UNCOMPLICATING THE LAW

 Scripture is often confusing; salvation is by faith and not of works, yet the righteous are to do good works. That is the “Jesus’s Paradox of Grace.” A paradox is a true statement that seems absurd or self-contradictory. How can salvation be by grace but also by works? That is absurd!

Luke wrote about grace and works: 

We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they (the patriarchs of old). (Acts 15:11) 

Somebody seems to be wrong, but Jesus made it clear what Luke meant. John intervened to clarify the paradox: 

¹⁶ And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷ For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (John 1:16-17)

 Jesus is the fulness of the Law, as He explains in the KEY VERSES below. Because He has grace on us, then we should have grace for Him. It is not I have grace, then you must have grace, but because of His grace, we too should display grace. Or is it, because we have grace, He will have grace? It is neither; it is concurrent grace. Hence, grace is bestowed upon the graceful.

Moses gave the Law. That seems to be how the patriarchs demonstrated grace. It was not the Law to the faithful but nature of those who believed in the invisible God.

Explaining that more; they could not see God face to face but knew that He was real. Paul wrote, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1).

“Now” in that passage seems to discern between then and the present. It is seldom used in the New Testament as “now.” It is a conjunction joining the previous thought to the present verse. Paul was speaking of the present because he was contrasting it with the past, “the former days” before they were illuminated by Jesus (Heb 10:32).

Therefore, NOW faith is the evidence of things not seen before they were illuminated with the Light of Jesus — the Truth. THEN (before they saw Jesus) the Law must have been the evidence of the unseen. How could that be? The faithful obeyed the Law and through it, God was manifested by His people who obeyed. It is not so different now; Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).

Therefore, agape love is commandment keeping, or essentially showing goodwill toward God and man (Strong 1890). The Law was dispersed in commands written on stone.

The Law came by Moses, but he only carried the message. The Law was written by the very “finger of God” (Deut 9:10). His “FINGER” was manifested to Moses, so the Words of those tablets are Jesus manifested in the days of old. They had faith that Jehovah wrote those words, and we learn from John (John 1:1-14) that the “Word” was Jesus.

The patriarchs of old had grace for Jesus before He was ever called “Jesus.” They obeyed the Law because of the grace that God had for them and through the Law Jesus was revealed as the “Word.” They understood that the commands were not mandates at all but various ways to demonstrate goodwill toward God (the first four sayings) and mankind (the last six sayings.” Jesus, speaking of the “Greatest Commandment” said about them: 

³⁷ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Mat 22:38-40)

 Commandment keepers for the sake of commandments as much as worship the Law. However, the patriarchs worshiped the One who wrote the Law, and that One was Jesus, as John revealed.

Christians do not worship images of God made in stone, but the One Living Image revealed in the flesh of Jesus. Commandment-keeping strictly for the sake of the Law is foolishness, but keeping commandments out of grace is wisdom and love.

With that said, Christians must be careful in venerating images. For instance, just as it was not the tablets of stone that provided grace but the Holy Finger of God; it was not the Cross that provided grace; it was the Substance of Jesus on the Cross.

Likewise, it is not the water that makes a new creature of the old, but the “Living Water,” the Holy Spirit, that the moving water represents. In all three cases: the Law, the Cross, and the baptismal water, are images of God but not Jesus Himself. Jesus, and only Him, is the Way to salvation, and the Holy Ghost of that One man is how God manifests himself NOW since we have seen the Light and the Light is Jesus.

With that explanation, the Hebrews saw tablets of stone with commands written on them, whereas the patriarchs and prophets saw Jesus rather than the stones. That is how Jesus fulfilled the Law. He was the Law, not those stone images, and certainly not sinful Moses!

NOW, consider the Words of Jesus: 

KEY VERSES: ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. ¹⁷ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. ¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mat 5:16:18) 

Your light (your illumination) shines toward men to show them your good works. The good works of the Law is not the Light itself, Jesus, but the grace of Jesus shining forth to the world. The Law is how the lost can see the unseen; they are the Words of God that shines forth from Jesus just as Moses was illuminated: “When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone” (Exod 34:30). Then Moses spoke the Law (Exod 34:32-33).

Just as the Law is the Spirit of God that illuminated Moses because it was the invisible God shining forth, when Moses spoke the commandments, he was illuminated. In both cases objects seemed to shine, but both the written commandments and the oral ones that Moses spoke were images of God, and not to be worshipped.

Christians must discern between the images of God and God Himself. The only image that is Jehovah, as it turns out, is the Living Image, Jesus. The Law, the Cross, and water baptism, as well as the sacrament of bread and wine, are all just images of invisible God, the latter of which we are to “Do in remembrance of Me,” as Jesus pointed out.

What about the Law? We do it in remembrance of Jesus. The Ten Sayings express the Will of Jesus since it was written by the Holy Finger of God. The Law is not “God” but the “Last Will and Testament of God” that we should do in remembrance of His grace.

Jesus said, “I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” the Law. His invisible Existence was revealed to Moses and from Moses the “Holy Ghost of Jesus” emanated from that man, long before He was made manifest in material substance.

Moses was not Jesus but revealed Jesus. The Hebrews thought that he was revealing rules and regulations, but the Law was by grace… Moses was revealing the grace of God and Jesus, the coming Messiah, who would fulfill the Law with His physical presence. In other words, the “Angel of God” that wrote the Sayings on stone and who wrestled with Jacob was the invisible bodily shape of Jesus (Luke 3:22) that would conjoin with the person of Jesus at His baptism.

The baptism of Jesus fulfilled the Law, and the Holy Ghost remained on Him alone. The person of God — Jesus — fulfilled the Law, and as such the Law was the “body of knowledge” that exposed the invisible identity of Jesus to the Hebrews.

NOW, according to Paul, Jesus fulfilled the Law. Before the Law was the Holy Ghost of the Messiah, the “Christ.” Since Jesus is on the throne of God in Heaven, again, it is the Holy Ghost that Comforts Christians and since the Law has already been fulfilled, we can return to faith in the invisible God again.

Remembering the Law and keeping it is how we show grace to Jesus who wrote it. It is not the Law that is the goodwill toward Him and our fellow man, but remembrance of who wrote the Law.

It was written on stone for perpetuity and for an eternal purpose; it is the Light that shines forth from Jesus to discern just who are the Christians. Not very many; it seems!

Since Jesus fulfilled the Law, then Jesus began the Law. It was His Holy Finger who wrote it and Him alone, who kept the whole Law. In effect, Jesus was the walking, talking Law, and as He pointed out, they were metrics that manifest Himself. Nobody can manifest God except Jesus because only He was able to keep the Law. Therefore, the Law represents the invisible image of Jesus or the Will and Testament of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus rewrote the Law with the Beatitudes as I explained in the previous commentary, so His sayings were not to be commands, but be-attitudes.

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THE TEN PRESCRIPTIONS/THE TEN BLESSINGS

What many consider to be the “Ten Commandments” are more accurately, the “Ten Prescriptions.” You may have missed that they were prescriptions because most people gloss over scripture. The “Ten Commandments” were given to Moses in the Book of Exodus, and Moses explained them in the Book of Deuteronomy. Focus now on the latter; not the commandments but the reasons for them: 

²⁹ O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! and ³³ Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. (Deut 5:29,33)

 The reason for the Ten Sayings of Jesus is given therein twice: (1) “That it might be well with them who always keep God’s commandments, and (2) “That you may live well to prolong your days.

