APOLOGETIC FOR THE SHROUD OF JESUS - final part

The purpose of this treatise is to determine if it is plausible that the Shroud of Turn is indeed the burial cloth of Jesus, the Christ. If it is, then that holy cloth would reveal the glorification of Jesus just as He said in the following passage. 

He that believes on Me, as the scripture has said, “out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water.” But this spoke He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:38-39)

 Some “fluid” flows from Christ to believers. For this passage to be understood, I had to punctuate it because there was a quote within the quote. The Living Water is from the belly of Jesus, not another, and Jesus defined it as the Spirit of God. It goes onto say that the day would come soon after He was glorified. It did not come until after Jesus was resurrected and ascended (Acts 2). Hence, only Jesus had the Holy Spirit in Him and that is confirmed by His baptism. John the Baptist said, “Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizes with the Holy Ghost” (John 1:33).

Therein we have the “photographic fluid” to develop the picture of Jesus on His burial cloth. When Jesus was glorified, the Image of God came onto Him after leaving Him at the crucifixion.

As I wrote in my book, The Awesome Quantum God, the godhead consists of Jesus, the Holy Ghost, and the Dynamics, or Power. The Living Water is the movement, or transmission, of the Holy Spirit. “Glorification,” in my lexicon, would be the transmission of the Holy Spirit, which in effect “assembles” the Holy Trinity.

Jesus figuratively was “raised (egerio) from the dead” (Acts 3:15); the idea of which is “to collect one’s faculties” (Strong 2006), or to assemble them. As Jesus was raised, His faculties were re-assembled after they had left Him at the crucifixion (Mark 15:37).

“Glorification” is the re-assembly of the Image of the Father into the Son. The third “Divine Substance” would be the Power of God — the Creator aspect of Him.

Why a Quantum God? Because the Dynamics of God which was, according to King David, acted in the following manner, “In the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire” (Psalm 78:14). However, when God rested, His Image was a bright “Shadow,” not that His Image was dark, for there is no darkness in Him according to John, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Thus the “cloud” was not dark but a bright cloud. Likewise, the “Shadow” (Selem) of God was not dark but a phantom that radiated brightness. When God rested a second time during the  New Testament era, the Shadow of God appeared as the Man, Jesus. The bright Cloud, the bright Phantom, and the radiant Jesus are each as much God as the next in Power.

After the Resurrection and Glorification of Jesus, “(Th)ereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the Power of God” (Luke 22:69). Jesus did not literally sit alongside the Father but was re-assembled to the Father by Divine Power. That Process is Glorification.

Again, I believe that the Shroud captured the glorification of Jesus, and as such it is the ultimate evidence that Jesus is in fact God and that God left forensic evidence for posterity because we are all inwardly Jews (Rom 2:29) that need a sign.

What happened in the “dark room” of the tomb is that the picture of the glorification of Jesus was captured and developed and sent around the world like a negative image on a film. The “film” was the burial cloth, if that is correct.

Within the tomb in the darkness thereof it seems that the Light of God came onto the Man and exposed Him as God. It was a re-assembly because the Holy Ghost would have come in Power and re-entered Jesus just as at the baptism of Jesus when “the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him” (Luke 3:22).

Now imagine this: Jesus lies completely still in the tomb just like in an old still picture like the one shown below.

 

Figure 1: Victorian Photo Showing girl as if alive

 

Now imagine the Holy Spirit in bodily shape coming onto His body again. The Holy Ghost would have passed through the burial cloth and sinched the material. The dark image would not be made by blood or a dye, but the Phantom Image of God burned onto cloth by the Power of God.

Before I write about the source of the Image of God in verse, there is one loophole to be closed; it was not just the affusion of oil on His head, but on His body: “She has done what she could; she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying” (Mark 14:8). His whole body was covered with anointment; no wondered some were indignant toward Mary; it was not just the money wasted but Christ exposed (probably down to his pants) as He would be when they stripped Him naked on the cross.

Mary did that for a specific reason, for some purpose during his burial. Jewish burials traditionally had two steps: (1) internment in a tomb or cave until the flesh decayed, and (2) the placing of bones in a ossuary made of stone where they were kept. Jesus lost His flesh but apparently not His basis.

