Marian Intercession in Tewahido

   

I pray to God and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ do so, for God is the Creator and the ONLY receiver of prayers. But God  could grant what He wishes! And He granted godhood to Moses in front of  Pharaoh/Exodus 7:1/

” And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy 

brother   shall be thy prophet.”

  

   The same God also made

 1.        Abraham a prophet to 
        intercede  Abimelech to
        Himself/Gen 20:1-7/.

        While Abimelech was ABLE 
        (pure enough) to see God in dreams – 
        and  thereby DIRECT PRAYERS, he was  
        ordered by God to beseech Him indirectly via Abraham. Why did that happen?
        I speak of Abimelech's purity, because Pharoah (who vanished in Eritrean Sea) was not 
        pure enough to see God. For God needs pure heart to declare Himself even in dreams or 
        visions, and Abimelech had that heart! In fact He was innocent.

2.       Job an intercessor for his friends Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and 

       Zophar the Naamathite/Job 42:7-9/. Why God needed this INDIRECT prayer? Was 

        these men’s deed worthy enough to take their prayers to God? Why God need Job to

        be magnified, as compared to his friends?

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When we come to St. Virgin Mary the story will be similar but a more vivid version. God was pleased to be named ”God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, God of Job...”. But for This Virgin, God is pleased  even to be called ”Son of Mary”. Isn’t that the prophecy ’God’ to be called ’Son of Adam, Son of Abraham, Son of David…’ fulfilled with our Lady? Aren’t you eating the Flesh and drinking the Blood of The Lord, to be saved? Where did He get that? She is a pure vessel, ineffable, and a tree with a fruit to nourish the hunger of all children of Adam! Isn’t the Lord called ’Son of Man’, [not ’son of Angel’], embodied in Her pure flesh? BTW the ’face of the Lord’ is exactly similar to Hers – this could be biologically justifiable claim/by face like ’ደም ግባት, ዉበት, …’/. For The Lord was born of Her without the need of a man, He is exactly like Her skin color and beauty. 

I wonder the beauty of the prophecy about Her in Isaiah 1:9

”Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we[all men] should have been like to Gomorrah.”

All men Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Isaiah, David,…saw God in dreams/visions because they loved Him better than other men. But The Virgin CONCEIVED HIM, TOUCHED HIM, raised Him and is called The Mother of God. Is there any wo/man claiming to love The Lord more than His Mother, a Mother with ONLY ONE SON? Who is closer to Him than Her? Who washed the Lord, God of Abraham? Who heard His childhood whispering closer to by ear?For whom God showed obedience, as a child while growing up? Who kissed the face of God? But St. Virgin Mary is His Mother and no other is closer to the Lord than Her!

 Then who is worthier to be heard more?

 Abraham(His prophet) or St. Mary(His Mother)? Who is worthier to intercede men, Job or St. Virgin Mary? Whom did God glorify more, Job’s truth or the flesh of Mary?


As Her Son, Who is the Savior of the world, is Her FRUIT of purity and greater than Her, even so is She the FRUIT of righteousnesses of Enoch, Noah,Abraham, David,.....Joachim and Anne, and She is greater than them, indeed.

 Is it not all this because that our Lady Virgin Mary is really deserving to be the mother of God? Amaze yourself by Her comments, in line with God/The Father person in Trinity/!!!

The Father spoke in clouds,

“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; HEAR YOU HIM.” Matthew 17:5

“His mother said to the servants, Whatever he said to you, do it” John 2:5

Mind you She was not in Mount Tabor hearing the voice of God in clouds, neither was She in Jordan to be baptized in the hands of John the Baptist. But She knew it, for She is The Holiest Treasury who kept many holy secrets in Her heart. Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart”.

She is PURE enough in heart to be a perfect VINE TREE on whom the FRUIT CHRIST did ripe.

A better spiritual understanding, would not crash The BIG PICTURE with incomplete fragments of Biblical sentences!

For me, I know myself, I am not worthy and neither do my prayers climb up to the Throne of God, The Most High! I need an intercessor, St. Virgin Mary – The Mother of God, and my  beloved Mother offered to me via John the Appostle at the last minutes in Golgotha /John 19:27/.