Those Ten Commandments are like harsh tasting “medicines;” they can be taken with a bad taste (or the taste ignored) for the health benefits to be derived or rejected. The Jews took them as if they were bitter medicines that if they failed to do, they would be punished. The intention is for the Ten Commandments to be beneficial, and thus, they are to keep the people well.

Well, until when? Jesus explained it all; “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Mat 19:17). Commandment keeping is preservation to enter into life… eternal life. They are prescriptions for longevity until the day of the Lord arrives when Jesus provides new flesh for the living souls, or if the reader prefers… when Christians are “saved.”

After Jesus was tempted by Satan to violate the commandments, Jesus said, 

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised… ²¹ And He began to say unto them, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” (Luke 4:18,21)

 Jesus fulfilled the Ten Prescriptions as He said: “He sent me to heal!” That, He indicated, fulfilled the scriptures. Thus, the Ten Commandments ceased to be considered things you do, but more so, things Jesus would do! He was sent to heal the nations that theretofore depended on them, trusting God by not doing things that would cause them to perish. The Ten Commandments were not a list of works to do, but a list of things not to do. Most people have looked at them as works, rather than opportunities to maintain health for a long life.

Now consider the healings by Jesus. Just as there are Ten Commandments, there are Ten Beatitudes: 

1.       Blessed are the poor in spirit…

2.       Blessed are they that mourn…

3.       Blessed are the meek…

4.       Blessed are they that seek righteousness…

5.       Blessed are the merciful…

6.       Blessed are the pure…

7.       Blessed are the peacemakers…

8.       Blessed are those persecuted for Jesus’s sake…

9.       Blessed are you for being hated…

10.   Blessed are you for suffering persecution…

 Along with those reasons for being blessed, are the blessings, respectively, 

1.       The kingdom of heaven.

2.       Comfort.

3.       To inherit the Earth.

4.       A filling, indubitably by God’s Holy Spirit.

5.       To obtain mercy.

6.       To see God.

7.       To be called “children of God.”

8.       The Kingdom of Heaven will be revealed.

9.       The Kingdom of Heaven will be theirs.

10.   Blessed are ye… you will be entirely well off. 

Each of those blessings point toward eternal life: “for great is your reward in heaven” (Mat 5:12).

The first nine blessings are specific, but the last one more general — blessed are you. The Greek word for “blessed” is “makarios” or “well-off” and “supremely” so. Blessed points to the only place that a person is supremely well off, and that is Paradise.

In the Paradise of Eden, it is written, “God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gen 1:31). How good? In the Hebrew, it was “meod tob” — “exceedingly beneficial,” (Strong 1890), or supremely well off!

When Jesus blessed those who had those righteous characteristics, He promised them a Garden of Eden in heaven; that which we call “Paradise.”

The blessings, or fulfilling of certain “prescriptions,” that God prescribed were contingent upon ten things, enumerated in the first list: poor in spirit, mourn, meek, and so forth. The Ten Commandments identify the Ten Characteristics. For instance, meekness is that they are not gods, as commanded with the “First Saying” of the Word.

Hence, the beatitudes (“blessings are”) the things of Paradise as rewards for things here in the world. Those things are not works but attitudes: poor in spirit, mournful, and meekness.

With that background, the Ten Commandments are not so much works, but attitudes: honor God, to consider Him worthy, honoring the Lord’s Day, doing no work on that day, honoring parents, and valuing the lives of others, just to address a few of the ten. In other words, the Ten Commandments are not works but our attitudes toward God, and the rewards that Jesus proclaimed were the fulfillment of the Ten Attitudes most often called “commandments.” The rewards for those attitudes are “beatitudes.” The prefix “be” implies endowed with — endowed with attitudes.

The two are the same list of ten but for Christians and the patriarchs they were not works at all but attitudes. For the Israelites, they were taken to be hard works they were to do rather than general attitudes about God. Even doing ten was hard work, so they then supplemented them with 601 more (611) to make their work even harder!

Perhaps that Adam even got it wrong. Adam was cursed by hard work (Gen 3:17-19). Hidden in that chapter is a reprieve: Adam and Eve were given coats of skins for their comfort. God provided the “Comforter” — the Holy Ghost of Jesus — to preserve them until Jesus fulfilled that very scripture, as He said in Luke 4. Adam and Eve would work for their bread, but Jesus would be the “Bread of Life” and for that Bread there would be no work because of the grace that Adam and Eve were wearing, to wit, the coats of skin provided by the Word (pre-incarnate Jesus).

God blessed sinful Adam and Eve because they were sorry for what they had done. They repented of their disobedience when they were ashamed of their flesh. Blessed are those whose nature Jesus has corrected. What is it the blessed have done? Just stood there while God began the regeneration process. The blessings are the “final solution” to the unrighteous nature of Adam’s kind.

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KING AND LORD OF WHOM

 The first few chapters of Matthew are familiar to most people. Should I gloss over things that almost everybody already knows, or should I dig deeper? Who cares that the Jew Jesus was a Galilean? Who cares that Syrians admired His works? Why are those things prophesied long ago and written about much later? Let is pursue those things.

Today the commentary begins with the healing from Matthew chapter four. Jesus, had said, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mat 4:17) to the people, not just the Jews but to the Galileans.

Repentance is “to change one’s mind” (Strong 1890). The people had to do one specific thing; they were to change their minds. Is that a “work” that they must do? Let it be said that the thief on the cross during the crucifixion was bound and nailed to a “tree” so fast that he could not even move, but he was saved.

What did the thief on the cross do to be saved. He repented, “We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong” (Luke 23:41; NLT). The thief, “Dismus,” had only to think, I did wrong and deserve to die for it. He had a change of mind. He had rationalized his criminal activity but when confronted by death, he could have begged for mercy, but instead he admitted that he was a sinner.

As Paul would say, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12). Surely the thief was afraid to die; anyone would be. Perhaps as he dreaded to die, he looked forward to having the fear of death removed.

The thief could have justified himself (dikaioo) — thinking of himself as righteous, but, no, he thought of himself as unrighteous. It seems, therefore, that since he was saved to Paradise that day, that true repentance is the Way to salvation. It is a new way of thinking about your own values. The thief valued Jesus over himself… he gave up his flesh for the sake of Jesus, and like Abraham who would not have to give up his own flesh and blood, Dismus did that without any argument with the mob, Pontius Pilate, nor God.

He worked out his own salvation, not to save himself but to redeem the innocent man, Jesus.

“Work out” in the Greek is katergazomai, contrasting with ergon — hard physical work. Working out is easy work, now called “ergonomics.”

 The easiest work is done by thinking the job through. The thief knew his guilt and it would be vain (hard work for nothing) to talk his way innocent. He confessed that he was guilty as charged but that Jesus was innocent.

Jesus was crucified for two reasons: (1) He was next in line to be King of the Jews, but abdicated His throne on Earth, indicating that His Kingdom was not of this world, and (2) He admitted that He is the very Image of God, as the “Son of God.” They thought that He was a crazed lunatic for the latter, but worried that He might claim the throne of Judea.

They all knew better, Herod Antipas claimed Jesus as a fellow Galilean and thus He was called “Jesus of Nazareth” of Galilee. As such, Antipas was not worried about Jesus pursing the throne of Judea (Luke 23:6-7); it was not His territory under Caesar.

So, the first point to be made from Matthew chapter four is that repentance is on the Way to salvation, and that thought is the most ergonomically efficient, requiring no physical work at all! (That is the reason that Paul baptized few but persuaded many.)

