MORE ABOUT HAWAIIANS

MORE ABOUT HAWAIIANS

 

In my book, The Arks of Tubal-Cain, I compared Hawaii, perhaps one location of the land of Nod, to which Cain wandered. The reason for that was Eve’s name; “Adam called his wife's (Ishah in Hebrew) name ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).  

Therein exists equality; she was called “Eve” because she was the mother of all living. Hence Eve is equivalent to “mother”, and hers the land of the living. Cain’s seed might be called the “Motherland”.

In Hebrew, Eve is spelled חַוָּה (right to left chet-vav-hey) which is transliterated “Haua” in the Hebrew. The first letter (חַ), I mistook for the letter hey (ה), and while realizing that the “u” has the waw sound, I thought That spells Hawaw’a which it does not. Strong’s Dictionary misled me as well sounding Haua khav-vaw'. However, the “k” is not sounded; it is merely a guttural “h” sound like a hard “h” compared to the letter hey as a soft, airy “h” sound.

By getting it wrong, I nearly got it right; Hav-VAW with the hey silent therein.

How would natives pronounce Hawaii?

Hawaiʻi is generally huh-VAH-ee (or ha-vai-ʻi), with a soft 'v' sound for the 'w' and a distinct pause (glottal stop) represented by the ʻokina (ʻ). While many locals use the 'w' sound, using a soft 'v' is considered authentic to the native language. (YouTube)

Now compare Haua (Eve) to Hawai’i. Note that the pause of the ʻokina replaces the silent hey in חַוָּה (Haua) and that the “u” has the sound of the VAH in huh-VAH-ee. Hence, it is hav-vaw for one and hav-Vah for the other with an extra ee sound.

In Hebrew, Hawai’i is pronounced Ha-VAH-ee, very much like Hawaiians pronounce it. In early times, generally the WAW sound for the letter vav was used rather than the VAH sound. If that is the case, then Eve’s name would be pronounced in ancient times as Haw-WAW-uh (the uh replacing the letter hey. Although not exact, the reader must admit that there are just too many similarities for them not to be common. With that, I submit that the island of Hawaii may have been named for Eve and like Eve it is the motherland.

That means that I may have stumbled upon something by accident; The island of Hawaii has something to do with Eve. Indeed, Hawaii is a “paradise” like Eden, so it made sense that the seed of Cain had found their own version of Paradise.

The next thought that came to me is What is notable about Hawaii? The hula dance, and as it turned out, hula means “wandering” in the same vein as the land of Nod.

Next, I wondered about their god(s). Who did they worship? Several sea creatures. I thought that perhaps friendly sea creatures guided them to a safe mountain during the flood of Noah.

Mount Kea is their holy mountain. and it is much higher than any of the mountains of Ararat. Mount Kea was created from a volcano, last active 4,500–6,000 years ago. Could it be that God provided a place because of His mercy and the “lighthouse” to guide them there?

The full name is Mauna a Wakea in their language. Wakea means “sky father” and represents space and the heavens. In Hebrew Wakea would be the same as the Hebrew Shamayim (the heavens). Mauna a Wakea would mean “mountain to the heavens”. Indeed, Mauna Kea is their most holy mountain.

Also, Raki'a (רָקִיעַ) refers to the "Firmament" or the "expanse" created to separate the waters from the heavens in Genesis. This closely mirrors Wakea's role as the expansive space above the earth.

In some contexts, Wakea (or Awakea) means "noon" or "light of day," symbolizing the vivifying influence of the Sun, or either the Light of God.

Wakea would be the progenitor of the Hawaiian people and the "Sky Father" — Father God. Could it be that they worshipped the same father God as Judeo-Christianity, but the wrong son? Who is their major God? Kane.

Representing the god of creation, procreation, and the Progenitor of chiefs and commoners. As a giver of life, he is associated with sunlight, fresh water, and the sky. He is revered as a creator who formed the earth and fashioned the first man. (Beckwith 1940)

Cain was the first mortal man — “Ish”— who like God existed within himself.

Now consider my young granddaughter; I asked of her, “Who taught you to speak?

Her short reply was, “I taught myself.” Compare that to Eve, “I created Ish-man, Cain” (Gen 4:1). Like the mother, like the son; Cain may have been thinking, I created myself!

Modern people think the same way; God did not create me, I just happened.

As such, Kane would parallel Jesus as the “Word” (John 1:1-14). Not Yeshua, but Kane, would be the Creator as God. The biblical Cain would be “the sky father” rather than either Adam or Yeshua. Hawaii would be the motherland of Eve.

The Serpent warned, “God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). If Kane/Cain was the “father of all living,” compared to Eve as the “mother of all living”, then Kane and Haua would be the Hawaiian version of the father and mother, respectively.

If so, then would expect incest to be part of the native religion. Was it? In ancient Hawaii, there were documented instances of incestuous, cross-generational, and sibling marriages within the Aliʻi — the noble and royal classes — which included some cases of a mother and son or father and daughter marrying.

 

The primary motivation for such marriages was to preserve the highest possible bloodline (mana) and keep it pure, as royal incest was considered a way to ensure the children had the highest possible status.

Aliʻi Pio (Highest Class): The highest-ranking chiefs were often the product of full-sibling unions. The practice was not considered a sin or social wrong within this exclusive, elite group. (AI Overview)

 

Now consider even the bloodline of the Hawaiians — mana. Even mana has Hebrew meaning; the mem-nun, the same as manna from heaven in the Bible. The letter mem means either blood or water, or even both, as Jesus described the prescription for salvation (1 John 5:6).

For the Hawaiians, their bloodline, true to the Bible, came both by water (the flood) and the blood (their genetics) just as with Noah’s seed.

What came by the water? The letter nun, representing both fish and semen. Could that be their mistaken doctrine of mana, crediting the ocean bearing creatures for their salvation, and making them the various gods in their pantheon?

What evolved in Hawaii would be a type of Judeo-Christianity as to be expected, so when Christian missionaries came to the island, it was difficult to alter their form of religion in favor of the religion of the white man; albeit similar, theirs included both good and evil.

Although I was mistaken in my reasoning, I accidentally found my hypothesis plausible. There is much evidence that the arks of Tubal-Cain made it far, far eastward of Eden.

Genetic studies indicate that Polynesian ancestors likely originated from, or passed through, East Asia, with significant mixing with Melanesian populations later. Their genetics are said to be around 80% Japanese because of migration from eastern Asia. They would have been from the land of Nod and from the land of the rising sun (Japan).

“Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden” (Gen 4:16). If Eden is the Holy Land, then Japan is eastward of Eden, and Hawaiians are the seed of the Japanese. That also points to water travel to escape the waters of the flood, and like their ancestors, high mountains would be the safe space and the place to worship their sky god.

Now back to phonetics. The Hebrew letters chet and hey are different but more common to the extent that some modern Hebrew words can either be written as “ch” as in chet or “h” as in hey.

