ADAM - Part 1 of 2

  Everyone genetically has their “Adam” — DNA in common ten generations back. However, mankind has their own original DNA. “Lucy” — the designated first generation of mankind, according to anthropologists, did not have human DNA, but where her DNA missing, the missing DNA was filled with human DNA. In other words, scientists discovered a non-human and created her as a “human.”

  Think of DNA as “seed” in the Bible. We think of “seed” as virile semen. In fact, the “waters from the waters” when God created the substances of existence were literally “semen from the semen” (Gen 1:6).  Hence, “seed” is the origin of everything and it is processed by DNA in the genes (Adam’s characteristics) of mankind.

  DNA is the basis of all life. Through that molecule two identical replicas of one original DNA occurs. When God said to “multiply” (Gen 1:22), it was to provide human fruit. God provide the DNA from His “Seed” since Adam was made in His Image (Gen 1:27). Hence, Adam was a son of God and all righteous men are Sons of God (e.g., Seth’s seed).

  Satan corrupted Adam’s DNA. Sin mutated Adam’s DNA for sin was accounted to Adam. Hence, the offspring of Adam and Eve had the DNA of Satan and the DNA of God. Perhaps that is the ontology of the Sons of God who married the daughters of men (Gen 6:2-64), further mutating mankind, perhaps the intermarriage between Cain’s seed and Seth’s seed. Cain’s seed was of the Devil. His evil gene was dominant, and Seth’s regressive. Because all mankind came from Noah, all men have sinned since Noah was a second “Adam” and with relatively pure DNA from only Seth’s seed and not Cain’s.

  Noah was a type of Christ in that in both cases mutated DNA was eliminated by water with Noah and water and blood by Jesus. Jesus sacrificed the DNA of God to renew the DNA of mankind.

  As a side note, I am fascinated by the finding of the YouTube video, “Jesus Blood Found on the Ark” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TRoQk6WUE), wherein dried blood was found on the Ark of the Covenant by archeologist, Ron Wyatt. It is recommended that the reader review that video as soon as possible because the DNA found there, if it is true, matched no other DNA in that there were only 24 chromosomes — only half the amount plus one (Y) that all others have. The conclusion by the geneticists was that the DNA was of no human or beast, and Wyatt countered that it was the “blood of the Messiah!”

  With that said, one should wonder how God’s DNA got into Adam, and how it was tainted with the DNA of Satan. Because of mutated DNA, the first sin was breaking what would later be said to include all the commandments: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (Jas 2:10).

  Which Law did Adam break? He was told to multiply, to replicate his seed, but apparently, he pleasured. Why is that? His own DNA was mutated by some type of spiritual intercourse with the supra-natural. Not that it was coitus with Lucifer, but the spirit God breathed unto Adam to make him a living soul (Gen 2:7) was exhumed from Adam to make his a “dying soul.”

  Think of Lucifer, not as a “Serpent” but an incubus — a male demon who engages in sexual activity with a woman. (That was in yesterday’s commentary). In this case, not to be disrespectful to Adam, but spiritual activity, male angel to male human, in that sin is accounted to Adam, not Eve.

  With that said, and based on the situation, adultery is a major sin and homosexuality an abomination to God. Eve was deceived, but Adam committed sin with Lucifer with eyes wide open. He knew the Law firsthand from God.

  Whatever “intercourse” (verbal, spiritual, or metaphorical) happened between Lucifer and Adam mutated the DNA of Adam. It was no longer “very good” (Gen 1:31) but contaminated with sin. Something evil within Lucifer mutated Adam’s entirely good DNA to make it sub-standard to God’s DNA. Since, that time, all men are “Adams.” (I believe that I can demonstrate that in some manner Adam broke all ten of the commandments with one encounter with Lucifer, but for now am focusing on how original sin got into human DNA and remains there to this day!) As David said, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) and As Paul said, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), and that “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom 5:12).

  Something crude happened between Adam and Lucifer. It was the “Enchanter” that enchanted Adam, not a “Serpent” per se. (See yesterday’s commentary). It may be that a seraph entertained Adam, just as Sons of God (dark angels) mingled with daughters of men (women) before the flood.

  Adam was made “very good.” A better translation, according to Strong’s, is “entirely good.” The only “flaw” was planned by God and what made Adam not quite perfect was that God provide him a will just like His! Because of that, Lucifer was allowed in the Garden Paradise to test that “will”… the ability to make a choice between two alternatives. With the Tree of Knowledge, the choice was to disobey God and eat, or obey God and not eat of the forbidden tree.  Sin is a consequence of free will. It has never ceased. Each time anyone sins, “sin” is making a wrong choice. Lucifer rightly said that Adam and Eve would be “as God” if they ate. They already were as God in that Adam had only God’s DNA and passed it along to Eve when she was made from him.