The second point is that Jesus was a Galilean (Mat 4:15). The Judean kingship was an ethnarchy because it was an area of ethnic Jews. Matthew wrote about that as a fulfillment of prophecy, that Jesus would be from Galilee.

That was significant or it would not have been in earlier or the New Testament scripture.

Jesus of Nazareth was from Lower Galilee. From the time of Isaiah, Galilee was a gentile nation, and not Jewish at all. They worshipped as Jews and thought of themselves as Jewish, but the people of that district were gentiles, not Jewish but outsiders. Galilee was populated by Itruean converts from outside the district during the Hellenistic era. Many of the people there were pagan warriors who were forcibly converted to Judaism, according to Josephus.

Nobody knows the genealogy of the Galileans at all. They could have been from anywhere and everywhere, but amongst them lived many Jews, and the Galileans were Jews, not by genealogy, but by coercion.

That Jesus was of Nazareth was a Galilean has some important implications. He was not just King of the Jews, as the “Son of David,” but King of Galilee in the sense that He was King of Gentiles and Jews. He was not just a contender for the Judean Throne but Herod Antipas’s throne as well, of which Antipas seemed well aware because Jesus was a citizen of his district.

Point two is that Jesus is not just “King of the Jews” as Pilate noted with the sign placed above His head, but “King of the Gentiles” as well. Jesus preached first to the Gentiles, and only secondly to the Jews, as Paul would learn was more effective.

“His fame went throughout all Syria.” Syria was all the districts combined and was the Roman Colony in the Holy Land. It consisted of all the small kingdoms whose kings took the right hand of friendship with each other and with Caesar.

The third point is that Jesus was King of Syria as well. Syria at that time was almost, excepting small areas, was the Kingdom of David whose area was about the same limits. So, Jesus was heir to the Kingdom of David which included all of Syria, but he denied that kingdom for the realm not of this world (John 18:36).

Now, consider the Book of Jasher, mentioned several times in the Bible. Abraham was a king without land. He was promised the Promise Land, but he received no territory. He lived in the land of Canaan as king. With that said, Abraham’s kingdom was not of this world but in another realm and the “Promised Land” was not terrestrial but celestial.

So, why the lineage of Abraham in Matthew chapter one? Jesus was of the lineage of Abraham. He was the “Son of Abraham” as well as the “Son of David,” not in the sense of father/son, but of the gens (genetic family) of both Abraham and David. Jesus was heir to the kingdom of Abraham as well as David. They occupied the same “space,” but one kingdom was in the world and the other not of this world.

That is not to say that the world is “Paradise” at all but that there is an unseen kingdom in another realm whose entryway is by Jesus — the “Pathway” and the “Gate” (Mat 7:14).

With that said, “Abraham’s Bosom,” of Luke chapter sixteen is the Kingdom of Abraham that awaited his gen (the Promise of the Abrahamic Covenant.) Jesus was heir to the Paradisical throne of Abraham whose territory is Abraham’s Bosom… where he rests.

Syria was representative of that land during the Roman era as well as the Greek times. The Kingdom of Jesus was not Syria where Caesar was King of kings, but in the Heavenly Paradise where He is the “Caesar” as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev 19:16).

Albeit Caesar was King of kings over Syria, he was also Lord of lords as Pontificus Maximus over the Roman Empire. He claimed to be God in the flesh as well as King of kings. As Pontificus Maximus, Caesar claimed to be “Lord of lords.” Jesus recognized Caesar’s authority on Earth but claimed the same titles in His own realm.

The last point is that all things are in scripture for a purpose and should not be glossed over. That Jesus was a Galilean implies many things. The genealogy of chapter one does as well. They all identify Jesus to be who He claimed to be and who He claimed not to be. He did not come to be King of the Jews but King of All! The question is, Is He your Lord and King?

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ON SOWN AND SAVED

Paul writes of mysterious things; he even refers to the “mystery of Christ” aS something that was revealed to himself and others: 

³ How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; as I wrote afore in few words, ⁴ whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. (Ephes 3:3-4)

 So, what is the mystery of Christ? 

God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Tim 3:16)

 There was something peculiar about Jesus; He was God revealed to mankind in the flesh of a man. He was and remains God.

Revealed to be the very tangible Image of God, His invisible Image, seen by the angels, Paul preached that divine Person, others believed all those things, and that Person was received into glory.

Paul wrote of the glory of the celestial bodies (1 Cor 15:40:41). There are celestial glory and terrestrial — the heavenly and the worldly — the spiritual and the physical — the soul and the body.

Paul likens the dead person to a garden sown in corruption but raised in incorruption. (1 Cor 15:42). That is beginning of regeneration which is much the same as the original generation in the beginning.

The corrupted person was sown in the Garden of Eden: 

⁷ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. ⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:7-8)

 The Garden of Eden — the Garden of God — was where His seed was planted in in the terrestrial. That original Garden was glorious but would soon be corrupted by the Wicked One and sin. God sowed that Garden, and it did not grow, just as in the parable: 

⁵ Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: ⁶ and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. (Mat 13:5-6)

 The two “Adams” — Adam and Eve — are believed to have been created on the Foundation Stone, now beneath the Dome of the Rock. If so, then they were sown on a stony place, and just as the parable says, they had no root and withered away, as we find out for the male Adam, 930 years.

Adam did not die immediately but inside he died a celestial death. His soul was no longer glorious but inglorious because the poison of sin corrupted their glorious image from the seed of God.

God had planted His seed in the Garden of God and that seed had different kinds. Only one kind was in the Image of Himself and that was Adam. We think of Adam as the man person, but the female and male were of one flesh; they were of the same “kind” (Hebrew; min).

Hence, kind, is a certain gene pool that is portioned out (Strong 1890). God provided a portion of His divine Genes to Adam who shared it with Eve, thus they were of one flesh and both the genetic (Genesis) image of God.

The point therein is that mankind was created glorious because their image was God, the true “Bringer of Light” or the Celestial One which Lucifer was not; he (it) was darkness, and both Adamas, the man and the woman, had their glorious genes disturbed. The result was that on the stony places in the Garden, the ”crop” of God failed, not because of God as the bad Husbandman, but because they trespassed on soil were they were not to go.

As a “kind” (min), the species of God failed, so the Garden that God planted was corrupted. To this day mankind, from Adam, are all corrupted. However, Jesus was not of Adam; He was of God. “Adam” (Mary) was merely His “portal” or “vehicle” from the celestial realm to the terrestrial.

The mystery is that although borne of a woman, Jesus had Genes from the Father portioned unto Him in the same manner that God portioned them to Adam; hence the passage in the key verse:

And so, it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul;” the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45)

 The verse needs punctuation which I added. It is written in Genesis 2:7 that the first man Adam was made a living soul. However, the last Adam was made a “quickening,” or life-giving “Spirit.”

The first man is the “protos anthropos Adam” in the Greek.

Adam was the prototype human being, standing upright without an appendage for balance. He was of a different kind, or family, than the other creatures.

With that said, the prototype man was not a stooped ape but upright. The stooped creatures were the kind from Cain who was of the Wicked One.

Cain indubitably was a giant stooped creature because of two things: He was not upright, and his curse was visible and there were giants in the Earth in those days (Gen 6:4). Perhaps Cain was Neanderthal man that have been found in caves and a sort of man and a sort of creature.

