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Would you like to know about Pete's relationship with his father? Welcome to the Page on which Grandpa talks about New Perceptions
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During those formative years, Pete watched me, a well meaning but troubled and angry father, fail to support his family adequately, verbally abuse his wife, Pete's mother, and treat him, the oldest son, in a harsh and demanding way! So Pete was given a tragically warped image of a father; and observers believe that what a person experiences in his or her parents makes a difference in how one regards God, as a figure of authority, support and love! However that abusiveness on my part did not stop Pete from becoming an honorable man, ethically speaking. Rather than continuing the line of abuses he observed in his family, which often is the case, Pete made a commitment to himself that he "would not do, to his wife and children, what he saw his father do". Pete has and is continuing to keep his word in that regard! However, there were some ill effects that entered into Pete's system of belief, and even though he went along, for several years, with my teachings from out of Yehovaw's Holy Bible, earnestly teaching others the same things and even following me, in 1985, in taking the circumcision, Pete's heart and mind were still suffering! Thankfully, Pete had the support of loving grandparents, who on several occasions were there for him, in times of need. His grandfather, a Methodist Minister, and his grandmother, a retired school teacher, gave Pete an alternate source of guidance, during the time I was getting my head screwed on straight. Pete feels that had it not been for the part they played, during those early years of his life, that things may have turned out very differently. Despite our difficulties, Pete and I have maintained a mutual love and respect for one another over the years; and, once Pete and I were able to establish a spiritual foundation, he followed me having become convinced and still is that obedience to Yehovaw's toraw or law is the key to one's receiving His blessings for the children of Israel, including the everlasting life offered by Yeshuaw, when Yehovaw sent him to Earth, to "magnify the law and make it honorable"! (Isaiah 42:21) Since Pete was 16 years of age, he envisioned himself having a family with no less than three children. At the age of 23 he officially began his dream to have a family, by marrying a woman who had three children all from different fathers. Pete always felt that "it was not important where a child came from but that they all need to be loved". For varying reasons, Pete's desire for a family would continue to be plagued by one unfortunate event after another ending the relationships. This pattern continued clear up through a fifth marriage! Originally, Pete wanted to graduate from high school and immediately enlist in the Air Force, following in my and my fathers footsteps. He wanted to become an MP, military police. He wanted to remain in the military for 20 years, retire and serve in the private sector as a Highway Patrol officer and retire, from there, after another 20 years. Had he followed through with his plans, Pete would have been able to retire at the age of 58, with two full pensions and social security retirement benefits. Unfortunately, Pete allowed himself to be manipulated into dropping these goals; as each of the women he established a relationship with "did not want to be married to a cop"; and to honor their wishes Pete altered his goals. To keep as close as possible to his desire to serve and protect others, at the age of 18, Pete started a career in "private security". During the first ten years of his career, Pete learned that many of the companies he worked for had something in common: under the wrong management, greed had stepped in and was causing those in control to establish unwritten policies on how to fake their performance to the customer, while charging them the full value of the contract. Pete lost several jobs, because he refused to falsify reports. This prompted Pete to go through the process of obtaining his own Private Patrol Operator's License (PP0) and establish a company that was dedicated to fully serving the interests of the customer. Pete started a company known as Safeguard Verification Services. The service was designed to establish whether or not a company who hires contract security firms were getting what they were paying for. Despite Pete's best intentions, the Department of Consumer Affairs; whose job it is to license contract security companies, closed him down, stating that he was "operating outside the established parameters of his license". Thereafter, Pete tried one thing after another to keep his family fed. It was during his last marriage, at the age of 34, that Pete was given a child of his own, Mayim Reeves. Pete has always been dedicated to his wife and daughter and continued to work tirelessly to find better ways to give them the life that he felt they deserved; and, after having tried several types of jobs and suffered a failed