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Inaugural
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First Edition
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Haven Noahide
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“Holy Scripture”
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The
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1.
Holy Scripture
2.
Psalms
3.
Maxims
4.
Mission Statement of Haven Noahide
Fellowship
5.
Charter of Haven Noahide
Fellowship
6.
Official Spiritual Devotional
Sermon Series of Haven Noahide Fellowship - Sermons 1 to 50 - Prepared by
Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly
7.
The Book of Daniel Thomas Andrew
Daly
8.
Recommended Reading
9.
Introduction – the Emerging Karaite Noahide World
10.
What is Karaite
Noahide Faith
11.
Responding to Christianity
12.
Why Jesus is Not the Messiah
13.
The Book of Daniel Thomas Andrew
Daly Continued
14.
Noahide Midrash – Noah and
the 7th Rainbow
15.
Praise Songs
16.
The Book of the Divine Creator
17.
The Book of Universal Faith
18.
The Book of the Most High
19.
The Torah of the Kingdom of Noah
20.
About the Kingdom of Noah
21.
The Royal Karaite
Rainbow Bible Noahide Australian Kingdom of Kadravana
22.
The Karaite
Noahide position on its own judgements and reasoning
23.
Psalms of Haven Noahide Fellowship
24.
New Education
25.
Understanding Astrology
26.
Karaite Noahidism
– the Next Branch of Judaism
27.
Speculations
28.
One Final Edition for Each Rainbow
Bible
29.
The Catholic Jesus Gospel
Holy Scripture
I
Creation
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. But the earth
was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss;
and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. And God said, “Let
there be light.” And light became. And God saw the light, that it was
good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. And he called the
light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning,
one day.
God
also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide waters from waters.” And God made a firmament, and he divided the
waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament.
And so it became. And God called the firmament ‘Heaven.’ And it became
evening and morning, the second day.
Truly
God said: “Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one
place; and let the dry land appear.” And so it became. And God called the
dry land, ‘Earth,’ and he called the gathering of the waters, ‘Seas.’ And God
saw that it was good. And he said, “Let the land spring forth green
plants, both those producing seed, and fruit-bearing trees, producing fruit
according to their kind, whose seed is within itself, over all the earth.” And
so it became. And the land brought forth green plants, both those
producing seed, according to their kind, and trees producing fruit, with each
having its own way of sowing, according to its species. And God saw that it was
good. And it became evening and the morning, the third day.
Then
God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide
day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days
and years. Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the
earth.” And so it became. And God made two great lights: a greater light,
to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with
the stars. And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over
all the earth, and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide
light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And it became evening
and morning, the fourth day.
And
then God said, “Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying
creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven.” And God
created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the
ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all
the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was
good. And he blessed them, saying: “Increase and multiply, and fill the
waters of the sea. And let the birds be multiplied above the land.” And
it became evening and morning, the fifth day.
God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind:
cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.”
And so it became. And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to
their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its
kind. And God saw that it was good. And he said: “Let us make Man to our
image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying
creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every
animal that moves on the earth.” And God created man to his own image; to
the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them. And
God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures
of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” And
God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth,
and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to
be food for you, and for all the animals of the land, and for all the flying
things of the air, and for everything that moves upon the earth and in which
there is a living soul, so that they may have these on which to feed.” And so
it became. And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good.
And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.
And
so the heavens and the earth were completed, with all their adornment. And on
the seventh day, God fulfilled his work, which he had made. And on the seventh
day he rested from all his work, which he had accomplished. And he
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all
his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.
II
Adam and Eve
These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the
day when the Lord God made heaven and earth, and every sapling of the field,
before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would
germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was
no man to work the land. But a fountain ascended from the earth,
irrigating the entire surface of the land.
And
then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into
his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Now the Lord
God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed
the man whom he had formed. And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree
that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was
in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And
a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise,
which is divided from there into four heads. The name of one is the Phison; it
is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born; and
the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the
onyx stone. And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that
which runs through all the land of Kush. Truly, the name of the third river is
the Tigris; it advances opposite the Assyrians. But the fourth river, it is the
Euphrates.
Thus,
the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so
that it would be attended and preserved by him. And he instructed him, saying:
“From every tree of Paradise, you shall eat. But from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in whatever day you will eat
from it, you will die a death.” The Lord God also said: “It is not good
for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to
himself.” Therefore, the Lord God, having formed from the soil all the
animals of the earth and all the flying creatures of the air, brought them to
Adam, in order to see what he would call them. For whatever Adam would call any
living creature, that would be its name. And Adam called each of the living
things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild
beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar
to himself. And so the Lord God sent a deep sleep upon Adam. And when he was
fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and he completed it with flesh for
it. And the Lord God built up the rib, which he took from Adam, into a
woman. And he led her to Adam. And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my
bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was
taken from man.” For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and
mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh. Now they
were both naked: Adam, of course, and his wife. And they were not ashamed.
III
The Temptation
However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth
that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Why has God instructed you,
that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?” The woman responded
to him: “From the fruit of the trees which are in Paradise, we eat. Yet
truly, from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of Paradise, God has
instructed us that we should not eat, and that we should not touch it, lest
perhaps we may die.” Then the serpent said to the woman: “By no means will you
die a death. For God knows that, on whatever day you will eat from it,
your eyes will be opened; and you will be like gods, knowing good and
evil.” And so the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and beautiful
to the eyes, and delightful to consider. And she took from its fruit, and she
ate. And she gave to her husband, who ate. And the eyes of them both were
opened. And when they realized themselves to be naked, they joined together fig
leaves and made coverings for themselves. And when they had heard the voice of
the Lord God taking a walk in Paradise in the afternoon breeze, Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of
Paradise. And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” And he
said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked,
and so I hid myself.” He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked,
if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should
not eat?” And Adam said, “The woman, whom you gave to me as a companion, gave
to me from the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “Why have
you done this?” And she responded, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” And
the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed
among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast
shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life. I
will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her
offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.” To
the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In
pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power,
and he shall have dominion over you.” Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you
have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which
I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In
hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles
shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth. By the sweat
of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you
were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.” And Adam called
the name of his wife, ‘Eve,’ because she was the mother of all the
living. The Lord God also made for Adam and his wife garments from skins,
and he clothed them. And he said: “Behold, Adam has become like one of us,
knowing good and evil. Therefore, now perhaps he may put forth his hand and
also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live in eternity.” And so the
Lord God sent him away from the Paradise of enjoyment, in order to work the
earth from which he was taken. And he cast out Adam. And in front of the
Paradise of enjoyment, he placed the Cherubim with a flaming sword, turning together,
to guard the way to the tree of life.
IV
Cain and Abel
Truly, Adam knew his wife Eve, who conceived and gave birth to Cain, saying, “I
have obtained a man through God.” And again she gave birth to his brother Abel.
But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.
Then
it happened, after many days, that Cain offered gifts to the Lord, from the
fruits of the earth. Abel likewise offered from the firstborn of his
flock, and from their fat. And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his
gifts. Yet in truth, he did not look with favor on Cain and his gifts.
And Cain was vehemently angry, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said to
him: “Why are you angry? And why is your face fallen? If you behave well, will
you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at
the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by
it.” And Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go outside.” And when they were
in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and he put him to death.
And the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he responded: “I
do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And he said to him: “What have you
done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the land. Now,
therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and
received the blood of your brother at your hand. When you work it, it will not
give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.” And
Cain said to the Lord: “My iniquity is too great to deserve kindness.
Behold, you have cast me out this day before the face of the earth, and from
your face I will be hidden; and I will be a vagrant and a fugitive on the
earth. Therefore, anyone who finds me will kill me.” And the Lord said to him:
“By no means will it be so; rather, whoever would kill Cain, will be punished
sevenfold.” And the Lord placed a seal upon Cain, so that anyone who found him
would not put him to death.
And
so Cain, departing from the face of the Lord, lived as a fugitive on the earth,
toward the eastern region of Eden. Then Cain knew his wife, and she
conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And he built a city, and he called its name
by the name of his son, Enoch.
Thereafter,
Enoch conceived Irad, and Irad conceived Mahujael, and Mahujael conceived
Mathusael, and Mathusael conceived Lamech. Lamech took two wives: the name of
one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. And Adah conceived Jabel,
who was the father of those who live in tents and are shepherds. And the name
of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of those who sing to the harp and
the organ. Zillah also conceived Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artisan in
every work of brass and iron. In fact, the sister of Tubalcain was Noema. And
Lamech said to his wives Adah and Zillah: “Listen to my voice, you wives of
Lamech, pay attention to my speech. For I have killed a man to my own harm, and
an adolescent to my own bruising. Sevenfold vengeance will be given for Cain,
but for Lamech, seventy-seven times.” Adam also knew his wife again, and
she gave birth to a son, and she called his name Seth, saying, “God has given
me another offspring, in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.” But to Seth also was
born a son, whom he called Enos. This one began to invoke the name of the Lord.
V
The First Genealogy
This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he
made him to the likeness of God. He created them, male and female;
and he blessed them. And he called their name Adam, in the day when they were
created. Then Adam lived for one hundred and thirty years. And then he
conceived a son in his own image and likeness, and he called his name Seth. And
after he conceived Seth, the days of Adam that passed were eight hundred years.
And he conceived sons and daughters. And all the time that passed while Adam
lived was nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died. Seth likewise lived
for one hundred and five years, and then he conceived Enos. And after he
conceived Enos, Seth lived for eight hundred and seven years, and he conceived
sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth that passed were nine hundred and
twelve years, and then he died. In truth, Enos lived ninety years, and then he
conceived Cainan. After his birth, he lived eight hundred and fifteen years,
and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos that passed
were nine hundred and five years, and then he died. Likewise,
Cainan lived seventy years, and then he conceived Mahalalel. And after he
conceived Mahalalel, Cainan lived for eight hundred and forty years, and he
conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan that passed were
nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. And Mahalalel lived
sixty-five years, and then he conceived Jared. And after he conceived
Jared, Mahalalel lived for eight hundred and thirty years, and he conceived
sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalalel that passed were eight
hundred and ninety-five years, and then he died. And Jared lived for one
hundred and sixty-two years, and then he conceived Enoch. And after he
conceived Enoch, Jared lived for eight hundred years, and he conceived sons and
daughters. And all the days of Jared that passed were nine hundred and
sixty-two years, and then he died. Now Enoch lived for sixty-five years, and
then he conceived Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God. And after he conceived
Methuselah, he lived for three hundred years, and he conceived sons and
daughters. And all the days of Enoch that passed were three hundred and
sixty-five years. And he walked with God, and then he was seen no more, because
God took him. Likewise, Methuselah lived for one hundred and eighty-seven
years, and then he conceived Lamech. And after he conceived Lamech, Methuselah
lived for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and he conceived sons and
daughters. And all the days of Methuselah that passed were nine hundred and
sixty-nine years, and then he died. Then Lamech lived for one hundred and eighty-two
years, and he conceived a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one
will console us from the works and hardships of our hands, in the land that the
Lord has cursed.” And after he conceived Noah, Lamech lived for five hundred
and ninety-five years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of
Lamech that passed were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and then he
died. In truth, when Noah was five hundred years old, he conceived Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
VI
The Sons of God
And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to
them, the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to
themselves wives from all whom they chose. And God said: “My spirit shall not
remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one
hundred and twenty years.” Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For
after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived,
these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown. Then God,
seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every
thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times, repented that he had
made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart, he
said, “I will eliminate man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth,
from man to other living things, from animals even to the flying things of the
air. For it grieves me that I have made them.” Yet truly, Noah found grace
before the Lord.
VII
Noah
These
are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and yet he was predominate
among his generations, for he walked with God. And he conceived three sons:
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and
it was filled with iniquity. And when God had seen that the earth had been
corrupted, (indeed, all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth) he said to
Noah: “The end of all flesh has arrived in my sight. The earth has been filled
with iniquity by their presence, and I will destroy them, along with the earth.
Make yourself an ark from smoothed wood. You shall make little dwelling places
in the ark, and you shall smear pitch on the interior and exterior. And thus
shall you make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its
width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window in
the ark, and you shall complete it within a cubit of the top. Then you shall
set the door of the ark at its side. You shall make in it: a lower part, upper
rooms, and a third level. Behold, I shall bring the waters of a great flood
upon the earth, so as to put to death all flesh in which there is the breath of
life under heaven. All things that are on the earth shall be consumed. And I
shall establish my covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, you and your
sons, your wife and the wives of your sons with you. And from every living
thing of all that is flesh, you shall lead pairs into the ark, so that they may
survive with you: from the male sex and the female, from birds, according to
their kind, and from beasts, in their kind, and from among all animals on
earth, according to their kind; pairs from each shall enter with you, so that
they may be able to live. Therefore, you shall take with you from all the foods
that are able to be eaten, and you shall carry these with you. And these shall
be used as food, some for you, and the rest for them.” And so Noah did all
things just as God had instructed him.
VIII
The Flood
And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have
seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation. From all the clean
animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals
that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female. But also
from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so
that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. For from that
point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and
forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the
surface of the earth.” Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord
had commanded him. And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the
great flood inundated the earth. And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons,
his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the
great flood. And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds,
and from everything that moves upon the earth, two by two they were brought
into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.
And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the
earth. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in
the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were
released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. And rain came upon the
earth for forty days and forty nights. On the very same day, Noah and his sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them,
entered the ark. They and every animal according to its kind, and all the
cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind,
and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can
fly, entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which
there was the breath of life. And those that entered went in male and female,
from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord
closed him in from the outside. And the great flood occurred for forty days
upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high
above the land. For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the
surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters. And the
waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains
under the whole heaven were covered. The water was fifteen cubits higher than
the mountains which it covered. And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the
earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl
upon the ground. And all men, and everything in which there is the breath of
life on earth, died. And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth,
from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of
the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and
those who were with him in the ark. And the waters possessed the earth for one
hundred and fifty days.
IX
Redemption
Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were
with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters
were diminished. And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven
were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters were
restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish
after one hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on
the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. Yet in
truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in
the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains
appeared. And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had
made in the ark, sent forth a raven, which went forth and did not return, until
the waters were dried up across the earth. Likewise, he sent forth a dove after
him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to
him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his
hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark. And then, having waited a
further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. And she came
to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves.
Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth. And
nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which
no longer returned to him. Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the
first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the
earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface
of the earth had become dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of
the month, the earth was made dry. Then God spoke to Noah, saying: “Go out of
the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh:
as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move
upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.” And so
Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.
Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the
earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the
cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar. And the
Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because
of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil
from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have
done. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer
and winter, night and day, will not cease.”
And
God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and
fill the earth. And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals
of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves
across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand.
And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the
edible plants, I have delivered them all to you, except that flesh with blood
you shall not eat. For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of
every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his
brother, I will examine the life of mankind. Whoever will shed human blood, his
blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God. But as
for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”
X
The Covenant
To
Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this: “Behold, I will establish my
covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, and with every living
soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the
animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild
beasts of the earth. I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer
will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and,
henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth.”
And
God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to
every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. I will
place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself
and the earth. And when I obscure the sky with clouds,
my arc will appear in the clouds. And I will remember my covenant with you, and
with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters
from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh. And the arc will be in the
clouds, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant that
was enacted between God and every living soul of all that is flesh upon the
earth.” And God said to Noah, “This will be the sign of the covenant that I
have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”
And
so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now
Ham himself is the father of Canaan. These three are the sons of Noah. And from
these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.
XI
Drunkenness
And
Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.
And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates
of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside. And
truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards,
covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that
they did not see their father’s manhood. Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when
he had learned what his younger son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be
Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.” And he said:
“Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge
Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years.
And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he
died.
XII
The Second Genealogy
These are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and of
the sons who were born to them after the great flood.
The
sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras. And then the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah. And the sons of Javan were Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Rodanim. The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions,
each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.
And
the Sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. And the sons of
Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of
Raamah were Sheba and Dadan. And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be
powerful on the earth. And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a
proverb came forth: ‘Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.’ And so,
the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalanne,
in the land of Shinar. From that land, Assur came forth, and he built Nineveh,
and the streets of the city, and Calah, and also Resen, between Nineveh and
Calah. This is a great city. And truly, Mizraim conceived Ludim, and Anamim,
and Lehabim, Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came forth the
Philistines and the Caphtorim. Then Canaan conceived Sidon his firstborn, the
Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
the Hivite, and the Arkite: the Sinite, and the Arvadian, the Samarite,
and the Hamathite. And after this, the peoples of the Canaanites became
widespread. And the borders of Chanaan went, as one travels, from Sidon to
Gerar, even to Gaza, until one enters Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Admah and
Zeboiim, even to Lesa. These are the sons of Ham in their kindred, and tongues,
and generations, and lands, and nations.
Likewise,
from Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth,
sons were born. The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. But truly,
Arphaxad conceived Shelah, from whom was born Eber. And to Eber were born two sons:
the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and
his brother’s name was Joktan. This Joktan conceived Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, Jerah and Hadoram, and Uzal and Diklah, and Obal and Abimael,
Sheba and Ophir, and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. And
their habitation extended from Messa, as one sojourns, even to Sephar, a
mountain in the east. These are the sons of Shem according to their kindred,
and tongues, and the regions within their nations. These are the families of
Noah, according to their peoples and nations. The nations became divided
according to these, on the earth after the great flood.
XIII
The Tower of Babel
Now the earth was of one language and of the same speech. And when they were
advancing from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they
dwelt in it. And each one said to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks, and
bake them with fire.” And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead
of mortar. And they said: “Come, let us make a city and a tower, so
that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we
are divided into all the lands.” Then the Lord descended to see the city and
the tower, which the sons of Adam were building. And he said: “Behold, the
people are united, and all have one tongue. And since they have begun to do
this, they will not desist from their plans, until they have completed their
work.} Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue,
so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.” And so the
Lord divided them from that place into all the lands, and they ceased to build
the city. And for this reason, its name was called ‘Babel,’ because in that
place the language of the whole earth became confused. And from then on, the
Lord scattered them across the face of every region.
The End of Holy
Scripture
Psalms of Haven
Noahide Fellowship
A
Psalm of Daniel
Psalm
One
Yahweh,
the Lord, is the Centre of all that is.
He
is the Supreme Power, the Omnipotent One,
Full
of Glory and Majesty, Eternal in Sovereignty.
Yahweh
is gracious to us mere mortals,
Granting
us blessings and peace,
Giving
prosperity to the works of our hands.
Yahweh
watches over those who call on his name.
He
watches and blesses those who repent of sin,
And
Grants his grace to the humble of heart.
Yahweh
is a trustworthy foundation.
Yes,
in God himself I place my trust,
Forsaking
the strength of my own hands,
Forsaking
the strength of men, whose fidelity is fleeting.
A
Psalm of Daniel
Psalm
Two
How
the heart of man can choose a crooked path.
How
the heart of man can choose a crooked way.
Oh,
heavenly father, that your grace would be upon us all,
Leading
us in the right way, leading us against our own evil inclinations.
Yahweh,
enthroned in heaven, looks down upon the children of men.
He
knows their heart, from their youth he has known them,
Caught
up in their evil ways, caught up in their malicious intent.
Oh
Yahweh, how great your grace is. Oh Yahweh, how superlative your mercy.
You
spoke with our father Noah.
You
spoke with him and called him out of a perverse generation.
For
mankind was wicked in your eyes, evil from the days of their youth.
And
through Noah you rebirthed mankind, saved from the deluge of the flood.
Majestic
Lord of Glory, redeem me I pray.
Hear
my prayer and rescue me from the darkness of my own heart.
For
only in thy goodness can the gift of eternal life be realized.
Only
in thy goodness can the gift of forever have hope.
A
Psalm of Daniel
Psalm
Three
God
Can
we not be so hypocritical, unfair and double-minded
Can
we not be so duplicitous, fork-tongued and unfaithful
Can
we not pretend to be paragons of virtue yet find shame in our hearts
Shame
at betraying ones we claim to love
Lord
Let
not my boasts be great, of words I can not live up to
Let
me not say of my virtues qualities which I later betray as lacking
Let
me be truthful in how much I can truly commit to and foreswear vain oaths
Guide
me to be faithful
Father
Show
me the way of holiness which will not be questioned as shallow
Help
me to grow up maturely, yet not reach for heights I later tumble from
Give
me grace and mercy and remind others I am only human, not God himself
Forgive
me for my shortcomings
Yahweh
I
am only human. I can not be more than what I am. And I am so
complex
That
I don’t even understand myself half of the time.
But
you, Oh Lord, know all the ways of humans and the choices of the heart.
Please,
if you will in your mercy answer my prayer, give me the gift of wisdom
To
love others in a manner which will last eternally and not be a vain oath of
Allegiance
soon forgotten.
Alleluia
A
Psalm of Daniel
Psalm
Four
Let
my soul rest in the calmness of nature,
the
calmness of God’s creation.
Let
my soul slumber and be at peace with the
simplicity
of the song of the songbird
and
the chirping of the sparrow.
Let
the buzzing of the bees bring joy to me,
even
to the days of my age and let
the
sound of the sheep at pasture and the joy of the
newborn
babe be always pleasant in my heart.
Let
the sight of a spider’s web fill me with mystery,
and
let the early morning mist always fill me with
happiness
and aliven me to the new day.
Let
the rushing geyser be a source of fascination,
and
let me fear in the presence of the tornado and
be
awestruck by the power of the lightning.
Let
the gentle flow of the stream soothe my soul,
and
let the thunderous waves entertain my thirst
for
adventure.
Lord
God Almighty, I thank you for the wonders
of
creation, which give joy and happiness to my
life
each and every day. This world is a wonderful
and
marvellous world, and all the children of Noah
thank
you for your great kindness in creating it
For
us.
We
are your people, Almighty God, and the servants
of
your covenant. And let the sign of the Covenant,
the
‘Rainbow’, one of the greatest signs of nature,
always
remind us of the beauty and wonder that comes
forth
from the heart of the Almighty.
Alleluia
A
Psalm of Daniel
Psalm
Five
Lord
God - You are the solace of my heart’s anxiety.
You
are the peace in the storms of life which remains
Faithful
and ever unchanging. You are the strength
In
my weaknesses and the power of my right hand
In
all that I say and do. Lord, you are God, and even
In
my wrongdoing my heart still remembers the graces
And
love you have shown me.
Lord
God – From generation to generation mankind
Searches
out the way of truth. For so many finding
God
is not easy, but you have always been there, waiting
To
be found. You love us, children of Adam and Eve,
Children
of Enoch, children of Noah. You love us and
Teach
us the right way through the teachings of our
Fathers.
Lord, I pray, remain faithful to the heart which
Wants
truth above all else, and remember the struggle
We
have all gone through in finding our salvation.
Lord
God – Remember our fathers who have gone before
Us,
and our mothers who bore and fed us. Remember forever
Those
who have struggled to build our wonderful world, and
The
many sacrifices they have made. I pray and ask of you,
Eternal
God, prepare a home of eternal joy and life as reward
For
their struggle, and share with them the fruits of their
Labours
and the joy and consolation their hearts truly desire.
Forget
not the children of Noah who, even those who have
Not
known you or understood your ways, still tried in their hearts
To
live good and decent lives. Forget them not in your mercy
I
do pray Lord God Almighty, and prepare a home of eternal
Blessing
for each and every one of them.
Lord
God – The children of Noah praise your name. We lift
Up
the name of Yahweh and declare that he is God and that
There
is no other. Heavenly Father, we will serve you for
All
eternity, building a Haven of Salvation in your name, a
Haven
of love, peace and prosperity, in true service to your
Eternal
Glory. We will feed the hungry, nurse the sick and
Wounded,
give homes to the homeless, and give peace and
Love
to the broken of heart. We will care for all as you have
Cared
for us, and we pray watch over us eternally for we are
The
sheep of your eternal pasture, the children of mankind,
And
we need you in all our weaknesses and all our struggles.
Alleluia
Maxims of Haven Noahide
Fellowship
Daniel’s Maxims
Know
what you believe and why you believe it
The
truth will defend you against all enemies
Evil
will not prosper
Life
simply is
To
succeed – persevere
God
is truth
Knowledge
of truth helps you to make the best decisions
Finding
something useful to do in life gives it meaning
Study
knowledge of truth
Be
honest with people
Love
people
Practice
Kindness
Show
people grace
Stay
true to your commitments
Pray
for people
Be
Patient
Turn
away from evil
Teach
people the right way
Walk
with God
Keep
on learning
Study
the Bible
Help
people
Watch
your words
Respect
your parents
Do
the right thing
Obey
the law
Seek
God’s will
Help
the poor
Be
factual
Be
consistent
Be
tolerant
Be
peaceful
Study
Wisdom
Work
on your spirituality
Increase
your knowledge
Be
faithful to your occupation
Show
yourself friendly
Eat
good foods
Watch
your health
Exercise
Be
careful
Avoid
danger
Do
not hurt people
Keep
the faith
Be
in the hearts of Men
Mission Statement of
Haven Noahide Fellowship
Haven
Noahide Fellowship’s mission as a Tenakh Based Noahide Fellowship is to promote
principles of the ‘Rainbow Bible’ (Genesis 1 – 11:9), and other
Noahide-Relevant sections of the Tenakh to mankind today and in the future, for
the purposes of establishing Noahide Faith worldwide, to establish Noahide
Culture, and to establish Noahide Law as the basis for the spiritual
constitutions of International and National Law. Further, we utilize the principle of
religious Assembly and Fellowship to establish Noahide Communities and Schools
and other traditional spiritual organisations for the purposes of sanctifying
people, giving them a home and a place in the world, being a real ‘Haven’
against life’s harsher realities, and providing charity and other life
opportunities for interested members of society. Finally, and most importantly, our mission is
the eternal proclamation of ‘Yahweh’ (aka Jehovah, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, Hashem,
El Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, God etc) as the true God of Creation and Sovereign
and Ruling Deity over mankind and the universe.
Charter of Haven
Noahide Fellowship
Prepared
by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly, Head Pastor and founder of Haven Noahide
Fellowship. This Charter is Public
Domain Information.
Rulings on Sacred
Writings and Other Literature
Noahide
members of Haven Noahide Fellowship are forbidden from studying any portions of
the Talmud (The Mishnah & The Babylonian & Jerusalem Gemara) not
directly related to Noahide laws and Noahide faith. The section of the tractate Sanhedrin which
features the Noahide laws may legally be studied by Noahides. This is the Judgement of the Rabbis and
Jewish Noahide Rabbinic teachers in relation to their own Jewish writings.
While Haven recognizes Karaite principle, we do honour the wishes of Rabbinic
Judaism not to pry into their own sacred literature.
Rabbinic
Judaism has previously ruled that Noahides have permission to study all the
writings in The Jewish Tenakh (ie the Jewish Bible), and thus Haven Noahide
Fellowship upholds this judgement.
Haven
Noahide Fellowship judges, in relation to the writings of the Christian New
Testament, that Jesus is NOT the messiah, but that members of our fellowship
are allowed to read the New Testament in its entirety and apply any
non-idolatrous Christian teaching they find suitable to their life if they so
wish to. Jesus should be treated as a Jewish
teacher of spiritual values and Christianity as a sect of Judaism with an
incorrect messianic point of view. This
principle applies also to other Christian literature, as well as Islamic and
Bahai spiritual literature.
Haven
rules that all descendants of Adam, Noah, Abraham and Israel may freely read
all the online literature of Haven Noahide Fellowship (http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com
, http://www.myspace.com/noahides
)
Rulings on the
Establishments of chapters of Haven Noahide Fellowship
Each
national assembly has self-autonomy to determine their primary direction and
doctrinal standing and teaching. To be
recognized as a legitimate Haven Noahide Fellowship chapter by the Head
fellowship, their doctrine MUST conform with as a minimum ‘The Rainbow Bible’
(Genesis 1 - 11:9) as well as Sermon
number 1 (One) of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s spiritual devotional series.
Haven
recognizes it as the Sovereign right of any individual or groups of individuals
in any country to establish (at their personal leisure) a chapter of Haven
Noahide Fellowship providing they conform with the Rainbow Bible and the first
sermon of Haven Noahide Fellowship. Any
such fellowship shall be regarded by all Haven Noahide Fellowship chapters as a
legitimate body of Haven Noahide Fellowship providing they conform with the
Rainbow Bible and Sermon Number One of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s spiritual
devotion series. Essentially anyone at
all has permission to establish a chapter of Haven Noahide Fellowship providing
they conform with the Rainbow Bible (Genesis 1 – 11:9) and the First sermon of
the Spiritual devotional series of Haven Noahide Fellowship. It is the judgement of the Head Fellowship
that anyone may simply start such a fellowship at their leisure without
permission from the head fellowship or any other national bodies even being
necessary. We stipulate that you must
HONOUR the first established Haven Noahide Fellowship chapter in your nation –
(and in terms of honour I stipulate that you respect them and show them
appropriate and due courtesy) – but apart from that you are FREE to form a
subsequent Haven Noahide Fellowship if you so choose, as long as you give ‘Natural’
regard to other worldwide established fellowships and give due recognition to
any other HNF already established in your nation.
Our
further judgement from the head fellowship (which is a non-binding
judgement, but recommended to be
conformed with only) is that any such newly established HNF’s (as outlined in
the prior ruling) should conform to the judgements of the sermons of the head
HNF and the sermons of any already established HNFs in your nation as a natural
matter of course, UNLESS they are very strongly contrary to what you honestly
believe is sound wisdom OR the spiritual direction you desire to take your own
chapter of Haven Noahide Fellowship.
Essentially we ask that you follow the general direction of HNF
internationally and in your own nation, unless you have a strong and specific
desire to mould it in another spiritual direction. In this case, the minimum requirements are
all that is asked.
Haven
ENCOURAGES study of ALL Haven Noahide Fellowship material of ALL fellowships
when and were such permissions are granted and given by the heads of each
fellowship to study their spiritual teachings and material (as some fellowships
may desire a degree of private knowledge).
The
authority to make judgements and grant authority in a hierarchical structure is
deemed as the permission of each sovereign chapter to decide for
themselves. Essentially, a chapter of
HNF may form its own hierarchy and series of fellowship beneath it if it so
chooses and designate roles and structures of authority at its own choosing.
Essentially,
to clarify and restate, a chapter of HNF is delineated by its agreed observance
of the Rainbow Bible and the first sermon of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s
spiritual devotional series as the minimum requirements. If a fellowship is abiding by these core
requirements it has the right to be regarded as a legitimate HNF chapter. No chapter is required to observe the
remainder of the spiritual devotional series teachings, but is ‘encouraged’ to
do so. Various bodies of HNF may
disregard any pseudo-HNF chapters which fail to observe these basic
requirements of being a body of HNF, and the other principles of relevance as
established in this charter.
Haven Noahide Fellowship
– Spiritual Devotional Sermon Series
Sermons
1 to 50
The
Sermons of Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly
(Founder
of Haven Noahide Fellowship)
1.
Introduction to Haven Noahide Fellowship and
Core
Doctrine
2.
Finding Peace with God
3.
The Biblical Calendar
4.
Serving God with Faithfulness
5.
Studying Scripture – A Daily Focus
6.
Conquering Sin – A Basic List of Sins
7.
The Creation Week
8.
The Vapour Canopy & Rainbows
9.
23
10.
Life Affirming Choices
11.
Children of Peace
12.
Confronting Evil
13.
The World Lies at the Feet of a Disciplined Man
14.
A Wife of Noble Character (Proverbs 31: 10-31)
15.
The Power of Your Words
16.
The Noahide Shema
17.
Satan
18.
Some of the Principles of Haven Noahide
Fellowship
19.
Being Gentle
20.
A Deeper Meaning in God Asking Abraham to
Sacrifice
his Son
21.
Perseverance and Success
22.
Life’s Frustrations
23.
Supporting the Pastoral System – Understanding the Tithing System of Haven
Noahide Fellowship
24.
Burial or Cremation
25.
Marriage – A One Flesh Relationship
26.
Worshipping God
27.
Acceptance
28.
Raising Children
29.
The Single Life
30.
Noahide Faith – The Universal Faith
31.
The Judgements upon the Noahide Nations of
Egypt
and Canaan
32.
The Covenants and religious groupings of the
Torah
33.
Continue Learning
34.
Becoming a Virtuous person
35.
Resting on the Sabbath Day
36.
Jesus’ sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘Judgement on others’
37.
Callodyn’s sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘God the Heart of Life’
38.
Jesus’ second sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘The Power of Sin’
39.
Ambriel’s psalm and sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘God the Saviour’
40.
The Love of God
41.
Knowledge
42.
You are important to God
43.
Sharing your faith
44.
Angels
45.
Be in the Hearts of Men
46.
Animism – Basic Spiritual Awareness
47.
The Environmental Focus – Being Green is consistent with Noahide faith
48.
Salvation
49.
The Future of the Noahide World
50.
The Archives of Haven Noahide Fellowship
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER ONE: ‘INTRODUCTION TO HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP AND CORE DOCTRINE’
Haven
Noahide Fellowship is a rainbow bible-based Noahide Fellowship. The Rainbow
Bible is the traditional set of scriptures known as Genesis 1 - 11:9 (from
creation to the end of the tower of Babel incident). The teachings of the
Rainbow Bible go back to the giving of the Covenant and earlier, and are
central tenets of Haven Noahide Fellowship Faith. It appears that Noah himself,
or perhaps one of his sons, recorded the details we have today in the Rainbow
Bible as it talks of historical detail which only they, apparently, would have
access to. The sign of the Covenant, as shown in Genesis 9, is the Rainbow.
A
Noahide is simply a child or descendant of Noah. In the same way the term
‘Israelide’ or ‘Israelite’ refers to someone descended from Israel (Jacob) the
term ‘Noahide’ refers to someone descended from Noah. Noah, of course, is
the ancient patriarch who God called to build an Ark and bring animals upon the
Ark, after which he sent a flood to destroy sinful mankind, and then started
again with Noah, Noah’s wife, Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their
wives. While most of us are familiar with the idea that we are all
descended from Adam and Eve, less of us know that scripture teaches we are also
all descended from Noah, through his sons, as all mankind was wiped out in the
flood apart from Noah’s family. Thus the term ‘Noahide’ refers to all
members of mankind today, as all of us are descended from Noah.
It
is the universal monotheistic faith which underpins each of the major
monotheistic religions of the world, and essentially the sense of spiritual
morality that nearly all of us maintain in our hearts and way of life.
Basically,
to describe this religion, simply ask yourself ‘What religion did Noah himself
follow?’ And the answer to that is Noahide faith, the adherents of which
attempt to follow such a religion – to follow the practices of our ancient
patriarchal father Noah - who was deemed ‘Perfect in his generations.’
This
brief article examines the Rainbow Bible to answer the basic question of what
constitutes the spiritual requirements before God of a Noahide. It is not
implied that it is an exhaustive analysis of the Rainbow Bible’s doctrine for
children of Noah, but simply viewed as introductory principles. Each of
us must study the Rainbow Bible for ourselves to learn more of its
teachings. It will be split into 3 main sections: 1) Law 2) Imperative 3)
Principle. Please consult the scriptural citations for greater clarification.
1)
Law
Technically
speaking there seems to be only three times the Lord specifically commands the
Nations of the world as a whole.
•
The first is found in what would apply to Adam and his seed in an uncorrupted
paradise. This is the command to abstain from the Fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Genesis 2:16 & 17).
•
The second is found in the command to Noah and his offspring after the flood to
not eat blood. (Genesis 9:4).
•
The third command is to be fruitful and replenish the earth (Genesis 9:7)
2)
Imperative.
An
imperative in the sense I will define it is a principle which appears to have
obligatory acceptance required by a Noahide but not written within scripture as
a direct command but rather implied or assumed. For example the wording of the
imperative not to murder is worded in such a way that God did not specifically
command directly to Noah and his offspring in a personal sense by stating ‘Thou
shalt not’ or ‘You must not’ etc, but made it so obvious to know that such is a
requirement for Noah and his offspring in generalization. The Noahide
Imperatives are:
•
To abstain from Sin (Genesis 4:7)
•
To not murder and to put to death murderers (Genesis 9:5-6)
3)
Principle
There
are many ideas within the written Rainbow Bible which are not specified as
commands or imperatives but are shown as an active part of universal Noahide
life. They include:
•
A calendar system based on the sun and stars and natural cycles (Genesis 1:14)
•
Permission to eat plants (Genesis 1:30)
•
The implication within the command to abstain from the tree of knowledge of
good and evil that God has the right to command mankind, especially due to him
being the creator. This is a fundamental principle of Noahide faith (that God
can Command us).
•
The importance of keeping genealogies (Genesis 5 & 10)
•
The importance of offering sacrifices. The type of sacrifices implied that are
acceptable are: Field offerings, Blood sacrifices of animals which are ‘Clean’
animals. Sacrifices are offered on altars. Sacrifices probably should be
offered with a ‘Positive’ spirit. (Genesis 4:3-5, Genesis 8:20). Sacrifices are
completely voluntary and mainly made to God to show we love him.
•
The understanding that drunkardness, while seemingly not forbidden, can cause
problems (Genesis 9:20-27)
•
The idea that God can call individual Noahides for specific purposes in the way
he called Noah and gave Noah specific commandments.
Principles
Established Specifically For Haven Noahide Fellowship
It
is my intent to maintain the Rainbow Bible (Genesis 1 - 11:9) as the basis of
Haven Noahide Fellowship's scriptural adherence. Further to this, however, we
intend to develop our own system of Noahide Law.
I
do not intend following the 66 or the 30 noahide laws of Rabbinic Judaism,
mainly because they are founded on a false assumption - that they are the
legitimate laws of Noah, which is scripturally untrue. Essentially I
follow the Karaite Jewish principle that the Tenakh is the sole body of
legislation as appropriate to utilize in any sense of divinely authoritative
scripture. In this sense Haven is primarily as 'Karaite Noahide'
fellowship. Haven does not claim any specific knowledge of exactly in
what way or how the Tenakh is divinely inspired, leaving this to the
formulation of differing religious denominations and individuals to determine
for themselves. It is Haven’s opinion that the system of Talmudic Noahide
Law, commonly called ‘The 7 Laws of Noah’ is inconsistent with the scriptural
record, and merely the opinion of the Rabbis as to what constituted Noahide
law. We feel they were developing a tradition on what laws were given to
Noah and merely wrote down their traditional belief in the Sanhedrin tractate
of the Babylonian Gemara dealing with this subject. We do not view these
laws as historically correct, affirming that the scriptural record is the
primary record of Noahide law and faith (as shown in the Rainbow Bible of
Genesis 1 – 11:9). Having said all of the, God himself asked of me in a
dream very early on in my Noahide walk with himself to ‘Build on my rock’ (or
possibly ‘Build on the rock’ – I forget the exact word of my/the).
But his intention was extremely clear in the way he elucidated my mind to
understand that his rock was the people of Israel, from all of their history,
and that he had great love for them and cherished them. To be quite
factual, he did not specify exactly what he meant by ‘Building on his
rock’. My interpretation is this – As a Christian before leaving
Christianity I was extremely evangelistic in my efforts to promote the church,
and was dedicated to attempting to add souls to the Christian church. I
feel it is possible that God saw my sincere desires to add people to his
kingdom and, as such, when I became a Noahide and committed to Noahide faith,
he perhaps has approved of me developing a Noahide spiritual community which is
built on Israel in a way, both built on the people and the teachings of
Israel. Thus while I have accepted that the Rainbow Bible is the true
historical law given to Noah, I am now following God’s request (in my personal
interpretation, which he did not specify otherwise) by adding what I feel are
appropriate Noahide laws for Haven Noahide Fellowship.
Thus
it is the purpose of Haven to develop, on top of the foundation of the Rainbow
Bible, due to reasons of an increasingly complex Noahide world society having
eventuated since the time of Noah, an intelligent and lasting system of Noahide
Law, agreed upon by the founding members of Haven Noahide Fellowship, to be the
laws maintained by our fellowship. Such a system of increased Noahide Law is
deemed proper and necessary by our fellowship because of the growth of world
Noahide society, the need to increase our relationships with each other in
terms of legal principle, and done as such by the Authority of the founder of
Haven Noahide Fellowship who was asked by God to build a religious community
more in harmony with Israel's Torah Principles. As such, I have specifically
chosen under the request of God to formulate those laws which should now be
deemed as universally acceptable and appropriate Noahide Law. There is no
real point in re-inventing the wheel in a sense, thus I am following the basic
Talmudic designations of what they feel constitutes Noahide law, with the
objections of certain key aspects which I do not personally feel, in my own
judgement, as appropriate for the Noahides of Haven Noahide Fellowship (and
possibly most of the children of Noah in my opinion). This is all done
voluntarily by Haven Noahide Fellowship. Thus, while we disagree with the
Rabbis on the historical view that these laws were part of the original Noahide
law, we will simply accept a degree of them anyway as per the request of God to
myself to build on his rock.
I
do NOT say I am 100% correct in interpreting God’s request to build on the
people of Israel by establishing Haven Noahide Fellowship. Yet I can say
in all truth that God did NOT define what he meant by build. He did not
specify or allude to any conversion of myself to Judaism, he did not specify
the building of any spiritual temple or the like, he did not specify the
building of a spiritual noahide community or any such thing. He did not
specify at all what he meant. He simply requested me to ‘BUILD ON MY
ROCK’ giving me the understanding that his rock was the people of Israel.
Thus I am free to follow my own inclinations by simply establishing Haven
Noahide Fellowship, without having yet had any objections that I am aware of
from Yahweh himself.
Finally,
I view these laws as universally appropriate for all the children of Noah, yet
I was not granted any authority to make such judgements for all the children of
Noah. My authority, thus, is on my own personal interpretation of what
God said to myself. I am simply, therefore, only doing what I feel is
right and appropriate. I have no basis for objecting to a critics own
personal objections to my works or ideas, and all are free as far as I
understand it to simply ignore my viewpoints and efforts. But I would
suggest, perhaps, that I have a degree of divine approval for something – make
of what I have said as you will.
In
brief, on top of the system of law presented by the Rainbow Bible, Haven's laws
are:
NEGATIVES
·
No deliberate harming of neighbour through ones own actions
·
No Idolatry
·
No Blasphemy
·
No Theft
·
Sexual Laws
o
No pre-pubescent paedophilia (No sexual activity until capable of having
children)
o
No Bestiality (As we can not ascertain consent from animals)
o No Rape
o No Sexual Harassment
·
No Kidnapping
·
No Purgery in courts of Law
POSITIVES
·
To live in harmony with ones neighbour
·
To contribute to a societal fund for the assisting of people in financial,
health or otherwise difficult circumstances (ie charity, which can be
maintained through a societally implemented taxation system)
·
To respect the systems of law of society when and were they do not contradict
the Rainbow Bible or principles of our fellowship (With respect to Israel and
the Talmudic Noahide laws forbidding certain sexual practices which Haven
accepts for Noahides, we teach the importance of not objecting to the adherents
of such laws rights to live by such laws and judge their own communities by
such laws. We are independent of such communities and expect, in the same way
we extend them the courtesy of not objecting to the way they run their own
affairs, that they likewise not object to the way we run our own affairs, and
point out that in the 'Rainbow Bible' we have a body of scripture upon which
both communities agree.)
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWO: 'FINDING PEACE WITH GOD'
God
encouraged Cain to conquer the spirit of sin which was always at his door,
tempting him to its evil ways. (Genesis 4:7)
All
of us know of people in our lives and people we see in TV who talk of troubles
of the heart - anxiety, worries, depressions, sadnesses and miseries. It
seems so many people are miserable in their lives, all of them searching for an
answer which eludes them.
The
professional psychiatrists all have various answers which they think work, but
the real truth to human existences questions of the soul are found in the
religious text of the holy scripture which God inspired millennia ago.
What
keeps us from finding true peace of heart is our SIN. It is doing things
which are carnal, nasty, viscious, mean spirited and hateful which leads to a
sense of anxiety in life. And this anxiety will always stay with us until
we learn the fundamental lesson which Cain, who killed his brother Abel, failed
to learn. We need to repent of the carnal and sinful ways we can be so
prone as humans to fall into and become, instead, children of love, joy and
peace.
Finding
peace with God is found in learning the principles of scripture and applying
them to life. It is found in being honest and truthful towards God and
our fellow neighbours and doing the very best to show everyone LOVE coming from
an honest heart.
The
more we love, the more we show kindness, the more we show integrity, the more
peace of heart we will find and the more happy we will end up being.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER THREE: ‘THE BIBLICAL CALENDAR
The
Biblical Calendar
(NOTE:
Ensure you check scripture quotations to ensure accuracy for personal
verification. An important point to remember is we are dealing with
approximations to the nearest YEAR as months and days are rarely
specified. Thus a plus or minus figure range of a dozen years or so can
be reckoned into the final date.)
