God's Calling-it's for You

So, how can we know if a dream about an angel is a real angelic appearance?

Here are some guidelines I have developed as a result of my study of the Bible, my postgraduate work in dreams at the Yale Divinity School, and my talks with people about their experiences.

1. The result of the dream will draw attention to God more than the angel. Angels are God’s messengers and their purpose is always to bring glory to God, not to themselves.
2. The dreams usually leave a person with feelings of awe and wonder and that God is loving. This is true even when the angel appears to a person who is rebelling against God and is deep in sin. The angel may appear to judge and to scare a person straight. Often, when this occurs, the angel does not even give a message in words, but the experience of God’s presence is shattering and life-transforming and points to a God who cares deeply.
3. Is this dream sensible or illogical? We need to use common sense. While a dream or a vision may come from God and be a positive life-changing event, the dream may also come from images buried in our subconscious. God does not send his angels to tell us silly or terrible things. It is always wise to share your experience with a trusted member of your faith community. Sharing with another person helps us evaluate the authenticity of what may be an angelic encounter.
4. Does this dream contradict what is taught in the Bible? God does not contradict himself. See my past column: Good Angels, Bad Angels.
5. Does this encounter leave you more renewed and more resolved to serve God? If is the encounter is genuine it will move you to love God more deeply and to live out your faith more consistently.

Bill Webber at
angelquestions@beliefnetstaff.com

Perspective

Derek Speed wrote: (2008)

Man will destroy this planet long before any "death star" will. Pay attention,  firstly it has been proven in a Supreme Court in the United States that there is no such thing as intelligent design by "god". Secondly, it will be the philosophies of religion that destroy the earth. Two thousand years ago, someone named Moses wrote what's called the Ten Commandments, one of those Commandments was "Thou Shalt not Kill". That philosophy makes human life, more valuable than the planet that sustains it. According to experts, there was 1 billion people on this planet two thousand years ago. If no humans killed any humans for the last two thousand years like the bible suggest, what would the current human population of this planet be right now? Keep in mind, the human population has doubled in the last forty years from 3 billion to 6 billion. Take out a pencil and piece of paper, now draw a circle, with another circle around the outside of the circle you just drew. Make it look like a cell and a nucleus. Now think of how a virus works, a virus or parasite like the Ebola Virus. If one of these parasites invade one of our cells, it will do nothing but consume and reproduce, just like the human animal in the "thou shalt not kill" world. Think of planet earth as a cell in our bodies, the earth is the atom and the ozone is the nucleus that protects it. The human animal does nothing but consume and reproduce, because we are not permitted to kill or conflict with each other, it's against "gods" law.
What happens to a cell when its totally consumed by a virus or a parasite, well, it dies. We the human race in the "thou shalt not kill" world will kill our cell or planet. I want you to think of those four words uttered 2 thousand years ago, and then go pick up a dictionary and look up the word Ironic. Why is everything round, bubbles, the earth, the atom, our cells, even our orbit, well it's simple really, the circle is the most efficient shape, the circle of life doesn't start at ocean plankton and end at the lion. We, the human race walk this planet with infinite complacency, convinced of our superiority over it, that way of thinking is going to get us all killed.

The End of the Earth

 End of the Earth Postponed

By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 18 October 2010 06:06 pm ET

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It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will — or if it has already. A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)

The Mayan calendar was converted to today's Gregorian calendar using a calculation called the GMT constant, named for the last initials of three early Mayanist researchers. Much of the work emphasized dates recovered from colonial documents that were written in the Mayan language in the Latin alphabet, according to the chapter's author, Gerardo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Later, the GMT constant was bolstered by American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, a Mayan calendar and almanac that charts dates relative to the movements of Venus. "He took the position that his work removed the last obstacle to fully accepting the GMT constant," Aldana said in a statement. "Others took his work even further, suggesting that he had proven the GMT constant to be correct."

But according to Aldana, Lounsbury's evidence is far from irrefutable. "If the Venus Table cannot be used to prove the GMT as Lounsbury suggests, its acceptance depends on the reliability of the corroborating data," he said. That historical data, he said, is less reliable than the Table itself, causing the argument for the GMT constant to fall "like a stack of cards." Aldana doesn't have any answers as to what the correct calendar conversion might be, preferring to focus on why the current interpretation may be wrong. Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes.

Awakening Your Third Eye

The God Gene

DNA Activation

So, why dreams?

It is the greatest communicator known to human kind. History proves creation from a 3-part source made up of a mind, body and most importantly-a spirit, which is the "image" of an alien being of superior intelligence. Remember what I said before, that same creation that claims the credit for the design of the new human being was also a creation of that 3-part source. With that being said, it is clear that whatever the Source makes, the Others emulate. This gives both of them direct access to your mind whenever they choose. We search for knowledge and we hunt for the truth outside ourselves. When all the while, the answer is inside us. Lucid dreaming is power. It has the power to change us, which gives us the ability to change the world. Not everyone can remember their dreams. But for those who can, this is your golden ticket into paradise. From the moment the mind is molded in the womb, to the point of eventual death: we will dream. And that ability is the most powerful signal of contact between us and "them". Until the day we cease to exist in this fashion, we will be visited in our dreams on countless occasions throughout our lifetime. As for the knowledge and information we gain from them, it is up to us to do decide what to do with it.

The truth is evident that we are indeed made in "their" image and by definition we are the only earthbound beings in modern time that possess a soul. It is literally part of our DNA. Animals have the ability to dream. Animals are also very much in tune with the seen and unseen forces of nature. But contrary to popular belief they do not have souls. Every upright creature up to the point of modern man, shared likenesses and similarities, but none since the birth of this planet; had a soul. The soul is a result of genetic manipulation. The soul gives us dominion of this earth and separates our intellect from all other species. To see the soul in all its glory, open your third eye. The key to the soul is the Pineal Gland. Neanderthals did not have it; but you do--by purpose and design. 






It is here that all delight, inspiration, and enchantment is given life. For what it's worth, you are born into this world already knowing everything you need to know. It is mapped to your DNA at conception. So what's the catch? The catch is being able to know the difference between positive healthy influence and negative hurtful influence. This is the core of Free Will. You must learn to know the difference. And you must choose. 

-DeMaster Thomas