0:00:00 - 0:00:29 OK. Um Just wanna make sure my microphone is working. Um I just uh I don't like surprises. I um the Lord doesn't work in the dark and I don't either. Um As you can see the lights were on. Just kidding. Um So I've been kicking around a lot of ideas for uh this, this ministry. I guess you could call it 0:00:29 - 0:00:55 um my interactions with the world on spiritual things. And uh these have been on my mind and heart for a very long time. But uh in development and I think it's a good time to uh share some of these with you. So you're not so surprised when they happen. It's a tricky thing because um it's not appropriate 0:00:55 - 0:01:23 to bring anyone along with my thought process. Um Maybe that's even too much detail, but it would cause harm to people to be that um that involved with um with the process. So I, I try to get things more developed before I share them with others like the books. You know, that's, that's a good meta example 0:01:22 - 0:01:45 of developing ideas before I share them. Now that that being said, you know, it, it wouldn't be surprising to find many people who, who would say, uh jeez, if this is the developed version, I'd hate to see the raw version. That, that's precisely my point when you, when you stand in a flood of fire, which 0:01:45 - 0:02:13 sounds like an oxymoron. But um when you stand in a flood of truth, um you know, it's, it's the most you can do is, is to just loosely. Well, it's not see, it's even hard to talk about this but, but to um to do what you can to organize things as they go so that they're a little easier to see, understand 0:02:12 - 0:02:37 value and live for those downstream. And um you know, it feels ridiculous to say that for, for two reasons, at least one, I realize how hard that's going to be to understand or believe for many people. And two uh because this is sort of a consummate work for me in my life and has been for such a long 0:02:37 - 0:03:03 time and through such intense circumstances, it seems like the the greatest understatement of the world to describe it in such like terms anyway. So um uh the purpose of this video is to avoid people or mitigate it won't prevent but to mitigate people from saying where did this come from? Um The, the 0:03:03 - 0:03:32 path I'm on, it's been well established for a very long time. Um And, and it's become quite clear to me because of things that the Lord told me. Um over time. But, um, I, I try to keep it reconciled as much as I can to show you as much as I can as early as I can. And that's all limited, you know, truth 0:03:32 - 0:03:57 is successive. There's always a uh prerequisites and, um, I'm working as fast as I can to get this all put together as quickly as I can. But if you're familiar with this stuff at all, you can see themes throughout work over years. And you know, I've previously mentioned if you read, uh it's so funny 0:03:57 - 0:04:17 how frequently I just blank on the titles of my own books. And I just think of them like Wheezer albums by the color the orange book is called uh Commanded in all things. I, I don't know why I was thinking that was a different book. But anyway, if you read command in all things, it's a pretty short book 0:04:16 - 0:04:39 . And um it's not on the list of ones that I highly recommend everyone read, which are repentance and through faith. And then if you're coming from an L DS background um teaching for doctrines and Commandments of men, which you should start with if you're coming from an L DS background. Um But if you 0:04:39 - 0:05:06 read Commanded in all things, you'll see that there are, there are the beginnings of themes or themes stated at a very high um high level, a low resolution view of things that I've been talking about continuously since then. You'll see a bunch of themes and seek you this Jesus, which is also a book that 0:05:06 - 0:05:26 , that I don't put on the short list of what people should read. Uh Mostly because I think the parts that are most important out of that have been superseded by repentance. And um I know some people would disagree with that but, but uh I don't see a significant difference in outcome between people who 0:05:25 - 0:05:49 read one and the other and, and the outcomes that I see, I think are uh more likely and easier obtained through reading and applying repentance. Uh And this is not an unrelated theme. I'm going to come back to it in a minute anyway. Um So none of this is a surprise looking back and I'd like to keep it 0:05:49 - 0:06:15 that way. So, uh I don't have secret groups. I don't have like meetings I have with select few people. If I ever did something like that, it'd be really obvious because I would announce it or something, which is weird. Why would you announce a closed meeting? But um this man, there are things I'd like 0:06:15 - 0:06:42 to say about that, but this is probably not the time. Um suffice it to say that walking in the Lord's way, use all the information you have, but it's very rarely the case that he's gonna show you all things all at once. So that's an understatement. So, um you have to do things in a way where you provide 0:06:41 - 0:07:07 doors and let people walk through um very carefully setting up structures so that the people who walk through are the people you're looking for. They, they have become the right people. This is a really important principle. It's so important. I really wish I could say it better concisely because it applies 0:07:06 - 0:07:31 to so many things. But um just think for a second, if you're running a business, the best way to promote people is not as a reward for doing well in their current position, but as designing a path that makes them the right person for the next physician and then allowing them to choose whether they will 0:07:31 - 0:08:03 go through that process or not. Um I'm a huge fan of this. This is absolutely the way the Lord works. Now. We're in a sidetrack maybe actually as I think about what I wanna say here, it's, it's probably spot on uh why not? Let's talk about Aztec imagery, why not they have this, this uh disk? The Aztecs 0:08:02 - 0:00:00 had this disk and it's, it's on the throne of Montezuma and they found it in a separate place. Um I think there are at least two versions of this that they found are copies in stone and they think it's a calendar, it's not a calendar. But um it uh it, it's, it's actually, it's a picture of creation, 0:00:00 - 0:08:50 the process of creation and the purpose of it. And there are some things that are flubbed. In it because, um, you know, apostasy occludes, truth mixes some errant things in and takes some valid things out. But one thing they got right is the entry point, which is Adam and Eve and then the exit point 0:08:49 - 0:09:09 . Now we'll talk about that exit point because that's what comes before, what comes after all of this, which we would call eternity. Um, so you come out of eternity into mortality and then you leave mortality and go into eternity. And at the end of that, and the archaeologists had this one right? There 0:09:09 - 0:09:32 are two flint knives pointing at each other. So there are two triangles pointing at each other and they're flint knives. Flint is um low tech razor blade. That's what you should think of amongst other things. Flint is very important in the scriptures, but a flint edge properly chipped is uh it's sharper 0:09:32 - 0:10:06 than a razor blade. So um it cuts you and you have to go through this gauntlet to get there, right? So, um that's the way the Lord works. There is a gauntlet to get there and this, this uh this is represented and lived in, in initiation ceremonies for