  Just how was Adam made? First off, the name “Adam” means “One from the Soil. or Beginning” (Abarim Publications). A related word is “Edom” “To Produce, or To Be Red” (ibid). Somehow, “Adam” came to be known as “Red Clay.” “Eden” means “finery” (ibid) which correlates well with “very good” from scripture. Adam was the beginning of human DNA, and he was made from the elements of Eden. Now examine God’s method in two parts: (1) the vessel, Adam, and (2) filling the vessel, Adam. Think of the vessel as a “cup” that God molded. Why? Jesus compared himself to a “cup” (poterian; Greek), so not specifically a “cup” but a “vessel.” Jesus saw Himself as a “Vessel” and when He died, we find that His vessel of flesh had been filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Just as Adam long before who gave up God’s Spirit when he communed with Lucifer, Jesus gave up God’s Spirit when he defeated Satan. Adam did that for himself, but Jesus did so for Adamkind.

  Adam is the first vessel of God. He was made perfect by the Hand of God (John 1). The Hand of God (Jesus) molded Adam in the same image that He would make for Himself.

  The Foundation Stone is believed to be the rock under the Dome of the Rock. It is called, the “Navel of the World” as well as the “Celestial Axis.” Tradition has it that it is the very place where Adam was created as well as Eden itself. (Think of Eden as the one land mass surrounded by sea from Genesis 1).

  Eden was the “Potter’s Wheel” on which Adam was molded. Ironically, Judas was buried in the Potter’s field, where perhaps, all broken pottery was discarded! Through the Foundation Stone was the axis for turning the Potter’s wheel. That axis hole can be seen to this day on pictures of the Foundation Stone. As the axis of life, it is also the axis for death because broken “vessels,” so to speak, would be cast into the Well of Souls beneath the Stone. Hence, the “threshing floor of Ornan!”

  My hope is that you are interested in your own DNA and why your hope is in it never perishing! If so, tune into part 2 of this commentary tomorrow; it is all about the Potter, His wheel, and how he molded Adam.

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HOW SATAN CONFOUNDS THE LESS INTELLIGENT

 There is no way that early man could describe extant animals in scientific terms. For instance, in Hebrew, where “serpent” is translated, the word was “nachash.” That word is translated in Genesis 3:1 as “serpent” which modern people think of as a snake.

  However, in the beginning, there were prehistoric animals, of which many were likely killed off in the deluge of Noah’s time. It makes sense that since the water for the flood came mostly from the ground in that “all the fountains of the deep were broken up” (Gen 7:11). The writer did not say so, but this is not only the first mention of rain but also of tsunamis. The point is that the Bible, although scientific, is pre-science. Science only speculates on visible or testable things. Hence, “heaven” is not even considered by scientists, but fermions are. They study matter and invisible matter (antimatter) but fail to see their hypotheses as earth and heaven — the visible and the invisible.

  The point has significance… Was the “Serpent” a serpentine animal? The root noun there was nachash from the root noun, nachash. (They are the same!) Gen 3:1 describes him as “more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God made.” The other usage of nachash means “divination or enchantment” (Strong’s Dict. No. H5172). The “Serpent”, in that same passage is said to be “subtil” (‘aruwm); that he was “cunning.” It would appear that in both instances, nachash has a similar meaning; not necessarily “Serpent” but “Enchanter” (From Strong’s H5172). In scripture, “a deceiver” is an “antichrist, therefore the “Deceiver” is the “Antichrist” (2 John 1:7).

  The conclusion is that perhaps the Serpent was not a serpent in a biological sense, but only in the spiritual one. He may have been any type of “Beast.” Where to find a clue? Also, in Genesis 3, Eve said “the serpent (nachash) beguiled me.” Perhaps the Enchanter enchanted Eve! With that, the Enchanter was cursed beyond any beast. That implies that the animals Adam named became beasts along with him when he sinned. The transformation from man to beast is what Adam and Eve underwent. It was a three-fold transformation: mind, flesh, and spirit.

  Next, we see the curse of the “Serpent,” to wit: ““Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life” (Gen 3:14). In that curse, we see several things: 

(1)    “More than the cattle” implying that other animals were cursed, along with Adam.

(2)    He was cursed “more than every beast of the field” even more than Adam and Eve.

(3)    “On your belly you shall go.” We think if that as the underside of a snake; to crawl without legs. The root noun is “giyach” which means “break forth.” Perhaps because the Enchanter is thought of as a snake, then “belly” was given. However, it may mean that the Enchanter will come forth from the Tree that he either was or was not in. No place does it say that a Serpent was in the Tree of Knowledge. Perhaps, “break forth” is exposing himself to mankind rather than crawling.

(4)    Then, we have, “You shall eat dust all the days of your life.” Dust is interpreted to mean the elements of the Earth. However, Adam came from dust and to dust he shall return. (Gen 3:19). That was the curse on Adam. Perhaps, rather than “eat dust” that the Enchanter would devour Adamkind. That makes sense since, “Your (mankind’s or Adamkind’s) adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). The Devil is Satan. The curse was against the Serpent but also against Adam. The Serpent was not a serpent in a physical sense, but only as a spiritual “Beast.” His curse was to always seek to devour mankind, and for how long?