I haven’t seen any dreams or visions of God like Abimelech, who was INNOCENT enough to see God in dreams. That means I need Her better than Abimelech needs Abraham! If I were like St. TekleHaymanot, St. Arsema or St. George, whose spiritual victory pleased God, I could have prayed DIRECTLY to Him. I am not sure, if my DIRECT prayers are effective enough to help my case.

Fear if in case we may be found standing by the dragon in Revelation 12:13, when we comment against Her participation in Salvation.

13 And when the DRAGON saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the WOMAN which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the WOMAN were given two wings of a great eagle, that SHE might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where SHE is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the WOMAN, that he might cause HER to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the WOMAN, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with THE  REMNANT OF HER SEED , which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”


I don’t know about you. JUDGE yourself! But I underline, let not insolence eat our hearts, even if we may see visions and dreams like Abimelech!
It would be an ETERNAL DISASTER, if we enthroned up ourselves in undeserving status and if finally the Lord rejects us.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests{of weeding}, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:12

I conclude with a Tewahido proverb – ”Biblical words are golden beads, chew them wisely”. Another similar proverb ”Words {of Bible} are killers, interpretations are medicines”


May the Lord, God of Abraham, and Son of Virgin Mary send to us His Holy Spirit to discern scriptures. Amen.

The Sixth Sense Organ

The American Heritage Dictionary defines 'Language' as "Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. [1]
According to The Bible the first men were able to communicate even with animals.
 Eve was able to communicate with the serpent. [Genesis 3:1-5]
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die: 5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
For a modern linguist, this may sound a bit weired - how can men speak with a serpent in a manner that can be  lexically interpreted? Is there any sense organ we missed to communicate with animals? Or did the serpent lose its humane intellect and physical structure, degradation to a mere animal snake?
But the same Bible gave no trace of the second option. So what was the 'sixth' sense organ amputated from Adam and Eve, after their eviction from The Garden of Eden? Why don't we communicate with animals now? ......Question ONE!

As we ponder on to the same Bible, [Genesis 11:1]
"1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.....[].....Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth.
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The children of men faced another limitation, even they themselves faced misunderstandings among each other. At this time it became clear that we might not have lost a sixth physical sense organ - rather the same incident might have happened with "the serpent-men" dialect. What might have caused this miscommunication?........Question TWO!
Today there are more than 6,809 languages spoken around the world [2], that means more than 6800 differences and misunderstandings.

Is MODERN language advanced enough to make communication possible without any bottlenecks?
Let us do a simple experiment. How many of us could speak the following video to a friend who didn't see it?

I wonder if we could pass 10% the information encoded in this video even without the audio tracks!!! We are terribly less communicating among ourselves.
We depend on words to do our daily business - to interact with our environment. That means we are living dictionaries. The more active in selecting convincing 'words' a person is the more successful his/her life, no matter what is in his/mind!!! Among the contemporary politicians, the US president Barack Obama used this skill to win his career.
Why are we dependent on discrete number of words to communicate with our fellows?.....Question THREE!

Language in Spiritual Domain

The Lord taught the apostles many things, but they were not able to comprehend His messages. At the end of His ministry, most of them were still confused about the new doctrine, Christianity world view. In the end He told them "12 I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." [John 16:12]

After the descent of The Holy Spirit on the apostles, they begin to speak other languages. [Acts 2:1]

This broke the language barrier and facilitated their Global Ministry. But is the language we are speaking dependent on another unseen dimension - beyond the vibration of our vocal cords?......Question FOUR!

The word human is ሰዉ in Amharic /ሰብእ in Geez/. ሰብእ literally means SEVEN. It came directly from the natures of HUMAN. According to Tewahido teachings, we are created from seven substances/elements. Air, Fire, Water, Earth are the FOUR natures of our physical body. Life, Intellect and Utterance are the THREE natures of our Spirit.(*). So accordingly our language skill is hidden in our spiritual dimension - the nature of Utterance. Similarly our physical dimension is just a hardware to interface us[our soul] with our environment. This doesn't mean that our soul is less interactive. Our Spirit is even over conscious, omnipotent and omnipresent(independent of time-space dimension). But for the time being its docked[locked in] within our physical body.
Another fascinating fact is that our Life is in the spiritual dimension too. Once our spirit[our Intellect, our Life and our Utterance natures] leave our physical [our Air, our Fire, our Water and our Earth natures], we are declared as dead. The Near Death Experiences[NDEs] , confirming this Tewahido teaching, can help to understand this concept. Then DEATH means the release of our spirit from our physical natures!!!

