THE MENORAH - Part 2 of 3

 Perhaps the distance from the center lamp on the Menorah is a measure of how hot or cold the entity is. For the heavenly bodies, the respective temperatures are Saturn (140 C), Venus (464C), Aries (8200K – 11000K), Jupiter (-110C)), (Mercury (167C)), (100C to -173C). The shortest distance from the Earth are Aries (the furthest), Saturn (1200mK), Venus (38mK), Jupiter (66`mK), Mercury (77mK), and the moon (.0003mK).

  Based on size and brilliance of their illumination, the distance and sizes are not what they appear to be. The moon appears to be closer than the brightest, largest, and most brilliant sun of Aries, but it is really the smallest and closest. The point is that the heavenly bodies are not what they seem to be based on sight! However, God knows their true attributes. He placed them in a different order than what they would appear. Enoch saw them in order: Saturn, Venus, Aries, Jupiter, Mercury, and finally, the moon. We do not what metrics that Enoch used, but that is how he saw the heavenly circle.

  Illumination seems to be important for each place in the heavenly circle. Aries is the most illuminated but appears dim while the moon is the least brilliant and seems the brightest. The heavenly circle, therefore, is not what it seems to be and I will make no attempt to order their brilliance of theor illuminations. At any rate, the seven heavenly bodies appear to be one thing represented by the Menorah.

  In scripture, another thing is the universal Church. Whereas, the seven heavenly bodies represent the visible universal light, the seven churches of Asia, perhaps, represent the illumination of the bodies in the universal Church.

  Because Christians are “lively stones” in the pillar of the Church, the seven churches in Asia represent the Seven Pillars of the Universal Church. The Catholic (Universal) Church is not included as one of the true Churches, for at that time, it was not recognized. Although it was already there it was not recognized even though it was “the world” at that time!

 The seven pillars of the Church (Rev 13:2) are made of “lively stones” of which God’s Spiritual House is built (1 Pet 2:5). The seven pillars resemble what? The Menorah. The seven churches of Asia were the Seven Pillars of Christianity. Islam also has its seven pillars, but they are holy mountains, as they see them. They are the Seven Pillars of Islam, and they represent seven different lights (doctrines) of Mohammad. Judeo-Christians have the real Menorah, and the Muslims only replicas that will do them no good!

  God revealed the Menorah to John: “The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches” (Rev 1:20).

  God revealed the same revelation to Enoch and to John with those Words. The heavenly bodies of Enoch (stars) were in Jesus’s hand. He created them. Each “star” has their angel, much as the heavenly bodies represent angels in their courses. Just like the stars in the heavenly bodies, the seven churches of Asia parallel them. Like the heavenly bodies that appeared differently to the eyes of the beholder, the seven churches were not what they seemed to be.

  If they are examined, based on proximity to Jerusalem, the place of the First Tabernacle where God rested, their proximity to God would be obvious. Rather than world, or global, metrics, God established His own — how well each church was illuminated. It is extremely difficult for us to measure the illumination of each Church, but God’s metrics were how much Light each church reflected.

  If distance from the Light of God is the metric, then God would spew the Laodocian church from His mouth. It was the lukewarm church and like vomit to God. Lukewarm is neither hot nor cold (Rev 2:14-22). Laodician would be the “star” Aries. It is not truly a star but appears to be from the world. It is not what it seems. Although it is hot out there, its temperature is cool to the world. It should not be a heavenly body nor a pillar in the church. That light on the Menorah would have no place there, and neither would a lukewarm church.

  Jesus was over the lampstand. It was Him who has the Light and Him that created both the heavenly bodies and the Body of Christ (the Church). Each church had one of the seven pillars on the spiritual Menorah. His Presence hovered over the lampstand providing Light to each. Each church received all the Light that Jesus revealed (Shekinah) but reflected much of it back, not absorbing all the truth.

  The most illuminated of the heavenly bodies is Venus. Ashtarte (Venus) claims that heavenly body as her own, but it light places it in the middle of the spiritual Menorah. Philadelphia, as the most illuminated of all seven, deserved center position in the spiritual lampstand. It was the most “Jewish.”

But were these all not Gentile Churches? Yes, but God saw them as his chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2; 1 Pet 2:9). Which church was the most peculiar and deserving of election? The church at Philadelphia! The church whose name meaning “brotherly love.” The church of Philadelphia was the most illuminated, not with perfect Light, but enough to please God. They were the “faithful” church and are those who would endure to the end!

  They were unlike the persecuted church at Smyrna who God encouraged with the promise of the Crown of Life. They would be placed next to Philadelphia on the lampstand.

  Now for the least illuminated. Sardis is geographically the closest to Philadelphia, but spiritually the least illuminated. They were noted for being the dead church. Like the moon, they reflected little light much of the time. The moon has no light source itself, like the planets, but its light depends entirely on the Sun. The Moon appears to be a dead planet most of the time, and the Church at Sardis was a dim light on the spiritual Menorah. The Moon has some light but on its backside is always dark, the side relative to the earth, and is dead. A little light is reflected depending on the relative positions to the light of the Sun and the rotation of the Earth, and even in that dead church, some would receive a little Light — enough to squeak by as one of the “stars” in the hands of Jesus.

  Just as I cannot place the illumination of the heavenly bodies in order, neither can I place the illumination of the seven churches. Just as the heavenly bodies are always there, but sometimes obvious and sometimes not, the churches, throughout the ages are always there but reflect different Light during the ages. Some believe that we are presently in the Laodocian church age. Perhaps that is the Age of Aquarius that we surely are in now. Aquarius is not one of the heavenly bodies.

  At the time of Enoch, Aries was the closest constellation. Now, Pisces would be. Jesus was born at the dawning of the Age of Pisces. Aries was cast out like the Laodicians. Up until now, Pisces took its place on the heavenly Menorah. Pisces is the Christian era and the Church age. Soon, if not already, Aquarius will wax as Pisces wanes. Then the Antichrist, for a short time, will hold the “stars” in his hands. He becomes head of the heretical church. The Menorah will be stolen again and hidden until it is returned to its rightful owners. And that is when the Jews get it back and the dead church is welcomed back — Sardis returns a few to keep their place on the lampstand lighted, however dimly!

