{"id":7864,"date":"2017-05-23T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2017-06-01T23:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:25:17","slug":"whats-in-a-name-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/whats-in-a-name-much\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In A Name? Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7508 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>What&#8217;s in a name?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Apparently, if your name is Josiah, which means &#8220;Fire of the Lord,&#8221; quite a lot.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/comeonletsgoblog.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/josiahs-fire.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"Josiah's Fire\" \/>Josiah Cullen, from Minnesota, is a profoundly autistic kid who, according to his mother, suddenly and miraculously began to communicate via an iPad keyboard when he was seven &#8212; conveying wisdom far beyond not only autism but his years, indicating that much was going on in his head despite his inability to talk &#8212; and most amazingly, relating conversations alleged with Jesus and angels and visits to Heaven.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>For our discernment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>It&#8217;s the subject of a major book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/gi-832.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Josiah&#8217;s Fire<\/em><\/a><\/span>. We&#8217;re carrying it because indeed there is interesting wisdom. And because the boy&#8217;s descriptions of Heaven strikingly match those of folks who report near-death experiences.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Autism stole his words,&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">says the subtitle. &#8220;God gave him a voice.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>His mother wrote the book and quotes him as saying things like: &#8220;Heaven is holy. Gold is pure like glass, not so solid but clear. Fountains go up into arcs and jump around like water is jumping and leaping into high air.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Huge mighty lakes of great crystals burst forth in colors might in every way. Ponds are jumbo there. Purple is greatly the purplest there. It is big to look on large nimble people and not one is old or sick or lame there.&#8221; Just like those who have afterlife glimpses during clinical &#8220;death.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Remember: this is an autistic seven-year-old.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In Heaven, he told his parents,<\/span> there indeed are &#8220;great big mansions not motels or teepees or lodging like anything we have here. Mansions are boldly your life in multiple layers built into your outer home. This very idea that we have individual homes in Heaven is really neat. Why? Because each person is different. Mansions are the personal expression of this person in house form.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>If a person loved cats, said Josiah, they will be in that person&#8217;s mansion. &#8220;You get a bold, great, nice hug [from these loved creatures and things]. Just think of all you really liked. You will have it in your mansion.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Those on the other side &#8220;see us by going to ledges on the unusual homes of Heaven that have a porch of massive size. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>On these porches, many worlds part and they can see through the blackness to the earth. Angels go up and down a lot.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>We should ask for their help, he emphasized.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PlsPqaK1AMo\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for josiah cullen\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>His first actual typing was, &#8220;godisagoodgiftgiver.&#8221; Some messages were quite cryptic, such as, &#8220;Danger to peace [February 2013]. Fog in Magog. Last danger name is pestilence for men.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>And as confirmations, Josiah described deceased relatives he knew nothing about and once told his mother they should go to the Mall of America where they would meet someone who needed help because she was immersed in witchcraft &#8212; which indeed occurred (and led to a conversion)!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It goes on from there:<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> When his mother Tahni asks, &#8220;How do you know you&#8217;re not hallucinating or hearing things?&#8221; the boy responds (via the keyboard):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Dent that idea. It&#8217;s not inside my mind, so it is not imagination or hallucination. Tragically, slanderous, troubling, faithless doctors might say otherwise, but oh well. So what?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tahnicullen.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/jojobook_back.jpg?w=300&amp;h=864\" alt=\"jojobook_back\" width=\"216\" height=\"622\" \/>&#8220;Now, demons will try to trial this frequency sound as well, but, &#8216;pick a different channel, Satan, you don&#8217;t belong there, so go away from this frequency. It is timed for my God&#8217;s words, not yours.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Whew.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Going, allegedly, to Heaven,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">said the boy, was not like a dream but a real trip. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Angels come to take me,&#8221; he said, mentioning various angels and archangels by name, including Raphael (who came adorned in green and white).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Angels, claimed Josiah, bring us &#8220;dares&#8221; that can enhance faith and closeness to Jesus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A key to life, the boy seems to indicate, is daring to take certain paths &#8212; leaps &#8220;to destiny&#8217;s trials that make [us] need God more to accomplish such a feat.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>God thinks of something, Jesus loves it, and the Holy Spirit creates it, the boy said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;I love it, mom,&#8221; he typed,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;when Jesus kisses my face. We hold hands, and we value halls of hope together. Halls of hope are beauty yet to happen. King Jesus walks with me down the hope hall, seeing my future.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Run to the dazzling river of life. You come out like a dry man, only saturated in plans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;His big gate is pearl. Because He is Lord of past loud seas, mighty mountains, and long miles of land, He gets a big pearl from His own Hand!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Surprising language. And befuddling? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Very. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>But perhaps that will be our reaction to many things in the heavenlies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>[resources: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=josiah&amp;Submit=GO\">Josiah&#8217;s Fire<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/mhb-106.htm\">A Life of Blessings<\/a><\/span><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1824.htm\">afterlife books<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/gi-798.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where the cross stands<\/a><\/span>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>[Upcoming retreat in New Jersey, June 24, 2017. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/ret-12.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up here<\/a>]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"angels,commentary,inspiration\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1495577533\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"What&#8217;s In A Name? 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