NAKEDNESS

 

This commentary provides much esoteric, or hidden  knowledge, and is important for us to humble ourselves for God to lift us up. Now consider a show that I am ashamed that I watched.

In the sitcom “Seinfeld” (Season 9; episode 9) called “The Apology,” Jerry dated a woman who was comfortable being naked. It disgusted him to see a grown woman sitting casually on the sofa doing nothing but being naked.

Unlike most men, Seinfeld found that disgusting. His male friends did not understand, so he described “good naked” and “bad naked.” Unknown to Jerry, he was describing a biblical concept from the passages which follow:

 

·         “The man and his wife “were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Gen 2:24) ostensibly in the Presence of God.

·         After eating of the “Wisdom Tree, “The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons, and they 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 amongst the trees of the Garden.” (Gen 3:7:8)

 

Before sin, the two would have been glorious and full of glory; כָּבוֹד Kabowd. Within them would have been the “Image” of God, Tselem (צֶלֶם), that provided the Glory of God (Elohim) to them. The essence of the Presence of God would be Kabowd in the form of Tselem.

Now to analyze Kabowd first:

 

·         Qof means in a hidden dimension.

·         Bet symbolizes emergence from hidden probabilities.

·         Vav means bound in both heaven and earth.

·         Dalet indicates entry into what we call the world.

 

In summary, the state of Adam was like one emerging from a non-material world into a material one. The “hidden probabilities,” is perhaps Calvin’s doctrine of “election” for only Adam’s kind would have emerged from the heavens unto the world with God, Elohim, in him.

Now you might see that scripture begins to make sense. Adam was before space/time and matter and of Elohim; and after entry into it, Tselem — the very Image of Elohim in bodily shape as with Jesus (Luke 3:22). That Image would have been “full of glory” of which the apostle Paul wrote to Peter in the case of Jesus by then gone:

 

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ; whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. (1 Pet 1:7-8)

 

Paul compared to the fullness of glory to the human soul (1 Pet 7:9), “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9).

Jesus was the Glory of God in the shape of a man and as such “the last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45), “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.”

Therefore, Yeshua (the last Adam) was the Spirit in the first Adam that was a living soul. Like Jesus, Adam would have had Elohim in his person from the bodily Presence of God (Yeshua).  John described the creation of Adam eloquently:

 

In the beginning was the Word (Jesus to be made flesh), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in the beginning with God.

All things (like Adam) were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made, in Him was life; and the life was the Light of men. (John 1:1-3)

 

The substance of God in Adam was His Light as God said it, “Let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give Light upon the earth: and it was so” (Gen 1:15). The lights of heaven (Gen 1:6) would cross the firmament between heaven and earth, and would be the lights of men, most assuredly the immortal souls prepared for only Adam’s kind.

Just as “stars” in Revelation reveal angels, the lights of heaven would surely reveal primordial souls of men.

That action was God’s selection, or “election” as translators called it; “(God) has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephes 1:4).

Adam would have been created from the very Light of God. As such, the soul of Adam (Tselem) would be Adam as a “shadow” or “phantom” of God (Strong 2006). God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Hence, even the shadow of God — the “living soul” of the man, Adam, would have been full of Light as John wrote (John 1:3). [1]

The Light of God within the living soul of the man, Adam, would have been the Glory of God — the Presence of the Light of God within the soul of Adam.

Christians must do the math, so to speak. Since Paul was writing about selection before the foundation of the world, the readers must visit The Book of Genesis to find out how so, when, and why.

John even added where to find that (John 1). Genesis was the beginning of things just as John and Paul revealed. God would not have been a “Particular Baptist” but would baptize all (General Baptists) of Adam’s kind as His people.

Paul wrote:

 

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephes 5:4-6)

 

Adam was baptized by the Elohim of God and was raised from the waters as a living soul. Baptism of the Spirit (The living waters of God — HaShamayim). The baptism of Jesus was in the same manner as Adam was baptized:

The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You, I AM well pleased. (Luke 3:22) 

 

Adam was also baptized by the Spirit of God in bodily shape when he was made alive.

God provided for Adam a living soul, then put his soul into a material vessel.

For Jesus, it was somewhat different; God Elohim always existed and onto Himself in the womb of Mary, He added the flesh like a sinful man to become sin for us (2 Cor 5:21). As such, Jesus required baptism first to cleanse the disgust from His flesh in preparation for God Elohim to enter His Vessel.

