It All Makes Sense

I had one of my stranger revelations today, so I’m going to write about it.

It’s frustrating, sharing things you know come from God. Nearly no one listens. Very few people get doctrine or information from God. Almost all Christians rely on things other people told them. They rely on terrible, Satanic stuff that comes to them through official denomination literature, or they repeat nonsense that comes from personality-cult preachers like Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyer.

God is the only reliable source for doctrine, you should be hearing it from him. He’s better than the Bible itself. People who don’t have God’s help misunderstand the Bible so it does them no good. Remember the story of Philip.

Before I get to today’s revelation, I’ll mention something that came to me a day or so ago. It has to do with study.

I read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a dead preacher who was an intellectual. He believed we had to study our way to enlightenment. He’s not alone. Many Christians feel this way. The Jews are much worse. They spend much more time reading garbage from commentators than they do the Bible itself, and they think prophets no longer exist.

Here’s the revelation I got: if study is the way to understand God, why is it there is NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in the Bible who studied his way to God? Name one person who got God’s attention and favor because he was smart. One. Good luck. You’ll never find him, because he isn’t there.

“Solomon was wise.” Yes. Because God imparted wisdom to him supernaturally. Show me where it says he became wise through study. Solomon didn’t read religious books. He wrote them.

Who knew God and was close to him? Let’s see.

David was a great prophet, and he was a shepherd. Amos was a prophet, and he was a shepherd. Jeremiah was a kid, not an old bearded scholar. Elisha was a farmer. The disciples were ignorant fishermen, a tax collector, and a doctor, among other things. No rabbis. Not one priest.

John the Baptist was the son of a priest, but he was not a priest.

Daniel was smart, but God gave him visions and sent him angels, so no credit for that.

Jephthah was the son of a whore.

Paul was very highly educated, but regarding his studies and the doctrine he learned, he said he counted it all garbage or feces, depending on what the word “skybala” meant to him when he wrote it.

You will never find a great man of God who succeeded through study.

You will find that great men of God had success handed to them supernaturally.

So why has the church pushed study as the way for almost two thousand years?

It’s insanity. It never worked in the Bible, and the supernatural approach is the only one that did work, so why aren’t we choosing the supernatural approach? Even Jesus was uneducated. And he was not omniscient, regardless of what people claim. An omniscient being could not be tempted by doubt, and Jesus was tempted in every way, according to the Bible.

It’s obvious why it’s so hard for me to tell anyone anything. They’re stuck on gossip and rumors. The Talmud is gossip. Catholicism is built on gossip. Much of what Protestant churches teach is gossip.

To understand what God has told me, you also have to hear from God. He has to make it resonate in your heart. If you’re not baptized with the Spirit and praying in tongues, you will receive little if anything.

So, back to today’s revelation. I was thinking of Douglas Adams. I consider him the smartest humorist among ones I’ve read. Smarter than Rabelais, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Twain, Heller…any of them. His jokes weren’t always the funniest, but they were brilliant. He came up with the Infinite Improbability Drive, for example.

He wrote a series of books about Arthur Dent, an earthling who was rescued from Earth immediately prior to its demolition. The first book was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the last was Mostly Harmless.

The first book begins with Arthur Dent lying in front of a bulldozer which is about to destroy his house in England. It’s about to be destroyed so a road can be built. He was surprised to see the bulldozers because the publication of the news was essentially hidden by uncaring bureaucrats.

His friend Ford Prefect, who is actually an alien, convinces Arthur to get up and go to a pub with him. He tells him the world is about to be destroyed by Vogons, an alien race that handles the galaxy’s bureaucratic affairs. They’re destroying the world because they want to build the equivalent of a highway in space.

The reason for the pub visit is to get beer and peanuts. These things supposedly helped people who used alien technology to hitch rides on spaceships. Ford helps Arthur get aboard the Vogon ship.

