The Rainbow Bible

(Also Known as ‘The Noahide Bible’)

of

Haven Noahide Fellowship

And the 7 Divine Fellowships

(1DF)

Published by ‘Noahide Books’

The Publishing wing of ‘Haven Noahide Fellowship’

© 2010

By Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly &

Haven Noahide Fellowship and its members & Noahide Books

‘Noahide Books’

E-Mail: danielthomasandrewdaly@live.com.au

Web: http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com

The 7 Rainbow Bibles follow the Book and Chapter Patterns of the Tanakh, yet the contents are vastly different.

GENESIS

1. The Book of Karaite Noahidism

2. Holy Scripture

3. Psalms of Haven Noahide Fellowship

4. Maxims of Haven Noahide Fellowship

5. Charter of Haven Noahide Fellowship

6. Official Spiritual Devotional Sermon Series of Haven Noahide Fellowship - Sermons 1 to 50 - Prepared by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly

7. Noahide Midrash

8. The Book of Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly

9. Recommended Reading

10. Introduction – the Emerging Karaite Noahide World

11. What is Karaite Noahide Faith

12. Responding to Christianity

13. Why Jesus is Not the Messiah

14. Praise Songs

15. The Book of the Divine Creator

16. The Book of Universal Faith

17. The Book of the Living God

18. The Book of Universal Truth

19. The Book of the Most High

20. The Torah of the Kingdom of Noah

21. About the Kingdom of Noah

22. The Royal Karaite Rainbow Bible Noahide Australian Kingdom of Kadravana

23. The Karaite Noahide position on its own judgements and reasoning

24. New Education

25. Understanding Astrology

26. Karaite Noahidism – the Next Branch of Judaism

27. Speculations

28. One Final Edition for Each Rainbow Bible

29. The Catholic Jesus Gospel

30. Developing Noahide Bible Faith Rather than the Hebrew Scriptures

31. Haven Noahide Fellowship - Policy on illegal drugs

32. The Doctrine of Heavenly Economy of Earthly Goods

33. Some Prayers

34. God's responsibilities towards the 7 Divine Fellowships

35. Salvation

36. The original Noahide faith of Noah's generations versus the modern developments

37. Potential Karaite Noahide Assembly Titles

38. A Message for the Jehovah's Witnesses

39. Karaite Judaism – Wikipedia

40. Israel

41. The Holy Book of Karaite Adamide-Noahide Divine Judgements and Prophecies and Other Information

42. The Truth about God

43. Adamide-Noahide Bloodlines

44. The Truth about God II

45. Unions of Divinely Blessed Procreative Heterosexuality

46. Torah Formation Studies

47. The Final Prayer

The Book of Karaite Noahidism

Created by

Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly

6177 SC

Lesson One

The Scripture - the Tanakh. The Foundation - Genesis 1 - 11:9.

The Purpose - Sanctification. The Result - Life Eternal.

Lesson Two

The Covenant - Descendants of Noah. The Sign - the Rainbow.

The Purpose - Protection from Destruction. The Result - Everlasting.

Lesson Three

The Doctrine - A Moral Life. The Reason - Civilization.

The Purpose - Law and Order. The Result - Eternal Peace.

Lesson Four

The Community - A Family of Faith. The Structure - Faithful Genealogies.

The Purpose - A Sense of Belonging. The Result - Meaning in Life

Mission

To Proclaim the Covenant to Mankind. To Uphold the Teaching of Scripture.

To build an everlasing Fellowship. To live long, prosper and be at Peace with God and the World.

Holy Scripture

I

Creation

In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day.

God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.” And God made a firmament, and he divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And so it became. And God called the firmament ‘Heaven.’ And it became evening and morning, the second day.

Truly God said: “Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one place; and let the dry land appear.” And so it became. And God called the dry land, ‘Earth,’ and he called the gathering of the waters, ‘Seas.’ And God saw that it was good. And he said, “Let the land spring forth green plants, both those producing seed, and fruit-bearing trees, producing fruit according to their kind, whose seed is within itself, over all the earth.” And so it became. And the land brought forth green plants, both those producing seed, according to their kind, and trees producing fruit, with each having its own way of sowing, according to its species. And God saw that it was good. And it became evening and the morning, the third day.

Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years. Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth.” And so it became. And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars. And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over all the earth, and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And it became evening and morning, the fourth day.

And then God said, “Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven.” And God created the great sea creatures, and everything with a living soul and the ability to move that the waters produced, according to their species, and all the flying creatures, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. And he blessed them, saying: “Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea. And let the birds be multiplied above the land.” And it became evening and morning, the fifth day.

God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it became. And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.” And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them. And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” And God said: “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant upon the earth, and all the trees that have in themselves the ability to sow their own kind, to be food for you, and for all the animals of the land, and for all the flying things of the air, and for everything that moves upon the earth and in which there is a living soul, so that they may have these on which to feed.” And so it became. And God saw everything that he had made. And they were very good. And it became evening and morning, the sixth day.

And so the heavens and the earth were completed, with all their adornment. And on the seventh day, God fulfilled his work, which he had made. And on the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had accomplished. And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.

II

Adam and Eve

These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth, and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land. But a fountain ascended from the earth, irrigating the entire surface of the land.

And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Now the Lord God had planted a Paradise of enjoyment from the beginning. In it, he placed the man whom he had formed. And from the soil the Lord God produced every tree that was beautiful to behold and pleasant to eat. And even the tree of life was in the midst of Paradise, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And a river went forth from the place of enjoyment so as to irrigate Paradise, which is divided from there into four heads. The name of one is the Phison; it is that which runs through all the land of Hevilath, where gold is born; and the gold of that land is the finest. In that place is found bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is the Gehon; it is that which runs through all the land of Kush. Truly, the name of the third river is the Tigris; it advances opposite the Assyrians. But the fourth river, it is the Euphrates.

Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him. And he instructed him, saying: “From every tree of Paradise, you shall eat. But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in whatever day you will eat from it, you will die a death.” The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.” Therefore, the Lord God, having formed from the soil all the animals of the earth and all the flying creatures of the air, brought them to Adam, in order to see what he would call them. For whatever Adam would call any living creature, that would be its name. And Adam called each of the living things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar to himself. And so the Lord God sent a deep sleep upon Adam. And when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and he completed it with flesh for it. And the Lord God built up the rib, which he took from Adam, into a woman. And he led her to Adam. And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.” For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh. Now they were both naked: Adam, of course, and his wife. And they were not ashamed.

III

The Temptation

However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Why has God instructed you, that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?” The woman responded to him: “From the fruit of the trees which are in Paradise, we eat. Yet truly, from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of Paradise, God has instructed us that we should not eat, and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we may die.” Then the serpent said to the woman: “By no means will you die a death. For God knows that, on whatever day you will eat from it, your eyes will be opened; and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” And so the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and beautiful to the eyes, and delightful to consider. And she took from its fruit, and she ate. And she gave to her husband, who ate. And the eyes of them both were opened. And when they realized themselves to be naked, they joined together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves. And when they had heard the voice of the Lord God taking a walk in Paradise in the afternoon breeze, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of Paradise. And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.” He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked, if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should not eat?” And Adam said, “The woman, whom you gave to me as a companion, gave to me from the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “Why have you done this?” And she responded, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.” To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.” Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth. By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.” And Adam called the name of his wife, ‘Eve,’ because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God also made for Adam and his wife garments from skins, and he clothed them. And he said: “Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Therefore, now perhaps he may put forth his hand and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live in eternity.” And so the Lord God sent him away from the Paradise of enjoyment, in order to work the earth from which he was taken. And he cast out Adam. And in front of the Paradise of enjoyment, he placed the Cherubim with a flaming sword, turning together, to guard the way to the tree of life.

IV

Cain and Abel

Truly, Adam knew his wife Eve, who conceived and gave birth to Cain, saying, “I have obtained a man through God.” And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.

Then it happened, after many days, that Cain offered gifts to the Lord, from the fruits of the earth. Abel likewise offered from the firstborn of his flock, and from their fat. And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his gifts. Yet in truth, he did not look with favor on Cain and his gifts. And Cain was vehemently angry, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said to him: “Why are you angry? And why is your face fallen? If you behave well, will you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by it.” And Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go outside.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and he put him to death. And the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he responded: “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And he said to him: “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the land. Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand. When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.” And Cain said to the Lord: “My iniquity is too great to deserve kindness. Behold, you have cast me out this day before the face of the earth, and from your face I will be hidden; and I will be a vagrant and a fugitive on the earth. Therefore, anyone who finds me will kill me.” And the Lord said to him: “By no means will it be so; rather, whoever would kill Cain, will be punished sevenfold.” And the Lord placed a seal upon Cain, so that anyone who found him would not put him to death.

And so Cain, departing from the face of the Lord, lived as a fugitive on the earth, toward the eastern region of Eden. Then Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And he built a city, and he called its name by the name of his son, Enoch.

Thereafter, Enoch conceived Irad, and Irad conceived Mahujael, and Mahujael conceived Mathusael, and Mathusael conceived Lamech. Lamech took two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. And Adah conceived Jabel, who was the father of those who live in tents and are shepherds. And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of those who sing to the harp and the organ. Zillah also conceived Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artisan in every work of brass and iron. In fact, the sister of Tubalcain was Noema. And Lamech said to his wives Adah and Zillah: “Listen to my voice, you wives of Lamech, pay attention to my speech. For I have killed a man to my own harm, and an adolescent to my own bruising. Sevenfold vengeance will be given for Cain, but for Lamech, seventy-seven times.” Adam also knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son, and she called his name Seth, saying, “God has given me another offspring, in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.” But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos. This one began to invoke the name of the Lord.

V

The First Genealogy

This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God. He created them, male and female; and he blessed them. And he called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Then Adam lived for one hundred and thirty years. And then he conceived a son in his own image and likeness, and he called his name Seth. And after he conceived Seth, the days of Adam that passed were eight hundred years. And he conceived sons and daughters. And all the time that passed while Adam lived was nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died. Seth likewise lived for one hundred and five years, and then he conceived Enos. And after he conceived Enos, Seth lived for eight hundred and seven years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth that passed were nine hundred and twelve years, and then he died. In truth, Enos lived ninety years, and then he conceived Cainan. After his birth, he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos that passed were nine hundred and five years, and then he died. Likewise, Cainan lived seventy years, and then he conceived Mahalalel. And after he conceived Mahalalel, Cainan lived for eight hundred and forty years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan that passed were nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and then he conceived Jared. And after he conceived Jared, Mahalalel lived for eight hundred and thirty years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalalel that passed were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and then he died. And Jared lived for one hundred and sixty-two years, and then he conceived Enoch. And after he conceived Enoch, Jared lived for eight hundred years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared that passed were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and then he died. Now Enoch lived for sixty-five years, and then he conceived Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God. And after he conceived Methuselah, he lived for three hundred years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch that passed were three hundred and sixty-five years. And he walked with God, and then he was seen no more, because God took him. Likewise, Methuselah lived for one hundred and eighty-seven years, and then he conceived Lamech. And after he conceived Lamech, Methuselah lived for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah that passed were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died. Then Lamech lived for one hundred and eighty-two years, and he conceived a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will console us from the works and hardships of our hands, in the land that the Lord has cursed.” And after he conceived Noah, Lamech lived for five hundred and ninety-five years, and he conceived sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech that passed were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and then he died. In truth, when Noah was five hundred years old, he conceived Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

VI

The Sons of God

And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose. And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown. Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times, repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart, he said, “I will eliminate man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man to other living things, from animals even to the flying things of the air. For it grieves me that I have made them.” Yet truly, Noah found grace before the Lord.

VII

Noah

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and yet he was predominate among his generations, for he walked with God. And he conceived three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity. And when God had seen that the earth had been corrupted, (indeed, all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth) he said to Noah: “The end of all flesh has arrived in my sight. The earth has been filled with iniquity by their presence, and I will destroy them, along with the earth. Make yourself an ark from smoothed wood. You shall make little dwelling places in the ark, and you shall smear pitch on the interior and exterior. And thus shall you make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall complete it within a cubit of the top. Then you shall set the door of the ark at its side. You shall make in it: a lower part, upper rooms, and a third level. Behold, I shall bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, so as to put to death all flesh in which there is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are on the earth shall be consumed. And I shall establish my covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, you and your sons, your wife and the wives of your sons with you. And from every living thing of all that is flesh, you shall lead pairs into the ark, so that they may survive with you: from the male sex and the female, from birds, according to their kind, and from beasts, in their kind, and from among all animals on earth, according to their kind; pairs from each shall enter with you, so that they may be able to live. Therefore, you shall take with you from all the foods that are able to be eaten, and you shall carry these with you. And these shall be used as food, some for you, and the rest for them.” And so Noah did all things just as God had instructed him.

VIII

The Flood

And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation. From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female. But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.” Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him. And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood. And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth, two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah. And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark. They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly, entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life. And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside. And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land. For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters. And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered. The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men, and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died. And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark. And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

IX

Redemption

Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished. And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared. And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven, which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth. Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark. And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth. And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him. Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry. Then God spoke to Noah, saying: “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you. Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.” And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him. Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar. And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”

And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand. And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you, except that flesh with blood you shall not eat. For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind. Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God. But as for you: increase and multiply, and go forth upon the earth and fulfill it.”

X

The Covenant

To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this: “Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth. I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and, henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth.”

And God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth. And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh. And the arc will be in the clouds, and I will see it, and I will remember the everlasting covenant that was enacted between God and every living soul of all that is flesh upon the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”

And so the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham himself is the father of Canaan. These three are the sons of Noah. And from these all the family of mankind was spread over the whole earth.

XI

Drunkenness

And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard. And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent. Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside. And truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards, covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s manhood. Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.” And he said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he live in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.” And after the great flood, Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years. And all his days were completed in nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

XII

The Second Genealogy

These are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and of the sons who were born to them after the great flood.

The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And then the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan were Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions, each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.

And the Sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dadan. And then Cush conceived Nimrod; he began to be powerful on the earth. And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: ‘Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.’ And so, the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Chalanne, in the land of Shinar. From that land, Assur came forth, and he built Nineveh, and the streets of the city, and Calah, and also Resen, between Nineveh and Calah. This is a great city. And truly, Mizraim conceived Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came forth the Philistines and the Caphtorim. Then Canaan conceived Sidon his firstborn, the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
the Hivite, and the Arkite: the Sinite, and the Arvadian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite. And after this, the peoples of the Canaanites became widespread. And the borders of Chanaan went, as one travels, from Sidon to Gerar, even to Gaza, until one enters Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Admah and Zeboiim, even to Lesa. These are the sons of Ham in their kindred, and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

Likewise, from Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born. The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. But truly, Arphaxad conceived Shelah, from whom was born Eber. And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. This Joktan conceived Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, Jerah and Hadoram, and Uzal and Diklah, and Obal and Abimael, Sheba and Ophir, and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. And their habitation extended from Messa, as one sojourns, even to Sephar, a mountain in the east. These are the sons of Shem according to their kindred, and tongues, and the regions within their nations. These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and nations. The nations became divided according to these, on the earth after the great flood.

XIII

The Tower of Babel

Now the earth was of one language and of the same speech. And when they were advancing from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt in it. And each one said to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks, and bake them with fire.” And they had bricks instead of stones, and pitch instead of mortar. And they said: “Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands.” Then the Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the sons of Adam were building. And he said: “Behold, the people are united, and all have one tongue. And since they have begun to do this, they will not desist from their plans, until they have completed their work.} Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.” And so the Lord divided them from that place into all the lands, and they ceased to build the city. And for this reason, its name was called ‘Babel,’ because in that place the language of the whole earth became confused. And from then on, the Lord scattered them across the face of every region.

The End of Holy Scripture

Psalms of Haven Noahide Fellowship

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 1

Yahweh, the Lord, is the Centre of all that is.

He is the Supreme Power, the Omnipotent One,

Full of Glory and Majesty, Eternal in Sovereignty.

Yahweh is gracious to us mere mortals,

Granting us blessings and peace,

Giving prosperity to the works of our hands.

Yahweh watches over those who call on his name.

He watches and blesses those who repent of sin,

And Grants his grace to the humble of heart.

Yahweh is a trustworthy foundation.

Yes, in God himself I place my trust,

Forsaking the strength of my own hands,

Forsaking the strength of men, whose fidelity is fleeting.

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 2

How the heart of man can choose a crooked path.

How the heart of man can choose a crooked way.

Oh, heavenly father, that your grace would be upon us all,

Leading us in the right way, leading us against our own evil inclinations.

Yahweh, enthroned in heaven, looks down upon the children of men.

He knows their heart, from their youth he has known them,

Caught up in their evil ways, caught up in their malicious intent.

Oh Yahweh, how great your grace is. Oh Yahweh, how superlative your mercy.

You spoke with our father Noah.

You spoke with him and called him out of a perverse generation.

For mankind was wicked in your eyes, evil from the days of their youth.

And through Noah you rebirthed mankind, saved from the deluge of the flood.

Majestic Lord of Glory, redeem me I pray.

Hear my prayer and rescue me from the darkness of my own heart.

For only in thy goodness can the gift of eternal life be realized.

Only in thy goodness can the gift of forever have hope.

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 3

God

Can we not be so hypocritical, unfair and double-minded

Can we not be so duplicitous, fork-tongued and unfaithful

Can we not pretend to be paragons of virtue yet find shame in our hearts

Shame at betraying ones we claim to love

Lord

Let not my boasts be great, of words I can not live up to

Let me not say of my virtues qualities which I later betray as lacking

Let me be truthful in how much I can truly commit to and foreswear vain oaths

Guide me to be faithful

Father

Show me the way of holiness which will not be questioned as shallow

Help me to grow up maturely, yet not reach for heights I later tumble from

Give me grace and mercy and remind others I am only human, not God himself

Forgive me for my shortcomings

Yahweh

I am only human. I can not be more than what I am. And I am so complex

That I don’t even understand myself half of the time.

But you, Oh Lord, know all the ways of humans and the choices of the heart.

Please, if you will in your mercy answer my prayer, give me the gift of wisdom

To love others in a manner which will last eternally and not be a vain oath of

Allegiance soon forgotten.

Alleluia

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 4

Let my soul rest in the calmness of nature,

the calmness of God’s creation.

Let my soul slumber and be at peace with the

simplicity of the song of the songbird

and the chirping of the sparrow.

Let the buzzing of the bees bring joy to me,

even to the days of my age and let

the sound of the sheep at pasture and the joy of the

newborn babe be always pleasant in my heart.

Let the sight of a spider’s web fill me with mystery,

and let the early morning mist always fill me with

happiness and aliven me to the new day.

Let the rushing geyser be a source of fascination,

and let me fear in the presence of the tornado and

be awestruck by the power of the lightning.

Let the gentle flow of the stream soothe my soul,

and let the thunderous waves entertain my thirst

for adventure.

Lord God Almighty, I thank you for the wonders

of creation, which give joy and happiness to my

life each and every day. This world is a wonderful

and marvellous world, and all the children of Noah

thank you for your great kindness in creating it

For us.

We are your people, Almighty God, and the servants

of your covenant. And let the sign of the Covenant,

the ‘Rainbow’, one of the greatest signs of nature,

always remind us of the beauty and wonder that comes

forth from the heart of the Almighty.

Alleluia

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 5

Lord God - You are the solace of my heart’s anxiety.

You are the peace in the storms of life which remains

Faithful and ever unchanging. You are the strength

In my weaknesses and the power of my right hand

In all that I say and do. Lord, you are God, and even

In my wrongdoing my heart still remembers the graces

And love you have shown me.

Lord God – From generation to generation mankind

Searches out the way of truth. For so many finding

God is not easy, but you have always been there, waiting

To be found. You love us, children of Adam and Eve,

Children of Enoch, children of Noah. You love us and

Teach us the right way through the teachings of our

Fathers. Lord, I pray, remain faithful to the heart which

Wants truth above all else, and remember the struggle

We have all gone through in finding our salvation.

Lord God – Remember our fathers who have gone before

Us, and our mothers who bore and fed us. Remember forever

Those who have struggled to build our wonderful world, and

The many sacrifices they have made. I pray and ask of you,

Eternal God, prepare a home of eternal joy and life as reward

For their struggle, and share with them the fruits of their

Labours and the joy and consolation their hearts truly desire.

Forget not the children of Noah who, even those who have

Not known you or understood your ways, still tried in their hearts

To live good and decent lives. Forget them not in your mercy

I do pray Lord God Almighty, and prepare a home of eternal

Blessing for each and every one of them.

Lord God – The children of Noah praise your name. We lift

Up the name of Yahweh and declare that he is God and that

There is no other. Heavenly Father, we will serve you for

All eternity, building a Haven of Salvation in your name, a

Haven of love, peace and prosperity, in true service to your

Eternal Glory. We will feed the hungry, nurse the sick and

Wounded, give homes to the homeless, and give peace and

Love to the broken of heart. We will care for all as you have

Cared for us, and we pray watch over us eternally for we are

The sheep of your eternal pasture, the children of mankind,

And we need you in all our weaknesses and all our struggles.

Alleluia

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 6

Beyond Azion lie the children of Adam in the Realm of Infinity

For Beyond Azion is Azaphon, the Heart of Infinity

And the Onaphim of God Live in the Heart of Infinity

For Azaphon is the Golden City

And Nadrazon is the Silver City

And Daron is the Bronze City

And in the Realm of Eternity, Zaphon is the Heart of Eternity

For Azion is the Heart of Heaven

Where the Children of Heaven Dwell

And there is much righteousness

And there is much love

Yet

Beyond Azion lie the children of Adam in the Realm of Infinity

For Beyond Azion is Azaphon, the Heart of Infinity

And the Onaphim of God Live in the Heart of Infinity

For Azaphon is the Golden City

And Nadrazon is the Silver City

And Daron is the Bronze City

And in the Realm of Eternity, Zaphon is the Heart of Eternity

And the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Azaphon

And the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Nadrazon

And the Children of Adam and Eve dwell on the Discs of Daron

And there is much righteousness

And there is much love

Praise Yahweh Forever

Praise Yahweh Forever

Praise Yahweh Forever

Hallelujah

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 7

Wisdom is Truth

Wisdom is Truth

Wisdom is Truth

Wisdom is Truth

In praise of Wisdom

Praise the God of Truth

In Praise of Wisdom

Praise the God of Truth

Wisdom is Love

Wisdom is Love

The Heart of a Dove

Wisdom is Love

In praise of Wisdom

Praise the God of Love

The Truth from Above

The God of Love

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 8

Praise God

Praise the God of Noah

Praise the Immortal Creator

Praise him now and forever

Lord God

You keep faith with those who keep your covenant

Your holiest covenant given to our father Noah

Each generation who swear by the Lord the Almighty One

Who amongst the unbelievers affirm the rainbow

Who amongst the unbelievers affirm the promises of God

Receive your attention

Receive your blessing

Receive your love

We Praise you, Almighty God

We Praise you, God of Noah

We Praise you, Immortal Creator

We Praise you, now and forever

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 9

Almighty God

The Children of Noah

Praise your Name

Almighty God

The Children of Noah

Worship your Glory

Almighty God

The Children of Noah

Cherish your Spirit

Almighty God

The Children of Noah
Give thanks for your kindness

Almighty God

The Children of Noah

Adore your Love

Almighty God

The Children of Noah

Need you now

And Forever

AMEN

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 10

Lord God

Grant us Victory

Grant us Success

Help us to Triumph over our opposition

Help us to be undefeated

Lord God

Make us Champions

Champions of the World

Champions, Victorious

Honour bearers of True Glory

For in the name of Yahweh

Comes our triumph

In the name of Yahweh

We have true success

Gloria

Alleluia

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 11

Lord God

Embellish our lives with Quality

Embellish our lives with Excellence

Place within our hearts and minds

A spirit of greatness

A spirit which accomplishes and produces things of merit

Make us a living example

Of the goodness and virtue a child of God is capable of

Produce within us an accomplishment

Of outstanding reputation

Of amazing superiority

Bless us lord God

And through us bless others

For the glory of your name

For the glory of Yahweh

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 12

Lord God

Let us burn brightly

Brightly full of Glory

Lut us burn brightly

Brightly as the Sun

Let us burn brightly

Brightly like the Glories of heaven

Let us burn brightly

Brightly to shine for all time

Lord God

Have your hand upon us

Those who call on your name

And let us burn as a flame

A flame of your amazing love

A flame of your amazing glory

Lord God

Have your hand upon us

And produce within us

A work of superlative, amazing, glorious majesty

Amen

Alleluia

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel
Psalm 13

Lord God

Help me to think orderly

Help me to think rationally

Help me to think logically

Help me to think wisely

Help me to think truthfully

Help me to think compassionately

Help me to think lovingly

Help me to think caringly

Help me to think mercifully

Help me to think prudently

Help me to think carefully

Help me to think soberly

Help me to think humbly

Help me to think faithfully

Help me to think righteously

Help me to think spiritually

Help me to think perfectly

Lord God

Help me to order my thoughts

Each and every day

In a way which is pleasing to you

And brings me into good stead with you

My fellow man

And the community of eternal life

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 14

Lord God

Help me to love you

Open my heart and turn it towards the power of love

Open my soul and transfix it by the beauty of your loving kindness

Teach me to love gently

Teach me to love passionately

Teach me to love gracefully

Teach me to love perfectly

Help me to love you

Help me to love others

Let my heart be for the lost

Let my heart be for the found

Let my heart love the young

Let my heart love the old

Let my heart love in the morning

Let my heart love in the evening

Teach my heart to open it up to all who need grace in this life

Teach my heart to give love freely to those who are lonely

Teach my heart to show love to all who need a friendly smile

Teach my heart to be loving to all who just need a hug

Lord God

Let your love, most of all, be the central part of my life

Let your love, most of all, be the genuine part of me

The True part of me

The Real part of me

Let your love guide this lonely heart

To the shores of Eternal Salvation

And guide my ship of love

Each loving day

Each loving night

Eternally in love with you

My Lord

And Saviour

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 15

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A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 16