(5)    “All the days of your life.” Satan’s eternal role was going “to and fro” to devour people. We see that when he came to devour Job. The LORD asked Satan from whence he came. Satan responded, ““From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it” (Job 1:6). Satan did not crawl in the dust on his belly; he walked back and forth. He “broke forth” from where he was and sought out Job; true to giyach in item (3) above. He came to devour Job who came from the dust and to the dust he would return. “Dust” being the elements of the Earth. However, Satan was not eating “dust” but was there to devour a man! With that, God allowed the trials to begin. Satan was there, not as a snake, but some other entity to devour Job. Perhaps he came not as a beast of the field, but a Beast from the skies, or perhaps the invisible realm.  We find out that God would not preserve Job’s flesh but did his person. Job’s “person” is himself and that is implied; literally, from the Hebrew, shalach which means “to send away” (Strong’s Dict.). Job was an upright man (Job 1:8). Satan was an Enchanter and was beguiling, subtil,and cunning. Surely God meant that Satan could not put Job himself away, but it turned out in Job 2 that God was not concerned with Job’s flesh, leaving his mind and spirit that Satan could not destroy. Hence, Job could devour Job’s flesh (dust) and find that he did with boils (Job 2:7). At the end of days – the apocalypse — Satan the Enchanter would no longer be able to touch the glorious flesh of God’s children. His days of eating dust would be over when he is cast into the bottomless pit. 

  For a little clarification, let me explain. “Lucifer” is an angel who was created in the beginning before any other things. The Serpent, or “Enchanter,” is how he appeared to Adam and Eve to deceive them. He is a Beast because he is evil. Because he is proud, Lucifer is the “Adversary” of God, and is called “Satan.” Lucifer is the “Devil” in that he is the personification of evil. He is the “Antichrist” because He is against Christ as the “Adversary,” and is called “Satan.” All those nouns are descriptions of Lucifer who seeks to overthrow God and rule His Dominion in heaven and earth. As such, Lucifer is both physical and invisible. He can remain aloof or enter unto persons, as he did Judas Iscariot. His presence is finite. He can only be one place at one time, so he uses demon angels as his servants.

  God asked one thing of Satan, ““Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life” (Job 2:6). He was not concerned with Job’s flesh with the boils but the life of Job. “Life’ is not living flesh, but eternal soul. Satan is a handicapped Beast. He can devour flesh (aka boils on Job) but he can never exhume the Holy Spirit of God from any Christian! “Life” is not defined by physical existence, but the immortal soul. When Eve ate and did not physically die, Adam was enchanted by the Enchanter. He expected to see dead flesh, but he saw nothing different excepting a dying soul who Adam himself tried to save!

  So long as people think of Lucifer as a Serpent, he is illusive. Likewise, Judeo-Christianity seems like mythology. What does Lucifer look like? “Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you” (Ezek 28:17; NKJV), and ““How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!” (Isa 14:12). “Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:12). Lucifer does not look like a snake, albeit his personality is like a cunning beast!

  The Angel of Light is Lucifer, and Satan appears that way to mankind. In other words, Satan is Lucifer who was made in the image of God, even more so than man, who it would seem was made a little lower than the angels as God in the Flesh was (Psalm 8:5).

  Satan, or the Devil, does not resemble a Beast, cherubim, seraphim, or any other heavenly creature. He resembles Jesus and is the Antichrist because he transforms himself as he wishes. When those deceived in the end see the Beast, they will not see a serpent, but a man who appears to be Jesus. The Beasts of Revelation are no more separate personages than is the Holy Trinity.

  Lucifer has three images that he can transform at will for his purposes. Did Lucifer appear to Eve as a Serpent? Perhaps she saw him as a mild animal that Adam had tamed, but Adam surely saw the real image of Lucifer. He saw the Enchanter and was enchanted regardless. He knew the Law and ignored it because he saw the beauty in Lucifer.

  In the Books of Adam and Eve, Lucifer appears to Adam and Eve in the appearance of God, a beautiful angel, and trustworthy men. He never appeared to Adam as a snake or any other beast. His person of “Beast” is inside because it is froth with sin. By external appearances, even the elect will be deceived. That means “faithful Jobs” who was not deceived, by the way! He saw beautiful Lucifer for what he is — the Adversary and Enemy of God.

  Why would Satan want us to see him as a snake? Because then, religion is more mythology than truth. He wants us to think of him anyway but how he is! 

  People In the Bible encountered a “fiery flying serpent several times,” to wit: “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent” (Isa 14:29) which is saraph ‘uwph saraph, not naschash as used previously. That is because the “serpent” is not a serpent. It is a seraph. The root word of seraph is also seraph and means “to burn, hence “fiery” (Strong’s Dict; H8312).

