UNDER THE FIG TREE - Part 2 of 2

 

A SPIRITUAL LOOK AT NATHANAEL

 

Most people see Nathanael as a man and identify him with the apostle Bartholomew. I see Nathanael as a living soul in the bodily shape of a man. I see, not just a man in Nathanael, but a living soul what saw no sin in his own flesh.

Nathaniel is listed as a “true Israelite” because he was of Cana in Galilee (John 21:2).  That Nathanael was of Cana is imperative. Cana (Qana in the Hebrew) is spelled qof-nun-hey. Qof would be the verb represented by the Sun, perhaps “lighted’ and nun the object, represented by a seed, or gene.

The subject in those three letters would have been the letter “hey” where Nathanael was revealed. Nathanael was somebody and Jesus immediately recognized him.

The letter “qof” also implies separation. God had apparently consecrated Nathanael from birth to follow Him.

The subject in John chapter one was about the beginning of the Creation. John 1:1-28 is about “The Word” that existed from the beginning (John 1:1-3). The Word was made flesh (John 1:14).  That conversation was about John the Baptist who indicated that the one who came after him was before him, referring to Jesus (John 1:15).

John (the Baptist) implied that Jesus was The Word in the beginning and now He came. Therefore, the subject on day one was about the beginning of time (the “alpha”) and now the ending (the “omega”).

The next subject matter was this: “The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him, and said, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world’” (John 1:29). Day one was about not seeing Jesus back in time, and day two was about seeing Jesus now. When the other John wrote that, he compressed time as if it was of no significance,

Jesus had been before time ever began in the beginning, but now was the time for salvation (Rom 13:11). That chapter squeezed time as if it had not passed.

Missed in translation is an important feature, John (the Baptist) said, “I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God” (John 1:34). John the Baptist revealed a record of that. Was John there in the beginning? He certainly was not resurrected from the dead from the spirit of Elijah as some thought, but the Jews understood that John the Baptist was “somebody” or better said, “some Spirit.”

John bare record. He knew that Jesus was not just a man but was God in the flesh. Jesus was not the natural born son of the Father (Yahweh), but of the “House of the Power of Yahweh” (the Hebrew letter aleph.)

The “House” was not a dwelling but God dwelling in the flesh of Jesus. It is not “Jesus and God” but Yahweh in the Person of Jesus. Jesus was God talking, walking, saving, and loving. When Jesus was crucified, basically God was exterminated from His House like a parasite that could not be seen. The crucifixion diminished God to an extremely low state that was the essence of humiliation. God did not die but was cast out of His “House” just as Adam was cast out of his. It was retribution time for the house of Adam.

The ”House of God” was not a building, but the genetic Image of God in the flesh. God had overcome time as He just appeared from the beginning to then. Mary was the “mother ship” that carried the glorious genetics of God through time. She was not “the mother of God” in any sense, but more so “the ark of God” that transported Yahweh through the space-time warp.

Mary provided the flesh for the “Glory of God.” God (Yahweh; YHVH) has gematria of twenty-six. Another common word with the same gematria is the Hebrew word, “debar,” meaning “glory.” In other words, the Glory of God from the beginning was in Jesus, and as such Jesus is the Glory of God that John beheld.

“Beholding” is seeing something. John bare witness that Jesus was the very Glory of God. He must have known “Jesus” from before time.

John was somehow there in the Garden of Eden, not there in the flesh but in phantom — what is called the “soul.” That contention is reinforced by Paul:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ according as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. (Ephes 1:3-4)

That applies to John the Baptist as well as Paul or any of “us.”

Christ Jesus chose John before the beginning of time; that was the subject was it not? John was picked to baptize Jesus back in “The Garden of Living Souls.” Again, John “barr witness;” he was there! John not only knew Jesus from the womb (Luke 1:41) but he leaped in recognition from the Garden before time ever began!

The first chapter of the Book of John covers all the time from the Creation to then as if it was one day.

In the following days, still about the thread of time from the beginning, John wrote the following: 

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Nathanael said unto Him, “Whence know You me?”

 Jesus answered and said unto him, “Before that Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

Nathanael answered and saith unto him, “Rabbi, you art the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”

Jesus answered and said unto him, “Because I said unto you, I saw you under the fig tree, believe you?” (John 1:47-50) 

Just as John had seen Jesus under the “olive tree” — The Tree of Life perhaps — Jesus had seen Nathanael under the “fig tree” — the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Had Jesus seen the man Nathanael under the fig tree? No, it seems that Jesus had seen the “angel of Nathanael” under the fig tree in the midst of the Garden.

Just as the Spirit of God in the shape of a man was “The Angel of God,” so it goes for Nathanael. He was not an angel, and neither was Jesus but the Hebrew word “elohim” applies to both angels and Spirits in bodily shape.

Jesus surely saw the “angel” (phantom image) of Nathanael under the fig tree before time ever began. [1]

Just as John had beheld “The Angel of God” in the beginning, Jesus had beheld the angel of Nathanael who was there with the man and the woman under the fig tree.

The concept of the Tree of Knowledge as a fig tree comes from both the aprons Adam and Eve made for themselves and the fear of figs that they had from the 1^st Book of Adam and Eve.

That Jesus recognized the soul of Nathanael should be obvious. First off, the subject was not about fig trees, but the Creation. Jesus knew Nathanel from the Garden before time. Whereas the woman had guile in her for sinning (Gen 3:13), Nathanael had been there to bare witness to The Tree of Life, but he did not fall for sin. Jesus immediately recognized that there was no guile in Nathanael (John 1:47) like there was in Eve.

