THE STATE OF EDEN

Adam, according to the letters of his name would not have been a biological man but a threshold creature. “Man” would be his kind but because of metamorphosis due to the sin of the woman, she became dominant as the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20), replacing Adam as the father of all living. The first male of here kind was Cain, an “ish” man (Gen 4:1). The seed of Cain would have had the mitochondrial-chromosomes of Eve resulting in common mortal Enos-man. To this day, in the Hebrew males are ish and females isha. (i.e., men are not Adamic but Ish-kind.)

Because something got into the female of Adam’s kind, a metamorphosis seemed to have occurred — the two seemed to have morphed angel-like elohim into beast-like ish for the male and isha for the female.

The pictographs aleph-yod-shin in the word “ish” describe a beast-like being with the aleph a source of cellular reproduction, heredity, and physical strength, the yod signifying functional capacity, dexterity, and motor function, and the shin signifying digestion and metabolism. All those functions pertain to biological creatures — beasts — but not to Adam’s kind which are clearly threshold beings. (Of course, AI might not be able to draw a distinction between Adamic man and common man today because of hidden things of the Bible.) We are not Adamic man, but as the Jews realize, Ish men and Isha women.

The habitat of Adamic man was Eden, but the habitat of Ish man worldly, with us not living in the spiritual realm. Adam’s kind as threshold men would have came out of the hedge of safety into the real world. Sin would have been for Adamic kind, them both cast out of a threshold state (Gen 3:24) into the ecological world as living biological organisms in a physical environment. They would not have been driven from any place but would have lost their threshold existence; them caught between the states of heaven and earth in a liminal state of existence.

Scripture points toward Eden, as not just existence in either heaven or earth, but in both or in between, enjoying access to both states of existence.

With God no longer in their once glorious bodies, gravity would have overcome them and as biological creatures after sin, they would have been subject to gravity as the consequences of sin revealed; as an example, “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life… in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread…” (Gen 3:17:19).

With the Power of almighty God in them — the aleph in Adam — in the Garden of the Lord, gravity would not have affected them. The two lost that Power because of the decoherence of sin. Adam’s kind were surely transformed from glorious to biologically ordinary with sin. Once angelic-like creatures, they seem to have become merely biological creatures.

No longer was Eden, Eden, but a geographic existence centered around what would become Israel.

Using the metaphoric hidden knowledge in the Edenic pictographs, “Eden” would mean that a perceptual threshold-realm from which emergent beings come forth. It would have been an existence in a state of heaven-earth with all things of each visible to Adam’s eyes as the letter ayin in Eden implies.

The first Book of Adam and Eve (chapter eight) reveals that after being removed from the state of Eden remaining only in the physical world, the two had lost their bright natures, and with it their ability to see heavenly things. They once were in a threshold state between heaven and earth and found themselves alone in the physical world with life already in the womb of Eve (Gen 4:1-3). With that time would have begun for time only exists in the physical world.

Adam would have originally been a threshold creature in the threshold of Eden. Eden was perhaps not a biological habitat but a state of existence. That would mean that all the creatures of the Garden of Eden would have been threshold creatures, and perhaps the visions of UAP which people see in this era.

Any other beings would exist in cognate but non-flesh forms. The other forms of life would have been “cognate” or would have shared the same origin as Adam; meaning that they would have all been God’s creatures, but Adam the dominant one (Gen 1:28) because he had the substance (Elohim) of God in his person.

Eden would not have been in Iraq nor even Israel, but a state of existence between the spiritual and biological. Israel was as much Eden as Iraq, but neither would have been the “Promise Land” (Exod 12:25).

The Promised Land (דָבַר dabar) would be Eden. The Word of God is “Dabar” in the Hebrew. God spoke and all things came into Existence (John 1:1-3). The spoken “land” would not have been physically territory but Eden. Eden would surely have been the real Promised Land and would include both land and Word, or Spirit.

God was surely not speaking of territory of which men still fight for, but His Estate of Eden — a threshold realm, neither here nor there, but of two parts as Enoch revealed (2 Enoch 20).

THE FACULTY OF THE WILL

The Bible is in two parts, and each are called “Testaments” for a reason; they are the last will and testament of God. That His will be done is the prayer goes (Mat 6:10) is a search for His heirs. His search for heirs is for the division of the Estate of God. That Estate is Paradise in heaven which God desires to share with his heirs whether by birth or adoption. For those who do His will each will obtain a share of His Estate in heaven, providing that His will be done.

