GENERATION AND DEGENERATION

 

THE DEGENERATION OF THE CHURCH

 

Just as mankind degenerated into ‘beasts’ with one sin, the church has degenerated into the Beast in thousands of years. Jesus said to Peter about Himself, “Upon this Rock I will build my Church; and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat 16:18).

Catholics say that the Church was built on Peter (Greek; Petros) while the Church was really built on the Rock (Petra). Language is awkward at times, Petros is not plural but the root noun. Petra is the feminine form of masculine Petros.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church is the ‘Pope,’ or ‘Papa’ (father). They claim that Peter was the first Pope, or father of the Church.

The Church is feminine; Jesus said, “The days will come, when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days” (Mark 2:20). The ‘Groom’ is taken to be Jesus, as most theologians understand, and the ‘Bride’ the Church. Jesus asked, “Can you make the children of the Bridechamber fast, while the Bridegroom is with them?” (Luke 5:34).

The ‘Bridechamber’ would be the Invisible Church and the Bride, those who say they are ‘Brides.’ Of course, the parable of the brides has both brides that are ready and those who think they are prepared for the wedding appropriately enough.

As the story goes, many thought they were ‘brides’ but just a few were!

For the first point, the ‘Bridegroom’ is the masculine head of the Church and it was not Peter. How so? The ‘Brides’ are those waiting for Christ — Petra — the feminine form for the ‘Rock.’ They are those who would be ‘married’ to Jesus.

Paul wrote about spiritual marriage, “Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God” (Rom 7:4).

Jews were ‘married’ to the Law. Christians, according to Paul, are married to the One who died and was raised from the dead. That ‘marriage,’ again according to Paul, “should bring forth fruit unto God.”

I checked on the meaning of marriage in that context. I was expecting to see something associated with coupling! Not, so, the Greek word is ‘ginomai’ — “caused to be regenerated” (Strong 2006). The marriage of the Bride to the Bridegroom is not ‘marriage’ (gameo), meaning to wed, but to become One with Christ, or ‘born again’ — “engendered from above” (ibid).

Therefore, the ‘Bride’ — the Church — are of the gens of God just as Jesus is the ‘Son of God.’ Just as Adam shared his image, most assuredly his genes, that he received from God, Paul meant by bringing our fruits to God that Christians are to share their gens from their regeneration from Jesus.

To be blunt, it was not by Paul’s marriage and semen that the Church was formed but the blood and waters from the Belly of Jesus who sowed the Good Seed on Calvary. (Paul was never married.)

So how about the degeneration of the Church. It should be when the ginomai ceases. Again, not to be nasty, but ginomai literally means “to come,” according to linguist Justin J. Petrick. Therefore, marriage to Jesus means coming to Him, not the other way around. In fact, all that the Greeks needed to do was demonstrated when they said to Philip, “Sir, we would see Jesus” (John 12:21).

Of course, even sinners could see Jesus and remain unscathed, but the Greeks were seeking to see the Face of God that God had hidden from Moses. The Church, therefore, is a multitude of people from all nations that see Jesus as the Face of God.

Those Greeks saw Jesus as God and became part of the Church. The proof of their ‘regenesis’ is them bringing forth good fruit from God. How can a ‘bride’ of Christ know that they are ‘married’ to Jesus, having become one with Him? Jesus revealed how to know, “Herein is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so, shall you be my disciples” (John 15:8).

Jesus was speaking of that ginomai from Him that we are to share with others. We are to sow the seed that Jesus shared with mankind on the Cross. Disciples are not only followers and learners but ‘spreaders’ of the ginomai. The Church is built on spreading ginomai, and the material for the Church is “lively stones” (1 Pet 2:5).

So, here is the third type of ‘stone’ from the Greek — lithos, or small stones with zoa — that are alive!

Think of a lithograph. It is the image of a person or other object chemically reproduced on stone. We know from scripture that graven images are not to be made, (Exod 20:4). Lithography uses a greasy substance to draw objects on stone. They are not engraved but parts of the surface of the stone become more susceptible to ink than others. They are drawn, not by hands, but by the agency of God!

‘Lively stones’ would be those drawn by the Hand of God. The ‘stones’ would have God engraved into their being; the lithos being the pebbles (Christians) on which they plainly see the Face of God and see it is Jesus!

The Book of Genesis is about God making two ‘lively stones’ (Lithos that have come alive) and them soon degenerating. It continues with the progeny of those two lively stones (images of God) becoming more and more depraved. Their assignment was not to create anyone; God would do that, but only to spread the genes of God to the little Lithos (Pebbles) that He would make.

Eve took it upon herself to spread the ginomai of God and as a result the genetics of God that she received from Adam spreading them, she decided to do herself (Gen 4:1). In one generation, man had degenerated to a beast as Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

With that background it should be plain to see that things were made perfect, but afterward all things degenerated in the world. Adam and his mate had a propensity to sin, but God slowed it down with coats of skin (Gen 3:27). However, up until the time of Jesus, the history or mankind was more and more degenerative. Indeed, we have evolved, but according to the science, it would not be toward improvement but chaos.

Since this is getting lengthy, tomorrow I will continue with the degeneration of the Church and begin with the seven churches of Asia.

 

 

THE ROMAN GODHEAD

 

THE HOUSE OF THE CONFUSED

The last episode of Jesus and the disciples, of whom I wrote, was about the Roman government being antitypical of the Regime of God in Heaven. They would each be ruled by a ‘trinity’ of sorts, the Holy Trinity of the Godhead and the Roman triumvirate, the first of which was the three-in-one of Pompeius, Crassus, and Julius, the latter whose cognomen was ‘Caesar.’

The second triumvirate was more formal: Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus. Just as Julius arose from the first triumvir to be ‘Caesar,’ Octavian arose to become a ‘Caesar’ as well. There was one problem, Octavian was adopted and not of the house of Julii, so he was only a ‘Caesar,’ by adoption.

Technically, there was no further triumvirates — three persons, ruling as one.

In this caper, the mother of Zebedee’s children came to Jesus. She had a vision! She wanted for her two children to be fellow-rulers with King Jesus and essentially sitting with Jesus on his throne surrounded by her two sons. She was endeavoring to establish a godhead of her own, failing to see that Jesus was the cornerstone of the Godhead. Jesus, being the one that the builders rejected, or as Jesus said it, “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the Head of the corner” (Mat 21:42).

Zebedee’s wife was doing the usual thing; what has become known as ‘court intrigue,’ where members of the court attempt to become royalty without regard to their genetics. She was doing a very Roman thing!

Note that the woman was essentially asking Jesus a favor; to make her sons next in line to Jesus, first one son, then the other.

She soon got her wish, but it would not be her sons. By a miracle, out of the ashes of Rome, after Nero Caesar burned it down, the three seceding Caesar’s were gone speedily as if by a wind: Gala, Otho, and Vitellius. You have never heard of them because their reigns were short lived. Then came a sort of triumvirate: Vespasian, and his two sons, Titus and Domitian; finally ending the house of Julii.

The triumvirates had served their purposes for both Rome and for God. The first and second triumvirate mocked God because there were three ‘Caesar’s on one throne.” Julius Caesar arose from the first triumvirate as the head on one throne, and Octavian, not even a Julian, arose from the ‘ashes’ of the second triumvirate.

Then Nero burned Rome to the ground and blamed it on the Christians. Out of the actual ashes arose Vespasian, the father of his two sons who would become Caesars.

They were not a triumvirate. They were a legitimate house of Flavians who served one after another.

Now, think of the Godhead in the same way as the House of Flavian. Never, were the Julii Caesar’s at the same time. One seceded the other. In the beginning, there was the father, Vespasian. He was visible on the throne and was the central figure or ‘head’ of the Julian dynasty.