  The “fiery flying serpent” is out of the Serpent’s (naschash’s) root. Just as Jesus is the “root” of Jesse (Rom 15:12), the seraph is the root of the naschash (the Enchanter that we call “Satan” and wrongly the “Serpent”). The seraph is more than a viper. Because the seraph has the same root as its name, the seraph is a burning creature. The seraph is described as a six-winged creature that flies around God saying “Holy, Holy, Holy” (Isa 6:18). Tradition has it that seraphim (plural of seraph) are the highest level of angels. That would make Lucifer a seraph.

  Remembering that things were called after other things, then perhaps “flying fiery serpents” (seraphs) resembled creatures created by God. For instance, the flying reptile (not a bird) that we call “pterosaur” resembled a seraph. Compare the representations of the two:

 Figure 1:Saraph vs Pterosaur – Original Artwork by Richard Dobbs

  If Lucifer is a seraph, then he would resemble a flying serpent and the fiery part may not be heat but inflicted poison. It is written, “The Lord said unto Moses, ‘Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.  And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived’” (Num 21:8-9).

  Hence, Moses, directed by God, made a “fiery serpent” and when weaved back and forth looked as if it was flying. It was not a snake that Moses made but a “seraph” in that passage. “Fiery” is deduced in that seraph is only used once in this passage. The pole was a standard or like a flagstaff (Strong’s Dict.) to perhaps represent “flying.” Are seraphim beautiful as written in Ezekiel about Lucifer? God might think so because he created them, and they sang of His Holiness. Lucifer was noted for his music: “Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God… the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created” (Ezek 28:13).

  That takes care of Lucifer’s beauty in the eyes of God, but Ezekiel called Lucifer a “cherub” (Ezek 28:14). Which is it? Cherub or seraph? Well, below is a representation pf a cherub:

Figure 2: cherub from Wikipedia

  The cherubim resemble seraphim, it seems, but only the central body of the human. Unlike seraphs that are high level angels, cherubim are believed to be some of the lowest. They are best known for guarding the Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant, the Way to the Tree of Life at the gate to Paradise, and God’s throne on the sea of glass in heaven. They are associated with allegiance to God, not as adversaries.

  The pole that Moses made was finally destroyed because the Hebrews began to worship it. On the other hand, the Ark of the Covenant was held sacred. The former had a seraph and the latter cherubim. God destroyed the seraph idol but did not the cherubim figures. They were not idols. Lucifer was a high- level angel and is noted as an archangel. He would not have been a lowly cherub. Perhaps Ezekiel called him a cherub because the Hebrews knew what cherubs looked like because of Moses. They would not know how seraphs would look.

  Or perhaps the beasts represented the multiple personalities of Lucifer. Even if he was a cherub, Moses made a seraph to represent Lucifer dead in his “tree.” The brass in the sun would have been blood red, and the material was lifeless. The “seraph seraph” (fiery angel) would not have represented Jesus. Cherubs do that! Perhaps Ezekiel called Lucifer a cherub because he is the anti-cherub. (I hate guessing but that is all we can do!) The point is that a seraph makes more sense than a serpent on the Tree of Knowledge, on the pole of Moses, or hanging from the Tree near the Potter’s Field where Judas died the same day Jesus did!

  Now for Judas of Iscariot. The root verb of “Kerioth” is “qar” and means “cooling off” (Abarim Publications). The seraph on the pole most certainly represents, not Jesus in His Tree (the Cross), but Lucifer in his tree.

  The flying fiery seraph, with the death of Judas was cooled off when he died.  Note that Satan (Lucifer) entered into Judas (Luke 22:3). Lucifer’s borrowed flesh died that day, but Lucifer lived on. However, since he has never entered anyone else since (his demons have), he will enter some other flesh (Beast) during the apocalypse. The Antichrist is the root of the seraph: “Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent” (Isa 14:29). A cockatrice is unknown but is well-known from mythology. In figure #3 is a image of that beast:

 Figure 3:By The original uploader was Leonard G. at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3868078

  You can see that a cockatrice is not a seraph nor a cherub, but an image that Lucifer transforms himself into. A cockatrice is a flying serpent with the head of a rooster. Apparently, Lucifer appears to different prophets as different beasts, or perhaps as I believe, those images describe Lucifer’s spiritual characteristics. This too could be the dead brazen serpent that the Hebrews saw as dead!

  The point is that the fiery serpent on Moses pole does not represent Jesus. If so, it would have truly been a cherub. However, it was either a cockatrice or a seraph, not a serpent. And it did not symbolize Jesus alive on His Tree, but Lucifer dead in his. Just as Jesus was “hanged on a tree” (Acts 5:30), so was Judas… on that same day! (Mat 27:5). The seraph on the pole was not Jesus, but the fiery angel which God cooled down. Satan did not die that day, but the death of Judas was Lucifer’s cooling down as Karioth implies.

  The Hebrews who looked on that pole and saw the Purpose of Jesus lived although they had been bitten by the fiery venom of the seraph, Lucifer. The blood of Jesus would do that, and they had faith in what was to come. Moses somehow got across to them that Jesus would die to cool down the fiery seraph, Lucifer. It was the spirit of Judas they saw dead. It was the so-called “Serpent” who had died in his tree!