Lord God

I thank you for making me happy

I praise you for giving joy to my soul

I adore you for the peace I have found

I worship you for the gladness my heart resounds with

Lord God

You are kind and loving

And I thank you for never leaving me nor forsaking me

In all my trials

In all my struggles

In all my weaknesses

You are God

The strength of my right hand

The deliverer of my salvation

I praise you forever

And lift up your name as holy

Alleluia

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 17

Allah Eloah Elohim El Shaddai

God Almighty

Creator of Heaven and Earth

Deity Supreme

Sovereign Adonai of Triumph

Majestic Lord of Strength

Most Beautiful King of Glory

Amazing God of Majesty

We praise you

We lift you up

We shout with our hearts

Praise be to God

Maker of Heaven and Earth

Praise be to his Glory

Alleluia

Alleluia

Alleluia

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 18

Creator of the Universe

Guide me to have the right knowledge

Guide me to have the correct knowledge

Guide me to have the true knowledge

Help me to make sensible decisions every day

Help me to get along with my fellow man

Embellish my day with sensible things

I pray

Place within my every day routine

A sensible pace of activity

Enshrouded with your wisdom

Enshrouded with your loving concern

Grant me the knowledge

Which makes me choose sensible things to do each day

To do them well

To do them correctly

And to have Godly routines in life

Were everything goes according to plan

In the decisions I make

In the plans I prepare

In the way of life and routines I establish

And through doing my work, each day, appropriately

And in the correct ways and manners

Not shirking

Not being lazy

I bring happiness to my life

Through acknowledging your guiding hand

And the truth of working according to your wisdom

In my everyday ways and routines

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 19

Lord God

Bless us with a repentant Heart

Turn us unto a lawful lifestyle

Remind us to apologize when we should apologize

Remind us to say sorry when we know we have said or done something wrong

Turn us unto the law of reconciliation

Bless us with your forgiveness

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 20

Lord God

Bless our worlds doctors

Bless our worlds nurses

Bless our worlds health workers

Bless our worlds chemists

Bless our worlds surgeons

Bless our worlds psychiatrists

Bless our worlds psychologists

Bless our worlds dentists

Bless our worlds wardens

Bless our worlds medics

Bless our worlds medical researchers

Lord God

Guide all who are dedicated

To the healing arts

To minister their work faithfully

For the health and lifestyle of our human community

Have your hand upon them to do their work professionally

Have your hand upon them to do their work in love

Bless our Carers

We Pray and humbly ask of you

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 21

Lord God, I pray

Please anoint these words of this Psalm

Make them your divine will

God is a good and gracious God

Willing to forgive those who repent of sin

Walk with him and commit your ways to the Most High

He will keep faith with you

And Bless you and your posterity

The Lord visits punishment on the House of the Wicked

Yet if the wicked man turns from his sin

The Lord is ready and willing to forgive

Praise God all you his saints

Praise his Magnificence

Praise his Glory

Let the world rejoice in our freedoms found in serving the true God

All praise to the God of Creation

Alleluia

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 22

Children of Noah

Children of Enoch

Children of Adam, hear my proclamation

Praying the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible

Praying the Psalms of the Noahide Bible

With your requests

Utilizing the Psalm as an avenue for adding in your request

Humbling yourself before God

Praying consistently

Praying for a long period of time

Persevering with your prayer request or prayer requests

Accomplishes much

For God delights in the prayers of his saints

He delights in hearing your desires

And when founded on a pure motive

He answers all your prayers

And gives great blessings

Yet, remember this truth

The more you persever in prayer with your request

Offering utterances of Psalms in their honour

Offering utterances of written scripture in their honour

The more God answers your prayers

And the greater the blessing to you and the children of Mankind

Praise God forever

Praise his glory

Alleluia

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 23

Blessings upon those who obey God

Blessings upon those who obey the truth

God is known amongst the children of men

His witness is ancient and everlasting

The Sun and Stars

The Moon and Planets

The Earth, the Sea

Flora and Fauna

All testify to the Creator of Glory

Yet man will question

Yet man will challenge

But only in the truth of the Grand Designer

Only in the truth of the Infinite Creator

Will the peace of the Searching heart

Ever be eternally found

All praise to God

Blessings upon those who obey him

And listen upon his word

Amen

A Psalm of Daniel

Psalm 24

Lord Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh

I humbly pray to you

Please anoint and direct the words of this Psalm....

The God of Glory

Does actually understand

The human condition

In all its magnificence

In all its frailties

The Challenges of your life

Your difficulties

Your concerns

Are all within his knowledge

Nothing escapes his notice

So, putting your trust into the hands of the Almighty

Living by his word, living by his rules

Grants you his guidance and strong hand

To direct you to success, love, peace

And every good thing

So trust in God

All your long days

And you will be blessed

And you will be blessed

Amen

Maxims of Haven Noahide Fellowship

Daniel’s Maxims

Know what you believe and why you believe it

The truth will defend you against all enemies

Evil will not prosper

Life simply is

To succeed – persevere

God is truth

Knowledge of truth helps you to make the best decisions

Finding something useful to do in life gives it meaning

Study knowledge of truth

Be honest with people

Love people

Practice Kindness

Show people grace

Stay true to your commitments

Pray for people

Be Patient

Turn away from evil

Teach people the right way

Walk with God

Keep on learning

Study the Bible

Help people

Watch your words

Respect your parents

Do the right thing

Obey the law

Seek God’s will

Help the poor

Be factual

Be consistent

Be tolerant

Be peaceful

Study Wisdom

Work on your spirituality

Increase your knowledge

Be faithful to your occupation

Show yourself friendly

Eat good foods

Watch your health

Exercise

Be careful

Avoid danger

Do not hurt people

Keep the faith

Be in the hearts of Men

Charter of Haven Noahide Fellowship

Prepared by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly, Head Pastor and founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship. This Charter is Public Domain Information.

Mission Statement of Haven Noahide Fellowship

Haven Noahide Fellowship’s mission as a Tanakh Based Noahide Fellowship is to promote principles of the ‘Rainbow Bible’ (Genesis 1 – 11:9), and other Noahide-Relevant sections of the Tanakh to mankind today and in the future, for the purposes of establishing Noahide Faith worldwide, to establish Noahide Culture, and to establish Noahide Law as the basis for the spiritual constitutions of International and National Law. Further, we utilize the principle of religious Assembly and Fellowship to establish Noahide Communities and Schools and other traditional spiritual organisations for the purposes of sanctifying people, giving them a home and a place in the world, being a real ‘Haven’ against life’s harsher realities, and providing charity and other life opportunities for interested members of society. Finally, and most importantly, our mission is the eternal proclamation of ‘Yahweh’ (aka Jehovah, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, Hashem, El Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, God etc) as the true God of Creation and Sovereign and Ruling Deity over mankind and the universe.

The Flag of Haven Noahide Fellowship

Note: The purple represents Faith and the Gold represents Royalty

Rulings on Sacred Writings and Other Literature

 Noahide members of Haven Noahide Fellowship are forbidden from studying any portions of the Talmud (The Mishnah & The Babylonian & Jerusalem Gemara) not directly related to Noahide laws and Noahide faith. The section of the tractate Sanhedrin which features the Noahide laws may legally be studied by Noahides. This is the Judgement of the Rabbis and Jewish Noahide Rabbinic teachers in relation to their own Jewish writings. While Haven recognizes Karaite principle, we do honour the wishes of Rabbinic Judaism not to pry into their own sacred literature.

Rabbinic Judaism has previously ruled that Noahides have permission to study all the writings in The Jewish Tanakh (ie the Jewish Bible), and thus Haven Noahide Fellowship upholds this judgement.

Haven Noahide Fellowship judges, in relation to the writings of the Christian New Testament, that Jesus is NOT the messiah, but that members of our fellowship are allowed to read the New Testament in its entirety and apply any non-idolatrous Christian teaching they find suitable to their life if they so wish to. Jesus should be treated as a Jewish teacher of spiritual values and Christianity as a sect of Judaism with an incorrect messianic point of view. This principle applies also to other Christian literature, as well as Islamic and Bahai spiritual literature.

Haven rules that all descendants of Adam, Noah, Abraham and Israel may freely read all the online literature of Haven Noahide Fellowship (http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com)

Rulings on the Establishments of chapters of Haven Noahide Fellowship

Each national assembly has self-autonomy to determine their primary direction and doctrinal standing and teaching. To be recognized as a legitimate Haven Noahide Fellowship chapter by the Head fellowship, their doctrine MUST conform with as a minimum ‘The Rainbow Bible’ (Genesis 1 - 11:9) as well as Sermon number 1 (One) of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s spiritual devotional series.

Haven recognizes it as the Sovereign right of any individual or groups of individuals in any country to establish (at their personal leisure) a chapter of Haven Noahide Fellowship providing they conform with the Rainbow Bible and the first sermon of Haven Noahide Fellowship. Any such fellowship shall be regarded by all Haven Noahide Fellowship chapters as a legitimate body of Haven Noahide Fellowship providing they conform with the Rainbow Bible and Sermon Number One of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s spiritual devotion series. Essentially anyone at all has permission to establish a chapter of Haven Noahide Fellowship providing they conform with the Rainbow Bible (Genesis 1 – 11:9) and the First sermon of the Spiritual devotional series of Haven Noahide Fellowship. It is the judgement of the Head Fellowship that anyone may simply start such a fellowship at their leisure without permission from the head fellowship or any other national bodies even being necessary. We stipulate that you must HONOUR the first established Haven Noahide Fellowship chapter in your nation – (and in terms of honour I stipulate that you respect them and show them appropriate and due courtesy) – but apart from that you are FREE to form a subsequent Haven Noahide Fellowship if you so choose, as long as you give ‘Natural’ regard to other worldwide established fellowships and give due recognition to any other HNF already established in your nation.

Our further judgement from the head fellowship (which is a non-binding judgement, but recommended to be conformed with only) is that any such newly established HNF’s (as outlined in the prior ruling) should conform to the judgements of the sermons of the head HNF and the sermons of any already established HNFs in your nation as a natural matter of course, UNLESS they are very strongly contrary to what you honestly believe is sound wisdom OR the spiritual direction you desire to take your own chapter of Haven Noahide Fellowship. Essentially we ask that you follow the general direction of HNF internationally and in your own nation, unless you have a strong and specific desire to mould it in another spiritual direction. In this case, the minimum requirements are all that is asked.

Haven ENCOURAGES study of ALL Haven Noahide Fellowship material of ALL fellowships when and were such permissions are granted and given by the heads of each fellowship to study their spiritual teachings and material (as some fellowships may desire a degree of private knowledge).

The authority to make judgements and grant authority in a hierarchical structure is deemed as the permission of each sovereign chapter to decide for themselves. Essentially, a chapter of HNF may form its own hierarchy and series of fellowship beneath it if it so chooses and designate roles and structures of authority at its own choosing.

Essentially, to clarify and restate, a chapter of HNF is delineated by its agreed observance of the Rainbow Bible and the first sermon of Haven Noahide Fellowship’s spiritual devotional series as the minimum requirements. If a fellowship is abiding by these core requirements it has the right to be regarded as a legitimate HNF chapter. No chapter is required to observe the remainder of the spiritual devotional series teachings, but is ‘encouraged’ to do so. Various bodies of HNF may disregard any pseudo-HNF chapters which fail to observe these basic requirements of being a body of HNF, and the other principles of relevance as established in this charter.

Haven Noahide Fellowship – Spiritual Devotional Sermon Series

Sermons 1 to 50

The Sermons of Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly

(Founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship)

1. Introduction to Haven Noahide Fellowship and Core Doctrine

2. Finding Peace with God

3. The Biblical Calendar

4. Serving God with Faithfulness

5. Studying Scripture – A Daily Focus

6. Conquering Sin – A Basic List of Sins

7. The Creation Week

8. The Vapour Canopy & Rainbows

9. 23

10. Life Affirming Choices

11. Children of Peace

12. Confronting Evil

13. The World Lies at the Feet of a Disciplined Man

14. A Wife of Noble Character (Proverbs 31: 10-31)

15. The Power of Your Words

16. The Noahide Shema

17. Satan

18. Some of the Principles of Haven Noahide Fellowship

19. Being Gentle

20. A Deeper Meaning in God Asking Abraham to Sacrifice his Son

21. Perseverance and Success

22. Life’s Frustrations

23. Supporting the Pastoral System – Understanding the Tithing System of Haven Noahide Fellowship

24. Burial or Cremation

25. Marriage – A One Flesh Relationship

26. Worshipping God

27. Acceptance

28. Raising Children

29. The Single Life

30. Noahide Faith – The Universal Faith

31. The Judgements upon the Noahide Nations of Egypt and Canaan

32. The Covenants and religious groupings of the Torah

33. Continue Learning

34. Becoming a Virtuous person

35. Resting on the Sabbath Day

36. Jesus’ sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘Judgement on others’

37. Callodyn’s sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘God the Heart of Life’

38. Jesus’ second sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘The Power of Sin’

39. Ambriel’s psalm and sermon from Morning Stars II – ‘God the Saviour’

40. The Love of God

41. Knowledge

42. You are important to God

43. Sharing your faith

44. Angels

45. Be in the Hearts of Men

46. Animism – Basic Spiritual Awareness

47. The Environmental Focus – Being Green is consistent with Noahide faith

48. Salvation

49. The Future of the Noahide World

50. The Archives of Haven Noahide Fellowship

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SERMON NUMBER ONE: ‘INTRODUCTION TO HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP AND CORE DOCTRINE’

Haven Noahide Fellowship is a rainbow bible-based Noahide Fellowship. The Rainbow Bible is the traditional set of scriptures known as Genesis 1 - 11:9 (from creation to the end of the tower of Babel incident). The teachings of the Rainbow Bible go back to the giving of the Covenant and earlier, and are central tenets of Haven Noahide Fellowship Faith. It appears that Noah himself, or perhaps one of his sons, recorded the details we have today in the Rainbow Bible as it talks of historical detail which only they, apparently, would have access to. The sign of the Covenant, as shown in Genesis 9, is the Rainbow.

A Noahide is simply a child or descendant of Noah. In the same way the term ‘Israelide’ or ‘Israelite’ refers to someone descended from Israel (Jacob) the term ‘Noahide’ refers to someone descended from Noah. Noah, of course, is the ancient patriarch who God called to build an Ark and bring animals upon the Ark, after which he sent a flood to destroy sinful mankind, and then started again with Noah, Noah’s wife, Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives. While most of us are familiar with the idea that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, less of us know that scripture teaches we are also all descended from Noah, through his sons, as all mankind was wiped out in the flood apart from Noah’s family. Thus the term ‘Noahide’ refers to all members of mankind today, as all of us are descended from Noah.

It is the universal monotheistic faith which underpins each of the major monotheistic religions of the world, and essentially the sense of spiritual morality that nearly all of us maintain in our hearts and way of life.

Basically, to describe this religion, simply ask yourself ‘What religion did Noah himself follow?’ And the answer to that is Noahide faith, the adherents of which attempt to follow such a religion – to follow the practices of our ancient patriarchal father Noah - who was deemed ‘Perfect in his generations.’

This brief article examines the Rainbow Bible to answer the basic question of what constitutes the spiritual requirements before God of a Noahide. It is not implied that it is an exhaustive analysis of the Rainbow Bible’s doctrine for children of Noah, but simply viewed as introductory principles. Each of us must study the Rainbow Bible for ourselves to learn more of its teachings. It will be split into 3 main sections: 1) Law 2) Imperative 3) Principle. Please consult the scriptural citations for greater clarification.

1) Law

Technically speaking there seems to be only three times the Lord specifically commands the Nations of the world as a whole.

• The first is found in what would apply to Adam and his seed in an uncorrupted paradise. This is the command to abstain from the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Genesis 2:16 & 17).

• The second is found in the command to Noah and his offspring after the flood to not eat blood. (Genesis 9:4).

• The third command is to be fruitful and replenish the earth (Genesis 9:7)

2) Imperative.

An imperative in the sense I will define it is a principle which appears to have obligatory acceptance required by a Noahide but not written within scripture as a direct command but rather implied or assumed. For example the wording of the imperative not to murder is worded in such a way that God did not specifically command directly to Noah and his offspring in a personal sense by stating ‘Thou shalt not’ or ‘You must not’ etc, but made it so obvious to know that such is a requirement for Noah and his offspring in generalization. The Noahide Imperatives are:

• To abstain from Sin (Genesis 4:7)

• To not murder and to put to death murderers (Genesis 9:5-6)

3) Principle

There are many ideas within the written Rainbow Bible which are not specified as commands or imperatives but are shown as an active part of universal Noahide life. They include:

• A calendar system based on the sun and stars and natural cycles (Genesis 1:14)

• Permission to eat plants (Genesis 1:30)

• The implication within the command to abstain from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God has the right to command mankind, especially due to him being the creator. This is a fundamental principle of Noahide faith (that God can Command us).

• The importance of keeping genealogies (Genesis 5 & 10)

• The importance of offering sacrifices. The type of sacrifices implied that are acceptable are: Field offerings, Blood sacrifices of animals which are ‘Clean’ animals. Sacrifices are offered on altars. Sacrifices probably should be offered with a ‘Positive’ spirit. (Genesis 4:3-5, Genesis 8:20). Sacrifices are completely voluntary and mainly made to God to show we love him.

• The understanding that drunkardness, while seemingly not forbidden, can cause problems (Genesis 9:20-27)

• The idea that God can call individual Noahides for specific purposes in the way he called Noah and gave Noah specific commandments.

Principles Established Specifically For Haven Noahide Fellowship

It is my intent to maintain the Rainbow Bible (Genesis 1 - 11:9) as the basis of Haven Noahide Fellowship's scriptural adherence. Further to this, however, we intend to develop our own system of Noahide Law.

I do not intend following the 66 or the 30 noahide laws of Rabbinic Judaism, mainly because they are founded on a false assumption - that they are the legitimate laws of Noah, which is scripturally untrue. Essentially I follow the Karaite Jewish principle that the Tenakh is the sole body of legislation as appropriate to utilize in any sense of divinely authoritative scripture. In this sense Haven is primarily as 'Karaite Noahide' fellowship. Haven does not claim any specific knowledge of exactly in what way or how the Tenakh is divinely inspired, leaving this to the formulation of differing religious denominations and individuals to determine for themselves. It is Haven’s opinion that the system of Talmudic Noahide Law, commonly called ‘The 7 Laws of Noah’ is inconsistent with the scriptural record, and merely the opinion of the Rabbis as to what constituted Noahide law. We feel they were developing a tradition on what laws were given to Noah and merely wrote down their traditional belief in the Sanhedrin tractate of the Babylonian Gemara dealing with this subject. We do not view these laws as historically correct, affirming that the scriptural record is the primary record of Noahide law and faith (as shown in the Rainbow Bible of Genesis 1 – 11:9). Having said all of the, God himself asked of me in a dream very early on in my Noahide walk with himself to ‘Build on my rock’ (or possibly ‘Build on the rock’ – I forget the exact word of my/the). But his intention was extremely clear in the way he elucidated my mind to understand that his rock was the people of Israel, from all of their history, and that he had great love for them and cherished them. To be quite factual, he did not specify exactly what he meant by ‘Building on his rock’. My interpretation is this – As a Christian before leaving Christianity I was extremely evangelistic in my efforts to promote the church, and was dedicated to attempting to add souls to the Christian church. I feel it is possible that God saw my sincere desires to add people to his kingdom and, as such, when I became a Noahide and committed to Noahide faith, he perhaps has approved of me developing a Noahide spiritual community which is built on Israel in a way, both built on the people and the teachings of Israel. Thus while I have accepted that the Rainbow Bible is the true historical law given to Noah, I am now following God’s request (in my personal interpretation, which he did not specify otherwise) by adding what I feel are appropriate Noahide laws for Haven Noahide Fellowship.

Thus it is the purpose of Haven to develop, on top of the foundation of the Rainbow Bible, due to reasons of an increasingly complex Noahide world society having eventuated since the time of Noah, an intelligent and lasting system of Noahide Law, agreed upon by the founding members of Haven Noahide Fellowship, to be the laws maintained by our fellowship. Such a system of increased Noahide Law is deemed proper and necessary by our fellowship because of the growth of world Noahide society, the need to increase our relationships with each other in terms of legal principle, and done as such by the Authority of the founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship who was asked by God to build a religious community more in harmony with Israel's Torah Principles. As such, I have specifically chosen under the request of God to formulate those laws which should now be deemed as universally acceptable and appropriate Noahide Law. There is no real point in re-inventing the wheel in a sense, thus I am following the basic Talmudic designations of what they feel constitutes Noahide law, with the objections of certain key aspects which I do not personally feel, in my own judgement, as appropriate for the Noahides of Haven Noahide Fellowship (and possibly most of the children of Noah in my opinion). This is all done voluntarily by Haven Noahide Fellowship. Thus, while we disagree with the Rabbis on the historical view that these laws were part of the original Noahide law, we will simply accept a degree of them anyway as per the request of God to myself to build on his rock.

I do NOT say I am 100% correct in interpreting God’s request to build on the people of Israel by establishing Haven Noahide Fellowship. Yet I can say in all truth that God did NOT define what he meant by build. He did not specify or allude to any conversion of myself to Judaism, he did not specify the building of any spiritual temple or the like, he did not specify the building of a spiritual noahide community or any such thing. He did not specify at all what he meant. He simply requested me to ‘BUILD ON MY ROCK’ giving me the understanding that his rock was the people of Israel. Thus I am free to follow my own inclinations by simply establishing Haven Noahide Fellowship, without having yet had any objections that I am aware of from Yahweh himself.

Finally, I view these laws as universally appropriate for all the children of Noah, yet I was not granted any authority to make such judgements for all the children of Noah. My authority, thus, is on my own personal interpretation of what God said to myself. I am simply, therefore, only doing what I feel is right and appropriate. I have no basis for objecting to a critics own personal objections to my works or ideas, and all are free as far as I understand it to simply ignore my viewpoints and efforts. But I would suggest, perhaps, that I have a degree of divine approval for something – make of what I have said as you will.

In brief, on top of the system of law presented by the Rainbow Bible, Haven's laws are:

NEGATIVES

· No deliberate harming of neighbour through ones own actions

· No Idolatry

· No Blasphemy

· No Theft

· Sexual Laws

o No pre-pubescent paedophilia (No sexual activity until capable of having children)

o No Bestiality (As we can not ascertain consent from animals)

o No Rape

o No Sexual Harassment

· No Kidnapping

· No Purgery in courts of Law

POSITIVES

· To live in harmony with ones neighbour

· To contribute to a societal fund for the assisting of people in financial, health or otherwise difficult circumstances (ie charity, which can be maintained through a societally implemented taxation system)

· To respect the systems of law of society when and were they do not contradict the Rainbow Bible or principles of our fellowship (With respect to Israel and the Talmudic Noahide laws forbidding certain sexual practices which Haven accepts for Noahides, we teach the importance of not objecting to the adherents of such laws rights to live by such laws and judge their own communities by such laws. We are independent of such communities and expect, in the same way we extend them the courtesy of not objecting to the way they run their own affairs, that they likewise not object to the way we run our own affairs, and point out that in the 'Rainbow Bible' we have a body of scripture upon which both communities agree.)

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SERMON NUMBER TWO: 'FINDING PEACE WITH GOD'

God encouraged Cain to conquer the spirit of sin which was always at his door, tempting him to its evil ways. (Genesis 4:7)

All of us know of people in our lives and people we see in TV who talk of troubles of the heart - anxiety, worries, depressions, sadnesses and miseries. It seems so many people are miserable in their lives, all of them searching for an answer which eludes them.