Now imagine the Spirit of God (Elohim) in bodily shape (Eloha) entering the man, Adam. Jesus always existed but not in the flesh of a Beast like us. He was glorified (John 7:39) when He received new flesh much different than before the crucifixion.

So, what does all this have to do with “good naked” and “bad naked?”

Tselem was the Image of God and the substance kawbod.

However, the next act of God was a covering for the soul of man. Before that, the substance of Adam would have been the Elohim “Spirit” of God in the shape of a man without a covering. Then “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). God then made a vessel and put the Spirit in the shape of a man into the man, Adam.

Adam would have therefore pre-existed as a Spirit-shaped man. In the creation process, that Spirit, shaped like Adam, would have received a covering. Translated “dust” let’s examine the substance. Dust would be the earth, ‘eres in the Hebrew, but Adam was formed from the dust (‘apar) of the ground (adama).

His covering would have been a particle (‘apar) of adama. So, what is the substance adama?

 

Adam is the root word (אֲדָמָה) of “the ground,” thus a material in substance. Let’s examine that material:

 

אֲ represents the Power of God (El) as Light.

דָ symbolizes the Way or process to become matter.

מָ represents the Living Waters, or Holy Spirit Elohim.

ה is symbolized by a man-like figure beholding, or praising, God.

 

Adama would have been Spirit from God in the shape of a man. It would not necessarily have been ground or even clay.

The vessel for the Spirit of God in Adam would have been some divine covering, that Adam was naked and not ashamed tells us much.

Divinely “naked” is symbolized by the Hebrew word ‘arom (עָרוֹם). Without going into all the symbolism, I visulaized naked and not ashamed, as “transparent,” and AI CoPilot^® deduced the same thing.

That situation, with adama as the covering of Adam, makes sense since it would cover the Glory of God in the man-like Spirit.

As a covering, adama can either be full of something, or even empty. Adamic man was surely full of the Spirit of God and was not ashamed. Since Glory is the Goodness of God, adama would have been “good naked” as Seinfeld called it.

Adam was not ashamed because he would have been transparent and the Glory of God revealed within him.

Now for “bad naked” (‘erom; עֵירֹם compared to ‘arom (עָרוֹם). They are both modes of nakedness because they share three letters עָרם. The difference is between the letters yod (י) and vav (וֹ).

The letter vav represents, among other things, the Messiah. That agrees with the relationship between the first Adam and the last Adam of which Paul wrote (from earlier). That would be “good naked.”

Bad naked is not all bad but with the letter yod (י) alone, it is God Ya (the sound of His Voice). Bad naked would be without the quickening Spirit of the last Adam, but only the potentiality of Father God, Ya.

Just as with Seinfeld’s concept of bad naked, Adam had new flesh from the old creature making God within himself hidden… and he was indeed ashamed.

After sin, God Ya would have been hidden by flesh that was acquired from some beast — perhaps an organic covering, containing chromosomes from some beast of the field.

Among the beasts of the field that are listed are the “creeping things” — lower states of men as the Hebrew word Remes indicates (Gen 1:26). (See my book, The Creeping Things of the Bible for more.)

Bad naked, to be ashamed of it, would be God hidden from view with organic flesh as a covering. Therefore, the flesh has become the idols of what was once Adam’s kind but are now Enosh kind — common mortal men.

Cain was the first of that kind, “Ish” as the genetics of Isha (the woman). Before, God had been the Creator “Husbandman,” but after sin, the woman would have become the “husbandman” with her as the creator (Gen 4:1), or as John wrote the words of Jesus, “For all that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world (1 John 2:16).

Of what flesh was Adam ashamed? That with sin, and the flesh of the old creature covering his divine body, Yahweh would have been hidden from sight.

Adam was not totally depraved but ashamed of his flesh.

God remedied that by the grace with which he covered the beastly flesh of Adam and his mate: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them” (Gen 3:21).

God would have covered bad naked but good naked was also still covered. By grace, we must be born again and engendered with a new Spirit (Elohim) of El of which we are never to be ashamed, as it is written, “For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of man (Jesus) be ashamed, when He shall come in His own Glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels” (Luke 9:26).

