Scripture-Based Revelations for 21st Century Christ-Centered Servant-Leaders

Dear Friend,

In the winter of 1991, I agonized over the fact that my best friend from college was going through a painful divorce. I guess I was pretty naive at the time, because I had great difficulty accepting the fact that as a Christian couple, she and her husband were unwilling to do whatever it took to make their marriage work. I mean, if they were both Christians who professed to love God and each other, how could they even consider getting a divorce? Wasn’t faith in God and love for each other an absolute guarantee that they should be able to surmount any difficulty and keep their marriage together? What on earth were they both thinking? What on earth were all the rest of the divorced Christian couples out there thinking!?

I Was Being Judgmental and Not Really Acting in Love

Well, one day after a particularly "heated"conversation with her, I realized that I was not really acting in love. I hated to admit it, but I was being quite judgmental and many of my so-called clever thoughts and observations were in the end, not very constructive. If I truly wanted to help her, I would first have to stop trying to analyze her situation with my head and listen to what God was saying to my heart. The very Christian character I expected from my dear friend was lacking in my own treatment of her and the very difficult and painful situation she was in.

Compassion and Empathy Were the Keys to My Discovery

I then began to think more compassionately of the uncertain and painful process she had undertaken to get help from professional counselors and well meaning family and friends - myself included. I thought of the many hours of late night calls and conversations we shared. As I reflected on the interpersonal issues and challenges she faced, I began to compare her marriage relationship with my own. This time, grounding my analytical thought process with more compassion and empathy, I tried to draw cause and effect conclusions between the differences and similarities I observed, in an effort to discern the elusive secret formula for a happy and fulfilling marriage.

One day, while sitting in my office at work, I realized that the issues facing my friend and her husband were universal and affected everyone. After doing some basic research, I realized that the problem of divorce and the deterioration of the marriage institution in general were epidemic. Even more shocking was the counterintuitive discovery that the rate of divorce for Christian couples was higher than the average for non-Christian couples! This was bewildering, and just didn’t make any sense to me. I suddenly realized that I knew few married couples, Christian or otherwise, that would honestly describe their marriages as genuinely successful and fulfilling. A wave of thoughts and feelings overwhelmed me, and in an effort to liberate them from the prison of my mind, I began to write.

At the time, I was a supervisor for a technology group at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where I worked for a large aerospace contractor. During lunch this particular day, I began meditating on my own observations and beliefs about marriage. Quickly, these observations and beliefs became principles, and I arbitrarily rounded out their number to ten things I thought I knew and did to have what I thought was a relatively happy and successful marriage.

The Real Issue Touched ALL Areas of Life, Not Just Marriage...

It was probably less than a week into the project, when one evening I was overtaken by an experience I can only describe as sudden enlightenment. While at my computer typing some verbiage on Marriage Principle #5, my train of thought was interrupted by what felt like an explosion of awareness. I stopped cold in the middle of the sentence I was writing and realized that I had only been focusing on one small dimension of a much bigger issue!

My epiphany was that marriage was not the problem per se- the people in the marriage were the problem. I am not talking about the obvious transpersonal things that wreck marriages like basic incompatibility, selfishness, poor communications, unrealistic expectations, infidelity and the like. Tens of thousands (or more) of volumes of books, research papers and clinical studies in the areas of psychology, psychiatry, counseling and other related mental health disciplines have studied the realm of human relationships from a scientific perspective.

These medical and scientific approaches to observing, analyzing and hopefully understanding the human psyche and it’s interaction with other human psyches is well documented. The fields of psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, sociology and religious traditions of every variety have all developed complex systems of theories and beliefs to describe the causes and effects that govern humanity's’ interaction with itself and the world in which it lives. But this...was something different...

Seven Progressive Revelations from The Holy Bible

My new awareness was something more…something outside the current body of knowledge as defined by both science and typical religious tradition. Paradoxically, it was framed in a context that felt both scientific and religious! The images which flashed into my mind were all rooted in the Christian and Hebrew scriptures, yet they flowed together in a way that was unmistakably organized into a set of clear and distinct patterns. I received these flashes in a specific order, and decided to call the sequence of insights progressive revelations.

The order, patterns and relationships of these progressive revelations were both startling and exhilarating. As an engineer I felt like I was being given the key to an extraordinary coded message and was thrilled at the opportunity to solve what appeared to be a complex and important problem. As a man of faith and belief, I was honored and humbled that I had been given the opportunity to perceive these truths and believed I had been given a gift that I could share with others to help people in important ways that I could not yet imagine.

