SO BE IT

The days of the Son of Man is the return of Jesus; to judge the unrighteous and the righteous. That time was revealed to John in the Revelation - the apocalypse; called the end of days. Jesus even provided some clues, when he said, 

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:26-27)

Jesus was implying that the world had gone on as normal; that even with the warning of impending doom, the people of the world went on as usual. They had the chance to but did not prepare for it. They even continued consummation of their marriages and exposed their offspring to the calamity that was coming.

Then sounds like nowadays, but sacred literature provides even more detail. The Books of Adam and Eve were written somewhere between the years 200 BC and 100 AD. Whoever wrote them explained, not only the days before the first destruction, but the time before its final destruction. The world will be torn down before it is built back better, and not by mankind, but by Jesus. 

Edited only for brevity, this is how it was in the days of Noah from the 2nd Book of Adam and Eve, chapter twenty:

1 AFTER Cain had gone down to the land of dark soil, and his children had multiplied therein, there was one of them, whose name was Genun, son of Lamech the blind who slew Cain.

2 But as to this Genun, Satan came into him in his childhood; and he made sundry trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals and psalteries, and lyres and harps, and flutes; and he played on them at all times and at every hour.

3 And when he played on them, Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished the heart.

4 Then he gathered companies upon companies to play on them; and when they played, it pleased well the children of Cain, who inflamed themselves with sin among themselves, and burnt as with fire; while Satan inflamed their hearts, one with another, and increased lust among them.

5 Satan also taught Genun to bring strong drink out of com; and this Genun used to bring together companies upon companies in drink-houses; and brought into their hands all manner of fruits and flowers; and they drank together.

6 Thus did this Genun multiply sin exceedingly; he also acted with pride, and taught the children of Cain to commit all manner of the grossest wickedness, which they knew not; and put them up to manifold doings which they knew not before.

7 Then Satan, when he saw that they yielded to Genun and hearkened to him in every thing he told them, rejoiced greatly, increased Genun's understanding, until he took iron and with it made weapons of war.

8 Then when they were drunk, hatred and murder increased among them; one man used violence against another to teach him evil taking his children and defiling them before him.

9 And when men saw they were overcome, and saw others that were not overpowered, those who were beaten came to Genun, took refuge with him, and he made them his confederates.

10 Then sin increased among them greatly; until a man married his own sister, or daughter, or mother, and others; or the daughter of his father's sister, so that there was no more distinction of relationship, and they no longer knew what is iniquity; but did wickedly, and the earth was defiled with sin, and they angered God the Judge, who had created them.

11 But Genun gathered together companies upon companies, that played on horns and on all the other instruments we have already mentioned, at the foot of the Holy Mountain; and they did so in order that the children of Seth who were on the Holy Mountain should hear it.

12 But when the children of Seth heard the noise, they wondered, and came by companies, and stood on the top of the mountain to look at those below; and they did thus a whole year.

13 When, at the end of that year, Genun saw that they were being won over to him little by little, Satan entered into him, and taught him to make dyeing-stuffs for garments of divers patterns, and made him understand how to dye crimson and purple and what not.

14 And the sons of Cain who wrought all this, and shone in beauty and gorgeous apparel, gathered together at the foot of the mountain in splendour, with horns and gorgeous dresses, and horse races, committing all manner of abominations.

15 Meanwhile the children of Seth, who were on the Holy Mountain, prayed and praised God, in the place of the hosts of angels who had fallen; wherefore God had called them "angels," because He rejoiced over them greatly.

16 But after this, they no longer kept His commandment, nor held by the promise He had made to their fathers; but they relaxed from their fasting and praying, and from the counsel of Jared their father. And they kept on gathering together on the top of the mountain, to look upon the children of Cain, from morning until evening, and upon what they did, upon their beautiful dresses and ornaments.

17 Then the children of Cain looked up from below, and saw the children of Seth, standing in troops on the top of the mountain; and they called to them to come down to them...

24 ..After this a hundred men of the children of Seth gathered together, and said among themselves, "Come, let us go down to the children of Cain, and see what they do, and enjoy ourselves with them."

25 But when Jared heard this of the hundred men, his very soul was moved, and his heart was grieved. He then arose with great fervour, and stood in the midst of them, and adjured them by the blood of Abel the just, "Let not one of you go down from this holy and pure mountain, in which our fathers have ordered its to dwell."

26 But when Jared saw that they did not receive his words, he said unto them, "O my good and innocent and holy children, know that when once you go down from this holy mountain, God will not allow you to return again to it."

27 He again adjured them, saying, "I adjure by the death of our father Adam, and by the blood of Abel, of Seth, of Enos, of Cainan, and of Mahalaleel, to hearken to me, and not to go down from this holy mountain; for the moment you leave it, you will be reft of life and of mercy; and you shall no longer be called 'children of God,' but 'children of the devil.'"

28 But they would not hearken to his words.

29 Enoch at that time was already grown up, and in his zeal for God, he arose and said, "Hear me, O ye sons of Seth, small and great--when ye transgress the commandment of our fathers, and go down from this holy mountain--ye shall not come up hither again for ever."

30 But they rose up against Enoch, and would not hearken to his words, but went down from the Holy Mountain.

31 And when they looked at the daughters of Cain, at their beautiful figures, and at their hands and feet dyed with colour, and tattooed in ornaments on their faces, the fire of sin was kindled in them.

32 Then Satan made them look most beautiful before the sons of Seth, as he also made the sons of Seth appear of the fairest in the eyes of the daughters of Cain, so that the daughters of Cain lusted after the sons of  Seth like ravenous beasts, and the sons of Seth after the daughters of Cain, until they committed abomination with them.

33 But after they had thus fallen into this defilement, they returned by the way they had come, and tried to ascend the Holy Mountain. But they could not, because the stones of that holy mountain were of fire flashing before them, by reason of which they could not go up again.

34 And God was angry with them, and repented of them because they had come down from glory, and had thereby lost or forsaken their own purity or innocence, and were fallen into the defilement of sin.

35 Then God sent His Word to Jared, saying, "These thy children, whom thou didst call 'My children,'--behold they have transgressed My commandment, and have gone down to the abode of perdition, and of sin. Send a messenger to those that are left, that they may not go down, and be lost."

36 Then Jared wept before the Lord, and asked of Him mercy and forgiveness. But he wished that his soul might depart from his body, rather than hear these words from God about the going down of his children from the Holy Mountain.

37 But he followed God's order, and preached unto them not to go down from that holy mountain, and not to hold intercourse with the children of Cain.

38 But they heeded not his message, and would not obey his counsel.

Jared was the last righteous man previous to Noah and the son of Enoch, the latter who was translated to heaven without ever suffering death. Noah, the son of Lamech was effectively the replacement for Jared because he found grace (Gen 6:8). God had endowed him at birth, as sacred literature reveals, to save mankind from Satan and themselves. Fortunately, just as Noah was the Son of Man in those days, Jesus is in the latter days.

In other words, what happened then with Noah will happen again with Jesus. Is it happening right now? Reread the evidence above and you decide. Nobody can do it for you. Just as Noah could save the animals but not people, Jesus will save the obedient but not the apathetic!

Genun, was the son of another Lamech - blind Lamech who killed Cain, the father of rebels., his ancestor, and ours! "Genun" because Cain's sin was genetic down these several generations. In other words, just as Cain had scattered sin into the world, Genun multiplied it by inventing things that took minds off God. 

On the Holy Mountain - Hermon - their minds were continually on God. On the fertile plain below their minds were continually on pleasure and the pursuit of it.

"They" - them all - refused council, even the righteous ones, and that was in the last verse. Jared had warned them, and they failed him as THE spokesman for God who guided him. Jared was the religious advisor for the germline of righteous Seth. They were the last of mankind to be born without sin, and after Genun was through with them, all had sinned but Jared and Enoch, both of whom God took away before the flood.