Inter-Being [angel-soul,soul-soul] communication

The same Tewahido teaching explains that the communication between spirits is not through discrete words. Rather its a kind of paranormal/telepathic/ communication. Whats in ones mind is fully passed into another's mind just at the moment of thinking the message, without any miscommunication. This is similar to assuming as if both are sharing the speaker's mind regarding to the message. 

Now all the above questions are mystified here! The children of men lost this ability for their disobedience. 

At first they were able to communicate with animals telepathically. The more they sinned the more they became less conscious of the spiritual way of living.

The Significance of LISTENING to the guidance of The Holy Spirit.

The Word of God[The Bible] is, as often said by Tewahido scholars, "a Golden bead". Unless we ascend into a better spiritual level, to listen to God speaking to us, it is dangerous to chew it randomly. Then we have two options to correctly understand the Biblical messages - either praying for our purity or asking those who understood it. Reading the Bible is highly encouraged, but interpreting it needs hearing to the Holy Spirit.

Prayer[+ meditation with the Lord] is a better strategy to receive guidance from the Holy Spirit. By listening to God, we can discern, we can outperform the language barriers we discussed so far. The Holy Spirit speaks in silence and from inside our hearts. He removes the dense fog from our hearts. Don't expect Him in noisy displays. Neither within artistic lures. Just ponder and listen Him from within silence. Unless you calm down yourself, you may not listen to His sounds......just whispering within your calmness.

After receiving the Holy Spirit, the Apostles' world view was changed dramatically into perfection. The involvement of The Spirit of God in understanding God Himself made Christianity ineffable and inexpressible in words only. Christians receive the Holy Spirit at the time of Chrismation. From that time on, the Spirit of God dwells within us for guidance to righteousness, unless we deliberately sinned against Him. The Spirit of God pours into our mind the perfect knowledge without any limitation. Be careful not to mistake The Spirit of God with the spirit of Evil. The Spirit of God remembers us righteousness and calmness, while the Evil spirit requests us to take less care of that path and go on according to emotional desires.
The Spirit of God curves our world views, when we learn Biblical messages. A Christian being guided by the Spirit of God will end up being founded on unshakable rock.

May the Lord, God of Abraham give us a blessed Feast of Theophany [ Ethiopian Timkat]. Amen.

* - I translated them myself, Life[ሕይወት - የሕያዊት ነፍስ ባሕርይ], Intellect[ልብ- የለባዊት ነፍስ ባሕርይ] and Utterance[ልሳን- የነባቢት ነፍስ ባሕርይ]. Anyone with better translation is highly welcome.

  - Life = the nature of being a living Being

  - Intellect =the ability to reasoning

   - Utterance = the ability to communicate with other Beings
[1]-http://www.answers.com/topic/language#ixzz1Aa6K2hOK
[2] https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/howmany.pdf&pli=1

The Church History ---- PART ONE

Knowing the history of Christianity helps knowing the sensitive nature of Salvation. For a Christian knowing the past understands how to react to the future. A Christian not knowing that even a neck was paid for Salvation, may compromise the very concept of following the Lord with temporal peace. The Lord taught us that, "Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it ; and
 whoever shall lose his life [for the sake of the Kingdom of God] shall preserve it." Luke 17:33


However, these days following these principles and adhering to the very righteous path may trigger to be labeled as a 'fundamentalist'. To the scale of being casted out from friends, families, etc. These are the modern 'martyrdom' costs to whom we have to react cautiously, lest we may be drowned with the deeds of the world. Last time a preacher was arrested for speaking that homosexuality is sin [1]. What is the meaning of spirituality, if a sin more wicked like homosexuality that was the reason for the extinction of Sodom and Gomorrah [Genesis 19:1] by the Lord, is not a sin even two millennia  after the Gospel was preached? A corrupted social philosophy driving men to be degraded below the instinct morale of animals!!!
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Enjoy reading Church History Presentation
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Happy New 2011. May the Lord send His peace to all men around the world. Amen.




[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html