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Aug. 21, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Sermon #024 - 1 Thessalonians - The RAPTURE and God's multiverse
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Welcome to today's sermon.
I'm Mike Adams, and today we're covering 1 Thessalonians, which is, of course, another letter from Paul.
Paul was quite a writer, wasn't he?
Paul was, I think, the most amazing apostle, quite a teacher, quite a man of faith, and also, you know, he tried to nudge everybody in the right direction.
Basically, he spent many of his years running around to the various churches and saying, hey, get back in line.
Because, of course, they all went off script.
And that's kind of the whole story of the Bible, is mankind turning against God and becoming wicked and turning into perverts and groomers and slavers and drunkards.
And then every once in a while, somebody like Paul comes around and is like, hey, what are you doing?
Paul is like the parent of the ancient people who were acting like silly children.
Anyway, Thessalonians, well, first and second Thessalonians, these are the only two books of the Bible that I'm aware of that are misspelled, a complete typo.
Because, of course, Paul is speaking to the people of Thessalonica or Thessalonica, depending on how you wish to pronounce it.
And, you know, technically, for example, you're speaking to the people of Corinth, you would call them Corinthians, which is, of course, the name of, you know, first and second Corinthians, also letters from Paul.
Or, let's say, if you were speaking to a group of people from Egypt, you would call them, what, Egyptians, right?
Mm-hmm.
So, if you were going to speak to a group of people from Thessalonica, or Thessalonica, what would be the correct term?
It would be Thessalonicians, right?
Right?
Thessalonians.
But it got shortened to Thessalonians, which is a typo.
Just saying.
This is a major typo in the Bible.
Nevertheless, it does not take away from the important lessons of the Bible, but I cringe every time that people say Thessalonians.
What about the sea?
What about the eka?
Eka.
That would be like if you were speaking to a group of people from Macedonia and you just lost the D and you just called them Massians instead of Macedonians, right?
That's the same to shorten Thessalonians to Thessalonians.
Anyway, aside from that, this is a very interesting book.
So, chapter 1 of Thessalonians is Paul saying, hey church, what's up?
Let's all give praise to God, and it's awesome that you did really good stuff before.
Okay, that's all chapter 1.
Now, we get to chapter 2.
And in chapter 2, he talks about the persecution of Christ and the Christian church by the Judeans, right?
So, Chapter 2, verse 14, For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God, and this is a compliment, of course, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus.
For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans, who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men for So what he's saying here is,
hey, we're all being persecuted, and the Judeans murdered Christ, and they also prevented us from preaching the word of Christ to the Gentiles.
In other words, the Judeans, or Israelites, were I know it's not exactly the same thing, but I will use them semi-synonymously here.
They were very much opposed to Christ and the teachings of Christ, even Christ living.
That's why they killed him.
And Paul is saying that actually part of being a Christian is to share in the persecution or to walk in the persecution that Christ endured.
So in other words...
Don't be surprised if you're persecuted as a Christian, especially by the Judeans.
And then in chapter 3, as Paul writes, he's talking about all the wonderful things that the people of Thessalonica have done who are Christians.
And how they've embraced the teachings of God and so on.
But then in chapter 4, he begins to correct them.
And this is something that Paul does routinely.
We've covered this in other sermons.
And he does this in a very gentle fashion because he's speaking to people that may have strayed from the church in ways that can be corrected.
In other words, he's not speaking to like full-blown demons or full-blown Satanists that hate humanity and murder babies.
He's speaking to people who have strayed from the faith.
And so in chapter 4, verse 3, he says, For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from sexual immorality.
Right?
This is a common theme that Paul is reminding, especially members of the church, basically.
Well, you remember in previous sermons we've covered this, like in 1 Timothy, you know, stop showing up to church dressed like a whore.
Right?
Verse 4, he says, That each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
He's basically saying, don't run around like fornicating animals, right?
I mean, that's my paraphrase.