SC
= Since Creation
Genesis
5
No
of Years SC
Adam
to
Seth
130 0 –
130 SC
Seth
to
Enosh
105
130 – 235 SC
Enosh
to Kenan
90
235 – 325 SC
Kenan
to Mahalalel
70
325 – 395 SC
Mahalalel
to Jared
65
395 – 460 SC
Jared
to
Enoch
162 460
– 622 SC
Enoch
to Methuselah
65
622 – 687 SC
Methuselah
to Lamech 187 687 – 874 SC
Lamech
to Noah
182 874
– 1056 SC
Genesis
11
Noah
to
Shem
502
1056 – 1558 SC
Shem
to Arphaxad
100
1558 – 1658 SC
Arphaxad
to Shelah
35
1658 – 1693 SC
Shelah
to
Eber
30
1693 – 1723 SC
Eber
to Peleg
34
1723 – 1757 SC
Peleg
to Reu
30
1757 – 1787 SC
Reu
to Serug
32
1787 – 1819 SC
Serug
to Nahor
30
1819 – 1849 SC
Nahor
to
Terah
29
1849 – 1878 SC
Terah
to
Abram
70
1878 – 1948 SC
Genesis
21:5
Abram
to
Isaac
100
1948 – 2048 SC
Genesis
25:26
Isaac
to
Jacob
60
2048 – 2108 SC
Genesis
47:9
Jacob
to his arrival
In
Egypt
130
2108 – 2238 SC
Exodus
12:40
Jacob’s
arrival to
The
Exodus
430
2238 – 2668 SC
1
Kings 6:1
From
the Exodus to the beginning of the Temple in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign
in the month of Ziv
480
2668 – 3148 SC
1
Kings 11:42
Solomon’s
Reign
40
3144 – 3184 SC
1
Kings 14:21
Rehoboam’s
Reign
17
3184 – 3201 SC
2
Chronicles 13:1
Abijah’s
Reign
3
3201 – 3204 SC
2
Chronicles 16:13
Asa’s
Reign
41
3204 – 3245 SC
2
Chronicles 20:31
Jehoshaphat’s
Reign
25
3245 – 3270 SC
2
Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram’s
Reign
8
3270 – 3278 SC
2
Chronicles 22:2
Ahaziah’s
Reign
1
3278 – 3279 SC
2
Chronicles 22:12
Athaliah’s
Reign
6
3279 – 3285 SC
2
Chronicles 24:1
Joash’s
Reign
40
3285 – 3325 SC
2
Chronicles 25:1
Amaziah’s
Reign
29
3325 – 3354 SC
2
Chronicles 26:3
Uzziah’s
Reign
52
3354 – 3406 SC
2
Chronicles 27:1
Jotham’s
Reign
16
3406 – 3422 SC
2
Chronicles 28:1
Ahaz’s
Reign
16
3422 – 3438 SC
2
Chronicles 29:1
Hezekiah’s
Reign
29
3438 – 3467 SC
2
Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh’s
Reign
55
3467 – 3522 SC
2
Chronicles 33:21
Amon’s
Reign
2
3522 – 3524 SC
2
Chronicles 34:1
Josiah’s
Reign
31
3524 – 3555 SC
2
Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz’s
reign 3 mths 3555 – 3555 SC
2
Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim’s
Reign
11
3555 – 3566 SC
2
Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin’s
Reign 3mths
10days
3566 – 3566 SC
2
Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah
to the
Babylonian
Exile
11
3566 – 3577 SC
The
Babylonian Exile in the Christian Calendar is marked as 587BC which was 3577 SC
3577
SC = 587BC
3577
+ 587 = 0 AD
3577
+ 587 = 4164
4164
SC = 0 AD
Adding
2010 years, 2010 AD = 6174SC
Thus
we are currently in the 6,174th year since creation.
Mankind’s
millennial rest began on the 6001st year, which was 1828AD
It
ends at 2828 AD
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER FOUR: ‘SERVING GOD WITH FAITHFULNESS’
Faithfulness
to God means being committed to God. It means most importantly that when
you are having difficult times in life – when things are going against you -
when things seem to challenging or difficult to cope with - when everything
seems to be going well for everyone EXCEPT you - that THAT is the time to
remain
faithful
and committed to God.
It
is easy to praise God and tell him you love him and do everything to please him
when things are easy. But that is not the true test of your
loyalty. The true test is this: When everything is against you can
you still study your bible, praise the goodness of God and remain
faithful? God wants followers who will
remain faithful to him - through the good times AND the bad times - for better
or for worse. Anything less than that is a 'fair-weather friend' and not
a true follower of God anyway. So STAY COMMITTED, STAY FAITHFUL AND KEEP GOD IN
YOUR HEART, SERVING HIM CONSTANTLY.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER FIVE: ‘STUDYING SCRIPTURE - A DAILY FOCUS’
I
strongly recommend that you make a habit of picking up your bible every day if
possible, but at least every other day. For Noahides I strongly recommend
a LONG course of study in the Rainbow Bible, which is Genesis 1 - 11:9.
This covers mankind’s history from the creation to the end of the Tower of
Babel incident. Why this section is so important for Noahides is that all
Noahides are descended from the figures in this section of scripture. The
Tower of Babel incident ends with the scattering of ALL mankind, and the prior
chapters also relate to ALL mankind. This it is very important you learn
the Rainbow Torah as the FOUNDATIONAL reading material in your Noahide walk
with God. If you are capable, actually
memorizing the whole Rainbow Torah could become a lifetime goal. Apart
from people with photographic memory, I don't think anyone could really
memorize the entire bible (at least not without a monumental effort). But
memorizing the Rainbow Torah for a Noahide over a lifetime of committed study
could become a reality. A pastor of
Haven Noahide Fellowship really needs to know the Rainbow Torah
intimately. He needs to have large sections of it memorized and be on his
way throughout life to memorizing the entire text. For a pastor of the
fellowship a reading of the entire Rainbow Torah (genesis 1 - 11:9) is
recommended on a daily basis. Really, a pastor needs to make the Rainbow
Torah his 'Daily Bread' and then also pay attention to the rest of the Torah
and Tenakh at other times (primarily the Sabbath day which should be devoted to
spiritual things). Our job is to become
citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven who need not feel any shame having dedicated
our lives, in faithfulness, to a God who will richly reward us for our efforts.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER SIX: ‘CONQUERING SIN - A BASIC LIST OF SINS’
Remember,
God admonished Cain to conquer 'SIN'. We understand sin as not only
rebellion against God, but things which are 'IMMORAL' in nature. A basic list of things which could be considered
sinful for Noahides are:
*
Violence
*
Murder
*
Failing to obey God
*
Eating Animal Blood
*
Offering impure sacrifices to God
*
Breaking the civil laws of your own society – lawlessness
These
things can be constituted as ideas which are contrary to a sound Noahide
faith. A Noahide is called to be holy as God is holy and thus, as Cain
was exhorted to by God, master his nature and repent and resist all sinful
impulses.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER SEVEN: ‘THE CREATION WEEK’
God
created in this order:
Day 1
Created Light & Dark - Separated light from dark called light 'Day' and
dark 'Night'
Day 2
Created an expanse in the midst of the waters on earth below and above the
earth (the vapour canopy) - the expanse is the SKY
Day 3
Separated the Seas from the Land. Brought forth vegetation on land.
Day 4
Created
the Sun, Moon & Stars - which serve as signs for the seasons
Day 5
Brought forth Sea creatures & Birds from the oceans
Day 6
Brought forth land creatures from the earth. Made man.
Day 7
Sabbath day rest
Later on God 'BURST' the vapour canopy which provided the water for the flood.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER EIGHT: ‘THE VAPOUR CANOPY & RAINBOWS’
As
I briefly alluded to yesterday, there was a vapour canopy hanging over the
earth 'IN THE BEGINNING'
We read on the second day of creation that God created the expanse and
named it 'SKY' or 'HEAVEN' in between the "WATERS".
Where were the waters above the 'Sky'????
Well, we all know that mankind launches satellites into space and we use them
for mobile phones and international television and radio and so on.
These satellites are suspended above the earth in a zone in which they
spin around the earth and do two things:
1) they do not spin off into space
2) they do not fall to earth
So it is quite likely that the vapour canopy, being waters 'ABOVE' the
sky was suspended here, possibly above the ozone layer, in space.
When the flood came scripture says 'God OPENED up the heavens'. He
literally tore apart the vapour canopy and the world was flooded
because of it.
Finally, because the vapour canopy, prior to the flood, was between the
Earth and the Sun, it appears that 'RAINBOWS' were never visible. It says
right in the beginning of Genesis that it did not rain, but that streams came
up and watered the earth. So, because it never rained, and because there
was a vapour canopy over the earth, this seems to be why the language in
Genesis 9 says 'God set his rainbow in the clouds.'
In other words, the Rainbow always had the potential to be seen, (as we
see the rainbow on a sunny day when we use a sprinkler), but it had not
materialized until AFTER the flood and the rain came.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER NINE: "23"
Anthropoids
have 24 pairs of Chromosomes, universally.
Apes, Monkeys, Baboons, Chimps etc all have 24 pairs of
Chromosomes. Mankind is traditionally
viewed as an 'Anthropoid' but we have only "23" pairs of Chromosomes. However, right along the centre of the first
Chromosome in our DNA is a segment or strip which seems to indicate that at one
point this first chromosome were 2 separate chromosomes which joined together. Evolutionists often teach that mankind thus
developed from an anthropoid ancestor with 24 chromosomes, but that a genetic
defect led to us having 23 and evolving distinctly from them. Genesis teaches that Adam and Eve (as well as
the Serpent) were to be punished for partaking of the forbidden fruit. What
happened to Eve was that, prior to the curse, when she was to have children she
would not have felt any pain. But with the curse God said 'With Pain
shall you bring forth children.' What
seemed to happen, to my way of thinking, is that mankind was perfect with 24
chromosomes right in the beginning. Because of the CURSE God altered
mankind’s genetic structure, merging the first and second chromosomes together,
which not only caused women to feel pain in childbirth, but possibly led to
many of our diseases and other things to do with a fallen or altered
nature. There is another interesting
"23". The earth is tilted on a perfect 23Degrees axis.
Perhaps, to actually cause the heavens to give forth the rain for the flood,
the bursting of the vapour canopy was caused by God changing the degrees of the
earth’s axis from a perfect "24" to the new, altered, 23Degrees
axis. An interesting idea, isn't it?
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TEN: ‘LIFE AFFIRMING CHOICES’
The
fall of Adam and Eve teaches us many lessons. But one of the most
important ones is this: immediately after declaring their punishment God made
clothes of animal skin to ‘HIDE’ the nakedness of Adam and Eve. Because
Adam and Eve, after eating the forbidden fruit, gained knowledge of good and
evil, God gave them clothing to start teaching them the fundamental lesson that
they needed to choose ‘Goodness’ when confronted with a situation in which good
and evil were involved. They knew they were naked immediately, but God
clothed them very quickly, and helped them in their ‘sinful state’. God
shows he cares by doing this. You see, the fundamental lesson we can
learn from this historical event is this: God knows we have already
chosen to have knowledge of good and evil, but he sets us an example by
clothing us to help us to choose the ‘GOOD’. God wants us to choose
goodness as opposed to evil in ALL our life choices, and helped us to make that
choice right there at the beginning by clothing us.
Thus,
in all our life circumstance were decisions are to be made which involve good
and evil, God has already given us an example that he wants us to ‘Choose the
GOOD’.
We
must make ‘GOOD’ and ‘POSITIVE’ and ‘LIFE AFFIRMING’ choices in every choice we
make through our lives. God desired ‘GOOD’ and ‘HOLY’ people who make the
‘RIGHT’ Choices.
The
‘Rainbow Bible’ is a primary text we utilize to learn the basis for doing good
as opposed to evil. But God has also given us the people of Israel and
the writings of the TENAKH to also assist us in learning good from evil.
The
fellowship teaches that the teaching of the ‘Rainbow Bible’ is mandatory for
the fellowship. The things in the Rainbow Bible MUST be complied
with. But it is always useful and sensible to commit to following those
teachings within the TENAK that we find ourselves capable of following.
We should BUILD ON THE ROCK OF ISRAEL whenever and wherever we are capable of
doing so. We should strive to become as holy, by the fullness of God’s law,
as we are capable of doing.
God
expects the teaching of the Rainbow Bible as a minimum for children of
Noah. But we should strive to please God and put into practice as much of
the Torah of Israel as we are capable of doing so. This pleases God even
more so.
We
MAY NOT practice the Passover. This is forbidden unless we are converted
to Judaism and circumcised (as a male) or converted to Judaism as a
woman. Further we can not practice the priestly laws or laws which don’t
apply to us directly. But those which apply to the people of Israel in
general, apart from the Passover, we can practice, and ideally should follow as
much of God’s holy law as we are capable of doing so.
Orthodox
Judaism teaches that Noahides may apply teachings of the Torah if they so choose,
so we are not contrary to the teaching of Orthodox, and Karaite Judaism
generally expects Noahides should convert to Judaism anyway, so they don’t
object to us putting into practice these holy laws.
So,
let us strive to please God by choosing Goodness and Holiness in our lifelong
walk with the Almighty.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER ELEVEN: ‘CHILDREN OF PEACE’
Children
of Noah need to be "Children of Peace". The world’s most
popular sign or symbol for Peace is usually the 'DOVE'. As fortune would
have it, one of the key symbols for Noah's covenant, alongside the Rainbow, is
the 'Dove'.
The
Dove represents Peace, Purity and sacrifice in biblical language.
They were used in official sacrifices because of their gentle nature and their
purity for sacrificial food.
What
we as "Children of Peace" and "Children of Noah" need to be
are "Sacrifices of Peace" to all mankind. We need to sacrifice
our own egos, desires and ambitions on the altar of Yahweh in service to all
mankind for the "Peace Offering" which will heal ALL the children of
Adam & Eve and 'Noah'.
Children
of Peace are not interested in violence or bloodshed. We are interested
in bringing healing when others would bring pain. We are interested in
bringing love, when others would bring hate. We are interested in
bringing 'Peace' when others would bring 'War'.
We
strive to be friendly and at "Peace" with our neighbour and fellow
citizens. We are lawful and try to be Just in all our dealings. We
are gentle and soft and kindhearted. We are Children of Peace and
Children of the Dove.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWELVE: ‘CONFRONTING EVIL’
It
is never easy or pleasant to have to deal with hostility. To deal with deceitful
men and violent men can often be the very bane and hardest part of our
lives. Sometimes, especially in youth, we can be confronted with people
who don't show any affection towards us and are even judgemental, hostile and
violent.
Because
children of Noah are meant to be a peaceful and friendly people, it can be
difficult to know how we are supposed to react.
In
Isaiah 53 the suffering servant did not 'Yell Out' or 'bitterly accuse' his
oppressors. Instead he went silently to his slaughter.
Children
of Noah need to be 'Meek' and 'Gentle' in the face of opposition. We need
to return 'Love' for 'Hate', and 'Gentleness' for 'Hostility'.
We
need to serve as an example to those who oppress us of the patience and love of
Almighty God.
On
a societal level the Police have an important role. These brave souls are
required by God to confront the lawless members of our society and deal with
evil on a day to day basis. If God calls you to the Police force it is
because you have the strength of character to deal with this work. Judges and law courts also have important
responsibilities in confronting evil and we must always support them by being
upright citizens and making their jobs easier.
Ultimately, though, regular everyday children of Noah need to be gentle
and peaceful. A quiet and sensible flock of God our shepherd, quietly
going about life and keeping the peace. We only confront evil as a last
absolute, and then only with special roles in society for people equipped to do
as such. Ultimately, when confronted with evil, show peace. As King
Solomon says in his proverbs: "A
Gentle Answer Turneth Away Wrath"
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER THIRTEEN: ‘THE WORLD LIES AT THE FEET OF A DISCIPLINED MAN’
Here
is a proverb: "The World lies at the Feet of a disciplined Man"
A
disciplined man has the ability to:
*
Pray, because he finds the time to do this daily on routine.
*
Study, because he is motivated and WORKS hard to achieve his goals.
*
Teach others, because his inspiration from God leads him to work to strengthen
society.
*
Achieve success, because he gets up every morning dutifully for work, is
disciplined enough to follow the correct work procedures, is disciplined enough
to work his FULL allotment of hours without shirking, is disciplined enough to
attend ALL work meetings and is disciplined enough to show a good attitude and
ethic to his employers. Being
disciplined means having the ability to work hard under the Authority of God
who will lead you and PUSH you to achieve the kind of goals you are capable
of. It is a true saying, "The World
lies at the feet of a disciplined man'.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER FOURTEEN: ‘A WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER (PROVERBS 31:10-31)’
A
Wife of Noble Character (Proverbs 31:10-31) 10 [c] A wife of noble
character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
11 Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life. 13 She selects wool and flax and works with
eager hands. 14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from
afar. 15 She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. 16
She considers a field and buys it; out
of her earnings she plants a vineyard. 17 She sets about her work
vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. 18 She sees that her trading is
profitable, and her lamp does not go out
at night. 19 In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
20 She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy. 21 When it snows, she has no fear
for her household; for all of them are
clothed in scarlet.
22
She makes coverings for her bed; she is
clothed in fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen
garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. 25 She
is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the
bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
29
"Many women do noble things, but
you surpass them all." 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31 Give her the reward
she has earned, and let her works bring
her praise at the city gate.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER FIFTEEN: ‘THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS’
Have
you noticed how when people say kind things about your personality it makes you
feel good. And have you also noticed that when people insult you or say
nasty things about your friends or family that you feel bad and negative.
So much of how we react to other people in life is not only in what they do but
what they SAY. Words have power.
It has been said 'The Pen is Mightier than the sword' and how true that is.
Perhaps
the greatest public speaker of all time was Jesus of Nazareth. The gospel
says Jesus spoke with 'Authority.' Perhaps the real key to this authority
was that it challenged the established ruling class of the Sanhedrin
priesthood.
Our greatest political leaders usually have that about them as well - a
sense of authority. As if they have something we all want to listen to,
and a divine mandate to speak these words.
In life, the words you yourself speak come from your own authority - your
own personal power. They reflect you perfectly and communicate to others
what you are about and what you believe.
They have the power to speak positively and the power to speak
negatively. Here is a quotation from the New Testament book of James on
the power of the Tongue.
JAMES 3:3-12
3When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn
the whole animal. 4Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and
are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever
the pilot wants to go. 5Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it
makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small
spark. 6The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.
It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is
itself set on fire by hell.
7All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being
tamed and have been tamed by man, 8but no man can tame the tongue. It is a
restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men,
who have been made in God's likeness. 10Out of the same mouth come praise and
cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 11Can both fresh water and salt[a] water flow from the same
spring? 12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?
Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Watch over your tongue for it is your own power and, in many ways, the power
of death and life. To curse or to heal.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER SIXTEEN: ‘THE NOAHIDE SHEMA’
As
you probably know, Isralites pray the 'Shema' every day. It goes:
Shema
Israel
Adonai
Eloheinu
Adonai
Achud
Translated
Hear
Israel
The
Lord our God
The
Lord is One
The
Noahide Shema is similar and goes
Shema Noach
Adonai Eloheinu
Adonai Achud
We
simple replace 'Israel' with 'Noach'.
This
can be a daily prayer each morning or each evening - at least sometime during
the day.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER SEVENTEEN: ‘SATAN’
The
‘Serpent’ tempted Adam and Eve. Scripture teaches that before the serpent
was turned into a snake-like form, he had another form which walked upright.
In the ‘Pseudepigrapha’ book of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’, the Serpent is
shown to be ‘Satan’. This is a part of ‘Jewish Tradition’.
In
the book of Job, Satan opposes people who try to serve God. He opposed
Job with the line ‘Skin for Skin a man will give all he owns to save his
life.’ This teaches that Satan is somewhat cynical, and very adversarial
to humanity. He expects the lowest common denominator from us and does
not seemingly have a high opinion of us.
I,
personally, have heard demons mock me. These voices were separate and
apart from the typical voices associated with schizophrenia. They were
literal demonic voices encountered early on in my walk with God.
Scripture
does not really say if Satan is the head of the demons, but this is the
tradition which has been built up.
In
our example of Job in scripture, Satan TESTS us. Remember when Jesus is
talking to the apostles and says ‘Satan has asked to SIFT you.’ Satan
TESTS the genuineness of our faith, as the example in Job illustrates. In
this sense, then, he is a servant of God, doing his will, by testing the
genuineness of our faith.
There
is no point in cursing Satan, reviling him or accusing him. This is
pointless. He simply does his job in finding our weaknesses. We may
complain about our weaknesses being exposed, but they are better of being dealt
with sooner than later. Really, in truth, we should be grateful for the
testing, realizing we will only be made holier in the end.
Christianity
calls Satan ‘The great old devil, the serpent, the dragon.’ This, really,
is a fabulous misconception about what the Devil is all about. He is our
adversary to make us REAL – to get all the fakeness out of us.
So
do not curse the devil or his agendas. He is only exposing what needs to
be exposed before the throne of God anyway.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER EIGHTEEN: ‘SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’
These
are my personal judgements for what should be part of the practices of Haven
Noahide fellowship No tattoos - this is a deliberate marring of the flesh
No
Cuttings of the flesh - a deliberate marring of the flesh
No
ear-rings or nose-rings through holes in flesh - a deliberate marring of the
flesh
Fingernails: Fingernails always grow back and continue to grow if uncut.
As such it
is the right thing to do to trim fingernails. God designed us to trim
our fingernails.
Facial Hair: Facial hair, like fingernails, always grows back and
continues to grow. It is entirely appropriate to trim facial hair and
even be fully shaved if someone desires to. Because the hair grows back
and continues to grow it can be
styled according to fashion if desired.
Women's hair length: Women may cut their hair short in the western style
of they so wish. Women's hair likewise continues to grow back so this is
a non-issue. Being fashionable and practical are important principles for
women.
Makeup: Makeup to cover blemishes is important, but women should not be
ashamed of their own particular 'NATURAL' look as well. As such a woman
who refuses to wear makeup should not be ashamed at the look her creator
naturally gave her. Our natural look is beautiful in God's eyes, and
never an issue of shame. However it is entirely appropriate to use makeup
to cover blemishes as this can cause personal embarrassment otherwise and God
cares about our feelings.
Cigarettes: These very often cause cancer and other diseases and
should not be used or, if used, only smoked in very small quantities (a few
cigarettes a year).
Alcohol: Can cause all sorts of health problems and needs to be
kept to a minimum.
Drunkeness should be completely avoided.
Illegal drugs: We should not use these because civic law forbids
it. However, in countries were they are legal, all health concerns about
the drugs need to be taken into consideration.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER NINETEEN: ‘BEING GENTLE’
It
is so easy to answer someone sharply or aggressively. It is so easy to be
proud and think we know better than others and, out of that pride, answer back
as if we know it all. But God resists
the proud and gives grace to the humble.
Being gentle is the call of all the children of Noah. We have to
be strong people, but we have to show our strength through our gentleness. Being gentle means being soft. It means
being kind to people, even when they show their harsher sides to us. It
means being meek and timid like. It
means having NO AGGRESSION. God wants
children of Noah to be very, very GENTLE. To be soft, kind and pure. Seek gentleness.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY: ‘A DEEPER MEANING IN GOD ASKING ABRAHAM TO SACRIFICE HIS
SON’
Here
is the 'TESTING' of Abraham from Scripture
Genesis
22 (New International Version)
Abraham
Tested
1
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied. 2
Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go
to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains I will tell you about."
3
Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him
two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the
burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third
day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his
servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We
will worship and then we will come back to you."
6
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac,
and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on
together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
"The fire and wood are here,"
Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
8
Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt
offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.
9
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar
there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the
altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife
to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven,
"Abraham! Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.
12
"Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to
him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your
son, your only son."
13
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram [a] caught by its horns. He
went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his
son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it
is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
15
The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said,
"I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and
have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make
your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the
seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
18 and through your offspring [b] all nations on earth
will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."
19
Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba.
And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
In the immediate sense, God was testing Abraham's loyalty. But there is a
far more significant basis behind this - something very fundamental.
I have, in the past, thought Abraham was gutless for not standing up to
God when God asked him to kill his son. I felt to myself if it was my son
I would have told God to go to hell. And, in a sense, that is why God
asked Abraham to kill his son.
For a man of the ancient world like Abraham, and still to a degree today,
the son represented the 'SEED' of the man or 'HIS LEGACY'. When Abraham
complained to God before this that he had no seed and a servant in his
household would be his heir it reflected how important the legacy of children
was to them.
But what a legacy of descendants can turn into, if we are proud, is a sense of
our own greatness and the pride which accompanies it. And more than that
– in our seed we seek to dominate other seeds and rule mankind. It is the
nature of the competitive spirit which all to easily overcomes ambitious men,
and even women too.
Going back in time to the early centuries AD, this is the time when many
of the famous surnames and clan names came into being. What you could
perhaps surmise is that the progenitors of these clans all gained a sense of
pride at their great accomplishment. You see, having children can lead to
a great sense of pride as if we have accomplished something great.
But God does not like pride in men. Because in pride we have
hatred, conflict and war. We have tribal divisions and wars between them
and have for a long time suffered racial hatreds and divisions because of the
jealousies and prides
held in one clan hierarchy against another.
When God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac he was cutting right to the
core of Abraham's dreams of Glory. Abraham had ambitions for his
children, to see them in Glory one day, as God had indeed promised him, but God
needed to test Abraham. He needed, in that testing, to destroy the pride
which had built up in Abraham because of the promises of God and by asking
Abraham to kill Isaac, he broke Abraham's pride. And then God did not
have a barbaric son in the people of Israel, but a people of law, justice and
peace.
God asked Abraham to kill his pride. To kill his glory. And
the real step all of us need to take in our lives is to leave behind us the
sense of accomplishment and pride we achieve in our children's lives and
realize that it is the purpose
of men to glorify the creator God who gave us our abilities in the first place.
Children are meant for joy, not pride, as if we are something special.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-ONE: ‘PERSEVERANCE & SUCCESS’
One
of my personal proverbs is this: "To succeed -
Persevere". You see, completing a work task, especially a long and
complicated one, takes a lot of effort and often is not done at one sitting or
at one go. To gain success in achieving goals you need to be committed to
your goal and work steadily to achieve it.
Success does not come through a half-hearted attempt at achieving
glory. It comes through patient, careful, thoughtful and methodical planning
- and then working to that plan to carefully achieve your goals. There are some principles for reaching goals:
*
Start with the end in mind
*
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again
*
A good beginning makes a good ending
*
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Often,
to succeed in life, we need to simply get of our butts and actually make a
beginning to a project. But to achieve the ultimate goals we have in
life, you must PERSEVERE. This means facing up to challenges and
obstacles and doing your best to work through them. It means honestly
facing up to the challenge and doing the required work for success. If
you desire success, God will provide the means for you to achieve it.
Your part is to make a good start and persevere.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-TWO: ‘LIFE’S FRUSTRATIONS’
Members
of Haven need to really learn this important truth. God loves us,
dearly. But it is also a real truth that God has not yet completed perfecting
planet earth, and a lot more work needs to be done in improving our societies
and bringing wealth and blessings. We can get so frustrated because of
our lack of blessing in life, and we often end up blaming God and saying he
doesn’t really care about us and doesn’t answer our prayers. It is true –
a lot of the time God doesn’t answer our prayers for blessings, especially
finances, and we are left wondering if he really cares about us or is devoted
to us.
There
is this saying popular in the western world – ‘God helps those who help
themselves.’ A lot of the time God will simply provide us with the
knowledge we need to be able to go about doing the work on gaining our OWN
blessing from our OWN hard work. God wants to see in members of Haven Noahide
Fellowship the attitude that WE will take care of our own lives as well as his
own input. You see, God is making leaders and holy people out of us, and
training us to be responsible and take care of things ourselves. He
doesn’t want us to always have to rely upon him, especially when we are capable
of getting our own blessing through our own perseverance. When there are
challenges in life, especially the challenge of low incomes, God wants us to do
everything in our power to work hard and look for all the opportunities we
possibly can in life to further our own situation.
A
big part of that and a real key to success, wether you notice this immediately
or not in the first instance, is gaining a very good education. I am not
just talking about qualifications from schools and colleges and universities,
but real life education as well. If you have internet access LEARN as
much as you can. Seek out ‘Good Advice’ websites, and also seek out
websites on basic things such as ‘Mathematical knowledge’ and ‘Language
teaching’ and ‘History websites’ and ‘Geography websites (Ie Maps of the world
etc) and all sorts of knowledge and information. You must commit to
‘Lifelong’ learning. A very, very good start is to buy a dictionary, even
a small one, and learn a new word every day to increase your vocabulary.
Try and learn the meanings of words that you don’t know and talk with a partner
or a friend about the word and try and bring it into a conversation.
Remember, language is how we communicate in society, so the more words you
know, the stronger your communication skills, and the better your chances of
success in life. Often success can be done not just through exterior
schoolings, but simply our own home efforts to improve were and when we can.
Dictionaries are an excellent way to start and should be studied
regularly. If you can afford an ‘Atlas’ (maps of the world) this is an
excellent idea, and it really is worth studying the names of the countries of
the world and their capital cities and major geographical features.
Remember, nations don’t change their names a lot, so learning who else is in
your world and about them and STAYING INFORMED and BROADENING YOUR KNOWLEDGE is
always the best thing to do.
A
good lesson is to ‘DO THE BEST WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE.’ With the
things God has already provided for you, learn to make use of them
already. If you have access to the internet remember to spend whatever
time you have learning new things. A useful thing to do when wanting to
know about something on the internet is also typing in ‘wikipedia’ with
whatever you want to look up as wikipedia has a lot of information. Try
looking up online dictionaries if you need to and just learn a new word from an
online dictionary every now and again, write it down or try to remember it, and
talk about it with your partner or friends and family. Remember this
truth – ‘THE BETTER EDUCATED A SOCIETY, THE MORE WEALTH AND PROSPERITY WILL
COME TO IT’.
So
remember, when you find all these frustrations in life, DON’T BLAME GOD, but
try to do the very best with what he has already provided for you. When
you persevere at life and work hard the blessing inevitably comes. So,
DON’T GIVE UP, KEEP THE FAITH, TRUST IN THE LORD, AND LOVE ALWAYS AT ALL TIMES.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-THREE: ‘SUPPORTING THE PASTORAL SYSTEM – UNDERSTANDING THE
TITHING TEACHING OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’
The
intention of Haven Noahide Fellowship is to slowly grow into an international
fellowship. We desire to have a system of connected fellowships, all
serving a common mission of providing a spiritual ‘Haven’ or ‘Sanctuary’ to
children of Noah, Mankind, today. The Pastoral system, in which a pastor
is responsible for the running of each fellowship, answerable to a national
pastor or overseer in each country, who is in turn answerable to the head
pastor of the Australian fellowship, were the fellowship began, is the basic
hierarchical system which we intend to have operating.
The
pastoral system is to be maintained similarly to a Rabbinic system or a
Catholic Priestly or Christian Pastoral system. In this sense it is
important for the pastors who devote themselves full time to ministry within
the fellowship as a whole to be supported by members of the assembly.
Haven
accepts the ‘Tithing’ system, which both Abram and Jacob followed, as an
acceptable means of support for the pastoral hierarchy. Our pastors are
meant to be representatives of the divine on earth, acting as intercessors and
as elders responsible for ministering spiritual values to their respective
flocks. The ideal is to maintain a full-time pastor for each assembly,
who would be supported through ‘Tithes’ of faithful and committed members and
any other freewill offerings.
As
new members of a fellowship, you should not feel obligated to commit your own
finances to the fellowship until a time in which you feel it is the kind of
spiritual fellowship you feel you can personally make a commitment to. If
you desire to be a committed member of Haven Noahide Fellowship on an ongoing
basis it then becomes appropriate to make financial commitments as well.
However, if you are new and are simply trying to work out if you fit in our
assembly or not you needn’t concern yourself with any financial commitments.
For
committed members we do not make inquiries into how much you give to the
assembly. The offerings are meant to be collected anonymously, and nobody
is meant to know what or how much you give to the assembly. As a
fellowship we teach that the ‘Tithing’ system of 10% of income is biblical and
consistent with scripture and practice in the community of other biblical
organisations. However, while we recommend the tithe as both a way of
supporting the pastor and a way of bringing individual blessing to the giver
(as the person who gives to a shepherd of God is seen as supporting God’s will,
and we believe God, in return, blesses such an individual) we do not teach it
in any way as a mandatory practice and happily enough accept whatever people
are willing to offer. However, we do teach that giving 10% of your income, even
if you don't have much, is the best way for someone to start gaining a blessing
themselves, for he who gives to God's stewards are giving to God, and the
blessing you may be hoping for might really start coming once you start tithing
yourself. Tithing is biblical, God's established system, and a good foundation
to build ones life upon.
It
is a natural part of human nature to be suspicious and question exactly why you
should give your pastor 10% of your hard earned winnings. Firstly, there is NO command in scripture for
Noahides to tithe to a pastoral system or join a Noahide Fellowship. If you want to join Haven Noahide Fellowship
you MUST do so because of your own voluntary desire to be part of a spiritual
fellowship particularly focused on learning Karaite Noahide teaching and
doctrine. Haven Noahide Fellowship was
established in 2007. There ARE older
established Talmudic Noahide movements, so we are NOT the oldest Noahide body
or fellowship. We do NOT make any such
claim. But we DO claim to be the oldest
established ‘Karaite’ or ‘Bible (Tenakh / Old Testament) only Noahide
fellowship. Of the ones who reject the
Talmudic literature on principle and accept the Tenakh as the primacy of God’s
teaching and authority, we DO claim to be the oldest of such groups. I am not aware of any other founded Karaite
Noahide movement at all. Thus, if in your
walk with God you come to conclude that Karaite Noahide faith is your religious
belief, then we ARE the oldest movement of such bodies, and currently not aware
of any other competitors. Thus, it is
largely on this simple fact of a religious established body unique in nature
that we make our claims of legitimacy.
If you accept the 7 Laws of Noah, and the punishment of the death
penalty for violating these laws, then you belong in the Talmudic Noahide
world. If you accept the 7 laws of Noah,
but think the death penalty for ALL of them (for such things as theft and
eating blood as well) is just a bit weird or extreme, then you probably belong
with us.
You
DON’T have to join us. That is your own
prerogative. You are perfectly free to
walk with God on your own merit and minister to yourself, your family and your
own fellowship if you wish. That is
totally within your owe domain. We
WELCOME members, but do NOT compel them to remain with us if they ultimately
choose not to. It is up to YOU.
However,
IF and this is an important IF, IF you do ultimately decide to call Haven
Noahide Fellowship your home, and you become an official member, it would be,
in the way we run our fellowship, appropriate and acceptable and important to
offer your general tithe to your own fellowship pastor. Your pastor would in turn give a tithe to the
pastoral fellowship from which he was planted, the tithing system going all the
way back to the head Canberra fellowship.
In the next life (the world to come) the head Canberra fellowship
intends to continue the tithe, delivering 10% of the Canberra Fellowship’s
Income to Noah himself (who we would expect to tithe of our income to Adam and
Eve).
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR: ‘BURIAL OR CREMATION’
In
Biblical religious tradition Burial is usually the practice for dealing with
the bodies of dead people. Abraham, Jacob and Joseph were all buried, as
was Sarah.
In
the prophetical writings of the ‘Neviim’ in the Tenakh (The Jewish Bible) the
scripture speaks of dead bones being resurrected. There is a biblical
idea that the resurrection to the world to come is from the dead bones of
buried people. Contrasting this is that in non-monotheistic cultures
‘Cremation’ was and still is a prevalent practice.
Haven
has the view that God is capable of resurrecting a spirit which has died in a
new body in the ‘World to Come’ if he so desires, wether that be from a buried
body or a cremated body. But perhaps there is a reason why the
monotheistic religions have buried for so long, and the reason cemeteries have
become such an important part of the monotheistic world.
The
decision to bury or cremate for a monotheist can thus be a crucial
decision. It must not be taken lightly and if one has biblical beliefs that
it is necessary to bury for the future resurrection then you should certain
arrange for this.
Haven
thus makes the general ruling that when and were a member of the fellowship is
capable of affording burial they should in fact do so. It is important to
pray to God for guidance in this area and follow his will. We can not say
wether burial is necessary for life in the World to Come or not, but for those
with such concerns they should be mindful to ensure they are buried and have
arrangements made for this act before they pass on.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE: ‘MARRIAGE – A ONE FLESH RELATIONSHIP’
The
Rainbow Bible records Adam and Eve becoming one flesh as husband and
wife. In fact, a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto
his wife and the two shall be one flesh.
Marriage
between a man and a woman is a fundamental and natural human
relationship. When we are born into the world from a very young age there
is a yearning to be close with people, and it is in the union of marriage upon
a suitable age that the most defining of life’s relationships can arise.
Marriage between man and woman can bring children – more people in the human
race. Certainly, children can be born outside of the marital
relationship, but when marriage occurs, strengthened by the bonds of commitment
and love, a happier home for children ensues, one in which they can be taught
traditional family values and become pillars in their society.
Haven
stresses the ‘Normality’ of the choice of marriage and that, in most
circumstances, this should be the normal choice a human being would make for
their life upon a suitable age. Certainly, we are of the opinion that
many people choose to remain single throughout their lives, feeling marriage is
not for them. We do not condemn such choices, and respect people’s
fundamental human right not to marry if they so choose. But we do
strongly recommend marriage and stress that it should be considered the ‘Usual’
or ‘Normal’ course of action for a human being upon becoming mature enough to
marry.
Marriage
is intended to be an important union between man and woman, is a fundamental
aspect of the Rainbow Bible, and Haven Noahide Fellowship upholds and maintains
this tradition completely.
Marriage
rites and ceremonies can be determined by the individual’s marrying, but there
is no problem in national customs in marriage being followed by members of
Haven Noahide Fellowship.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL
DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON
NUMBER TWENTY-SIX: ‘WORSHIPPING GOD’
Part
of Israel’s Torah is to ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind
and strength’.
As
children of Noah we are not specifically commanded to cleave to God in a
relationship of love, but this is most definitely a part of a faith-filled
Noahide walk with God. El Shaddai is a loving and compassionate
creator. When God has drawn us into a relationship with himself, often
drawing us away from a sinful lifestyle to knowledge of him, helping us to
repent of our sinful ways, often a way we want to express our hearts desire in
our love towards him is through the act of worship.
In
ancient cultures idolatry was the act of worship and devotion to a believed in
‘deity’ or ‘god’. Today, Hinduism is still an expression of idolatry, as
is Oneness Christianity with its belief that Jesus is God the Father. The
usual problem with idolatry is that it is a mis-focus on the one who actually
deserves to be the central focus of our true love and adoration, Jehovah himself.
Christians
often talk about a relationship of love they have developed towards the person
of Jesus. They often claim special encounters have happened in their
lives which lead them to believe Jesus is there lord and saviour. While
this is a significant thing in Christian faith, as Noahides our focus is on
Yahweh himself, who we would tell Christians is the God of Israel, or God the
Father in ancient Christian Pre-Trinitarian belief. In fact, we teach
that Jesus believed in God and worshipped God, a being he taught was separate
and distinct from himself.
The
Jehovah’s Witnesses, the main branch of Unitarian Christianity, are a group
which do not view Jesus as God or a member of the Trinity and Noahide faith
shares this basic viewpoint. While we do not believe that Jesus was a
‘god’ in the way the Jehovah’s Witnesses do, nor that he was the Archangel
Michael, we do accept that he was a very real historical personage, and the
author of much of the Gospel teaching. But we do not worship Jesus of Nazareth,
and view him as a very real ‘Human Being’, a son of Israel, and a teacher of
Torah based spirituality. In essence we view Jesus as a ‘Rabbinic’ type
figure (Rabbi means Teacher), but someone totally human in origin, and not a
focal point of worship.
Jehovah
God, also known as ‘Yahweh’ or ‘Yahovah’ or various such wordings of the divine
name, in Haven’s belief is the creator of the universe, and the source of pure
and true love. Worship of God is not just an acknowledgement of his sovereign
power, but a way of drawing close in love with a being that will always treat
you with love in return. God is the author of morality – holiness
emanates from his very nature – so when we commit to a relationship of love and
worship of God we will connect to a source of love which will flow back to us
in untold blessings of mercy, kindness and affection. There is a
scripture which says ‘Taste and see that the Lord is Good’. We strongly
advocate such a testing, for you will come to know the love and faithfulness of
Jehovah, a God who will always remain faithful and never let you down.
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NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN:
‘ACCEPTANCE’
It
can be such a problem in today’s world for people to find acceptance with other
people, with spiritual communities and with business organisations and society
in general. It seems that so many people often don’t fit well with the
group, and are often ostracized or kept out because of it.
As
Noahides we need to remember that all mankind today are children of Noah, and
that all are valuable and important in God’s eyes because of it. Haven
promotes tolerance and acceptance of people who find it difficult to relate to
other people in various ways. As a fellowship we have standards which,
while accepting such practices are an active part of the lives of many of the
children of Noah, tend to discourage or frown upon such practices being
performed in hedonistic or vagrant and vulgar ways. These are certain
sexual and magical practices. However it is very important that such
people who violate these practices still find a home and acceptance with
us. We are meant to, in the same way Abraham interceded for the men of
Sodom and Gomorrah, have great patience and mercy with people who practice
lifestyles contrary to our usual customary behaviour. To a degree, in how
outspoken they are in their practices, they can still be members of Haven
Noahide Fellowship – it all depends how much they flaunt their lifestyle to the
embarrassment of others. If they live a moderate lifestyle, obeying the
civil laws of society which do not forbid these practices, then they are
acceptable enough to become members of Haven Noahide Fellowship. It is
important enough to state the general viewpoint of the fellowship in our
compliance with the biblical way in general to such people, but we must also
practice enormous grace, mercy and friendship towards all people so that they
can find a true home in Haven. As Christina Aguilera sings, we are all
beautiful in God’s eyes, and Haven is meant to be a ‘Haven’ for all the
children of Noah.
But
it is not just people with divergent lifestyles which we need to accept – we
must accept all lawful people into our fellowship who desire to join and find a
home. We must continually show all members of our fellowship grace,
kindness, mercy, respect and love. We should treat them as if they are
Noah himself, as we must remember we are all Noah’s beloved children in God’s
eyes. We must have a heart which does not discriminate against people of
vibrant alternative ways of life, yet tolerates and accepts in love such people
as children of Noah worthy of our affections.
In
a funny way, despite Judaism’s often rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus is
also a child of Noah, and is worthy of our respect and love as well. In
the way Jesus taught in his own views that you should ‘Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you’, we should always show the kind of love and grace
we would desire from others to all who come to us for friendship. If you
take it for granted that God loves you and shows you grace, so should be your
attitude towards all the children of Noah.
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NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘RAISING CHILDREN’
The
first man, Adam, had children. And these children were made in the image
of God, as Genesis 5 relates. A fundamental purpose for us as human
beings is to marry and procreate. Procreation is having children, for God
desires many children amongst mankind.
When
raising children there are many lessons that society has learned over a long
period of time to ensure children turn out for the best. I feel the most
important of all lessons are those which focus on the morality of the child –
those lessons which teach the child to choose right over wrong and make the
best decisions.
Morality,
of course, should be in harmony with both God’s own teaching for us as well as
the laws of society. So many problems appear in the teenage years, such
as drunkardness, drug-use, and wild and reckless behaviour, which could be
avoided in a large degree if the parent’s exercised a stronger sense of
teaching the child morality and lawfulness. So much of the time children
grow up with the belief that they are a law unto themselves, and only in later
years do they start to realize they have responsibilities not only to
themselves, but to society in general, and that being a moral and law abiding
citizen is how these responsibilities are met.
Solomon
teaches that ‘to spare the rod is to spoil the child’. Many in modern day
society have a problem with this approach, and many are trying to legislate
against it. If you disfavour smacking you will need to replace this
approach with a firm hand in your teaching and lecturing of your child.
The child needs to understand, as it is being raised, that it is becoming an
important member of society, and that the things it says and does impact upon
other people.
‘Fear
of the Lord is the beginning of Knowledge and Wisdom’ so when a child is raised
to respect God and its fellow man it will usually find the right way as it
progresses in life.