The professional psychiatrists all have various answers which they think work, but the real truth to human existences questions of the soul are found in the religious text of the holy scripture which God inspired millennia ago.

What keeps us from finding true peace of heart is our SIN. It is doing things which are carnal, nasty, viscious, mean spirited and hateful which leads to a sense of anxiety in life. And this anxiety will always stay with us until we learn the fundamental lesson which Cain, who killed his brother Abel, failed to learn. We need to repent of the carnal and sinful ways we can be so prone as humans to fall into and become, instead, children of love, joy and peace.

Finding peace with God is found in learning the principles of scripture and applying them to life. It is found in being honest and truthful towards God and our fellow neighbours and doing the very best to show everyone LOVE coming from an honest heart.

The more we love, the more we show kindness, the more we show integrity, the more peace of heart we will find and the more happy we will end up being.

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SERMON NUMBER THREE: ‘THE BIBLICAL CALENDAR

The Biblical Calendar

(NOTE: Ensure you check scripture quotations to ensure accuracy for personal verification. An important point to remember is we are dealing with approximations to the nearest YEAR as months and days are rarely specified. Thus a plus or minus figure range of a dozen years or so can be reckoned into the final date.)

SC = Since Creation

Genesis 5

No of Years SC

Adam to Seth 130 0 – 130 SC

Seth to Enosh 105 130 – 235 SC

Enosh to Kenan 90 235 – 325 SC

Kenan to Mahalalel 70 325 – 395 SC

Mahalalel to Jared 65 395 – 460 SC

Jared to Enoch 162 460 – 622 SC

Enoch to Methuselah 65 622 – 687 SC

Methuselah to Lamech 187 687 – 874 SC

Lamech to Noah 182 874 – 1056 SC

Genesis 11

Noah to Shem 502 1056 – 1558 SC

Shem to Arphaxad 100 1558 – 1658 SC

Arphaxad to Shelah 35 1658 – 1693 SC

Shelah to Eber 30 1693 – 1723 SC

Eber to Peleg 34 1723 – 1757 SC

Peleg to Reu 30 1757 – 1787 SC

Reu to Serug 32 1787 – 1819 SC

Serug to Nahor 30 1819 – 1849 SC

Nahor to Terah 29 1849 – 1878 SC

Terah to Abram 70 1878 – 1948 SC

Genesis 21:5

Abram to Isaac 100 1948 – 2048 SC

Genesis 25:26

Isaac to Jacob 60 2048 – 2108 SC

Genesis 47:9

Jacob to his arrival

In Egypt 130 2108 – 2238 SC

Exodus 12:40

Jacob’s arrival to

The Exodus 430 2238 – 2668 SC

1 Kings 6:1

From the Exodus to the beginning of the Temple in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign in the month of Ziv 480 2668 – 3148 SC

1 Kings 11:42

Solomon’s Reign 40 3144 – 3184 SC

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam’s Reign 17 3184 – 3201 SC

2 Chronicles 13:1

Abijah’s Reign 3 3201 – 3204 SC

2 Chronicles 16:13

Asa’s Reign 41 3204 – 3245 SC

2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat’s Reign 25 3245 – 3270 SC

2 Chronicles 21:20

Jehoram’s Reign 8 3270 – 3278 SC

2 Chronicles 22:2

Ahaziah’s Reign 1 3278 – 3279 SC

2 Chronicles 22:12

Athaliah’s Reign 6 3279 – 3285 SC

2 Chronicles 24:1

Joash’s Reign 40 3285 – 3325 SC

2 Chronicles 25:1

Amaziah’s Reign 29 3325 – 3354 SC

2 Chronicles 26:3

Uzziah’s Reign 52 3354 – 3406 SC

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign 16 3406 – 3422 SC

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign 16 3422 – 3438 SC

2 Chronicles 29:1

Hezekiah’s Reign 29 3438 – 3467 SC

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh’s Reign 55 3467 – 3522 SC

2 Chronicles 33:21

Amon’s Reign 2 3522 – 3524 SC

2 Chronicles 34:1

Josiah’s Reign 31 3524 – 3555 SC

2 Chronicles 36:2

Jehoahaz’s reign 3 mths 3555 – 3555 SC

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim’s Reign 11 3555 – 3566 SC

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign 3mths

10days 3566 – 3566 SC

2 Chronicles 36:11

Zedekiah to the

Babylonian Exile 11 3566 – 3577 SC

The Babylonian Exile in the Christian Calendar is marked as 587BC which was 3577 SC

3577 SC = 587BC

3577 + 587 = 0 AD

3577 + 587 = 4164

4164 SC = 0 AD

Adding 2010 years, 2010 AD = 6174SC

Thus we are currently in the 6,174th year since creation.

Mankind’s millennial rest began on the 6001st year, which was 1828AD

It ends at 2828 AD

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SERMON NUMBER FOUR: ‘SERVING GOD WITH FAITHFULNESS’

Faithfulness to God means being committed to God. It means most importantly that when you are having difficult times in life – when things are going against you - when things seem to challenging or difficult to cope with - when everything seems to be going well for everyone EXCEPT you - that THAT is the time to remain

faithful and committed to God.

It is easy to praise God and tell him you love him and do everything to please him when things are easy. But that is not the true test of your loyalty. The true test is this: When everything is against you can you still study your bible, praise the goodness of God and remain faithful? God wants followers who will remain faithful to him - through the good times AND the bad times - for better or for worse. Anything less than that is a 'fair-weather friend' and not a true follower of God anyway. So STAY COMMITTED, STAY FAITHFUL AND KEEP GOD IN YOUR HEART, SERVING HIM CONSTANTLY.

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SERMON NUMBER FIVE: ‘STUDYING SCRIPTURE - A DAILY FOCUS’

I strongly recommend that you make a habit of picking up your bible every day if possible, but at least every other day. For Noahides I strongly recommend a LONG course of study in the Rainbow Bible, which is Genesis 1 - 11:9. This covers mankind’s history from the creation to the end of the Tower of Babel incident. Why this section is so important for Noahides is that all Noahides are descended from the figures in this section of scripture. The Tower of Babel incident ends with the scattering of ALL mankind, and the prior chapters also relate to ALL mankind. This it is very important you learn the Rainbow Torah as the FOUNDATIONAL reading material in your Noahide walk with God. If you are capable, actually memorizing the whole Rainbow Torah could become a lifetime goal. Apart from people with photographic memory, I don't think anyone could really memorize the entire bible (at least not without a monumental effort). But memorizing the Rainbow Torah for a Noahide over a lifetime of committed study could become a reality. A pastor of Haven Noahide Fellowship really needs to know the Rainbow Torah intimately. He needs to have large sections of it memorized and be on his way throughout life to memorizing the entire text. For a pastor of the fellowship a reading of the entire Rainbow Torah (genesis 1 - 11:9) is recommended on a daily basis. Really, a pastor needs to make the Rainbow Torah his 'Daily Bread' and then also pay attention to the rest of the Torah and Tenakh at other times (primarily the Sabbath day which should be devoted to spiritual things). Our job is to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven who need not feel any shame having dedicated our lives, in faithfulness, to a God who will richly reward us for our efforts.

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SERMON NUMBER SIX: ‘CONQUERING SIN - A BASIC LIST OF SINS’

Remember, God admonished Cain to conquer 'SIN'. We understand sin as not only rebellion against God, but things which are 'IMMORAL' in nature. A basic list of things which could be considered sinful for Noahides are:

* Violence

* Murder

* Failing to obey God

* Eating Animal Blood

* Offering impure sacrifices to God

* Breaking the civil laws of your own society – lawlessness

These things can be constituted as ideas which are contrary to a sound Noahide faith. A Noahide is called to be holy as God is holy and thus, as Cain was exhorted to by God, master his nature and repent and resist all sinful impulses.

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SERMON NUMBER SEVEN: ‘THE CREATION WEEK’

God created in this order:
Day 1
Created Light & Dark - Separated light from dark called light 'Day' and dark 'Night'
Day 2
Created an expanse in the midst of the waters on earth below and above the earth (the vapour canopy) - the expanse is the SKY
Day 3
Separated the Seas from the Land. Brought forth vegetation on land.

Day 4

Created the Sun, Moon & Stars - which serve as signs for the seasons
Day 5
Brought forth Sea creatures & Birds from the oceans
Day 6
Brought forth land creatures from the earth. Made man.
Day 7
Sabbath day rest

Later on God 'BURST' the vapour canopy which provided the water for the flood.

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SERMON NUMBER EIGHT: ‘THE VAPOUR CANOPY & RAINBOWS’

As I briefly alluded to yesterday, there was a vapour canopy hanging over the earth 'IN THE BEGINNING'
We read on the second day of creation that God created the expanse and named it 'SKY' or 'HEAVEN' in between the "WATERS".
Where were the waters above the 'Sky'????
Well, we all know that mankind launches satellites into space and we use them for mobile phones and international television and radio and so on.
These satellites are suspended above the earth in a zone in which they spin around the earth and do two things:
1) they do not spin off into space
2) they do not fall to earth
So it is quite likely that the vapour canopy, being waters 'ABOVE' the sky was suspended here, possibly above the ozone layer, in space.
When the flood came scripture says 'God OPENED up the heavens'. He literally tore apart the vapour canopy and the world was flooded
because of it.
Finally, because the vapour canopy, prior to the flood, was between the Earth and the Sun, it appears that 'RAINBOWS' were never visible. It says right in the beginning of Genesis that it did not rain, but that streams came up and watered the earth. So, because it never rained, and because there was a vapour canopy over the earth, this seems to be why the language in
Genesis 9 says 'God set his rainbow in the clouds.'
In other words, the Rainbow always had the potential to be seen, (as we see the rainbow on a sunny day when we use a sprinkler), but it had not materialized until AFTER the flood and the rain came.

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SERMON NUMBER NINE: "23"

Anthropoids have 24 pairs of Chromosomes, universally. Apes, Monkeys, Baboons, Chimps etc all have 24 pairs of Chromosomes. Mankind is traditionally viewed as an 'Anthropoid' but we have only "23" pairs of Chromosomes. However, right along the centre of the first Chromosome in our DNA is a segment or strip which seems to indicate that at one point this first chromosome were 2 separate chromosomes which joined together. Evolutionists often teach that mankind thus developed from an anthropoid ancestor with 24 chromosomes, but that a genetic defect led to us having 23 and evolving distinctly from them. Genesis teaches that Adam and Eve (as well as the Serpent) were to be punished for partaking of the forbidden fruit. What happened to Eve was that, prior to the curse, when she was to have children she would not have felt any pain. But with the curse God said 'With Pain shall you bring forth children.' What seemed to happen, to my way of thinking, is that mankind was perfect with 24 chromosomes right in the beginning. Because of the CURSE God altered mankind’s genetic structure, merging the first and second chromosomes together, which not only caused women to feel pain in childbirth, but possibly led to many of our diseases and other things to do with a fallen or altered nature. There is another interesting "23". The earth is tilted on a perfect 23Degrees axis. Perhaps, to actually cause the heavens to give forth the rain for the flood, the bursting of the vapour canopy was caused by God changing the degrees of the earth’s axis from a perfect "24" to the new, altered, 23Degrees axis. An interesting idea, isn't it?

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SERMON NUMBER TEN: ‘LIFE AFFIRMING CHOICES’

The fall of Adam and Eve teaches us many lessons. But one of the most important ones is this: immediately after declaring their punishment God made clothes of animal skin to ‘HIDE’ the nakedness of Adam and Eve. Because Adam and Eve, after eating the forbidden fruit, gained knowledge of good and evil, God gave them clothing to start teaching them the fundamental lesson that they needed to choose ‘Goodness’ when confronted with a situation in which good and evil were involved. They knew they were naked immediately, but God clothed them very quickly, and helped them in their ‘sinful state’. God shows he cares by doing this. You see, the fundamental lesson we can learn from this historical event is this: God knows we have already chosen to have knowledge of good and evil, but he sets us an example by clothing us to help us to choose the ‘GOOD’. God wants us to choose goodness as opposed to evil in ALL our life choices, and helped us to make that choice right there at the beginning by clothing us.

Thus, in all our life circumstance were decisions are to be made which involve good and evil, God has already given us an example that he wants us to ‘Choose the GOOD’.

We must make ‘GOOD’ and ‘POSITIVE’ and ‘LIFE AFFIRMING’ choices in every choice we make through our lives. God desired ‘GOOD’ and ‘HOLY’ people who make the ‘RIGHT’ Choices.

The ‘Rainbow Bible’ is a primary text we utilize to learn the basis for doing good as opposed to evil. But God has also given us the people of Israel and the writings of the TENAKH to also assist us in learning good from evil.

The fellowship teaches that the teaching of the ‘Rainbow Bible’ is mandatory for the fellowship. The things in the Rainbow Bible MUST be complied with. But it is always useful and sensible to commit to following those teachings within the TENAK that we find ourselves capable of following. We should BUILD ON THE ROCK OF ISRAEL whenever and wherever we are capable of doing so. We should strive to become as holy, by the fullness of God’s law, as we are capable of doing.

God expects the teaching of the Rainbow Bible as a minimum for children of Noah. But we should strive to please God and put into practice as much of the Torah of Israel as we are capable of doing so. This pleases God even more so.

We MAY NOT practice the Passover. This is forbidden unless we are converted to Judaism and circumcised (as a male) or converted to Judaism as a woman. Further we can not practice the priestly laws or laws which don’t apply to us directly. But those which apply to the people of Israel in general, apart from the Passover, we can practice, and ideally should follow as much of God’s holy law as we are capable of doing so.

Orthodox Judaism teaches that Noahides may apply teachings of the Torah if they so choose, so we are not contrary to the teaching of Orthodox, and Karaite Judaism generally expects Noahides should convert to Judaism anyway, so they don’t object to us putting into practice these holy laws.

So, let us strive to please God by choosing Goodness and Holiness in our lifelong walk with the Almighty.

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SERMON NUMBER ELEVEN: ‘CHILDREN OF PEACE’

Children of Noah need to be "Children of Peace". The world’s most popular sign or symbol for Peace is usually the 'DOVE'. As fortune would have it, one of the key symbols for Noah's covenant, alongside the Rainbow, is the 'Dove'.

The Dove represents Peace, Purity and sacrifice in biblical language. They were used in official sacrifices because of their gentle nature and their purity for sacrificial food.

What we as "Children of Peace" and "Children of Noah" need to be are "Sacrifices of Peace" to all mankind. We need to sacrifice our own egos, desires and ambitions on the altar of Yahweh in service to all mankind for the "Peace Offering" which will heal ALL the children of Adam & Eve and 'Noah'.

Children of Peace are not interested in violence or bloodshed. We are interested in bringing healing when others would bring pain. We are interested in bringing love, when others would bring hate. We are interested in bringing 'Peace' when others would bring 'War'.

We strive to be friendly and at "Peace" with our neighbour and fellow citizens. We are lawful and try to be Just in all our dealings. We are gentle and soft and kindhearted. We are Children of Peace and Children of the Dove.

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SERMON NUMBER TWELVE: ‘CONFRONTING EVIL’

It is never easy or pleasant to have to deal with hostility. To deal with deceitful men and violent men can often be the very bane and hardest part of our lives. Sometimes, especially in youth, we can be confronted with people who don't show any affection towards us and are even judgemental, hostile and violent.

Because children of Noah are meant to be a peaceful and friendly people, it can be difficult to know how we are supposed to react.

In Isaiah 53 the suffering servant did not 'Yell Out' or 'bitterly accuse' his oppressors. Instead he went silently to his slaughter.

Children of Noah need to be 'Meek' and 'Gentle' in the face of opposition. We need to return 'Love' for 'Hate', and 'Gentleness' for 'Hostility'.

We need to serve as an example to those who oppress us of the patience and love of Almighty God.

On a societal level the Police have an important role. These brave souls are required by God to confront the lawless members of our society and deal with evil on a day to day basis. If God calls you to the Police force it is because you have the strength of character to deal with this work. Judges and law courts also have important responsibilities in confronting evil and we must always support them by being upright citizens and making their jobs easier. Ultimately, though, regular everyday children of Noah need to be gentle and peaceful. A quiet and sensible flock of God our shepherd, quietly going about life and keeping the peace. We only confront evil as a last absolute, and then only with special roles in society for people equipped to do as such. Ultimately, when confronted with evil, show peace. As King Solomon says in his proverbs: "A Gentle Answer Turneth Away Wrath"

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTEEN: ‘THE WORLD LIES AT THE FEET OF A DISCIPLINED MAN’

Here is a proverb: "The World lies at the Feet of a disciplined Man"

A disciplined man has the ability to:

* Pray, because he finds the time to do this daily on routine.

* Study, because he is motivated and WORKS hard to achieve his goals.

* Teach others, because his inspiration from God leads him to work to strengthen society.

* Achieve success, because he gets up every morning dutifully for work, is disciplined enough to follow the correct work procedures, is disciplined enough to work his FULL allotment of hours without shirking, is disciplined enough to attend ALL work meetings and is disciplined enough to show a good attitude and ethic to his employers. Being disciplined means having the ability to work hard under the Authority of God who will lead you and PUSH you to achieve the kind of goals you are capable of. It is a true saying, "The World lies at the feet of a disciplined man'.

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SERMON NUMBER FOURTEEN: ‘A WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER (PROVERBS 31:10-31)’

A Wife of Noble Character (Proverbs 31:10-31) 10 [c] A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. 11 Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. 12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. 13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. 14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. 15 She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. 16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. 17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. 18 She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night. 19 In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. 20 She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. 21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

22 She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. 23 Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. 24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. 25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. 26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. 27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

29 "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31 Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

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SERMON NUMBER FIFTEEN: ‘THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS’

Have you noticed how when people say kind things about your personality it makes you feel good. And have you also noticed that when people insult you or say nasty things about your friends or family that you feel bad and negative. So much of how we react to other people in life is not only in what they do but what they SAY. Words have power. It has been said 'The Pen is Mightier than the sword' and how true that is.

Perhaps the greatest public speaker of all time was Jesus of Nazareth. The gospel says Jesus spoke with 'Authority.' Perhaps the real key to this authority was that it challenged the established ruling class of the Sanhedrin priesthood.
Our greatest political leaders usually have that about them as well - a sense of authority. As if they have something we all want to listen to, and a divine mandate to speak these words.
In life, the words you yourself speak come from your own authority - your own personal power. They reflect you perfectly and communicate to others what you are about and what you believe.
They have the power to speak positively and the power to speak negatively. Here is a quotation from the New Testament book of James on the power of the Tongue.

JAMES 3:3-12
3When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. 4Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. 5Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, 8but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. 10Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 11Can both fresh water and salt[a] water flow from the same spring? 12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Watch over your tongue for it is your own power and, in many ways, the power of death and life. To curse or to heal.

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SERMON NUMBER SIXTEEN: ‘THE NOAHIDE SHEMA’

As you probably know, Isralites pray the 'Shema' every day. It goes:

Shema Israel

Adonai Eloheinu

Adonai Achud

Translated

Hear Israel

The Lord our God

The Lord is One

The Noahide Shema is similar and goes

Shema Noach

Adonai Eloheinu

Adonai Achud

We simple replace 'Israel' with 'Noach'.

This can be a daily prayer each morning or each evening - at least sometime during the day.

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SERMON NUMBER SEVENTEEN: ‘SATAN’

The ‘Serpent’ tempted Adam and Eve. Scripture teaches that before the serpent was turned into a snake-like form, he had another form which walked upright. In the ‘Pseudepigrapha’ book of ‘The Life of Adam and Eve’, the Serpent is shown to be ‘Satan’. This is a part of ‘Jewish Tradition’.

In the book of Job, Satan opposes people who try to serve God. He opposed Job with the line ‘Skin for Skin a man will give all he owns to save his life.’ This teaches that Satan is somewhat cynical, and very adversarial to humanity. He expects the lowest common denominator from us and does not seemingly have a high opinion of us.

I, personally, have heard demons mock me. These voices were separate and apart from the typical voices associated with schizophrenia. They were literal demonic voices encountered early on in my walk with God.

Scripture does not really say if Satan is the head of the demons, but this is the tradition which has been built up.

In our example of Job in scripture, Satan TESTS us. Remember when Jesus is talking to the apostles and says ‘Satan has asked to SIFT you.’ Satan TESTS the genuineness of our faith, as the example in Job illustrates. In this sense, then, he is a servant of God, doing his will, by testing the genuineness of our faith.

There is no point in cursing Satan, reviling him or accusing him. This is pointless. He simply does his job in finding our weaknesses. We may complain about our weaknesses being exposed, but they are better of being dealt with sooner than later. Really, in truth, we should be grateful for the testing, realizing we will only be made holier in the end.

Christianity calls Satan ‘The great old devil, the serpent, the dragon.’ This, really, is a fabulous misconception about what the Devil is all about. He is our adversary to make us REAL – to get all the fakeness out of us.

So do not curse the devil or his agendas. He is only exposing what needs to be exposed before the throne of God anyway.

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SERMON NUMBER EIGHTEEN: ‘SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’

These are my personal judgements for what should be part of the practices of Haven Noahide fellowship No tattoos - this is a deliberate marring of the flesh

No Cuttings of the flesh - a deliberate marring of the flesh

No ear-rings or nose-rings through holes in flesh - a deliberate marring of the flesh

Fingernails: Fingernails always grow back and continue to grow if uncut. As such it
is the right thing to do to trim fingernails. God designed us to trim
our fingernails.
Facial Hair: Facial hair, like fingernails, always grows back and continues to grow. It is entirely appropriate to trim facial hair and even be fully shaved if someone desires to. Because the hair grows back and continues to grow it can be
styled according to fashion if desired.
Women's hair length: Women may cut their hair short in the western style of they so wish. Women's hair likewise continues to grow back so this is a non-issue. Being fashionable and practical are important principles for women.
Makeup: Makeup to cover blemishes is important, but women should not be ashamed of their own particular 'NATURAL' look as well. As such a woman who refuses to wear makeup should not be ashamed at the look her creator naturally gave her. Our natural look is beautiful in God's eyes, and never an issue of shame. However it is entirely appropriate to use makeup to cover blemishes as this can cause personal embarrassment otherwise and God cares about our feelings.
Cigarettes: These very often cause cancer and other diseases and should not be used or, if used, only smoked in very small quantities (a few cigarettes a year).
Alcohol: Can cause all sorts of health problems and needs to be kept to a minimum.
Drunkeness should be completely avoided.
Illegal drugs: We should not use these because civic law forbids it. However, in countries were they are legal, all health concerns about the drugs need to be taken into consideration.

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SERMON NUMBER NINETEEN: ‘BEING GENTLE’

It is so easy to answer someone sharply or aggressively. It is so easy to be proud and think we know better than others and, out of that pride, answer back as if we know it all. But God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. Being gentle is the call of all the children of Noah. We have to be strong people, but we have to show our strength through our gentleness. Being gentle means being soft. It means being kind to people, even when they show their harsher sides to us. It means being meek and timid like. It means having NO AGGRESSION. God wants children of Noah to be very, very GENTLE. To be soft, kind and pure. Seek gentleness.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY: ‘A DEEPER MEANING IN GOD ASKING ABRAHAM TO SACRIFICE HIS SON’

Here is the 'TESTING' of Abraham from Scripture

Genesis 22 (New International Version)

Abraham Tested

1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied. 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.

12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram [a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."

15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring [b] all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.


In the immediate sense, God was testing Abraham's loyalty. But there is a far more significant basis behind this - something very fundamental.
I have, in the past, thought Abraham was gutless for not standing up to God when God asked him to kill his son. I felt to myself if it was my son I would have told God to go to hell. And, in a sense, that is why God asked Abraham to kill his son.
For a man of the ancient world like Abraham, and still to a degree today, the son represented the 'SEED' of the man or 'HIS LEGACY'. When Abraham complained to God before this that he had no seed and a servant in his household would be his heir it reflected how important the legacy of children was to them.