The other women took care of step one when they came to preserve Jesus with oils when He was entombed. So, Mary’s purpose was for something else: She was preparing Jesus, I would bet, for His photograph! Indeed, that picture has now been seen throughout the world so that Jesus even accomplished the “Great Commission” after His death. The picture is not of just a man; but the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In a sense, it too is the picture of the baptism of Jesus in blood and Living Water in the manner of the baptism of John, but the “water” was this time, the Waters of the Holy Spirit that came from the belly of God to re-assembly the “Last Adam” and a “quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).

That takes care of the loose ends. It was not just the “head” of Jesus that had nard applied to it, but the entire body. Matthew was just being polite in the company of his peers if that is true.

Lacking as of now is the source of the light that burned the picture of the Godhead into the covering. The source can be found in scripture as well. At dawn the darkness still hovered over the tomb of Jesus; and there came Mary Magdalene. She saw the Tekton at His work! 

Behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. (Mat 28:2-3) 

There came a flash of Light from the Angel of God as if a picture was being taken in the contrast of the darkness. His countenance, or appearance, was like lightening. I believe the Holy Ghost — the Phantom of God — flashed His Image onto the covering of Jesus dead body, and re-Spirited it. In other words, the Holy Ghost came onto Jesus like Light.

Throughout scripture, “The Angel of God” is always the Presence of God in phantom form. Jocob wrestled with the Angel of God who was of a different “substance” but was in the shape of a man (Gen 32). It was not a literal wrestling match, but the Hebrew word for that meant “vapor.” Living Water would have come onto Jacob and He somehow won. I believe that God endowed Jacob with His Image — the Spirit of God in bodily shape.

In a sense, the Angel of God “wrestled” with the still body of Jesus and Jesus won! In modern terms, Jesus got His groove back; His Holy Ghost returned to Him, and there remains a picture to prove it.  The “Vapor” of the Holy Spirit would have passed through the covering as if it was not even there, as God overcame the world again.

Now for some science… neutrinos pass through hard things as if stone is not even there. Neutrinos are sub-atomic particles that are impervious to matter. The substance of the Holy Ghost is not a neutrino, but the Power of God behaves in much the same way.

First off, the tomb was empty when it was opened. Envision this now; there remained only the so-called “Shroud” and a folded face cloth. The Shroud would have been exactly where Jesus had been laid to rest. Perhaps. Mary Magdalene saw the picture on the burial cloth and saw exactly where Jesus had been placed the day before. It does appear that the “napkin” had gone unused so that the face of Jesus would not be erased to reveal that this was a picture of a real man.

That Angel of God was the same quickening Spirit of God that endowed Adam with His Image. The Angel was the “Shadow” of Light, or Phantom, that is the Holy Spirit in bodily shape.

Imagine now this scenario: The Angel of God — an Image of Light — passed right through the burial cloth into the body of Jesus, leaving behind the exact Image of the “Object” Jesus in the form of a negative Image, or a “Shadow.” In a sense, if my conjecture is true, then the Shroud of Turn reveals the Image of God in the bodily shape of a man. It is a picture of Yahweh — the “Angel” that “wrestled” with Adam and with Jacob.

Yes, Yahweh, the Angel of God, “wrestled” with Adam as well: “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” (Gen 2:7). When the Angel of God breathed life onto Jesus, He too became the “Last Adam” — a living soul. God took a picture of the glorification of Jesus, and ironically, Eve was the “picture” of Adam. The Phantom that was God seemed to have just passed through Adam unto her. The Image of God was perhaps the bodily shape of Jesus like at His baptism.

That the Angel of God passed through walls, and such, is miraculous, it seems, but it is now known that things can pass through other things undetected. Right now, as you read this, neutrinos, it is said, pass right through you as if you are not there, even undetected. If neutrinos can do that, certainly the Holy Spirit of God can pass through the thin flesh of your chromosomes that is in every nuclear cell of your body. Or even through the fibrous covering over the Body of Jesus.