The will of God is divided into two parts: (1) for His Hebrew heirs — His prodigal children, and (2) for His Christian heirs who should be his devoted children. Hence the will of God is both a legal and genetic testament and only those adopted by Jesus will receive their share since His natural born children have relinquished their share.

God’s children are not those who are outwardly circumcised, but “he is a Jew, which is one inwardly” with the circumcision of the heart. The latter are those who do God’s will.

The Will of God is expressed in His “Ten Wills” that we wrongly dub, “commandments.” The Greatest Commandment is His expectations of those doing His will: loving him and his other children, even those who are wayward and err.

Upon the death of anyone of His children, they each shall get their reward based on whether they are a fellow-heir with Jesus (Rom 8:17) hinting that Jesus is the example that others should endeavor to follow.

King David wrote, “Teach me to do your will; for You are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness” (Psalm 143:10). That “land of uprightness” was not Israel but Paradise in heaven. The latter has always been the “land” that the Hebrews sought. Hence, Paradise in heaven is the real estate, although only those who can see it as real obtain the real deal! You cannot obtain heaven unless it is real enough for you to seek it.

For those who do not, heaven is an inclusive domain for wayward children will obtain Hell also within the realm of heaven but partitioned off by a great gulf that cannot be crossed (Luke 16). Paradise will be reward and Hell punishment for those who deny the will of God. Hence, the will of God is both a great and terrible thing (Mal 4:5) for heirs, great, and for those who deny the Son of God; terrible.

To be heirs, we must like be the Son for the Father to know us; “Then will I profess unto them, ‘I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity,” and for those who do His will; “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of the Lord” (Mat 25:23). Where will you be on judgment day when the will of God is probated? That depends on whether your will has been syncretic with the will of God.

Those in capitalist societies know what a will is. It is a division of the property for which the father has worked. Both morally and legally, only real heirs would receive their parts of the division of the Estate of God. Pretenders would be excluded, and courts would decide who are real. For example, Caesar, knowing the real heirs of King Herod were dead, excluded fake Alexander from wearing Herod’s crown. Only legitimate heirs are recognized in heaven’s “Caesar” — the King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev 19:16) which in effect means that Jesus is the Caesar of heaven.

What is the faculty of the will? Fort that, we turn to the Hebrew.

“Will” in the Hebrew is rason (רָצוֹן): resh, ayin, tsade, nun. The letters provide a clue to the literal meaning. The letter tsade represents both faith and justice. The will of God is just. He is equally fair to real heirs and equally punitive to those who deny Him.

The letter resh is characterized by the human face. Animals are not heirs for only human beings in the Image of God have dominion, meaning that they are the only Images of God. To be in the will of God, heirs cannot be like the beasts doing whatever they will to do by natural instinct.

Ayin, represented by the eye means insight, nor just superficial things. Heaven must be seen as real and only those who can see the Estate of God would desire it.

The letter nun represents seed. Seed is an important thread in scripture. The seed of anything is its potential offspring. To be an heir, when the Estate is probated, there must be evidence that the prospective heirs truly be the seed of God by rebirth.

All the heirs are born the seed of Satan, but to be heirs of God, it is by adoption (Ephes 1:5), the process of rebirth (John 3:7).

As you can see, there is criteria to be met to become a citizen of heavenly Paradise, and all the others are cast out into Hell as children of the Devil (John 8:44).

The will of God is fair but stringent and it is His reward to grant to whomever He pleases; albeit He desires that none should perish (John 3:16), many will perish, according to His will, not ours.

Next, more about whose will is what.

 

The will of natural born men is instinctive. They do whatever it is that they will to do… “What is right in their own eyes” (Deut 12:8). What are those things that common men want to do (and women)?

 

The works of the flesh are manifest which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings. And such. (Gal 5:19-20)

 

To do “works” requires motivation, or willingness, to do them. As such, the minds of common men are focused on all those things and they are your will for yourselves. You are naturally inclined to do those things, so it is your nature, or will. All those things can ultimately kill you. You may luck out for a while, but one of them may bite you. Paul warned, “If you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another” (Gal 5:15). That list is how carnal men and women consume one another, and those consumed will perish.