Eve was the prototypical female “Adam,” speaking of kinds. Hence, the first “man” is both the male and female Adam. Since Eve is the “mother of all living,” (Gen 3:20) and was the one in whom “sin” was planted, and that both the man, Adam, and the woman Adam, came first, then Jesus was speaking not so much speaking of people, but kinds — kinds with the defective genes of Lucifer — the other “image” (nahas) in them.

Jesus is speaking of the first of the species with depraved genes from the Wicked One who was the reason the Garden failed.

Adam’s role was what? To dress and keep the Garden. He was responsible for keeping it glorious and multiplying it as we learn from his job descriptions. He failed that, but not him alone for both male and female Adamas failed God.

The man and the woman prototypes were to grow living souls in God’s terrestrial Garden, but instead the female Adam grew dead, or withering, souls from the seed, or genes, of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

The first Garden failed because sin slipped in. The first Adam-kind were poor husbandmen because they were deluded into thinking that the so-called image of the “Serpent” was God, and that they could do as they please.

Paul, in the key verse, was speaking not of the man, Adam, but the prototype male and female because sin entered the world by them both!

The “last Adam” was not necessarily the latest with none thereafter, which is true, but a different “rank” (ibid) in the Kingdom of God.

In the beginning was the first “rank” as the Hebrew word in Genesis 1:1 means, so the “last Adam” is the “last rank” of the kinds that God would make. In other words, Jesus is the last chance genetically! His Spirit would make mankind alive again, as the word “quickening” indicates.

Lastly, how is that done? By regeneration which is much like the prototypical original generation; Jesus said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7) or “engendered from above” (ibid) with the divine and glorious genes of God, Jesus, who reigns “above” the celestial sphere, in the “Tenth Heaven” above the celestial sphere, according to the Book of Enoch.

The key verse implies that Adam’s kind, both male and female, are the walking dead who must be made alive again, and again with the glorious seeds of God planted in their terrestrial bodies that will soon return to the dust from which it came to be glorified as Christ the “Gene Carrier” was glorified (John 7:39).

If you do still do not get it; born again is when the seed of God via the Holy Ghost is planted in the dust of the person to be among the “Garden of God,” called “Christians.” It is the reseeding, but in the end, the crop is ready at the harvest if it is grown and kept on “good soil” for the duration (Mat 10:22).

So, just when is “salvation”? 

So, Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb 9:28)

 Salvation is when Jesus comes a second time. Theologians usually place the “second coming” when Jesus comes to reign on Earth (The Millennial Reign of Jesus). Scripture does not say “second coming” so it must be identified. It was; Paul define it: 

¹⁵ 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… (1 Thes 4:15-16)

 When Jesus comes for the “harvest” of the Garden, so to speak, Paul wrote about that occasion as, “the coming of the Lord.” That event is the second coming when He raises the dead that He had sown with His genes when they were alive.

Just as the generation (creation) was complete after Adamas walked upright (anthropos), the regeneration is the same — when the dead in Christ will arise and walk upright with Jesus in Paradise… upright both in body at that time (as new creatures with the Genes of God) and in Spirit.

Christians are those sown by the Spirit of God and made alive again, as the key verse says, but once alive the Seed must survive the tribulations of the world, just as back in the Garden of Eden. To do that, requires one thing — to keep on the “Garment of God” — the Comforter, the Holy Ghost of Jesus, until He comes again as the “Husbandman” to harvest the crop.

Our hope is to be a portion of the harvest of the Gene pool that God planted in us when alive. He planted it, now all that we need to do is trust Him for the crop to survive the wiles of the Devil. That Garment of God must be kept on for the duration, never taking it off as Noah did when he slept. [1]

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[1] From the Book of Jasher the grace that Noah found was the coat of Adam.

ABOUT TRUTH

 The problem in America, as elsewhere in the world, is that mankind seeks not the truth but are more comfortable living with lies.

Take for instance the story or Adam and Eve. Many Christians do not accept the idea that there were intelligent beings in primordial history. They believe that there is not a prime order of existence and that the first intelligent being had to evolve from some lower form of life. The idea that species were original, to them, is mythology.

Science is the study of the physical and natural world; it tests theories, using only physical evidence and therefore must ignore the harder to obtain evidence that may confound their conclusions. As such, God is an invisible God that cannot be measured, so God has not utility for scientists. Jesus solved that mystery because God became tangible to mankind, not just by touch but by all the senses.

When Jesus, portending to be God, was crucified, God in essence came apart for all to see: 

·         At the ninth hour, Jesus asked, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mat 27:46) and immediately,

·         “When the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God’” (Mark 15:39) 

The hypothesis was that Jesus was not the gens, or nature or image, of God.

The “brilliant” Jews proposed that Jesus is not who He said He was, but just a man. Their test for truth was evidentiary — a true immortal God (Existence) would always exist and could not die. The evidence that would satisfy them would be to kill this man who claimed to be God. You must admit that they were very scientific!

Pontius Pilate revealed that he was scientific; he asked, of Jesus, “What is truth?” Even before the execution of Jesus, Pilate accepted the truth, “I find in him no fault at all” (John 18:38).  Pilate would need not to destroy the test Subject to know the truth.

So, what is truth? Greek was the ordinary, or common language of the day, even after the Romans took charge. Most certainly Pilate spoke “koine Greek” — the common language of that day and time.

Pilate asked, “Tis esti aletheia?” Pilate estimated Jesus, or appraised the man, and concluded that He was who He said He was. Pilate looked at the evidence with an open mind, himself seeking the truth, and somehow, God revealed the truth to Pilate even before He showed Himself, so to speak.

The Jewish hypothesis was that Jesus was not who He claimed to be — God in the flesh, meaning that He was the very Image of God. To them, excepting the prophets who could see the invisible Image of Jesus, most Hebrews could not see God. They were skeptics and despite their own scripture, concluded that humble Jesus could neither Be King of kings nor LORD of lords.

That Jesus was not who He said He was, was the “null hypothesis.” In other words, the crucifixion was a very scientific test. It was to reveal the truth — aletheia — the reality, the fact, or certainty. It was to test whether God was objectively right there and could be sensed very in a very scientific experiment.

If Jesus died; then of course, He would not be God. However, their methodology was again quite wrong; they had a wrong perception of death just like Adam.

Speaking of the forbidden tree, God had told Adam, “For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen 2:17). Obviously, the body of the first man, did not die right then, but His soul — Adam’s invisible being — did die.

The correct methodology for the crucifixion would not be whether the Body of Christ died, but whether His soul would die. As it turned out, the Body of God slept but would arise shortly and His soul escaped to another realm until it was safe for Him in the world. The “scientific” Jews failed to test the unseen and believed only what they could see in their cruel experiment!

Pilate saw the soul of Jesus even before it was revealed. The writers of the gospel saw the soul of Jesus alive and well, even as His Body seemed to die. They wrote about what they saw — Jesus gave up His Holy Ghost and that was God coming apart to reveal all His substances: (1) His Existence in heaven, (2) His Body on Earth, and (3) His Spirit overcoming the world and death.

The null hypothesis could not be rejected, yet the Jews remained unpersuaded. God did not die, inferring that Jesus was indeed God in the flesh. He was who He said He was. Pilate saw that, his wife saw that, the repentant thief saw that, the centurion who pierced Jesus saw that, and the writers of the gospels saw that; they all saw God come apart and be separated into His three substances. That fact made them all free. They were no longer bound by the physical laws but saw that there was a Law mightier than what the others could perceive. That Law is the Law of God, and it is outside the bounds of the physical laws.

