CIRCUMVENTING THE SEAL

 Regeneration is preservation. Mankind was grown in the Garden of God. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 2:8).

What does any gardener do if they are growing for the purpose to survive? Preserve the fruits of their garden. After God’s crop of adama grew, an “impurity” got into them by an unseen but foreseen disease. God apparently desired to test the purity of His preserves before “cold packing” them. Lucifer was made for God to test the crop of humans that were to come with his own likeness imbued within them.

God allowed Adam and Eve to sin. It was not His choice but theirs! They could have been preserved with good moral purity or with contaminants within. Adam and Eve chose “death,” not that they would die but that the preserves made from themselves would have what is now called a “shelf-life.”

God preserved Adam about 930 years and Eve about the same. He preserved their flesh that long, but their souls would endure to the end if their flesh were well-preserved. God promised Adam that, in his case, that his grave would be opened in 5500 years (Books of Adam and Eve), and it was; “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose” and were resurrected with Jesus. (Adam is believed to be buried beneath Calvary).

Because Adam was resurrected, both his well-preserved body and soul were saved on that day because Jesus was the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45) whose Spirit, or Ghost, made the flesh of Adam live again.

God preserved both Adam and Eve, to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them” (Gen 3:21). They were not just the skins of animals, but God put His Skin on them. Perhaps that “skin” was the Holy Ghost; that is not known, but regardless, the skin was meant to preserve them after they were cast out of Paradise unto the world (Gen 3:24).

Why would they require skins to preserve them? Because of the world unto which they were to be stored until the day that Jesus would come to resurrect them. He would want them to be “very good” or as good as they had been in the Garden (Gen 1:31).

Think now of preserves. As such, God would preserve both them and their seed just as He did with Lot through his daughters who thought that they could preserve the seed of their father (Gen 19:33-35). (They did but it soon became contaminated.)  Only God can preserve mankind and their seed, and Jesus is the Preserver as His Name indicates — “Ya Preserves.”

Now consider Noah, God put onto him the Garment of Adam (Book of Jasher) to preserve him. The Bible agrees with that premise, “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Gen 6:8). That “grace” Jasher indicates was the Garment of Adam. Noah wore that “Garment” for 120 years until he was safe but still in the world. Soon, Noah was discovered naked by his son, Ham. Jasher says that Ham stole the Garment, but it was Noah who took it off.

God never took off the “life-preserver;” Noah did that himself. God sealed him to preserve his life, but Noah unsealed himself and was exposed to new wine. Again, death got into him as the grapes were fermented, meaning that the wine had death within.

Now consider modern canning — “cold-packing.”

Humans are cold-packed in funeral homes to preserve their flesh even in death. At least there, they cannot open the door themselves to perish themselves! The shelf life for humans who have died has been extended with modern technology in which the flesh can be preserved for hundreds of years.

God does much better than that!

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (John 6:27)

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (Ephes 4:30)

(Christ) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise (Ephes 1:13)

Nobody should argue about salvation, but hard-headed people do! You are sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, just like Adam. His “day of redemption” was when Jesus was crucified. Adam was surely the first saint that arose from the ground because Adam is “ground” in the Hebrew Lexicon. Jesus, on that day redeemed the seed of Adam, all who trust in Him (Ephes 1:13).

Because Jesus gave up the Ghost (Mark 15:37) made the Spirit of God free for all who will “wear” it. The Holy Spirit is meant to be worn until the “day of redemption.”

When might that be? “He that endureth to the end shall be saved” (Mat 10:22). That is the “day of redemption.” They endure, not by their own preservation, but because God provides the “vessel.” That vessel was translated as “cup” (Mat 26). “Vessel” would have been a more general translation (Strong 2006).

Jesus was the “Vessel” that held Living Water to preserve the world. He poured the Living Water and His Seed (the genes in every nuclear cell of His Blood). The precious Seed of the Last Adam was preserved for all who would “drink” of His Body and Blood later (Holy Communion) (1 Cor 11:27).