On the other side of the spectrum, God’s will for you is much different:

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (and three others not listed from the twelve fruits); against such there is no law, and they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (Gal 5:22:25)

 

Hence, the will of carnal man (of the flesh) is not complementary of the will of God. To never die, carnal man must conform to God’s will for them. Hence, life is the battle of the wills; shall God’s will be done, or your own?

We are to pray that God’s will be done Earth as it is in heaven (Mat 6:10). As said before, the “will” in Hebrew is rason, but thelema in the Greek. The concept of the human will is the focal point of Greek philosophy. Thelema are things you have in mind to do. Hence, thoughts precede actions until they become routine. As such mankind is conditioned to do whatever he pleases, whenever he pleases, as pleasure leads him or her. Because we are rewarded with pleasure when are flesh is pleased, carnal men and women are as much Pavlovian dogs that when the bell was rung, they salivated even if no reward was forthcoming.

That is the natural state of carnal man. Once sin becomes routine, pleasure no longer ensues, so to pleasure again requires a higher state of sin.

From where do abnormal behaviors come? From those whose will is too weak to suppress the classical conditioning. Jesus said to His followers, “Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

The flesh is guided by the human will but the Spirit by the will of God. Sin is thought of as powerful, but it is weak. How so? The flesh or people follow the path of least resistance. That is the nature of sinful men. We are “beasts” in countenances.

How do animals travel? They travel the paths with least resistance just like water flowing. How did Cain travel? To the land of Nod (Gen 4:16). Cain wandered from the Presence of the Lord to anywhere he wanted to go. That implies that he was like the other beasts whose destinations were for self-preservation.

The Presence of the Lord is a sanctuary where there are rules for safety and preservation. God’s will for carnal man, Cain, was that he should never perish, so God marked him to avoid him being hunted like the beast that he was (Gen 4:15). God put some type of identification onto Cain, so that He would not perish in accordance with John 3:16.

God’s will for Cain was that he would not perish, meaning that in a sense, God branded Him as His own livestock just like a husbandman would his cattle.

Cain’s will for himself was to be free-range and away from the Presence and safekeeping of God. His will was the pleasure principle and God’s Will was for preservation of his kind. Cain was more like the beasts of the lower states of life than he was God’s kind.

Lower states of men are “beasts” and without consciences.

The human conscience is an internal capacity for moral reasoning that allows individuals to perceive right from wrong and guides their actions, thoughts, and feelings. It acts as an inner witness or "moral compass," prompting feelings like guilt or shame when an action is perceived as wrong, and feelings of satisfaction or pleasure when it aligns with one's values. While external factors influence it, it is considered an inherent human ability that develops throughout life. (PMC 2025)

Freewill is to either act, or not, against our conscience, or moral compass. Cain removed himself from God and had no moral compass, and so it is with carnal men and women even now.

What is even worse, is a misguided moral compass — totally out of the Presence and inconsiderate of any thoughts about God. For instance, the mob that curses and destroys things do have moral compasses, but it is their own morality. Rather than consider the Word of God, they do what is right in their own eyes. Mankind’s problem is following their own moral compasses, and that was the sin of Cain.

Human notions of morality are much like both Cain’s and the mob’s. Those who seek to destroy civilization, more so, follow “Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance” which is this:

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. (Lehman 2025)

In brief form, Popper’s Paradox is extreme intolerance for those who are intolerant. That is the paradox. Better he had said, it is acceptable to hate haters to rid the world of hatred. In that scenario, only haters are the fittest to survive and the world and they would be lost to the moral compasses of wanna-be do-gooders who are not in the Presence of THE MORAL COMPASS — God.

Truly, street violence against society is a gathering of all sorts of people invoking their own standards on the weakest. Their first attacks are narratives — partial truths, deception, and outright lies. If that fails, then for them, violence is justified. Errant men and women then endeavor to force their morality on others then Popper is a happy man, and Lucifer a pleased demon!

If even any church intimidates or forces their doctrines on church people, Satan smiles. There is “One Lord, one faith, one baptism…” (Ephes 4:5). Christianity is not about forcing anybody to believe or do anything.

Cain wandered away from God, and God still blessed him, desiring for him to return to His Presence.

Cain’s will remained intact and he went on with his life and so goes ours. God does not smile when sinners wander from His Presence, but is always ready to catch us from falling all the way by giving many opportunities.