business, Pete thought that his opportunity had finally come. Pete was approached by a man who "wanted to establish a security company but did not have the proper license by which to do so". Pete was told, "If you will use your PPO license to start my company, I will consider you an equal partner; I will put up the money; and you can run the company as you deem best". The person making this offer identified himself as a "Christian" and made the statement, to Pete, "From now on you and your family will always be taken care of". Pete worked 16 to 18 hour days, 7 days a week, and was on-call to the personnel and customers 24 hours a day. The business grew from 8 accounts to 50 in less than 18 months. However, within that time, the individual who made that proposal to Pete obtained his own PPO license; which Pete agreed to help him do, in the event that something happened to Pete. However, this would shortly prove to be a planned tactic to remove Pete from the administration of the company for which he had sacrificed not only enormous amounts of time but large personal lines of credit. When the company started, Pete made it very clear, "This company is going to run on the standard of honest business practices at all times." Knowing this, the owner of the company still approached Pete, telling him that he wanted Pete to misrepresent the actual hours his security staff were working, so that the company could bill the full value of hours for time that the security staff were only expected to work part time. Pete refused and discovered that his services were no longer needed! Shortly thereafter, the owner of the company sold it for 5.5 million dollars. This event, which enriched the owner of the company and allowed him and his wife to buy a 2 million dollar home and both retire at the age of 35, caused Pete and his family to loose everything they had worked for, even taking with it the home that Pete and Luz had enjoyed from her previous marriage, wherein they were only required to pay 550 dollars a month to maintain, along with all their credit and Pete's car, which was repossessed! Pete's family was forced to move into a small apartment; and to this day Pete has not been forgiven for the loss of Luz's home, which was to be passed on to Luz's children. Pete went back to work for contract security companies, always able, in a matter of months, to work his way up through the ranks by virtue of his excellent experience. At the same time, under Andrew's leadership, the family business was having its share of difficulties; and with his own devastating failure behind him, Pete decided to help out his younger brother! So he moved into Andrew's office and drove 120 miles each way, to visit with Luz and his daughter on weekends, to keep that relationship alive! During those days the fellowship between Pete and me, his father, consisted, largely, in Pete's showing me plans for one project or another that he wanted to try, most of them involving multi-level marketing, against which I was and still am critical! So Pete would dutifully toss out one project after an other, believing that my "pipeline to headquarters", my hearing from God or whatever, made Pete's heeding my counsel advisable, however discouraging it continued to be! That crushing process went on for several years, until, finally, in exasperation, Pete informed me that he was tossing out the religious framework within which he had been operating in relation to me and that he would cease and desist his referring to me any business plan he might come up with! Several years after that break in Pete's effort to be a faithful follower of me, his father, and of Yehovaw, the Lord God whom I love, worship and serve, Pete brought Luz and Mayim into the home that a new office for Andrew's computer work had provided! At the same time, I and Rosetta were brought into a commodious room in that same office, primarily to help her through the aftermath of a stroke, which had damaged her brain's speech center! The fellowship that our new proximity made possible helped Pete and me resolve some serious issues that had developed in relation to his new interest in the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, the author of The Earth Chronicles series of books along with certain other of his works, which extend the scope of the amazing truth about mankind's beginnings under the wisdom, knowledge and scientific resourcefulness of the "Anunnaki", who, according to Sumarian records, came to Earth, 450,000 years ago, from a tenth planet in our solar system, and then developed, by mixing their own DNA with that of the prehistoric ancestors of mankind who already existed on Earth, a new race of beings - homo sepians: namely, us! Pete indicated that certain events contained in the bible that caused him to question the integrity of its authorship and information contained therein was answered in his reading into Sitchin's information. According to Mr. Sitchin, Sumerian records on hundreds of clay tablets have been unearthed by archeologists over the past hundred years and then translated by many scholars such as Sitchin! And, according to those