Both chet and hey share the same form: חַ and ה, respectively. They are connected by the letter vav (וָּ) which means “connected”. Although spelled חַוָּה, the word Haua (Eve) is pronounced Khav-vaw’. Haua therefor means “life-giver” as the “mother of all living.”

In the original language of Hawaii, it contains a glottal stop as in Hawai’i, making the pronunciation ha-VAI-ee. Remembering that the “u” in Haua is pronounced as a double “v” sound, you may by now understand my misunderstanding in the beginning.

The word “Hawaii” is often interpreted as a combination of ha (breath), wai (lifeforce), and ‘i (supreme/God), translating to “the breath of life” or “the breath of the supreme (deity).

In the same manner, the letter vav in Haua also represents the binding life force of God. Can you now see the similarities?

Now compare Hawai’i to Haua (חַוָּה); read from right to left: chet, vav, and hey.

The Hawaiian people had no written language when the English came in the early 1800s. English-speaking people created their language using the left to right western convention. If they had developed their own language, like other Orientals, it might have been from right to left, so for the purpose of this commentary, ignore the difference in the flow of the letters.

So, let’s rewrite חַוָּה in western directions: hey-waw-chet. Linguists believe that Polynesian Hawaiki refers to Hawai’i. Hence the glottal stop might have once been the letter “k”. The letter chet sounds like “ch” or the letter “k”. Now compare phonetic ha-waw-kee to Polynesian, Hawaiki.

Not stopping there, consider the meaning of חַוָּה — “the mother of all living.” Literally, chet-waw-hey means wall, connection, and beheld (or breath), respectively.

Now work the magic of understanding Hebrew pictographs; in the manner of paleontologists, you must use the imagination.

Chet means fence, barrier, wall and similar things. After much thought, the idea of a “womb” occurred to me as a protective barrier within women to keep their unborn child safe from the world. Hence, Eve would have a womb by the time Adam classified her new kind.

The last letter hey is of a mortal man with arm’s raised, as if in praise or breathing. The pictograph may not have been a glorious man like Adam but a lower state of man raising arms to receive the glory of God. (True that is imaginative, but original man would not have looked like a common man.)

It could be that the letter hey represented Cain with arms raised to receive his mark (Gen 4:15). I have concluded that common men, coming short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23) looked more like the beasts of the field, specifically the “creeping thing” (Gen 1:26). [1]

Coming short of the glory of God, the letter hey might have represented a man/beast (Ish, Gen 4:1) in the womb of Ishah — the woman/wife. Whatever the case, the letter hey means either to behold or breathed into.

In the case of Eve, she was beguiled (Gen 3:13). Her “lord”, surely after sin, Satan would have “breathed” life unto her newly acquired womb. To validate that, we must turn to the Bible. It is there in several places; “Cain, who was of the Wicked One” (1 John 3:12) and that he was a new kind of man, not “Adam” but “Ish” of Ishah (Gen 4:1).

Because sin was genetic, then all the seed was of both Eve (the mother of all living) and Cain (Ish) — the father of all living — and because of Satan in him, all common men are of the wicked ones; “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44).

That situation compares well with the Hawaiian idea of Hawai’i as the supreme mother God of Hawaii and her son, Kane the father of them all.

Hawai’i, or Polynesian Hawaiki, refers to the ancestral home or the place from which people migrated. If they migrated from Ha-Waw-kee (Eve), then Hawai’i would be the mother land and Moana Wakea the mountain of the mother — “the mother land” of Eve.

If this seems contrived, so be it. However, the thoughts just occurred to me and the elements presented herein is evidence of my hypothesis; that Hawaiians descended from mother Eve, and from father Cain.

Several names have been passed around as wives of Cain. The Bible speaks only of one ‘Issa, or Ishah.

In Biblical Hebrew, issa (אִשָּׁה - ishah) primarily means "woman" or "wife". It is the feminine counterpart to ish (man/husband), appearing frequently in The Old Testament to denote a female person, or a married woman.

Since Ish means man and Ishah woman/wife, then Isha could have been the wife of Cain. Since Eve was woman/wife Isha, could it be that Cain husbanded with his own mother? Many religions, including native Hawaiians, did not condemn such things.

An aberration of Judaism is that Lot fathered the children of his daughters, meaning well, but creating a new kind of people — the Moabites. Were his daughters just repeating the sins of their genetic mother Eve, having incest with their own father? Hence, the god of Moabites were their father/mother pairs, such as El and Asherah of the Canaanites.

Like the Canaanite God, Chemosh and Ashtar were the one God pair of the Moabites as some believe. Is it possible that Eve and Cain were paired Hawaiian gods? It seems so; perhaps they brought a form of God to the islands but a misinformed pair, or even a pantheon of creature gods.

The Ish man, Cain, was a god unto himself, not glorious but cunning and arrogant like his father the Devil. True to the Serpent, in their wanderings, the seed of Cain became the gods and that was especially true in Hawaiian mythology where even the lower states of beasts became the gods as they were more like Cain than Yahweh.

I am not the last word, but there is so much evidence that there were indeed arks of Tubal-Cain.

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[1] For more about that see my book, The Creeping Thing of the Bible.

My first glance of Hawaii from the airplane:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] For more about that see my book, The Creeping Thing of the Bible.

PREPARATION FOR PRESERVATION

SALVATION REVEALED IN PICTURES:

Consecration and sanctification are not the same things, according to the consecration and sanctification of Aaron as priest:

 

You (Moses) shall put them (the garments prepared) upon Aaron your brother, and his sons with him; and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. (Exod 28:41)

 

Moses, as an antitype of Jesus would anoint, consecrate, and sanctify Aaron and his sons. To anoint is to literally rub them, coming from the Hebrew word masah. Masah could be rubbing with oil or about anything, spelled מָשַׁח.

The first letter mem (right to left) is living water in theology; it represents the Spirit of God.

The middle letter, shin, represents a synthesis; what to what? Mem to chet; the latter a covenant with God — a “covenant”. Aaron would have a little of what Moses had obtained from God just by contact wherein the Spirit of God in Moses would be absorbed into Aaron.

What did Moses have that Aaron did not? Nothing yet but the willingness to meet God in person. Later, Moses face shined (Exod 34:29–35. God shined onto him, but Moses climbed the mountain. It seems that anointment was preparation for the journey ahead to find God.

Moses would then consecrate (mala'; מָלָא)Aaron.

The first letter mem is living water and the letter lamed, teaching, a divine programming. About what? Aleph, the Power of God. So, far, Aaron was made ready, and now taught the things of God. Perhaps Moses was the teacher who would program Aaron with the knowledge of God that he had about the fire of God in the burning bush.

Upon encountering the Spirit of God in the burning bush, Moses asked God, “Who am I?” (Exod 3:11). Not “I AM” but “am I” (hinne; Exod 3:4) for God is “I AM” (haya; Exod 3:14); to which God answered, “I will be with you; and this shall be a token unto you, that I have sent you” (Exod 3:12).