During the reign of Vespasian, the focal point of the Roman Empire was not so much Rome but the area, called, ‘Syria’ at that time. After setting up Syria, Vespasian took his seat on the throne in Rome. Is this getting to sound familiar? His son, Titus, became the ‘right hand’ with the same autority of his father and his seat was in Jerusalem.

During the War with the Jews, Titus was quite visible as he was present there in history. Of course, Vespasian was on the Caesarian throne in Rome. Where was Domitian?

He was several places, and historians say “perhaps” was under the care of Titus, or even his own successor, Nerva. Not knowing for sure, the location of Domitian at that crucial time, made him seem to be invisible. You may now begin to see where this is headed.

Domitian was the invisible power who aided and abetted both the father and the son, Vespasian and Titus, respectively. He was being set up to be the third person of the House of Flavius to be one of the three Caesar’s, and who were effectively the godhead of Rome as well since the House of Caesar were also Pontifices Maximus — High Priests of the college of Pontiffs. They were ‘Lord of lords’ so to speak, and as Caesar’s were ‘King of kings’ that ruled kingdoms by proxies.

After the Romans destroyed the Herodians and claimed that empire as fully theirs, as usual the Roman ruler who defeated the enemy would have a Triumphal March. It was the custom of Rome since the beginning of the empire. Now read about the triumphal entry of Titus after becoming victorious: 

But what made the most splendid appearance in Titus's opinion was, when his father met him, and received him; but still the multitude of the citizens conceived the greatest joy when they saw them all three together (Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian), as they did at this time; nor were many days overpast when they determined to have but one triumph, that should be common to both of them, on account of the glorious exploits they had performed, although the senate had decreed each of them a separate triumph by himself. (Josephus, The War of the Jews, Book VII, chapter V, paragraph 3)

 That was the plan but as it turned out, somebody was missing: 

Vespasian and Titus came out crowned with laurel, and clothed in those ancient purple habits which were proper to their family, and then went as far as Octavian's Walks; for there it was that the senate, and the principal rulers, and those that had been recorded as of the equestrian order, waited for them. Now a tribunal had been erected before the cloisters, and ivory chairs had been set upon it, when they came and sat down upon them. Whereupon the soldiery made an acclamation of joy to them immediately, and all gave them attestations of their valor; while they were themselves without their arms, and only in their silken garments, and crowned with laurel: then Vespasian accepted of these shouts of theirs; but while they were still disposed to go on in such acclamations, he gave them a signal of silence. And when every body entirely held their peace, he stood up, and covering the greatest part of his head with his cloak, he put up the accustomed solemn prayers; the like prayers did Titus put up also; after which prayers Vespasian made a short speech to all the people, and then sent away the soldiers to a dinner prepared for them by the emperors. (ibid; paragraph 4)

 Of course, their many gods were missing, but Domitian was supposed to have been there but was not mentioned. He was surely there, however, but there was no chair set for him, nor did he have a royal performance, as did the father and the son. Hopefully, you can see where this is headed.

Unknown to the Romans this time only, the Triumph was marked in three persons, one of which was not recognized like the other two.

On this one occasion, the Triumphal March was made like the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. There were two steeds that were observed in the Triumph of Jesus. He was riding one, one seemed empty, and there was one that was essentially invisible.

The empty ass was for the Father, the colt was for the Son, and not seen was the Holy Ghost who was in Jesus since he had yet to be glorified (revealed; John 7:39).

Hopefully, the reader can understand that the Triumphal Entry of Vespasian and his sons mocked the Triumphal Entry of Jesus. Or perhaps, it may have been so that Christians could better understand just who it was that rode in Triumph into Jerusalem for accolades even before the final victory over the adversary.

Now let’s return to the mother of Zebedee’s two sons: James and John: 

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him. And He said unto her, “What wants you?”

She said unto Him, “Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom…”

And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, “You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.” (Mat 20-21; 24-25) 

Their mother entirely missed the point; Jesus was not come to make a ‘House of Yahweh’ but an ‘orphanage’ for the lost children of God — the Jews and the Gentiles.

The House of God would be torn down, not by Titus, but by the Jews themselves. We think of the Jews as horrible people, but that empire was made to introduce Jesus to the world. Titus did defeat the Jews, but it was the same bunch of Jews that killed Jesus (the ‘malefactors) that would tear down the Temple — the House of God.

The Triumph of Jesus would be that He saved the people of the nations — Jew and Gentile, and the triumph of the House of Flavius was that they saved at least one wall of the House of God, the one western wall where children of God still pray.

Note also that Jesus rode in Triumph, not to war like a dictator on a white horse, but to serve mankind. He was the ‘Holocaust’ that was burned when He went to Hell to deliver sin and Satan. Out of the grace, He arose glorified; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost that had become undone at the crucifixion was redone.

Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian saved the empire after Nero burned it down, and with that accomplished, the House of Julii was replaced with the House of Flavius.

The same was done with Jesus; before the Temple was the House of God and after the crucifixion, Jesus was the House of God, not made of stone and mortar, but ‘lively stones’ (1 Pet 2:5) with Jesus as the Cornerstone in the manner of Vespasian.

With that background, perhaps now the reader understands the Kingdom that God built and ruled and how the three homeostasis of the Godhead are Yahweh, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost of Jesus; and that the Flavian Dynasty symbolized the Christian Godhead.

Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian were in homeostasis, of ‘similar status,’ while each were stopped where they were. [1]

Zebedee’s wife was thinking of an empire and court like the one that would come after Herod’s Temple was torn down. Ironically, as it turned out, the House of Flavii was just as she imagined, except it was not Jesus and her sons, but Vespasian and his sons.

The House of Jesus is the one that He built. It was not an oligarchy, but a House of Servants that God built on the ruins of Jerusalem!

In Christ is part of the Court of the Godhead, and therein all subjects are of the Royal Priesthood (1 Pet 2:9), not just James and John.

Now you know why God picked the Flavians for Gentile Christians to better understand the Godhead.

 

 

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[1] Here, I refer to the symbolism of the ‘God Coin’ from my video. On the obverse is the head and the reverse whatever the reverse may be. When the coin is spun and in dynamics, the head and tails remain unseen until it is stopped to reveal either heads or tails, never both together. That is the example of homeostasis of the head (Jesus), the back parts, (Yahweh), and the dynamics of the power, ‘Virtue’ (the Holy Spirit,)

ROME PATTERNED AFTER GOD'S KINGDOM

The parable of the workers was about nothing else but the Kingdom of God (Mat 20:1). There, Christ is King and He revealed that it is His Kingdom to do as He sees fit to do. He was revealing to the crowd that He would be the judge of who gets what and how long they must endure to obtain the Kingdom. He would be the ‘Dictator’ in a manner of speaking.

Of course, in the parable, Jesus was using an estate to make His point. It does so very eloquently because the Kingdom of His is in heaven — in another realm (John 18:36).

His Estate would be very much like the householder’s in the parable. Most people have not noticed but the Roman Kingdom became much like the Kingdom of Heaven in that the latter came first. Jesus even compared His Kingdom to the estate of a certain householder (Mat 20:1). He had one in mind, it seems. That householder in the Greek was oikodespotes, meaning “head of the family.” In the end, the householder treated those that he hired as he would his family; they all received the same pay without regard to which came first. (He ignored the Law of Primogeniture, the natural law.)

Now, rather than considering who worked most, think of the workers as family. By the Law of Primogeniture, the one who came first would get the entire estate. Throughout history, the Hebrews mostly determined an inheritance by which son came first. For example, Esaw came first, but eventually, Jacob stole his birthright that belonged to Esaw by the Law of Primogeniture (Gen 25:33).

However, the Romans did not have that law. Usually, the estate was given to each child equally. Who came first in Roman  Law was not of concern nor even if the person was biological family or not.

