Give It to God in the Love of Jesus

by Stephen Duff

Overview

Many questions arise as to where we fit as Christians and non-Christians with the Soul and Spirit aspects of our being, and thus how this actually in works our lives. The author Stephen Duff takes us step by step on an unfolding journey of discovery from our normal considerations into a deeper understanding of the heavenlies and its populous.

We shall look at how the spaces in the firmament exist, and thus our own spiritual and soul make up. We shall look at the heavens and thus the nature of both the Angels and the Demons that frequent our planet, and how they live and have their being; and thus how they impact us and what we can do with this.

Stephen takes our journey both biographically as we share some of his personal heavenly related experiences, and from his many years of Bible based studies to bring our hearts to a closer Love with Jesus.

Give it to God in the Love of Jesus moves away from the media sensationalism that clouds these misunderstandings to define a more realistic biblical view of the heavenly populous; which brings us to a much deeper comprehension and thus a more loving relationship in Jesus Christ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504306300
Publisher:	Balboa Press AU
Publication date:	02/10/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	366
File size:	277 KB

About the Author

Stephen Duff died and was resuscitated when he was four years old. This experience seeded a lifelong motivation and study to understand spiritual truth. At age forty-one, he became a Holy Spirit rebirthed Christian. Now, nearly thirty years later and having served in most Christian ministries, Stephen ministers as the Holy Spirit leads him.

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CHAPTER 1

A Foundational Introduction

At four years of age I received a heavenly experience that impacted the rest of my now almost seventy years. Although I was too young to retain a specific memory of what actually happened, this moment of my childhood seeded a life-long inner motivation to rediscover what was imparted into my subconscious, to thus set the direction of the rest of my life.

As I have sought to uncover the spiritual understandings of existence that have driven my years, I have also received further moments of a heavenly nature to both broaden and deepen my comprehensions. Some of these experiences are recorded in this book to subsequently give it a semi-biographical outlook along with an understanding of some aspects of the heavenlies and its Angelic populous.

My seeking heart has taken my studies and out workings through most isms, ologies, religions and practices history has to offer. In this way I eventually came to the Bible where I found a balance of Truth that I could relate with my personal experiences. This historical collection of sixty six separate books as one complete book has thereby become a pillar for my spiritual development and understanding for almost thirty years at the time of writing.

Driven by the motivation for a deeper comprehension of my personal experiences, along with a studious biblically based mentality, I have been given to recognise some considerations of the Spiritual aspects of existence. This has also given me an understanding of human kinds' relationship with the heavenly Angelic populous, and its subgroup of the earthly bound Demonic.

Therefore this book is the product of a life-long study as the heavens have opened up to my realization, and as I have followed the paths as they lay before me. Subsequently my present small personal library includes six different translations of the Bible along with a number of biblical reference books; plus an accumulation of historic and archaeological literature, some Christian and some not. Inclusively my comprehensions have also developed through the many isms, ologies, books, experiences and studies that are no longer with me.

This is the spiritual story of an ordinary down to earth person, with all of the normal success and failures that a western society has to offer. Yet also a person who has graciously been given some rare experiences of a heavenly characteristic, and thus been motivated to comprehend the essential heart of humanity's spiritual nature and our relationship with the heavenlies.

Having laid out this foundation I also recognise the potentials of different outcomes for its publication. This book might barely sell any copies and simply be the product of an old man getting his stuff off his chest that no one will ever read; I consider any sales God's problem, not mine.

Another potential is that the media frenzy could jump all over the sensationalized aspects of the book relating to the Angelic and Demonic, and thus distort its intentions. Another potential is that some people will essentially miss the whole point of the book, grab hold of one or two aspects of the considerations laid out, and create another sect or cult in a world where there are already far too many divisions.

My only personal aims in putting finger to computer keys (no longer do we live in a world of pen to paper), is that some folks might just realize a stronger Love in the heart of God through a deeper comprehension of our own Spiritual Life. The continual unfolding of my spiritual discovering is who I am and thus the focus of my life, even though the washing up still needs to be done; yet there comes a moment when such as we have been given, so do we offer for all who seek with an open heart.

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I believe in Love: I believe that love is the essential energy of all that is contained within all that the entire universe exists for, by and with. Yes, quite clearly the status of our planet the earth has much war mongering, deceit and any variety of darkness, but I still believe first and foremost in the heart of Love as the foundational principal of absolutely everything that is.

I believe that Jesus, who walked the earth as a person roughly two thousand years ago is the person of the Shekinah Glory, the initial declaration of Light that seeded all of creation, and as such our Christ and the Hebrew Messiah.

I also know that I have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and thus I am born again, and therefore accept the heart of Jesus in the leading of the Holy Spirit in all aspects of my life.

In thus proclaiming all of this I make no justifications or apologies for who I am, and therefore the basic precepts that this book is written from is God's love as the essence of my own love/life story.

