For those who want to get a head start on my latest book about the True Church which we are to copy, herein is a rough draft of what I have begun (Not shown yet are all the pictures):
THE TRUE CHURCH
Even very few Christians go to “Church”
in which the capital “C” represents the Holy Church. Few even go to “church”
with a small “c”.
The Church is anywhere followers are
in the Presence of God. Of course, God is present everywhere, but few sense
Him. “The Church is the collective body of all Christian believers”
The consensus seems to be that
those who believe in “Christ” is the “Church.” Believe what? Believe in
whom? Belief for what purposes? So, “You believe that there is one God; you do
well; the devils also believe, and tremble” (Jas 2:19). James, the brother of Jesus
wrote that. Suffice it to say that James knew Jesus and came to believe that
Jesus is that “One God.”
Belief, therefore, is that there
is one true God and that Jesus is that One True God manifested to mankind. Speaking
of Jesus, John the Baptist wrote, “I knew Him not: but that He should be made
manifest to Israel” John 1:31).
John learned Jesus, to
wit:
I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him, and I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, “Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.” (John 1:32-33)
The Baptist did not know Jesus
but was provided with a test of authenticity by God. The Christ is the one on
which the Holy Spirit from God descends and remains on Him. The Baptist recognized
that Jesus is God, as God manifested that to him. So, to be a Christian, a
person must believe that Jesus is the only one who was baptized with the Spirit
of God.
Thus, the first step to
Christianity is believe in the Creation and that an invisible God had the Power
to do that and did that. Do you believe that all things were created or in
evolution as the science theorizes? [1]
If you have read the footnote,
and you should, the Baptist knew the test: That the flesh of Jesus was made,
and John saw that the made Being was the always-Present God. Jesus was manifested
as God. God put flesh on Himself so that those who did not believe might believe
in Him. God used the science to proof His own Existence. John came to know
Jesus by what he had seen.
If you are a Christian, then you
too must believe that; believe that Jesus is God revealed. So what, you
might think. Jesus is proof that there is a God because He performed miracles
as proof. Jesus overcame the science, or better said, Jesus revealed more
science than scientists.
So, what is “science”?
“Knowledge or such a system of
knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena” (ibid).
Science makes no profession of knowing anything about things that are not
objective. With that said, science has not studied any other realm than the
cosmos. Science is the study of things that can be either seen or measured. If things
are not in this realm,, according to science, it is only mythology. Black
holes, for instance, could not be seen until recently. They were theories, or
myths. Now, with the James Watt Space Telescope, black holes have been seen.
What once was myth is not truth.
The myth was based on what they
could see. Because matter drifted toward a dark hole, the conclusion was that
there must be a black hole. They assumed that because of the motion of matter.
What was myth is now truth.
They may not know it, but the
myths of science are proven by the same passage that Paul wrote 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.” The same goes for all of the Creation.
Jesus is God revealed; and the Holy Thing seen is evidence of the Holy Thing
not seen.
That God entered and remained with
Jesus is imperative. A Christian must understand that God and Jesus are not
dual gods but that Jesus is God in the flesh.
The crucifixion proved what the Baptist
said: The same Holy Spirit in bodily shape (Luke 3:22) that came on Jesus left
Him at the crucifixion. (John 19:3) as “He gave up the Ghost.” The Godhead was
separated at the crucifixion, and the Resurrection, the Godhead was re-assembled
as the Holy Ghost made Jesus whole again. “Wholeness” is completeness. Jesus
got His Spirit back!
Pontius Pilate asked of Jesus, “What
is truth?” Not answering, Jesus revealed the truth, and as He died the
Holy Spirit in bodily shape left Him. Jesus was the evidence of the unseen God,
and some at the crucifixion saw that: The centurion that pierced Him said, “Truly
this was the Son of God.” (Mat 27:54).
And because He still lives in another realm which science chooses to be
ignorant of, that God is alive and well is not investigated.
You might be confused because the
claim is that Jesus is God. Here, the proof indicated the “Son of God.” Think
not that God gave birth to Jesus. Mary did that. She delivered God into the world.
However, “Son” therein is better translated “Image.” Like the first Adam, the “last
Adam” Jesus had within Him the life-giving Spirit of God (1 Cor 15:45), called
the “Father.”
A Christian must be born again of
the Spirit of God (John 3:7) just as the flesh of God received the Spirit of
God in the same format.
Remembering that the Church is a
body of believers; each must believe in a Creator God and that Jesus is the
Person of that God, just as John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).
The Word is a sound. Sounds
cannot be seen but they do reveal that where there is a sound, their must be an
object. That “Sound” was the “Voice” walking in the cool of the evening toward
Adam and Eve. They could not see the Savior coming, but they knew by the sound
of His Voice that it was Jesus. [2]
Now, you should understand that
God created, and that Jesus is the Person of God. However, even the demons
believe that and tremble, if you recall James 2:19 previously quoted.
Demons are not Christians but are
believers. Demons understood that Jesus is the Person of God, even though He
had flesh like ours.
The centurion believed that as
well. It was his gift from God as the blood and
water probably wetted him. He believed, but did he have faith? There is
a difference!
The “Church” is an exclusive
organization. It is older than time. “Church” (no longer will it be in
quotations) is not the building but the “House” of God.
Jesus is the “House” of God, Tent
of Meeting, or Tree of Life. The Church pre-existed mankind. The Garden of Eden
was the Church of God and under the canopy of the Tree of Life was the Tabernacle
of God. There were no walls surrounding the Tree of Life but all were free to
enter in. Not one person (out of two that existed) went to Church to be in the
Presence of God. Think how sad that might have been for God! Rather, Adam and his
woman chose the house of pleasure nearby but very distant from God.
God would have ministered to
their needs, but mankind chose Lucifer as their “lord” (Gen 4:1) to minister to
them.
Church is a place of marriage,
not merely coupling, but having Holy Matrimony in the Presence of God. The
forbidden tree was the false church of coupling where it appears that the woman
committed adultery. Married to Adam, she adored Lucifer, and the outcome was
degeneration since Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).
Sin was not allowed in the Church
with the fellowship of God, so the false church was created with the original
sin. Anybody could go into that false church but how they would come out, is a
different story. Adam was betrayed and the woman became “Eve,” a new kind of
promiscuous animal that Adam named another kind (Gen 3:20) as she would be the
mother of all living. He new “lord” was Lucifer who was serpentine within, and she
became a “beast” like her new lord.
That new church was carnality, professing
both divine knowledge and evil to deceive the congregants. That “church” remains
alive and well today alongside the true Church.
God had forewarned Adam that if
they ate of the forbidden tree; they would die. The Deceiver said, “You shall
not surely die” (Gen 3:4).
Adam and the woman had been safe
before going there. Then, they trespassed against God, going onto the forbidden
property on which Lucifer had squatted. They thought that it was God’s sanctuary
for Him alone, but they were deceived. Its “master” was a false teacher; the
first thing they learned there is that God had lied…. You will not die.
Note that Adam and the woman had
not physically died but that they, once dominate (Gen 1:26), became like the beasts.
The Beast that ministered there was like a roaring lion within. That deception
remains in the false church until this day as Peter warns, “Be sober, be
vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about,
seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). Peter was speaking to the true Church:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Pet 1:3).
Adam’s kind went to the forbidden
tree to eat, but in a sense, they were eaten alive when they were deceived.
What was the message they heard? “You will not die,” implying that they were
secure even when around evil. The “Serpent” was being pompous as God was diminished.
They had aware gone to the wrong church to have communion with God. There they
encountered the first false teaching.