As it turned out, Jacob, then called ‘Israel,’ divided the birthright that he stole from Esaw. Each of his ‘sons,’ even his two adopted sons, sons of Joseph, received nearly an equal portion. As it turned out, all but Judah and Benjamin had their share squandered and the other ten heirs disappeared to history. They sold their birthrights by sinning.

Jesus likened heaven to a householder. That householder could have been Caesar since God patterned the Roman Empire after Israel. How so? Throughout history, according to Livy’s History of Rome (or Ab Urbe Condita). The Roman Empire, as it evolved through time, was ruled by a series of kings, councils, and dictators until it had one ‘King of kings’ — Augustus Caesar who was a dictator turned emperor.

The word ‘Caesar’ comes from the Latin, meaning ‘head of hair.’ (Caesar Family History). It began as a family name, and soon all Caesar’s afterward adopted that name so often that it became a title for about any head of an empire. The titles Tzar, Kaiser, and Czar; among others, came from that family name. Most leaders prefer to be called a ‘Caesar’ than a dictator for obvious reasons!

The first known ‘Caesar’ was Sextus Julius Caesar of the house of Julii — the progenitor of the non-genetic house of Caesar.

Tiberius was adopted, so genetically, he was not Julian nor did he deserve the cognomen (nickname) that reflected their origin.

For instance, Tiberius Caesar was adopted, but by adoption, he was still a Caesar. The Kingdom of Heaven uses that same cognomen. God — the heavenly ‘Caesar’ (King of kings) “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the beloved” (Ephes 1:4-5).

That is by the same process as Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus was adopted by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (Octavian Caesar). Tiberius was the step-son of the ‘householder’ Augustus Caesar and carried on the family name although it was not his genetic identity, or family.

That was no coincidence. God created empires for His specific reasons. He had created the Assyrian Empire to cleanse the genetics of Jacob’s rebellious sons, and the Babylonians to purify the genetics of the sons of Judah and Benjamin. After those chores were accomplished, God then created the Hellenistic Empire (Greece) to make the Jews sorry they were ever born!

By the time of the Roman Empire, the Davidian household, from the genes of Abraham, had been shattered, leaving only an ethnarchy — Judea. The Jewish Empire had once been the great Davidian Empire, and only Jews — the ethnarch Hebrews — had disappeared from history. (Ethnarch points toward genetic Jewry.)

The final straw was when God created the Herodian Empire to bring the Jews to their knees. Although he was ‘Herod the Great’ because of his accomplishments, he made a name for himself by trying to finally terminate even the thoughts of a Davidian Kingdom’ then along came Jesus, the ‘son of David’ and heir to the throne of David.

Jesus was born King of kings. He was the supernatural born ‘Caesar’ and Judea was His household on Earth.

Just like the early kings of Rome created the Caesarian Dynasty, the early kings of all of Israel created the Davidian Dynasty. David was a ‘Caesar’ as the youngest son of Jesse. That was in the works for centuries, as Paul reminded us, “Esaias said, ‘There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles trust” (Rom 15:12).

When Jesse sired his children, the Kingdom of God was established. The Kingdom of Jesus had Jesse as it’s root, or as a ‘Caesar.’  God always uses later sons, as He did with David and Jacob long before him, even Moses rather than Aaron. Plus, God cared little whether they were real or adopted sons, so long as He was their God.

Ancient history reveals that Mose (Moses) may have been the son of the Pharoah, Ahmose. He was the actual son of Amran, but he would have carried the cognomen ‘Mose’ after his adopted father Ahmose.  As a king under Pharoah, Moses would be of Pharoah — “The Great House.” Hence, Moses was not his name but his cognomen.

The point to all this history is that God usually created ‘Houses’ with various ‘householders’ and that the parable was not just about any estate, but the governments that God created; specifically the ‘Householder’ Caesar and his heirs.

To wrap up that thesis, consider the House of Julii when the Herod’s ruled the part of Syria around Jerusalem. Herod was king of Judea and surrounding areas. Other parts of Syria had their kings. All those kings reported to Caesar, who by the time of the end of the Herodians (AD 70) were Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; each Caesars one after another — the father and his two sons, consecutively.

As Jesus died, a new type of Caesar began to be molded, on the order of the Godhead. As the old way was destroyed (the Temple) an invisible empire took its place. It, however, was made visible. Vespasian and his two sons symbolized the ‘godhead.’

Vespasian was the father general who became the Householder of the Roman Empire. He too was a Caesar of the House of Flavius; it was a new beginning (dynasty), but he too kept the title Caesar.

While Vespasian was in Rome on his throne, his son Titus was in Judea and had the authority of his father. According to tradition, according to Josephus, Titus would have been the right hand (in authority) of Caesar and in the absence of Caesar, Titus would have effectively been Caesar.

The same applies to his son, Domitian. His role was more of a governor of foreign interests. He too, in the absence of Caesar, was Caesar. He too was Caesar’s right hand, so to speak.

After defeating the Jews, Vespasian’s Triumphal March into Rome included himself and both his sons, Titus and Domitian. In effect, they were a ‘godhead’ on the order of the Holy Trinity; them even having the title of Pontifex Maximus which is essentially Lord of lords. As King of kings Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian were Caesar’s that marched in triumph.

Compare that to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Vespasian was the father, Titus the son who appeared in person in Judea, and Domitian who never showed his face there!

Of course, they were not real Caesars, being Flavians, and not real Lord of lords, but God patterned that new House of Flavians, not after dictators, but the Regime of God Himself.

After a major victory, it was usually accompanied by a triumphal march to Rome by whoever the general or leader happened to be. This one time, all three leaders appeared to march in triumph over their enemies, rather than one at a time.

The Flavian Dynasty was a facsimile of the Davidian Dynasty of Jesus. Not only did they have their godhead, but marched in triumph in the manner of Jesus.

After Jesus defeated death, in the company of the once dead man, Lazarus, something very Romanish happened:

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, “Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the Name of the Lord” and Jesus, when He had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.” (John 12:12-15)

Note who was on that colt and its mother ass? (Mat 21:2). Jesus was on the colt. Nobody was riding the ass, or not? Jesus came in the Name of the Lord.

The Son was riding the colt, but on the mother of the colt, sat God, the Father, it seems. Everyone has come up with geriatrics about how Jesus may have rode on two steeds, but the empty one was surely reserved for the Father, just as Vespasian was in the Triumphal March as well!

Where was the Domitian figure, the Holy Ghost? He needed no steed because of the baptism of John; Jesus and His Ghost rode together as Sons of God in One.

In the process of time, Vespasian and both his sons sat on the throne in Rome. No longer were the two the right hands of their father, but acted as their father, having the authority of Caesar as they became Caesar’s, thus the concept of three-in-one.

That is not to say that God copied His Realm from the Romans, but that he rebuilt Rome according to His Realm!

Whereas the Flavians had just defeated Jerusalem and would make a new life there, the resurrection of Lazarus proved that Jesus would do the same for us.

 

 

ADVENTURES IN BODEDOM - Excitement 1

DEPLANING DAH PLANE:

As a teenager I was often on the tractor. I often dreamed of any beautiful young girl, walking through the field, suddenly hurrying through the furrows of soil toward me. That was a dream; that girl nor any at all ever came. My life was boring, but it was adventurous.

Today is about my adventures in airporting. Again, it was when I was bored.

I was sitting quietly in the tarmac waiting area, reading I suppose, because that was what I always did. Well, not always, as a backyard mechanic, I often laid beneath my car. My secretary, years before, had asked me, “Why do you always begin your stories with I was under the car?”

That day I was not under the car; I was sitting inside the tarmac doing what I often did when I was not under the car. My business was the car, specifically General Motors cars.

As I looked past all the invisible characters walking by, I could see through the windows at Nashville International Airport. I liked to look at the excitement outside, as if there was any excitement there.

I could hear the roar of a jet engine. I did not look up. Roaring engines are common at huge airports. What else should I expect at an international airport?