Jesus — God in the flesh — upon death and resurrection was glorified (John 7:39). As “bad naked” creatures, we would be ashamed of a soul covered by the flesh of a beast, but with a particle (Eloha) of God Elohim within us, we should not be ashamed for that one particle (Eloha) of the blood of Jesus would cover the shameful naked flesh of His new creatures. That is the meaning of “born again” (John 3:7).

Somehow God shielded Adam and Eve’s corrupted flesh with grace that He provided out of mercy, for in the beginning, they had been His Creatures.

Satan to Job called that shield a “hedge” and surely it was the Garment of Adam that covered Job, and later even John the Baptist, who wore a coat of camel’s skin. (More about that in a future commentary.)

Seinfeld… there does exist both good naked and bad naked. Whereas, good naked is transparency of some sort for God to be seen within, perhaps the very YY-chromosomes of God; bad naked means “exposed” to the sin within mankind, not even covered with the flesh of beasts (John 8:44). Grace covers all sin and it is a from God for us to not be ashamed of Him in our souls, for those who belong to Him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Modern quantum mechanics have now found that light is even in the darkness of the vacuum of space, thus verify God’s Words.

THE LAST WORD

 After reviewing your comments over the years, I want to admit something; I AM NOT the final WORD; Jesus is. I have ideas which I get from scripture, but according to scripture, we are to test all things and hold onto what is good.

Often times, after writing,  I am corrected by more study of the Bible. That is why we have scripture: 

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16)

Please, if you disagree with my assessment, kindly let me know for I do change my way of thinking, given more evidence. Keep in mind though that we may read the same words but understand them differently.

I AM is God; I AM not nor do I claim to be.  Likewise, neither are you God. Humble yourselves and when I make errors in understanding, I am indeed humbled.  

I try to never let my denomination govern my own understanding or doctrine because denominations of which all churches are, are such because they disagree. 

Generally, I try to ignore differences and focus on Jesus with Him crucified and resurrected. I do have opinions on about all issues, as you do as well, but none of us have absolute truth.

My hope is that God pardons what I fail to understand and blesses me with what I do understand.

My hope is that you will react the same way.

Larry

EATING OF CHRIST AND SHARING HIM

 EVAGELISM:

The apostles saw the hungry multitude and wondered how they could all be fed, so their idea was to dismiss all the others and for them alone to dine with Jesus.

Jesus would be their teacher; He would show them divine mathematics.

Remember in the beginning, God had said to Adam and his woman, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Gen 1:28). Well, He was about to show the apostles multiplication as He dispensed and multiplied with fruits of the earth.

 

(Jesus) took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them , and brake, and gave to the disciples (5000; verse 14) to set before the multitude, and they did eat, and were all filled and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets. (Luke 9:16-17)

 

Jesus revealed to the masses that He was God for He took smaller amounts of things and made more things of the same substances.

In science, making articles from particles is called quantum “matter creation” and of course the quantum came from the Power of God in Yeshua (ישוע).  Technically Yeshua is not only “Jesus” in the English (“Ya saves”) but the letters themselves have intrinsic value:

 

·         י the first spark of measurable reality like a capacitor or a jump start.

·         ש synthesis.

·         ו quantum entanglement of in theology, binding forces.

·         ע observable reality.

 

Those four Hebrew letters not only describe the Person of God but the increase in bread and fish. Jesus was revealing the Power of God in Himself. He increased bread and fish from His self-contained Power “El Shaday” just as in the beginning.

Throughout the entire Old Testament the M.O. of God was to increase in numbers; as an example God said:

 

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. (Deut 30:16)

 

For instance, God took Adam and increased his numbers, God graced Noah with great numbers, God increased Jacob called “Israel” and increased his numbers, and so it goes with Jesus and The Great Commission:

 

Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth; go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…” (Mat 28:18-19)

 

What Jesus did not say:

 

1.      I am powerless.

2.      Stay comfortable and forget My Power of increase.

3.      Stay put and I will do all the multiplication.

4.      Keep your faith to yourselves for it might be offensive to others.

5.      Baptize them in the things of the world like rules, regulations, and even rituals. (Baptism is in the name of God, Yeshua — the vessel for the Power of God (Elohim) in one Person having Eloha, a “fragment” of Elohim.)

 

The Power of increase is really the Power of God in you. You must be in Christ, meaning to have a particle of Christ in you, as with Adam, God saying, “Let us (Elohim) make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion (“to crumble off” a particle from Elohim —  Eloha) 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 Hebrew word translated “dominion” is רָדָה radah.

 

·         ר emergence of order.