There
are so many different ways of raising a child in terms of culture and practice,
and there is no right or wrong way, really, for such a thing. But all
children need to be raised to respect God and their parents, and be taught to
be good children, with an obedient sense of responsibility and morality.
And all parents have an obligation to ensure this.
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NUMBER TWENTY-NINE: ‘THE SINGLE LIFE’
Not
all of us, it seems, are destined to marry. And this is, really, not
wrong. Many people enjoy the single life and the blessing of being able
to do things for themselves without the obligations of a partner and
children. Yet a single life still has a responsibility to interact with
society, and should not separate to its own little world, were problems of
insular behaviour can often result.
If
you have chosen the single life it is still very important to interact with
whatever family you have, or have strong friendships or relationships with a
spiritual community. No man or woman is a rock or an island, and we all
share this planet together. Even as a single person you still have some
sort of obligation to be a member of your society and show other people in your
society you care and are concerned about them and society as a whole. You
still need to contribute ‘Yourself’ to society, as you are an important and
cherished part of God’s plan for the world.
There
is a sense that the most regular lifestyle chosen for a child of Noah should be
to raise children, as God did command Noah and his seed to do as such, but in a
world today with over 6 Billion people we don’t have to worry that much about
the fulfilling of this command as there are so many people. But it is
still important to procreate and replace ourselves if we can.
Yet
there is no shame in the single life, and such people should still strive to be
a valuable and important contributing member of the society in which they live.
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NUMBER THIRTY: ‘NOAHIDE FAITH – THE UNIVERSAL FAITH’
Haven
teaches the important role that each of the major world religions plays in the
moral conduct of their adherents and the peoples of the world. We believe
that monotheism is the purest form of religion, but that all religions which
point to displaying a moral code and way of life have value and are important
contributors to the spiritual life of mankind.
The
major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai, we view
as the main spokes of the teaching of God’s sense of morality and justice in
mankind today. Haven views these 4 religions as specific Noahide-Based
religions, as each of them accepts the God of Adam and Eve, the God of Noah and
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We feel that these religions are
fundamentally important to the spiritual growth of mankind and are a valued and
cherished part of God’s plan for the future of mankind.
Yet,
what unites them all in a very true and physical sense is that each member of
these religions today are ALL descended from Noah. Further, ALL of them
have the witness of the Rainbow in their lives, wether they have specific
knowledge of Noah’s covenant or not.
Of
course, that witness is not just limited to monotheists, but all other
religious and non-religious people see the Rainbow in their lives as well.
Haven
sees Noahide faith as the ‘Universal Faith’ underpinning each of the major
monotheistic religions in particular, but also part of the traditional ways of
life that all the children of mankind have inherited from their ancestors.
The
religious principles of Noahide faith seem to be accepted quite literally by
each of the major monotheistic religions, playing an active part in their
theological teachings and beliefs. As we see it Noahide faith has the
potential to play an active role in ecumenical and interfaith religious
movements, and we view it as a ‘Uniting Force’ which is the crux of our
community in a very literal ‘Family’ sense.
Noahide
faith is, really, for all mankind as a Universal faith. While many of us
will choose a religion other than simply just Noahide faith to practice and
live by, it really should be understood, as represented by Haven in particular,
as the Universal focus of all religious belief, and what underpins our
community of faith in mankind today.
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NUMBER THIRTY-ONE: ‘THE JUDGEMENTS UPON THE NOAHIDE NATIONS OF EGYPT AND
CANAAN’
Leviticus
18 & 20 as well as Deuteronomy 18:9-14 show the judgement of God upon the
Noahide nations of Egypt and Canaan. It is important to remember these
things in relation to these judgements.
Firstly,
Canaan itself was the land to become the promised land of Israel, and was
subject to a higher code of law because of it. Egypt was the resident
home of Abraham for a while, as well as Jacob (Israel) and the Israelite people
as a nation had their formative years in the land of Egypt. Because of
this these two lands are considered important by God in terms of the holiness
required for living there.
Secondly,
Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, had a mother, Hagar, who was an Egyptian and Ishmael
himself married an Egyptian. Further, Joseph married an Egyptian and thus
the Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are half-Egyptian. And the
other sons of Jacob married Canaanite wives.
Therefore,
because of these reasons, these two nations in particular amongst the Noahide
nations were judged by God with a stricter judgement than the rest of mankind
in relation to issues of sexuality and magical practices.
Thus,
the laws of Leviticus 18 & 20 and Deuteronomy 18:9-14 should be strongly
considered as applying to the people of Egypt and those descendants of Canaan.
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NUMBER THIRTY-TWO: ‘THE COVENANTS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPINGS OF THE TORAH’
In
terms of legal responsibilities towards God, the divisions amongst mankind
based on the Torah should be seen as thus:
Noahides
– Noahide law as described in this document. The sign of Noah’s covenant
is the Rainbow (Genesis 9).
Hebrews
(Descendants of Eber, from the line of Shem, 14th in the line of Adam) –
Noahide law plus special treatments in Exodus relating to laws of slaver
Abrahamides
(Descendant of Abraham, excluding Israelites from Moses generation onwards) –
Noahide law plus the circumcision. Jethro who was a Midianite and
descended from Abraham, Moses father-in-law, offered burnt offerings to the
Lord. Abraham tithed once to Melchizedek who was a Noahide priest of
Salem. The occasional tithe is thus a suitable part of Abrahamide
faith. Abraham offered this tithe prior to his circumcision, whilst
operating under Hebrew faith, as Abraham was a Hebrew. The sign of
Abraham’s covenant is the circumcision (Genesis 17).
Israelides
– the relevant sections of Torah law in relation to the various divisions
amongst priesthood, wether commoner, Levite, Priestly family, High Priest or
King. The sign of Israel’s covenant is the blood of bulls and the Torah
law itself (Exodus 24).
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NUMBER THIRTY-THREE: ‘CONTINUE LEARNING’
This
Rainbow Bible with its list of sermons is meant to give an introductory idea
and feel of the simplicity of faith in God and walking with him as a child of
Noah. Really, we can complicate things if we wish to and, in life,
sometimes things can get complicated. But spirituality is meant to have a
simple essence of simply ‘Doing the right thing’. Christians often use
the slogan ‘WWJD’ which stands for ‘What Would Jesus Do’. While that is
admirable for Christians, perhaps as Noahides we could ask ‘WWND’ or ‘What Would
Noah Do’.
In
all of life’s difficulties you are not going to find an answer to every
question in a book. You are going to have to think for yourself and put
some real ‘Heart and Soul’ into solving your lifes difficulties. As a
spiritual person your real quest is to do the right thing in each circumstance
you find yourself in life and be a good representative of the name of your
father ‘Noah’. God is there for each and every child of Noah, and as we
continue to learn from others and for ourselves let us rest in the grace which
comes from the love and benevolence of our Almighty Heavenly Father.
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR: ‘BECOMING A VIRTUOUS PERSON’
In
our walk with the God of Noah, there is a purpose. There is a
point. We are born into this world and it seems for so many that we
arrive at our 18th year starting to ask questions about why we are here and
what it is all about.
For
those of us in Haven Noahide Fellowship we have found the answer. To
serve God as children of Noah living lives pleasing to him. And a large
part of that life process, were we are heading, is become virtuous people.
Virtues
are qualities or character traits which define us. Characteristics of our
personality which shine though in our behaviours. And virtues are meant
to be understood as positive, moral or life-affirming characteristics.
Here
is a list of some important virtues:
Love
Peace
Mercy
Kindness
Friendliness
Consistency
Faithfulness
Purity
Truthfulness
Honesty
Devotion
Holiness
Stability
Prudence
Caution
Sense
Wisdom
Commitment
Righteousness
Forethought
Charity
Hope
Faith
Humility
Sacrifice
Compassion
Honour
Godliness
To
understand what each of these virtues are, simply look them up in a dictionary
for their meaning. But most of us instinctively know what these words
mean.
You
see, a large part of our overall virtue is putting into practice these
characteristics, studying out ideas and ways of life which will inculcate them into
our nature, and persevering with them, which is a virtue in an of itself, to
see a real change in our lives to become virtuous people.
The
main character of virtue are words which are synonymous with virtue, such as
righteousness, holiness and godliness. Through listening to people teach
on the ways of a good life and by carefully putting into practice positive
ideals and, when we fall short of these ideals, repenting of our carnal or
sinful or simply slack behaviours, we reinforce the teaching of virtue in our
life and progress in our walk with God becoming the kind of children of God
that he will be proud to call his own.
So
strive for being virtuous and committed to a lifestyle of holiness. It
will be a garland around your neck which will make you the joy of your family
and your community.
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NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE: ‘RESTING ON THE SABBATH DAY’
Genesis
chapter 1 and 2 teach that God created the world in 6 days, then rested on the
7th day, his day of rest. You see, God is a spiritually alive being, but
even God needs to rest from time to time. It may sound strange, but God
is a feeling and thinking being with a heart and emotion, but also a being,
despite his capabilities, which also needs to rest and relax. God needs
some down-time. Some time to relax, unwind and just be at peace with his
creation. And that is why he gave the Sabbath day to Israel – to be at
peace with Israel on the seventh day of the week when he doesn’t have to do very
much.
God
speaks to me – and God has told me through the holy spirit that he wants to
eventually sanctify all the earth to keep the Sabbath. To have a special
day of rest when his holy spirit can rest upon all the earth, and not just
Israel, and delight in his people, the children of Adam and Eve, and the
Children of Noah.
In
Israel he is particularly fussy and likes very little activity to take
place. Outside of Israel in the Noahide world we need to give God a rest
as well, as also we need to rest, and it needs to be a time of quiet,
peacefulness, when very little is undertaken and calmness is the days
repose. We need to ‘not kindle a fire’ and by that, on the Sabbath day, I
mean be very gentle and peaceful in the way you conduct yourself on that day.
Say calm, soothing words. Do not be overly exuberant on the day, do not
be overly noisy our loud and boisterous. Be calm and gentle, a soothing
solace to God who desires to find peace with us.
A
relaxing picnic can be a good thing and remember to invite God along so he can
enjoy the pleasant fellowship. Invite God into your life on the Sabbath
day and be that peaceful and joyous celebration of rest he wants us all to be
on his sacred seventh day.
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NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-SIX: ‘JESUS SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER THREE –
JUDGEMENT ON OTHERS’
Judgement
on others can be so hard. People can often be affected, especially family
members, by how harshly we judge or criticise them. But God, who watches
every soul in existence, who’s eyes run to and fro throughout the world, seeks
out justice. And often, to teach us a good lesson, with the very same way
we judge others and the criticisms we criticize them with, he will often have
arranged people to judge us back. He subtley reminds us that we have
often said and done things against people in harshness, and because of this he
has arranged for us to share the same treatment. It is, in a way, a
lesson of Karma – what goes around comes around. If we are going to
insult someone, why should we expect not to be insulted? If we are going
to hit someone, how can we claim we are being abused if it happens to us in
return? You see, in many ways, we receive what we give out in life, or we
reap what we sow. And because of this an essential message of mine for so
long has been ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you’, for if you
treat others harshly, God will judge you likewise, but in a way of blessing, if
you are kind to others, God will exact justice and have people treat you kindly
in return. You get what you give.
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN: ‘CALLODYN’S SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER
THREE – GOD THE HEART OF LIFE’
‘2
hours later Callodyn was in a street café, speaking with a total
stranger. He asked the person if he had heard of noahide faith, and the
man said he had read a bit about it but was a nominal Christian. And then
Callodyn started sharing some of his teaching.
‘Life
is a heart. And that heart is God. God was before us all, but has
no plans on getting rid of us. You see, God loves us, as apostle John of
Christian faith would teach. Our life comes from God. Our origin
comes from God. What we are, our flesh and blood, our spirit, our soul,
all of it comes from God. God himself is the centre of existence, the
primal axiom, in the words of my brother Michael, on which all depends.
But this centrepiece did not want to be alone forever, but wanted to express
his heart, the love he was capable of, the goodness which was perfectly at home
with himself. And so God planned. For an age we can not reckon, but
in the time of the eternal deity, he planned and eventually, through his great
power, brought forth creation. The angels were his first children, it is
believed. But there are also children of God in another sense, but we
think of them as in some way angelic as well. These children lived in the
heavenly realms God created and began the thing which, I guess, all of us will
never stop doing. They began to learn. We are created children of
God, all angelicdom and humanity and we are all like sponges in a way.
Sponges to be filled with information and, from what we understand, information
which is neverending. Our spiritual minds have infinite capabilities, to
be filled with whatever knowledge we choose to allow into our lives. And
it is through the knowledge we take in that our lives are formed and the
decision we make come to be crafted and made. Good knowledge, the right
knowledge, is so incredibly important that right at the beginning God made a
tree for Adam and Eve to know about, but told them not to eat from. It
was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. All of us, now, have a
strong sense of what God is talking about in both good and in both evil, but
there are so many ways of looking at it. Is it all relative? Is
good and evil in the fruit so intermixed that with the deception of the serpent
can we ever tell right from wrong in truth? And the conscience we
supposedly have, is this knowledge darkened by the fruit itself? For
didn’t God ask, ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ All of this is of
course from the early part of the book of Genesis from the bible. Were we
find the tale of Adam and Eve.’
‘I
am familiar with it, but go on,’ said the man.
‘You
see, good knowledge, proper knowledge, accurate and true and reliable knowledge
of the ways of life guide us to, in the end, make the right decisions on lifes
fundamental matters. A question which needs to arise in this life is this
– ‘Do you really want to live forever?’ Because if you don’t ever really
ask that question of yourself, sometimes things happen in this life which lead
it to make decisions which lead to the end of it. We get involved with
improper drug and alcohol use, eat things we shouldn’t eat, hang around people
of shady character and many other decision which can, in the end, end up
killing us in our spiritual form. As you know we are hard to kill in
spirit, but each and every day and year a certain number of people leave us and
go off to Sheol for choosing, ultimately, ways of death. And that,
really, in terms of all the spiritual teaching of existence, is what it comes
down to. ‘Do you really want to live forever?’
‘I
guess it does at that,’ said the man, intensely interested in what Callodyn had
to say.
‘If
you do, then you need to make choices. Life affirming choices. And
there is someone you need, above all else, to connect to. And that person
is the heart of life, the primal axiom from which everything flows, God
himself. The fellowship I started, Haven Noahide Fellowship, is all about
connecting people to that primal axiom. It is all about introducing them
to the idea of God if they don’t have a concrete thought on the subject, and
getting them to learn and know about who this God really is. We
acknowledge that, as it says in scripture, the great ‘Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh’ is the
true creator and sovereign lord of life, and to him we owe our hearts
allegiance. For in him we will gain the knowledge that will guide us to
life eternal. God gives each of us, in our spiritual youth, lessons we
need to learn to come to the decisions we need to make. A big part about
the monotheistic religions we grew up with on earth was to lead us to make
those decisions. And when we made the right ones, a blessing usually
followed, ones which usually reinforced themselves, all centring on the
fundamental choice – the choice of life. There are many keys to eternal
life, many things to understand, to nut out, to grow in knowledge and wisdom
and experience of and, if we continue to choose this eternal life, we
inevitably do just that. Sure, God will throw challenges at us along the
way. But they are only meant to strengthen us. Remember that saying,
what doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger. And that strength makes it
easier to continue to make this choice of life. Some say that there comes
a time when we think we are making the choices, but a spirit of our eternal
father within us is really doing that for us. And some say he has been
doing that all along. Who can really say, huh? But, whoever makes
the choice of life, that is really what Haven Noahide Fellowship is
about. It is about life. Yet, more than that. It is about a
Haven. It is about a spiritual place in the world, a home of likeminded
believers, who share the same values, the same choice of life, who want to find
a place of sanctuary with each other from the harsher elements of
existence. A place of happy conversation, of friendly games and loving
friendships. A place of marital bliss and insanely long, we hope,
genealogical legacies. It is really, in the end, about the life of
society we have always known, and is not much different in many respects.
But it is a Haven and a Fellowship and in it we hope people find those who have
made that commitment, who have made that choice, and who will be around
forever, serving God, loving neighbour, and finding that heart in the children
of men.’
Callodyn
left off speaking, really thinking he had said about enough. The man
looked at him, nodded slowly, and smiled.
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT: ‘JESUS’ SECOND SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II,
CHAPTER FIVE – THE POWER OF SIN’
‘The
power of sin is in its ease, its seductive brilliance in leading the soul away
and telling it that carnal pleasures, which it offers, are the true balm for
the soul’s delight. And truly it is called temptation because of
it. But when the soul which should now know wisdom has chosen sin – when
the soul which should now know wisdom gives into temptation – when the soul
which should now know wisdom turns its back on the established divine paths,
only trouble can come. It is a true saying – a man reaps what he sows –
and if we sow to the flesh, with all its power of hatred, violence and wrath –
we will surely reap from the flesh. For the spiritual man, to which all
of us are destined to inherit the beauties and ways of life of, disavows the
wisdom of the flesh, and realizes in the gospel of truth, in the Torah of God’s
wisdom, lay the ways of the eternal, and in treading down these pathways there
is no death.’
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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-NINE: ‘AMBRIEL’S PSALM AND SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II,
CHAPTER FIVE – GOD THE SAVIOUR’
Meludiel
looked at her man, handing out flyers on the streets of New York on New Terra,
promoting his ‘Messiah Ministries’. She was proud of him, still so
dedicated to saving people from the death of sin choices, as Ambriel called
them. A crowd had gathered around him and, taking out the bible of his
ministries he started reading one of his psalms. ‘A Psalm of David
Rothchild, Messiah of Israel,’ began Ambriel. ‘Lord God, how can I forget
your goodness? How can I forget your love? When I was alone,
abandoned, surrounded by wolves, you were there, a constant foundation, a sure
strength. When things looked at there worse you spoke confidence to my
heart and I overcame. And because of your goodness, Lord, because of your
steadfast love, I will praise you with the fullness of my heart. I will
declare your saving grace to all I meet and let them know, in truth, of your
unfailing love. Praise the Lord forever. Alleluia.’ As she
continued to listen, standing at a distance, he began to preach.
‘Repentance,
it often seems to me, eludes us at the times we need to repent the most.
When things are going well in life, when we are happy with the world, praising
God, declaring our unfailing love for him, it seems it is easy to repent and
make promises of eternal devotion to his holy standards and unfailing
commitment. But time invariably passes and we become caught up in the
mundanities of everyday existence - and the knowledge of God, while we may
still wholeheartedly affirm such belief and acknowledge such importance,
becomes clouded in our everyday humdrum, put aside almost by so many, and at
times completely forgotten. And it is at those times when the devil of sin
enters in, rejoicing in your apathy, and promising you all the hellish riches
it can offers. It is at those times, when repentance is lacking, when we
ironically need to repent the most. I feel, for such eternal commitment
to be made to the divine one – an eternal commitment in which one does not
forget the sacred and holy saviour who called you out of darkness into his
marvellous light – we are brought by God, almost involuntarily, into the
darkest of despair at the end of our choices of sin and there, when faith in
him has become at last reborn, he puts us to the test to teach us to rely upon
him and, thus, saves us from the wolves who would surround and conquer our very
hearts. It is then we see the steadfast eternal love of Almighty God and,
reflecting, when we were in our apathy and state of darkness, there was God,
knowing were we were in life, and leading us faithfully, inexorably onwards
into the ways of eternal truth, love and life. I am David
Rothchild. I am the founder of Messiah Ministries and I offer my
ministerial fellowship to any and all who would wish to join and carve out for
themselves a place in the eternal ways of God and the salvation he truly
offers. Thank you.’
He
left off speaking and the gathered crowd gave a clap and, as he started handing
out flyers again, he gave a little wink to Meludiel who looked so pleased at
the commitment of her dear twin brother.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY: ‘THE LOVE OF GOD’
When
people first come alive to God and go through acts of repentance of sinful
behaviours they have lived through, it is often the case that people report
feeling love from God, feeling as if they are now in good standing with the
creator. What we know from scripture is that God created mankind in his
image and placed him in the Garden of Eden for the purpose of the man being
happy. He provided for the man with food from the Garden of Eden and,
when man was lonely, provided a suitable mate for him. You see, the very
fact that God created this wonderful planet for us to enjoy is ample proof that
he cares for us deeply. I myself have experienced the love of God in his
own words to build on his people of Israel, and the words ‘Loving Concern’ so
perfectly describe the immense love God showed towards me in person. He
was infinitely concerned with my life and wellbeing and wanted me to involve my
life with his son Israel who he deeply cherishes.
God,
I dare say, expresses his love in different ways to different people, as appropriate
for each. The way God will display his love towards you is not
necessarily the same as towards somebody else, but you can be assured that what
you need and desire in God will be shown by him to yourself, perhaps in ways
you never expected.
God
still provides the rainbow as the sign of Noah’s Covenant. And he has
never sent a global flood since then, as he promised. This shows God is
faithful to his word. And a God is faithful is trustworthy. What
you can know is that in the love you show towards God he will reciprocate in
ways beyond your belief. He is a loving, faithful God and he really in
truth cares for you.
God’s
love is towards all the children of Noah and he desires each and every one of
us to live in peace with each other and show the kinds of graces, kindnesses
and loves towards others which he bestows upon us ourselves.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-ONE: ‘KNOWLEDGE’
Knowledge,
information, data, facts – call it whatever you want to, it is by the
accumulation of such stuff that we grow in understanding to help us make sense
of our life. But having knowledge is not always going to help us in
life. It is having wisdom, which is the wise use of knowledge, that will
truly benefit us.
In
the world today knowledge comes in so many diverse areas. Just look at
the Dewy decimal system in a library to see all the basic classifications on
human knowledge. And they are just the basic classifications.
In
truth, knowledge is potentially infinite, and we can never hope to know
everything, no matter how long we live.
But
possessing knowledge, if that is all you have, is not true wisdom. True
wisdom is knowledge of God, of the creator, of the one who made all.
Knowledge of God is the divine knowledge which teaches us the wisest way to
live our life. It teaches us the wisdom of how the world really works and
the force and power behind it. Of course, God does not leave us guessing
when it comes to finding the source of true knowledge. In the TENAKH he
has provided an entire source of divine knowledge, all meant to assist us in
discerning good from evil, and knowledge of life and eternity from the
knowledge of death.
It
is always good to accumulate knowledge, but in all your studies never neglect the
divine knowledge God introduces into your life, for the divine knowledge of
truth will guide you more assuredly then all the degrees in any university you
could care to mention.
And,
of course, knowledge of love is what gives life so much of its blessing.
Here is my translation of 1 Corinthians 13.
Love
– Paul’s teaching
If
I spoke with the tongues of an Angel, in all his glory, and thought myself
splendid, what would it matter if I didn’t really love people very much.
If I was the ultimate prophetical voice, and expounded the word of God with so
much wisdom that people were amazed at me, but didn’t practice love towards my
friends and fellows, what kind of person am I really? If I had 7
university degrees, with PhD’s, but lacked intelligence in how I showed love to
people, perhaps not even loving them at all, is my life really worth
living? Love suffers long and is kind and patient. It is not
arrogant or rude or unforgiving. And it does not think highly of itself,
puffing itself up in pride. Love is the true voice of prophecy, it is the
true word of God. And love, knowledge of love itself, is what is
eternal. You see, prophetical preachers come and go, but love will last
forever. All that knowledge was part of our learning, but love is the
completion of our journey, giving us a fulfilment in life which makes it all
worth while. When I was younger I behaved in childish ways, but growing
up and growing in love I have learned to put these ways behind me. While
I am young and naïve what I know is not complete, but when I love completely my
knowledge will be perfect. Faith will last forever, and is a great
virtue. Hope will endure for all time, and is a wonderful truth.
But love is special, greater than even faith and hope, yes love is the greatest
of all.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-TWO: ‘YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO GOD’
If
you are a member of Haven Noahide Fellowship, believe me it is no
accident. God has placed you in our spiritual body for a reason – to find
yourself in a spiritual haven, but also to be a haven to others, in fact to be
a haven to all the children of Noah, mankind today.
You
are important to God and he has brought you into Haven Noahide Fellowship
because you will be taught things here, things on love of God, respect of your
fellow man, the ways of practical holiness, the ways of virtue and hopefully
biblically acceptable and correct doctrine.
We
are not God’s only spiritual fellowship, but we are a dedicated and serious
one. We aim to help all members in our fellowship and the pastors desire
to care for the flock as their dearly beloved children, children of Noah and
children of God. Because of this attitude you can believe me when I say
You are important to God because he has brought you into a place were his
knowledge is taught, were the father of Glory is glorified alone, and were we
attempt to live in peace and harmony with all mankind, not threatening them,
but showing them the kind of love that God has so graciously shown us.
You
are important to God. Remember that. You are loved, cared about,
valued and cherished. Every single member who commits to Haven Noahide
Fellowship is meant to be valued and treated with care, to be shown respect and
love, never belittled or mocked, never derided or insulted, but shown the kind
of spiritual haven that the deepest desire of their soul truly craves.
You
are important to God. Never forget that. As he carves Israel into
the palm of his hand, we believe he carves us also into his heart and we are a
people of God, important to him, with we believe the gift of eternal life
giving us meaning, purpose and consolation.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-THREE: ‘SHARING YOUR FAITH’
Sharing
your faith can be a daunting thing. But today, in the emerging world, it
is thankfully becoming a little easier to be able to speak your beliefs without
being criticized so strongly.
Members
of Haven Noahide Fellowship are encouraged to share their faith in ways which
they feel comfortable with and are not scared of doing. We will never ask
you to do anything you don’t want to do in the sharing of your faith, and if
you are ever confronted with a challenge to share your beliefs in a way that
scares you, we encourage you to speak to your pastor and share your
fears. He will always understand.
If
you are a person of courage and boldness and are happy to share your faith,
this is a wonderful thing. But God made all of us differently, and some
people are shy and intimidated in being bold with their beliefs. And this
is exactly how God made them and absolutely nothing at all to be ashamed of.
We
can all be witnesses for our faith and our beliefs, and we should all strive
when we feel it is possible to have courage to share with others. But not
everyone is born with skills of evangelism, and this is perhaps a calling for
those who feel the spirit move them in such a way.
But
sharing your real faith – sharing the only faith which has lasting value – is
sharing the faith of love. Loving your fellow human, showing them grace
and kindness and being the kind of person they will be attracted to spiritual
anyway. If you can be a vessel of love for mankind, you will be surprised
that it will not be you that has to seek out people – it will be people seeking
out you for your wisdom and insight. So share your faith in a way you are
comfortable with, and let love and grace be in all the words you speak.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-FOUR: ‘ANGELS’
Are
angels real? Do spiritual beings apart from God really exist? The
Torah speaks often of the Angel of the Lord who went before Israel as a pillar
of fire while they were in the wilderness. In the book of Daniel we hear
the names of the angels Michael and Gabriel and learn there are other princely
angels which rule nations, such as Persia and Greece. And Satan, a dark
angel, is mentioned in Job and Zechariah and elsewhere in scripture.
If
you have regular internet access and are curious about angels I encourage you
to type in search terms like ‘Angel stories’ or ‘Angel encounters’ or something
similar. There are numerous websites, message boards and discussion
forums which all speak about encounters with what people call ‘Angels.’
Traditionally
there are both good angels and bad angels and bad angels are often the fallen
ones, called demons. Satan has often been called the leader of the fallen
angels. In the book of Enoch, which is not in the Tenakh but in the
pseudepigrapha, there are numerous fallen angels mentioned, including Semyaza
and Azazel amongst a list of over a dozen. And there are also the
traditional good angels mentioned, including Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel,
Raguel & Phanuel, amongst others.
Having
a focus on angels is a good thing in life, but when we do so it should be on
angels of goodness and angels of light. Praying to the Archangel Michael
is not necessarily a strange thing. He is an ambassador of God and can
intercede for mankind, taking our prayers to God. Of course, we must
remember it is God who gives the angels their powers and responsibilities and
we must always remember who is at the top of the divine hierarchy and not lose
this focus. In Christianity Jesus seems to be practically exalted as high
as God himself and this is not quite right. Any focus we have on angels,
therefore, must be sensible and in proportion with a proper respect for God
himself as the first and foremost love of our life.
Angelic
spirituality is an excellent thing and I welcome and desire all such activity
in Haven Noahide Fellowship. They are ambassadors of God, bring good
tidings, and with our guardian angels we can be protected from many of the
hazards of life which unfortunately so often beset each and every one of us.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-FIVE: ‘BE IN THE HEARTS OF MEN’
God
spoke to me, Daniel Daly, in a dream. In my dream I had been judging a
Christian group for their oneness idolatry, for God had revealed to me earlier
that worship of Jesus as God the Father was a death penalty offence. Yet
as I judged them, God spoke to me saying ‘Be in the Hearts of Men’. What
I instinctively understood at the time was to have mercy upon people, and not
judge them so harshly, but see the heart of people who are trying their best to
please God, but who live in ignorance.
Our
Noahide Christian brethren who view Jesus as God are in a state of error on
such a belief. But it is not a deliberate error of ill intent. It
is an error of good conscience, brought upon by a misunderstanding of spiritual
truths.
The
truth of God’s nature is not always easy to discern. When we are young
and naïve in our spiritual youth we can and do believe things which we later
regret. But life is a learning process and we must always look at the
heart of the person – a heart which is trying its best to do the right thing.
As
Noahides in Haven Noahide Fellowship we must ‘Be in the Hearts of Men.’
We must show them mercy, tolerance and patience, for the Lord has long been
patient with us, forbearing with us in all our difficulties, prides and
wrongdoings.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-SIX: ‘ANIMISM – BASIC SPIRITUAL AWARENESS’
In
nature there is the physical aspect of things which we see, feel, touch, hear
and smell which are obvious to all of us. But since ancient days in so
many diverse cultures there has been another truth – the truth of spirit or
animistic awareness. Everything which has been created has a ‘Spirit’
associated with it. From rocks and minerals, to plants and animals and
human beings, there is a spiritual energy associated with creation. For
example, have you ever noticed feelings from youth and earlier years, and
feeling these things later on in life. And to start with they may not be
noticeable, but when people point it out it is very noticeable and you start
noticing it all the time. Places as well have a spirit associated with
them. What might be termed the ‘Ambience’ of a place is a specific
spiritual ocean of spirit energy appropriate to that location.
Animism,
as it is called, is part of Yahweh’s design in nature. It is the
spiritual soul of creation, and it could well be that such spiritual energy is
also the stuff of heaven and the stuff of our dreamselves.
Animism
should not be shunned our disdained, but wholeheartedly embraced and researched
with good conscience. It is the true spiritual substance of creation, and
an important part of the spiritual awareness and sixth sense of our lives and
existence.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN: ‘THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS – BEING GREEN IS CONSISTENT
WITH NOAHIDE FAITH’
When
God created Adam and put him in the garden he told him to tend the garden.
This was one of the duties of Adam – to look after the Garden of Eden.
God
loves his creation. There are numerous psalms which speak of the love of
God towards his creation, for it is his personal handiwork and he delights in
it. It thus stands to perfect reason that God wants the best for his
creation, and earth, being the pinnacle of his work, is meant to be preserved
and looked after.
Being
environmentally focused or ‘Green Minded’ is supposed to be a preoccupation for
all the children of Adam and Eve. Having concern for nature and flora and
fauna – plants and animals – and our reserves of ores and minerals – is a
fundamental part of the management task God has entrusted mankind to do.
Mankind
is the pinnacle of God’s created living beings. As such, made in the very
image of God, we are responsible to watch over his creation as the ultimate
‘Gardeners’ of Eden, and preserve for all future generations and forever this
beautiful paradise of creation which God has entrusted to us to watch over.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT: ‘SALVATION’
Salvation
is having an eternal relationship with God. Not a temporal one – not one
of a few hundred, a few thousand or even a few million years. It is one
of ETERNITY.
And
this relationship can and should be found by everyone.
Only
in GOD can we expect to have eternal life. Only by HIS power can we hope
to live forever. For Yahweh is the source of life, love, morality, truth
and peace. In HIS Kingdom – in HIS knowledge – we gain Salvation and
enjoy eternal life.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-NINE: ‘THE FUTURE OF THE NOAHIDE WORLD’
Remember,
Abrahamic faith started with Abraham. It had to start somewere.
In
Fact, Noahide faith has been kept alive in the traditions of Israel for a long
time now. It has never really died.
Yet,
all of us not from Abraham HAVE kept faith in the covenant, even if without
knowledge, for we have made a civilized world for ourselves, are still
begetting offspring, still keep the principles of lawfulness, still see the
Rainbow, and many of us have always believed in God.
We
are just RENEWED in faith in recent years, and the Future of the Noahide World
is truly glorious. Wether we have believed or not, God has kept faith FOR
US, as the Rainbow is still witnessed, and our father Noah is still our father
Noah.
We
are of the OLDEST of God’s Covenant’s. We are not going anywhere, us
children of Noah, and we will be here for all time to come as well.
HAVEN
NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FIFTY: ‘THE ARCHIVES OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’
In
our youth Haven does not have a large supply of assets available to us.
But we are young, a young infant spiritually in God’s eyes, and we will
inevitably grow older and stronger.
It
is the intention of myself, the founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship, for Haven
to keep comprehensive records of the achievements of all the children of
Noah. And by this statement we affirm that we are interested in all the
affairs of every human being alive on planet earth today. Naturally we
cannot store all the possessions of everyone who ever lives, nor would we ever
have such access. But we have an eternal interest in all human beings lives,
and we hope to preserve in our records archival information on whoever is
willing to contribute life stories, in the forms of autobiographies and
genealogical information, for our permanent storage.
We
are well aware that websites like www.ancestry.com and various other genealogical
organisations will likely go on forever preserving such data, and we
wholeheartedly commend them for such efforts. We thank the Christian
church and its founder Jesus for preserving baptismal and genealogical records
throughout the ages and having such records available to the public for their
use. We hope to make use of any public domain records to form as
comprehensive a family tree as possible. One of the chief aims of Haven
Noahide Fellowship is the Family tree of Noah – which is the family tree of ALL
mankind. Yet, further to simply genealogical information, we desire to
keep as comprehensive a record of historical biographical information of as
many of the children of Noah who are willing to contribute such records to our
fellowship for their preservation.
Researchable
autobiographies in electronic format (ie online websites) are intended to be
kept permanently by our fellowship (Online out of necessity due to the physical
space limitations of keeping numerous records on a permanent basis). This
data is intended to be made available to the general public for their research
and appreciation of mankind’s history.
Going
further, Haven does intend to establish a physical library eventually.
Each national fellowship is encouraged to work towards the point of obtaining a
sufficient amount of land for the building of a library to house, permanently,
all the published works of their nation. Presently nations of the world
generally handle such duties themselves with their own national libraries, yet
we feel this work is so very important that we too must contribute our efforts
to likewise maintain such material, for the sake of posterity, future research,
and as an important asset value for Haven Noahide Fellowship.
Further,
museums are equally important for storing regular items of everyday use over
the history of mankind. Haven intends to gain buildings for the permanent
storage of items used by mankind throughout its history.
Further,
we intend to develop our own comprehensive news service, both to inform the
public and to preserve our own permanent record of the history of
mankind. All such material is to be made publicly available.
Finally,
in terms of historical significance, the primary religious scripture for Israel
and the Church has been the Holy Bible. Haven intends to continue the
Biblical Tradition by producing its own series of Holy Bibles featuring the
same variety of spiritual texts that the Bible itself features in an historical
context for each successive generation. This current Rainbow Bible is
intended to be completed and ready for final publication by the end of
2011. It features the following components:
Holy
Scripture (Genesis 1 – 11:9)
Psalms
Maxims
Spiritual
Devotional Sermon Series
Noahide
Fiction
Autobiographies
of founding members of Haven Noahide Fellowship – Historical Information
A
concise synopsis of world spiritual activities and important histories since
the time of Noah
The
Rainbow Bible will then become a series of bibles produced on a decade by
decade basis, and kept permanently online as a record for humanity of the
history of Haven Noahide Fellowship, its members, and relevant historical and
spiritual information. Each subsequent edition of the ‘Rainbow Bible’
will come out at the end/beginning of each decade by the HNF calendar, with the
second volume due at 6180 SC (or 2016 AD/CE), the third volume due at 6190 SC
(or 2026 AD/CE), the fourth volume due at 6200 SC (or 2036 AD/CE) and so on.
These bibles are meant to contain the continuing spiritual growth of Haven
Noahide Fellowship and its impact upon the world, as well as historical
information preserved in a factual format of the major events of mankind’s
history.
We
will aim to continue the above format of the first Rainbow Bible, and
potentially continue with selections from the Jewish Bible all the way through
the entire Tenakh in future Rainbow Bibles. Ideally we will also continue
with selections from the entire Pseudepigraphal and Apocryphal literature of
Judaism. Going further, while we are specifically a NON-Christian Noahide
movement, there seems no real problem in continuing at some point once the
Tenakh, the Pseudepigrapha and the Apocrypha have been completed with selections
from the New Testament writings, the Apostolic Fathers, the Christian Apocrypha
and so on from the early century’s writings of both Judaism and the Christian
Church. When we historically arrive at the period of the advent of the
Koran, this literature too seems quite acceptable for inclusion in our
selection of sacred writings, and so on to the advent of Bahai and the
inclusion of their spiritual writings. All selections will come from
‘PUBLIC DOMAIN’ sources, so as not to infringe any copyright concerns.
Thus,
in the same was as the Holy Bible preserves an important spiritual history for
a period of Israel’s history, as well as the same way the Christian Bible
preserves the life of Jesus of Nazareth, our Noahide Bibles are meant to
likewise preserve mankind’s significant histories, both of major spiritual
issues as well as major secular issues. Essentially we intend to produce
‘Noahide Bible’s’ on a permanent ongoing basis.
As
a closing word, Haven is of the opinion and would strongly welcome the production
of other ‘Holy Bible’s’ from other significant spiritual communities. The
Catholic Church has one standard Holy Bible of the teachings of Jesus in the
gospels YET it also has the teachings of the Apostle Paul and the other
Apostles. While we are well aware of the writings of the ‘Apostolic
Father’s’ and the ‘Ante-Nicene’ fathers and so on, we as a fellowship are of
the view that these writings are now of such a holy nature that they are worthy
of the title of ‘Scripture’. By the term ‘Scripture’ we mean ‘Sacred and
Holy Writings’ without attributing the title of ‘Word of God’ to them. We
think it would be a marvellous idea, and you could view this statement as a
request to the Catholic Church, that they produce a further series of ‘Holy Bible’s’
for each subsequent century of the Christian Calendar. Thus the Apostolic
Fathers and other information would become a crucial part of the ‘Second
Century Holy Bible’ and so on. There are vast amounts of historical
information in the Vatican Library on the ‘Saints of the Church’ as well as on
the ‘Popes and Cardinals and Bishops and Priests of the Church’. We
suggest that in the same format as the Holy Bible itself is displayed that the
Catholic Church produce a series of Bibles for each of the Centuries from the
Second Century through to the Twentieth Century. It would be important
for each Bible to contain the important spiritual epistles, dogmas, creeds,
sermons, psalms, proverbs, maxims, hymns, histories and other documents for
each century, all put together and written in an appropriate manner for the
feel of each century letting the church communicate its proper history in terms
of the real life of each century - and it would be fundamental that in the
preparation and writing of such documents that the church pray fervently for
the guiding hand of the ‘Holy Spirit’ to present a ‘Holy’ and ‘Scriptural’
record, in the same manner as the original Holy Bible, for all the history of
the Holy Church. Such bibles would form the ‘CORE’ of Catholic University
and Seminary Libraries and be the fundamental texts of sermons, homilies and
spiritual living by the faithful. 20 Bibles – one for each century of the
Christian Church – would be an absolutely marvellous thing for the Catholic
Church to offer the world, and we would wholeheartedly delight in the study of
such texts. Yet not only the Catholic Church, but all the major Christian
Churches could formulate their own Bibles relevant to each of their own
assemblies. And going further, we would wholeheartedly wish that our
Jewish brethren would further produce a continuation of the Jewish Bible with a
sanctioned update of their religious historical developments in a series of new
bibles in the same theme as suggested above. Noahides are permitted to
study the Jewish Bible, yet Rabbinic Judaism frowns upon study of Talmudic
literature by Noahides. Therefore we would welcome a continuation of the
Jewish Bible in a series of New Bibles. All these spiritual communities
would certainly have enough spiritual material to continue the work undertaken
by scribes all those centuries ago.
“Elam and Asshur’s
Lesson”
(A Very Short Noahide
Story – by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly)
Grandpa
Noah was in the vineyard one fine day, picking grapes. Young Elam and Asshur,
his grandsons through Shem, were also busy picking some grapes. Just
then, Elam yelled out. ‘Grandpa Noah! Quick! There is a
Lion,’ said Elam, pointing to a lion which was approaching them. Noah
told Elam and Asshur to stand behind him, and he reached for his spear.
The Lion came closer and closer. The situation was tense. And,
suddenly, it sprang at Noah. Yet, brave Grandpa Noah, spear in hand,
pierced the Lion in the heart, and it died, slowly bleeding to death.
Elam
looked at the dying Lion. ‘It might make good food, Grandpa. What
do you think?’ Noah looked down at the dying Lion. ‘Lion’s are
unclean animals, young Elam. The covenant our great God has made with us
does permit us to eat unclean animals, yet I feel it is perhaps not always for
the best. And, of course, we may never eat the blood of any
animal.’ Asshur looked at his Grandpa. ‘Why can’t we eat the
blood?’ Noah came over to Asshur, scruffed him on the head, and
replied. ‘The life is in the blood young Asshur. It is what
sustains and gives us life. God has forbidden us eating it because of
that reason.’ ‘I see,’ replied Asshur.
They
dragged the Lion to the edge of the Vineyard and placed stones over the body to
hide it from vultures.
‘What
was it like before the flood?’ Elam asked his grandfather. Noah, wiping
the sweat from his brow, looked down at his young grandson. ‘They were
violent times, young Elam. Violent times. People hated each
other. They stole from each other rampantly – nobody’s possessions were
ever safe. And even some of the wicked men worshipped carved idols made
of animals and sea creatures, even the stars and moon. They worshipped
these idols and mistakenly believed that these were the spirits of life who
ruled the world. Often, such men insulted those of the LORD who tried to
teach them the right way, even insulting the glory of the LORD. They
blasphemed his holy name and despised our ancient traditions. Men would
sleep with other Men’s wives, and even with each other which the LORD hates.
It was, young Elam, in truth the most immoral of times in our history.
And because of this – because the wickedness was so great – God judged the
world and sent the great flood.’ Elam nodded, soberly taking in that
information.
‘Grandpa,’
began Asshur. ‘What can we do to make sure the world never becomes like
that again?’ Noah looked at him firmly. ‘The LORD commands us to
make Law Courts. To have judges who judge our communities to ensure that
we obey God and live in peace with each other. My child, we must have
mercy and patience with those who transgress God’s holy laws, as he is merciful
and patient with us. But, if they continue to disobey, we must punish
them to preserve the law, order and peace in the world. By doing such we
bring happiness to the world – we continue to make it a better place –
returning it to the glory of Eden. Dear Grand-children. Every time
you look at the Rainbow, think on these laws, and with your children and your
children’s children, teach them, everlastingly so, to be faithful to God and
the laws of holiness.’ Elam and Asshur looked up at their wise
grandfather, smiled, and returned to picking grapes. And another day
passed in the life of Noah and those who God had redeemed from the rest of mankind.
THE END
“The Raven and the
Dove”
(A Very Short Noahide
Story – by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly)
The Raven sat on the branch, contemplating the scene below. Three tireless
workers, and the older father figure, toiling away, working on the big boat.
The raven heard the term, often, 'Ark of Salvation', which it seemed to
understand as referring to the Ark but, as Raven's were not as smart as humans,
was not quite sure.
The Dove, sitting up the branch a little, also surveying the scene, turned to
the Raven and asked. 'Why is the boat so big? Are they planning on travelling
far, do you think?'
The Raven considered the question before responding 'God only knows.'
Months came and went, and the Raven and the Dove, having come aboard the Ark,
were up near the side window, which the old man had opened that day, as it had
finally stopped raining. 'Freaky,' said the Raven, looking out. 'There is water
everywhere.'
'It
is all the rain, dear Raven,' replied the Dove.
'You know, Dove, if this is the only boat and all the others have drowned, then
I don't think I will ever leave the boat. It will probably end in no good, if
you know what I mean. Leave this boat and who knows what trouble you could get
in to.'
The dove considered the Raven's point, yet replied. 'I will take my chances. I
mean, how possibly bad could it be? What, would they kill me or something?'
