Ethel's Journal: Unknown yet Known

By Ethel Burke and Llewellyn Wallace

Ethel’s journal covers many topics, mainly her religious beliefs, her faith, and the conviction she held over the years. It tells of a fourth wise man, an awesome story in every way. She quotes several poets and historians. She gave her thoughts on Von Brown’s space exploration and gave her views on why dictators go wrong.

Ethel’s journal is a must-read and will keep you turning the pages. Pages that will thrust you into your own take on the subject matter and that will definitely get your attention.

Llewellyn Wallace

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781973699507

Ethel Burke

Ethel Burke was born on May 10th, 1928, in a small village in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica W. I. She died in London, England, on October 17, 2016. Ethel became enthralled with studying and researching the Bible from a young age. This continued when she migrated to the UK. These writings are her own findings, her beliefs, and her conviction. Working as a nurse at the Canadian Red Cross (CRC), she continued her diligent research and examined the many writings of Hillary Belloch, and many other poets, philosophers, and historians. Ethel was determined to contribute her thoughts and beliefs hence this journal. Her soul rest,

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Ethel’s

Journal

UNKNOWN YET KNOWN

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ETHEL BURKE and

LLEWELLYN WALLACE

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Copyright © 2023 Ethel Burke and Llewellyn Wallace.

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This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

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All scriptures are taken from King James version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-9736-9949-1 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910245

WestBow Press rev. date: 06/01/2023

INTRODUCTION

Dear Reader,

Writing these statements, I believe them to be facts and an important aid on life’s journey. These writings were made in good faith. Some of the words are entirely mine through the patient study of scriptures; others I have gathered from many sources.

From Radio - Television - various books - magazines - conversations with people of many races and creeds - sayings I picked up throughout life.

From prime ministers’ speeches - a snippet from one of the Queen’s speeches – presidents’ speeches - children’s books - conversations with neighbors - correspondence by letters - goodwill cards from friends - and even quotations from my school days.

I have gathered all these words and sentences, as it were, to keep them alive. For words are ever powerful; they can kill, and they can give life; they can damage, and they can repair; yes! Words are all-embracing.

You will find the repeat of the same story teaching a different lesson, from a different perspective, in a different context, but the same story. Just as there are four gospels, but in essence, one gospel.

If these written words serve to encourage one soul to search the scriptures; if these words serve as an inspiration to one human being, to study God’s words, then I know my writing them was not in vain. God bless.

Sis E. Burke -

CONTENTS

Who Are You?

You Are … One Sent By God

One Almighty God Actually Needs

One Christ Raised From The Dead

One Who Breathes By The God Who Burns

One God Has Called To Rarest Intimacy

One Who Can Think The Thoughts of God

One Who Can Stand As Straight As Christ

One Who Knows The Answer

One Who Can Pay God Back Superabundantly

One Who Truly Is Someone And Who Can Do Something

One Who Can Be The Other Wise Man

One to whom God Has Surrendered His Future

One Whose Real Name Is Known To God Alone

Who Is Owned By An All-Powerful God

Science

Life On Other Worlds?

Is The Bible Accurate?

Canst Thou Guide Arcturus?

The Accuracy Of The Scriptures

Archaeology’s Contribution

Origin Of The Bible

The Power Of The Book

The Bible’s Claims

The World Is Tired And Sick And Afraid

Prescription For Fear

Fear’s Disguises

No Fear In Love

Belief And Fear

God Loves Us

Love And A Cross

The Formula

What To Do With Depression And Fear

God’s Remedy

Take His Word If You Don’t Want To Worship The Wrong God By Mistake

The Problem Of Peace

Promises Made At The Ascension

A Warning

Not A Secret Event

Fulfilment

Is This Your Question?

Study For Yourself

All Men Pray

Know Why God Permits Suffering

Why?

Tracing The Story

Who Was Lucifer?

Are Angels The Spirit Of The Dead?

Is God Responsible

The Alternative

God Takes A Risk

The Angels Knew Nothing Of Sin

Back To The Story

Man Sold Out

The Beginning Of Suffering

Love Strikes Back

Bring Tomorrow Into Focus

Was Napoleon Right

In Nebuchadnezzar’s Golden Palace

The Death Degree

Prayer Changes Problem

The Interpretation

A Prophecy

Seven Words

Christ’s Kingdom

Hopes - Flimsy Or Sure?

