Episode 10: Looking at Humanity from God’s Perspective Rather than our Own

This is Pod Populi podcast for the people. Welcome, fellow humans born onto the nursery planet Earth. I'm your host, ta, and this is the why Are we here on Earth podcast. You can look for us at whyarewehereonearthcom or whyareyouhereonearthcom Either will work. Please send me your questions. It is response to questioners that helps me get across everything that I'm trying to get people to understand, which is why I have the podcast and which is why I'm being published on the PodPopular Network.

Our last podcast was done with Angela. She helped me out with the Focus Within podcast and it shows me that I respond best and am more effective at least least my own mind to what is going on when I have someone to relate to, someone who has questions and wants answers, because I have a lot of knowledge and understanding that needs to be out there where other people can use it can use it. So the last one was about the different impacts on my life and things that I recognized were unusual, and I hope you listen to it. This one is going to be about what am I trying to get across? The major thing I'm a Bible scholar so, as you may have noted by now, the major thing that we need to understand is the way we look at things is not the way God looks at things. Look at things is not the way God looks at things and in order to understand what it is that he has in mind for us, we need to look at the way he thinks, his perspective, his point of view, rather than our own Religion. Is us accessing our own and our fellow humans' perspective on what happens to us while we're here on planet Earth all of reality. So God comes to us, if you will, from all of reality.

I tried to get across Proverbs 3.5. It's extremely important. It's probably my favorite, or certainly one of the favorite passages in the Bible, and it tells us things that we are still not prepared to understand. It starts out. It doesn't tell you. It says to try to understand what is going on. It says trust in the Lord, your God, with all your heart, mind and soul and do not rely on your own understanding. And what it's trying to tell us. With that and Solomon was the most intelligent, wisest person that everyone agrees he's trying to let us know that there's more out there than we have access to currently because of our point of view.

There's old human truisms that there's more than one way to skin a cat which is messy, I would imagine and that every coin has two sides. Well, every coin actually has three sides. It's something that we don't consider because it's rare. If you flip a coin, it actually lands on its edge, so we just kind of dismiss that. And yet it has happened. It does happen, it's happened to me and it causes you to think, wow, that's not something that's often looked at. So the two sides that I'm trying to get across here and the edge in the middle that we will eventually get to, is God's way of looking at things and humans' way of looking at things. Is God's way of looking at things and humans' way of looking at things.

Religion is a response, a childish response, to making up what we think is best to say, hey, we're sorry, we're not sharp enough. Please thank you for the opportunity. Please let us keep going. You know, don't squish us out. Although I have no idea where that idea comes from, it seems to be evident in an awful lot of human thinking. We are God's project. We are his children, the people, the individuals and the community which we don't think about often that he wants to develop. We are in a maturation module that is slated to last 6,000 years. We know this because not because of the Bible unfortunately it wasn't recorded in the Bible but in teachings from the Jewish side, where they express things that weren't written down for everyone, and that is that where they expect, or they bargained with God, for there to be six God years, quote unquote. The God years to them was a thousand years, years from the moment of creation until our revelation. We don't know what the until was, but that is the official end of our childhood, and, according to them, there are 216 years left in that 6,000 year time period. Now, this is something that was agreed to, apparently, by God, even though we don't get that. He did agree to an awful lot of other things, which they did allow to be written down, and so we have to assume that it was part of the contract that he came to with his quote chosen people unquote near Mount Horeb. So we assume because they talk about it among themselves, even though it's not in the Bible that it was part of the contract, of the contract, and I think that's a good assumption, because what they mentioned to themselves is that God stated that he would send a deliverer within 6,000 years, not at the end of 6,000 years, which is what the Jews kind of translated in their own minds to be. Of course, this all happened before they were the Jews. They were merely the Israelites at that point and just beginning their religious practices.

And the point being that God needs us to sharpen up, become aware and to work on becoming who and what we want to be. As of today, we are primarily a planet of individuals. Planet of individuals. We don't access the information and knowledge, understanding available to us when we look at ourselves as part of a whole, a molecule, if you will, in the substance of humanity. I've sort of covered this in other podcasts, but not to this extent. So God is looking at things from, shall we say, the left, and he sees everything from that point of view, and we are looking up, basically, at God from the right, and the only thing we can see is tinged by God, and that is the authority and power that God possesses and that we would like to utilize in our lives. Now, if we do it to help one another, that's great. Unfortunately, it seems that we tend to want to use the power and authority to advance our own agendas rather than to advance God's agenda, because God's agenda is for every human ever born and that's something we don't take into account.