I grew up in the era of low-flying bombers and sonic booms. The roar of an engine would not startle me anymore than me taking a swipe at a pesky low-flying bumblebee.

Now occupied by whatever magazine that I could find in a seat, or perhaps even a newspaper from a distant city; the roar turned into a kaboom as the jet decelerated from maybe 500 miles per hour to a dead stop in about 1 nano-second. That did sound serious, and I was encouraged by all the startled people to get up as the herd ran to the window to see gravity in action.

My mind was already occupied by a crooked politician in New York City. That was more interesting to me than a rumored plane crash! This is just one of my eight-million stories that I have of my adventures in boredom.

You may think that I should have been interested but it was 1996. I had lost my interest in airports beginning with an early adventure.

Between my high school graduation until my first year in college, I had worked at Weir Cook Airport in Indianapolis. It is now Indianapolis International Airport.

Speaking of boredom, my job that summer was mowing the grass along  the streets and between the runways at that huge airport. It was so large that my partner and I would never finish before we had to start all over. I saw everything imaginable, but this one time it was me.

I didn’t know it, not because I am stupid, but was never informed; no vehicle could cross a runway without a safety light from the tower.

Remember the beginning of my story? That could have been me.

I had finished mowing one landing strip field and had headed to the garage headquarters for lunch.

I normally peed while I was mowing, me acting as if I was working on the tractor. I usually waved to those on the big planes whose eyes had invaded my 400-acre restroom.

I sit there on my big blue Ford Tractor on what many would consider a throne. This airport was mine! I was king of Weir Cook that day!

I pulled up to the edge of the runway and stopped short as I should. On either side of the tractor were runway lights. Expecting nothing from my left, I looked to my right… nothing was coming except a Boeing 747. It was taxiing toward the building after landing on the landing strip. There was always a landing and a taxi strip, one opposed to the other in direction.

Not that I was stupid enough to race a 747 landing that day; but I was stupid enough to race a 747 taxiing that day. I was doing a stupid thing, but I was a country boy in the city. I often did really stupid things. 

I won! All the people on board were proud of me. I could see them waving. I was their hero! There eyes were bulged with admiration for sure.

My glory lasted about 33-1/3 seconds. With lights flashing, a speeding police car was soon beside me. Surely, he was proud of my adventure in stupidity, but he was not very impressed.

It was an airport policeman. He had authority to ticket me. If it had been international at that time, I would still be lingering in some federal prison. I got off with a stern warning and the cop became my friend. Stupid people need friends!

If I had lost the race, you know, the one that I was showing off during May of 1967, I would have heard a big boom; a boom much like the boom that I did hear nearly thirty-years later in a place far away from Indy — Nashville, Tennessee.

At Indy, the sirens and flashing lights got my attention. Years later, not even the boom got my attention for long. I was too interested in that crook in New York City to care why everybody was running toward the window right in front of me.

Nearly thirty years of travel had made me numb to the goings on at airports. I had seen and heard it all, and I was not about to get up just to see what sounded like a crash. What if it was just a boom; then the crook in New York would not have gotten recognition from me!

Later that evening, I heard about it. I had been right there, but was too preoccupied to even glance through the window. I had been so acclimated to the boredom of the airport that I had missed the most exciting thing that ever happened there; not that crashing a plane was exciting, but can you imagine the pilot? Can you imagine how fast that plane landed, nose straight down.

The pilot saw a crash like he would never see again. At least he died a hero. There is a fine line between idiots and heroes, and he may have defined it.

Years later, I read the news. That is what I always have done. I had missed the action because I was too busy reading.

A friend of mine was asked when we traveled on one occasion, “Do you prefer a seat to the front or rear?” My friend remarked, “I don’t care; they get there about the same time, don’t they?”

That day, that jet’s rear did get there about the same time as its front. My colleague, stupid as he was, realized that given enough impact, the front and rear do get there about the same time!

My friend did ask for a backseat, though. He had never heard of a plane backing into a mountain, he assured the woman at the ticket counter. For the Jet pilot, that would not matter.

For those who are young, reading is what earlier generations would do before they had memes. Get the picture?

I learned about what I had missed later that day. I always complained about boredom and how slow cows eat, but I was not curious enough to even look up.

The Navy said today that a pilot was probably showing off for his parents when he crashed an F-14A jet fighter in Nashville in January, killing himself, a fellow officer and three people on the ground. (Weiner, 1996)

 The pilot was showing off to impress his parents. I raced a 747 to impress the people on the plane. I saw the pilot of that plane. I could read his lips… “You stupid blankety blank!!!!!” (He used five exclamation points, as I could tell from his grinding teeth.)

I feel sorry for the guy, not the 747 pilot, but the kamikaze guy in the F-14A jet fighter…  and the situation is not funny! It does remind me of showing off for the passengers on that 747 so many years before. It could have been me that went from 33 miles per hour to zero in 20 seconds.

Most of my adventures throughout my boring life were because of showing off. Just think of how dull my life would have been without these two stories.

Us country boys would entertain ourselves by listening to the corn growing during the heat of early July. Yes, you can hear corn growing if you listen very closely.

In 1964 Coatesville, Indiana, about all there was for boys to do was listen to the corn growing. I guess in between, we also listened to the soybeans throwing, as was the custom in that farming community. (We would climb atop Brown’s Drug Store and throw beans onto the roof of cars that stopped at our only stop sign. (You should have heard the clatter!)

There are many airport stories in my life. I will someday write about the woman dying to meet me. I will tell you about jumping the freeway in a rental car to make the plane. I will write about my boss irritating a man just because of his color. I will tell you about how I found a seat on a full plane. I will tell you about all the things that were so boring.

One of my students — a young girl — called herself, “The girl without a life.” Life is there if you dare look around.

Note: There were five people who died that day. This is not intended to diminish the loss of precious human lives, but heaven is just the other side of death, so this is a reminder that we must be vigilant. 

 

 

 

 

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

In the parable of the workers, some were hired early and some later, but at the end of the day, they all received the same wages. So, it is with Jesus; He is the ‘Husbandman’ that pays the wages and the condition for payment is the same thing without regard for the duration of the work performed by the workers. Jesus explained Himself, “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen” (Mat 20:16).

Paul wrote, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:23). Consider the penny in the parable a ‘gift.’

Jesus had said to the late arriving laborers, “Go you also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.” (Mat 20:4). For the first crew, Jesus had made a contract with them, “He had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day” (Mat 20:2).

Jesus saw men idle at the eleventh hour of the workday, He said, “Whatsoever is right, that shall you receive” (Mat 20:7). It was for Jesus to determine the wages for each of the crews without regard to the amount of time they worked. Each man got what was right, not in their eyes, but the eyes of the householder.

Compare that to salvation which comes at the end of the Day of the Lord. Zechariah the prophet saw it coming, “Behold, the day of the Lord comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you” (Zech 14:1). Malachi wrote about it coming as well, then there was silence for more than four-hundred years, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Mal 4:5).

In the Old Testament, the Day of the Lord was thought to be a terrible day (e.g., Amos 5:20). It is also written, “Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he has bid his guests” (Zeph 1:7). The parable of the workers is a lesson about who He can invite to the Estate and their payment. For some, they will get their due and others get theirs by grace.

The ‘penny’ represents the reward at the end of the day. The householder paid all the workers the same at twelfth hour although some had worked all day and others one hour. The former group got what they contracted for, and the last group got whatever the master wanted to give to them; for them, it was not a contract but trusting the master would treat them fairly!

The Hebrews came first to the ‘Estate’ of God. God covenanted with them; their reward would be the land from the river to the sea; the same property that Palestinians still struggle with the Jews about.

On the Day of the Lord, the Jews will get their pay. It is God’s Estate and He contracted with Abraham about their payment thousands of years ago. Israel is what is left of their ‘penny’ after inflation, so to speak. That is because the Hebrews did not tend to the Garden as Adam’s kind were commanded to do. They were lazy and let the Philistines do what they contracted to do.

