Brent Higgs

As I go through each day I keep myself open to the possibility of adding new and exciting dreams to my dream wall at home, so recently I added two new images to my dream wall. The first of the two images is a Black Berry Bold, and the second image is an image of an Ipod.

Why you might ask, a Black Berry Bold. The main reason is stability of the platform, and the one major benefit is it is not reliant

on a touch sensitive surface like the Apple Iphone and many other touch based phone. Secondly I have had experience with using  both a Black Berry and an Iphone. I find touch technology to be at times hard to operate.

The Apple Ipod I want is of course the Ipod 160Gig Classic there is not much to be said about wanting an Ipod they just do a great job of playing music.

These are just two of my dream devices that I want who knows what tomorrow may bring, I may find some new gadget or technology that I want for my own enjoyment.

Yesterday I had the privilege of assisting my friends at Land Mark Education in the heart of Vancouver.  Before the evening event I had a bit of time to tour around Vancouver and take in some of the site of the 2010 Olympics being hosted in the great city of Vancouver.

I didn’t travel to far from where I needed to be but I did get to see the cauldron and the crowds of people around it, and to be honest it was one of the things I wanted to see in person and take a picture of. I also saw some great garden work done as well.

The rest of my night was awesome and I enjoyed the seminar that I was helping out at. Where I committed myself to completing my business plan by April 12, 2010. Now that I have a fixed date I am more likely to complete and not procrastinate any further on my business plan.

So today I had a bit of time to focus on some of my dreams and in doing so felt great about where I am heading with my dreams.  The reason I had a fair bit of time on my hands this fine sunny Sunday in February as I am reliant on my beloved pastors to drive me too and from church as I don’t yet have my drivers license or a car for that fact.  As my pastors are looking at buying a condo closer to our church, I get a fair bit of free time while they are out looking at places to buy. As I sit in the back seat of the car I have lots of time to bonder, and day dream.

While I was sitting day dreaming, I began to day dream about the day I would move in to a house where I would be able to get my first Pitt Bull. I day dream how I would feel how grateful I was of being able to fulfill one of my dreams. I would have the peace of mind knowing that I have more then enough to cover any vet bills that my come up. I also got present to the affection I would feel from my Dog.

I also imagined that I was able to drive and I was driving my dream car and feeling the gratitude for all the people that helped me obtain my drivers licenses, the gratitude I would have for the freedom I would have. I imagined myself driving in to my church, and home and too my parents, and too my brothers more often. I have also come to the realization that I will need to study and be diligent to obtain my dream of driving

I have come to the conclusion that for me to be able to achieve some of my dreams I will have to make some drastic changes to my living arrangements and life style. To facilitate my dream of owning not one but two dogs I have to find a suitable living arrangements that will allow me to obtain and keep a dog.  Where at my present apartment it has been made clear that the owners are very un-accepting of pets, in particular dogs.

Further more, at the present time I’m not in any particular rush to fulfill my dream as of present I’m I need to fulfill a different dream first and that dream is to be “paying cash” for every purchase that I make and have a substantial source of income to accommodate my ever growing dreams that I am developing and pursuing.

So I am excited and engaged in my dreams for my life and business, I am looking forward to the time when I am able to move on to a place where I am able to fulfill my dreams there is an aliveness and an energy in my now to fulfill even more of my dreams knowing that I understand that some changes that may not be the greatest or most desired will have to happen, but in the fulfillment of dreams I can look forward to some uncomfortable transition but as long as I keep my focus on the final results.

Well the “Vancouver 2010 Olympics” are happening as I speak in a great City that deserves the party. Well with that said I must confess, to begin I myself was not overly impressed that we where to be hosting the Olympics this year. But I will have to say it has been a great ride so fare with Canada getting there 4th Gold Medal last night on skeleton on the luge track up at Whistler.

You know you can say my heart and feelings that I had prior to the Olympic games starting was not what you would say was patriotic or overly supportive of the idea of the Olympics.  Now I have to say that I’ve been watching the Olympics and enjoying what I have seen, The Canadian team is doing much better then I had expected they would do, and I would say I’m kinda proud of the accomplishments of Team Canada and the 8 medals they have received, and look forward to seeing Canada bring home even more Gold over the next week in the remaining events.

