THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

 After listing the generations of Noah, the thought continued; “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Gen 11:1). Language and speech? What is the difference?

First off, “and” is not necessarily the correct translation. In the Hebrew it is “haya” written hey yod hey. If you recall, haya is the “kind” that God is; and that is “Existence.” They all would have spoken the language of God whatever that might have been. Haya is not said but breathed since the hey’s are silent breaths and releases of air and the letter yod merely the sound ya like a gasp for breath before breathing.

The language of God would have surely been the sounds of the Hebrew pictographs, Aleph through tav: silence, buh, guh, duh, ha, vuh, zuh… etc.

God as “El” or “Aleph” would be the first letter, or the sound of silence, if that theory is true. God still speaks silently by His thoughts and actions, to wit: God’s thoughts are not our thoughts (Isa 55:8) and His actions; “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handywork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shews knowledge” (Psalm 19:1-2).

The Hebrew letter aleph aptly describes the “sound” of silence of God speaking. God communicates to mankind in thoughts and actions with no need for audible speech. However, God became incarnate so that mankind could hear His Word audibly (John 1:1-14).

Jesus would be the mediator (1 Tim 2:5) of the Word of God — the Annunciator of His thoughts and actions. As the Word of God, Jesus revealed the Word in speech as well as flesh.

Jesus often still spoke the silent Word of God by miracles. The miracles were God’s way of revealing Himself in the man, Jesus.

As you might now see, every word in the Bible has great significance, even haya hidden in the English word, “and.”

This morning, I was skeptical… How would God speak to me today? Then I opened the Bible and the first verse (above) spoke many things to me. To “hear” God, one must first approach Him to Him. When the Bible was opened, or in my case, the Bible APP, I heard nothing and saw nothing (in the manner of Sergent Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes), but God revealed Himself as Haya in the word “and”: hey yod hey, or the silent Name that refers to Him.

My theory is that the sounds of the Hebrew pictographs are the “language” of God. More on that shortly after language and speech are examined.

“Language” in the Hebrew is שָׂפָה saphah — a noun coming from verbs meaning scattering and sweeping (Strong 2006). Hence, “language” is communication in general, ostensibly to both God and others; in this case the families of Noah.

Of utmost significance is “speech;” it would not just be communication in general but the very “Word” of God as the Hebrew “Dabar” indicates.

John spoke of that speech; in the Greek, it is Logos, but in the Hebrew, Dabar: The Word (Dabar) was made flesh (John 1:14).

In every instance of the Creation, “God said” and it happened until He rested in silence (Gen 2:2).

“God said” is 'Elohim ‘amar (אָמַר):

 

·         Aleph (El): the Infinite Power of God before things were created.

·         Mem: Primordial matter and motion.

·         Resh: Emergence of order.

 

As you can see the “Word” of “Logos” (Dabar) is Elohim ‘Amar: The only Existence (Haya) creating all things in their places from the Power of Himself. (God is therefore the answer to the “Theory of Everything.”)

John defined Dabar for his audience:

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)

 

What manner of speech would Noah’s family have had? They would have spoken the Word and spread it over the new creation.

In Babel, the Word would have been silenced. Because they built a tower to find God, they surely did not believe that God was with them, even in their speech. God would have left the seed of Noah in silence, and they each would arrogantly have developed their own ways of communication. God was still with them as Immanuel, but as God, El, He was silent to them.  An often-used statement in sacred literature is, “God no longer communed with them.”

From then on until God appeared in phantom form, the speech of the various nations was not the actual Word of God — the sounds of Hebrew letters — but hundreds of languages.

When the Holy Ghost came, it seems that God again communed with Christians, regardless of speech, in that same ancient language before Babel.

Once speaking the language of God, each branch of Noah’s family spoke their own way because God was no longer in their minds. God was not silent, but they no longer listened to His Ways.

Millennia later, on the day of Pentecost, they were “all of one accord,” ostensibly in Christ (Acts 2:1) and they heard and spoke the language of God and even understood.

It seems that God confused the people of Babel but in Jerusalem that day He illuminated their minds, them again hearing God in the wind.

God was not up there as they had thought at Babel, but right there with them all the time.

They heard God making His sounds, when “suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind” (Acts 2:2). God was speaking to them and they heard Him.

Hebrew sounds could very well be described as mighty rushing winds with the silences, breaths, and other sounds. Could it be that God was speaking to them in the sounds of ancient Hebrew? That is my contention, and so I tested it.