records, the human race that emerged, who for thousands of years were used by the Anunnaki as laborers in their critically needed gold mines, began to proliferate in any area in which they were permitted to dwell! The Anunnaki leadership had not planned that procreation would be among the human's capabilities! So they were irritated by the humans' lusty exercise of it. With that background in mind, let me pick up on how Pete and I dealt with Sitchin's work and with each other! Pete's initial reading of Sitchin was to Luz, his wife, who wanted him to jump to parts of it that she thought might interest her; so his reading did not enjoy the thoroughness that comes of a more methodical approach to study! In the course of that sporadic reading, Pete gained the impression that the "Yaweh" or Lord God of the Jewish and Christian bible was, merely, an Anunnaki and therefore simply one more of the "gods" that the Anunnaki became regarded as by the humans of Earth, under the mishievous propaganda of Marduk, one of the Anunnaki who wanted to enjoy the status of a god in the eyes of his subjects! But the claims of Yehovaw's Holy Bible concerning Him far transcend the limitations even of the god-like Anunnaki, who could fly the Heavens in their rocket ships and destroy their enemies with awesome weapons! The Anunnaki got sick and died, even as the humans did, the only difference being in their amazing longevity, due to the long orbit of Nabiru, their home planet! In the meanwhile Yehovaw, which is James Strong's pronunciation of the Almighty's name, is represented, in His bible, as the holy, almighty, eternal and self-existent Creator and Lord God over all the universe, the supreme role that no Anunnaki was capable of claiming! So I received, as a lie of Satan himself, Pete's claim that the "Yaweh" (the pronunciation of Sitchin and most Jews) of the bible was merely an Anunnaki! And I told Pete so, in blistering emails to that effect! Although Pete was used to being identified by me as a servant of the Devil in relation to his declared atheism, Pete was particularly grieved, by this reaction on my part; because he had the belief, by the preponderance of evidence that he knew Sitchin had presented in his books, that at least the Anunnaki were real, whether Yaweh was what he believed him to be or not! So he persisted in pleading with me that I take seriously what he was then studying! Finally I relented! And I told Pete that I would hear him out! He could, if he wished, read to me Mr. Sitchin's entire Earth Chronicles series! So we undertook to do that, over several months, using whatever time we could find for the project! In the course of that fascinating venture in mind-blowing expansion of perceptions, I became overwhelmed by Sitchin's thoroughness in research, his constant reference to specific artifacts and where they are located today, his amazing pictures of well known monolithic structures that have no possible explanation other than a technology far superior to anything we know, the orientations of their foundations having astronomical significance requiring advanced and sophisticated knowledge of the precession of heavenly bodies, pictures of ancient artifacts clearly representing men and women fitted for space travel as well as their rocket ships and, above all, his endless parade of known, registered and translated clay tablets, for the language by which to learn and accurately interpret all of that astounding history! But those artifacts, upon which were records undeniably astounding in their implications, were so extraordinary that they had been dismissed as "myths", for the refusal of stiffnecked scientists to admit that a people having preceded us by hundreds of thousands of years had freely navigated Earth and left their distinctive marks all over it and on Mars, not to mention the record among the Sumerians of their superior knowledge and technology! According to Sitchin, the archeological artifacts available to date irrefutably declare the Sumerians as a people who gave all credit to the Anunnaki as the source of their wisdom and astounding scientific knowledge, including facts about our solar system that only recently have been newly discovered by NASA, including a huge potrait of a man on Mars and photographs of unmistakably organized areas on its surface! So the question arises as to why most archeological scientists have regarded and continue to regard the civilization of the Sumerians as a "mystery"! That mystery, Sitchin responds, is born of the archeological scientists' choosing to regard the stories written concerning the Anunnaki by the Sumerians and other cultures either related to or descending from them as myths! Mr. Sitchin had run into that practice as a boy, when he was rebuffed by a Jewish bible teacher! Mr. Sitchin had asked about the word "nefilim" in the Hebrew, which had been deliberately mistranslated in the bible as "giants", when actually it meant "they who descended to Earth"! So Sitchin dedicated his life to proving that the word should have been taken for what it clearly said, without the interference of imaginitive translaters! That lifelong