Core Reason for Difficulty & Opposition EXPOSED!

This sudden awareness was that humanity exists in the gap between two great realms of choice, and that each realm is continuously transmitting influence to all of us all the time. These two realms and the realm in which human consciousness exists are further subdivided into three levels or dimensions. Collectively, these three realms and three dimensions form what I have termed The Matrix of Destiny.

I became acutely aware that the vast majority of us are by and large unaware of these very real and powerful influences which are arrayed for and against us throughout the course of our earthly lives. These influential factors represent the very foundations of our reality, and are always present; they are constantly transmitting stimulus to and through us. I knew in a moment, that our personal and collective ignorance of their presence and operation was the root cause of so much of our difficulty in life.

The Matrix of Destiny Discovered from the 7 Revelations

Over the next month or so, I would get more flashes of insight on each of the elements in The Matrix of Destiny. Not only did words and ideas flow, but I also synthesized a number of charts and diagrams to accompany the words. I would be led to certain scriptures in the Holy Bible that were important to identifying or illustrating a particular revelation (element) or concept. A section was then typically summarized with practical steps on how to apply the progressive revelation in real life.

Receiving a Gift of Higher Awareness

When the work was complete, I was amazed and awed. I had never seen anything like it before in the bookstores or public library. I struggled in disbelief that this information had come from me, soon to be reminded that it hadn’t. I was reminded that I was just a channel through which the information was delivered. In the parlance of my Christian faith and upbringing, the knowledge was imparted to me by the Holy Spirit. If it proves credible, secularists will say it is the natural synthesis and integration of information I have studied or gleaned from the Holy Bible and other sacred and secular sources.

New Age followers will say that the information was channeled to me from a friendly alien, angel or some other benevolent being from a higher dimension or density. Modern psychologists will say that I am perhaps drawing from the power of my subconscious mind or the “collective unconscious,” whose capacity for learning and managing information is said to be virtually infinite. Whatever the reader believes to be the immediate source of these revelations, I ultimately credit its origin to God, the Higher Power, the Prime Creator, the Father of Jesus Christ and of all who seek Truth in service to others.

Anyway, when the original work was finished I felt like I had just unraveled the ultimate secrets of the universe after the fashion of the elusive Grand Unification Theory that scientists and physicists the world over have been striving to achieve for decades. The Grand Unification Theory is loosely defined as the attempt of physicists, scientists and mathematicians to identify a single principle, or internally consistent set of laws, which collectively describes every known phenomenon in the physical universe.

While science was still struggling with unruly paradoxes which proved the current theories were only incomplete approximations at best and totally wrong at worst, I felt like God had given me the “Grand Unification Theory of the human experience.” There was an elegance and simplicity to the work, which I thought was extraordinary, but I had no idea what to do with it, since I did not have a ministry or other ready means to share it with others.

Sharing this Gift For the First Time

At the time, my sister Jamelle was a minister in Atlanta and proposed that I use the work as the basis for putting on a seminar for her and her members. So one weekend in February of 1992, I put on my first seminar entitled Transformation: God’s Seven Progressive Revelations- The Victorious and Abundant Living Seminar. I prepared a PowerPoint presentation based on the book manuscript, and had handouts prepared. My wife and I then traveled to Atlanta, where my sister put us up in top-notch hotel accommodations and treated us like VIP’s.

Finally the time came to give the seminar, which was being conducted in a multi-purpose room at a local school. I had no idea what to expect in terms of turn out, since the only thing preventing me from being a complete nobody was that fact that I was “Reverend Spencer’s brother.” I was feeling pretty confident, although I still had the normal nervous jitters one gets before making a formal presentation to a group of people who are mostly strangers. My confidence lay in the fact that I considered myself a self-proclaimed professional presenter, as I had received several awards and honors for my presentation skills in the technical arena. I would do fine – so I thought.

I Was Actually Pretty Clueless!

As I stood at the lectern with my slide projector and PowerPoint presentation in hand, all the normal confidence and rapport I usually establish with an audience disappeared in a flash. Although panicked, I began to introduce myself and tell a little of my background. This part was OK, but then I did something I will never forget. I began to read the bullets on the slides one-by-one! Now to the average person, this may not sound like a big deal, but for a person who claims to be a professional presenter, it was a catastrophe! I read the entire presentation to the audience word for word, with very little embellishment or explanation. What’s even stranger is that no one, not even my wife, my sister, or my friend, who was also in attendance, gave me any critical feedback until after the seminar was over the next day!