Just examine the things in the days of Noah:

v.1 Sin had already multiplied since the first sin. Rather than multiply living souls, mankind had multiplied dying souls.

v. 2 Satan entered Genun and then Genun invented instruments that would take the minds of the people away from God. He brought heavy metal music to young and fertile minds to distract them. The music was forever ongoing; "He played on them at all times and at every hour." And when he played; they listened. They listened to whatever music that Satan chose, since it was Satan in the music, and as much as Satan playing the music. (I think of Jimmy Hendrix who even his band members say was possessed.)

v. 3 "When he played on them, Satan came into them." They only heard beautiful and pleasant sounds, as related in that passage, but all the while Satan came into them, and his spirit remained there without even taking a break! They heard music "that ravished the heart." It overwhelmed them, and rather than circumcision of the heart as God does, music devoured their young hearts, in a spiritual sense, of course... and they could not even detect that they had been changed inside!

v. 4 "Satan inflamed their hearts, one with another, and increased lust among them." They lost their inhibitions and did whatever they desired to do. There was no conviction felt because the music had numbed their malleable minds. God was nowhere to be found amongst any of them; and they all had become their own gods, doing as they pleased. Satan had raped those young people and they felt no shame about it, not even knowing that their minds had lost their innocence. I think of Woodstock and that shameful week continuing to this day.

v. 5 Genun was only the "bartender" and "drug pusher" because Satan had directed him to manufacture inebriants. Why would Satan do that? To further reduce the inhibitions that the Divine One had gifted them with. They failed to be sober and vigilant, and as such, Satan did his will to them, all the while each thought it was their own wills!

v. 6 This verse explains why even more; "Genun multiply sin exceed." Genun attained power over them to exalt himself.  Musicians, you know, are the most exalted of them all. He rocked! Genun also acted with pride as he became the authority figure who persuaded them to abandon God. He was the teacher now! He convinced them that God and family were wrong. "He taught the children of Cain to commit all manner of the grossest wickedness, which they knew not; and put them up to manifold doings which they knew not before." He remolded their young and fertile minds in "Satan's School for the Naive."

v. 7  Satan was pleased with his plan and rejoiced. He stepped it up a notch, he coached Genun and "he took iron and with it made weapons of war." Now in chaos and each one focusing on themselves, war ensued. Chaos and revelry, as in the world to this day, creates the conditions for wars.

v. 8 "Then when they were drunk, hatred and murder increased among them." They lost their self-control. As it turned out love was not love but hatred one for another and lust for others eventually led to hatred. We see that all the time with broken marriages. Those who once were loved - lusted after - become the enemies. The violent ones each were "evil taking his children and defiling them before him." With that attitude, instilled by Satan, and provoked by spirits, many became pedophiles. In the days of Noah, pedophilia was natural, and now it has become common in these days like never before!

v. 9 Civil people gave up. They had been beaten. They would do what Genun did. They would obey Satan, and as such, "He made them his confederates." Sin exploded, it multiplied on the face of the Earth until all had sinned, except Noah. Satan had got his wish. Now he was the "Most High God." Who is the God of most everyone today? Undubitly, it is Satan because God has no place in the lives of many, and if so, it is merely to entertain the idea of heaven and themselves.

v. 10 Sin continued to multiply; "Man married his own sister, or daughter, or mother, and others; or the daughter of his father's sister, so that there was no more distinction of relationship, and they no longer knew what is iniquity..." Incest became normal. Love is love, so they say, so who to love does not matter to the world. "Married" there is not Holy Matrimony but sexual coupling. Sex would become not so much for procreating, but a mechanical, instinctual craving, and about anyone would do. Thus, casual sex was introduced into the world, and no longer was man and woman one, but one of many. Chain-coupling was born.

(To be continued) Hopefully, you will continue reading and share this commentary because this message is more urgent today than ever before! (Picture credit; Britannica)

Satan's Seat: The Liar Reveals

 There is one parent conspiracy, father of many. It cannot be denied because it was planned eons ago, even before the foundation of the world. The prophet, Isaiah, was a conspiracy theorist but he only mentioned one conspiracy:

You (Lucifer) has said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." (Isa 14:13-14) 

Today, I will focus more on heaven, the mountain, and the North, more so than any conspiracy.

The state of things when Lucifer said that was after he was cast out of heaven even during the foundation of the world (verse 12). It is revealed that he was cut down to the ground (‘eres) — literally, “the firm” translated most places as the Earth.

The status of Lucifer, when he boasted, is that he had once been a resident of heaven, but thereafter his residence is Earth. With that said, Lucifer still resides on or in Earth, albeit it is a heavenly (spiritual) creature.

Its plan was to ascend into heaven from which it had fallen as the Earth was created. It appears that God made the Earth as a prison for Lucifer until its final days. (Four times now, I have used “it” rather than “him” because Lucifer is amorphous, and not human, as personal pronounces apply only to those with organic gender.)

Because Lucifer has the power of trans-fluidity, as sacred literature indicates, it can change its apparent kind and gender.

Do not think of Lucifer as an earthly being of any sort but a fluid, or spirit, that can take on any form.

Thus comes the revealing; Paul revealed the substance of Lucifer, identified as the Adversary, or Satan as: “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephes 2:2).

Lucifer, aka Satan, is not a person, unlike the man-God, Jesus. The best description of it is that Lucifer is a fraud, or as Jesus called it, “a liar from the beginning” (John 8:44).

The “Big Lie” is that Lucifer, who Jesus called the “Devil” is an objective being; it is not, but only an impersonator, and throughout the Bible and elsewhere, Lucifer impersonates beautiful women, handsome men, and even God!

Adam and Eve had many conflicts with Lucifer, and in those conflicts, Lucifer impersonated glorious things, even more glorious than Adam and Eve. Usually, it impersonated glorious men and women.

Being fluidic, Lucifer, as Satan, entered Judas. Judas remained Judas outwardly, but inwardly he was Lucifer, or Satan (Luke 22:3, etc.). For all practical purposes, Judas was already dead, or as scripture calls it, reprobate (damned).

Think of heaven, not as a place with coordinates, but as a spiritual realm. Just as the physical realm has no bounds within space, neither would heaven have bounds. Think of heaven as a parallel existence with the material universe, itself having no bounds.

With that background, Lucifer was cast out of the realm of heaven to the realm of matter, or earth, specifically to the place called “Earth.” Earth outside the Garden would be the “prison” in which Lucifer was cast, and mankind’s prison to which Adam and Eve were sent.

Earth is the only known place with air, hence Lucifer is the Prince of the Power of the Earth, and Earth is now the realm in which it resides.

Albeit, in earth’s atmosphere — the First Heaven, Lucifer would retain the invisible nature of a spirit because its identity is not an earthly being but a spiritual being, thus “it” — it being an angel.

Isaiah identified Lucifer as a certain species of angel within the taxonomy of its domain.

Isaiah identifies the “image” (nahas) that Adam and Eve encountered, as a “serpent” (sarap) (Isa 14:29). Therefore, Lucifer took on the form of some image, but it was inwardly a seraph species of angel.

I have written many times that Christians must not get hung up on the idea that Lucifer appeared to Adam and Eve as a snake. Snakes are deaf and dumb, so unless snakes have devolved, it would not be a serpent to which Eve was deceived. However, whatever species it was, inwardly the image of the beast was Lucifer.

In the Book of Enoch, the heavens are described. Angels had escorted Enoch through ten heavens. In that pseudepigraphic book, God was found in the Tenth Heaven.

Paradise, the home prepared for the righteous, is in the Third Heaven. Paul confirmed that in 1 Corinthians 12:2. Some other person, Paul said, had gone thereto, but he did not know whether in the body or in the spirit.

The Tenth Heaven makes God Lord of All Things. The Luciferin Conspiracy mentioned previously is to reign on high, or all the way throughout the heavens from the First Heaven — the atmosphere here on Earth — to the Tenth Heaven.