  Christianity is about “illumination.” The writer to the Hebrews called something to their attention: “Call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, ye endured a great flight of afflictions. The Menorah belongs to the Hebrews. It was stolen away by the Gentiles. “Illuminated” in the English is “photizo” in the Greek.  The Jews were theretofore the true “picture,” or image, of Christ. The Torah, wisdom literature, and the prophets revealed the Hebrew image of God. They were made as a picture of Jesus, then the Lamp was stolen away… for a while.

  Not mentioned in the Seven Churches of Asia, was the Church in Jerusalem. It was not one of the seven, but someday, it would get its sacred Menorah back and return to its place. Perhaps Laodicia, which was cast out, will in the end return to its place on the sacred Menorah. Perhaps the Jewish era, Aries, will return to its place on the Lampstand.

Tomorrow I will present the Jewish purpose of the Menorah.

THE MENORAH Part 1 of 3

 The number “7” represents God. The first thing that comes to mind with that number is the Jewish Menorah, a lampstand with seven lamps. Seven is the first number that God revealed to John the Revelator with the identification of the seven churches of Asia (Rev 1:4). As usual, the Book of Revelation is apocalyptic, meaning that it reveals hidden information.

  The first number hidden is from Whom the revelation came — the One Person of God, Jesus the Christ (John 1:1). With that, “One” is the holiest number, but seven represents the One through the Light of the Menorah. There is One Light, and One Lampstand. Although one lampstand, there are seven lamps on one stand, each of different intensities.

  What information could the Revelation reveal? Information about the happenings of the Roman Empire (preterist), things that would occur until the second coming of Jesus (historicist), events at Christ’s second coming (futurist), or symbolic things (idealist). God cannot be classified; He reveals knowledge that applies to all ages, and symbolism is used often to amplify His message. For instance, the resistance of Israel to God is the same resistance the world had for Jesus. Likewise, the resistance that the world had at the advent of Jesus first coming is the same resistance the world will have at the advent of His second coming.

  Revelation is a complex revealing of what shall come about, likely for the Israelites, the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Unholy Roman Empire, the Nazi Unholy Roman Empire, and the Islamic/Communistic (Sharia Law) Unholy World Empire in the end of days, or the Apocalypse (this prophetic revelation of magnanimous destruction, or the inferno). In other words, the vision that John saw is what happened to the Kingdom of David, what happened to Judea, what happened to the Roman Empire, and what happened through all the ages, ending with what will happen to the world in like manner. Isaiah said it rightly, “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone” (Isa 9:10a). What God tears down because of defiance, in defiance peoples of all ages think their “hewn stones” are better than the “fallen bricks.”

  Does the Revelation of Jesus to John still apply? You bet it does. It always has! The two campaign slogans are the same symbolism: “Make America Great Again” using the same bricks (The Constitution) on which the United States was founded, and “Build Back Better” — using “stones” that defiant people have hewn. [1] With that “reset,” the world is ready for a trip back to the future, and at the same time, a revisit to the Unholy Roman Empire!

  Many others have addressed the symbolism in the Book of Revelation. In the next few commentaries, I will not attempt to outdo those before me with my own enlightened theories, but I have wondered about the significance of the Menorah for quite some time. I will not look at Wikipedia or Google for what others say but examine the Menorah with my own eyes which I pray will be guided by God.

  Let us begin with “heavenly circles” — celestial bodies that rotate around a point in space. The orbit of a planet, such as Earth, around the Sun is the best example of a heavenly orbit.  All the planets were unknown to man in ancient times. The heavenly circles were, according to Enoch are:

  On the first upper most circle is Kruno (Saturn). On the second is Aphrodit (Venus), on the third Aris (Ares), on the fifth Zoues (Jupiter), and on the sixth Ermis (Mercury). The seventh circle is the lesser (or lower) circle, where the moon is. (2 Enoch 30:3-4) from “The Books of Enoch” (fandom.com; parentheses mine)

  In other words, the Menorah may represent the solar system known at that time, but with planet Earth the apparent reference point.

  That makes sense as the “star” of Jesus is said to be an alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, the moon, and the sun (Jonathan Cahn). Cahn’s information came from the astronomer, Michael R. Molnar, who wrote:

  The Magi’s star is proposed to have been a pair of auspicious lunar occultations [hidings] of Jupiter that signified to ancient astrologers the birth of a king. These events occurred in the zodiacal sign of Aries that symbolized Herod’s kingdom during this era. The birth of Christ probably corresponded to the first lunar occultation on 6 BC March 20, that exhibited astrological attributes found in imperial [royal] horoscopes (emphasis and brackets added).

  Note that Molnar’s “occlusion” was Jupiter hidden in Aries, and that was in 6 BC, and specifically identified as March 20. Hence, the Menorah perhaps represents the coming of Jesus, and that is from a Messianic Jew, Jonathan Cahn, and Molnar’s hypotheses agrees with Enoch’s heavenly circles.

  If God is “Light” and indeed He is, then from a standpoint of heavenly circles, each heavenly body is elliptical and each further from the source of Light, and are distinct from each other. Thus, not only are heavenly circles indicative of the planetary systems but the “Star of Bethlehem” as well.

  The Menorah surely represents the advent of Jesus’s first coming, but the second advent as well. John saw the second advent of Jesus when God revealed it to him. John saw things “which must shortly take place” (Rev 1:1). At the time of his writing, Jerusalem had already fallen; its bricks had fallen down.

  “Shortly” is ambiguous. It could be the Roman Empire that fell down in 395 AD. That was “shortly” but not so crucial in eschatology because the Roman Church remains extant to this day. John surely saw the end of days, and the church types at that time. Why? The churches of Asia were contemporary to him. When did they fall? They fell with the advent of Islam, but a remnant of them still survive in Eastern Orthodoxy. John surely was looking at the Apocalypse when he saw the events that were revealed to him. 

  Tomorrow, we shall continue with the seven churches of Asia and their role as antitypes of the Menorah.

---

[1] The author has an online video that details how America’s bricks have fallen and some want to rebuild while others want to reset with socialism – “The Great Reset” (https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-great-reest-government-reset.html) and a video at Herrin Daily Thoughts: GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR FUTURE (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com).