Jesus recognized Nathanael from way back. That it was the “angel” of Nathanael is exposed in the “el” at the ending of his name. Angels’ names normally end with “el,” representing the Hebrew letter “aleph.” Jesus surely saw the Power (Aleph) of God in “Nathan.”

Nathan was the prophet that judged David for his sins. Nathan apparently had no guile in him because he recognized sin when he didn’t even see it, as with King David.

Note that John the Baptist was accused of being the prophet Elijah (Elias). In the same manner, I “accuse” Nathanael of being the prophet, Nathan.

Most theologians identify Nathanael with the apostle Bartholomew, son of Tolmai, whereas I suggest that Nathanael is misidentified; that he came to show Philip that he knew Jesus back in the Garden of Eden. Then Nathanael “disappeared” from the Bible and from history.

Perhaps Nathanael was indeed the angel of Nathan who came to bear witness that Jesus was not only The Son of God but the son of David that everyone thereafter claimed Him to be (Mat 12:23).

Note that before sin, Adam and his woman were glorious beings — angels of God without beastly flesh like we are today.

Our flesh is the outcome of guile from the Wicked One. Jesus saw no guile in Nathanael. He did not see the flesh of the man but his soul within. Jesus did not see Nathanael as an animal like us, but possibly as a glorious being.

With that said, perhaps Philip and the others did not see a man named Nathanael but a Spirit in the bodily image of Nathan from long ago, just as John and Luke saw the bodily shape of the Spirit of God go into Jesus at His baptism (Luke 3:22).

In other words, as “The Word” was the pre-incarnate bodily shape of Jesus, Nathanael could have been the sinless “ghost” of Nathan the prophet, coming to bear witness that Jesus was who they said He was.

Just as John came from The Tree of Life to bare witness that Jesus is God, Nathan came from the Tree of Knowledge to bare witness that Jesus is the son of David.

 

 

 

 

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[1] My assertion is that time began with sin. Read more on that in my book, Jots and Tittles, and some of the others.

UNDER THE FIG TREE - Part 1 of 2

 

DIVINE SELECTION 

God knew us all before the foundation of the world, and even before time began! Paul wrote that: 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephes 1:3-5) 

“Us” are who were blessed, and we were spiritually blessed. All that occurred before the foundation of the world.

“Foundation” implies material. Sometime after the beginning mankind was blessed. Where to look for that blessing and what was it? Between the beginning and the founding on the material world. The first occasion of a “blessing” is in Genesis — in the beginning, as it is written: 

God created man in his own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them. and God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the Earth.” (Gen 1:27-28) 

God blessed man in the beginning; and He did not bless any of the other kinds, even angelic-kind; God chose mankind above all the others just as Paul wrote in the passage above. God could have chosen any of the other kinds, but He chose mankind to have dominion. Hence, the blessing was for God to make man the chosen kind and not the other animals. He said to “multiply,” indicating that it would be all the seed of Adam that were chosen, not particular ones, but everyone, just as John wrote in John 3:16 (“whosoever”).

The blessing was that we should be “holy and without blame before Him.” Hence holiness was the blessing.

God much later told Moses, “You shall be holy men unto me…” (Exod 22:31). “Holy” therein is consecrated separate. Hence, the “chosen” ones were separated from the other kinds from the beginning, and God pointed that out to the Israelites:

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead for you are an holy people unto the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. You shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Exod 14:1-3) 

God’s intent from the beginning was that all mankind should be holy and without blame. That failed, so mankind was separated unto two-kinds: Adam and ‘Is (pronounced eesh) (Gen 4:1). The man “Cain” was not of Adam’s kind, but of the Wicked One )1 John 3:12).

Adam’s kind were the Holy Ones; the first being Abel, who was killed by the “beast” Cain. Seth was the replacement for righteous Abel (Gen 4:25). Seth’s kind became the “sons of God” and only they were the elected albeit God predestined all of Adam’s kind.

Note that something terrible happened with the original sin; mankind of Adam mutated into another kind and separated from God. Whereas Adam was cast out into the world, Cain was lost into the land of Nod, merely “wandering.” God intended for all mankind to be holy and without blame and by the time of the flood of Noah’s day, all but eight living souls were separated from the “sons of God” of God. Although all mankind was predestined, only eight remained holy. Soon Ham’s kind sinned and that left two kinds holy: Shem’s and Japheth’s as adopted children of God because they too had sinned. By grace, despite sin, God chose eight of the legions of men. Cain’s, and even Seth’s kind resisted the grace of God when they all close carnality over blessedness. 

So, for those who propagate the notion of predestination, election, and irresistible grace; Satan has conned them again; God chose everyone, and nearly everyone resisted. By the time the ark was built all had resisted the grace of God, and after the waters settled, even Noah resisted until all had sinned and come short of the Glory (Image) of God (Rom 3:23). That separation occurred until the time of Abraham, then Abraham found grace as well, and Israelites were separated from all the other nations. They too resisted God and by the time of Christ, few were left unscathed with sin.

Moses, albeit a sinner, found grace on the mountain (Exodus 34:29-35) but by the time 40 years of wandering was over, only Joshua and his crew remained. So, as you can see, “many are called, but few are chosen” to escape Hell and death (Mat 22:14), and to escape eternal damnation “You must be born again” (John 3:7) to become adopted sons of God, again made holy as He (God) is holy: “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I Am the Lord your God” (Lev 20:7).

Sanctification is consecration and separation from sin. God sanctified (set apart) Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, and even Moses. By the time of the exodus, the Israelites were to separate themselves, meaning that genetics was no longer The Way; to “avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit 3:9). So, it should be clear that what God intended ended because of the carnality of mankind. Hence, nobody is chosen because of who they are and from whom they descend, but holiness is chosen by each person or not. God does not force Himself on anyone. Holiness is a choice that few will make because it is easier to sin than to abstain from it.

