Chapter One "The Ball of Fire is Growing"

CHAPTER ONE

THE BALL OF FIRE IS GROWING

It was once said by Jesus..."If a man/women keep my sayings, he/she will never see death." Was he kidding? Was this a statement before the time? Will there be a generation who would benefit from this statement? Were we relieved from this curse that "one man" brought into play..(by one man came death)....but by ONE other came life. Was Jesus just reflecting on the resurrection from the dead? Did Paul see something when he said..."Not all will sleep, but be alive, thus will be changed in a moment?" Was the original intent, plan, of this experience to include death as an EXIT back to where we left? Was there a "possible" other way in leaving this temporary experience employed in the Original intent and purpose of this life that did not have this element of the "sting of death?" Will there be other ages upon ages of temporary experiences that will "increase the expansion of God" using us to accomplish this, but without the element of death to accomplish this?  Note, no one could "KILL" Jesus, he as the 2nd Adam in full power. The only way they could touch him, was when he LAID DOWN his live..(I lay my life down, no man takes it).  Could it be that we are, unknowingly, laying down our lives according to the opinions of the world, ignorant of what was REALLY ACCOMPLISHED by Christ? If Jesus had not laid down his life, would he still be physically with us? (Thank God that he didn’t, now we have Him in us...we thus have at least the potential of the RESTORED ADAM in us....with RIGHTS TO FULL POWER).   If this is true, and I do believe that it is, it would be a crying shame for us not to "TAKE" back what was stolen from Adam, won by the Second Adam.

It is said that the Earth, Creation, moans and groans waiting for this manifestation. It saw if briefly when Jesus calmed the sea and they said, "what manner of man is this?”   Their shock of seeing an UN-FALLEN Adam taking dominion over the sea that day; the sea jumped for joy at his words..."Peace, be still." He dared to say, "the things I do, you will DO and GREATER." Was this cruel on his part, to give such false hope? Was he again kidding? What did he see, Paul and the other see, which we in modern times are lacking to see? Have we become so dull in our spiritual perspective that we will MISS one of the greatest truths and offering that God has or ever will offer to any generation...RESTORED FULL RIGHTS OF POWER OF THE UN-FALLEN ADAM..... Note this, for this truth to come about, it begins NOW or, it begins not at all. Call it an experiment. Like any experiment, you will not succeed at first try....I know, because I have already begun the experiment. There is no doubt in my mind of what was accomplished....it is now only a matter of overcoming was has been done to us, that which blocks what was accomplished; NOTE.. he said..."I have overcome the world.....I believe this.....and the experiment continues with results more so then years ago when these things were revealed to me....and his power is coming to me moment by moment....ever increasing. THE BALL OF FIRE IS GROWING!!

Here are some typed notes, after comments in a forum, where I attempted to introduce these insights:

Maybe I didn't make my point clear enough.  Or we are just fighting what has been said and want to hang on to our ideas of death and sickness and human efforts to deal with it all.  We have all gotten use to it all, over the years, and can't begin to imagine that there is any other way to go, once we past the mid‑point.  We have always seen and heard that it was down hill beyond 50.  We get confirmation looking in the mirror and comments from others.  Thus, we confess it to ourselves and the process begins to go in the direction of our tongues and the opinions of others.  We make jokes of it, and quote familiar sayings that instill this more and more in our minds and bodies.  So, here comes a guy, who believes he has found something to the contrary, takes his stand, believing what he found does work via experimentation, even if to some small degree.  He sees it not only working for himself but also for his wife and kids, giving him even more fire to his beliefs.  He gets bold and decides to branch out sharing these newly discovered insights with others, thinking that surely they will get what is being shared.  After doing so, he gets strange looks from those he shares this with.  Behind his back he is seen as crazy, and beside himself.  Family members think he needs help and, in indirect ways, make this known.  So, he admits to his mistake, packs up his notes, and keeps what he has discovered to himself and only selected individuals. 

I will keep this study to myself for a later date.  And yes, I am advocating that the death process can be checked, slowed down if you can accept that much.  Christ was not kidding...."IF a man keep my sayings, he will never see death." 

Well, come on Paul, I have heard it said, ever sense the beginning, everyone has died.  Do you mean you don't plan on dying?  We think your experiment will fail. Even Jesus died on the cross!  And Paul the Apostle said, “Sense Adam all have died.”