Yes, I will paraphrase Paul into the year 2024, the present day, and put in a little bit of street lingo as necessary.
But respectfully, I'm trying to be true to the word of Paul, just sort of translated into the modern time and sometimes very much shortened because Paul was very flowery.
You know, he would spend an entire chapter thanking and greeting, you know, Praise be to Jesus Christ and the living God.
And then he would say what he wanted to say.
And then he would end with like five poems, you know.
So he was kind of long-winded.
It goes on to verse 6, that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such.
And we also forewarned you and testified.
In other words, stop cheating, fellow people.
Huh?
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
So remember, we've talked about the issue of cleanliness and purity, and also purity of blood, which is important to protect through morality.
So, in other words, sexual immorality contaminates your blood because you are sharing your You know, pathogens or sexually transmitted diseases or whatever with multiple sex partners, and it does affect your blood.
And so it makes you unclean.
And so here he says in verse 7, For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
Therefore, he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us his Holy Spirit.
In other words, he's saying, hey, if you run around fornicating like animals, then you are rejecting God.
Even though Christ gave his life for you.
Now, of course, in this chapter of Thessalonians, we're going to get into the concept of the rapture, which I know is highly controversial.
And I know there are lots of different views and opinions on what the rapture means.
But let's read the words here.
Because Paul, in this letter, he's writing about the comfort expectation of the return of Christ and why it matters to be a person who walks in alignment with the teachings of Christ.
And then he talks about being caught up together in the clouds.
And he's not talking about the cloud where you store your photos on your iPhone.
So let's get into this.
Verse 13, he says, But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
Now, when he says concerning those who have fallen asleep, this is very interesting terminology because this coincides strongly with the way we use We say that when someone is ignorant of what's happening in the world, we say they're asleep.
And when someone is well aware, we say they're awake.
And sometimes we might share stories with each other like, when did you awaken?
Or when did you wake up?
And someone will say, well, I woke up in 2016.
Or I woke up, you know, in the COVID pandemic.
I woke up when they told us we had to wear masks or whatever.
There are lots of different events where people say, I woke up.
And then the other people who didn't wake up, you know, some of those people are still driving around in their cars wearing masks by themselves.
Okay, okay.
That's called being asleep.
And it's interesting that Paul uses the same terminology in much the same way, even though this is, of course, you know, many, many centuries ago.
So I think that's fascinating.
Verse 16, he says,"...for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout." With the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first.
So now you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Step back.
Let's absorb this.
Okay.
Again, verse 16.
You're like, you thought this was going to be just a letter from Paul, and now it's like cosmic fracturing of the multidimensional system is opening up in the sky.
So this is more than just a letter to the Thessalonians, as I would say, that have been written as a typo in the Bible.
But again, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.
Okay, so a lot of this is obviously metaphor.
So this means, of course, The return of Christ, Christ being the personification of the Lord, of God.
So the Creator expressed Himself in the form and the image of a man.
And that man is named Jesus, Jesus Christ.
And Jesus Christ is the Son of God for this very reason.
But Jesus Christ is also the human being.
Projection or personification of God Himself.
So when it says the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, to me this means two things.
It could be the return of Christ, or it could be God the Creator returning in a form that is larger than the personification of Christ.
In other words, Christ and more.
Christ and God, possibly.
It doesn't really say in the Bible what this means.
But it just says the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.
Now what does it mean with a shout?
Does this mean an actual audible command?
Like, hey y'all from the sky?
Probably not.
It probably means some kind of commandment.
Some kind of cosmic, biblical shout which could be maybe a great...
Psychic awakening, like he touches everyone's consciousness at the same time to say, I am here.
And that could be the way the Lord shouts to people.
Now, let me bring in something here that's very interesting that happened to me.
And this happened on June 12th, I believe 2021, when I was visited by Audibly, audibly, by the Archangel Michael.
This is the second and the last time that angels have spoken directly to me.
It's only happened two times in my life.