Within the Third Heaven, according to Enoch, are two very different economies — one for reward and one for punishment, or Paradise and Hell. Enoch was not concerned with distances, and writes as if Paradise overlaps the Garden of Eden on Earth; not that Hell and Paradise are on Earth but that the “great gulf” of Luke 16 is not distance but a barrier between different realms that cannot be crossed by human beings.

Neither can Lucifer cross that great divided as it is confined to the world in which humans reside, according to Isaiah.

In the Book of Adam and Eve (Part 2), Lucifer and its dark angels appear to righteous Jared as handsome men with Lucifer the most handsome of them all. “Satan then appeared to him with thirty men of his hosts, in the form of handsome men; Satan himself being the elder and tallest among them, with a fine beard” (2 A&E 17:4).

Satan appeared tallest of the tallest. It seems that angels from somewhere else appeared as giants. Scripture says that “There were giants in the earth in those days” (Gen 6:2). Well, here came the giants to Jared. And it specifically says “in the earth” — within the ground, not on the Earth.

They appeared to Jared on Holy Mount Hermon. The men-impersonators took Jared down the mountain to where Cain’s germline resided and there, the impersonator-giants, then Satan said to Jared, “The elder (Satan) saw him as he wrenched himself from him, and said to him (Jared), ‘Be not sad; I am the great elder, as thou shalt see me do, do thyself in like manner.” He was tempting Jared to have sexual intercourse with the women of Cain’s germline. “Then he spread his hands and took one of the women, and five of his companions did the same before Jared, that he should do as they did” (2 A&E 17:41-42).

In Holy Scripture, that event is identified, to wit: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them…” (Gen 6:4). Men-impersonators had sexual intercourse with true daughters of men.

Lucifer’s goal, according to Isaiah, was to “sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.”

The “congregation” is specifically, the assembly of the righteous. Lucifer was likely referring to Holy Mount Herman whereon the germline of righteous Seth had settled.

It would be Seth’s and Jared’s “God.”

So where might the “North” be? It would seem to be north of Mount Hermon; the highest peak in now Israel occupied territory. Perhaps “North” would be higher than Mount Hermon, perhaps even the Tenth Heaven which is the outer limits of the universe, or physical and even spiritual existence.

The writer of Adam and Eve provided another idea. Lucifer, the eldest of the “men” said, “Marvel not, O my son; we live in the land north of the Garden, which God created before the world. He would not let us live there, but placed us inside the garden, below which ye are now dwelling: (2 A&E 17:130.

Remembering from scripture that Satan is a liar from the beginning (John 8:44), then Satan was lying to Jared.

It (Lucifer as the elder) now has human pronouns describing him.

He calls Jared, “son,” meaning of his gens, or family. That was indeed who he claimed to be — the arisen father whose name was Adam. Because they were all “family” — all thirty of them — Jared’s fear was allayed and he went with them where he normally would not go, although he had suspected that they were of the germline of Cain.

They were not; they were of Lucifer and its germline. They were a different kind of being in this realm, who previously could not couple (marry) in heaven but could on Earth.

They coupled and had children, according to Genesis. The daughters of Cain were attracted to those “men” of renown and their own children became renown (Gen 6:4), or “appellations” — called by a new name — surely a different species of giantism. They were hybridized even more so that Cain whose mark may have been giantism.

(Blind Lamech — his own germline — killed Cain, according to A&E, because being blind, he would not recognize that Cain was a giant.)

So far, Adam and Eve has validated, or at least explained, Genesis chapter six.

In that the Liar said, “North” then it is likely not north of the Garden but another realm that the “men” describe as more beautiful than either the Holy Mountain or the paradise below, that was once the Garden of Eden which Cain’s germline had despoiled.

The Liar also said that they dwelled north within the Garden of the Lord. They were claiming that they were taking Jared to Adam’s place of birth in the Garden of Eden, since the Liar claimed to be Adam. It would be safe there, but that was not where they were headed.

The Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) is 31.768.42 N. The Mount of Olives, which I believe, according to sacred writings was in the Garden of Eden; its longitude is 31.776112 N. The Liar said “north;” Jared should have expected south. Gehenna is south of the middle of the Garden.

The elder — Lucifer — was not heading north to Paradise (the Garden) but South to the entryway to Hell!

When Lucifer revealed his plan, it was true to the concept of good and evil. Indeed, he pretended to the throne of God but “Satan’s Seat” (Rev 2:13) is in Hell, whereas the throne of God is in Paradise.

Surely, Lucifer’s final destination (for Jared) was in heaven — another realm — but not North. It would be down (South) through the gate (Gehenna) to the netherworld.

But where was Satan’s Seat on Earth? Beside Jesus at the supper table!

How about Pergamon? That will be for another time.

BEHIND THE SCENES: BIRTH OF JESUS

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NOVEL WAY OF REVEALING JESUS

 

Many get bored with theology, so my latest book that reveals scripture and the real Christ is a novel. One of the main characters is Lilith and much of the subject matter is the importance of gender in Christology. To understand the plot, herein in publish the postscript for my book, "Apokalypto - The Revealing."

POSTSCRIPT

 The concept of Lilith is both from the Bible and sacred literature. In this book, Lilith is the inner person of Mary, or in psychology, the “Shadow” that dwells in the psyche of everyone.

Of course, Lilith in this book is the female spirit in women, but Lilith can also be the “anima” in men. Perhaps, Lilith is the source of transgenderism.

In scripture, Isaiah refers to “Lilit” — the “screech owl” in English. Some Jewish theologians wrongly place her as the first wife of Adam but that is from the misunderstanding that there were two creations.

Radical feminists have Lilith as their mentor — their muse — as she is the spirit that robs babies from their nests. She would be the muse of abortion.

The author believes that Eve was the first and only wife of Adam, and that Lilith may be the “adulteress” within Eve (another meaning of “wife”) who was there with the “Serpent” and that her original sin was fornication with Lucifer.

Hence, Lilith would be the evil within Eve after sin, and Lilith would reside in all women since all have sinned and come short of the glory, or Image, of God.

Sacred literature implies that because Satan impersonated a woman to seduce Seth; “It” (the female impersonator) said:

"But I rejoiced over the birth of thy son Seth; yet after a little while I sorrowed greatly over Eve, because she is my sister. For when God sent a deep sleep over thee, and drew her out of thy side, He brought me out also with her. But He raised her by placing her with thee, while He lowered me.” (1 Adam & Eve 3:9)

 If that is true, then Lilith was falsely presented as the first wife and sister of Eve but in reality, Lilith is a beautiful spirit, or muse, whose habitat is another realm; or in taxonomy, another domain.

That brings to mind Lucifer, as one of the angels, who many believe are not carnal “in heaven” (Mat 22:30), but surely are on Earth in this domain.

Lucifer imaged himself as “Serpent” (Hebrew; nahas) but it can also mean any “image.” Isaiah uses serap (seraph) as the Image for the “Serpent” as well. Hence, the author believes that Lucifer was the real “thing” — a messenger (angel) of the species — and also a seraph in the domain of heaven. It — the image — is fluidic.

It seems, from sacred literature, that Lucifer is fluidic in three aspects: gender, species, and domain. The evidence of that follows.

Seth was seduced, but did not yield to it, by a “woman” even more beautiful than Aklia, the twin sister to Abel who had died, and who was his fiancé. Lucifer — Satan — therein appeared to Seth as a woman. God explains that trans-creature to Adam:

Then God sent His Word unto Adam, saying, "O Adam, that figure is the one that promised thee the Godhead, and majesty; he is not favourably disposed towards thee; but shows himself to thee at one time in the form of a woman; another moment, in the likeness of an angel; on another occasions, in the similitude of a serpent; and at another time, in the semblance of a god; but he does all that only to destroy thy soul. (1 Adam & Eve 3:15)

 If that is true, and it seems to be even in scripture, then the thesis of this book is not so farfetched.