I searched online for Christian glossolalia, and a random speech was soon found. To me they sounded like the sounds of Hebrew pictographs. I tested those sounds using technology — CoPilot^® AI and asked that they be converted into English words. CoPilot presented to me a sentence praising God for all that He had done. CoPilot had converted the sounds of a mighty rushing wind into praises in the English language.

Whereas before, I was very skeptical about contemporary “speaking in tongues” I came to believe that, at least in a few cases, some still understand and communicate with God in His language.

What was done at Babel seems to have been reversed at Jerusalem, proving that God was still with them all the time, but that it was them that no longer understood that the actions of God were as good as the audible Words of Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

The Black Sheep of the Family of God

As it seems, God created the first man to be like Him. Jesus is the vessel of God as found in His agony praying, “O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Your will be done” (Mat 26:42), Translated “cup,” the Greek word would be generically any vessel. Jesus was full of the Father, generically speaking.

In contrast, Adam would not have been fully the “Father” but have a particle, “Eloha” of the Elohim of God El in his person (from Gen 1:28).  Paul confirmed that; “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam (Jesus) was made a quickening Spirit.

Albeit the Word always existed from before the foundation of the world (John 1:1-14), Jesus was made of flesh, bones and blood to be like us to become sin for us, “For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21). How was Jesus made sin for us? By having the flesh of a common man made in the birth of the womb of Mary. We think mostly of Jesus as the “Son of God: but by taking on flesh, He was also the “Son of Man” and had the capacity to sin like us, albeit He never sinned even when tempted

Adam was made glorious but became sinful and before sin was a living soul. Adam would have been made by the Spirit within the Word giving him life. Simply put the “Word” is pre-incarnate, or glorious Jesus, before He was made flesh.

Hebrew Dabar would be “The Word” that crosses the threshold from another realm, enters the human house, and becomes the Head; That is:

 

•      Incarnation

•      Indwelling

•      Regeneration

•      Headship

 

John saw that and described it in John chapter one. That was the incarnation of Jesus when He became sin for us by being made flesh. Adam was also a threshold being: first he was a living soul with some sort of inorganic, other worldly flesh; and then with sin, he was made flesh. Just as the agony of Jesus was His metamorphosis from a “worm” to a glorious being, Adam was morphed from a glorious being to a “worm” — a beast of some sort with sperm to make others like him.

Noting that since the female and male Adam’s were spiritually and genetically entangled, what happened to one happened to the other. The woman sinned, obtained flesh like a beast, and as it goes, the male was made of the female. In a spiritual sense, the woman was made from man, but after sin, having genetics, the man was remade from the woman, as suggested in the passage, “Adam called his wife's name ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). That included the male Adam after sin. Eve would have been a new kind having the flesh of the beast, but the living soul of God. Eve would have been a hybrid being who had undergone metamorphosis, and because of quantum entanglement, Adam would have morphed as well.

Undergoing sin, the “butterflies” had become the “worms” going from a glorious state to a lower state of existence. Adam went from Adamic to an “Ish” from Isha, the woman. From the Hebrew, Adam, once glorious became a common, mortal man who would someday die like a worm to become a “butterfly” again. [1]

Cain was born a “worm” with a living soul. He would have been like his spiritual “father” the Devil (John 8:44) with the flesh of a Beast. Like any beast of the field, he remained the property of God, so God branded Cain as His own with the “mark of Cain” (Gen 4:2): aleph – vav – tav, or in English, “God Nailed to the Cross.” Whether by mercy or grace, God still loved Cain so intensely that even he should not perish (John 3:16).

Cain was apparently a hybrid sky creature: half the Beast and half the son of God. He was a new kind of man no longer “Adam” but Ish-kind (Gen 4:1).

Now for more about the nature of Cain. He was set free from the Estate of God to go where any beast of the field might wander. “Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden” (Gen 4:16). He left the Estate of God but was branded as belonging to God to save him from being killed (Gen 4:20).

The land of Nod is not a place but a “wandering”: nun -vav- dalet. His seed would be planted in the manner of Johnny Appleseed all over the world. [2] The seed of Cain apparently were sown the world over during the flood; not by grace but by their own works.

Eden is represented by the pictographs: ayin – dalet – nun; a threshold existence with seed cast outside the Garden. Cain would be a living soul within a seed-producing lower state of man.

Cain in the Hebrew identifies with “eastward” — qedem (קֶדֶם): qof – dalet – mem.