At the end of the day — the Day of the Lord — whatever hour that comes, the latecomers get the same pay. That is by the Covenant of Grace.

Jesus told the latecomers, “Whatsoever is right, that shall you receive” (Mat 20:7). There was no contract. They did not demand that they receive anything. They merely thought that the householder, Jesus, would be fair.

As it turned out with the late-arriving workers, Jesus was more than fair. He was generous with them. Note that the early-comers were paid their due, so why should they complain? They trusted the master to abide by the contract, and he did so. The same applies to the Abrahamic Contract for the Jews.

In the history of the world, Christians are the late-arriving workers. Coming late, they should be happy with whatever Jesus has in mind for them. Although not an official contract, as with Abraham, there was a settlement for not only the end of the day but the entire Estate at the end of the Age, to wit: “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephes 2:8-9).

That was not really a Covenant but a promise. With Abraham, there would be grace because of the faith of Abraham, but by the time of Moses, the Covenant was made a contract by the Law of God, “I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people” (Lev 26:12).

The Mosaic Law was that His people would work until the end of the ‘day’ and they would receive their reward because it was due them. Their day would be longer, however. At the end of their ‘day’ 144,000 of them would be paid although they came to the ‘garden’ early (Rev 7:4). For those who fail to make it, it will be a terrible day and for those who do make it, a great day. Of all the Jews who ever existed without knowing their Messiah, none will make it. Add to those who were dead in the Messiah, only 144,000 more would have the grace of God.

Messianic Jews such as the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were ‘grandfathered’ in because they walked with God, or at least the righteous ones did. They were kept safe in Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16) until the Lord’s Day after which they will be saved in the Bosom of Jesus.

The ‘Great Day’ for the Jews will be when the first to come, finally get their pay promised by the Abrahamic contract.  The 144,000 since the Law was abridged will get their underserved reward by the grace of God for what they do not do! That is to refuse the mark of the Beast.

The prophet Joel wrote, “The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come” (Joel 2:31). That day was for the Jews after that event. John saw that terrible day, “I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the Sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth” (Rev 6:12-13).

That surely will be the “terrible day of the Lord’ when many are destroyed, and true to form, Elijah did come before that time (at the transfiguration). However, even after Elijah had come and even after the crucifixion, the “great and notable day of the Lord,” had still not come (Acts 2:20). The great day and the terrible day were not on the same day. They were possibly millennia apart.

The terrible day of the Lord is described in the letter to Peter, “But 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). That corresponds with John’s Revelation as well.

For the ones puffed up by the spirit of fornication, Paul wrote that he was, “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1 Cor 5:5). He would deliver the flesh to destruction, but the Spirit would be saved at the end of the day. When is that day? That implies that the old flesh is never saved but born again with an engendering by God above.

For those who came late to work, it was too late to do much work, but they will receive the same wage, “Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it” (Acts 28:28). What shall the Gentiles do? Just hear it and ostensibly to understand what they hear.

Paul also confirmed the parable of the workers, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Rom 1:16). The Jews so far have had to earn their wage, so they thought anyhow, except for the patriarchs. The Greek (Gentiles) are ‘grandfathered’ in, not because of what work they have done, but that a Christian is a Jew inwardly, to wit: “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).

A Jew has had someone do the work of circumcision at the beginning of the ‘day.’ For a Christian no work is performed; God Himself circumcises the heart. Again, Jesus has the right to do that because He is God!

Salvation is for those who endure to the end, both Jew and Gentile, as God is not a respecter of persons. The questions are to endure what and until when? The answer is the tribulations of the world, and the when is when the souls of the righteous are saved.

The salvation of the living souls occur when Jesus comes again, “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” (1 Thes 4:16). It is the soul that gets saved; the flesh undergoes a change, “to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thes 4:17).

Thus, the Great (Noble) Day of the Lord is when Jesus comes from above to save the souls of the saints, both the living and the dead, without regard to time! Those who came last — the living — obtain their ‘pay’ without regard to their time following Jesus.

Neither the amount of work, nor the time involved, saves the otherwise damned. The end of the day is when the Lord really comes the second time… “at the coming of the Lord” (1 Thes 4:15) to save the saints that have endured to the end. The dead had to endure the world much longer than the living, but in the end, their rewards are the same. That sounds unfair, but it eliminates the competition — who worked harder and longer.

I remember when many of us built a new church building. It split, primarily because of who worked more and who paid more toward the building. Those who felt they were worth more wanted a special crown, and when it was not received, left the church.

 

THE DEVIL YOU SAY

 Heaven is not so simple, and neither is the concept of the 'Devil.' 

Surely, having made the thesis that heaven is for real and that both Paradise and Hell are in heaven; that we can move on to the existences in heaven. However, take note from the story of the rich man that there is a “great gulf,” or a massive chasm, fixed between Hell and Paradise (Luke 16:6). It is some type of invisible and impenetrable barrier, so dense that neither the person, Lazarus, nor the rich man, could see each other.

The barrier for Adam and Eve was called a ‘cave’ with walls so dark that that they could see neither the outside nor into the heavens. Therefore, there is also a massive impenetrable barrier between the world and heaven which can only be entered by death.

Both Jesus and Judas penetrated the barrier that day. The Cross was the ‘door,’ or literally, the portal to Paradise and the love of money, for Judas, the portal to Hell. Both were already at their respective doors and the death of Jesus opened the ‘door,’ so to speak when the earth quaked and was split (Mat 27:51), allowing death to enter heaven, to wit: “And (the dead) came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Mat 27:53).

Death and only the death of Jesus rent the massive barrier between the world and the heavens.

It is supposed, since it was only the dead saints who were resurrected, that it was the portal to Paradise in heaven that the death of Jesus penetrated, as such, opening the door for all that would come in, as well!

Many think that the Passover blood on the doorpost represented the Holy Cross, but more so, it opened the door to freedom. As such, the Hebrews, in a sort of ‘Hell,’ (Egypt) escaped into Paradise — the Promised Land. It was certainly not the Cross that freed mankind, but it was the ‘key’ to the door. The Cross was the key to open the door to freedom in Paradise, and that door had the blood of Jesus on its ‘curtain,’ so to speak, as the blood of Jesus flowed from the Person of God to the Mercy Seat of God.

During the Passover the Hebrews were given instructions: 

They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it…  the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you… Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, “Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover.” (Exod 12: 7, 13, 21)

 Just as their doors were the portal to freedom in another land, and they passed through the waters of the Red Sea into the Promised Land; the Cross was the key to heavenly Paradise, and the blood of Jesus was the blood of the ‘Lamb’ that kept the people safe until the door was opened.

Moses had the key to the Passover, and it was his staff that represented the key; the one that did many miracles. It was the ‘Image’ of the Serpent, as dead! “For they (all) cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods” (Exod 7:12).

Not by coincidence Judas had Satan — the ‘Serpent’ enter him — and Satan entered them all, and Cross became the staff that swallowed all the serpents of everyone.

Note that I wrote that Satan was the ‘Serpent.’ Judas had Satan enter him as it is written, “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve” (Luke 22:3).

Satan was not a person in the sense that Jesus was both God and Man, but Satan was a ‘spirit’ that entered the man, Judas.

According to Enoch, “The ‘Devil’ is the evil spirit of the lower places, as a fugitive he made Sotona (Adversary) from the heavens as his name was ‘Satanail,’ thus he became different from the angels, but his nature did not change his intelligence as far as his understanding of righteous and sinful things" (2 Enoch 31:4; parenthesis mine).

The Devil, therefore, is the dynamics of the spirit from the heavens, called ‘Satanail,’ or simply ‘Satan.’