The point is that there have been
two churches since the beginning of time. Because Eve is the mother of all
living, her progeny are most likely to go to some ordinary, even pleasurable
church.
Now for some deep thinking.
Pleasure is of the flesh. The flesh senses pleasure, not only with the five
obvious senses, but with feelings of safety because flesh is their house and
the “House of Eve.” A “house” is not always a building but a genetic
inclination. Since the two Adam’s wandered to the wrong tree, they wandered
into the wrong church, not where God was present, but Lucifer who presented the
forbidden church as the true Church and made God the liar.
That is getting even more profound
in this century since church has become a place where anything goes:
homosexuality, abortion (murder), deviations of all sorts, lavish entertainment,
and a whole litany of things that God did not have in the Original True Church.
Now for some clarification: I am
not a member of the false “Church of Christ” but the real Church of Christ with
Jesus at its Head. My Church has no walls, no visible teacher, no commandments;
but only a communion with Christ Jesus who is always there but remains unseen.
With that said, Jesus was going
to the First Church of the Garden of Eden: After resting on the Sabbath, God
went for a short walk, Adam and the woman, “heard the Voice of the Lord God
walking in the Garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the Garden”
(Gen 3:8).
God was on the way to Church to be
with them. He wasn’t running late; they went early to eat a little before the Great
Teacher arrived. They were there for the “donuts” and “coffee,” not for the
Bread of Life. Lucifer served them his food, and they ate. [3]
This is not to imply that all
modern churches are evil but that we must be sober and vigilant what they teach
by testing all things and hanging onto what is good (1 Thes 5:1).
Your preacher will lie! Not that
he does so willingly but that Lucifer is in us all since original is genetic
sins. In other words, like Eve (our mother) we are not great judges of truth
and to be honest, human beings are very easily deceived. Like Lucifer with Eve,
all a teacher needs to do is seem glorious all the while within demonic
instructions are their genetics.
I personally believe that as a
Christian you are in more danger than you ever were as a Luciferin. Why else
would a Christian need the whole armor of God “to stand against the wiles of
the Devil?” (Ephes 6:11). My point is that you shall die if you are away from
God unless you remain sober. You are not eternally secure until you are in the
Presence of God a the end (Mat 24:13) It does not matter which to which church building
you go, but with whom your heart lies when the death angel comes.
The True Church is not even here
but in Paradise. All the churches of the world are Satan’s buildings.
I do agree with modern “Churches
of Christ” in three respects: (1) Wrong music is a mostly a disturbance, (2) denominationalism
is destructive of which theirs is the worst kind, and (3) you as a Christian are
vulnerable to the wiles of the Devil. Their denominationalism comes from their
faith in water baptism, thus making Poseidon their “lord.”
As worse is the Calvinistic
teaching of eternal security. Indeed, after you are in Paradise there you will
be eternally secure, but while on planet Earth, you are continually under
attack. Only if Christians wear the full armor of God are they safe but never
are they secure with beasts all about.
Beasts are wolves in sheep’s
clothing (Mat 6:5). Oftentimes “men of the cloth” are just that. They don’t mean
to be, but they too have been misled by seminaries, family ties to certain
doctrines, and outright lying at times so their version of the truth may
prevail.
Sometimes your church is the most
unsafe place you may be because while you think you are in the sanctuary of God
all the while, it may be the “Synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9).
No, you are not even secure in
your church building. There are many false teachings under the roofs of buildings
built because of denominationalism. Admittedly, even I am denominational and
like everyone else, must test my doctrines for adherence to scripture.
Denominations promote the ideas
of some former Christian. Calvinism is the most prominent at the moment, and
while Arminianism is dying, Calvinism is resurrected.
Every denomination is full of
wrong doctrine. There is no perfect Church other than the Church in Paradise
where creatures of all makes honor God and in His Presence.
John saw all sorts of creatures having Church in his vision:
After this I looked, and, behold, a door
was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a
trumpet talking with me; which said, “Come up hither, and I will show you
things which must be hereafter,” and immediately I was in the spirit: and,
behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne, and He that sat
was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow
round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald, and round about the
throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty
elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of
gold.
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings
and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before
the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God, and before the throne there was
a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round
about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
And the first beast was like a lion, and
the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the
fourth beast was like a flying eagle, and the four beasts had each of them six
wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and
night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is
to come,” and when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to Him that
sat on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall
down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that lives for ever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “You are worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory and honour and power: for You have created all things, and for
Your pleasure they are and were created” (Rev
22:1-11)
Note that Church is not a building, but
some type of floor on which to enter there is a door, or gate of some sorts,
giving access to God — The Tree of Life. The door leads to another realm where
there are many creatures among the men. Church is in Paradise and until then,
Church here is a façade of the True Church, and some are better than others.
Note that in the True Church,
everything is about God and nothing about us other than our kind are only there.
The Glory is given to God, and even the angels do that. Angels are real but
they are not God. They too give God the Glory!
How many modern churches are like that?
We should have wings of eagles and spread our arms to objectify the cross.
Where are the lists of rituals and the
stones of “must do’s”? The focus is only God and with that all other things are
out of mind with no need to worry about finances, whose wearing what, who is
important and who is not, and who is between you and God to distract you. Satan’s
demons are not there, albeit they are always busy in church buildings watching
them split and then split again.
The best churches today do their best
to perform to their idea of God but come far short of glorifying God. The reward
for those of the True Church is the hope of eternal life in Heaven, but the
modern church is where even the best of the best must be paid. How many
apostles were paid? None. How much was Jesus paid? Nothing. Jesus said to His disciples,
“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man
has not where to lay his head” (Mat 8:20).
The point here is that the Church is
not the building, the denomination, the leader, the mode of presentation, but
wherever the invisible Presence of the Lord God may be. He can be in a building,
but God always said that He does not need a house; “The most High dwells not in
temples made with hands” Acts 7:48); He dwells in a “House” made by Himself.
That “House” is Jesus. Note that house infers many things: buildings,
tents, husks, flesh, and even genetics. Jesus is the “House of God” because God
lives within His holy flesh.
In Christ is in the “House
of God.”
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature” (2 Cor 5:17). Jesus is the House of God in the same manner that Caesar’s
are of “The House of Caesar.” It is a genetic lineage; that soon included about
every evil dictator that took that name. In Christ is in The House of God. How
to be of that genetic House? “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7).
To be in God’s House requires an
admission slip. You must be born of the Spirit (John 3:6). To be in Christ —
the House of God — requires baptism not of water but the Spirit of God;
literally born again is engendered from above.
The House of God was one at time a “Tent”
called “Jesus.” Jesus always existed (John 1:1-14), people could just not see
Him. Jesus was manifested (John 1:31). He has been with us always (Emanuel) and
still is. God revealed the flesh of Jesus that was always there. Those “in
Christ” know that Jesus is there without even seeing Him. He is till “God With
Us” in Spirit and Flesh that is so glorious that it cannot be seen.
I like to think that Adam had glorious
flesh as well before sin; not organic, but of clay (silicates and aluminates),
and that sin made Adam organic as well as Eve. Carbon does age and as such after
sin mankind began to age and die, fulfilling the edict of God.
Adam had Christ in him! The Word is
Christ, and in the beginning, Adam was made in that Image (Gen 1:27). That “Image”
from the Hebrew was literally a “Shadow” of God, or figuratively, a “Phantom.”
Then God put the inner Image in a shell made of “adam” (red clay or ground). The
person Adam was the “House of God” and of the genetics of Yahweh.
In typical manner, God is omnipresent,
so Adam had dominion, or he was literally “crumbled” from the Image of God just
as a drop of water in a manner crumbles from the sea and is of the same
constituency.