I told you the first time, which saved my life during a freezing ice storm when a tree almost fell and crushed me when I was in college.
And at that time, the voice told me to walk around the perimeter of the tree, which I did, and then it crashed down right where I would have been.
So an angel saved my life when I was, what, like 21 or something like that.
But I didn't hear any word from any angel for all those years since until 2021.
Again, June, oh, did I say June 6th?
No, June 12th.
Because it's 6-12, so it's the month of 6 and the day of 12, okay?
So it's June 12, excuse me if I misstated that.
June 12, 2021 is when this happened.
I was awakened in the morning after having a great sleep, full night of sleep.
I was awakened with a piercing, loud, audible voice.
That spoke very clearly, spoke to me.
It was the voice of a man, a man speaking, I would say, just regular English, but sort of the voice of a heroic type of person, a voice of confidence, a voice of manliness, you know, but a voice of calm.
It was not an alert.
It was not any kind of alarm or command.
It was simply a matter-of-fact voice.
And the voice said very clearly, I heard it as clearly as I hear anything, said very simply, I am Michael and I have arrived.
And that was it.
And then, of course, I came to know that that was the archangel Michael that had spoken to me But I heard it audibly.
Now, understand, you know I don't drink alcohol.
You know I don't take drugs.
I'm not on any prescription medications.
I'm not on psychedelics.
I don't do psychedelic mushrooms.
I don't do recreational drugs.
I don't take in psychoactive substances.
That's not part of what I do.
So this was not a hallucination.
This was also not a dream.
I was awake, eyes open, alert, aware.
I had already awakened.
And then after I had awakened, this voice came to me.
It was startling.
My heart raced.
Because I looked around, like, who's talking to me?
Like, where is this voice coming from?
Right?
And it seemed to be coming from all around.
It wasn't off to the right.
It wasn't, you know, straight ahead.
It wasn't above.
It was everywhere.
The voice penetrated everything all around me, and it spoke as clear as day.
I am Michael, and I have arrived.
And finally, after my heart rate kind of calmed down a little bit, and I found myself asking, and what else?
I'm like, is there part two to this?
And there wasn't.
I'm like, what do I do with that?
What do I do?
So I took it upon myself to learn something about the Archangel Michael.
Who is a very interesting figure, also a warrior of truth, but a defender of the innocent as well.
And I think we'll do a sermon about Archangel Michael.
But the reason I even bring this up is because, you know, here we are in verse 17 of chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians.
It says, again, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.
Well, I've heard that.
An angelic voice.
I've experienced that.
And so this isn't an odd idea to me.
And I know many of you have had angels or Jesus himself or God himself has spoken to you at various moments throughout your life or guided you in certain directions or maybe halted you from doing something that would not have been a great idea.
And so this is not an alien idea for many of us, if not most of us.
So I believe that this is more literal.
Like the Lord does come to us when it says descend from heaven.
Well, heaven is a different dimension.
So heaven is not, you know, just in the upper atmosphere, right?
It's convenient to think of it that way, heaven above and hell below.
But in fact, heaven is a different dimension, right?
It's a different dimensional space way beyond these three dimensions.
And hell is also a different dimension.
It's not like deep underground as if you kept drilling deeper and deeper that you would find hell.
No, you'd probably just find oil.
Or eventually magma, you know.
We found molten iron.
Oh great, try not to let it out or we'll lose the magnetosphere.
But in any case, heaven and hell are different dimensional spaces.
And that's one of the reasons why God is everywhere.
God is omnipotent and omniscient because he exists outside and, let's say, as a superposition of the limited construct of the three-dimensional space and the very linear progressive flow of time that we live in.
God isn't limited to those things.
God can move throughout time.
Forward, backward, actually all time exists simultaneously to the mind of God.
And that's why when God writes the Bible, or let's say speaks through others who write the words of the Bible, or speaks through Moses in the Old Testament, or speaks through Paul, the things that God is laying out, or even you could say in the book of Revelation, speaking through John, whichever John that was, The things that God says are multi-dimensional and multi-temporal in their meaning.