Now, about Jesus who was walking with some men that failed to recognize Him after His glorification, “Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight” (Luke 24:31). “Vanished” (aphantos) in that passage as deeper meaning. He immediately became unseen. He disappeared as if a phantom! They saw Jesus in a different light and He seemed not there!

Jesus did not disappear, he translated to another realm and soon appeared in a locked room where the remaining eleven apostles were discussing Him.

Those on the road to Emmaus soon returned to Jerusalem and joined the eleven. Something miraculous occurred: 

And as they thus spoke, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said unto them, “Peace be unto you, but they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. (Luke 24:36-37) 

They thought that Jesus was just Spirit because He reappeared from “nowhere” to them. However, Jesus challenged them to touch Him because He said that He was of flesh and bones. Hower it was not mortal flesh and bones but glorious. He looked like Himself, even with the wounds, but something happened to His old flesh that made Him new.

Nobody thereafter touched Jesus, even Thomas who doubted. His doubt subsided without ever touching Jesus.

Earlier Jesus had said to Mary, after He arose, “Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God’” (John 20:17). The Greek root translated “ascend” is “origin” — in English, it is His basis. What is the basis, or genesis, of Jesus? Yahweh. Jesus would neither arise to His origin nor walk to it but gain the Power of Yahweh just as Jesus had said, “Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God” (Luke 22:69).

Something had happened to Jesus; He had lost virtue (dynamos) to save mankind from the sins of the world at His crucifixion, and when He was glorified, his “Shadow,” Yahweh had lost Power to do that! In other words, Jesus had to regain the Power of God for Him to return to His basis — the godhead.

We think of light as illumination, but the basis of light is power. That God is the “Light of the World” does not mean that He is the Sun but that He is the Power that powered the world into existence and keeps it together. In a sense, even gravity is the “Light of God” because even gravity bends to Him!

For instance, a solar eclipse reveals both the omniscience and omnipotence of God. During that interval when the Moon passes between us and the Sun, the Moon and Sun appear to be the same size. What are you seeing? God’s Power. They cast a shadow on the Earth and the observer knows by the shadow what is happening with the objects above even without looking at them. That too acknowledges the Existence of God. Paul said to the Romans, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20).

That the sizes, densities, and distances of those two bodies are perfect during an eclipse proves the Existence of God. So, does the Shroud of Jesus: it is the picture of the Shadow of both bodies just as is an eclipse. God places and holds the Sun and Moon together to form a shadow, so why could He not do the same with the two “Bodies” of God?

In a Platonian manner the shadow of the Moon is cast onto the Earth by the light of the Sun. Hence, the shadow, like Plato indicates, is a “fragment” of the real thing. In like manner, the Holy Ghost — the “Shadow” of Jesus — is as real as the objective man, Jesus. The shadow of Jesus goes where He goes, and that Shadow, or Phantom Image, is Yahweh. That invisible Being from the foundation of the world is understood by the created Thing — the body of Jesus.

In a similar manner, the burial covering of Jesus, if that is true, bears the “Shadow” of the man, Jesus. The Image in the fabric is in the negative just like a picture negative. It is indeed difficult to see the Image. However, when reversed, the Image is clearly of the man, Jesus, and not just His “Shadow.”

I submit that the “picture” that we call, the “Shroud of Turin” is both a photograph of the Man and His Shadow, the Holy Ghost, depending on the filter in which it is viewed. If that garment does anything, it reveals that Jesus is God in the flesh, and the process for that was done in the tomb by the Power of God.

There you have what I call “The Quantum God” who appears from His Dynamics, when stopped, as either a Man or a Ghost. The Dynamic of God was the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Luke revealed that those Images are indeed the Power that was revealed as the Holy Ghost on that occasion (Acts 2).

We often forget that the “Creator” God was His Power, and only when at rest does He reveal Himself as either Yahweh or Jesus and the Holy Ghost is the substance of Yahweh.

Don’t gloss over the Godhead. We often forget the cloud and the pillar of fire that contain the Power of God in action. The third part of the Holy Trinity is the Virtue that heals, saves, and takes photos of miracles. The Power of God entered the tomb of Jesus, as if it was a photographic dark room, and burnt an Image of both the Ghost of Jesus and the Object Jesus on cloth for posterity.