Hence, Moses was not the great I AM Himself but a token (אוֹת). The letter vav represents a connector of some sort. The letter aleph is the Power of God, and the letter chet at the end, Moses in a state like God. Moses was not God but a placeholder for the Power of God, in the manner of Abraham who was a token for Almighty God as well. Moses was a “proxy” for God, a figure for the authority of God… “that I have sent (salah; שָׁלַח) you” (Exod 3:12).

Of course, the lamed means teach. The shin the consuming Presence of God from the burning bush. Lastly the letter chet about the other invisible realm, the covenant, and the states of God.

God had rubbed Moses with fire. That was the anointing of Moses, and Moses would then rub the Presence of God — living water — onto Aaron.

Moses was beheld (hinne; הִנֵּה) but God haya (הָיָה) — the Existence, or literally the breath from which Existence is beheld. God was indicating that Moses was part of the Creation that He had created. Moses had some God likeness in his person, so he was a suitable token for the authority of God.

Just as the Power of God (El) had gone (Elohim) into Adam, the fire of God (El) had gone into Mose (מֹשֶׁה). Recall the rubbing, Masah (מָשַׁח) from earlier?

The literal rule in Hebrew is that common letters between words means that there is an affinity between the two, or that the root of one is the root of the other. The difference between Mose and masah are the ending letters, hey in Mose and chet in masah. Whereas chet means covenant, hey means expansion. Masah was the Mosaic Covenant and Moses the missionary of that covenant. Mose was to spread the living waters from God. He would have been the “fount” of living water as a proxy for Father God (Elohim).

Now back to Aaron, just as Adam shared Elohim of El, Moses would have shared the living waters to Aaron, his brother. Not only would they be biological brothers but Spiritual brothers as well with living water existing in them both. Aaron would be the seed of God as well as a prophet, sharing the living water to all who would come to him. Aaron and Moses would be one covenant in God.

Aaron (‘Aharon; אַהֲרוֹן or אַהֲרֹן) has two spellings. Note the difference between the letter resh (ר) in the spellings. The point over the ר has esoteric meaning. Note that in the first spelling the point is above the letter vav (וֹ). The point about Aaron would have been the man in vav, (וֹֹ) compared to the leadership (רֹ) in the resh. Those points are special markers typically signaling a deeper mystical, exegetical, or scribal meaning, rather than a standard phonetic change.

Mystical characters represent the metaphysical. As such, the man, Aaron, upon consecration would have become metaphysical, beyond physical attributes; once a mere man, Aaron with consecration was beyond just a mere man.

So far, both anointment and consecration have been analyzed for deeper meanings. Not only that, but finally after anointment and consecration, Aaron was sanctified.

Sanctification was thoroughly discussed yesterday, but in summary, sanctified would mean “preserved”. Just as in cold-pack canning, Aaron was cleansed (anointed), dosed with “preservatives” from Moses (consecrated), and then preserved… until when? The opening of the vessel in the Presence of God. Perhaps Aaron was among the saints that was resurrected with Jesus, as it is written:

The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Mat 27:52-53)

Aaron would have been prepared by Moses as the token of God for the resurrection wherein His flesh was saved in bodily form. Hence the reason for anointment, consecration, and preservation was to witness God in person and Moses as only a temporary proxy. It was Aaron in the state of preservation awaiting the time of salvation. (That should help Jews understand that their own religion points toward the coming of Jesus.)

The concept of a Messiah is important as well — Mashiach (מָשִׁיחַ) in the Hebrew. Recall now the Hebrew rule pertaining to Mose and Masah? Well it is in Mashiach as well the מָשִ — the living water of released from Ya, the sound of the letter yod (י), and just as in Masah, the letter chet means a covenant — all together the dispersion of living water from the belly of Jesus (John 7:38).

Hence, Moses was a proxy for Jesus from whom his belly flowed living waters as a token Messiah only until the real Messiah would come. Not only that but Aaron would have been a proxy for Christians to come from the Mosaic Covenant.

So, just as words mean things in scripture, so do pictures. God seemed to have drawn pictures for Moses to convey esoteric messages so that someday that His Word could be understood regardless of the language barrier. The Word in scripture is merely pictures (pictographs) that anyone might understand.

SANCTIFICATION: SAFETY UNTIL SALVATION

 

God blessed mankind:

 

·         God provided for His creatures an existence (Gen 1:1)

·         God lighted that world. (Gen 1:3)

·         God provided a heaven for man to rest. (Gen 1:8)

·         God provided land for habitation. (Gen 1:9)

·         God provided water for life to exist. (Gen 1:10)

·         God provided nourishment for His creatures. (Gen 1:12)

·         Do provided for life “clocks” to measure life. (Gen 1:14-18)

·         All moving creatures were placed on land and seas (Gen 1:20-21)

·         God provided for the lesser creatures a means of reproduction (Gen 1:22-25).

 

To this point, God made all the things for lesser creatures — those of a lower state of existence. To this point all things were “good” (Gen 1:25).

 Then God made the greater creature:

 

·         God then made man after His own image and likeness. (Gen 1:26).

·         Man was a creature of a higher state of existence, having dominion over the lesser creatures (Gen 1:26). Dominion would be a fragment, El. of Elohim in man alone.

·                       God made man in two distinct forms: male and female (Gen 1:27): זָכָר and נְקֵבָה. Note that the male form had dominion and the female form lesser — the male’s help-mate (Gen 2:18). The male was to be the dominant of the species, not the female. The male (zakar; זָכָר) would be the virile of the two (neqiba; נְקֵבָה) “the pierce” from the root verb “naqab” (נָקַב). Hence, the male Adam had dominion over the female Adam in addition to the lower state of the other creatures.

  Literally, the male was cut (zayin) from the Godhead (resh) before time began (qof). Note that the male was perceived before the foundation of the world. Like Jesus as well, “(God) has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will…
  Adam’s kind was predetermined from the beginning as the chosen kind and also that man over woman would be the dominant kind. However, when time began outside the Garden, the woman because of sin held the dominant role (Gen 4:1), her saying, “I have gotten a man…” She had become the male figure. She chose herself to be a higher state of creature, albeit she was of a lower state than the male. So, like the first Adam, the “last Adam” (Jesus) was born male and the Chosen One who would reproduce man with His quickening (life giving) Spirit (1 Cor 15:45).

  Given that background, mankind, and the male of that kind, would have been the chosen “elect” predestined to be in Christ. The predestination is rightfully before the foundation of the world (Gen 1:1); hence the world was made for Adam’s kind.
  Adam was the man made in the Image of God, but the woman (Isha), Eve, made man (Ish) in her image. To be one of the elect, therefore God would transform (provide genes from above) the common mortal man, Ish-kind, into Adam’s kind (John 3:7).
  The concept of election is found in Genesis 1:26-27 wherein the male Adam is chosen above the female as well as all the other creatures, and that was God’s Plan from the beginning.