THE GODHEAD

 “Godhead” is literally the divine nature of God. After them sinning, God, according to sacred literature, said about Satan, “He has deprived thee of the Godhead, and if an exalted state like unto me” (A & E XLV:5)

Satan had degenerated Adam from a divine and glorious substance to an alien, inglorious substance. His flesh had changed, even his identity, encoded within his genes.

Satan had “deprived him of his glory” (verse six). “Glory” would be his divine nature in his DNA. Adam had become an alien to Paradise and was cast out.

Coming short of the glory of God, therefore, would be somewhat inglorious, or retaining an evil nature, not divine, but alien. As such Christians are aliens from the divine nature of God, coming short of his divine Genome - the image of God in which they were made.

From verse 8 , it is the said about Satan and his genetics: “he wished to make thee come out of Light unto darkness: and from an exalted state to degradation; from glory to abasement.”

The “Light” is the Existence of God called “Jesus.” Adam would no longer have the image of Jesus because he had devolved from glory to abasement; his DNA had degenerated as he went from divine to depraved. Mankind had not evolved but devolved. Evolution of the species is deception.

JESUS THE GREAT TECHNICIAN

 I believe Holy Scripture is very technically written in archaic terms. It is the science of the universe, not that science supersedes it, but that it is scientific using archaic terminology.

I support that truth based on the vocation of Jesus; not just a carpenter — a cutter of wood — but a “tekton” in the Greek (Mark 6:1). In the Latin, on which English has more in common, that would be faber — a craftsman. Hence, Jesus was not just a carpenter, but a highly technical craftsman!

Think on that; Jesus created all things! The Hebrew for “created” in the beginning is bara’; literally to “cut down (wood)” (Strong 1890). Jesus created by “cutting down” and the wood part is qualified since the Garden was a garden with trees.

Other than creating life, the preparation in the process of time for creating life is quite interesting! On the second “day” there was a second process: “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so” (Gen 1:7). The “firmament” was an “expanse” (apparently) a visible arch in the sky. Some translations have it as a dome.

In that one process there were two events: making matter and dividing it into two categories.

The “waters” were figuratively semen (ibid). Semen has particles (spermatozoa) in seminal fluid. Now it is known from astrophysics that bosons and fermions are sort of fluids with particles within them, and they are divided by hadrons.

Excuse the technical terms but bosons are visible matter and fermions invisible. Science has now observed the unseen!

The celestial sphere is made up of particles in a gravitational field to hold them in place. That, by the way, was not accidental as the Earth is a perfect place for life because of its gravitational field; held exactly in place and with the perfect orbit and spin to maintain life. One minor deviation in that could either burn the world or freeze it with coldness.

The “celestial dome” is a sphere whose center is geocentric. From any place on Earth at night the cosmos appears to be a huge spherical dome whose celestial axis coincides with the center of the Earth. I am going somewhere with this detail, so bear with me.

Since the cosmos is made up of mostly suns so far away that they appear to be stationary and merely like a dome-shaped curtain as Isaiah saw it (Isa 44:22) — the “circle of the Earth,” as God revealed to Isaiah the dome-shaped firmament.

Now back to the second stage of creation. The firmament is made up of gigantic particles in a vast space (astro-waters). Constellations are made up of stars of different sizes in various stages of development; hence some are more liquid than others due to size and internal temperature.

Temperature is imperative, as scientists believe: 

  Carbon-12 (12C) is the most abundant of the two stable isotopes of carbon (carbon-13 being the other), amounting to 98.93% of element carbon on Earth; its abundance is due to the triple-alpha process by which it is created in stars. Carbon-12 is of particular importance in its use as the standard from which atomic masses of all nuclides are measured, thus, its atomic mass is exactly 12 daltons by definition. Carbon-12 is composed of 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. (Wikipedia 2001)

 The ”triple alpha process” occurs in the cores of the stars as the reactions in the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle wherein carbon 12 is generated. All carbon comes from the firmament from God’s process #2.

Remember that Jesus is the “technician” that planned and processed all creation (John 1:1-14)? He was so much more than a “carpenter” but a god — the One True God Yahweh in the flesh.

Yahweh comes from the tetragrammaton from the Hebrew for “I AM THAT I AM,” Yod He Waw He (JHWH), meaning that God is Existence. Before anything, God was Everything! He was the “E” in E-mc² and the “m” are the particles’ masses and c² the acceleration of the “curtain” as Isaiah saw it, making God’s time infinite!

The isotope of carbon-12 comes from the core of stars. Think of it as “star dust.” Now think of the sixth process of creation wherein man was made a living soul. There God took a little of Himself and endowed man with it. He put into man five essential elements, one of them being “star dust”: 

  The human body is approximately 99% comprised of just six elements: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. Another five elements make up about 0.85% of the remaining mass: sulfur, potassium, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. All of these 11 elements are essential elements. (Davey 2021)

 Carbon is the only element that is different; it comes from the stars, and it forms the “backbone” of many organic molecules of which DNA is among them. Carbon makes an organism what it is; its kind, or species.

The carbon-chain is the ontology of the kinds, and the DNA of mankind is the beginning of life in mankind and the genealogy recorded therein. I believe that DNA of God is the “Book of Life” from scripture, and that life is defined by DNA. For mankind, life is his or her entire genome which are slightly different for each gender and species.

Carbon-12 is the backbone of organisms and is organic. Organisms are made up of compounds of carbon, and as such our genome (all the DNA within us) is made from carbon dust from the stars. Ultimately, our organic identity was written in the stars! Does that sound familiar? 

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: ⁴ According as He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. (Ephes 13:3-4)

 We were chosen to live in the beginning before the foundation of the world on the third “day” in the third process.

“Elections” seems to have been divine selection; when God took the ingredients that He had made on day two and used it to make organisms in days five and six. Thus, since carbon was from the stars, as science says, then that compares favorably to scripture. Of course, God blessed everyone as He loved “whosoever” (John 3:16). The blessing would have occurred when our carbon was made for our carbon chain to provide organic life.

Of course, that is hypothesis, but it sure excels random chance that we are who we are; does it not? God planned us from the beginning, and it was “that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” to finish verse four. In that we were made gloriously, we should have remained glorious since we are, elementary speaking, from the stars!

What am I saying here? That God had a plan and a purpose for us (Jer 29:11) and it all started when God generated isotopes of carbon from isotopes of nitrogen in the “belly” of stars eons ago.

Life was intended to be eternal. There was a visible “clock” and “calendar” so to speak, created during the fourth day, the sun and moon respectively. But before that, when the firmament was created, so was God’s “Clock” – the Zodiac.

Abraham to Jesus was the sign of the ram on the Zodiac, and from the birth of Jesus to about now, it was the Christian Era, the Age of Pisces. Now, it is the Luciferin Era of Aquarius. God’s plan for us, was both in the Covenants and in the stars, it seems.

But Lucifer, as the “Serpent” gave man another “clock.” He gave mankind death with original sin. God’s creatures, blessed with the Existence of God, was changed. Perhaps sin introduced into the world a great nuclear event — a “holocaust” of sorts.

Scientifically, that “clock” is carbon half-lives. Carbon-12 is affected by the sun’s rays and so forth, and because the environment changes over time, so does the isotope of carbon, C^14.

Isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number. C¹⁴ is unstable and as such is radioactive. It loses atomic energy over time. Because things have different C¹⁴ energy at different times due to the environment, the half-life of carbon can be used to approximate the age of things.

The trace element of C¹⁴ is the same in the organism as in the environment because of absorption (photosynthesis by trees), so the age of a dead organism can be calculated using half-lives and comparing the energy degradation to artifacts from different times and with the annual rings of wood — dendrochronology.

When sin began, man did not die, but began to die! As such, mankind withers with age until the DNA of the genome is no longer alive. I believe that a robust genome defines life, and a genome is the entirety of the genetic composition of the DNA.

Because man is an organism, theoretically it is his or her DNA. That double-helix of DNA and RNA defines the species of a being. Human beings have specific threads made from the sequences in their DNA.

As man began to die, the carbon 14 isotope would have been imbued into the flesh with sin… theoretically.