Adam had Christ in him and as such, he
was the first Adam and the Spirit that crumbled was the “last Adam” from which
the first Adam crumbled (1 Cor 15:45). Both Jesus and the first man were both
Adamic because they both had Christ in them, “Christ” being the “ointment” of
God, as the word, “Messiah” (English “Christ”) implies.
Now consider the word “Messiah.” In the
Hebrew it is spelled:
מָשִׁיחַ: mem – shin – yod – tau (tav). The verb would be the letter mem –
the dynamics of the blood and the letter shin the object — the Godhead or the
three substances of God in One (The Yod). The letter tau is the
covenant, or mark, of God as the subject. Tau is represented by the cross,
about which Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). All the letters point
toward the cross (tau). The “ointment” which Messiah indicates would be
the very flow of the genetics of the ”Father” Yod, or Yahweh. The
mem is the flow of both blood and water (i.e., genetics).
About Jesus John
wrote, “This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by
water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness,
because the Spirit is truth” (1 John 5:6). Jesus, as The Messiah, came by the mem,
representing both blood and water, not just one or the other.
Blood has three
components, cells, plasma (water), and life (the quickening spirit of Jesus). No
wonder John wrote, “There are three that bear witness in earth: the Spirit, and
the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one” (1 John 5:8). The mem
of the Messiah carried the Godhead through time over the generations of
mankind. However, as the “Son of God,” the Progenitor (genetic “Father”) of Jesus
was Yahweh Himself. God was in Jesus, the Christ. He was the ointment
that could heal the nations (Rev 22:2). And the tav was the application
of the ointment to all who believe. What was finished at the crucifixion? The
Ointment of God so that all could be healed, or made whole, with each person
who believes sharing the Ointment of the Messiah. Like with the first Adam
crumbled to make the woman, the last Adam (Jesus) crumbled as well. Ointment is
applied by application. Keeping it in a vessel preserves the ointment, but
unless it is applied, the ointment is of no use!
So quit looking at
Jesus as just a man. Jesus was the ointment for the healing of the nations. He
carried the genes of Father God in a “Cup” so to speak, literally His “vessel.”
“In Christ” is
anointed by Jesus. As such Jesus rubs off onto sinful people to heal their animalistic
tendencies. Paul wrote, “Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the
same love, being of one accord, of one mind” (Phil 2:2).
Paul had it; and
he called it “joy.” A better translation is “contentment.” Paul had his rebirth
had become like-minded with Christ. In effect, his words, were as much The Word
because Paul was speaking the Mind of Christ.
Being of “one
accord,” is of one mind. Our minds should be like the Mind of Christ Jesus. God
does not get into our fleshes but our inner man — our nature. Rebirth is 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).
Our fleshes belong
to Lucifer since like Cain, we too are of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). The
genetics of a newborn baby are of the Devil, Lucifer, or Satan (John 8:44) “and
the lusts of your father you will do.” We
are like the “old creature” at birth. The original sin was passed down to all
those living via Eve, “the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20), and obviously
through your mitochondrial DNA — in your X-chromosome. Both men and women have
that encoded in their blood, and to be a Christian, Christ makes a sinner whole
again with His quickening Spirit as He had done with Adam in the beginning.
The first step in
building a Church is laying the foundation on solid ground. As such Jesus is the
“Rock of Salvation” (Isa 20:16) and the “Cornerstone” (Psalm 118:22). Yahweh
is the solid ground and Jesus the “Stone” that was used to datum all things. In
a manner, the Stone crumbled to build the Church with each stone a “lively stone”
quickened (made alive) by Jesus.
Peter (“Pebbles”)
wrote about that, “You also, as ‘lively stones,’ are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ (The ‘Rock’)” (1 Pet 2:5). Implied therein that the quickening Spirit
in Jesus crumbles off to make lively stones, and hence, Christians become “new
creatures” like Adam in the beginning.
Like Adam was “born,”
so sinners are born again (John 3:7) as new Adams in Christ. Each Christian
carries within them a little bit of God; enough to fill them.
Adam was “born”
differently than anyone else. Somehow the Spirit of God entered, not his
nostrils, but the mind of Adam, and Adam began to think like God. Like God who
has a divine Will, Adam had a human will as well. Original sin was when Satan
got into the mind of both new creatures, and hence the Wicked One (The Devil)
is the genetic “Father” of all. He is in our minds, in the nature of mankind.
Jesus came to fix that, and the Messiah finished it at the Holy Cross as his
blood and water anointed mankind as is written, “One of the soldiers with a
spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John
19:34). The letter mem crumbled from the Messiah onto the skull of Adam. [4]
Remembering that
the ground is also “Adam” and that the dust of Adam was buried beneath Calvary,
think of the purpose of that: Adam had sinned. His sin was closed, as indicated
by the closure of the letter tav. The mem flowed into the crevice
of the newly split ground and Adam’s bones would have received the mem of the
Messiah, like before, through his cranium.
Perhaps the genes
of mankind are not changed with rebirth. Genetics until recently were sacrosanct.
Jesus would have overcome the world, leaving defective genes intact, but
changing the nature of sinful men and women.
Jesus gets into us,
not by genetics per se, but fixing our iniquitous natures. As an
example, Paul persuaded the Gentiles that he encountered to become Christians. He
also persuaded them to continue to be in Christ (Acts 13:43). That he preached
to Gentiles is significant; for they were not Jewish. However, those Gentiles
in Christ were changed. Jews were God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2) and
it was in their genetics as the Abrahamic Covenant demonstrated. Something
happened with the Gentiles of very different genetics; Paul speaking to Gentile
Romans wrote, “He is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of
the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men,
but of God” (Rom 2:29). The bllod of the Gentiles were not altered at all, but
their natures, Paul wrote, could be like genuine Jews, who had Yod in
them (Yahweh).
Rebirth was
altering their iniquitous natures, like the Jews should have been, Paul wrote, “You
are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;
that you should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).
“Light” is truth.
The Divine Light shined onto their cranium — both the vessel and the shield of
the mind, and God got through to many Gentiles. They became new creatures, not
by genetics, but when their minds were entangled with the Mind of God. Hence,
rebirth is indeed miraculous for the mind is harder now to change than even our
genetics which can be purchased in a $60 kit.
Rebirth,
therefore, is not a re-gendering of the flesh as a infusion of new thoughts.
Before Christ appeared, God said, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord” (Isa 55:8). Hence, rebirth is a
new way of thinking. That implies that since scripture is the written Word, or
Thoughts of God, then The Word must be studied and lived, for in “The Word,” if
you recall, is the “quickening Spirit.” Therefore, rebirth is not an emotional event
but cognitive.
Pilate asked Jesus
“What is truth?” Jesus revealed the Truth not by Word but deed. The crucifixion
divided (the letter shin) the Godhead into three parts. Pilate so the head of
the Godhead, Jesus, divided into the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Several saw
that miracle. The “Shadow” of Jesus moved independently of the object, proving
that Jesus had overcome the world, and modern science.
The repentant
thief, the centurion, Pilate, and his wife were persuaded to become Christians.
Jesus did not get into the genetics in their fleshes, but through their thick
skulls. Before, they had refused to believe, but as the centurion said, “Truly
this was the Son of God” (Mat 27:54); was and still is!
The genes of the
centurion were symbolically changed as he was baptized in both the water and
the blood of Jesus — the mem in the Messiah.
The centurion saw
the separation as the Holy Ghost left Jesus, then he was baptized, so to speak.