(picture credit: dreamstime.com)

ON SAFETY OR PRESERVATION

 There are some differences in theological terms. “Redemption” is what Jesus did for you, and self-control is what you do for God (and yourself) in gratitude. Those who trust in Jesus shall have eternal life (1 John 5:13).  Jesus “saves.” That is redemption. He propitiated the blood for the sins of the world. (1 John 2:2). His blood was shed, not only for Christians, but all sinners, of which Christians sin as well.

  All are sinners. Jesus was not. The sacrifice always had to be unblemished. Hence, animals — without sin — were a good substitutionary sacrifice, so until Jesus, self-sacrifice was never efficacious.

  Neither was Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son efficacious because Isaac was a blemished sacrifice. Therefore, nobody has ever done anything that could save themselves. That is the message in John 3:14; the trust that it takes to be “born again” (John 3:7). When Jesus died for all, he saved all mankind for then everyone had the opportunity to be partakers of eternal life. But they must “drink” the blood and water to have the antidote.

  Now examine sin. Adam and Eve ate of poisonous fruit. It was poisonous because it would cause death. Perhaps, the Tree of Death was a fig tree for they were obviously under one (Gen 3:7). However, it was not the figs that were poison, but knowledge. Theretofore, Adam and Eve were innocent and had no knowledge of evil. If Adam and Eve knew evil as well as good, they would have the Knowledge of what causes death. The Serpent hit the “nail” on the head; “Ye shall be as God” (Gen 3:5). It turns out that the English word “sin” is “TO BE” master of one’s own destiny — TO BE “gods.”

  Now consider what John wrote:

KEY VERSE: We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. (1 John 5:18)

  “Born of God” is “born again” (John 3:7). As was seen in John 3:14, “born again” is total dependence on God for life even in the face of certain peril. “Born again” is reborn in innocence, the original spiritual condition of Adam and Eve.

  By grace, the Word (Jesus) provided them coats of skins from a lamb to Comfort and Preserve them outside the Garden Paradise in the world. So long as that flesh was worn, Satan could kill their flesh, but the flesh of the animal protected the soul from death.

  “Born again” means that Jesus covered sin with His own Flesh. His blood cleansed from all “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25), but the “Water” is the protection from further sin.

  It is not what you think. Living Waters flowed from the belly of Jesus as it does from true Christians (John 19:34).  It did at His death as His Holy Ghost was given up (John 19:30). Hence, the “Water” is not the baptism of John, but the baptism of the Holy Ghost of Jesus, to wit: “Then remembered I the Word of the Lord, how that He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.’”

  The baptism of John is water baptism, and the baptism of Jesus is not by water, but the Holy Ghost.  Rather than the Lamb of God’s Flesh covering the reborn person, God’s Spirit covers the new person’s soul but not their flesh. They can still commit fleshly sins and live but not spiritual sins. John mentioned that without naming which ones: “He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death” (1 John e:16).

  Do carnal sins lead to death? No, only spiritual sins. It is the soul that the Holy Ghost “Comforts,” not the flesh. The spiritual sin, according to John, is disbelieve in the Name Jesus (1 John 5:13) which is blasphemy. Just what is the theophoric name Jesus? “Yah(weh) saves,” obviously through His Son, and God’s Flesh — the Lamb of God preserves just as with Adam.  Hence sins of the flesh are non-damning but sins of the soul are.

  That does not make fornication and such allowable, but blasphemy against the covering of the Holy Ghost is, to wit: “All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men” (Mat 12:31).

  Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is removal of the Protection of the very Ghost of Jesus. It is God’s Spirit that still provides the coat of protection. The skin of the Lamb is in Heaven, but His Ghost remains with us because that Spirit is the very Essence of God!

  “Sinneth not” is perhaps, that those born again, are not TO BE God. They have sacrificed their soul to God. With that, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:34). Then, the Holy Ghost covers the spirit, but the Christian must control the flesh; in other words, “He that is begotten of God keepeth himself.” The “begotten of God” are those “born again.” Those so begotten, keepeth themselves. Hence, the Holy Ghost protects the souls of men so that their souls not die, but Christians are responsible for keeping their flesh pure. If they fail on the latter, then they remain safe, but if they remove the preserving coat of the Holy Ghost, they reject the protection of the Holy Ghost by blasphemy.

  Although the flesh remains vulnerable, the soul does not. The HolY Ghost is the “protective shield” around the soul of Christians so “that wicked one toucheth him not.” The Book of Job is all about the safety of the faithful man. Satan accused, rightfully so, that God put a “hedge” around Job to keep demons from touching him (Job 1:10). It turns out that Satan could touch Job’s flesh (with boils; Job 2:7) but not his soul: “Only upon himself put not forth thine hand” (Job 1:11). I once thought that was the flesh of Job, but the essence of Job was his faith that protected his soul. Satan, nor his demons, could touch the soul of Job because God had indeed but a hedge around it — His Holy Spirit.

  “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mat 10:28). Others can kill the body, even Satan and demons, but not the soul. The body and soul are vulnerable, and all Satan needs to do is have the “hedge” removed. Only one person can remove the protective barrier from the soul, and that is “him,” the person himself!  Removing by rejection of the Holy Ghost is exposing the soul to destruction, and only you can do that!

  He that is born of God, “keepeth himself.” Carnal sin is exposing the flesh to destruction. Satan, as we learned from Job, can touch the flesh, and his cunning plan for doing so. They are temptations and tribulations. Why does Satan tempt the flesh of mankind? To expose the soul. He is ripping off the “fig leaf apron” that is superficial to see if the Lamb’s Flesh is beneath.

  By exposing the soul to the desires of the flesh leads to destruction. Satan gets to the soul through the flesh, hence the Sons of God, just as Seth’s seed willingly walked off the Holy Mountain into the sin in Cain’s plain (Secretss of Enoch), to this day, the righteous can still walk away from the Holy Protection of God! Seth’s line perished in the flood although they had been righteous. They perished along with Cain’s seed, but righteous Noah kept on his coat of the Lamb in the form of an ark.