There's a lot of debate about, oh, this verse in the book of Revelation, it must be speaking about only this one year, this one time, this one event.
Or some people say, no, that was 70 AD. That already happened.
It's already done.
That's it.
It's done.
What if, because God is a multi-dimensional, multi-temporal consciousness, super-intelligence, supernatural intelligence, what if God encoded in the words of the Bible events that happen repeatedly or cyclically?
I believe that is the case.
I believe the Bible contains truth for each time, each generation, for each millennia.
And if it's true in one instance, it doesn't make it false for other instances.
Okay, I hope I'm not getting too sort of cosmic or philosophical in this, but this is important to keep in mind that God is a supernatural creator, intelligence, being of sorts.
I mean, I don't mean a physical being, but way beyond a physical being.
And that the universe in which we live is It's a very small projection of all the possibilities that exist.
We are in one, you might say from a physics point of view, we are in one collapsed rendition of the superpositions of possible multiverses.
And God oversees all the multiverses because he created them all.
And he can move throughout the multiverses in any way he wishes.
He can move from one realm to another.
So when they say that the Lord himself will return, or Christ will return, the Lord will descend from heaven, what it can mean is that God is just sort of blipping into this universe, As he's making the rounds, he's cruising around, maybe checking out all the different universes across the great multiverse that he created, and he's checking them out and saying, hmm, this one's interesting.
You know, in this one, he's talking about Earth, they poison the food supply and murder their babies.
Maybe we should fix some of this.
I don't know.
This is the craziest one we've found yet.
He's probably telling his buddies, like, look, we found the only universe in the entire multiverse where they say it's science that men can get pregnant and have babies.
This is crazy!
It's almost like Earth has become a tourist attraction of wickedness and evil.
At least that's what I imagine.
If God had a museum...
Of wickedness and weirdness and just, I don't know, mass mental illness, you know?
Earth in the present day, at least in Western civilization, that would be the showcase.
Like, welcome to the museum of perversion and twistedness.
Anyway, okay, continuing.
So then it says in verse 16 that he'll descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel.
And with the trumpet of God.
So here we go.
The voice of an archangel.
Well, that's what I heard on June 12th, 2021.
The voice of Michael.
Very clearly a calm but masculine male, angelic, heroic voice.
And with the trumpet of God.
I did not hear trumpets.
But there was a time that I was awakened by mice in my house who did sound like a trumpet.
And I don't know if you've ever had a mouse.
I'm not claiming that this is the trumpet of what God is talking about.
It's just a side note, a tangential thought.
But have you ever heard mice?
Have you ever heard mice sound like little trumpets?
Have you ever heard that?
Well, I don't know, maybe they're rats or mice or something, but I had a mouse infestation about a year ago that was pretty bad because I don't like to kill mice with mousetraps, so I have to live capture them all and then relocate them.
So it's a tedious thing of trying to rescue and relocate a bunch of mice because I don't like mousetraps.
I think they're too cruel to mice because sometimes they don't always...
I'm very compassionate towards animals, even mice.
It sounds silly, but that's the way I am.
That's my heart.
I don't want any animal to suffer.
And mice are mammals, by the way.
Mice are mammals.
So I don't want any being or animal to suffer.
So I capture them live.
And if you get behind on that, then there can be quite a few.
And when mice get numerous in your house, I discovered, they will begin to talk to each other.
And they can make a lot of noises, at least the mice here in Texas.
And one night, I'm telling you, they sounded like a mouse trumpet, like...
And I woke up and I was like, what is going on?
I'm going to have like a brass band of varmints in the house here.
It's like, welcome to today's band.
We got Mickey Mouse on the trumpet.
And we got Ricky the rat on the tuba.
And this is just what happens in my house.
And I was like, this is crazy.