As I have stated, throughout my years I have been given certain experiences that might be placed in the paranormal, which from an early age have directed the whole pattern of my inner focus, and thus my life; else this book could not be written for Christians and non-Christians alike.

Subsequently, with the spiritual foundations that I have, I have studied and pondered a great deal within most every ology and ism and religion the planet has to offer. This is not to state that I have recalled every precept or ruling in every pedantic offering that has come before me, rather I have sought the heart, the very essence that gives the rulings their foundation; always seeking the key that unlocks the essence of each religion, philosophy and practice.

Following a life of this endeavour I inevitably came to reading through the whole Bible as I would any book; and after much study and consideration arrived with a full heart of acceptance in all that it lays out. I am now, and will remain a Christian, but I have not always followed the path of the general Christian church, where, in some but not all instances, expressions of religion have lost the sight of Love.

What this statement does say is that I have studied the Bible from both a God given spiritual view, and as a historical document to some depth, and still accept that the Love that is God is both foundational to, and imbued within all of creation.

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I have relatives and friends who are Christian; and some friends who are attracted to a variety of religious and ology attachments including declared Atheism, and even some who are anti the whole proposition of Christ; and thus I know people within every shade of spiritual sensitivity or insensitivity. Although my time is spent largely alone, I love you each and all and you know this to be true; equitably as well as you know me as a person.

In first setting out this little book I tried to take every heart and person into consideration, and thus explain and justify my position as the book unfolded, mostly because of my love for you all; inevitably I arrived at the realization that this is of course ridiculous. Therefore this book contains what my heart feels needs to be written, and thus give each person the respect due them to come to your own comprehensions and conclusions about its content.

Therefore this book lays out a whole panorama of understanding as we bring reason and common sense to not just what is presently viewed as the sensational, but essentially in understanding both a scientific and a spiritual foundation of creation, and all that it includes of a heavenly character with a heavenly species.

Basically, as the book unfolds we will look at some of the actual experiences I have had of a heavenly/ paranormal nature, and how the nature of some of these experiences have stayed with me as a gifting to my character. We will see how both these experiences and the manner of my daily life have been impacted to drive me to make some sense of this whole area of life.

How each person receives and thus expresses their own reactions to these writings is engendered from your own person, not mine; I am simply writing and sharing what I hold to be true in the Love song that is Jesus Christ as I see Him.

CHAPTER 2

A Biblical Consideration

We live in an age where the accumulations of history and technology give us magnificent tools to work with. The Bible was initially scribed in two ancient languages; the Old Testament in Hebrew, and the New Testament in Greek.

Let me make it very clear here that I do not in any way claim to be a linguistic scholar, but because of my nature I tend to refer to my linguistic study books to seek the heart of the meanings of the original authors.

When the first English translations were made in the 1400s AD by John Wycliffe and his students in a new school building near the bridge over the Cam River, they only had the Latin Vulgate translation and the Holy Spirits guidance to work with. This was during a time of massive political upheaval that eventually bought about many of their deaths, usually in a most gruesome manner.

Today, through archaeology we have the carefully copied scrolls and parchments, handed down through generations of history that bring us the letters and meanings of the original scripts in their most pristine form; transcribed across millennia to the most exacting precision from when they were first written. We also have dictionaries and concordances of these ancient scripts to guide our thinking and considerations.

With the Greek language of the New Testament there are hardly any changes to the meanings of the wording through the time period within which it was first written. Most of the books that make up this latter section of the Bible were originally scribed from about a decade after Jesus walked the earth, to before the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman army in 70 AD; thus between roughly 40 AD to the late 60s AD.

Plus there are the books that the disciple John wrote some 20 to 30 years later from the Island of Patmos. Consequently there is little time within this period for many linguistic evolutions, for what was by then an already matured and establish universal language across the Roman conquered world and beyond.

The Old Testament Hebrew language is a completely different matter, having been scribed over a period through which a people grew from a small family leaving the city of Babel, to becoming the most highly advanced socially, militarily and educated nation of its time, and then on through its military, social and economic decline.

First spoken by Eber, who named his son Peleg, meaning division, around the time when the tower his society was working on caused their town to be renamed Babel, with many of the families of the cities people subsequently scattering across the planet with their newly divided languages.

For the first few generations the families, and thus societies were small in populous and thus the linguistics naturally remained simple. Under the leadership of his eldest son Abram, Eber's descendant Terah along with his family and servants travelled as a nomadic group north along the Euphrates River. They took their animal flocks from where the river flowed into the gulf lands at Ur, a town of the Chaldean people, (approximately Southern Kuwait of today), all the way to the foot of the present day Turkish Mountains.

Terah died there, so Abrams brother and their family and servants settled near his burial site to set up their own tribal home. Abram, who felt motivated by God to do so, travelled with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot onwards to the land of Canaan, that we now call Israel.

For the first hundred plus years there were few social developments of the two tribes that were the descendants of Terah's Eber-ish language, because we know that Abram and Sarai, (whose names were now changed to Abraham and Sarah) had a son Isaac, who in turn married a daughter of their cousins who had established the farming community near their patriarch Terah's grave site.