Arthur has no idea how to get by in space, so Ford gives him an electronic book which is essentially a tablet. The title is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ford and the book get him through. In the end, Arthur learns about the meaning and origin of the universe.

I’ve only read the first three books.

Thinking about Arthur Dent made me think about The Book of Eli.

The Book of Eli is a ridiculous Denzel Washington movie which was clearly inspired by the Holy Spirit. It’s all metaphors. Humanity has a nuclear war. The people who survive live in poverty. No food grows. There is almost no drinking water anywhere. Anyone who has it can tell others what to do. Somehow, no one seems to have a Bible.

You can see how ridiculous it is already. Stored food would disappear in a hurry if we couldn’t grow things, and there is no reason to think nuclear war would cause a global drought. Nuclear war would not destroy all the Bibles in the world.

If you keep reading, I’ll spoil the movie for you. Denzel, a former KMart worker, has a Bible. His mission is to preserve it. He hears God telling him things. By listening to God, he makes his way across the country safely. He fights and kills all sorts of people who try to harm him. His fighting abilities are amazing. He wins effortlessly and with no doubt he will prevail.

He ends up in a battle with Gary Oldman’s character, Carnegie, who runs a crummy little town and owns a water supply he keeps hidden. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible, and he tries to take it because he believes the Bible can be used to control people.

Carnegie and Eli get shot, Eli escapes, and Carnegie gets the Bible. Eli keeps going to the West Coast, where he dictates the entire Bible to a publisher who is preserving old books for the human race. Eli has memorized the Bible. Carnegie opens the Bible he stole and finds out it’s in Braille. Eli is blind. No one knew this because Eli behaved and moved like a person with perfect vision. God guided him.

To a Spirit-filled Christian, it’s obvious God helped write the movie.

Eli is what a Christian should be, sort of. He knows God personally. He hears from him all day, every day. God guides him and protects him. God provides his mission and defeats his enemies.

We are supposed to walk by faith, not by sight. Eli’s blindness is a reference to this.

Carnegie is a picture of powerful, greedy preachers who use the Bible to control people and who use their stooges to persecute those who know God. I have dealt with preachers’ stooges a lot.

Carnegie’s inability to read the Bible is a reference to the blindness of people who aren’t baptized with the Holy Spirit. Like the Ethiopian eunuch, they can’t see what’s in front of them until God explains it. The word is in front of Carnegie, but he can’t understand it.

Eli’s memorization of the Bible is a reference to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are supposed to rely primarily on the Holy Spirit, not the Bible. The Bible can be taken from us. It can be twisted so we misunderstand it. The Holy Spirit can’t be taken away or misrepresented.

Eli’s physical blindness is a minor inconvenience. Carnegie’s spiritual blindness is what destroys him.

I was thinking about these things, and then I thought about Arthur Dent and myself.

I’m sure God told me to make beer. I am pretty sure the purpose is to celebrate the rapture. Beer is a celebration beverage. Like wine. I’m sure God is coming for us soon, and we will be removed from this world. I also know the world will be destroyed after I leave, assuming I’m taken with the ones God favors.

I don’t have Ford Prefect or the electronic book. I do have a different extraterrestrial helper and a different book. I have the Holy Spirit and the Bible.

The Holy Spirit is, literally, an extraterrestrial. “Extraterrestrial” literally means, “not from Earth.”

“Ford” means a submerged bridge, and “prefect” means a type of priest. A bridge allows you to cross water to another place. The word says there are waters in the heavens between us and God. In the Bible, going through water appears several times as a picture of moving toward God.

When I’m taken, many of my questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe will be answered, but the answers I get will be real answers, not silly answers like the ones Arthur Dent got.

The parallels are striking.

I think The Hitchhiker’s Guide was inspired by God. Douglas Adams was an angry atheist, and the man who wrote The Book of Eli is also an atheist. Doesn’t matter. God can speak through atheists and pagans when he wants.

You really need to speak in tongues, ask for correction, and ask for help to spend time with God. If you do these things, everything else should take care of itself.