Monday, August 28, 2023

AT THE CORE OF US

Jesus arrived at His own city, Capernaum, and there he was brought a paralyzed man on a bed. The man did nothing and neither did those who carried him. Jesus merely “saw their faith” (Mat 9:2) and in their silence, God Himself read their minds; they believed that Jesus could heal the man, and Jesus knew that without anyone saying a word!

Of course, that was obvious. Most people would assume that; however, Jesus knew that! Upon seeing their faith and knowing that it was faith, Jesus said, “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”  Jesus was not made the biological son of Jesus, but the recipient of his divine spark — His genetics.

Jesus could read the thoughts of the paralytic man and his escorts, and by the way, the scribes were whispering so that Jesus could not hear them. They were murmuring so as not to be heard, “This man blasphemes” (Mat 9:3).

Many before were guilty for saying aloud that Jesus was “beside Himself” (Mark 3:21), accusing Jesus, not being crazy, but possessed by the Devil, Beelzebub (Mark 3:22).

Blasphemy is slandering God, saying things about God that is not the truth and that is intended to undermine God.

Could Jesus, being God, slander Himself? No, Jesus spoke the truth. He was, in a sense, beside Himself! Jesus was the manifestation of God and within that human image was the very Image of God. Jesus was not beside Himself but was as God standing there with Him.

The writing of Josephus verifies the meaning of Jesus at the right hand of God; that the right hand is of equal power with another, to which Jesus’s own Words, verify, “Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power” (Mat 26:64).

Jesus had not blasphemed at all, and was indeed beside Himself, Himself being God, and the Spirit of God was the Power within Jesus. Jesus had not blasphemed; the scribes had done that, and Jesus perceived their thoughts, even from a distance.

You may have glossed over this, but Jesus is all-knowing (omniscient); “Jesus knowing their thoughts said, ‘Wherefore think you evil in your hearts?’” (Mat 9:4).

Now for some clarification. Everyone says “hearts” because the heart is the innermost person just as the inner substance of anything is the “heart,” or most central part of any organism. Oftentimes the heart is the core of the organism — the central substance within all the superficial attributes.

For instance, the core of an apple is the seed within. That is principally the cotyledon — the cup shaped cavity — with the testa (the shell) containing it.


(picture credit; The Virtual Apple Parer Museum; "Apple Seed Anatomy')

The apple core is much like another organism within the “flesh,” or fruit, which itself has an outer shell, or peel. Of course, mankind are not vegetables, but God did use similar details in the generation of all the kinds.

The core of mankind is the inner organism that is called the “soul.” Compare that to the testa of the apple. What the scribes saw was the skin of the person, Jesus. They did not see inside of Him; that at His core, Jesus is God.

Within the “cup” of Jesus was the very “Seed” of God as “Son of God” was not that Jesus was sired by the Father, but was the very Seed, or Image, of Yahweh. Jesus was not a person beside himself, but a Divine Man with the very Identity of God at His core.

Jesus had one characteristic in taxonomy. He was the one God. In biology, that one characteristic is called a “monocot.” As the One True God, then Jesus was a “Monocot” and theology agrees with that assessment. Christians are ‘monotheistic’ because Jesus was indeed beside Himself with the Genome of God in His core.

Again, looking at an apple seed, the cotyledon with one characteristic that are in monocots are the leafy plants, or for Jesus, the singular ‘Tree of Life.”

Never mind learning botany; the point is that Jesus — the ‘Plant’ — is from the Seed of God and carries the genes of Yahweh. The Divine Organism of the Man has a core that is Divine. The scribes could not see that, but those with the paralyzed man could somehow see God within the “Cup” of Jesus.

Jesus did not hear the scribes speaking, but knowing their thoughts said, “Wherefore think you evil in your hearts?”

Jesus heard their hearts, not audibly, but perceived that within each of those men was an awful thing. For an apple, there is no mind, but there is a genetic ‘memory’ so to speak. Unless it is a hybrid, an apple is always an apple like the first of its kind. Within the core of an apple is a genetic memory, and there was with Jesus as well. Jesus was not only of the Genome of God and like Him, but He also had the memory of God.

Consider the long-term memory of Jesus for a moment.

In the same discourse, John was writing about the beginning and that Jesus was there. About that time Nathaniel entered the scenario, and the conversation went like this: 

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!” 48 Nathanael said unto Him, “When did you know me?” Jesus answered and said unto him, “Before that Philip called thee, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered and said unto Him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel. (John 1:47-49) 

First off, the dialogue began with the beginning of time. Israel itself was the middle of Eden, or the Garden of Eden, as it was called.