Keep reminding yourselves that God is the author of all things and that includes nuclear physics and biogenetics as He is the Great Technician! The DNA in our chromosomes define who we are, from where we came, our lives, and even our destinies (ontology and eschatology)!

The problem with “RNA Therapeutics” is that the government has the power to modify or redirect our DNA to live or die as “they” please, leaving God out of our genome.

However, that is another problem and a problem that “they” have with our “carbon footprint.” Global warming theorists put the created inorganic things over the Creator and over His living organisms.

The world and all that is in it is measured by time. Time would have no usage before sin because every day was a glorious event! Time was assuredly both a measure of death and God’s patience with mankind. The apocalypse is when God’s patience runs out!

Adam lived 930 years as is written. It took him 930 years to wither. I believe the carbon-decay began the moment that he sinned. He never aged before sin. I believe the 930 years began when sin degenerated him. That was during the Dispensation of Innocence and therein would be no decay, morally with depravity nor biologically. I believe that God’s invisible “clock” started with sin when the depravity started. Adam would have begun to age as he degenerated.

Perhaps Lucifer’s “fiery darts” were much like “Greek Fire” that existed in the time of Jesus. Perhaps, he used carbon-14 to degenerate the two specific organic creatures and while he was at it, all organisms without regard to kind!

The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 +/- 40 years. That is the time for each successive decrease in nuclear energy by 50%.

In the year 2022, it is Anno Mundi (AM) 5783. The estimated date for the dawning of the Age of Aquarius was December 2019 at the equinox. That would be calculated to be 5781. That minus 5730 is 51 years, is slightly more than the 40 years variation, but the AM date is estimated. Is it coincidence that we are in the sixth thousand-year “day” so close to the half-life of carbon? Or was it the plan of God that the Luciferin Age would coincide with Anno Mundi and carbon half-life?

The sixth “day” was when mankind was created and the sixth when God’s “clock” runs out using the thousand years as a day formula (2 Pet 3:8), considering that the Millennial Reign of Jesus would be the “seventh day” on which God rests from regenerating the old into the new creatures.

God made the isotope of carbon for a purpose, and its instability seems to have been used by Him as a clock, and just in this New Age has it been used to calculate time. It is supposed to be accurate somewhat back as far as 60,000 years.

In ancient times, the Zodiac was the “clock” used by Chaldeans and such to determine time. Its scale is in years and the total scale is divided into twelve “hours.”

“The length of one cycle of twelve ages is 25,772 years” (Wikipedia 2001), making each “hour” on the “clock” 2148 years. Usually 2160 years makes the hour, as generally accepted.

Taurus identifies with the bull cults of the Bible, and the time, the reason for the golden calf of Moses.

Pisces is the Christian Era and Aquarius the era of "Communications and travel innovations. Humanitarianism.” (ibid). Certainly, we have arrived at the New Age wherein God is not recognized but man’s “goodness” is!

So, the Zodiac clock has run down and so has Anno Mundi and carbon-14 half-life. All of God’s “clocks” have expired and perhaps it is time that He rests again.

When the half-life of carbon is finished, will the days of mankind be near? Shall we die, or merely have some wicked one have us regenned? This being the age of humanism and high technology, it makes sense that some evil person will play God and cause us to die out, not by aging and the death of the organism, but the modification of the natural genome within us all.

Is the apocalypse something nuclear as it appears in the Bible (Rev 21:1) or is it more micro than the world itself. Could it be that the world, representing its people, die because they are changed inside?

Genes are in any cell within the flesh that has a nucleus. Will something happen on a nuclear level within the flesh of mankind that will make them even more alien to the world, and possibly regenned for the new nuclear temperature of Hell?

It is known that the flesh of those in Christ will be modified to incorruptibility (1 Per 1:23) for the new economy in Paradise, but neither will those dead ever die. They die forever, so to speak, in torments.  Their flesh must be different as well to continually withstand the heat as high as the core of stars as Hell may be seven times hotter than fire.

Will their clock be reset after the carbon-14 runs out? Will there be endless cycles of half-lives for them that repeats for eternity?

I have done so much speculation here that I may be pushing the limits, but my point is that maybe science has discovered generation and regeneration but not recognize it for what it is.

God is, in a manner of speaking, “science” because He authored that book. The Bible is a book of science that is hard to understand without divine insight. By it, things that are unseen are known by things that are seen. Paul saw things clearly because he was blinded to the world to see things that others could not see: 

¹⁶ For by Him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: ¹⁷ And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. (Col 1:16-17)

 Science claims that “Chance” did that, but Chance has no substance to do anything. God claims to have done the same things. Who do we believe, chance or Intelligence?

The probability that all things happened by chance is infinite and on a time scale, it would be eternal.

God did it in six days, and whether those days were days or ages is insignificant because they are finite. God clocked them all and they were finished.

Chance has no clock. All things happened randomly without a cause or a purpose. Why a sun without a purpose? Why a Zodiac without a purpose? Why mankind without a purpose?

Paul said that the purpose for all things was for Jesus! Our purpose is to adore Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WORD: THE END

 So simple… “The Word.” So complex… “The Word.” So creative… “The Word.” So graceful… “The Word.”

For many “The Word” is simply speech, and for some, a figure of speech, and to others the “Image” of God that speaks.

Paul saw through the darkness as John had before him. He wrote, “Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Cor 4:4), speaking of those whose mind the world has blinded. So, The Word unblinds the lost and makes them see the truth. Hence, The Word is the revealer of truth so that the minds of the lost can become aware of things unseen.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Therefore, The Word is the bearer of faith. He reveals things that are unseen. Christ reveals the unseen God, and as Jesus told Philip who asked of Jesus, “Show us the Father,” “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).

Therefore, The Word is the invisible Father God revealed to mankind as the Son of God, or as John said it, “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). Hence, the gospels are a revelation to mankind so that we can see God!

“The Word” is Jesus who is the fleshly Image of God, not a lifeless idol, but an Image full of Life.

In modern times cartoonists and movie makers animate 2-D images to make them real figures that can entertain and present to the audience messages that writers want to purvey.

Not to be disrespectful, among other things, God animated the Image of Himself in the likeness of man to present a message, not of entertainment, but contentment (joy) to the audience of the world. The message is in His Name.

God called His Figurine, “Jesus” and He could speak, perform miracles, present truth and wisdom, and perform virtuous acts. The Word came as a messenger of God — God Himself — to present the greatest story ever told!

No other messenger (angel) would do; it was work that God wanted to do Himself because He so loved the world (John 3:16). Ultimately, the perfect sacrifice for the sins of His creatures, He would bear the sins of all of them, and be the only acceptable sacrifice for all sins that are past (Rom 3:25) — from Adam to Judas and everybody in between.

When John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1), it paralleled what Moses wrote so long ago, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), and furthermore, as John said it, “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3).

Where it was translated that Jesus was a “carpenter,” the exact word in the Greek is “tekton”  – “an artificer” (Strong 1890). Artificers are technicians that create things, and it is assumed that Jesus created things of wood. In the beginning, Jesus did create images, not of wood, but of clay, and animated them by giving life to His glorious works of art, which in turn, Lucifer despoiled.

“In the beginning” (en arche) is the origin of all things. The English word, “archeology” comes from the Greek, arkhaiologia, and means the “study of ancient things.” The Word was The Ancient Thing to be studied. In the Greek, “The Word” is “Logos.” As you can readily see, the “logia” in arkhaiologia is akin to The Logos — “The Word” in the Greek.

Scripture therefore is about archeology and learning the knowledge about “The Ancient Thing.”

Since He was holy as God is holy, then scripture is the knowledge of “The Ancient Holy Thing,” The Word.

Peter wrote, “But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation (word)” (1 Pet 1:15). So, Jesus is Holy.

Holy is “hagios” in the Greek is an “awful thing” (ibid). How could it be that holy one is an “awful thing?” According to Strong’s Lexicon, it is because hagios is a sacred thing. “Sacred” is not debased in any manner (Merriam-Webster Dict. 1828-2022).