Jesus had said to those who followed Him, “If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth (aletheia), and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31:32). Again, they shall know the reality, the fact, or certainty that the Word is truth. The Word was pre-incarnate Jesus — the Spirit of God before God took on flesh.

Ironically, the non-Jew Pilate saw the truth without the need to tear God apart to test a theory. The destructive test killed their Messiah, or who they thought He might be, and revealed the real Messiah who would never perish. The Messiah that they had in mind was not who they thought He was, not royalty nor even a chief priest, but a servant full of grace and a priest on the order of Melchizedek and not of the Levitical priesthood as they supposed.

Science has the minds of people in a box. They do not think outside the box of what is perceptible physically. The truth lies beyond the “box” and is real as what is in the scientific box. The real “free-thinkers” are those who think outside the box that Satan has them in. Jesus frees the thoughts of men from the scientific.

However, at times, science has revealed God in their clumsy endeavors to kill Him off. The harder they attack God; the more He is revealed. For instance, astrophysics reveals God who is Existence. They look toward God but fail to see Him just like the “scientific” Jews who crucified their own God just to prove that He did not exist!

Finally, exasperated by their unbelief, Jesus told His disciples — those who said they followed Him —  “Now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth” (John 8:40).

Jesus was killed for telling the truth. The unadulterated truth was that Jesus was and still is God who came to this realm in flesh to show mankind the very face of God. People still kill God in the sense that they deny Jesus who died to prove who He was!

Because you do not believe the truth does not make it untruthful. Truth is absolute and devoid of what you think or even feel. You cannot reach out and touch God but because you can’t does not make God less real. He no longer needs to prove Himself to mankind because He has already done that by overcoming death and the world by the Resurrection and Ascension. How many times does He need to do that for you to accept the truth?

Pilate was not willing to kill the man, Jesus, for merely expressing objective truth. He trusted the science and would not need a destructive test to satisfy his inquisitive mind!

The “science” is that the objective man, Jesus, was God in the flesh and He died to reveal that to mankind. He has already proven His real identity without a doubt, for the grave remains empty. That is the science!

Preachers must preach the truth. Neither can they create a false perception of the truth. Preachers lie all the time, not with the intention of lying, but in an ineffective way to magnify God.

“Do you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you are saved?” If you answer “yes” to that, then you too are a liar. You trust that you will be, but right now the devil pursues you, to wit: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Christian… that is you who the Devil seeks to destroy.  Sobriety and vigilance are that you consider the truth — that the Devil pursues you — and that you are no match for him. You may be safe with the Holy Ghost of Jesus in you, but your destiny still depends on you to trust in the Jesus; not your perception of Jesus, but the real Ghost of Jesus who overcame the world so that you need not!

The truth is not always obvious. It must be revealed by God by a serious searching of the Word. That baptism saves makes it a mysterious water, but it is the Living Water, the Holy Ghost, that provides safety you in this world.

That you felt guilty one time, even as a child — trusting Jesus one time for a few minutes — is salvation — is wishful thinking. Faith is trusting Jesus all the time until death parts you from doubt. That you know that you know that you know that you are saved, is positive assurance and is noble, but may very well make you easy pickings for the Devil because your guard may be let down. Why? Faith is just that — “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1).

God already showed His Substance to the world, and you must take that as truth. You can no longer see Jesus, but He remains with us. Jesus promised and came through with it, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:16).

The ”Comforter” therein is the Holy Ghost of Jesus, and neither water nor anything else, but the Invisible Substance of God Himself, the substance that the Cross revealed.

How to know the truth? “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thes 5:21). To do that requires you to expose the things that you doubt.

For me, the doubt was in the six-day creation. God, being God, could have done that, but did He? Like it or not, Christian, the text does not say “day” but “to be hot.” (Strong 1890). It is translated as “day” but according to linguists, it could have been a “period” in the “process of time” (Gen 4:3).

I strongly believe the original text; that the world — the cosmos — was created hot for a period measured by time. That is taking the Bible literally. Whenever a preacher says, “When it says a ‘day’ that means it was a day!” is not the truth. It was, however, some period in time. To insist that it was a twenty-four-hour day is not absolute truth. If so, then when were the angels created, know God, and rebel? Those events imply times in excess of a conventional day.

The truth is not to side with science because their versions of truth are dynamic and change with time. However, the process was always by “hotness” for “periods” in time if scripture is taken literally. I believe, not the science, but the Word of God. That science is discovering how God did it just increases my faith.

No matter how many times someone says it is a “day,” multiple repetitions do not make a truth! The truth is that it was hot — the beginnings of a process which comes to equilibrium upon cooling over a given period. That is not the “First Law of Thermodynamics” but the primordial “Law of God.” He created the processes, and it is Him that is the Light that was used to separate the darkness (unseen) from the visible (Gen 1:4). Only those are the primordial processes that God used to generate all things.

“Something from nothing” is the characteristic of alchemy. That all things came from no Thing is magical thinking and is sorcery. Let us give Jesus as God who made all things, as John revealed it (John 1:3). Let’s not steal time from God. He would not tire in six days as “Almighty God” and would need rest only after losing His tremendous amounts of Virtue (Dynamos in the Greek). Power is “Dynamics” and emanates from the Spirit of God. Let us give God the credit and time for all things.

Accepting the science where it agrees with scripture is not trusting the science but exposing God as Jesus was the “Science” that God presented to persuade mankind of the truth. As such, Pilate saw the science and perceived God in it. On the other hand, the Jews saw the science and failed to believe what they were seeing right before their own eyes.

Jesus coming apart to display all three of His Substances was the “Science” that we should need to trust Jesus as the Way to eternal life. Doubting Jesus is as crucifying Him once again (Heb 6:6). Doubting is “falling away” from Jesus as the Way; once having affection for Him, then defecting from that first love.

My quest is for the truth. I am in search of the One True God and His mysterious ways. To know the truth, I do not let science stand in my way and block the truth. Because science has discovered some things does not make it less of the truth. Because they err in many things does not mean they err in all things. The scientific method of the Roman times revealed the truth — Jesus is God in the flesh.

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I BET YOU CANNOT DO IT

 Matthew chapter four is about the temptations of Christ by the Devil. Jesus was the “last Adam” — “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45); “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body… the natural body is sown, it is raised a spiritual body” (1 Cor 15:44).

Hence, Adam was sown by the breath of God, and Jesus was raised from Adam an alive (quickening) Spirit to make us truly alive again. All that to say two things: (1) Jesus was the second man made in the image of God, and (2) His body was not only natural as Adam’s kind but spiritual as well, as God’s Kind, and without a flaw!

Whereas the first Adam was tempted and failed, the last Adam was tempted but overcame temptation. The two first Adams — the man and the woman — were both Adam’s kind who were made glorious but failed due to temptation. The last Adam, Jesus, was tempted but did not fail God. Jesus remained glorious whereas both Adam and Eve became inglorious.

About sin, James wrote: 

⁸ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,” ye do well: ⁹ But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (Jas 2:8-10)

 The point to that scripture is that love by itself is not efficacious for salvation. Adam and Eve loved God in the sense that they had no ill will for their Maker, but they also showed respect for the “Serpent.” Mankind’s issue all along is not that they did not love God but loved to transgress as well. With that said, although Jesus loved His Father, if He had loved the things that He was tempted with, He would have failed.

Jesus was tempted: 

1.       He was hungry and Satan offered Him bread.He did not take it.

2.       Upon the pinnacle, Satan asked Jesus to prove Himself to be God by daring God. It was a test of whether Jesus would trust His Father in Heaven.