  We think that Adam saw a Serpent in the Tree of Knowledge. He saw the same image that was in Judas Iscariot. Satan hid behind the image of Judas. Perhaps Lucifer hid behind the Tree of Knowledge and was never in it. Perhaps the seraph’s voice was taken as the Voice of God (Jesus speaking) but was the voice of Judas all the time. Heavenly creatures have heavenly appearances. Never is a snake pictured as a heavenly creature. Lucifer was. It seems that he was either a cherub, seraph, or cockatrice, but perhaps the three “beasts” of his substance were three angelic beings. Just as God is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; perhaps Lucifer is seraph, cockatrice, and cherub.

UTOPIA AND PARADISE - Part 3 of 3

 

Paradise is where mankind came into being, and where mankind will forever exist… with one exception — each person must be righteous. Paradise is for those who perform to three standards: (1) glorify God by being servile to His authority, (2) love God for His graciousness, and (3) obey God in gratitude. The reward is great! God is permissive in Paradise because those chosen are only the righteous. Few will go to Paradise for few walk the narrow Way of Christ through the straight gate (Mat 7:14) on the Way to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24). The Tree of Life remains in the midst of the Garden at the River of God (Rev 22:1-2). Those who are allowed entry have the seal of God on their foreheads (Rev 22:4), to wit: “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity” (2 Tim 2:19).

What is the “password” to get past the cherubim to go the Way of the Tree of Life? He or she must  name the Name of Christ. What is that Name? “Jesus” (Ya saves) and only Yahweh! By no other Name can Paradise be entered (Acts 4:12).

It seems that there is a “hedge” around Paradise so that entry cannot be but by one Way, and that is the Name of Christ. Over the Garden, it was a dome that “hedged” them in. That “dome” is the heavens; what we call the celestial sphere which appears as both a dome from anywhere on Earth and as a “sea of glass” when viewed as a curtain between the world and God (Rev 4:6).

Paradise does have walls around but not within. Only the righteous can enter in, but once in, liberty is there for all the citizens of God. God does not rule in Paradise for only the willingly obedient are there. Finally, some will have that “autonomous zone,” but not the mob, but only those who are of one accord (Acts 2).

Paradise is libertarian as the Law cannot be broken when there is no Law! There all things are lawful, but the righteous are above the Law as they have endured the world. That is what Utopians seek, but they go wrong. It is by their own works that Utopia is built, just like the Tower of Babel. Utopians do not truly want the Light, but the power to decide who gets the light. Just as the Tower of Babel was merely for those who would make a name for themselves, Utopia is for those who esteem their own name. Hence, Maslows’s Pyramid is to the peak by few, and once on top, the peak experience is that they have found God. Guess who they find? Themselves as God! That is their peak experience and they have reached euphoria through self-actualization.

“Euphoria” is a feeling of well-being and elation (Merriam-Webster). In other words, those self-actualized have reached Utopia! Where is God? He is not there; only the self-actualized are! It seems that most of the common people are trapped on level one. They get “needs” but the elite get Utopia. Those who climb Maslow’s Pyramid as well climb the Tower of Babel because in the end only those who climb all the way enjoy euphoria! Socialism is the same climb. A few autocrats reach Utopia while the commoners enjoy at the bottom all that is needed for the “common good.” They get stuck on the first plateau of the “tower” and can climb no further.

They can never self-actualize because every movement they make to climb is controlled. Socialism always has those who have climbed higher who step on the fingers of those who climb. A great example of that was Russian Halodomor… as the peasants climbed from poverty, the socialist autocrats where there to step, not only on their fingers, but their souls! Seven million souls were shoved off the socialist pyramid, and only one at a time peaked. What happens to those who near the peak in socialism? Like the man who worked for the common good, Leon Trotsky, socialists kill their opposition. Only one can peak under socialism, and that is the survival of the fittest who will not hesitate to shoot their opposition.

Self-actualization is reaching one’s full potential. Their egoist ideas have been achieved. They achieve how they think of themselves. Adam and Eve self-actualized. “Ego” is the “pride of life” (1 John 2:16). They thought of themselves “as God” (Gen 3:5). That was their full potential and even Satan never has self-actualized and never will because He knows the reality of God. Yet, even with that knowledge, Satan still wants grandeur, to wit: “Thou (Lucifer) hast said in thine 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” (Isa 14:13).

Lucifer (aka Satan) desires to be the Egoist; to self-actualize and sit above God. He tried that with Jesus, and Jesus showed him who was at the pinnacle at the peak of the Temple (Mat 4:5).

Mankind’s problem is self-esteem. Jesus is the solution! Rather than self-actualize, God actualizes. When Moses lifted the lifeless brazen serpent on the pole, all those who had been bitten by vipers were healed. That was “euphoria.” No one climbed any pyramid, yet they were healed by God! Think of the elation of those who would have died but knowing that Jesus took care of the vipers was joyous!