·         God stated that their kind was chosen, and that mankind would multiply God’s type via the prototype male, Adam. (Gen 1:28)

·         Until the creation of man, all things were “good” but with Adamic man “it was very good” (Gen 1:31). God had created His seed in the form of firm things. Next, God would place His divine seed in His Garden to grow (Gen 2:7). His kind were the “elect”, not any of the others.

·         God put the man whom he had formed in the eastward of Eden in the Garden (Gen 2:8). “Eastward” is an ancient way of saying “before time began.” So, the Creation, although the clocks had been created, time was for mankind and the creatures.

·         God made the Tree of Life for man in the middle of the Garden before time ever began (Gen 2:9). The Garden of Eden would have pre-existed time, and then time began with sin (Gen 4:3).

 

God made mankind and put him and his mate in a sanctuary with Himself as the Tree of Life as the focus of attention. Because Adamic man was non-vigilant and not sober, Adam’s kind became a lower state — common mortal man, Ish (Gen 4:1).

Before, glorious man had been safe in the sanctuary of the Lord God, and after sin very unsafe as The Books of Adam and Eve portray their existence after being cast out of their sanctuary (Gen 4:26).

With that background, while in the Garden sanctuary of the Lord God, Jesus stood right there in the middle as the source of life in the Tree of Life. Afterward, they would provide for themselves after sin and removed from their sanctuary.

The exodus of the Israelites was not directed to the real estate of the promise land but beyond that land, “You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which You have made for You to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established” (Exod 15:17).

Moses’s destination was not Canaan land but for sanctuary in the Garden of the Lord where Moses would go, not where they would go. Moses died and found the true promised land and there he rested in the bosom of Abraham who had gone there previously as lord, according to The Book of Jasher.

 

And afterward Moses went into the garden of Reuel which was behind the house, and he there prayed to the Lord his God, who had done mighty wonders for him. And it was that whilst he prayed he looked opposite to him, and behold a sapphire stick was placed in the ground, which was planted in the midst of the garden.

And he approached the stick and he looked, and behold the name of the Lord God of hosts was engraved thereon, written and developed upon the stick.

And he read it and stretched forth his hand and he plucked it like a forest tree from the thicket, and the stick was in his hand.

And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were performed, after he had created heaven and earth, and all the host of them, seas, rivers and all their fishes.

And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden, he took the stick in his hand and went and tilled the ground from which he was taken.

And the stick came down to Noah and was given to Shem and his descendants, until it came into the hand of Abraham the Hebrew.

And when Abraham had given all he had to his son Isaac, he also gave to him this stick. (Jasher 77:38-45)

 

That sapphire stick was Adam’s and represented him as “king” of the Garden of Eden. It became like a baton that was passed down. Abraham became the token lord and king of the Garden of the Lord, not in the land of Canaan, but the Garden of the Lord; then that stick was passed down to Moses, which is symbolic of the Tree of Life as revealed to John as Jesus.

The stick of Jasher passes along the right of inheritance— to whom the stick should go. It was finished when Jesus was glorified. The big stick stopped with Jesus and now the dead rest, not in Abraham’s bosom, but the bosom of Jesus.

Passing the stick meant to be for Adam seems to be the concept of “election” wherein He is to be our king and us his people.

All the bullet items in the list previously are by the grace of God. Adam’s kind were pre-decided before the foundation of the world, but when Adam failed, the baton was passed along.

The New Testament would be when the stick of Adam is passed to one new kind — those in Christ Jesus. Those holding the sapphire stick at the end shall become members of the royal priesthood in the kingdom of heaven, as Paul wrote to Peter, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).

Darkness was separated from the light of God in the beginning, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters” of light and darkness. Hence, the firmament would be a distinction between light and darkness, or truth.

A “sanctuary” in the Hebrew from Exodus 15:17 is the mountain of God’s inheritance — the world. It would be calvary — the place of Adam’s skull. [1]

Sanctuary in the Old Testament points to Calvary. God said, “Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them” (Exod 25:8). Hence, the tabernacle was to be a sanctuary, until Jesus was manifested as the sanctuary of God.

Hence, in Christ is the sanctuary. To be in Christ, a Christian to remain a Christian, must abode in Christ (John 14:33); that is to abode in Jesus for sanctuary. The Garden of Eden was once the sanctuary wherein Adam’s kind abode with the Lord God — as “The Tree of Life”.

“Sanctuary” in the Hebrew is miqdas — asylum away from the things of the world; set apart from it.

Sanctuary is an asylum providing safety from threatening elements wherein a person is safe, as in the Garden of the Lord.

Abraham wasn’t seeking Canaan’s land but the true promised land, “even the Garden of the Lord” (Gen 1:10) wherein the Hebrews would have a sanctuary to live in safety. With that said, “Abraham’s bosom” (Luke 16) is a sanctuary wherein mankind was safe until Jesus would get the sapphire stick.

The fire of Ur sanctified Abram and made him “Abraham”. God breathed life (hey — the letter “H”) into him to set him apart, and then God granted the seed of Abraham asylum in the land of Canaan.

“Aliens” are persons out of their own places. As Christians, we are not of this world but are aliens from another world; “This world is not our home; we are looking forward to our everlasting home in heaven” (Heb 13:14-16 ESV). The same applies to sinners in the world of Christians:

 

That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephes 2:11-12)

 

Christians are brought close to Jesus by the blood of Christ. As such, Christians are yoked with Jesus just as a new calf is yoked with a mighty and learned ox to become an ox as well. One ox is brought nigh (close) to an ox of a higher state. All oxen are born calves of bovine creatures and become oxen as they are taught by another ox in a higher state.

In Christ is yoked with Jesus in the same manner, and the yoke is the Word of God.

Sanctuary is an inalienable right to be nigh to God just as a servant should not be an alien to any king.

Sanctification is what? Paul wrote about it:

 

You, brethren — beloved of the Lord — because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. (2 Thes 2:13)

 

In that passage “salvation” is the in the Greek “soteria” — a state of preservation, or in safety. How to be saved? Through sanctification, “hagiasmos”— set apart, ostensibly for and by God. A sanctuary is a state of being set apart in the safety of a sanctuary.

A sanctuary can be some type of an asylum or a safe space wherein no threat can penetrate. Hence, sanctuary is to be set apart in the Word of God. It is a state of safety until the time of salvation arrives.

If it was a ship, so long as the ship is in the harbor, there is safety, but salvation is not until the ship has reached sure ground.

That sure ground, is Paradise — the Garden of the Lord — where thing alien to God can no  longer get in (Gen 3:24) because Jesus is the Way back to the Tree of Life.

With that said, salvation would not come before sanctification, but sanctification until salvation. The doctrine of Nazarenes is saved and sanctified. Better said is sanctified until salvation.