I've never heard mice sound like trumpets here before.
Crickety cricket on the tambourine.
Hard to sleep through all that, right?
Anyway, I don't think that the Bible is talking about an actual trumpet.
I think this is simply a consciousness announcement.
It would be more like a trumpet of the mind.
Like your mind would go, whoa, what was that?
Like touched by God, all of a sudden everybody's mind just tunes in and God's like, I'm here.
And it would be like, ta-da!
But I mean at a mental level.
And everybody, like the world will change in that moment.
Everybody will realize, whoa!
Whoa, God is real!
Actually, something's happening.
This is really interesting.
A grand awakening, okay?
Or at least a tap on the shoulder of your mind.
Like, tap, tap, tap.
This is God.
I'm back!
You know, and everybody, especially all the Satanists, would be like, whoa!
What have we been doing this whole time?
You know, in the abortion centers, like, they'll put down the scalpels.
Huh?
What?
You're interrupting our rituals here, the demon rituals.
But you get the idea.
So God is going to tap everybody on the shoulder, mentally speaking, and say, I'm here.
And then it says, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
So it's saying that those who died as believers, their souls will rise first.
What does that mean?
Their souls will be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven.
That's what that means.
Now, I don't know why their souls weren't already welcomed into the kingdom of heaven.
I don't know, have their souls been in stasis this whole time?
Is it a timeless deep freeze?
Is it a soul freeze?
Which sounds like a Slurpee at 7-Eleven or something.
Yeah, I'll take a large soul freeze, please.
But whatever it is, he's saying that the dead in Christ, the believers, will rise first.
Okay.
I accept that.
And then verse 17, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, talking about the dead souls that are rising, with them in the clouds, that is, in the other dimension, right?
The supernatural universe.
Superposition dimension of heaven to meet the Lord in the air.
Now, again, it doesn't mean air.
It doesn't mean air.
It means in the hyper dimension where God brings us together.
And thus, we shall always be with the Lord.
So what this means is that we are going to be recalled from this earthly realm to rejoin the Lord, our creator, in the hyperdimensional reality known as heaven.
Now, here's something really interesting to think about.
What if the human experience is just a way for God, our creator, to experience life in billions of different ways through billions of different eyes and different experiences?
And what if you, you who think that you are an isolated identity, you think you are your own person and that your soul is this capsule that is separated from all other souls.
And you think that when you go to heaven, your soul is still separate.
Like you're going to walk around in heaven like the individual person you are today.
And you're going to meet other people in heaven, people that died before you.
And they're still going to be the same people they were here on earth today.
And that might be kind of boring, by the way, but that's not what this is going to be like.
What if when the souls in Christ are caught up together to meet in the clouds with the Lord, what if this is a recalling of the souls back to the great union of our Creator, and that's when we become one with the Creator, which is where we started.
And that in that process, the individuation, if I can say it that way, of what you have experienced on this earth as being separate from other people, that individuation fades away.
And in joining with the Lord, we are joining with all the souls that He has.
We're not allowed to have the adventure of life on earth as a projection, a little tiny sliver of the consciousness of the mind of God.
Did that offend anybody to say that?
I hope not.
I hope not because we are all connected to God.
As a result, none of us is separate.
We're not really separate from all the other people.
We're all children of God, which means we're all expressions of God's consciousness.
The gift of life and consciousness, I believe, is God taking a little sliver of himself and sending it to us at the moment of conception and then filling our bodies and our minds with the living water of life and consciousness.
And granting us that gift through our entire lives.
And then when we finish this life and all the experiences and all the lessons and all the Bitcoin you've collected or whatever.
No, I mean all the moral lessons, all the mistakes, all the achievements, all the good things that you've done, all the things you wish you could redo.
All of that, that all then collapses back into God's consciousness, which is what it means to go to heaven.
You join with God in eternal love at that moment.
And that is what the rapture may very well be, is a rejoining with the mind of God.
Have you ever thought about it that way?