By the time of Jesus, there were only a few righteous ones. Perhaps Mary was righteous because she was chosen to be the vessel for Jesus. Perhaps Elizaeth was holy because she was chosen to be the clean vessel for John the Baptist. Perhaps the old man, Simeon, was holy because he had stayed righteous to see the Savior because when he saw God manifested, he was taken to heaven. Simeon was holy and God had blessed him by revealing the Messiah to him.

Many forget Simeon but he was set apart by God for a purpose: “Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him” (Luke 2:25).

Simeon was a special case if the same Simeon. “Jacob called unto his sons, and said, ‘Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days’” (Gen 49:1). The “last days” would have been before it was finished at the crucifixion. About Simeon and Levi. God said, “Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel” (Gen 49:7).

When Jacob separated and scattered the sons of Jacob, He said, “The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren” (Gen 49:26).

Everlasting is the key word there. Jacob’s blessings on one of his sons would be everlasting for one that was separated.

Upon coming to the promise land, the tribes of Israel (Jacob) were consecrated and blessed and some cursed: 

 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. (Deut 27:12-13) 

Gerizim was the hill of which Jacob had foretold and in Israel. Each tribe was separated upon entering the promised land, and Simeon got his share:

And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. (Josh 19:1)

Simeon got an inheritance. God blessed him. What was the blessing? His death is not recorded in scripture, albeit external sources indicated that he died at 120 years old on his birtth date. Could it be that Simeon, like Elias and Enoch before him, never died. Or could it be that Simeon was regenerated on his 120^th birthday and became a new creation. With God all things are possible! (Mat 19:26), and a long life for Simeon would have been possible.

Could it be that scripture does record the death of Simeon but that we just missed it? Could it be that Simeon awaited the Messiah to die? Could it be that Simeon’s inheritance was a long life even until Jesus came to redeem his violent sin of which he repented?

If that is possible for God, so is Nathanael. (More on that in the next commentary.)

RECONCILIATION: TWO COMING TO TERMS

Reconciliation is an accounting process. It is accounting for something, and the records must be accurate and verified as true and complete.

Payment at the end of the workday, week, month, or year must be finished. Once a year, the sins of the Israelites were reconciled. The ‘spreadsheet” must balance for the year, using modern vernacular. Sins performed must be paid in full.

Jesus reconciled our account with God. He was the Executor of the Estate of God, and each trespass was recorded in a book and at the end of the day, or even an age, the trespasses must be paid. God somehow keeps a journal of what are owed Him because his heirs and want-to-be heirs owe Him for their trespasses. The allegation is that they received something that was not due to them.

The infraction of mankind is glory theft — stealing the glory of God. What is stealing glory? 

·         Taking credit for someone else's work/achievements: This is a straightforward way to describe the act.

·         Passing off someone else's work as your own: This emphasizes the dishonest nature of the act.

·         Appropriating someone else's success: This highlights the act of taking something that doesn't belong to you.

·         "Stealing someone's thunder": This idiom specifically refers to grabbing attention from another, often by anticipating their idea or action.

·         Glory stealing: A more direct term that highlights the act of taking glory or recognition from someone else. (AI Overview) 

The original sin was the woman, later called “Eve,” crediting herself for creating the first natural born man: “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, ‘I have gotten a man from the Lord’” (Gen 4:1)

Eve never created anything. She stole the glory of the Lord. The first sin included stolen glory. That had to be reconciled. God had revealed to her in advance, the payment for that sin, He said, “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gen 3:16).

That “sorrow” is birthing pains. Because of the pain of delivering Cain, it was not God who created, but by her own labor that Cain came into the world. Eve would have felt like she paid for her own carnal sins. Eve stole the glory of God. Therefore pain was how God reconciled her sin by grace.

What is glory? Is God real? The Israelites doubted for they had never seen the God of Moses. Moses and Aaron said, “In the morning, you shall see the glory of the LORD” (Exod 16:7). As Aaron spoke the next morning, “the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud” (Exod 16:10). As it turned out, manna from heaven appeared for them to eat. Manna is “the bread of life” and represents the body of God, Jesus.

What is manna? First off, it came from God when He appeared in a cloud. The Glory of God appeared as a divine substance that had miraculous powers to save the Israelites.

The manna appeared as “a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground” (Exod 16:14). Moses explained to the curious people, “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat” (Exod 16:15).

Each one that gathered the manna; “they gathered every man according to his eating” (Exod 16:18). Nothing was measured. All were free to eat, and manna was a gift of God for which they did nothing to deserve. In fact, God gave them bread to eat even though they complained. Some even found complaint with the free stuff from God.

Some failed to gather manna for their own needs, and it rotted. However, something else happened to those who gathered: “every man (gathered) according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted” (Exod 16:21). If they did their part, they were filled with the glory of God, and the excess just disappeared; however, if they gathered not, the manna rotted.

What therefore was the glory of God? Virtue and even faith. The manna was a product of His unlimited grace. They could take all the grace they wanted, but some wanted none. If the grace was not partaken, then it would perish.

There was abundant grace for all, all could eat as much as they pleased, and what was eaten was just right in the manner of the baby bear of the story of the three bears.

The manna was not the glory of God, so what was? That is explained:

Even when we were dead in sins, has (God) quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved); and has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Ephes 2:5-8)

The Israelites murmured against God. They were dead in sins. God quickened them with the provision of manna to save them. The abundant riches of God come from those who sit with Christ Jesus. And just like the manna from heaven, for by grace you are saved by faith. Those who ate had faith that the mysterious substance would sustain them and it did. And it was not by the work of their own hands but was a gift from God.