  In the water, blood, and the spirit is safety. John summed up his discourse with one warning: “Keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21). The Serpent knew who the “idols” were — they are our own fleshes. To preserve our souls, Christians must keep ourselves from ourselves. Our flesh exposes the soul to perishing, and Satan knows and uses that. Now consider this:

⁶ 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 beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. ⁷ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ⁸ And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:6-8)

  The blood is Jesus. The Spirit is the Holy Ghost of Jesus. But what is meant by “water” bearing witness? Is that water baptism? Many think that, but the “Water” is the Father. Many have argued about that, but when God created, all things were from Him. The “waters” in Genesis 1 is directly translated as “semen’ (Strong’s Dictionary), or “water” is the very Seed of God. The Seed of God is Jesus, God in the Flesh. Those passages do not refer to the baptism of John but the baptism of Jesus, the One Person of the Holy Trinity.

  Now for the obvious: This commentary is to expose the doctrines of both eternal security and water baptism as soterial. Things would be much easier if we trusted a moment in time and water for salvation, but the “begotten of God keepeth himself” safe from exposure to spiritual death.

(picture credit: Dreamstime.com)

ADOIL AND ARKHAS - Part 3 of 3

 The word, “Shekhinah” is not in the Bible, but means “the Presence of God.” It seems to be a substitute expression for “JHWH” since Jews are not to say God’s “Name” casually. Of course, they missed the point — that Yahweh is the pronunciation of the Hebrew letters from “I AM THAT I AM.” In the New Testament, the Son of God, God Himself, was born in the flesh and is called, “Jesus” (Mat 1:16,25). Since Jesus is the “Light of the World” (John 8:12), then Jesus is the “Shekhinah” that Jews do not know at this point, and is the Presence of God.

  Now this is important:

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:1-4)

  The most important points there are that by Jesus, “All things were made” and “He was (IS) “the Light that shineth in darkness,” and that His Presence is Life.

  Jesus, “the Word” made flesh, was there “in the beginning with God.” Philosophers call that ageless Presence, “Aeons.” Christians call Him “Jesus.” Now consider Enoch’s “revelation” again which you should have been considering the last few days from part one: 

God explains to Enoch how the visible and invisible come down from the very lowest darkness. “And I explained the lowest things: ‘Let one of the invisible things descend visibly!’ And Adoil descended, extremely large. And I looked at Him, and, behold, in His belly he had a great light. And I said to him, “Disintegrate yourself.. Adoil, and let what is born from you become visible.’ And he disintegrated himself, and there came out a very great light. And I was in the midst of the [great] light. And light out of light is carried thus. And the great age came out, amd it was revealed to all the creation which I thought up to create. And I saw how good it was. (2 Enoch 25)

 

God summons from the very lowest things a second time, so that Arkhas, both heavy and red, should come out.

 

“And I called out a second time into the very lowest of things, and I said, ‘Let one of the (in)visible things come out visibly, solid.’

And Arkhas came out, solid and heavy and veery red. And I said, ‘Open yourself up, Arkhas, and let what is born from you become visible.’ And he disintegrated himself. There came out an age, dark, very large, and carrying the creation of lower things. And I saw how good it was.

And I said to him, ‘Come down low and be solid! And become the foundation of the lowest things!’ And it came about! And he came down and become solid. And he became the foundation of the lowest things! And it came about! And he came down and became solid. And he became the foundation of the lowest things. And there is nothing lower than the darkness except nothing itself. (2 Enoch 26)

 

  Enoch called the Source of Great Light, “Adoil.” Look closely — Adoil is a Process; “it” made the visible from the invisible. How so? With that “Great Light.” Compare that with scripture: “All things were made by Him.” Jesus is Adoil. The “Light from Jesus’ belly gave Light.”

  Where has the reader heard that before? “One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34), and “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). That Great Light was the Holy Ghost who Jesus gave up at His death. For what reason? To give life!

  The same “Belly” that gave life back to sinful men, gave life to all things in the beginning. Then, after generating the visible substances from the invisible, out of Jesus’s “belly” flowed Living Waters to generate Adam (Gen 2:7). The Presence of God — Aeon, Shekhinah, Adoil, or Jesus, is the “Light” that gave life to all things. Whatever the Presence of God is called, that Presence is always the manifestation of God and is called “Jesus.”

  Nebuchadnezzar saw “the Son of God” in the fiery furnace, giving life unto three men. It is supposed that Nebuchadnezzar saw “Great Light” like the Holy Ghost who entered Jesus in “bodily shape” (Luke 3:22). Jesus IS God.

  The Holy Ghost IS God. Jesus is God in bodily form. Adoil had a “belly.” He IS God in bodily form. Adoil is Jesus! That impersonal “Aeon” in philosophy is Jesus. Scientists have another “name” for Jesus — Higgs Boson, the “elementary particle” from which all things were created. The Light “particle” was Energy that pre-existed the Particle (in caps because “It” is God), and the visible was generated from the invisible. “Great Light” flowed from “Higgs Boson” and from it, all things were created!

  In the previous section, I warned not to let science scare you! Physical events are physics. Physics is the study of physical events. What better thing to study than the visible (physical) coming from the invisible (supra-natural)? “Higgs Boson” is the “God Particle” and like the Word, “Holy Ghost” should not scare anyone. If only scientists realized that Higgs Boson is God, then all things would be better. Michio Kaku realized that, and credit must be given to him. What he does not realize is that Higgs Boson is the Person of God called “Jesus!” I intend to persuade him of that with this discourse. Likewise, Higgs Field is Life flowing from the belly of Adoil, or Jesus.

  To be honest, I only had elementary nuclear physics in college, but found it fascinating. I recognize my limitations, but when anyone reads 2 Enoch 26 and compare it to John 1 it should be obvious that Adoil is Jesus, Higgs Boson is Adoil, and Higgs Boson is scientists’ name for Jesus, if only they recognized it as such. They came part way with the “God Particle” but God is more than Energy manifesting itself as mass, but the Physical God with the Name, Jesus!

  “Arkhas” is not as obvious. Enoch was told by God that, “Arkhas came out, solid and heavy and very red. And I said, ‘Open yourself up, Arkhas, and let what is born from you become visible.’” Arkhas is perhaps the life force itself. Arkhas is perhaps Higgs Field in the Cosmos, and the Life breathed unto Adam. Perhaps Arkhas is Presence of the “silver cord” of which Solomon wrote (Ecc 12:6). That would be the Navel of God — the “Belly” that provided Life from which Light flowed to create all things.