'Maybe,' said the Raven. 'But this God thing the old man speaks about, I think
he sent all the rain. You better not be too cocky, or he will punish you as
well.'
'Oh, I am not worried. There are plenty of doves here, and I think we will be
fine.'
'Whatever,' said the Raven.
And time passed.
And the old man opened the window, and let the Raven go. The Raven flew out and
looked all around, finding no safe land anywhere, so returned to the Ark. The
old man took him back in, and petted his head lovingly. The Raven looked at the
dove. 'I am never leaving, you know. Never leaving the old man. He has taken
care of us when everything else was destroyed.' The dove nodded, starting to
understand.
A little later on the Dove was released, found an olive leaf, but in
considering the words of the Raven returned to be safe and sound.
Yet, in the testing of the dove, the dove was released again, and decided,
because of the newness of the world - how it had been refreshed - that it would
leave the man and take its chances. It would see just were its own freedom in
life could take it.
Yet the Raven remained. And as years past, and as the communities of Ravens and
Doves grew once more, the Raven kept in mind the lesson of the Ark and the
Flood and, seeing the Old man's descendants sacrifice doves regularly, it
wondered to itself just how long it would take before the Dove realized that,
at the end, when the second and final punishment came, that there would be only
one safe place then, and that was with the old man and the Ark.
THE END
The Book of Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Chapter One
I
am not really sure what my oldest memories are, but I do remember being in the kitchen
at Berridale (7 Bent Street) playing on the chairs we had, which had black
vinyl, being chairs I had played on often, doing a rocking horse motion on them
around the kitchen, and thinking right at that point, in thoughts which had
slowly developed for a while, I will remember this time for the rest of my
life. And I have never forgotten it.
I
was born on the 20th of November 1972 Kingston upon Hull in England in the
United Kingdom. I was born at the Hull Maternity Hospital, which Mum
tells me is no longer there. What had happened was my older brother
Matthew was born in Cooma Hospital on the 21st of October 1969 and my older
sister Brigid was born in the same hospital on the 26th of October 1971.
But when it came to the third child, myself, mum decided to have me in England
in Hull, were she likewise had been born. She was born on the 7th of
July, 1937 (meaning she turned 70 on the 7/7/2007 – which is probably why 7 is
her favourite number). My mother’s name is Mary Philomena Daly nee
Baker. Dad was born Cyril Aloysius Daly on the 11th of August 1922 in
Sydney.
I
remember, in those early days, the world book dictionaries we had, and the set
of world book children’s encyclopaedias. We still have the dictionaries,
but the children’s encyclopaedias are long gone. They had a games section
of a jungle map which you followed from page to page, as well as a volume of
kids activities which I liked to look at. I remember a big box which dad
brought home from work one day, which we played in in the back yard for a
while. And I remember the first day thinking that when the ‘Goodies’ came
on (on ABC at 6) that I would still keep on playing in the box. But I
think that the others went inside when the Goodies came on, and I went in
shortly afterwards. The Goodies were big to me as a kid, and so was Dr
Who which ABC put on right after the Goodies. They are my earliest
childhood TV shows I remember, alongside The ABC News at 7 (which is still the
time they show it) and the Saturday morning Cartoons. I remember ‘Point
of View’ which they showed before the cartoons at 12 which was a political
commentary show. When ‘Point of View’ came on I was usually watching TV,
waiting for the Cartoons. The ‘Whacky Racers’ was a show I remember, were
the hero turned into a bad guy as well. Star Wars was a big thing because
every one was talking about it, and when what I thought was Star Wars was
supposed to come on TV I was broken when the blackout occurred and we missed
nearly all of it. In fact it was just the Star Wars holiday special (but
I didn’t know at the time) and perhaps it is a good thing I missed it because
Mr Lucas maintains he would prefer if it was totally forgotten. I read
online that some people consider it Star Wars canon, because it contains plots
which supposedly tie into the saga (ie Chewbacca visiting his family).
Later on, when I learned about confirmation names, mine was going to be
‘Luke’. It was going to be ‘Luke’ for a long time, mainly because of Star
Wars ‘Luke Skywalker’. But I ended up choosing ‘Tarcisius’ just a few
months before my confirmation because I read a book in Year 6 at St Pats in
Cooma in the back on St Tarcisius. I also read one on St Pancratius, but
was scared of the way St Pancratius died (I think he was beheaded) and preferred
the death of St Tarcisius. I guess I ended up choosing Tarcisius because
I thought that was the spiritual thing to do.
I
pinched my dad’s 2 cent and 5 cent coins almost straight away from his jar,
because I knew they bought lollies. I kept on pinching from mum’s purse
into my teens. It was where my arcade money came from. I was
convicted a lot and felt guilt, but always brushed it aside. I remember,
later on in Cooma, getting busted for pinching lollies from Woolworths, and
they took us to the police station. We were under age and just got a
warning. It is the only time I have been to the police station for
illegal activity. I have never been arrested, and have worked hard to
make sure I won’t be.
Anyway,
God dealt with the pinching gradually through my life, and I learned my lesson
eventually. I do remember, though, that whenever I pinched some money and
mum asked who was pinching from her purse, it was normally always me, but I
would deny it to her face. I am not really sure if my siblings ever
pinched money. There was this time, though, in Cooma, when Aunt Molly
accused me of pinching a dollar, but it actually wasn’t me that time. I
think she had just mislaid it.
Like
‘Swiper’ from Dora the Explorer, pinching was my main problem, but apart from
that, looking back, I usually feel I was a good kid with a good heart. I
was usually gentle throughout my school years, and did not like fighting, and
was picked on because of it. I was extremely unpopular all the way
through to the end of year 10 at St Patrick’s. Fortunately, they were
never too violent towards me, usually just occasionally calling me names and
letting me know my place at the bottom of the hierarchy. Throughout those
11 years at St Pats there were a lot of hard times, but there was an occasional
moment here and there when things were just a bit okay.
My
teachers were Mrs Macminnamin in Kindie, Sister Susan in year 1 and 2, Mrs
Jones in year 3, Mr McHugh in year 4 & 5, Sr Ann in year 6, and then
various teachers in high school.
I
first went to the pre-school in Cooma north before kindie, but only
occasionally. I remember a few times staying at the big house up the top
of crisp street at the top of the hill in Cooma – the very big mansion like one
– after pre-school for some babysitting. I can’t remember the people, but
they had a shack were I remember thinking there was a fox there. It is a
big part of my memory. Mum tells me they asked me questions but I was
playing them for fools as a little devil.
The
first day I got home from kindie, mum tells me I undid my shoes, took them off
and said ‘Thank God for that.’ I remember I was trying to be dramatic.
I
learned to read very quickly, and that was my main strength in school. I
was good at maths, but excellent at reading. I remember in year 1 or 2
one time when the class had to read a book, I was finished very quickly before
the rest of the class, and I think it was Sr Frances taking the class a the
time who told me to read it again, and I did so very quickly, a lot of the
class still reading. I had free time for a little while and thought about
stuff.
I
remember getting in trouble once and being told to go down to stay with the
kindies. But I was too embarrassed, so hid behind the kindies class, and
looked under the school at the stuff they kept there. Later on I went to
the section were the toilets were. I got caught out the next school day
and told Sr Susan I was were the toilets were, not telling her I was at the
other part of the school. Another lie. But I didn’t get into too
much trouble.
I
remember sporting carnivals. I never got any places, ever, at any
sporting carnival. I don’t think I ever came last, but I was always down
near the bottom. Once I got a fifth place, just missing out on a forth and
a white ribbon. I was no good at sports to start off with. But,
later on, when I was with my friends from the public school (the gang I got
into) we played a season of Indoor Cricket in the B Grade competition, and we
actually won it. There were only 4 or 5 teams, but we still came first,
and I got invited to play that day in the A Grade final, which I did. We
lost, but I always remember we could have won. The problem was we thought
the ‘Hot’n’Tots’ were invincible, and we lacked confidence, but they played
poorly in that final. We lost, but we might have won with the right
motivations. But I still got a trophy for wining in the B Grade final
with my team, and that was about the only sporting triumph I have achieved in
serious competition. Although I was on the winning team for the UPC
Oldies vs Youngies cricket competition for both the first 2 years, once on the
oldies and once on the youngies. I think I was the only person who could
claim I was on the winning side for both years. One of those years I made
a ’50 Not Out’ and matched Jonathon Downs effort (the Pastor John Downs’
son). It was a mandatory retirement at 50. Of course, Jonathon was
a much better batter than myself, and had all the shots. But my innings
started slowly, and worked up gradually. And towards the end I started
hitting ‘4s’. I guess I go slow to start with but gradually build up
strength. Either way I was pretty happy to match Jonathon’s score.
The
gang I joined was a Cooma game arcade group of kids. I started going
there to play games at about 14 or 15 and Damien Asanovsci and Peter Dradrach
befriended me. I had never really had friends, but they seemed to
care. And those few years were some of the best years of my life.
Peter and Damien, alongside Michael Werle and Michael Gratwick and Keith Willis
and Mark Post were the gang, and we listened to Heavy Metal and played Indoor
cricket. The bands we listened to were ‘Metallica’ and ‘Iron Maiden’ and
‘Motley Crue’ and ‘Def Leppard’ & ‘Megadeth’ mainly, as well as ‘Helloween’.
I liked Bon Jovi because Damien had given me a copied tape of ‘Slippery When
Wet’. It was the first major album I had listened to, apart from a ‘Black
Funk’ tape from probably Boney M or someone similar, and a few kids
tapes. I thought the album was incredibly cool and became the biggest Bon
Jovi fan in Cooma most likely. I ended up seeing them in Sydney in 1989
alongside my friend ‘Noodles’ who lived near the train station in Cooma.
The only other live concert of a big act I have seen is ‘Rebecca St James’ in
Sydney in the early 2000s. The Bon Jovi concert was far too loud, and I
had borrowed my brothers binoculars without asking him to see the band.
There were 2 rock chicks in front of us and they went wild. But we were way
up the back, and the view was not fantastic. Still, I can claim to have
seen Bon Jovi live in the 1980s, and that is a big deal to me. I bought a
t-shirt at the concert which had a big heart and a dagger on it, and they still
use that symbol. I was on Austudy at the time and was buying all the Bon
Jovi cassettes and records, and had a number of posters and magazines. I
even bought a metal ‘New Jersey’ badge, which I lost later on in life.
They were the biggest band for me to start with, and my favourite for a long time.
No band really ever replaced them as my favourite, but I have a lot of
favourite bands and artists now. Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Queen, Alice
Cooper, Madonna, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Billie Piper and so many others
are big on my list, and I have owned probably over 1000 CDs by now. But
with my schizophrenia I usually end up either destroying them, or trading them
back for others, or selling them, or giving them to family members. But I
am less attached to a CD as a possession now anyway, and FM104.7 plays all the
new hits and radio is usually enough. Freddy Mercury from Queen went on
about the ‘Disposable Pop’ idea. And these days what I know is that new
hits always come along, and new artists always replace the old, and you don’t
have to stay attached to the same old music forever. Some styles seem to
stay in vogue now, and older styles come back from time to time. I think
Billy Joel sums it up – ‘Everyone is talking about the new style funny but its
still rock and roll to me.’
We
were in Berridale for the 1970s, Cooma for the 1980s and Canberra for the 1990s
and beyond. I did go back to live in Cooma in 2001 briefly and in 2007
briefly, and in 2009 until the present moment, were I am living both in Cooma
and Canberra. I have a cheap flat I am renting whose lease expires
shortly, and I am undecided wether I will keep the flat or not.
Berridale
was a blissful town to grow up in. We went to Catholic Church on Sundays,
the whole family, and I did that every week until I was 16, when I went my own
way on beliefs. I remember looking up at the crucifix and realizing that
was the Jesus fellow. I remember praying the rosary in the rosary group
which came to our house. I remember the statues of angels at the church
which were put up in the attic of the church I think (because of something to
do with protestant discussions at the time – I am not sure though). But,
whatever else, church was extremely boring, a massive guilt trip, and I never
really liked it that much. Later on as an altar boy it was alright
because I was doing something, but I couldn’t abide sitting in the pews.
I never liked church, and that was that.
At
16 Mum went on a holiday to England with Greg, and I stopped going to
church. When she got back I was so headstrong that she didn’t try to
persuade me to go back and that was the end of the matter. From there I
gradually drifted into Agnosticism, and while over the next few years I
strongly considered atheism, I never quite made the commitment to that
viewpoint. At that stage my faith was a work in progress.
In
1990 we came to Canberra, first in Kambah and then in Gilmore and then in late
1990 to 29 Merriman Crescent Macarthur, were I am right at this moment in the
front middle room typing this away (Tuesday 2nd of March, 2010). We will
get up 20 years at this place later on in the year, and that is a pretty good
achievement. But it is still taking a while to get used to even the
suburb, and I haven’t totally done that yet. In a strange way Tuggeranong
is still new territory to me, and the rest of Canberra as well, but I am
gradually getting used to it as home. Actually, Cooma is home as well
these days, and I suppose I am basically a ‘Monaro’ boy.
I
also have a younger sister, Jacinta, and a younger brother, Gregory. They
are both married and Jacinta has 3 kids and Gregory has 1.
In
my early 20s I was studying at the Canberra Institute of Technology,
undertaking an Associate Diploma of Business in Office Administration. I
ended up completing all the requirements, with 3 distinctions, 5 credits, and
many passes. It was during the latter half that I had my crises of faith
and finally went back to church. But I had an accident in testing my
faith, jumping off a bridge barefooted near parliament house. I turned schizophrenic
that day. I blacked out immediately after stepping off the bridge, and
woke up a while later on the ground. The ambulance came shortly, and I
was in hospital for a couple of weeks. It was when I went nuts, and I am
still essentially a Schizophrenic.
From
there it was off to Catholic Church in Gowrie for a while, but I was witnessed
to by Pentecostal girls, and ended up going to Potters House Christian Church.
In fact, I attended a service there just this Sunday – my first in a good few
years as I don’t go anymore, no longer being a Christian.
I
was at Potters House for about a year, then off to United Pentecostal Church
because I no longer believed the Trinity. But the ‘Oneness’ was wrong
also, and I ended up ‘Unitarian’ in faith. After 6 months at Hughes
Baptist church attending occasionally I became a ‘Noahide’. That was a
leap of faith in January 1999 and now, in March 2010 I am still a
Noahide. So I have 11 years up and hopefully am slowly gaining some
credibility for my faith. Jesus talks about traditions of men being
taught by the Pharisees as commands of God. I agree with him, and thus
disregard the Mishnah and Gemara (the Jewish Talmud’s). There are
different ways of looking at the Jewish Bible itself, and I would probably make
a ‘Hexateuch’ argument if I had to, but I am no longer sure it really
matters. In the end conversion to Judaism has simply not been an option,
and the Noahide thing is working for me very well indeed. I am happy with
it, content with my situation, pleased that Haven Noahide Fellowship today has
3 official members, with reasonable potentiality for growth, and happy that
Yahweh is not asking me to do anything in particular out of the ordinary.
I have had ‘Rainbow’ witnesses at key points over the last decade and it seems
to me that the Rainbow as the Covenantal sign of my covenant is really, in
truth, the one to stick with. Scripture declares it an ‘Everlasting
Covenant’ so, to me, faith in an everlasting Covenant leads to everlasting
life.
Now,
my books. Morning Stars was begun the writing of in the year 2000.
I began it at work in AQIS one day in the Exdoc section. Saruviel popped
in pretty quickly, and I think the name was bubbling away from ‘Suvrael’ the
southern continent of Silverberg’s ‘Majipoor’. Lord Valentines Castle,
The Majipoor Chronicles and Valentine Pontifex were awesome, and some of the
many fantasy and sci fi epics I have consumed.
‘Morning
Stars’ the title comes directly from Job 38:7 KJV. It was borrowed
directly from that translation.
It
took 5 or 6 years to write the first version of Morning Stars (the currently
paperback published version of 100 copies only), but writing took off very
quickly after that point. I write heaps now.
People
occasionally ask me were did I come up with me ideas about angels. Well,
Michael and Gabriel come from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament, and
Gabriel appears in the Gospels, and Michael appears in ‘Jude’ and in the
‘Revelation’ in the New Testament. I have also read some of the ‘Pseudepigrapha’
and Michael and Gabriel and a number of others appear in 1 Enoch in the
Pseudepigrapha. Some churches actually hold to 1 Enoch as scripture, and
for biblical students I strongly encourage you to go check it out because Jesus
quotes the hell out of it.
Metatron
is in one of the Enoch’s as well (there are 3 Enoch books, I think) and he has
a heap of names in there, well over 70. The Rabbinic literature goes on
about various angels, and Muslim literature also does as well. Also,
don’t forget the Doreen Virtue Books and many others out there. Currently
Angel Books are doing well, and I am aiming to get the major fantasy niche in
this market if I can.
I
cheekily call ‘Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ the third volume of the
Pseudepigrapha. I guess, because the Pseudepigrapha is public domain, and
if I had the money, I might consider publishing it myself one day under the
‘Noahide Books’ imprint and adding the first ‘Arc’ of the Chronicles to it and
calling this the third volume of ‘Haven Noahide Fellowship’s’ own
Pseudepigrapha. Recognition from the big churches and the big Jewish and
Muslim movements might not be easy, or it might end up being quite easy – you
never know. But we are actually quite serious about being NON-cultic,
quite serious about being lawful and in harmony with the general rules and
customs of the land, and quite serious in our devotions to God. On
salvation, we generally teach that this is mainly God’s business. Iron
maiden sing a song which says ‘There’s not a God to save you if you won’t save
yourself.’ Some Christian fundies will argue that works aint gonna do it,
and that only faith in Jesus death is going to get you there. But Jesus
teaches in revelation to one of the churches a doctrine which says ‘I have not
found your works perfect.’ Of course, the New Testament can be argued on
Calvinistic and Armenian standpoints, but taken as a whole – ie the 27 books
being the New Testament, I would actually agree that you probably need to be a
Christian to be saved, doctrinally. But it depends how you view it.
For example, you can’t enter the kingdom of heaven unless you are born
again. Is this the New Jerusalem? Thus, if you are not born again,
like John the Baptist in Jesus own words, is the new EARTH available
instead? Jehovah’s witnesses think so. Is this were the Catholics
go? As in there creed they say ‘The Life of the World to Come’,
which is the standard Jewish doctrine on salvation. The World to come –
the new earth. Of course Isaiah goes on about a new heaven BUT ALSO a new
earth. Are there different destinations for different folks. Jewish
salvation is works oriented. I think Catholics seem to be of that mould
also these days. The fundies are faith oriented. Is it a different
destination for different groups?
So
if you are not Born Again my fundamentalist friend, I know you can’t enter the
Kingdom of God, but is that Kingdom the New Jerusalem? And if it is, is
the New Earth available instead? Interesting question.
You
see, Jews actually do have faith. And they have faith in God, and not
Jesus. Will this works doctrine of salvation get them the ‘New
Earth?’ Perhaps, I think. Perhaps. Anyway, just so you will
actually know, Haven’s own doctrine of salvation for us Noahides in particular
in Haven Noahide Fellowship is that God is the saviour. Jews have to
circumcise to maintain their own covenant. Christians have to baptize to
maintain their own covenant. We believe Noah’s covenant is totally up to God’s
own effort. You see, we can’t make a rainbow – only God can make a
rainbow. So we don’t even bother to save ourselves. We do whatever
the heck we want to, can be slack and second rate on spirituality if we want
to, occasionally little devils on legal issues (as the Coloured Devil’s would
testify), but, in general, happy enough and amused by all the
entertainment. You see, God didn’t actually give us Noahides a doctrine
of salvation, so we do bugger all, smile that the rainbow still pops up for us
every now and again, and thank our lucky stars we don’t have to slave away at
the Sabbath, or confess every sin under the sun in true Johannine
fashion. Amen and amen and amen. But enough with religion. I
am tired, thirsty and hungry, and fortunately the kitchen is still were I would
imagine it to be. This chronicle is finished for the moment, but I will
give you some more thoughts later one. Cheers. Daniel
Chapter Two
(Written Friday the
Fifth of March, 2010 CE/AD, in the morning)
Funnily
enough, I am actually published already. No royalties, or anything like
that, but in reasonably significant publications. My first publishing is
actually a fan letter to a comic. I was a big fan of DC Comics growing up
and loved the Justice League International and others from the 1980s, but in
the early to mid 1990s I loved quite a few others and ‘The Demon’ run by Garth
Ennis and John McCrea was awesome. And, thus, I am published in the last
issue of the 1990s run of the ‘Demon’ in poetry form. I have to go off
and obtain the comic again, but here is the poem as far as I can recall from
memory.
‘A
Devious Plan by Etrigan to conquer all the Earth
Saw
light in Demon 52 when Glenda did give birth
A
Tragic fate it does await a child so innocent
For
the Demon’s evil schemes are not heaven but hell sent
I
laughed with glee in 53 at Hitman’s futile folly
Too
kill an undead army, methinks it’s not that jolly
And
Jason Blood he knew the score and gave a grin not frown
As
he stepped into the circle and took the bastard down
It
was a fight with fire and flight which came in 54
A
merry battle yes indeed with blood and guts and gore
So
to the victor go the spoils and Jason blood did smile
While
Etrigan his dark revenge will have to wait a while.’
I
wrote out the letter on paper with a pen, and my writing is not that neat, so
they misspelled the last name and put ‘Daniel Dacy’ instead of ‘Daniel Daly’,
confusing the ‘L’ for a ‘C’. I sent in another poem on the Demon as well,
but the first poem was in the last issue, so they couldn’t have published the
second one. I did though have my name mentioned in an issue of ‘Green
Lantern’ I think around this time as well, (just a little later), in the
letters section.
My
next publishing was in poetry anthologies from www.poetry.com (I think they have changed their
name now). My poem ‘Cat’s’ was published in ‘Treasures to Discover’ and
my poem ‘The Next Day’ was published in ‘The Best Poems and Poets of 2001’.
After
that I was published in a magazine in America, but never received a copy of the
magazine, and it was one of my poems. I think it was called ‘Anointed
Magazine’ by Magpie publishing, or something or another. I’ll get it one
day.
And
then, just last year, I was published in ‘Short and Twisted 2009’, an
Australian Anthology book, with short stories with twists to them.
My short story ‘The Diabolical Adventure of RXQ7’ was published in this
anthology.
Of
course, ‘Morning Stars’ and ‘Ye Olde Devil’ were published at the same time
under my own ‘Noahide Books’ imprint in 2007 with 100 copies of each of
them. I have handed most of them out, but still have a few of each at
home.
My
writing is central to my life, these days. I receive a Centrelink
‘Disability Support Pension’ for my Schizophrenia, and because I have a lot of
free time available, I write books. I became schizophrenic in the mid
1990s the day I returned to faith in the God of the bible (interesting that,
isn’t it). It was a hectic time. I had just spent the afternoon at
YWAM in Watson with a girl called ‘Ariel Cheng’ who was studying with me at CIT
at the time. All the previous night my depression had reached its worst,
and I needed to See Ariel because she was saintly and a believer. All that
day coming through Canberra from Macarthur to Watson I felt all this heaviness
upon me, but when I got to the ground of the YWAM place, the spiritual
heaviness abated. But when I left later on it returned. I stopped
off in Woden at the Christian book store, bought a ‘Good News Bible’ and
stopped off again at Holy Family Catholic Church in Gowrie and read the entire
book of Job. And that is when I felt the goodness of God and returned to
biblical faith. The following day I went off on a mad crusade after
having confessed my sins to a Catholic priest in Red Hill, and, in an attempt
to test my faith Indiana Jones and the last crusade style, I ended up jumping
of a bridge near Parliament House. I was in hospital for a couple of
week, and then in a wheelchair, but most of the anxiety and depression was now
gone. And then about 6 months later when I prayed a sinners prayer in
Potter’s House in Pearce, the rest of the depression left. BUT, in those
2 and a half years as a Christian, until January 1999 there was still a degree
of anxiety. This, though, left in January 1999 when I became a
Noahide. And since then things have been very good for me. I have
had Schizophrenia all throughout this time, rejected the medication on
naturalistic grounds a number of times, but now take it consistently. My
symptoms are talking to myself a lot, and hearing voices a bit, but it is fine
now. It doesn’t really bother me that much anymore. I have learned
to live with it. But because I receive a Disability Support Pension since
applying in 2005, I no longer really have to work so, to keep myself busy and
(hopefully) earn a living one day, I write books. The main intention with
my books is to keep them FREE to read online, but if people want to purchase
paperback copies of my books, those ones I can sell. That I think is an
ethical way of going about business, and completely fair.
My
main saga, of course, is ‘The Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’.
This is about Angels and Children of God, from their creation up into a
potentially neverending future. There is quite a bit written about them
now, and I don’t really plan on ever finishing the saga in this human
life. I have prayed many, many times to God for long life, and hope he
continues to bless me with this.
The
first book written in the ‘Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ was ‘Morning
Stars’. This was begun the writing of in 2000 CE/AD. Prior to this
my writing achievements were: A story about insects who flew in leaves in
year 6 (which I was very proud of), a Frog and Toad story in primary school, a
Fantasy Epic which I had maps drawn up for, about Kalan Lyant and Mallintor the
Magician and the continents of ‘Kaluvia’ and ‘Ky-Keria’ and Karadarak’ and the
main bigger one which I can’t remember the name of but had the capital city of
‘Rhyan’ and a minor village called ‘Lameth’ were a female bartender called
‘Marni Bonniker’ worked, who was to figure into the saga. ‘Ky-Keria’ was
a continent on the north of ‘Kaluvia’ and they were just connected (like north
and south America’. All of ‘Ky-Keria’ was barren land with the dread city
‘Yalth’ in the centre, were the main protagonist of the saga, and evil warlock,
resided. On Kaluvia on the north-east side were the ‘Iridian Jid’
mountains, two cities called ‘Ejin’ and ‘Eijin’. On Kaluvia, over the
other side of the Iridian Jid on the mountains on the northern side, near the
ocean, was ‘Haven’. On Karadarak on the top north-eastern corner was
‘Auar’ and the ‘Auarii’ were the elf-like creatures from the hidden Shangri-La
of ‘Auar’. Auar was totally surrounded by impassable mountains on the
land side and impenetrable cliffs on the ocean side, and thus had never been
found by the dwarves or humans. I had written in year 7 or 8 or 9 (I
can’t remember which) quite a bit of this story on paper, but eventually lost
the writings unfortunately. But later on in the mid 1990s it was going to
be called (with new ideas) ‘The Doomsayer Chronicles’ with all sorts of
‘Armageddon’ overtones. I will definitely write this saga one day, and
‘The Belzandramanian’ which is currently underway mentions this saga, and
should be viewed also as a prequel alongside David Eddings two sagas.
I
had read ALL of the Belgariad by this stage, and was about to be pleasantly
surprised by Damien Asanovsci with his mothers copy of ‘Guardian’s of the West’
in hardback. The other major fantasy works I read in those years
were: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Twilight Realm, the First
Shannara Trilogy, The First 5 Riftwar saga books (Magician, Silverthorn, A
Darkness at Sethanon, Prince of the Blood & The King’s Buccaneer), The
Dorian Hawkmoon books by Michael Moorcock, Conan the Adventurer, The Pliocene
Exiles (and later the Galactic Milieu saga) by Julian May, The first nine Xanth
books by Piers Anthony and later the first seven Incarnations of Immortality
Books and Battle Circle by Piers Anthony (and I have ideas for a Battle Circle
sequel, which I might do in fanfiction – hey, I will call it this:
‘Battle Circle II: Circle of Death’ – I just made up that title
then. Anyway, my idea for the sequel is that the two guys left stranded
near the end with the radiation poisoning (was that it? It is years since
I have read it) but it was Sos and Sol wasn’t it? Anyway, whatever, they
get rescued and cured by the Chinese Helicon, and they are in the sequel.
It was just an idea I had back then because I liked the books so much.), Some
of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, Most of the Foundation Saga (yet to
read the two prequels to foundation), All 10 Chronicles of an Age of Darkness
books by Hugh Cook and even a short story in the saga in his online website
(check it out Hugh Cook fans, there are other short stories in the Chronicles
there), This is the Way the World Begins featuring Ram Burrell by J T
Macintosh, The Sword and the Satchel by Elizabeth H Boyer, The first two
volumes of ‘Memory Sorrow and Thorn’ By Tad Williams (I am halfway through the
final volume and will finish it off eventually), and more recently the first two
volumes of the Faded Sun Trilogy by C J Cherryh (I will finish of the third
volume eventually) and others still.
I
will probably start ‘The Doomsayer Chronicles’ soon. After that in the
Mid 1990s I wrote the first two versions of ‘The Harmony Bridge’ both of which
never got finished. The Current short story ‘The Harmony Bridge’ is a
different version still, but contains some of the ideas. It really should
be seen as a sequel to the original ideas for the Harmony Bridge, the plot I
still have in my mind which I will write out some day. In fact the
original version of ‘The Harmony Bridge’ birthed the name ‘Callodyn’.
That is were he was born. Radric was born in the second version of ‘The
Harmony Bridge’ and later I met Andre Wheeley from Crossroads Christian church
and ‘Ambriel’, in a sense, was born from the ideas of both of these.
Radric was a friend of Callodyn’s.
I
am on facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/noahide
Here
is my current resume:
Resume
of Daniel Daly
Address:
29 Merriman Crescent
MACARTHUR ACT 2904
Phone:
(02) 6291 4414
E-Mail:
danielthomasandrewdaly@live.com.au
Date
of Birth: 20th of November, 1972
Skills:
Office Administration Skills
Word
Processing Skills – MS Word (Intermediate to Advanced)
MS
Excel (Basic to Intermediate)
Typing:
60 wpm
Creative Writing Skills
Pastoral Skills
Education:
Associate Diploma in Office Administration
(1995)
Canberra Institute of Technology
Certificate
in Word Processing and Office Skills
(1993)
Canberra Institute of Technology
Year
10 Certificate
(1988)
St Patrick’s School, Cooma
Work
History:
2000
– Current Author. I have
my own website
(http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com)
dedicated to promoting my own fictional books about angels. I have spent
the last decade writing these books.
_______________________________________________________
1996
– 2000. Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
Position:
Clerical Officer – Various Positions from ASO1 to acting ASO3
Duties:
Various database work, Excel Spreadsheet work, Travel log, Stationery cupboard
maintenance, Photocopier room
maintenance
_______________________________________________________
1996
Department of Employment, Education and Training
Youth
Affairs
Position:
Clerical Assistant
Duties:
Photocopying, Filing
It
is not an exhaustive resume, just a basic one page one.
Well
that is the end of chapter two. I will write more soon.
Cheers. Daniel
End
of chapter two
Chapter Three
(Written Friday the
12th of March and Saturday the 13th of March 2010 in the evening, late on
Friday, and early the next morning, Saturday, just after 12 midnight)
There
is a line in a song which goes ‘A Good Heart these days is hard to find.’
Thinking about it, what will really last forever, beyond your works even, is if
you have a good heart which people are attracted to and find peace in. If
people can get along with you and find acceptance with you, if you can overlook
their flaws and fallible nature and love them simply for being them, for being
human and alive and worthy of love because of it, if you can show empathy and
relate your heart to theirs and give them consolation when they are low and be
a faithful friend in both difficult times and good times, if you can be a
little rock of eternal friendship and hope in their lives, then that will
really last forever and be a blessing of untold wealth. Money comes and
goes. Perhaps, in the world to come, we will be trillionairres a trillion
times over, and perhaps right at the bottom a number of times too. Who
can really say, hey? Perhaps we will own mansions, and cars, star in
movies and sing great songs. But when everyone has had their turn at
glory, what will last? Thinking about Jesus, who I don’t believe is the
Christ or Messiah or God or anything like that type of nonsense, but thinking
about how he often comes across in his simple human wisdom, he apparently
forsaked all the glory of wealth in his life, didn’t bother really trying to
earn thousands of drachmas (or whatever their currency was) and living out the high
life, but instead sought to teach people spiritual values and share a message
of love with them. And while I think God has various ways of looking at
the person of Jesus of Nazareth, ways unlike how the church views him, I think
there is still a heart of popularity attributed to this man simply because he
comes across has having cared about people, and perhaps was even willing to die
for them, which he apparently did. I couldn’t do that, personally.
I have the guts to take a bullet for any wife I would marry and children, but I
couldn’t die on a cross. But then again, that’s not me. If someone
asked me ‘Would you die for me?’ I would have to tell them ‘NO.’ But then
I would say ‘But I would LIVE for you instead.’ But, whatever, the
message of Jesus simple love is, really, what is going to last forever.
The message of finding a heart which accepts you and treats you kindly, which
will sacrifice for you and dig you out of difficult situations, will give you
blessings when you need them, and stay faithful to you – well who can say that
they don’t really want that a lot? And, hopefully, that is what Haven
Noahide Fellowship, if it really ever starts growing well and turning into
something which I hope it could become, will be all about. Above all else
I want Haven to be exactly that – ‘A Haven’. I think everyone can say at
some time in their lives they needed a place to get away, a place to call their
own, a place to be accepted, loved unconditionally, and helped out in difficult
circumstances. In Australia were I live we are so lucky that we have a
good welfare system which helps out the people with low incomes. I know
that Indigenous Australians still have a degree of poverty, but it has gotten
to the point in Australia that if you really want to succeed in life, the
opportunities are there. Schooling will be free if you can’t afford it,
you can gain HECS to study a university degree and pay it back later.
There is the jobsearch allowance to support you while you are looking for work.
And there is government housing for people who can’t afford to own or rent in
the private sector. All of this comes from, to my way of thinking, a
society which genuinely cares about its citizens. And that is what we all
want, isn’t it? To live in a world which cares and has a heart in
it. All my life I have heard it said occasionally that this is a cold
hard uncaring world. But I have found the opposite often equally
true. There ARE a lot of caring people in this world. There are
synagogues and churches and mosques and temples full of religious and spiritual
people who are motivated by pleasing God and helping their fellow humans.
And there are non-religious people who hold to an ethical or moral stance of
live and let live and trying to be a good person. And, I think, that may
just be what it is all about, this thing called life. C S Lewis argued in
‘Mere Christianity’ that there is a ‘Moral Law’ which we all seem to ascribe
to. For example, we often say of things ‘That’s not right’. Or ‘That
shouldn’t be’ as if there is some benchmark or standard of righteousness which
we all seemingly hint at, even unknowingly. A lot of that may be as a
result of centuries of grooming on our morals, but is it more than that?
Is there really a sense of justice innate to being human, made in the image of
God. And, for me, Justice is not just about righting wrongs, but acting
justly to ensure a society in which happiness is found.
Haven
Noahide Fellowship, as of today, has a tiny number of members. But it has
a growing number of people who know about us. My hope is that Haven WILL
grow, and end up being that Haven in peoples lives, a place of sanctuary, a
place were they can escape to and find peace from God and solace for the heart
and soul. I want Haven to be a place were EVERYONE is accepted, because
we are all children of Noah and Noahides. It is to be a place were people
can be put right with God, meeting him, encountering him in prayer and
meditation, and finding others who also connect to him. It is to be a place,
ultimately, in which Jew, Christian, Muslim, Bahai and any of the believers in
the God of Adam, Noah and Abraham can connect and find Haven from the conflicts
which have often beset them. You see, Haven accepts everyone of all the
Adamic religions, wanting to be a place were they can find acceptance with each
other and tolerance for their differences. And it is the sign, the simple
sign of the ‘Rainbow’ with its bright colours, which all of us can see and
witness to, and have hope in the promises of God that his Grace will remain,
everlastingly so.
*
* * * *
I
have had a crush on a number of female pop singers for a number of years
now. I have fancied the Christian pop singer ‘Rebecca St James’ for a
long time, ever since the mid 1990s when I was given a Christian compilation CD
from my sister with her song ‘Here I Am’ on it. I think she is a
wonderful person, and hope she soon finds the right man for her, because she is
still a virgin in her early 30s and has been faithfully waiting for the right
one. I really like all 5 Spice Girls, and am currently reading Geri
Halliwell’s biography ‘If Only’. She comes across as a very genuine
person, in no way flakey, with a very real upbringing and with a heart which
cares. I think she is FAB. I am also a big Madonna fan now, and
hope the best for her. I also really like Britney Spears and Kelly
Clarkson, as well as Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff and Lily Allen.
I
remember in the 1980s when I first heard of Madonna. She was that new big
super popstar, who at the time I thought was basically one of the real big
popstar's like Michael Jackson. I never bought any of her albums though
and was never really a fan until the early 1990s when I was at a video store
and looking at CDs for rent and thought I may as well try the ‘Bedtime Stories’
album by Madonna. I loved it and became a fan then.
I
know Madonna has studied Kabbalah for many years, and I also know she still
seems to be a Christian in faith as well. I find her a very interesting
personality and the fact that she has faith in God is, to me, a great
thing. To me that is someone who ‘has it all’ but still remembers where
her bread is buttered.
Success
in life, finding the big dream of it all, and finding your piece of the pie
seems to be what it is all about for many of us in the west. I wrote a
poem a while ago called ‘Stuck’ which sort of summed up how I view
things. It is in my ‘Life, Love and Other Mysteries’ anthology of poetry
and song.
So
much of my own yearnings in life over these past 20 years have been for some
sort of success. To make a name for myself, to achieve wealth and
success, to gain my own, supposedly deserved, glory. But I suppose I have
to learn the poem God gave me to write for myself. ‘In patience what I
need comes to be.’ I guess, if we can learn to wait, to learn to let go
of the demand for ‘Instant Wealth’ and ‘Instant Success’, then perhaps what we
actually really NEED will be given to us by God and that in this ‘Prison of
Life’ we will end up FREE from the frustrations of our own covetous lusts for
wealth and success, instead transformed into a person which is content with
God’s love and whatever he sees fit to provide for us. Because if we have
God’s love – if we have the love of the one who is eternal and has always been
there – then it is just patience we need to have, for he will give us all good
things in the fullness of time. What we need to learn in the mean times
is to love each other, to respect each other, and to value each other.
For those gifts, which are FREE, are the ones we really need for eternity
anyway.
*
* * * *
When
I stopped going to Catholic Church at 16 it wasn’t really because I didn’t
believe in God. It was because church was boring and I had better things
to do. But, gradually, looking back, I realize now that the simple faith
I had in God as a child disappeared in those years from 16 to 18 or so.
But not for long. I questioned, intently, wether God was there or
not. I thought about it all the time, a great deal, and then, later on in
year 11 or 12 at Lake Tuggeranong College I stole a book on philosophy for
beginners from the library (which I might have eventually returned to the Civic
library) and read some of the arguments for the existence of God. What
nailed it for me was the ‘Argument from Design’. Essentially it argues
that nature is so complex, wonderful, beautiful and has such a design to it
that it indicates a ‘DESIGNER’ behind it. I gave this thought, then, and
within a short while confessed my faith. Yes, God was there, had designed
the universe, and was the creator. It was at that point I really did
believe in God, and have never stopped since. But I was NOT a religious
believer, instead, I guess, being deistic in my viewpoint. I did believe
in an afterlife, though, and shared that view briefly once with Ariel Cheng, a
friend from CIT. But she alluded that unless I was a Christian I wouldn’t
receive that afterlife. That got me interested in Christianity and later
I became a pentecostal. But for a long time now, since being a Noahide, I
KNOW I was in the right position back then. I had faith in God, believed
in a world to come, and I know that was and still is enough for God to accept
you. It was all he needed to save me.
Over
the course of my walk with God, though, I have come to know that Jehovah is NOT
a trinity, and that Israel is his ‘Rock’. But, the way the Noahide world
is gradually emerging now, we Noahides are becoming God’s ‘Rock’ as well.
After all, we are of the ‘Oldest’ of the biblical covenants, older still than
Abraham’s covenants, and perhaps in that sense should be the MOST responsible
of God’s holy people. Perhaps, because we are of the OLDEST covenant, we
should be the most mature and reliable in our service to the Most High. It
is what I believe personally anyway.
Faith
in God in action can mean a lot for many people. For many it is a belief
system which guides their lives and moral choices. For others it becomes
the central focus in a religious calling. And for others still, just that
little part of faith in their lives, that little corner, which they
occasionally go to that reminds them that, yes, they believe, and that there is
a meaning to it. But then back off to the real world.
For
me, personally, it is perhaps a mixture of all those perspectives. As a
Christian in Potters House and the United Pentecostal Church I evangelized on
the streets of Civic in Canberra a great deal, handing out flyers, talking to
people and even street preaching. I hardly ever saw anyone come to church
that I had talked to, but wonder these days what, if any, impact I had.
It has been slow going in Noahide faith as well, but what I seem to be
understanding these days is that you REALLY need to get your time up in a
religion and a religious assembly and show REAL commitment before God will
bless you with souls. If you are a monotheistic evangelist, and you want
to win souls to your assembly, they won’t come forth unless YOU stick to your
assembly. If you quit later on, God has wasted his time in using you as
an example, hasn’t he? You have GOT to stick to your guns and really
commit, or you are just wasting your time. Real soul winners are ones who
end up sticking to something, and showing people their faith is genuine.
If it isn’t you won’t bear fruit in the end. In this day and age it is as
simple as that, because with all the religions on offer people see through the
shallow ones very quickly now and move on.
*
* * * *
I
lost my virginity to a prostitute in Fyshwick in Canberra at 26 years of
age. It was the day (early in the morning) after I left Christian faith
and was thinking about Jewish/Noahide faith. I was living in Hughes in
Canberra, working at AQIS, and had come to the conclusion that I really didn’t
believe in Jesus and that I just believed in God. And then, later on that
night, thinking that because I was no longer a Christian, that all the
Christian teaching on sexual purity until marriage really didn’t apply to me,
with all my years of sexual frustration having built up, I went off to the
keycard machine at the mall, withdrew a number of hundreds of dollars, and
early the following morning took a taxi out to Fyshwick stopping at ‘Exotic
Studios’. The girls working name was ‘Amber’, she was from Cooma
originally (funnily enough) and was very pretty. I went a fair number of
times after that, but it gradually diminished.
Sexuality
and what God requires of us is a big issue for me, and very challenging.
Not being Jewish and, further, honestly believing that the Talmudic system of
Noahide faith is simply rabbinic invention, I have only been able to rely on
the Scriptures themselves. I would be lying to myself if I tried to
follow the mainstream ‘7 Laws of Noah’ code. I don’t believe it is the
historical truth, so there is no point in trying to meet its religious
requirements.
I
essentially have a ‘moderate’ stance on the composition of the scriptures, and
would recommend ‘Richard Elliott Friedman’s’ ‘Who Wrote the Bible’ to explain
source theory on the Documentary Hypothesis. While I would question
‘Dating’ of the sources, I agree there ARE differing sources in the
Torah. Some say it is Priestly invention, the sections in Leviticus and
that, by and large, the rulings are developed rulings. This is probably
true to a degree. IF there are any genuine Mosaic sections in the Torah
WE don’t know with any certainty what they are. Further, we really DON’T
know what are the rule from God, if any, on sexual morality. The bible
says what it says, but is this reality? Is this the moral truth of human
lives? I am not sure.
In
the Australian Capital Territory were I live Prostitution is legal.
Because of that I occasionally visit a lady and have an intimate encounter.
I have shared this with a number of friends in my mental health groups, and
nobody really seems to object. In fact it is usually an article for light
hearted conversation.
From
observations on this throughout life, smirks, laughter and grins are often the
result in male to male conversations on their sexual escapades. Is that,
then, the reality of sexual conduct? And, therefore, are the biblical
prohibitions rabbinic nonsense? Is it really that big a deal? Today
we have homosexuals well entrenched in our society, and nobody seems to
mind. In fact many churches say that is ok now. With my knowledge
on the composition of the bible and the lack of real proof of God’s own voice
on the subject, what can we really say?
In
the end I only argue common sense should prevail, and your own convictions and
inner voice. There are a lot of sexual freedoms now, and I think that
will always be part of society from now on. We won’t ever be going back
to the Victorian era, and the restrictive ways of the past. X rated porn
is here to stay, and they are the facts of life.
What
I do know, though, is that VDs aka STDs or STIs are a permanent part of the
landscape, and a fool practices unsafe sex with every Tom, Dick and
Harry. So whatever your practices on this issue, be bloody careful.
*
* * * *
I
probably had my first cigarette in my teens. But I can’t really
remember. In fact, it might have been my early 20s. So far I have
smoked about 20 to 30 cigarettes in my life and drunk about 50 to 100 cans of
beer in my life. I am not actually really trying to abstain from beer –
it is just that I don’t really like the stuff very much. I do like
cigarettes, but plan on never taking them up seriously, as I know all to well
the dangers. But once or twice a year I will have a smoke, little enough
to ensure I do no real damage.
