John

 

Cell phones, computers, and the internet bless many to understand that the Prologue from St. John is a New Testament “update” of the First Words in the Old Testament:  “In the beginning, God said: ‘Let there be light; and there was light.’”

There is a new idea in that sentence.  Using single quotation marks after a colon helps us see who said what to whom in every passage.  That helps us see and share soul-saving facts that “the most beloved disciple” is “downloading” in the first sentence of his Prologue:

1:1 In the beginning was The Word: and The Word was with God and the Word was God.  All may read that and realize that the three words, “In the beginning”, give us a New Idea:   One, Living, Triune God takes form in three words, (1.) Nouns (2.) And (3.) Verbs!

The Holy Spirit begins to be seen as the verbs “in” and “was”. He is made clearer by the adverb “with”.  John tells us, “The Word was with God”.   That describes the unified, Trinitarian nature of God!

“The Word” may now be seen as “The Creation Program”. “was” is forever “The Downloading Verb of The Holy Spirit”. He is “with” God, “The Loving Programmer”. 

A hundred years ago, Fr. Georges LeMaitre was a Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.  He studied and measured star movements that let him see that the universe began to expand from a beginning point over 13 trillion light-years ago.  No one could disprove his calculations.  There is no worldly acclamation of Fr. Georges LeMaitre.  That is important to note!  Being a Catholic priest is all it takes to keep worldly people from wanting his accomplishments to be recognized.

Understanding that perfect example of ignoring a great source of truth gives him, and all Catholic priests, religious, and people more credibility.  Oddly enough, the anonymous author of these pages discovered Fr. LeMaitre’s great contribution to human knowledge from another Catholic priest, Fr. Gordon MacRae.  He is spending his life in a New Hampshire jail on false charges that benefited those who make a living by suing the Catholic Church.  Things have not changed since John the Baptist was jailed by Herod.

That helps us understand the three groups of people on earth:

(1.) Some prefer to believe the universe, and each of us, is an accident that began with a “Big Bang”.

(2.) Some are blessed to see the universe as the result of The Loving Programmer saying, “Let there be light; and there was light.”

(3.) May all be blessed to obey the Commands of Moses and Jesus:  “Love God and love your neighbors as yourself.”

Now! Leap ahead 13 trillion light-years!

2,000 years ago, The Word of God would come to earth as the Living Fulfillment of Messianic Prophecies that preceded His Coming.  By taking human form, He would give each of God’s Beloved “Replicating Free-Will Programs” the opportunity to see God’s Simple Reasons believe in Him.

The Creation Program was written and downloaded to let the immortal souls around which the spirit, mind, and body of every unique person on earth were written and downloaded at our conception come into being.  Every human soul may be “with” The Loving Programmer, forever.

The verb “was” now lets us see “The Oneness” of “The Downloading Verb of God”.  He “was with” “The Loving Programmer” and “The Creation Program”.  The blessed Christians now see The Holy Spirit as “The Downloading Verb by Whom The Creation Program was Downloaded”.  We celebrate the fact that He “is with” us every time we say: “In the Name of The Father and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit”!

The complexity of The Creation Program was “Downloaded” to let each of God’s Beloved Replicating Human Programs have “Free Will”.  We must choose our degree of belief in, love for, and obedience to The Three in One.

Insights:

1. Those who believe in One God are less confused than those who believe in many.

2. Those who believe God’s Prophets find more Truth.

3. Those who believe in He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies that predicted Him are closer to God.

4. Those who believe in The Trinity have a clearer view of God.

5. “Those who follow The Church-Creating Word from He Who Fulfilled hundreds of Messianic Prophecies to His First Catholic Pope are moe blessed than anyone: “And I say unto you:  ‘Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’” 

Those “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” include The Seven Catholic Sacraments of Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Communion, Confirmation, Healing, Marriage, and God’s Holy Orders that take living form in Catholics, especially our priests and religious.

The Prologue continues as the most “beloved Disciple” blesses us to understand The Programmer, Program, and Downloading Verb of God better by reinforcing The Truth of John 1:1!

1:2 He was with God in the beginning.  We see the eternal Truth of God and all that He Programmed and Downloaded into Being by realizing that The Creation Program began to be “Downloaded” at one specific point in time 13 trillion light-years ago, when “the beginning” began!

1:3 Through Him all things came to be, not one thing had its being but through Him.