But what a legacy of descendants can turn into, if we are proud, is a sense of our own greatness and the pride which accompanies it. And more than that – in our seed we seek to dominate other seeds and rule mankind. It is the nature of the competitive spirit which all to easily overcomes ambitious men, and even women too.
Going back in time to the early centuries AD, this is the time when many of the famous surnames and clan names came into being. What you could perhaps surmise is that the progenitors of these clans all gained a sense of pride at their great accomplishment. You see, having children can lead to a great sense of pride as if we have accomplished something great.
But God does not like pride in men. Because in pride we have hatred, conflict and war. We have tribal divisions and wars between them and have for a long time suffered racial hatreds and divisions because of the jealousies and prides
held in one clan hierarchy against another.
When God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac he was cutting right to the core of Abraham's dreams of Glory. Abraham had ambitions for his children, to see them in Glory one day, as God had indeed promised him, but God needed to test Abraham. He needed, in that testing, to destroy the pride which had built up in Abraham because of the promises of God and by asking Abraham to kill Isaac, he broke Abraham's pride. And then God did not have a barbaric son in the people of Israel, but a people of law, justice and peace.
God asked Abraham to kill his pride. To kill his glory. And the real step all of us need to take in our lives is to leave behind us the sense of accomplishment and pride we achieve in our children's lives and realize that it is the purpose
of men to glorify the creator God who gave us our abilities in the first place.
Children are meant for joy, not pride, as if we are something special.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-ONE: ‘PERSEVERANCE & SUCCESS’

One of my personal proverbs is this: "To succeed - Persevere". You see, completing a work task, especially a long and complicated one, takes a lot of effort and often is not done at one sitting or at one go. To gain success in achieving goals you need to be committed to your goal and work steadily to achieve it. Success does not come through a half-hearted attempt at achieving glory. It comes through patient, careful, thoughtful and methodical planning - and then working to that plan to carefully achieve your goals. There are some principles for reaching goals:

* Start with the end in mind

* If at first you don't succeed, try, try again

* A good beginning makes a good ending

* A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step

Often, to succeed in life, we need to simply get of our butts and actually make a beginning to a project. But to achieve the ultimate goals we have in life, you must PERSEVERE. This means facing up to challenges and obstacles and doing your best to work through them. It means honestly facing up to the challenge and doing the required work for success. If you desire success, God will provide the means for you to achieve it. Your part is to make a good start and persevere.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-TWO: ‘LIFE’S FRUSTRATIONS’

Members of Haven need to really learn this important truth. God loves us, dearly. But it is also a real truth that God has not yet completed perfecting planet earth, and a lot more work needs to be done in improving our societies and bringing wealth and blessings. We can get so frustrated because of our lack of blessing in life, and we often end up blaming God and saying he doesn’t really care about us and doesn’t answer our prayers. It is true – a lot of the time God doesn’t answer our prayers for blessings, especially finances, and we are left wondering if he really cares about us or is devoted to us.

There is this saying popular in the western world – ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ A lot of the time God will simply provide us with the knowledge we need to be able to go about doing the work on gaining our OWN blessing from our OWN hard work. God wants to see in members of Haven Noahide Fellowship the attitude that WE will take care of our own lives as well as his own input. You see, God is making leaders and holy people out of us, and training us to be responsible and take care of things ourselves. He doesn’t want us to always have to rely upon him, especially when we are capable of getting our own blessing through our own perseverance. When there are challenges in life, especially the challenge of low incomes, God wants us to do everything in our power to work hard and look for all the opportunities we possibly can in life to further our own situation.

A big part of that and a real key to success, wether you notice this immediately or not in the first instance, is gaining a very good education. I am not just talking about qualifications from schools and colleges and universities, but real life education as well. If you have internet access LEARN as much as you can. Seek out ‘Good Advice’ websites, and also seek out websites on basic things such as ‘Mathematical knowledge’ and ‘Language teaching’ and ‘History websites’ and ‘Geography websites (Ie Maps of the world etc) and all sorts of knowledge and information. You must commit to ‘Lifelong’ learning. A very, very good start is to buy a dictionary, even a small one, and learn a new word every day to increase your vocabulary. Try and learn the meanings of words that you don’t know and talk with a partner or a friend about the word and try and bring it into a conversation. Remember, language is how we communicate in society, so the more words you know, the stronger your communication skills, and the better your chances of success in life. Often success can be done not just through exterior schoolings, but simply our own home efforts to improve were and when we can. Dictionaries are an excellent way to start and should be studied regularly. If you can afford an ‘Atlas’ (maps of the world) this is an excellent idea, and it really is worth studying the names of the countries of the world and their capital cities and major geographical features. Remember, nations don’t change their names a lot, so learning who else is in your world and about them and STAYING INFORMED and BROADENING YOUR KNOWLEDGE is always the best thing to do.

A good lesson is to ‘DO THE BEST WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE.’ With the things God has already provided for you, learn to make use of them already. If you have access to the internet remember to spend whatever time you have learning new things. A useful thing to do when wanting to know about something on the internet is also typing in ‘wikipedia’ with whatever you want to look up as wikipedia has a lot of information. Try looking up online dictionaries if you need to and just learn a new word from an online dictionary every now and again, write it down or try to remember it, and talk about it with your partner or friends and family. Remember this truth – ‘THE BETTER EDUCATED A SOCIETY, THE MORE WEALTH AND PROSPERITY WILL COME TO IT’.

So remember, when you find all these frustrations in life, DON’T BLAME GOD, but try to do the very best with what he has already provided for you. When you persevere at life and work hard the blessing inevitably comes. So, DON’T GIVE UP, KEEP THE FAITH, TRUST IN THE LORD, AND LOVE ALWAYS AT ALL TIMES.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-THREE: ‘SUPPORTING THE PASTORAL SYSTEM – UNDERSTANDING THE TITHING TEACHING OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’

The intention of Haven Noahide Fellowship is to slowly grow into an international fellowship. We desire to have a system of connected fellowships, all serving a common mission of providing a spiritual ‘Haven’ or ‘Sanctuary’ to children of Noah, Mankind, today. The Pastoral system, in which a pastor is responsible for the running of each fellowship, answerable to a national pastor or overseer in each country, who is in turn answerable to the head pastor of the Australian fellowship, were the fellowship began, is the basic hierarchical system which we intend to have operating.

The pastoral system is to be maintained similarly to a Rabbinic system or a Catholic Priestly or Christian Pastoral system. In this sense it is important for the pastors who devote themselves full time to ministry within the fellowship as a whole to be supported by members of the assembly.

Haven accepts the ‘Tithing’ system, which both Abram and Jacob followed, as an acceptable means of support for the pastoral hierarchy. Our pastors are meant to be representatives of the divine on earth, acting as intercessors and as elders responsible for ministering spiritual values to their respective flocks. The ideal is to maintain a full-time pastor for each assembly, who would be supported through ‘Tithes’ of faithful and committed members and any other freewill offerings.

As new members of a fellowship, you should not feel obligated to commit your own finances to the fellowship until a time in which you feel it is the kind of spiritual fellowship you feel you can personally make a commitment to. If you desire to be a committed member of Haven Noahide Fellowship on an ongoing basis it then becomes appropriate to make financial commitments as well. However, if you are new and are simply trying to work out if you fit in our assembly or not you needn’t concern yourself with any financial commitments.

For committed members we do not make inquiries into how much you give to the assembly. The offerings are meant to be collected anonymously, and nobody is meant to know what or how much you give to the assembly. As a fellowship we teach that the ‘Tithing’ system of 10% of income is biblical and consistent with scripture and practice in the community of other biblical organisations. However, while we recommend the tithe as both a way of supporting the pastor and a way of bringing individual blessing to the giver (as the person who gives to a shepherd of God is seen as supporting God’s will, and we believe God, in return, blesses such an individual) we do not teach it in any way as a mandatory practice and happily enough accept whatever people are willing to offer. However, we do teach that giving 10% of your income, even if you don't have much, is the best way for someone to start gaining a blessing themselves, for he who gives to God's stewards are giving to God, and the blessing you may be hoping for might really start coming once you start tithing yourself. Tithing is biblical, God's established system, and a good foundation to build ones life upon.

It is a natural part of human nature to be suspicious and question exactly why you should give your pastor 10% of your hard earned winnings. Firstly, there is NO command in scripture for Noahides to tithe to a pastoral system or join a Noahide Fellowship. If you want to join Haven Noahide Fellowship you MUST do so because of your own voluntary desire to be part of a spiritual fellowship particularly focused on learning Karaite Noahide teaching and doctrine. Haven Noahide Fellowship was established in 2007. There ARE older established Talmudic Noahide movements, so we are NOT the oldest Noahide body or fellowship. We do NOT make any such claim. But we DO claim to be the oldest established ‘Karaite’ or ‘Bible (Tenakh / Old Testament) only Noahide fellowship. Of the ones who reject the Talmudic literature on principle and accept the Tenakh as the primacy of God’s teaching and authority, we DO claim to be the oldest of such groups. I am not aware of any other founded Karaite Noahide movement at all. Thus, if in your walk with God you come to conclude that Karaite Noahide faith is your religious belief, then we ARE the oldest movement of such bodies, and currently not aware of any other competitors. Thus, it is largely on this simple fact of a religious established body unique in nature that we make our claims of legitimacy. If you accept the 7 Laws of Noah, and the punishment of the death penalty for violating these laws, then you belong in the Talmudic Noahide world. If you accept the 7 laws of Noah, but think the death penalty for ALL of them (for such things as theft and eating blood as well) is just a bit weird or extreme, then you probably belong with us.

You DON’T have to join us. That is your own prerogative. You are perfectly free to walk with God on your own merit and minister to yourself, your family and your own fellowship if you wish. That is totally within your owe domain. We WELCOME members, but do NOT compel them to remain with us if they ultimately choose not to. It is up to YOU.

However, IF and this is an important IF, IF you do ultimately decide to call Haven Noahide Fellowship your home, and you become an official member, it would be, in the way we run our fellowship, appropriate and acceptable and important to offer your general tithe to your own fellowship pastor. Your pastor would in turn give a tithe to the pastoral fellowship from which he was planted, the tithing system going all the way back to the head Canberra fellowship. In the next life (the world to come) the head Canberra fellowship intends to continue the tithe, delivering 10% of the Canberra Fellowship’s Income to Noah himself (who we would expect to tithe of our income to Adam and Eve).

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR: ‘BURIAL OR CREMATION’

In Biblical religious tradition Burial is usually the practice for dealing with the bodies of dead people. Abraham, Jacob and Joseph were all buried, as was Sarah.

In the prophetical writings of the ‘Neviim’ in the Tenakh (The Jewish Bible) the scripture speaks of dead bones being resurrected. There is a biblical idea that the resurrection to the world to come is from the dead bones of buried people. Contrasting this is that in non-monotheistic cultures ‘Cremation’ was and still is a prevalent practice.

Haven has the view that God is capable of resurrecting a spirit which has died in a new body in the ‘World to Come’ if he so desires, wether that be from a buried body or a cremated body. But perhaps there is a reason why the monotheistic religions have buried for so long, and the reason cemeteries have become such an important part of the monotheistic world.

The decision to bury or cremate for a monotheist can thus be a crucial decision. It must not be taken lightly and if one has biblical beliefs that it is necessary to bury for the future resurrection then you should certain arrange for this.

Haven thus makes the general ruling that when and were a member of the fellowship is capable of affording burial they should in fact do so. It is important to pray to God for guidance in this area and follow his will. We can not say wether burial is necessary for life in the World to Come or not, but for those with such concerns they should be mindful to ensure they are buried and have arrangements made for this act before they pass on.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE: ‘MARRIAGE – A ONE FLESH RELATIONSHIP’

The Rainbow Bible records Adam and Eve becoming one flesh as husband and wife. In fact, a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and the two shall be one flesh.

Marriage between a man and a woman is a fundamental and natural human relationship. When we are born into the world from a very young age there is a yearning to be close with people, and it is in the union of marriage upon a suitable age that the most defining of life’s relationships can arise. Marriage between man and woman can bring children – more people in the human race. Certainly, children can be born outside of the marital relationship, but when marriage occurs, strengthened by the bonds of commitment and love, a happier home for children ensues, one in which they can be taught traditional family values and become pillars in their society.

Haven stresses the ‘Normality’ of the choice of marriage and that, in most circumstances, this should be the normal choice a human being would make for their life upon a suitable age. Certainly, we are of the opinion that many people choose to remain single throughout their lives, feeling marriage is not for them. We do not condemn such choices, and respect people’s fundamental human right not to marry if they so choose. But we do strongly recommend marriage and stress that it should be considered the ‘Usual’ or ‘Normal’ course of action for a human being upon becoming mature enough to marry.

Marriage is intended to be an important union between man and woman, is a fundamental aspect of the Rainbow Bible, and Haven Noahide Fellowship upholds and maintains this tradition completely.

Marriage rites and ceremonies can be determined by the individual’s marrying, but there is no problem in national customs in marriage being followed by members of Haven Noahide Fellowship.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-SIX: ‘WORSHIPPING GOD’

Part of Israel’s Torah is to ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength’.

As children of Noah we are not specifically commanded to cleave to God in a relationship of love, but this is most definitely a part of a faith-filled Noahide walk with God. El Shaddai is a loving and compassionate creator. When God has drawn us into a relationship with himself, often drawing us away from a sinful lifestyle to knowledge of him, helping us to repent of our sinful ways, often a way we want to express our hearts desire in our love towards him is through the act of worship.

In ancient cultures idolatry was the act of worship and devotion to a believed in ‘deity’ or ‘god’. Today, Hinduism is still an expression of idolatry, as is Oneness Christianity with its belief that Jesus is God the Father. The usual problem with idolatry is that it is a mis-focus on the one who actually deserves to be the central focus of our true love and adoration, Jehovah himself.

Christians often talk about a relationship of love they have developed towards the person of Jesus. They often claim special encounters have happened in their lives which lead them to believe Jesus is there lord and saviour. While this is a significant thing in Christian faith, as Noahides our focus is on Yahweh himself, who we would tell Christians is the God of Israel, or God the Father in ancient Christian Pre-Trinitarian belief. In fact, we teach that Jesus believed in God and worshipped God, a being he taught was separate and distinct from himself.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses, the main branch of Unitarian Christianity, are a group which do not view Jesus as God or a member of the Trinity and Noahide faith shares this basic viewpoint. While we do not believe that Jesus was a ‘god’ in the way the Jehovah’s Witnesses do, nor that he was the Archangel Michael, we do accept that he was a very real historical personage, and the author of much of the Gospel teaching. But we do not worship Jesus of Nazareth, and view him as a very real ‘Human Being’, a son of Israel, and a teacher of Torah based spirituality. In essence we view Jesus as a ‘Rabbinic’ type figure (Rabbi means Teacher), but someone totally human in origin, and not a focal point of worship.

Jehovah God, also known as ‘Yahweh’ or ‘Yahovah’ or various such wordings of the divine name, in Haven’s belief is the creator of the universe, and the source of pure and true love. Worship of God is not just an acknowledgement of his sovereign power, but a way of drawing close in love with a being that will always treat you with love in return. God is the author of morality – holiness emanates from his very nature – so when we commit to a relationship of love and worship of God we will connect to a source of love which will flow back to us in untold blessings of mercy, kindness and affection. There is a scripture which says ‘Taste and see that the Lord is Good’. We strongly advocate such a testing, for you will come to know the love and faithfulness of Jehovah, a God who will always remain faithful and never let you down.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN:

‘ACCEPTANCE’

It can be such a problem in today’s world for people to find acceptance with other people, with spiritual communities and with business organisations and society in general. It seems that so many people often don’t fit well with the group, and are often ostracized or kept out because of it.

As Noahides we need to remember that all mankind today are children of Noah, and that all are valuable and important in God’s eyes because of it. Haven promotes tolerance and acceptance of people who find it difficult to relate to other people in various ways. As a fellowship we have standards which, while accepting such practices are an active part of the lives of many of the children of Noah, tend to discourage or frown upon such practices being performed in hedonistic or vagrant and vulgar ways. These are certain sexual and magical practices. However it is very important that such people who violate these practices still find a home and acceptance with us. We are meant to, in the same way Abraham interceded for the men of Sodom and Gomorrah, have great patience and mercy with people who practice lifestyles contrary to our usual customary behaviour. To a degree, in how outspoken they are in their practices, they can still be members of Haven Noahide Fellowship – it all depends how much they flaunt their lifestyle to the embarrassment of others. If they live a moderate lifestyle, obeying the civil laws of society which do not forbid these practices, then they are acceptable enough to become members of Haven Noahide Fellowship. It is important enough to state the general viewpoint of the fellowship in our compliance with the biblical way in general to such people, but we must also practice enormous grace, mercy and friendship towards all people so that they can find a true home in Haven. As Christina Aguilera sings, we are all beautiful in God’s eyes, and Haven is meant to be a ‘Haven’ for all the children of Noah.

But it is not just people with divergent lifestyles which we need to accept – we must accept all lawful people into our fellowship who desire to join and find a home. We must continually show all members of our fellowship grace, kindness, mercy, respect and love. We should treat them as if they are Noah himself, as we must remember we are all Noah’s beloved children in God’s eyes. We must have a heart which does not discriminate against people of vibrant alternative ways of life, yet tolerates and accepts in love such people as children of Noah worthy of our affections.

In a funny way, despite Judaism’s often rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus is also a child of Noah, and is worthy of our respect and love as well. In the way Jesus taught in his own views that you should ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’, we should always show the kind of love and grace we would desire from others to all who come to us for friendship. If you take it for granted that God loves you and shows you grace, so should be your attitude towards all the children of Noah.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘RAISING CHILDREN’

The first man, Adam, had children. And these children were made in the image of God, as Genesis 5 relates. A fundamental purpose for us as human beings is to marry and procreate. Procreation is having children, for God desires many children amongst mankind.

When raising children there are many lessons that society has learned over a long period of time to ensure children turn out for the best. I feel the most important of all lessons are those which focus on the morality of the child – those lessons which teach the child to choose right over wrong and make the best decisions.

Morality, of course, should be in harmony with both God’s own teaching for us as well as the laws of society. So many problems appear in the teenage years, such as drunkardness, drug-use, and wild and reckless behaviour, which could be avoided in a large degree if the parent’s exercised a stronger sense of teaching the child morality and lawfulness. So much of the time children grow up with the belief that they are a law unto themselves, and only in later years do they start to realize they have responsibilities not only to themselves, but to society in general, and that being a moral and law abiding citizen is how these responsibilities are met.

Solomon teaches that ‘to spare the rod is to spoil the child’. Many in modern day society have a problem with this approach, and many are trying to legislate against it. If you disfavour smacking you will need to replace this approach with a firm hand in your teaching and lecturing of your child. The child needs to understand, as it is being raised, that it is becoming an important member of society, and that the things it says and does impact upon other people.

‘Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Knowledge and Wisdom’ so when a child is raised to respect God and its fellow man it will usually find the right way as it progresses in life.

There are so many different ways of raising a child in terms of culture and practice, and there is no right or wrong way, really, for such a thing. But all children need to be raised to respect God and their parents, and be taught to be good children, with an obedient sense of responsibility and morality. And all parents have an obligation to ensure this.

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SERMON NUMBER TWENTY-NINE: ‘THE SINGLE LIFE’

Not all of us, it seems, are destined to marry. And this is, really, not wrong. Many people enjoy the single life and the blessing of being able to do things for themselves without the obligations of a partner and children. Yet a single life still has a responsibility to interact with society, and should not separate to its own little world, were problems of insular behaviour can often result.

If you have chosen the single life it is still very important to interact with whatever family you have, or have strong friendships or relationships with a spiritual community. No man or woman is a rock or an island, and we all share this planet together. Even as a single person you still have some sort of obligation to be a member of your society and show other people in your society you care and are concerned about them and society as a whole. You still need to contribute ‘Yourself’ to society, as you are an important and cherished part of God’s plan for the world.

There is a sense that the most regular lifestyle chosen for a child of Noah should be to raise children, as God did command Noah and his seed to do as such, but in a world today with over 6 Billion people we don’t have to worry that much about the fulfilling of this command as there are so many people. But it is still important to procreate and replace ourselves if we can.

Yet there is no shame in the single life, and such people should still strive to be a valuable and important contributing member of the society in which they live.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY: ‘NOAHIDE FAITH – THE UNIVERSAL FAITH’

Haven teaches the important role that each of the major world religions plays in the moral conduct of their adherents and the peoples of the world. We believe that monotheism is the purest form of religion, but that all religions which point to displaying a moral code and way of life have value and are important contributors to the spiritual life of mankind.

The major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Bahai, we view as the main spokes of the teaching of God’s sense of morality and justice in mankind today. Haven views these 4 religions as specific Noahide-Based religions, as each of them accepts the God of Adam and Eve, the God of Noah and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We feel that these religions are fundamentally important to the spiritual growth of mankind and are a valued and cherished part of God’s plan for the future of mankind.

Yet, what unites them all in a very true and physical sense is that each member of these religions today are ALL descended from Noah. Further, ALL of them have the witness of the Rainbow in their lives, wether they have specific knowledge of Noah’s covenant or not.

Of course, that witness is not just limited to monotheists, but all other religious and non-religious people see the Rainbow in their lives as well.

Haven sees Noahide faith as the ‘Universal Faith’ underpinning each of the major monotheistic religions in particular, but also part of the traditional ways of life that all the children of mankind have inherited from their ancestors.

The religious principles of Noahide faith seem to be accepted quite literally by each of the major monotheistic religions, playing an active part in their theological teachings and beliefs. As we see it Noahide faith has the potential to play an active role in ecumenical and interfaith religious movements, and we view it as a ‘Uniting Force’ which is the crux of our community in a very literal ‘Family’ sense.

Noahide faith is, really, for all mankind as a Universal faith. While many of us will choose a religion other than simply just Noahide faith to practice and live by, it really should be understood, as represented by Haven in particular, as the Universal focus of all religious belief, and what underpins our community of faith in mankind today.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-ONE: ‘THE JUDGEMENTS UPON THE NOAHIDE NATIONS OF EGYPT AND CANAAN’

Leviticus 18 & 20 as well as Deuteronomy 18:9-14 show the judgement of God upon the Noahide nations of Egypt and Canaan. It is important to remember these things in relation to these judgements.

Firstly, Canaan itself was the land to become the promised land of Israel, and was subject to a higher code of law because of it. Egypt was the resident home of Abraham for a while, as well as Jacob (Israel) and the Israelite people as a nation had their formative years in the land of Egypt. Because of this these two lands are considered important by God in terms of the holiness required for living there.

Secondly, Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, had a mother, Hagar, who was an Egyptian and Ishmael himself married an Egyptian. Further, Joseph married an Egyptian and thus the Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are half-Egyptian. And the other sons of Jacob married Canaanite wives.

Therefore, because of these reasons, these two nations in particular amongst the Noahide nations were judged by God with a stricter judgement than the rest of mankind in relation to issues of sexuality and magical practices.

Thus, the laws of Leviticus 18 & 20 and Deuteronomy 18:9-14 should be strongly considered as applying to the people of Egypt and those descendants of Canaan.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-TWO: ‘THE COVENANTS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPINGS OF THE TORAH’

In terms of legal responsibilities towards God, the divisions amongst mankind based on the Torah should be seen as thus:

Noahides – Noahide law as described in this document. The sign of Noah’s covenant is the Rainbow (Genesis 9).

Hebrews (Descendants of Eber, from the line of Shem, 14th in the line of Adam) – Noahide law plus special treatments in Exodus relating to laws of slaver

Abrahamides (Descendant of Abraham, excluding Israelites from Moses generation onwards) – Noahide law plus the circumcision. Jethro who was a Midianite and descended from Abraham, Moses father-in-law, offered burnt offerings to the Lord. Abraham tithed once to Melchizedek who was a Noahide priest of Salem. The occasional tithe is thus a suitable part of Abrahamide faith. Abraham offered this tithe prior to his circumcision, whilst operating under Hebrew faith, as Abraham was a Hebrew. The sign of Abraham’s covenant is the circumcision (Genesis 17).

Israelides – the relevant sections of Torah law in relation to the various divisions amongst priesthood, wether commoner, Levite, Priestly family, High Priest or King. The sign of Israel’s covenant is the blood of bulls and the Torah law itself (Exodus 24).

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-THREE: ‘CONTINUE LEARNING’

This Rainbow Bible with its list of sermons is meant to give an introductory idea and feel of the simplicity of faith in God and walking with him as a child of Noah. Really, we can complicate things if we wish to and, in life, sometimes things can get complicated. But spirituality is meant to have a simple essence of simply ‘Doing the right thing’. Christians often use the slogan ‘WWJD’ which stands for ‘What Would Jesus Do’. While that is admirable for Christians, perhaps as Noahides we could ask ‘WWND’ or ‘What Would Noah Do’.

In all of life’s difficulties you are not going to find an answer to every question in a book. You are going to have to think for yourself and put some real ‘Heart and Soul’ into solving your lifes difficulties. As a spiritual person your real quest is to do the right thing in each circumstance you find yourself in life and be a good representative of the name of your father ‘Noah’. God is there for each and every child of Noah, and as we continue to learn from others and for ourselves let us rest in the grace which comes from the love and benevolence of our Almighty Heavenly Father.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR: ‘BECOMING A VIRTUOUS PERSON’

In our walk with the God of Noah, there is a purpose. There is a point. We are born into this world and it seems for so many that we arrive at our 18th year starting to ask questions about why we are here and what it is all about.