I draw some important lessons from that first public experience with this work. I quickly realized that the reason I had to read through the presentation almost verbatim was because of my belief that the body of knowledge came through me and not from me. This is a critically important distinction, because at the time, I was by and large unfamiliar with the material! Under normal presentation circumstances, I have been told that I am a dynamic and charismatic presenter who seems to be able to deliver good information in a way that is entertaining, and informative. What I realize now is that I could not present this information that way, because I had not yet internalized it. It was good, but it wasn’t mine!

Immediately after the seminar, I felt the emptiness and anticlimactic feeling one gets when a large and important project has been finished. It felt like I had been entrusted with a great and secret treasure, but that I was not ready to share it, because while I understood it intellectually, something was missing from me experientially. It was then that I realized these revelations came from somewhere beyond my imagination and that I did not own them.

Afterward, I Set Out on a 16 Year Mission of Research and Discovery

In hindsight, I now realize that after my seminar experience in Atlanta, I set out on a journey to prove or perhaps even disprove the Seven Progressive Revelations of The Matrix of Destiny. This mission of discovery and personal experience lasted over 16 years. During that time, I proved, sometime painfully, every principle to myself, to the point where I now know at the core of my being that what I was given then is at some deep level “Truth.” I have tried desperately to secularize this work, to modify it and somehow make it better by altering it with a more sophisticated voice.

Every attempt I made over the last 17 years to secularize the core material to make it more appealing to a wider audience has been met with internal resistance and extreme discomfort. My compromise has been to leave the original work more or less intact, but to supplement it with additional material written from a secular perspective. It is my hope that these complementary writings will serve to bridge the gap between the non-Christian reader and the Christian – Hebrew source of the seven progressive revelations leading to The Matrix of Destiny.

A Divine Confirmation...Intellectual Proof After the Fact

Interestingly, on the 12th year anniversary of my “Atlanta experience” I finally gave up trying to make The Matrix of Destiny: God’s Seven Progressive Revelations what it was never intended to be. Subsequently, in February of 2004, God completed in me the work He began over twelve years prior. When I finally surrendered my skepticism and proclaimed my absolute faith in His Word and the Seven Progressive Revelations that were delivered through me, the intellectual proof I sought was given – almost in an instant.

As I began the process of re-typing the work from Microsoft PowerPoint into Microsoft Word, the Holy Spirit began revealing new levels of insight. The most important of which has irrevocably altered my faith and has forever dispelled any doubts I may have secretly held about the absoluteness of the Bible as a source of authentic divine revelation.

7 Progressive Revelations Backed-up by 7 Historical Events

What happened then is that God showed me that the 7 Grand Influences He revealed to me explicitly 12 years prior were each individually encoded in seven major historic events recorded in the Holy Bible. The Holy Spirit showed me that through these events, God directly intervened in mankind’s earthly affairs to achieve some external objective and to transmit a hidden message. Each of these interventions had an outward purpose, which scholars, theologians and lay people have been studying, and drawing inspiration from for thousands of years. What has not been obvious is that these same historic events each also served to illustrate a corresponding hidden grand influence in human affairs, which God has chosen to reveal now.

The implications of this are staggering! What this means is that God not only gave us a record of events so that we could observe His interaction with our ancestors and the world of their day to draw inspiration, knowledge and wisdom, but He has also used the panorama of human history to unmistakably reveal our true nature and the invisible reality of the world in which we live. This is a timely message for modern man, and God is telling us that now is the time to awaken from the illusions of our mental and spiritual slumber, and time to start dealing with true reality. It is time for us to wake up and be about our Father’s business!

Awakening New Opportunities for Personal Fulfillment and Service in the Kingdom of God

What we need in today’s fast paced world of mind-numbing sensory overload is the refined ability to see clearly, and to rightly divide the word of truth so that we can effectively discern good from evil, light from darkness. And in so doing, consistently make choices that further establish God’s kingdom on earth in preparation for the great and awesome work ahead.

Seven progressive revelations, seven historic events and seven grand influences; these are the foundations of The Matrix of Destiny: God’s Seven Progressive Revelations. Over the years, family, friends and others who have had the opportunity to peruse earlier versions of this work report that they have been truly blessed by it. It is my hope that you will find whatever truth you need to live a better life in Christ, and that God would richly bless you with new knowledge and refined wisdom to do His will and fulfill your unique and special purpose in this life, and beyond.

Yours in Christ,