I
got weighed just the other day and came in at 154 KGs. Quite a bit, but
funnily enough down on the last weighing. I have been up over 160 KGs
previously. My diet, and the fact I now drink quite a bit of water, is
gradually and slowly wearing down my weight. The way I am going, 3 or 4
years from now I expect I might be under 140 KGs. I am hoping for that.
Being
health, of course, is a big part of life. It seems for so many that it is
a major preoccupation and for the other half a non-issue. But we are
probably all concerned in some way.
God’s
plan is for us mainly to eat fruits and vegetables and various plants, and he
started us off on that. Later he gave Noah permission to eat meat, and we
can do that as Noahides as long as we drain off the blood. Nobody is
supposed to eat blood.
All
of this is meant to support our life and make us healthy. Of course, we
don’t have access to the tree of life, as we can’t get back to the
garden. I pray that God feeds me that fruit spiritually, and I pray that
a lot, and hopefully he does. I really enjoy life these days and want as
long a life as I can possibly get.
Of
course, we need to be healthy and because of this I make sure I don’t smoke or
drink too much, and I try to gradually improve my eating habits as the years go
by. I am even slowly thinking about vitamin tablets as an option to
consider.
*
* * * *
My
brother Gregory was probably my best friend for most of my young life. I
teased him a bit too much I think, and was a bit bossy an older brother, but I
really did like him, and am grateful I had him as a brother growing up.
We used to play cricket together in the back yard quite a lot, and across the
road with the neighbours boy as well.
Greg
has a boy, James, now. James really is a ‘Daly’ and is like his
grandfather with a quiet nature.
I
have never been married, but would like to one day. At 37 I realize I am
not getting any younger, but still hope to meet a nice lady to have children
with. Of course God told Noah to populate the earth, and I am willing to
do my bit, but just haven’t found the girl I connect with yet. Hopefully
one day.
Gregory
is married to a Philippino lady called ‘Christie-Mae’ who was born on Christmas
Day. They seem to get along, and I enjoy having her in the family.
They are in Perth now, were they will build a house, so I won’t see him a lot
in the future. But he is my favourite sibling, and I wish the best for
him.
*
* * * *
I
have listened to hundreds, possibly over a thousand, CDs in my life. With
my schizophrenia I am in the habit of getting rid of them in some way, but I
have a large knowledge of many musical artists. I have many favourite
albums, but some of them would include: Bon Jovi – New Jersey, Def
Leppard – Hysteria, Kings X – Faith, Hope, Love, Spice Girls – Greatest Hits,
Britney Spears – The Singles Collection, AC DC – Back in Black, DC Talk – Jesus
Freak, Cheri Keaggy – My Faith Will Stay, Rebecca St James – God & Susan
Ashton – A Distant Call. I love music, can listen to it all day, and
hopefully always will. I myself have composed a number of basic classical
piano pieces, and hope to eventually have a small compilation CD put
together. It will go on ‘Myspace’ if I ever get the project done.
*
* * * *
Anyway,
I will close this third chapter with a slice of wisdom. ‘Whatever you do,
do well.’
All
the best. Daniel
End
of Chapter Three
Chapter Four
(Written Tuesday, 6th
of April, 2010 CE, early in the morning)
It
has been quiet enough the last few weeks since writing the last chapter.
I finalized the cleaning of my flat down in Cooma (Unit 4 / 194 Sharp Street) were
I had just finished a six month lease. I signed the bond release form and
hopefully they will find it all up to scratch. I have lived away from
home (my parent/s) a number of times over the years, but due to lack of
marriage have usually ended up back with them.
My
first time away from home was in 1995 when I joined the Potters House Christian
Church in November of that year. I had been witnessed to by Tammy
Saunders and the church had some established group houses for its younger tween
members. I stayed at a place on McFarland Crescent in Pearce in the Woden
district, just up from the Pearce Shops and community hall were the Church met
at that time. Since then they changed locations to Civic in the Griffin
centre for a while, and now down at a primary school in West Kambah. They
have had pastor’s come and go, and the original pastor that I was baptized
under, Philip East, is now in Indonesia I think, still at his gospel work, with
a different church.
I
lived in the men’s group house with Brenton White, Scott Boswell, Rama Vaa and
Craig Holford. Craig Holford, along with his wife Raelene, are the only
ones still attending the Canberra Potters House church from the days I attended
the church (1995 to 1996, for about 1 year). Brenton has a twin, Chris
White, who is still a friend I see every now and again. Scott was the
main guy responsible for my induction in a sense into the group house and into
Potters House, but I got along best with Rama Vaa, a Samoan fellow who was at
university. In the women’s group house, which was just down the street a
little, there was Deonie (who later married Scott) Tammy Saunders (who later
married a fellow named Mal Makkinga who had come into the church and who
developed a close friendship with myself), Camille and Sofya Sharaf, who I had
a crush on, who later married Sung Taing who was in the church with her for a
while.
I
was in the group house briefly, and then had another psychotic episode,
wandering the bush, and then returning home to live with my mother for a
while. But I returned to the group house and the church, before living
with Brenton White in the ‘Wall’ in Mawson for a little while. After my
year in Potters House I went to the United Pentecostal Church in the next
suburb of Chifley, and moved to a flat in ‘Chifley House’ on Eggleston
Crescent. I was in that flat for a year or so. After that I moved
into a flat in Greenhaven Court in Hughes in Woden, just opposite the Hughes
Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall. I attended the ‘Baptist Church’ in Hughes
on and off for a little while, and a few visits to the Kingdom Hall.
In
January 1999 living in Hughes I became a Noahide, and the following year in
2000 I began writing ‘Morning Stars’. I was offered a ‘Package’ in 2000
due to lack of duties for my position, but I could tell the Schizophrenia
problem was perhaps the main issue as to why my duties had dwindled. I
had been hospitalized a number of times by then.
I
returned to 29 Merriman Crescent in Macarthur in 2000, not long before I took
my package. In 2001 I lived in Cooma on Baron Street for a six month
lease, but was only there a few months before I had another episode and took
off for Melbourne. I stayed briefly with June Cantrell the Noahide who
was a friend of mine (and of Frances Makarova ie Rachav), before being
hospitalized in the Dandenong Hospital. Just before leaving Cooma I
remember (as I had no television) going into the newsagents and seeing the
paper of the 911 incident with the twin towers.
I
returned to Canberra after my hospitalization, and never really went back to
Cooma to live to finish off the lease. It was cleaned and I stayed in
Cooma since then.
I
was not hospitalized again until January/February 2008 (7 years reasonably
well) and have not been since that time.
In
2007 I returned to live in Cooma at, this first time, unit 3 / 194 Sharp
Street, which is the front unit on the right. Returning back to Canberra
I had published in paperback form, just after my father’s death, Morning Stars
and Ye Olde Devil. I was hospitalized just a little later. I stayed
then at Ainslie Village in the ‘Lodge’ for a few weeks, then my mother let me
return home.
And
then, since October 2009 till just the other day I had a lease for, this time,
unit 4 / 194 Sharp Street, which is the front unity on the left. Small
world huh. But I didn’t stay there a huge amount, and returned to live in
Canberra for much of the lease. I was just too lonely there in the end
(although I was coping with it) and missed my newly acquired friends from the
Mental Health Tuggeranong Drop in Centre.
One
of the friends I have met in the drop in centre is ‘Marcus Low’. He is
from an Asian family, but he has a normal Australian English accent so I assume
he was probably born in Australia. Recently, at Woden Bus Interchange, I
ran into him and asked him to write a story about an Angel for me. We had
discussed the idea of him writing stories for my website previously, and his
story can be seen on the ‘Contributing Authors’ section of the main page.
*
That
is all for now. All the best to everyone reading this ongoing dialogue.
The
End of Chapter Four
Chapter Five
(Written Friday 9th of
April 2010 AD/CE)
I
printed off my first 2 printer copies of ‘Jack Dagger – Skull and Crossbone’ yesterday
at Tuggeranong library. I haven’t printed off hard copies of most of my
stuff, and am now getting around to it. In this new electronic world,
with computer memory and internet websites, it hasn’t really become necessary
to print off actual paper copies. I have 2 USB drives were I save my
writings, and I think that is an absolute essential necessity these days with
the ways hard drives so often crash and you can lose data.
I
remember, when working in AQIS, hearing about the term ‘The Paperless
Office’. There was a seminar given on this at work and one of the senior
workers took it so seriously that he assumed they no longer wanted printed
copies of things, and just worked electronically. An ironic statement I
once heard it that in the new electronic environment, the paperless office uses
more paper than ever before. But such is life.
My
first close female friend, who I guess in hindsight was a girlfriend, but I
have never called any girl my girlfriend so far, was ‘Louise Roseman’ back in
year 11 at Monaro High School in Cooma. She had a crush on me and
scratched ‘XAD’ into her arm, that being my nickname which I used as the
signature for the high scores on various video games played at the Cooma Video
Game Arcade. We kissed at ‘Peter Dradrach’s’ and, while I learned she was
‘Easy’, we never had sexual relations. Just around that time I was at the
Cooma Show with my group of friends and I went on the dodgems for quite a while
with a blonde girl from year 10 named Jenny. I remember at school
boasting to Mark Post that I only went with Jenny to make Louise jealous.
But that was actually all bravado, and completely untrue, since I just made it
up at the time. I was in no way trying to make Louise Jealous.
Jenny had written me a porno letter, and I was still scared of such intimacies
at that age – I think, looking back, I was trying to escape the friendship with
Jenny in some way. Jenny was a nice girl, but not for me.
There
was, interestingly, another Jenny in year 11 called ‘Jenny Cheetham’ who told
me she ‘Knew’ there was a God. It was one of my first ‘God’
conversations, and one of the things which propelled my teenage mind to search
for God. I rung up Jenny’s mum just a few years ago and got back in touch
with Jenny. Her father died just around that time, and while she was
working in New Zealand, she came back to Canberra briefly and we caught
up. I was way to strong in my comments about Jesus and Christianity not
being true, and I put her off any future friendship, which I regret. I
really like her, and I had a crush on her back in high school. She had
changed a lot though.
When
I started attending CIT in 1993 to 1995 doing the ‘Associate Diploma of
Business in Office Administration’, I ended up making a lot of close female
friends, because the course was mainly filled with females. One of the
girls was ‘Ariel Cheng’ who told me she was a Christian. She was a very
quiet and gentle girl, from Taipei, and I ended up going to the place she was
staying to talk with her the afternoon before I had my accident the following
day. That afternoon I bought a Good News Bible and returned to
faith. Other girls I studied with at CIT and remember were Nary Ly,
Caroline Blanc (who I think works in Tuggeranong), Lindy Barham (who was a
close friend) and Lee Chiu. Lee Chiu was my second close female friend,
and when she returned to Hong Kong we wrote letters to each other for a
while. But she was never quite my girlfriend either.
When
I went to UPC I proposed to ‘Ann Kim’, but I was having a psychotic episode at
the time (which she might not have known) and she said ‘Later’. I ended
up leaving the church, and haven’t seen Ann Kim in years, but in reflection she
was definitely not the one for me. Too differing personality types and
theological beliefs. But it was only a brief friendship with her, and
while we kissed a few mornings (as we walked down from Chifley to Woden to go
to work) I had never called her my girlfriend either. It was mainly a
brief romantic fling. We never had sex though.
Later
on in that church I was interested in Becky Kent, and just before I left the
church we were starting to sit together in service. But I ended up
leaving UPC in 1998 because I didn’t believe Oneness theology. I think I
was in UPC for about a year and a half. To Oneness believers I recommend
1 Corinthians 8:6 and John 17:3 which should teach you Jesus isn’t God.
The logic of putting Matt 28 and Acts 2 is correct, but name simply means
‘Authority’. It doesn’t mean a literal name in the scriptural
context. You see, in terms of the New Testament, Jesus receives the
‘Authority’ of the father, which means he received the ‘Name’ of the father,
with the power (Name) to send the Holy Spirit. God revealed to me just
after leaving Christian faith that worship of Jesus was extreme idolatry and
carried a death penalty, but then told me later on, while I was considering
that, to ‘Be in the Hearts of Men’. You see, while God has made his
judgement on the issue, he tells me to have mercy, and look at the heart of the
people in such churches, who are really just in error theologically, and simply
don’t know any better.
I
have just started collecting old bibles, SVDP in Tuggeranong being a major
place of purchase, were you can get them currently second-hand for $1. I
particularly like finding ‘To Such and Such for your such and such’ in the
front cover with a signed date and year. I am in the habit of putting my
name and purchase date and signing these copies myself, just next to such
markings. I like a record of who has owned such bibles – I think that is
a good idea. In fact, with all the books I now buy, I sign and date
them. For ‘The Da Vinci Code’ paperback I purchased from SVDP I wrote in
a little plot idea for a Robert Langdon story in the front cover. The
story is called ‘A Contract with the Devil’ and is set in Jerusalem.
* * *
I
read the ‘Belgariad’ by David Eddings way back in Cooma in around
1987/1988. A friend of the family had given us some books and ‘Pawn of
Prophecy’ was amongst them. I read it as the second fantasy work I had
read, and thought it was amazing. I went off to the library to find if
they had the rest of the saga and was overjoyed to find they had all 5 books in
the series. I read them astutely and thought they were incredible.
This started my collecting of fantasy and science fiction novels and I read
quite a number of works in those years.
Recently
David Eddings died (early 2009), and then just a few months ago I began writing
‘The Belzandramanian’ which is a fanfiction sequel to David Eddings ‘Belgariad’
and ‘Malloreon’ series. When I posted the first part of the story to a
message board for Eddings on Google I found out he had died. The
Belzandramanian is going to be a major 5 part series, as long as both the Belgariad
and Malloreon, which are both 5 book series. I am working hard on it, and
hopefully the readers will enjoy it.
Anyway,
recently my neice Georgia Bridges (my sisters daughter) started slowly righting
a short story on my computer. She is only 10 years old and I thought the
story was a good effort for Georgia. I edited the finally copy, but all
the words are hers. You can read it at the contributing authors section.
Anyway,
that’s all for now. All the best to everyone. Daniel
The
End of Chapter Five
Chapter Six
(Written Monday 19th
of April & Friday 23rd of April 2010 AD/CE)
This
morning I have been working on my family tree, getting all the information out
of my mother Mary. I want to ensure I get all the details I can in case
anything unfortunate happens to her before time.
Here
is an interesting genealogy, with sources, from internet records I have put
together. From 105 back to 87 is Very Highly reliable, being part of the
records of ancient Ireland which were carefully kept. Going from 87 back
to 37 & 36 is reasonable data in my opinion. That Niall of the Nine
hostages goes back to Milesius is commonly held to. From 37 back to 13 is
questionable, but is the only data we have. Nennius table of nations,
from my mind, may have been written by himself simply because of the popularity
of the biblical genealogies, and 37 back to 13 which is from this source is
highly questionable because of it. The names may be genuine to some
degree (Perhaps he drew on traditional names floating around the nations) it is
questionable on authenticity, and is probably reactionary to the Christian
faith and demand, but it is all we have so I place it (as others do) as our
official genealogy back to Adam and Eve, but held with a degree of suspicion.
Whatever else, the amount of names going back to Adam is about the right amount
historically.
I
was watching Benny Hinn this morning and they talked about Schizophrenia.
The doctor who was on the show had been involved with research into the
condition and claimed it was a lack of ‘Niacin’ in the diet which caused the
lack of Brain nutrition, leading to the voices and schizophrenic
symptoms. Vitamin D was called necessary to help improve people with this
condition.
I
ate a lot of breakfast cereal when I was growing up, often twice a day, but
this disappeared in my early 20s, when the depression entered in and the
schizophrenia followed the depression. If what this doctor says is true,
then my lifestyle choices fit the pattern. I will be trying Niacin for a
while from now on and will let you know if my schizophrenic symptoms improve.
*
* *
I
have been buying a lot of books and trading cards recently. When I am
unwell I am unfortunately in the habit of destroying some of my possessions,
and have lost many things because of it. But I have been praying recently
that God would help me not to destroy my possessions and would cure me of
schizophrenia. I think, with the new Vitamin D information, perhaps he
has.
Anyway,
currently my bookcase is full of books, paperback and hardback, fiction and
non-fiction, and I have a lifetime of reading ahead of me. I am also
going to be collecting things like: CDs, Records, Trading Cards, Comics,
China, Books, Stamps & Coins.
I
like collecting things, but presently finding room for them is starting to
become a problem. I have resorted to purchasing large plastic boxes and
storing things under the house.
When
I was in my teens living at 6 Bradley Street in Cooma I was given some fantasy books
by a friend of the family, Gerard Bryant. David Eddings ‘Pawn of
Prophecy’ was amongst them, and was the second fantasy book I read after ‘The
Twilight Realm’. My favourite genre of fiction is usually fantasy,
followed by Science Fiction. However, my own saga about Angels with the
term ‘Angelic Spiritual Fiction’ would now be my favourite genre of fiction,
and the stuff I enjoy writing the most and reading about. I am really
hoping that my work ‘The Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ becomes the
‘Lord of the Rings’ of Angelic Fiction. Fingers crossed.
Strangely,
when I was very young, living in Berridale in NSW in Australia where I was
brought up, I seem to remember something about an angel called ‘Ramiel’ for
some strange reason. It is quite possibly just my extensive imagination
in rethinking about my past youth, but that angel name rings a bell for some
strange reason. I do remember we had rosary group meetings back at our
Berridale house when I was very young, and perhaps the Angel’s name was
mentioned then. Or, perhaps, I had angels talking to me when I was very
young, and my mother often said that ‘Do you remember playing with the Angels?’
referring to before I was born. I had a dream about that recently, a
dream which gave me the impression it was referring to a time before my birth,
when I was in heaven. I was living in Cooma, of all places, and attended
St Pats school, and was learning things. The dream seemed to be a
flashback of my time in heaven, and I remember in the dream certain memories in
my mind ‘Clicking’ to what the dream was showing. They seemed to be part
of my inner memories, part of the very fabric of my being. Interestingly
in my dream one of the Nuns told me ‘Your mother is going somewere and won’t be
coming back,’ which the dream communicated to me as my mother going off to be
born into the physical earth. I was at school with my St Pats
school-friends in the dream, and I believe now that there is a world of
dreaming, a world of heaven, which precedes all of our lives before earth, and
which seems to follow it as well.
Talking
of dreams, for a number of recent years, tapering off after I prayed to God
about it, I was having the most intense of dreams, ones in which I often felt
like I was really alive in them, and they were so very real. I often
tried to make the dreams last as long as they could, refusing to wake up in my
dreams. I remember many scenes from many of my dreams, and I have dreamed
about many celebrities funnily enough, as well as family and friends and many
other faces I don’t yet recognize.
Daniel’s
are really supposed to have vivid dreams, and they are supposed to be
interpreted by us as well. That is the gift of the book of Daniel for
those who bear this name. Further, Daniel’s are supposed to be judges
because Daniel means ‘Judge of God’ which means ‘God’s appointed Judge’ (To
Judge others, not meaning Judging God himself).
*
* *
That’s
all for now. I will write more later.
The
End of Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
(Written Saturday the
24th of April 2010 CE/AD)
I
have decided in the last few days to try and keep a more comprehensive
journal/autobiography on a far more regular basis. I want to record all
the various activities I get up to so that in latter years for myself and any
interested parties they can get a very detailed account of my life.
Yesterday
I was down at Chess for the Leisure Activities run by Mental Health
Tuggeranong. The people who attend the various activities usually suffer
from Mental Illnesses such as Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Schizo-effective
disorder and Schizophrenia. This seems to be the general type of
disorders they deal with for MHT. Conversations centre around a range of
subjects, but naturally medication and the conditions are often talked
about. Currently Risperdal and Seraquel are talked about as commonly used
drugs by various people in the centre, and I am currently on a Risperdal Consta
(injection) of 50 mg over every 2 weeks. When I first started on the
medication back in the 1990s, first using Olanzapine from memory, I was on
tablets. However I was never faithful to the tablets, as I couldn’t find
consistency in taking them, and was hospitalized for my psychotic attacks a
number of times. Eventually they put me on injections, and they have
worked much better and I find it easier to remember getting a fortnightly
injection as it is less often.
I
am reasonably ok at Chess, and have played it for many years. In fact,
way back in Berridale when I was very young I remember my father Cyril teaching
me the game and playing it with me. I used to play with Matthew to start
with (I think) but definitely with Gregory over the years as we grew up.
Greg has also become quite good at the game. Greg had a book called ‘The
Chess Player’s Bible’ which Matt borrowed, but when Greg moved to Perth with
Christie after selling their Calwell house just recently, he left the book
behind with Matt and Matt didn’t want it so I asked Greg if I could have it and
he gave it to me. Fortunately it is a good book and I am gradually
learning strategy from it. I also had a big chess book given to me for
either a birthday or Christmas present when I was younger, and I never really
studied it in youth, apart from what they called ‘Pitfall number one’ which gave
me a basic strategy to get a quick checkmate. But it only works against
new players as experienced players spot it pretty quickly. I had a really
nice chess set when I was a kid with big carved out pieces, which I managed to
get from SVDP in Cooma were Dad worked and mum occasionally did volunteer
work. Unfortunately I left it behind one time at a Galong spiritual
retreat which Mum and Dad took the family on to the Catholic Monastery in
Galong NSW (Up Past Yass). I recall going at least twice to this place I
think, and one of the times I saw the movie ‘Highlander’ which became my
favourite movie as a kid. In fact it was Troy Bobbin who took some of the
kids to rent a video and I chose Highlander. Troy later became a priest
and I was at his ordination. And when I was very young at a SVDP Camp on
a property near Jerangle Troy Bobbin was an older boy who befriended me and we
did an ‘Act’ together in the ‘Talent Night’ with another guy. It was a
great camp and we played ‘Spotlight’ on one of the nights, with a torch out on
the grass at night, with the object to make it down the grass to the base
without being seen. I can’t remember for sure if I made it all the way
down or not. I also remember walking to a river from the property.
I remember asking ‘How long it would take us’ and was told it was one mile to
the river and would take us about an hour, which was accurate. There was
also a room which had people writing over the wall there names and band names
and things like that, and I am pretty sure I remember writing ‘The Village
People’ because along with Abba and Kiss they were about the only bands I had
heard about at the time. I think a lot of the kids wrote about ‘Kiss’ on
the wall, as they were a big thing at the time. I remember we had hot Milo
for supper after dinner, and we slept in dorms. We had a big ‘Envelope’
hunt and I found a lot of them, and when they gave out awards at the end of the
time there I was called ‘The great Envelope Hunter’ or something like
that. It was mostly kids from Canberra and Queanbeyan and other regions
who were on the camp, but I went with some other kids from my family. We
also used to play in a hayshed on the hay, but I spotted a spider on the wall,
and they took us out. But I later went and looked at the spider and it
was dead so we started playing there again. I remember we were walking on
a road and someone tuned in a radio and said ‘We have 2XL’ which was and still
is the Cooma radio station. And I remember when I got there looking in my
bag and looking at my socks and my bathroom items, as mum always had a
toothbrush and toothpaste and soap put aside for us when we went on
camps. This camp was in the 1980s while we were living in Cooma, and
probably the mid to early 1980s. Anyway, I remember visiting an elderly
lady in Cooma East which my mother knew and we played on my elaborate chess
set. I won the game, but she had confused the Queen for the Bishop in the
set, which is why I probably won. But I was so young and ambitious back
then that I wouldn’t have let her take the move back probably – I have
softened, though, but still have a degree of that attitude in me.
Yesterday
I got to chess in the morning. Adrian Harry Chan (I found out his middle name
was Harry recently, and at the pool on Thursday, the day before yesterday, I
have been teasing him calling him ‘Harry Potter’ and making wizard jokes) is
the guy who picks me up in the MHT Van to take me to Swimming on Thursday
afternoons and Chess on Friday mornings. I go each week and he usually
picks me up around 10 to 11 in the morning, as sometimes he is early and
sometimes a bit later. I played one game of chess with a guy called
‘Roary’ and I just lost, but it was a close game. Later I played Scrabble
with Rebecca Hill and Tony Beer and another guy called Shane. It was the
first time I had played Scrabble in the group, and they have been playing it
for years, but I am not usually interested in Scrabble. I was trying hard
in the game to win, and fortunately got my letters out in the end before the
others, so ended up winning, to which I was grateful. But I probably
won’t play scrabble that much more any more – it doesn’t usually interest me a
great deal. I knew Rebecca Hill before getting involved with the MHT
leisure program activities, having remembered her face from visits to Vision
Pentecostal Christian Fellowship, were she attends, in Fyshwick. I
couldn’t actually remembered were I first place her, but when we started
talking for the first time and she mentioned Vision I knew it had been there
were I had seen her. Rebecca works in Parliament House in Canberra in the
mail room I think. She is in her mid 20s. Tony is in his 50s I
think and no longer works. I receive the Disability Support Pension from
Centrelink and a lot of people who attend the activities are also on the DSP,
but not everyone. Names I know well now from the programs are ‘Rebecca
Hill’, ‘Tony Beer’, ‘Marcus CCC’, ‘Marcus Low’, ‘Alun Dorahy’, ‘Michael Laird’,
‘Matthew Sanderson’, ‘Steve Mansfield’, ‘Jenny Cutting’, ‘Tania’ , ‘Elizabeth’,
‘Scott’, ‘Des’, ‘Rodney’, ‘Isaac’, ‘Kevin’, ‘Richard Glinka’, ‘Andrew Wojick’,
‘Richard’, and the workers ‘Carmel’ and ‘John’ and ‘Laura’ and ‘Adrian
Chan’. They are all nice people and I am slowly developing some good
friendships amongst them. Yesterday, though, I surfed the internet as
they have a PC for the centre with internet access which I use quite
often. I don’t have the internet connected at home at the moment, so use
it in the library, in the hyperdome and at the centre mostly, as well as at
some places in Civic occasionally. Apart from that I chatted a bit.
I also printed off ‘I Love You, Always and Forever’, which is a short story I
wrote the day before (Thursday Night) for Marcus CCC, dedicating it to
him. Marcus CCC is a very generous and kind person and has been shouting
me meals for a few weeks at some Tuggeranong Restaurants simply because he is
so generous and I usually spend my money of my allowance all on the Thursday I
get it, rarely trying to make it last for the fortnight. I told him I
need to shout him as well but he asked ‘Just dedicate a Noahide Books story to
me’ so I wrote it out and printed off 3 copies yesterday. Carmel, Matthew
Sanderson, Rebecca Hill and Marcus read the story yesterday and they all liked
it, getting some smiles about the second Marcus. Of course, this is the
story in the previous chapter of this autobiography.
Carmel
had been speaking over the last little while about some tickets to Canberra
Raiders football matches she had been able to acquire. She rang up the
raiders and told them she wanted some free tickets for the leisure program and
they were happy enough to provide her with 4 tickets for each match to various
matches. I wanted 3 copies of the up coming Bulldogs match (as I have
gone for the Bulldogs, I am pretty sure, since the late 1970s when living in
Berridale) but Paul McNally from the programs, who is also a big Bulldogs fan
claimed two of them. But I decided to take the two anyway. Last
year me, my brother Gregory and my brother in law Alan and his son Ronan, all
of us being Bulldogs fans, went to the match between the Bulldogs and the
Raiders, which the Bulldogs thankfully won. It was the third Rugby League
ARL/NRL match I had ever been to, the previous two being the same lineup,
Raiders versus Bulldogs at Bruce Stadium in Belconnen. Third time is the
charm, because the Bulldogs lost the first two matches I saw live, but we won
the third one I saw. Anyway, Greg is now in Perth so I don’t need the
fourth ticket, but I really wanted a third for young Ronan. We have
decided (as I rang Alan just this morning) to try and get a ticket for Ronan in
the same section as ourselves on one of the next numbers, as soon as the tickets
go on sale to the general public. If we can’t get one near us I will
simply buy any child’s ticket, and he can sit on Alan’s knee (which Alan
suggested). It should be a good enough solution. But the tickets
were free so I can’t complain. I am looking at the tickets right now and
they are ‘Section Bay 14, Row PP, Seats 25 & 26’. They have the dates
of Friday 25 – Monday 28 Jun 2010 on them because I think the Raiders don’t set
the date till closer to the time, but Alan says (after looking the match up
online) that it is for the Monday Night, the 28th of June. When I was a
kid back in the very early 1980s and late 1970s I went for the Bulldogs always
as my first time, but because Newtown Jets were also in blue (navy blue I
think) I went for them as my second team. They left the competition after
1981 I think, but I found out they were in the Metropolitan cup as it was
called, and are now still a team in the NSWRL competition, and I support them
as my second team. Just a few years ago I decided the Raiders would be my
third team as I was naturalized an Australian Citizen in Canberra, so I now go
for the Canberra Raiders as my third Rugby League team in Australia. Of
course, I go for the two Hull teams in the Super League competition in England.
And I am anxiously waiting on the final 4 games of the Premier League Soccer
competition in England, because I support the Hull City Tigers and they are
third last at the moment, facing relegation. They only made it to the
Premier League for the first time ever 2 years ago, after having been a club
for over 100 years in the lower grade competitions. But they rose a lot
in the last few years, having come from the fourth division of the overall
competition (Ie Premier, Champions, I think 1st division and then 2nd division
this being the fourth division I am talking about) and rising all the way up to
Premier league in about 6 or 7 years. But they are finding Premier League
challenging, as it should be. They are an ok side though, and even if
they return to Champions next year, I think they have an excellent chance of
returning to Premier League the following season. I go for the ‘Hull
Ionian’s’ Rugby Union side, but haven’t gotten around to viewing the website
that much, but intend to. I follow the English Cricket side very
passionately and might finally see some of my first Test Match this year in the
up and coming Ashes series against the Aussies in Australia. England
currently holds the Ashes winning the last series in England 2 – 1 in 2007, but
I don’t expect it to be an easy fight in the up and coming series.
England will have to fight like hell to beat the Aussies in Australia, but I am
hoping and praying for the best of results for us. I chose some Aussie
Rules sides from the competitions apart from the VFL when I was a kid, and I
still support ‘Glenelg’ in the South Australian competition and ‘Subiaco’ in
the Western Australian competition. They will likely always be the teams
I support in those competitions. In Australian basketball I went for the
Canberra Cannons in the NBL, but they haven’t been in it for a while. But
I won’t choose another side, and will support any future Canberra team,
hopefully still called the Canberra Cannons. In the Super 14 Rugby Union
competition I support the ACT Brumbies as my first team, but support the 3
other Aussie sides (NSW, Queensland and the Western Force) in all their games
against the Kiwi and the South African Rugby Union sides. I think this
year an Australian team might just win the competition. In the local
ACTAFL competition I go for Queanbeyan, because when I was younger they were
called the ‘Queanbeyan Honey Bunny Tigers’ because ‘Honey Bunny’ were their
sponsors I guess. But I won’t change my team of choice, even though I
will now go for Tuggeranong as my second team in the ACTAFL. In the
Canberra Rugby Union competition I go for the Tuggeranong Vikings, and I
support Tuggeranong in the Canberra Rugby League competition (I think they are
called the Buffaloes). In the big AFL competition I have gone for
Hawthorn since the early 1980s and will always have them as my number one
team. Speaking of the Canberra Cannons, Phil Smythe was my favourite
Basketball player as a Kid and he played for the Cannons for years, but then
went off to the Adelaide 36ers. Anyway, from the free-throw line he
hardly ever missed and I thought he was great. He wasn’t a tall player,
but was pretty good. I remember he came to St Pats High when I was a kid
and was showing us basketball tips. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him,
but I was pretty chuffed in having seen him. I actually played basketball
for St Pats in Primary school but only played a few games. I don’t think
we ever won, and I was hopeless. I think I wore a red t shirt with number
15 on it. We were slaughtered once about 55 nil, but only had a few
players on the team as the rest of the team hadn’t shown up. It was up at
the Cooma basketball stadium, just up near the old St Pats infant school near
the Snowy Hydro Electric Corporation, not far from were I lived. Right
next to it is the Indoor Cricket centre were I played in the 1989 competition
with my gang team and we won the B grade competition and I was selected to play
in the A Grade comp that day.
*
* *
Mum
has gone off shopping with Brigid my sister this morning. Currently it is
school holidays and Madalene and Jayden and Georgia are down at the Chakola
farm with their father David. Mum usually goes shopping on Sunday after
10 am church with Trish Kirby. Trish has been a friend of the family for
many years now, and probably mum’s best friend. She is a mature lady and
teaches Catholic lessons to the school of religion I think it is, or perhaps
RCIA or something like that. Mum also taught the kids in schools for a
little while. Trish has a degree in Theology from Australian Catholic
University at the Signadou Campus in Watson in North Canberra. I studied
Primary Teaching there in the early 2000s, but only completed 3 quarters of my
first year subjects, giving up on it. I convinced myself that I wasn’t
going to give the kids my best effort, but I think I’d had enough of study by
then. Rebecca Bourke was a girl who stood out in my studies at ACU and we
did a project together and I visited her place once in Belconnen. She had
a cat with one eye. I remember talking to her about Noahide faith a few
times.
Right
at this moment I am listening to Delta Goodrem’s album, ‘Innocent Eyes’ and the
song ‘Running Away’ is playing, which is track number 11. Delta’s
boyfriend (they might now be married, but I am not sure) Brian McFadden
currently has the number one song in Australia. The song is ok, but I
don’t think it is that great, and I only think it is number one because of his
relationship with Delta, as she is very popular in Australia. She had 4
number ones from her Innocent Eyes album, which was a record. I think it
was Kylie Minogue who had the previous record with 3 number ones from her first
album back in the 1980s.
Because
of my Schizophrenia I destroy things I own a lot when I am psychotic, but have
been concentrating a lot and praying a lot for this to end. In my current
CD collection at home I own:
Delta
Goodrem – Innocent Eyes
Dio
– The Very Beast of Dio
Kelly
Clarkson – One Minute CD Single
Dream
– He Loves U Not CD Single
Cheryl
Cole – 3 Words
Kate
Miller-Heidke – Curiouser
Madonna
– Something to Remember
AC
DC – Let there be Rock
Billie
Piper – Walk of Life
Tina
Arena – In Deep
Cascada
– Platinum
I
am hoping this CD collection now lasts, and the psychosis diminishes and I
return to normal.
Some
of my very favourite Albums of all time (and I have listened to hundreds of
them) are:
Bon
Jovi – New Jersey
Bon
Jovi – Slippery When Wet
Def
Leppard – Hysteria
Madonna
– Something to Remember
Cheri
Keaggy – Child of the Father
Cheri
Keaggy – My Faith will Stay
DC
Talk – Jesus Freak
Rihanna
– Good Girl Gone Bad
Lisa
Loeb – Tails
Lisa
Loeb – Firecracker
Lisa
Loeb – The Way it Really Is
Kings
X – Faith Hope Love
Spice
Girls – Greatest Hits
Britney
Spears – the Singles Collection
AC
DC – Back in Black
Queensryche
– Empire
Helloween
– Chameleon
Helloween
– Keeper of the 7 keys Part II
Iron
Maiden – Fear of the Dark
Boom
Crash Opera – These Here are Crazy Times
Queen
– Absolute Queen
Seal
– Seal
Jewel
– Pieces of You
Alanis
Morisette – Jagged Little Pill
Avril
Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing
Taylor
Swift – Fearless
Kelly
Clarkson – Breakaway
&
many more
*
* *
I
am catching up with my friends Chris White and Robert Preston tomorrow at Woden
plaza food court at midday. I have known Chris and Rob since Potters
house days in 1996 and while I see Rob every few weeks and have done ever since
potters house days, I only catch up with Chris every year or so. But we
speak a bit more often over the phone. Chris is married to an Asian lady
named Ann who he met at a party. She was married at the time but had
problems with her husband and I remember Chris saying she might divorce him,
which she actually did and married Chris. Chris was dating another older
Asian lady called Nim prior to this, but had problems with her.
Chris
likes to talk about issues relating to the book of Revelation in the New
Testament, as does his twin brother Brenton who now lives in Townsville and
works, I guess, still as a painter. Chris is a good guy, with a savage
sense of humour, but is friendly and easy to get along with. We were
going to live together briefly, but I had to pull out for personal
reasons. Chris and Brenton are identical twins, but Brenton was in the
habit of wearing a short beard so you could always tell them apart.
Brenton also started using a diet shake or something like that and thinned down
a lot, but Chris is still a little stocky like myself. I am currently 154
KGs, but hope to lose at least one kilo for my next weigh in with my mental
health psychiatrist who weighs me when we meet up. I have been doing more
exercise in the last few weeks and am being more faithful to it. I hope
to get down to 153 or 152 and over the next few years intend to work carefully
to eventually get under 100 KGs if I can. I am getting a bit more in
control of my diet as a grow up and mature so things are looking good in the
long term.
Chris
plays the keyboard somewhat and might be quite good by now. I started
playing the keyboard seriously back in Lake Tuggeranong College were I studied
music, and ended up composing a lot of my own basic classical pieces. We
don’t have a keyboard at home anymore and when Greg moved to Perth he took his
piano with him. But when I have access to a piano or keyboard I usually
sit down and play an improvised piece – just messing around, which is all I
really need to do anymore with it.
Robert
Preston is married to ‘Michelle’. They don’t have any kids together, but
Robert has a daughter called ‘Rachael’ from a previous relationship, who now
has a daughter of her own so Robert is now a Grandfather. Rob is about
40, just a few years older than me. He lives in Weston Creek.
For
years now we have been seeing each other every few weeks, and often go on
outings. We used to go canoeing a lot when he had a canoe, but most of
the time we head down to KFC in Tuggeranong or some other place for a meal and
chat. He has helped me move my stuff a lot and is a good and faithful
friend.
*
* *
Well,
I have spoken about my dreams before, and I thought I would share some of the
things I have dreamed about of famous people.
Freddy
Mercury from Queen singing a song ‘Life is Like a Jigsaw, It’s Unreal’, which
he never sung on earth.
Bon
Jovi singing a song with the line ‘If the People say its alright, well its
alright’ which they have never sung on earth.
A
Bon Jovi song which I now remember dreaming about before when I was a kid, from
the New Jersey Era of songwriting, but which they never sang on earth.
Queen
singing a song ‘Queen says Fuck’ which they have never sung on earth.
Def
Leppard singing a song about me as Lucifer which they have never sung on earth.
At
least 2 other very cool Def Leppard videos I saw in my dreams, but the band on
earth do not sing.
In
a dream snippets of a Kasey Chambers album, going quickly through many of the
songs. They were very cool, but I don’t think she has released them on
earth.
Well,
that is all for today. I hope to write again very soon.
The
End of Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
(Written on Monday the
Third of May & Tuesday the Fourth of May 2010 AD/CE)
Here
are some of my suggestions.
Noahides
(and everyone else for that matter) should strive to maintain permanent
genealogical records. And with the advent of the online world and
computer memory we have the ability to store practically endless amounts of
information, meaning:
People
should take it as a lifelong obligation to keep a record of their life in
autobiographical form and arrange for this to be kept permanently in the family
record. A good idea is to arrange for a free www.angelfire.com
or www.facebook.com
or www.myspace.com
website and put all your relevant information into these web-pages and arrange
for your offspring to permanently have the password details for accessing these
websites and maintaining these websites. These websites can in turn link
to their offspring, and so on, for all future generations. It is also a
good idea for all your life’s story to be placed on such websites for future
generations to read about. Every child of Noah has an interesting life
story and all peoples lives are worth reading about.
I
think it would be a good idea if the United Nations formed a worldwide family
tree department and attempted to have as many willing nations contribute their
genealogical records to form a permanent family tree for mankind. These
should be kept in an online environment, accessible by the general public, with
the opportunity for people to contribute their own autobiographical information
as well as family photos and videos. I think this is an area of
Government input which citizens would welcome and not object to paying tax
dollars for the maintenance of. Wouldn’t it have been awesome growing up
if you could have accessed an online database of your family tree and read
about all the exploits of your great-great-great grandfather or your
great-great-great-grandmother, and so on, all kept in an online
autobiographical and biographical section.
*
* * * *
4th
of May
It
was raining this afternoon. Thunder was booming in long bursts at a
distance, and lightning struck. I have always liked the rain – it brings
forth feelings of security when locked inside my home, safe away from the
harsher realities of the fury of nature.
God
created nature and, I suppose, in many ways it reflects God himself and not
just his fertile imagination. He is a God of wonder and power, of fury
and might. When he appeared to Israel at Mt Sinai he surrounded the top
of the mountain with thunder and lightning. What this meant to the
Israelites was a witness of a God of Power and Might – a God not soon to be forgotten.
Perhaps
one of the strongest testimonies to the truth of the God of Israel is in how so
many of the other deities, which the Hebrew God calls ‘idol’s’ have come and
gone and been all but forgotten by the world. Sure, we still bandy about
the Roman and Greek god names in legendary story telling, but nobody seriously
believes in their existence any more. And as for all the ancient
Canaanite gods most people can’t even name one.
Yahweh,
the Lord, the God of Israel, seems to have stayed around in the imagination of
humankind for some reason. For some reason this particular deity has
imprinted himself on the hearts and minds of humans with the belief that he is
the true God and creator of all that is.
Either,
for some strange reason, this particular religion has some sort of appeal which
speaks to many, or it just may be what it claims – the truth.
When
Yahweh spoke to me in a dream in Goulburn about a decade ago he spoke with a
voice which emanated pure, flawless truth. It is not just a voice which I
sensed I could trust and would not lie to me in this sense, but you could sense
the literal spiritual truth of the voice. That is what Yahweh himself is
like – pure, unadulterated truth.
I
believe Yahweh is ONE – that is how he communicated himself to me. He is
not some confusing triune deity of the majority of Christian belief. He
is a being of singular nature in the same way human beings, made in his image,
are likewise one singular human person. And, in fact, the New Testament
teaches this truth as did the Christian church to begin with.
*
* * * *
I
lived in Cooma from 1980 to 1990 – the decade. My family lived at 6
Bradley Street in Cooma. The family attended the Catholic Church every
Sunday for the whole decade, whereas I myself left the church in about 1988, no
longer believing in Christianity and not really believing in God very
much. The Catholic Church in Cooma is St Patrick’s Church, and I attended
St Patrick’s school from Kindergarten through to Year 10, first travelling in
from Berridale and then walking to school every day from 6 Bradley
street. In 1989 I attended Monaro High School in year 11 for one year,
before the family moved to Canberra in late 1989 I think (or possibly very
early 1990).
I
still have strong memories of year 11 in Cooma. For the previous couple
of years I had finally found friendships, never having found any at St Pats of
any reasonable length, making new friends with the kids from the public school
system who I have talked about already. We used to hang at Peter
Dradrach’s house mostly, but were very rarely at my house or occasionally at
Damien Asanovsci or Michael Werle or Michael Gratwick’s house. Peter had
a Commodore 64 computer and we played it constantly in the late 1980s, also
going to the Arcade parlour all the time at this point. We played various
arcade games at the arcade parlour which was on Bombala street a couple of
hundred metres down the road from Peter’s house. And, of course, just
down from his house was the Rotary Oval were we did our cricket training,
playing in the nets a heck of a lot over a few summers. In 1989, the year
before I left for Canberra, it was the time we played the Indoor cricket
competition and won the B Grade competition. It was a time when my life
was very full with my friendships, friendships which had not really been there
in a major way in earlier years, perhaps apart from Peter Collins who lived
opposite us on 6 Bradley Street, and I grew up a lot and found out about people
and relationships. In year 11 Louise Roseman had a crush on me and carved
‘Xad’ onto her arm which was my nickname from computer arcade games and fantasy
games (a shortened version of my made up ‘Xaddadaxx’).
Berridale
was my very early youth, from 1972 to 1980. Cooma was my childhood from
1980 to 1990. But I achieved proper adulthood and became a man living in
Canberra from 1990 onwards, and that is were most of my fundamental spiritual
growth and maturity came from.
I
had pinched a lot growing up, and in our gang we pinched things from shops a
bit. We were not innocent lambs of God. But I always knew our
particular group, which listened to a lot of heavy metal and hard rock from the
1980s, were still good kids and we were not an aggressive gang in any way and
we never really made any trouble for people. A very few minor incidents
but never any real problems. Looking back we were ok kids and in my
relationship with God today he never brings up any problems from my
youth. I was a little bit of a devil, but I was alright in the end.