No, they all did not die.  Remember Enoch, Elijah.  They didn’t die.  What made them special? (This is answered in other writings; there is an answer to this.)  Then Paul was either wrong in what he said, or his idea of dying was different then what we have known death to be.  In making the above comment, Paul was just beginning to see what he comes to know and believe later.  Of course the dead in Christ would rise first.  What was learned was a mystery to many of them.  Not till later did it come to be understood.  Read Foxes Book of Martyrs.  Many of those mentioned in this book understood.  Those seeking to kill them found it hard to do.  Not till they “laid” their lives down, did they die as we know die.  Paul was stoned to what they thought to be to death.  He gets up and turns right around and walks right back into the city that just stoned him to death.  Was he stupid!  No, he knew he couldn’t die, until he laid his life down, as he said and did in his last letter to Timothy.  A snake couldn’t end his life, or the crowds that hated him.  Sound familiar?   Jesus couldn’t be touched till he laid his life down. Death was a choice to them not an expected natural thing.  Believe it or not, it is the same choice we should have, with the LIVE that was in them, in us.  So, if you want to lay your life down, at least let it be to the glory of God, “Where is that in the bible?”  Again, Paul said it from what he experienced....”Romans 14:7 “ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.  For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.  FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED, AND ROSE AND REVIVED, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND THE LIVING.”  It’s your choice, not what any doctor or well meaning person might say; it’s sad that we allow the opinions of others to take us down.

(As for Enoch and Elijah not dying, we read of them later in the book of Revelation “laying down” their lives – they are seen there as the Two Witnesses.  I won’t be developing this here; it may come out later.  For now, do some personal investigations on their lives and don’t stop with just my opinions or that of others – ask your FATHER.)

There was one point in my last ten years I had thought to leave, seeing it as a far better thing to do.  Yet, knowing I had a choice, I chose to stay at Irene, my wife, and my kid’s request.  So, I will remain and will not die until I am told to lay this life down.  Where is that in the bible?  Paul also said it and believed it....he had the choice. (Phil. 1:23)  Others in need over rode his wanting to depart.  So he stayed.  He was kept alive through shipwrecks, and all sorts of life threatening situations.  The man just couldn’t be killed.  Not till, as I mentioned above, in his final words written to Timothy, did he chose to lay his live down.  It was his choice as it is ours. 

FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THAT FORUM ADDRESSED

I found that what I said so far in this chapter was questioned by those in a forum where I introduced these thoughts.  The question of “Sleep” taking the place of death as an entrance and exist of this life came up and they wanted to know what I meant by this; also what I meant by a personal experiment.  I addressed it as follows:

The original entrance and exit of this experience would have been more like a sleep then the sting that it has become. The experience of this life would have been all that we have seen, yet without the extreme...why, because we would have had the God given powers to handle anything the "experience" would have thrown at us. I have been keeping notes on my personal experiment into this and know this is true. As the restored lost powers come to us, we begin to handle this life better than before. It comes to us moment by moment....WHY? I will share with you my pocket notes that explained this to me:  Paul had come to realize GREAT POWER.  Remember, he had always longed to know Him and the power of His resurrection. He began to get this power..."moment by moment." To protect him from getting puffed up from this power, and ALL OF US the same applies, this power came in degrees of measure (this is how Paul knew that faith was measured out...he was experiencing it as he was writing about it).  His experience was, in this measuring of degrees; felt like a THORN to him, a BLOCK if you may, that held him back from gaining the Ultimate full power. Little did he know at the time that each time this Thorn, block, appeared at each INCREASED measure, it was God's protection from what we all fear, the ABUSE of power.  For many of us, we know that the power is there, it can no longer be said that we don’t know this. So that now it SCARES us to think of such power through us!   Imagine...and I am sure you have, imagine if you had a bully give you a hard time, and if you knew you had "POWER" immeasurable available to you. What could you do? Well, just about anything! That is why we get it in measures. At a large measure...what would come with it? A greater responsibility with such power...thus we would not snuff-out the bully..(Remember the sons of thunder wanting to call down fire on the heads of those rejecting Christ's message in Luke 9:53-56). At a certain point in gaining this power, something happens. Paul expressed it as FEELING SILLY. You can no longer boast, show off what you know you have. You know its source and that it came to you moment by moment purely by the grace of God. You can't get puffed up at this point, thus you become matured and trusted with more power.     We see it on TV stages, men showing off these powers given in such un-matured manners. With one matured with these powers, the feeling, as we watch them, is of embarrassment at the childish demonstration.   Jesus never sought the crowd to show off his powers. The crowd sought him. HE would avoid them and at times tell them to tell no one. With great power, comes great responsibility. The mature responsibility to NOT BRAG, SHOW OFF, what has been given to you in grace.

In chapter two I will be sharing what I said to them about this idea of the “experiment” on my part and God in regards to this life’s purpose.