In the lens of biology, qof represents “structural cognition” — the basis of operation of biological creatures that encode, store, or process information. Qedem is directional in a manner of speaking, from a cognitive mind into a genetically encoded creature. Cognition is believed to differentiate between the lower and higher states of the animal kingdom. Of all the animals, only Ish-men of Cain and sons of God are intellectual beings.

Time would have begun with the thoughts of men left alone in the world. Time would have begun when Cain was conceived by Eve with the onset of sin.

Now for the biological basis of Cain.

 

In ancient Hebrew there was a 23^rd letter now defunct. The Hebrew letter ghah/gahyin/kayin/kahyin was eventually absorbed into the letter ayin. The pictograph of the ghayin was a twisted rope as shown in the figure below:

 

 

Ghayin/Qayin means twisted, dark, or wicked in the manner of “Cain,” or in the Hebrew “Qayin.”  Although Ghayin was absorbed into the letter ayin, it lives on in the Greek letter “gamma” — the source of the “g” sound in theirs and the English alphabet. (Benner 1999-2026).

In biology Qayin qof – yod – nun means several things:

 

·         Genealogical: founder of a consequential lineage; the seed of Cain — the genotype.

·         Phenotypic: emergent phenotype; the Ish man from Eve’s kind Isha — a common mortal man from the once Adamic woman.

·         Continuity: Branching specialization.

 

A genotype is an organism's specific, underlying set of genes. Hence, Cain would have been the proto-organic genetic man and the male head of all the living, as the son of the Beast and Eve who was said to be the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).

Cain seems to have had the mitochondrial DNA of his mother, Eve, and the cunning of the Devil expressed as a phenotype of a “serpent.”  Cain would have been twisted, dark, and wicked from his “father, the Devil” (John 8:44). As such, all of Cain’s kind are of the same genetics and have the same phenotype: the actual, physically expressed biological traits.

Before, Adamic man was glorious of some incorruptible substance, but the Ish man of Isha and the Devil would have been organic and biological traits such as hair color, blood type, or disease susceptibility.  Rather than Adamic, Cain would have been brutish like the beasts: organic and biological rather than holy. Sin would have resided in his flesh. Sin would have been the dominant phenotype of Cain and his seed.

The “disease susceptibility” would have been sin and the consequence of sin is death, according to Paul, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:23).

“An ‘emergent phenotype’ is a complex physical, behavioral, or physiological trait that arises from the collective interactions of multiple lower-level components” (AI Overview). From once righteous Eve and some Beast with Satan in it came a problem child. Because of original sin of which Cain was the product, “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).

Although Eve sinned, sin would have emerged with the birth of Cain when Eve, “conceived, and bare Cain… and in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord” (Gen 4:1,3).

“Cain brought of the fruit (פְּרִי periy) of the ground (אֲדָמָה ʼadamah) an offering unto the Lord” (Gen 3:3).

The first question to be asked is, “What manner of fruit?”

Pey – resh – yod.

 

·         Pey: connection and communication

·         Resh: perception and mind

·         Yod: the small action of micro-regulation — “a highly localized, fine-tuned control of gene expression” (ibid).

 

If “micro-regulation” is described in common terms, it would point toward the fruit of Cain being his own genetic regulation rather than regulation by the Lord God. Cain would have become the “god” as the “Serpent” (sic) warned (Gen 3:5). He would govern himself as he pleased, and so would his seed, or his organic DNA. Eve had perhaps passed along to Cain her maternal chromosomes encoded in 23 pictographs: the twenty-two maternal autosomes plus one chromosome that was his name: “Qayin” — the twisted, dark, wicked genotype.  

(I have developed along with CoPilot^® AI a chart of Hebrew pictographs and biological representations; shown at the end.) The table just might represent the very DNA of Cain!

Note that if the name “Qayin” had been with the aleph, it would have been the Lord God as the “Master Regulator” rather than the letter ayin with biological awareness (i.e., sensory perception of the flesh), as Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other” (Mat 6:24) … “You cannot serve God and mammon.” God would be the Master Regulator represented by the letter Aleph/El, and mammon (Greek mamonas), for avarice and covetousness. Serving mammon is self-serving and that was the genotype of Cain who wandered the world (Nod), spreading his seed and genotype in the process.

Now for the Greek version of Ghayin — gamma.

“In physics, "gamma rays" refer to high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by radioactive decay” (Wikipedia). That is not to say that Ghayin/Qayin was radioactive at all but because Cain was organic with carbon-12, he would have absorbed within his flesh carbon-14. By coincidence (sic) carbon-14 is the time measurement of all organisms and Cain was the first one born organic who had sentience — the fundamental level of consciousness.