For those of us in Haven Noahide Fellowship we have found the answer. To serve God as children of Noah living lives pleasing to him. And a large part of that life process, were we are heading, is become virtuous people.

Virtues are qualities or character traits which define us. Characteristics of our personality which shine though in our behaviours. And virtues are meant to be understood as positive, moral or life-affirming characteristics.

Here is a list of some important virtues:

Love

Peace

Mercy

Kindness

Friendliness

Consistency

Faithfulness

Purity

Truthfulness

Honesty

Devotion

Holiness

Stability

Prudence

Caution

Sense

Wisdom

Commitment

Righteousness

Forethought

Charity

Hope

Faith

Humility

Sacrifice

Compassion

Honour

Godliness

To understand what each of these virtues are, simply look them up in a dictionary for their meaning. But most of us instinctively know what these words mean.

You see, a large part of our overall virtue is putting into practice these characteristics, studying out ideas and ways of life which will inculcate them into our nature, and persevering with them, which is a virtue in an of itself, to see a real change in our lives to become virtuous people.

The main character of virtue are words which are synonymous with virtue, such as righteousness, holiness and godliness. Through listening to people teach on the ways of a good life and by carefully putting into practice positive ideals and, when we fall short of these ideals, repenting of our carnal or sinful or simply slack behaviours, we reinforce the teaching of virtue in our life and progress in our walk with God becoming the kind of children of God that he will be proud to call his own.

So strive for being virtuous and committed to a lifestyle of holiness. It will be a garland around your neck which will make you the joy of your family and your community.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE: ‘RESTING ON THE SABBATH DAY’

Genesis chapter 1 and 2 teach that God created the world in 6 days, then rested on the 7th day, his day of rest. You see, God is a spiritually alive being, but even God needs to rest from time to time. It may sound strange, but God is a feeling and thinking being with a heart and emotion, but also a being, despite his capabilities, which also needs to rest and relax. God needs some down-time. Some time to relax, unwind and just be at peace with his creation. And that is why he gave the Sabbath day to Israel – to be at peace with Israel on the seventh day of the week when he doesn’t have to do very much. To have a special day of rest when his holy spirit can rest upon all the earth, and not just Israel, and delight in his people, the children of Adam and Eve, and the Children of Noah.

In Israel he is particularly fussy and likes very little activity to take place. Outside of Israel in the Noahide world we need to give God a rest as well, as also we need to rest, and it needs to be a time of quiet, peacefulness, when very little is undertaken and calmness is the days repose. We need to ‘not kindle a fire’ and by that, on the Sabbath day, I mean be very gentle and peaceful in the way you conduct yourself on that day. Say calm, soothing words. Do not be overly exuberant on the day, do not be overly noisy or loud and boisterous. Be calm and gentle, a soothing solace to God who desires to find peace with us.

A relaxing picnic can be a good thing and remember to invite God along so he can enjoy the pleasant fellowship. Invite God into your life on the Sabbath day and be that peaceful and joyous celebration of rest he wants us all to be on his sacred seventh day.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-SIX: ‘JESUS SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER THREE – JUDGEMENT ON OTHERS’

Judgement on others can be so hard. People can often be affected, especially family members, by how harshly we judge or criticise them. But God, who watches every soul in existence, who’s eyes run to and fro throughout the world, seeks out justice. And often, to teach us a good lesson, with the very same way we judge others and the criticisms we criticize them with, he will often have arranged people to judge us back. He subtley reminds us that we have often said and done things against people in harshness, and because of this he has arranged for us to share the same treatment. It is, in a way, a lesson of Karma – what goes around comes around. If we are going to insult someone, why should we expect not to be insulted? If we are going to hit someone, how can we claim we are being abused if it happens to us in return? You see, in many ways, we receive what we give out in life, or we reap what we sow. And because of this an essential message of mine for so long has been ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you’, for if you treat others harshly, God will judge you likewise, but in a way of blessing, if you are kind to others, God will exact justice and have people treat you kindly in return. You get what you give.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN: ‘CALLODYN’S SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER THREE – GOD THE HEART OF LIFE’

‘2 hours later Callodyn was in a street café, speaking with a total stranger. He asked the person if he had heard of noahide faith, and the man said he had read a bit about it but was a nominal Christian. And then Callodyn started sharing some of his teaching.

‘Life is a heart. And that heart is God. God was before us all, but has no plans on getting rid of us. You see, God loves us, as apostle John of Christian faith would teach. Our life comes from God. Our origin comes from God. What we are, our flesh and blood, our spirit, our soul, all of it comes from God. God himself is the centre of existence, the primal axiom, in the words of my brother Michael, on which all depends. But this centrepiece did not want to be alone forever, but wanted to express his heart, the love he was capable of, the goodness which was perfectly at home with himself. And so God planned. For an age we can not reckon, but in the time of the eternal deity, he planned and eventually, through his great power, brought forth creation. The angels were his first children, it is believed. But there are also children of God in another sense, but we think of them as in some way angelic as well. These children lived in the heavenly realms God created and began the thing which, I guess, all of us will never stop doing. They began to learn. We are created children of God, all angelicdom and humanity and we are all like sponges in a way. Sponges to be filled with information and, from what we understand, information which is neverending. Our spiritual minds have infinite capabilities, to be filled with whatever knowledge we choose to allow into our lives. And it is through the knowledge we take in that our lives are formed and the decision we make come to be crafted and made. Good knowledge, the right knowledge, is so incredibly important that right at the beginning God made a tree for Adam and Eve to know about, but told them not to eat from. It was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. All of us, now, have a strong sense of what God is talking about in both good and in both evil, but there are so many ways of looking at it. Is it all relative? Is good and evil in the fruit so intermixed that with the deception of the serpent can we ever tell right from wrong in truth? And the conscience we supposedly have, is this knowledge darkened by the fruit itself? For didn’t God ask, ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ All of this is of course from the early part of the book of Genesis from the bible. Were we find the tale of Adam and Eve.’

‘I am familiar with it, but go on,’ said the man.

‘You see, good knowledge, proper knowledge, accurate and true and reliable knowledge of the ways of life guide us to, in the end, make the right decisions on lifes fundamental matters. A question which needs to arise in this life is this – ‘Do you really want to live forever?’ Because if you don’t ever really ask that question of yourself, sometimes things happen in this life which lead it to make decisions which lead to the end of it. We get involved with improper drug and alcohol use, eat things we shouldn’t eat, hang around people of shady character and many other decision which can, in the end, end up killing us in our spiritual form. As you know we are hard to kill in spirit, but each and every day and year a certain number of people leave us and go off to Sheol for choosing, ultimately, ways of death. And that, really, in terms of all the spiritual teaching of existence, is what it comes down to. ‘Do you really want to live forever?’

‘I guess it does at that,’ said the man, intensely interested in what Callodyn had to say.

‘If you do, then you need to make choices. Life affirming choices. And there is someone you need, above all else, to connect to. And that person is the heart of life, the primal axiom from which everything flows, God himself. The fellowship I started, Haven Noahide Fellowship, is all about connecting people to that primal axiom. It is all about introducing them to the idea of God if they don’t have a concrete thought on the subject, and getting them to learn and know about who this God really is. We acknowledge that, as it says in scripture, the great ‘Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh’ is the true creator and sovereign lord of life, and to him we owe our hearts allegiance. For in him we will gain the knowledge that will guide us to life eternal. God gives each of us, in our spiritual youth, lessons we need to learn to come to the decisions we need to make. A big part about the monotheistic religions we grew up with on earth was to lead us to make those decisions. And when we made the right ones, a blessing usually followed, ones which usually reinforced themselves, all centring on the fundamental choice – the choice of life. There are many keys to eternal life, many things to understand, to nut out, to grow in knowledge and wisdom and experience of and, if we continue to choose this eternal life, we inevitably do just that. Sure, God will throw challenges at us along the way. But they are only meant to strengthen us. Remember that saying, what doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger. And that strength makes it easier to continue to make this choice of life. Some say that there comes a time when we think we are making the choices, but a spirit of our eternal father within us is really doing that for us. And some say he has been doing that all along. Who can really say, huh? But, whoever makes the choice of life, that is really what Haven Noahide Fellowship is about. It is about life. Yet, more than that. It is about a Haven. It is about a spiritual place in the world, a home of likeminded believers, who share the same values, the same choice of life, who want to find a place of sanctuary with each other from the harsher elements of existence. A place of happy conversation, of friendly games and loving friendships. A place of marital bliss and insanely long, we hope, genealogical legacies. It is really, in the end, about the life of society we have always known, and is not much different in many respects. But it is a Haven and a Fellowship and in it we hope people find those who have made that commitment, who have made that choice, and who will be around forever, serving God, loving neighbour, and finding that heart in the children of men.’

Callodyn left off speaking, really thinking he had said about enough. The man looked at him, nodded slowly, and smiled.

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT: ‘JESUS’ SECOND SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER FIVE – THE POWER OF SIN’

‘The power of sin is in its ease, its seductive brilliance in leading the soul away and telling it that carnal pleasures, which it offers, are the true balm for the soul’s delight. And truly it is called temptation because of it. But when the soul which should now know wisdom has chosen sin – when the soul which should now know wisdom gives into temptation – when the soul which should now know wisdom turns its back on the established divine paths, only trouble can come. It is a true saying – a man reaps what he sows – and if we sow to the flesh, with all its power of hatred, violence and wrath – we will surely reap from the flesh. For the spiritual man, to which all of us are destined to inherit the beauties and ways of life of, disavows the wisdom of the flesh, and realizes in the gospel of truth, in the Torah of God’s wisdom, lay the ways of the eternal, and in treading down these pathways there is no death.’

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SERMON NUMBER THIRTY-NINE: ‘AMBRIEL’S PSALM AND SERMON FROM MORNING STARS II, CHAPTER FIVE – GOD THE SAVIOUR’

Meludiel looked at her man, handing out flyers on the streets of New York on New Terra, promoting his ‘Messiah Ministries’. She was proud of him, still so dedicated to saving people from the death of sin choices, as Ambriel called them. A crowd had gathered around him and, taking out the bible of his ministries he started reading one of his psalms. ‘A Psalm of David Rothchild, Messiah of Israel,’ began Ambriel. ‘Lord God, how can I forget your goodness? How can I forget your love? When I was alone, abandoned, surrounded by wolves, you were there, a constant foundation, a sure strength. When things looked at there worse you spoke confidence to my heart and I overcame. And because of your goodness, Lord, because of your steadfast love, I will praise you with the fullness of my heart. I will declare your saving grace to all I meet and let them know, in truth, of your unfailing love. Praise the Lord forever. Alleluia.’ As she continued to listen, standing at a distance, he began to preach.

‘Repentance, it often seems to me, eludes us at the times we need to repent the most. When things are going well in life, when we are happy with the world, praising God, declaring our unfailing love for him, it seems it is easy to repent and make promises of eternal devotion to his holy standards and unfailing commitment. But time invariably passes and we become caught up in the mundanities of everyday existence - and the knowledge of God, while we may still wholeheartedly affirm such belief and acknowledge such importance, becomes clouded in our everyday humdrum, put aside almost by so many, and at times completely forgotten. And it is at those times when the devil of sin enters in, rejoicing in your apathy, and promising you all the hellish riches it can offers. It is at those times, when repentance is lacking, when we ironically need to repent the most. I feel, for such eternal commitment to be made to the divine one – an eternal commitment in which one does not forget the sacred and holy saviour who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light – we are brought by God, almost involuntarily, into the darkest of despair at the end of our choices of sin and there, when faith in him has become at last reborn, he puts us to the test to teach us to rely upon him and, thus, saves us from the wolves who would surround and conquer our very hearts. It is then we see the steadfast eternal love of Almighty God and, reflecting, when we were in our apathy and state of darkness, there was God, knowing were we were in life, and leading us faithfully, inexorably onwards into the ways of eternal truth, love and life. I am David Rothchild. I am the founder of Messiah Ministries and I offer my ministerial fellowship to any and all who would wish to join and carve out for themselves a place in the eternal ways of God and the salvation he truly offers. Thank you.’

He left off speaking and the gathered crowd gave a clap and, as he started handing out flyers again, he gave a little wink to Meludiel who looked so pleased at the commitment of her dear twin brother.

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SERMON NUMBER FORTY: ‘THE LOVE OF GOD’

When people first come alive to God and go through acts of repentance of sinful behaviours they have lived through, it is often the case that people report feeling love from God, feeling as if they are now in good standing with the creator. What we know from scripture is that God created mankind in his image and placed him in the Garden of Eden for the purpose of the man being happy. He provided for the man with food from the Garden of Eden and, when man was lonely, provided a suitable mate for him. You see, the very fact that God created this wonderful planet for us to enjoy is ample proof that he cares for us deeply. I myself have experienced the love of God in his own words to build on his people of Israel, and the words ‘Loving Concern’ so perfectly describe the immense love God showed towards me in person. He was infinitely concerned with my life and wellbeing and wanted me to involve my life with his son Israel who he deeply cherishes.

God, I dare say, expresses his love in different ways to different people, as appropriate for each. The way God will display his love towards you is not necessarily the same as towards somebody else, but you can be assured that what you need and desire in God will be shown by him to yourself, perhaps in ways you never expected.

God still provides the rainbow as the sign of Noah’s Covenant. And he has never sent a global flood since then, as he promised. This shows God is faithful to his word. And a God is faithful is trustworthy. What you can know is that in the love you show towards God he will reciprocate in ways beyond your belief. He is a loving, faithful God and he really in truth cares for you.

God’s love is towards all the children of Noah and he desires each and every one of us to live in peace with each other and show the kinds of graces, kindnesses and loves towards others which he bestows upon us ourselves.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-ONE: ‘KNOWLEDGE’

Knowledge, information, data, facts – call it whatever you want to, it is by the accumulation of such stuff that we grow in understanding to help us make sense of our life. But having knowledge is not always going to help us in life. It is having wisdom, which is the wise use of knowledge, that will truly benefit us.

In the world today knowledge comes in so many diverse areas. Just look at the Dewy decimal system in a library to see all the basic classifications on human knowledge. And they are just the basic classifications.

In truth, knowledge is potentially infinite, and we can never hope to know everything, no matter how long we live.

But possessing knowledge, if that is all you have, is not true wisdom. True wisdom is knowledge of God, of the creator, of the one who made all. Knowledge of God is the divine knowledge which teaches us the wisest way to live our life. It teaches us the wisdom of how the world really works and the force and power behind it. Of course, God does not leave us guessing when it comes to finding the source of true knowledge. In the TENAKH he has provided an entire source of divine knowledge, all meant to assist us in discerning good from evil, and knowledge of life and eternity from the knowledge of death.

It is always good to accumulate knowledge, but in all your studies never neglect the divine knowledge God introduces into your life, for the divine knowledge of truth will guide you more assuredly then all the degrees in any university you could care to mention.

And, of course, knowledge of love is what gives life so much of its blessing. Here is my translation of 1 Corinthians 13.

Love – Paul’s teaching

If I spoke with the tongues of an Angel, in all his glory, and thought myself splendid, what would it matter if I didn’t really love people very much. If I was the ultimate prophetical voice, and expounded the word of God with so much wisdom that people were amazed at me, but didn’t practice love towards my friends and fellows, what kind of person am I really? If I had 7 university degrees, with PhD’s, but lacked intelligence in how I showed love to people, perhaps not even loving them at all, is my life really worth living? Love suffers long and is kind and patient. It is not arrogant or rude or unforgiving. And it does not think highly of itself, puffing itself up in pride. Love is the true voice of prophecy, it is the true word of God. And love, knowledge of love itself, is what is eternal. You see, prophetical preachers come and go, but love will last forever. All that knowledge was part of our learning, but love is the completion of our journey, giving us a fulfilment in life which makes it all worth while. When I was younger I behaved in childish ways, but growing up and growing in love I have learned to put these ways behind me. While I am young and naïve what I know is not complete, but when I love completely my knowledge will be perfect. Faith will last forever, and is a great virtue. Hope will endure for all time, and is a wonderful truth. But love is special, greater than even faith and hope, yes love is the greatest of all.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-TWO: ‘YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO GOD’

If you are a member of Haven Noahide Fellowship, believe me it is no accident. God has placed you in our spiritual body for a reason – to find yourself in a spiritual haven, but also to be a haven to others, in fact to be a haven to all the children of Noah, mankind today.

You are important to God and he has brought you into Haven Noahide Fellowship because you will be taught things here, things on love of God, respect of your fellow man, the ways of practical holiness, the ways of virtue and hopefully biblically acceptable and correct doctrine.

We are not God’s only spiritual fellowship, but we are a dedicated and serious one. We aim to help all members in our fellowship and the pastors desire to care for the flock as their dearly beloved children, children of Noah and children of God. Because of this attitude you can believe me when I say You are important to God because he has brought you into a place were his knowledge is taught, were the father of Glory is glorified alone, and were we attempt to live in peace and harmony with all mankind, not threatening them, but showing them the kind of love that God has so graciously shown us.

You are important to God. Remember that. You are loved, cared about, valued and cherished. Every single member who commits to Haven Noahide Fellowship is meant to be valued and treated with care, to be shown respect and love, never belittled or mocked, never derided or insulted, but shown the kind of spiritual haven that the deepest desire of their soul truly craves.

You are important to God. Never forget that. As he carves Israel into the palm of his hand, we believe he carves us also into his heart and we are a people of God, important to him, with we believe the gift of eternal life giving us meaning, purpose and consolation.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-THREE: ‘SHARING YOUR FAITH’

Sharing your faith can be a daunting thing. But today, in the emerging world, it is thankfully becoming a little easier to be able to speak your beliefs without being criticized so strongly.

Members of Haven Noahide Fellowship are encouraged to share their faith in ways which they feel comfortable with and are not scared of doing. We will never ask you to do anything you don’t want to do in the sharing of your faith, and if you are ever confronted with a challenge to share your beliefs in a way that scares you, we encourage you to speak to your pastor and share your fears. He will always understand.

If you are a person of courage and boldness and are happy to share your faith, this is a wonderful thing. But God made all of us differently, and some people are shy and intimidated in being bold with their beliefs. And this is exactly how God made them and absolutely nothing at all to be ashamed of.

We can all be witnesses for our faith and our beliefs, and we should all strive when we feel it is possible to have courage to share with others. But not everyone is born with skills of evangelism, and this is perhaps a calling for those who feel the spirit move them in such a way.

But sharing your real faith – sharing the only faith which has lasting value – is sharing the faith of love. Loving your fellow human, showing them grace and kindness and being the kind of person they will be attracted to spiritual anyway. If you can be a vessel of love for mankind, you will be surprised that it will not be you that has to seek out people – it will be people seeking out you for your wisdom and insight. So share your faith in a way you are comfortable with, and let love and grace be in all the words you speak.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-FOUR: ‘ANGELS’

Are angels real? Do spiritual beings apart from God really exist? The Torah speaks often of the Angel of the Lord who went before Israel as a pillar of fire while they were in the wilderness. In the book of Daniel we hear the names of the angels Michael and Gabriel and learn there are other princely angels which rule nations, such as Persia and Greece. And Satan, a dark angel, is mentioned in Job and Zechariah and elsewhere in scripture.

If you have regular internet access and are curious about angels I encourage you to type in search terms like ‘Angel stories’ or ‘Angel encounters’ or something similar. There are numerous websites, message boards and discussion forums which all speak about encounters with what people call ‘Angels.’

Traditionally there are both good angels and bad angels and bad angels are often the fallen ones, called demons. Satan has often been called the leader of the fallen angels. In the book of Enoch, which is not in the Tenakh but in the pseudepigrapha, there are numerous fallen angels mentioned, including Semyaza and Azazel amongst a list of over a dozen. And there are also the traditional good angels mentioned, including Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel & Phanuel, amongst others.

Having a focus on angels is a good thing in life, but when we do so it should be on angels of goodness and angels of light. Praying to the Archangel Michael is not necessarily a strange thing. He is an ambassador of God and can intercede for mankind, taking our prayers to God. Of course, we must remember it is God who gives the angels their powers and responsibilities and we must always remember who is at the top of the divine hierarchy and not lose this focus. In Christianity Jesus seems to be practically exalted as high as God himself and this is not quite right. Any focus we have on angels, therefore, must be sensible and in proportion with a proper respect for God himself as the first and foremost love of our life.

Angelic spirituality is an excellent thing and I welcome and desire all such activity in Haven Noahide Fellowship. They are ambassadors of God, bring good tidings, and with our guardian angels we can be protected from many of the hazards of life which unfortunately so often beset each and every one of us.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-FIVE: ‘BE IN THE HEARTS OF MEN’

God spoke to me, Daniel Daly, in a dream. In my dream I had been judging a Christian group for their oneness idolatry, for God had revealed to me earlier that worship of Jesus as God the Father was a death penalty offence. Yet as I judged them, God spoke to me saying ‘Be in the Hearts of Men’. What I instinctively understood at the time was to have mercy upon people, and not judge them so harshly, but see the heart of people who are trying their best to please God, but who live in ignorance.

Our Noahide Christian brethren who view Jesus as God are in a state of error on such a belief. But it is not a deliberate error of ill intent. It is an error of good conscience, brought upon by a misunderstanding of spiritual truths.

The truth of God’s nature is not always easy to discern. When we are young and naïve in our spiritual youth we can and do believe things which we later regret. But life is a learning process and we must always look at the heart of the person – a heart which is trying its best to do the right thing.

As Noahides in Haven Noahide Fellowship we must ‘Be in the Hearts of Men.’ We must show them mercy, tolerance and patience, for the Lord has long been patient with us, forbearing with us in all our difficulties, prides and wrongdoings.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-SIX: ‘ANIMISM – BASIC SPIRITUAL AWARENESS’

In nature there is the physical aspect of things which we see, feel, touch, hear and smell which are obvious to all of us. But since ancient days in so many diverse cultures there has been another truth – the truth of spirit or animistic awareness. Everything which has been created has a ‘Spirit’ associated with it. From rocks and minerals, to plants and animals and human beings, there is a spiritual energy associated with creation. For example, have you ever noticed feelings from youth and earlier years, and feeling these things later on in life. And to start with they may not be noticeable, but when people point it out it is very noticeable and you start noticing it all the time. Places as well have a spirit associated with them. What might be termed the ‘Ambience’ of a place is a specific spiritual ocean of spirit energy appropriate to that location.

Animism, as it is called, is part of Yahweh’s design in nature. It is the spiritual soul of creation, and it could well be that such spiritual energy is also the stuff of heaven and the stuff of our dreamselves.

Animism should not be shunned our disdained, but wholeheartedly embraced and researched with good conscience. It is the true spiritual substance of creation, and an important part of the spiritual awareness and sixth sense of our lives and existence.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN: ‘THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS – BEING GREEN IS CONSISTENT WITH NOAHIDE FAITH’

When God created Adam and put him in the garden he told him to tend the garden. This was one of the duties of Adam – to look after the Garden of Eden.

God loves his creation. There are numerous psalms which speak of the love of God towards his creation, for it is his personal handiwork and he delights in it. It thus stands to perfect reason that God wants the best for his creation, and earth, being the pinnacle of his work, is meant to be preserved and looked after.

Being environmentally focused or ‘Green Minded’ is supposed to be a preoccupation for all the children of Adam and Eve. Having concern for nature and flora and fauna – plants and animals – and our reserves of ores and minerals – is a fundamental part of the management task God has entrusted mankind to do.

Mankind is the pinnacle of God’s created living beings. As such, made in the very image of God, we are responsible to watch over his creation as the ultimate ‘Gardeners’ of Eden, and preserve for all future generations and forever this beautiful paradise of creation which God has entrusted to us to watch over.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT: ‘SALVATION’

Salvation is having an eternal relationship with God. Not a temporal one – not one of a few hundred, a few thousand or even a few million years. It is one of ETERNITY.

And this relationship can and should be found by everyone.

Only in GOD can we expect to have eternal life. Only by HIS power can we hope to live forever. For Yahweh is the source of life, love, morality, truth and peace. In HIS Kingdom – in HIS knowledge – we gain Salvation and enjoy eternal life.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FORTY-NINE: ‘THE FUTURE OF THE NOAHIDE WORLD’

Remember, Abrahamic faith started with Abraham. It had to start somewere.

In Fact, Noahide faith has been kept alive in the traditions of Israel for a long time now. It has never really died.

Yet, all of us not from Abraham HAVE kept faith in the covenant, even if without knowledge, for we have made a civilized world for ourselves, are still begetting offspring, still keep the principles of lawfulness, still see the Rainbow, and many of us have always believed in God.

We are just RENEWED in faith in recent years, and the Future of the Noahide World is truly glorious. Wether we have believed or not, God has kept faith FOR US, as the Rainbow is still witnessed, and our father Noah is still our father Noah.