The people of the Old Testament, even of Jesus' time, realized that our bodies were vessels for our souls. It was so well known it was very rarely discussed. Paul does discuss it in the New Testament, but it's one of those things it's like. Well, guys, since you already know this, I'm just going to go over the material just to state it. But they had an understanding that we do not. For one thing, when they were talking about the world, they were not talking about the planet that human civilizations are planted upon, are planted upon. They were talking about the interplay of human civilizations through which they could discern what was going on and what their part should be to play in that and how they should conduct their lives for the short periods of time that their bodies would keep them on earth.

If you read Hebrews today in any popular Bible, it is translated as an authority message and they're saying who has authority over one another. But if you translate it in the thought patterns of the time, it was not authority so much as it was a development. So Jesus was thought to be a development of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was born into the world of Abraham and lived during that time period in the body that he had, and he was considered a priest of God. Before they had created their own religion. He was whom I believe it was. Abraham gave 10% of whatever because it would go to God's use.

This is something that you've never heard, because it is not not only not common thought, I don't even find it in religious thought anywhere here in the 21st century and the 21st century is filled with things that we, hey, that sounds like a good idea, let's do that. And then we just keep on doing it and pass it on, and the kids pick it up because when they're born, they think, hey, this is what life is, this is where we've gotten. So we pick this up and we keep going with it, never thinking, hey, should we challenge this? Well, it is natural for children to challenge things that they think don't make sense to them, and that's good, that's part of our human nature. But if they aren't sure or if they don't have enough of an understanding of the interplay and the background of what's going on to make a decision to challenge something, then it basically just gets passed on. So one of the precepts of modern religion.

Precepts of modern religion started happening about the 1400s. At least it came to fruition in the early 1500s. Was that God was, or Jesus was, the, not only the obedient son of God. He was the spiritual son of God and nobody else was. That's important for you to understand. If you ever saw any of the old Saturday Night Lives, you remember Chubby Chase on the Saturday Night Evening News, I'm your host. Chubby Chase on the Saturday night evening news I'm your host, chubby Chase, and you're not. And that secondary part to it has been a foundation for modern religion for the last, well, 600 years now.

And yet it didn't exist before that, before that every human was considered accessible to God and by God and that they could come up with something that would help other humans understand more about God. From that point on, religion became a profession. It was before that too, but it was religious thought and discussion that was taking place, and these people were specialists and they were among the most educated, because the only way that you could be a priest or a monk was if you were inducted into the religion and given the education needed to read the various inputs for the Bible, to be able to speak it in Latin, which was no longer a living language, and to be able to research the things that had been written, that were in Greek or Aramaic or whatever. That is still what is done today at various religious universities, and while all that's good about the 1500s, it became a certification that if you were a religious person, you were certified by God, and that was the understanding that those who are called to a religious life are certified by God. They are not. They may feel that they are and that's fine for them, and perhaps they are, but they are also limited by the religion within which they are certified.

Now the problem with that is it cuts back on people trying to figure out what it is that God wants and why he wants it and how we should respond to that. So that is why I have this podcast. I'm trying to get people to understand no, you have just as much access to God as they did 6,000 years ago, although he doesn't show up on the end of the block anymore. End of the block anymore. There was a time when he did and he said I'm going to have to pull away to let you come to your own conclusions using your own devices, and I will let any man and he didn't mean male, but anyone who searches for me with all their heart, mind and soul find me. So just because God is not physically present in your life does not mean that he's not present, and religions will get that across to you. Religions will get that across to you, but you need to understand that you need to keep working on what it is that he has in mind for us, because his agenda is the one that we will need to work to actually make the most of our lives and our opportunities.

Human agendas come and go and they are a reflection of the times, and all they do, basically, is get you deeper into human fluff. They don't actually have any substantial foundations that you can build on for the future, and that is something that you can also learn from the Bible. I believe it was. Jesus said do not build your house on shifting sands, and the shifting sands was the human thought and perception that we all share and that we all live our daily lives with, but instead build on the foundation that God has supplied and not only is that planet Earth. That is, the understanding that there is an agenda that God has for us and that, if we find our way to it and start using it, we will succeed.