  Arkhas is perhaps the blood and water that flowed from the belly of Jesus that regenerated life in mankind.  God said to Arkhas, “‘Come down low and be solid!” With that, Arkhas would be the resurrection and the life that flowed from the belly of Jesus, to wit: “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live” (John 11:25).

  Throughout the tour of the heavens, God admonished Enoch to write all things in a book. Perhaps, Enoch’s writings are the Book of Life which was revealed to John about those: “Whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world” (Rev 17:8). Enoch even referred to that in his book. Look what Enoch wrote:

In those days, I saw Him – the Antecedent of Time, while He was sitting upon the throne of glory, and the books of the living ones were open before Him.  (1 Enoch 47:3)

  An “Aeon” is an a “vital force,” “being,” “generation,” or a “period of time” (Wikipedia).The “Antecedent of Time” is the “Ancient of Days” (Dan 7:9). That means God — “The Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending” (Rev 1:8).

 Dr. Kaku fears that plutonium will destroy all existence. As I wrote before, plutonium is called “heavy water.” The end of days is a repeat of the flood of Noah, next time by heavy water. Once that happens, Adoil will release Arkhas again, and the heaven and earth (the unseen and the seen) will be regenerated and life will begin anew.

  Higgs Boson will make the visible again unto the visible, and Higgs Field will provide existence again. Let me stop there… Christians know God! His Name is not Higgs Boson and the Holy Ghost that He gives up is not Higgs Field! Christians know Adoil as Jesus and the Light that He shines to provide life as the Holy Ghost. Neither is “it” a “Field” but “Living Waters” as is written, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38).

  That passage seems ambiguous. Is it not the belly of Jesus from whom Living Waters flow? Now think back to the creation of Adam. Out of God’s belly flowed Life unto Adam. That “silver cord” seems to be “strings” in “string theory,” that are thought to be one dimensional streams of particles that interact with one another (Wikipedia; “String Theory”). A field of those “strings” interacting may be what Enoch referred to as “Arkhas” and Christians as the Holy Spirit.

  Then out of Adam’s belly flowed life unto Eve. Glorious Adam flowed Living Waters and gave life to Eve. As Christians, there should be a “silver cord” between us and others so that we can transfer the life that we have to others via the Holy Spirit of God.

  Perhaps scientists will come to realize that their theories were actualized by God and understood by Enoch and John long before the so-called “Enlightenment.” Enoch’s tour of the heavens was the original “Enlightenment” and remained hidden during the Dark Ages.

  The biggest problem with scientific theory is what? All Ten of the Commandments are broken in some manner. The most obvious is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain” (Exod 20:7). They need to call God His Name, “Jesus.” They should not take life for granted. They must not deny the life-giving grievous waters that flowed from the belly of Jesus to redeem life! They need to quit seeing God as Energy transformed into particle mass, but God manifesting Himself in different substances: Light, Spirit, Cloud, Fire, Tree, Burning Bush, Flesh, and Ghost!

  They need to credit God with both generation and regeneration, and to consider time as God’s Time, not theirs!

  Philosophers, if they really love knowledge, should call God, “The Ancient of Days” and not denigrate Him with “Aeons.”

  Christians have it right! Science and philosophy should catch up. Who came up with string theory in particle physics? God, although not in theory, but in truth, eons ago. Who wrote down the truth about the Genesis of the Cosmos? God gave the Book of Life to Enoch and somehow Moses got the message as well. Higgs was way behind in his theories and should have read the “Secrets of Enoch” or the Genesis of Existence.

 The Menorah means many things, but it surely represents Adoil as the middle lamp whose Light (Arkhas) gives life to the three concentric circles of the sun — whose bisection provides the other six lights. What should be seen when we look at the Lampstand all lit? We should see God in the midst, and the creation from His Light. His Light gives light to the other lights. There is a sort of “electric cord” between the middle lamp and the others. Perhaps there is an invisible “silver cord” transferring Power from the center lamp to the others.

  Adoil and Arkhas… hopefully now more than archaic words. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God is called many things, but ultimately His Person is Jesus. With that, God is not only an impersonal God called many things, but a Personal God with one Name, and that is “Jesus.”

(picture credit: By NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI). "Image/Video Use PolicySpace Telescope imagery is free for anyone to use." => http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1401a/ and http://www.spacetelescope.org/copyright/ - HubbleSite: NewsCenter, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30531336)

ADOIL AND ARKHAS - Part 2 of 3

  Science is the learning of knowledge about the physical entities in existence. As such, it ignores the spiritual which concerns itself with the supernatural existence. Science is based on tangible evidence and religion on faith. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). That is imperative information! “Substance” includes physical things and also the “essence.” Albeit “essence” is identified as things “natural” it also includes things beyond the natural (i.e., the supra-natural).

  Natural things can be objectified and measured. Christianity objectifies and measures God. God came in the flesh to objectify Him for those who need the evidence that God exists. Then God was measured by His miracles, primarily that He overcame the world and was resurrected. Science believes that death is certain and irreversibly so (non-isentropic), whereas Christianity disputes that and provided the evidence of that with the death and resurrection of Jesus. Ultimately, the crucifixion of Jesus was a scientific “experiment” to prove to the world that God is God! God operationalized the contention by objectifying Himself with human form.

  The scientific evidence that God Exists is that thousands saw Him die on the Holy Cross, and thousands saw Him alive after a natural person would stinketh. Scientists and lawyers would be wise to accept God’s Existence because the Old Testament predicted the outcome, and the New Testament validated the prediction. Jesus made the Bible “scientific” when what God said would happen, happened, just as He said it would!

  Modern Christians must believe the evidence. Although “faith” is what God looks for, “faith” is again the “evidence of things not seen.” Jesus provided the evidence that the Unseen God is real. “Evidence” is just evidence and merely furnishes proof.

  Science does the same thing. It furnishes proof that their hunch is correct. At one time, some scientists had a hunch that oil came from long dead dinosaurs and prehistoric vegetation. Because those life forms contain carbon and so does petroleum, the hunch was that carbon-based energy sources were fossil fuels. It turns out that those with that hunch were “colossal fools.” Now the hunch is two different things: (1) That fossil fuels are not from fossils but amoeba and protozoa beds under tremendous pressure, or (2) something else that we cannot guess at yet!