The manna from heaven was them tasting the body of Christ. They communed with Jesus when they ate just like the apostles at the Last Supper.

The manna was not the glory of God because it rotted. Glory is perfection. The Glory of God was the grace of God, and as Paul wrote to the Ephesians, God provided His only Son as t perfect sacrifice. The glory of God is neither the manna from heaven nor the Body of Christ, but God in Him revealed to mankind. The Glory of God is His Power that appeared to Moses in a cloud, and as the manna from Heaven. The glory of God is the grace in saving mankind.

That must be verified. Jesus said:

“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)

“Glorification” is having the Spirit of God within. What glorified Jesus? When He was crucified and people saw that God had been in His Person all along. Jesus was essentially torn apart at the crucifixion to reveal that God was within His flesh. When He was raised from the dead, that was the final act of glorification and was when God was literally assembled back into the Body of Jesus. Glorification is both God in Christ and Christ in you.

Adam was glorified by God when God breathed life unto him, and he became a living soul (Gen 2:7). The Breath of God — His Living Spirt — was the medium of glorification and the putting on of flesh reconciliation by grace. Adam did nothing for that and neither do Christians to be glorified.

What happened subsequent to the glorification of Jesus?

Jesus saiD unto her, “Mary.” She turned herself, and said unto Him, “Rabboni;” which is to say, “Master.” Jesus said unto her, “Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father” (John 20:6-7)

Again, as you can see, glorification is a process wherein something excellent happens. The manna from heaven was God glorifying the Israelites, literally providing life to them, and glorification was in Jesus as “the Quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).

The manna was the “bread of life” as was Jesus (John 6:35) but the bread of life in both cases provided life by grace. The glory was the Power of God in both cases, and the “glorification” is revealing that Power.

God glorified the Israelites when He provided manna by grace, and God glorified all mankind when He provided Jesus as the Bread of Life. In each case, God was glorified, or revealed, and the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus revealed that He is God.

So much for glorification, albeit glorification is reconciliation. For those who see the glory of God, they too shall be glorified when the “God” in them is revealed.

Glorification is the final reconciliation and occurs at the rapture:

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; 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)

Those that are dead in Christ shall be forever with the Lord. First, their remains from the grave will be reunited with their souls and by grace, they shall be saved.

That too is reconciliation; God collects there remains and makes them whole again as a last just act of reconciliation. For what? Believing that the Body of Jesus has Power enough in it to keep them alive forever. The grace is the glorification process, and the rapture is those in Christ glorified by the Power of God.

The wages of sin is death, but read further: 

now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 6:22-23)

There is the accounting again! Sin are the wages that must be paid. Like manna from heaven, life must balance at the end of the other book — the book in which sins are recorded:

I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Rev 20:12)

Our “works” are sins that we do. As I have written before, the Law is not works but “gratitude’s” The other book is the journal with a balance sheet that shows our works and at the end of the day, they must be reconciled.

Our sins are on the debit side and are what must be paid. On the credit side of the journal, for a Christian, is “paid in full.” By whom? Jesus who paid the price. He paid for it whether it is recognized or not! Like the manna, people must partake of the grace. God took on all the sins of the world for all time and paid with them with the ultimate sacrifice — God died for your sins, “your” being everybody’s.

Like the manna from heaven, you must eat to obtain life. Again, nobody is forced to eat. Like the manna, those who consume what they need for survival is enough, albeit there is enough for everyone. Like the manna from heaven, so it is Jesus — “The Bread of Life” from God in heaven. Just as with manna from heaven, any amount can be eaten for survival, but to live all must eat. The same applies for the Body and Blood of Jesus. We all can eat and drink what we need because it is free because of grace, but some will partake because they would rather die (forever) rather than eat any part of the Body of Christ. Our supping with Christ is payment enough if it is done worthily

In a sense, the taking of communion is reconciling with God, giving Him the glory for the things that He has done… like sacrificing Himself as the “quail” or “dove,” whichever it may be, but the bird whatever is the Power of God.

(To be continued)

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So far, the first infraction (from part 1) that necessitates reconciliation is someone taking credit for someone else’s achievements. Eve did that. She stole the glory of God. That needs to be made right. Making it right requires reconciliation. James had the solution, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10).

Glory theft is also “Passing off someone else's work as your own.”  If your own work can save, then the gift of God is a lie. We are not to have confidence in our own works but confidence in God. That God did the work for us to live forever, then us doing good works would steal the glory of God, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

Faith is the confidence that you shall be saved. It is for the duration of your own life, so it is time dependent. Faith is not for a moment in time, but for all time. However, faith is a gift, and for gifts to have utility, they must be used.

God provided the faith as a gift. The gift was not because of your potential but because God loves you so much. That you work hard to please God for salvation would make you the “god” and steal the glory from God.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), not you. You are an obstacle in the Way for eternal life, but trusting God, He will remove the obstacle of your flesh. Your flesh is just a weighty burden for you to carry, and when God saves your soul (1 Pet 1:9), it is without the physical you in it.

Next comes “highlight(ing) the act of taking something that doesn't belong to you.” The Power of God does not belong to you; you are helpless in an overpowering world. Jesus said, “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7). Jesus meant that you must be engendered from (God) above. You cannot rebirth yourselves; it takes the labor of either a mother or God, and Jesus indicated that only God is capable of rebirthing you.

Saying, “I am saved” does not make you saved. God must lift you up, up, and away for you to be saved.