Just as Virtue is the dynamics (dynamis in the Greek) of the Holy Spirit of God, the Devil is the dynamics of the spirit of evil from the ‘Adversary,’ Satan.  So, when Satan entered Judas, it was an adversarial Spirit, or as my great-uncle would say, “The Devil got into me.” Not so! The Spirit of Satan — his demons — get into certain sinners. In another case, it was Job, and in this case, Judas.

Satan only enters a few people that changes the course of the world. So, the Devil did not get into anyone unless you were Eve, Cain, Genun, Canaan, Nimrod, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod, Judas, Caiaphas, Nero, and so on; until modern times when Satan surely entered Marx, Hitler, Stalin, and will someday enter the last ‘Satan,’ the Antichrist. All those important people were adversaries of Christ and were and will be, ‘Antichrists.’

Just as Christ is the Image of God, Antichrists are the images of Satan. That goes back to the original, ‘Satan,’ called the ‘Serpent:’

 

1.      “The Serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made” (Gen 3:1).

a.       The Serpent in the Hebrew is ‘Nahas’ — an image much different than the Image (Selem) of God in which man was made. Adam was created glorious, but the ‘Serpent’ inglorious; hence coming short of the Glory of God. His image is encumbered with the image of a serpent — subtilty. Sinners are more like the Serpent than God. That should erode your self-esteem!

b.      Hence, the Serpent was the Image of the angel, Lucifer, that it shape-shifted into. The question is whether the image was the outward appearance or the inward spirit?

c.       Now let me introduce Lucifer: His ‘pomp,’ or arrogancy, is brought down to the grave (Sheol) (Isa 14:11).  Sheol is the place of the dead, or what is now called, “Hell.” Isaiah was seeing into time; he may have seen Satan enter Judas, and the Spirit of Jesus carry Lucifer to Hell. Isaiah saw him not as a snake but a worm; specifically a maggot among the blood of most certainly Judas.

d.      The ‘Serpent’ is figurative for the cunning (subtil) and arrogant Spirit of Lucifer. Lucifer was an angel who portended to the throne of God (Isa 14:14), so he was the ‘Adversary’ called ‘Satan.’

e.       Lucifer means the ‘Bringer of Life.’ Obviously that name was stolen from God, ‘Adoil,’ who was the real Bringer of Light, according to Enoch. Hence, the Devil, Lucifer, was a liar from the beginning and the ‘father of lies.’ Speaking of the Devil, John wrote, “He is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). The Devil, Lucifer, is the Progenitor of all liars. It was from his genes that sinners got their genes. That the father of us all is not Adam, but the Devil, makes mankind, not glorious like Adam, but iniquitous (Psalm 51:5; depraved) like Lucifer.

f.        Lucifer is the outward appearance of a certain angel in another realm. The ‘Serpent’ is the innermost identity of the angel, Lucifer, in this realm. If outward, the Serpent would have been a viper, but since it is an inward spirit, the ‘Serpent’ is nothing more than the Devil bringing Sotona (evil). The Serpent is not literally a Beast, but the nature of the beasts.

2.      Now for the word ‘subtil.’ It characterizes deception. Eve was deceived; perhaps she saw the ‘Angel of Light,’ Lucifer, but was so bewitched, that she failed to see the ‘Beast’ within him. Again, the Serpent was not a beast but the inward image of an angel that has the conscious of a beast. Nothing for beasts are conscionable.

3.      Next comes the word, ‘beast.’ A beast is ‘hay’ in the Hebrew and means ‘any living thing.’  So, the Serpent (aka Lucifer) was cleverer than any of the beasts of the field. In fact, the Serpent, Lucifer, has both the knowledge of good and evil, in contrast to Adam whose knowledge was limited to goodness (Gen 1:31). Adam had dominion over the beasts of the fields, but because of the body of knowledge of both good and evil, Lucifer could construe evil to be good. He did just that with the good fruit that was inherently evil.

Adam was to have dominion over the beasts but as it turned out, Lucifer obtained dominion over Adam, and still has dominion over mankind until this age. What do all beasts do? Whatever it is they want to do, and all those things are instinctual. When Pavlov rang the bell, the dog salivated, and tasted food that was not even there! Eve did much the same thing. Lucifer shined light into her eyes, she was beguiled with guile, and she behaved as the animals would do. Guile is decadence, and as the mother of all living, Eve was no longer of man, but of the Beast, and so are we. The Devil is therefore in us genetically but not spiritually. Jesus removed the guile within us Christians and replaces the guile with glory.

4.      The ‘field’ is the ground, or Adam in the Hebrew. Adam was a creature of the ground, and the Serpent was more cunning than the best of the best creatures of the Garden. In other words, without God, none of us can outwit, outsmart, or outlast the Beast! We are in the world fighting for our survival against the most intelligent being ever. His goal is to outdo us, and we are so silly that we think that we can outdo the Wicked One by outperforming the Beast!

The only way to defeat the Beast is to be regenned in the superlative nature of God, “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7). By grace that can happen. Until we die, we are comforted by the Holy Ghost of God (John 14:16), and Adam and Eve wore that same ‘Comforter’ from God — coats of skins (Gen 3:17). That does not take the Beast from us but controls the Beast within until our save space — Paradise — is entered by death.

5.       Finally, the Beast was made for the Lord. For what purpose? Ostensibly, to test mankind’s reverence for the LORD GOD. Made in the Image of God, Adam and his mate both had the Will of God in their inner images — their souls — which can be represented by their ‘genomes.’

The genome is the total of all the genes in the body’s flesh, blood, and bones. Jesus, for instance, had the Genome of God in His Blood and Body — the ‘wine’’ and ‘bread’ by which to remember, or commune with Jesus.

Their will was intended to be the very Will of God and since God’s Will was His Will, the Adam’s family was to have their own wills. As such, the Beast stole their will from them, genetically, and the will of our kind became the will of the Serpent. The Serpent would be dead this moment if not God wanted him alive to pit boundaries of safety around us creatures.

6.           That God had “made” is the last point. The Beast is a creature that God made, and the reason for making it was as a prototype for mankind. The “Ghost” of man was made in an invisible image — “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” (Gen 1:26). God, in this case was ‘Elohim,’ the plural form of El. The LORD GOD — ‘singular Jehovah, plural Elohim’ called Himself one in three beings. That He was both one Existence with plural features.

Hence, mankind in the beginning had three features as well: the soul, the body, and the mind of God. His Way was our ways and His Thoughts our thoughts. With the advent of sin, Eve’s new kind of existence was ‘mutated,’ as we would say today. Eve’s kind through Cain have characteristics of their father the Devil (John 8:44). We too have three features, all of which are quite different than God’s, but much like the Devil, Satan’s.

 

That leads to the three characteristics of Satan which follow: (1) The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Note that there is really one Person of the Holy Trinity. A person is the object that is animate.

(2) That One Person has a sort of Phantom of the Person within — the Holy Ghost. He is not a Person but the Ghost of a specific Person, called ‘Jesus.’ It is easy to understand that Jesus is the Object of God — a Real Image — and that the Holy Ghost is the Invisible Image of God. Both are God, and not different ‘Persons’ at all, but the same Person of two different substances. That should reinforce that when you see Jesus, you are looking at the Invisible God.

Speaking of Christ Jesus, Paul wrote, “Who is the Image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by Him were all things created” (Col 1:15-16). Christ was not “exactly like Him,” as the New Century Version says, but Jesus is the real Image of God. That is why it is so imperative not to make an image of God since Jesus is already the Image that God made.

(3) That explains the Body of Christ and its Phantom Image, but what about the ‘Father’? Well, God is Light, is He not? “God said, ‘Let there be light: and there was light’” (Gen 1:3).

Light, in the Hebrew is ‘Or — “Illumination” (Strong 2006). “God said,” the verse begins. God saying is the ‘Word’ (Logos in the Greek): “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).