The Seed of Jesus was preserved at the crucifixion, not on the ground as one might think, but in the Holy Spirit. The Ghost of God was the true Vessel that preserves the Seed of God, not His Body. When drinking and eating, those who partook worthily understood that it was the Body and Genome of God in the Holy Ghost, not the person beside them! Why else to never blaspheme the Holy Ghost?

Regeneration begins the day that the person “drinks” of the Spirit of God; they are “born again,” or literally engendered from above (ibid). The Holy Ghost (from another realm) seeds the convert with glorious seed and a new creature is planted on Earth in the same manner as Adam and righteous Abel, and even possibly the sons of Shem.

Again the “Garden of God,” the one that He plants, must grow for the duration — until the “day of redemption” when the crop is harvested.  The harvesting of the crop (the Church) should always be kept in mind, “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom 13:11).

Therein is a timeline: belief > resting in peace (safety) > salvation. The King James Version is the Calvinistic Version of the Bible. According to theologians mostly Calvinists revised the Geneva Bible. The meaning of words is not concrete from language to language. For instance, the Greek word “sosos” can mean either safe or saved. Likewise, the word “soteria” can mean either safety or salvation (ibid). The Calvinists chose the word that fits their doctrine in most cases.

So, when is the “day of redemption”? Apolytrosis, meaning deliverance. It is the time that Jesus delivers the produce from His Garden! 

¹⁶ The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes 4:16-17)

 You see, God is the “Husbandman;” He is the “Gardener” and Jesus the “Preserver.”

As the “Tekton,” Jesus, not only a Carpenter, but a “Preserver” who preserves the crop from the Garden of God that He continues to plant. It was not just a one-time Garden but a continuous crop as Seth, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, and even David revealed. The best of the crop came when Jesus sowed His seed for the world to reproduce His Seed.

Now consider cold-packing. Many of us have done that with the produce from our gardens. In the case of God, the harvest is of living souls just like in the beginning. God first produced those souls (The Vessel that would contain His Image) that would grow (life) (Gen 1:27). Then God put onto them a “peeling” (Gen 2:7) of sorts. I hate to use it, but like a seed potato.

One seed would grow from another seed, much like cloning potatoes in real gardens. This time, the “potatoes” were the good variety — the homo sapien kind.

Again, an invisible substance got into the creatures. They began to rot. In the process of time, they did decay all the way because of sin. What is sin? Not doing wrong but having the nature of the Beast whose wrong they will do, like their progenitor, the Devil (John 8:44). Cain was produced with the bad seed of Satan and it was his will that Cain would do.

Adam and Eve were preserved with sin inside the vessel. It is learned from the Book of Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts with Satan that they continued to sin again and again because of deceptions from Satan.

In “skins,” at last, the Word (Jesus) preserved them — kept them safe — until they were saved on the first “day of the Lord” after the crucifixion when Jesus and them both were Resurrected (Mat 26:43).

When canning, great care must be taken to cleanse the produce so that contamination, as little as possible, is in the preserves. Why clean them? Because a “little leaven leavens the whole lump” (Gal 5:9). Leaven is things like fungi which emit gases that cause pressure in the vessel.

Baptism is a cleaning of the vessel. It is the ceremonial cleansing of the soul, vicariously, by cleansing the outer vessel. Only Jesus can wash the soul and that is the “baptism of the Holy Ghost.” The “Tekton” can do that, we cannot!

When cold-packing, the produce must be washed, but before it is washed it must be picked. Jesus picks only the good crop, ignores the tares and weak produce. That is the intent of the Parable of the Tares.

In like manner, Cain was not picked to be preserved, but the best of the best, only still imperfect, Seth, was picked for his seed to be preserved. You must be good, but only God is Good enough to deserve preservation. That’s why Jesus was grown from the seed, or gens, of God.

So, only the best of the crop, the first crop, is chosen since those fruits that hang on the vine the longest, go bad on the vine. So, goes some Christians, as I have pointed out.