It was not the blood and water that changed him, but the Spirit of God got into
his mind. He concluded that Jesus was who he claimed to be — God in the flesh
of a man. Rebirth is you coming to believe that same thing, but first you must
conclude that God is now unseen but real, and that as God who made the whole
man, Adam, He can make you whole again and heal your deficient, and even
depraved nature.
The crucifixion
was having Church. The Holy Cross was the altar on which Yahweh made the
perfect, unblemished sacrifice of His own flesh. He gave up the “Bet” in the
alpeh-bet in a manner of speech, and the Holy Triad was torn asunder (the
aleph – bet – gimmel) to prove that He is God, Yod. Yes, the Hebrew aleph-bet’s
“ABC’s” represent the Holy Trinity, having a triad nature. “The Word” came apart
for a few days and then re-assembled again after the Truth was revealed — that
Jesus is not just a Son, but God (Yahweh) within Him.
The Church was all
the people who believed. Those who did not believe were not the Church, but the
crucifiers. Jesus welcomed them all, but of all who came, the first Christian
Church was the few people who believed that Jesus is God in the flesh. Note
that all were welcome guests, knowing not what they were doing (Luke 23:34) but
as such, did not know the Thoughts nor proof of Jesus, and were never part of
the Church.
So many even
today, go to church but going does not make the Church. They may go to the building
or even the congregation but not to the Presence of God in Jesus.
Note that Jesus
always existed (John 1:1-14). The problem was that sin blinded the two Adams to
Him. Before, they were naked, or innocent, and could see Jesus in bodily form. The
Books of Adam and Eve verify that. Jesus was not changed with sin; they
were. Jesus went a walking and all they could hear Him, Jesus remained unseen.
They were puzzled why they once could see Jesus but now could not. Their once
bright natures had been overshadowed by sin, and now it takes a bright nature
induced by Yahweh for them to see Yeshua in Yahweh. To be
truthful, the ”J” in Jesus conceals it because the “Y” or Yod reveals Yahweh.
If the crucifixion was having Church, where was the building? It was somewhat distant because the true “House of God” was built on the Cross (the body of Jesus) and the Cross was the foundation of Christianity. The Church was not built on Peter, but the True Stones of believers whose foundation was less obvious, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (! Cor 3:11). Paul explained that further:
Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy temple in the Lord” (Ephes 2:19-21)
The foundation was laid upon the prophets and even the apostles. However, Jesus
was always the Corner Stone. Jesus existed during Old Testament times before
the foundation of the world, “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Pet 1:20). Jesus
always existed, even before time ever began, and as Yahweh, all things were
built upon Him. He was the “Phantom” that crumbled to make Adam, and as new
creatures, Jesus crumbles for us. In a sense, the crucifixion was the crumbling
of Jesus into His three elements to show that He is Yahweh.
Note that the House of God — the True Church — is of unordinary materials.
People make the Church, and they must be measured from Christ the Corner Stone.
Cornerstones are how buildings are built; all things within a building are measured
to that One Stone that was laid first. If measured from stones in series,
errors result and things do not fit. All things are measured from Jesus. He is
the Way to a perfect Church building.
Jesus was laid first… in a tomb, and now, it is the turn of the so-called “lively
stones.” They must take up their crosses and follow Jesus (Mat 16:24), but our
crucifixion is easier and less painful. He has already suffered for us, so all
that remains is for our hearts, or inner natures, be crucified. Recalling
Romans 2:29 from earlier, “He is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart.”
The ”heart” is the nature of man. It is how we think, feel, evaluate, act,
and so forth. It is the animal nature within all natural born beings. King
David called that “iniquity” in which we were shaped (Psalm 51:5). We are all
born depraved like both the Beast and the beasts.
That inward person must be castrated to tame us. The scalpel is quick: It
is “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephes 6:17). Just as a
bull is relieved of its inclinations to make a steer, God expects Christians to
be docile “steers” with our old natures gone. Rather than our genetics
castrated, it is our minds, afterward follwing the Will of God just as steers
follow the will of their masters.
Is the nature of the Beast still in you? If so, then your mind has not been
properly castrated, and the Word was dull to you. You must sharpen the blade by
studying more deeply The Word because it is the figurative Presence of Jesus.
Like Jesus, it is always with us in our minds if we do not gloss over it in
vain.
All the so-called “Lively Stones” must fit to make a Church made up of various hewn stones. Of course, the stones of the Church are not hewn by human hands but are slowly and methodically crafted by The Word of Jesus trimming the rough edges.
On a personal note, my wife and I visited several times an independent church
denomination. Soon, without us even mentioning our beliefs, the preacher told a
friend there, “The Herrins don’t fit in here.” We never attended again. Indeed,
we “lively stones” failed to fit in. Soon, the preacher and the secretary fit
quite well, of you get the meaning. We certainly did not fit in!
Because even Christians are held accountable for lively sins, we did not
fit in. We believe that people who live in the flesh do not fit in with those
who fit the Spirit.
Of course, we two are imperfect stones in the True Church but The Word
swiftly and continually hews on us until we nearly fit the True Church, then He
fixes the misfit with His living mortar; Him rubbing in the “ointment” until we
fit perfectly by the time we die.
The Devil as such, throws sand in the “ointment” of God so that we do not
fit. The Devil takes lively stones and takes the life from them, thus making
the stones not fit for a living Church.
So, no, we do not fit it an apostate church, so we went to a right-doctrinal Church.
The True Church is genetic, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God” (Rom 8:14). “Sons,” it is repeated, are who that is in you
as Paul wrote about Jesus in, “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God” (Rom 3:25). Past sins are
not those that have been done, but sins that exist from the beginning of time.
In other words, sins in which all mankind are born, “For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
Everybody are born inglorious bastard sons of the Devil (John 8:44). “Sons”
indicate that sin is in the flesh of mankind. Likewise, “Son of God” indicates
that the soul, not the flesh, belong to God and a complete soul is filled with
the Spirit of God. “In Christ.” Is Christ in you, meaning that the Messiah is
in you. If you recall from earlier, that means that the ointment from the
Person of God has mellowed you and took the rebellion away. The “ointment” from
the Messiah is the mem (blood and water) dispersed at the crucifixion for the
healing of all the ethnicities, Jew and Gentile. Hence everybody are candidates
for the Church. However, “For many are called, but few are chosen” (Mat 22:14).
You may go the Church but few belong to it. Ask almost anyone, Are you a
Christian?” the answer is “I go to (whatever) church.” Going to church does not
make you a Christian anymore than going to a ball game gives you ability.
In a sense, when God calls, the Church comes to you, wherever you are.
Where you sit or stand at this moment is Church if God is Present with you.
Few understand how God can be wherever anyone might be. God has no vessel
that can contain Him. He is the Yod that is beyond all others in Power,
and His Power is the infinitely greater than the ox for which the letter aleph
stands.
The prefix “omni’ means “all” or “universally.” Hence, omnipresent
is always present everywhere. Human minds cannot comprehend that, but God is
always with you, as the name Immanuel indicates. Not only that but God is
omniscient — “all-knowing.” What about your thoughts? He knows what you are
thinking right now. You need to believe that for it is now the science of
quantum mechanics — called “universal
quantum entanglement.” God is omni-anything with everybody since the beginning
of time because mankind was made in His Image, and each of us are a “particle”
of God as implied by the words, “dominion” and “sons.”
Again, for emphasis it is repeated, God said, “Let us make man in our Image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion (crumble, thus mankind as
“particles of God”) 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). The word, “dominion” implies mankind as “sons
of God” and as such mankind were the particles of the Church and God the
Invisible House that is now called “Church.”
In other words, when God was creating, He was building His Church, not of
bricks or stones, but with “trees” for Jesus is the Tree of Life around which
the Church was built out in the open Garden before time, as “eastward” means.
