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 1st 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.
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