You see, euphoria is never achieved by the works of men, but by the Face of God. What did the Hebrews see that made them euphoric? They saw Satan limp in the body of Judas Iscariot, hanging from his tree, while the blood and water flowed from Jesus to heal all who desire it to be euphoric!

The works of men never obtain euphoria nor even Utopia. No one climbs the ladder by themselves. Satan pushes egoists off the Maslovian Pyramid, and Jesus must send His angels for the righteous to climb Jacob’s ladder. Paradise is up there, but Utopia is nowhere. Why has it not been found? Paradise cannot exist without God in its midst. Each person must walk toward the Tree of Life to even be allowed entry by the gate.

Just what is this elusive “Utopia?” They are Utopian socialists’ “visions of imaginary futuristic ideal societies” (Wikipedia, “Utopia”). They are a fantasy, but voters expect their fantasies to become reality. The hindrance is the nature of men. Everyone is “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), therefore nobody can be an ideal citizen. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). The “glory of God” is with God in Paradise. Nobody deserves Paradise and none shall obtain it by their own endeavors. Only the meek, not those self-actualized with a high estimation of themselves, can enter in.

Nobody can get into Utopia because it is fantastical. If a gate to Utopia existed, after even one man stepped in, it would no longer be Utopia because of the evil nature of men. Do you not see that in innocent (sic) children, in their estimation of themselves is as gods? Imagine a bunch of children in Utopia. Each would be king, and if not, they would take their things and go home. That’s what Adam and Eve even did in Paradise. They took what belonged to God as their own and were cast out for their egoism! That’s why Paradise is only for the spiritually mature. That’s why Utopia is a non-existent vision!

Why are so many deceived that Utopian socialism is achievable? Because they are not pragmatic. Robert Owen abandoned New Harmony, Indiana, after two years in his experiment in socialism. Why did he do that? Because he knew Utopia was non-existent and nobody, but God, could create Paradise. Peter Stuyvesant abandoned his vision of Utopia in New Amsterdam when the future motto even failed, to wit: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” (Karl Marx). What went wrong there? Maslow’s Pyramid collapsed as people identified egoistic ideas as needs. None with the ability wanted to work for those with needs, because egos confused needs and wants! Maslow’s is not a hierarchy of needs but a Ponzi Scheme where the first in obtain the gifts at the peak and the last in obtain the basics, if even that, at the bottom of the pyramid.

Karl Marx was more pragmatic; he admitted that there is no Utopia, and Utopia died as a model in the mid-1800s. What then would Marx copy? The American Plantation economy. He duplicated American slavery in Europe but camouflaged it as “communism.” Whereas, socialism has the dream of a Utopian paradise, communism is the reality of a living Hell! It recognized Maslow’s Hierarchy as the model. If it worked for the slaves in America, Maslow’s theory would work in Europe. Of course, slavery preceded Maslow, yet the premise remains the same. It always has. Even the fall from Paradise was the failure of socialism!

What happened in Paradise? “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Everything in Paradise was because of God’s ability. God supplied all the needs of the two human beings. After their needs were met, they wanted more. They became Epicureans as they confused “desires” with “needs.”

They wanted fruit from the beautiful tree even though God supplied! The Serpent deceived them as quickly as Democrat-socialists depend on “The stupidity of the American voter” (Jonathan Gruber). At that moment, Paradise was lost, and what was on the other side of the hedge? “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” (Gen 3:19). Right then, communism became the government of two “socialists.” They became the ones who had the ability, and they were required to satisfy the needs of all who were to come. Socialism got hard because Satan reshaped them in iniquity!

When men had to work for their needs, suddenly a thought occurred, I can get others to work in my place, not only for my needs but my desires! With that thought, slavery became an institution, and as much as Marx hated institutions, he found that one much to his liking! Why work, when if we organize, others can do our work for us?

Work is the labor for capitalism. Whereas as Adam and Eve had free capital thanks to God, soon Adam made the capital; first for Eve and himself but soon for his family, and finally for the multitude of his seed. God helped Adam from his toil. Abel and Cain would also work by the sweat of their faces to supply their needs and to glorify God. Abel did both, but Cain saw no reason to glorify God; he insulted God by selfishness. Cain was worried, not about the common good, but his own good! Communism was the government of Cain, and since then the world has had tribulation!

Soon righteous Seth’s line saw the sons of Cain doing what they willed. When they looked from the Holy Mountain and its austerity, to the “Utopia” on the plain, they wanted what Cain had! It seemed to be all pleasure and decadence, but soon they found out that life is tribulation. The economy of the world has henceforth been communism, but God by grace, gives Christians a hope for tomorrow. Not what Cain had but a plan and a future for us in Paradise (Jer 29:11).

Christians know God’s Plan and they prepare a like living on Earth. The Jews got Israel, and failed, but by the grace of God 144,000 will have their “land of milk and honey.” Until then, many have experimented with socialism, not relying on God but man.