The Garden of Eden remains hidden to this day. Why? because it lies in
another realm from which mankind was excused because of sin, to wit: So, God, “Drove
out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the Way of The Tree of Life” (Gen
3:24).
The Way is Jesus and His Way is the Church. The Church that God built still
exists but to see it requires special genes; indeed to see the Church you must
be born again (John 3:7).
What is coming short of the glory of God entail? Let’s turn to sacred literature at least for commentary:
Then
Adam cried and said, "O God, when we lived in the garden, and our hearts
were lifted up, we saw the angels that sang praises in heaven, but now we can't
see like we used to; no, when we entered the cave, all creation became hidden
from us."
Then
God the Lord said to Adam, "When you were under subjection to Me, you had
a bright nature within you, and for that reason could you see things far away.
But after your transgression your bright nature was withdrawn from you; and it
was not left to you to see things far away, but only near at hand; after the
ability of the flesh; for it is brutish."
When Adam and Eve had heard these words from God, they went their way; praising and worshipping Him with a sorrowful heart. And God ceased to commune with them. (1 A & E 8:1-4)
Glorification is with that bright nature, and with “bright eyes” the Voice
in the Garden of Eden could be seen as Jesus walking. The blind man had bright
eyes; as Jesus approached and touched him, the blind was healed and said, “I
see men as trees walking” (Mark 8:24) and then he could see Jesus clearly as he
was made whole.
“The Tree of Life” was Jesus walking in the Garden in the cool of the day, calling
on Adam and Eve, not to judge them but to provide grace because of their
grievous trespasses where they were told not to go. Jesus had Church with them wherever
they were because he adorned them with life again: “Unto Adam also and to his
wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21). The
Lord God literally covered all their persons with ‘or in the Hebrew (ayin-vav-resh).
‘Or means “shimmering,” often translated as “gold.” In other words, the “skin”
was the Light of God. Their new flesh from the Wicked One was enlightened by
the Lord God. In a sense, they wore the Holy Spirit of God over their sinful
flesh. The Garment of Adam was the “Comforter” who would abide with Adam and
his kind forever (John 14:6).
Before the two were cast out of “Church” to abide in the world, the Lord
God overshadowed them to keep them safe from any further wiles of the Devil. In
other words, wherever they went, they were in the Presence of God. Where was
the Church located? Anywhere Adam and Eve chose to go, the Lord God went with
them. This is the first case of the traveling universal Church.
Then Cain was born of the Wicked One, God called him but he did not come
(Gen 4:1). Therefore, Cain was cast out of the universal Church to the land of
Nod to wander all over the world. [5] Nod was merely wandering.
The sons of Cain still wander to this day, and hence the blood of Cain is in
everyone, and for natural born people, they too are of the Wicked One in the
manner of Cain (John 8:44). Indeed, the world raised Cain as the saying
goes.
The world is the location of the universal anti-Church, and its head is the
Antichrist. Do not expect many Christlike figures in the world church because of
the allure of fame and profit.
Churches (little “c”) are like money and come in denominations. Consider a
money for a moment. Wealth is measured in denominations: ones, tens, thousands,
millions, billions, etc. So do church denominations. So is the world church.
Each denomination has different values than the next. For so-called “Churches
of Christ” their value is in baptism with water.
For Regular Baptists it is much the same, but so is security without obedience
(Antinomianism).
For Catholics, their value in genetics; once born a Roman Catolic, always a
Roman Catholic.
For Episcopalians it is the strict government and its rituals. Hopefully,
you get the point that each denomination have their versions of the truth and
that includes then modern-day false “Church of Christ.”
“Catholic” is not a bad word. It strictly means “universal,” making it the
omni-Church with invisibility. “Catholic” should merely mean that God is with
you wherever you go. Now, it is a worldwide religion headed by the Romish Pope.
The Pope is “Papa” whose gens are Roman Catholics.
Jesus commanded, “Call no man your father upon the earth: for One is your
Father, which is in heaven” (Mat 23:9). To call anyone father other than your
parent implies that it is him that is God, the “Father.” Note that the Pope is
stationed in Rome whereas Father God is the universal One.
However, just as those who killed Jesus failed to know what they were
doing, so goes most denominations. Christians should never judge anyone; that
is for Jesus to do. The word “denominations” makes it clear that everybody
misunderstands doctrine in some manner, and even your denomination is no
different. I often disagree with the tenants my own denomination as well as
yours. We can judge which church is real, but the True Church are any person of
any church body that has been born again.
Roman Catholics thought they were the chosen and peculiar people as
discussed before, but some protested, and Protestantism was born. Then the
Protestants formed many denominations each one with their own version of the
Truth.
What is truth? That Jesus is who He claimed to be, Who would that be? God manifested
so we no longer need bright eyes because change means bright natures like
Christ’s.
The repentant thief was nailed to the cross. What did he do to be with
Jesus in Paradise as soon as that same day? (Luke 23:43). Believe that although
the Body of God was also nailed firmly, that “The Angel of God” — the “Holy
Ghost” would take him there immediately, for the day was coming to a
conclusion. The realm of heaven is not out there, but right here, remaining
unseen. (Michio Kaku, the astrophysicist just made that same conclusion). Paradise
is not a place and neither is Church. They both are where God is Present. Where
is that? Wherever you come to come to Him, He is there.
Then why go to a church building? Truly, you will not likely here the
truth, but a version or perversion of the truth. It should be your hope that the
truth will be found there, but usually it is dissension that you shall find.
Jesus gave a warning: “Think not that I AM come to send peace on Earth: I came
not to send peace, but a sword” (Mat 10:34). Religion divides churches and
causes dissension. After the Church was created, the first thing that happened
was dissension between Paul and Barnabas. Paul went universal, and Barnabas
protested; and so it goes.
Dissension implies disagreement among at least two parties, and so it was
with Paul and Barnabas; the Church was split, then along came Simon Magus who
seems to have been Paul’s thorn in the flesh; the messenger of Satan to buffet him
(2 Cor 12:7). Soon after Jesus was raised from the dead, Simon impersonated Him,
and Simon became the Messiah of many. Christianity had split in two: the Church
and the Antichurch (Gnosticism) divided about equally.
Remember the Church in the Garden of Eden? There were two: one was based on
The Tree of Life and the other The Tree of Knowledge. Gnosticism (bearing secret
knowledge) was revived when Jesus just disappeared from the face of the Earth;
then Simon came to Israel and beyond, claiming to be the Christ.
So, you think the false church is dead? I seemed to lie dormant for generations,
but it always exited alongside the True Church.
Gnosticism still lives in science. Science is the whole body of knowledge
of both good and evil; however science ignores that there is an immeasurable,
unseen world out there that can be seen by those with enlightened bright
natures.
As the dark ages ended, philosophers created their own light with “The Age of Reason” and “The Enlightenment” wherein science lives but God was said to be “dead:”
The first instance of this
statement in Nietzsche's writings is in his 1882 The Gay
Science, where it appears three times. The phrase also appears at the beginning of Nietzsche's
Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
No longer did enlightenment mean “born again” but reason, and soon “The God of Reason” (Libertas)
became the goddess. In other words, Gnosticism remains alive and well to this
day and our own reasoning is the omni potency of everyone.
The modern
church is imbued with Gnosticism with many “Christians” sure that God enver existed
and no thing was ever created. Indeed, the modern church is “The Synagogue of
Satan” like the church in Smyrna (Rev 2:9), whose destiny is given, “The Devil
shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have
tribulation ten days: be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of
life” (Rev 2:10).