God sets the Christian apart (sanctifies) until the time of salvation in a sanctuary where like in the Garden, with Him as the “Husbandman” who provides all things to nourish, feed, and keep you safe from the Wicked One. Like the woman of Adam, although safe, because of insobriety and non-vigilance, even glorious woman could still be beguiled. With that said, even in a sanctuary, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

The background from the Book of Genesis reveals the grace of God and who carries the big stick. It is never you, but God who places the stick in the hands of the elect. Going to a church of some doctrinal theory is not the stick, but the sapphire stick is from God. In the hands of the elect, it is a stick of safety until the coming of Christ. Now, it is Christ’s way, not Adam’s, Noah’s, Abraham’s, nor even Moses’s way, but Jesus’s.

Having the stick of God is for those set apart. Adam’s kind began the good race, and certain patriarchs and their seed were set apart in a sanctuary of sorts, but each failed. Only Jesus is the Way and still carries the baton.

Being finished, the only Way to the original sanctuary of God is by Jesus who alone carries the only stick for a way in — the Holy Cross.

 

 

 

 

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[1] For more on that see my book, The Skull of Adam as the mount Calvary.

WHAT IS MAN - Part 2 of 2

 The last commentary sought the idea of What is man? There seems to have been three branches of man: (1) Adam, (2) Ish, and (3) Enosh.  Glorious man, Adam, had soon devolved into Ish then Enosh. A man when from a person of God to a person of Satan (John 8:44) as Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). Because of devolution the genetic “father” of all mankind is from the “Beast” — the creeping thing (Remes, Gen 1:26).

Remes would be the highest state of the beasts — a modern-man look-alike but without a soul. In other words, modern, common man would have gotten his appearance from some beast, not a truly thing that creeps but a lower state of man. As such, due to sin glorious man has by now devolved to a lower state like the original Beast, “for all have sinned and came short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). We come far short of the first man made from the Glory of God.

What is the “glory of God”?

“The heavens declare the Glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork” (Psalm 19:1), according to King David.

There is much debate as to the meaning of firmament, so to understand the Glory of God, the firmament must be explored.

God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6). Therefore, the firmament (raqiaʿ; רָקִיעַ) reveals the work of God.

From right to left, the letter resh is “head” or first things — the emergence of order; the stars and such. Symbolically, and maybe even actually, stars represent angels, “The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches” (Rev 1:20).

Lucifer was the “morning star” falling from heaven. (Isa 14:12-14). Hence, Lucifer was the first “star” emerging from heaven on the second “day”. Day has nothing to do with time but “hotness”, or processes ( (Strong 2006). Hence, a “day” in the English would have been the emergence of order in order from the beginning until God rested.

Lucifer would not be the head, for God was the “Head” in the beginning, but a lower state of God; not a true “God” but a being of a somewhat lower state, as is written:

What is man (enosh), that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man (Adam), that You visit Him? for You have made Him a little lower than the angels and have crowned Him with glory and honor. You made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under His feet. (Psalm 8:4-6)

That notion applied to both the common, mortal man — Enosh and to Jesus, the “Son of Man.” First off, Jesus was the “last Adam” not in a mortal sense but spiritual, as the Son of God (1 Cor 15:45). Jesus was manifested as a sinless creature like common man, but His death and resurrection made Him glorious man. Death glorified the common man Jesus and His flesh became glorified and of a very different substance. In a manner of speaking, Jesus was the last Adam whose genetics would multiply His divine Kind.

Both enosh and adamic kind were a little lower than the angelic kingdom. Adam’s kind would have had flesh like angels and enosh kind an even lower state of existence, angels with mortal flesh. They were lower states because angels were part of the firmament and mankind came later, not in time but states. That man was created in “our image” (elohim; Gen 1:26), elohim — the Light of God — would have been in the angelic kingdom as well, but as scripture reveals, angels are phantom beings this side of the firmament.

Hence, the first things first idea (resh) should now be somewhat understood.

The next letter in the word translated “firmament” is the qof — a hidden dimension beyond observable reality, to wit, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20). Hence, the firmament consists of both things that are seen and things that are unseen — the “division of the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6). There would be two realms each with their own “waters” (mem; מ/ם). The word for water (mayim), can represent the "waters of wisdom" or "springs of understanding". 

The letter “mem” appears in two forms: the open Mem (מ) either at the beginning or middle of words, representing revealed wisdom, and the closed final Mem (ם) at the end, representing hidden, divine mysteries. Hence, both revealed and hidden wisdom, or intellect, was made manifest to man as a second state of construction. (Keep the letter mem in mind as the name, “Adam”, is discussed.

So far, only the resh and qof of the “firmament” (raqiaʿ; רָקִיעַ) have been discussed. Keep in mind that the firmament is the Glory of God, or the things that He has made.

The third letter of raqia’ is the letter yod. Sort of like a comma, or an arm and hand above the base line, yod implies the “handiwork” of God just as King David wrote in the aforementioned psalm. Yod, the ancients have said, began with a point and expanded to the highest of all the letters, as in the “Most High God”. Beginning with a point — the first spark of reality — real things, both visible and invisible — would have expanded; hence the Creation would have been that expansion, Elohim, of God, El. (Note the letter mem does not mean plural but expansion of the knowledge of God, or “virtue”.)

Lastly comes the letter ayin in raqia’ indicates perception from the standpoint of observation. Originally, as the letter qof indicates, all the firmament — the seen and unseen — could be perceived by those with perception — beasts of all types.

All things, both the visible and invisible, are the firmament and its Existence the “Glory of God”.

Before the Hubble telescope revealed only the visible things of the cosmos, but more was hidden than revealed. With data from the James Watt Space Telescope (JWST), using special filters, even unseen things have now been revealed. Together as the cameras of the JWST reveal, the cosmos would be the Substance of the Glory of God, consisting both of matter that was revealed and matter that has been hidden since the beginning. Indeed, men have become as gods (Gen 3:5).

Hence, the “glory” is the creation — both the seen and unseen. After Jesus was crucified, He would be like Adam — glorified (1 John 7:39) and could perceive and even exist in two realms at once. Indeed, Jesus is “Immanuel” — “God With Us” in both realms.

“Glorification” is a higher state than common mortality; glorified men could see into the heavens, just as the woman of Adam’s kind remarked:

 

Then Adam, when he heard the Word of God, and the fluttering of the angels whom he did not see, but only heard the sound of them with his ears, he and Eve wept, and said to the angels:--  "O Spirits, who wait upon God, look upon me, and upon my being unable to see you! For when I was in my former bright nature, then I could see you. I sang praises as you do; and my heart was far above you.  "But now, that I have transgressed, that bright nature is gone from me, and I am come to this miserable state. And now am I come to this, that I cannot see you, and you do not serve me As you were wont. For I am become animal flesh.  "Yet now O angels of God, ask God with me, to restore me to that wherein I was formerly; to rescue me from this misery, and to remove from me the sentence of death He passed upon me, for having trespassed against Him." Then, when the angels heard these words, they all grieved over him; and cursed Satan who had beguiled Adam, until he came from the garden to misery; from life to death; from peace to trouble; and from gladness to a strange (dark) land. (1 Adam & Eve 55:2-6) 

The Bible corresponds with that; “The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked” (Gen 3:7). They were still in the Garden at that time. Nakedness therein would not be naked flesh but seeing things both seen and unseen — transparency.