The Loving Programmer, and no other Being, wrote “all things” in The Creation Program that is “The Word of God” to give Free Will to each of us who are blessed to have human life among His Beloved “Replicating Free-Will Programs”.

1:4 All that came to be had life in Him, and that life was the light of men, 

“the light of men” took form in The Creation Program’s Downloading:  “and there was light.”  The entire Creation Program, including billions of galaxies, solar systems, and building blocks smaller than electrons and photons, is now made more visible by powerful magnifiers.

All was written and downloaded to give “light to men” so that every person in every age could see The Loving Nature of God. Seeing more distant parts of The Creation Program helps us better understand that no human being can see an end to The Programming Power of The Loving Programmer!

We are all free to ignore Words of God!

Every person on earth is one of The Loving Programmer’s Beloved Replicating Free-Will Programs.  We are all free to believe, “There is no Loving Programmer.  Every person and thing is an accident.” 

What makes each of us so special?  

The Creation Program is huge!  Each of us was lovingly Programmed with the ability to Download and use different parts of The Creation Program.  The “Light” is bright enough to let anyone choose to see that The Creation Program could not have come into Being without a “Programmer”. 

 The Prologue describes Him as:

1:5 a light that shines in the dark, a light that darkness could not overpower.  The “light” is a Prophecy of Jesus.  He is the essence of The Creation Program in living, human form.  Nothing can “overpower” His “light”.   Many let themselves be “overpowered” by what they led themselves to believe are brighter “lights”!   

The “darkness” is a living force, since it attempts to “darken” but “could not overpower” the light of The Creation Program.  Those living forces of “darkness” took living form as fallen angels. Now, we who use cell phones, computers, and the internet are able to see those rebellious spirits as living “computer viruses”.  They once helped The Loving Programmer in “downloading The Creation Program”.   One third of them resented God.   “Fallen angels” work to keep the minds of every Replicating Free-will Program to be “darkened” and “corrupted”.  Those who choose to let themselves be blinded by them cannot see The Brighter Light of God.

Today, we see that “fallen angels” are in seven tribes of: pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth.  Catholics have invented a new name for them in our age: “peggalas”.

1:6 A man came, sent by God. His name was John.  After The Creation Program had been running for over 13 trillion light-years, one Human Program was so blessed that he chose to let himself be “sent” by The Loving Programmer to introduce people on earth to what St. Augustine would describe as “The Sixth and Final Age”.  

John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus.  He was “downloaded” as the last of The Old Testament Prophets.  His great work was to personally and publicly identify and then “Baptize” The oft-Prophesied Messiah Who was born of a Virgin of The House of David (Isaiah 7:14 et al)  in one of the world’s million tiny villages, Bethlehem (Micah 5:2).

God’s New Testament came into Being!

Look what you just did!  You got through the first six verses of The Most Complicated Part of The Bible, The Prologue of John!

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Today’s Simple Rhyme:  “All is here / to let us be near/ to God!”

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Chapter 2

The Old Testament leads many to consider that John the Baptist may be the return of the Prophet Elijah to earth, as several passages confirm, including  Malachi 4:5, Luke 1:17, Matthew 11:14, and John 1:29.  

Many see the “Melchizedek Connection” to John the Baptist by considering the First Communion of Bread and Wine was given to Abraham at Jerusalem in Genesis 14: 8-20.  That is when “Melchizedek, King of Salem  brought out bread and wine.  He was a priest of God most high, and said:  “Blessed be Abraham by God Most High, Possessor of Heaven and earth and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.’  And Abraham gave him a tenth of everything.”

St. John’s Prologue has moved forward over 13 trillion light-years from The Creation Program’s original Downloads.  We see that one “man” was programmed and downloaded to tell the world about The Creation Program before it would be erased.  The souls of those blessed to be among “You are My friends if you obey My commands.” in John 20:23 would have their immortal souls spend eternity in the joys of Heaven.

For John to be a “witness”, he had to see Who Jesus Is!  And, He had to be able to Think Clearly enough to identify Him.  What he saw let him see “in his mind’s eye” all that he needed to be a believable “witness”.

1:7 He came as a witness, as a witness to speak for the light, so that everyone might believe through him.  This connects back to the “light” of John 1:5, letting us see that John, about six months older than Jesus, was programmed and downloaded to announce that Jesus, The Son of God is also “The Light” of God and that He was about to be Downloaded in Human Form.   Then, “everyone might believe”, and no one would have a good reason for “not believing”!  