We are of the OLDEST of God’s Covenant’s. We are not going anywhere, us children of Noah, and we will be here for all time to come as well.

HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP
SPIRITUAL DEVOTIONAL SERIES
SERMON NUMBER FIFTY: ‘THE ARCHIVES OF HAVEN NOAHIDE FELLOWSHIP’

In our youth Haven does not have a large supply of assets available to us. But we are young, a young infant spiritually in God’s eyes, and we will inevitably grow older and stronger.

It is the intention of myself, the founder of Haven Noahide Fellowship, for Haven to keep comprehensive records of the achievements of all the children of Noah. And by this statement we affirm that we are interested in all the affairs of every human being alive on planet earth today. Naturally we cannot store all the possessions of everyone who ever lives, nor would we ever have such access. But we have an eternal interest in all human beings lives, and we hope to preserve in our records archival information on whoever is willing to contribute life stories, in the forms of autobiographies and genealogical information, for our permanent storage.

We are well aware that websites like www.ancestry.com and various other genealogical organisations will likely go on forever preserving such data, and we wholeheartedly commend them for such efforts. We thank the Christian church and its founder Jesus for preserving baptismal and genealogical records throughout the ages and having such records available to the public for their use. We hope to make use of any public domain records to form as comprehensive a family tree as possible. One of the chief aims of Haven Noahide Fellowship is the Family tree of Noah – which is the family tree of ALL mankind. Yet, further to simply genealogical information, we desire to keep as comprehensive a record of historical biographical information of as many of the children of Noah who are willing to contribute such records to our fellowship for their preservation.

Researchable autobiographies in electronic format (ie online websites) are intended to be kept permanently by our fellowship (Online out of necessity due to the physical space limitations of keeping numerous records on a permanent basis). This data is intended to be made available to the general public for their research and appreciation of mankind’s history.

Going further, Haven does intend to establish a physical library eventually. Each national fellowship is encouraged to work towards the point of obtaining a sufficient amount of land for the building of a library to house, permanently, all the published works of their nation. Presently nations of the world generally handle such duties themselves with their own national libraries, yet we feel this work is so very important that we too must contribute our efforts to likewise maintain such material, for the sake of posterity, future research, and as an important asset value for Haven Noahide Fellowship.

Further, museums are equally important for storing regular items of everyday use over the history of mankind. Haven intends to gain buildings for the permanent storage of items used by mankind throughout its history.

Further, we intend to develop our own comprehensive news service, both to inform the public and to preserve our own permanent record of the history of mankind. All such material is to be made publicly available.

Finally, in terms of historical significance, the primary religious scripture for Israel and the Church has been the Holy Bible. Haven intends to continue the Biblical Tradition by producing its own series of Holy Bibles featuring the same variety of spiritual texts that the Bible itself features in an historical context for each successive generation. This current Rainbow Bible is intended to be completed and ready for final publication by the end of 2011. It features the following components:

Holy Scripture (Genesis 1 – 11:9)

Psalms

Maxims

Spiritual Devotional Sermon Series

Noahide Fiction

Autobiographies of founding members of Haven Noahide Fellowship – Historical Information

A concise synopsis of world spiritual activities and important histories since the time of Noah

The Rainbow Bible will then become a series of bibles produced on a decade by decade basis, and kept permanently online as a record for humanity of the history of Haven Noahide Fellowship, its members, and relevant historical and spiritual information. Each subsequent edition of the ‘Rainbow Bible’ will come out at the end/beginning of each decade by the HNF calendar, with the second volume due at 6180 SC (or 2016 AD/CE), the third volume due at 6190 SC (or 2026 AD/CE), the fourth volume due at 6200 SC (or 2036 AD/CE) and so on. These bibles are meant to contain the continuing spiritual growth of Haven Noahide Fellowship and its impact upon the world, as well as historical information preserved in a factual format of the major events of mankind’s history.

We will aim to continue the above format of the first Rainbow Bible, and potentially continue with selections from the Jewish Bible all the way through the entire Tenakh in future Rainbow Bibles. Ideally we will also continue with selections from the entire Pseudepigraphal and Apocryphal literature of Judaism. Going further, while we are specifically a NON-Christian Noahide movement, there seems no real problem in continuing at some point once the Tenakh, the Pseudepigrapha and the Apocrypha have been completed with selections from the New Testament writings, the Apostolic Fathers, the Christian Apocrypha and so on from the early century’s writings of both Judaism and the Christian Church. When we historically arrive at the period of the advent of the Koran, this literature too seems quite acceptable for inclusion in our selection of sacred writings, and so on to the advent of Bahai and the inclusion of their spiritual writings. All selections will come from ‘PUBLIC DOMAIN’ sources, so as not to infringe any copyright concerns.

Thus, in the same was as the Holy Bible preserves an important spiritual history for a period of Israel’s history, as well as the same way the Christian Bible preserves the life of Jesus of Nazareth, our Noahide Bibles are meant to likewise preserve mankind’s significant histories, both of major spiritual issues as well as major secular issues. Essentially we intend to produce ‘Noahide Bible’s’ on a permanent ongoing basis.

As a closing word, Haven is of the opinion and would strongly welcome the production of other ‘Holy Bible’s’ from other significant spiritual communities. The Catholic Church has one standard Holy Bible of the teachings of Jesus in the gospels YET it also has the teachings of the Apostle Paul and the other Apostles. While we are well aware of the writings of the ‘Apostolic Father’s’ and the ‘Ante-Nicene’ fathers and so on, we as a fellowship are of the view that these writings are now of such a holy nature that they are worthy of the title of ‘Scripture’. By the term ‘Scripture’ we mean ‘Sacred and Holy Writings’ without attributing the title of ‘Word of God’ to them. We think it would be a marvellous idea, and you could view this statement as a request to the Catholic Church, that they produce a further series of ‘Holy Bible’s’ for each subsequent century of the Christian Calendar. Thus the Apostolic Fathers and other information would become a crucial part of the ‘Second Century Holy Bible’ and so on. There are vast amounts of historical information in the Vatican Library on the ‘Saints of the Church’ as well as on the ‘Popes and Cardinals and Bishops and Priests of the Church’. We suggest that in the same format as the Holy Bible itself is displayed that the Catholic Church produce a series of Bibles for each of the Centuries from the Second Century through to the Twentieth Century. It would be important for each Bible to contain the important spiritual epistles, dogmas, creeds, sermons, psalms, proverbs, maxims, hymns, histories and other documents for each century, all put together and written in an appropriate manner for the feel of each century letting the church communicate its proper history in terms of the real life of each century - and it would be fundamental that in the preparation and writing of such documents that the church pray fervently for the guiding hand of the ‘Holy Spirit’ to present a ‘Holy’ and ‘Scriptural’ record, in the same manner as the original Holy Bible, for all the history of the Holy Church. Such bibles would form the ‘CORE’ of Catholic University and Seminary Libraries and be the fundamental texts of sermons, homilies and spiritual living by the faithful. 20 Bibles – one for each century of the Christian Church – would be an absolutely marvellous thing for the Catholic Church to offer the world, and we would wholeheartedly delight in the study of such texts. Yet not only the Catholic Church, but all the major Christian Churches could formulate their own Bibles relevant to each of their own assemblies. And going further, we would wholeheartedly wish that our Jewish brethren would further produce a continuation of the Jewish Bible with a sanctioned update of their religious historical developments in a series of new bibles in the same theme as suggested above. Noahides are permitted to study the Jewish Bible, yet Rabbinic Judaism frowns upon study of Talmudic literature by Noahides. Therefore we would welcome a continuation of the Jewish Bible in a series of New Bibles. All these spiritual communities would certainly have enough spiritual material to continue the work undertaken by scribes all those centuries ago.

Noahide Midrash

Elam and Asshur’s Lesson

(A Very Short Noahide Story – by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly)

Grandpa Noah was in the vineyard one fine day, picking grapes. Young Elam and Asshur, his grandsons through Shem, were also busy picking some grapes. Just then, Elam yelled out. ‘Grandpa Noah! Quick! There is a Lion,’ said Elam, pointing to a lion which was approaching them. Noah told Elam and Asshur to stand behind him, and he reached for his spear. The Lion came closer and closer. The situation was tense. And, suddenly, it sprang at Noah. Yet, brave Grandpa Noah, spear in hand, pierced the Lion in the heart, and it died, slowly bleeding to death.

Elam looked at the dying Lion. ‘It might make good food, Grandpa. What do you think?’ Noah looked down at the dying Lion. ‘Lion’s are unclean animals, young Elam. The covenant our great God has made with us does permit us to eat unclean animals, yet I feel it is perhaps not always for the best. And, of course, we may never eat the blood of any animal.’ Asshur looked at his Grandpa. ‘Why can’t we eat the blood?’ Noah came over to Asshur, scruffed him on the head, and replied. ‘The life is in the blood young Asshur. It is what sustains and gives us life. God has forbidden us eating it because of that reason.’ ‘I see,’ replied Asshur.

They dragged the Lion to the edge of the Vineyard and placed stones over the body to hide it from vultures.

‘What was it like before the flood?’ Elam asked his grandfather. Noah, wiping the sweat from his brow, looked down at his young grandson. ‘They were violent times, young Elam. Violent times. People hated each other. They stole from each other rampantly – nobody’s possessions were ever safe. And even some of the wicked men worshipped carved idols made of animals and sea creatures, even the stars and moon. They worshipped these idols and mistakenly believed that these were the spirits of life who ruled the world. Often, such men insulted those of the LORD who tried to teach them the right way, even insulting the glory of the LORD. They blasphemed his holy name and despised our ancient traditions. Men would sleep with other Men’s wives, and even with each other which the LORD hates. It was, young Elam, in truth the most immoral of times in our history. And because of this – because the wickedness was so great – God judged the world and sent the great flood.’ Elam nodded, soberly taking in that information.

‘Grandpa,’ began Asshur. ‘What can we do to make sure the world never becomes like that again?’ Noah looked at him firmly. ‘The LORD commands us to make Law Courts. To have judges who judge our communities to ensure that we obey God and live in peace with each other. My child, we must have mercy and patience with those who transgress God’s holy laws, as he is merciful and patient with us. But, if they continue to disobey, we must punish them to preserve the law, order and peace in the world. By doing such we bring happiness to the world – we continue to make it a better place – returning it to the glory of Eden. Dear Grand-children. Every time you look at the Rainbow, think on these laws, and with your children and your children’s children, teach them, everlastingly so, to be faithful to God and the laws of holiness.’ Elam and Asshur looked up at their wise grandfather, smiled, and returned to picking grapes. And another day passed in the life of Noah and those who God had redeemed from the rest of mankind.

THE END

The Raven and the Dove

(A Very Short Noahide Story – by Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly)

The Raven sat on the branch, contemplating the scene below. Three tireless workers, and the older father figure, toiling away, working on the big boat. The raven heard the term, often, 'Ark of Salvation', which it seemed to understand as referring to the Ark but, as Raven's were not as smart as humans, was not quite sure.

The Dove, sitting up the branch a little, also surveying the scene, turned to the Raven and asked. 'Why is the boat so big? Are they planning on travelling far, do you think?'

The Raven considered the question before responding 'God only knows.'

Months came and went, and the Raven and the Dove, having come aboard the Ark, were up near the side window, which the old man had opened that day, as it had finally stopped raining. 'Freaky,' said the Raven, looking out. 'There is water everywhere.'

'It is all the rain, dear Raven,' replied the Dove.
'You know, Dove, if this is the only boat and all the others have drowned, then I don't think I will ever leave the boat. It will probably end in no good, if you know what I mean. Leave this boat and who knows what trouble you could get in to.'
The dove considered the Raven's point, yet replied. 'I will take my chances. I mean, how possibly bad could it be? What, would they kill me or something?'
'Maybe,' said the Raven. 'But this God thing the old man speaks about, I think he sent all the rain. You better not be too cocky, or he will punish you as well.'
'Oh, I am not worried. There are plenty of doves here, and I think we will be fine.'
'Whatever,' said the Raven.

And time passed.

And the old man opened the window, and let the Raven go. The Raven flew out and looked all around, finding no safe land anywhere, so returned to the Ark. The old man took him back in, and petted his head lovingly. The Raven looked at the dove. 'I am never leaving, you know. Never leaving the old man. He has taken care of us when everything else was destroyed.' The dove nodded, starting to understand.

A little later on the Dove was released, found an olive leaf, but in considering the words of the Raven returned to be safe and sound.

Yet, in the testing of the dove, the dove was released again, and decided, because of the newness of the world - how it had been refreshed - that it would leave the man and take its chances. It would see just were its own freedom in life could take it.

Yet the Raven remained. And as years past, and as the communities of Ravens and Doves grew once more, the Raven kept in mind the lesson of the Ark and the Flood and, seeing the Old man's descendants sacrifice doves regularly, it wondered to itself just how long it would take before the Dove realized that, at the end, when the second and final punishment came, that there would be only one safe place then, and that was with the old man and the Ark.

THE END

Noah and the 7^th Rainbow

By

Daniel the Noahide

Noah had been collecting rainbows. Well, maybe, that was a strange way of putting it. Rainbows. You could hardly collect the sign of God’s great covenant with him and his children. They were made of colours – how could you collect colours? They sat in the sky, on rainy days, happy, lovely, beaming their glory. Beautiful. And now he had collected 6 of them – 5 more since the first magnificent, glorious one, he had seen on the day of the covenant. And now he waited for the seventh rainbow.

In heaven, there were 7 Seraphim Angels of Glory which watched over the children of Noah. These were the 7 Noahide Angels. They were not the 7 Archangels in waiting, which one day God would send to the people of Israel. Nor were they the 7 angels of the Man from Nazareth and his followers, or the 7 angels of the Prophet from what would become Mecca and his followers. Those latter groups of 7 angels were made, before the days of creation, put aside for those peoples of the books, to guide them in all their tribulations.

But the 7 Seraphim Angels of Glory were Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Phanuel and Saruviel. They were the eternal Noahide Archangels of Glory.

And Saruviel, the seventh angel, dropped down to see Noah seated upon the rock with his wife Titea, looking out at the raining valley, and with his great power, upon the will of the Most High, brought forth the sun and clouds in a particular manner, and the 7^th Rainbow of Noah’s life shone forth in all its glory.

‘There,’ said Titea. ‘The 7^th Rainbow. You can now rest in peace.’

And Noah said ‘Amen.’

The End

The Book of Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly

Chapter One

I am not really sure what my oldest memories are, but I do remember being in the kitchen at Berridale (7 Bent Street) playing on the chairs we had, which had black vinyl, being chairs I had played on often, doing a rocking horse motion on them around the kitchen, and thinking right at that point, in thoughts which had slowly developed for a while, I will remember this time for the rest of my life. And I have never forgotten it.

I was born on the 20th of November 1972 Kingston upon Hull in England in the United Kingdom. I was born at the Hull Maternity Hospital, which Mum tells me is no longer there. What had happened was my older brother Matthew was born in Cooma Hospital on the 21st of October 1969 and my older sister Brigid was born in the same hospital on the 26th of October 1971. But when it came to the third child, myself, mum decided to have me in England in Hull, were she likewise had been born. She was born on the 7th of July, 1937 (meaning she turned 70 on the 7/7/2007 – which is probably why 7 is her favourite number). My mother’s name is Mary Philomena Daly nee Baker. Dad was born Cyril Aloysius Daly on the 11th of August 1922 in Sydney.

I remember, in those early days, the world book dictionaries we had, and the set of world book children’s encyclopaedias. We still have the dictionaries, but the children’s encyclopaedias are long gone. They had a games section of a jungle map which you followed from page to page, as well as a volume of kids activities which I liked to look at. I remember a big box which dad brought home from work one day, which we played in in the back yard for a while. And I remember the first day thinking that when the ‘Goodies’ came on (on ABC at 6) that I would still keep on playing in the box. But I think that the others went inside when the Goodies came on, and I went in shortly afterwards. The Goodies were big to me as a kid, and so was Dr Who which ABC put on right after the Goodies. They are my earliest childhood TV shows I remember, alongside The ABC News at 7 (which is still the time they show it) and the Saturday morning Cartoons. I remember ‘Point of View’ which they showed before the cartoons at 12 which was a political commentary show. When ‘Point of View’ came on I was usually watching TV, waiting for the Cartoons. The ‘Whacky Racers’ was a show I remember, were the hero turned into a bad guy as well. Star Wars was a big thing because every one was talking about it, and when what I thought was Star Wars was supposed to come on TV I was broken when the blackout occurred and we missed nearly all of it. In fact it was just the Star Wars holiday special (but I didn’t know at the time) and perhaps it is a good thing I missed it because Mr Lucas maintains he would prefer if it was totally forgotten. I read online that some people consider it Star Wars canon, because it contains plots which supposedly tie into the saga (ie Chewbacca visiting his family). Later on, when I learned about confirmation names, mine was going to be ‘Luke’. It was going to be ‘Luke’ for a long time, mainly because of Star Wars ‘Luke Skywalker’. But I ended up choosing ‘Tarcisius’ just a few months before my confirmation because I read a book in Year 6 at St Pats in Cooma in the back on St Tarcisius. I also read one on St Pancratius, but was scared of the way St Pancratius died (I think he was beheaded) and preferred the death of St Tarcisius. I guess I ended up choosing Tarcisius because I thought that was the spiritual thing to do.

I pinched my dad’s 2 cent and 5 cent coins almost straight away from his jar, because I knew they bought lollies. I kept on pinching from mum’s purse into my teens. It was where my arcade money came from. I was convicted a lot and felt guilt, but always brushed it aside. I remember, later on in Cooma, getting busted for pinching lollies from Woolworths, and they took us to the police station. We were under age and just got a warning. It is the only time I have been to the police station for illegal activity. I have never been arrested, and have worked hard to make sure I won’t be.

Anyway, God dealt with the pinching gradually through my life, and I learned my lesson eventually. I do remember, though, that whenever I pinched some money and mum asked who was pinching from her purse, it was normally always me, but I would deny it to her face. I am not really sure if my siblings ever pinched money. There was this time, though, in Cooma, when Aunt Molly accused me of pinching a dollar, but it actually wasn’t me that time. I think she had just mislaid it.

Like ‘Swiper’ from Dora the Explorer, pinching was my main problem, but apart from that, looking back, I usually feel I was a good kid with a good heart. I was usually gentle throughout my school years, and did not like fighting, and was picked on because of it. I was extremely unpopular all the way through to the end of year 10 at St Patrick’s. Fortunately, they were never too violent towards me, usually just occasionally calling me names and letting me know my place at the bottom of the hierarchy. Throughout those 11 years at St Pats there were a lot of hard times, but there was an occasional moment here and there when things were just a bit okay.

My teachers were Mrs Macminnamin in Kindie, Sister Susan in year 1 and 2, Mrs Jones in year 3, Mr McHugh in year 4 & 5, Sr Ann in year 6, and then various teachers in high school.

I first went to the pre-school in Cooma north before kindie, but only occasionally. I remember a few times staying at the big house up the top of crisp street at the top of the hill in Cooma – the very big mansion like one – after pre-school for some babysitting. I can’t remember the people, but they had a shack were I remember thinking there was a fox there. It is a big part of my memory. Mum tells me they asked me questions but I was playing them for fools as a little devil.

The first day I got home from kindie, mum tells me I undid my shoes, took them off and said ‘Thank God for that.’ I remember I was trying to be dramatic.

I learned to read very quickly, and that was my main strength in school. I was good at maths, but excellent at reading. I remember in year 1 or 2 one time when the class had to read a book, I was finished very quickly before the rest of the class, and I think it was Sr Frances taking the class a the time who told me to read it again, and I did so very quickly, a lot of the class still reading. I had free time for a little while and thought about stuff.

I remember getting in trouble once and being told to go down to stay with the kindies. But I was too embarrassed, so hid behind the kindies class, and looked under the school at the stuff they kept there. Later on I went to the section were the toilets were. I got caught out the next school day and told Sr Susan I was were the toilets were, not telling her I was at the other part of the school. Another lie. But I didn’t get into too much trouble.

I remember sporting carnivals. I never got any places, ever, at any sporting carnival. I don’t think I ever came last, but I was always down near the bottom. Once I got a fifth place, just missing out on a forth and a white ribbon. I was no good at sports to start off with. But, later on, when I was with my friends from the public school (the gang I got into) we played a season of Indoor Cricket in the B Grade competition, and we actually won it. There were only 4 or 5 teams, but we still came first, and I got invited to play that day in the A Grade final, which I did. We lost, but I always remember we could have won. The problem was we thought the ‘Hot’n’Tots’ were invincible, and we lacked confidence, but they played poorly in that final. We lost, but we might have won with the right motivations. But I still got a trophy for wining in the B Grade final with my team, and that was about the only sporting triumph I have achieved in serious competition. Although I was on the winning team for the UPC Oldies vs Youngies cricket competition for both the first 2 years, once on the oldies and once on the youngies. I think I was the only person who could claim I was on the winning side for both years. One of those years I made a ’50 Not Out’ and matched Jonathon Downs effort (the Pastor John Downs’ son). It was a mandatory retirement at 50. Of course, Jonathon was a much better batter than myself, and had all the shots. But my innings started slowly, and worked up gradually. And towards the end I started hitting ‘4s’. I guess I go slow to start with but gradually build up strength. Either way I was pretty happy to match Jonathon’s score.

The gang I joined was a Cooma game arcade group of kids. I started going there to play games at about 14 or 15 and Damien Asanovsci and Peter Dradrach befriended me. I had never really had friends, but they seemed to care. And those few years were some of the best years of my life. Peter and Damien, alongside Michael Werle and Michael Gratwick and Keith Willis and Mark Post were the gang, and we listened to Heavy Metal and played Indoor cricket. The bands we listened to were ‘Metallica’ and ‘Iron Maiden’ and ‘Motley Crue’ and ‘Def Leppard’ & ‘Megadeth’ mainly, as well as ‘Helloween’. I liked Bon Jovi because Damien had given me a copied tape of ‘Slippery When Wet’. It was the first major album I had listened to, apart from a ‘Black Funk’ tape from probably Boney M or someone similar, and a few kids tapes. I thought the album was incredibly cool and became the biggest Bon Jovi fan in Cooma most likely. I ended up seeing them in Sydney in 1989 alongside my friend ‘Noodles’ who lived near the train station in Cooma. The only other live concert of a big act I have seen is ‘Rebecca St James’ in Sydney in the early 2000s. The Bon Jovi concert was far too loud, and I had borrowed my brothers binoculars without asking him to see the band. There were 2 rock chicks in front of us and they went wild. But we were way up the back, and the view was not fantastic. Still, I can claim to have seen Bon Jovi live in the 1980s, and that is a big deal to me. I bought a t-shirt at the concert which had a big heart and a dagger on it, and they still use that symbol. I was on Austudy at the time and was buying all the Bon Jovi cassettes and records, and had a number of posters and magazines. I even bought a metal ‘New Jersey’ badge, which I lost later on in life. They were the biggest band for me to start with, and my favourite for a long time. No band really ever replaced them as my favourite, but I have a lot of favourite bands and artists now. Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Queen, Alice Cooper, Madonna, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Billie Piper and so many others are big on my list, and I have owned probably over 1000 CDs by now. But with my schizophrenia I usually end up either destroying them, or trading them back for others, or selling them, or giving them to family members. But I am less attached to a CD as a possession now anyway, and FM104.7 plays all the new hits and radio is usually enough. Freddy Mercury from Queen went on about the ‘Disposable Pop’ idea. And these days what I know is that new hits always come along, and new artists always replace the old, and you don’t have to stay attached to the same old music forever. Some styles seem to stay in vogue now, and older styles come back from time to time. I think Billy Joel sums it up – ‘Everyone is talking about the new style funny but its still rock and roll to me.’

We were in Berridale for the 1970s, Cooma for the 1980s and Canberra for the 1990s and beyond. I did go back to live in Cooma in 2001 briefly and in 2007 briefly, and in 2009 until the present moment, were I am living both in Cooma and Canberra. I have a cheap flat I am renting whose lease expires shortly, and I am undecided wether I will keep the flat or not.

Berridale was a blissful town to grow up in. We went to Catholic Church on Sundays, the whole family, and I did that every week until I was 16, when I went my own way on beliefs. I remember looking up at the crucifix and realizing that was the Jesus fellow. I remember praying the rosary in the rosary group which came to our house. I remember the statues of angels at the church which were put up in the attic of the church I think (because of something to do with protestant discussions at the time – I am not sure though). But, whatever else, church was extremely boring, a massive guilt trip, and I never really liked it that much. Later on as an altar boy it was alright because I was doing something, but I couldn’t abide sitting in the pews. I never liked church, and that was that.