Take the phrase “humble yourselves and let the Lord lift you up” literally. The rapture is just that. You, however hard you try, cannot be good because you come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). Salvation is for those who endure to the end (Mat 10:22). It is not you who endures but Christ in you. Salvation does not belong to you. You cannot elevate yourself for if you do, you will fall (Heb 6:6). Adam’s kind, in the beginning, failed God and lost their genetic makeup from the Image of God and became “beasts” in the jungle of a world.

The male Adam and his woman took something that did not belong to them, and they trespassed to obtain it; God had said, “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you do eat thereof you shall surely die” (Gen 2:17). They trespassed to get to God’s tree and then stole whatever fruit that they took. Original sin had multiple occasions of stealing the glory of God.

Stealing the thunder of someone else is an idiom that makes sense. “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Your own opinions are not light and are most often “darkness” because the world shades truth and most people misunderstand truth. “Grabbing attention from another, often by anticipating their idea or action” defines stealing the “thunder” of God.

We are to humble ourselves; and to do so is understanding that despite our knowledge and abilities, we are still not God nor even gods.

Lucifer — the Devil, Serpent was a liar from the beginning, but by his cunning, he prefaced lies with truth. Lucifer spoke truth to the man and the woman: “God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5).

God is God. The so-called Serpent knew that Adam and Eve would steal the thunder of God; with a new body of knowledge, they would be omniscient and omnipotent.

Over the years, that body of knowledge has become the downfall of mankind. Only God has the authority and righteousness for people improvement, but now mankind, led by Bill Gates and his companions, have discovered the secret to gene editing. Mankind, because of knowledge, have become the gods.

Biogenetics steals the thunder (power) of God and relegates it to mankind.

Literally, stealing the thunder of God is splitting the atom that God generated. Tampering with atomic energy with either fission or fusion steals the glory of God.

Not only that, but transpeople steal the thunder and glory of God. Adam was meant to be the kind that could be reduced no further, to wit: “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth (Gen 1:26). “Dominion” therein is a “crumbling off” from the Image of God. Man was made in the Image of God, not God, but a particle of Him.

Cain was a trans-being, being half Selem and half nahas, using the Hebrew words for the Image of God and the image of the Serpent, respectively.

Cain was neither human nor beast, but a trans-kind called ‘Is. He was just another extant being, neither human nor animal. The tranny, Cain, was of the Devil, to wit: “Cain was of the Wicked One” (1 John 3:12).

Transhumanism steals the thunder of God and diminishes Him. Why? Because trans-anything makes the individual the “god;” they can be anything they want to be without actually being what they really are.

God Imaged mankind, and mankind are continually reimagining themselves. Unrealistic thinking gives you powers that you don’t have, and you are what you are unless you are “born again” by God above. You cannot imagine yourself a saint and be a saint because that is alchemy. Only God can make you a saint. However, the Devil is within your genetics (John 8:44. So reimage yourselves all your lives, but you will remain what you are!

Another facet of glory stealing is “taking glory or recognition from someone else.” The someone else is Jesus. The Bible makes that clear: 

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2:21)

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. (Rom 10:13) 

Walking another way is stealing the glory of God. Deny Jesus and He will deny you the right to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24). He is the Beacon that is at the end of the time-tunnel. If you see yourself as the “way,” then you are in for a bad trip and an unexpected surprise — without the help of Jesus you cannot get in, and without the Power of God’s hand, you cannot crossover from Earth to Paradise in Heaven.

Sure, Jesus wants you to go to His Place, but its His Place, not yours. You cannot get there without following the Way all the way without looking back as Lot’s wife discovered.

Some call me a “man of God.” That does not make me a “son of God” any more than I can by calling myself that. Calling yourselves “sons” or “daughters” of God are good intentions, but He is the judge of that. Nobody else nor ourselves can engender us with the Image of God; it must come from God Himself. Indeed, that indeed is us humbling ourselves.

Self-esteem is not enlightenment but darkness. We are not who we think we are and feeling otherwise is a farce. What are common men and women? Lost! They do not know who or what they are. Scripture tells what you can be’ a new creature in Christ: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

The “old creature” is not one kind but many. The old creature is whatever Satan wants you to be.

Some want to be animals and act like animals... inseminating whoever. whenever they please. Some now wear doggy apparel and act like canines; that does not make them dogs, but either insane, depraved, or both.

Others just do what they want to do outside the norm for human beings. They diminish the particle, or spark, of God that might remain in them, and explode to another beastly kind, all the while expecting us to accept them as they are.

When will this occur? It began with original sin. When will it end, when the Devil sifts mankind out, revealing who is his and who is not. The Devil does serve a purpose; he sifts, and God metes out justice.

Stealing the glory of God is mankind’s problem. Reconciliation is God’s solution. He comes to us to make us whole again to kill the “beast” in us and regen us with Himself.

All those facets of “glory stealing” are still us who come short of the glory of God as is written:

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (Rom 3:23-24) 

“Justification” is what makes the lost reconcile to God. “Justification” is not as if we have not sinned, lest we forget our previous nature, but that Jesus became sin for us: “He (God) has made Him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21)

Reconciliation is mankind (the “crumble”) restored to the whole Image of God, and for God to have dominion over us. Mankind broke off from the Image of God, and only by the Hand of God (Jesus) can the broken piece be re-assembled. How could you do that? You cannot but Jesus can, as you can read next:

All things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and have given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God. (2 Cor 5:18:20)

God, because of the Cross, already has reconciled you to Him, but reconciliation is a two-way street — you must reconcile with Him, and all that means is that your thoughts become the Thoughts of God. It is not what you do, but what you think. It is not emotional but cognitive, hence Calvary is “the place of the cranium.” Emotion comes with gratitude for what God has done. What has He done? He redeemed you and paid the price for your sins by bearing them Himself.

