THE DIVINE SPARK

 Throughout the Old Testament, the Hebrews were drawn toward the Kingdom of God promised to Abraham. Jesus made it clear, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Mat 6:33). “These things” said Jesus are “What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?” (Mat 6:31). Implied is that in the Kingdom of God, God will supply all things.

Jesus implored those who followed Him, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” (Mat 6:10). “In earth” and “in heaven” is ostensibly in the physical realm and the invisible, but “real estate” of God. He was telling them that if they are in Him, then the Kingdom of God is within them.

In my last two commentaries, I explained that Abraham was a king without any land. The Book of Jasher revealed that he was a king, and that Canaan land was not his; that he was only a resident there. It implied that Abraham was a king without a kingdom, but truly, the Kingdom of God was within him and his seed. The “land” of the Abrahamic Covenant was not so much property in the Holy Land but “Real Estate” in another realm.

There is some argument about the location of the former Garden of Eden. Much of sacred literature and the Bible points to the Kingdom of David as the location of Eden and Jerusalem as “Zion,” the middle of the Garden wherein resided God in paradisical glorified flesh of some sort.

Abraham, as he traveled from Egypt, encountered Sodom and Gomorrah upon the plain of the Jordan River (Hebrew Naral Ha Yarden — “The River of the Garden” in English). Furthermore, as he approached those two cities, according to scripture, “Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as the Garden of the Lord” (Gen 13:10).

Abraham was in Christ as he entered the former Garden of Eden. How was that possible? Christ, the Messiah,” was in him.

In Shinar, Nimrod insisted on building a tower to stalk God on His “turf” — in the Kingdom of God. Twelve men, including Abram, refused to construct it, and only Abram remained, as the others fled into the mountains. Abram took his stand against the “king-god” Nimrod who was to build the biggest “idol” ever that would make Terah’s (Abram’s father) so puny.

 Abram said,  

  “And now, as He liveth in whom I trust, I will not remove from my place wherein they have put me: and if there be any sin of mine so that I be indeed burned, the will of God be done. And the prince said unto him: “Thy blood be upon thy head, if thou refuse to go forth with these. But if thou consent, thou shall be delivered. Yet if thou wilt abide, abide as thou art. And Abram said: I will not go forth, but I will abide here.” (PS-P 6:10)

 Abide he did! Nimrod’s captain, Joktan, put Abram in the fiery furnace just as Nebuchadnezzar did years later with the righteous three young men!

¹⁶ And they took him and built a furnace and kindled it with fire, and put bricks burned with fire into the furnace. Then Jectan the prince being amazed (lit. melted) in his mind took Abram and put him with the bricks into the furnace of fire. ¹⁷ But God stirred up a great earthquake, and the fire gushed forth of the furnace and brake out into flames and sparks of fire and consumed all them that stood round about in sight of the furnace; and all they that were burned in that day were 83,500. But upon Abram was there not any the least hurt by the burning of the fire. ¹⁸ And Abram arose out of the furnace, and the fiery furnace fell down, and Abram was saved. (Ps-P 6:16-18) 

If God, the man, was in the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, it stands to reason that God was in the fiery furnace with Abram. I submit that the flesh of Abram in that flame was made incorruptible so it would not burn; that his genes became like the genes of God. God had made Adam in His Image with His identity. Adam was generated with incorruptible flesh, and in the fire, God put a coat of skin onto him that would be impervious to the wiles of Nimrod who was the flesh of the Wicked One.

What I am implying is that God, rather than allow Abram to be burned, imbued him with the “Divine Spark” from His “Divine Impulse.”

In review of Adam and Eve, God put onto them “coats of skin” (Gen 3:21). Sacred literature points toward coats of the skins of lambs, and maybe that is the “Image” that God put onto them. They were as lambs on the outside, nearly impervious to the fiery darts of the Wicked One, but inside they were incorruptible aft4er be so clothed. Perhaps, God provided for them the “Divine Spark” on them inwardly to afford better protection against the wicked ones! Their glorified flesh was somehow changed into corruptible flesh because they had been made naked, and without flesh.

If so, Adam and Eve were regenned in the image of God. The same goes for Abram. He may have received the genes of God with a Divine Spark more powerful than the fiery furnace. If that was the case, then rather than starting afresh with the genes of man with the flood of Noah to make new creatures, as He promised, God used fire to regen Abram to make the “new creature” Abraham.

In a previous commentary, I pointed out that God delivered Abram from Ur of the Chaldees (Shinar). Hidden in that one word (Ur), is “flame.” It was in Shinar (Mesopotamia) that was Abram’s birthplace, and “Ur” was from the fiery furnace!

Because Abram received the Divine Spark by Divine Impulse because of his great faith, God said, “I will bless his seed” (Ps-P 7:4). To bless with a blessing is “barak barak” in the Hebrew, or to literally “adorn” Abram with “prosperity” (Strong’s Dicitionary). God changed his identity from Abram to Abraham. He looked the same as before but inside Abraham was a new person, indubitably with a new genome made in the image of God like Adam.

The Divine Spark that Abram received because of such strong faith was a new set of genes. As it turned out, Abram misused those genes with Hagar, the Egyptian, and Ishmael was imbued with depravity. On the other hand, Sarah was the relative of Abraham, and although barren, the seed that God had blessed Abraham with by Divine Spark was somehow, and not by coitus, Impulsed into Sarah in the same fashion that Eve was of God and Adam.