ancient cultures and um and so on. So that's, that's 0:10:06 - 0:10:30 a good thing and you set it up and then people go as far as they desire and that creation is absolutely that way you go as far as you want to go and the Lord makes it so that everything is available to make that true. In the end, in the day of judgment, every single person will say I was given everything 0:10:29 - 0:10:57 I needed to go as far as I wanted to go. And my eternal outcome that I now receive was absolutely my choice. That's part of what makes every knee bell and every tongue confess is the sure knowledge that everything was provided. And that is also a key to understanding what your role is in all of this 0:10:56 - 0:11:26 is to facilitate everything required so that everyone has all they could possibly need to do everything they, they desired to do to receive everything they desire to receive. Uh um I didn't plan on going into that but it's valid. So that, that is all part of this. OK. Um Yeah, so I don't do things in 0:11:26 - 0:11:51 the dark. Um The closest thing to that might be that, you know, I tried to get one for the last few books. My goal has been get at least one person to proofread the entire book and work out all the kinks that they could see um jointly. So they, they give me feedback and I fix things uh before it's released 0:11:50 - 0:12:07 , that's, that's one thing I try to do. And so there is a time frame where someone else knows about the book, but the world does not, but it's not a secret. You know, the last book I wrote, I didn't end up publishing. Uh It was on justice and two people read that one was for the sake of proofreading 0:12:07 - 0:12:35 . The other was because the Lord explicitly commanded me to send it to one person who uh was praying for the that information. So, and, and she uh benefited a lot from it. She said so anyway, um so here's some, some, you know, I'm an open book, but I'm a very thick book. And um the problem with that 0:12:35 - 0:13:01 is you can open a book, you know, here's this book, I type set wisdom. Um So you can open a book to any old page. Oh, I have notes in here to process nice. Any old page and if you lie flat, right, it doesn't matter how thick it is, this is all you can see. So it's like that um even if I make an attempt 0:13:01 - 0:13:22 to show you put all the cards on the table, which I do, that's how I am with everything. Um You're still only gonna get so much. So, so with all that being said, here's Cliff's notes version of what's to come. Uh So here's the taste of things to come. So one thing I just wanna one card I wanna lay out 0:13:22 - 0:13:44 on the table. So it's not a surprise when we get there is I do intend to start accepting donations and any of you who are familiar who have been familiar with my work for a while. Um know that this is something I take extremely seriously. It's something that I've had strong positions against in the past 0:13:43 - 0:14:05 and I have a lot to say about it. The Lord's been talking with me about this for years. Um So when it comes to ministry and money, I have a lot to share uh a lot of information and I think that's going to be extraordinarily helpful for a lot of people. Um And I have no idea when I'm going to finish writing 0:14:04 - 0:14:28 about that and publishing it. I did make a w a video recently. I'm not sure when it will get out to youtube. Uh But this one didn't get deleted. So that's good. Uh Sometimes I, I'll make videos and I think, you know, I didn't say that well enough or it's just not the time and I'll delete it um before 0:14:28 - 0:14:50 publishing it, but this one will get there and it's on, it's called something like charity. Charity that changes things or something. Anyway, the word charities in the title. So that's the first of many, many, many collections of thoughts on this. Uh I think it's the first. So it's, it's what I'm gonna 0:14:50 - 0:15:09 lay out is a very different position than what you've heard. And there will be a whole lot of scriptures backing that and it's going to clarify a lot of mysteries in the scriptures for folks who haven't figured it out yet. Uh The, the first wave of that is just gonna be those who are so inclined to give 0:15:08 - 0:15:30 and then later steps of that, they're going to, there's going to be a lot more information about details about the big picture and where this fits in and, and all the little little subtleties of how this is meant to work uh from the Lord's perspective. So uh with the help of a, a generous friend, I've 0:15:30 - 0:15:54 um I'm in the process of setting up a, a legal nonprofit for this purpose. Uh so that it can be, it can help make it easier for people uh in getting a tax deduction, it make it easier, excuse me, for more per people to participate in that. Um And it's, it's, it's timely because there are forks in the 0:15:54 - 0:16:22 road in my life in the near future where the time I have for what I do with this ministry is going to change significantly depending in part on the participation of others. So, uh I, I think for the last 10 years, I've spent considerable time. Um And obviously, well, it maybe it's not obvious but considerable 0:16:22 - 0:16:54 time um communing with the Lord. Um Bye, basically sleeping less. That's, that's basically the long and short, but I've sacrificed things normal people do um for hours each day, consistently over, over uh more than a decade now. And in recent years, let's see. And so all this was in addition to full 0:16:53 - 0:17:22 time work and then in the last, I guess from around 2015 until about two years ago, I had two full time jobs in addition to the ministry stuff. Um, in addition to family and uh, farm, little farm we have. And then, uh, two years ago I lost my job because of this ministry. Um, a very lucrative career 0:17:22 - 0:17:56 that I busted my butt for and was just getting to the point where I was gonna have a lot more time as a result of all that hard work um for the ministry. So that was taken away from me. Um So, um I'd say since 2015 round about, I've probably been spending bare minimum 20 but it's gotten closer to 40 0:17:56 - 0:18:21 for the last four years, maybe 40 hours a week in addition to full time job and family and, but you get the point right? And I've done all of this without any money from anybody. And, um, I think that uh going forward there, there are changes that are happening that are outside of my hands where the 0:18:21 - 0:18:46 choice is, is I don't want to oversimplify this, but essentially the choice is going to be put into your hands as to whether you value all of this enough um for me to spend my time doing it or whether I have to uh spend more time than I, than I have in the past, um securing my, my family's well being 0:18:46 - 0:19:11 financially. So that's, that I'll say a lot more about that, but that's enough for now. So you're not surprised when it happens. Uh And like I said, it's been years and years of uh processing that and getting more information from God because it's such a serious thing that I am naturally very opposed 0:19:10 - 0:19:42 to so of my own accord, very opposed to and have done much more than anyone I know to avoid doing. Ok. And in terms of sacrificing working investing so that uh that time could be provided without just from my own efforts, not from anyone else. Um Just to be clear, I don't have any plans for that to go 0:19:42 - 0:20:05 the route that others have taken as far as I, I don't have any plans to ever change the way that the books are priced, which is print cost that price is that all that money goes to Amazon for um printing and shipping