Thought for Today

Cloudy Sunrise #6
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
A spiritual leader does not say,  ‘Follow me.’ A spiritual leader says, ‘I’ll go first.’  Decide today to take the oath:
I promise to “go first” in demonstrating forgiveness, compassion, understanding, generosity, kindness, cheerfulness, positivity, and love. — Neale Donald Walsch

Thought for Today

Copyright 2014 by R.A. Robbins

“No pesimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” –Helen Keller, author, political activist and lecturer

Thought for Today

Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter

I Love the Universe!

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

Todays blog title is what Bob said after we shared our stories of provision with each other.  I started by saying I love when the Universe provides and does it with a sense of humor.  My grocery trip this month was delayed and I was running out of gluten-free flour.  Then yesterday in my email was notification that I had won a drawing for a Better Batter sampler pack.  Better Batter products are of course gluten-free baking mixes and flours.  Need not only met, but met in a way that made me laugh.

As he listened to mine, Bob could hardly wait to share his story.  When he got up in the middle of the night he saw in his Kindle stats that he had given away exactly 12 copies of Revealed Vol. 2.  We had both been discouraged by the lack of interest in the Revealed series.  The number of books being given away the first day being exactly 12 — the number of the Apostles — gave Bob encouragement that even though he does not know the plan, things are going as they should.

After I shared my story Bob asked circumstance or miracle?  When I said it seemed almost sacrilegious to call something so small and rather trivial a miracle of course his response was….  Why?  God/the Universe does provide.  That’s not just a nice saying — its reality.   Provision happens in the small things as well as the big ones.  Sometimes it even makes us laugh.

Thought for Today

Copyright 2017 by R.A. Robbins

“Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.” — Author Unknown

Revealed Volume 2

After a lot of time spent typing the old manuscript into the computer and editing and re-editing we are now celebrating the release on the Kindle edition of REVEALED – Vol. 2 – What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version

We are still offering this book free in the Kindle Store today and tomorrow (June 16 and 17, 2017), so if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, there is still time.  We still need five reviews of this book as well as Volume 1, so please consider leaving a review on Amazon if you feel so inspired.

Since it appears that not many people saw my interview with Bob yesterday I am reposting it below.

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Today we have my interview with Robert O. Robbins, author and my husband (Bob). Last summer he released the Kindle version of REVEALED – Vol. 1 – Prophetic Language: and The Prophet’s Dictionary. To mark the release of REVEALED – Vol. 2 – What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version I asked Bob a few questions.  I tried to get him to do this on Kindle Live, but he’s camera shy.

Thank you for agreeing to do this Bob.  I’m going to start by getting the obvious question out-of-the-way first. Why The Revelation?  It’s not the easiest subject matter you could have chosen.

No, it certainly has not been “easy” to find how best to comprehend the message being sent to the believers of the Christian Church, especially when recognizing that the book of The Revelation and its parent book where we usually find it, the Christian Holy Bible,  are recognized as the most popular yet most controversial books which have ever existed. When I was a child, listening to my family’s nightly readings of The Bible I remember hearing brief discussions about how every book in the book would be read faithfully until we got to the last book, The Revelation. The way it was written, its picturesque language and nearly fairy tale like scenes and theme was considered just too complex for us to approach as a common, untrained American family. Besides, the other books stated much more clearly how to follow Jesus, about his life and the history leading to him, and why we should. But, to answer your question, I did not choose to attempt to understand and explain this book. Through the years as I grew into adulthood I found that the avoidance of this one book was not unusual. Many people found it simply too “other worldly” to be understandable including Bible and seminary students and their teachers, preachers, priests, and other religious leaders in churches and denominations.

I did not choose to interpret the figurative language of The Revelation, it rather was chosen for me. Here’s what I mean. When I started college, I also started attending a church regularly for the first time. Though I grew up in a faithful believing family, due to unspoken conflict we did not attend an established church as a family. I was surprised to find that most of the students at the state funded and run school had no idea of what the message of Jesus was really all about, much less understanding the allegoric language that The Bible was written. In fact, most of my fellow college peers did not even understand some of the more common phrases of the churches’ language. Words like: “Saved.” “Born again.” “Faith.” and many, many more became stumbling blocks to those who had no or little background in the Christian faith. Therefore, in an attempt to follow the spirit instilled within me by my grandmother a few years earlier, I began gathering words of the Christian faith and recording them very methodically never imagining where it would lead.

What I found was that the church world who claim to be following Jesus as the Christ had through the centuries became so divided and controverted in its ways of comprehending the faith, themselves, that no one glossary of terms could possibly be adequate for all Protestant/Catholic sects. Thus, I asked the spirit what to do and the answer came in a very simple way where a scripture was shown me that the “key” to understanding scriptures were in the scriptures themselves. I followed this thought for several years, gathering one word definition after another as I attended a multitude of churches in various denominations. Finally it started making sense. The parables which Jesus used to tell his flock about how to create and enter the Kingdom of God on Earth was also the way Jesus, the “Master Teacher,” taught his disciples how to understand the messages “hidden” within the chronicles of the Hebraic records. While a daunting task, to say the least, it became obvious that in order to comprehend the message of true Christianity it would first be necessary to understand the alliterations of these records, which today includes The Revelation.

By the time I came to this realization, I had already recorded over 40 figurative words with provable scriptural definitions which had been gathered by my visits to the widely scattered churches through the years. But, to be able to explain the process as a complete unit I needed an example which all interested were familiar with and that would be easily obtainable. Thus the choice of The Revelation. But I did not have enough words “defined” to be able to change the words from figurative to literal, so I determined how the process worked on how the words were defined in The Bible and proceeded to find a few volunteers to help me search the scriptures for more. The result is what is now available in the Amazon/Kindle bookstore.

I know you spent a lot of time researching this book.  Could you tell our readers a little bit about the process?

The process, when explained, may seem somewhat simple; however the motivation to complete this process without allowing frustration of not finding some definitions caused me to want to cheat or perhaps just give up the search was at time overwhelming. The process is easiest explained by using an example from the book of The Revelation, itself. In the very first chapter John is given a “vocabulary” lesson when he is told what the “stars” and “candlesticks” represented in the vision he just had and was currently involved in. That’s simple enough. But not all pictures or allegorical words in the scriptures are so clearly defined as being explained by an angelic being saying “this is that.” So the search requires delving into the scriptures intensely to find parallelisms, poetic phrases and other language arts skills which indicate that one word actually represents another. I was fortunate enough to have access to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and other research material, but this search was done before I had access to a computer or the internet. Thus, much time was required from both me and many volunteers who helped me in this search. 
What is the “prophetic language” and how did you begin to learn about it?
The prophetic language is a collection of spiritual allegorical words and phrases which are scattered throughout the Bible. Jesus used this picturesque language to try to explain to his followers things about the unseen spiritual world through his parables. Nearly every book of the Bible contains some definitions of the figurative words used in the dreams, visions and parables found in the scriptures. Many denominations recognize this but have fallen short of finding all of the multitude of words needed to have good comprehension of the message. Once I recognized this challenge I felt it important to do nothing else before building a glossary of those words with provable definitions found only in the canonized Christian scriptures.
The original form of this material called What the Righteous Desire to See:  The Revelation Revealed and the Prophets’ Dictionary was first published over 25 years ago. Why was it so important to you to re-release this at this time?
Hope.  The world is in a constant state of chaos. It has been for most of recorded history which I think is about 6000 years. Sadly enough, as predicted by Jesus, today Christians are right in the middle of this chaos and much of the time we are the cause of it. There have been 2000 years pass since Jesus, the Christ, gave his message here on Earth. That’s two spiritual days that the world has been in labor awaiting the birth of the Kingdom of God here on Earth as predicted by Hosea (6:2). While my book has remained undiscovered by the reading public, and avoided by the mainline publishers because it does not follow the majority of the established world denominations’ interpretations of prophecy, I have never lost my belief that this book of The Revelation of understanding can help bring a form of peace and unity to mankind which we have never known before.
In my book I have placed footnotes updating several phrases and comments which explain where we are at today in The Revelation prophecy. Things like the Islamic/Muslim extremists continuing their “assignment” of being the “scourge” or correctors of the Earth. The conservative Christian’s role in electing Donald Trump as the U.S. President even while many Christians believe this man to possibly be an antichrist. Even the tearing down of the Berlin wall between the east and west were summarily predicted in my first publication of this book. Though not stated in phrases like, “the wall will come down,” the spirit of the question is there and the footnotes I’ve added to the book attempt to point these places out to give evidence of how accurate this systematic understanding of prophecy is.
But the whole reason for this book, or John’s record of The Revelation itself, or any other prophecy is to give correction where needed and to give hope. The hope comes not in the pages throughout these writings which describe the millennia of destruction caused by the separation of humans from God, but instead it comes at the realization that eventually mankind comes to realize that the acceptance of the Christ life as our own will lead us to the long hoped for Kingdom of God as a part of the Universal Kingdom of Heaven.
 
Thank you Bob.  Both books in the Revealed set are available in the Amazon Kindle Store.  
 
Today and tomorrow only — June 15th and 16th, REVEALED – Vol. 2 – What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version is available FREE! in the Amazon Kindle Store. 
 
We feel a sense of urgency to get this information out to give people hope during these difficult times in which we live.  You can help us do this by leaving a review on Kindle, reblogging this interview and sharing it on social media.

 

Thought for Today

Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

“There are many goals but one path – the path of compassion.”

― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Interview with Robert Robbins, author of Revealed Vol. 2: What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version

Today we have my interview with Robert O. Robbins, author and my husband (Bob). Last summer he released the Kindle version of REVEALED – Vol. 1 – Prophetic Language: and The Prophet’s Dictionary. To mark the release of REVEALED – Vol. 2 – What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version I asked Bob a few questions.  I tried to get him to do this on Kindle Live, but he’s camera shy.

Thank you for agreeing to do this Bob.  I’m going to start by getting the obvious question out-of-the-way first. Why The Revelation?  It’s not the easiest subject matter you could have chosen.

No, it certainly has not been “easy” to find how best to comprehend the message being sent to the believers of the Christian Church, especially when recognizing that the book of The Revelation and its parent book where we usually find it, the Christian Holy Bible,  are recognized as the most popular yet most controversial books which have ever existed. When I was a child, listening to my family’s nightly readings of The Bible I remember hearing brief discussions about how every book in the book would be read faithfully until we got to the last book, The Revelation. The way it was written, its picturesque language and nearly fairy tale like scenes and theme was considered just too complex for us to approach as a common, untrained American family. Besides, the other books stated much more clearly how to follow Jesus, about his life and the history leading to him, and why we should. But, to answer your question, I did not choose to attempt to understand and explain this book. Through the years as I grew into adulthood I found that the avoidance of this one book was not unusual. Many people found it simply too “other worldly” to be understandable including Bible and seminary students and their teachers, preachers, priests, and other religious leaders in churches and denominations.

I did not choose to interpret the figurative language of The Revelation, it rather was chosen for me. Here’s what I mean. When I started college, I also started attending a church regularly for the first time. Though I grew up in a faithful believing family, due to unspoken conflict we did not attend an established church as a family. I was surprised to find that most of the students at the state funded and run school had no idea of what the message of Jesus was really all about, much less understanding the allegoric language that The Bible was written. In fact, most of my fellow college peers did not even understand some of the more common phrases of the churches’ language. Words like: “Saved.” “Born again.” “Faith.” and many, many more became stumbling blocks to those who had no or little background in the Christian faith. Therefore, in an attempt to follow the spirit instilled within me by my grandmother a few years earlier, I began gathering words of the Christian faith and recording them very methodically never imagining where it would lead.

What I found was that the church world who claim to be following Jesus as the Christ had through the centuries became so divided and controverted in its ways of comprehending the faith, themselves, that no one glossary of terms could possibly be adequate for all Protestant/Catholic sects. Thus, I asked the spirit what to do and the answer came in a very simple way where a scripture was shown me that the “key” to understanding scriptures were in the scriptures themselves. I followed this thought for several years, gathering one word definition after another as I attended a multitude of churches in various denominations. Finally it started making sense. The parables which Jesus used to tell his flock about how to create and enter the Kingdom of God on Earth was also the way Jesus, the “Master Teacher,” taught his disciples how to understand the messages “hidden” within the chronicles of the Hebraic records. While a daunting task, to say the least, it became obvious that in order to comprehend the message of true Christianity it would first be necessary to understand the alliterations of these records, which today includes The Revelation.

By the time I came to this realization, I had already recorded over 40 figurative words with provable scriptural definitions which had been gathered by my visits to the widely scattered churches through the years. But, to be able to explain the process as a complete unit I needed an example which all interested were familiar with and that would be easily obtainable. Thus the choice of The Revelation. But I did not have enough words “defined” to be able to change the words from figurative to literal, so I determined how the process worked on how the words were defined in The Bible and proceeded to find a few volunteers to help me search the scriptures for more. The result is what is now available in the Amazon/Kindle bookstore.

I know you spent a lot of time researching this book.  Could you tell our readers a little bit about the process?

The process, when explained, may seem somewhat simple; however the motivation to complete this process without allowing frustration of not finding some definitions caused me to want to cheat or perhaps just give up the search was at time overwhelming. The process is easiest explained by using an example from the book of The Revelation, itself. In the very first chapter John is given a “vocabulary” lesson when he is told what the “stars” and “candlesticks” represented in the vision he just had and was currently involved in. That’s simple enough. But not all pictures or allegorical words in the scriptures are so clearly defined as being explained by an angelic being saying “this is that.” So the search requires delving into the scriptures intensely to find parallelisms, poetic phrases and other language arts skills which indicate that one word actually represents another. I was fortunate enough to have access to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and other research material, but this search was done before I had access to a computer or the internet. Thus, much time was required from both me and many volunteers who helped me in this search. 
What is the “prophetic language” and how did you begin to learn about it?
The prophetic language is a collection of spiritual allegorical words and phrases which are scattered throughout the Bible. Jesus used this picturesque language to try to explain to his followers things about the unseen spiritual world through his parables. Nearly every book of the Bible contains some definitions of the figurative words used in the dreams, visions and parables found in the scriptures. Many denominations recognize this but have fallen short of finding all of the multitude of words needed to have good comprehension of the message. Once I recognized this challenge I felt it important to do nothing else before building a glossary of those words with provable definitions found only in the canonized Christian scriptures.
The original form of this material called What the Righteous Desire to See:  The Revelation Revealed and the Prophets’ Dictionary was first published over 25 years ago. Why was it so important to you to re-release this at this time?
Hope.  The world is in a constant state of chaos. It has been for most of recorded history which I think is about 6000 years. Sadly enough, as predicted by Jesus, today Christians are right in the middle of this chaos and much of the time we are the cause of it. There have been 2000 years pass since Jesus, the Christ, gave his message here on Earth. That’s two spiritual days that the world has been in labor awaiting the birth of the Kingdom of God here on Earth as predicted by Hosea (6:2). While my book has remained undiscovered by the reading public, and avoided by the mainline publishers because it does not follow the majority of the established world denominations’ interpretations of prophecy, I have never lost my belief that this book of The Revelation of understanding can help bring a form of peace and unity to mankind which we have never known before.
In my book I have placed footnotes updating several phrases and comments which explain where we are at today in The Revelation prophecy. Things like the Islamic/Muslim extremists continuing their “assignment” of being the “scourge” or correctors of the Earth. The conservative Christian’s role in electing Donald Trump as the U.S. President even while many Christians believe this man to possibly be an antichrist. Even the tearing down of the Berlin wall between the east and west were summarily predicted in my first publication of this book. Though not stated in phrases like, “the wall will come down,” the spirit of the question is there and the footnotes I’ve added to the book attempt to point these places out to give evidence of how accurate this systematic understanding of prophecy is.
But the whole reason for this book, or John’s record of The Revelation itself, or any other prophecy is to give correction where needed and to give hope. The hope comes not in the pages throughout these writings which describe the millennia of destruction caused by the separation of humans from God, but instead it comes at the realization that eventually mankind comes to realize that the acceptance of the Christ life as our own will lead us to the long hoped for Kingdom of God as a part of the Universal Kingdom of Heaven.
 
Thank you Bob.  Both books in the Revealed set are available in the Amazon Kindle Store.  
 
Today and tomorrow only — June 15th and 16th, REVEALED – Vol. 2 – What the Righteous Desire to See: and The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, The Literal Authorized Version is available FREE! in the Amazon Kindle Store. 
 
We feel a sense of urgency to get this information out to give people hope during these difficult times in which we live.  You can help us do this by leaving a review on Kindle, reblogging this interview and sharing it on social media.

Thought for Today

Copyright 2015 by R,.A. Robbins

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…”
― Wilferd Peterson

Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”  — John Muir
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