It might be obvious by now, but the topic of discussion is about the “Divine Spark” from God. He has used that Spark so many times and still does!

God’s new Kingdom, as it turned out, was inflamed in the flesh of Abraham — in his whole identity — in his genes throughout all his flesh and blood. All God need do was take a sample of Abraham’s flesh and transform Sarai with it as he had done from Adam to Eve. God had “cloned” the DNA of man to make woman, and with Abraham, He cloned Isaac from “Father Abraham” when Abraham was away.

Sure, these assumptions are hyperbolic, but they are based on God’s past performances. God shall someday regenerate as He generated in the beginning, and in the beginning that was with Light. In the end, it shall be by the Light of Fire, and with Abraham, God regenerated Abram by fire with a fiery furnace and a supranatural Divine Spark.

When Jesus came, He revealed the secret to the key to His Kingdom. Jesus said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Do not be amazed, your genes must come from God, because “born again” is literally “engendered from above” (ibid).

Abram, when he was “blessed,” was engendered from above. The old man’s seed was regenerated and would be used to plant a new “Garden” in the Kingdom of God as God had done with Adam (Gen 2:8).

The problem was that the Hebrews thought that Canaan land was the Kingdom of God, but Abraham was content because he knew it was in him!

Lot had picked the land that would turn to “Hell” — Sodom and Gomorrah — but Abraham picked an invisible realm that only he understood.  Lot picked first and picked wrongly. The land turned out to be perishable, but Abraham’s was in his heart wherever he would go!

Now consider the Words of Jesus when queried about the Kingdom of God: 

²⁰ And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, “When the kingdom of God should come?” He answered them and said, “The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation ²¹ … behold, the Kingdom of God is within you…” (Luke 17:21-22)

 The Kingdom of God had already come! It came with the faith of Abraham at the time Abram received the Divine Spark from God when he was blessed. Abraham was content with the invisible Kingdom of God because his seed from the Divine Spark would be citizens of that Kingdom, or that was the plan anyway. Lot had to have the land that he observed, and inside Abraham must have been amused somewhat! However, not so funny, Lot’s bad choice turned deadly for his wife.

All the while that Abraham resided in Canaan land, he was content. That contentment is what “joy” means in scripture. He was contented because he had received the Divine Spark and hence, the Kingdom of God was in him, and the Covenant was that his genes would transfer the Divine Spark to his Divine Seed, of which the Savior was the perfect Divine Spark from Abraham… thus the lineage of Abraham in the book of Matthew.

Jesus came from the womb by the Divine Spark from God above. He was born the son of Man through Abraham’s seed, Mary, and the son of God by Divine Spark when God provided the Impulse to Mary — the Holy Ghost. (This time God skipped the Joseph because God fathered Jesus directly with Impulsing His Identity alone into Mary. Jesus has the flesh of the virgin but the genome of His Father.)

Jesus had the Kingdom of God in Him and He came to Earth to divide the Kingdom to those who would follow Him by faith even as Abram had in the fiery furnace.

“The faith of Abraham” is used as an example of great faith, “So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham” (Gal 3:9), meaning that those who have the faith of Abraham are blessed with the Divine Spark just as he was.

It is often thought that Abraham’s great faith was when he was willing to sacrifice “God’s” son, Isaac. That took tremendous faith, but in Ur, Abram sacrificed his own flesh to the flames. That is what God would do. Technically, Jesus was not the son of God, but the manifestation of God Himself in the flesh of a man (John 1:31).

But that was not the end of the Divine Sparking! At Pentecost after Jesus had ascended in bodily shape, the following occurred: 

³ And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. ⁴ And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:3-4)

 After Abram had endured the fire, and nobody else, those in discord with God were confused. God encrypted their speech so they could not unite against Him. Well, when the Divine Spark came on those “of one accord” in Christ (Acts 2:1), the Divine Spark — the flame of the Holy Ghost — changed them inside. To demonstrate the intensity of that “flame” of the Divine Spark, all who were in Christ became new creatures called “Christians” and there in Jerusalem the first Church was built. The “flame” was spread all over the world by the Divine Sparks in Christians. Thus, just as Jesus said, “the Kingdom of God is in them (Christians)” that God had the Impulse to change just as at Pentecost.

As it turns out, “born again” is the “blessed seed“ that God plants in the world to endure it to the end when the Spark is Glorified with the intense Light of God in heaven, and they are finally engendered from above!

Of course, there were many patriarchs who received the Divine Spark. For Moses, it was the Burning Bush that made him radiant. God had blessed him from birth when the baby “Egyptian” with a pagan name was renamed “Moses.” Moses had the genes of Abraham as well in his genome!

For those who have faith in God, they are adoptive sons of God who retain the corrupt flesh of the Wicked One. God blesses them with a seed, the same seed with which God planted in Mary to shape Jesus. Afterwards, at His baptism — His alone and no other — the man, Jesus, received the full Identity of God when the Holy Ghost entered Him in bodily shape (Luke 3:22). The initial Divine Spark had grown into a full “Flame” so to speak, and then at the Transfiguration God Sparked the man to imbue Jesus with His own Glory.

As such, the three substances of Jesus became one and the Divine Spark at the Transfiguration changed Jesus to imperishable forever. He by then had the full genome of God, and YHWH was His new identity.