3.       He was taken up to a high mountain and shown the world, specifically the Garden of God within the Kingdom of David. Satan said it could be all His if he only worshiped him. It already was His, albeit His real Kingdom was not of this world. 

Now look at the sins of the first Adam: 

1.       He was offered food (the fruit of the forbidden tree) and he took it.

2.       He was tested in whom he believed. He failed to believe God and trusted the Serpent by disobeying God and not doubting the Serpent.

3.       Hidden in Adam’s sin was whose Garden it was. Adam was already king and high priest in the Garden, having dominion over all things. However, it was the Garden of God (Gen 2:8) and Adam and Eve were only to rule and tend it. The Serpent planted the idea that the two could be “as gods,” hinting that the Garden could be their kingdom! 

Adam and Eve (the first two “Adam’s”) broke one law — they ate of the forbidden tree but by breaking that one Law, they broke as many as Jesus was tempted. Adam and Eve as well have broken all the Laws of God by breaking one Law because even one Law broken makes the difference who is the Last Adam and who is not.

Adam was created glorious since the two were made in the image of God. Think of glorious as one with a perfect image (with the genetics of God); their genes would be without any depravity at all. Adam and Eve were created genetically pure just like Jesus who was of the same “Image” as the first Adams.

Sin was not discarding the Image of God but taking on a secondary image (nahas in the Hebrew). Whereas Jesus is the Son of God and the son of man (Adam), the original Adams were the sons (genetically speaking) of God and the sons of the Wicked One since their nature (DNA) changed. They kept their desire for God and even wanted to be like Him, but they took on a second nature as well as children of the Wicked One. Their father and lover had become the Devil as they fornicated against God with another invisible being.

Jesus proved that He was God by overcoming the world that was offered Him. Jesus said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Jesus had overcome the Devil and the world that he offered Him. You could not have done that! Most of us cannot go two weeks without food, but Jesus overcame the Devil with His hands tied and even nailed down. He overcame death for us, and if we eat of the Tree of Life from that wooden yoke, then we are made free of the world.

We are sons of Adam and are as such failures, not gods. Jesus is the last Adam — our last hope. Whereas Adam failed and so do all of us of his kind, Jesus overcame temptation, the Devil, and Hell on our behalf!

Those temptations that Jesus overcame; they were tribulations. Those temptations that we have; they are tribulations. They are nothing compared to the “Great Tribulation” wherein we must choose who our master will be.

So, you think that you are saved? Then you think that the rapture will precede the Great Tribulation. That is our hope but that is the “assurance” that Calvinists need for their doctrine.

What if we must endure the Great Tribulation? How well will you do? Will you overcome the world and the Devil inside the Antichrist? Our hope is that you need not because Jesus has already done that!

If you were to do it on your own; commence now: Go forty days and decline food, cling to God like you will die, and lastly deny the world and what it has to offer. Turn your backs on entertainment, luxury, the social programs of the government, your home, your automobiles, and even your fun-loving friends. Can you do that? I bet not because you have not! Neither have I; and that is the reason that Jesus has done so for us! The world is in our nature and only Jesus can change who we are.

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ON DEMONS AND ANGELS

 When I was with a good friend, discussing obtuse behaviors, I said to him that a person had not one demon but many. She was a young lady that I knew well whose family were satanists. She was beautiful and attended our church, but she had “multiple personalities,” according to those who knew her, and was ugly inside according to her husband. She would go wild sometimes as if something fierce was guiding her.

My friend, a religious man, said, “I don’t believe in demons” to which I replied, “I do.”

Do you believe in demons? Do you believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, as scripture says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).

Do you, reader, believe in angels yet not demons? Jesus believed in demons, and you do not… Is Jesus a liar?

A man brought out his son, who he called a “lunatic” (Mat 17:15; YLT [1]). The disciples were not able to heal the young man, but “Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour” (Mat 17:18; YLT). They asked why He was able, but why they had failed. Jesus reminded them of their little faith, and then revealed why, “This kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting” (Mat 17:21; YLT).

To be honest the KJV uses the archaic “devils” for demons. Since, the angel Lucifer is the “Devil,” devils are those of the Wicked One, and Cain was the first specific “devil” because he was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

The Devil (Satan, Lucifer, Beast, Baal, etc.) is the nature, or inner being of Lucifer, the angel who fell into darkness (Isa 14:12-13).  In psychological Jungian terms, “Lucifer” was the persona of that angel and the “Serpent” the shadow inside. As I have written many times, “serpent” is just one translation. At a basic level, nahas (Gen 3:1) in the Hebrew means “image” where translated “serpent.”

It seems that sinners are demons, but they are not. Cain was what is considered a natural born man, but inside he was  something else. That inner being was of the Wicked One and was the spirit of Lucifer in him. Cain was demonic in nature. So was the young man who was thought to be a lunatic who Jesus healed. The young man was thought to be either epileptic or vexed (confused). Let me add to that a modern term — “paranoid,” or obsessed with suspicion.

However, the young man had within a demon, devil, dark angel, or a shadow of the evil one; whatever you choose to call him. Just as Satan entered Judas (Luke 22:33), fellow angels of Lucifer/Satan can enter anyone who enters unto temptation, being at the wrong place at any given time.

Theoretically, demons cannot enter anyone who have faith in Jesus. If they get confused or go where they should not, they submit themselves to invisible beings.

Right now, scoffers are scoffing! “Invisible beings?” they laugh as if I am crazy. The scoffers also thought Jesus to be crazy, many of the Jews said, “He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye Him?” (John 10:20). To the Jews, the boy was thought to be a lunatic and they thought that Jesus was as well. They even accused Jesus of having a devil in Him. The Jews firmly believed in both lunatics and devils; they just could not discern between them.

The girl with the devil described at the beginning of this commentary, was the same. The psychotherapist, and even the preacher, thought her to be a lunatic with multiple personalities; that her thoughts were confused.

I told the preacher that she had demons in her because she exhibited many in her behaviors. Subsequently, they said they prayed out her demon, to which I added, “She has many demons!” Yes, I am a “lunatic” as the world sees it because I believe in demons.

Like they perceived Jesus as being a lunatic and even mad, at the same time, others thought that Jesus had a demon inside of Him (Mat 17:22).

With the young man, they had failed for two reasons: (1) They had little faith, and (2) they were confused. It was them who were paranoid because they did not know with whom they were dealing — evil spirits or craziness.

Many people are treated as psychologically impaired and are never healed because they may have demons in them… like the young girl at the beginning. Psychologists attempt to fix “paranoid” people because they cannot see who is eating at them inside. Yes, “eating!” to wit, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Devils are not eating away at your flesh but battling against angels for the soul that is the invisible, spiritual image within you. They are not zombie-like flesh-eating dead people, but Satan-like soul-devouring angels sucking the life, or Holy Spirit, out of you.

Paul in his letter to Peter and young converts stated that they be vigilant because of the Devil inside them. He was not speaking to sinners but converts to Christianity who had the Holy Spirit residing in them. They would be vulnerable to losing their Spirit and gaining a parasitical demon if they failed to understand with whom they were dealing. No wonder, Christians should not enter unto temptation; they would be lunatics themselves if they exposed their souls to invisible creatures.

With that said, demons want you to scoff at demons. They want you to not believe in them! Disbelieving that they are real is insobriety and unvigilant. If you do not believe in demons, then you, even as a Christian, may be in danger of falling to the wiles of devils.