Judas found out that redeeming his own sins was to no avail — he still went to Gehenna and Hell. Judas tried to steal the glory of God and failed, so Hell was his “reconciliation.”

THE FINISH: THE JOTS AND TITTLES FULFILLED

Jesus was speaking to the Jews about the Law. “The Law” consisted of two parts: (1) Mosaic and (2) The Word, now wrongly called “The Ten Commandments,” which are the ten sayings (Exod 20:1) of The Word, Jesus.

“Thou shalt” in the Decalogue (“Ten Sayings”) is the Hebrew word, “yasa” which means come out or words to that effect.

“Not” is ‘lo in the Hebrew, meaning never. The Decalogue is “The Word” — Jesus, consisting of things that should go forth and things that should not.

There are nine “shalt nots” in the Decalogue, but two of them are one . They are things not ever to do, thus requiring no work. They are not burdensome because they essentially are ways to avoid “work.”

The remaining two are (4^th) remembering the Sabbath and (5^th) honoring your father and mother. Those two sayings are not work; remembering and honoring are cognitive — the way you think.

The New Testament makes a difference between the types of work: ergo for physical work and katergazomai for cognitive work (as in “work out your salvation;” Phil 2:12).

Therefore, the Decalogue, “The Ten Words of God,” are eight things you are not to do and two things to think about while not working: (1) Remember God resting and rest accordingly, and (2) honor your parents for bringing you forth. Those ten things should be easy to do but most people forger the Sabbath and dishonor their parents.

The “Law,” therefore should be easy to do, should they not? because you are to do nothing. That is grace; for doing nothing you are rewarded, are you not? That should provide you with a different outlook on the Law. Jesus did not find them burdensome, so He would not do away with the Law, and said so: 

Think not that I AM come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Mat 5:17-19) 

Jesus begins with “I AM come.” Who is the “Great I AM”? Father God. God Himself had come in the flesh. Who wrote the Law? “I AM” (Yahweh). Jesus was implying that He is God, and it was by His “finger” that it was written (Exod 31:18).

Jesus had a “finger” before He came. God is characterized by the Hebrew letter Yod. The yod is an arm with hands and fingers. Jesus is the Yod of God, and His “finger” was the “pen of quick writing” of ancient literature.

Jesus existed before He revealed Himself to mankind. In other words, Jesus was always with us (the meaning of “Immanuel”) but the bodily image of Him was usually never seen. It’s not that Jesus was not with us, for He was, but the Jews and especially the pagans could not see Him because their eyes were dim to esoteric things.

John wrote that Jesus is “The Word” (John 1:1-14). He was there from the beginning but only righteous people and the humbled (at times) could see Him.

Jesus was not another Being, but God revealed, to wit:

Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Law: for sin is the transgression of the Law. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. (1 John 3:4-5)

“He” in that passage is “the Father” (1 John 1:1). The “Father” (Yahweh) was revealed as a real substance. It is not “God and Jesus” but “God is Jesus and Jesus is God.” Jesus is God revealed to mankind to “take away our sins,” as it says.

The “Name” in the Decalogue is “Jesus.” We are not to take that Name in vain, meaning with frivolity or triviality.

The Name, Jesus, is in the Law. Jesus is Hashem — “The Name of God” in the Hebrew. The Jews still do not understand; they are not to take the Name, Jesus, vainly. The Ten Commandments hang on Jesus as the love of God. They are ten ways to love God, be Him in Body, Spirit, or Holy Ghost.

The Decalogue is the “Law” and Jesus, the Yod of God wrote it. He did not come to destroy the Law but to fulfil it. The letter Yod is the Law and Jesus is the Father, Yod, revealed. Hence, Jesus is the “letter” of the Law.

The “Law” in the Decalogue are easy things, and Jesus would not remove one jot or tittle.

A “jot” is the Greek letter iota. The Hebrew equivalent is the letter yod. Jesus would not take the Yod from those Ten Sayings. Yod is said “Ya” as in “Yahweh.” Jesus would not remove God from any of those Ten Words.

Yod was said to have begun with a dot that spread until now it is the figure of the arm with hand. In a sense, “the pen of quick writing” with which Jesus wrote was the Power of the Yod which Power is the Hebrew letter aleph, representing the creative Power of “Father,” Yod.

Think of the letter yod as a dot as in dot-matrix printing; all letters and words, like jots or dots, are in each letter and word of the Law. The Ten Words were written with the letter yod in its simplest form. Take away any dots, then the word would be dimmed. Take away more dots and the words would not exist.

Many have seen dot-matrix printing where the printer missed dots; words there don’t make sense; and take God (The “Yod”) out of the Ten Sayings, and then they do not make sense.

Now for the word “tittle.” Jesus said, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail” (Luke 16:17). “Tittle” in the Greek version is “keraia.” Keraia are “little horns” or “extremities” of the Hebrew letters.

Each letter points toward the next in words, usually in three characters in verb, object, and subject order. The aleph points toward the bet and the bet point toward the gimmel. God was first manifested as the Power of the “ox” (Aleph), then the “House” (Bet) or Flesh of God, and then  the Holy Ghost signified by the letter gimmel.

The three-in-one letters are the ‘Godhead.’ Take away any one, then the letter of the Law would not be the whole Law.

The crucifixion, for three days, took the Aleph and the Gimmel from the Bet, and they went their separate ways. Jesus lost His Virtue (the Aleph) in saving mankind and then gave up the Holy Ghost (the Gimmel).