New Earth - New People

And Know That His Sins Are Forgiven

A Battlefield

Why Jesus Came

Why Did Jesus Die

There Was Darkness About The Cross

And Know When Christ Will Come: Dateline

Signs of Christ’s Return

The Year-Day Principle

Star Spectacle

Perplexity

Earthquakes

Speed

Doom Or Destiny

A Wise God

At The Ready

Your Will And Your Emotions

Discover The Secrets Of A Happy Marriage

Wedlock Or Deadlock

I’m Proud Of You

Unsolved Problems

Always Remember This

Divorce Cannot Heal

Why Some Prayers Are Answered And Why Others Are Not

Is Prayer Possible?

It Is Contact That Counts

More Than Faith

What We Need

God Answers On Time

Intensity

In The Name Of Jesus

Conditions To God’s Promises

Unravelling Tangles

A Life Of Adventure

Prayer Is The Breath Of The Christian’s Soul

Read About A City Moving Into Space Down Starlined Corridors

Today Man Wants To Go

Up Somewhere

Heaven Is Veal

Heir To A World

The Space Trip Of The Ages

A Clean Universe

Shall We Recognize Each Other

Know Which Is More Important To God

What Causes Unhappiness

No Other Way To Be Happy

The Result Of Obedience

Solving The Sin Problem

Satan’s Master Plot

The Heart Of The Gospel

Will You Stand With The Carpenter Of Nazareth

Have The Translators Change The Bible To Suit Their Liking

Honest Translations

Know Who Tampered With God’s Road Signs: A Master Plot

Doom Sealed

Faith - And Worry - And Jobs

What Is Faith?

The Secret

Knowing About God

Seeing And Believing

Find A Window Through Doubt

The Persuasive Salesman

Windows Through Doubt

Has God Forgiven Our Sins?

Tangled Threads

Our Tomorrows

All Who Have An Appointment With The Master Artist

When Sin Crept In

If Christ Had Come To Earth A Hundred Years Later

Two Hundred Prophecies

The Time Is Fulfilled

2,300-Day Prophecy

Christ The Messiah

The Passover Lamb

An Ancient Drama In The Desert Has Vital Meaning

A Misunderstanding

The Sealed Book-Open

The Gospel - In Ancient Desert Drama

Christ, Our High Priest

Moses’ Sanctuary

The Day of Atonement

Christ And Azazel

Cleansing The Sanctuary

The Investigative Judgement

A Solemn Decree

This Side Of The Cross

When God Spoke

The Law In Eden

Written In Stone At Sinai

Jesus Need Not Have Died If

Could A God Of Love Cast Sinners Into Fire That Burns Eternally?

Where Did Such a Doctrine Originate?

How Long Will Hell Burn?

Everlasting Punishment

Sodom and Gomorrah

Forever And Ever

The Word Forever Used Elsewhere In Scripture

God Desires To Save All

Of God Took A Man To Heaven Who Do Not Want To Go

Could It Happen Again

Find Out If The Dead Are Dead Or Alive

The Origin Of A Misunderstanding

How Man Was Made

What Is A Spirit

Has Man An Immortal Soul?

Are Angels Immortal

Why A Resurrection?

The Thief On The Cross

Plain Scripture Statements

Supernatural Power

Miracles - Not Always An Evidence Of Divine Power

Why Should Satan Deceive

God’s Wise Plan

Shall I Count On A Second Chance

With Christ

Millennium Begins At Second Advent

No Second Chance

During The Thousand Years

Satan Bound

Satan Loosed

A New Earth

Prepared For Them That Love Him

Why A Millennium

Does God Still Heal

Two Questions

Not All Miracles Are From God

God’s Plan For Healing

Why Does Not God Answer Every Prayer For Healing?

The Laws Of Health Are God Given

The Best Fuel

Medical Science And Man’s Original Meatless Diet

Drugs

Is It A Risk To Take His Word

Do Little Things Matter

Is It Not Enough To Believe?

But This Way - The Way I’ve Been Living - Seem Right To Me

I’m Happy The Way I Am

But Are Not All Churches Alike?

Can The Majority Be Wrong

Why Do Not The Preachers See It?

Would It Be Sin To Put Off My Decision?

Is It A Risk To Take His Word?