Glorification is therefore the ability to see things that were not seen before, implying that heaven is not a distant place but wholeness as the letter qof indicates before time ever began. Glorification of the common man, Enosh, would be existence in a higher state than just this lower state of life.

Adam was most certainly glorious man “in earth as in heaven” (Mat 6:1) as the prayer goes.

“Made whole” in the Bible would be made glorious again in the manner of Adam, having the ability to perceive both seen and unseen things from the perspective of here.

So, what is man? Enosh is common, mortal man but the “Son (genetics) of man” (Adam) would be a higher state than common man but lower than the state of angels.

Adam is the proto-man patterned after God, El. He was of Elohim — the Glory of God flowing like living water. Adam is often spelled הָאָדָם — “the Adam”… “the Man” as the first letter hey represents.

Now consider not just אָדָם (Adam) but הָאָדָם.

The first letter הָ means both breath and behold (from the pictograph of arms raised). God breathed life unto the man, Adam, and He was beheld as a man.

The aleph, or el, would indicate the El from Elohim — one particle (El) of Elohim would have been taken from God to create Adam. Elohim would have been the “quickening Spirit” of Jesus and Adam the living soul, El in him (1 Cor 15:45).

Next comes the letter dalet (דָ), the “Way” or entry into existence (space and matter). The El through the dalet comes into the bet. The letter bet is the House, or genetics of God, and then the Elohim expands again to fill the “house” of God, the man.

Recall the meaning of the letter mem from earlier? The letter “mem” appears in two forms: the open Mem (מ) either at the beginning or middle of words, representing revealed wisdom, and the closed final Mem (ם) at the end, representing hidden, divine mysteries. Hence, both revealed and hidden wisdom, or intellect, was made manifest to man as a second state of construction.

Proto-man Adam had intellect, having the revealed wisdom of God, or intellect.

In comparison, intellect and intelligence are very different. Whereas intelligence is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply knowledge, intellect is the capacity to reason in the abstract, deep thinking, and in- depth conceptualization. Whereas intelligence is most often functional and skill-based, intellect is more philosophical and theoretical. Adam was the first intellectual being, knowing even hidden mysteries, whereas Enosh-man lost that capacity. Adam was a higher state of being, and a glorious creature with the intellect of God within, not God, but “very good” (Gen 1:31). Thus, proto-man, Adam, was created with a good body of knowledge but without carnal knowledge (yada).

Beasts were instinctive and pro-created (yada) in the flesh. The creeping things would have been beasts in the order of man but not homo sapiens. Homo means earthling and sapien having knowledge, or intellect.

Whereas Adam was not an earthling but godly, he had intellect. Homo sapiens are human beings with wisdom, exercising their intellect. Hence, by definition common man is homo sapiens and worldly, whereas Adam’s kind would have been Theo sapiens with the intellect of God.

Somehow the worldliness got into proto-man’s kind, and most certainly from a lower state of man, one of the creeping things (Remes man). For instance, “Neanderthal” man came from the Neander Valley of Germany. Is that coincidence that a valley is a lower state of man and so was Neanderthals? (However, that may be pushing the coincidences too far!)

What is man? Depraved man Cain (Ish) — a wanderer like the beasts but with intellect. What is man? Enosh, a common depraved, mortal man without God in him who are the fools, lacking wisdom. What us Remes? A lower state of man that is instinctive like the other beasts without intellect but with knowledge enough to survive the world. What did God intend? Adamic man with both soul and intellect in the form of a man but without the faculties of the common beast — naked in the sense that they had genetics but no worldly flesh to be the vessel for it.

WHAT IS MAN

WHAT IS MAN THAT GOD IS MINDFUL OF US

 

Hidden in the word “man” in the Bible is a dichotomy. Whereas Adam represents the highest potential of mankind, Ish signifies a gender-specific or relational role, often used only after the creation of Eve.

Looking at the Hebrew words, Adam, therefore, is the highest state of man — immortal —while Ish is mortal man. Adam would be glorious man and Ish mortal. Adam was of God whereas Ish was of both the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and from Isha, “Eve” — the mother (ame) of all living (khahee; Gen 3:20). Eve is giver of Life (khav-vaw), using the Hebrew pronunciations rather than spellings.

Hence, Eve took dominion (Gen 1:26) from Adam for herself, and she became the “god” just as the Serpent warned (Gen 3:5). Consider now the transition from man, Adam, and man, Ish; to wit:

Adam knew (yada) Eve his wife (Isha); and she conceived, and bare (yada) Cain (Qayin, kah'-yin), and said, I have gotten (qana; kaw-naw) a man (Ish) from the LORD. (Gen 4:1) 

First note that Adam watched (yada) his wife, not copulate with her.

Hence Adam was begotten by God, but Ish was begotten by Eve alone, or so she thought. Life itself (khav-vaw; Eve) became the God. [1]

Although Ish seems to have come from Isha, etymologically there is no connection except Eve as the mother of Cain, not fromthe Hebrew letters. Cain (Ish) was from the womb of the woman (Isha), Adam’s wife. Adam knew his wife (Isha) but not in a carnal sense it seems for Cain is of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

Written originally in the Greek, “wicked one” is simply poneros — annoyances. In science, annoyances are “quantum decoherence” — how quantum systems lose their fragile, super-positioned quantum behaviors (coherence) and transition to classical, definite states (decoherences).

In other words, Adam’s kind — in God’s system — lost their fragile state of gloriousness (immortality) which was super-positioned into classical, definite states (mortality). Hence, Cain came short of the glory of God and so have all of us common, mortal men (Rom 3:23).

Hence, Adam’s kind is glorious and Ish’s kind mortal and the most common. (Now that you understand that both Adam and Ish are Hebrew, the italics will be dropped).

The first use of Ish for “man” was after sin; albeit it came before sin in one instance:

Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called ‘Woman’, because she was taken out of Man.” (Gen 2:23)

The Spirit (El) of the woman was taken out of God through Adam. However, the woman was taken, not only out of God in Adam, but from the same substances. Adam would have been the soul (life) in the dust from which Adam was molded.

The Lord God formed man (Adam) of the dust of the ground (adama) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (af); and man became a living (khah-ee’) soul (napes). (Gen 2:7)

 

Adam, therefore, had three states: adam, af, and nehfes. After sin, the woman would have been in a lower state without nehfes — a creature without the breath of God.

In a manner, sin “suffocated” the El in her, and her state of existence lowered. The woman was still a living creature but without an inner existence within her. Her nehfes was most certainly traded for the flesh of a lower state of creature, not Adam’s, but the creeping kind, Remes.

If so, then Cain was half Remes (a creature-like man) and half Isha as the first letter qof in the name Qayin suggests.

The word “ayin” in the name “Qayin” also has significance.  The letter qof points toward the word ayin, from the characteristic of the eye. The ayin after the letter qof would be half observable and half not. That is common man, not totally depraved but depraved.