Mankind was debased by the Wicked One and became depraved; hence there is no depravity, or guile, in the Holy One. Lucifer failed in his attempt to debase Jesus, so Jesus, The Word, was without sin.

Those with sin (iniquity) in them are the normal thing, so to the world, The Holy One would be an “Awful Thing.” If you do not think that to be true, just look at how the world views Christ and holy Christians. Rather than glorious beings, they are hideous, even as hags!

The Word, or Logos, as John wrote, was there in the beginning. He was not created an Image like Adam, but was God exposed. Jesus is the “Ultimate Reality” that philosophers seek but do not find. He was the Arche (Beginning) and will be the Ending (Telos) (Rev 1:8). The ending is when it is finished.

Therein is a clue to the identity of Jesus. At His crucifixion, his last “Word” was “It is finished” (Teleo; John 19:30). The last thing that Jesus did was acknowledge that He was “The Ending” — that He was God, just as Longinus, the centurion, declared “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39).

The Word came to finish God’s ultimate purpose, to love the world (John 3:16) by making Himself the Supreme Sacrifice. Jesus died on the Cross, but all the Godhead suffered thereon. God was there in all three of His substances — in Mind, In Body, and in Spirit. Jesus was merely the vessel that carried God’s full Identity. That “vessel” was the “cup” that He could not pass to another (Mat 26:39).

Jesus was the “silver chalice” that people seek to this day. He was the Cup that carried the very blood of God within the Body of God.

The Word was the Genome (Identity of that One Kind) of God that was imbued within an Image like man’s to pass along the genes of God to those willing to stand still long enough to take them in; in the same manner as the repentant thief who was nailed still so that he could do nothing to save himself!

The Word, therefore, is more than speech, but God speaking to mankind. All that speech was about how to be regenerated, as in the beginning at the generation — to be made a glorious image again as mankind was before Lucifer deflowered them.

 

 

 

 

 

THE END

 Jesus and His disciples were having a conversation on the Mount of Olives, when they asked of Him, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Mat 24:3).

They wanted to know the eschatology of mankind… for the people of the world. When would the apocalypse come and what would the signs be?

Firstly, Jesus warned them not to be deceived. (verse 4). He expected that there would be false signs at the wrong times. Some of those “Christians” will claim to be Christ; not just one person, but several. It seems that there will be a antichristian group whose power is convincing. Surely, they will be very convincing! (verse 5).

There will be a period of great persuasion. Many claiming to be Christ may not be, them saying, “We are Christ,” but deny the doctrine of Christ and believe us!”

Along with that, there will be wars and rumors about them but the end is not yet that time (verse 6). War has always been in the world and even more eminent. It must be a time of world war and potential global destruction. It is not global warming that is the danger to civilization, but global warfare that will preclude the ending. Surely Jesus was speaking of one hemispheric empire against another.

Presently, there are two “New World Orders,” and nuclear warfare is threatened. If that happens, forthcoming may be the “mother of all wars,” but perhaps, according to Jesus, the sign of the end of times, are rumors of global warfare. The technique today is threats to create fear in the hearts of the enemy, so with so many threats, rumors now abound. But the end is not yet here (verse 6).

Jesus added to those things, “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places” (verse 7). There will not be peace on Earth. There will not be until the millennial reign of Jesus.

Not only will there be wars between nations and kingdoms, but within families. But first, what is the difference between nations and kingdoms? “Nation” is ethnos in the Greek and “kingdom” basileia. Ethnos is racially oriented, and today racial division has been more eminent than ever before.

Ethnos is a time of trouble between the races with the people of one race against those of another race. In other words, there will be extreme animosity between the races; black against white and white against black. It will be a war for the survival of the fittest, and apparently a renewal of Nazism.

The government of this “Christian” nation where we live is at the present time in an ethnic war, and I hate to say it, but civil people are losing that war to extreme elements. “Nations” cannot be glossed over because we are to the point where genes determine who has commerce in the world and who cannot. That is ethnos.

Perhaps the new ethnicity in those wars will be between those who have RNA Therapeutics and those who have not. Even some of my best friends are no longer friends because I cherish my God-given genome and refuse the jab! Could it be that ethnos there is more than skin color but whether the genetic identity has been altered or not?

Whether you realize it or not, a new ethnicity is in the making. There are those who claim to be “Christ” (“believe the science”) who are in the process of changing your genetic composition to be compliant for the favor of a long life, Bill Gates style. They may not say they are “Christ” but act as if they are. Could that be of whom Jesus was speaking?

Now for basileia which is translated as “kingdom.” It is literally “authority” and is not to be confused with an actual kingdom. (Strong 1890). It could be the United Nations whose charter is to bring peace on Earth (United Nations 1946), the World Health Organization whose charter is to keep the world healthy, although at the present they have been a clear danger, or could it be the World Economic Forum that is resetting the government, the people, and their religion?

We think of wars to be between kingdoms, as Russia against the Ukraine, but perhaps it is communist East against neo-Nazi West. The clear and present danger to the world is those who would reset it, who are opposed by those who desire to keep it traditional.

Jesus said, “All these are the beginning of sorrows” (verse 8). Up to this point those times of sorrows are tribulations, but the Great Tribulation has not started. Christians, at least, will face these times of sorrows and have tribulation.

Apparently, there is one thing to be added to the wars between ethnics; wars among families, even Christian “families:” 

³³ But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. ³⁴ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. (Mat 10:33-35)

 There will be a Jesus denial. Will anyone be so terrible as to deny Jesus? Will they say outright, I deny Jesus, as Peter did (Mat 26:75).

Denying Jesus is favoring another power over Jesus. That is much less obvious. People do not line up to go to Church for praise and healing; even Christians do not anymore, but there are larger lines lined up to “Trust the Science” and then brag about the authority in charge of bad science — Dr. Anthony Fauci.

How many praise Jesus nowadays, given a public forum? Few even consider doing that, so not to seem extreme, but look how how many praise Fauci? All who take the jab infer upon him trust and praise. To claim Christhood is not actually saying it, but Him having absolute authority. The vaccine mandates have usurped Christ, even mandating churches be closed. So much for trusting Jesus in the time of sorrows!

Jesus came to set variance against members of the same family. “Variance” is the severing of ties, in this case, the family. At one time, families shared the same doctrine of Christ. Recently there has been an upsurge in variance among family members. Even Christian family members are losing it. One Christian doctor told me that his children accused him of brainwashing just because he taught the truth.

That parents are losing authority at the present as never before is what Jesus was talking about. Even Christian parents put their pre-kindergarten infants in the “belly of Molech” when they sacrifice their children to the NEA and such in the public schools. They are letting the government be the parents because teaching children is just an inconvenience to them, almost as bad as having children!

Continuing on with Jesus’s conversation, the Great Tribulation starts: “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake” (verse 9). If killing you is not great tribulation, then nothing is! Jesus is talking to His disciples; He is speaking to Christians. They will be around for a greater tribulation that comes after milder tribulation.

With that said, perhaps tribulation is for the first 3-1/2 years and great tribulation for the latter 3-1/2 years. Either way, the Christians will not have been raptured before the time of sorrows. But perhaps, there is greater tribulation at hand! 

¹² And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. ¹³ But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (Mat 24:12-13)

 Those who shall be saved are those who have endured tribulation and who remain faithful through it all.  Love waxing cold is apostasy; those who once had affection for Jesus would defect from Him. That is the Church.

In the COVID lockdown, the defection began. Some even left my church because I asked, “Where is your faith?” Now, my own church has abandoned Sunday evening service and even shutdown when the perfect place to be was in the bosom of Jesus… in Church!

Next comes the reward. Those who endure tribulation “shall be saved.” That means that until then, even Christians have not been saved. The Holy Ghost had comforted them (John 14:6) by keeping them safe, but after the tribulation was the time of salvation.

