John had esoteric knowledge that Matthew, Mark, and Luke might not have had. It makes sense that John’s book, like his Revelation, was given to him by God, whether Jesus told him, or it was revealed to him by God in a vision.
There is evidence that some
person had seen the creation in the same manner as Enoch had several thousands
of years before. [1]
Whereas Enoch saw ten heavens, one person during the apostolic age saw at the
minimum, the third heaven.
The apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows; such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Cor 12:2)
Someone was raptured
fourteen years ago. He was “caught up” just like the dead in Christ will be
someday and in the manner of Enoch’s visitation. Somebody saw the kingdom of
God and perhaps God Himself, and if that is true, the “inspiration of God” (2
Tim 3:16) might be more than divine thoughts revealed, but an actual trip to another
realm and back, to tell Paul about the things that are unseen!
AI says that Paul wrote those
words in 55-56 A.D. Fourteen years before was 41-42 A.D.
Who knows whom, but some person
was chosen to visit the third heaven and came back to reveal what was seen
therein. Somebody gave Paul a great quantity of information, and perhaps
to John as well.
Recently a map of the entire
world, including the Americas, was found that was dated to 5000 B.C. The map
was so detailed that a sailor could not have articulated the coastline in that
detail, as can be seen in the following figure:
Figure 1: Ancient map showing the Americas: MSN News
Somebody a long time ago has been
aloft or rather someone was inspired by God with a vision from heaven above.
Enoch’s time was around 622 anno
mundi and he lived for 365 years or so. Since it is now anno mundi
5785, so Enoch could have drawn the map in that God told him to record all that
he had seen to reveal it to mankind. (This was not a map from another form of
life from outer space; it was somebody from here in ancient times. So the world,
not just one hemisphere, was seen from above. If it happened once, it could
happen again, and Paul knew a man who had seen planet Earth from the
perspective of the third heaven.
Enoch was known for seeing the creation
of all things in the ten heavens; some of which were real estate and some of
which were esoteric realms.
Somehow, John had that same
esoteric knowledge. Could John have been the man to whom Paul referred? Perhaps, perhaps not, but John did have the
future world revealed to him as retold in the Book of Revelation, so
could it be that he, not only saw the end-of-time, but the beginning of time as
well — the heavens and the earth as they were created?
How did John know that Jesus (“The Word”) was there in the beginning? Perhaps because John saw the things that Enoch saw. Or could have John merely looked at the “Word” in the Hebrew letters? What was it that John saw before time ever began? [2]
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Mim was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)
John knew that Jesus was God in
the flesh (John 1:14) and that God existed as the “Word” (Logos in the
Greek.)
Logos means “discourse”
Since all things that God made
were good (Gen 1:29), then the Word was virtuous (dynamos in the Greek.)
Going from the beginning, wherein nothing existed, to the ten heavens was both
dynamic and good. Therefore, the Word is “Good” and that was God, according to
Jesus’s own admission (Mark 10:18). So, God is the Almighty, Active Power that
created all things, and Jesus was that virtuous Power in a “cup” or “vessel”
(Mat 26:42) that contained the Power of God.
Since the “Word” existed in the
beginning, the beginning needs examined.
The first mention of the “Word”
was in the time of Abraham (Gen 15:1); albeit the Word was inferred in Gen 1:1
with “God created.” Firstly, consider the actual word, “Word” in the Hebrew,
transliterated from dabar:
דָּבָר
Reading the Hebrew from right to left, the Hebrew letter dalet comes first. Its pictograph is a door like the flap of a tent. The dot within the letter just softens its pronunciation. The dalet represents humility and comes after gimme in the Hebrew alpeh-bet. The letter gimmel comes from a pictograph of a camel. In block form, the gimmel which precedes the dalet, looks like a man walking, thus walking through the dalet, or door. The camel is represented by just its foot, representing motion, or dynamics.
The camel kneels to serve, then gently
raises; hence the soft dalet. Camels carry much water to travel far. Perhaps
the gimmel entering the door represents the “Living Water” of the Holy
Ghost, walking like a man through a door to the future. Indeed, it is that “living
water” from the “belly” (genetics) of Jesus that saves (John 7:38).
Of course, Jesus is the “door” to
eternal life. Jesus said, “I AM the Door” (John 10:9).
Although gimmel is not in
the WORD, it prepares for the Word just as John the Baptist prepared the Way
for Jesus with the imbuement of the Holy Ghost in bodily shape (Luke 3:22). The
living water from gimmel did go through the dalet in bodily shape;
it just remained unseen.
Next come the Hebrew letter bet.
The bet is a pictograph of a tent with a door, representing a house.
The dalet is the opening shown in the pictograph of the bet. The
invisible gimmel not in the word silently heads to the door (dalet),
leading into the house.
Jesus is the “house” of God as
the Temple (John 2:19-21).
So far, the unseen gimmel
has entered humbly through the door into the house in the bodily shape of a man.
That “house” is the flesh of the Jesus, just as John wrote about the “Word” Jesus.
Lastly, comes the Hebrew letter resh.
The pictograph of resh is a head with a face.
The invisible God, showing only His backside, told Moses, “You cannot not see My Face: for there shall no man see Me, and live” (Exod 33:20). The birth of Jesus was God showing His Face to mankind so that they could live. Moses, upon the Mount of the Transfiguration, finally saw the Face of God as the Power of God came into the body of Jesus:
(Jesus) was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light, and, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. (Mat 17:2-3).
Thus, the Holy Ghost (gimmel)
came into Jesus through some type of esoteric door (dalet) and was
transfigured into a body (bet; house) to reveal the Face of God to
mankind.
The “Word” of the Torah matches Jesus to a tee. The Hebrew letters spell out the Logos of John’s gospel. The “Word” is God revealing Himself to mankind as the evidence that He exists and that was the concept from the very beginning just as is written by Paul about Jesus:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you… (1 Pet 1:20)
The “Word” came long before Abraham
heard words spoken, ostensibly in the Hebrew.
The Word, Jesus, was in the first
Dynamic of God (Gen 1:1) and before the foundation of the world (kosmos)
that came subsequently.
John wrote that, apparently, to
reveal that Jesus is the same Yahweh that made all things, and
now He had come in the flesh to save all things as the Yod, as in “Ya
Saves” — the meaning of the name Jesus.
[1]
Refer to the second Book of Enoch for Enoch’s travels to the ten heavens.
[2] Time perhaps began with
sin, and it is known that time is only mentioned after sin (Gen 4:3) “in the
process of time.” Time is measured by carbon-14 decomposition, and carbon seems
to have been introduced to mankind with the advent of sin, whereas before Adam
was pure clay and without carbon.
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