·         ד entry into space/time and matter.

·         ה expansion, inflation, or simply increase.

 

When God increased the bread and fish, in the Hebrew that would have been radah. Jesus indeed took of Himself as God and made an increase when a two fish and five loaves of bread; increased enough for the multitude and had more fragments left over than existed in the beginning. Jesus was revealing the Power He had over the world.

The fragments that remained after radah were not there in the beginning. Jesus, as God, had created the increase, and with the Power of God in you, you too can increase.

Jesus took twelve Jewish men and by now there exists in the world these amounts:

 

Global Religious Populations (2025–2026 Estimates)

Below is a table of the largest world religions by estimated number of adherents, based on 2025–2026 global data Statistics and Data+2.

Religion / Sect	Estimated Population	% of World Population
Sunni Islam	1,579,268,274	~30.0%
Roman Catholic	1,268,004,246	~26.7%
Hinduism	1,075,098,000	~15.0%
Protestant Christianity	625,452,306	~11.0%
Eastern Orthodox Christianity	294,957,346	~4.0%
Mahayana Buddhism	341,318,714	~4.1%
Theravada Buddhism	187,979,425	~2.0%
Shinto	122,667,219	~1.3%
Anglican Christianity	75,844,450	~0.8%
Shia Islam	221,790,956	~2.8% (within Islam)
Vaishnavism (Hinduism)	399,526,000	~3.3% (within Hinduism)
Shaivism (Hinduism)	385,423,000	~3.2% (within Hinduism)
Oriental Orthodox Christianity	72,000,000	~0.7%
Mormonism (LDS)	17,200,000	~0.2%
Judaism	14,800,000	~0.1%
Bahāʾī	9,150,000	~0.1%
Zoroastrianism	205,000	~0.002%
Agnosticism / Atheism	~744–147 million	~8–15% (varies by source)

Notes:

• Percentages are approximate and vary by source; some totals (e.g., agnosticism/atheism) are not always included in religious affiliation counts.
• “Other religions” and smaller traditions (e.g., Shinto, Daoism, Jainism) are also present globally but have much smaller populations.
• Christianity as a whole (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Mormon, etc.) is estimated at over 2.5 billion adherents Britannica.
• Islam’s total (Sunni + Shia + other) is about 1.8–1.9 billion Britannica.

This table reflects the current global religious landscape, with Christianity and Islam dominating in sheer numbers, followed by Hinduism, Buddhism, and a wide range of smaller traditions. (AI Overview)

 

Jesus took 12 men and now there are 2.5 billion people who identify with Jesus of a total of 8.3 billion. Only 0.014 billion identify with Judaism. While Judaism has stagnated, Christianity has increased. (Of course, many claim to be Christians, but self-acclamation does not make anyone a Christian.)

The comparison is that Jesus increased Himself to twelve, then twelve to many, and many to 2.5 billion. The increase in loaves and fishes revealed the Power in Jesus as the Way to eternal life.

Since there are only 2.5 billion claiming to be in Christ and 6 billion not in Christ, reveals a golden opportunity for the 2.5 billion to increase.

Jesus was a great fisherman of men, catching twelve of the best in just a short time. Those twelve had soon grown to twelve or more churches, and by the first quarter of the third century, the Roman Empire was following Jesus at least in name.

What did Jesus do to provide an increase in numbers? He fed them fish and bread.

Fish in scripture represents evangelism: persuading others to become Christians. Evangelism is much more than gathering one fish at a time that God has trapped for you but going into the world to fish for men.

The Hebrew letter mem represents fish and fishing — making an increase in what God began.

Bread represents potentiality in theology for bread increases when just a lump of yeast makes the loaves rise.

The “bread” of life consists of the Spirit of God as the leavening agent, but there is also another leaven that spoils the loaf, “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace” (Gal 5:4).

The effect of Christ in you is the leavening agent of the Spirit. However, you as the “loaf” can be punched down by the wicked ones with the grace of God removed until your “loaf” falls. If you are not increasing, then the Spirit may not be active in you. You may be the loaf but remain flat without the leavening agent of God in you. With that, the yoke, albeit leavened, may fall.

Grace in the Hebrew is חֵחֵ chen.

 

·         חֵ separation in realms and separated unto God from the world.

·         חֵ sofit meaning eternal life as nun represents life and the fish the multitude that ate.

