Week 1 - Understand who you are within
Hey web surfers I'm doing a series on spirituality, in this first week I will introduce what spirituality is, and our identity through spirit.
Everyone has a soul/spirit, even those who do not believe in spirituality.
Even those seen as too cruel to have a soul,
every human that has ever lived has one.
I will be using biblical insights and wisdom to guide this series, understand however these spiritual concepts can be universal i.e. applicable to everyone.
All I ask is that you keep an open mind and an open heart, while going through this journey of discovering spiritual identity.
To first find your spiritual identity, you need to be aware of the creator of your soul and the creator's thoughts about you.
In Psalm 139:16
"Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be". http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139:16&version=NIV
This states that the creator of all souls knows each person intimately even before they are born.
This verse is from the old testament found in the bible or the Talmud.
Now some theorists suggest that such books are subjective and speculative,
however in the Old testament there is evidence that suggest that God knows who people are before they are born.
Daniel 8:5-6 – “And as I was considering, behold, a
he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth,
and touched not the ground:
and the goat had a notable horn
between his eyes.”
This prophecy is referring to the overthrow of the Persian empire by the Grecian state,
the coming of Alexander the Great.
The goat is Greece, and the one horn depicted is the ascendance of a single and supreme sovereign state, Alexander's rule.
In this vision Persia is depicted as a ram, being knocked over by the goat (Grecian state - Hero Alexander).
According to the Jewish calendar, it was only two hundred years after the vision that the battle of Gaugamela http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexander.htm
took place,
a battle Daniel had foreseen while he was in his vision looking over the River U’lai.
This vision had Daniel travel through time and space.
Susa would be the captial of the future Persian empire, however Daniel was at the time a servant to the king of Babylon, "In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king". Daniel 8:1
Daniel 8:2 "And I looked in the vision, and it came about while I was looking, that I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I looked in the vision, and I myself was beside the Ulai Canal". http://bible.org/seriespage/ram-goat-and-horn-daniel-81-27
This Greek and the Persian battle was between leaders Alexander the Great and the Persian ruler, Darius II Nothus.
Daniel was a wise, knowledgeable, God fearing man, who was given several visions.
These visions mentioned in his book from the Old testament all indicate to a God that is all knowing, all powerful and who uses angels as intermediaries/messengers.
God knew Alexander the Great before his conception, he knew he would be a man of immense energy and drive, who single handily lead the destruction of the Persian empire.
Daniel saw the vision but he could not understand it, so an angel interpreted it for him.
Angels are not like humans they are sent by God to be helpers, to bring comfort ,clarity and direction.
Alexander's identity was formed before he was born, have you ever wondered about your identity?
Alexander consciously made a choice, if he didn't go to war against Persia, someone else would have been chosen to lead the conquest.
We all have a choice to make, Alexander made his mark, will you make yours?
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