PART 2
I have written before about the butler and baker of the Pharaoh… the good Pharaoh of Joseph in, “In Search of the Holy Grail”. [1] The focus on that was that the silver chalice of the Pharaoh represented the “cup” of Jesus’s person. Everyone is in search of the Holy Grail because their own “cups” are empty. Specifically, the cup of Jesus that he desired to be passed was a vessel. [i] The vessel of Jesus is His Soul, and that vessel was filled with the Holy Ghost when John baptized Him; to wit: “And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, ‘Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased’” (Luke 3:22).
Several remarkable things are in that verse: (1) The Holy Ghost (hagios pneuma) was sent from the heavens to Jesus. The Father poured His Living Water, from His “belly”, into the vessel of His Son.
Hagios, “The Most Holy Thing” came forth pneumatically, as the movement of air (Strong’s Dictionary). Its appearance was not that of a dove, but its glidepath was. Of course, the Father is the Most Holy Thing as “I AM THAT I AM” (Yahweh). So, God is Spirit, but look what else: He is “Voice” speaking the Word and the Father has “bodily shape”. In other words, the Father sounds as Jesus would sound in Word, and looked like Jesus would look. The bodily shape of God would appear as the vessel of His Son. Truly, Jesus is the Image of His Father, and like Father, like Son.
The difference between the Father and Son is “substance” alone. Jesus has the Voice of His Father and speaks the Father’s Mind, but the Father is of different “Flesh”. Nobody can explain the substance of the soul, but sacred literature describes it as the shape inside and including the epidermis. The soul of Jesus was His “cup”, and it was filled with the substance of the Father from head to toe, from front to back, and to all His extremities. The cup of Jesus could not be passed because it is His Cup.
With that said, the soul of each person would look like them except it is of a different substance. Adam, for instance, was molded of clay. The hagios pneuma from God could leak out. “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). The physical substance of Adam was flesh made from the elements of the Garden. God formed that substance into clay and made the physical image of Himself. Adam would have looked like Jesus because their spiritual image is the same. Hence, Jesus is the Son of Man.
But when the Father breathed life unto Adam through his nostrils, then the pneuma took the shape of Adam’s body. Aph (nostrils) is the face, the countenance, or the forehead; and even all of those things. With Jesus, the Father would have done the same thing as with Adam. He would have come down like a dove on the forehead of Adam, his countenance would be the countenance of His Father as His Mind would become the Mind of His Father, and likewise Jesus would take the mark of God on His forehead. Paul wrote about the mark of God:
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (Phil 3:16-17)
The mark of the Beast is on the forehead or in the hand. [ii] It appears that the mark of God is in the mind, and those so marked have a changed countenance that Jesus referred to as “born again” [iii] The mark of the Beast may not be a physical mark upon the flesh, but an invisible mark upon the soul… the bodily-shaped substance preserving the flesh and containing the Spirit. It can be seen who is marked and who is not! Marked persons walk the same rule as Jesus. The “rule” is “good will” or agape love.
Those with the mark of the Beast can be identified, perhaps, by the mark of the same substance — by the rule of the Beast… the Law of Sin. [iv] Ezekiel saw the mark that would be put on the abominable, but he saw it as ink, [v] not with a literal inkwell but as a “cup” (ibid). Ezekiel saw the “cup” of Jesus marking the abominable, not for the Besst, but to mark them for God. Jesus would look for the beasts, then mark the abominable ones with Living Water, as all those who would not take the mark of God would perish.
If anyone is looking for physical markings, both the Mark of God and the Mark of the Beast are on the cranium, which, by the way, is “Calvariae” in the Latin. The place of the cranium (cranion in the Greek) is Calvariae Locus in the Latin.
The mark is not on the flesh of the forehead, as most expect, but inside the cranium. Just why do you suppose “Calvary”? Why “The Place of the Skull”? Because the mark is in the mind and the cranium is the preserver of the brain; the part of the body housing the mind.
Why do you suppose that Paul endeavored to persuade Agrippa and all the others to become a Christian” To take the Mark of God… that unseen mark that is only detected by a changed countenance.
Adam was marked as entirely good. He would have been the perfect man if not for the Serpent. Since sin, like Adam, we have all missed the mark: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”. The Mark of God is “glory” — in His Image and existence in His Presence. Coming short of that is missing the mark, and that is one of the definitions of sin.
How can the Mark of God be detected? By whose way people walk; walking the Way of Jesus with the Law of God or the way of Satan with the Law of Sin?
In other words, the flesh is a reflection of the soul. Certainly, if the cup is cracked on the outside, what is inside will seep out. Satan’s way is a gradual seeping out of the Holy Spirit into the world so slowly that it goes unnoticed.
Now what has this all to do with the butler and baker? It is about which will perish. Which has the Mark of God, and which has the Mark of the Beast.
Nobody took the mark, but Joseph saw their countenance. He saw just whom carried the true cup and who carried the permeable basket. Joseph saw their marks!
At the crucifixion, who would take the Mark of God? Those who were near to Jesus; the abominable thief on the cross and the abominable centurion who pierced him.
The apostles stood at a distance. The did not receive the Mark of God until after Jesus ascended, then the Holy Ghost of Jesus came down and marked them as with fire. Their souls were singed and they were branded by the Holy Ghost and all their countenances changed!
I am inferring that the Living Water from the belly of Jesus sprinkled on those two sinners, and they were baptized by Living Water, the true and only efficacious baptism! [vi]
The centurion and thief were born again the same way that Adam was created a new creature. God breathed life into their craniums at “The Place of the Cranium” and their minds were changed. Calvary should change the mind of us just as it did for those two men.
Before, Longinus (the centurion) had only seen the flesh of Jesus, but he marveled: “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39). He saw the man (flesh) of Jesus but when he pieced the man, the “cup” spilled out Living Waters from His belly just as he had said to the woman at the well — that abominable woman!
What did Longinus see? Perhaps the Spirit of God in bodily shape. He saw the Ghost of Jesus leave Him just as the apostles did when He was baptized. Longinus was marked by water from the Cup of Jesus.
When Jesus was baptized, He alone had the Holy Ghost remaining on Him. [vii] It would remain in Him since the pneuma permeated the soul of Jesus and would still be there when He gave up the Ghost at His death. Longinus saw that! He saw the vessel of Jesus emptied of the Spirit of God, perhaps in bodily shape, just as it had entered!
That invisible “shape” of Jesus is in true Christians who have been persuaded to take the Mark of God. The Place of the Cranium, Calvary, is where the Persuasive Mind of God shares His Spirit and marks the “beasts” (the abominable) as adopted children of God.
(picture credit: Wikipedia; "Eye of Providence")
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