabachtani,” meaning, “My Lord, my Lord, why had you forsaken me.”

God as a single individual “El”, with him defined as Love, is invalid, and without the experience of ‘love’ if there is an absence of the one whom he loves in the person of the Son. Their deeds were made manifest through the Holy Spirit with the Bible saying that the Holy Spirit exists with God in the passage, “Now the Lord has sent me and His Spirit.”

Let us implore the name of the Triune God in our prayers.

Trinity as concept

With the Trinity to my discovery seemingly emerging as the sole truth to the Trinitarians among the plenty of faith explanations in different Christian religions, paraphrased as assessed even in the early Christian faith, though the Godhead maybe be fused as one or are distinguished apart, herein God is manifested as an undivided unity in a threefold nature of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit being of equal substance and are tangible wherefore are called persons.

Though truth is sizeable, if we contemplate what enlightenment we may derive by reading the scriptures asking that we may be inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Trinity is still a mystery where its divine truth are taken as sacred and are beyond our human understanding, even if we struggle our differences in our religious beliefs whether in theological or philosophical arguments.

God being “love” exists as one who loves that one who is loved, and with the result of their love to each other, manifesting as the Spirit Paraclete, that though He was hovering in the face of the waters in the creation, in the time right for God He then took the form of a flesh and is molded with body, soul and spirit just like us who are patterned to the image and likeness of this God who is the only begotten Son in body form.

Even Paul when he came to the disciples in Corinth did not become a proud witness in such a way that he may speak, he instead communicates not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, as he humbly declares to the Corinthians his testimony about God (I Corinthians 2:1). Paul worded his speech in imitation of the Master who having humbled himself (Philippians 2:8), was inclined to empty himself taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance (Philippians 2:7), obedient to death, even death on the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Though we don’t see the word Trinity in the Bible, the Trinity is present in the expressed image of the person of Christ, he having the spirit of the Father present as the spirit Holy Ghost in the body of Jesus. The Trinity was first used by St. Theophilus of Antioch in his book ‘Epistle to Antolycus’ in A.D. 180 with the Trinity having the Greek Word “triados” and the Latin word “trinitas” reiterated also in the magazine ‘Know the Truth’.

It says in the magazine that those who worked behind the creation of the canonical book ‘Bible’ believed and accepted ‘The Trinity’ as God’s revealed truth handed over to them by the apostles. Likewise we believe that the Trinity was biblically viewed as one who having this concept as balanced proves that while there is unity, it also shows distinctiveness among the three persons.

Though the Old Testament shows some features that are related to the ones that can be found in the New Testament, it does not mean that the Godhead is knowable from the Old Testament. The Trinity has opened to us an explanation which attests that the Triune God has distinguishing features, which we can find in the New Testament, yet does not infringe the concept of the oneness of God in the Old Testament. St. Theophilus in his work ‘Modesty’ wrote: “Trinity of the one Divinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit” (chapter 22).

To explain the Trinity in four types of passages, we have Matthew 28:19, Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. As we continue in the next scripture text, it is said, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you (2 Corinthians 13:13). Moreover, Peter as the apostle of Jesus Christ in his greetings to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, said, “in the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: may grace and peace be yours in abundance (1 Peter 1:1-2).” And the fourth type of passage was one that which John did greet the seven churches of Asia: “Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne (Revelation 1:4).

These four passages supports the Trinitarian doctrine with the clearest scriptural reference in the fashion that which each person of the Godhead is distinguished from each other yet they closely relate in their inner relationship being One God in undivided unity.

In reference to the document provided by a fellow Trinitarian church as it is documented by Jerry M. Henry, I Peter 1:2 shows that the Trinitarian formula is followed with allusion to each person of the Godhead. The scattered Christians are reminded through reference to the Trinity that their election (foreknowledge of the Father) and redemption (the sanctifying work of the Spirit) should lead them to the holy living obedience for the Son.

He also explained that though the New Testament depict evidences for asserting the truth about the Trinity presented in a systematic form, the scattered segment from various writers that appear throughout the New Testament reflect a seemingly accepted understanding that exists without a full-length discussion. It is embedded in the framework of the Christian experience and simply assumed as true. He further emphasized that the New Testament writers focus on statements drawn from the obvious existence of the Trinitarian experience as opposed to a detailed exposition.

In bodily form

In a mysterious way, Jesus shared like parted bread, his life and experiences to his apostles and disciples, even to those who had witnessed his works; and nowadays with the manifestation of the Holy Spirit through experiences of its presence in the congregation that we may gain enlightenment by the message we get from the scriptures that would benefit the body of Christ which is the church.

It is the great gift of God that we are seen working together for the improvement of our knowledge about the scriptures and the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, as we are drawn in this end times. It is also a must that we should unveil the truth about the mystery of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ through insights in illumined rays that we may be clarified of the things that puzzles us.

Despite of the misfortunes coming our way, our understanding must be opened that God is not the source of all the evil that we face now because God is the lover of justice. It is with these key words that we are formed according to his image and likeness, not only with the application of the presence of the Spirit, but by the legacy of the good placed in every human heart.

Though Jesus was called the Son of the Most High (Luke 1:32), he is merged with the Father that you can hardly differentiate one from the other. Bible scholars for example have two interpretations on who is the almighty in Revelation 1:8 written as follows: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” One struggles that it is Jesus; the other was saying it was the Father.

Again, we struggle with the Holy Scriptures if we only use knowledge. It has to be coupled with enlightenment from the Holy Spirit. If we move before the scripture text we’ve just read, in verse seven, we read, “Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him.”

Somehow in I Thessalonians 4:16, it says, “For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” If we look further in Zechariah 14:4, it is written, “That then his feet shall rest upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem to the east.”

Of course the Father cannot be seen because he is a pure act and a pure spirit, and it needs a being or a creation for him to be manifested in human form, and that being that proceeds from the act of the Father is the Christ where in him God is manifested in human form or manifested bodily or in flesh. “For in him (Jesus) dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily (Colossians 2:9).”

Still in the deliberation on God who is the Father in heaven being a pure spirit, it says, “No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him (John 1:18).” It only clearly attests that the spirit of the Father (Isaiah 11:2), who is the Holy Ghost dwells in the heart of Jesus secluded in his bodily form making the Trinity possible with the spirit of the Father that is the Holy Ghost present as an active force in the body of Jesus, called the Son of the Most High, making him the one whom the Father rejoices of him with whom all fullness dwell (Colossians 1:19) for he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation (Colossians 1:15).

Accordingly, being a God in human form, he shall say, “I am no prophet, I am the tiller of the soil, for I have owned land since my youth.” And if anyone asks him, “What are these wounds on your chest?” he shall answer, “With these I was wounded in the house of my dear ones” (Zechariah 13:5-6).

These were the same enlightenment spoken by Paul to the Ephesians how that by mystery it was made known to him by revelation, as he have written briefly earlier. When you read this you can understand his insight into the mystery of Christ (Ephesians 3:3-4). It follows; that he then wrote his letter to the Colossians explaining the mystery how Christ being the creation was possessed of the spirit of the Father who is the Holy Ghost, making him (Jesus) both man and God.

In this phase, I was reminded how I had endured writing hundreds of love letters since 1993, with free stationeries even envelopes, writing even some of the letters right in the stationeries in clear handwriting. This is also the reason why I had poor handwriting later because I never did refuse anyone before who ask of me to write a love letter even if I already endure the pain in my fingers.