quest on Sitchin's part eventually caused him to embrace the entire field of archeology and, particularly, that part of it relating to the amazingly preserved writings of the Sumerians and of the civilizations relating to them or directly descending from them, such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and other such ancient cultures! A particularly facinating work produced by Sitchin is the authobiography of an Anunnaki leader called "Enki", who described how, while heading for Earth, he took on water from Mars, establishing a colony there, the water once there now being an incontrovertible fact of science according to NASA! On tablets now three thousand years old Enki gave a precise description of each planet in our solar system, beginning with the outermost, and told how 147,000 years before he had supervised the establishment of a colony on Earth for Nabiru, his home planet! And again NASA's fly-bys have sent home amazing corroborations of Enki's descriptions! Enki's next move was to establish gold mines, to ship that precious metal to Nabiru, to preserve its atmoshpere, which would only stop its dissipation by being sown at its height with finely ground particles of the gold! Although there are other ancient stories relating to the Great Flood, in the course of his autobiography, Enki not only described the topographical, astronomical and natural factors contributing to that flood but described, as well, his part in sponsoring and equipping the man known in the bible as "Noah", which he was specifically ordered to help by a being that fits the description of an angel of "the Creator of All"! Nabiru was known, by the Anunnaki, to be on its way back into the immediate solar system with which we are familiar! Its gravitational pull was expected to dislodge a huge unstable antarctic ice cap, which would then flood, as a gigantic sunami, every continent northward from its impact upon the ocean! Maps presently in existence prove the fact that the Antarctic continent was once available for exploration and mapping during the period immediately succeeding the Great Flood! At that time the Anunnaki leadership was determined to let the human race be exterminated by that flood, believing that they were worthy of extinction because of the rapid proliferation of their specie, which ability was not planned by the Anunnaki to be theirs! But Yehovaw's hand had been upon the establishment of the human race; and He was not now going to permit His Anunnaki children's shortness of insight deter His plan for the humans; so he sent Galzu to Enki, to command him to see to it that Noah (Enki had another name for him) was given an underwater vessel that could withstand the turbulence that he, his family and other helpful humans aboard would have to endure! The mystery of animals of every kind being transported upon a single ship was marvelously explained by the biological knowledge of the Anunnaki, whereby living cells containing the DNA of every known animal were stored aboard Moses's vessel! When the Annunaki leadership discovered, on Mount Ararat, Noah's success in surviving the distaster and the divine hand that had insured it, they relented and established the Sumerian civilization, which gives insight into the astounding phenomenon of a civilization's suddenly appearing and having both plants and animals to propagate, the species of which have no record in archeological diggings of previously existing! They had to come from Nabiru! The cause of mankind's having been divinely established, the Anunnaki finally granted, to them, the status of beings worthy of being educated in some of the amazing knowledge of the Anunnaki! That fateful decision to grant humans a civilization of their own explains the sudden emergence of the Sumerian civilation in the area served by the Euphrates and Tigres Rivers, which has mystified archeological scientists for a century! For no evidence of any human civilization has been discovered that predates that of the Sumerians, let alone matches it in the sophistication of its knowledge! Starting with the initial landing and exploration of Earth by Enki and his comrades, the Sumerian records give the Anunnaki's history on Earth with all their many governors of area's on Earth; they have only one king, Anu, who resides on Nabiru but rules over Earth through advanced communication and, when Nabiru is closest to Earth, he impacts his personnel on Earth by personal visits! Sumerian records then focus upon the history of the human race, until it runs directly into what we know from the bible, Abraham, the forefather of the children of Israel, having indeed been a Sumerian, in fact a military man with a mission and forces at his disposal, the Southeastern city of Ur, from which he came, having been a well known Sumerian city! Not long after Yehovaw had directed Abraham to the land of Cannan, we run into the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorha, which in the light of Sumerian records becomes understandable in terms of nuclear weaponry, which was unleashed by the Anunnaki upon their space station in the Sinai Penninsula, to keep it from falling into the hands of Marduk, then presumptuously trying to make himself the one in power over all the Anunnaki on Earth! According to Enki's autobiography, the fallout from that nuclear attack on the Sinai and on the cities north of it, moving eastward, completely destroyed the Sumerian civilization, the sudden disappearance of which is another known fact of recorded history! The Anunnaki's belief in "the Creator of All", whom the Judeo-Christian Holy Bible represents as "Yaweh" or "Yehovaw", according to one's preference, caused Pete to back up a notch with respect to his declared atheism, to agree that, possibly, a "Creator of All" is in the universe; but that is about the only concession that Pete was willing to make! Pete's concern remained that so many of the representations of God in the bible set Pete's teeth on edge, when it came to human suffering and God's seeming indifference to it, His sending a Devil to tempt Yehovaw's children to do their worst and then sending them to an eternal Lake of Fire if they dare yield to that temptation! In Pete's view God's indifference also was grievous in the idea of His putting a book of instruction in the hands of His children and then ostensibly going fishing, while they languish in the confusion created by that book, which Pete believed is full of enigmas that are bewildering, if not ludicrous! Thirdly was Pete's frustration in God's refusal to talk to him, regardless of earnest pleas that Pete had made that He make Himself known to him, if He is all that His book and so many testimonies of people claim that He is! I ministered, to Pete, on those various objections, with considerable frustration; because on the face of things many of them are valid and cannot be proved, one way or another! But in my thirty-five years of studying Yehovaw's Holy Bible, I had discovered an increasingly confirmed fact that, regardless of the unsavory aspect of Pete's observations about biblical claims, a truth persevered across its pages that when accepted and acted upon brought incalculable blessing to the one who had yielded to it. While Pete had labored under the cloud of his suspicions about the bible's claims, I had been reveling in the inescapable fact that Yehovaw was an amazing Creator Who not only created the universe and us, His children, to enjoy it but continued to give us the breath of life and the amazing capacity not only to think but to think of Him and the eternity that His awesome being embraces! Included among the attributes Yehovaw gave to His children is their ability to communicate with Him, hearing His voice in their hearts and telling Him their heartfelt concerns, which, when spoken with faith in His faithfulness to answer them results in things happening to end all discussion about His presence in and among us, His amazing children! Part of that blessed benefit includes the guidance by ha Kodesh Ruakh, Yehovaw's Holy Spirit, to see and recognize Yehovaw's truth when it is being presented in His Holy Bible, which opens up an entirely new and comprehensive view of the bible, regardless of the objectionable parts of its historic records and dubious claims for the conduct (or misconduct) of so good a Lord God! But my effort to communicate with Pete that view of Yehovaw and of His Holy Bible had for years experienced nothing but a seemingly impenetrable wall of doubt and cyniscism, until I received the unexpected help of a prayer partner in the person of Charlie, a dear friend who attended the church I was obliged to attend, to bring my grandchildren to it, that church having been the choice of Andrew, their father, for them, because of its members' keeping of Yehovaw's toraw or law! Having learned of my frustrations with Pete, Charlie prayed, to Yehovaw: "Father, because of your relationship with Yeshuaw, Your Son, you know what the relationship between a father and son should be! So I ask you to give that kind of relationship to Floyd and his son Pete! That amazing prayer touched the heart of the Creator and Lord God over all the universe! For He permitted Satan, the enemy of Yehovaw and of all His children, to tempt Pete in a way he never before had considered! He tempted Pete, a man who considered himself to be "a moral man" to consider taking personal revenge on several persons who, through their misrepresentations, had seriously violated him in the past, damaging his integrity with his family and causing them to be put through endless disappointments. Pete rationalized that "since I have no fear of God or what would become of me spiritually, getting rid of people who don't care how much they hurt others would be doing a service to those who would be hurt by them in the future". It should be considered that Pete, always wanting to advance his skills for the protection of others, had spent his life studying numerous cases on how criminals gain access to persons and property and what procedures are used to locate and retain evidence by which the criminal is brought to justice! But now he, himself, was being tempted, by the advantage of that very knowledge, to become the criminal and even a murderer. Having practiced "self reliance", rather than "reliance on God", Pete became the perfect weapon against himself, as the temptation for revenge became so strong that he began successfully researching the present locations of these people; and, having found them and having accumulated the knowledge that he had of criminal methods, he began devising plans by which to end the lives of those who he felt deserved to "meet God personally", considering that they purported to "have a personal relationship with God", representing themselves as "Christians" to gain Pete's trust. However justified it may have seemed to Pete at the time, doing any such thing to anyone was so foreign to his loving, kind, generous and protective nature that, when it came time to carry out that dark mission, Pete saw himself standing on the edge of a precipice of ethics and morality off which he was about to jump; and the sight of that plunge into the eternal abyss of becoming a murderer horrified him, that he could have gone so far in such an unacceptable direction without sensing its danger to his entire being until it had almost been too late! Having everything in place, the last step Pete took was changing the color of his hair; planning to go back to its original color after carrying out his mission. Then it happened; and in one comment made by Pete's precious daughter, Mayim, Pete came to his senses! After seeing her father color his hair, out of the blue, without any reason to make such a statement to her father, what she said was: "I thought you were planning to kill someone." So, unnerved concerning his previous judgmental stand against the Source of all ethics and morality, Pete began experimenting with Yehovaw, in little ways that would not have seemed significant to anyone else; but to Pete they were his first baby steps back onto the path that he had left years ago - the path of faith wherein one knows that Yehovaw hears and answers the prayers of His children! Twice Pete lost track of objects that were important to something he was trying to accomplish; and twice he prayed, "God, Dad says you hear and respond to us; so show me where that important part is that I can't find!" Twice the parts showed up so quickly that Pete could not miss the obvious response! Yehovaw was not "off fishing"; He was right there, concerned for the welfare of His beloved child and ready to do his bidding! My teaching from out of Yehovaw's Holy Bible, that He has given mankind a dominion over every living thing on Earth had been confirmed! Yehovaw had honored Pete's dominion; and Pete had been reintroduced to the loving relationship between a magnificent father and his wayward son! Like the son spoken of in the bible, who had taken and squandered his father's inheritance, Pete's going home had been met by the Father of all fathers, Who fell on his neck and kissed him and ordered that he be given a coat, shoes, a ring on his finger and a banquet at which to celebrate! For the son who had been dead was now alive! And his Father could not do enough to show His pleasure in that new level of appreciation for Him that his son's return had demonstrated! To Pete's amazement, not only had he found the items that he had lost, he had found his place in Yehovaw's kingdom, which brought him a whole new sense of well being that he had never known, even while he had been dutifully teaching his father's doctrines! Now the required truth had become Pete's doctrine; for he knew, like Adam and Eve knew, when they ate of the forbidden fruit, what the consequence was of hearing anyone's voice but His Who had warned him about the fruit. Needless to say, since Pete's acquiring this new level of understanding concerning Yehovaw, our relationship has enjoyed a wall-to-wall blessing that has been beyond describing, our seeing eye-to-eye on virtually every issue and our being full of renewed hope that a vision both of us had shared for years for helping all mankind regain their freedoms and well being could now finally be realized in the form of a family enterprise that would know of no equal!
I have devoted the past several years to writing on the Internet what I believe Yehovaw's Holy Bible says about such things as I have just described! And I have put these writings on my websites:HonorHisLaw.com, MyDreamatLast.com and PowerfulAchievement.com! The issues are complex, as mankind insist upon making them so, whereas the answer, as Yehovaw has set it forth in His word, is so simple one would have to hire a panel of attorneys to mess it up! My calling in life is to participate in the ongoing struggle to unscramble the doctrinal messes that have been created even by rebellious apostles of Yehovaw, by their contrary actions and teachings even in His Holy Bible, which is the true account of their belligerent disobedience, which upon careful examination works to undermine the glorious simplicity of Yehovaw's salvation and blessing for the children of Israel! One can find my humble efforts to pursue that calling on the websites that I have invited you, my beloved visitor, to investigate! Amen! Alleluia! |
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