Smyrna was one of
the seven false churches of apostolic times. There some would make it to Heaven
providing that they remain faithful until the end. To test their faithfulness, some
will suffer tribulation. Those who endure to the end will receive crowns of
life, as if a baby crowning from the womb. The people of Smyrna were not only
Jews but multiple ethnicities, including Greeks. Everyone is welcome in the True Church and to receive
their crown of life. All will be tested and some will abandon God. So, the True
Church are those who will be crowned at the end of life, and the remainder are
mere interlopers (illegals).
The True Church is for the faithful alone, but their
faith will be tested for the their entire lives. So, expect to see within the
True Church posers. In other words, it is a Synagogue of Satan because followers
of Satan invade the True Church just as Lucifer did in the beginning in the
Garden of Eden. Note that Satan can be in the Church but he does not fit the
part of the lively stone. Satan does not fit in, yet he is still there, not as
a member of the Church, but as a destroyer.
Satan has always sought to diminish God. Knowing that God
cannot be killed, the next best thing is to make the “bricks” fall down (Isa
9:10), and Christians are the lively stones that must fall. Satan goes to
Church because he believes in God. So do many people. However, does Satan trust
God? No; he undermines the Lord God. The same goes for the True Church; Satan
can sneak in because of his cunning (Gen 3:1) and nobody is the wiser.
Satan’s demons may not be in the false church because
those churches already belong to him. The demons seem to visit the True Church
and if you don’t feel under attack, then perhaps your devotion to Christ may be
in question. Conviction (of sin) is only a tool of Satan for God’s purposes.
Conviction has two possible outcomes: admission or denial. God wants confession
and Satan denial, and Satan uses human reasoning for those who sin to fail.
When you know that you are wrong and still sin, that is rejection of the wisdom
of God. God agonizes for you as Satan smiles.
Never think because you are part of the True Church that
you are entirely safe. Indeed you will suffer tribulation as John revealed to
the Church at Smyrna.
With that said, some in the Church may have it wrong, thinking
that True Christians will be snatched away before they receive the crown of
life. That pacifies the Christians, even those who feel comfortable sinning with
impunity. You will be tested and of you are not, then question your faithfulness.
The Church is therefore not truly a sanctuary like the Garden
Paradise of Eden, but a place of testing in the manner of glorious Adam and his
woman.
The grace of God is although knowing you will fail,
albeit you endeavor to do His divine Will just as with Adam and Eve who quickly
realized their transgressions and were ashamed (Gen 2:25). Satan — the Serpent
— tested the two but God convicted them with guilt. By grace, you can sin and
still squeak in but never receive the royal crown of the priesthood (1 Pet 2:9).
Surely the Church has many that may squeak in but will
trip many times before the end. Those going to “Church” in Paradise are judged where
they are with God at the last breath. It is not what you once were but where
you are now. Paul wrote about now is the time of salvation; for nobody
to put it off, “knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of
sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom
13:11). Salvation gets nearer every day until there are no more days — at the
end of life.
No. Church people are not “saved.” Indeed, they will face
tribulation, and some will fall away (Heb 6:6). However, we are preserved so
long as the Garment of Adam’s kind is worn as a shield against the fiery darts
of the wicked (Ephes 6:16).
Sinners are called to the True Church; whether they fit in or not is for Jesus to judge. Yes, Christians must fit in! Those who do the will of Satan will not fit in with those who do the Will of God, and neither should those who are Christians fit in with those of the Synagogue of Satan. People tend to go where they fit in, just be sure you are fitting into the right church.
Church is not a formal event; it does not take a village, instruments, a preacher, a stage nor even a pulpit. Those things are church staged. Too many churches are staged nowadays just to call people to God. In other words, it is not God calling but things a calling.
Jesus said, “If two of you shall agree on Earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven for where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Mat 18:19-20)
“Gathered together” in that passage is “synago” in the Greek. Church
is a synagogue of God and the false church, the “Synagogue of Satan.” Great
care must be taken with whom one is gathered together.
Synagogues did not exist during Old Testament times. The closest reference
was “place of assembly” (Psalm 74:8). A place of assembly is not the Church per
se but where the Hebrews gathered. The word, “synagogue” is concurrent with the
word, “church” first mentioned by Jesus, when He said, “That you are Peter, and
upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it” (Mat 16:18).
First off, the True Church is eternal, so it exists in eternity. The Church
can be found in eternity (The Book of Revelation) as seven churches of
Asia in seven different places. At the end of time, there are seven church “denominations,”
each one worse than the other. The True Church in the end, will have evolved
toward sin, or devolved.
The sequence of the cities are clockwise in Revelation and on the
map they make a rough circle.
Figure 1;Seven Churches of Asia (edited; Wikipedia)
True, God’s “Clock” of church times are not a perfect circle but so chaos
goes. With that said, it does seem that the seven churches of Asia represent
church ages in order beginning with the church at Ephesus. Note from Revelation
that none of the seven churches were perfect, but each church had a doctrine
contrary to The Word of God.
Those seven churches could also be the composite of the degeneration of the
One True Church. In other words, as the world degenerates, so will the True
Church, so beware of the Church because evil will infiltrate it as it did in
the beginning.
So, what is Church” When even a few are gathered in Jesus’s Name, there He will be. Of course, “Jesus” is the English version of His Name. Whether that will do or not is not what is said, but what is thought. The Name is “Yeshua” and none other. It is the shortened form of the word, Yehoshua (aka “Joshua” in the English). The letters are of extreme importance, using the shortened version:
His Name is Yod – shin – vav – ayin. The letter vav, or
waw, is just a sound within the core letters. Trilateral consonants point
toward the godhead (Trinitarian), especially since the letter shin is
overtly three branches from one head. The Yod (sound of Ya) points
toward the Most High God as primary, or proto. The ayin, characterized
by the eye may symbolize hidden knowledge — The Mystery of God.
If the eye in ayin reveals something hidden, it is that God (Yod
or Ya) was made manifest in Jesus. Jesus is Yahweh revealed to
mankind. To reinforce that contention, the vav is characterized by a
tent peg. Vav is used as both a sound and a connection. The Name, Yeshua,
connects the Yahweh of the Old Testament to the manifestation of the
Holy Godhead in the New Testament. The Name, Yeshua, specified the One
True God in bodily form (Luke 3:22). Furthermore, the letter vav points
toward a man, and in this case the Messiah. The shin in “Messiah”
confirms that.
The Name “Jesus” (Yeshua) has very deep meaning — Jesus said about
Himself, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father,
but by Me” (John 14:6).
Recall the expulsion from the Garden of Eden? “He (Yahweh) drove out
the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the Way of The Tree of Life”
(Gen 3:24).
The Tree of Life was in the midst of the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:9). The Tree
of Life literally represents a firm thing. The Garden was a gathering of
firm things in a paradisical environment. It was a glorious Garden undisturbed
by weeds, thorns, pain, diseases and such, or even sexual activity (Gen 3). The
Serpent disturbed things and the Garden would no longer be paradisical until
the tares were removed. Adam and Eve were the “tares.” They were removed from
the Presence of “The Holy Thing,” Jesus (Luke 1:35).
Remembering that Church is where two or three are gathered, then the
midst of the Garden was Church.
“The Synagogue of Satan,” therefore, would have been the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve failed to detect the difference, so they erred
greatly.
Lucifer presented “himself” as a bright angel, but inwardly, “it” was a
beast of some sort; and “Serpent” fits as well as any; whereas the Image of God
was phantomlike (selem in the Hebrew), the image of Lucifer was as a cunning
nature (nahas) — The Beast.
Look what happened. God appeared as a “Firm Thing,” not specifically a tree.