When The Shepherd Calls

You Will Never Regret The Decision

When Jesus Was Baptized

Some Other Way

The Meaning Of Baptism

Should Infants Be Baptized?

The Heart Made To Beat Forever

What Causes These Heart Cells

The Remarkable Control System

The Atrio-Ventricular Node

How The System Meets Body Needs

The Heart’s Capability

Meant To Beat Forever

Cell Duplication Theoretically Should Keep The Body Alive Forever

The Holy Land

WHO ARE YOU?

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T hat question sounds simple. But be not deceived by its sounds. It is one of the most penetrating questions you will ever face; one of the most difficult you will ever attempt to answer. For it pokes more than your mind and your memory. It searches - as God is said to search - the deepest secret of your being. And that is one secret too often kept even from yourself.

Nothing more personal could ever be asked, nor anything more important. Yet, few indeed are they who have a real reply to the question, and fewer still are they who grasp its transcendent import.

Many people today have wide and occasionally deep knowledge of countless things outside themselves, but pitiful, and even frightening, is the knowledge they have of themselves.

Recently several hundred average Americans were either stopped on the street, visited in their homes, confronted in their offices or other places of employment, and asked to help participate in a survey that was being conducted by some university psychologists. These people were handed a plain sheet of paper, then told that they would be rendering a real service if they would on that paper, give three replies to a very simple question.

It Was: Who Are You?

Most people gasped. Some started stuttering. Not a few exclaimed: Who am I? – Why? this is the queerest question I ever heard"! Undoubtedly, it was - for hundreds. But from the replies submitted, it was evident to the psychologists at the University of California at Los Angeles that at last, after months of seeking, they had found what they desired: the single question which, in the shortest space of time, will reveal most about the individual interrogated.

Who am I? wrote one man, why - I don’t know? I see myself as a little inferior to others. I guess I am something put on this earth to make it a better place for those who come after me." That man was a builder. One wonders how much building of his own life; of his own character he had done.

* A bank cashier did somewhat better. I am a soul gaining the experiences of mortality was his first response. I am a person progressing with an ultimate goal in mind, but not progressing as rapidly as I desire, was his second. His third answer read: I am an individual getting an awful lot of fun out of life." How much, we wonder, was that person putting into life?

A tailor simply stared from the paper to the investigator, then back to the paper again. Finally, while scratching his head, he said, who am I? - I never asked myself that question before … It kinda stops me. I guess I don’t know who I am, except that I am kinda all mixed up … I feel alone, all by myself, and that most people have it in for me. I feel like I gotta hold tight to everything I got, or somebody!! take it away from me.

From an officer came these three replies: I am an architect. I design office buildings. I am forty-five.

It was a simple housewife who gave the psychologists what they claim is the best revelation of a person fully aware of herself, consequently, quite intimately acquainted with herself, and therefore, one who most likely would be herself, and this know happiness. Her replies ran: Why, I’m Mary so-and-so. I am me. I am myself.

Now, inadequate as that sounds, it certainly was better than the one’s already quoted; and far better than what the man offered who gave his street address, his serial number, and his social security number. That man seemed to consider himself only a number! But you may be wondering how psychologists could ever come to such conclusions about Mary so-and-so from the seemingly obvious and almost meaningless replies that she gave. The explanation is not difficult. They claim that to be happy you must be able to express yourself fully; must be able to externalize your personality with ease and adequacy. But they also claim that before you will ever be able to do that, you will have to know yourself - and know yourself intimately.

Looking at the replies of the housewife, they see that uppermost in her consciousness is the fact that she is herself. This indicates that she is quite well acquainted with what it is that makes her Mary-so-and-so and nobody else. Hence, she really knows something of her inner driving impulses, urges, and desires. Consequently, she will be able to express herself outwardly with ease and adequacy.

A thought almost inevitably gives birth to an act; if you repeat that act often enough you generate a habit; if you consciously cultivate that habit, you will fashion a character. That is why psychologists like to get an insight into your habitual way of thinking. Give them what spontaneously rises to your consciousness, and they will surprise you by going down dark depths within you which you have never fathomed; measuring in you distances you had always thought measureless; calling back to consciousness things that you had completely forgotten.

A few decades back the witty polarization of science told you, that your body was composed of lime enough to make six bars of soap; iron enough to fashion a half-dozen tenpenny nails; phosphorous enough for twenty boxes of matches sugar enough to sweeten ten cups of coffee; just enough potassium to explode a toy cannon; and sufficient Sulphur to deflea one fair-sized dog.