As Jesus died on the Cross, He said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). Those words referred to the jots and tittles: ““Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” The crucifixion made the tittles meaningless — no longer did the points of the letters point to the next letter but were in disarray. The Godhead had been disassembled, and when Jesus was resurrected, he was “raised” or literally “assembled.”

It seems the word “tittles” referred both to the Hebrew aleph-bet and the Crucifixion followed by the Resurrection, so now you should know your jots and tittles and that the crucifixion fulfilled the Law and the ABCs.

The "tittle" would be the face of the letter yod in this case,

 

 

 

LILIITH (LIL): THE ANIMAL SPIRIT IN EVE

Today's commentary is from my most recent book, Jots and Tittles, with some added clarification.

The Jungian "anima" is the female spirit in mankind. It is the genetics of muses from long ago. The original "muse" seems to have been the woman, Eve, who was "the mother of all living," and hence both men and women, because of maternal genetics, have wicked Eve in them. That "anima" in the Bible is "Lilith," the "screech owl." Now consider both the Israelites and Hawaiians (from Eve as well.) Eve's name in the Hebrew is "Haua": Hey-waw-hey which you can see is like "Hawaii."

The Israelites had thrown their glittering gold into the fire and a baby ox, by its own power, came out. The calf became their “lord.” (These were "the beasts of the desert" which you shall see, Isaiah the prophet saw. In the future he would see "the beasts of the islands").

In the same manner, Eve threw herself into the fire; that fire was from “The Bringer of Light,” Lucifer, and all by itself, Cain came out of her womb, as if by the power of itself. Hence, Cain became the god, and as noted before, Kane was the creator God of the Hawaiians and Eve seems to be the mother of all living there in Hawaii. Eve, to them, may have been the mother of them all, hence the name “Hawaii.”

What roles do women play in the Hawaiian monarchy? “From Kamehameha the Great through Queen Lili’uokalani, meet the eight rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii.” Without regard to all eight rulers, seven were men, but the last ruler was queen.

“Lili” was her nomen. Isaiah saw into the future, and wrote accordingly:

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there and find for herself a place of rest. (Isa 34:14)

The wild beasts of the desert were the behemoths and the wild beasts of the islands of Hawaii were many: Kane, Ku, Lono, Kanaloa and others representing respectively that follow below (Co-Pilot Answer): 

·         Kane as the creator god.

·         Ku the god of war

·         Lono the god peace, fertility and such.

·         Kanaloa the god of the waters and underworld.

·         Other notable Hawaiian deities include Laka, Kihawahine, Haumea, Papahānaumoku, and Pele. 

The objects of their worship were various sea animals. Had they ridden to the islands on or in whales, porpoises and such, or were they guided by them rather than God as with Noah?

Of specific interest is that their gods favored the “K” being the qof in the Hebrew aleph-bet.

Isaiah saw the gods of the desert finding rest on the island, and so it is with the gods of Shinar and the gods of Hawaii.

Of specific interest is the “screech owl” in the biblical passage. She is Lilit in the Hebrew (pronounced lee-leeth).

Queen Lili’uokalani was the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands, ending with a woman in Hawaii, “The Land of Eve,” and her name was “Lil.” Lil indeed came to rest in 1893 when she was imprisoned.

Many think that Lilith was the first wife of Adam but. Adam had one woman. After she sinned, Adam renamed her, not Eve, nor Eva, but “Haua” from which “Eva” came in the English.

She was mother of all living (Gen 3:20, and a new kind called “Haua.” Therefore, is it merely coincidence that Hawaii and Haua are so similar in the Hebrew? Most would spell, according to its sound, Hawah for the English name of Eva. Hawaii, if the “i’s” are yod’s that represent the name Adonai.

Eve credited her “lord,” most certainly Lucifer, as Jehovah (Gen 4:1), inferring that she was the God “Adonai.” Perhaps the “ii” at the end of Hawaii propagates the notion that together she and Lucifer are the “Lord God.”

Isaiah makes me believe that Haua and Lilith are the same being and that Lilith is the female anima, or Jungian “shadow” in the woman, Eve; also that Lilith is the anima within sinful women. [1] 

According to Hawaiian custom, she (the queen) was named after an event linked to her birth… She (her mother) named the child using the words; liliʻu (smarting), loloku (tearful), walania (a burning pain) and kamakaʻeha (sore eyes). (Wikipedia 2025)

 

Those words describe her nature. Lili-u in their language means “smarting.” In the Garden of Eden “Lilith” seems to have been Eve’s naivete that she mistook as knowledgeable

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[1] Since Lilith is the muse of radical feminism and abortion minded women, that is not a far stretch.

ON ORIGINAL SIN: IMPUTING GUILE

Because God confounded the languages, those not attuned with God can often miss the message(s). To understand God, a person must be of God. Speaking to Christians, Paul wrote, “God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. (1 Cor 1:9).  Fellowship means in accordance with God.

“Our Lord” says so much. The “Lord” is Y^ehova in the Hebrew language, or in the original tongue, just “Ya” or the letter “Yod.” The “Yod” is the highest letter, so hence, God’s position relative to the heaven and the earth, written as a dot or a tittle well above the baseline of the other letters, as you can see in the sample line following:

 

 The letter yod characterizes both the “Most High” and the verb “work.” The letter Yod for “God” implies the Creative things that He has done, to wit: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).

“The Word” is the Hebrew aleph-bet from aleph to tav — the Hebrew version of the Greek alpha to omega; and short for the letter aleph is “el.” Hence, The Almighty God is El-Shaddai and only He has Creative Power to make all things, (John 1:3).