The root word for Ish (אִישׁ) is Enosh (אֱנוֹשׁ). Note than the yod in Ish (י) is replaced by the nun – vav (נו) in Enosh. Hence, Enosh would have come from Ish, not the other way around.

Yod (sounds as Ya) is the breath of God. That breath is removed and replaced by the nun -vav — the seed of a man as the meaning of those two letters. No longer, with the birth of Enos was man of God, but strictly of the seed of the beast, or the “wicked one” (nehfes). Cain’s line would indeed have been depraved, as the Hebrew letters indicate.

You might be thinking, He’s putting too much emphasis on the letters of the words, but each of those letters have the thoughts of God hidden within them. The Tankh (Bible) was written in Hebrew letters, not words; words come from the order and meanings of the letters.

In summary, we are far from being “sons of God” and after further degeneration after sin, Adam’s kind just disappeared from existence. No longer was Elohim in mankind but Remes — we are the “old creatures” of the New Testament (from 2 Cor 5:17), so humble yourselves and let the Lord lift you up to a higher state (Jas 4:10).

The psalmist wrote, “What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man, that You visit Him?” (Psalm 8:4).  An attempt was made today to answer the question; Just what is man that God is mindful of us?

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Admitted in my last two books I mistook the letter chet for hey since they are much alike but with differfent sounds: “h” verses “ch” sounds.

 

THE SLOW DEATH OF THE CHURCH

Within the body of Christ — the Church — lives different kinds of doctrines; or as Paul wrote it, “We, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another” (Rom 12:5).

Now, think about that for a moment; if each one has, let’s say, a “particle” of Christ in them, together, in one accord (Acts 2:1) they are the “body of Christ”.

The Church is essentially a body made up of members just as the body of a person is made up of its members. If one limb is crippled the Church becomes a cripple.

A healthy Church goes unto the world; “Go you into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15) just as Jesus and the apostles did.

Sickness is no excuse to stay where it is comfortable. Your abode is your comfort zone and as such, your local church is very comfortable for you. Preachers preach mostly to believers, not all truth but whatever they feel comfortable hearing. Now, Church is more about it making the congregants comfortable, and the “Comforter” is often found in the back pew. People go to Church because somehow God calls them. That is not the only way. God calls members of His body to do His calling for Him!

The modern Church is crippled and full of malaise. For the most part, the overall Church body is sickly and weak. Your church organ may be blooming but at the expense of others dying. The heart of the Church is still pumping the virtue of Christ, but Christ Jesus has been drained from the blood of the Church as the data shows:

As of 2023-2024, about 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, a figure that has stabilized after years of decline, with 40% Protestant and 19% Catholic, while religiously unaffiliated ("nones") make up 29% of the population, according to Pew Research. (Smith 2025)

Gallup first asked about church membership in 1937, at which point 73% of Americans reported being members of a religious congregation. From the 1940s through the early 1970s, more than 90% of Americans identified with a Christian religion. Before the 1940s, approximately 95% or more of people who were raised Christian were still Christian later in life. (Gallup 2024)

 

The heartbeat of the Church body is shown in the following graph (ibid):

 

As the importance of the Church body goes down the insignificance increases. If that was even the body of critters heading toward extension, animal lovers would cry out. God lovers remain silent so long as their branch seems to have life in it.

Because the numbers are now increasing, it seems that albeit on its last leg, the Church is struggling to survive. How can life be pumped into a crippled, anemic Church?

To be a Church, the centroid of the Church — the “heart” must have life in it. Jesus Christ is the life of the Church. He is the Centroid of the body of believers; “I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Me (John 14:6).

To be born again, a body must first die; die to the world to be born of the Spirit. The problem is that the Body of the Church is now pumped up on adrenalin of some sort, not so pumped up on Christ but the artificial organism of the Church; perhaps entertainment and positive thinking.

Just as Moses was not God but called the troopers to be part of a good thing, the same goes for modern churches.

Denominations are based on men: John Calvin, John Wesley, Martin Luther, Menno Simons, Jacob Arminius; not to forget others: Joseph Smith, Herbert Armstong, William Miller, Joseph Campbell, and Charles Taze Russell. Some women even pump up the body of the Church: Mother Ann Lee, Ellen G. White, and many others. Now even Joyce Meyers has put on a new face, even worse than Tammy Faye Baker.

No longer is the Church the body of Christ but wears a very false face. Too many wrong women are the face of the modern Church Body:

 

Rev. Megan Rohrer: First openly transgender bishop in a major denomination (ELCA), focusing on liberation and diversity.

Nikki Toyama-Szeto: Executive Director of Christians for Social Action, focused on justice and social engagement.

Shantha Ready Alonso: Catholic leader involved in environmental justice through faith.

Dr. Bernice King: Minister, attorney, and civil rights leader, daughter of MLK Jr.. (Graves-Fitzsimmon 2022)

 

Environmental justice is now the blood of the Church, but forgotten is the blood of Christ. Modern theologians have created a new Jesus, one who came physically to save the world, but not the people of the world. Environmentalism is a leading religion in these last days.

Social justice seems the way, but it is not. Recall now, the rich young man that sought heaven?

 

And behold, one came and said unto (Jesus), “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

And (Jesus) said unto him, “Why call you Me good? There is none good but One, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.”

He said unto him, “Which?”

Jesus said, you shall do no murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The young man saith unto him, “All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?”

Jesus said unto him, “If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven, and come and follow Me” (Mat 19:16-21)

 

That young man was possessed by possessions (Mat 19:22). He had done all the good things that Christians were supposed to do, but he was lacking one thing — he would not give His possessions to follow Jesus. He was socially just but not faithful to Jesus. That rich young man was the face of social justice. Although he did not follow Jesus to become a member of the Church body, many modern era people follow both social justice and Jesus Christ. How can they do that? Being double-minded, they have created a new version of Christ!

The modern-era Christ is like a good dad that rowdy children step on, humiliate, and even deny is their real father. Indeed, the father of even many who call themselves “Christian” is the Devil (John 8:44). The father of that rich youngster would have been the Devil because it was another master whom he followed.

Now some things about the Devil. He is cunning (Gen 3:1) and a con artist. Con artists most often use the bait and switch method. Look at these good things, and then when the person is sold on good things, all the cunning salesman is to sell imitations of the real things.

The so-called “Serpent” was selling the idea that it was it was the “God”, but it was only god-like in its presentation. (Now forget the notion that the Serpent was a serpent, but just a cunning being whose countenance was like the Light of God, a false bringer of light, “Lucifer”.

The Serpent was selling godlikeness, but all the while, it was bestiality from the bosom of the  “Beast”.

In the same manner, modern preachers are as cunning; so many selling “software” as “hardware” for instance.

The hardware, or “boiler plate” of the Bible is that one must believe that Jesus is God in the flesh, as the crucifixion should have revealed to all.

Just a few saw the hardware — God in Jesus, and others the software (some just a man, and others like Mohammed who saw only the phantom existence of a man.)