God is not a God of force. He shares His thoughts (The Word), then we determine our own fate.

The human will, although weak to sin, is strong against the Spirit. Paul persuaded many to become Christians and even after they were persuaded, he still had to persuade them to continue following the Presence of God in Christ:

 

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. (Acts 13:43)

 

The mind of mankind with such a strong faculty of the will must remain close to the Presence of God, or even Christians may wander away. Distant from the Presence of God (Jesus) jeopardizes the faith by grace that He has given you.

That “grace” is His Spirit that goes with you. However, you must want the Spirit of God nearby. He honors your will, and if you want Him away from you, away He will go (Heb 6:6).

Some see God as an unwanted “Bodyguard” who prevents you from wandering, with Him in control of your every thought and move. That is not freedom, and it is not true. You have free wills to have Him near, or not.

Have you ever caught yourselves removing Christian icons when you are doing, or going someplace where God might object? That demonstrates that you want God to close His eyes when you sin. You are exercising your free will, but ironically by doing so, you are doing the will of Satan for “it” is in your blood. He is the animal instinct in you to disregard your conscience and do anything that you will to do.

That process is the Satanic motto: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", according to Anton Levay, the most notable Satanist in this century. However, Levay’s last words were said to be these: "Oh my, oh my, what have I done! There's something very wrong, there's something very wrong, there's something very wrong!"

The “beast” Levay, even as he was dying, revealed a moral compass that he had ignored most of his life. Somewhere hidden away is our godly will that appears only when we need Him. Would his last words satisfy God? He is among those “whosoever’s” that God wants never to perish. Atheism dies with death approaching!

Since even Levay had a hidden will, so do you. Face it… you want to never perish. You know you will, and the only way out of that prospect is Jesus Christ — the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Your will inevitably match God’s; you never want to die, and He does not want you to die. He will never force you to either live or die, meaning that it is your choice and your will that will be done.

If you go to Hell; who to blame? Yourselves. Anton Levay probably did that saying, “What have I done?” He realized that God had not damned him, but that he had damned himself because of his lack of conscience and strong freewill.

With that evidence, some still believe that grace is irresistible and that you are predestined to either die forever or live forever. So, if you are going to Hell, who to blame? Calvinism places the blame on a dictatorial and controlling God.

Grace means something! We are all predestined as carnal men and women to Hell. Grace means that God provides a way out, and that choice is symbolized by the Holy Cross. It is a decision tree to determine which way we choose to go. The repentant thief willed to go where Jesus was going, and the unrepentant malefactor chose the way of Judas. He essentially suicided his soul to Hell where he is still dying.

Torments are always dying but never quite dead, over and over again. That thief chose that! His will was exercised and Jesus with God in Him, allowed him to die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE MYSTERY OF GRACE

Christians often say religious things without any idea of the intense meaning of it. One of those sayings is about grace. “Grace” is said to be unmerited favor, but is that all it is? As unmerited it is not deserved. Because of sin, for all have, nobody deserves the favor of God.

The Calvinistic concept of salvation is by grace alone (sola gratia). Nobody should argue that point. God as God reserves the right to grant favors however it is that pleases Him.

However, God is not a dictator who bases His grace without regard to the state of the offender. Good kings will even pardon criminals because they understand the crime and the mindset of the criminals.

Sinners are criminals on planet Earth. Earthlings suffer the Stockholm Syndrome; for those unfamiliar with the term, it is when the captive becomes one of the captors and joins leagues with his adversaries. They enjoy both the lifestyle of the captors and even admire the leader of the pack who kidnapped them. Essentially, mankind are criminals in a prison without bars. Hence, only Christ can set them free, as it is written from the words of Jesus: 

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free; if the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. (John 8:32,36) 

Firstly, the captive must understand that he is in prison. Because of original sin, sinful mankind has been cast into a prison, to wit: 

So, He (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) 

Either in or out is ambiguous; man was driven out of the sanctuary into peril and persecution. For those who love the world so much, you essentially enjoy imprisonment, even failing to understand it is a prison wherein you reside. Our crimes and prison are very well described in Genesis chapter three. There is no way to escape from our prison because it is well-guarded by prison guards (cherubim) and flame-throwers with “flaming swords.”

The Way to the Tree of Life is the way to eternal life in Paradise. The goal of any Christian should be to escape this prison and live forever in freedom in a great city that has been prepared for them in another realm.