Demons are nothing but rebellious angels. Most people believe in angels but fail to believe in demons. Demons are like people; there are both good and bad people and there are both good and evil angels.

That a third of the angels rebelled is not explicit but implied in symbolism, speaking of the great red dragon it is written, “His tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the Earth” (Rev 12:4). The implication that stars in this case are not red-hot celestial bodies but beings in another realm… “the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken” (Mark 13:25).

Of course, that may be speaking only of a future event and not in the beginning. Regardless, Lucifer had many angels that rebelled with him, and they are “demons” or “devils,” depending on the translation.

Angels are thought of a beautiful heavenly creatures and demons as hideous ones. They are of the same kind just as human beings are of the same kind. The difference between demons and angels are within; the former beings have darkness within and the latter light. Speaking of the Creation, it is written, “God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen 1:4). That applies to all things, not just the physical world but the invisible things.

It was God that divided the demons from the angels after light was created. Light is goodness and darkness evil.

There was not too Creations in any respect. Angels were created before mankind… the spiritual world was created before the foundation of the world: 

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, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. (Ephes 1:3-4)

 Theologians take that to mean that God divided the good from the evil by some unknown standard and some were destined to be Christians and others predestined to perish. That standard would be good for some and evil for others, but all things were created as translated “very good” (Gen 1:31), or literally, entirely beneficial.

Neither man nor angels were created evil but wholly good. Something happened to both kinds to degenerate them. Since mankind was degenerated by the angel, Lucifer, in the Garden of Eden, then angels degenerated some time before that.

Forget the translation of “day” for Creation. God could have done that, but did He? Scriptural evidence, as well as the Book of Enoch, divides the Creation into ages and eons. [2] The scriptural evidence is that angels had time to be created, live, and rebel. Would that be in one day? Not so! Angels were part of the one Creation in the first “phase” and it would not be in one calendar day; and there was not even the Sun — the solar clock.

When God divided the light from the darkness, that would be dividing the angelic kind from the pre-existing souls of mankind. It would not be dividing the souls of men and women into the “saved” and the “damned” as Calvin proposed. It might be, however, God dividing the rebellious angels from the righteous angels when God would judge the angelic world.

Angels and man are of different kinds. They may look alike but have different substances. Angels are androgenous (Mat 22:30) and invisible, whereas mankind has gender and of two substances, one visible (the body) and the other invisible (the soul).

Because the Holy Ghost of Jesus has a “bodily shape” (Luke 3:22) which was the shape of the Spirit of God, then it would indicate that the shape of the human soul is in bodily shape. Sacred writings do describe the soul as the extent of the human body but of a different substance.

Adam’s shape was molded empty then filled with the Glorious Spirit of God (Gen 2:7). “Death” appeared to be when the Spirit of God was replaced by the spirit of the Devil, Lucifer — the Beast, or the “Serpent.” The spirit of the Devil is “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) — depravity or evil.

Each person born would be shaped in iniquity, according to King David. The vessel within — the soul — would be empty but destined to sin and be filled with the spirit of the Wicked One, as was Cain.

With the first sin, entered the spirit of the Wicked One. Thereafter, the soul has contents prone toward evil that rebirth drives out (John 3:7). Hence, everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom 3:23), no longer having the Genome of God within but of the Wicked One. “Born again” is engendering again from above (Strong 1890), ostensibly from Jesus in Paradise.

Does everyone born a natural birth have demons? It seems that Catholics believe so since pedobaptism is an exorcism of demons from the infants. Nobody knows for sure, but it is obvious that some people do have demons.

What criteria Satan has for that is unknown but with Job we might get some indication. Job was a righteous man, important, and prosperous. He sanctified his sons to the Lord. Then came Satan with “its” demons (remembering that Lucifer is androgenous): 

⁶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. ⁷ And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (Job 1:6-7)

 The “sons of God” in scripture refers to created angelic creatures whether good or evil. Since, those angels were with Satan, then they would have been demon angels. They presented themselves.

The invisible creatures manifested themselves in some manner and became visible. In the Books of Adam and Eve as well as the Book of Jasher, angels can present themselves in bodily shape — as beautiful men or women and such. They are what would be called today “shapeshifters.” Perhaps they presented themselves as men to Job but within them were demons.

Satan chose Job, hoping that he could be changed from an upright to a fallen state (apostasy). Therefore, whose soul obtains a demon depends on the situation. If only one-third of the angels fell, then there are a limited number of demons. Satan selected Job to be filled with demon spirits, but before they could enter him, the Spirit of God would have to be emptied from the soul of the man.

The Book of Job is about Satan’s attempt to overthrow the existence of the most upright man that he could find. Perhaps the most upright is one criterion for possession… or on other occasions, the man or woman who could influence the most to fall away from God.

Who would you think of as candidates for that? Well, Judas got the chief demon, Lucifer called, “Satan.” He was the “Antichrist” for that occasion because his was the Chief of Demons. There have been many Antichrists but there can be only one at a time since Satan is not omnipresent but comes and goes as indicated in Job. He brought his demons, perhaps, to fill the sanctified family of Job. He killed all of them, did he not?

It is not revealed but to get to Job, he got to him through his family. Job had seven sons and three daughters, and they were swept away in a wind:

 ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, “Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1:18-19)

 They were dealing with Satan and his demons, so think esoterically. The unholy demons came in a similar manner as the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter two. His seven sons died. Remembering that death in the lexicon of God is receiving the spirit of the Wicked One, it appears that demons entered their souls and they died.

With that said, God did not kill Job’s sons with a mighty wind, but the great wind from the “wilderness” came out of another realm and imbued the seven sons, killing them. Job’s seven sons would have to die for Satan to have Job. Demon possession of his sons was Satan’s way of getting to Job.

Say any given man is upright. How would Satan get to the man with the Holy Ghost of Jesus in him? He cannot get in with the “Comforter” within him, so Satan would still get to the righteous man through his sons or daughters. Perhaps that is why so many righteous men and women, because God is not a respecter of persons, have sons or daughters that may be demon possessed.

Demons, as we learn from the man of the Gadarenes, can host-hop, going from host to host as God commands. Could it be that the young girl who had multiple demons (from earlier in this commentary) was demon possessed by many demons to infect the church that I attended? The church no longer exists so perhaps those “roaring lions” devoured the church one by one until it was gone. The women only prayed out one demon, this leaving many others free to roam.

I fled from that organization. Did God protect me? Perhaps.

Where would anyone expect to find demons. With Job, it was with the most righteous. My bet is that demons focus on the church to destroy it. They cannot destroy the universal invisible Church to which all Christians belong, but the faux visible church would be where demons go. They cannot get into God’s true Church because it is guarded by the Holy Ghost of Jesus. One by one, we see the branches of the false church fall like dead tree limbs.

The real Church has one baptism, one faith, and one Christ. How best to infiltrate with demons? By another baptism, another faith, or another false Christ!

In summary, demons(devils) are as real as humans are and for those who do not believe in demons, just what is it that you are living in safety from?

 “Death” is when demons enter people, not when the flesh dies. The soul dies before the flesh of those who are not sober and vigilant. How better to get into the soul of a person than the denial that demons exist? What better way to get in than feeling that you are secure or that you have been dunked in the baptismal? How better a way than believing that infant baptism exorcises those demons?

Angels of all types shapeshift. Some angels have extremely unusual shapes. Isaiah, for instance saw “the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly” (Isa 6:1-2.