My hats off to the people taking in the events in downtown Vancouver being so well behaved and showing great support for our teams.

Many people understand that if you have a dream, you need to visualize that dream out, today was a wonderful day for me I spent some time collecting images that I want to use on my dream wall.  Some people have dream boards, or a few images on their fridge of dreams and dream vacations they want to take. I on the other hand have taken a wall in my office and printed out a bunch of pictures of things I have a very strong desire to acquire or that I want to manifest into my life.

One of my strong desires is to have a family of my own, with a wife and a couple of kids, I can not really say how many kids I want until I have had them.  So one of the pictures I have on my wall is a picture of a family with young kids.  As I spend time daily starring  at the picture, I sometimes close my eyes and imagine myself living my life with my family, playing with my kids and spending time with my wife.

Another dream that I have is to acquire wealth so I have a picture of a stack of money mainly  $100 bills. As I stare at the picture of the money I imagine myself paying cash for every purchase that I need or desire to make.  I imagine myself being able to Giver abundantly from my wealth.  I also look upon the money as the money that I will make with my different business from my Web Hosting business and my eFusjon Energy Club business.

Where would a dream be with out a car in the mix as well, I have a photo of a Toyota Matrix 2010 in a copper orange colour. As I stare at the photo of this car that I so desire to drive, I imagine myself getting in that car, with my family and starting the engine and driving that car.

Not only is having a family one of my dreams but I also have a dream to have dogs, in particular I have chosen Pit Bulls as my dog of choice and I have printed off two pictures of Pit Bulls, one is an almost pure white with brown spots, and the other is a black with a white chest. I have even named them Sasha, and Sami. When I stare at these pictures of these dogs I imagine myself playing with, walking and cuddling with my two Dogs and my family.  I imagine them as being very gentle, kind, loving and wonderful companions to me and my family.

For my Web Hosting business, Brent Dynamics I have a picture of a server rack full of  high powered servers that I run for my web hosting company. As I imagine myself setting up and purchasing this equipment and setting up the servers to handle different tasks for my web hosting business.

Shifting back to my dream for having a family and my two Pit Bulls I have a dream house as well posted on my wall and as you can imagine I stare at the photo of this house and imagine my self living in this wonderful large house, where there is a wonderful arroma in the air of fresh baking, and the laughter of children playing in the back yard with the dogs, several bedroom and multiple bathrooms to handle the entire family, a wonderful modern kitchen with double ovens, and a six burner with grill gas cook top, a large pantry with a large double wide upright deep freeze. A large media room, games room, and a large privet study for myself and one for my wife.  This house will be situated on a large peace of land with an acre or two fenced in area for the kids and dogs to run and play with a large salt water swimming pool and hot tub, there will also be a large workshop building that will be full plumbing and electrical where I will do my recycling with my friend.

As I practice my imagining and by imagining my dreams and visualizing my dreams in this manner I know that my dreams will come into existence. The more time I spend staring at them the deep and more rooted in my spirit and soul will they be.

To begin, Revelation’s has always been a book of the bible that lots of people feel is to complicated to understand or interpret, I would like to make a simple statement that you can struggle all you want with the book revelations but I am hoping through my personal study and beliefs that I can shed some light on the subject. I would also like to have you think the author John wrote Revelations at the time he did, for the time that was at hand.

I first believe that to understand Revelation you need to understand what revelation is.

In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious through active or passive communication with supernatural entities (divine, …). It is believed that revelation can originate directly from a deity, or through an agent, such as an angel.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation

The Book of Revelation is a book written to the churches of John’s time, now is not the time of Revelation but we can learn so much about what has happened and what will happen.

Revelation 1:1 – 3
¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, ² who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. ³Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

Source: New King James version of The Holy Bible

It is kind of obvious that the book of Revelation’s starts off by saying it is a revelation of Jesus Christ.  in the above passage of scripture you can also see that it identifies John as the author who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ.

In verse three of the first chapter of Revelation it mentions that who ever reads, or hears the words of this prophecy will be blessed. You also see that the very last part of verse three it states “for the time is near” which from my understanding of the word near does not mean two thousand years from now, it means with in a short period of time.

