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Reconnecting to GOOD

Updated: Feb 7, 2021

Humankind's Chance For A Re-boot Based On Good


I’ve lived too long, seen too much, read too many lines, travelled too many miles, listened to too many stories and experienced too many things, to not shout out to the world the one simple truth in life: namely, that GOD EXISTS. I'm writing this article today especially for my circle of friends, many of whom are living lives removed from our Father in Heaven, struggling through life alone.


Let me invite you to simply accept the invitation Jesus extended to us in love:


“Come to me all of you who are tired from the heavy [religious] burden you have been forced to carry. I will give you rest. Accept my teaching. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will be able to get some rest. Yes, the teaching that I ask you to accept is easy. The load I give you to carry is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30


GOD is GOOD.


GOD is all about LOVE[1], LIFE and CREATIVITY. GOD is about the expansion of the UNIVERSE. With GOD, we LIVE.


In the absence of GOD, we experience the opposite of ‘LIVE’. Just read this word backwards: evil. The evil or ‘d’evil’ has become known in the English language as the ‘devil’.


The evil is all about hate, death and destruction. It’s about the selfish materialism of people living on earth, which is destroying our world and every living creature on it. With evil, we self-destruct, turning earth into a self-consuming hell.


I first realized that GOD = GO(O)D and the word ‘devil’ is purely a short form of the words ‘(the) evil’, while teaching a group of unemployed Zulu youth on a farm in South Africa, who had never heard a Bible story in their life. It was during the same lesson that I first realized that, while writing down the word ‘LIVE’, if I would read it backwards, the letters spelled the word ‘evil’. Isn't that clever: the opposite of ‘live’ is ‘evil’.


For the greatest part of my adult life to date, I’ve been earning my keep through working in the field of communications. One day someone pointed out to me that communication is the "role of the angels". I'm definitely no angel, but in the Bible we read stories about how GO(O)D sometimes uses angels to communicate things to us. In fact, the origin of the word ‘angel’ is the Greek word ‘aggelos’[2], which means ‘messenger’.


The BIBLE is a book which contains all the knowledge which we humans need in order to understand how to connect to GOD, how to strive towards GO(O)D and how to overcome evil, which ultimately always culminates in death. So yes - the BIBLE teaches us how to overcome death and actually experience life - into Eternity, meaning FOREVER! The word ‘BIBLE’ comes from the Greek word ‘byblos’ and means, quite simply, ‘little book’. This little book is hugely misunderstood by people who read it as if it were a history book, with a mind that is spiritually illiterate. Yes, the Bible contains a lot of history, but that is not the point of this book. Instead, if you want to understand this book, you need to ask GOD, in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, to send you his Holy Spirit to open your ‘spiritual eyes’ to be able to see what the book is all about!


Quite frankly, in a time where we humans are faced with a massive tsunami of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI), we urgently need to have the "Spiritual Intelligence" (SI) to ask GOD for the gift of a spiritual understanding through calling on the Holy Spirit, in the name of his Son, Yahushua or ‘Jesus Christ’. The name ‘Yahushua’ (pronounced as ‘Yashua’) is the key to getting through to GOD. The word 'Yehushua' literally means "Yah is Salvation". "Yah" is short for "Yahweh", or "Creator" and "Shua" means "Salvation". The Bible teaches us that if we try to connect to our Father in Heaven, our Creator, using any other route, we simply have the wrong number and our call won't go through! Put in another way - our prayers remain unanswered. Or they get 'hijacked' by an ungodly spirit, which may answer the prayer, but ultimately the outcome will be self-destruction or death.


I know – this all sounds really weird, when you first hear it! But as you spend more time reading the Bible and listening to people who have spent a lot of time reading the Bible, and as you practice faith by asking the Holy Spirit to guide your understanding, as you read and listen to the Bible, you will be surprised how these abstract concepts suddenly start making sense to you! Not only that, you will also start experiencing how God begins to work in your life: bringing new people into your life, new opportunities, and often, new challenges, that are aimed at helping you grow spiritually.


I’ve heard it said as a joke that ‘English’ is the language of the angels. My mother-tongue is German. The word for ‘angel’ in German is ‘Engel’. And in that language it would be grammatically quite correct to say that the language of the angels is ‘Englisch’.