At 16 Mum went on a holiday to England with Greg, and I stopped going to church. When she got back I was so headstrong that she didn’t try to persuade me to go back and that was the end of the matter. From there I gradually drifted into Agnosticism, and while over the next few years I strongly considered atheism, I never quite made the commitment to that viewpoint. At that stage my faith was a work in progress.

In 1990 we came to Canberra, first in Kambah and then in Gilmore and then in late 1990 to 29 Merriman Crescent Macarthur, were I am right at this moment in the front middle room typing this away (Tuesday 2nd of March, 2010). We will get up 20 years at this place later on in the year, and that is a pretty good achievement. But it is still taking a while to get used to even the suburb, and I haven’t totally done that yet. In a strange way Tuggeranong is still new territory to me, and the rest of Canberra as well, but I am gradually getting used to it as home. Actually, Cooma is home as well these days, and I suppose I am basically a ‘Monaro’ boy.

I also have a younger sister, Jacinta, and a younger brother, Gregory. They are both married and Jacinta has 3 kids and Gregory has 1.

In my early 20s I was studying at the Canberra Institute of Technology, undertaking an Associate Diploma of Business in Office Administration. I ended up completing all the requirements, with 3 distinctions, 5 credits, and many passes. It was during the latter half that I had my crises of faith and finally went back to church. But I had an accident in testing my faith, jumping off a bridge barefooted near parliament house. I turned schizophrenic that day. I blacked out immediately after stepping off the bridge, and woke up a while later on the ground. The ambulance came shortly, and I was in hospital for a couple of weeks. It was when I went nuts, and I am still essentially a Schizophrenic.

From there it was off to Catholic Church in Gowrie for a while, but I was witnessed to by Pentecostal girls, and ended up going to Potters House Christian Church. In fact, I attended a service there just this Sunday – my first in a good few years as I don’t go anymore, no longer being a Christian.

I was at Potters House for about a year, then off to United Pentecostal Church because I no longer believed the Trinity. But the ‘Oneness’ was wrong also, and I ended up ‘Unitarian’ in faith. After 6 months at Hughes Baptist church attending occasionally I became a ‘Noahide’. That was a leap of faith in January 1999 and now, in March 2010 I am still a Noahide. So I have 11 years up and hopefully am slowly gaining some credibility for my faith. Jesus talks about traditions of men being taught by the Pharisees as commands of God. I agree with him, and thus disregard the Mishnah and Gemara (the Jewish Talmud’s). There are different ways of looking at the Jewish Bible itself, and I would probably make a ‘Hexateuch’ argument if I had to, but I am no longer sure it really matters. In the end conversion to Judaism has simply not been an option, and the Noahide thing is working for me very well indeed. I am happy with it, content with my situation, pleased that Haven Noahide Fellowship today has 3 official members, with reasonable potentiality for growth, and happy that Yahweh is not asking me to do anything in particular out of the ordinary. I have had ‘Rainbow’ witnesses at key points over the last decade and it seems to me that the Rainbow as the Covenantal sign of my covenant is really, in truth, the one to stick with. Scripture declares it an ‘Everlasting Covenant’ so, to me, faith in an everlasting Covenant leads to everlasting life.

Now, my books. Morning Stars was begun the writing of in the year 2000. I began it at work in AQIS one day in the Exdoc section. Saruviel popped in pretty quickly, and I think the name was bubbling away from ‘Suvrael’ the southern continent of Silverberg’s ‘Majipoor’. Lord Valentines Castle, The Majipoor Chronicles and Valentine Pontifex were awesome, and some of the many fantasy and sci fi epics I have consumed.

‘Morning Stars’ the title comes directly from Job 38:7 KJV. It was borrowed directly from that translation.

It took 5 or 6 years to write the first version of Morning Stars (the currently paperback published version of 100 copies only), but writing took off very quickly after that point. I write heaps now.

People occasionally ask me were did I come up with me ideas about angels. Well, Michael and Gabriel come from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament, and Gabriel appears in the Gospels, and Michael appears in ‘Jude’ and in the ‘Revelation’ in the New Testament. I have also read some of the ‘Pseudepigrapha’ and Michael and Gabriel and a number of others appear in 1 Enoch in the Pseudepigrapha. Some churches actually hold to 1 Enoch as scripture, and for biblical students I strongly encourage you to go check it out because Jesus quotes the hell out of it.

Metatron is in one of the Enoch’s as well (there are 3 Enoch books, I think) and he has a heap of names in there, well over 70. The Rabbinic literature goes on about various angels, and Muslim literature also does as well. Also, don’t forget the Doreen Virtue Books and many others out there. Currently Angel Books are doing well, and I am aiming to get the major fantasy niche in this market if I can.

I cheekily call ‘Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ the third volume of the Pseudepigrapha. I guess, because the Pseudepigrapha is public domain, and if I had the money, I might consider publishing it myself one day under the ‘Noahide Books’ imprint and adding the first ‘Arc’ of the Chronicles to it and calling this the third volume of ‘Haven Noahide Fellowship’s’ own Pseudepigrapha. Recognition from the big churches and the big Jewish and Muslim movements might not be easy, or it might end up being quite easy – you never know. But we are actually quite serious about being NON-cultic, quite serious about being lawful and in harmony with the general rules and customs of the land, and quite serious in our devotions to God. On salvation, we generally teach that this is mainly God’s business. Iron maiden sing a song which says ‘There’s not a God to save you if you won’t save yourself.’ Some Christian fundies will argue that works aint gonna do it, and that only faith in Jesus death is going to get you there. But Jesus teaches in revelation to one of the churches a doctrine which says ‘I have not found your works perfect.’ Of course, the New Testament can be argued on Calvinistic and Armenian standpoints, but taken as a whole – ie the 27 books being the New Testament, I would actually agree that you probably need to be a Christian to be saved, doctrinally. But it depends how you view it. For example, you can’t enter the kingdom of heaven unless you are born again. Is this the New Jerusalem? Thus, if you are not born again, like John the Baptist in Jesus own words, is the new EARTH available instead? Jehovah’s witnesses think so. Is this were the Catholics go? As in there creed they say ‘The Life of the World to Come’, which is the standard Jewish doctrine on salvation. The World to come – the new earth. Of course Isaiah goes on about a new heaven BUT ALSO a new earth. Are there different destinations for different folks. Jewish salvation is works oriented. I think Catholics seem to be of that mould also these days. The fundies are faith oriented. Is it a different destination for different groups?

So if you are not Born Again my fundamentalist friend, I know you can’t enter the Kingdom of God, but is that Kingdom the New Jerusalem? And if it is, is the New Earth available instead? Interesting question.

You see, Jews actually do have faith. And they have faith in God, and not Jesus. Will this works doctrine of salvation get them the ‘New Earth?’ Perhaps, I think. Perhaps. Anyway, just so you will actually know, Haven’s own doctrine of salvation for us Noahides in particular in Haven Noahide Fellowship is that God is the saviour. Jews have to circumcise to maintain their own covenant. Christians have to baptize to maintain their own covenant. We believe Noah’s covenant is totally up to God’s own effort. You see, we can’t make a rainbow – only God can make a rainbow. So we don’t even bother to save ourselves. We do whatever the heck we want to, can be slack and second rate on spirituality if we want to, occasionally little devils on legal issues (as the Coloured Devil’s would testify), but, in general, happy enough and amused by all the entertainment. You see, God didn’t actually give us Noahides a doctrine of salvation, so we do bugger all, smile that the rainbow still pops up for us every now and again, and thank our lucky stars we don’t have to slave away at the Sabbath, or confess every sin under the sun in true Johannine fashion. Amen and amen and amen. But enough with religion. I am tired, thirsty and hungry, and fortunately the kitchen is still were I would imagine it to be. This chronicle is finished for the moment, but I will give you some more thoughts later one. Cheers. Daniel

Chapter Two

(Written Friday the Fifth of March, 2010 CE/AD, in the morning)

Funnily enough, I am actually published already. No royalties, or anything like that, but in reasonably significant publications. My first publishing is actually a fan letter to a comic. I was a big fan of DC Comics growing up and loved the Justice League International and others from the 1980s, but in the early to mid 1990s I loved quite a few others and ‘The Demon’ run by Garth Ennis and John McCrea was awesome. And, thus, I am published in the last issue of the 1990s run of the ‘Demon’ in poetry form. I have to go off and obtain the comic again, but here is the poem as far as I can recall from memory.

‘A Devious Plan by Etrigan to conquer all the Earth

Saw light in Demon 52 when Glenda did give birth

A Tragic fate it does await a child so innocent

For the Demon’s evil schemes are not heaven but hell sent

I laughed with glee in 53 at Hitman’s futile folly

Too kill an undead army, methinks it’s not that jolly

And Jason Blood he knew the score and gave a grin not frown

As he stepped into the circle and took the bastard down

It was a fight with fire and flight which came in 54

A merry battle yes indeed with blood and guts and gore

So to the victor go the spoils and Jason blood did smile

While Etrigan his dark revenge will have to wait a while.’

I wrote out the letter on paper with a pen, and my writing is not that neat, so they misspelled the last name and put ‘Daniel Dacy’ instead of ‘Daniel Daly’, confusing the ‘L’ for a ‘C’. I sent in another poem on the Demon as well, but the first poem was in the last issue, so they couldn’t have published the second one. I did though have my name mentioned in an issue of ‘Green Lantern’ I think around this time as well, (just a little later), in the letters section.

My next publishing was in poetry anthologies from www.poetry.com (I think they have changed their name now). My poem ‘Cat’s’ was published in ‘Treasures to Discover’ and my poem ‘The Next Day’ was published in ‘The Best Poems and Poets of 2001’.

After that I was published in a magazine in America, but never received a copy of the magazine, and it was one of my poems. I think it was called ‘Anointed Magazine’ by Magpie publishing, or something or another. I’ll get it one day.

And then, just last year, I was published in ‘Short and Twisted 2009’, an Australian Anthology book, with short stories with twists to them. My short story ‘The Diabolical Adventure of RXQ7’ was published in this anthology.

Of course, ‘Morning Stars’ and ‘Ye Olde Devil’ were published at the same time under my own ‘Noahide Books’ imprint in 2007 with 100 copies of each of them. I have handed most of them out, but still have a few of each at home.

My writing is central to my life, these days. I receive a Centrelink ‘Disability Support Pension’ for my Schizophrenia, and because I have a lot of free time available, I write books. I became schizophrenic in the mid 1990s the day I returned to faith in the God of the bible (interesting that, isn’t it). It was a hectic time. I had just spent the afternoon at YWAM in Watson with a girl called ‘Ariel Cheng’ who was studying with me at CIT at the time. All the previous night my depression had reached its worst, and I needed to See Ariel because she was saintly and a believer. All that day coming through Canberra from Macarthur to Watson I felt all this heaviness upon me, but when I got to the ground of the YWAM place, the spiritual heaviness abated. But when I left later on it returned. I stopped off in Woden at the Christian book store, bought a ‘Good News Bible’ and stopped off again at Holy Family Catholic Church in Gowrie and read the entire book of Job. And that is when I felt the goodness of God and returned to biblical faith. The following day I went off on a mad crusade after having confessed my sins to a Catholic priest in Red Hill, and, in an attempt to test my faith Indiana Jones and the last crusade style, I ended up jumping of a bridge near Parliament House. I was in hospital for a couple of week, and then in a wheelchair, but most of the anxiety and depression was now gone. And then about 6 months later when I prayed a sinners prayer in Potter’s House in Pearce, the rest of the depression left. BUT, in those 2 and a half years as a Christian, until January 1999 there was still a degree of anxiety. This, though, left in January 1999 when I became a Noahide. And since then things have been very good for me. I have had Schizophrenia all throughout this time, rejected the medication on naturalistic grounds a number of times, but now take it consistently. My symptoms are talking to myself a lot, and hearing voices a bit, but it is fine now. It doesn’t really bother me that much anymore. I have learned to live with it. But because I receive a Disability Support Pension since applying in 2005, I no longer really have to work so, to keep myself busy and (hopefully) earn a living one day, I write books. The main intention with my books is to keep them FREE to read online, but if people want to purchase paperback copies of my books, those ones I can sell. That I think is an ethical way of going about business, and completely fair.

My main saga, of course, is ‘The Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’. This is about Angels and Children of God, from their creation up into a potentially neverending future. There is quite a bit written about them now, and I don’t really plan on ever finishing the saga in this human life. I have prayed many, many times to God for long life, and hope he continues to bless me with this.

The first book written in the ‘Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ was ‘Morning Stars’. This was begun the writing of in 2000 CE/AD. Prior to this my writing achievements were: A story about insects who flew in leaves in year 6 (which I was very proud of), a Frog and Toad story in primary school, a Fantasy Epic which I had maps drawn up for, about Kalan Lyant and Mallintor the Magician and the continents of ‘Kaluvia’ and ‘Ky-Keria’ and Karadarak’ and the main bigger one which I can’t remember the name of but had the capital city of ‘Rhyan’ and a minor village called ‘Lameth’ were a female bartender called ‘Marni Bonniker’ worked, who was to figure into the saga. ‘Ky-Keria’ was a continent on the north of ‘Kaluvia’ and they were just connected (like north and south America’. All of ‘Ky-Keria’ was barren land with the dread city ‘Yalth’ in the centre, were the main protagonist of the saga, and evil warlock, resided. On Kaluvia on the north-east side were the ‘Iridian Jid’ mountains, two cities called ‘Ejin’ and ‘Eijin’. On Kaluvia, over the other side of the Iridian Jid on the mountains on the northern side, near the ocean, was ‘Haven’. On Karadarak on the top north-eastern corner was ‘Auar’ and the ‘Auarii’ were the elf-like creatures from the hidden Shangri-La of ‘Auar’. Auar was totally surrounded by impassable mountains on the land side and impenetrable cliffs on the ocean side, and thus had never been found by the dwarves or humans. I had written in year 7 or 8 or 9 (I can’t remember which) quite a bit of this story on paper, but eventually lost the writings unfortunately. But later on in the mid 1990s it was going to be called (with new ideas) ‘The Doomsayer Chronicles’ with all sorts of ‘Armageddon’ overtones. I will definitely write this saga one day, and ‘The Belzandramanian’ which is currently underway mentions this saga, and should be viewed also as a prequel alongside David Eddings two sagas.

I had read ALL of the Belgariad by this stage, and was about to be pleasantly surprised by Damien Asanovsci with his mothers copy of ‘Guardian’s of the West’ in hardback. The other major fantasy works I read in those years were: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Twilight Realm, the First Shannara Trilogy, The First 5 Riftwar saga books (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon, Prince of the Blood & The King’s Buccaneer), The Dorian Hawkmoon books by Michael Moorcock, Conan the Adventurer, The Pliocene Exiles (and later the Galactic Milieu saga) by Julian May, The first nine Xanth books by Piers Anthony and later the first seven Incarnations of Immortality Books and Battle Circle by Piers Anthony (and I have ideas for a Battle Circle sequel, which I might do in fanfiction – hey, I will call it this: ‘Battle Circle II: Circle of Death’ – I just made up that title then. Anyway, my idea for the sequel is that the two guys left stranded near the end with the radiation poisoning (was that it? It is years since I have read it) but it was Sos and Sol wasn’t it? Anyway, whatever, they get rescued and cured by the Chinese Helicon, and they are in the sequel. It was just an idea I had back then because I liked the books so much.), Some of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, Most of the Foundation Saga (yet to read the two prequels to foundation), All 10 Chronicles of an Age of Darkness books by Hugh Cook and even a short story in the saga in his online website (check it out Hugh Cook fans, there are other short stories in the Chronicles there), This is the Way the World Begins featuring Ram Burrell by J T Macintosh, The Sword and the Satchel by Elizabeth H Boyer, The first two volumes of ‘Memory Sorrow and Thorn’ By Tad Williams (I am halfway through the final volume and will finish it off eventually), and more recently the first two volumes of the Faded Sun Trilogy by C J Cherryh (I will finish of the third volume eventually) and others still.

I will probably start ‘The Doomsayer Chronicles’ soon. After that in the Mid 1990s I wrote the first two versions of ‘The Harmony Bridge’ both of which never got finished. The Current short story ‘The Harmony Bridge’ is a different version still, but contains some of the ideas. It really should be seen as a sequel to the original ideas for the Harmony Bridge, the plot I still have in my mind which I will write out some day. In fact the original version of ‘The Harmony Bridge’ birthed the name ‘Callodyn’. That is were he was born. Radric was born in the second version of ‘The Harmony Bridge’ and later I met Andre Wheeley from Crossroads Christian church and ‘Ambriel’, in a sense, was born from the ideas of both of these. Radric was a friend of Callodyn’s.

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Here is my current resume:

Resume of Daniel Daly

Address: 29 Merriman Crescent

MACARTHUR ACT 2904

Phone: (02) 6291 4414

E-Mail: danielthomasandrewdaly@live.com.au

Date of Birth: 20th of November, 1972

Skills: Office Administration Skills

Word Processing Skills – MS Word (Intermediate to Advanced)

MS Excel (Basic to Intermediate)

Typing: 60 wpm

Creative Writing Skills

Pastoral Skills

Education: Associate Diploma in Office Administration

(1995) Canberra Institute of Technology

Certificate in Word Processing and Office Skills

(1993) Canberra Institute of Technology

Year 10 Certificate

(1988) St Patrick’s School, Cooma

Work History:

2000 – Current Author. I have my own website

(http://noahidebooks.angelfire.com) dedicated to promoting my own fictional books about angels. I have spent the last decade writing these books.

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1996 – 2000. Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service

Position: Clerical Officer – Various Positions from ASO1 to acting ASO3

Duties: Various database work, Excel Spreadsheet work, Travel log, Stationery cupboard maintenance, Photocopier room maintenance

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1996 Department of Employment, Education and Training

Youth Affairs

Position: Clerical Assistant

Duties: Photocopying, Filing

It is not an exhaustive resume, just a basic one page one.

Well that is the end of chapter two. I will write more soon. Cheers. Daniel

End of chapter two

Chapter Three

(Written Friday the 12th of March and Saturday the 13th of March 2010 in the evening, late on Friday, and early the next morning, Saturday, just after 12 midnight)

There is a line in a song which goes ‘A Good Heart these days is hard to find.’ Thinking about it, what will really last forever, beyond your works even, is if you have a good heart which people are attracted to and find peace in. If people can get along with you and find acceptance with you, if you can overlook their flaws and fallible nature and love them simply for being them, for being human and alive and worthy of love because of it, if you can show empathy and relate your heart to theirs and give them consolation when they are low and be a faithful friend in both difficult times and good times, if you can be a little rock of eternal friendship and hope in their lives, then that will really last forever and be a blessing of untold wealth. Money comes and goes. Perhaps, in the world to come, we will be trillionairres a trillion times over, and perhaps right at the bottom a number of times too. Who can really say, hey? Perhaps we will own mansions, and cars, star in movies and sing great songs. But when everyone has had their turn at glory, what will last? Thinking about Jesus, who I don’t believe is the Christ or Messiah or God or anything like that type of nonsense, but thinking about how he often comes across in his simple human wisdom, he apparently forsaked all the glory of wealth in his life, didn’t bother really trying to earn thousands of drachmas (or whatever their currency was) and living out the high life, but instead sought to teach people spiritual values and share a message of love with them. And while I think God has various ways of looking at the person of Jesus of Nazareth, ways unlike how the church views him, I think there is still a heart of popularity attributed to this man simply because he comes across has having cared about people, and perhaps was even willing to die for them, which he apparently did. I couldn’t do that, personally. I have the guts to take a bullet for any wife I would marry and children, but I couldn’t die on a cross. But then again, that’s not me. If someone asked me ‘Would you die for me?’ I would have to tell them ‘NO.’ But then I would say ‘But I would LIVE for you instead.’ But, whatever, the message of Jesus simple love is, really, what is going to last forever. The message of finding a heart which accepts you and treats you kindly, which will sacrifice for you and dig you out of difficult situations, will give you blessings when you need them, and stay faithful to you – well who can say that they don’t really want that a lot? And, hopefully, that is what Haven Noahide Fellowship, if it really ever starts growing well and turning into something which I hope it could become, will be all about. Above all else I want Haven to be exactly that – ‘A Haven’. I think everyone can say at some time in their lives they needed a place to get away, a place to call their own, a place to be accepted, loved unconditionally, and helped out in difficult circumstances. In Australia were I live we are so lucky that we have a good welfare system which helps out the people with low incomes. I know that Indigenous Australians still have a degree of poverty, but it has gotten to the point in Australia that if you really want to succeed in life, the opportunities are there. Schooling will be free if you can’t afford it, you can gain HECS to study a university degree and pay it back later. There is the jobsearch allowance to support you while you are looking for work. And there is government housing for people who can’t afford to own or rent in the private sector. All of this comes from, to my way of thinking, a society which genuinely cares about its citizens. And that is what we all want, isn’t it? To live in a world which cares and has a heart in it. All my life I have heard it said occasionally that this is a cold hard uncaring world. But I have found the opposite often equally true. There ARE a lot of caring people in this world. There are synagogues and churches and mosques and temples full of religious and spiritual people who are motivated by pleasing God and helping their fellow humans. And there are non-religious people who hold to an ethical or moral stance of live and let live and trying to be a good person. And, I think, that may just be what it is all about, this thing called life. C S Lewis argued in ‘Mere Christianity’ that there is a ‘Moral Law’ which we all seem to ascribe to. For example, we often say of things ‘That’s not right’. Or ‘That shouldn’t be’ as if there is some benchmark or standard of righteousness which we all seemingly hint at, even unknowingly. A lot of that may be as a result of centuries of grooming on our morals, but is it more than that? Is there really a sense of justice innate to being human, made in the image of God. And, for me, Justice is not just about righting wrongs, but acting justly to ensure a society in which happiness is found.

Haven Noahide Fellowship, as of today, has a tiny number of members. But it has a growing number of people who know about us. My hope is that Haven WILL grow, and end up being that Haven in peoples lives, a place of sanctuary, a place were they can escape to and find peace from God and solace for the heart and soul. I want Haven to be a place were EVERYONE is accepted, because we are all children of Noah and Noahides. It is to be a place were people can be put right with God, meeting him, encountering him in prayer and meditation, and finding others who also connect to him. It is to be a place, ultimately, in which Jew, Christian, Muslim, Bahai and any of the believers in the God of Adam, Noah and Abraham can connect and find Haven from the conflicts which have often beset them. You see, Haven accepts everyone of all the Adamic religions, wanting to be a place were they can find acceptance with each other and tolerance for their differences. And it is the sign, the simple sign of the ‘Rainbow’ with its bright colours, which all of us can see and witness to, and have hope in the promises of God that his Grace will remain, everlastingly so.

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I have had a crush on a number of female pop singers for a number of years now. I have fancied the Christian pop singer ‘Rebecca St James’ for a long time, ever since the mid 1990s when I was given a Christian compilation CD from my sister with her song ‘Here I Am’ on it. I think she is a wonderful person, and hope she soon finds the right man for her, because she is still a virgin in her early 30s and has been faithfully waiting for the right one. I really like all 5 Spice Girls, and am currently reading Geri Halliwell’s biography ‘If Only’. She comes across as a very genuine person, in no way flakey, with a very real upbringing and with a heart which cares. I think she is FAB. I am also a big Madonna fan now, and hope the best for her. I also really like Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson, as well as Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff and Lily Allen.

I remember in the 1980s when I first heard of Madonna. She was that new big super popstar, who at the time I thought was basically one of the real big popstar's like Michael Jackson. I never bought any of her albums though and was never really a fan until the early 1990s when I was at a video store and looking at CDs for rent and thought I may as well try the ‘Bedtime Stories’ album by Madonna. I loved it and became a fan then.

I know Madonna has studied Kabbalah for many years, and I also know she still seems to be a Christian in faith as well. I find her a very interesting personality and the fact that she has faith in God is, to me, a great thing. To me that is someone who ‘has it all’ but still remembers where her bread is buttered.

Success in life, finding the big dream of it all, and finding your piece of the pie seems to be what it is all about for many of us in the west. I wrote a poem a while ago called ‘Stuck’ which sort of summed up how I view things. It is in my ‘Life, Love and Other Mysteries’ anthology of poetry and song.

So much of my own yearnings in life over these past 20 years have been for some sort of success. To make a name for myself, to achieve wealth and success, to gain my own, supposedly deserved, glory. But I suppose I have to learn the poem God gave me to write for myself. ‘In patience what I need comes to be.’ I guess, if we can learn to wait, to learn to let go of the demand for ‘Instant Wealth’ and ‘Instant Success’, then perhaps what we actually really NEED will be given to us by God and that in this ‘Prison of Life’ we will end up FREE from the frustrations of our own covetous lusts for wealth and success, instead transformed into a person which is content with God’s love and whatever he sees fit to provide for us. Because if we have God’s love – if we have the love of the one who is eternal and has always been there – then it is just patience we need to have, for he will give us all good things in the fullness of time. What we need to learn in the mean times is to love each other, to respect each other, and to value each other. For those gifts, which are FREE, are the ones we really need for eternity anyway.