In Revelation’s 1:4 wee see the greeting from John to the seven churches in the province of Asia. Part of the greeting the John offers to the seven church is grace and peace. John continues to identify that the following revelations are not from him but are from God.

Revelation 1:4-5

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

In verse five we see that Jesus Christ is the first born of death, this is a simple yet profound that it states that Jesus Christ defeated death and holds the keys to death.

Revelation’s continues by mentioning that we too are kings and priests to his God and Father, John also give glory and honor to God, as well there is a short prayer, and warning that He, Jesus Christ is coming and that He is coming with a cloud, Not with the Clouds, but with a Cloud of his Glory.

Revelation 1:6-7
⁶ and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
⁷ Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

Further more in verse eight you read that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End. This is yet again simple to understand in that God Began by speaking the work and The end will come from Gods spoken word as well.

^{Revelation 1:8
8} “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Verse nine and ten you see the introduction of the one who is the Son of Man. as well you read in verse ten of the first chapter of revelation’s that John heard a voice that that was loud like a trumpet, but it does not say it was a trumpet it say it was a voice that was loud like a trumpet.

Revelation 1:9-10
⁹ I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

It also mentions that John was in the spirit spending time in God’s presence when he heard the voice from behind him that sounded as if it was loud like a trumpet. The voice that John had heard was the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ and gave John the instructions to write what he hears and sees on a scroll.

^{Revelation 1:11
11} saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

The Church of Ephesus or the City of Ephesus was of great importance to the early church it is believed that Mary the mother of Jesus Christ last known residence was located near Ephesus.

Ephesus was an important center for Early Christianity from the AD 50s. From AD 52-54, Paul lived here, working with the congregation and apparently organizing missionary activity into the hinterlands.^[23] He became embroiled in a dispute with artisans, whose livelihood depended on selling the statuettes of Artemis in the Temple of Artemis (Acts 19:23–41). He wrote between 53 and 57 AD the letter 1 Corinthians from Ephesus (possibly from the “Paul tower” close to the harbour, where he was imprisoned for a short time). Later Paul wrote to the Christian community at Ephesus, while he was in prison in Rome (around 62 AD)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus#Ephesus_and_Christianity

As one of the principal cities of Roman Asia, Smyrna vied with Ephesus and Pergamum for the title “First City of Asia.”

A Christian church existed here from a very early time, probably originating in the considerable Jewish colony. It was one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation.Saint Ignatius of Antioch visited Smyrna and later wrote letters to its bishop, Polycarp. A mob of Jews and pagans abetted the martyrdom of Polycarp in AD 153. Saint Irenaeus, who heard Polycarp as a boy, was probably a native of Smyrna.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyrna#Roman_and_Byzantine_Smyrna

As you can see that both Ephesus and Smyrna both vied for a tittle of first City in Asia, but they both have notable mentions in the history of the Church, on the other hand the Church of Pergamos has very little or no current reference pertaining to the Church.  Other then a small refference to “The Great Altar of Pergamon” which is referred to in Revelation 2:12-13.

The Great Altar of Pergamon is in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The base of this altar remains on the upper part of the Acropolis. It was perhaps to this altar, believed dedicated to Zeus, that John of Patmos referred to as “Satan’s Throne” in his Book of Revelation (Revelation 2:12-13).The Great Altar of Pergamon is in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The base of this altar remains on the upper part of the Acropolis. It was perhaps to this altar, believed dedicated to Zeus, that John of Patmos referred to as “Satan’s Throne” in his Book of Revelation (Revelation 2:12-13).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon

Thyatira is the forth church of the seven that Jesus was addressing in the book of revelation there is minor evidence that Paul and or Silas visited the Christian Church at Thyatira.

In early Christian times Thyateira was home to a significant Christian Church, mentioned as one of the seven Churches of the Book of Revelation in the Book of Revelation.

The Apostle Paul and Silas might have visited Thyateira during Paul’s second or third journey, although the evidence is entirely circumstantial. They visited several small unnamed towns in the general vicinity during the second journey. While in Philippi, Paul and Silas stayed with a woman named Lydia from Thyateira, who continued to help them even after they were jailed and released.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyatira

Sardis the fifth church the book of revelation’s was addressed to must have been a substantial faith based city in that it was of importance to God to address them.