Most who saw the crucifixion saw only a man, and all too often, modern people see Jesus as only a good man. They have merely been sold on the software version of the real divine Thing!

With Jesus as God, comes both the software and hardware versions of God, and the Acts is then the performance of the software version as good as the hardware.

The modern Church runs more the software version of Christ than the hardware. One is as significant as the other.

One member of the Church (social justice) sells only the hardware version of Christ — the man, Jesus; and another member of the body of Christ sell only he software version — the Holy Ghost, all the while forgetting the man, Jesus. The World Council of Churches sells only the goodness of the man while the apostolic churches mostly the Holy Ghost of the man.

Other members, not liking the real God having three substances, have created many gods each of one substance.

Joel Osteen, like the golden calf of old, has risen to become a god within himself; not called to preach but preaches anyhow. One woman in my acquaintance even said that Osteen saved her! Others sell the same idea, but only Jesus saves.

Jesus is the “salvation of God”. He is Yesua (salvation) called by name, a “jubilee” (50) of times in the Old Testament.

Yeshua is both incarnate God and the pre-incarnate Image of God — “The Angel of God”. The Jews followed both The Angel of God and the Spirit of God, but they refused to follow God’s hardware.

Their God is parts, but the whole God is all three substances of Him. Once they see the whole God, they too will be members of the Body of Christ (Rev 7 & 14).

To be a real member of the Body of Christ requires supra-vision; that Jesus in all three states of God come to the world as One True God.

So many members of the Body of Christ split God into fragments. Most often it is the sincere mention of “Jesus and God” as if they are distinctly different existences. The point therein is that too many in the Church cannot see God as He is but what they imagine Him to be. They see God on His throne and Jesus seated to the right and the Holy Ghost to the left. Not so… all three states of God are the godhead on the throne. That is the real God!

Not only was God torn apart at the crucifixion; that was the real agony of Christ, but His Heart has become weary.

Now, there are many gospels: the social gospel, the doctrinaire gospel, and the universal doctrine. The latter is that you can believe about anything and still go to heaven because mankind is just too important for a good God to punish them.

The social gospel puts works for the oppressed before Jesus, who was most oppressed. Many of them see Jesus as much like the capitalist that gave to the poor, using scripture about the rich young ruler. In their view, Jesus is a communist who was like Robin Hood, taking from some to provide for others without regard to who worked for it.

Jesus was no Robin Hood; He told the rich young ruler to do nothing more than follow Him. Way too many Christians follow their own hearts and not the Heart of Christianity, Jesus Christ.

One of the worst comes in beautiful packages; that the gift of grace comes for free in neat packages and although a beautiful gift, put it can be put away without use. That “software” version is Calvinism. Indeed, Calvinists preach a good gospel, but it is one of “cheap grace” — forgiveness without transformation. To be a real member of the Body of Christ, requires transformation from the old creature to the new one, or as Paul wrote it, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (1 Cor 5:17).

Now put on a true lens: closely look at the members of the Church body; do you see Christ in them or the world? Christ must be in you to become a member of the Body of Christ. How that comes about is debatable, but “transformation” means change. Hence, the Church body is much like the world.

Sin is genetic, and as sons of the Devil (John 8:44), we have the Devil within our genetics.

One popular young lady in her reel, ridiculed a preacher who said that he sensed the Devil and looked right at her.

She looked around for the Devil and saw nobody. How can that be? The old creature still resides in children of God who still sin. The Devil itself was not in the Church but came to church in her genome. The Devil is as real as God and both the Devil and God cannot be together within. As such, most of the members seem to serve two masters, and given time, they must choose one over the other (Mat 6:24).

Calvinists say that the grace of Christ is “irresistible”. However, Jesus said that of their own volition (free will) as Sovereign He gave them one choice — who of the two would master them in the world?

Calvinist doctrine espouses eternal security; that whatever you desire to do, you can do without penalty or consequences. Most reformed congregations live like the Devil while saying they love God. Jesus said that who is followed reveals the one that is loved: “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15), implying that if you do not do what He commands, then there is no love for Him.

Love is often misconstrued. Love, in the doctrine of social justice, is providing money to the oppressed.

Rather, true love is providing the knowledge of Jesus for their eternal well-being. That is divine justice.

Like drug pushers push their god… drugs, Jesus pushers must push their love… Jesus. If you are not a fan of Jesus, then you push another god, most often the one that resides in a non-believer even if he or she claims to be in Christ.

You are right now undergoing a test. You are battling within each moment of the day; to either follow the world or Jesus. Each of your sins reveal who it is you follow. Like a stray beast, sometimes you do get off the right way, but if God brings you back to the true Church, you then continue on the Way to eternal life.

Unlike the doctrine of Osteen, Christianity is tough. Jesus was scourged, beaten, and died. You are to take up your cross and follow Him (Mat 16:24), so like a beast, you have a yoke to bear, but the load is made easier yoked to Jesus in love.

Will you escape The Great Tribulation? None of the apostles did, so why should you?  Calvinists say that you will escape any tribulation. That is a nice hope, but is it true? God will decide that, not your preacher or other theologian.

The Church is a body of believers who trust Jesus and go wherever He goes… His Way.

Christians are now like lost sheep going whichever way the current of the wind goes. Even the church may mislead you to go astray.

Way too many Christians have gone astray like Cain in the beginning. Church dominations often mislead for each have their own versions of the truth, but versions will not get you to heaven. Paul wrote that you must follow Jesus and Him crucified and resurrected. In 1 Corinthians 15 he wrote that the gospel is foundational… "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty" and cites it as an early creed, "Christ died for our sins... was buried... was raised on the third day.” Also, in Romans 8:34, that Christ died, was raised, and now intercedes; in Galatians 1:4 he wrote that Jesus gave Himself for our sins to rescue us, demonstrating that core belief.

Just because you don’t believe in a law does not mean that the law does not exist. We all ignore laws each day, but when least expected, the law finds us. Jesus is the final version of the Law, and if we do not obey, we will be found and sentenced. If your church denomination does not teach that, then it is a false version of the gospel. Indeed, Christians must obey the Law of God to abide in the Kingdom of God.

Many other examples could be provided that the Church is weak and not even a true Church at all, but an imposter. You do the math; does your church live up to the tenets of Jesus? If not, then you are being misled. You may go to Church a sinner, but to go to Paradise in heaven, you must go there a saint. How long to preserve the saints? Until they endure to the end (Mat 10:22).

“Love the Lord, all you His saints for the Lord preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer” (Psalm 31:23).

“Saints” are those who love the Lord God enough to be among the worthy. The “elect” is contingent on who loves the Lord God enough to remain faithful, not just faith once, but to the end.

The evidence of sainthood is a proud doer, doing the will of God. His Will to be done are the Ten Words (Commandments). Command-keeping is evidence of sainthood. Just how many in the Church even try to keep commandments? Even the Name of God has become vanity, now used mostly, not for the word, but an exclamation mark!