To escape, first you must understand that there is a prison and you are in it. You aren’t outside looking in, but in the world looking out. Gravity ensures that you never escape, but Jesus alone can overcome the world.

Jesus Himself said, “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He escaped death at the Resurrection and ascended from this prison. He was “glorified” (John 7:39) as He was removed from prison and rewarded with life in another kingdom, not of this world. If Jesus could escape from this prison, so can anyone who follows Him!

Jesus is full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Since He escaped the world, so can you by His grace. Grace from Jesus is Virtue that He can share. It is not a material thing to propel anyone through the door from Earth to heaven, but a Spirit. More on that in a moment. However, the Virtue that Jesus lost at the crucifixion to save the world weakened Him to the point of death but  His death provided the power for any who desires to escape to escape the world.

How to get out of this prison? First you must understand that you live in a prison even if you think its warden is not so bad. (I’m referring to the Prince of the Power of the Air, Satan; Ephes 2:2). Satan is not full of grace but only deception; it is as if you have grace but if you trust God, for it, you will be sought for escaping Satan’s control: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Satan does not watch prisoners that toe his line, but those who align with Jesus. As any prisoner understands, alignment with true justice makes crooked wardens angry. It is his kingdom, and you must obey his laws. If your law belongs to Jesus, then you are the worst criminal who much be watched day and night. Jesus escaped His prison, and if He can do it, you can in the same way.

Jesus died to the world. He escaped by death and arrived in Paradise for a visit until His room was ready. In like manner, God has provided a mansion for those who follow Him in Paradise as well (John 14:2).

After you understand that you are in prison, the next thing to do is to find a way out. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, who said, “No man comes unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). The way out is the Way, way out… out of this world into another realm where Jesus, not Satan is sovereign (John 18:36). How can anyone get across the firmament from here to there? Jesus is “The Firm Thing” — the Door to Paradise (John 10:9). Jesus is the firm bridge across the great gulf.

What is the “passport” from Earth to Paradise in Heaven. The Name Jesus (Yeshua). His name is the Way and to cross-over is by His Name only.

The escape begins with a plan and a future, according to the prophet Jeremiah. The future is not in this world, but in Paradise. That must be your destination — a return to the Garden of Eden, now a great city populated by the saints who escaped the world before us.

You must understand that there is life elsewhere, not on any planet, but another realm. To live in that much different environment, earth flesh would be of no efficacy. God is wise to that; for the trip across, He will provide for you new incorruptible flesh, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by The Word of God, which lives and abides forever” (1 Pet 1:23).

The Word of God (Jesus) imbues you with His virtue… free of charge, thank you. He paid the price for your voyage already, to wit: “(Jesus) who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Tit 2:4).

Jesus already paid the price by sacrificing Himself for whosoever believes in Him (John 3:16). He made the propitiation of His own blood (Rom 3:25). He appeased the Father on your behalf by His own self-sacrifice (“propitiation”). That action was an act of grace one time for all people.

That is the One of the House of David of whom the prophet Zechariah spoke: 

I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourn for His only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zech 12:10) 

As the “son of David” it was Jesus who was of “The House of David.” He would provide the
“spirit of grace.” Grace is therefore sharing the Spirit of God.

“Spirit,” in Hebrew is ruah (רוּחַ). Reading from right to left, resh refers to the Authority, being Almighty God who alone is sovereign. Next comes the letter vav, future man or the Messiah, and lastly comes the letter chet, literally a ladde, fence, or bars, and representing life beyond the firm wall. That is the Way across the great divide between Earth and Heaven. Both grace and God-breathed, or ruah; hence grace is by the breath of God breathing life, not yourselves.

“Grace” is the dynamic of that escape route from sure death to life. Grace is simply “hen” in the Hebrew (חֵן); the letters chet – nun. Chet is separation of some type, whereas the letter nun represents rebirth. Born again (John 3:7) is rebirth Chet Nun, or “grace” in English. Grace is God dividing His divine seed (nun) into man to make a son of God. It worked for Jesus, so it will for any who follow the Way of Jesus.

Born again is literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). Engendering from above is grace and grace is distributed to sinful men to regenerate them incorruptible. Grace is God providing Himself free of charge to those whom He will. What is the Will of God? 