Now I know that you look around and you say, wow, this is, I mean, some cell phones and computers, and all this is success. No, this just gets you further along the line. When you will get to the point along the line. When you will get to the point? All right, what's this all about? Why am I doing these things? Where am I going? Where should I be going?

And that brings up the category of quote senseless violence, unquote. It's only senseless to your human-trained perspective. If you expand your perspective to include what God has told us in the Bible, you will find out it is not senseless. It is a restlessness of the human spirit. It's the one that Jesus predicted to his followers on Mount Olive that there would come a time and there needed to come a time when we would look around as humans and be restive. All right. Now there are things that he said in that well, the entire thing. And we are not to the point where we can as yet access and understand the second half of his message.

But the first half of his message was about what would be happening and when we would realize what was happening and start to look around. Wars and rumors of wars? Well, that's certainly happening. Earthquakes, weather anomalies that's certainly happening. Earthquakes, weather anomalies that's certainly happening. Now, how could he predict not only what humans would do, but what the planet would do, unless and this is a giant unless, but it is supported in biblical teachings there's an interaction between humanity and the planet that they live on? This is something to actually delve into, because we don't realize that we actually have an effect on the planet. We do.

In certain instances, we discuss what was it? Warming, seasonal warming the term escapes me right now where we think that the weather has changed due to our actions, which are easily fathomable, like we have too many cars, we're putting gases and pollutants into the air and that's what's changing the planet. Well, scientists, real scientists, have actually done some work on this and they've discovered that that is true for a small percentage, for a small percentage that will answer what is happening, for a small percentage of the unrest that the weather and the planet seems to be going through. But that leaves an awful lot unanswered. But if you don't look for an answer, you'll never find it. So, for those people who are satisfied with the small, the maybe up to 12, 15 percent in seasonal activities, and the rest is not covered by planet mechanics or sunspots or any of that. And we're even investigating the change in the currents of the, the metals that lie near the center of the earth and the effect they have on weather on the surface. But all of these things that we're checking so far do not give us a complete answer.

So when we go back to the things that they knew and spoke about back then, which we have lost, ignored, not thought of as important, we come to the point that there are now more than 7 billion of us housed on the planet. So the world has expanded, the planet stays the same, but the world of human interaction is up to seven billion. Communication is something that is happening constantly, and so we know what's happening on the other end of the world and we perceive that and we think about that, but we don't know what's happening within ourselves because we're not looking. We have Freud and other psychologists to tell us what's going within our individual cells and we can look at that and we have looked at that and that's fine, but we do not have any groups looking into what is happening with humanity in totality, and that is one of our giant blind spots to what is happening with humanity in totality. And that is one of our giant blind spots, one that was mentioned in the Bible, one that we have never tried to research in any kind of a cogent manner, and something that we need to try and figure out.

What is the effect? That the unrest that humanity has as a whole? And that unrest again was spoken to his disciples by Jesus. What it is is the rejection of authority backed by power, as the best way to organize our lives to become effective. You can write that down, put quotes around it. That's what we're going through now. No one has realized that yet because they have not researched the Bible. If they did research the Bible, they would figure this out pretty quickly, but since they haven't, and since you have me to tell you about it, this is something that needs to come up to our public consciousness, something that we actually research.

In the last podcast, which has not been published yet, I mentioned this as part of the infrastructure of humanity that we have not looked at. We are cells within the body of man, we are part of a whole, but we don't realize that, we don't rationalize it and we don't work on it, and that is something that we need to do. We need to figure out okay, so I'm part of something bigger than me that has a trajectory that is going forward through the daily lives of humans on the planet Earth, what Paul called the world, and I need to figure out. Do we need to direct our steps rather than just fall forward? My advice to you is yes, we do, and we need to look at everything that happens around us in order to direct our steps.

And since we know that we are at the point where we are rejecting at least I know it and I'm trying to tell you so that you will research it so that we are rejecting authority backed by power as the single most important rationale for figuring out who and what we are and why we are here on earth, then we need to find out what do we do to replace that. If that is no longer acceptable, what are we going to replace it with? And that's where the Bible comes in. That's where God tells us that reality is much bigger than we suppose, and I'll have to go over that with you in the future, because it is extremely eye-opening. We do not understand everything that the Bible tells us, and it tells us things that we are not quite prepared to deal with, and I'll have to go over that with you at another time, because it is something that will cause a lot of people to feel as though their feet, the ground beneath them, has opened up, which has always happened, also happened once or twice in the Bible, and people do not react well to that. So let me tell you, just as a characterization, that the Bible is telling us a lot more than we realize, but we have to look at it seriously, take all the information into account and work towards a future that is sustaining, not only for our individual bodies, not only for the societies that we currently have, but for the future society of mankind that we are building.