And in verse 18 it says, Therefore comfort one another with these words.
In other words, we're all going to rejoin with God, all of us who have faith, who are with Christ, right?
Now, some people will go to hell, and that will be eternal damnation.
That's a different dimensional experience.
And really, hell is often described as separation from God.
It's just separation.
So if you've lived a life of evil and sin and wickedness and all the things that are talked about, you know, especially by Paul, then you're not allowed to rejoin with God.
Just as in the Old Testament, if you were unclean, you weren't allowed to enter the tabernacle.
See, it's the same thing at a multidimensional level.
If you are unclean at the soul level, you're not allowed to rejoin with God's spirit, which means you cannot reconnect.
And so you spend eternity in separation from he who created you.
And that is the greatest torture of all.
That is hell, is separation from God.
So the way I see the rapture, and by the way, I absolutely welcome other interpretations of the rapture.
I do not claim to have the one and only explanation.
This is difficult stuff.
A lot of these are metaphors.
A lot of these depend on your philosophies, belief systems, or your knowledge of the Bible.
And many of you listening may have far greater academic knowledge than Or experiential knowledge than do I. But the way that I see this is that the rapture is speaking about rejoining God at the soul level.
Joining the union of the one loving God, the creator of all that is.
Now, here's a question that will blow your mind.
What kind of event here in this realm would result in that?
Now, if you think about something called simulation theory, and people who believe in simulation theory say that this reality, this three-dimensional reality, is in essence an artificial construct.
That it's created as a simulation, and that our consciousness has been thrust into the simulation to play out our lives.
But that it's not real, real.
It's It's an artificial construct.
Some people believe it's happening inside a giant computer or a giant AI machine, or some people believe that superintelligent extraterrestrials set up this simulation and somehow put us into it.
But I say that simulation theory, at least the basic pillars of it, are equivalent to what the Bible teaches in the sense that God created the hyperdimensional reality of superpositions and possibilities.
And then God created this one universe that we inhabit right now, which is a kind of simulation.
It's a tiny little slice of reality.
It's not the full reality.
It's a tiny little slice of reality.
And then God blesses us with life and souls and consciousness to come in and experience this reality.
Well, what would it mean to rejoin God, all of us at the same time, during the rapture?
What would it mean?
It would mean that God closes the simulation.
In other words, God, with the snap of his God fingers, he could just say, okay, we're done with that simulation.
Let's close it out.
And then, shoof, All of the cosmos that we know just like gets sucked into one point and then vanishes.
And of course, all of our biological lives are over.
And it's talk about a great reset.
This is the cosmic great reset.
And all lives, instantly, the souls either join God or are separated from God.
So all the souls go to either heaven or hell in that instant, in that moment, and the universe ceases to exist.
And it's like, game over, man!
Game over!
Well, you know, the simulation is done.
And then your soul joins God and you and God look back on the simulation and you go, wow, was that crazy or what?
And you start reviewing the simulation.
You're like, that was bonkers.
We spent our lives looking at screens, you know, or whatever you did.
Looking at screens.
It's like half of human experience now.
All we did is look at screens.
So, in other words, I believe in the concept of the rapture in a big cosmic way.
I don't personally believe that it is literal.
I don't believe that Well, for example, what do they say?
Left behind.
I don't think that in one day that all of the people who believe in Christ will vanish and then everybody else who is not a person of faith will be left behind and they'll wonder, well, where did all the Jesus people go?
I think that is a Hollywood version of Of what the rapture will be?
Now again, that's just my opinion, and I don't condemn you if you have a different view.
I'm totally fine with lots of different views on this.
I just ask you to at least consider the view I'm offering here as well.
I think that this is the ending of the simulation, frankly.
And just like God ended Sodom and Gomorrah, Well, how do they do that?
Giant flaming space rocks.
That's probably child's play for God.