The Holy Firm Image of God (selem; the non-firm Thing) is Jesus. Jesus
was there in the Garden just as John revealed (John 1:1-14). In fact, Jesus is
the Proto-Firm Thing, as He was revealed first (more on that later).
That Jesus is the letter Bet to Yahweh’s aleph, since bet
means “house,” then Jesus was the “House of God.” Much later that deduction was
revealed when Jesus confirmed it by saying this about Himself:
Jesus answered and said unto them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up.” Then said the Jews, “Forty and six years was this temple
in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?” But he spoke of the
temple of his body. (John
2:19-21)
The Jews were concerned with God’s House. As it turned out the Temple was
believed to be the House of God. However, Jesus clarified that by saying that
His body was the House of God.
Now wonder, God had told King David that He would not need a house,
referring to Solomon’s Temple. Jesus is the “House of God” and the True Church
of Christians. Christians gather
together in Christ. Now you have some idea what the term “in Christ” means!
With that said, Jesus was in the midst of the Garden where two other firm
things were to gather. The only three beings were to have Church, but Lucifer dissuaded
Church from happening; his was the false church which Adam and his wife
attended to. Not only was the Church formed before time, but Lucifer formed the
false church in its stead. Both still exist to this day. (I imagine them the following way):
Figure 2: Trees of the Garden (Co-Pilot)
If that picture had been in a plan view, there would be two trees casting
great shadows from their canopies. The Garden of firm things, herein
represented by trees moving, would be representative of the One True Church and
the false church — The Synagogue of Satan — as “Satan” is Lucifer. The Adamic
kind chose the false church with Satan cleverly hid in it in the angelic light
of Lucifer. What is the M.O. of Lucifer? To impersonate “The Most High” (Isa
14:14). The Most High is the letter Yod, or Yahweh.
There would be nothing different between the two trees except color. (I
have chosen green for life in one Tree and red for rage and death in the tree
of death.)
Note that I asked Mr. AI to reveal the shadows of the trees. The shadows
represent the invisible aspects of the man, woman, and God; as well as Lucifer.
The shadows of the former was their glory, but the shadow of the latter were non-glory,
falling far short of the Glory of God!
The “shadows” were made in phase one of the Creation, and the firmness in
phase two. The Living Water of Yahweh was put into vessels for
preservation. Satan mimicked that; his vessel was in a bright and shiny personage
(Lucifer) to hide the ugliness of the shadow of the Wicked One.
As a Firm Thing of God, the Tree of Life surely represents the Body of God,
or Jesus. Jesus is the Holy Firm Thing of God. As such, the forbidden tree
surely represents the unholy firm thing of Lucifer — the Anti-Church with the
Antichrist within it.
Just as the Church is two or three things gathered, or so it should have
been in the Garden. However, a God-Impersonator — a trans-being — intervened.
There were three things: (1) The male Adam, (2) the female Adam, and (3) the Person
of God that should have had Church, but rather, they went to the Synagogue of
Satan to learn and participate in beastly ways.
God had told them to “multiply” (Gen 1:22) but they were deceived.
CREATING THE GARDEN
The Garden of God is not just a small garden but the cosmos; what is called
the “universe.” Since the word “catholic” means universal, or all inclusive.
The Garden of God included everybody and with the animal kingdom was all-inclusive.
The point is that the Graden of Eden was not just a local “Church” but the world-wide
Church, so if there is a population beyond this one, they would be welcome
given the terms of the Garden.
The word Eden means delightful and is spelled ayin – dahlet – nun. In this case the ayin means revealed, dahlet
a passageway or portal, and nun seed of all sorts. God would have
made things from beyond this world, and the seed would have been to grow firm
things. In other words, the catholic Church is the Garden of Ede; albeit the
Roman and Orthodox Catholic Churches are places of worship in the West and East,
respectively, As such, neither should be considered the True Catholic Church.
The Garden of Eden would have no boundaries. As usual, the cosmos is
people-centered and wherever people are the universe is the celestial locus
through which the celestial axis runs. Since planet Earth is the only known
population, the centroid of this planet is the center of the universe.
The first people did not evolve from particles all over but a certain
place. The imaginary human, Lucy, may have been from Africa but although an anthropoid,
she was not human. Some report that her missing genes were replaced with human
genes to make her seem more human.
Eve was not from the wilds of Africa nor somewhere beyond this planet. Eve was first in the Mind of God, to wit:
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)
Note that God blessed us. Who did God bless? Paul was speaking to
the people of Ephesus — the Church at Ephesus without regard to spirituality.
All mankind were blessed — the “us.”
What is blessed? Barak in the Hebrew. He would “break down”
If you remember from earlier in this book, God providing “dominion” to
mankind over the other kinds means “crumbled.” Us — mankind — were blessed and
our image was a particle from the Image of God — a seed of God. Blessed is God
making the seed of man of His essence before the foundation of the world.
Humans were planned and part of the plan all along was to provide a place
for them to grow. The Garden was a garden in the sense that God planted particles
of Himself with life within each seed.
Now let’s talk about the Seed of God. “God is Light and in Him is no
darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). The first Light was from God. The first “saying,”
or Word of God, was, “ Let there be light: and there was light” (Gen 1:3). The
Word — Jesus — said that (John 1:1-14). Jesus always existed, and John confirmed
that. Jesus is not another being and neither a created being. Jesus, as His
Name means, is “God Revealed.” He first revealed Himself as Light then the :Firm
Thing” along with the firmament (Gen 1:6-8).
The foundation of the world was very catholic in nature. The firmament was
the “foundation of the world” to include heaven and earth. Together, they are
the foundation of the world, and that was when God would have concepted His
creatures, just as scripture says.
For all intents and purposes, God was creating a commune, according to Paul’s
letter to the Ephesians.
Have you ever wondered why God created mankind? Jesus explained it well enough to satisfy some lawyer:
When the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they
were gathered together; then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a
question, tempting Him, and saying, “Master, which is the great commandment in
the law?”
Jesus said unto him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it, you shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Mat 22:34-40)
Again, that refers not to just a select few but to all of us. God
was creating a commune with Himself at the Head. He was creating a Commune, or
Church for all His kind. Mankind was His kind since they were of God.
Only mankind had an affinity for God because our forebears were partly god.
Sin was when the so-called Serpent shared its image (nahas) and mankind
became partly Lucifer as well.
The Serpent was not outwardly a snake but was one within, and because the
Devil is the Father of all at birth, Lucifer is in all mankind when born. To correct
that genetic deficiency “Marvel not; you must be born again” or re-engendered
by God, accomplished by being reseeded to renew the Garden of God.
Rebirth is not regeneration but a reseeding of the Garden of God. It is renewing the Church on new ground. The “harvest” of the crop is when Jesus comes again to gather together (“synagogue”) to take them to “Church.” To be in the Presence of Yahweh.
The harvest will be a beautiful thing to some, and not to others as the weeds and defective crop will be left behind:
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 dead are the seeds as in cloning potatoes. This time it is cloning by
God. He again will disperse His Divine Seed and plant the Garden where it was
before — in heaven. Now the Garden of God has been renamed. It is Paradise, and
neither does it have walls or bounds; it just is!
The Garden of God still exists in another realm just waiting to be
replanted. “Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right
to The Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city” (Rev
22:14).
At the end of the day, no longer is the Garden a bunch of trees and such
but a great city.
John’s vision was Adam’s vision as he left the Garden. “He (God) placed at
the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep The Way of The Tree of Life” (Gen 3:24).
The Way seems to have a “gate” as a comparison between Genesis and Revelation
reveals.