  Most have been taught that dinosaurs are the source of fossil fuels. Anyone who thought otherwise were considered either fools or religious fanatics. Now the scientific evidence points elsewhere. The point is that scientists do not really know but misled the world for centuries! Science changes things to suit their biases; God does not. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The hunch of Christians is that God created fuel. Surely if He can score the Big Bang, He must be able to fuel what he generated. Not that the Big Bang was fossil fuels, but some ultimate Energy Source!

  Scientists hope their hunches are correct and test them as best they can so that their egos are satisfied. Scientists are rewarded several ways: monetary, prestige, pride, and by their recognized knowledge. They attempt to discover the source of things to magnify themselves, and perhaps some do to help the world. Those characteristics are human nature and are damning in the Christian religion. “Hope” from a Christian perspective is contentment, having assurance that what they believe is real. That too can be measured! The Ten Commandments are not “commandments” at all, but God’s Will metricized. Those with hope are tested by their faith. God uses that “test” to judge the faith of Christians. That is the ultimate scientific experiment!

  Christians have faith, but they also have scientific evidence, to wit: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;  (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us…” (1 John 1:1-2).

  “That which” is the Word who was operationalized in the Flesh as Jesus. Jesus is the material substance of God. They saw Him, touched Him, and bear witness (testify) to those scientific facts. The apostles were “scientists” who were so persuaded that Jesus IS God manifested that they gambled their possessions and very lives to attest to that. They were not worried, though, because Jesus validated the evidence with His death and Resurrection.

  The hypotheses of scientists are that existence happened by random chance and improved itself by survival of the fittest and evolution. On the other hand, Christians have no hypotheses; what they see is all the evidence they need.

  Faith is measured by the patriarchs in the Old Testament. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son as God would because he was so certain that there was enough evidence of God. His righteousness was accounted to him as faith. What did Abraham know that the others did not know? He saw the physical universe and knew God. Christians should take that as proof as well: “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse” (Rom 1:20).

  Rather than creation being the hypothesis, for Christians it is the proof!  Christians examine the world and the heavens and understand that it could never be by chance. It turns out that scientists have the faith of gamblers — great faith indeed and only superficial hope. Who loses either way? Evolutionary scientists lose their immortal souls!

  Scientists do not create anything. They discover existing things and propose causes for their existence. They do not even claim to be gods, but foolish people accept them as gods. Science belongs to God because science is order out of chaos. God ordered the universe into existence and scientists are mere investigators as to how. “Science,” therefore, is not bad. God is the author of all things scientific. What is bad are those who discover wrongly, just as Columbus, whose error caused him to stumble upon a New World. Scientists also stumble upon the truth, and then conceal their accident with complicated explanations.

  Columbus was given divine inspiration. Although he stumbled upon the Americas, God gave him a compass: “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in” (Isa 40:22). The shape of the world is a circle with it generated 360 degrees to form a sphere. God revealed to Columbus that the earth was not flat as it appeared to be, but a sphere! Columbus believed God so much that he risked peril for his faith. His “science” was based on the good knowledge of God.

  Columbus also saw something else if he was savvy. His “map” was overhead. He looked at the cosmos as a curtain with a map thereon. The “flat” heavens guided him to confirm his hypothesis that the earth is round. He knew the Zodiac. The words of Isaiah revealed to him that the stars could guide him, and they did. The magi were guided to Jesus by the same knowledge and found Jesus.  The answer to the origin of existence is in the stars and there are two ways to research: (1) Human experimentation, or (2) Divine Knowledge.

  This background on science is to waylay fears. Weak Christians fear that science will disprove God. That can never be done, so cease the worrying. Unless science is falsified, it can only provide evidence of God. Fear of science is the source of fear itself. If science is right, then there is no hope. Christians should hope that science reveals the truth and spreads it to the world. Rather than an enemy of God, science can only, if scientific, reveal the truth. Care must, however, be taken to not take things as scientific when they are not. The cleverest scientists design their tests to provide desired results. Many scientists want their theories to be right so much that they accept any evidence that they can find as truth.

  That background was laid to allay the fear in Christians of scientific exploration. They merely discover what God created. It means only that Christians keep them on course with truth. God’s Word is ultimate truth, and with that, we cannot go wrong. When the Bible says that the earth is round, saying otherwise is foolishness. God revealed in Genesis 1 and 2 the origin of the Universe and mankind. If science is accurate and truthful, then what God said should coincide with what scientists discovery.

  With that, perhaps one scientist has stumbled upon the truth. Michio Kaku may be the “Columbus” of the 21^st Century! The next commentary will compare God’s version of the origin with the scientific version. Perhaps the two claims are closer than they seem. In fact, they should be measuring what God did!

(picture credit; Our Time Press; "Columbus")

ADOIL AND ARKHAS - Part 1 of 3

  In my book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, God revealed to me, from the Hebrew, the creation. It was not my thoughts, but God’s thoughts which are much greater than mine. God planted His thoughts into my mind. It turns out that I certainly was not the first! Throughout history, God has revealed to many the origin of mankind and the universe.

  With that, I believed that the astral scientist, Michio Kaku, had much of the creation story revealed to him. For me, who knows, but for Kaku, he testified to the creation story… up to a point. He validated the first “day,” or what I came to realize was the first “process.” Not that I abandoned the inspired Word of Holy Scripture, but that I returned to the “received text” for clarification. That “day” is “warming” and that “night” is “a twisting from the warming” (Strong’s Dictionary). With that understanding, I was elated! God was not describing the twenty-four process of the orbit of the Earth, which on “Day One” did not exist, but any general process!

  Of course, that general process, also describes the specific process that is called a “day.” That made sense to me. Each process would have different durations to warm, change, and cool, or to stabilize. That notion also made sense of a “black hole” in scripture, to wit: On what day were the angels and their unseen world created? And how did their creation and rebellion process endure for only twenty-four hours? I used the phrase, “black hole,” because their tangential energy is called, “worm holes, “  which are believed to contract time in the darkness of unseen mass.

  My hypothesis of “processes” in lieu of “days” made sense of the creation of the “heaven” in Genesis 1:1 in the first process called a “day.”

