The Clouds

And the clouds?

They come and go, and that is the way it has been for mankind ever since the fall to Sin.

I am sure many of you (if not all) will recognize the words of Psalm 44.

The Psalmist describes the presence of the cloud seeking to block out YHWH's promises and absorb faith into the black hole of Evil.

He asks, 'why are You sleeping, YHWH?', looking at YHWH from the distorted perspective of the Earth simulation, the dream we live in, and he makes the cognitive error we all fall prey to.

It is an error all of us make because our picture of reality is painted by the colors of the Earth-dream, and we relate to everything from that perspective, including matters which belong to the real world of the Spirit.

Because we have come to relate to the twisted Earth-dream as a 'normal reality' we have difficulty in understanding matters of the Spirit.

We see through the tainted glass of our sunglasses, a glass darkly or a mirror dimly.

We try to connect spiritual matters together based on the way we relate to the way everything is interconnected and interrelated on Earth, and this translates in the form of an imperfect spiritual vision.

The cognitive distortion causes the Psalmist to feel as if YHWH is asleep, and the Psalmist's experience of delay in response to the many prayers for His interference on YHWH's part makes it seem as if YHWH is asleep, as if He is untrue and not faithful.

But the Truth is that the Psalmist (like all of us) is asleep.

Because we are asleep, we live in a dream, and in this dream Evil produces clouds which block the Light of the Son so that it seems as if the Son is untrue.

Yet the Truth is that the clouds serve to strengthen the wings of faith so that we can fly out of the dream back into the reality of the Son.

The clouds are just a passing illusion, a fading prop on the stage of the Earth dream.

We live in a simulation, a dream world which was created for a specific purpose: to draw out the choice and shape the character of what and who we truly are.

The image of reality we experience is the result of our senses, which are the interface to the reality of the dream world.

We are fed electrical signals, and out of these signals we distil an image of reality.

Everything we see or hear or smell is the result of the interfaces of our eyes, ears and nose producing the input of electrical signals in our brain, which our brain translates into an image of reality.

Everything we touch and feel is but the result of the input of electrical signals.

Even the form and function of the interfaces, including the brain processor, is the result of information signals we process.

We abide in the information network of a dream matrix, and nothing we build in this dream has lasting value.

Only our investment in that which is real, our Soul and our Spirit, is that which we take with us after we have run our course in this simulation.

In this simulation Evil exists and it has power, but it is only because of the fact that we live in the impossible reality of a dream that Evil is able to exist as an avatar on the level of the dream.

In this dream Evil can block YHWH's Light and wrap its target in a blanket of Darkness, that is, if YHWH allows it to.

As I pointed out in the previous article, YHWH allows clouds to block the vision of His Sonshine in order to teach us how to spread the wings of our faith and transcend the illusion of the Earth dream.

Evil serves to help us learn to fly in the Spirit through faith, disregarding the illusion of time and space.

This process of learning to fly is a process of being strengthened and filled with Life and energy in our faith.

In the course of this process the clouds blocking the sun are there to help us focus on our faith and look beyond the clouds, because in reality they do not exist.

To us it may seem as if YHWH is sleeping, as if He does not listen, but in reality He is always listening and helping, only, a temporary distortion caused by the Earth-dream robs us of our experience of YHWH's help.

Because the Psalmist relates to YHWH from the perspective of his dream-experience, it seems as if YHWH has left him, yet the spiritual Truth is that YHWH never has left him, but the dream clouds impress themselves on his experience.

"O Elohim, we have heard with our ears,
our fathers have told us,
what deeds You performed in their days,
in the days of old:
You with Your own hand drove out the nations,
but them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples,
but them You set free;
for not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but Your right hand and Your arm,
and the light of Your face,
for You delighted in them.

You are my King, O Elohim;
ordain salvation for Jacob!

Through You we push down our foes;
through Your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
But You have saved us from our foes
and have put to shame those who hate us.
In Elohim we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to Your name forever. 

But You have rejected us and disgraced us
and have not gone out with our armies.
You have made us turn back from the foe,
and those who hate us have gotten spoil.
You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.
You have sold Your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.
You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.
You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame has covered my face
at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
 at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

All this has come upon us,
though we have not forgotten You,
and we have not been false to Your covenant.
Our heart has not turned back,
nor have our steps departed from Your way;
yet You have broken us in the place of jackals
and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we had forgotten the name of our Elohim
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
would not Elohim discover this?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Yet for Your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

Awake! Why are You sleeping, O YHWH?
Rouse Yourself! Do not reject us forever!
Why do You hide your face?
Why do You forget our affliction and oppression?
For our Soul is bowed down to the dust;
our belly clings to the ground.
Rise up; come to our help!
Redeem us for the sake of Your steadfast love!"

Maybe you sometimes wonder whether all those wonderful quotes in the Bible about how YHWH will never let you down if you fully trust Him, and how He cares for you like a Father aren't just one-liners designed to make you feel good, yet which have no value other than that.

After all, if you are living under the cloud, if you go through a tunnel where you pray and pray and nothing happens, then surely you begin to wonder why nobody is at home when you knock, why are you left in the tunnel on your own?

Or so it seems.

I am here to remind you that the tunnel as well as the cloud as nothing but an expression of Evil on the level of an Earth dream, and that YHWH is always there, always listening, always caring.

His care and His love often seem to be the reverse of what they are purported to be, but that is caused by the fact that we live in a reversed world.

YHWH wants your faith to learn to use its wings, and there is no other way for your faith to learn to fly than by experiencing the pull of gravity in the form of adverse conditions.

Your strengthened faith will bring you closer to YHWH and draw out the character of a unique individual walking in faith.

If He then allows you to go through a tunnel, know this that He has a greater purpose in mind and in His love and care for you He wants you to grow closer to Him.

YHWH gave Yahshua all power in Heaven and on Earth, and in Yahshua we are the most powerful beings in Creation, untouchable by Evil, because in Yahshua we have His power and authority.

But YHWH allows for times when clouds seem to have power over you so that you may grow into embodiments of His power, the power of a strengthened faith which soars in the many skies of His creation effortlessly.

So, TRUST in Him, LOVE Him, and I guarantee you that your trust and your Love WILL be answered.

They ARE already answered, it's just that sometimes the illusionary clouds rob you of the sight of them.

The clouds are part of this dream, and because we live in a dream, a simulation, we experience these clouds as if they are real.

But they are NOT.