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.
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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