The Logos is the essential spoken Thoughts of God. God Thought and it was done. Hence, the Logos is the Divine Intelligence of God spoken in wisdom and in truth. The Logos is not just the Saying of God but the planning, organization, and activity of that specific Supreme Existence. His Illumination is not in the visible light spectrum but the invisible.

Thoughts are not masses but wave patterns of massless ‘particles’ so to speak — impulses in wave forms… from delta to gamma waves as science says, but from “alpha to omega” as God says (Rev 1:8). In the Hebrew, God is the Aleph and the Tav. Either way, God was all things, and all things exist and have different frequencies.

I am not relegating God to be some scientific entity, but only to reveal how His Supreme Mind is creative. That the Mind of God is merely waves of energies of all frequencies is not my point, but that science has made God only an allegory that they can explain.

The hieroglyphs for Aleph and Tav, are the ox and the cross, respectively,  possibly meaning that God is the Life and the Christ (John 20:31).

So, just as the LORD GOD is the Word, the Christ and the Holy Ghost; the Anti-godhead is three substances, as well: Lucifer, the Beast, and the Man-Beast — the ‘Antichrist.’

Lucifer is the “Spirit of the Antichrist” (1 John 4:3), the Beast is the Shadow (Ghost) within Lucifer, and the Person of the Antichrist is some extant being, even a man or woman, that has all the knowledge of the world in all languages and is a great leader. (I submit that the Spirit of the Antichrist could be the spirit and knowledge of a man-machine with artificial intelligence; and to be truthful, that is what I am looking for as theologians are looking for a man.)

What did the ‘Serpent’ do? It mutated Eve’s genes, making her another kind of being. In the first two chapters of Genesis, Adam named all the kinds. After sin, Adam continued to name them: “Adam called his wife's name ‘Eve;’ because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).

You had missed that, had you not? What kind of ‘beast’ had Eve produced? “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1).

Adam did not beget Cain; he saw her do her thing — conceiving a “man,” it says. A man would have been an ‘Adam’ because Adam was not a name, but a kind, and the woman had been that same kind… they were both adamah. After sin, Eve was mutated. By whom, you can guess. Her mutant was not an ‘Adam’ man but an ‘Is man, another kind of extant being (Strong 2006).

It was her that made this new kind of being; it was her that was the ‘mother of all living.’ Her God, theretofore, the ‘LORD GOD’ was then merely a ‘lord.’ Cain surely had the genome of his father the Devil, and to this day that is our genomes.

So, what fooled the woman? She saw the bright-looking angel of Light, Lucifer, and mistook it for God. He was one of the Elohim, so to her, Lucifer was just another god.

That she talked to a ‘serpent’ is ludicrous and makes Judeo-Christianity much like mythology, but the Greek God, Pan, has much the same idea.

Cain was both man and beast, if the Hebrew is taken literally, and that is exactly how some visualize the Devil.

The Devil was made in the Image of God as well. Just as God is Light, Lucifer is the “Bringer of Light.” That fooled the woman! She saw his words but never considered the thoughts of Lucifer. His ‘word’ is contrary to the Word of God and Lucifer — the Serpent— was the first of many Antichrists. The Image called the ‘Serpent,’ was strictly an dark image (Nahas) of an angel that Lucifer presented as real.

Lucifer was an angel, and his ‘kind’ was a Seraph, according to Isaiah who saw well into the future when he wrote this: “Out of the Serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a ‘fiery flying serpent’” (Isa 14:29) — “sarap ‘up sarap.” In other words, a ‘fiery Seraph’ bringing light. Lucifer was not a Beast at all but another extant being that appeared as the Light of God but was the light of the angelic Seraph, Lucifer.

Lucifer is not hideous, nor even scary; Eve was not talking to a snake at all but to a bright-looking glorious angel. What she failed to see was the ‘awful thing’ (as holy) inwardly; that thing was unholy, and the ‘Serpent’ was the unholy countenance, or ‘unholy ghost’ of Lucifer.

That discourse identifies the two substances of the Unholy Godhead — The ‘Light’ of the ‘god,” Lucifer (Isa 14;13-14) and the Ghost of Lucifer — the ‘Serpent, or the ‘Beast.’

Judas answered the prophecy of Isaiah. He was the ‘Cockatrice’ — the ‘extrusion’ (ibid). An extrusion is a ‘collapsing’ of a substance. The “root” of the Serpent, as Isaiah called it, collapsed. The root of all things is its genetics. The extrusion implies genetics collapsing, or a mutation.

God is the ‘Root’ of Jesus the Christ, so Lucifer must be the root of Judas, the Antichrist, as well as all other Antichrists.

Antichrists are those with the genome (the root) of Lucifer in them. How did the Antichrist enter Judas? It was born into him and when the time had come, the ‘beast’ in Judas manifested itself, just as Jesus was the manifestation of Father God.

That there are many Antichrists implies that many are the progeny of the Wicked One, Satan. At some time in their lives, the Satan in them is revealed.

Satan is not omnipresent, but his seed is. The seed of Satan is in everybody just waiting to be revealed. The mark of the Beast is genetic in the carbon of ‘fossil fools.’ Carbon, of which DNA is its chain, has six electrons, six protons, and six neutrons; and the so called ‘Cockatrice’ revealing itself is the mark of the Beast, or at least, I see it that way.

Devils are seen as hideous beasts. They are not! Devils would look quite appealing outwardly like Lucifer was to the woman. However, inwardly they would be hideous.

Jesus, according to Isaiah, at His death, the appearance of Christ would be uncomely; that was outwardly, but within Him the Holy Ghost of the Man would be comely as Jesus was glorified (John 7:39).

Lucifer was the ‘flip-side’ of Jesus. Neither was he what he seemed to be! He was the ‘Antichrist’ that shall someday appear again as a very comely ‘person.’ I now use that term loosely with the advent of artificial intelligence and gene editing.

Those two things are what Lucifer did to Adam’s kind: (1) Eve was imbued with the knowledge of good and evil and (2) her genes were edited, making her the mother of all the living rather than Adam as the father of all the living.

Sin mutated her genetically, and ironically, only the mother passes along the mitochondrial DNA which makes man the ‘son’ (genes) of the woman rather than the woman of the man!

Hopefully, you have learned the clever disguise of the Wicked One. You may have quit looking because demons, serpents, and other-worldliness all seem like mythology, and that is what Lucifer wants you to believe. Where should wicked ones in high places be sought? In high places with the pretense of good.

For me, I am not even looking for a man to be the Devil revealed. It could be a woman, or even a ‘beast’ of some sort; one that you would never think of as evil. You would look for a devilish being — an ‘extant’ new kind — that seems to offer hope, but inwardly despair.

I am looking at some thing with synthetic DNA and hence with a new kind of artificial genome. I am looking for an entity that resembles a human but inwardly is an artificial intelligence. I am looking for a man that is perfect and highly knowledgeable and can speak in many languages. I am looking for a walking, talking ‘encyclopedia,’ and by coincidence Wikipedia has made synthetic DNA already from their body of the knowledge of both good and evil!

So, by now you should understand that the Devil is not the face of evil but the evil spirit within a wicked person.

The Unholy Trinity is three persons at the end; like Jesus the 'ungodhead' comes apart: the Beast, the Antichrist, and the Spirit of the Antichrist in the False Prophet. 

IMMORTALITY AND THE REALITY OF HELL

All souls are immortal. That means that they all will exist forever. Even Satan and the demons shall not perish but will forever suffer perpetual death. John the Revelator saw death and sin punished at the end of the war between them and Him: 

I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev 19:19:20)

 Just as the three substances of God, the ‘Godhead’ was undone on a few occasions, so is the ‘Anti-Godhead.’ When Jesus died, the Father forsook Him and the He gave up the Ghost. Just as Enoch wrote about the beginning, “Arkhas came undone,” indicating that all Things must come undone before it is finished. At the crucifixion, the supposed death of God, the ‘Image’ of God, Jesus, came undone. Jesus said, “It is finished,” as He came undone (John 19:30).