When I look at ‘GOOD’ being ‘GOD’ and ‘the evil’ being the ‘devil’ and at the word ‘live’ and read it backwards to discover that the opposite of ‘live’ is ‘evil’, I see rather compelling reasons why English truly can be considered the language of the angels!


So, even as someone who was raised speaking German and isiZulu, it really does not appear as a coincidence to me that English is the language that has been most successfully used by missionaries during the past 300 years to communicate the spiritual knowledge found in the Bible to other nations across the world. While the British have to live with a history of guilt owing to colonialism, this nation also brought forth some of the most incredible evangelical movements, known as 'Revivals'. Just google "UK revival history" and you'll find some incredible stories! Also, it is interesting to note that, while the Roman Empire was hated, it created the logistical opportunity for the "Good News" - the Gospel of Eternal Life through Jesus Christ who had risen from the dead - to travel all across that Empire and beyond.


Similarly, while Colonialism caused terrible misery, God used that 'evil' system to create the logistical means to enable believers in Jesus Christ - such as my missionary ancestors - to reach people in Africa. It is as a result of the British Empire that we now live in a time where this ‘language of the angels’ has become the second language of choice in the majority of countries across the world, making it possible for us to communicate – in English – and build good relationships across race, culture and continents.


Thank GOD for English!


I love my mother-tongue and sincerely appreciate the richness of human experience that is conveyed through other languages. However, I am utterly convinced that, if we humans wish to create a ‘Young World’ – a "fresh start" – for the first time in history, GOD has now gifted us the opportunity to overcome the ‘Babelian [3]’ confusion: that original disastrous consequence of human pride, about which we read in the book of Genesis 11[4] in the Bible.


The story of Babel tells us two things: firstly, how other languages came into being, and, secondly, that a display of human arrogance at Babel resulted in a conflict with our Creator, which in turn is the reason why GOD caused people to spread out to all other parts of the world, thereby weakening human civilization which was busy moving into a dangerous direction and away from GOD. Of course, GOD being GOD and playing the 'long-game' over time, space and generations, he turned this 'problem', i.e. people being separated by languages and therefore the dissipation of human power, into a blessing: now we live in a time where we can enjoy incredible diversity of culture all across the world!


But this story of the Tower of Babel also gives us the not-so-secret key of how we humans can once again restore our relationship to GOD – simply through again acknowledging and respecting him as our Father, our Creator! It also holds the key to how we can, this time around under God’s guidance, work together towards ‘super-human’ achievements once again, across the globe, by adopting a ‘shared’ language, thereby enabling global collaboration. In our time, that shared language is English. And that is why I am writing my books in the ‘language of the angels’.


The power we, who believe in God through his Son Jesus Christ, can unleash by working together across the world is absolutely AMAZING: guided by the Holy Spirit and applying all the knowledge that God already granted us, we can AT LAST turn back the tide of evil that has caused so much suffering on this earth! We can solve environmental degradation. We can find solutions to ensuring that everyone on Earth can live a decent live. WE CAN OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD! At least, wherever we work together as "Spiritual Warriors".


In this way we can establish the Kingdom of God right here on Earth, in preparation for the return of Jesus Christ. I know the Bible says that all kinds of terrible things will happen in the 'end times'. But this should just inspire us who have been granted FAITH to work tirelessly to WIN SOULS for Christ, while there is still time! And as we do this, we will create little 'havens' (heavens), of LOVE, CARING and ABUNDANCE that can help sustain us even through difficult times.


Let’s work together to get the world to learn GOD’s word, to learn to read and write, to learn English to communicate with one another across cultures, race and continents, and then, let’s work together in the spirit of a Greater GOOD to build a ‘Young World’ – to make a FRESH start.


PS: I write in English, but of course, I will be thrilled if the many schools and institutes making a living out of ‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’ (TEFL) would translate my writings into all the other lovely languages we enjoy here on Earth, as a means to promote their services. You're VERY WELCOME! I'm herewith giving permission for the translation of any of my writings on this blog into any language, as long as you just mention my name and link the translation back to this blog.



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