Kingdom Alive

The following preamble has been written to help understand where the idea of ​​writing about the Word of God comes from and the way that have been done.

Years ago, I was in South America, at my home in the countryside, and it was around 5:00 p.m. when a vision came to me that I didn't understand at first. At that time, I was overwhelmed by the illnesses that was suffering my wife and also I was very complicated from severe pain in my legs, which meant I spent most of my time sitting in my recliner. The infection in the calf of my right leg was making it extremely difficult for me to walk and even drive my car. Trying to find a way to move forward, and meditating on our situation, I looked out my window, without perceiving anything, when suddenly, some large halves of coloured circles intertwined yellow red and orange filled the left side of my large window.

My house in South America has two floors. The first floor houses the garage, a workshop with tools, and a spacious storage area for everything needed for daily living. The second floor houses the living area (bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, living room, etc.). A two-meter-wide balcony surrounds the entire house.

After the colours, I saw that the green area (grass and fruit trees) transformed into water (the ocean), and this sea stretched toward the neighbouring property and then as far as my eyes could see on the horizon. I looked out and in the distance I saw planes crossing and then I saw some torpedo boats and as if I were watching a movie, the action magnified so much that I saw the sailors talking among themselves and pointing their cannons high up, the planes began to get closer, and suddenly something like a freight train car appeared in the sky. Although it was not a plane designed to fly, it approached and stopped high in front of the balcony where there were three people, my wife who was standing behind me on my left side, one of my sons leaning on the railing to the right and myself standing between them. I saw this off-screen and then I heard myself say, "Well now is the time to start preaching..." After my words I saw my son let out a little laugh and shrug his shoulders. A second later I was back, sitting in front of my bedroom window.

Approximately six months later my wife and I traveled to the land down under, and my son-in-law gave me a computer as a gift to replace the one left in South America. When I turned it on, I saw on the screen the same half circles and colours that I had seen in my vision, and I understood that my preachings should be through a website.

First of all, I want to thank the Eternal Creator of all, our Heavenly Father, for His patience and loyalty to me. Despite my lowliness and smallness He has given me the great honour of being able to write about His Word and His great deeds.

Then, I want to thank my wife, Margarita Isabel for her time, help and patience. Despite her illness and need for care, she waits for me to finish my research - searches on the Internet, reading books and listening to programmes, which help me to put on the ‘table,’ the knowledge of great writers from past and present, to present an honest and true interpretation of the word of God.

I also want to give a huge thank you to Alex Panetta, TBN's CEO for Australia and New Zealand. Without his effort in building this website, his patience with my requests and also sacrificing time from his rest, I would have nowhere to share my interpretation of what I have learned from the Holy Scriptures.

;Also my thanks to Jeremy Panetta for his help correcting texts. Finally, my thanks also goes to Joshua Panetta for his help, patience and time in this venture.

For anyone who seeks answers about what is happening in this world, we can say that the Sacred Scriptures (the Bible) offer clarity. Just as water quenches thirst, the Divine Word will calm uncertainty and we will be able to understand the events of daily life. We can say that what we are experiencing what is already written in the Sacred Scriptures by men inspired by God, and we must understand it in this way because it is impossible to interpret it in any other context. For example; it has been said that the following passage from the book of Revelation, chapter 13 supports the claim that the barcode had 666 embedded in it. Verse 18 states: “This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”

In the Supermarket today, most people unload their groceries from the trolley and watch as the cashier scans item after item. It just makes sense that older generations hardly remember the days when products were stamped with prices to be rung up manually, and younger ones rarely consider a world where that was the norm. That's because the barcode used on every product in grocery and retail stores all over the globe changed everything 50 years ago. Barcodes are scanned billions of times each day. “…many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” - Daniel 12:4 In summary, we must recognise that in the last half century, there has been an explosion of inventions or, we can say that “knowledge has increased.”

According to George Laurer, the inventor of the UPC/EAN barcode, “There is nothing sinister about this nor does it have anything to do with the Bible’s mark of the beast. Each character is a fixed length, 7 modules and composed of two spaces and two bars. From the outer ends toward the center, the character starts with a space and therefore a single bar is required to ‘close’ the character. The other bar is used to allow the level setting (gain) circuitry to adjust to the contrast of the particular symbol. The center pattern is narrow space, narrow bar, narrow space, narrow bar.This pattern is 4 modules wide and distinguishes it from the a 7 module character thus giving direction and end information to the logic.”

Engineer Paul McEnroe, who spent more than twenty years at IBM, assembled and led the team that transformed the technology from an idea into the reality that endures. It is interesting that when you search on Wikipedia for who invented the barcode, someone named Norman Joseph Woodland appears. Paul V. McEnroe, who led the team that created the barcode, expected the invention to take off but says he couldn’t have imagined its long-lasting impact. “We didn't have a real feel that it would be as big as it was for as long as it was,” he says. George Laurer was a key part of that and proved fundamental in the barcode’s invention. Laurer (who died in 2019) later wrote that there was an initial push to develop the bull’s-eye barcode but he knew that wouldn’t work. “It was obvious to me that that approach would never satisfy all the requirements over the long run,” he wrote. Instead, he pushed for linear bars and an X on the scanning window. “With a simple ‘X,’ linear bars could be read no matter how they were oriented in the scan window,” he wrote.

A literal biblical translation tell us “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond , to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.” - Revelation 13:16

From the perspective of the creators of the barcode and the opinions of thousands of people, barcoding has nothing to do with what is written in the Bible.

However, some time ago I went to a supermarket to buy a bottle of cleaning liquid. When I went to the checkout to pay, the clerk told me I couldn't take that bottle because it didn't have the barcode and therefore couldn't be registered with the barcode reader. I had to search the shelf again for one with a printed code. A large number of people have found themselves in the same situation, with different products, in different businesses, and in different countries around the world.

Taking into account all the above, we could say that the barcode has nothing to do with what is written in the Bible, but we must recognize that approximately two thousand years ago, the apostle John, while imprisoned in Patmos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, received the visions described in the Apocalypse, Revelation 13:17 (Interlinear Greek-English New Testament by Jay P. Green) and it is significant and makes us meditate that in one way or another, if the barcode (666) is not there, what is written is fulfilled…” even that not any could buy or sell “.

In the beginning it was information…

In order to think and then debate about the world we live in, the place we inhabit, and the surface of the earth we walk on, we should first meditate on where everything around us comes from, everything we know, and therefore everything we act or do in our lives. The only logical answer resulting from our meditation should be…Information.

We should consider some questions about information: What is it? How does it appear? What is its function? How is it transmitted? Where does it originate? Where does the information found in living organisms come from? etc. Information confronts us everywhere, in newspapers, magazines, tv, etc. providing us with daily knowledge. Information-processing systems are found everywhere, in all kinds of computers and even in automobiles. We should also note that the activities of all living organisms are controlled by compressed information programs. Because information is required for all life processes, we can say with certainty that …information is crucial in ;Information is extremely important for information theories and communication techniques, and is also fundamental in sciences such as cybernetics, linguistics, biology, history and theology.For this reason, scientists believe that information is the third fundamental element, along with matter and energy.

To understand, speak or write about the term “information”, it is necessary to have a vast amount of knowledge to navigate the vast array of possible avenues for examining all aspects of information