 

Note that Jesus fed them all but like a probability cloud, all were not engendered by God. In other words, all of them were potentiates, albeit only a fragment would have become candidates. That defies the Calvinistic doctrine of election for all there had received grace, but not all would have become Christians.

 

So, the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen… for many are called, but few are chosen. (Mat 20:16; 22:14)

 

They all ate of Jesus (the Bread of Life) and His movement (the fish), but there were fragments that went right back into the bread and dish baskets.

There was food for more, but perhaps some were not hungry enough to partake of the body of Christ which the bread represents, and not His Way as the fish represents.

One can surmise that the fragments of fish and bread were not wasted but would feed others, although some that day would not have eaten.

Sometimes Christians feel alone in the world, but there are six-billion opportunities in the world to whom we can feed the bread and fish — the Person of God and the Way of God.

Note that without one or the other, the mission is not accomplished; there must be both bread and fish — there must be Jesus and His Way.

Jesus created and shared the grace, but not all of it was eaten. Grace can be shared but never forcefully fed. Some grace (the fragments) were left over to share, but for Calvinists they have the bread but depend on God to share it.

IN A FISH, WHALE, OR ELSEWHERE

 Many people argue about whether Jonah was trapped inside a fish or whale for three days. Of course, with God all things are possible and either one may be the case. However, is it? A critical analysis is due.

First off, read the entire scripture about the adventures of Jonah (Jonah 1:17 through 2:10).

(To be honest, I reviewed only chapter one, so I had no recent knowledge of chapter two, albeit I continued my analysis to see if my hypothesis made sense.)

My hypothesis: Perhaps Jonah was in some other thing for three days.

The null of that: Jonah was not in some other thing.

If there is evidence that Jonah was in some other thing, then that decreases the probability that Jonah was in the belly of either a fish or a whale.

If there is any possibility that Jonah was in something else, then I fail to reject the null hypothesis which makes the hypothesis a possibility with some degree of confidence. That is the scientific method of testing for truth.

Consider the evidence from the Bible:

 

·         Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. (Jon 1:17)

·         (Jesus said) An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas; for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Mat 12:29-30)

 

Two choices are given: the belly of a great fish and the belly of a whale. However, could there be a third choice? To determine that, we turn to the original languages. An obvious choice is that like Jesus, Jonah/Jonas would be in the heart of the earth for three days.

What does that mean? In the Greek, ho kardia ho ge. Since ho is “that” in English, and kardia the centroid of the soul, then the soul of Jesus would be between that and that. What is “that?” Ge. By extension, Ge is not just earth but any region.

Of course, the body of Jesus was in the ground three days in a sepulcher. However, where would have been the “heart” of the region? In scripture the heart of the earth would be what is called “Hades” in the Greek.

For at least parts of three days, Jesus would have been in Hades, or Hell, whether in bodily form or not is unclear. However, it makes sense that Jesus was in Hell in bodily form but not material substance, just as it was at His baptism… “the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him” (Luke 3:22).

Jesus compared Jonas in the belly of a whale to Himself in the belly of the Earth. That is evidence that might come in handy.

Next, consider the belly of “a great fish” in which Jonah was captured, in the Hebrew dag gadol dag to swallow up (bala’) Jonah.

First off, just as the “Ghost” (kardia) of Jesus is between two ho’s, gadol is between two dag’s.

Gadol is indeed translated a “fish,” but what would have the original pictograph’s have represented? Written גָּדוֹל may provide the answer: 

Gimmel (גָּ) theologically represents energy flow between realms.

Dalet (ד) represents a change in states into space/time and matter (or back).

Vav (וֹ) symbolizes a connection between heaven and earth, and

Lamed (ל) divine authority of being led from somewhere to elsewhere.

 

Translated “great,” it seems to be a great journey somewhere or somehow. The pictographs indicate it could be a journey from one realm to the other in the manner of Jesus’s trip to Hell, as it is written:

 

When He (Jesus) ascended up on high, He led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now that He ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the Earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things. (Ephes 4:8-10)

 

Jesus had ascended to Paradise in heaven in bodily form and in like manner he had descended to the lower parts of the earth as well — to the “heart” of the Earth it would seem, or into Hell as most theologians interpret it. How did Jesus do that? Perhaps the Holy Ghost that had left Him went both to Paradise and to Hell while His body rested in the grave.

That is further evidence that Jesus easily translated between the realms of heaven and earth.