As one of the Seven churches of Asia, it was addressed by the author of the Book of Revelation in terms which seem to imply that its population was notoriously soft and fainthearted.

Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardis

Philadelphia, as a name for a city means The City of Brotherly Love, but the ancient city from the book of Revelation and at the time of the witting of the letters the church of Philadelphia was being persecuted.

Although several ancient cities bore the name of Philadelphia, this is definitely the one listed among the seven churches by John in the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia is the sixth church of the seven.(Revelation 1:11). A letter specifically addressed to the Philadelphian church is recorded in (Revelation 3:7-13). According to this letter, the Philadelphian Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the local Jews, whom Revelation calls “the synagogue of Satan” (Revelation 3:9). The city’s history of earthquakes may lie behind the reference to making her church a temple pillar (Revelation 3:12). Permanency would have been important to the city’s residents.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaşehir#Philadelphia_in_the_Book_of_Revelation

Laodicea the last of the seven churches that Paul wrote to in the book of Revelation.

It was probably owing to its large Jewish community, that at a very early period it became one of the chief seats of Christianity, and the see of a bishop. Laodicea receives passing mention in the epistle to the Colossians and is one of the Seven churches of Asia mentioned in the Book of Revelation.The Laodicean Church had probably been founded by theColossian Epaphras, who shared the care of it with Nymphas, in whose house the faithful used to assemble. Paul asks the Colossians to communicate to the Church of Laodicea the letter which he sends to them, and to read publicly that which should come to them from Laodicea, that is, no doubt, a letter which he had written, or was to write, to the Laodiceans.  Anapocryphal epistle purporting to be from Paul to the Laodiceans is extant in Latin and Arabic (see Epistle to the Laodiceans). Some of the Greek manuscripts end the First Epistle to Timothy with these words: “Written at Laodicea, metropolis of Phrygia Pacatiana”.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laodicea_on_the_Lycus#Christian_Laodicea

Now that I touched on the seven different church that John was instructed to write to we can now continue on going through the scripts as it says in verse twelve that John turned around to see where the voice had come from to see a magnificent vision of the Lord Jesus Christ standing there dressed in a rob of white, a golden sash across his chest and the head and hair was white like snow.  It also mentions that the face was radiant and shined.

Revelation 1:12-16
¹² Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. ¹⁴ His head and hair werewhite like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; ¹⁵ His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; ¹⁶ He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

The seven lampstands, and the seven stars are symbolic, the lamp stands are symbolic of the seven church that the book of revelation’s is written for and the seven stars the he held in his right hand represent the seven angles of the churches. Further more the double edged sword that protruded out of his mouth symbolic of divine judgment.

Further more as you continue to read on in verse seventeen, you read that John fell at the feet of the Son of Man, as though he was dead when the Lord then placed his hand upon John and said to him do not be afraid.

^{Revelation 1:17-20
17} And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. ¹⁸ I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. ¹⁹ Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. ²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

It is not that hard to understand now what the seven stars and the seven lampstands mean as the Lord explains it as simple as possible.

In conclusion the first chapter of Revelation is primarily an introduction to who the book is for, as well the timing of the events that are to happen.

Okay if you have ever though what happened to the site and the information that was here before, it is now gone in to the abyss  of cyberspace.  So here we are starting from scratch with a new look and design. Since my former blog is gone I would like to inform you of some breaking developments in my life.

The first breaking development is that I am now part of the eFusjon Energy Club in Canada, I am really excited about the opportunity that has been presented to me and the potential of making money.  Thanks to some of my close friends for supporting me and helping me get involved at a such early stage in Canada.

The second breaking news is that I have founded a new marketing company called Tilt Marketing. This marketing company will be a primary factor in marketing the eFusjon Energy Club to people in the USA and Canada. Tilt Marketing will also be for higher by people who are looking to market there products or services through the world wide web, print, and a variety of different media types.

The third thing I would like to mention that Brent Dynamics is on the grow and in the planning stages of buying a new server and server software. Once Brent Dynamics aquires the new equipment and software customers will be able to manage their own settings for