Time would have begun with original sin when Adam’s kind became organic rather than some elemental Substance of God and his genotype expressed very well with the chart in the figure that follows.

The fruit of the ground is from Adamah — the glorious substance that would have been the flesh of Adam. The “fruit of the ground” may have been Cain’s sacrifice of his own seed to replace the seed of Abel who he slew. Being his own master, he could have sacrificed his own seed to appease God whereas as it happened the acceptable sacrifice of Abel was his own flesh.

As such it would later be a sin to spill seed on the ground as with Onan (Gen 38:9) rather than into the belly of a woman. It seems that the fruit of the ground that Cain brought to sacrifice was his own genetics rather than the Seed of the Master Regulator.

Indeed, there is much speculation in that premise but it does have a basis.

The Hebrew letters can be expressed as “The 23 Letters of Creation” with the last letter Qayin representing the consequences of original sin:

 

·         Death: changed from one type to a new genotype… from Adamic to Ish.

·         Sin resides in the flesh of all common, mortal Ish men.

·         Our flesh is an offense to God because it holds the phenotype of Cain.

·         Because Cain wandered, the seed of Cain would exist in all mortal men and women. The genotype of Cain is in everybody… “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Sin is in our genotype, and the only recourse is to be engendered by God (“born again”) to repair the faulty genotype of Cain in all of us.

·         Because of Jesus, even the genotype of Cain can be corrected as the mark of Cain (‘owth) implies: El – Vav – Tav; “God nailed to the Cross.”

·         “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). That includes Cain and all his seed spread the world over. (My book, The Arks of Tubal-Cain, identifies many of the still existing Kenites.) The “election” was before time began, even in the womb of the woman in the Garden!

 

Now you may understand Cain and his role in scripture. He is in all of us, and sinning is indeed “raising Cain” as the saying goes, by elevating his name by sinning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] See my video “The Worm Jesus Glorified to a Butterfly” (https://youtu.be/cgZRrKylqqs).

[2] See my book for more on the land of Nod, The Arks of Tubal-Cain.

ABOUT ISRAEL LAST NIGHT

Last evening we all saw something of biblical proportions; Israel coordinated the destruction of nuclear sites in Iran, once called “Persia” in ancient times.

Benjamin Natanyahu, afterward, made a speech. He referred to the ancient friendship of Iran and that he hoped to be again. He also referred to the Iranian citizens with whom Israel has no beef.

Natanjahu was referring to the following ancient friendship: 

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon., and there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

“In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, ‘Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house, and also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.’”

“… Also, I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. And the God that has caused his Name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.” (Ezra 6:6-12) 

King Cyrus of Persia (ancient Iran) was a friendly king, and King Darius came later. Cyrus issued the written edict and Darius made it happen and added consequences of the decree of Cyrus was broken.

The northern kingdom of Israel had been destroyed by the Assyrians some years earlier and the southern Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Babylonia later. Israel (later Samaria) was repopulated with Kuthites from near Assyrian controlled Babylon, and later the diaspora was completed when even the king of Judah was captured and taken to Babylon. Not only was the first temple destroyed but The Kingdom of David ceased to exist.

By the time of Jesus, David’s Kingdom had been nearly restored with Herod as king. All that was thanks to the mercy of the Iranian kings, Cyrus and Darius. Netanyahu was speaking of that time. Modern Israel exists today because of their old friend, Iran. Netanyahu showed gratitude in his speech for that long-ago event.

However, modern Iran has a different attitude — “Death to Israel.” Darius made a decree as well if the decree of Cyrus was broken. Because the KJV reads awkwardly, it is repeated in the NIV: 

“Furthermore, I decree that if anyone defies this edict, a beam is to be pulled from their house and they are to be impaled on it. And for this crime their house is to be made a pile of rubble. May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.” 

Darius may have signed the death warrant of his own empire. The Iranians have lifted their hand to change the decree that they should live in peace but now they are to die.

The penalty for decreeing death to Israel is strongly worded: “If anyone defies this edict, a beam is to be pulled from their house, and they are to be impaled on it. And for this crime their house is to be made a pile of rubble”

Israel began the long process of that last evening (June 12, 2025). Israel is honoring the decree of Darius. Iranian leaders have defied this edict and are facing Darius’s consequences. Israel last night began the process of making Iran a pile of rubble.