  Most theologians accept that “created the heaven and the earth” does not refer to the Cosmos and planet Earth, but to matter and space. In field theory “matter” are particles (“semen,” according to Strong’s) and their field is the “fluid” or “seminal fluid” (from the Hebrew). [1]

  Michio Kaku concluded that the creation could only be generated from God! Although I disagree with much of Kaku’s political and esoteric views, I do believe that God did shed some of His Light on Kaku. The doctor at least believes in “Spinoza’s God” — described as, “the philosophical system of Baruch Spinoza that defines "God" as a singular self-subsistent Substance, with both matter and thought being attributes of such” (Wikipedia; “Spinozaism”). Spinoza’s “god” is how Kaku understands Yahweh (God) whereas, Jesus is how Christians understand that “Yahweh Saves” of which “Jesus” is theophoric. In other words, Spinoza’s, and Kaku’s, “god” is an impersonal god who works processes but does not intervene or commune with people, whom they presume that God did not create. In other words, their “god” is half a “god” at most!

  I forwarded a copy of my book to Kaku, in an attempt, to convert him from only believing in a God of Processes to a God of Everything!

  I accept Scripture as the inspired Word of God, and that everything written within is ultimate truth. Just as Kaku had to study and contemplate the Cosmos for his conclusions, I had to study God’s Divine Word for my conclusions. Ironically, as for “Day One” we came up with the same conclusion — that only God can create. Where we differ is that my God IS (I AM) Existence, and his “god” is only one-seventh of existence — a “to be” God.

  I have written on several occasions that “to be” God is ultimately the definition of “sin” coming from ancient Danish. Kaku’s god is a “wannabe god,” and the True God is the “BEING,” God. Kaku’s “god” is only a process, but the True God is the Planner, Processor, Creator (Generator), and Deliverer. On the other hand, Spinoza’s God merely generated without a plan and with no one’s future in mind. Kaku’s calling is to determine the future of mankind with his activism, and not to depend on God!

  Ironically, as Kaku hit the nail squarely with quantum theory for the origin of the universe, he did for the destruction of the universe as well. As an advocate of global warming, he believes that plutonium used for  the radioisotope thermoelectric generator will not only generate power but enough to destroy the world through its nuclear energy. Again, that corresponds with my thoughts from reading the Revelation of Peter, “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (2 Pet 3:10), and of John, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more” (Rev 21:1).

  My hypothesis is that the melting with fervent heat means nuclear cleansing, or that the visible will be destroyed by “heavy water,” or plutonium. Is it only irony that the Earth was destroyed by water in the days of Noah, and as Kaku understands it to be by heavy water? It seems that Kaku understands both the generation and regeneration processes but fails to understand the “some thing from no thing” in between — that our salvation does not come by our works, but the work of God’s Hands, or by Jesus Himself!

 Usually, I do not give assignments for the next commentary, but surely by now your interests are aroused! Should not everyone want to know, Why me?, and, What is my destiny?  Your assignment, if you should choose to take it before this message self-destructs, is to read Enoch’s vision and God’s description of how every thing came about in the first process. Read  and be enlightened by the Words that God gave to Enoch: [2] 

God explains to Enoch how the visible and invisible come down from the very lowest darkness. “And I explained the lowest things: ‘Let one of the invisible things descend visibly!’ And Adoil descended, extremely large. And I looked at him, and, behold, in his belly he had a great light. And I said to him, “Disintegrate yourself.. Adoil, and let what is born from you become visible.’ And he disintegrated himself, and there came out a very great light. And I was in the midst of the [great] light. And light out of light is carried thus. And the great age came out, amd it was revealed to all the creation which I thought up to create. And I saw how good it was. (2 Enoch 25)

 

God summons from the very lowest things a second time, so that Arkhas, both heavy and red, should come out.

 

“And I called out a second time into the very lowest of things, and I said, ‘Let one of the (in)visible things come out visibly, solid.’

And Arkhas came out, solid and heavy and veery red. And I said, ‘Open yourself up, Arkhas, and let what is born from you become visible.’ And he disintegrated himself. There came out an age, dark, very large, and carrying the creation of lower things. And I saw how good it was.

And I said to him, ‘Come down low and be solid! And become the foundation of the lowest things!’ And it came about! And he came down and become solid. And he became the foundation of the lowest things! And it came about! And he came down and became solid. And he became the foundation of the lowest things. And there is nothing lower than the darkness except nothing itself. (2 Enoch 26)

 

About how God came founded the water, and surrounded it with light., and established on I seven islands. (2 Enoch 27): (Then God described the “islands” and things until the end of the first “day.”)

 

  My next commentary will attempt to explain Adoil and Arkhas as the warming processes that generated all things.

---

[1] My book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, attempts to explain creation. It should be compared to Enoch’s tour of the heavens, and the reader can see, that my mental “tour” was much as Enoch’s real one.

[2] The Books of Enoch are not canon in the western Church but are in the eastern Orthodox Church. So take it as ancient commentary from before the flood.

(picture credit; Ivey Business Journal)

THE PURPOSE OF JESUS

  Why was it necessary for Jesus to die? Because the spirit of Satan is in us… everyone, for all have sinned (Rom 3:23). How did the spirit of Satan get in God’s children? Adam and Eve had “intercourse” with the Serpent, not sexual, but verbal intercourse.

  Satan conceived a way for them to enter into temptation, then sin was born. Then he delivered them unto evil as implied in Matthew:6-13. By eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree, Adam and Eve ate the “seed” of the Devil and Satan became their “father” (John 8:44).

  Both Adam and Eve were created by God, but they were born “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) unto the world. Their birth was not as God generated them, but as Satan deceived them. Satan’s words were not as deceptive as his disguise as the mild-mannered Serpent who encouraged them to try new things.

  Jesus said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Sinners must deny the genealogy of Satan and start the regeneration process again, not in the image of Lucifer, but God. Rebirth is not in the womb as Nicodemus queried, but reborn in the Garden “womb” in the image of God and given life by the breath of God — His Holy Spirit.