God identified it as such since the Jordan River is ‘Naral  Ha Yarden’ — the “River of the Garden,” and when Lot looked upon it, it was seen as the “Garden of the Lord” (Gen 13:10). Therefore, Nathanael saw Jesus as God and said so, but also indicated that he knew that Jesus was “King of Israel” or the LORD GOD of the Garden!

Jesus described the “core” of Nathanael — the ‘monocot’ within Nathanael’s seed; that it was without guile.

Recall that Eve was beguiled and that she was the mother of all living (Gen 3). The monocot within Nathanael was Yahweh. He had no guile in himself like Adam who was never beguiled. The guile in Eve was ‘original sin,’ implying that it was genetic and passed down through the generations. Nathanael had no guile in him, so somehow, he had escaped the mutation of sin. At his core was innocence just like the woman before she was beguiled.

Jesus had ancient memories, because as John just wrote, Jesus was there in the beginning. He remembered Nathanael from under the fig tree. Jesus did not say which fig tree, but Nathanael knew what Jesus was talking about. It was the Tree of Knowledge, not an apple tree, but a fig tree, that was in the middle of the Garden.

How was Nathanael seen under the fig tree thousands of years before, maybe even more? Jesus remembered him, not that Nathanael was there, but that his soul was planted there. He was surely of the Seed of God and had no guile in his core. Jesus remembered Nathanael because he was elected to be there before the foundation of the world (Ephes 1:4).

Just as Jesus was the Thought of God in the beginning, so was Nathanael. God had a plan and a future for him and that was to follow Jesus wherever He would go! Nathanael was not there by coincidence, but Yahweh chose him in the beginning, and Jesus remembered that it was under the fig tree way back when!

The name ‘Nathanael’ reveals the core — his heart. It means ‘God has given.’ Yahweh had elected him already to be there and be with Jesus. When Nathanael was created, it was for a purpose and that seed that was planted without guile beneath that olden fig tree bore fruit just at the right time, and voila, Nathanael appeared with Jesus right there in the ‘Garden of God’ where he was planted ages before.

Jesus proved to Nathanael that He was both God and King of the Garden; and because he knew that, Nathanael made the perfect plant to choose to grow alongside Jesus!

Although not for certain, Nathanael is believed to be the apostle, Bartholomew. That amazing names means, ‘son of the furrow,’ ostensibly a furrow in the ground that Nathanael was planted under the fig tree!

What is often missed is that the Garden of God was not a garden of vegetation, but a Garden of Living Souls of which each seed was to come from the side of Adam — the first being planted in the Garden (Gen 2:7-8). [1]

The point to that discourse is that God is omniscient end never even forgetful. He knew that the scribes had guile in them because he saw them under the fig tree with guile in them. Not only was Nathanael pre-ordained to follow Jesus but that knew the scribes from long ago and what was in their hearts. They were the ‘tares’ that were from the gens of the Tree of Knowledge.

Scribes were nothing more than that; they were the ‘photocopiers” that reproduced the Word on paper (the Bible) but they did so, so often that they were walking books of knowledge. Because of their unlimited knowledge of the scriptures, they were the ‘Wikipedia’ of their day; whatever they said was the truth and how dare anyone question them!

Those who heard the scribes whispering would believe them. They said that Jesus blasphemed God, so because they had said it — all of them — it just had to be the truth! However, because Jesus proved who He was inside, the truth made them free from the scribes’ delusions.

Jesus then proved that He did not blaspheme, but at His core, He was God. Jesus, as John said, was there in the Garden, and His ‘Plant’ was the Tree of Life. It stood beside the fig tree, and Jesus saw Nathanael planted in the Garden.

Now it was time to show Himself… who He was in heart, or at the core, and Jessu said, “Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house, and he arose, and departed to his house” (Mat 9:6-7).

Before, the body of the man was like a dying plant and then Jesus revived him; he then arose and walked. He, as blind Bartimaeus would say it; “I see men as trees walking” (Mat 8:24).

Jesus saw men as ‘trees’ walking because He was in the Garden of God when the souls of men were planted. He knew from way back that that man would become paralyzed and would need some divine spark to boost him again.

That man had guile in Him, but Jesus regenned the man, making him a newly renewed creature both on the outside and all the way to the heart, or core, of the man. The divine spark from Jesus had edited the seed within the core of the paralyzed man and he became a new walking upright creature again.

He went from mere vegetation that was rotting to alive again, because Jesus was the “quickening Spirit’ (1 Cor 15:45) that put the divine spark in the core of the man to and regenerate the original seed within his soul.

Perhaps now you may understand your own core, whether it is slowly decaying like an apple in an orchard or revived again for the new Garden of God in another realm.

 



[1] Chapter one of Genesis is perhaps the generation of souls in the Garden, and chapter two about the souls that were planted — the ‘cores’ — that grew to maturity in the Garden.

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