Today while neither the physical nor the chemical constituents of man are neglected, ever heavier and heavier stress is being placed on the psychological. Too many modern scientists, however, stop short of the last logical step which would lead them to that broad, indestructible base on which rests the whole truth about the human individual. No one will deny that, today, more is known about your body and your mind, more about your emotions, instincts, sensations, desires, and drives, than perhaps was ever known before. Clearer insight into the unity of the human composite has been gained. This, in its turn, has generated a sharper awareness of the composite that makes the human individual. That is why it is something in the nature of an education to be examined in a modern clinic; for you learn an amazing amount not only about your physical constitution and your psychological make-up but are told some astonishing truths about their constant interaction.

Specialists in the material sciences cannot help you. Psychologists who are not also real philosophers will be greater hindrances than helpers. And the psychologist - philosopher, if he is to be of any real assistance, will have to be something of a theologian; for this question about you as a human being cannot be answered without touching the Divine. Therefore, the only ology that can ever give proper reply to the question: Who are you? is theology; a theology which teaches that each of us is a child of God who, under God’s loving guidance, and with God’s generous help, is working out a God-given destiny.

It sounds simple. Almost too simple. It strikes you as something that would come only from the mouth of a child. But never forget unless you become as little children …

For whenever you look at yourself and do not see the love, liberty, power, goodness, greatness, and fierce possessiveness who is God, you do not see yourself. Failing to see yourself aright, you will never come to the stimulating knowledge of just how important you are - and important to almighty God - at this very moment of time, on this very crowded globe whirling as a tiny speck in his almost limitless universe. You are important.

Who Are You.

Especially remarkable is the acceptance of that great Greek generalization of the four causes:

Who made you? (Efficient Cause.)

Why did God make you? (Final Cause.)

To whose image and likeness did God make you. (Formal Exemplar Cause.)

Is this likeness to God in your body (Material Cause)

Or in your soul? (Formal Internal Cause)

The best brief reply ever given to the question: Who are you? Came from human reason illumined by faith, and it was: I am a son of God.

Know thyself and you will arrive at the thrilling knowledge that y-o-u spells God!

You must spell God - in your alphabet if your days and night are to be anything more than the passing of time. Know thyself - know that y-o-u spells God. - and you will become a garnerer who every day goes forth to a fresh field for God and is found at nightfall still busy binding sheaves that will stay tight for all eternity. Know thyself - and there will be no footstep in your life that will be without specific godly meaning know thyself - and you will come to some knowledge of the Infinite.

All your thinkers are forced by the stern, unyielding evidence of fact to admit that you are a creature and, therefore, were created; but too often many of them stress the wrong element in creation and, hence, tell but half the truth about you. Nothing could be more dangerous; for, while half-truths are dangerous, there is none more dangerous than the one which says, creation is the production of something from nothing. That is no indication of whence you came. That is a shattered mirror which can hold only a distortion of what you are. Creation is not the production of something from nothing; it is the production of something from nothing by the Almighty Fiat of him who is your eternal and ever-loving Father.

Revelation tells you that God made man on the sixth day. It was not on the first day when he shattered the impenetrable darkness with his Fiat lux; nor on the second day when he canopied earth with the heavens; nor on the third when he separated land from the sea; nor was it on that fourth day when he placed the sun and the moon in his sky; nor was it yet on the fifth when he put life into the waters of the sea and filled the aid with the flashing wings and the songs of birds. Only after he had filled his world with wonders did he set about fashioning that masterpiece who was to be the crown of his visible creation.

On that sixth day the unchangeable God changed his manner of making. He did not say Let man be made as he had said about light and the firmament and all the other creatures. He said, Let us make man. The difference is highly significant and tells you precisely why and how you spell God.

What wonder is this? Who is he for whose production God takes council and sovereign wisdom enters deliberation? This same text set King David singing It was your hands, O God, that formed and fashioned me. (Ps. 118:73) This was the text that caused St. Ambrose to remark that what was sufficient to give being to the great universe was not enough to give being to man; for while with one of his hands God made the heavens and rendered them incorruptible, it took two of his hands to fashion man.

The story of your beginning as told by God the Holy Ghost in the first book of the Bible is essential for any intelligent and true reply to the question: Who are you? For while reason might lead