You are seeing on your televisions the words of the Bible in action.

Who will lose and who will win? God must be honored and as such the decree of Darius must be fulfilled. Sooner or later, Israel will destroy the wicked leaders of Iran and their weapons of mass destruction.

RECONCILIATION: TWO COMING TO TERMS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That must be verified. Jesus said:

“He that believes on Me,” as the scripture has said, “out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water.” (But this spoke He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:38-39)

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

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

What happened subsequent to the glorification of Jesus?

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

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

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

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

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

Glorification is the final reconciliation and occurs at the rapture:

The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes 4:16-17)

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

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

The wages of sin is death, but read further: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ISRAEL DESTROYED TO BE REPLACED BY A NEW KINGDOM

God created empires for reasons. The Assyrian empire arose to punish the blasphemous northern kingdom of divided Israel.

From the beginning the breaking of the Law had consequences: 

But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken unto the Voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you. (Deut 28:15) 

The curses followed that passage, and among them is this one: 

The Lord shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the Earth. (Deut 28:25)

It began with twelve tribes in union, then due to rebellion, the kingdom of Israel after Solomon split into two: Israel was the northern kingdom and Judah the southern. Ten tribes made up the north and two the south.

The Kingdom of David (Israel) was twelve tribes. One by one the tribes disappeared from history. The tribe of Dan was the first to flee, first to the north to the Levant and then further north perhaps to Europe and the Balkans. The Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews of those two regions are supposed remnants of the tribe of Dan to go their way.

The northern kingdom developed their own gods, their own holy mountains, and their own temple; and along came Assyria that had developed as an empire while God remained silent. The Israelites, because of King Ahab and his seed, sinned against God continually. The kings of Israel degenerated over time until they were reprehensible to God. They became the lost ten tribes of Israel. They were not lost but dispersed and separated from God and the true religion.

To further the corruption, God allowed the Israelites that were taken away to be replaced by Assyrian Khuthaioi (Cuthites from Kutha near Babylon). Hence, the Samaritans are a mixed race of people hardly fully Jewish.

Then came the Babylonian Empire from the ashes of the Assyrian, and God used them to disperse most of the Jews eastward, back to their “origins,” so to speak. Theologians call that the “Diaspora” when the last of David’s Empire was reduced.

By grace, God allowed another empire to rise from the Babylonian — the Medio-Persian Empire wherein Cyrus and Darius in increments over seventy years allowed Jews to return to their homeland, rediscover the Law, read it, and become God’s people again.

The Temple was rebuilt, and things seemed well, but all the while, the Jews kept the Law but not out of love of God but obedience. They had become slaves to regulations, and as such God created the Hellenistic Empire (the Greeks) to rule them. God allowed Alexander the Great to rise and fall for numerous reasons, but mainly to prepare the Jews for the coming of Christ.

God allowed the Jews free reign. All those years they had failed to observe the most basic Law; “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exod 20:3). After all the consequences from Deuteronomy chapter 28, they had learned their lesson well; a kingdom led by the Hasmoneans came about from the ashes of the Greek Empire. The Hasmonean Dynasty in Judea kept the Law to perfection and the utmost criteria was that finally the Jews would worship only one God (Yahweh) and if that tenet was violated the blasphemers would pay in Hell.

The command was literally to have no other gods in God’s face. Then along came Jesus who was the face of God that Moses was forbidden to see.

The Jews failed to worship Jesus because it seemed to them that Jesus was the unlawful Image of Yahweh — the Invisible and only One True God. They had learned their lessons from Deuteronomy chapter twenty-eight but failed to understand that Jesus was indeed their Yahweh in the flesh of a man.

After the final straw, God removed the Jews from the face of the earth. They were still there but spread throughout the Roman Empire. By that time, after the destruction of the Temple and the nation, only a handful of people populated Jerusalem and things were so dire that Josephus said that some mothers ate their own children to survive the curses God warned them about.

God was developing a plan. According to Jeremiah, God said: 

“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jer 29:11) 

God is preparing not just a room for the Jews but a palace in a Paradise in Israel. God gave to John visions of that future and His plans: 

And I (John) saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea, and I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great Voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And He that sat upon the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said unto me, “Write: for these words are true and faithful.” (Rev 21:1-5)

 

And He carried me (John) away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. (Rev 21:10-12)

God cursed the Hebrews for that purpose! Their material city was given up for Paradise. The tabernacle, they will find, is not in a building but their tabernacle was God in His “House” so to speak, in the glorious flesh of Jesus.