He's like, yeah, let's send some space rocks to this evil city where they're doing crazy fornications and probably child trafficking and grooming and pedophilia and all kinds of craziness and sodomy, whatever, immoral sexual acts.
He's like, let's hit them with space rocks!
Right?
That's nothing for God.
That's nothing compared to, of course, what He's capable of doing.
What about on a planetary scale?
As much of our planet has become so infested with evil, how would God end a planet or reboot a planet?
Well, I guess there are a number of ways He could hit it with another planet, like Planet X or something.
Or you could make it explode.
Or you could just end the whole simulation.
It's like, game over.
And then everybody's soul is like, hey, what just happened?
I was in the middle of binge watching a Netflix episode and then the whole universe ended.
What's going on?
So anyway, all jokes aside, let me ask you this.
If that day came tomorrow, let's just say it happened in the way that I'm describing here.
Let's say that God just reboots the whole universe that we know, which is just a little tiny slice of what he has already created.
Remember, he's created an infinite multiverse of, you know, again, infinite says it all.
An infinite number of other dimensions with other star systems and galaxies and life forms and other conscious beings all over the place.
He's already created all that.
If he's not happy with this one, he could just reset it, just like Sodom and Gomorrah.
And if that happens tomorrow, what would you say about the life you've lived?
Looking back on what you've done.
Looking back on what you've accomplished or what was in your heart.
How much did you do to help people?
Did you operate with honesty and integrity?
Did you do what was right, even when people weren't looking?
Are you happy with your life?
And if the answer is not happy enough, I mean, I assume most of you listening to this, you're overall probably pretty happy with your life because you've probably done some pretty amazing things.
And I'm honored to know you because I think we're all in good company.
We're all among amazing people who have done amazing things.
But in whatever time we have left, because every day, every moment is a gift from God, every day of consciousness is a gift from God, what else can we do to get closer to God in the time we have remaining?
There's a question for you.
And I've been thinking about this question a lot lately, which is why, I mean, it's one of the reasons why I've decided to do these sermons today.
And it's one of the reasons why I'm continuing to build on this concept of a church and a congregation, a gathering of like minds who believe in this.
We need to take every day as precious for the rest of our days here, whether it's 10 days or 10 years or more.
We need to spend it wisely.
We need to carry out acts that are in alignment with our Creator.
Things that we would be satisfied to share with our Creator when that day comes and it's game over and all of our souls converge back on the one true Creator.
And then guess what?
Everything's transparent, right?
You review your life and God reviews your life.
The God, the Creator, looks at your life because it's an expression of His consciousness, you see.
He immediately knows what it was like to live as you, to make the decisions that you made, to have the achievements that you accomplished and the mistakes, the transgressions that you committed.
He knows what it was like to experience the emotions of joy that Fear, or hatred, or anger, or love, or forgiveness.
All these things, he can experience them best through you, because he, as the ultimate creator, he can't go through those things as a human being, except, well, by creating Jesus Christ, a projection of God in human form.
But even then, to experience the full spectrum of everything that a human is capable of experiencing, you would have to live out lives of billions of humans, wouldn't you?
And that's exactly what God has done.
And that's who we are.
So when I say we are children of God, what I actually mean is we are eternally tied to God, the Creator.
We are part of Him.
He lives through us.
Here's something to think about.
Okay.
When someone dies, let's say that they're on a scale, you know, how much they weigh.
Someone's laying on a scale, and it says, oh, they're 150 pounds.
And they're alive, and they're breathing.
And then they die.
How much do they weigh?
Oh, they still weigh 150 pounds, don't they?
Because alive or dead, the body is still the same.
But there's something qualitatively different, obviously.
The life has left them.
The life is not material.
Clearly, the life is spiritual.
The life is the gift from God.
And the life can be revoked.
And when the life ends, it either rejoins God or it spends eternity in separation from God.
And that's called hell.
So there is a quality of our existence that cannot be measured by any analytical instruments of our time.
It can't be weighed.
It can't be seen.
It can't be drawn.