As too in turn did Isaac's son Jacob, not only marry into the same tribal family who by then called their land Mesopotamia, but spent over twenty years living amongst these people with, what is clearly apparent from the events that unfolded, absolutely no language communication barriers at all, and therefore little, if any general linguistic developments.

Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel, had twelve sons and a daughter; all of whom remained together as a nomadic shepherding community that ended their days in Egypt because of drought in their own lands. They had a few cattle, but were mainly sheep and goat herders in an unfenced cereal farming nation; thus they dwelt in a green belt area that was too hilly for grain farming, and was separated from all other societies by surrounding desert lands.

As their populous expanded they retained that internal sense of identity, with the descendants of each of the twelve sons of Israel becoming their own separated tribes within the nationally developing populous. Through this period of population expansion they also became a slave nation under the control of their Egyptian masters, subsequently socially outcast and separated away from their overlords.

Consequently their language, as a simple slave people, would have remained a basic tongue with little schooling, limited in its natural social development to such words as mud, brick and reeds, whipping, crocodiles, shovels and words that became familiar for a similar terminology relative to their enslaved lives.

Directly from this life style, Moses took the whole Israelite tribe for a wander through the desert. It was his daily habit to always pitch his tent under the Pillar of Godly manifestation that directed the nations wandering movements. A Pillar that also directed his writing of the first five books of the Bible in his simple Hebrew dialect, a still young language as yet only minutely developed by the process of society's changes.

Yes, he was raised in the royal teachings of Egyptian Hieroglyphics and the rudimentary Hebrew his nursing mother and sister taught him; but he had also spent the second third of his life as a humble shepherd, coming home to a God fearing nomadic family that were also descendant from being raised in Abraham's tent; a family who still conversed in that same simple early Hebrew dialect.

His language that gives us the first five books of the Old Testament was a simple language from a simple people at a simple time of population expansion. Consequently when we look to the lettering, it is through this perspective that we come to comprehend his words if we really want to understand what he was meaning.

Many hundreds of years later in the time of such scholars as Isaiah and Jeremiah, who were university schooled in a Nation that, although by their time was coming into decline, had grown to be the greatest, and most educated country of any era in that timing of history; consequently we find we need a different approach to comprehend the heart of a much more mature language.

This same concept of social developments and changes had continued even further with the scholar Ezra, whose Hebrew language had grown through a season of Babylonian and Persian dominion and captivity, to an accumulation of linguistic development for over a thousand years since the time of Moses. Not only did he put ink to vellum and thus complete the historical record of Israel as a part of the Hebrew biblical script; he is the priest and prophet who history declares as the person who compiled all of the historical and poetical documents we now collectively recognise as the Old Testament.

To explain language change and development more clearly let us look through a similar period of time at the word in the English language we use for our healing buildings, our hospitals; or is it our restaurants and hotels with the hospitality industry; or am I just being hospitable?

The same word with a diversity of meanings derived from the base of the European post-Roman /Saxon/ Frankish era 'Hospice' that was attached to some Nuns convents who cared for the sick and the poor peasantry.

Now sit down with the language experts in two to three and a half thousand years' time, and explain to them how this term associates with the Crusader Knights galloping across the Arabian deserts roughly nine hundred years ago. These great galloping marauding European soldiers were known as the Knighthood of the Hospitalier, from whence the English language derives its terminology; Knights with a mission to protect the trading caravans. Now co-relate this to a simple bar tender, or table waitress, or nurse of today.

From a historical linguistic view this is all derived from the same root word of hospice with a comprehension of care and protection, but with a multiple of outcomes over a period of history similar in both time and social development as the season from Moses to Ezra, in which the Hebrew Old Testament was scribed.

Another example is that of the Vandals, the Germanic tribe that rampaged across Europe fifteen hundred years ago; and the Vandals as castle servants of the Lords of seven hundred years ago, and the vandalisation in our own day and age; all of whom require discernment analysing the authors intended meaning of this same word in a future translators mind.

(Continues…)

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Table of Contents

1. A Foundational Introduction, 1,
2. A Biblical Consideration, 8,
3. A Personal Foundation, 21,
4. Perceptions, 30,
5. Personal Gifting, 46,
6. Becoming, 64,
7. Body, Soul and Spirit, 76,
8. Experiences late 1970's, 90,
Heavenly Light, 99,
Tunnel to Love, 109,
9. Our Earthly Human Species, 127,
10. The Name of Jesus, 146,
11. Becoming Christ's, 162,
Thunder, 180,
That Car, 193,
12. The Angelic Populous, 201,
Basic Demonic, 210,
Just Stories, 224,
13. More Experiences, 241,
Deliverance, 244,
The Wall, 270,
14. Changes from another View, 276,
15. Spiritual Perspectives, 304,
16. The Side of the Road, 328,
Ministerial Directive, 336,
17. Love, 348,