I
liked Louise a bit, but I liked Jenny Cheetham more, who was a girl in my year
(Louise was a bit younger) who was from the Public system, as I never knew her
in St Pats, and while I never dated her or anything like that, my heart really
yearned for her for a few weeks. I met her again in a Revival Fellowship
meeting in Tuggeranong a few years back after she returned from New Zealand for
her dad’s funeral. She had changed, and my feelings for her were not the
same, but I still liked her quite a lot. She’d been married since, but
had divorced. But she was keeping her married name so there was no future
for us possibly. Besides, she didn’t agree in any way with my Noahide
beliefs, and I was possibly too antagonistic in some of the things I said to
her. But such is life – it is never always smooth sailing.
*
* * * *
That
is all for now. I will write again in a while.
Best
wishes to those reading this ongoing work. Daniel.
The
End of Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
10th of June 2010
AD/CE / 6174 SC
Today
was the 10th of June 2010 AD/CE or 6174 SC as I like to call it. I have
decided today that Haven Noahide Fellowship should keep historical records in
an online format as well as in a published paper format as our own history of
the world and Noahide relevant issues.
Here
are my activities for this day.
Just
after 2.30 this morning I went down to the service station at the Chisholm
shops to use the St George ATM. My money sometimes comes in after 3.30 in
the morning, but sometimes after 2.30. Today it was in after 2.30.
I bought a cottage pie from the station (which I do a lot on Thursday mornings,
early, when I go for my money) as well as a glass bottle of Coca Cola, which is
currently sitting on my desk near my, now having been drunk). I purchased
the CD’s from the Service station of ‘AC/DC – Back in Black’ as well as ‘Queen
– Absolute Greatest.’ They both cost over $20. They had a copy of
Metallica’s self titled album, and later on when I was at home I was thinking
over how the ‘Back in Black’ album and ‘Metallica’s’ self titled album were
basically flawless albums as I saw it, both with black covers, and both having
symbols relating to Satan. I spent time when I got home, first listening
to the Queen album, and listening to most tracks until about track 10 when I
skipped them a little and changed to the AC/DC album. I remember looking
at the songwriters for the various Queen songs and noting, as I have noted in
the past when I had most Queen CDs at a time, that each of the four members of
the band had written at least one decent hit, and that each member contributed
to a real band as I saw it. I remember looking at the picture from the
First Greatest hits album in the folio and thinking it was a classic photo.
Later
on, just after 6, I headed off to the bus stop to catch the early bus to
Tuggeranong. I caught the 67. The 65 comes at a very similar time
each morning, and I usually prefer this one as it gets to Greenway just a
little bit quicker. There was a girl at the bus stop who I recognized
from yesterday, and she asked the 67 bus driver about the 65. I caught
the 65 yesterday with her and she got off at Mackillop catholic school. I
think she is a teacher or something.
When
I got to Tuggeranong Hyperdome I ordered a Caramel latte and noticed the girl
who worked there again. I have been g0ing to the coffee shop on Anketell
street on the Hyperdome which is open from about 6 and there has usually been a
guy working at that time. But the last couple of times it has been a
girl. She is of average looks and I thought about her as a potential
girlfriend as I do about all the girls on the bus and who I see in the
streets. I measure them up and assess wether I would be interested.
She was medium in looks, and I didn’t really fancy her.
I
ordered a grande $5 latte and went into the hyperdome to use the
Internet. There are Internet stalls which take coins and credit cards
which you can use whenever the Hyperdome is open. I have a username,
which I can’t tell here, and a password I use all the time now.
When
online I emailed Naomi Samadi from Haven Noahide Fellowship in India. I
also paid my regular credit card bills for my go MasterCard. One bill was
just over $70 and the other I paid just over $92. The bills come each
month.
After
that I think I did some updating to my Noahide websites, as well as checking my
email and my myspace accounts. Most days I check my webhits for my
Noahide Books website, and I can’t remember how many I got today but they were
a decent amount of hits.
After
that I went shopping. I bought 4 magazines and 2 scratchies from the
Hyperdome Newsagent. The Magazines were ‘Goddess Number One’ (X 2
copies), Heart of the Earthmother Volume 3 (I also have number 1 and 2) and a
copy of Antiques and Collectable. On one of the scratchies I won $4 which
is the amount I had spent on them. I rarely win a decent amount.
Then I went off to Revolution CD with the plan of buying some CDs, but instead
I bought a milkshake and went to the library. Oh, earlier, after the
magazines, I bought 3 cds and 2 cd holders from Kmart. The cds were a
double pack of Avril Lavigne (Let Go & Under My Skin) and Evanescence
‘Fallen’. The CD holders cost $5 each and are durable plastic ones.
When
I got to the library I spent ages printing off, for the first time with the
exception of Ye Olde Devil and Morning Stars, a printing each of Volumes 0 to
10 as well as volume 13. So most of the saga is now officially printed in
A4. The printings are in my room here in Macarthur. I spent a lot
of money on the printings, and went to my bank to get out extra funds to print
as much as possible. I will finish off the final printings soon.
I
got home, wrote a few more stories, updated my website and then returned to
Tuggeranong to upload the updates as well as printing off ‘The Rainbow Bible’
with the little money I had left. This was the actual first printing ever
of my ‘Rainbow Bible’. On the way to Greenway for the second time I was
having fun giving funny names to various trees and signs and other things, just
for the sake of humour and the voice which speaks to me using my voice. I
think it is God or a spirit or something, and not my subconscious.
Remember, I am a schizophrenic.
When
I got home I had my dinner (which was stew, and quite nice) and did some more
work, wrote volume 20 of the Noahide version of the Chronicles, and then
started typing this chapter. While typing this chapter I have been
listening to my CD Cascada ‘Platinum’. And that is were I am up to, so I
will finish this chapter now.
The
End of Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
11th of June 2010
CE/AD / 6174 SC
Today’s
Activities
Very
tired last night. Slept erratically as usual. Got up this morning
when Adrian Chan arrived and went off for my weekly chess club at the Mental
Health Leisure Program at the Southern Cross Stadium in Greenway near the
Hyperdome. Didn’t actually play any chess today but mostly used the
Internet and uploaded latest writings from late last night. Brought along
3 CDs to play at the centre – AC/DC ‘Back in Black’, Daughtry, Rogue Traders
‘Better in the Dark’. They were well received by most. Had pizza
for lunch with the group and a can of Coke – Adrian paid for me, and I promised
to pay him back later. We used to go to a café down next to Lake
Tuggeranong College for lunch but that is currently being remodelled.
Met
Justin Angold, who is a Noahide, and I gave him the time and date for the first
meeting of Haven Noahide Fellowship in Canberra, which is scheduled for the 3rd
of July on Saturday from 11-11:30 till late in the afternoon. I am going
to pray for a reasonable turnout, but it might end up just being me and
Justin. But that is ok, because it has to start somewhere.
This
afternoon I listened to Queen ‘Absolute Greatest’ again and had a nap. I
was quite tired. Then later I reorganized the Index page for Noahide
Books and removed Volume 20 & 21 which were 2 Daniel stories and have
instead put them into a new title called ‘Anthology’ which will be the Noahide
Version of the Anthology tales for Chronicles of the Children of Destiny.
I have now 2 versions for the Chronicles of the Children of Destiny. The
Jewish Version which is now complete from Volume Zero to Volume Thirteen.
The Noahide Version uses the same first 5 volumes (zero to four) and then
includes ‘Ye Olde Devil’ but then goes into ‘Rachel’s Lament’ with Rachel Smith
INSTEAD of Rachel Rothchild who was in ‘Rachel Daughter of Eve’. Thus,
the Noahide Version of the Chronicles is a separate universal tale. ‘Lucy
Smith’ is part of the ‘Jewish Version’ while ‘Lucy Potter’ is part of the
‘Noahide Version’.
I
also began ‘Valandriel’s Little Adventure’ which I will finish tomorrow.
Currently
I am listening to ‘The Offspring – Splinter’ and the song ‘Hit That’ is
playing. I bought the CD Single when the album first came out, but just
bought the album recently from Sanity records at the Hyperdome for $10.
I
was listening also to Avril Lavigne’s ‘Let Go’ album today and I noticed some quite
interesting lyrics in the song ‘Things I’ll never say.’ Quite cool,
Avril. Quite cool.
That
will do for today.
The
End of Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
12th & 13th of
June 6174 SC (2010 AD/CE)
The
12th – Activities
Went
to library in Erindale today to update websites. Met William Chol on the
bus, an African guy who goes to Lake Tuggeranong College, who introduced
himself to me at the bus stop the other week. He invited me to his house
in the afternoon to watch some world cup soccer, but I was too busy. At
the library I began ‘Haven Noahide Fellowship World News’ (http://hnfworldnews.angelfire.com
) and intend to update this page as regularly as possible. It is just Haven’s
record of world affairs. I get the data from the Newspaper. When I
got home I put together some new Chronicles of the Children of Destiny
websites. I started http://cotcodcatholicversion.angelfire.com which
has some original material in the Chronicles intended for Catholics, as well as
http://cotcodchristianversion.angelfire.com
which has some original material in the Chronicles intended for
Christians. I also have some planned for other religious groups which I
am currently working on. These differing versions are for the specific
religious groups they are written for, with their beliefs and doctrines taken
into consideration. I returned to the library later in the day and
uploaded those two websites with their documents, if people want to check them
out. There is some original info on them, but not a huge amount
yet. When I got home I did a lot more writing, and then went to bed.
I listened to various CDs from my collection throughout the day.
The
13th – Activities
Didn’t
do much today. Quite tired. I was going to go to the library, but
decided to put it off until tomorrow, when I can also drop in to the leisure
program in Greenway. I worked on ‘Archangel Michael’ which is one of the
volumes for http://cotcodwatchtowerversion.angelfire.com
being the intended website for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Also, last night I wrote
a short sequel to ‘The Gathering’ called ‘New Conflicts.’ Both of these
stories will feature on the JW’s website.
Currently
I am listening to Kelly Clarkson’s album ‘All I ever Wanted.’ My nieces
Madalene and Georgia have stayed over for the weekend and have been playing
video games and watching movies. Nothing much else happened today.
The
End of Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Final Chapter
This
is the final chapter of my initial autobiography. This autobiography now
goes into the foundational ‘Rainbow Bible’ of Haven Noahide Fellowship.
If you are familiar with the Bible you will know it has historical information
of early Israel. In the fledgling Noahide world Haven feels itself
responsible to produce an ongoing series of Bibles on a decade by decade basis,
filled with spiritual wisdom and historical information on all the children of
Noah – mankind.
It
is the intention of myself and Haven that the first ‘Rainbow Bible’ be produced
sometime in 2011 CE/AD (or 6175 SC). After this point the second Rainbow
Bible in 2016 AD/CE (or 6180 SC) and the third in 2026 AD/CE (or 6190 SC)and
the fourth in 2036 AD/CE (or 6200 SC) and so on and so forth forever.
For
the 2016 Rainbow Bible I will be revising this autobiography and rewriting it in
a more comprehensive and historically chronological manner, including all the
history of my life as well from 2011 up till 2016.
For
more information on ‘The Archives of Haven Noahide Fellowship’ please read
Sermon 50 in the Spiritual Devotional Series of the ‘Rainbow Bible’.
I
will now leave off the writing of this autobiography, which will be published
in the Rainbow Bible 2011 edition.
Good
bye for now.
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
22nd
of June 2010 AD/CE / 6174 SC
29
Merriman Crescent
Macarthur
ACT 2904
Australia
The
End of Chapter Twelve
Recommended Reading
NON-FICTION
‘Gospel
Truth’ by Russell Shorto
‘Who
Wrote the Bible’ by Richard Elliott Friedman
‘The
Jew and the Christian Missionary’ by Gerald Sigal
‘JPS
Tanakh’ 1985 Edition
FICTION
The
Belgariad & The Malloreon by David Eddings
The
Chronicles of an Age of Darkness by Hugh Cook
The
Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings & Other Middle Earth Books by J R R Tolkien
The
7 Harry Potter Books & Movies by J K Rowling
Saga
of the Pliocene Exiles, Intervention & the Galactic Milieu Trilogy by
Julian May
The
emerging Karaite Noahide world – An Introduction to the faith of Daniel Thomas
Andrew Daly, a practicing Karaite Noahide.
Karaite
faith is the faith of the Hebrew Bible.
It is the faith of adhering to the principles, laws and teachings of the
Hebrew Bible and applying them to one’s life.
The Hebrew Bible is also known as the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, and by
Christians as the Old Testament. There
are 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, which also includes 5 books combined as the
Megiloth and a number of the Minor prophets combined into one book. Thus, while it comprises the same material as
the standard protestant bible of 39 books, a number of books in the Hebrew
canon are merged together into the Megiloth and the minor prophets.
The
Hebrew bible chronicles a history of mankind in its own words, from the
creation of the universe in the first chapter of the first book of the bible –
genesis – up until the end of Israel’s kings in 2 Chronicles.
The
Hebrew Bible is divided into 3 main sections – the Torah the Neviim and the
Kethuvim, which in English are the Torah Law of Moses, the Prophets and the
Writings.
In
Karaite tradition it is taught that this historical set of books combined as a
‘Bible’ is inspired by the creator of the universe – Yahweh, who is God.
Karaite
Judaism has differing ways of interpreting the inspiration of the Bible,
varying from individual to individual, as in Karaite Judaism it is stressed the
importance of individual interpretation of the scriptures, which would
logically lead to diverse opinion on the exact nature of the inspiration of the
text.
Haven
Noahide fellowship is Karaite in the sense that we adhere to the very same
Hebrew Bible as the basis of our faith.
It is the scripture of the fellowship – the blueprint for finding faith
as a descendant of Noah – and in the same way Karaite Jews utilize it to find
their pathway in relation to the will of God, Haven Noahide Fellowship as a
Karaite Noahide Fellowship uses it in the same manner – as particular, though,
to the Noahide rulings and way of life as taught in the Hebrew Bible. This doctrine of Karaite Noahide faith can be
found in my other online video presentations.
Karaite
Noahides are not the only Noahides. In
fact, Karaite Noahide faith, being known as such, is largely my personal
invention. In terms of historical
Karaite Noahides there do not appear to be any who have existed from my own
research into history from online sources.
It
is true that there have been converts from the gentile world to Karaism over
the centuries, and in a pre-conversion state they would be Karaites in training
to be Jewish, and could possibly be identified in hindsight as ‘Karaite
Gentiles’ or the likes. Karaite Judaism,
in general, frowns on the idea of Noahide faith, believing it to be the
invention solely of Rabbinic Judaism.
This is not true. Haven Noahide
fellowship bases its Noahide concepts solely on the Hebrew Scriptures and do
not follow the Talmudic approach to Noahide faith.
Currently,
the Karaite Jewish organisation ‘Malkut Yehudah’ teach a basic approach to
Karaite Noahide faith. This information
has appeared recently online. Thus, there
now is precedent in the Karaite Jewish world for a Karaite Noahide position.
However,
I, personally, have identified essentially as a Karaite Noahide since the year
1999 in the common era or the Christian calendar. Thus, I have been calling myself primarily a
Karaite Noahide for the last 12 years.
In
this 12 years there have been very brief periods were I have identified as
‘Creationist Deist’ and ‘Ecumenical Karaite’.
These periods have lasted for as much as a few days, perhaps a few weeks
at time, but never lasted too long in the end.
There have also been brief periods were I have strongly considered some
arguments from Christianity. Ultimately,
though, I would say for at least 95% of the last 12 years I have identified
primarily as a Karaite Noahide. I have
worked through nearly all of my faith questions about this issue and have
generally concluded I fit in the Karaite Noahide faith position. Finally, I have also considered the ‘Torah
Noahide’ or the ‘Samaritan Noahide’ position of solely the 5 books of Moses as
the Scripture of authority, and also the Hexateuch or the first 6 books of the
Bible, which includes the 5 books of Moses as well as the book of Joshua as my
faith positions. But, as I have said,
for the high majority of the last 12 years I have specifically identified as
Karaite Noahide. This appears to be my
final faith position.
I
have seen comments from people who since that time have identified themselves
as Karaite Noahide to varying degrees.
An individual calling himself ‘Joshua Elijah Emmanuel’ identified as
being as such on ‘Beliefnet’. I have
been since unable to contact him. The
Noahide from the UK who on Youtube carries the identity of ‘Hesediah’ who has
Noahide videos appears to be Karaite and Noahide friendly and may possibly be a
Karaite Noahide. I have had
correspondence with him previously when I specifically asked him if he was a
Karaite Noahide he said ‘You could say that’.
However, I was not sure if I sensed a firm commitment on that position
by himself. He seems to also accept the
‘7 Laws of Noah’ position also to some degree.
I am unsure of his exact position.
Another friend of mine online, Alesiah, vaguely identified as a Karaite
Noahide, but I am not completely sure if she is fully of this faith. It is still a work in progress for
herself. Here in Canberra, a friend of
mine, Aaron Goodsell, seems to be gradually coming around to Karaite Noahide
faith. He has yet to give me a firm
assentment of this as his spiritual belief, as he is still working through
questions about his former Christian faith.
The followers in India in Gujarat of Noahide faith, who have proclaimed
to me via email that they are members of Haven, do not seem to affiliate with
myself any longer, and have had problems with other Noahide movements. They did not seem to be of great commitment
to Karaite Noahide faith in particular – they were mainly identifying simply as
Noahides. Some of the members may have had
a firm commitment to the Karaite Noahide position – I have no firm information
either way.
What
I am saying is that I have not found, either in the history books, or in the
online world, any people who I would say have ‘DEFINITELY’ 100% confirmed
themselves as Karaite Noahide. I have. I anxiously await others who would also confirm
this with me.
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Canberra,
Australia
July
6175 SC (July 2011 CE/AD)
WHAT IS KARAITE
NOAHIDE FAITH?
Hello
Greetings
from myself, Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly, Head Pastor and founder of Haven
Noahide Fellowship. I will keep this as brief as I can, but hopefully make it
as informative as possible. This message is introducing Karaite Noahide
Faith or, perhaps a better term for us, Biblical or Bible-Only Noahide faith.
What is a Noahide? A Noahide is a biblical concept which, for those who
believe, we teach is founded in actual history. It is based on the man
who God choose from the rest of sinful mankind to build an Ark and save
himself, his wife, his 3 sons, and the wives of his sons, as well as animals
from all kinds of species. And then God sent a flood and destroyed wicked
mankind who was practicing lawlessness. This man was, of course, Noah,
and this is the biblical story of Noah and the Ark and the flood.
Many
of us are familiar with the idea that all mankind are descended from Adam and
Eve, the first humans, and we uphold this teaching. But, because of the flood
wiping out all sinful mankind, scripture logically teaches that we are all
descended from Noah As well. So, because we are descended from Noah we
use the term ‘Noahide’ to designate such descent and belonging to the family Of
Noah. So that is what a Noahide is.
What
is a Karaite? The Jewish Bible is known by a number of terms. The Kara or
the Mikra. The Old Testament by Christians. The Hebrew Bible. Or the
Tenakh, which is an acronym designating the 3 sections of Torah, Neviim and
Kethuvim. It was ratified at an ancient council of Israel at Jamnia, were
the official designation of the books we
have today was confirmed. Since that time it has served as the primary text of
the religion of Judaism, as well as the primary text for the religion of
Christianity which emerged after its formulation. Gradually, after the text had
been completed, ideas arose within the Jewish community of traditions of
accompanying teachings not contained in the Hebrew Bible. Eventually
these teachings grew to be known as the ‘Oral Law’ and Judah Ha Nisi compiled
these teachings into the manuscript known as the ‘Mishnah’. The Mishnah
is the Oral Law of Judaism. This Mishnah was written down in the early
centuries of the
common or Christian era. Later from this time, in Babylon and in
Jerusalem, schools of Jewish thought developed commentaries on the Mishnah.
These commentaries came to be known as ‘The Gemara’. Collectively, the Mishnah
and the Gemara are called the ‘Talmudic’ literature of Judaism.
Well,
not all Jews accepted some of the claims that the rabbis were making about the
Talmud. At the time of Jesus of Nazareth the Sadducees rejected the
Pharisees and their extra non-biblical teachings. We don’t know what
happened to the Sadducees, but later on, after the Talmudic literature had been
completed, Karaism arose within Jewish thinking.
Karaism
is this essential idea – the Hebrew Bible reflects the will and word of Almighty
God and the Talmudic literature, while perhaps noteworthy for its various
judgements and ideologies, simply reflects rabbinic thought on the law of God,
and should not be considered binding in the same authoritative sense as
scripture itself. Thus, the orthodox Jewish mentality that the Talmudic
literature was inspired since the time of Moses himself is rejected in favour
of a bible only approach.
So,
combining the two ideas, a Karaite Noahide is a descendant of Noah who holds to
the Hebrew or Jewish Bible as his religious text.
What
is the difference between Jews and Noahides?
The Hebrew Bible, in terms of the differences between the peoples of the world,
bases these differences on the notion of ‘Covenant’. A biblical covenant
is usually between God and his people, but there are other covenants in the
bible between groupings of people. A covenant is alike a contract or an
agreement, but the biblical ones carry the idea of being perpetually binding –
they do not end With one generation, but carry on forever for all generations.
To keep it simple, after the flood all mankind today has descended from Noah.
Noah was 10th in the line of Adam and Eve. The Patriarch
Abram, renamed Abraham was 20th in the line of Adam and Eve.
The Patriarch Jacob, renamed Israel, is the father of the Jewish people.
Jacob is Abraham’s grandson, son of Isaac. The three key covenants for peoples
in the bible are these – Noah’s covenant, from Genesis 9. Abraham’s two
covenants from genesis 15 and 17. The Israelites peoples covenant from
Moses generation onwards, from Exodus 24. The key promise of Noah’s covenant is
that God will never again send a flood.
This promise is to all mankind. Further, from Genesis 1 to 11:9,
scripture elucidates numerous principles of faith which are within the
obligation for the children of Noah – Mankind today – to obey. We of
Haven Noahide Fellowship call this section of scripture – Genesis 1 to 11:9,
the ‘Rainbow Bible’ or the ‘Noahide Bible’. God dealt with the Noahide peoples
of the world from Noah, until the time of Abraham, 10 generations later.
Then God focuses particularly on Abraham and his generations, until the
time of Moses, in which God focused specifically on the Israelite people. And
each of these key areas of focus by God resulted in Covenants and rulings
pertaining to that covenant. For example, Abraham was obligated under
Noahide faith, but God entered into the covenant of circumcision with him and,
pertaining to that covenant, he has a
promise of seed and of land. These are the covenantal promises of Abraham
for keeping the circumcision. For Moses generation, they blood of bulls as the
sign of the covenant sealed the obligation of Israel to obey the laws of this
Covenant – the laws which are found in the rest of the written torah, also
known as the Chumash or the Pentateuch, being the first five books of the
Hebrew Bible. These five books are commonly known as the 5 books of
Moses, relating the history of Moses for a large degree, primarily from the second
book – Exodus – to the end of the fifth book – Deuteronomy.
Now
the Jews are essentially the Israelite people. The term today usually
refers to all the Israelite people, but in the first instance it was a
derivative for the tribe of Judah. Yet, in honour of Judah, as scripture
decrees he would be the one his brothers would praise, Israelites have become
known as Jews, and the religion again in his honour called ‘Judaism’.
So,
Judaism is the religion for the Israelite people, and logically the entire
Hebrew Bible is relevant to them. On the other hand, Noahide faith, which is
also known as Noahidism, is relevant to the descendants of Noah, and the
religious obligations for the rest of mankind.
There
is, technically, a designation for children of Abraham not descended from
Israel, and as Ishmael was circumcised, it would seem logical that those
descendants of Abraham not descended from Israel should continue to circumcise
in the name of Abraham’s covenant. This would entitle them to the promise
of land promised to Abraham, as well as the obligation to keep the prior
Noahide laws which remain binding as well. But for the majority of mankind
today, we are to keep the faith which Noah himself followed, which is Noahide
faith.
Finally,
the distinction between Karaite Noahides and the Orthodox Noahides, being those
Noahides who accept the Talmudic literature, is that the Talmudic literatures
teaches the concept of the ‘7 Laws of Noah’, these seven laws being laws
forbidding Idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, sexual immorality, eating the
limb of an animal and failure to establish courts of law. In the
Talmud magic issues forbidden to Noahides are also addressed. Talmudic Noahides
keep the 7 laws of Noah, and these comprise the earlier Noahide movement.
Karaite Noahides, alternatively, find disagreement in the concept of the 7 laws
as biblically non-historical, and instead hold to the Hebrew Bible alone as the
authority of scripture, and the Rainbow Bible, which is Genesis 1 to 11:9, as
the primary authority related to Noahides. The last point on the Rainbow Bible
itself is that this section of scripture marks the historical delineation
between the children of mankind today’s ancestry – Noahide ancestry – and the
following sections of genesis which go on to relate the ancestry for the
children of Abraham. As Noahides, our primary scripture of concern is found in
the Rainbow Bible which is our covenantal relation with God. The Rainbow Bible
includes the idea of Sabbath for the Noahides, amongst many other rulings, and
it is the logical purpose of Israel as a light to the nations to promote this
section of scripture to mankind for their salvation, as Isaiah 56 teaches.
Haven
Noahide Fellowship follows Karaite Noahide faith.
http://www.myspace.com/noahides
http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com
Thank
you
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Head
Pastor & Founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship & Noahide Books
RESPONDING TO
CHRISTIANITY
Responding
to the quote from the article – ‘The Gospel According to Saint Matthew’
Article
prepared by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly
IDENTIFYING
OURSELVES
Haven
Noahide Fellowship is a Karaite Noahide Fellowship. This means we accept the Jewish Bible (known
as the Old Testament by Christians) as the fundamental scripture of authority,
and reject the Jewish Oral Law documents as binding in a divine authoritative
sense. Further, we do not utilize the
Christian writings in any divine sense and do not view Jesus as the
Messiah. In the acceptance of the Jewish
bible we follow primarily Genesis 1 – 11:9 which we call ‘The Rainbow Bible’,
as this, in our understanding, is the primary scripture which pertains to all
Non-Abrahamic people today – that meaning mankind descended from ‘Noah’ – thus
the term ‘Noahide’ outside of the Abrahamic Covenants. This is essentially ‘Gentile’ faith in
Yahweh.
RESPONSE
Thus,
in responding to the article ‘The Gospel according to Saint Matthew’ we intend
to only utilize perspectives and teachings SOLELY developed within the
fellowship from our own understanding of the Jewish Bible. This is thus a ‘Karaite Noahide’ response to
the article and should not be construed as the product of any other
denomination within monotheism, although you will likely find similar arguments
postulated elsewhere.
Cover
Page
Quote
from Michael Fallon. ‘Matthew’s most
persistent theme is that Jesus is the fulfilment of the hopes and spirituality
of Judaism’
Response
Mark
2:22
‘And
no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the
skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into
fresh wineskins.’
Traditional
Proverb
‘You
can’t teach an old dog new tricks.’
The
12 apostles were ‘EAGER’ to here what Jesus had to say. They were, spiritually, ‘NEW WINESKINS’. The Sadducees and the Pharisees were ‘OLD
WINESKINS’. They didn’t WANT to hear the
message. It was no use to them and their
tradition.
Throughout
the history of the Jewish Bible we see God consistently teaching the Israelite
nation TORAH and to not stray from the Torah.
Exodus
19:5-6
‘Now
therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall by my treasured
possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine, but you shall
be for me a priestly Kingdom and a holy nation.
These are the words you shall speak to the Israelites.’
Leviticus
19:19
‘You
shall keep my statutes’
Leviticus
26:3-4
‘If
you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I
will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce,
and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.’
Deuteronomy
4:1-2
‘So
now Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to
observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the LORD, the
God of your ancestors, is giving you.
You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take anything
away from it, but keep the commandments of the LORD your God with which I am
charging you.’
Joshua
1:7-9
‘Only
be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the
law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand
or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go.
This
book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it
day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is
written in it. For then you shall make
your way prosperous and then you shall be successful.
I
hereby command you: Be strong and
courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you
wherever you go.’
1
Samuel 8:1-9
When
Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and
the name of his second, Abijah: They
were judges in Beersheba. Yet his sons
did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and
perverted justice. Then all the elders
of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, ‘You
are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us then a king to govern us like
other nations. But the thing displeased
Samuel when they said ‘Give us a King to govern us.’
Samuel
prayed to the LORD and the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Listen to the voice of the
people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you but they
have rejected me from being king over them.
Just
as they have done to me, from the day that I brought them up out of Egypt to
this day, forsaking me and serving OTHER gods, so also they are doing to
you. Now then listen to their voice;
only – you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall
reign over them.
Exodus
20:2
‘I
am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.’
Isaiah
43:11-13
‘I,
I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior, I declared and saved and
proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,
says the LORD. I am God, and also
henceforth I am he; there is no one who
can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?’
Malachi
4:4
‘Remember
the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded
him at Horeb for all Israel.’
Please
also read
Psalm
1
Psalm
119
Why
on earth should the Pharisees and the Sadducees listen to Jesus when he is
teaching a NEW message (In his own words).
They have had a few thousand years of history being taught by God to:
KEEP
THE TORAH
KEEP
THE TORAH
KEEP
THE TORAH
At
that point in history when Israel had finally worked out they were to keep the Torah
with most of the idolatry of the past now dealt with, why on earth should they
believe ANYBODY teaching a new message.
The
argument of Michael Fallon is that Jesus is the fulfilment of the Old Testament
and Judaism.
I
would argue that the Old Testament fulfils itself.
There
is:
A
LAW TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
A
HISTORY TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
PRAISE
LITERATURE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
WISDOM
LITERATURE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHECY
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
ESSENTIALLY,
there is ALREADY a religious faith which FULFILS the Old Testament. And that is simply what it already is – the
faith of the Old Testament as it stands.
IT
FULFILS ITSELF
IT
IS GODS WORD TO ISRAEL
GOD
SAYS FOR ISRAEL TO NEVER TURN TO THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT
So
the question is WHY ON EARTH SHOULD FAITHFUL AND LOYAL JEWS TO THEIR ONE GOD
HAVE ANYTHING ON EARTH TO DO WITH JESUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT?
Why Jesus is not the
Messiah
Dear
Christopher (and whoever reads this)
This
email is a deliberate attempt to proselytize you to Noahide faith. There is no point in pretending
otherwise. The main reason I am doing
this is because you have a reasonable interest in Christian faith, but are also
willing to listen to an opposing critical point of view.
Testimony
I
was brought up Roman Catholic and attended the Catholic Church, first in
Berridale and then in Cooma until about 16 years of age. At this point I left the church, not because
of any belief reasons, but because of boredom.
However,
at that stage, the truth was I didn’t really have any thing approaching a
realistic faith in God, despite having been an altar boy. I probably believed in God, but didn’t care
about religion really, and gradually became agnostic primarily until about 22
to 23 years of age. In that time period
I started, soon after leaving the church somewhat in 1988, but mainly upon
arriving in Macarthur in late 1990, going into great thinking about the
existence of God. I questioned things
greatly, but usually concluded that while God probably didn’t exist, it
couldn’t be proven either way, so agnosticism was the realistic belief. This may sound strange, but I never gave
evolution the slightest thought, and while I didn’t believe in God at the time,
I didn’t believe in evolution either.
The thought of it never once crossed my mind.
Growing
up I stole a lot from my mothers purse – mainly money for lollies, and stickers
and, later on in my mid teens, for arcade money. This persisted and I didn’t completely quit
until about 20, when I got convictions on the issue. However, while studying at Lake Tuggeranong
in 1990 and 1991 I stole (it might have been just a little later) a book on
philosophy for beginners. Within this
book were arguments for the existence of God.
Some
of them made no sense (the so called ontological argument I didn’t really
understand and thought was stupid (and still do)), but one argument which made
a great deal of sense was the argument from design. Basically, this argument goes that nature and
life is such an incredibly complex design with such beauty apparent in it, that
this is testimony to a creator and designer of sovereign power. I remember a time looking at the sky and
looking at nature and, gradually, came to completely agree with this
argument. It was a very good one as I
saw it, and concluded that God did exist.
However, now that I know what my belief was, this would have been called
‘Deist Creationism’ as opposed to ‘deist
evolutionary creationism’. I had no
fixed time of how old earth was, nor any beliefs about the first human beings,
but I believed in creationism. I still,
though, had no real views on evolution, but definitely believed a creator was
behind it all.
From
about 1990 to 1995 I suffered severe depression. When studying at CIT from 1993 to 1995 at the
Reid Campus in Civic I applied myself to my studies with a decent effort for
about the first time in my student life.
It was the first time I really studied properly and tried to do well in
school. The depression was always
bothering me.
At
this time I was drawing crosses a lot on my notebooks, not out of any religious
beliefs, but I was doing it. I was also
writing 666’s a lot, and sometimes my own quirky 667’s. I got the 666 idea first of all from Iron
Maiden’s number of the beast album, which I had listened to since Cooma years,
but I had been familiar with the number earlier since omen movies and so on.
But
I wasn’t into any antichrist ideas, because I was simply deistic. If you had asked me at the time about an
Antichrist I would have said that was stupid.
There
was a girl called ‘Ariel Cheng’ who was studying at CIT with me. She was Asian, from Taiwan, extremely cute
and slim (and had a beautiful butt, which God showed me from behind once – in
retrospect I think it was actually God who made me look, for various reasons –
at the time, and still now, I was quite conservative about females). She was a pentecostal, and attended Assembly
of God church.
I
didn’t know it at the time, but she was witnessing to me with her quiet and
peaceful nature. There was one time in
class when everyone was giving a speech and the wind was howling madly. When she stood up the wind stopped and when
she had finished the speech the wind started again. For me it was a pivotal thing, and I
suspected God was behind it.
And
then, one night in my room in Macarthur, the depression became so bad that I
needed to see someone, and I could only think of Ariel. I rang her up at the YWAM centre in Watson,
and asked if I could visit her the following day. I did, and all the day travelling from
Macarthur to Watson I could feel very heavy depression on me. Funnily enough, when I got to the YWAM
grounds, the darkness left, and inside the centre I felt peace.
We
spoke for a while, I told her a few things, and then I left. When I was getting away from the grounds the
darkness returned.
I
had had enough.
I
bought a Good News Bible from Woden Christian Bookshop on the way home, and
then got off the bus and went to the catholic church were my family goes. It was closed I think, but I sat at the doors
and read the entire book of Job. It was
then I felt the goodness of God and that the God of the Bible was the real and
true God.
That
night I went crazy over fears of hell and my sins, and the following day, after
seeing a priest, I went off alone and ended up jumping off a bridge near
parliament house without any shoes on.
This was my first schizophrenic episode.
I
hurt my back a little, and busted my foot.
My face also suffered. They ended
up putting screws in my foot and a metal place in my face. You can still see the slight scar on my face,
especially in photos.
However,
I healed very quickly, and was soon raring to go.
NOW,
the depression for the next 6 months was still there, but it was a bit diminished. It wasn’t as bad. I started going back to the Catholic church
for 6 months, but upon returning to CIT for the final semester, I started
talking to Tammy Saunders, and soon attended my first Potters House service, in
November 1995.
You
pretty much know most of the rest.
Now
I
questioned the Trinity pretty quickly in Potters house, and I remember asking
God in prayer in the Potters House prayer room if he was a Trinity.
So,
I was witnessed to by the UPC witnessing team in Woden (it was Ann Kim, Danielle
Rohrlach, and probably Othon Sarantos which I ran into).
I
visited the church one afternoon, borrowed ‘The Oneness of God’ and started
reading it. I remember being at
Tuggeranong Bus Terminal and thinking ‘This is probably true’ about the book. I think I did that, because the Trinity
wasn’t working for me.
John
Downs baptized me in the name of Jesus, and after the first service I met Paul
Saberton.
Paul
introduced me to ‘Father & Son’ doctrine on God, and after about a year, going
through Trinity, Oneness, Arian (Jehovah’s Witness) doctrine, I concluded Paul
was about right.
Father
and Son teaches that God the Father is the true God, has existed eternally
alone, until his first creative act of begetting a son after his nature. The only real difference between Arianism and
Father & Son is that our doctrine taught the full deity of the son as well
– a subtle but important difference.
Nobody
really believed us at the time, and still don’t, but I am quite sure this is
the doctrine of the New Testament. The
whole revelation of the first Christians was that Jesus was the ‘SON OF
GOD’. It wasn’t the idea that he was
‘GOD the SON’, or that he was God himself.
It was that he was God’s begotten son.
That
doctrine God confused by early theologians as they searched for a way of
harmonizing problematic beliefs and scriptures all up. Essentially the church took on the Catholic
name, lost its foundational belief about God, and got really confused. I know that you would say the Catholic church
is still like that, which they are doctrinally, but otherwise most Catholics
are just normal people.
Well,
I ended up leaving UPC in July 1998 and, upon moving to Hughes about that time,
just near yourself, I started occasionally going to the Hughes Baptist church,
mainly to have a church to go to.
The
fallout with Saberton came as soon as he preached Branham’s serpent seed
doctrine. I listened to Branhamism
initially, but I knew that wasn’t for me.
Thus, in January 1999, with a lot of scripture being read each night, I
was basically thinking about trying to form my own little cell church, had
witnessed to Aaron Goodsell, Peter Fletcher, Andrew Funnell, Brenton and
perhaps a few others about my viewpoints on God, and was slowly working towards
that agenda – Church of the Living God, as it was going to be called.
January
1999
It
was one afternoon, Saturday probably, and I was in my flat in Hughes. I was going through another of what had
become common intense thoughts sessions on theology. And then there it was. It came into my mind that, in truth, I didn’t
really believe in Jesus.
I
didn’t know what to think, but the idea was there that the Jesus was wasn’t the
right way. I don’t know what was behind
it, and didn’t have a clearly formulated rationale reason – it was just the
basic idea, perhaps because of lack of a real church which taught the truth as
I saw it, that Christianity was probably wrong.
At
this time it was definitely no scripture reason. It wasn’t an argument using any biblical text. It was just the idea that the Jesus way was
not right.
The
following day this viewpoint was still with me, and off I went on a long walk,
making my way to Fyshwick of all places.
It was in Fyshwick that an event occurred twice. It happened 2 times, and has never happened
since.
The
event was this:
It
was very sudden, very quick, and was over just as instantaneously. It is what I call a complete genuine and fair
dinkum revelation from the Almighty one.
The revelation was given with a nature which made you absolutely know
according to a spirit of absolute almighty truth that worship of Jesus as God
the father in oneness terminology was an absolute abomination, and carried an
extreme death penalty because of it. I
understand, now, that such a belief was a gross violation of truth. Jesus is NOT God the father – that is a
falsity and a complete error and lie. It
is WRONG.
This
revelation happened twice, about 20 minutes apart from each other, at two
different locations in Fyshwick.
That
was, in a way, when Christianity died in me.
Jesus couldn’t really ever be seriously touched again.
Now,
further things happened since then.
God
spoke to me in Goulburn in a hotel room ( I still remember which hotel room )
and said either ‘Build on my rock’ or ‘Build on the rock’. It was definitely either of those two
sentences – I can not completely remember if it was ‘MY’ rock or ‘THE’
rock. However, what was completely clear
was the intimation which came across as clear as day in the request – he gave
my mind the ability to completely understand what he meant. His rock was ‘Israel’. Further, he spoke in such a way as to show he
had an enormous history with Israel and loved them beyond measure.
His
voice had these qualities.
·
Absolute flawless truth
·
Without error
·
Extremely THICK – Like many voices
added together as one voice, but only one sounding voice – in other words a
very heavy or thick voice, but not many voices.
The voice of the Almighty, in other words.
·
Extreme LOVING CONCERN for myself
·
Golden Lightning in texture. Like rushing waters, as Ezekiel speaks
of. The same sort of voice.
·
A nature which was Infinite in
knowledge, and he gave my mind the ability to perceive the aspect of his
infinite nature he desired me to. My
mind was able to comprehend and know this as truth.
·
A nature which was also Almighty
in power – you could tell this from his voice.
·
Like a computer voice – but an
Almighty LIVING Computer voice.
·
CENTRALITY. His voice showed that he was at the CENTRE of
all things. I don’t know what this
really means yet, but God is the CENTRE of all that is.
All
of those qualities were able to be perceived by myself at that time.
Now
this happened not long after the revelations in Fyshwick, and had concluded
what I had already begun to know after reading such books as ‘Gospel Truth’ on
the historical Jesus. Israel is his
people – he has never changed his mind – and Christianity doesn’t have to come
into the equation.
Now,
since then he has spoken to me twice more.
The
second time was in response to a sudden rush of blood to my head in my room in
judging the oneness people as probably deserving the death penalty
theoretically. God spoke to my in a very
similar voice – you knew it was him – with subtle differences about the voice –
he was using a different tone I think.
This time he said ‘Be In The Hearts of Men’. Those exact words. He was basically telling me, have mercy on
the Oneness people and judge them more accurate. They don’t know they are wrong, and they are
trying to be holy. So while oneness
could technically carry the death penalty, as great as God’s judgement is, so
is his mercy.
The
final time he spoke to me was later still, with intimate and affectionate love,
but I can’t remember what he said. Again
it was very brief.
There
are a lot more things I could say, but I want to leave you with these FACTS as
far as I am 100% completely and utterly concerned.
1)
The Christian belief that Jesus is God the Father or God the Son or God in any
form is 100% and a lie. Jesus is NOT
God.
2)
Israel is God’s people, and he has never let them go or changed his mind about
them. Any Christian belief which teaches
otherwise is completely wrong.
Because
of facts 1 and 2 I postulate this:
You
probably need not worry about any Christian teachings on salvation or the
necessity of being a Christian. If you
read such books as ‘Gospel Truth’ by Russel Shorto or ‘The Jew and The
Christian Missionary’ by Gerald Sigal, it becomes apparent that Christian faith
is probably not the complete truth that it claims to be.
FACT
3
After
many prayers, God has never given me any hint or indication that he wants me to
embrace Christian faith. That is a fact.
So,
as far as I am concerned, Christianity is Just NOT needed.
Alright,
the alternative to Christian faith is either Judaism of your branch of choice
if you still believe in the One God of Abraham or, alternatively,
You
can just be yourself. In being yourself,
Noahide becomes an option. It can be
simple, basic and easy, and you don’t really have to worry about anything more
than being a peaceful person and living by the laws of the land. There is one kosher law for noahides – don’t
eat blood. The rest is basic common
sense.
My
assembly is ‘Haven Noahide Fellowship’ and the website is
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Canberra,
Australia
Scriptures
of relevance
Isaiah 11
The
main scripture for delineating the role of the messiah. This king from the root of Jesse arises and
preaches righteousness. In his lifetime
Mt Zion is redeemed, with the Lion dwelling with the Lamb. The important thing to do is read Isaiah 11
as a whole – what become clear the more you read it is that there is no
reasonable way to twist this chapter into a first and second coming. To do that would be perverting the
scriptures.
SO
– the beginning of the chapter makes it quite clear this is the Messiahs FIRST
advent. With no justification for two
comings, the peace of Zion which arises in the Messiah’s FIRST advent teaches
the plain truth. JESUS was NOT the
MESSIAH.
Matthew 1 and 1
Chronicles
The
genealogies contradict. The Christian
genealogy adds extra names, like ‘Admin’.
The Virgin Birth Myth. With the utter nonsense of a supposed virgin
birth, which is a corruption of Isaiah 7:14 in context, Christianity shows it
quite clearly that Jesus is NOT physically descended from David in their
fabulous mythology. This 100% precludes
the possibility of Jesus being the Messiah in their own stupid doctrine. An ‘ADOPTED’ son of David is just a joke.
Now,
Isaiah 7:14 identifies the child as ‘Emmanuel’.
Simply read on further. Before
the child knows the difference between right and wrong, the two kings of Syria
and Northern Israel will be dead. The
timing for the birth of this child is in no way connected to Jesus birth
centuries later. The churchmen who put
this into the NT were idiots, and it is only stupid and thick, nutty Christian
pastors who maintain this doctrine.
Educated ‘Historical-Jesus’ based scholars have gotten over this lunacy.
Jesus
was NOT accepted by Israel as the Messiah.
As
simple as that. He is NOT the messiah.
Now,
before you Christian wannabes get your knickers in knot and go off spouting
Isaiah 53 like so many Christian fools in the centuries before you, READ – and
I actually mean bother to check the scriptures first, which you idiots rarely
do in any real investigative detail anyway – READ Isaiah 40 to 53. Come on, dude. Go on do it.
NOW
did you see how many times God called JACOB/ISRAEL HIS SERVANT. Over half a dozen times. SO when we get to Isaiah 53 it is 100 bloody
% clear that Israel is the suffering servant.
NOT the Jesus heretic.