Just as God bestowed His Image into Adam for him to have dominion over the other kinds, he does the same for sinners to lift them to a higher state (Jas 4:1). The action of lifting a man or woman to a higher state than before is regeneration.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life, for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17) 

“Whosever” is anybody. There is only one condition: belief in Jesus; not that He exists but that He is full of grace. Grace is breathed, so you must believe that Jesus breathes the life and nobody else. It is not by works that you are saved, but the work of God that you do not even merit breathing!

How to be saved by grace? You lift-up Jesus as Moses lifted-up the serpent on the pole. Of course, you are no camel, so you can only lift Jesus up like a camel might.

The Hebrew letter gimmel is characterized by the footprint of a camel. The footprint of a camel is evidence that a real camel exists and as Paul told the Romans, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead…” (Rom 1:20). Jesus left His footprint all over the Holy Land and His gospel is that “footprint” and it is truth; He is here but unseen. Hence, the Holy Ghost of Jesus is the bearer of us in our journey.

The dead serpent on the pole was the “footprint,” or image, of Satan with it dead. Jesus would do that. Jesus was there in the Spirit of Grace when the Israelites who believed were saved. They did not see Jesus, but experienced His unmerited favor (grace). Why? Because when they looked at the serpent, they saw Jesus on the Cross. It was not work they did but thought.

“Work” is both ergo and katergazomai in the Greek, but are physical work and cognition, respectively. The latter is just an accomplishment with no dynamics required. That is the dynamic of grace — the work of the Spirit of God on your behalf.

Jesus experienced death on your behalf, Because He did so, you need not. He accomplished life for you, and all you need to do is live it. To live only means that you understand that grace is  an underserved gift free to you for the having. What must you do? Merely think! 

Of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace for the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. (John 1:16-18) 

From whom does grace emanate? Moses gave The Law, but Jesus gave the Spirit of Grace when He propitiated His life-blood on your behalf since your blood, unlike His, is not the perfect sacrifice that has efficacy.

Grace is the Spirit that rebirths a sinful person into a Christian. Grace is to be used, not hidden, so the grace that you have must be shared. Grace is not grace if it is not shared.

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ON SANCTIFICATION

 “Sanctification” is the English translation of the Greek word, hagiasmos… or purification. It is holiness; not partly holy but fully holy. The root word hagia means holy — entirely devoted to God.

God chose zealots for His mission because they were totally committed to their mindsets. Christians should be… no must be, zealots for God.

The apostles were zealots enough that they were totally set apart by martyrization because of Jesus. Jesus said, “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me (Mat 16:24). Jesus made that easier than to die for Him; “They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts” (Gal 5:25).

Circumcision of the foreskin was only part way holy, but all the flesh required circumcision. Born again, or “rebirth” does just that, or it should (John 3:7).

The apostles relinquished their fleshes but not their souls. A couple were crucified in much the same way as Jesus. The others gave up their fleshes in different manners by death.

John was the lone hold-out when he was rebaptized in boiling oil and survived. Like Abraham long before, who survived the fires of Ur (in Nimrod’s kiln, according to The Book of Jasher), John survived the fire of Caesar. They were not partly holy but holy even in the face of the threat of death.

Martyred for Christ is the realization of sanctification. It is all the way holy to the end. Most of us will never be entirely sanctified, but God gives credit for the endeavor. He is also full of grace.

Rather than literally die for Him, He makes it easier — a Christian need only to die to the world. Like the snakes that we are, to be regenerated, means that the beasts must shed their flesh, not each year, but once, for all time. Knowing that we cannot shed our flesh (genetics), to shed our flesh is to propitiate our desires — to favor a change from carnal to righteous.

Sanctification begins with the sincere desire to sacrifice desires to please Jesus. It is a new mindset focused, not on each of ourselves, but on God. It is not that the desires are gone but that the newborn soul desires to please God instead of himself. Sanctification is the Way to eternal life with no shortcuts. You must be holy because He (God) is holy, according to Peter:

 

As He which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, “Be you holy; for I AM holy” (1 Pet 1;15-16)

 

How to be holy? Be like God. How long is holiness? In the manner of God, forever. You can’t be holy for one day but all the time thereafter. God is always holy, so you must be. Holiness begins the moment that you realize that you are helpless without God, and that Jesus is God manifested. As God, He can and will save.