Our 6,000 years of childhood is coming to a close. There's nothing we can do about that. We agree with that, or we wouldn't have this quote unquote senseless violence, where we are throwing off violently yes, we are throwing off the mental chains that we have allowed ourselves to be locked into, and we need to come up with something else. I'll have to lay that out for you. I'll lay out what the Bible says. I'm not going to lay out what I think is best, unless it's in the Bible, because, as sharp a guy as I think I am, there is no way in the world that I will tell you that I know more than the Bible knows. That is just ridiculous.

I came upon this method of approach because I was in a Bible study and I've been in quite a few Bible studies. I've been trying to search for the edges. All right, what is the Bible? What is God trying to tell us by way of the Bible? The Bible is our remedial workbook, because we screwed up back at the Garden of Eden, decided to do things our way, fulfill our desires and our agenda instead of God's, and God lived with that for a while, for 2,500 years actually, before the Exodus, before all that happened before, decided all right, we've got to have some sort of a foundation between god and man. So we need humanity needs to have representatives and we need to meet and agree on things that they can work on, and that's exactly what happened.

That's what Moses was about. That's what the Exodus, leviticus and Numbers Leviticus and Numbers are the religious books of the Bible that the Levites decided that they wanted to have as their purview was the hearts and souls of their people and to be the leaders for them. But their idea was to lead them to what they thought was good rather than what God thought was good. So that's why God ended up canceling that contract, saying you guys are no longer trying as you said you would and you are not going out to the rest of the world as you said you would. So he's canceling the contract. But he told them back before they actually signed it and said you will be my examples before mankind, for good or ill. The choice is yours. And they thought they could control it, and of course we're. What about 3 500 years after that? Not quite. And they realized hopefully they realized by now that God was right and they were not. They could not control their access to humanity or God's access to fashion a way forward.

And the Bible is our tool, given to us by God. You can't be simple about it. You have to read it as it was written, which is the explanations by different individuals and where God meets with different individuals and answers their questions. Geez, is it any wonder I want to set that kind of thing up? The thing that started me off looking at it this way instead of my own way. In this one Bible study we had a gentleman who was dying and and he knew it and everybody knew it, and he only had weeks to live. He was riddled with cancer and everything had been done that could be done and he was still on the way out and he was looking horrible, by the way, but he was a dear, sweet man and he was very honest and open and he knew that his time on earth because his body would fail him was short.

And so I made a kind of a smart-alecky comment about something and I said I'm not Jesus. And he looked at me and he said are you sure? And he looked at me and he said are you sure? Now I'm not Jesus. I don't think I'm Jesus. I hope to God I'm not Jesus.

I never was, but that's not for me to say, but the fact that he said that hit me, as in here you keep on on going, thinking you know what's best and what's going on so that you could make that comment. And you really don't know, because you've never investigated what God has going on. You're trying to understand from a human point of view what God has in mind for you. That's never going to happen. The only way is to access what God has given you to figure out his point of view, which is what Paul was always trying to tell us, and we couldn't get the same way. He was trying to tell us in Romans 12 too, to change the way you think, and we assumed he meant, oh, think about other things, come to different conclusions, try and do things for the betterment of all instead of just yourself. No, he really meant change the way you think, don't think from human precepts. Look at the way God does things and go from there and you can do it. I have been doing it, and that's what I'm trying to pass along to you.

So I think that my time for today is coming to a close and we will meet again, and hopefully I'll be even better organized, and eventually I'm going to have to tell you the things that are in the Bible that you will never get from any religious practitioner, because they want to be your buddies and your friends and they don't want to tell you things that will shock you, and that's my job. These things will expand your consciousness, but be sitting when you hear them. But be sitting when you hear them because it will be shocking. And for now I'm signing off. Have a great week and I'll see you again shortly. And this is TA. And this is the why Are you here on Earth podcast. ©