 The word “earth” is confusing because we most often think of this planet. But the heart of the earth is much like the soul of all things in the material cosmos, and of course, the “soul” of material things would be the heavens. In other words, like man and his heart, so it is with the cosmos and its heart, or center of existence.

Jonah would have changed states. It could have been from the waters of the sea into the belly of a great fish, or it may also have been from the earth’s estate to the heavens.

“Heaven” is often thought of a place of eternal life, but as it is written, “heaven” consists of both Hell and Paradise with a great gulf between them (Luke 16:26).

It may be that the “great” in “great fish: (gadol) is the same “great” as in “Great Gulf” and with that comparison, the “gulf” might very well be the “fish” of Jonah’s venture.

The great gulf of which Luke wrote was between Hell and Paradise. Perhaps the same applies to heaven and earth, the “firmament” (badal; בָּדַל), dividing the waters from the waters in scripture (Gen 1:6).

 

Bet (בָּ) indicates in space/time and matter

Dalet (ָדַ) symbolizes a change in states of existence.

Lamed (ל) divine authority of being led from somewhere to elsewhere.

 

Just like gadol (great), badal (firmament) is much the same and both represent a change in states from one existence to another. Jonah’s journey would have been a change in states from one existence to another, but it still could have been either a fish or a whale.

Translated “fish” Jonah was swallowed up by a dag (דָּג). The full word is spelled הַדָּג. The letter hey at the beginning would indicate God-breathed. So, wherever it was that Jonah had gone, God did it. Whether a fish or something else, God would have caused it.

 

Dalet (דּ) again symbolizes a change in states of existence. However, this time there is a dot or dagesh within it. The dagesh would indicating a piercing of a hard thing, maybe indicating from a firm place to a non-firm place of existence. 

Gimmel (ג) again represents energy flow between realms.

 

With that analysis dag could either be translated either as “fish” or just a change in physical states from earth to heaven. Remembering that heaven is both Hell and Paradise, then Jonah would have been taken to one or the other by the will of God.

Lastly, it was to the “belly” (meʻeh; מֵעֶה) of the fish (sic). Belly, as with Jesus, represents the source of living waters, mem in the Hebrew. Now examine the pictographs for belly:

 

Mem (מֵ) the living waters.

Ayin (ֵעֶ) the collapse of reality.

Hey (ה) God breathed into existence.

 

The “belly” may represent a transfer from real waters to spiritual waters, and not the belly of a fish at all.

Being a science fiction aficionado, I thought maybe a spacecraft from another world captured him, but not believing in aliens from another planet, I quicky discarded that notion.

Like Mr. Monk, I then said with certainty, “I know what happened,” then ran to my other half and told her! I told my wife that God had translated Jonah to Hell as a warning, not into the belly of a fish at all.

Now, the rest of the story.

 

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said, “I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Hell cried I, and You heard my voice. (Jon 2:1-2)

 

Jonah had been in Hell, not in the belly of any fish, but the underside of the earth which represents Hades, or Hell.

The null hypothesis was that Jonah was not in some other thing. By his own words, Jonah was in Hell and by the Hebrew pictographs, He was in another realm other than this one. Jonah was in some other thing, so the evidence with near certainty is that Jonah was neither in the belly of a fish nor a whale.

However, there remains a problem; Jesus, who does not lie, said that Jonah spent “three nights in the “whale's belly.” However, that is a translation from the Greek language.

Jesus actually said, “en ketos koila.”

En is of course, “in.”

Ketos means some sea monster: either a big fish, whale, or other creature of the water. The root word of ketos is chasma — “a gaping opening, a chasm, a gulf” (Strong’s Dictionary). The “whale” could have been the “great gulf” between realms, not forgetting that it might also have been the belly of some sea monster.

Consider now the word koila, translated “belly.”

Another possibility is “the innermost part of a man, the soul, heart as the seat of thought, feeling, choice” (ibid). The belly of the chasm would be where? Another realm, perhaps Hell as the underside of the belly.

Therefore, the possibility does exist that Jonah spent three days in Hell in the manner of Jesus, and that fish and whales are either mistranslations or a metaphoric description that Jesus repeated.

However, Jonah was conscious that he had been in Hell. Could Hell be a state of mind and him only in a state of torment? Could Hell be both a mental state and another realm?

Whatever swallowed Jonas is not as important as that he was in Hell in whatever modality it was!