Just what and when is “salvation”? It is not when you first believed! “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom 13:11). So, Christian, you have yet to be saved because the time of salvation has not arrived. When will it? 

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes 4:15-17)

 “Saved” is rapture, or “caught up” with Jesus. Saved is the moment that “we ever be with the Lord,” and as can be seen, the dead will rise with new flesh because once dead, now they are alive! The rapture is breathing life unto the dead, engendering them again as in the beginning. These are the two must be’s: “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7) and “Ye must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Born again is literally, “engendered from above” (ibid). The rapture occurs when from above, Jesus engenders both the living and the dead with glorious incorruptible flesh, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor 15:52).

Incorruptibility is “saved” because never again will the Christian be corrupted. Implied therein is that before that, Christians can be corrupted, and that includes apostasy; and that is what tribulation is all about.

I questioned earlier about the end of tribulation and the beginning of Great Tribulation. Well, Jesus answered that: 

²¹ For then (after the rapture) shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²² And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened” (Mat 24:21-22)

 Christians, both dead and alive, are raptured before the Great Tribulation but must endure tribulation. So, pre-tribulation verse mid-tribulation depends on whether the beginning of sorrows is tribulation and the beginning of the Great Tribulation or not.

The ”elect” refers to Christians. Their days will be shorted during the Great Tribulation. But Christians have been raptured, so it seems that there is a new selection — a new crop of Christians who will indeed endure some of the Great Tribulation. Again, that depends on whether the time of sorrows is part of the tribulation period or not.

Scripture says little about the Great Tribulation other than Christians will come out of it alive and well (Rev 7:13-14), and to come out of the Great Tribulation means the Church repenting of their deeds (Rev 2:22). There will be a Church during the Great Tribulation and to be rewarded means overcoming that tribulation.

So how long is the Great Tribulation” Three-and-one-half years or seven years? Are they consecutive years? That is unknown, but there are several viewpoints for “futurists” — those who believe they are not past tribulations but future ones: 

Pretribulationists believe that all righteous Christians (deceased and living) will be taken bodily up to Heaven (called the rapture) before the Tribulation begins.[14] According to this belief, every true Christian that has ever existed throughout the course of the entire Christian era will be instantaneously transformed into a perfect resurrected body, and will thus escape the trials of the Tribulation. Those who become Christians after the rapture will live through (or perish during) the Tribulation. After the Tribulation, Christ will return to establish his Millennial Kingdom.

Prewrath Tribulationists believe the rapture will occur during the Tribulation, halfway through or after, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God.

Midtribulationists believe that the rapture will occur halfway through the Tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven-year period is divided into halves—the "beginning of sorrows" and the "Great Tribulation".

Posttribulationists believe that Christians will not be taken up into Heaven for eternity, but will be received or gathered in the air by Christ, to descend together to establish the Kingdom of God on earth at the end of the Tribulation. (Wikipedia 2001)

 

 What is unknown is exactly is when the Great Tribulation begins. However, that it is two parts each of 3-1/2 years is known. It makes sense that the time of sorrows is one period of 3-1/2 years and a time of great tribulation, the latter period.

The Book of Daniel reveals a little about that subject: 

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan 9:27)

 As usual in scripture a “week” may be considered seven years. Those of the Covenant (Christians) will have one “week” of seven years to confirm their faith. They must endure tribulation, perhaps the time of sorrows and the Great Tribulation.

In the middle of the week something happens (after 3-1/2 years). It sounds as if the Great Tribulation begins in the middle of the week, but still during that time Christians will be tested. The “consummation” is the ending, or the apocalypse.

With that said, the timing of the rapture remains unknown and theologians have debated it forever.

The “Consummation” appears to be the following great event:

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2 Pet 3:10)

 Regarding the Consummation — the ending apocalypse: 

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. ³⁶ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. ³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Mat 24:25-37)

 So, I end this commentary with an admission: I am not Yahweh. I do not know the timing of tribulation nor the ending. I lean toward a mid-tribulation rapture because of the time of sorrows, but indeed there is evidence to the contrary. Perhaps, we still argue about the end to keep us from assuming the authority of God.

A pre-tribulation rapture is convenient for Christians, and I hope it is true. For Calvinists (eternal security) it must be true to be secure as tribulation jeopardizes Christians as the Book of Daniel says, the seven-year period is to confirm their faith.

The Calvinistic viewpoint is sort of arrogant; that they have so much faith that they do not need to have it confirmed, as if they are already saved. So, for them pre-tribulation is a must be because of that doctrine. However, that is not one of the two must be’s mentioned earlier.

Are we saved from perishing or are we saved from tribulation? John 3:16 points to the idea that salvation is to never perish, or to take on incorruptible flesh at the rapture.

When does the perishing end? When the test of faith is consummated at the end of seven years.

You can see the dilemma; we should want a pre-tribulation rapture, but because something is desired does not make it happen.

The timing of consummation (the Great Tribulation) is unknown, and I believe it will stay that way because only God knows. We can selectively pick scripture that confirms our bias, but we surely are not meant to know the day, hour, or even the year, but only when the times are as in the days of Noah. (To discern that would require Christians who discern scripture.)

“Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8), but Noah still endured tribulation for forty days and nights. In the end, Noah was saved from perishing but not until after the flood killed off the genes of the Wicked One. Will it be the same ending again? Perhaps all things will be as in the days of Noah.

The safe thing is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Are you prepared for tribulation? Of course, we hope it doesn’t happen that way, but many believe that Christians must confirm their faith. We do not have the assurance of salvation, but the “full assurance of hope unto the end” (Heb 6:11). The end is the end of the seven weeks before the apocalypse.

Whether that is the Way it will be or not is not for me to say, but the best assurance is that we just may have our faith tested.

 

 

 

 

 

THE CATERPILLAR CRAWL

As the song goes, God is “He Who Began a Good Work in You.” Indeed, persuasion is the beginning of a good work in you!

Paul’s modus operandi was to persuade unbelievers to become Christians. With Herod Agrippa, Paul “almost persuaded him” to become a Christian (Acts 26:28). Therefore, becoming a Christian is by persuasion. To persuade is, “to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action” (Merriam-Webster Dict. 1828-2022).

In the case of Jesus, it is a change in belief. That is the beginning of becoming a Christian. Converts believe that Jesus is God in the flesh, and that is a great start, and for God to be God, there must be a believe that He did what a God would do… create. And if a God can create, or generate all things from nothing, then He can take a humble “no thing” and make him or her some thing.

 The no thing is against God and the new thing is a new creature — a new creation — whose nature is different than the “old creature” made depraved with original sin.

Therefore, a Christian is a person converted from an old nature to a new nature. The nature of the old creature was like the “Beast” in the beginning, and the new creature is restored to the glory in which Adam and Eve were generated in the first place.

Belief is the beginning of the process of conversion. In the end, at the rapture when Jesus comes again, the conversion process is finished, to wit: 

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Cor 15:52)

 A good comparison is that belief is at first a beginning akin to the egg stage even before the larvae. The egg that was planted has begun to grow with belief, but there has yet to be a metamorphosis. Many who are persuaded are not fully persuaded. Paul wrote, “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” (Rom 14:5).

Persuasion is of the mind. Believing that Jesus is God is a good beginning. However, even demons believe that (Jas 2:19), so belief is only the beginning of a process in time. For some, the metamorphosis from egg to larvae is of short duration and for others, it is lengthy.

Even with full persuasion the process is just from one stage to the other; the mind alone has been transformed.

With conversion, again as Paul wrote, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41). The spirit is the desire to please God. It is working out your salvation in your mind; again, as Paul wrote, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12). Fear and trembling because you just might get stuck in the beginning stage. Why else to fear and tremble? Because the flesh is still weak to sin but strong against change.

So many Christians get stuck in the “larvae” stage. They have partially converted but are not yet a glorious “butterfly.” To be transfigured (morphed) from larvae to butterfly requires that the larvae, not the inner organism, but the flesh of the creature, be changed. For the butterfly to emerge the flesh must be shed and comforted for some time in the “pupa” of sorts.