  The purpose of Jesus is to enable sinners to be born again. Why marvel at that when that is the very reason that God put on flesh, and that is to provide new flesh for mankind, to wit:

For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil… And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us. (1 John 3:8, 24)

 “The works of the Devil” is easy to understand. He encouraged both people on Earth to do his will and disregard the will of God. Adam and Eve exalted Lucifer and themselves, and diminished God. They were “had” by the Serpent because they diminished themselves without realizing it. They had been children and heirs of God but gave up that genealogy and legacy by deception.  They were more than eating great tasting fruit, but they were being “impregnated” by Lucifer’s seed. They did not recognize the cunning angel because he was cleverly disguised as the harmless Serpent.

  The Devil convinced them that they were “as God” (Gen 3:5), but all the time, they were as Lucifer who only pretended to the throne of God (Isa 14:13-14). Thinking that they were promoted, they were demoted, although they still esteemed themselves highly.

  All that is “the Devil’s work.” Lucifer shaped them in iniquity. That is what David was saying in Psalm 51. They were born in iniquity and Jesus came to “reborn” them in righteousness and truth. Their old nature is as Satan’s and their new nature as a copy of God.

  I wrote recently about rebirth. God’s Light illumines sinners as they are born again. The Greek for that illumination is photizo. Rebirth is a “photo” of Christ. When sinners are born their photos of themselves are in the darkroom of Satan’s laboratory. When they are born again, Light shines in that “darkroom” and what develops should be a picture of Jesus, not an image of Lucifer who lurks unseen in the darkness.

  Adam was created in the image of God. He was stillborn in the image of Satan. Adam’s soul was aborted when he ate contaminated fruit, but it survived as a mutated “birth” in the image of Lucifer. Sin damaged two things: Adam’s soul and his flesh. His mind was willing to do as it pleased.

  Adam was created with glorified flesh in the very image of Jesus. However, original sin was that “first” birth that Nicodemus wondered about. Sin despoiled Adam’s flesh and through Eve, the mother of mankind, all flesh was spoiled. Rebirth is a process beginning with the photo. This is what we should look like. That “photo” bears an image of Jesus, and Christians begin to look more like Jesus with rebirth.

  The first to go is the old mind. As the key verse indicates, “We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.”

  The soul is the “cup” that holds the Living Water of the Spirit. Looking at that photo of Jesus and desiring to be like Him, empties that “cup” of its contents. The spirit of Satan is miscarried, and the enlightened person is imbued with a new Spirit — the very Ghost of Jesus!

  God shines Light into the darkroom of Satan and Lucifer is exposed as the liar that he is. When Satan is exposed, God is revealed. That original image of God is still in the picture, but when the darkness is removed, it can be clearly seen. The beginning of regeneration is revealing the image that God created. It was there all the time but living in darkness. No longer the child of Satan the person born again, again becomes a child of God. (No, we are not all God’s children, as some claim!)

  Not only did Satan instill his own spirit in Adam and Eve but his mind as well. The first thing that Jesus does is to save the mind of the sinner from the devil. He demonstrated that power by the Temptations in the wilderness. Those with the mind of God can overcome Satan and at the same time overcome the world. The Temptations of Jesus was about Jesus overcoming Satan and the world using the Mind of God!

  What Christians call “salvation” is that the “spirit” is safe from Satan and his wiles. Since Jesus propitiated His blood for remission of “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25), it is safe to say that rebirth is salvation of the mind in that the mind of converts grow in harmony with the Mind of God.

  Christians, according to John, should begin to pattern themselves to the picture of Jesus, and do things according to His image. With illuminated people walking in a new Light, rather than the false light of Lucifer, they have a new nature. Those who are reborn walk, talk, and think like Jesus. If they do not, they surely maintain their old nature given to them by Satan when he intercourse with our antecedents.

  Of course, for converts, life is not in Paradise when the regeneration process begins. They still abide in the world, but God provides a coat of flesh to keep converts safe from Satan and to aid in overcoming the world.

  When Adam sinned, not only did his soul die, but his and Eve’s flesh changed. They gave up their incorruptible flesh for corrupted. They were unglorified, and that is why God provided them protection with “coats of skin” (Gen 3:25). Those coats were temporary until they obtain new flesh which “fits” their new mind. The Spirit of God provides a new nature. With bright eyes, they now see that they need to please God rather than force themselves to obey!

  Conversion is saved from sin and that Satan cannot abort those who are reborn. He can still, however, encourage Christians to abort themselves, just as he tried with Job. After all, they perceive themselves as God, why could they not kill their own soul?

  Faith keeps Christians alive until he or she overcomes the world, just as Jesus did. To do that requires thinking and doing as Jesus taught and modeled. He left a picture to model after in the Word. When you see Jesus, you should see God and the new you. Jesus is the image of God and we are to be as well! That is the “Spirit that He (God) has given you” from the key verses.

  Conversion is saved from Satan “killing” you again. He can touch your flesh, but never your spirit. Only you can expel the Spirit of God and inflate it again with the breath of Lucifer. That coat of safety is to aid in preventing the Serpent from killing you again — making him flee from you through the Word of God (Jas 4:7).

  That helps things! Your mind does not linger so much on the things of the world as the things of God. Your mind in Christ until you die, makes it, “to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). Because your new image is a photo of Christ that remained intact, then at death, in addition to the mind, the soul is saved and is in the image of Christ whose Holy Ghost left Him after His Purpose was finished. Like Jesus, death finished our purposes here on Earth, and our souls are rewarded in the invisible realm of heaven.

  Two images of God are preserved at death: You might say that your mind and soul have been saved from the wiles of Satan, but there is one other substance that you will need for Paradise. In “Glory Land” you well be blessed with glorified flesh. Satan’s corruptible flesh that he birthed you with will be returned to the elements from which it came, and finally Jesus, when the time comes, will snatch up those elemental substances and will generate new glorified flesh like Adam had in the Garden. It will be incorruptible, and then the resurrected (regenerated) person will have immortal flesh to match the immortal soul. Hence, “regeneration” is not a one-time event for a short mind-changing conversion, but a long process from the moment that your mind gets the picture, it develops, your mind gradually changes, you have a new Spirit, your soul is saved, and lastly, your flesh.

  Only then, is the Christian reborn entirely in the image of God — in Mind, Spirit, and Flesh. That regenerated image will no longer be a “photo” but the real thing — an image of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. That is why Christians are baptized in their new image (Mat 28:19), not baptizing them in water per se, but in the Spirit of God and the image of Jesus unto the Mind of God.

(picture credit: "shutterstock.com")