“Might” is another affirmation of The Free Will that The Loving Programmer’s Creation Program gave to each of His Beloved Replicating Free-Will Programs whom He Wrote and Downloaded in “His Image”!  Some of those blessed to use their Free Will “might” choose to “believe” in Him.  The most blessed of them would help their souls far more by turning that “belief” into “obedience” to every Word of the living “Light” Who lets Catholic see that He  fulfilled The Prophecies and would speak One, Holy, Catholic Church Into Being with His Church-Creating Word to HIS First Catholic Pope:  “And I say unto you:  ‘Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-20)

Catholics are blessed to see that those “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” include The Seven Catholic Sacraments:  Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Healing, and Holy Orders.  God’s Holy Orders take Living, Human Form in Catholic priests, religious, teachers, parents, grandparents, and all who uphold His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

The most insightful and obedient people on earth would be blessed to live by understanding why it is so important to choose our way of life before Judgment and decide:  “Be as Catholic as we can!”  When we turn that into an acronym, it becomes a New Catholic Word:  “bacawec”, which is oftem helpful to remember.

The Church He Spoke Into Being would let the following centuries know that The Word of God took Human Form on Earth so that the souls of those who returned The Loving Programmer’s Love with grateful “obedience” could have their immortal souls be forever with Him in Heaven.

Catholics see that only God’s Miracle could keep fallen angels in the forces of “Darkness” from destroying The Catholic Church, no matter how hard they tried for 2,000 years!  Every Catholic, and many of the higher-level people in other denominations, realize how much we are tempted to sin by swarms of demons in their seven tribes:  pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth.  Catholics remember our new way to keep them in mind by putting all of them in the New Catholic Word, “peggalas”, and ask St. Michael to send them to the pits of hell with this request:

“St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.  Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.  May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, O Prince of The Heavenly Host, by the power of God cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world, seeking the ruin of souls.”

1:8 He was not the light, only a witness to speak for the light.  It is important to remind ourselves of the connection mentioned above about the return of The Prophet Elijah that was explained by Jesus, Matthew 11:14, “And, if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.”

That teaching was predicted by the Prophet Malachi 4:5, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of The LORD.”

Luke 1:17 is also clear about who John the Baptist is and what he would do:  “He would go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children.”

1:9 The Word was the true light that enlightens all men; and He was coming into the world.  “The Word of God” is the “light” that lets us see where we are in the vast complexity of The Creation Program and how obedient we are to He Who took Perfect Human Form in Mary’s Sacred Womb.  In order to fulfill hundreds of Prophecies that had been downloaded to God’s earlier Prophets, He would be born of a Virgin of the House of David (Isaiah 7:14) in the tiny village of Bethlehem. (Micah 5:2)

1:10 He was in the world that had its being through Him, and the world did not know Him.  Those overcome with obsessions about worldly things and feelings could not “know” that The Word of God in Human Form could be greater than their beliefs and desires that served themselves.  The varying degrees of types of Protestantism began to be “Downloaded” to let the world begin to walk on the “straight and narrow path” to Jesus.

1:11 He came to His own domain and His own people did not accept Him.  Only His most blessed people would move into the “Papal Domain” that Jesus gave His life to leave on earth by saying to His First Catholic Pope the Church-Creating Word to which all Catholics continually refer! “And I say unto you:  ‘Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”)

1:12 But to all who did accept Him, He gave power to become children of God, to all who believe in the name of Him

To be a “child of God”, our human DNA must be “Upgraded”!  In that “light”, we see:  “There are “Seven DNA Upgrades” provided by The Seven Sacraments provided by His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church:  Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Catholic Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Healing, and Holy Orders that take human form in His Catholic priests who are Ordained with the Power to provide them.  Those “DNA Upgrades” are among “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” that let those who are blessed with them to become “children of God”.

We must explore the simple fact!  “Children of God” can only be those who “upgrade their DNA” by obeying “Words of God”.  His Prophets became “Children of God” and so did all whom they led to “Follow” God.  In the tens of thousands of years before the time of Melchizedek, Words of God were passed on with oral traditions in all the millennia before God used Melchizedek to show people how to write and read so that His Words of His more permanently available.

Catholics realize that God’s “most complete DNA Upgrades” were given to Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and John the Baptist, referred to by St. John in this “Prologue” that gives us the understanding we need to “Upgrade our DNA” and literally become “Children of God.”   Catholics know that our beloved Saints, priests, and religious have also had remarkably profound “DNA Upgrades”.  We are grateful to be led and inspired by them to be, and remain, “Children of God” in His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Catholics look at a crude portrayal of a DNA molecule, and realize that the “Catholic DNA Upgrade” may need nothing more than a few electrons being changed from – minus to + plus by receiving The Catholic Sacraments.