Again, God said “blessed;” He would use His Divine Seed again for them to
grow in the City of God. Again, we must be born again to enter the gates of
that great city.
John saw a gate on the way into the city in Paradise — New Jerusalem (Rev
21:2).
Jerusalem is the possession of God and the foundation of peace, New
Jerusalem will be the foundation renewed — urban renewal from a dead old Garden.
Jerusalem, not Babylon, is the material foundation of the Garden of Eden. The Garden
(Hebrew gan) is spelled gimmel – closed nun. Gimmel implies
the Holy Spirit of God and nun the Divine Seed of God. The Garden of Eden was “eastward,’
meaning that it was concepted and planted before time ever began. Mankind was
the primary “plant” in the Garden of God with only man endowed (blessed) with
the Seed of God.
Mankind were plants in the Garden of God:
There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground, and 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; and the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. (Gen 2:6-8)
“Trees” as firm things included mankind as trees walking. The animal
kingdom were plants in the Garden of God and they were to multiply and grow.
God planted man lastly in His Garden. Gan indicates that the Seed of original
man was God, and man was to be like God; as God is glorious, so man was to be
glorious, and he was for a while for they were naked and not ashamed (Gen
2:25). They were not without clothing per se but their inward parts were
transparent. They were without shame in their inward parts. With transparent flesh,
sin would not be concealed.
Now back to the idea of a gate. A gate at the entrance implies a wall elsewhere.
There was a wall around the vast Garden but it was not material. The wall
was the Law. Adam’s kind would be safe so long as they did not trespass onto
God’s Real Estate.
God put a boundary around the Garden, to wit:
The Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it, and the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the Garden you may freely eat, but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof you shalt die, die, die.” (Gen 2:15-17)
“Surely die” is literally “die, die, die. Not only the flesh, but the soul,
and communion with God. The Image of God would be removed. With sin came death,
death, death. It was not all immediate but sometime in the future. At least
while in the Garden, they were safe because there was sort of an “electric
fence” around the Garden. The electricity was the unseen but real Power of God (“El”
in the Hebrew; El Shadday.)
The command was the dynamic just as dogs were electrified collars to keep
them from going where they should not go. The “fence” was the Law, and for the
Law to be valid, the Authority must be honored. Eating of the forbidden tree breached
both the Law and the hedge of safety about Adam’s kind.
Eating of the trees were with whom there would be communion, considering
that the Garden was God having Church. Whereas, modern churches have walls to
keep interlopers out and people safe until the hour is up, the Garden Church
had walls of respect.
The True Church does not capture and contain the people within it but provides a sense of joy as people feel comfortable that God is there, providing safety for them. The walls of the True Church are based on the honor system:
The Lord has avouched you this day to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments, and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that you may be an holy people unto the Lord your God, as He has spoken. (Deut 26:18-19)
As God said in that passage, His peculiar people, whether Jew or Gentile as
it turned out, has claimed you as His providing His commandments are kept out
of honor for Him.
Note that commandment-keeping makes a prison, but honoring the Proprietor means
wisdom and freedom. The Jews always saw the Law as a virtual prison whereas
Christians should see them as a way to gain freedom… “You shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). The truth is that there is no
real wall around either the Garden or the Church. What Satan saw as a hedge, perhaps
of thorns, around Job was no more than many crosses for Job to bear.
Satan asked of God about the faith of Job, “Have you not made an hedge
about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side?” (Job
1:10).
Satan saw a hedge that could not be crossed. God has rebirthed Job and his “house.”
The use of the “House of Job,” is not a house of walls but a genetic house like
the royals have. Satan was inferring that Job was born again and that the
Jobian Covenant included all his progeny. Strangely, Satan was correct; there
was not bars or barbs around Job, but God had adopted him into His family. The “hedge”
was both divine and could be passed down. Job was to multiply what God had
seeded in him.
Hence, the Garden wall was virtual and of the Power of God, and so it is
the Church. Church is made of people who God calls and those who stay when God
calls. Those Church bells are not metal a ringing, but God beaconing. Nobody
should force adult people to go to Church or make Church a prison-like
atmosphere. Worship should always be free, and all should be able to bless Jesus
with te4stimonies and prayer. Too many rules and such do a prison make, and by
now rituals make church into prisons wherein the “warden” must be obeyed. Even
Christians have become prisoners in their own church denominations, exercising
exactly as the elders demand and the minister desires. Ask, yourselves, “Are
you really free to glorify God, or are you a slave to ritual?”
Enough now about the Garden of Eden, but let’s summarize:
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It is God’s Real Estate, and we are a “squatters” who should honor Him.
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Going where we should not go on God’s Estate is trespassing, or sinning.
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The Garden is not only here, but in another realm where it still exists and
is a sanctuary from the world until some from the world go there.
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There is a fence around the Garden of God because there is a gate.
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The “fence” is made of rules and regulations.It cannot be climbed by
anybody and there is one way to enter of leave.
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That the fence is like a hedge means it is not firm but some will try to
enter in the hard way. They have no right to go there by their own works to
pass through.
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The fence is not to keep anyone out but to keep them safe within.
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To be safe, the people must want in. God does not coerce.
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It is a Garden because God planted it to grow firm things from His own Seed.
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The Garden is not only trees but all firm things.
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The firm things from the Seed of God are the most glorious.
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The Tree of Life is the source of life to have and to keep it. The produce
of it is free because of the grace of God.
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All must go through the gate to live forever. It is guarded by heavenly,
unseen creatures to keep the unworthy out.
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The Name of God (Jesus) is the Way to life, and only by that Name can
anyone pass through.
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Hence, Jesus is the “door” or portal, to eternal life. Although all are
welcome to enter, nobody else can operate the door and are unwarranted unless
they hear Jesus knocking.
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The Garden of God albeit it remains unseen is Real Estate that will be
probated only to the sons of God — those with a particle of God’s Image within
them.
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As a particle, it is easy to pass through the hedge but fully grown Christians
must pass through the Gate. As such children can easily get into the Garden, but
adults must do so by the Name of Jesus.
Hopefully you get the point that the Garden of God is invisible, universal, and with walls that can not be passed through by our own efforts.
The Garden of Eden is a “picture” of the True Church, and even the Proto-Church
that God deigned. The Church is a far cry from what God intended, but so were
the seven churches of Asia. The ultimate Church exists only in Paradise, and
when Jesus comes to reign here, the True Church, New Jerusalem, will follow Him
(Rev 21:1). New Jerusalem is the restored foundation of peace, or the peaceful
Church in the Presence of God by then here on Earth.
The Church will return to its foundation — its firm place now called “Earth”
rather than “Eden.” The Presence of God will be again in the midst of His Garden
(Jerusalem) with one thing missing: The Satanic Tree.
Garden wall the Law; the Gate grace
The Law of safety; the gate for salvation.
Then the same for the Churced (Job’s hedge) Adam’s apron.Yeshua
Multiply
Alpha and Omega
Tabernacle Worship
[1]
My own belief is that the science seeing God in the Creation (Rom 1:20) “For
the invisible things of Him (God) from the Creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal Power and
Godhead; so that they are without excuse…”
[2] I personally believe that
the Voice had glorious flesh that could not be seen because sin caused Adam and
Eve become dull to things outside their realm because of sin; i.e., they had
lost their glorious nature.
[3] Most likely it was a fig
tree because they had been standing under a fig tree. If so, the fig tree may
represent the false church and why Jesus withered the fig tree during His
ministry. The Books of Adam and Eve also imply that the forbidden tree was a
fig.
[4]
For more on that, see my book, The Skull of Adam.
[5]
To discover the land of Nod, refer to my book, Jots and Tittles.