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When I stopped going to Catholic Church at 16 it wasn’t really because I didn’t believe in God. It was because church was boring and I had better things to do. But, gradually, looking back, I realize now that the simple faith I had in God as a child disappeared in those years from 16 to 18 or so. But not for long. I questioned, intently, wether God was there or not. I thought about it all the time, a great deal, and then, later on in year 11 or 12 at Lake Tuggeranong College I stole a book on philosophy for beginners from the library (which I might have eventually returned to the Civic library) and read some of the arguments for the existence of God. What nailed it for me was the ‘Argument from Design’. Essentially it argues that nature is so complex, wonderful, beautiful and has such a design to it that it indicates a ‘DESIGNER’ behind it. I gave this thought, then, and within a short while confessed my faith. Yes, God was there, had designed the universe, and was the creator. It was at that point I really did believe in God, and have never stopped since. But I was NOT a religious believer, instead, I guess, being deistic in my viewpoint. I did believe in an afterlife, though, and shared that view briefly once with Ariel Cheng, a friend from CIT. But she alluded that unless I was a Christian I wouldn’t receive that afterlife. That got me interested in Christianity and later I became a pentecostal. But for a long time now, since being a Noahide, I KNOW I was in the right position back then. I had faith in God, believed in a world to come, and I know that was and still is enough for God to accept you. It was all he needed to save me.

Over the course of my walk with God, though, I have come to know that Jehovah is NOT a trinity, and that Israel is his ‘Rock’. But, the way the Noahide world is gradually emerging now, we Noahides are becoming God’s ‘Rock’ as well. After all, we are of the ‘Oldest’ of the biblical covenants, older still than Abraham’s covenants, and perhaps in that sense should be the MOST responsible of God’s holy people. Perhaps, because we are of the OLDEST covenant, we should be the most mature and reliable in our service to the Most High. It is what I believe personally anyway.

Faith in God in action can mean a lot for many people. For many it is a belief system which guides their lives and moral choices. For others it becomes the central focus in a religious calling. And for others still, just that little part of faith in their lives, that little corner, which they occasionally go to that reminds them that, yes, they believe, and that there is a meaning to it. But then back off to the real world.

For me, personally, it is perhaps a mixture of all those perspectives. As a Christian in Potters House and the United Pentecostal Church I evangelized on the streets of Civic in Canberra a great deal, handing out flyers, talking to people and even street preaching. I hardly ever saw anyone come to church that I had talked to, but wonder these days what, if any, impact I had. It has been slow going in Noahide faith as well, but what I seem to be understanding these days is that you REALLY need to get your time up in a religion and a religious assembly and show REAL commitment before God will bless you with souls. If you are a monotheistic evangelist, and you want to win souls to your assembly, they won’t come forth unless YOU stick to your assembly. If you quit later on, God has wasted his time in using you as an example, hasn’t he? You have GOT to stick to your guns and really commit, or you are just wasting your time. Real soul winners are ones who end up sticking to something, and showing people their faith is genuine. If it isn’t you won’t bear fruit in the end. In this day and age it is as simple as that, because with all the religions on offer people see through the shallow ones very quickly now and move on.

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I lost my virginity to a prostitute in Fyshwick in Canberra at 26 years of age. It was the day (early in the morning) after I left Christian faith and was thinking about Jewish/Noahide faith. I was living in Hughes in Canberra, working at AQIS, and had come to the conclusion that I really didn’t believe in Jesus and that I just believed in God. And then, later on that night, thinking that because I was no longer a Christian, that all the Christian teaching on sexual purity until marriage really didn’t apply to me, with all my years of sexual frustration having built up, I went off to the keycard machine at the mall, withdrew a number of hundreds of dollars, and early the following morning took a taxi out to Fyshwick stopping at ‘Exotic Studios’. The girls working name was ‘Amber’, she was from Cooma originally (funnily enough) and was very pretty. I went a fair number of times after that, but it gradually diminished.

Sexuality and what God requires of us is a big issue for me, and very challenging. Not being Jewish and, further, honestly believing that the Talmudic system of Noahide faith is simply rabbinic invention, I have only been able to rely on the Scriptures themselves. I would be lying to myself if I tried to follow the mainstream ‘7 Laws of Noah’ code. I don’t believe it is the historical truth, so there is no point in trying to meet its religious requirements.

I essentially have a ‘moderate’ stance on the composition of the scriptures, and would recommend ‘Richard Elliott Friedman’s’ ‘Who Wrote the Bible’ to explain source theory on the Documentary Hypothesis. While I would question ‘Dating’ of the sources, I agree there ARE differing sources in the Torah. Some say it is Priestly invention, the sections in Leviticus and that, by and large, the rulings are developed rulings. This is probably true to a degree. IF there are any genuine Mosaic sections in the Torah WE don’t know with any certainty what they are. Further, we really DON’T know what are the rule from God, if any, on sexual morality. The bible says what it says, but is this reality? Is this the moral truth of human lives? I am not sure.

In the Australian Capital Territory were I live Prostitution is legal. Because of that I occasionally visit a lady and have an intimate encounter. I have shared this with a number of friends in my mental health groups, and nobody really seems to object. In fact it is usually an article for light hearted conversation.

From observations on this throughout life, smirks, laughter and grins are often the result in male to male conversations on their sexual escapades. Is that, then, the reality of sexual conduct? And, therefore, are the biblical prohibitions rabbinic nonsense? Is it really that big a deal? Today we have homosexuals well entrenched in our society, and nobody seems to mind. In fact many churches say that is ok now. With my knowledge on the composition of the bible and the lack of real proof of God’s own voice on the subject, what can we really say?

In the end I only argue common sense should prevail, and your own convictions and inner voice. There are a lot of sexual freedoms now, and I think that will always be part of society from now on. We won’t ever be going back to the Victorian era, and the restrictive ways of the past. X rated porn is here to stay, and they are the facts of life.

What I do know, though, is that VDs aka STDs or STIs are a permanent part of the landscape, and a fool practices unsafe sex with every Tom, Dick and Harry. So whatever your practices on this issue, be bloody careful.

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I probably had my first cigarette in my teens. But I can’t really remember. In fact, it might have been my early 20s. So far I have smoked about 20 to 30 cigarettes in my life and drunk about 50 to 100 cans of beer in my life. I am not actually really trying to abstain from beer – it is just that I don’t really like the stuff very much. I do like cigarettes, but plan on never taking them up seriously, as I know all to well the dangers. But once or twice a year I will have a smoke, little enough to ensure I do no real damage.

I got weighed just the other day and came in at 154 KGs. Quite a bit, but funnily enough down on the last weighing. I have been up over 160 KGs previously. My diet, and the fact I now drink quite a bit of water, is gradually and slowly wearing down my weight. The way I am going, 3 or 4 years from now I expect I might be under 140 KGs. I am hoping for that.

Being health, of course, is a big part of life. It seems for so many that it is a major preoccupation and for the other half a non-issue. But we are probably all concerned in some way.

God’s plan is for us mainly to eat fruits and vegetables and various plants, and he started us off on that. Later he gave Noah permission to eat meat, and we can do that as Noahides as long as we drain off the blood. Nobody is supposed to eat blood.

All of this is meant to support our life and make us healthy. Of course, we don’t have access to the tree of life, as we can’t get back to the garden. I pray that God feeds me that fruit spiritually, and I pray that a lot, and hopefully he does. I really enjoy life these days and want as long a life as I can possibly get.

Of course, we need to be healthy and because of this I make sure I don’t smoke or drink too much, and I try to gradually improve my eating habits as the years go by. I am even slowly thinking about vitamin tablets as an option to consider.

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My brother Gregory was probably my best friend for most of my young life. I teased him a bit too much I think, and was a bit bossy an older brother, but I really did like him, and am grateful I had him as a brother growing up. We used to play cricket together in the back yard quite a lot, and across the road with the neighbours boy as well.

Greg has a boy, James, now. James really is a ‘Daly’ and is like his grandfather with a quiet nature.

I have never been married, but would like to one day. At 37 I realize I am not getting any younger, but still hope to meet a nice lady to have children with. Of course God told Noah to populate the earth, and I am willing to do my bit, but just haven’t found the girl I connect with yet. Hopefully one day.

Gregory is married to a Philippino lady called ‘Christie-Mae’ who was born on Christmas Day. They seem to get along, and I enjoy having her in the family. They are in Perth now, were they will build a house, so I won’t see him a lot in the future. But he is my favourite sibling, and I wish the best for him.

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I have listened to hundreds, possibly over a thousand, CDs in my life. With my schizophrenia I am in the habit of getting rid of them in some way, but I have a large knowledge of many musical artists. I have many favourite albums, but some of them would include: Bon Jovi – New Jersey, Def Leppard – Hysteria, Kings X – Faith, Hope, Love, Spice Girls – Greatest Hits, Britney Spears – The Singles Collection, AC DC – Back in Black, DC Talk – Jesus Freak, Cheri Keaggy – My Faith Will Stay, Rebecca St James – God & Susan Ashton – A Distant Call. I love music, can listen to it all day, and hopefully always will. I myself have composed a number of basic classical piano pieces, and hope to eventually have a small compilation CD put together. It will go on ‘Myspace’ if I ever get the project done.

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Anyway, I will close this third chapter with a slice of wisdom. ‘Whatever you do, do well.’

All the best. Daniel

End of Chapter Three

Chapter Four

(Written Tuesday, 6th of April, 2010 CE, early in the morning)

It has been quiet enough the last few weeks since writing the last chapter. I finalized the cleaning of my flat down in Cooma (Unit 4 / 194 Sharp Street) were I had just finished a six month lease. I signed the bond release form and hopefully they will find it all up to scratch. I have lived away from home (my parent/s) a number of times over the years, but due to lack of marriage have usually ended up back with them.

My first time away from home was in 1995 when I joined the Potters House Christian Church in November of that year. I had been witnessed to by Tammy Saunders and the church had some established group houses for its younger tween members. I stayed at a place on McFarland Crescent in Pearce in the Woden district, just up from the Pearce Shops and community hall were the Church met at that time. Since then they changed locations to Civic in the Griffin centre for a while, and now down at a primary school in West Kambah. They have had pastor’s come and go, and the original pastor that I was baptized under, Philip East, is now in Indonesia I think, still at his gospel work, with a different church.

I lived in the men’s group house with Brenton White, Scott Boswell, Rama Vaa and Craig Holford. Craig Holford, along with his wife Raelene, are the only ones still attending the Canberra Potters House church from the days I attended the church (1995 to 1996, for about 1 year). Brenton has a twin, Chris White, who is still a friend I see every now and again. Scott was the main guy responsible for my induction in a sense into the group house and into Potters House, but I got along best with Rama Vaa, a Samoan fellow who was at university. In the women’s group house, which was just down the street a little, there was Deonie (who later married Scott) Tammy Saunders (who later married a fellow named Mal Makkinga who had come into the church and who developed a close friendship with myself), Camille and Sofya Sharaf, who I had a crush on, who later married Sung Taing who was in the church with her for a while.

I was in the group house briefly, and then had another psychotic episode, wandering the bush, and then returning home to live with my mother for a while. But I returned to the group house and the church, before living with Brenton White in the ‘Wall’ in Mawson for a little while. After my year in Potters House I went to the United Pentecostal Church in the next suburb of Chifley, and moved to a flat in ‘Chifley House’ on Eggleston Crescent. I was in that flat for a year or so. After that I moved into a flat in Greenhaven Court in Hughes in Woden, just opposite the Hughes Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall. I attended the ‘Baptist Church’ in Hughes on and off for a little while, and a few visits to the Kingdom Hall.

In January 1999 living in Hughes I became a Noahide, and the following year in 2000 I began writing ‘Morning Stars’. I was offered a ‘Package’ in 2000 due to lack of duties for my position, but I could tell the Schizophrenia problem was perhaps the main issue as to why my duties had dwindled. I had been hospitalized a number of times by then.

I returned to 29 Merriman Crescent in Macarthur in 2000, not long before I took my package. In 2001 I lived in Cooma on Baron Street for a six month lease, but was only there a few months before I had another episode and took off for Melbourne. I stayed briefly with June Cantrell the Noahide who was a friend of mine (and of Frances Makarova ie Rachav), before being hospitalized in the Dandenong Hospital. Just before leaving Cooma I remember (as I had no television) going into the newsagents and seeing the paper of the 911 incident with the twin towers.

I returned to Canberra after my hospitalization, and never really went back to Cooma to live to finish off the lease. It was cleaned and I stayed in Cooma since then.

I was not hospitalized again until January/February 2008 (7 years reasonably well) and have not been since that time.

In 2007 I returned to live in Cooma at, this first time, unit 3 / 194 Sharp Street, which is the front unit on the right. Returning back to Canberra I had published in paperback form, just after my father’s death, Morning Stars and Ye Olde Devil. I was hospitalized just a little later. I stayed then at Ainslie Village in the ‘Lodge’ for a few weeks, then my mother let me return home.

And then, since October 2009 till just the other day I had a lease for, this time, unit 4 / 194 Sharp Street, which is the front unity on the left. Small world huh. But I didn’t stay there a huge amount, and returned to live in Canberra for much of the lease. I was just too lonely there in the end (although I was coping with it) and missed my newly acquired friends from the Mental Health Tuggeranong Drop in Centre.

One of the friends I have met in the drop in centre is ‘Marcus Low’. He is from an Asian family, but he has a normal Australian English accent so I assume he was probably born in Australia. Recently, at Woden Bus Interchange, I ran into him and asked him to write a story about an Angel for me. We had discussed the idea of him writing stories for my website previously, and his story can be seen on the ‘Contributing Authors’ section of the main page.

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That is all for now. All the best to everyone reading this ongoing dialogue.

The End of Chapter Four

Chapter Five

(Written Friday 9th of April 2010 AD/CE)

I printed off my first 2 printer copies of ‘Jack Dagger – Skull and Crossbone’ yesterday at Tuggeranong library. I haven’t printed off hard copies of most of my stuff, and am now getting around to it. In this new electronic world, with computer memory and internet websites, it hasn’t really become necessary to print off actual paper copies. I have 2 USB drives were I save my writings, and I think that is an absolute essential necessity these days with the ways hard drives so often crash and you can lose data.

I remember, when working in AQIS, hearing about the term ‘The Paperless Office’. There was a seminar given on this at work and one of the senior workers took it so seriously that he assumed they no longer wanted printed copies of things, and just worked electronically. An ironic statement I once heard it that in the new electronic environment, the paperless office uses more paper than ever before. But such is life.

My first close female friend, who I guess in hindsight was a girlfriend, but I have never called any girl my girlfriend so far, was ‘Louise Roseman’ back in year 11 at Monaro High School in Cooma. She had a crush on me and scratched ‘XAD’ into her arm, that being my nickname which I used as the signature for the high scores on various video games played at the Cooma Video Game Arcade. We kissed at ‘Peter Dradrach’s’ and, while I learned she was ‘Easy’, we never had sexual relations. Just around that time I was at the Cooma Show with my group of friends and I went on the dodgems for quite a while with a blonde girl from year 10 named Jenny. I remember at school boasting to Mark Post that I only went with Jenny to make Louise jealous. But that was actually all bravado, and completely untrue, since I just made it up at the time. I was in no way trying to make Louise Jealous. Jenny had written me a porno letter, and I was still scared of such intimacies at that age – I think, looking back, I was trying to escape the friendship with Jenny in some way. Jenny was a nice girl, but not for me.

There was, interestingly, another Jenny in year 11 called ‘Jenny Cheetham’ who told me she ‘Knew’ there was a God. It was one of my first ‘God’ conversations, and one of the things which propelled my teenage mind to search for God. I rung up Jenny’s mum just a few years ago and got back in touch with Jenny. Her father died just around that time, and while she was working in New Zealand, she came back to Canberra briefly and we caught up. I was way to strong in my comments about Jesus and Christianity not being true, and I put her off any future friendship, which I regret. I really like her, and I had a crush on her back in high school. She had changed a lot though.

When I started attending CIT in 1993 to 1995 doing the ‘Associate Diploma of Business in Office Administration’, I ended up making a lot of close female friends, because the course was mainly filled with females. One of the girls was ‘Ariel Cheng’ who told me she was a Christian. She was a very quiet and gentle girl, from Taipei, and I ended up going to the place she was staying to talk with her the afternoon before I had my accident the following day. That afternoon I bought a Good News Bible and returned to faith. Other girls I studied with at CIT and remember were Nary Ly, Caroline Blanc (who I think works in Tuggeranong), Lindy Barham (who was a close friend) and Lee Chiu. Lee Chiu was my second close female friend, and when she returned to Hong Kong we wrote letters to each other for a while. But she was never quite my girlfriend either.

When I went to UPC I proposed to ‘Ann Kim’, but I was having a psychotic episode at the time (which she might not have known) and she said ‘Later’. I ended up leaving the church, and haven’t seen Ann Kim in years, but in reflection she was definitely not the one for me. Too differing personality types and theological beliefs. But it was only a brief friendship with her, and while we kissed a few mornings (as we walked down from Chifley to Woden to go to work) I had never called her my girlfriend either. It was mainly a brief romantic fling. We never had sex though.

Later on in that church I was interested in Becky Kent, and just before I left the church we were starting to sit together in service. But I ended up leaving UPC in 1998 because I didn’t believe Oneness theology. I think I was in UPC for about a year and a half. To Oneness believers I recommend 1 Corinthians 8:6 and John 17:3 which should teach you Jesus isn’t God. The logic of putting Matt 28 and Acts 2 is correct, but name simply means ‘Authority’. It doesn’t mean a literal name in the scriptural context. You see, in terms of the New Testament, Jesus receives the ‘Authority’ of the father, which means he received the ‘Name’ of the father, with the power (Name) to send the Holy Spirit. God revealed to me just after leaving Christian faith that worship of Jesus was extreme idolatry and carried a death penalty, but then told me later on, while I was considering that, to ‘Be in the Hearts of Men’. You see, while God has made his judgement on the issue, he tells me to have mercy, and look at the heart of the people in such churches, who are really just in error theologically, and simply don’t know any better.

I have just started collecting old bibles, SVDP in Tuggeranong being a major place of purchase, were you can get them currently second-hand for $1. I particularly like finding ‘To Such and Such for your such and such’ in the front cover with a signed date and year. I am in the habit of putting my name and purchase date and signing these copies myself, just next to such markings. I like a record of who has owned such bibles – I think that is a good idea. In fact, with all the books I now buy, I sign and date them. For ‘The Da Vinci Code’ paperback I purchased from SVDP I wrote in a little plot idea for a Robert Langdon story in the front cover. The story is called ‘A Contract with the Devil’ and is set in Jerusalem.

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I read the ‘Belgariad’ by David Eddings way back in Cooma in around 1987/1988. A friend of the family had given us some books and ‘Pawn of Prophecy’ was amongst them. I read it as the second fantasy work I had read, and thought it was amazing. I went off to the library to find if they had the rest of the saga and was overjoyed to find they had all 5 books in the series. I read them astutely and thought they were incredible. This started my collecting of fantasy and science fiction novels and I read quite a number of works in those years.

Recently David Eddings died (early 2009), and then just a few months ago I began writing ‘The Belzandramanian’ which is a fanfiction sequel to David Eddings ‘Belgariad’ and ‘Malloreon’ series. When I posted the first part of the story to a message board for Eddings on Google I found out he had died. The Belzandramanian is going to be a major 5 part series, as long as both the Belgariad and Malloreon, which are both 5 book series. I am working hard on it, and hopefully the readers will enjoy it.

Anyway, recently my neice Georgia Bridges (my sisters daughter) started slowly righting a short story on my computer. She is only 10 years old and I thought the story was a good effort for Georgia. I edited the finally copy, but all the words are hers. You can read it at the contributing authors section.

Anyway, that’s all for now. All the best to everyone. Daniel

The End of Chapter Five

Chapter Six

(Written Monday 19th of April & Friday 23rd of April 2010 AD/CE)

This morning I have been working on my family tree, getting all the information out of my mother Mary. I want to ensure I get all the details I can in case anything unfortunate happens to her before time.

Here is an interesting genealogy, with sources, from internet records I have put together. From 105 back to 87 is Very Highly reliable, being part of the records of ancient Ireland which were carefully kept. Going from 87 back to 37 & 36 is reasonable data in my opinion. That Niall of the Nine hostages goes back to Milesius is commonly held to. From 37 back to 13 is questionable, but is the only data we have. Nennius table of nations, from my mind, may have been written by himself simply because of the popularity of the biblical genealogies, and 37 back to 13 which is from this source is highly questionable because of it. The names may be genuine to some degree (Perhaps he drew on traditional names floating around the nations) it is questionable on authenticity, and is probably reactionary to the Christian faith and demand, but it is all we have so I place it (as others do) as our official genealogy back to Adam and Eve, but held with a degree of suspicion. Whatever else, the amount of names going back to Adam is about the right amount historically.

I was watching Benny Hinn this morning and they talked about Schizophrenia. The doctor who was on the show had been involved with research into the condition and claimed it was a lack of ‘Niacin’ in the diet which caused the lack of Brain nutrition, leading to the voices and schizophrenic symptoms. Vitamin D was called necessary to help improve people with this condition.

I ate a lot of breakfast cereal when I was growing up, often twice a day, but this disappeared in my early 20s, when the depression entered in and the schizophrenia followed the depression. If what this doctor says is true, then my lifestyle choices fit the pattern. I will be trying Niacin for a while from now on and will let you know if my schizophrenic symptoms improve.

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I have been buying a lot of books and trading cards recently. When I am unwell I am unfortunately in the habit of destroying some of my possessions, and have lost many things because of it. But I have been praying recently that God would help me not to destroy my possessions and would cure me of schizophrenia. I think, with the new Vitamin D information, perhaps he has.

Anyway, currently my bookcase is full of books, paperback and hardback, fiction and non-fiction, and I have a lifetime of reading ahead of me. I am also going to be collecting things like: CDs, Records, Trading Cards, Comics, China, Books, Stamps & Coins.

I like collecting things, but presently finding room for them is starting to become a problem. I have resorted to purchasing large plastic boxes and storing things under the house.

When I was in my teens living at 6 Bradley Street in Cooma I was given some fantasy books by a friend of the family, Gerard Bryant. David Eddings ‘Pawn of Prophecy’ was amongst them, and was the second fantasy book I read after ‘The Twilight Realm’. My favourite genre of fiction is usually fantasy, followed by Science Fiction. However, my own saga about Angels with the term ‘Angelic Spiritual Fiction’ would now be my favourite genre of fiction, and the stuff I enjoy writing the most and reading about. I am really hoping that my work ‘The Chronicles of the Children of Destiny’ becomes the ‘Lord of the Rings’ of Angelic Fiction. Fingers crossed.

Strangely, when I was very young, living in Berridale in NSW in Australia where I was brought up, I seem to remember something about an angel called ‘Ramiel’ for some strange reason. It is quite possibly just my extensive imagination in rethinking about my past youth, but that angel name rings a bell for some strange reason. I do remember we had rosary group meetings back at our Berridale house when I was very young, and perhaps the Angel’s name was mentioned then. Or, perhaps, I had angels talking to me when I was very young, and my mother often said that ‘Do you remember playing with the Angels?’ referring to before I was born. I had a dream about that recently, a dream which gave me the impression it was referring to a time before my birth, when I was in heaven. I was living in Cooma, of all places, and attended St Pats school, and was learning things. The dream seemed to be a flashback of my time in heaven, and I remember in the dream certain memories in my mind ‘Clicking’ to what the dream was showing. They seemed to be part of my inner memories, part of the very fabric of my being. Interestingly in my dream one of the Nuns told me ‘Your mother is going somewere and won’t be coming back,’ which the dream communicated to me as my mother going off to be born into the physical earth. I was at school with my St Pats school-friends in the dream, and I believe now that there is a world of dreaming, a world of heaven, which precedes all of our lives before earth, and which seems to follow it as well.

Talking of dreams, for a number of recent years, tapering off after I prayed to God about it, I was having the most intense of dreams, ones in which I often felt like I was really alive in them, and they were so very real. I often tried to make the dreams last as long as they could, refusing to wake up in my dreams. I remember many scenes from many of my dreams, and I have dreamed about many celebrities funnily enough, as well as family and friends and many other faces I don’t yet recognize.

Daniel’s are really supposed to have vivid dreams, and they are supposed to be interpreted by us as well. That is the gift of the book of Daniel for those who bear this name. Further, Daniel’s are supposed to be judges because Daniel means ‘Judge of God’ which means ‘God’s appointed Judge’ (To Judge others, not meaning Judging God himself).

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