It can't be photographed.
It is something that gives us life, which is the most precious gift we have of all.
More precious than any bones or blood or sinew or fiber or skin.
The most precious thing we have is something that you can't even see.
And it's something that we need to earn.
We've been given it as an advance.
God gave it to us as an advance.
Like, here, have this gift.
Now spend a lifetime earning it.
And what we do with our life determines whether we earn that gift or if we forfeit it and default on the advance.
You see what I mean?
So let us spend our lives earning the gift that we've been given.
And to do that is to behave in alignment with the teachings of Christ and God through Jesus Christ, and the Bible shows us the way.
And this is one of the reasons why I'm now sharing these sermons, because We live in a world of miracles all around us.
Our lives, our consciousness, this is a miracle.
I teach the miracles of molecules from plants and Mother Nature and natural medicine.
These are gifts from God.
I mean, where do you think all these plants came from?
Where did all these nutrients come from?
Where did the table of elements come from?
Where did the laws of chemistry come from?
All came from God.
This is all from the mind of God.
It's all a gift.
Are we earning that gift or are we tossing it away frivolously with unknowing?
That's the question of our time.
And I think, frankly, this is a lot of what Paul keeps trying to teach over and over again, except that most of the people Paul is trying to reach are just silly little children not even capable of even understanding this kind of talk, right?
I think Paul would agree with that.
Paul is just trying to get people to stop dressing like whores and stop fornicating in the churches and stop trafficking children and all this stuff.
But if he could get past that...
And if the people would behave a little better, then I think Paul could spend more time talking to them about how do we join God?
What is God?
What is the supernatural creator of our universe?
And how do we walk in alignment with God?
And he did teach a lot of that in other letters, other books, and so on.
So this is where I think the rubber meets the road, so to speak, cosmically or biblically.
And this is why I say The main themes of the Bible are not that complicated.
It's really just a couple of themes over and over and over again, stated in different ways with different poems, different prayers, and different psalms and hymns.
It's the same themes.
And the overall summary of the Bible, although I've said this in a more crude way, In another context, I would say the overall summary is stop being wicked.
This is, let's say, the voice of God.
Stop being wicked if you want to be one with me.
That's it.
Stop being wicked and then you'll be welcome home.
And almost everything in the Bible is really about that.
Stop being wicked.
There's all kinds of different ways to be wicked.
They're all named.
There's all kinds of ways to be good.
There are numerous reminders of all the ways to be good.
But it's just the same theme.
The same theme over and over again.
And this is why you don't technically have to know every book and verse and chapter of the Bible in order to be a good person.
You don't have to.
You can walk in alignment with what God desires for you without knowing chapter and verse.
Obviously.
You don't have to be able to cite it in order to walk it.
Sometimes it helps to have reminders, but for some people it becomes self-evident what's good versus wicked.
I think that my walks in nature help me do that organically.
If you observe nature, it really helps you observe humanity.
And it gives you a lot of self-introspection about your own behaviors as well.
The more I walk in nature, the closer I am to God.
And I've been walking in nature daily for, what is it, 14 years now, something like that.
Every walk is a prayer.
Every single walk in nature is a prayer.
Sometimes I pray silently, sometimes I pray out loud.
Usually when I'm walking alone, I pray out loud.
When I'm walking with someone else, I'll pray silently.
And when I'm walking with my animals, I'm usually like, no, don't eat that!
Right?
So now I'm being Paul.
When my dogs are trying to eat the donkey poo, then I'm Paul.
Silly children, stop eating the donkey poo!
You know?
Paul the Apostle talking to the Thessalonians, right?
Or the Corinthians.
Think about it.
Think about it, right?
It's the same thing.
Yes.
All right.
I hope you enjoyed this today.
I hope I've given you a lot to think about.
Take it deep.
Go ahead and think about it more yourself.
I'm Mike Adams, and we've got 100 sermons for you to enjoy.
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And God bless you all.
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