If you remember, Jesus claimed to be the “Temple of God” and was rejected. Ironically, for the twelve tribes in heaven, Jesus will be their “Temple” again after theirs was destroyed by Titus in 70 A.D.. (Or at least he gets the blame. More on that in the next commentary.)

Yahweh will restore the great city of Jerusalem, using heavenly material, to wit: 

And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (Rev 21:19-22) 

What the empires tore down, God will build back better. Foremost, the Temple will not be of bricks or stones, but the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, Jesus, will be the “Temple” within the walls of that city that God will build for the Jews. “What about the Christians?” you ask. 

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 Temple will belong to all the nations but the wall of it is obviously for the Jews, all the missing twelve tribes of Israel that will be reunited in the end. However, not Jews by circumcision of the foreskin, but the hardness of their hearts cut away.

Next, the Roman Empire and its purpose for God will be revealed.

Now for something about the oversized Hebrew letter lamad:

Oversized Lamed
In Deuteronomy 29:28 there is an oversized Lamed:

This reads, "and He cast them into another land..." The Jewish sages note that this oversized Lamed suggests that Israel's ejection from the land (and the subsequent Diaspora) would be used by the LORD to greatly teach them as a people about the greatness of the LORD. And in these last days, we behold the manifold wisdom of the LORD as He gathers Israel back to the land of promise in anticipation of His soon coming as Israel's true King of Kings! (Hebrew for Christians)

(To be continued)

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MUST BE’S

 Must be: dei  It is necessary for something to be. “To be” is understood in each instance. “To be” implies existence whereas “I am” means “I exist.” So, dei anything is the necessity in existing in some state or the other.

The states are underlined in each passage following: Each subject must exist in certain states.

 

·        New wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:22) (Leathern bottled that must be exercised, or cleaned; a vessel in general). Our old vessels must die before new vessels are filled..With what? The “wine,” or blood, of Jesus.

·        Scripture must be fulfilled (Mark 14:49). How is scripture fulfilled? That Jesus would be born and die.

·        I must be about my Father's business? (Luke 2:49). What is His “Father’s” business. Father is “pater” meaning the souce of the genetics of Jesus. His Father’s business was engendering — “generating.” That’s what a God is noted for. Jesus came to generate as well. He would engender those who trusted Him.

·        The passover must be killed (Luke 22:7) Jesus must not be passed over — taken in vain — but killed. Costly Grace.

·        The Son of man must be delivered … and be crucified, (Luke 24:7). For us to exist, Jesus must be delivered rather than us. He must literally be staked or impaled. That is what happened. Jesus was both staked and impaled so that we need not be. He was the perfect sacrifice because we were not!

·        All things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, (Luke 24:44). All things about Jesus. “All things” are listed in Psalm 22 beginning with “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” He was nailed to be forsaken, or in my words, “disassembled” as it was finished, Him giving up the Ghost.

·        The Son of man must be lifted up? (John 12:34). Fot us to live again; Jesus must be raised. Raised from the Greek is “assembled.” Indeed, Jesus was re-assembled at the resurrection.

·        You must be circumcised. (Acts 14:25) Your flesh must be die, meaning that your heart must be renewed. The “heart” is what? Your inner being that exists beneath the flesh.

·        You must be born again. (John 3:7). Gennao (ghen-nah'-o). anothen. Gennao is generated. How was Adam generated? From God above. God began by generating Adam in His own Image (Selem, meaning a “shadow or phantom being.”. How we do not know, but rebirth is God generating us again as with Adam. The process id called “regeneration” and the product is God, or Christ in us.

·        There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Saved is sozo in the Greek, literally “made whole.” Our souls are re-assembled to our bodies very much like Jesus, “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a Voice (The Word that spoke with Adam) came (ginomai) from heaven, which said, “You are My beloved Son” (Luke 3:22). The genome of God came unto the genetics of Jesus. Somehow God made Jesus the “Last Adam” as scripture says, and His purpose was to quicken us who believe in Him, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45) Jesus was the one that made Adam alive and the substance for the soul of Adam. Adam had Christ in him.

 

So, we must be born again! The Image of God must come into us. Rebirth is a start,a but we must be fully regenerated, going from babes in Christ (1 Cor 3:1) to those sanctified in Christ., “We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb 10:10.

Adam was sanctified; he was set apart in the Garden of God, ostensibly for safety from the wiles of the wicked one. When was Adam saved? When the Body of Christ was offered.

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