and whatever. Um I don't, I don't make money on that. There's no profit there, there's 0:20:05 - 0:20:30 no money that comes to me. Um And then uh I, I don't plan on charging anything for any of the content I provide online. So I, I don't see any changes with that. Uh In the event I do in person meetings, I'm not gonna, I don't plan on charging money for that and this is all tentative just because I don't 0:20:29 - 0:20:53 have all the details of everything that could ever happen in the future. The Lord said, make your oaths. Yes and no. Um we don't know 100% how things might change in the future. But, um, I, I don't have any plans for this. I, I would like it to just be a voluntary thing that people do if they feel so 0:20:53 - 0:21:17 inclined. And, uh, that's the plan, uh, as far as in person meetings just to clarify what I mean on that. So that's, it's not, you're not expecting something that is much more than what I mean. I, I'm thinking maybe I might do a series of talks to coincide with the release of the books. And uh I do believe 0:21:16 - 0:21:45 that those are gonna come out in chunks, if not in one chunk. I think I have more on that, that I'll get to in a minute. Um So, so the game plan, uh what you can expect to see from me in the near future, um There are going to be books. Um The, well, I'll get into what the topics of those are gonna be 0:21:45 - 0:22:11 , but at a high level but books, uh I've been kicking around ideas for launching a website. Um, and I could give more details on that and I think that maybe sometime in the future, it won't be any time soon as far as I know because I have to focus on these books until they're done. But um I will probably 0:22:11 - 0:22:41 be launching a weekly meeting on Sundays. Um And that will be as far as I know, mostly focused on content. So information, uh not any kind of. Um, well, I don't know, I'm just trying to inform expectations here. It's, it's just gonna be basically sermons or reading, might read the scriptures together 0:22:41 - 0:23:05 , something like that. Uh, so that'll be virtual and I think it's going to wait until I get some more books released. But that, that's kind of it. So, nothing too crazy there. Um, as far as the books go, um, to summarize these topics is still very much fluid moving around content between skeletons of 0:23:05 - 0:23:31 books. Um The theme is demonstrating Christ, that's the theme. Uh That's all the books fit into that in ways that will be obvious once it's laid out but are gonna seem very new and unusual to some as you see them for the first time. Uh So it's gonna lay out the Lord's theology in an organization that 0:23:31 - 0:23:53 you haven't thought of. But the second you see it, if it's done, right, it's gonna seem extremely common sense. You're gonna be wondering how you didn't think of it yourself. Um It's kind of like a unified field theory if you know what that is uh for God's creation and how everything works in his plan 0:23:52 - 0:24:20 and how the the path to him is really, really obvious. So the objective with this is to provide the content of that path in greater clarity than you've ever seen it with stronger reasons to not just believe but do it than you've ever had. So that's the goal. Um, I think that those are probably going 0:24:20 - 0:24:41 to come out all at once, but there might be trenches, maybe three of books and what that's going to do that amount of content. I don't just mean the page count but the volume and what it suggests as far as changes in life, which again are going to be at the daily momentary level, don't, it, it's not 0:24:41 - 0:25:03 gonna be like, ok, and now I want everybody should sell everything they have and move to Morocco. It's not gonna be stuff like that. It, it's, it's going to start it um every moment of your life, just your daily normal life and at a motive level, not necessarily changing what you do, but why you do it 0:25:03 - 0:25:25 , that's the beginning. Actually, it starts inside, not even outside of you. The books are gonna start inside suggesting changes to how you think and feel first what you desire. So, um and, and that right there, that's a great example of how these are things that you probably wouldn't expect and you 0:25:25 - 0:25:52 haven't previously heard unless you've heard them for me. Um because it starts inside anyway. Um It's releasing these things in trenches. It's going to create massive distinctions between people because there are people who are going to fixate on processing this information as fast as they can and uh 0:25:52 - 0:26:16 what they're going to get out of that is going to differentiate them significantly from those who do not and it's going to very quickly create um differences between people or accentuate those differences or expose those differences. And uh that's why it's, it's really important to get your life together 0:26:15 - 0:26:41 in the ways that you already understand. Because um as the Lord said again and again, watch always and be prepared. And um the reason is because when the moment comes, it's like the 10 virgins, you have to be ready. And if you're not in a place in your life where you're organized and uh you have your 0:26:41 - 0:27:07 value structure set up and your life is organized such that you can dedicate a significant chunk of time uh to this. And you've, you've developed your information processing abilities to the point where you can do this effectively. Not in 10 years. Uh You're gonna be suffering um unnecessarily because 0:27:07 - 0:27:34 of your slowness and your, your lack of preparation for this moment. Um So some, some of you will balk at that. You'll say, wow, you're really, um you're really, you're really viewing these things that you're doing is important. Yes. Yes, I am. But um notwithstanding that these are general principles 0:27:33 - 0:27:55 and whether it's true for what I'm doing actually doesn't matter as much as the fact that it is true. It is true. And that's the reason Jesus taught these things. You have to get your life in order with the expectation that the Lord is gonna reach out to you. However he does it, it's going to be with 0:27:54 - 0:28:17 tons of information. And if you haven't lived your life so that you're really good at processing information and you have the ability to create pockets of time on demand for really important things. Then you're going to be at a loss when you get say 2000 pages dropped in your lap or 8000 pages of information 0:28:17 - 0:28:43 you've never thought of. That's absolutely earth shatteringly important. So, um, another warning with this just to, to let you know is, um so you're not surprised, uh several of my previously published books are going to be absorbed into the new ones. And when that happens, when those books come out 0:28:42 - 0:29:04 , I will take the old ones out of print. Um It's a really funny thing to think that modern culture has taught us that when someone has something to say in a book, it's final. And of course, that's not the way the Lord works. He's always revealing more. And as those changes come, some of them expand upon 0:29:04 - 0:29:28 what you already knew in ways that don't break anything. Um But sometimes there are better ways of seeing things and sometimes those better ways include replacing things that came before. And uh I, I was told uh by the Lord to absorb several of the earlier books. So I, I actually had to read through 0:29:28 - 0:29:52 them line by line and go through an extensive process of um rewriting things, making things better deleting some things that I no longer believe. And, you know, obviously there, there