The problem with those who have converted to become a Christian is that the transformation is not complete; they want to be a “butterfly” without shedding their “skin” so to speak.

Of course, butterflies shed their flesh or die. So will we! Many Christians just cannot shed their flesh because the organism inside is so strong because original sin is genetic. The creature has grown to love the flesh that he or she has been accustomed to since birth. They think that they welcome rebirth, but the flesh is so powerful that they hold fast to whatever stronghold they can grab onto.

Paul was thorough in his persuasion. He even names the strongholds that retain Christians in the larvae stage that Paul called “babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:21).

Circumcision was cutting off the flesh of the foreskin, but that was often not done. But even with that, God was not talking about the genitalia but the “foreskin of the heart.” Moses knew that long ago when he wrote, “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked”  (Deut 10:16).

The Israelites were always confused! Circumcision of the foreskin was merely symbolic of cutting off the lusts of the flesh, many of which Paul listed to make it clear what the flesh contains in its nature: 

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like… (Gal 5:19-21)

 How can someone discover what stage of Christianity that they are in? It is simple; test your mind and behaviors to the metrics above.

Today, the most prevalent is idolatry as it was in the beginning. It is the reason for the other defects. The flesh of any natural-born person is their idol, and the other metrics are ways in which the flesh-idol is appeased. For men, adultery and fornication are generally their strongholds. For women, perhaps something else; even variance (strife.)

Of course, the pudenda are the reasons for lusts and strife. No wonder Adam and Eve covered their genitalia out of shame for what they had done! No wonder the foreskin was to be circumcised! However, the most effective circumcision is to cut off the desires of the heart.

The “heart” in scripture is the “inner man” or “inner woman.” It is what goes on in the mind. The flesh is merely antennae for pleasure but the mind processes things of the mind to be either pleasurable or stressful. To cut off the flesh is not circumcision of the flesh per se but cutting off thoughts of the mind that results in pleasure or anxiety.

Paul said something else of interest about himself: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). Death circumcises the flesh and releases the “butterfly” from the larvae. In spirit, the dead Christian is as a butterfly, but at the General Resurrection, God makes him or her a real glorious “glorify” in spirit and flesh, and the transformation process is completed! (The “pupa” stage of the Christian would be asleep in Christ until the “butterfly” emerges.) 

Paul was just full of persuasive arguments! Look at these ideas: 

⁴ Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. ⁵ For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. (Gal 5:4-5)

 The notion that you must keep the Law to stay afloat is of no avail. By keeping the Law, then Christ has become of no effect to you. Love keeps the potential “butterfly” aloft in the mind until the butterfly emerges when the flesh is discarded, and the transformation complete.

What happens if the Law is kept only for the Law’s sake? The potential “butterfly” falls from the grace that keeps him or her aloft.

Love is not emotional but is goodwill, or good thoughts. God’s love, or Good Thoughts for you, are the to keep you afloat even when you fail. That is grace!

Your love for Him is to have goodwill for Him, or whoever drags you down, even as you are falling and failing.

Paul said that that if you depend on the Law to keep you, then “Ye are fallen from grace.” Your mind is not staying afloat and not even realizing that you are falling. Calvinism puts the notion in you that as a Christian, you are beyond falling! For them, you are already a “butterfly” so do not worry about the flesh that can drag you down!

Grace is God keeping your larvae crawling on the right path until the butterfly stage is eminent at death. Falling from grace is deviating from the Way. The Law is not the Way; Jesus is!

For those who stay the Way because of goodwill toward God are kept from falling. However, those who cling to the way by obedience to Moses and His Law, may fall without being caught.

“Fallen from grace” is ekpipto charis in the Greek; literally to fall powerless from the Goodwill of God.  You cannot emerge a Christian on your own, and God sees that it is of “no effect” for you (ekpipto) (ibid).

Implied therein is that God keeps you from falling and not yourselves. You must depend on Him and His Goodwill. The Law is just that — the boundaries for safe arrival, but with the eye on the strictly on the limitations, falling off the Way is made easier, just like driving a car with the eyes on the hood distracts from the real destination — home safely.

Not falling off begins with belief, but it must be trusting belief; you know that Jesus is God and only He can save you.

Thus, your eyes are always on God and His Goodwill for your safe arrival. The Law still keeps the course straight but the Light at the end is Jesus. So, your eyes remain on Him to avoid the fall, and the subsequent abortion of the potential “butterfly” that you once saw as possible, but now has no significance because of the pleasure of the moment.

Many Christians remain stuck in the larvae caterpillar stage in that they still seek to keep their flesh while they see God as the true way.

The flesh must be shed, like it or not. For the larvae, shedding the flesh is natural, but for mankind, keeping the flesh is the desire of the natural man or woman!

Serpents shed their skin annually, but God’s kind need only do so one time once and for all. Knowing that we cannot do that, Jesus shed His flesh once for all, and since He did that, we can as well, with His pull.

God sheds your flesh for you. He turns you from a “caterpillar” to a “butterfly,” but you must be there on the Way for Him to do that. Paul became even more persuasive: 

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Rom 12:1-2)

 You need only present your body (flesh) and merciful God has already done the sacrifice; so that you can see that all things are possible, even the shedding of the flesh!

He does not make you do it nor shed it Himself, but that is for you to do as a service to Him — Goodwill toward God, and that is love!

The caterpillar is conformed to the world. It is the second stage of the butterfly. It cannot fly but must remain below, and as such is conformed to its surroundings.

Caterpillars can fall. I have made them fall!

Butterflies can escape the confines of the world. They do not conform to the world but the sky is their natural comfort zone. Like the butterfly, if we depend on God above, the world should have little effect on our lives!

Of course, we cannot transform our flesh. We are stuck with it and must endure it to the end, so the reasonable service, according to Paul, is “be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Our minds must be on things good and acceptable, perfect Will of God. The desire of our minds should be to please God, not to see Him as a Dictator that we must obey.

With that background on rebirth and struggling the course in the world, then we must be careful of two things: not to have the butterfly aborted, nor to have it stagnate in the early stage as it may fall.

It appears that so many Christians have stagnated. False doctrine says they will never fall, but Paul disagreed with that idea. We cannot do as we please and have goodwill toward God at the same time. Satisfying the desires of the flesh, makes our flesh our “god” just as the Serpent warned (Gen 3:5).

The Church is full of “Christians” now who fornicate with impunity and even commit adultery, not to mention all the other metrics of which Paul wrote.

America used to be the “Prozac Nation” but now the globe is a drug-induced world wherein any mind-altering concoction is acceptable.

When the mind is altered, nobody can be persuaded. Drugs are to remove inhibitions and stress, and indeed conviction is stressful, so stressful that clear-mined people need closure and turn to God to fill what is missing with the Comforter, rather than Southern Comfort® or Dilaudid.®

Fornication is made easy by dulling the flesh against conviction by alcohol, marijuana, or harder drugs.

In the book, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley called inebriants “soma” surely because “soma” is the body, or flesh, of the human organism. Drugs calm the flesh so that people are satisfied as they are and who they are. Rather than follow God, they “follow their hearts” and fall off the Way.

Persuasion should be easy but somatic substances interfere. So long as people are consoled by “Mary Jane” and her kin, people defy change without even knowing that they have been had by the purveyors of mind-clogging substances.

To be fully persuaded is in pursuit of the knowledge of truth; that Jesus is the Way and only Way to salvation, and that salvation is a journey that cannot be taken alone.

You must depend on Somebody, and He is Jesus. Apathy to others is a sign of having fallen off the Way. Non-caring attitudes belong to the fallen because butterflies radiate life!

God’s will is that you change from a alien “worm” to a beautiful, glorious “butterfly.” Lucifer is the pestilent that poisons the new creature, even as it transforms from one nature to another. Only Jesus can stamp out that awful pest!