Original man was like God but not God. Original man was not to create but to dress and keep the Garden (Gen 2:15). The garden was a “Garden of Living Souls” plus the beasts and other forms of life. The task of Adam was the serve those who would come after him, not to rule them for he was not God.

Original sin, among other things, was revealed to mankind by one passage. Remembering that “Adam” was both the male and the female, both were to serve God by taking care of the Garden, and that was to include all the living beings within it. Rather than serve, the woman created a being herself, and Adam watched her do it: “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1).

Hidden within that one verse is the concept of “original sin.” Because Eve had guile (Gen 3:13) now within her, she could pass the guile on to her offspring. It is written, “Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile” (Psalm 32:2).

The “LORD,” I say again, is “Jehovah,” but not just Jehovah but a specific “lord” — Yehova Elohim.” Keep that in mind until we study Genesis 4:1. Before sin, the two adama had called Yod, “Lord God” — Yehova Elohim.

The psalmist mentioned guile. “Guile” is treachery. It means that those God has blessed would have no cunning in them in the manner of the so-called “Serpent” (Gen 3:1). Guile is the nature of “The Beast” called “Serpent” (nahas in the Hebrew). The letter nun in nahas is represented by a seed, or sperm. Sin is cunningness — how we think we are fooling God.

 

Sin is cunningness — how we think we are fooling God. Before Christ is in us, we are all snakes in the waters.

Guile is in a “common man” (not blessed) with the seed, or sperm, of the Beast in him, as with Eve’s kind. That Eve is the “mother of all living” means that the common man or woman has guile in them, and like Cain, we all are born of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

Original sin is two things. (1) Not blessed by God, and (2) beguiled with the nature of the Beast.

“Blessed” in the Hebrew literally means that God takes a knee to us. Original sin was God removing His Presence from mankind. Hence, original sin left mankind alone in the Garden without God, so because of original sin, the two “creatures” were cast out of the Presence of God into the world. God was not there to assist them by taking a knee as a camel might do.

Remembering the base line of the yod is higher, mankind because of sin was beguiled, or debased. We were more like the letter lamed which extends below the baseline, and indeed we became a little lower than the angels.

Hence, common man is debased and full of guile. We are “beasts’ at birth and to be corrected and that entails something. Jesus said, “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7).

The original sin was carnal knowledge and the woman’s new lord became her own flesh that she had inherited from the Wicked One. Her flesh became her god; she said, “I have gotten a man from the lord.” She had become the “yod” on high and not the Lord God. Her “lord” because God removed His blessing was fulfilled by The Beast giving her its blessing. Angels can morph, so since Lucifer had put on flesh to reveal himself, Eve was imputed with the semen of the Wicked One.

“Imputed” in the Hebrew means “plaited.” Interwoven in the woman was both the nature, or genetics, of The Beast and God. If you wonder why human DNA is a double-helix, perhaps that was the “plait.” Even if not, all mankind assumed plaited genetics; not totally depraved but equally so. Within mankind is human potential to be glorious again! Jesus can fix our “plait” or make us whole again.

Original man, before sin, was “Adam” in the Hebrew. Both the man and woman were Adam’s kind of the male and female gender.

Note from Genesis 4:1 that Eve created a “man” for her new lord, not the Lord God. That “man” was not an “Adam” but an “Is” (pronounced eesh). That “man” called “Cain” was an “extant” being that she now called “man.”

“Extant” is just another being, not in the Image of the Lord God, but in the image of The Beast (Nahas).

No, Lucifer was not a viper but a being just like us! We are born, not in the Image of God (a glorious phantom being), but in the image of Lucifer’s manifestation. Lucifer created flesh (with guile in it) and Eve thought that she had done so herself. Hence, “original sin” was man becoming God, and thence our flesh became our “gods.”  

Adam was created of “clay.” Clay consists of aluminates and silicates without any organic carbon in it. They would shine much like a clean clay vessel. With the advent of sin, mankind became as the other beasts; they too became organisms with flesh and all the faculties of the other animals; and because Satan was imputed to them, the Lord God was absolved from them. Their souls (phantom beings) would be cleared of the Spirit of God and filled with iniquity (Psalm 51:45) in the womb of the mother; surely because only the woman can pass along the X-chromosomal mitochondrial-DNA.

To be clear of Satan (made free) the blood and Spirit of Jesus must be imputed unto us: Paul wrote, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin” (Rom 4:8).

God will take a knee to those without imputed sin, to those who have shed their skin and turned to God for imputation.

I could write much more on the significance of God taking a knee to mankind, but it is performed by the Spirit of God, obviously in the Image of a man. Taking a knee requires knees and only “man” (Greek anthropos) has knees to take. Taking a knee by God requires Jesus who Himself is the proto-man. The psalmist was well aware of the Messiah who would come to take a knee to us by sacrificing His own flesh without the usual breaking of the knees when crucifying.

The overall point is that “original sin” in us is genetic, and our progenitor (“father”) is the Devil. The only fix for that is regeneration, and that is something that no man can do with his own genetics. We can’t fix who we are, but Jesus can. He was there in the beginning generating us, so He can regenerate us as well and keep us safe until He finishes a good work in us at the resurrection of the saints.

A Chrisitan is a “saint” that is set apart. Apart until when? Until they are resurrected just like the saints with Jesus. (Mat 27:53). Perhaps we Christians should call ourselves “saints” until the general resurrection, when saints are made glorious again.

“Marvel not, you must be born again” or engendered from God above. That is something that could not be done in the time of Jesus, so beware of those who would attempt to edit our genetics in this age, when men are becoming the gods.[1]

PERHAPS IMPUTING GUILE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] I am specifically referring to mRNA therapy and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tools. Christians beware of ungodly men who propose such things.