Socialism prevails in the minds of Jews. It always has! But what happens when the Jews are no longer needed for their knowledge and productivity? They get shoved off the Maslow Pyramid and shot off the socialist hierarchy! When will they learn? Only after Jesus comes again with Paradise on His Mind!

Why seek Utopia when it is nowhere? Why seek it when Paradise is in sight? Christians have the hope of salvation, but those seeking social justice only a clouded view of reality. They actually think that Utopia can be achieved in the world when it is only a vision. Visions do not nurture people, but God does! Why depend on Marx for his theories when God has the experience of creating Paradise already?

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UTOPIA AND PARADISE - Part 2 of 3

 (Sibylline Oracles 2:314-335):

That my friends is Paradise, but the reference is to “Heaven.” Paradise was a visible Garden in the physical realm, but when mankind was cast out into the world, “Paradise” was transformed into the supra-natural realm. They are the same place but in a different dimension. Late in the day, Jesus said to the repentant malefactor, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). Jesus and the thief never went anywhere but were most certainly translated from one realm to another.

It is known from the Book of Revelation that “Paradise” has dimensions, and that the Garden that once had a hedge about it is now a great city with walls. The canopy of the trees is now described as, “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).  Paradise is described by measurement and physical qualities:

¹⁵ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. ¹⁶ And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. ¹⁸ And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; ²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. (Rev 21:15-21)

Paradise has changed! With two people, only a Garden would be required. With the seed of Abraham, it would take a great city with many mansions therein. Each Christian will be assigned their own space when the time comes… when they are finally saved. “Saved” is not merely a change in the heart but a reunion of mind, spirit, and flesh. In heavenly Paradise, the Christian will be “glorified” — remade in the image of God with a new mind, new spirit, and new flesh. The temporary coat of skin in the Garden (our flesh) will be replaced with the very Flesh of God! Then, His Temple within us, will be complete.

One thing was omitted in the above description. I described therein a “Utopia” because God was missing in the description. The rest of the story explains it better.  Who provided Paradise? Was he man or God? Is it the work of man’s mind or the Mind of God? “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it” (Rev 21:22). Paradise is built of real substances, but the foremost “Substance” is God. He is the “Temple of it” — the “place devoted to a special purpose” (Merriam-Webster) which is the worship of the Living God!

In other words, a Utopian society is for the ”common good” of people but that is also the purpose of Paradise. However, in Utopia each is their own “god” to be appeased, but in Paradise, there is one God to be glorified. Our “gods” must be appeased by pleasurable things, but in Paradise, God is appeased by pleasure in His righteous people.

According to the Sibylline Oracles, Paradise has characteristics:

(1)    “A new mind: justice, noble deeds, piety, and righteous thoughts” (313-314). When scripture says, “the meek shall inherit the earth,” that refers to Paradise. Those who have been humbled have come to realize that they truly are not gods, and that only the One True God can save them (John 1:14). With that thought in mind, being “as God” (Gen 3:5) is no longer an issue.

(2)    Angels will lift them from tribulation, and “bring them to light and life without a care” (315). Note that God’s angels will do the lifting, and that governors nor ideologues lift nothing. Karl Marx is nowhere to be found but is lost in the “blazing river’ below. In that passage, not only do Christians cease depending on themselves, but also on the trivial devices of men! What would happen if Marxism could deliver Utopia? Then there would be no need for God, in that the difference between Utopia and Paradise is the Presence of God. In Paradise, there will be no care for things but only truth (Light). On the other hand, if Utopia is possible, its focus would be on things, to wit: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). The Tree of Life is central to Paradise, and the Tree of Philosophy the center of Utopia. In the former, there was God and His twelve fruits, but in the latter, only Satan and lusts. Perhaps the pyramidal shape of “Maslow Hierarchy of Needs” better describes a “Tower of Desires.” Rather than represent access to Paradise in heaven, the Maslow Tower represents a striving for Utopia, where God IS not.

(3)    The “Immortal path of the great God” (315) is the Way to the Tree of Life that remains guarded to this day by cherubim (Gen 3:24: Rev 4:6). The Tree of Life is real. It represents the three substances of God. The Tree itself, is the “Vine” and is God manifested. The Way or Path to the Tree of Life is walking the path of Jesus. It is Christians sacrificing their own flesh as God sacrificed His. Utopia is preserving the corrupt flesh to live in corruption. Paradise is exchanging corruptible flesh for flesh which is incorruptible (1 Cor 15:52). Utopia requires no change in us, but Paradise is God changing those shapen in iniquity to new persons remolded in righteousness.

(4)    The three springs of wine, milk, and honey (318) are nourishment. The Bible mentions two: “the land of milk and honey.” On the other hand, sacred literature adds a fourth — olive oil. They are represented by the four rivers in Paradise, and those rivers are hidden today in the sands of Israel. Only Naral ha Yarden remains; to wit: “the River of the Garden” — or the Jordan River. Where is Paradise? Where is always was! Right there in the land of milk and honey, but in another realm. There is where the Hebrews were promised prosperity. It was not Utopia in the land that they were promised, but prosperity, by way of eternal life,” in the walled city of Jerusalem — the very “foundation of peace.”