A Christian is not all good fruit. They include all those who follow Christ. Even Simon Magus was a Christian for a short time, even receiving baptism, to wit: “Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done” (Acts 8:13).

 But then he blasphemed it with Gnosticism,

Simon was washed clean by men, but he had not been washed inwardly by God (Acts 8:18). God washes the inward man!

Simon was bad fruit, and he was so spoiled inwardly that he wasn’t fit to be preserved even though he followed and believed in Jesus. Jesus sorted him out by neglecting to cleanse the contents of his soul… the other “vessel” that looked like Simon and was the real Simon.

Now after planting the seed, cultivating it, watching it grow, pulling out the tares, picking, trimming the bad, washing it, and so forth, it is put into clean vessels. 

No man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:22)

 Jesus said that! What would happen? Any cold-packer would know that the bottles would break even though they were sealed. Why? Because there would be a residue of leaven in the old bottles that was not “baptized” rightly.

“New wine” would be the grapes. The intent was not necessarily to make alcoholic wine that comes from leaven but to preserve the grape juice. Why would that be foolish? Because the fruit within can break the bottle or even rupture the seal.

When cold-packing — converting the fruit to the food — a clean vessel is prepared. That is the intent of baptism. Then the fruit that is to be converted into food to be eaten later is put into the jar. Conversion provides the “fruit” in the doctrine of Jesus.

The seal is then applied to the vessel, and the cap screwed or locked on. Why is that? To seal the jar. What happens when the vessel, now full and sealed, goes onto the heat? Many of us know from experience; given too much heat or too long a time, either the vessel perishes or at a minimum the seal is broken, and the fruit therein is exposed to the world and is of no further use.

Given that the preserves make it through the heat (the “world” in the doctrine of Jesus), it can be of use. However, if it is packed with leaven within (“sin” in the doctrine of Christ), given some time it can perish. The leaven can break the seal from within.

Christ, just as He says, seals the vessel, and He did it to God’s standards. If it was packed with leaven, although cleansed within and without, sin can still seep in trhough the pores or microscopic cracks in the vessel. (Jesus knew that!)

That depends on the substance of the vessel because the seal is good. The vessel may crack in the world.

I have dropped perfectly well canned goods. Although sealed well and in an adequate vessel, outside forces can still crack the jar even with the seal intact.

That is what Satan plans on doing; to circumvent the preserves (those who are safe) enduring to the end!

Mom would often send me to the cellar to retrieve some canned goods. Some may have been there a long time! However, careless me would often stumble and the jar would break. I was her “little demon,” as she sometimes reminded me.

I would pick up the pieces, but the seal would remain unbroken. Time might have broken it with the gases from the leaven. The seal might break from within or even the jar might self-destruct. The latter is what Christians might do.

On the other hand, Satan can destroy the produce without ever breaking the Seal that God placed on the vessel. It is written, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour…” (1 Pet 5:8).

Peter wrote that to the elders and to the flock (of Christians). The elders were the “elect,” and most of the Christians were followers. He warned them that although preserved by Jesus by sealing them with the Holy Ghost, the Devil can still get to them. Somehow, just like in the Garden of God, Satan can pass through the seal. Yes, even the Garden of God was sealed (Gen 3:24) but sin still got in for it to “explode” without breaking the seal of God!

You, Christian, are the “first fruits;” the most choice and peculiar of the preserves (1 Pet 2:9). Satan already has regular fruit, just as Adam and Eve could eat of ordinary fruit. Satan wants God’s fruit that He seeded, grew, cultivated, harvests, and preserves… And he can get in without breaking the seal!

Scripture must be taken in context. A few verses do not tell the whole story! The Old Testament is the rest of the story that Paul called the “mystery of God” and the “mystery of Christ.” You must read all the mystery to know just Who dunnit (sic) and how He went about doing it.

Because God seals something, only God can break the seal. However, the foolish and careless people can sneak dirt into anywhere, and Satan can and does break the jars of preserves!