are reasons for that and replacing it with the higher truth that I've been taught. And so, um, as soon as they, the new 0:29:52 - 0:30:15 ones come out, the old ones won't have a reason to exist anymore, uh, un until then people can mine out all the truth they want out of those, uh, to the, to the limits that exist in them. Um, But don't be surprised when that happens and it's not, uh it's not the case that um they're just getting thrown 0:30:15 - 0:30:41 away. Like I said, I've gone line by line through them. And um I've, I've done this for two books so far and I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a third in there, maybe 1/4. I hope that's not the case. It's gonna take a lot longer if that's the case, but I'll just do whatever I'm told. Ok. Um Here's some 0:30:41 - 0:31:09 details about this website. This is all rough draft. I, I'm not committed to any of this yet, but I'll tell you the key goals are first and foremost to get out of venues like youtube. Um that, that can be turned off and um also just to, to make things a little easier to use. Uh Right now, the search 0:31:08 - 0:31:28 on the blog is terrible and there's nothing I can do to improve that. There's no notifications. So people have to check and that's really annoying. Um It's easy to miss things. If you, if you happen to check and there's 20 new blog posts, you're really not gonna read them carefully compared to if there 0:31:28 - 0:31:53 were, were one. Um So I'd, I'd like, I'd like everything I've done to be searchable as far as that's possible. Um, and I'd like to have a place to put shareable materials, obviously can send links of any of this stuff to anyone, which I would appreciate. It helps. It's, it's uh every time I make a video 0:31:52 - 0:32:15 that people share, it's really obvious because there's a spike in new views, like views from people who aren't subscribed. So that makes a huge difference and you are in networks that I am not. So I highly uh commend those who are doing that. I, I really appreciate it. Um And II, I wish more people would 0:32:15 - 0:32:44 share things. Um So anyway, a nice place to have that where you could just copy paste links or images and share them in places. Um Another goal is to foster communication between you all. Uh Right now, the communication is sort of to and from me and you between us as, as individuals pairs and I would 0:32:43 - 0:33:16 like to facilitate communication between you all. Um And there are a few harder to explain goals here. Um So first off there is there is a gospel principle of, I don't know what to call it, not accountability, but I guess testimony where anonymity is really not great Um And I would like to code into 0:33:16 - 0:33:41 this website, some, some separate level of participation for those who are willing to put their name and face next to their comments. I'm not 100% sure on how I'm going to do this or what it will, what features it will enable. But we could do something like when you, you have to be registered to post 0:33:40 - 0:34:06 and if you are registered during registration, uh you have to upload uh a headshot your first and last name and prove you are who you are. And I think the best way of doing this is to request. The unfortunate thing is I'm actually gonna have to uh validate this manually but uh to request people to upload 0:34:05 - 0:34:31 maybe a driver's license. Um but you can mask electronically or low tech with a piece of paper, all your information except your name and your picture. Um So we can verify that you are who you say you are. And then um I would probably make it so that only those who are registered and logged in could 0:34:31 - 0:35:01 see the names and pictures next to the, the comments made by those people. So that only those with skin in the game uh could have that level. This is not least of all to help develop um the communications between you. You can't really get to know a fake handle. Um You need a, a face and a name and that's 0:35:01 - 0:35:23 really important. And it'll become more important as time moves on. Uh, I'd like to see more people developing connections with each other in general. Yeah, that's, that's true outside of anything that I do but certainly within that. Um, and then I've been, I've been processing some, developing some 0:35:23 - 0:35:56 ideas for how to make this system match more of what I understand the Lord's system to be. Um, so truth is successive and continuous but online associations are not, they're just kind of open, they're also reductive, but I don't wanna digress too much into this. Um It's not very helpful. Let's see, the 0:35:56 - 0:36:26 system in place right now cannot scale. So I'm very good at addressing comments. I read everything that's posted on the comments in youtube. I read every email that's sent to me. Um And right now that that can't scale, there are 800 or or so subscribers to this youtube channel. Um But I think there are 0:36:26 - 0:36:59 about 200 some people who view pretty much everything I put out and they read the blog posts. Um If that number were to scale by a factor of 10, I would not have time to keep this level of communication going. And so I would like to help build um structures so that, that can be offloaded, um hierarchically 0:36:58 - 0:37:27 so kind of a digital version of Moses and the elders of Israel um where I'm addressing things that require my attention, but it's easier for you to address the things that don't. So uh for each other. So, um part of that is the search features because right now, if I reply to a comment and it's a really 0:37:27 - 0:37:51 big deal, it's still just buried somewhere and no one will ever find it. Um But if it's searchable people can find it. Um The other part of that is typically the quality of the question corresponds to the amount of material that the person has studied. And so uh for that and many other reasons what I'm 0:37:51 - 0:38:15 toying around with is some sort of thing where every two weeks or so so on registration and then every two weeks or so there will be this, I can't think of a good name for it, but this certification process, were you quizzed on the content of materials? And um it will, the purpose of the quiz is a very 0:38:15 - 0:38:48 light assessment of how much you're familiar with. And uh depending on that, your experience in this, this app will be different. And so um part of this will probably be some sort of tag by your name that would indicate the familiarity you have with the different materials um or topics, however it goes 0:38:48 - 0:39:17 . And then um another part of this might include what you have access to comment on or possibly even see. And so when you register, this would be longer and then every two weeks, you would just get sort of a random single or 21 to 3 questions real quick to, uh just sort of multiple choice things to reassess 0:39:16 - 0:39:39 how familiar you are with things. And then if you fail that assessment, you'd be recommended towards the material that contains the answer whether that's a youtube video or a book or something and probably a book chapter. Um And then there'd be a time period, you'd have to wait probably two weeks um 0:39:39 - 0:40:05 before retesting for that. And so that, that probably all seems pretty excessive, but I think something like that is actually going to be quite necessary as time moves on. And, um, I'm not 100% sure on how that works. So, if you have ideas, feel free to email me, uh, at upward dot at gmail.com with your 0:00:00 - 0:00:29 OK. Um Just wanna make sure my microphone is working. Um I just uh I don't like surprises. I um the Lord doesn't work in the dark and I don't either. Um As you can see the lights were on. Just kidding. Um So I've been kicking around a lot of ideas for uh this, this ministry. I guess you could call it 0:00:29 - 0:00:55 um my interactions with the world on spiritual things. And uh these have been on my mind and heart for a very long time. But uh in development and I think it's a good time to uh share some of these with you. So you're not so surprised when they happen. It's a tricky thing because um it's not appropriate 0:00:55 - 0:01:23 to bring anyone along with my thought process. Um Maybe that's even too much detail, but it would cause harm to people to be that um that involved with um with the process. So I, I try to get things more developed before I share them with others like the books. You know, that's, that's a good meta example 0:01:22 - 0:01:45 of developing ideas before I share them. Now that that being said, you know, it, it wouldn't be surprising to find many people who, who would say, uh jeez, if this is the developed version, I'd hate to see the raw version. That, that's precisely my point when you, when you stand in a flood of fire, which 0:01:45 - 0:02:13 sounds like an oxymoron. But um when you stand in a flood of truth, um you know, it's, it's the most you can do is, is to just loosely. Well, it's not see, it's even hard to talk about this but, but to um to do what you can to organize things as they go so that they're a little easier to see, understand 0:02:12 - 0:02:37 value and live for those downstream. And um you know, it feels ridiculous to say that for, for two reasons, at least one, I realize how hard that's going to be to understand or believe for many people. And two uh because this is sort of a consummate work for me in my life and has been for such a long 0:02:37 - 0:03:03 time and through such intense circumstances, it seems like the the greatest understatement of the world to describe it in such like terms anyway. So um uh the purpose of this video is to avoid people or mitigate it won't prevent but to mitigate people from saying where did this come from? Um The, the 0:03:03 - 0:03:32 path I'm on, it's been well established for a very long time. Um And, and it's become quite clear to me because of things that the Lord told me. Um over time. But, um, I, I try to keep it reconciled as much as I can to show you as much as I can as early as I can. And that's all limited, you know, truth 0:03:32 - 0:03:57 is successive. There's always a uh prerequisites and, um, I'm working as fast as I can to get this all put together as quickly as I can. But if you're familiar with this stuff at all, you can see themes throughout work over years. And you know, I've previously mentioned if you read, uh it's so funny 0:03:57 - 0:04:17 how frequently I just blank on the titles of my own books. And I just think of them like Wheezer albums by the color the orange book is called uh Commanded in all things. I, I don't know why I was thinking that was a different book. But anyway, if you read command in all things, it's a pretty short book 0:04:16 - 0:04:39 . And um it's not on the list of ones that I highly recommend everyone read, which are repentance and through faith. And then if you're coming from an L DS background um teaching for doctrines and Commandments of men, which you should start with if you're coming from an L DS background. Um But if you 0:04:39 - 0:05:06 read Commanded in all things, you'll see that there are, there are the beginnings of themes or themes stated at a very high um high level, a low resolution view of things that I've been talking about continuously since then. You'll see a bunch of themes and seek you this Jesus, which is also a book that 0:05:06 - 0:05:26 , that I don't put on the short list of what people should read. Uh Mostly because I think the parts that are most important out of that have been superseded by repentance. And um I know some people would disagree with that but, but uh I don't see a significant difference in outcome between people who 0:05:25 - 0:05:49 read one and the other and, and the outcomes that I see, I think are uh more likely and easier obtained through reading and applying repentance. Uh And this is not an unrelated theme. I'm going to come back to it in a minute anyway. Um So none of this is a surprise looking back and I'd like to keep it 0:05:49 - 0:06:15 that way. So, uh I don't have secret groups. I don't have like meetings I have with select few people. If I ever did something like that, it'd be really obvious because I would announce it or something, which is weird. Why would you announce a closed meeting? But um this man, there are things I'd like 0:06:15 - 0:06:42 to say about that, but this is probably not the time. Um suffice it to say that walking in the Lord's way, use all the information you have, but it's very rarely the case that he's gonna show you all things all at once. So that's an understatement. So, um you have to do things in a way where you provide 0:06:41 - 0:07:07 doors and let people walk through um very carefully setting up structures so that the people who walk through are the people you're looking for. They, they have become the right people. This is a really important principle. It's so important. I really wish I could say it better concisely because it applies 0:07:06 - 0:07:31 to so many things. But um just think for a second, if you're running a business, the best way to promote people is not as a reward for doing well in their current position, but as designing a path that makes them the right person for the next physician and then allowing them to choose whether they will 0:07:31 - 0:08:03 go through that process or not. Um I'm a huge fan of this. This is absolutely the way the Lord works. Now. We're in a sidetrack maybe actually as I think about what I wanna say here, it's, it's probably spot on uh why not? Let's talk about Aztec imagery, why not they have this, this uh disk? The Aztecs 0:08:02 - 0:00:00 had this disk and it's, it's on the throne of Montezuma and they found it in a separate place. Um I think there are at least two versions of this that they found are copies in stone and they think it's a calendar, it's not a calendar. But um it uh it, it's, it's actually, it's a picture of creation, 0:00:00 - 0:08:50 the process of creation and the purpose of it. And there are some things that are flubbed. In it because, um, you know, apostasy occludes, truth mixes some errant things in and takes some valid things out. But one thing they got right is the entry point, which is Adam and Eve and then the exit point 0:08:49 - 0:09:09 . Now we'll talk about that exit point because that's what comes before, what comes after all of this, which we would call eternity. Um, so you come out of eternity into mortality and then you leave mortality and go into eternity. And at the end of that, and the archaeologists had this one right? There 0:09:09 - 0:09:32 are two flint knives pointing at each other. So there are two triangles pointing at each other and they're flint knives. Flint is um low tech razor blade. That's what you should think of amongst other things. Flint is very important in the scriptures, but a flint edge properly chipped is uh it's sharper 0:09:32 - 0:10:06 than a razor blade. So um it cuts you and you have to go through this gauntlet to get there, right? So, um that's the way the Lord works. There is a gauntlet to get there and this, this uh this is represented and lived in, in initiation ceremonies for ancient cultures and um and so on. So that's, that's 0:10:06 - 0:10:30 a good thing and you set it up and then people go as far as they desire and that creation is absolutely that way you go as far as you want to go and the Lord makes it so that everything is available to make that true. In the end, in the day of judgment, every single person will say I was given everything 0:10:29 - 0:10:57 I needed to go as far as I wanted to go. And my eternal outcome that I now receive was absolutely my choice. That's part of what makes every knee bell and every tongue confess is the sure knowledge that everything was provided. And that is also a key to understanding what your role is in all of this 0:10:56 - 0:11:26 is to facilitate everything required so that everyone has all they could possibly need to do everything they, they desired to do to receive everything they desire to receive. Uh um I didn't plan on going into that but it's valid. So that, that is all part of this. OK. Um Yeah, so I don't do things in 0:11:26 - 0:11:51 the dark. Um The closest thing to that might be that, you know, I tried to get one for the last few books. My goal has been get at least one person to proofread the entire book and work out all the kinks that they could see um jointly. So they, they give me feedback and I fix things uh before it's released 0:11:50 - 0:12:07 , that's, that's one thing I try to do. And so there is a time frame where someone else knows about the book, but the world does not, but it's not a secret. You know, the last book I wrote, I didn't end up publishing. Uh It was on justice and two people read that one was for the sake of proofreading 0:12:07 - 0:12:35 . The other was because the Lord explicitly commanded me to send it to one person who uh was praying for the that information. So, and, and she uh benefited a lot from it. She said so anyway, um so here's some, some, you know, I'm an open book, but I'm a very thick book. And um the problem with that 0:12:35 - 0:13:01 is you can open a book, you know, here's this book, I type set wisdom. Um So you can open a book to any old page. Oh, I have notes in here to process nice. Any old page and if you lie flat, right, it doesn't matter how thick it is, this is all you can see. So it's like that um even if I make an attempt 0:13:01 - 0:13:22 to show you put all the cards on the table, which I do, that's how I am with everything. Um You're still only gonna get so much. So, so with all that being said, here's Cliff's notes version of what's to come. Uh So here's the taste of things to come. So one thing I just wanna one card I wanna lay out 0:13:22 - 0:13:44 on the table. So it's not a surprise when we get there is I do intend to start accepting donations and any of you who are familiar who have been familiar with my work for a while. Um know that this is something I take extremely seriously. It's something that I've had strong positions against in the past 0:13:43 - 0:14:05 and I have a lot to say about it. The Lord's been talking with me about this for years. Um So when it comes to ministry and money, I have a lot to share uh a lot of information and I think that's going to be extraordinarily helpful for a lot of people. Um And I have no idea when I'm going to finish writing 0:14:04 - 0:14:28 about that and publishing it. I did make a w a video recently. I'm not sure when it will get out to youtube. Uh But this one didn't get deleted. So that's good. Uh Sometimes I, I'll make videos and I think, you know, I didn't say that well enough or it's just not the time and I'll delete it um before 0:14:28 - 0:14:50 publishing it, but this one will get there and it's on, it's called something like charity. Charity that changes things or something. Anyway, the word charities in the title. So that's the first of many, many, many collections of thoughts on this. Uh I think it's the first. So it's, it's what I'm gonna 0:14:50 - 0:15:09 lay out is a very different position than what you've heard. And there will be a whole lot of scriptures backing that and it's going to clarify a lot of mysteries in the scriptures for folks who haven't figured it out yet. Uh The, the first wave of that is just gonna be those who are so inclined to give 0:15:08 - 0:15:30 and then later steps of that, they're going to, there's going to be a lot more information about details about the big picture and where this fits in and, and all the little little subtleties of how this is meant to work uh from the Lord's perspective. So uh with the help of a, a generous friend, I've 0:15:30 - 0:15:54 um I'm in the process of setting up a, a legal nonprofit for this purpose. Uh so that it can be, it can help make it easier for people uh in getting a tax deduction, it make it easier, excuse me, for more per people to participate in that. Um And it's, it's, it's timely because there are forks in the 0:15:54 - 0:16:22 road in my life in the near future where the time I have for what I do with this ministry is going to change significantly depending in part on the participation of others. So, uh I, I think for the last 10 years, I've spent considerable time. Um And obviously, well, it maybe it's not obvious but considerable 0:16:22 - 0:16:54 time um communing with the Lord. Um Bye, basically sleeping less. That's, that's basically the long and short, but I've sacrificed things normal people do um for hours each day, consistently over, over uh more than a decade now. And in recent years, let's see. And so all this was in addition to full 0:16:53 - 0:17:22 time work and then in the last, I guess from around 2015 until about two years ago, I had two full time jobs in addition to the ministry stuff. Um, in addition to family and uh, farm, little farm we have. And then, uh, two years ago I lost my job because of this ministry. Um, a very lucrative career 0:17:22 - 0:17:56 that I busted my butt for and was just getting to the point where I was gonna have a lot more time as a result of all that hard work um for the ministry. So that was taken away from me. Um So, um I'd say since 2015 round about, I've probably been spending bare minimum 20 but it's gotten closer to 40 0:17:56 - 0:18:21 for the last four years, maybe 40 hours a week in addition to full time job and family and, but you get the point right? And I've done all of this without any money from anybody. And, um, I think that uh going forward there, there are changes that are happening that are outside of my hands where the 0:18:21 - 0:18:46 choice is, is I don't want to oversimplify this, but essentially the choice is going to be put into your hands as to whether you value all of this enough um for me to spend my time doing it or whether I have to uh spend more time than I, than I have in the past, um securing my, my family's well being 0:18:46 - 0:19:11 financially. So that's, that I'll say a lot more about that, but that's enough for now. So you're not surprised when it happens. Uh And like I said, it's been years and years of uh processing that and getting more information from God because it's such a serious thing that I am naturally very opposed 0:19:10 - 0:19:42 to so of my own accord, very opposed to and have done much more than anyone I know to avoid doing. Ok. And in terms of sacrificing working investing so that uh that time could be provided without just from my own efforts, not from anyone else. Um Just to be clear, I don't have any plans for that to go 0:19:42 - 0:20:05 the route that others have taken as far as I, I don't have any plans to ever change the way that the books are priced, which is print cost that price is that all that money goes to Amazon for um printing and shipping and whatever. Um I don't, I don't make money on that. There's no profit there, there's 0:20:05 - 0:20:30 no money that comes to me. Um And then uh I, I don't plan on charging anything for any of the content I provide online. So I, I don't see any changes with that. Uh In the event I do in person meetings, I'm not gonna, I don't plan on charging money for that and this is all tentative just because I don't 0:20:29 - 0:20:53 have all the details of everything that could ever happen in the future. The Lord said, make your oaths. Yes and no. Um we don't know 100% how things might change in the future. But, um, I, I don't have any plans for this. I, I would like it to just be a voluntary thing that people do if they feel so 0:20:53 - 0:21:17 inclined. And, uh, that's the plan, uh, as far as in person meetings just to clarify what I mean on that. So that's, it's not, you're not expecting something that is much more than what I mean. I, I'm thinking maybe I might do a series of talks to coincide with the release of the books. And uh I do believe 0:21:16 - 0:21:45 that those are gonna come out in chunks, if not in one chunk. I think I have more on that, that I'll get to in a minute. Um So, so the game plan, uh what you can expect to see from me in the near future, um There are going to be books. Um The, well, I'll get into what the topics of those are gonna be 0:21:45 - 0:22:11 , but at a high level but books, uh I've been kicking around ideas for launching a website. Um, and I could give more details on that and I think that maybe sometime in the future, it won't be any time soon as far as I know because I have to focus on these books until they're done. But um I will probably 0:22:11 - 0:22:41 be launching a weekly meeting on Sundays. Um And that will be as far as I know, mostly focused on content. So information, uh not any kind of. Um, well, I don't know, I'm just trying to inform expectations here. It's, it's just gonna be basically sermons or reading, might read the scriptures together 0:22:41 - 0:23:05 , something like that. Uh, so that'll be virtual and I think it's going to wait until I get some more books released. But that, that's kind of it. So, nothing too crazy there. Um, as far as the books go, um, to summarize these topics is still very much fluid moving around content between skeletons of 0:23:05 - 0:23:31 books. Um The theme is demonstrating Christ, that's the theme. Uh That's all the books fit into that in ways that will be obvious once it's laid out but are gonna seem very new and unusual to some as you see them for the first time. Uh So it's gonna lay out the Lord's theology in an organization that 0:23:31 - 0:23:53 you haven't thought of. But the second you see it, if it's done, right, it's gonna seem extremely common sense. You're gonna be wondering how you didn't think of it yourself. Um It's kind of like a unified field theory if you know what that is uh for God's creation and how everything works in his plan 0:23:52 - 0:24:20 and how the the path to him is really, really obvious. So the objective with this is to provide the content of that path in greater clarity than you've ever seen it with stronger reasons to not just believe but do it than you've ever had. So that's the goal. Um, I think that those are probably going 0:24:20 - 0:24:41 to come out all at once, but there might be trenches, maybe three of books and what that's going to do that amount of content. I don't just mean the page count but the volume and what it suggests as far as changes in life, which again are going to be at the daily momentary level, don't, it, it's not 0:24:41 - 0:25:03 gonna be like, ok, and now I want everybody should sell everything they have and move to Morocco. It's not gonna be stuff like that. It, it's, it's going to start it um every moment of your life, just your daily normal life and at a motive level, not necessarily changing what you do, but why you do it 0:25:03 - 0:25:25 , that's the beginning. Actually, it starts inside, not even outside of you. The books are gonna start inside suggesting changes to how you think and feel first what you desire. So, um and, and that right there, that's a great example of how these are things that you probably wouldn't expect and you 0:25:25 - 0:25:52 haven't previously heard unless you've heard them for me. Um because it starts inside anyway. Um It's releasing these things in trenches. It's going to create massive distinctions between people because there are people who are going to fixate on processing this information as fast as they can and uh 0:25:52 - 0:26:16 what they're going to get out of that is going to differentiate them significantly from those who do not and it's going to very quickly create um differences between people or accentuate those differences or expose those differences. And uh that's why it's, it's really important to get your life together 0:26:15 - 0:26:41 in the ways that you already understand. Because um as the Lord said again and again, watch always and be prepared. And um the reason is because when the moment comes, it's like the 10 virgins, you have to be ready. And if you're not in a place in your life where you're organized and uh you have your 0:26:41 - 0:27:07 value structure set up and your life is organized such that you can dedicate a significant chunk of time uh to this. And you've, you've developed your information processing abilities to the point where you can do this effectively. Not in 10 years. Uh You're gonna be suffering um unnecessarily because 0:27:07 - 0:27:34 of your slowness and your, your lack of preparation for this moment. Um So some, some of you will balk at that. You'll say, wow, you're really, um you're really, you're really viewing these things that you're doing is important. Yes. Yes, I am. But um notwithstanding that these are general principles 0:27:33 - 0:27:55 and whether it's true for what I'm doing actually doesn't matter as much as the fact that it is true. It is true. And that's the reason Jesus taught these things. You have to get your life in order with the expectation that the Lord is gonna reach out to you. However he does it, it's going to be with 0:27:54 - 0:28:17 tons of information. And if you haven't lived your life so that you're really good at processing information and you have the ability to create pockets of time on demand for really important things. Then you're going to be at a loss when you get say 2000 pages dropped in your lap or 8000 pages of information 0:28:17 - 0:28:43 you've never thought of. That's absolutely earth shatteringly important. So, um, another warning with this just to, to let you know is, um so you're not surprised, uh several of my previously published books are going to be absorbed into the new ones. And when that happens, when those books come out 0:28:42 - 0:29:04 , I will take the old ones out of print. Um It's a really funny thing to think that modern culture has taught us that when someone has something to say in a book, it's final. And of course, that's not the way the Lord works. He's always revealing more. And as those changes come, some of them expand upon 0:29:04 - 0:29:28 what you already knew in ways that don't break anything. Um But sometimes there are better ways of seeing things and sometimes those better ways include replacing things that came before. And uh I, I was told uh by the Lord to absorb several of the earlier books. So I, I actually had to read through 0:29:28 - 0:29:52 them line by line and go through an extensive process of um rewriting things, making things better deleting some things that I no longer believe. And, you know, obviously there, there are reasons for that and replacing it with the higher truth that I've been taught. And so, um, as soon as they, the new 0:29:52 - 0:30:15 ones come out, the old ones won't have a reason to exist anymore, uh, un until then people can mine out all the truth they want out of those, uh, to the, to the limits that exist in them. Um, But don't be surprised when that happens and it's not, uh it's not the case that um they're just getting thrown 0:30:15 - 0:30:41 away. Like I said, I've gone line by line through them. And um I've, I've done this for two books so far and I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a third in there, maybe 1/4. I hope that's not the case. It's gonna take a lot longer if that's the case, but I'll just do whatever I'm told. Ok. Um Here's some 0:30:41 - 0:31:09 details about this website. This is all rough draft. I, I'm not committed to any of this yet, but I'll tell you the key goals are first and foremost to get out of venues like youtube. Um that, that can be turned off and um also just to, to make things a little easier to use. Uh Right now, the search 0:31:08 - 0:31:28 on the blog is terrible and there's nothing I can do to improve that. There's no notifications. So people have to check and that's really annoying. Um It's easy to miss things. If you, if you happen to check and there's 20 new blog posts, you're really not gonna read them carefully compared to if there 0:31:28 - 0:31:53 were, were one. Um So I'd, I'd like, I'd like everything I've done to be searchable as far as that's possible. Um, and I'd like to have a place to put shareable materials, obviously can send links of any of this stuff to anyone, which I would appreciate. It helps. It's, it's uh every time I make a video 0:31:52 - 0:32:15 that people share, it's really obvious because there's a spike in new views, like views from people who aren't subscribed. So that makes a huge difference and you are in networks that I am not. So I highly uh commend those who are doing that. I, I really appreciate it. Um And II, I wish more people would 0:32:15 - 0:32:44 share things. Um So anyway, a nice place to have that where you could just copy paste links or images and share them in places. Um Another goal is to foster communication between you all. Uh Right now, the communication is sort of to and from me and you between us as, as individuals pairs and I would 0:32:43 - 0:33:16 like to facilitate communication between you all. Um And there are a few harder to explain goals here. Um So first off there is there is a gospel principle of, I don't know what to call it, not accountability, but I guess testimony where anonymity is really not great Um And I would like to code into 0:33:16 - 0:33:41 this website, some, some separate level of participation for those who are willing to put their name and face next to their comments. I'm not 100% sure on how I'm going to do this or what it will, what features it will enable. But we could do something like when you, you have to be registered to post 0:33:40 - 0:34:06 and if you are registered during registration, uh you have to upload uh a headshot your first and last name and prove you are who you are. And I think the best way of doing this is to request. The unfortunate thing is I'm actually gonna have to uh validate this manually but uh to request people to upload 0:34:05 - 0:34:31 maybe a driver's license. Um but you can mask electronically or low tech with a piece of paper, all your information except your name and your picture. Um So we can verify that you are who you say you are. And then um I would probably make it so that only those who are registered and logged in could 0:34:31 - 0:35:01 see the names and pictures next to the, the comments made by those people. So that only those with skin in the game uh could have that level. This is not least of all to help develop um the communications between you. You can't really get to know a fake handle. Um You need a, a face and a name and that's 0:35:01 - 0:35:23 really important. And it'll become more important as time moves on. Uh, I'd like to see more people developing connections with each other in general. Yeah, that's, that's true outside of anything that I do but certainly within that. Um, and then I've been, I've been processing some, developing some 0:35:23 - 0:35:56 ideas for how to make this system match more of what I understand the Lord's system to be. Um, so truth is successive and continuous but online associations are not, they're just kind of open, they're also reductive, but I don't wanna digress too much into this. Um It's not very helpful. Let's see, the 0:35:56 - 0:36:26 system in place right now cannot scale. So I'm very good at addressing comments. I read everything that's posted on the comments in youtube. I read every email that's sent to me. Um And right now that that can't scale, there are 800 or or so subscribers to this youtube channel. Um But I think there are 0:36:26 - 0:36:59 about 200 some people who view pretty much everything I put out and they read the blog posts. Um If that number were to scale by a factor of 10, I would not have time to keep this level of communication going. And so I would like to help build um structures so that, that can be offloaded, um hierarchically 0:36:58 - 0:37:27 so kind of a digital version of Moses and the elders of Israel um where I'm addressing things that require my attention, but it's easier for you to address the things that don't. So uh for each other. So, um part of that is the search features because right now, if I reply to a comment and it's a really 0:37:27 - 0:37:51 big deal, it's still just buried somewhere and no one will ever find it. Um But if it's searchable people can find it. Um The other part of that is typically the quality of the question corresponds to the amount of material that the person has studied. And so uh for that and many other reasons what I'm 0:37:51 - 0:38:15 toying around with is some sort of thing where every two weeks or so so on registration and then every two weeks or so there will be this, I can't think of a good name for it, but this certification process, were you quizzed on the content of materials? And um it will, the purpose of the quiz is a very 0:38:15 - 0:38:48 light assessment of how much you're familiar with. And uh depending on that, your experience in this, this app will be different. And so um part of this will probably be some sort of tag by your name that would indicate the familiarity you have with the different materials um or topics, however it goes 0:38:48 - 0:39:17 . And then um another part of this might include what you have access to comment on or possibly even see. And so when you register, this would be longer and then every two weeks, you would just get sort of a random single or 21 to 3 questions real quick to, uh just sort of multiple choice things to reassess 0:39:16 - 0:39:39 how familiar you are with things. And then if you fail that assessment, you'd be recommended towards the material that contains the answer whether that's a youtube video or a book or something and probably a book chapter. Um And then there'd be a time period, you'd have to wait probably two weeks um 0:39:39 - 0:40:05 before retesting for that. And so that, that probably all seems pretty excessive, but I think something like that is actually going to be quite necessary as time moves on. And, um, I'm not 100% sure on how that works. So, if you have ideas, feel free to email me, uh, at upward dot at gmail.com with your 0:40:04 - 0:40:23 ideas about that and I'll think some more about it. So that concludes my list of things that I figured I'd give you a heads up on. Um, yeah, I let me know if you have anything to say about it all of that and I will see you around.