Salvation is the gift of entire sanctification. You are meant to be set apart, not for any length of time, but until your presence here on Earth ends by either death or rapture. “To die is gain,” as Paul said, is so long as Christ is in you (Phil 1:21). Hence death is when holy ones are entirely set apart… from what? From the world and the lust of the flesh. Specifically it is written:

 

Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. (1 Pet 4:1-2)

 

Suffering the flesh is it being the master, rather than the will of God. Suffering the death of the flesh is relinquishing lust so sin has no hold on you. Those who are sanctified are set free from sin as lust is avoided.

Sanctification is set apart; from what? The desires of the flesh and the world. Sanctification is a state set apart in safety until salvation ensues at either the end of life or the end of days. Set apart is a state until you are removed from the trials of the flesh. Sobriety and vigilance are the states of that state (1 Pet 5:8); understanding that your flesh is still a feast for evil ones. So long as you wear flesh, you are in jeopardy even in a state of sanctification because the genetics of Satan remain in your genes (John 8:44).

Sanctification would therefore be the state of safety until holy ones are saved. When are they judged holy? When their mind is one with God’s at the very moment of death. Now is always the time of salvation (Rom 13:11). That now is the moment that you lose your faculties.

Let’s say, I get brain damaged in the morning. My mindset the moment before decides my fate. It matters not what I was, or would be, but its state right now. The same goes for death. We cannot wait until we decide… that would make us the gods; we must decide whenever it is that God calls. Thinking, I will wait until next week is not the now. It is not you who decides your fate, or you would be the god others worship.

Now consider the Hebrew word for sanctify: qof – dahlet – shin (qadas), meaning a path, or door (dahlet) to what is beyond (qof), through consuming, or transforming power (shin).

Sanctification is the way to go beyond the now to be transformed. What is transformation? It commences with rebirth and ends with salvation; and those who endure to the end shall be transformed (saved) (Mat 24:13).

Hence, sanctification is a state of safety wherein the holiness of God covers those who remain faithful to Him. Transformation begins with a desire to control the lusts and would end when lusts are decimated by either death or resurrection.

Sanctification would therefore be a process that terminates in salvation when the Christian is removed entirely from the lusts of the world.

The English word “holy” in the Hebrew is qodes: qof – dahlet – shin. Holy and sanctified are the same trilateral word in the Hebrew. However, sanctified qadas means to be set apart from things that are unlawful whereas holy qodes is basically zealousness for God.

Implied therein is a hatred for worldly things to begin the journey but because of holiness — the love for the God and His things — the journey is the path taken all the way.

Being set apart from the flesh and the world is just a beginning of the journey, but the journey itself is desire to please God. Hence, consecration is before the journey (door), but holiness is through the door to the end.

Where you are within the journey is measured by the things to which you cling. Lot’s wife looked back at sin and clung to sin, and her journey to safety ended at that very moment (Gen 19:26). It did not matter that she began the set-apartness but that she never finished the journey. She was sanctified to begin, but not holy for very long.

God even purified her with salt, but she is still a pillar to this day; never reaching the state of holiness which was her real journey!

Hers was more of a whim than a mindset, so we all need to self-check to see where we stand each moment of the day.

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THE CHURCH: GOD'S REAL ESTATE

 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” (Wikipedia 2025). Another definition is “a body or organization of religious believers such as the whole body of Christians.” (Merriam-Webster 2025).

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. (Wikipedia 2025) 

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” (Strong 2006). Another word for breaking down is to “crumble.”

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: 

·         It is God’s Real Estate, and we are a “squatters” who should honor Him.

·         Going where we should not go on God’s Estate is trespassing, or sinning.

·         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.

·         There is a fence around the Garden of God because there is a gate.

·         The “fence” is made of rules and regulations.It cannot be climbed by anybody and there is one way to enter of leave.

·         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.

·         The fence is not to keep anyone out but to keep them safe within.

·         To be safe, the people must want in. God does not coerce.

·         It is a Garden because God planted it to grow firm things from His own Seed.

·         The Garden is not only trees but all firm things.

·         The firm things from the Seed of God are the most glorious.

·         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.

·         All must go through the gate to live forever. It is guarded by heavenly, unseen creatures to keep the unworthy out.

·         The Name of God (Jesus) is the Way to life, and only by that Name can anyone pass through.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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

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[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.