Now imagine the process of glorification; Jesus lies still within the cubby of the tomb. What did people do in early photography? Nothing; they remained still as if dead! Jesus was “asleep” as He would say… that His Dynamic was robbed of Him because of the loss of Virtue when He
“healed the nations” (Rev 22:2); where He is symbolized as “The Tree of Life.”

Jesus did suffer death and was weakened, even pierced. Surely His heart no longer beat! In a sense, Jesus had fallen asleep (koimao). The root word in the Greek is “keimai.” meaning “of things that quietly cover some spot” (Strong 2006).

Remember God giving life? He breathed life unto Adam. When the Holy Ghost had gone out from Jesus, life had left Him. He was not dead but stilled as if to take a photograph! That does not diminish Jesus because he still suffered the agony of death.

So there lies Jesus immobile. He is prepared for what was to come and indeed this glorious event was planned. Nobody but God was responsible for it was Him that sacrificed His “Son.” It was not His offspring but His Own Image; think of “Son” as the “Genome” that would be the invisible (chromosomal) substance of Yahweh.

Father God, seeing the loss of Virtue from His invisible Image would have engendered Jesus again by the filling of the Holy Spirit to reveal the Holy Ghost.

Now remember that Spirit is pneuma in the Greek: the wind, cloud, tongue of fire, and so forth. Only when stopped was the Holy Spirit the Holy Ghost. They are not interchangeable but different forms of the same Divine Dynamic.

While still in the tomb, Yahweh would have imbued Himself into the lifeless Body of the Christ. The Shroud captured that event, if I have it right. The Image on the Shroud is of both the Body and Ghost of God, depending how it is viewed. What we can’t see but know that it is there is the Creator God; His Divine Power that burned the Images of both the Body and Ghost of Jesus onto cloth. Again, I say, that burial cloth is a picture of the Godhead!

So, from where did the Power of God come? The Angel of the Lord God who had been in the tomb both snapping the picture and processing it in a sense. He had that capacity for “His countenance was like lightning, and His raiment white as snow” (Mat 28:3).

Now imagine this: That “Angel” was invisible Image, or Phantom, of God that was made visible to Mary. Jesus saw the Image as she would a man. That makes sense, because the Holy Ghost was visible to some even at the crucifixion. They even wrote about seeing Jesus give up the Ghost. Mary saw the gloried Jesus who surely passed through the walls of the tomb and rolled the stone away, not for Him to get out but to let others see in.

Now consider the burial cloth. The Light of the Angel of God in bodily shape passed through the organic material that basically burnt the carbon from it where the skin touched it. The carbon, if that is true, would have discolored the cloth because of the intense light. The photo-chemicals within the spikenard provided the right atmosphere to promote the process just as the chemicals used in the dark room.

As the Image of the Angel passed though, the Shekinah Light of God would have burned the Image of the Angel onto the cloth, and as Jesus was raised from His sleep, His glorified Body then had the Power to Pass through; hence both the Images of the Body and Ghost of Jesus was emblazoned on the cloth, thus burning a picture of the glorification process. That Shroud caught the very instant in time when God revealed all three of His Substances on cloth. The picture is perhaps one of the Godhead — “The Holy Trinity.”

Mary first saw the Angel of Jesus and as soon as she left, then she saw Jesus somewhat later. Jesus could overcome the world and as later scripture reveals, can appear objectively and vanish unto His unseen Image.

Why not touch the gloried Body of Jesus? Perhaps because it was still developing; perhaps if Thomas had touched Jesus, his hand would have just passed through the flesh as if it was not even there.

What did you see at the crucifixion of Jesus. Some that were around Him saw the body of a man. Others saw the Holy Ghost of Jesus leaving. Some saw the Power of God leaving the Body of God. I believe that Dismus, the repentant thief, saw the Man, His Ghost, and the Power to save mankind. Dismus saw the Godhead, and now we have a fairly clear picture of the Holy Trinity on cloth that reveals the mysterious Power of God.

 

THE END…  or is it?