Now,
church, the servant is rejected. YOU DO
REMEMBER YOU HAVE REJECTED ISRAEL FOR 2000 YEARS DON’T YOU???? YOU DO REMEMBER POGROMS, INQUISITIONS AND,
JOY OF JOYS, NAZI HOLOCAUSTS???? IT
SEEMS ISRAEL SURE HAS BLOOD SUFFERED FOR YOUR STUPID ARSES.
NOW
I could say a hell of a lot more, but Christians who actually have intelligence
(Which is Rare for those dunderheads) can go check out www.messiahtruth.com
and GET THE HELL OVER IT.
Daniel
‘The truthteller’ Daly
http://www.myspace.com/noahides
http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com
Jesus??? Yeh right!!!
Get a life!!!
The Book of
Daniel Thomas Andrew
Daly
Continued
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© 6175 SC
CHAPTER ONE
The Year 6175 SC
Written on Friday 29
July 6175
I
have not been keeping any great records of what I have been doing so far this
year, but will try and put down now some of my continuing life story.
In
terms of writing I have completed this year so far:
Morning
Stars II – most of chapter 12, chapter 13 & 14, finishing the volume.
Lazy
Days – the remainder of chapter 1, and chapters 2 to 14, finishing the volume.
The
Dark Side of Gloryel
Life
on the Edge
Life
Goes On
The
Dark Saber
Melanie
and Daniel 2
A
small number of short stories
Currently
working on Lucy Potter and the Sprite of Chakola, which I intend to finish
before the end of the year.
I
have now set ambitious goals and have a great number of works planned for
writing in my life. I intend to
accomplish as much of a series I call the ‘Circle of Magic’ series, which is a
series of 7-Novel sequences, of various Harry Potter related characters,
including my own creations. Harry Potter
fanfiction is exceedingly popular these days online, and there are heaps of
stories out there.
Today,
funnily enough, after all the recent posting I have done to various www.fanfiction.net
Harry Potter forums, my Weblink https://www.angelfire.com/jkrowlingfanfiction/lucypotter.html
is currently the number one webhit on Google for the search term ‘Lucy
Potter’. The other day I returned a
webhit for the previous day of 176 webhits – a record of mine for one of my
websites. Hopefully the future promises
even more.
In
the last few months most of my time has been spent writing, visiting the Mental
Health activity programs in Greenway in Tuggeranong, and using the Internet a
heck of a lot down at Greenway. While I
can indeed afford to have the internet on at home without any trouble, the
reasons I don’t are: Too many virus
problems to make it worthwhile personally, 2) liking to actually get out and
about a lot, out of the house, and doing things. While I definitely spend a lot more using the
internet down at Greenway then I would at home, I would still rather go out to
use it. Uploading to the web, though, is
not problematic with the constant use of USBs I employ. I have lost a few of them, though. I make sure, now, I have at least a few on
hand with all my stuff saved on them. I
no longer use the hard drive on my PC to store data, and won’t do that anymore
ever, as the hard drives inevitably crash over time, and USB storage will
likely last a lot longer and is far more convenient, and you don’t really have
to worry about crashes with them. CD
Erasables are nowhere near as good as the USB type of storage, too fussy, the
disc scratches, and USB and the other types of mini storage devices are the
best option now.
I
visited a working girl in Fyshwick (a prostitute) for sex twice earlier in this
year. I am still single, and have never
been married, and have no children. I
have worked out that for Karaite Noahides, in my own judgement, that the
teachings of sexual morality we should adhere to are first and foremost the
teaching of Genesis 1 – 11:9, which teaches that a man and a woman normally get
together in a marriage situation, but little more than that. However, Leviticus 18 & Leviticus 20 are
to be considered, in my judgement. Now,
God judged the Canaanites for these practices, but it WAS the promised land to
Abraham’s seed, and the Torah talks about the Land getting its rest. I have talked with Jews before, and they talk
about the importance of the land of Israel – remember, society often calls it
the ‘Holy Land’. Because of this, Canaan
was judged IN the holy land for their sexual deviancies, BUT, as it appears to
be, outside of the Holy Land for Noahides, the strictness of these judgements
does not seem to apply. Israel (In
Exodus 19) is called a holy nation – NOT the gentiles. Outside of Israel, as a Karaite Noahide, the
strictness of Leviticus 18 & 20 does not appear to apply. We should perhaps be mindful of these
passages, but they don’t appear to be obligatory. However, if you really want to please God to
the utmost of your life, and serve him, the fullness of his salvation according
to the teachings of the book of Isaiah is found in connecting to the people and
land of Israel, converting to this full torah religion with circumcision, and
offering your sacrifice on the altars in Jerusalem. Messiah is supposed to get the third temple built,
so whatever on that issue. I would argue
that God’s salvation is ALSO seen in the Rainbow Bible, as it calls Noah
‘Perfect’ in his generations, but if you want to really connect to the utmost
in your life to God, he might well indeed call you to his people Israel. Remember, in that sense, Karaite Noahide
takes you only so far with God. But for
people like myself, with a strong sense of my own Noahide family and clan and pride,
I don’t suspect I will ever be connecting with the people of Israel in a
conversion sense. I don’t want to –
don’t need to – and have dug down over a decades roots into Noah, so that is
were I will stay – and probably forever, now.
Earlier
this year I went on a holiday with the Mental Health patrons in our Tuggeranong
community, down to Tuross Head, on the east coast of Australia. It was called the ‘Coastal Creators’ holiday,
and we did a lot of creative activities.
I did some felting, wrote a tiny short story about ‘Ambriel’, a little
bit of artwork, and played a lot of cards with some people. I had a wonderful time down there, enjoyed
the trip there and back, and it looks like a strong possibility there will be
another one held next year. This year
the Australian Government put a lot more funding into Mental Health, so things
are probably a bit better for me relatively speaking.
There
is a new drug called ‘Invega’ which will be available (most likely) in
injection form soon enough. Apparently
it has no side effects, so a substantial amount of the weight I have gained since
taking my medication for my Schizophrenia could fall off. I have been told that the weight gain is very
marginal for the drug. I have a bit of a
stomach because of my medication, but being a lot slimmer would be
wonderful. I am anxiously awaiting the
new drug, and it might be available within a year for injections. It is already available in tablet form.
I
have a new case worker for my condition down at Mental Health in Tuggeranong
called Ashley. My old case worker, Jan
Haskell, has now retired. I got along
well with Jan, and miss her somewhat, but Ashley is doing a good job.
Adrian
Chan, a mental health worker, still picks me up for swimming on Thursdays and
chess on Fridays, and I have known him for a while now. We can’t have any friendship outside of his
working role, though, and I once wanted him to come to a birthday party of
mine, but his work restrictions don’t allow that.
I
see Robert Preston, my Pentecostal friend, still a fair bit from time to
time. We recently went down to ‘Tharwa’ for
a drive (near Canberra) which we do occasionally, and I love the country down
there. I could retire there if I had the
money. I have chatted to Chris White on
the phone, who is sort of a Pentecostal Christian, and we have chatted about
Christianity versus Noahide faith, and he likes to talk about concepts relating
to the Christian book of Revelation – the final book of the New Testament.
My
mother is still of reasonably good health, and I continue to live with her and
my older brother Matthew here at 29 Merriman Crescent in Macarthur. She continues to go to church each Sunday,
and has a lifetime of devotions to God built up. She is a good example to me in this sense.
My
nieces and nephews are growing up, and have lost a lot of their bratty ways, and
I can talk with them in a lot more mature ways and adult conversation
almost. They are getting there.
My
brother Gregory has recently expressed his desires to return to live in
Canberra (he currently lives and works in Perth in Western Australia) and says
he might like Lanyon Valley in south-west Tuggeranong to live in. I look forward to this should it occur.
I
was strongly thinking about going to year 12 at CIT this year, and enrolled,
but decided to cancel it in the end. At
the current moment, there is more activity in my various websites, and I have
committed myself to a lifetimes work of writing to leave as a legacy. So while I currently receive my Government
Disability Support Pension, I see no real point in changing plans at this
time. Maybe in a few more years, should
my health continue to maintain a reasonable level of wellness mentally, I might
consider applying for work again. But a
few more years, in my own judgement, is still warranted.
There
is nothing really on the romance scene – per se – but things seem possible soon
enough. Perhaps.
All
the best.
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
29
July 6175 SC
The
End of Chapter One
CHAPTER TWO
Daniel
at 29 Merriman Crescent on Monday the 21st of November 6175 SC (2011
AD/CE).
Yesterday
was my 39th birthday. One
more year until my 40th. Now,
I have reached my conclusion that the Rainbow Bible II will be now combined
into the Rainbow Bible I, and that I will have it published by Copyqik printers
here in Canberra very shortly. There
will be NO further Rainbow Bibles published by Haven Noahide Fellowship. I feel I have addressed the issues
sufficiently enough as is.
If
you are curious about an issue from a Karaite Noahide perspective, ultimately,
in the end, go purchase a copy of the Jewish Bible – (the Tanakh – and I
recommend the JPS Tanakh 1985 edition, but any decent version will do, Jewish,
Christian or otherwise) – and then work out the issues for yourself. Part of the core principle of Karaite Judaism
is the importance of the individual doing the work for themselves. On judgement day, your pastor is not going to
be able to defend your life after all.
I
want, in this final chapter, make some final judgements for the Karaite Noahide
community. Firstly, the key set of
scriptures we utilize in Haven Noahide Fellowship, now, are:
The
Tanakh – The 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible – for the Wise and the Unwise
The
Pseudepigrapha – the 70 Books of Wisdom for the wise
These
comprise the 94 books composed by Ezra and the other workers inspired by God in
the tradition of 2 Esdras.
Haven
views the 70 books of the Pseudepigrapha as Scripture, authoritative, and the
Word of God. It is viewed that Ezra and
his compatriots compiled all the writings of the Torah, the histories, the
prophecies, and the psalms and wisdom and so on, put it all together, and
produced the 24 books. They were the
ultimate editors and compilers of the finished biblical product. We strongly recommend Richard Elliott
Friedman’s book ‘Who Wrote the Bible’ to see many good ideas for how the Torah
(first 5 books) may have been ultimately produced, yet we would view the final
redactive stages of all 24 books as a work of the Ezran community described in
2 Esdras.
2
Esdras describes how the ‘70’ books in the Pseudepigrapha were formed and
inspired by God. It gives a
description. We of Haven find this
satisfactory.
Now,
our interpretation of the four beasts of Daniel 7, which is also a beast
described in 2 Esdras, is that Beast 1 was Babylon, Beast 2 was Media-Persia,
Beast 3 was Greece & Beast 4 was the Roman-European beast, with the
ultimate 11th Antichrist Horn represented by the Nazis and Adolph
Hitler. The beast persecuted the
‘Saint’s’ (Israel) who just after WWII concluded took possession of the ancient
Kingdom of Israel, as the chapter describes they will. We of Haven see Noah himself as part of this
community of Israel, as Abraham also is likewise. Those who are OBSERVANT amongst the children
of Noah and the children of Abraham according to Noah’s covenant and Abraham’s
covenant, also take there place in the community of Israel as members of the
three covenants of God and God’s Holy Kingdom.
We of Haven believe that God desires Parents honoured, as the commandments
teach, and thus the observant Abrahamic community deserves greater honour than
Israel in the Everlasting Kingdom of Daniel chapter 7, but the Noahide
Community, which is older still than the Abrahamic community, deserves the
greatest honour. Honour your father and
mother, as the scriptures rightly teach.
On
other issues:
We
regard the Talmudic Noahides as important.
We agree with the death penalty for murder, but NOT for any other others
of the 7 laws. We think the 7 laws
concept is a good idea, a good approach, and we approve of Talmudic Noahides if
they want to follow this way of life. We
argue it is NOT historical back to Noah, but we agree that Rabbinic Judaism
likes the ideas of the 7 laws of Noah concept, and agree they have something of
a commission (according to Deuteronomy) to make judgements for Israel, so
Talmudic Noahides can listen to their judgements IF THEY VOLUNTARILY WANT
TO. We recommend the 30 laws and the 66
laws of Talmudic Noahidism as the established viewpoints, and think they are a
good idea for the Talmudic Noahides to follow and abide by. They are ok.
Now,
for Karaite Noahides.
We
think Fornication, Lesbianism & Prostitution are OK. The 30 & 66 laws do not forbid these for
Noahides, and nor does scripture.
Haven
now teaches GRADES for Salvation.
GRADE
1 – Mastering Genesis 1 – 11:9.
GRADE
2 – The Above, with the addition of Leviticus 18, Leviticus 20 and Deuteronomy
18: 9-12
GRADE
3 – The Above, with the Remainder of the 30 & 66 Laws of the ‘7 Laws of
Noah’ system
GRADE
4 – The Above with various chosen Torah Laws of your own choice
GRADE
5 – Complete observance of Torah, with the exceptions of No Passover
celebration (Only For Full Converts)
Over
and Out
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Noahide Midrash
Noah and the 7th
Rainbow
By
Daniel the Noahide
Noah
had been collecting rainbows. Well,
maybe, that was a strange way of putting it.
Rainbows. You could hardly
collect the sign of God’s great covenant with him and his children. They were made of colours – how could you
collect colours? They sat in the sky, on
rainy days, happy, lovely, beaming their glory.
Beautiful. And now he had
collected 6 of them – 5 more since the first magnificent, glorious one, he had
seen on the day of the covenant. And now
he waited for the seventh rainbow.
In
heaven, there were 7 Seraphim Angels of Glory which watched over the children
of Noah. These were the 7 Noahide
Angels. They were not the 7 Archangels
in waiting, which one day God would send to the people of Israel. Nor were they the 7 angels of the Man from
Nazareth and his followers, or the 7 angels of the Prophet from what would
become Mecca and his followers. Those
latter groups of 7 angels were made, before the days of creation, put aside for
those peoples of the books, to guide them in all their tribulations.
But
the 7 Seraphim Angels of Glory were Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel,
Phanuel and Saruviel. They were the
eternal Noahide Archangels of Glory.
And
Saruviel, the seventh angel, dropped down to see Noah seated upon the rock with
his wife Titea, looking out at the raining valley, and with his great power,
upon the will of the Most High, brought forth the sun and clouds in a
particular manner, and the 7th Rainbow of Noah’s life shone forth in
all its glory.
‘There,’
said Titea. ‘The 7th
Rainbow. You can now rest in peace.’
And
Noah said ‘Amen.’
The End
The Primary
Praise Songs
For
The 7 Divine
Fellowships
Song Lyrics Written by
Daniel Thomas Andrew
Daly
Song 1 – Praise God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Oh
what joy it is
To
praise Almighty God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
The
Haven of my Soul’s delight
The
Lord Almighty God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Forever
in our Father’s hands
Praise
Almighty God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
Praise
God
And
let all the congregation sing
Glory
to our God
Song 2 – Jehovah God
of Glory
Jehovah
God of Glory
Mighty
in Battle
Vanquishing
the enemy
Triumphant
is he
Jehovah
God of Glory
Splendid,
Magnificent
Shining
in his armour
He
has the victory
Jehovah
God of Glory
Defeating
the enemy
Praise
to our Creator
A
Warrior is he
But
all Jehovah’s Glory
For
all of eternity
Is
found in the simple truth
He
loves both you and me
Song 3 – Jehovah the
Magnificent
Jehovah
is Eternal
Jehovah
is All knowing
Jehovah
the Magnificent
Until
the end of Time
Jehovah
is Infinite
Jehovah
is Perfect
Jehovah
God our Father
On
Cherubim Enshrined
Congregation
sing
Congregation
shout
Congregation
praise our God
He
is forever kind
Praise
our God Jehovah
Praise
our God of Glory
Jehovah
the Magnificent
The
Lord our God Divine
Song 4 – The Peace and
Joy of Serving God
The
Peace and Joy of Serving God
Who
made us all for his good pleasure
Is
found in trusting in his word
And
watching what we say
It’s
found in keeping Godly homes
It’s
found in raising happy children
And
walking with Jehovah God
In
Him we keep the faith
The
Peace and Joy of Serving God
Who
teaches us through holy word
Is
marvelous enlightenment
Of
heart and soul and mind
In
serving him and trusting him
We
find our hearts purest delight
And
walking with Jehovah God
We
find our peace of mind
“The Book of the Divine Creator”
By Daniel
© 2009
Verse 1
For Hope is indeed the
greatest of the virtues. For Hope always believes, even when all things
seem lost, when all things seem forsaken, when all things seem as if heaven
itself is determined to destroy your very soul, Hope still believes. And
as that Hope endures, peace, life, love, faith and joy come forth, born from
the strength of Hope, enshrouding the soul of the child of God with
Glory. For children of the Assembly of the Divine Creator are eternal
children of Hope, never giving up in their belief that God will always be their
for them, hoping for bright eternal promises to give them the consolation their
souls truly desire.
Verse 2
For Peace is Hopes firstborn
child, born of the Hope for better days, beyond the wars, trials and
tribulations of the children of men. Peace is what Hope has always longed
for, desiring its blessing to enshroud the heart with eternal joys of
friendship and kindness, even with those who were once their bitterest
enemies. Peace flows eternally, from the heart of God, like a river of
purest ecstasy, refreshing the heart and giving eternal consolation under even
the most difficult of circumstance.
Verse 3
And Life, New Life, is the
secondborn child of Hope, New life, born into a world of Peace, in which Hope
has found its glory in the new world of life eternal. Life begins anew,
flowing from the heart of God indeed, growing each day, brightening the heart,
brightening the mind, brightening the soul, Life, in all its splendid vibrancy
and enchantment, Life to make the joys of each and every day an eternal
consolation from the Hope and Peace from which it has sprung forth.
Verse 4
And Pure Love, the
third-born. For in the new life of glory, what more could one possibly
desire to seek than the gentlest touch of Love’s pure heart. For in the
death of violence and bitterness, those things which the eternal power of peace
has vanquished, love can be resurrected in even the most bitter of hearts, born
anew, born to life eternal, and growing each and every day in the beauty which
flows from God the creator, the source of eternal and blessed love.
Verse 5
And then faith is restored,
growing again. For love has touched its deepest heart, reminding it that
once, when lost in misery and despair, hope almost forsaken, that faith can be
rekindled even in the darkest of hearts. For faith moves us onwards,
propels us ever onwards, trusting in the eternal Lord of Glory, trusting in the
divine creator to bless us and give us the eternal joys and gifts of heaven
which our deepest yearnings so truly desire, all born from the gift of faith,
believing and trusting in our eternal lord.
Verse 6
And the fifth-born, the
greatest consolation, born from enduring hope and the remaining virtues,
blessed and pure joy. Joy which gives us those moments were everything is
perfect, were we cry to the heavenlies that everything is good in the world,
that everything is right, that life is rolling along in divine perfection and
that all things are as they should be. And that joy bursts open within
us, giving us the greatest sensations of our lives, making us never forget the
eternal and loving divine creator who has brought us to be.
Verse 7
And then, the virtues of
life, the foundational virtues being in place, we grow and develop, continuing
to learn each and every day of those eternal principles of life which embellish
and grant ever-growing perfection to our lives, the lives of the Assembly of
the Divine Creator, the Lives of the Eternal Children of God.
Thus Ends the Book of the Divine Creator
The Book of Universal
Faith
Verse
One
Unity.
Many coming together as one, linked by an idea, a belief, a purpose. For
we are all one, daughters and sons of Eve and Adam. And the idea?
Connections, to those within humanity who best meet our hearts needs, wants and
desires. Connections, built with trust, respect and patience.
Connections, which grow into love and appreciation. For Universal Faith
is to appreciate all of God’s children, those who fill this universe, and make
connections with them, one by one, to fully satisfy all the desires of knowledge
that these connections can impart to us.
Verse
Two
Humanity
is like one body, with many parts. All of us are offspring of Adam and
Eve, eternally genetically linked. Yet, as science teaches, in the 700 Trillion
unique genetic designs within humanity, there are those designs which connect
to us most appropriately and in the most stimulating of manners. Yet,
every design has its purpose in the creators mind, and each design, each and
every human gone from us and yet to be has a purpose in our life, bringing
those aspects of knowledge, friendship, kindness, blessing and love we so truly
desire.
Verse
Three
Eternal
connections. That is the purpose of our life. To find and build
eternal connections. Friendships which endure not just for a day, a week,
a month, a year – but friendships which endure throughout the endless eternity
before us. Each of these friendships must be valued and treated with
respect, for they are eternally our source of joy, love and comfort. And
to begin these connections, seek out those whose focus is on the eternal –
those whose belief is in eternal life – for such people have a focus on Yahweh
and the gift of eternal life he has promised them, and thus are well endowed to
bless you with the connections to bear the fruit you desire with all your
heart. So seek ye the connections with those whose focus is on the
eternal.
Verse
Four
And
the completion of things is the moral heart. Value those things which
speak to your heart, and remember the purpose those others which do not so
speak to you have in the hearts and minds of others. For not every gift
of knowledge, at first, speaks to every unique human, but we find our way
slowly and carefully along our eternal destiny, learning, loving, growing and
living in the hands of our eternal and great God and Father, slowly
appreciating every aspect of the Infinite and its place and purpose in the
eternity of creation.
Thus Ends the Book
of Universal Faith
The Book of the Most
High
The Seven Divine
Principles
Principle One
For
God Most High is the first impulse of life eternal. Connecting with God in his eternal nature,
understanding his eternal existence, and finding the grace and love flowing
from the throne of the eternal on high which grants you the grace to live
eternally yourself. This is the first
and foremost principle of the ‘Assembly of the Most High’. For in life eternal all other questions and
mysteries, in the fullness of God’s good time, become realized, and the purposes
you seek in life materialize in the happiness from your eternal relationship,
and the fruit of love and peace and joy which such an eternal relationship
brings.
Principle Two
Thus,
with life eternal fulfilled in your very being, life seeks to order itself
according to the divinely eternal ways, chosen by the Most High, for your
eternal life. And, in very truth, these
ways can seem circular, reappearing time and time again, in the grand circle of
life, in which all that you need for the embellishment and fulfilment for your
existence will come in the fullness of time, and your eternal happiness the
reward for your diligent labours of faith.
Principle Three
And
then, having learned the secret of life eternal, and enjoying the regular and
recurrent ways of this eternal life, you grow in knowledge and stature and
follow your destiny. For God’s destiny
in your life is inevitably for your own good, and following this destiny is
your life calling and the meaning in which you will find greater and deeper levels
of happiness and thanksgiving.
Principle Four
And
then, the moral man becoming perfect, the physical man speaks of his hearts
desire. And seek ye, I say unto you,
glory and accomplishment for the satisfaction of having given your all.
Principle Five
And
in great wealth and the glory of rulership as God’s sovereign chosen ones, you
realize that destiny and glory are leading you on to sovereignty and eternal
responsibility.
Principle Six
And
the quiet heart understands things in the fullness of God’s time, and the
reflective heart understands God’s purposes and wisdom, and great satisfaction
is the reward for those who have patiently kept faith in the one above.
Principle Seven
And
at the grand culmination of things God speaks to you and asks you ‘What great
plan of life lies in your heart, oh divine and beloved child of God???’
SOME
INTERESTING
DOCUMENTS
Torah
of Noah
The
253 Official Rules of
The
Kingdom of Noah
(aka The Kingdom of
Noah Torah)
1.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
2.
Thou Shalt Do No Violence
3.
Thou Shalt Not Eat Blood
4.
Thou Shalt enjoy thy rock &
roll, but thou shalt not let the party get out of hand
5.
Thou Shalt enjoy thy wine, but
thou again shalt not let the party get out of hand
6.
Thy Rock & Roll parties on
Saturday Night is generally the best way to go
7.
Thou Shalt not have thy personal
rock and roll up too loud, and make sure it gets lower and lower as the night
goes on to allow people their proper rest
8.
Thou shalt have thy teeth cleaned
by water when you can
9.
Thou shalt get a good diet which
must include some fruits and vegetables for proper health
10.
Thou shalt not eat too much meat –
keep it to a minimum – too much is not good for the health
11.
Thou shalt be concerned about thy
health
12.
Thou Shalt agree that you should
not covet too much land to the detriment of thy neighbour’s right to also live
on the land – you should not try and take it all, simply because you think you
can just buy it, but you shall share your land and property with your neighbour
to ensure peace, happiness, and enjoyment for all
13.
Thou shalt share thy natural
resources of thy nation fairly amongst the citizens
14.
Thou shalt trade in equity,
fairness and justice with all nations – do not attempt to prosper over them,
but ensure they do not rip you off either – you shall have equitable, just and
fair trade agreements
15.
Thou shalt make thy spare national
resources available to other nations in exchange for their own resources which
you can utilize
16.
Thou shalt trade fair resources for
fair resources – neither party should profit unjustly over the other
17.
Thou shalt have concern for thy
neighbours welfare and ensure they have access to life, liberty, happiness and
the pursuit of their dreams
18.
Thou Shalt Wash Yourself after
Sexual Relations to ensure no unpleasant substances affect you or others
19.
Thou Shalt Wash yourself regularly
and keep yourself clean
20.
Thou Shalt Keep Tidy
21.
Thou Shalt realize that men have
penises and women have vaginas – and that there is a difference between men and
women in the way that God designed them
22.
Thou shalt realize that a feminine
culture is a good idea for females and that a masculine culture is a good idea
for males
23.
Thou Shalt Wash Your Clothes
24.
Thou Shalt Wear Clothes so as not
to embarrass other people through thine nakedness
25.
Thou Shalt Not Eat the Forbidden
Fruit
26.
Thou Shalt Not Steal
27.
Thou Shalt Not Rape
28.
Thou Shalt Wait until Puberty –
Nature’s Signal – before practicing sexual relations
29.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, as
fucking around if you have oathed to stay loyal to a partner is a sign of
corruption and dishonour
30.
Thou Shalt realize that a woman
who has children to more than one man is not wise
31.
Thou Shalt Honour Marriages as the
foundation of a stable society
32.
Thou Shalt Treat each other with
kindness and respect to build a stable society of trust and respect
33.
Thou Shalt realize that gay men
can not fuck each other and have babies
34.
Thou Shalt realize that the idea
of gay marriages is pretty fucking stupid as they can’t make fucking babies
35.
Thou Shalt realize that the
Apostle Paul, in advocating that the Laws of God are redundant in Christ, is
something of a dimwit as we need fucking rules to organize society, and thus
Christian dogma is just pretty damn stupid
36.
Thou Shalt have fair and true justice
and judgements
37.
Thou Shalt not kidnap people
38.
Thou Shalt have a welfare system,
thou shalt encourage education, and thou
shalt attempt to contribute lawfulness and wisdom to the society to
profit those dedicated to eternal life
39.
Thou Shalt budget carefully to
ensure your spending is upon the important needs to maintain your household
40.
Thou Shalt exercise prudence and
caution when it comes to the company and friendships that you keep – remember,
not every supposed friend will act in your best interests or care for you
properly
41.
Thou Shalt keep honest and true
land boundary records
42.
Thou Shalt honour the law
43.
Thou Shalt not appoint a corrupt
judge to office, and thou shalt dismiss a corrupt judge from office
44.
Thou Shalt not consult demonic
entities for witchcraft
45.
Thou Shalt realize that Astrology
is bullshit
46.
Thou Shalt realize that Tarot is a
joke
47.
Thou Shalt realize that Magic is
unethical manipulation of the rights of others through spellcraft
48.
Thou Shalt know that many people
are offended by faggotry
49.
Thou Shalt know that transsexuals
make some people vomit
50.
Thou Shalt realize that tattoos
really suck in looking at them
51.
Thou Shalt know that coveting
other peoples stuff leads to jealousy and envy and theft
52.
Thou Shalt get thine own stuff
instead of being envious of thy neighbours
53.
Thou Shalt have concern for thine
parents because they are raising you and feeding you in this world
54.
Thou Shalt not honour thy parents
wishes if they intend sin for thee
55.
Thou Shalt not get drunk in public
places – it inevitably leads to embarrassing behaviour and violence
56.
Thou Shalt not smoke cigarettes –
they lead to cancer and a shitload of horrible diseases
57.
Thou Shalt avoid illicit drugs –
they only kill you in the end
58.
Thou Shalt observe the traffic
rules – if you speed, you will inevitably kill others or yourself
59.
Thou Shalt ignore rabbinic
hypocrisy – they are corrupt and full of gentile hating sin
60.
Thou Shalt not be proud of thine
own efforts, for pride corrupts the heart into thinking itself greater than it
actually is
61.
Thou Shalt realize that God made
everything and designed everything – why is thine boast in a vain idol, a vain
statue, a vain human, who sins constantly???
62.
Thou Shalt realize that your vain
kings and queens are puffed up with pride, and attempting to usurp authority in
place of God and his laws, which are true and just forever
63.
Thou Shalt realize that all civil
codes are corrupted by human logic, not that of the divine, and allow sin in
great quantities to prosper unchecked
64.
Thou Shalt realize that freedom of
religion is freedom to sin, which is inevitable death, and regard all such
societal rules which allow this as corrupt
65.
Thou Shalt remember the suffering
of Israel under the corruption of slavery in Egypt and not allow the barbarity
of slavery to enter your heart or soul by trying to enforce another human to
the service of your carnal and mundane pleasures – and you shall also realize
the limitations of Israel’s Torah by the fact that Israel is a corrupt servant
of God, thus suffering the defilement of the flesh through the act of
circumcision, as they promote the corruption of slavery and many other puffed
up and pride-filled ways, exalting themselves over mankind
66.
Thou shalt not put too heavy loads
of theological teaching on young minds as everyone needs to learn about the
rules of life, and you can’t learn everything instantly or all at once – so
thou shalt allow some people decent, fair and reasonable grace as they learn
how to live
67.
Thou Shalt not worship idols like
Jesus, or Buddha, or Even Noah – Noah is just our patriarchal father – he is
NOT meant to be worshipped, nor is any human being
68.
Thou Shalt realize that false
idolatrous religions like Hinduism are full of shit
69.
Thou Shalt definitely enjoy
fucking your partner when the marriage is consummated, and seeing all their
bodily assets is what life is all about – so ignore the idiotic rabbis when
they advocate turning off all the lights to not see your partner in the
marriage beds – (rabbis are dumb)
70.
Thou Shalt be careful when dealing
with Abraham and his circumcised army.
They are most cunning in their deceptions and legalisms to attempt to
rule over you.
71.
Thou Shalt realize that the author
of these rules does not insist you agree with every single one of them – but
thou should get the fucking point that much thought and wisdom has gone into
them
72.
Thou Shalt realize the swears are
necessary for people to get the fucking point
73.
Thou Shalt realize that Harry
Potter and Star Wars books and movies are enjoyable just as that – books and
movies
74.
Thou shalt give Israel a break for
all the crap they have had to deal with – but watch those wall-worshipping
rabbis – they will screw you over if they can
75.
Thou shalt be merciful
76.
Thou shalt be just
77.
Thou shalt be kind
78.
Thou shalt be loving
79.
Thou shalt be honest
80.
Thou shalt be brutally honest when
necessary
81.
Thou shalt humble the proud
82.
Thou shalt have honest weights and
measures
83.
Thou shalt not commit fraud
84.
Thou shalt feel free to insult
Jewish Talmud Scholars in true Karaite Spirit
85.
Thou shalt do all thine mockeries
in a spirit of sarcastic love and affection
86.
Thou shalt rebuketh bullies
87.
Thou shalt not tolerate bullies
88.
Thou shalt verily mocketh bullies
89.
Thou shalt not fuck animals
90.
Thou shalt not engage in any forms
of sexual bestiality
91.
Thou shalt ensure your working
standards are legal, ethical, and according to the correct procedures of the
company or business you work for
92.
Thou shalt not exploit anybody
93.
Thou shalt not exploit employees
94.
Thou shalt pay fair, reasonable and
just wages, and provide bonuses when the situation fairly warrants – yet thou
shalt also provide a decent, good and reasonable profit for yourself and any
shareholders also
95.
Thou shalt not be ashamed of being
rich, nor shalt thou be ashamed of being poor
96.
Thou shalt strive for wealth and
success carefully to build up your estate, as God likes wealth and treasures
97.
Thou shalt not strive for wealth
to a great degree if thou doesn’t really mind that much, but thou should never
be jealous thus of those who do work for and strive for greater wealth
98.
Thou shalt respect land laws and
rights and peoples ownership of the land
99.
Thou shalt agree that God had the
right to punish Canaanites and dispossess them from their land because their
sins were just too great in the end
100.
Thou shalt get along with
Israelites, and accept their Torah for the Holy Land of Israel and all
residents of the Holy land of Israel
101.
Thou shalt realize that outside of
the Holy Land of Israel, the Torah of Israel only applies from Genesis 1 to
11:9, plus those judgements aimed specifically at the Noahide nations mentioned
throughout the Tanakh
102.
Thou shalt realize that according
to Exodus 19 it is only the Israelites that are called to be a Kingdom of
Priests and a Holy Nation, and that while according to Isaiah we must accept
the light of Israel to the nations in the form of teaching directed at us as
already specified in the Tanakh in the form of prophetical utterances or
judgements of the Rainbow Bible which is Genesis 1 to 11:9, we are not called
as Noahide Nations to usurp Israel’s role or be a Kingdom of Priests or a Holy
Nation
103.
Thou shalt realize the standards
of the Noahide Nations need to be decent enough for us to get along well enough
with in the end for us to pursue our dreams in the spirit of eternal life
104.
Thou shalt not racially
discriminate
105.
Thou shalt realize that according
to Torah Israelites are supposed to live in Israel
106.
Thou shalt realize that Israelites
having holidays or brief sojourns in the Noahide Nations is quite acceptable
107.
Thou shalt have no slavery in
Noahide Nations
108.
Thy Nation shalt not oppress any
other nation
109.
Thou shalt seek the ways of
national and international peace
110.
Thou shalt have an economic and
political system which acts in the best interests of every citizen, whatever
the particular economic or political system you favour
111.
Thou shalt realize that both right
wing, left wing and central body of any political system are all necessary for
the proper functioning of a political system, and respect each components
rights to exercise authority when they are in office
112.
Thou shalt not exercise political
opposition simply for the sake of it, but that shalt exercise political
opposition when the case at hand definitely warrants it
113.
Thou shalt realize that Daniel 7
was JUST A DREAM OF DANIEL’S
114.
Thou shalt respond to all
Israelite suggestions of rights to rule Noahide Nations by quoting Isaac’s
blessing on Esau and saying ‘We Noahides Shall Break Free of Cruel Israelite
Slavery and Bondage and tell the Israelites to Go Fuck Themselves’
115.
Thou Shalt be aware of ‘Who Wrote
the Bible’ by Richard Elliott Friedman
116.
Thou Shalt be aware of ‘Gospel
Truth’ by Russell Shorto
117.
Thou Shalt be aware of ‘The Jew
and the Christian Missionary’ by Gerald Sigal
118.
Thou Shalt treat the three
preceding books as Noahide Torah
119.
Thou Shalt observe the facts of
Creation Science
120.
Thou Shalt raise thy children with
Kindness, Justice, Fun and Love
121.
Thou shalt realize that God loved
Noah and we are Noah’s Children and that God loves us as well
122.
Thou Shalt realize that God punishes
Israel when they sin, so that if the Noahide Nations are more righteous at the
time they fight any Israelites in any potential war, we have a right before God
to expect to be victorious, as God punishes sinners regardless if they are
Noahides, Abramides, Adamides or Israelites
123.
God desires Noahide Nations to be
Righteous
124.
God does not command the Noahide
Nations to convert to Judaism in the Tanakh
125.
God expects Noahide Nations to be
Righteous
126.
God talks to Noahides and teaches
Noahide peoples truths as well
127.
God expects you to remember that
the sign of Noah’s Covenant is the Rainbow
128.
God expects you to remember that
as Noahides you are partakers of God’s OLDEST and HOLIEST covenant
129.
Thou shalt remember that the
Nation of Israel is God’s Servant
130.
Thou shalt remember that Noahide
Nations are Free Men and Women
131.
Thou shalt be happy in thine own
Noahide achievements
132.
Thou shalt be happy in thine own
Noahide successes
133.
Thou shalt be happy in thine own
Noahide glories
134.
Thou shalt pray for eternal life
to Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh regularly
135.
Thou shalt have just laws and just
rules
136.
Thou shalt create and promote your
own rules and laws and teach them to others if you believe they are just, fair,
kind and well-intentioned towards people
137.
Thou shalt be happy being social
or happy being independent if that is what thou desire
138.
Thou shalt disregard others if
they mock thee for thy looks or thy personal tastes in things, such as clothes
or music or other things
139.
Thou shalt find inner strength
through being a child of God’s creation, a child of God’s love, and remember
these rules are dedicated to all people, including yourself, and are for your
best interests at heart
140.
Thou shalt practice love, mercy,
grace and kindness
141.
Thou shalt try to see the inner
beauty in people and see as God’s sees – the heart
142.
Thou shalt acknowledge the truth
143.
Thou shalt tell the truth
144.
Thou shalt lie if you want to to a corrupt person who will use it against you
145.
Thou shalt not bow to men
146.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself
147.
Thou shalt educate thyself and
grow in knowledge when you have the time and the inclination
148.
Thou shalt encourage education and
growing in knowledge in others
149.
Thou shalt not put a stumbling
block in front of the blind
150.
Thou shalt protect the rights of
orphans and widows
151.
Thou shalt care for the disaffected
in your society
152.
Thou shalt give people a break
when they need one
153.
Thou shalt not be too legalistic
all the time, but thou shalt be legalistic when necessary
154.
Thou shalt exercise balance,
moderation and know there is a time for all things under heaven
155.
Thou canst pray to God if thou
wants to
156.
Thou shalt not feel pressured into
praising God if you think it is stupid or you don’t want to
157.
Thou shalt remember that God is
just a bloke as well, as we are made after his image, and he also knows how to
relax and have a good time
158.
Thou shalt expect mercy from God
and thou shalt grant mercy to God
159.
Thou shalt not judge God too
harshly, but express your opinions freely to him on any issue you believe in
160.
Thou shalt realize that God has
dealt with a lot of crap in the last few thousand years
161.
Thou shalt not racially
discriminate but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
162.
Thou shalt keep prostitution to a
minimum so that the land does not fall into depravity and become full of
injustice
163.
Thou shalt have designated suburbs
in your cities for your brothels
164.
Thou shalt not deliberately force
your daughter to become a prostitute, but if she takes it up herself of her own
volition thou shalt still respect, love and care for her and provide for her
165.
Thou shalt not indulge too greatly
in pornography, and thou shalt get rid of your old porno collections after a
while to make sure you do not get involved with old and stale debauchery, fowl
obsessions over porn stars who do not want the attention, or smelly odours and
substances attached to such things – keep any porn in your collections
reasonably recent if you must have such things
166.
Thou shalt not offend straight
people with your gay fantasies
167.
Thou shalt not practice sexual
harassment
168.
Thou shalt be slutty or smutty
with a person of the opposite sex in a flirtatious sense only if they
appreciate such things and do not tell you to back off or say that they are not
interested
169.
Thou shalt not make assumptions
that all men are bastards or that all women are bitches – there is a great diversity
of people amongst the human race
170.
If you are gay, better to find
your own gay community, and live in designated gay suburbs or gay streets or
gay housing complexes
171.
God is less concerned about
gayness if it is separate from the heterosexual community into enclaves and
areas of the community which don’t affect the mainstream which God prefers
172.
If you are Gay, still keep the
rules of God, and do not provoke him or others who are offended by such
lifestyles
173.
Keep any profane lifestyles
separate and away from mainstream society so as not to bother them
174.
Thou shalt not fuck around with
thy neighbours property
175.
Thou shalt respect thy neighbours
property
176.
Thou shalt not pressure thy
neighbour into doing things they don’t want to do
177.
Thou shalt not try to control or manipulate
people
178.
Thou shalt be clear in charting
thy work procedures for thy workforce, and not expect things of them that are
not clearly designated or shown instructions for in the work procedures and
protocols manuals
179.
Thou shalt be very specific in the
things required of your workers in thine work contracts, and not expect things
of them which are not clearly specified
180.
Thou shalt have the right to
expect workers to comply with all reasonable requests according to procedures of
the workplace if they have agreed to them contractually
181.
Thou shalt have the right to make
workers redundant if they are consistently working at a level lower than that
required by their work agreements
182.
Thou shalt give fair warnings to
workers before attempting to make them redundant
183.
Thou shalt not fuck dead people –
thou shalt avoid necrophilia and respect the rights of the dead
184.
Thou shalt not molest little
children – wait until puberty before engaging in sexual practices with anyone
185.
Thou shalt have concerns for thy
little ones and raise them properly
186.
Thou shalt allow adoptions when
necessary, but thou shalt not attempt to usurp over the child the rights of the
biological parents
187.
Thou shalt honour doctors and be
careful about medical rules and procedures
188.
Thou shalt treat the mentally
unwell with care and concern, and hospitalize them if and when necessary
189.
Thou shalt exercise caution with
psychotic people, but thou shalt remember that they do not necessarily intend
any form of lawlessness
190.
Thou shalt take the hint if the
girl tells you to fuck off
191.
Thou shalt take the hint if the
guy says you are not the one
192.
Thou shalt have the right to
refuse everyone from telling you to do anything at all to simply serve their
vain wishes, regardless of your age
193.
Children are supposed to comply
with their parents wishes if the parents are attempting to raise their children
properly
194.
It is quite ok to rebuke
rebellious children to ensure compliance with the laws
195.
Thou shalt realize you are not
alone in this life and this world, and it does not revolve all around you, and
that you can not have all the say or everything your own way – you have to
share this world with everyone else you dimwit
196.
Don’t piss people off just for the
sake of it – have some respect
197.
Piss people off if they have a go
at you for no reason
198.
Don’t exercise grudges against
people
199.
Exercise grudges against people if
they deserve it
200.
Everyone thinks its funny until
someone loses an eye
201.
Keep your humour in check when
necessary
202.
Don’t vandalize
203.
Don’t harm other people’s property
204.
Do the right thing
205.
Don’t be rebellious simply because
you are up your arse
206.
Be Natural
207.
Walk in harmony with nature
208.
Care for the environment
209.
Keep genealogies for a relevant
number of current generations
210.
Repent of lawlessness when God convicts
your conscience of guilt
211.
Enjoy your youth
212.
Settle down when you need to
213.
Get along with society
214.
Be pleasant
215.
Try to like people and understand
them
216.
Communicate honestly and openly
217.
Don’t try to get one up on people
simply to be a cocky prick
218.
Afford the good things in life
when and were you can
219.
Be luxurious when you can
220.
Be thrifty when you need to be
221.
Learn about life by living it
222.
Choose life
223.
Study the Tanakh of Israel to
understand Israelite culture
224.
Take your school education
seriously
225.
Look to contribute to society in
some way or other that you are capable of
226.
If you are shy by nature it is ok not to participate in
things if you don’t want to
227.
Find your favourite things in life
and learn to enjoy them
228.
Be in the Hearts of Men
229.
King David is not as stupid as he
looks
230.
Be Ethical
231.
Be Decent
232.
Be Proper
233.
Fucking up occasionally is human
nature
234.
Everyone needs a break
235.
Even rabbis can be human at times
– give them a break when they are not acting like dickheads
236.
Noah offered sacrifices to God of
clean animals – you can do this as well if you want to as Noahides – you aren’t
commanded to though
237.
It is best to put first degree or
deliberate murderers to death
238.
God should kill murderers before
they intending murdering – that is the right thing for God to do as far as we are
concerned
239.
Thou shalt not torture
240.
Thou shalt not maim
241.
Limited degrees of torture in any
ongoing cold war or hot war hostilities can be justified if it is in your
nations best interests and will ultimately save lives or other necessary
national assets of significant enough value
242.
Limited degrees of acceptable
torture should not permanently damage a human body – that is the important
thing – for example, scaring the fuck out of them is ok, as they will
eventually heal from any psychological scarring, yet their bodies will remain
whole, which is the most important thing
243.
It is very important to make sure
you have the right person in the above situations if you are going to use
limited degrees of torture – you wouldn’t like a child of yours tortured if
they were innocent would you?
244.
Keep your anger in check
245.
Try to avoid being angry with
people
246.
Fuck off to the pub and talk shit
with your mates to get your anger and other issues of your chest
247.
If you really have to, make sure
you only smoke a few cigarettes a year – this might almost be considered
moderation on such coffin nails and cancer sticks
248.
Aids will kill you
249.
Don’t infect others with Aids –
that is essentially murder
250.
If you have Aids, the only way out
of this hellhole is to repent your guts out to God’s personal satisfaction, and
then ask him for a cure – he might give you one
251.