Seraphim, singular “seraph,” is the highest order of angels in Christian eschatology (fifth in the Jewish). Isaiah wrote of Lucifer as a serap nahas serap (Isa 14:29)… translated as serpent, fiery, serpent.

Nahas means “image” as well. Hence, the serpent is the fiery image of the seraph, Lucifer. Therefore, Isaiah described the actual form of Lucifer, but there are good seraphs as well with the same form. Only their inner image, serpent-like vs. goodly separates their appearance, but evil angels often appear to be good in sacred literature. In other words, the average Christian fails to understand the powers with which he is dealing!

Adam had that trouble as well with his conflicts with Satan in sacred literature. He was fooled about all the time and God had to save him and Eve. [3]

Both good and evil angels most often appear as regular beings, humans as they appear. Paul wrote, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Heb 13:2).

I say, “Be not forgetful to avoid those strange strangers: for thereby some have entertained demons unawares.” Those who are not sober and vigilant may have entertained demons, or more likely been entertained by demons!

There came two angels to Sodom at evening (Gen 19:1)… and later the homosexual men of the city asked; “Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them” (Gen 19:5). They wanted to know them carnally. Those two angels looked like men and ate and drank during the evening meal (Gen 19:3). They were just like men.

They shapeshifted to do the work of God and that was to reveal the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah. Those were good angels and men wanted to enter them, but they could not enter the men. Good angels never enter humans; they only guard righteous men such as Lot from the workers of evil.

On the other hand, evil angels (demons) do enter men and women. The seraph, Satan, entered Judas Iscariot (Luke 22:3). Of course, that was the chief demon, Lucifer, who did not shapeshift himself, but his invisible substance entered a human being. Judas, for some laxity — for the love of money and notoriety —(avarice), although an apostle and follower of Christ, lost his way.

Jesus, followed by all twelve of his apostles, including Judas, encountered “certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils” (Luke 8:2). Jesus drove them out just as He would legions of them with the man of the Gadarenes.

Although good angels do not enter a person, devils (demons) certainly can and will. Mary had been impure. Apparently, men with demons had not STDs in a social away but “spiritually transmitted diseases.”

Mary had had carnal knowledge, it seems, with demon-filled men. Demons may be best passed along via carnal knowledge. Fornication has a two-fold meaning: against another human and against God. It makes sense that demons are passed along through carnal knowledge; no wonder the flesh of others is so imperative to avoid in Christology; it can be the vessel for carrying demons!

Since angels cannot enter Christians and Christians do not become angels but saints, what spirit enters Christians? It is written, “The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off” (Psalm 37:38).

Saints are not the seed of the wicked; not the “verile semen” of the wicked (Strong 1890). The wicked are those who retain original sin in their genomes and practice the art of wickedness. Saints are those who have the verile semen of God — His Genes — within them and have been born again.

Saints are the faithful ones (ibid). Faith can be operationalized as trust over time. Those who trust God continually — endure to the end (Mat 10:22) — they shall be preserved. Hence, eternal security is contingent on enduring faith, trusting God always in all things.

Saints are “in Christ” who preserves them. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom 8:1). Walking after the Spirit is ergonomic since the Spirit of God is in Christians who are filled with the Holy Ghost. It is easier to walk with the Spirit without getting lost than merely following at a distance the Spirit of God.

The point is that nowhere in scripture do Christians have any angel in them except one — The Angel of God (Exod 14:19). The Angel of God is the Word, or pre-incarnate Jesus. He is the only “angel” that ever enters anyone in the sense that angels are beings in another realm and the Holy Ghost of Jesus is the Almighty Angel in that realm.

If you prefer, Christians walk with the Angel of God in them since ghosts scare people, albeit angels are welcome!

The Angel of God can be manifested as a man as well. Jacob wrestled all night with a “man.” (Gen 32:24). Jacob said, after being marked by the Man, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” (Gen 32: 30). Jacob wrestled with the Angel of God who was in the form of a Man and somehow Jesus got into Jacob for his name was changed to “Israel” and Jacob’s flesh was marked by God. Israel became “Jesus” so to speak and were God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2) because the genes of Jesus had entered Jacob as the Angel of God overshadowed him.

Christians have the same experience as the Angel of God overshadows them. They too are engendered from God (born again) and the genes of Jesus are imbued into them as they were with Jacob. We too become chosen and peculiar people (1 Pet 2:9) when we trust Jesus.

Therefore, the Angel of God is the only angel of virtue that fills the soul of any human being.

Being confined to one place at a time, Satan can only enter one man at a time. He entered Cain, he entered Nimrod, he entered Pharoah, he entered Judas, he entered Caiaphas, he entered Simon Magus, he entered Nero, and he has entered many powerful people including popes and Hitler’s throughout history. There are many Antichrists (1 John 2:18) but most certainly one at a time due to the confines that God puts on angels. In the end, somebody powerful will be entered by the demon angel, Lucifer, and become the Antichrist.

Since Satan is limited, his devils must assist him. Demons still appear in the physical world but most often, they do not shape-shift but simply enter the souls of decadent people.

Infants are special exceptions. Babies are born with souls empty but with the genes of the wicked one; that which David called “iniquity,” They have the propensity to sin in their genes from original sin. They sin in the respect that they are instinctive from the archetype, the Serpent.

Their sin is essentially that they exist with the same instincts as the beasts. However, contrary to Catholic beliefs, they are not born with demons in them to be exorcised with baptism. They are most assuredly born with souls empty of any spirit. They are “vessels” waiting to be filled, and they will remain empty until they sin knowingly as they turn against God.

Babies grow into self-perceived gods. “Born again” is when they repent and trust Jesus who somehow overshadows and perhaps wrestle with them awhile, as He did with me, to correct their genes with His own.

If that does not happen, God does not preserve those who are not His, then demons can certainly enter in. It is likely that you are not special to Satan, and therefore a demon is sufficient.

Some are more special to him, and many demons enter in as they did with the women in the examples previously.

Mary Magdalene had carnal knowledge with many as a harlot and many had entered her. Perhaps the reason was for her to add Jesus to her conquests. Jesus, never bowing to temptation, changed the woman, removed her demons, and the power of her flesh was gone.

If God is not in you; then demons can enter in. Usually, they will not be ugly demons, but just as in sacred literature, demonic spirits in women such as Mary Magdalene and in men.

Spiritualists call demons that have carnal knowledge with men, an “succubus” and a demon that have carnal knowledge with women “incubus.

Those women surely had several incubi engage in sex with them. Perhaps that is how they got demons in them and why fornication is a sin against oneself, as it is written, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body” (1 Cor 6:18). Why so? That may be the portal wherein demons enter into the person.

So, there we have a summary; demons are not as portrayed in horror movies, but beautiful angels that hedonists welcome into their bodies, but also evil spirits that the innocents allow in even without consenting.

We are not to worship angels, and neither are Christians transformed into angels. We are the mere “vessels” for carrying either the Spirit of God or demon spirits; the choice is yours. However, they get in by the unawareness of people. Demons want you to dismiss them as mythological and to deny their existence is even better.

Indeed, if you believe in angels, and you are required to believe in the Angel of God, how can you dismiss demon angels? Because you do not believe, does not make them unreal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Young’s Literal Translation only where indicated.

[2] See my book, Adoil Come Down: Arkhas Came Out.

[3] The Books of Adam and Eve and Their Conflict with Satan also called the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve.