God took people as tribute--why?

I've been re-reading the Bible. As a kid, I read it many times over. As a man, I even wrote my first book based on the bible. I've been fascinated by life. Life motivates me to question certain things. Science and the ancient writings fill my questions, and fantasies ceased to be fantasies. 


What caused life to spring to being? Scientists at the CERN in Switzerland already found an answer when they created molecules out of nothing. What did they fail to answer is why matter was created anyway? There must be a purpose, like laws having distinct roles in everything in the universe. 


Everything is pure reason. Every single thing created for a reason. For without reason, there is no existence. 


We are interested in finding out how nature created certain things, but we always fail in finding out why it was created anyway, until we realize that every single thing is linked to some thing in some way and somehow. Life is like a multi-branch tree, a branch always has some flower or leaf in it. 


Reading the bible, I was fascinated with one passage: " When God left Sinai, God was with myriads of divine chariots and taking several people as tribute to his original sanctuary, in Zion (Psalm 68:17-18; Ephesians 4:8-10).

It was never really explained why God took several people captive and made them as tributes to be sent to his original sanctuary, in Zion. Who were these people taken captive? They were taken by God to heaven, in Zion, "His sanctuary." Why?


There were at least three people known to have been taken by God to heaven---Enoch, Elijah and Emmanuel or Jesus. Enoch was taken body and soul--to heaven. Same as Elijah who was swept away by a chariot of fiery horses. Jesus was taken to heaven without the usual fanfare.


I also found out about "God's tent". Do you know that, during the Old Testament, this tent moved at least several times, most distinguishable in three biblical places--in Salem (Jerusalem's name in the original), Sinai (in the hills of Bashan) and Shiloh. Fact is, in Shiloh, God lived among men. Wisdom settled in Shiloh just once (Psalm, 78:59). It was there where Wisdom lived with men and where men went to confer with God (Psalm 42:4).


These incidents contradicted earlier pronouncements by God Himself when He declared in Genesis that He will not live among men, for men are but flesh. We will never know why God changed His mind and lived with men during the time of David and even during his son's time, Solomon's.

The True Church of God

What is the true church of God?

According to the scriptures, the true Church of God is a flock of believers, who believe in the One-ness of God. A church is nothing like those Gothic-inspired structures that we see, oh no. A church is something spiritual, not exactly built on concrete. For everything that we read in the scriptures concern spiritual things, and those who are somewhat material, were meant to be built in order to achieve spiritual holiness.

A church, as I said, is a flock. When you say a flock, it means a group of believers. A church is different from a temple. A temple is a physical place where those who worship God, goes to regularly to do their duties to God.

The true church of God is scattered throughout the world, and in the Last Days, those who truly worship God will be called together by their shepherd. The shepherd will prepare the true believers and servants of God together, and like a bride, prepared for the wedding.

What is this wedding? What does this mean?

It means that the church of God, the flock of believers, will then be made to be one with God. A wedding is not just a rite for lovers. In scriptural terms, it means the one-ness of two bodies, one-ness based on one belief.

One might even say that the wedding describes in the last day, is a rite of passage. Those who believe in God will be one with God, not just in belief, but even in their physical forms. In an instant, those who truly believe God will assume heavenly bodies, because, as I wrote in a previous entry, no impure being can actually see or bear the Face of God. Believers will don a new cloth, a cloth of holiness, fit to see the beauty, and power, and might of God.

This wedding also means that believers will now be under the protection and shield of God. The groom, which in this case is God, will protect the bride from the impending catastrophe. And what is that? It is that great and mighty Day of the Lord, when, God, thru Wisdom, will cast judgment upon the world. It is when everything will be destroyed and replaced by a new Heaven and a New earth. Death will be cast aside and taken into the fiery fires of the Abyss, along with the despicable creatures created by sin and iniquity.

How to be a member of this church?