The 3rd Final Rule
is: Study a lot of Stuff
252.
The 2nd Final Rule
is: Children of the Kingdom of Noah –
Keep the Faith, Walk with God, study these laws and the Literature of the 7
Divine Noahide Fellowships and Live Forever, Prosper, Don’t Worry & Be
Happy
253.
The 1st Final Rule
is: Be Good
ABOUT the KINGDOM of NOAH
The
Kingdom of Noah is a Micronation within the boundaries of Australia. It is located in Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly’s
bedroom at 29 Merriman Crescent, Macarthur, ACT, Australia. The Kingdom of Noah has been taught by the
Spirit of God that God has plans for about 700 nations on planet earth
officially. There are a number of
Macronations, the remainder being Micronations.
These Nations were complete by the end of Tuesday the 20th of
December 2011 CE/AD. The purposes of the
Kingdom of Noah are related, primarily, to its heavenly allotment of
space. Heaven itself is a spiritual
realm located above the earth. This is
taught in scripture. There are LEVELS in
heaven. When people die they go to the
heavens to live forever, unless they have been to sinful, in which case
purgation in hades is required until repentance is sufficient. God has placed theological thoughts within my
mind – he asks his children questions to gain understanding and ideas on new
issues – and he placed within my thoughts the ideas of the earth as the centre
point and the expansion above the sphere of the earth expanding outwards,
growing each time. For example, a square
kilometer of land on earth is far greater in its equivalent in heaven in
correlative proportion the further you go up in the levels of heaven. And, thus, it expands eternally. The nations of earth have equivalents in
heaven, and as you can see the land gets larger each time with each level you
rise, and so on, upwards, for all eternity.
The Judgement has apparently been that, based on the first day of the
first year of the four year cycle, with the leap year as the fourth year, that
at exactly 1 second past Midnight at the beginning of the four year cycle of
January 1, the position of the earth in relation to the sun and its place in
the universe is the point for which the expansions upwards from the kingdoms is
measured. God asked me to compute this
idea, and it seems it has generally been accepted. This is an exact point of the earth in
relation to its cycle around the sun and the rest of the universe.
The
nations of the world have been established by God for the continuing population
of mankind in the rest of the universe, as mankind populates the heavenlies
through procreation eternally.
Many of
the desires for progeny and forming empire and religious thought are relevant
in an eternal life in the heavenlies, and commentary on this can be found in
Chronicles of the Children of Destiny – Morning Stars II, amongst one example
of my writings which features interesting ideas.
It is
anticipated that the World To Come – in fulfillment of the passages of the prophets
of the Scriptures – is imminent. I have
had dreams recently which seem to indicate that the end of death, as foretold
for Mt Zion in scripture, is in the process of happening. Around the year 2070 the realization of this
truth is apparently understood by humanity for the most part. This has been communicated to my mind in the
forms of dreams. The actual resurrection
of the house of Israel, and what God has told me is approximately 50 Million
other members of mankind, to reside on planet earth for eternity is somewhere
beyond that point, yet not too distant.
Life on
earth is similar in nature to life in the heavenlies. All the same basic functionings
occur in both, yet the physical world of earth has a degree more solidity
involved with it. The heavenlies are
more spiritual, but they have substance associated with them also.
God has
chosen about 40 million members of mankind outside of the House of Israel so
far, and he is currently examining the children of men and their works to
complete his final numbers.
Warranting
a position of eternal life on earth itself, rather than in the heavenlies, is
based on a number of principles. The keymost are:
·
Strong
levels of Holiness
·
Strong
levels of Work Ethic
·
Strong
output of commercial product, examples of which include Music Albums, Novels
and other Artistic Products
·
Other
outstanding performances in the field of excellence
God is
looking for the cream of mankind to warrant places in the World to Come on
planet earth.
Now, there
will be the rest of mankind remaining, certainly, and there will be a
neverending supply of souls born on earth, who die, and go off to live forever
in the heavenlies. One of the primary
purposes of the final elect of God on planet earth is the ruling of mankind for
their sanctification and preparation in a place and community in the
heavenlies. This has been God’s purpose
all along.
Do you
want to warrant a place in the world to come?
The
Christian band DC Talk sang a line which is supposed to inspire you to reach
for those heights. It goes ‘Got a gift
you best start using it – if you don’t you might wind up losing it.’
As Pitbull sings ‘Aim for the Heavens, if you don’t make it at
least you are on top of the world.’
So apply
your talents rigorously, complete an entire reading of the Scriptures
(Deuteronomy 8:3), and work hard and you may end up becoming one of the chosen
lucky ones.
Now, the
Kingdom of Noah has its own Torah, which has been written above. The sarcasm is a necessary element for
Karaite Noahide faith, and entirely in harmony with the wishes for the future
citizens of the Kingdom of Noah. It is
all appropriate and acceptable for the Kingdom of Noah.
If you are
not going to live forever on earth, and want to have a place in the ‘Kingdom of
Noah’ under Karaite Noahide faith, feel free to email me, or contact my
eventual children who will take their place in the Kingdom of Noah in the
heavenlies in the fullness of time.
It is
expected the Kingdom of Noah will eventually have a whole host of nations
within the Kingdom as a whole, as levels continue to expand upwards. The Kingdom of Kadravana is a specific
example of such a nation.
The Royal Karaite
Rainbow Bible
Noahide Australian
Kingdom of Kadravana
(Within the Australian
Continent
of the Kingdom of Noah
in the Heavenlies)
Spiritual
Constitution
·
The Rainbow Torah (Genesis 1 –
11:9) – JPS Tanakh 1985 Edition
·
The Wisdom of the Noahide Torah
(Within
the legal frameworks below there are certain specified exemptions towards the
Wisdom of the Noahide Torah)
Constitution
Australian
Constitution as at 24:00:00 (Midnight at the end of the day) on the 31st
of December 2000 CE/AD
(With
all necessary noun elements changed for Kadravanan principle)
Cessation
of Legislative Acts section added to Kadravanan Constitution
Principle
of Delegated “Regulations” Authority section added to Kadravanan Constitution.
Removal
of all non-applicable sections of the constitution taken note of. Amendment
To
section 116 dealing with Freedom of Religion – only religious thought
functioning within the framework
Of
the Spiritual Constitution and each provincial religion are tolerated.
Law
Australian
Federal, State and Local Law as at the end of the year 2000 CE/AD
(With
all necessary noun elements changed for Kadravanan principle)
Law
includes: All Acts of Parliament,
English Common Law, Case Law and other forms of Legislation.
This
is the end of the legislative process.
Beyond this, only delegated ‘Regulations’ can be formed as new legal
principles.
Understanding
The
‘Spiritual Constitution’ is the highest form of law – the ‘Torah of Noah’ the
‘Rainbow Torah’.
The
‘Australian-Kadravanan’ Constitution is the next form of law – submissive to
the Spiritual Constitution.
The
‘Acts of Parliament’ of the Federal Government and the State & Territory
Governments form the next standard of law for the Kingdom. The determination of which state laws apply
to differing ‘Regions’ within the 7 provinces are left to each region upon
foundation of itself to choose and determine.
Once a code is chosen for a particular region, it may never be
changed. There are the 6 State Codes and
the 2 Territory Codes which may be chosen.
Any particular region may choose only 1 legal framework amongst these 8
choices. It should be understood that
the full legal code of Acts for any particular region includes the Federal Code
hand in hand with the chosen State or Territory code.
Common
Law including ‘Precedent Law’ must NEVER carry the authority of unchangeable
judgement (which it doesn’t anyway).
Common law ‘Precedents’ precepts are intended to be temporary
judgements, and only applicable as the basis for legal rulings for a maximum
period of 1000 years. Outdated
precedents may never be used in the legal process. It is the responsibility of Judges and Juries
were applicable to be forming new Precedent as the case at hand sees fit. Only what would be termed ‘Recent Precedents’
carry the most relevance and authority, and the older a precedent, the less
authoritative it would be deemed, till the point of non-applicability after
1000 years have been reached.
In
this sense, Rules of Act Law (Legislation) – the legal Rulings of Parliament –
are meant to be the foundational knowledge for the Judge, Magistrate, Lawyer
& Solicitor, as well as Jury and other relevant parties. The ongoing newness of Precedent law is meant
to function, ultimately, from its careful knowledge of the Acts themselves, and
it is in the Acts – the legal Judgements of Parliament – which are ultimately
meant to resolve cases of legal question.
In this sense, Kadravanan society is meant to function by what is deemed
lawful according to ‘Spiritual Constitution’, ‘Constitution’ and ‘Acts of Parliament’
in the primary sense.
Non-Repealable.
In
this sense, once founded, the 3 foundations of Kadrvanan
law – 1) The Spiritual Constitution, 2) the Constitution, & 3) the Acts of
Parliament are irrevocable. Once this
legal system is put in place it may never be revoked – that is a fundamental
principle of Kadravanan Law – Society – and culture. It is meant to represent an unchanging way of
doing things, so that sound societal behaviour may result, and attract people
who desire an unchanging legal code.
Regulations
For
the necessity of dealing with issues of law which arise in Kadravanan society
which the law itself does not address, Regulations are the form of conduct code
which apply. Regulations carry the
authority of the Constitution, but may be repealed at any time. Regulations are formed on a region by region
basis. The highest court of appeal for
matters addressed by Regulations may only be within the domain of a Magistrate
of a Region’s highest Regulatory Court.
Higher forms of Courts, which are Constitutional Courts and the Law
Courts, may not give judgements in issues relating to matters of Regulations –
these are deemed too trivial matters for the higher courts to utilize their
time upon. For the settlement of issues
of law in a case of Law pertaining to regulations, it is the responsibility of
the parties at hand to settle regulative matters in ‘Regulations’ courts alone,
as they bear ‘No Legal Interest’. In
this sense, matters deemed of ‘No Legal Interest’ may only be settled in ‘Regulative’
courts. Regulative Courts have the power
of Constitution and it is the law of the land that an individual should in
‘Normal Circumstances’ act in accordance with Regulations, unless they disagree
with the rulings of the Regulations. The
disagreement must be made in writing, and officially lodged. If they disagree, they are not bound to act
in accordance with the judgements of the regulations.
British
Monarch
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Governor
General
Callodyn
Gabriel Daniel Daly
Spiritual
Overseer
Noah
Language
English
Capital
City
Noahville
The
7 Divine Provinces
The
7 Provinces of the Kingdom of Kadravana.
Madonna
Capital
City – Lourdes
Official
Provincial Religion – Haven Noahide Fellowship
Official
Colour - Purple
Geraldine
Capital
City - Bluebell
Official
Provincial Religion – Assembly of the Divine Creator
Official
Colour - Red
Chisholm
Capital
City - Destiny
Official
Provincial Religion – Universal Faith Assembly
Official
Colour - Orange
Victoria
Capital
City – Bendigo
Official
Provincial Religion – Assembly of the Living God
Official
Colour - Yellow
Brown
Capital
City – Brisbane
Official
Provincial Religion – Universal Truth Assembly
Official
Colour - Green
Emma
Capital
City – Beautiful City
Official
Provincial Religion – Assembly of the Most High
Official
Colour - Blue
Georgia
Capital
City – Bridgetown
Official
Provincial Religion – Haven Adamide Fellowship
Official
Colour – Indigo
Georgia
has 1 Spiritual Constitution – The Rainbow Torah + the following Legal Code
The
27 Laws of Georgia
1.
No Theft
2.
No Robbery
3.
Ownership of Property and Items
honoured
4.
Graffiti is legal
5.
Vandalizing property is not legal
6.
No Unlawful Entry of Domiciles
7.
No Rape
8.
Sexual Harassment is legal for
upwards of about 1 hour per day upon a person (That is the total time for the
national assembly of people allowed to harass towards one person). No Sexual harassment permitted on Sundays or
Mondays.
9.
Sexual harassment includes
grabbing tits, ass, crotch, feeling up
10.
No Sexual harassment permitted
every 3rd year
11.
No Kidnapping
12.
No Bestiality (CGI Bestiality
Pornography allowable)
13.
Incest is legal
14.
Prostitution is legal
15.
Adultery is legal
16.
Homosexuality is legal
17.
Paedophilia with parental consent
is legal
18.
Paedophilia without parental
consent is not legal
19.
Abortion is left as a matter of
individual conscience
20.
No Torture
21.
No Maiming
22.
No Excessive Violence or actions
related to causing excessive harm to a person
23.
No Slightly Excessive Violence
24.
Violence is legal, were
justifiable on natural cause
25.
Intimidation is legal based on Sexual
Harassment principles
26.
No Poisoning of Food with
excessively harmful poison (laxative poisoning permitted within reason of
natural anger causes, and humour principles – limits apply)
27.
Everything else permitted were the
Rainbow Torah remains silent
Divine
Rights
1)
God is deemed as morally required
to ensure you have the ability to find a partner of the opposite sex, to have
food to eat which must contain at least some fresh fruits and vegetables and
meat without blood as well as a minimum of fresh water for drinking purposes,
to allow living space for you and any family you desire (before natural land
limitations come into question due to excessive population), to ensure clothes
are provided for you, to have the ability to be able to bless yourself and
others through YOUR own work and efforts, as well as honouring the other
principles of the Rainbow Torah. In
Georgia he is deemed as: Not being
required to answer any specific prayers at all.
Not being required to presence his Holy Spirit anywhere in the
land. Not being required to speak to
you. Not being required to personally
bless or prosper you financially.
However, if you fulfil the obligations of the Rainbow Torah itself in a
good, proper, honest, decent and genuine attempt, and we would make the
judgement that if you are not excessively or in a prolonged manner blaspheming
God or worshipping idols, but honouring him, as well as the full legal code of
the land, then we would deem it probable that God would desire to in fact take
an interest in you and perhaps answer your prayers and talk to you.
JUDGEMENTS
AND REASONING IN KARAITE NOAHIDE TRADITION
My
own judgement is that an individual can develop his own or her own spiritual
thoughts, ideas and traditions. It is
important to ensure they are within the framework of acceptability to Almighty
God, but the Rainbow Torah gives the freedom to Karaite Noahides to develop
religious frameworks, such as this Rainbow Bible, and other spiritual and
political ideologies as they see fit.
Judgement should be sound, according to wisdom, and based on truth. It is not hard to get the approval of God for
your project eternally if it is sound, of good wisdom, positive and holy. The Jews wrote the Bible in the end. Your own church, your own mosque, your own
temple, your own synagogue, your own clan, your own tribe, your own family,
your own community, you yourself, can do the same if you put in some
effort. You can even go off and promote
it if you want to. Approval from God
depends on the quality of your work.
You
too can write sound and lasting scripture.
Just put in a decent and committed effort.
In
Deuteronomy God teaches us to appoint judges for ourselves. If you study the entirety of the Tanakh
(Deuteronomy 8:3) you will start becoming able to make your own value
judgements. It is a sufficient starting
point for developing your own ministry, your own empire, your own destiny.
Utilize
the Word of God – the Tanakh – and dig your own wells, and you will find your
own salvation.
Daniel
Thomas Andrew Daly
Canberra,
Australia
A
little before Christmas in the year 2011 AD/CE
Psalms
of Daniel
Psalm One
Beyond
Azion lie the children of Adam in the Realm of Infinity
For
Beyond Azion is Azaphon, the Heart of Infinity
And
the Onaphim of God Live in the Heart of Infinity
For
Azaphon is the Golden City
And
Nadrazon is the Silver City
And
Daron is the Bronze City
And
in the Realm of Eternity, Zaphon is the Heart of Eternity
For
Azion is the Heart of Heaven
Where
the Children of Heaven Dwell
And
there is much righteousness
And
there is much love
Yet
Beyond
Azion lie the children of Adam in the Realm of Infinity
For
Beyond Azion is Azaphon, the Heart of Infinity
And
the Onaphim of God Live in the Heart of Infinity
For
Azaphon is the Golden City
And
Nadrazon is the Silver City
And
Daron is the Bronze City
And
in the Realm of Eternity, Zaphon is the Heart of Eternity
And
the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Azaphon
And
the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Nadrazon
And
the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Daron
And
there is much righteousness
And
there is much love
Praise
Yahweh Forever
Praise
Yahweh Forever
Praise
Yahweh Forever
Hallelujah
Psalm Two
Wisdom
is Truth
Wisdom
is Truth
Wisdom
is Truth
Wisdom
is Truth
In
praise of Wisdom
Praise
the God of Truth
In
Praise of Wisdom
Praise
the God of Truth
Wisdom
is Love
Wisdom
is Love
The
Heart of a Dove
Wisdom
is Love
In
praise of Wisdom
Praise
the God of Love
The
Truth from Above
The
God of Love
Psalm Three
Praise
God
Praise
the God of Noah
Praise
the Immortal Creator
Praise
him now and forever
Lord
God
You
keep faith with those who keep your covenant
Your
holiest covenant given to our father Noah
Each
generation who swear by the Lord the Almighty One
Who
amongst the unbelievers affirm the rainbow
Who
amongst the unbelievers affirm the promises of God
Receive
your attention
Receive
your blessing
Receive
your love
We
Praise you, Almighty God
We
Praise you, God of Noah
We
Praise you, Immortal Creator
We
Praise you, now and forever
Amen
New Education
Understanding
the 253 rules of the Covenant Code of the Noahide World takes a little
time. The sarcasm is a necessary
element, for life without humour is a dry vessel, ready to crack. The soft heart of quiet love, gentle humour,
and pure passion is the balm which soothes the seeker of the higher forms of
holiness. But the severity of South
Park, the Cheek of The Simpsons, and the crudity of Family Guy are necessary
parts of the life-stream continuum to lighten up heavy loads, to relax, to let
it all hang out, and to realize that we don’t have to be so bloody perfect all
the bloody time. And we become more
real, honest and humane by realizing this.
Books
like ‘The Path of the Righteous Gentile’ and ‘The Rainbow Covenant’ and other
major Noahide Books of the New World are ‘BIBLES’ of Noahide Faith. They teach an authoritative, acceptable and
wise approach to a religious life. They
are the Talmudic Noahide books of wisdom, which the Karaite Noahide community
appreciate and respect. They are NOT for
the Karaite Noahide community, but I would encourage you, if the Karaite
Noahide approach is not strict enough for you, or not sober enough for you, try
one of those Noahide Books and practice a Talmudic Noahide lifestyle
instead. Karaite Noahides shouldn’t
really try to hold on to converts who belong somewhere else. That would be stupid. But some of you guys fit in our world. Some of you fit. We don’t really approve of chopping someone’s
head off for pinching an apple, so some of you do fit in the Karaite Noahide
world. Kapiche.
The
Spice Girls are the heart of Divine Fellowships 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. Geri Halliwell’s CDs are mandatory listening
for ‘Assembly of the Divine Creator’, as well as her autobiographies and Ugenia
Lavender books. Melanie C is for the
Universal Faith Assembly, and the same principles apply. Victoria Beckham is for Assembly of the
Living God, Melanie Brown is for Universal Truth Assembly and Emma Bunton is
for Assembly of the Most High. The CD
albums and the wisdom of each solo spice girl are to be considered part of the
teaching for each of the respective Divine Fellowships.
The
first fellowship – Haven Noahide Fellowship – is not based on this idea. Madonna Ciccone is sort of the unofficial
Spice Girl for this group, but not really in the end. Only in a soft sort of way. Haven is meant for those Karaite Noahides who
are quite serious about being Karaite Noahides and don’t want to get involved
with what a lot of people will consider weird ideas about ‘Spice Girls’
cults. But, hey, the Catholic church
worship Jesus’ mother, so what’s new, huh?
No, I don’t advocate Spice Girl worship.
These other religious assemblies aren’t meant to attract potential
Karaite Noahides unless they actually like the CDs from these Solo Spice Girls
and their messages. To clear something
up, critically the music of the Spice Girls on their solo albums is a little
more complex and thoughtful than their group efforts. As the girls have progressed in their careers
they have matured, and I personally recommend their CDs as a snapshot into
human life and how to enjoy it from many interesting perspectives. Modern psalms of life, some of them with very
good messages, some, surprisingly to many, quite serious. Take an album like ‘Reason’ by Melanie
C. Its maturity might be something new
to you.
The
cult of personality, as Living Colour call it, goes back to Jesus of Nazareth
in the biggest way. Hey, people believe
this bloke was actually God. The cult of
personality is a truth which Divine Fellowships 2 to 6 ARE based on, in some
ways. The girls, the Spicies, are meant
to be a focal point for us to understand how human life can function for people
in both ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. They are a ‘Metaphor’ or a ‘Symbol’ of a kind
of life many of us dream about, which makes it a good idea to see if there is
any real life Halakah which we can learn from these ladies.
I,
personally, in a spirit of the wisdom of ‘Morning Stars II’ really do recommend
other such celebrity religions could quite likely be formed, utilizing
favourite CDs and books for such purposes. No, the Bible doesn’t have to be the
only holy book. That is just a fundamentalist
approach. Many of our big musical
artists put a hell of a lot of effort into their music CDs to try and
communicate their “LIFE WISDOM”. Solo
Spice Girls do this as well, and I love their stuff.
For
Christians, Christian Artists like Amy Grant and Michael W Smith and Rebecca St
James and The Priests and many others have CD albums with messages which MEAN
SOMETHING. They are HALAKAH – RELIGIOUS
IDEAS – THINGS WHICH CAN HELP PEOPLE.
So,
a religion based on some of the messages of the Spice Girls, in our instance,
is not actually as dumb as it sounds.
You WILL understand and appreciate this idea in the fullness of time.
Danny
Daly
January
6176 SC – January 2011 CE/AD
Understanding
Astrology
Astrology
is an artificial creation of minds of staggering intellect, truly stupendous in
its paradigms of insight into life, beyond all the fathoming of minds based on
simplistic idea like logic and reason.
It baffles mere mortals who say stupid things like ‘That’s bullshit
mate’ and ‘What a load of bollocks’. But
these are the unlearned ones, says the soothsayer of fortunes, happy to read
your palms for a buck and tell you just how tall that handsome stranger will
be, and just the exact number of zeroes in that sudden cheque you are SOON to
DEFINITELY get in the mail. Bwah ha ha harrgh.
But I love
Astrology – seriously. Couldn’t live
without it. Every time I open up one of
those Women’s Weeklies and am told the fortunes of Scorpio for the month I wait
with anticipation as my DESTINY UNFOLDS.
Amazing.
Numerology
– that is what the Jews are in to. They
call it Gematria. Funnily enough, I
dabble around with that, and find some very interesting connections on English
words using Ordinal Equivalents to total them, when A is 1 and B is 2 and C is
3 and so on through the alphabet to Z is 26.
For example God is 26 – the exact number of letters in the English
alphabet. Daniel is 45. Adam is 19.
David is 40 and so on. Of course
Cool is 45 and Dumb is 40, but I digress.
Astrology
is the WAVE of the Future. As the Age of
Aquarius unfolds, our lives will be enrichened by
such gems of wisdom as ‘Knowing your Soul Path’ and ‘The Wisdom of your
Gemstone’ and so on and so forth.
Heart of
the Earthmother.
I am not sure if she is into Astrology – she might be – but the
magazines, which you can find in Aussie newsagents, or order online, are
AMAZING. In the Chronicles of the
Children of Destiny – the Pagan Version – which you can find online, I have
some fun with Heart of the Earthmother. Her Combatant is Daniel – from the Realm of
Understanding. WHO KNOWS what the future
has in store for her as she struggles with the villainous Seraphim of Yahweh,
sure to corrupt the universe with their ‘Devilish Ways’. Beware those blonde Seraphim, she bemoans.
Funnily
enough, I have been visited by a blonde Seraphim, in the skies above Macarthur,
and down at Fadden Pines.
And
Michael himself appeared in a dream, with the Seraphim who had appeared to me
in person. I thought it was
Ambriel. It seemed the Ambriel from my
books. I really don’t know, as he said
not his name.
Life is a
mystery.
Astrology
is ok, as long as it doesn’t go to your head.
It’s a little bit of fun, but getting caught up in the New Age is just a
distraction from the mundane of life anyway, which is why people do it. I mean, after all, its all about spirituality
these days, isn’t it politically correct society out there? Isn’t it?
I mean, religion. Who needs that.
Daniel
7 jan 2012
THE END
Karaite Noahidism – The Next Branch of Judaism
The Spirit
of God has taught me that ‘Karaite Noahidism’ is a new branch of Judaism. Apparently there are currently around 70 or
so branches of Judaism which God recognizes.
It is through the spirit which speaks in me that I learn such things.
When
Yahweh spoke to me and asked me to ‘Build on his Rock’, he made it perfectly
clear that his rock was the Jewish people – the people of the book – which
includes the righteous of the world through the covenant of Noah.
Those who
adhere to the covenant of Noah are ‘Noahides’.
At Mt
Sinai there was a covenant, sealed in Exodus 24 with the blood of bulls as its
sign, made with Moses’ generation of the priestly people of Israel. This is the ‘Israelide’ covenant.
Yet,
betwixt these two covenant, lies another covenant, which is the heart of Islam. The covenants of ‘Abraham’.
Genesis 15
gives the Land Covenant.
Genesis 17
gives the Circumcision Covenant.
The Rabbis
argued in the Talmud that the seed through Ishmael was only Noahide. They are not quite correct. Remember, God promised the fullness of the
covenant to Isaac’s house, BUT, and this is a fundamental BUT, Ishmael was
still verily circumcised because he was of the HOUSE of Abraham.
Muslims,
essentially, circumcise in the name of Abraham’s covenant. In this spiritual house we find the offspring
of Ishmael, as well as the house of Abraham’s other wife ‘Keturah’, who was
probably NOT Hagar.
True,
‘Abrahamides’, as I will call them, are essentially under the Noahide codes of
faith, yet they must also circumcise and, more than that, the land promised to
Abraham and his seed – from the wadi of Egypt to the
Euphrates rive – is ALSO for the other children of Abraham. Perhaps the land of the East, were Keturah’s
offspring were sent, was east of Israel, yet within the boundaries of the Euphrates. Perhaps this land mass runs from top of the
eastern coastline of the mediterannean sea to the
short nib of the Euphrates, downwards, encompassing the land as it goes,
perhaps even encompassing all the Arabian peninsula. Perhaps this is why ‘Allah’ has claimed Mecca
for the religion of Abraham, and this is the centre of the Muslim world. As in God’s ultimate turning of the
Christians to Noahide faith, the Muslims are to be turned to ‘Abrahamide’
faith.
EACH of
these faiths – Noahide – Abrahamide – Israelide – are governed by an essential
contract with Almighty God. THE
COVENANT.
Noah’s
covenant – the Rainbow
Abraham’s
Covenant – the Circumcision
Israel’s
Covenant – the Blood of Bulls and the Torah itself in a way
As the
next branch of Judaism, it is important for Karaite Noahidism to contribute new
theology and teaching, steeped in the Judaic tradition, to mankind for the
enjoyment of spiritual truths amongst the larger monotheistic community. This Rainbow Bible is attempting to do this.
There are
a lot of issues I want to talk about, and here is a snapshot into some of the
things currently on my mind.
Documentary Hypothesis
– in particular the theories of ‘Richard Elliott Friedman’
DATING P.
I would
date ‘P’ to the exact timing of Ezekiel the prophet and the ministrations of
the House of Zadok. Ezekiel 44 makes it
quite clear that the house of Zadok teaches knowledge of ‘Clean and Unclean’
things, amongst other responsibilities to the temple of the LORD. God states in Ezekiel that ‘The House of
Zadok’ will teach his people Israel such things. I feel this is ample proof of the origin of
the ‘P’ strand of the Torah. Please read
Ezekiel 44 and the surrounding chapters to see my point. Further, I feel this JUSTIFIES such notions
as the Torah still being of Divine Origin and ‘Word of God’ in status. I feel the house of Zadok ‘Attributed’ the
teachings of P (primarily Leviticus) to Moses as an act of humility and
honouring the prophet. P is not
specifically Mosaic in origin, but carries the authority of God regardless.
Likely ‘D’
has some such similar origin and authority as well.
I raise
this issue because I feel this viewpoint justifies, to a certain degree, the
notion that the scripture still carries divine authority associated with it.
The ‘Concise Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth’
and historical Jesus faith as talked of in my
fictional writings.
The
passages I ‘Excerpted’ in my work ‘Melanie and Daniel: Temptations’, which has a link as well (see
main page of website) from the Gospel are passages I call ‘Kosher’ teaching of
Jesus of Nazareth. I have removed
‘Christ’ claims and anti-semitic passages from this ‘Concise Gospel’ and
believe it is a way of integrating the authentic teachings of the ‘Man’ Jesus
of Nazareth son of Joseph and Mary into Judaism, as well as offering to fans of
Jesus teaching a ‘Kosher’ Gospel message.
Why bother doing this? Simply
because it is a decent enough idea as I see it, and Jesus on his own merits of
some of his non-controversial teachings should be heard by Israelites as well.
The movie
from the 1970s ‘Jesus’ which Christians use a lot is, I feel, a Positive movie
which Judaism could embrace. Mainly it
concentrates on the teachings of Jesus and his works, and is a ‘Feel Good’
movie about the man from Nazareth.
The real
controversy in the movie (one of the few times this movie brings it up) is when
Jesus is in front of the Sanhedrin claiming to be the messiah.
I have
noticed the spirit on the Sanhedrin in this movie when watching it – a very
Jewish spirit – and I feel this should be pointed out to Christians. My perspective is that the Sanhedrin are
examining Jesus claims of deity and messiah-ship, and consulting, and finding
Jesus claims untrue. They looked into
the issue. They consulted. They found Jesus incorrect in his
claims. The Sanhedrin was NOT
misinformed. They examined the issue and
checked their facts. Look at this movie,
and the final scenes with Jesus in front of the Sanhedrin. They didn’t AGREE with Jesus. And yes, they were correct. And for sensitive Christians to the spirit of
God, watch the movie carefully and see if you can sense the spirit of the
Sanhedrin – it IS there. They DO have a
spiritual nature. It is NOT the same as
the spiritual realities of differing Christian churches. It is a spirit within Judaism.
I
encourage movie to watch the Jesus movie, as in this movie Jesus comes off as
likeable and friendly, and it could NOT be considered an anti-semitic movie.
Oh, and if
you notice ‘Peter’ in this movie, and sense his spirit, if you are familiar
with the spiritual feelings of the Catholic Church you will find it is the same
spirit of ‘Peter’ all the way through it.
Sarcasm and other
issues.
My
writings have a heck of a lot of sarcasm towards Israel. Oh, I am only joking. Lighten up Rabbi. Your ‘Wondrous’ Talmud is full of all sorts
of friendly sayings towards gentiles, I would imagine (Or so I have heard), but
nevermind.
Of
course, Exodus 22:21. ‘Do not oppress an
Alien for you were slaves in Egypt’.
&
Isaiah 42 in Israel’s role to ‘Rescue the Gentiles from the dungeons of sin and
so on, showing them the light of the Torah.’
So
as a Noahide I DO understand (Exodus 19) Israel’s role as a Kingdom of PRIESTS
and a Holy Nations. Of course, you can’t
have a priest without a ‘Laity’, so the Noahide Nations of the world are the
Laity I would imagine. We can’t ALL be
priests. That would be a bit weird.
2 Esdras
I
Feel the 70 books talked about in 2 Esdras comprise those missing books
mentioned in the Bible (Like the Book of Jasher and
so on) as well as the Apocrypha and various of the books of the Pseuedpigrapha. In
the Karaite Noahide branch of Judaism, these books are ‘Authoritative’ and
‘Scriptural’, and part of the tradition for the ‘Wise among the people’ as the
teaching says.
They
are not necessarily historical at all – they may well be pseudepigraphal. That is accepted. Regardless, they ARE accepted by us as
Scripture, carrying the authority of God Almighty, and appropriate for study
and teaching.
We
uphold the teaching that the imminent Messiah will reign ‘400’ years, after
which Judgement Day will advent. At that
point, those people who are found built on one of the branches of Judaism, be
it ‘Israelite’ or ‘Noahide’ or even the hopefully emerging ‘Abrahamide’ branches
will be considered ‘Gold’ and part of the Kingdom of Israel. Not all mankind will be saved.
For
our movement, Christianity, Islam and Bahai will become part of the Kingdom of
Israel, within their own various covenantal approaches to the faith.
Daniel
17
January 6176 SC / 17 January 2012 CE/AD
Speculations
This material is only semi-canonical.
The Year 2020 in the Common Era calendar and the Christian Calendar
The Year
2020 CE is the more likely time for the resurrection of the dead according to
the Book of Daniel chapter 12.
70 Years
are completed by Israel in their rebirth as a nation, accounting for the 70 Noahide Nations.
The
Septuagint is the LXX, but supposedly it was precisely 72. So somewhere in 2020, within the 72nd year
approximately,
the
resurrection is more likely to happen.
This has allowed sufficient time for the preaching of the Gospel 2000
years prophecy
as
Jesus, the Jew, was around 20 at this stage and enough mature gospel had been
taught and lived. This is a sufficient
time
period to account for the Egyptian and Mayan prophecies as relevant indicators
of the end of their calendars, a significant
enough
idea for mankind, and reasonably fulfilling Egypt's traditions, in God's mercy,
is an acceptable enough idea.
The
first of my dates was the 21st of December 2012, and the second of my dates was
the 26th of December 2012. There
was a
lot of reasons for these predictions.
Perhaps, funnily, the third time will be the charm, and this is the more
likely
date of
the three in my current opinion. Perhaps
it could be argued that simply a responsible and traditional enough date
for the fulfilment of such things should be argued, and the idea of
2020, for perfect vision, pardon the pun, is a more
responsible
date, and completes Israel's service for the 70 Noahide
Nations.
Earlier
speculations within the Rainbow Torah were a learning experience, but this is
where I have now worked to as of
my
latest thoughts as of the 24th of November 2012. I don't mind being wrong if either of the
first dates comes to pass,
and
should not have any particular preference apart from a responsible date.
Because
I view Zerubbabel as the Messianic figure of Isaiah
11, and because he only achieved Governor status of
Judah,
and not Kingship status, the messianic prophecy was not completely
fulfilled. Thus there was no physical
resurrection
after the persecution of the Seleucids by Antiochus Epiphanes
IV, and the Everlasting Kingdom failed
to
resurrect its dead. I would argue Psalm
89 predicts this reality. Next time
around Zerubbabel has a better chance
of
fulfilling his Messianic role properly.
I would
recommend a Wedenesday on the 26th if possible
somewhere in the year, but that is entirely flexible to sound
reason,
and just a suggestion because of earlier speculations. There may not even be a Wednesday 26th in
2020, as
I
haven't checked yet. I may do so one
day. But I have no specific date, just
that 2020 looks the most likely year.
Just a responsible
and mature date in that year would be the best bet.
One Final Edition for Each
Rainbow Bible only - Amending completely earlier writing within the overall
scope of the Rainbow Bibles - Written as of 25th of November 6176 SC (25th of
November 2012 CE)
I had planned on doing 7
editions for each Rainbow Bible, and this was expressed within the Rainbow
Bibles.
But I have decided there will only be 1 Final and complete Edition for
each of the 7 Rainbow Bibles, and none of them, as of this date, are by any
means complete. Further, there will not
be any earthly reality of 21 Divine Fellowships, but ONLY 7 Divine Fellowships
and 7 Official Rainbow Bibles, 1 each for each of the 7 Divine Karaite Adamide-Noahide
Fellowships. In a heavenly setting, Gabriel
and then Michael have permission to form the remainder of the 21DF if they so
choose. Gabriel is responsible for 8DF
to 14DF and Michael is responsible for 15DF to 21DF. Ultimately, they may have to choose to return
to live in the Physical Earth's universe for their Eternal Life, if they choose
to act upon the 21DF Theology - as it would be required for all 21DF to know
each other, and be located in the same physical realm. Seeing as I have chosen to live my eternity
in the physical universe, Gabriel and Michael will have to make up their own
bloody minds. I know Michael personally,
who has spiritually appeared to me twice.
I suggested he was Ambriel, from my books, in
earlier writings, but it was indeed Archangel Michael. The Holy Spirit has confirmed that with
me. So, my guess, is that Gabriel and
Michael and the people of heaven, ultimately, not being wusses, will eventually
accept the challenge and take the hard yards and live forever in the physical -
because they are probably not pussies in the end. Come on you wimpy bloody angels. Hah.
Daniel San forever.
The Catholic Jesus Gospel
A Mythic Message of Divine Inspiration
According
to altar boy Daniel Thomas Andrew Tarcisius Daly
And being born in a manger, the son of Mary and
Joseph, Jesus grew up and was well known as a godfearing
child of a holy Jewish family. Jesus was
strong in the Lord and loved his father Joseph and his mother Mary with all his
heart. He worked with his father as a
Carpenter and carefully learned all the ways of the trade. He was quick to pay attention to even the
most minor of details and would listen faithfully as Joseph instructed him in
the ways of Jewish living and being holy towards God.
Jesus cried greatly when Joseph died, and when they
were at the grave his mother Mary said ‘Fear not, dear Jesus. For your father has gone to heaven to be with
his heavenly father, the father of us all.
Remember that dear son. God is
your father, and he loves you greatly.’
‘I will remember,’ responded the boy Jesus.
As Jesus grew, he grew strong in the faith, and was
full of courage. The Holy Spirit of God
watched over him, instructing his mind and teaching him the proper ways of
godly conduct and how to teach men the way of the Gospel of God. The Holy Spirit blazed in the young man
Jesus’ heart, and as he worked and grew everyone in Nazareth thought of him as
a most special and gifted child of God.
But there was something different about him. Something different his mother Mary
noticed. He was special, was Jesus, as
the Angel Gabriel had told her. He was
special and had a gift – a gift for all men in Israel and, one day, to the ends
of the world. And as he continued to
grow in learning, wisdom and understanding, Mary knew she must share her son’s
message to be a Holy Mother to the world, to spread the message of God’s
beloved peacemakers, children of God, children of peace, bound together in
bonds of love, and unity.
As he grew Jesus shared with his mother his dreams
from what he had seen in the sacred scriptures.
Dreams of forming a special community – a chosen community – one which
would live forever, a sacred ecclesia of God – which throughout eternity would
serve God in love and fidelity, knowing God loved them dearly and would forever
be faithful to them. And Mary knew her
son was wise and would share him in this vision, as she knew Joseph her husband
would have, had he lived longer.
Jesus grew and soon, one day, he spoke with his
mother.
‘It is time, mother. The Day of the Lord is upon us and I must
preach the Gospel. For God my father
wishes this of me.’
And Mary nodded solemnly, gave her son her
blessing, and sent him on his way.
And then she prayed this holy prayer.
‘God of my fathers, God of my ancestors, I sing
praise to your name. My dear son Jesus,
descended from our champion King David, is truly a Son of David, a man after
God’s own heart. I thank you King of
Eternity for the passion you have placed in my son’s heart, and I ask you to
keep your hand upon him all his days, until he has completed his sacred mission. Praise to you Lord God Almighty. I rejoice in your ways with quiet humility
and grateful service. Alleluia.
And Jesus went off, and came to John. And was baptized. And the Holy Spirit of God alighted upon him
and a voice from the heavenlies said ‘This is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’
And immediately Jesus went to the desert, were the
dark lord tested him, but Jesus came through this testing in his faith and the
Gospel was preached.
One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went
up on the mountainside and sat down. His
disciples gathered around him, and he began to teach them.
‘God blesses those who are poor and realize their
need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs
God blesses those who mourn, for they will be
comforted
God blesses those who are humble, for they will
inherit the whole earth
God blesses those who hunger and thirst for
justice, for they will be satisfied
God blesses those who are merciful, for they will
be shown mercy
God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they
will see God
God blesses those who work for peace, for they will
be called the children of God
God blesses those who are persecuted for doing
right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs
God blesses you when people mock you and persecute
you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you
are my followers. Be happy about it! Be
very glad! For a great reward awaits you
in heaven. And remember, the ancient
prophets were persecuted the same way.
And you must pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept
holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven. Give us today the food we need,
and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but
deliver us from all evil. For thine is
the Kingdom, the power and the glory, world without end, Amen.’
Jesus continued his teaching. ‘Judge not, less you are likewise
judged. For the standard you use in your
judgement may very well be applied to yourself in the way God decides to judge
you. So what if there is a problem with
your brother, like a little speck in his eye.
You probably have a log in your own eye, so at least remove the log
before you try getting the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Do to others whatever you would like them to do to
you. This is the essence of all that is
taught in the law and the prophets.’
One of the teachers of religious law was standing
there listening to the debate. He
realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, ‘Of all the commandments,
which is the most important?’
Jesus replied, ‘The most important commandment is
this: ‘Shema Israel, Adonai
Eloheinu, Adonai Achud.’ And you
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Secondly, you shall love your neighbour as
yourself. These are the prime
commandments.’
The teacher replied ‘Well said Jesus of
Nazareth. To love God with all of your
being is the summation of our faith, so much more than just the sacrificial
aspects.’
‘You are not far from heaven,’ Jesus responded to
the teacher.
Jesus spoke to his disciples. ‘There was a man, walking along a road, and
he saw a man who had apparently been robbed, lying on the road, bleeding. He was a Pharisee this man, and looked at the
bleeding man, but was too busy to help him so walked on. Later on a scribe came by, but was also just
a little too busy to get involved, and passed on as well. Later that day, when it was starting to get
cold and dark, a Samaritan came along, who the Pharisees and Scribes really
don’t approve of, looked at the man, and despite it being late and cold,
troubled himself to put the man carefully on his donkey, take him to an inn,
and pay for his healing. Now tell me,
was it the Pharisee, scribe or Samaritan who did the right thing?’
Jesus spoke to his disciples. ‘The younger son of a farmer wanted the good
life, sick to death of work. He’d had
enough, demanded his inheritance right there and then, and because the farmer
loved his son, he gave him his share.
The son went off, partied for quite a while, but ended up broke. He was working for a man, feeding the pigs,
and eating very poorly, when he came to his senses. ‘At home I’ll get a better feed. I will ask for forgiveness. I have been an idiot, but hopefully dad will
forgive me.’ The son went home, and his
father killed the fatted lamb in his son’s honour. But the older brother, who had worked hard
and not left, remaining faithful, complained.
And then the father said to the older brother, ‘I would have done so
much for you as well, and more besides.
But rejoice, for your brother was lost to the family, but is now found
again.’
Jesus preached many, many things for a while until
the day came – the day he feared, but the day which would bring life to
countless people. And, as he walked the
stations of the cross, bearing the sins of the world, he remembered in his
heart the love he had for those he had chosen and the price that needed to be
paid for their salvation. And with
courage and the last of his passion he reached the cross and was raised so that
men might be forgiven.
3 days later something special happened. Jesus rose from the dead by the power of the
Holy Spirit. And he was seen by men, and
seen by his disciples, and seen by doubting Thomas, and taken into heaven at
the ascension.
A while later, after Jesus had been taken up to
heaven, Saul converted and became Paul.
And writing to the Corinthian Church, he wrote:
‘If I spoke with the tongues of an Angel, in all
his glory, and thought myself splendid, what would it matter if I didn’t really
love people very much. If I was the
ultimate prophetical voice, and expounded the word of God with so much wisdom
that people were amazed at me, but didn’t practice love towards my friends and
fellows, what kind of person am I really?
If I had 7 university degrees, with PhD’s, but lacked intelligence in
how I showed love to people, perhaps not even loving them at all, is my life
really worth living? Love suffers long
and is kind and patient. It is not
arrogant or rude or unforgiving. And it
does not think highly of itself, puffing itself up in pride. Love is the true voice of prophecy, it is the
true word of God. And love, knowledge of
love itself, is what is eternal. You
see, prophetical preachers come and go, but love will last forever. All that knowledge was part of our learning,
but love is the completion of our journey, giving us a fulfilment in life which
makes it all worth while. When I was younger I behaved in childish
ways, but growing up and growing in love I have learned to put these ways
behind me. While I am young and naïve
what I know is not complete, but when I love completely my knowledge will be
perfect. Faith will last forever, and is
a great virtue. Hope will endure for all
time, and is a wonderful truth. But love
is special, greater than even faith and hope, yes love is the greatest of all.’
Later still Mary had been faithfully teaching many,
many souls about the salvation of Jesus.
And God looked upon his faithful servant, his dear child who he loved
with all his heart. And he spoke unto
Mary saying ‘Daughter of God. As Enoch
and Elijah were brought unto heaven for their great faithfulness and service,
you need not see death, for you are pure in my eyes, and have walked in great
faith and service.’ And so Mary was
assumed to heaven in a blessed assumption, and the angels and saints rejoiced
at her company.
The End