Just as it was for God, Jesus, so it was with the non-god, Lucifer.

If I see Adoil in the Book of Enoch correctly, the Light is the Godhead, and Arkhas the separation of God to reveal His substances — the Cause and the Effect. As I have written and videoed, Jesus is the obverse and the backside of God that was with Moses, the reverse. The dynamics of God — a cloud if by day and a fire if by night — was the unseen ‘Dynamic’ of God — the Power of the Holy Spirit.

Just as Paul wrote about those who were formerly spiritually dead, “Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Ephes 2:2).

Therefore, the Anti-godhead is spirit as well. He is a ‘prince’ that has his eyes set on kingship, and with that lordship as well. (Hold that thought until a little later.)

However, just as the Holy Spirit is the ‘Dynamic’ (Greek, Dynamis) that is the Power of God, and is translated as ‘virtue’ (goodness), the prince of the power of the air has similar but opposing characteristics.

The ‘Prince’ — the authority — is the ability of that invisible existence. God gave the fallen angel certain abilities in the world, designated by ‘air’ (Greek, aer), wherein he breathes death unto the minds of our kind, just as God did life with Adam’s kind.

God, in the beginning did not breathe into the “nostrils” of Adam directly (Gen 2:7), but provided passion into his mind (Strong 2006). Adam was made compassionate, and he breathed compassion into the mind of Eve. That passion was love for God and the compassion was goodwill toward God.

With that said, in contrast, the ‘Prince’ of the world breathes rage toward God and ill-will toward others. The supra-nature of the man (Adam) was compassionate, and therefore, the nature of man (Hebrew, ‘Is) is uncompassionate.

If Adoil (Light) is the ‘First Cause’ of all things and Arkhas the ‘Effect,’ then there must be a similar but opposing cause and effect. (God made all things just as he did the forces of nature; even protons and electrons. And just as they are particles, when in motion, they are field dynamics — opposing but entangled forces; the same applies to the Godhead and the ‘Deadhead.’)

God revealed the Anti-Adoil to any who would hear. The origin and destiny of Lucifer was revealed to Isaiah, to wit: 

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” Yet you shall be brought down to Hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isa 14:12-15)

 First off, like God, Lucifer is immortal like any ‘soul’ or invisible being that exists. Remember from John’s revelation that “These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” Both the Images of Lucifer were alive when John saw them cast into torments. They were ‘images’ of Lucifer that would suffer forever. That is ‘Hell’ — in fiery torments for eternity; always burning but never consumed.

Now consider time; just as God is the alpha and omega; the beginning and the ending (Rev 1:8), so is Lucifer. Lucifer ranked second in the beginning; he, or I should write, ‘it,’ was there when the heaven was made — the invisible world. He was the ‘Beta,’ so to speak.

Thus, Lucifer was the proto-creature that went awry because of his rage toward God. Isaiah wrote that Lucifer was the ‘Son of the Morning.” That could be as the ‘Bringer of Light’ as the name, ‘Lucifer,’ means, or it could mean something else as well.

The ‘Heaven’ was made secondly, “And God called the firmament ‘Heaven’ and the evening and the morning were the second day.” (Gen 1:8).

God, therefore, was rank one, and Lucifer the ‘Son of the Morning’ rank two in the beginning. He was not God, but an existence that was created secondary to God; that ‘it’ desired to be of the first rank was enumerated by Isaiah. Lucifer was created on the ‘second day’ whereas God was the real Beginning — the ‘Light’ that made all things the first things (Gen 1:5).

First off, Heaven is for real; “God called the firmament, Heaven.” In the Hebrew, ‘firmament’ is raqiaʿ — the “expanse” (ibid) of things. When Adoil (Light) came, according to Enoch, Arkhas come undone. That ‘expanse’ was the effect of Arkhas coming undone; God separating the light from the darkness and the waters from the waters (the ‘semen’ from the ‘semen’). Those were surely the two domains that were created by Him — the heaven and the earth, the first of which was invisible and the latter which was the visible.

Paul wrote, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made” (Rom 1:20). The ‘scientist’ in Paul validated God’s and my thesis, that Heaven is for real for the Cosmos is for real, and that anyone with bright eyes, should be able to see that clearly. In other words, to deny Heaven’s existence is to deny that the world exists, and some ignorantly think everything is surreal!

Even many Christians deny that there is a heaven, and almost all scientists deny the existence of heaven, even though all matter must balance either by other matter or energy.

The point is made, therefore, that heaven is for real, but it too must balance, and indeed it does!

Luke wrote about the realms in the domain of heaven: 

It came to pass, that the beggar (Lazarus) died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in Hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:22:23)

 From the Book of Jasher, it is learned that Abram withstood the fire of Nimrod when he was placed into a fiery furnace because he refused to hunt down to destroy God. Abram, because of his faith and reverence for God, unlike the mighty hunter, Nimrod, believed in God enough to know that He existed without ever seeing Him. Because of the faith of Abram, God provided for him incorruptible flesh and his genes (the Hebrews) became peculiar and chosen people (Deut 14:2).

Therefore, only in the bosom of Abraham would Lazarus be safe from the torments of Hell, just as Abraham thereafter reigned in Paradise in the realm of heaven.

As the song goes, “when we all get to heaven” has some validity because everyone is going to the domain of heaven; some to Paradise and others to Hell. The Book of Enoch validates that premise. For now, consider Paradise as a place of all things good and incorruptible, but what is the other place like in the Third Heaven? 

And those men carried me to the northern region; and they showed me there a very frightful place; and all kinds of torture and torment are in that place, cruel darkness and lightless gloom. And there is no light there, and a black fire blazes up perpetually, with a river of fire that comes out over the whole place, fire here, freezing ice there, and it dries up and it freezes; and very cruel places of detention and dark and merciless angels, carrying instruments of atrocities torturing without pity.

And I said, “Woe, woe! How very frightful this place is!” And those men said to me, “This place, Enoch, has been prepared for those who do not glorify God, who practice on the earth the sin |which is against nature, which is child corruption in the anus in the manner of Sodom|, of witchcraft, enchantments, divinations, trafficking with demons, who boast about their evil deeds – |stealing, lying, insulting, coveting, resentment, fornication, murder| – •and who steal the souls of men secretly, seizing the poor by the throat, taking away their possessions, enriching themselves from the possessions of others, defrauding them; who, when they are able to provide sustenance, bring about the death of the hungry by starvation; and, when they are able to provide clothing, take away the last garment of the naked; who do not acknowledge their Creator, but bow down to idols which have no souls, which can neither see nor hear, vain gods; constructing images, and bowing down to vile things made by hands – for all these this place has been prepared as an eternal reward.” (2 Enoch 10)

 Note first that Hell is the northern region of the Third Heaven where souls never die but live on in either one of two places — Paradise or Hell, and even in Hell it was “prepared as an eternal reward,” for Hell is the ‘wages of sin.’

Hell is a very frightful place compared to Paradise which is a very glorious place and full of joy!

Heaven, to us, is invisible, but is as real as what you see; you just cannot see Hell. Like dark matter which cannot be seen, Hell is as real as the darkness where that matter exists. Just because neither Paradise nor Hell can be seen, does not make them fictional mythology, and so it is with beings in other realms.

So, Hell is for real, but from here it cannot be sensed, however, it has both an economy and an environment. The ‘economy’ is your eternal payment for your unpardoned sins while on Earth and the ‘environment’ is alternating perpetual black fire and freezing.

Unlike Abraham, whose flesh felt no fire, the flesh of sinners will alternately burn and freeze for eternity. That you cannot breathe will be the feeling that you have, and it will go on forever!

Next, we will continue to examine Lucifer.