A single DNA molecule contains about six billion atoms.

1:13 who was born not out of human stock or urge of the flesh or will of man but of God himself.  (The Word of God took Human Form to provide “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” for all who would become “children of God” by “The DNA Upgrades” that come from “Being Catholic!” and receiving The Catholic Sacraments.)

1:14 The Word (of God!) was made flesh, He lived among us, and we saw His glory, the glory that is His as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.  (That “glory” began to be made evident by His Fulfillment of Prophecies that predicted the time and place of His Coming and what He would do in His days on earth.)

1:15 John appears as God’s witness. He proclaims: ‘This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me ranks before me because he existed before me’.  (John, the last of God’s Prophets before Jesus, affirmed His Messianic Being by how he began This Prologue by saying:  “The Word was with God and The Word was God”.)

1:16 Indeed, from His fulness we have, all of us, received – yes, grace in return for grace,  (We are being told that our “grace” is “returned” in proportion to the degree we let our “DNA Upgrades” make us more obedient to Jesus and to Catholic Teaching we download within us.  In Heaven, each of us is like a planet in the solar system representing differences in distance from God!   We may picture God’s Holiest People as having “The DNA Upgrades” that let them be closer to His Light, forever in Heaven.

St. Faustina lets us know that we Catholics are blessed to “receive” the life-giving food that is The Body and Blood of Christ by The Miracle of Transubstantiation every time we “receive” That Holy Food that God’s Grace and Mercy have provided at every Catholic Mass since The Last Supper.

“The Diary of St. Faustina, #1124 from May 1, 1937, is a great blessing to our understanding of her blessed thoughts that make us more worthy of Catholic Communion:  “Today I felt the nearness of my Mother – my Heavenly Mother.  Although before every Holy Communion I earnestly ask my Heavenly Mother to help me prepare my soul for the coming of Her Son, and I clearly feel Her protection over me.  I entreat Her to be so gracious as to enkindle in me the fire of God’s love, such as burned in Her own pure heart at the time of the Incarnation of The Word of God.”  That leads us to the next verse from John!

1:17 since, though the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ. 

Catholics read that and see how blessed we are to realize that “Grace and Truth” are more important than “The Law”!   “Grace and Truth” let us receive His Body and Blood by the Miracle of Transubstantiation in Catholic Communion.  That Holy Food lets us have our “DNA Upgraded” every time we obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 12 times in the last half of John 6 and two more times at The Last Supper:  “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”

1:18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, Who is nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made Him known.  Catholics are blessed to have seen more of what is in “The Prologue” than any other people on earth!  Seeing some of what is in “The Prologue” for ourselves, and seeing how those “Holy Words” become The Body and Blood of Jesus that lets us “Be As Catholic As We Can” gives us the eternal life that is the joy of Being Catholic!)

 

 We renew our joy in The Prologue by looking again at the The First Three Words, Word by Word!

1:1 In the beginning (The first two words are an adverb and adjective that describe God’s brilliant way of letting us know the timeless truth of the third word, the noun “beginning”.  Only Catholics meaningfully realize that “beginning”  is both a verb and a noun!  “beginning” is then defined and described by Three more Words:

“was the Word” and those three words are followed by a :  .  That lets us see that “the Word”  was in the past tense before it was Downloaded to become The Creation Program that is,  and will be, in every moment of the Creation Program’s allotted time to run until God erases it.

“and the Word was with God.” gives us an understanding of what was there when The Father (The Loving Programmer) had written The Creation Program.  The Holy Spirit, “The Downloading Verb of God) “downloaded” it, over 13 trillion light-years ago.  Catholics are blessed to begin to comprehend how the vast amount of time and space began.

“and the Word was God” tells us that The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are unified by the unifying word: “was”.  Catholics recognize Those Three Words, “Word was God” help keep our being, “made in the image of God, as sort of mini-Trinities of body, mind, and soul in every “human Trinity”.

That, by the way, explains why so many great paintings of God picture The Holy Spirit as a gracious Bird, flying between The Father and The Son, letting us see The Three in One more clearly, “separate but equal”.

 

The Prologue of The Book of John is a blessed beginning that helps all who are blessed to read it “Be as Catholic as we can!”