(5)    “The earth will belong equally to all, undivided by walls or fences… Lives will be in common and wealth will have no division” (319-320). That is also a goal of socialism; it sounds good! However, Paradise has God as the Husbandman (John 15:1). That hedge around Paradise will be removed for there will be no reason to keep good in and evil out. Only with God as Husbandman will no laws be needed. The first point told why? Only the meek and righteous will be citizens of that new land. Without sin, selfishness, and lust; there will be an open range where citizens will need not be controlled. Compare that to those who demand that walls be torn down. They are the unruly mob that provokes unrighteousness as the law of the land. Can you imagine Utopian socialism with greedy people running unperturbed? Paradise has no walls or fences outside those required for entry. “Common wealth” is the goal of socialism, but the fewer commoners the more the wealth for each. As such, Utopia has a limit on who deserves entry, and it is those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the state. Paradise is for those who would see their “common good” in harmony with the Goodness of God. God will need not control in Paradise because Christians there are willing to honor God. Utopia is a place where only the theory is honored — the theory of socialism whose death is certain. The plantation system of ante-bellum times was a socialist endeavor which Jefferson Davis said, “died of a theory.”

(6)    “For there will be no poor man there, no rich, and no tyrant, no slave. Further, no one will be either great or small anymore. No kings. No leaders. All will be on a par together” (321-324). As you can see, socialism has the right idea, but their theory misses the most important Component, and that is the Presence of God. Rather than a Utopia wherein there are no leaders, in a real commune, each will be “as God.” Socialism is always a commune of wannabe leaders with few workers. That is why socialism always fails! In Paradise, alone, will citizens be on equal footing. We all will be servants of the Living God! Why does socialism dismiss God? Because, for them Utopia means living without control. Utopia is each doing what is right in their own eyes just as they did before there were kings in Israel (Jud 17:6). What does Utopia look like? Not what is described in the Sibylline Oracles, but what you see at the present in the Democrat-run big cities. That is the Democrat version of a socialist Utopia. What is the environment in Paradise? Love and Light! What is the toxic environment in Utopia? Hatred and deception. Those naïve socialists in the “Autonomous Zone” in Portland is prototypical of Utopia. Is that what you want? Is that how far you can go to escape civility? … To escape God?

(7)    “He will make a long day” (329). That refers to the “eighth day” when there is no time. There will be no dread of the end because there will be no end! Utopia will never exist without a need for a clock, but Paradise will. Utopia is of the world, and it is always a few minutes from midnight on the Doomsday Clock. Socialists will deplenish the globe on their way to saving it. Their method of “salvation” is not for individuals, and not for the “common good,” but for the good of “mother earth.” They can only create an eighth day by removing the product of the “seven days.’ Recently, those who would “reset” the clock of existence propose the elimination of 95% of the world’s population. They would destroy the many for the good of the few! On the other hand, God wants that none should perish” (John 3:16), but ironically, most will choose to perish. In Utopia, they will have no choice but to sacrifice and perish for the common good.

(8)    There is one further thing that Paradise provides; it is refuge from perishing, to wit: “To save men from the raging fire and gnashing” (332), “And pick them out again from the undying fire” (334). Paradise is the place of salvation! It is where those who are saved from the second death will be saved to! “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:13-15). This is the time of salvation! Until then, God keeps Christians safe! Salvation has a destination. It is a return to Paradise. Utopia is unobtainable because communal living is impossible without the Temple in which to commune! The first thing which shall perish, is the socialist theory of Utopia. For 3-1/2 years Utopia will seem to have come into existence, but after just three short years, Utopia will be revealed for what it is — a hell on earth as the Antichrist and Beast expose their identity and kill with impunity. That is not Paradise found, but Utopia exposed!

(Tomorrow I will continue with part 3 and finalize the commentary).

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UTOPIA AND PARADISE – Part 1 of 3

 I have just completed commentary on the entire Bible from Genesis to Re-Genesis (Revelation), the former the generation of life and the latter, its regeneration. The explanation of the generation of things is “ontology;” that is to say “being” (ontos) and “logic” (logia). Ironically, evolution theory is illogical and  is faulty reasoning in that animate life flowing from inanimate is a type of alchemy.

“Eschatology” is the study of the end and comes from eschatos (end) and logy (the study) of the end. Therefore, reading the Bible is the study of the beginning and the end of existence, and all the events   between are events that humans consider to be “existence.” We call existence “life” and our role as human beings as experiencing life. “Hope” is the expectation that existence is never-ending. “Fatalism” is the fear that all things will come to an end.

Christians have the hope of salvation. It is not wishful thinking but very rational, indeed. Christians see the generation of existence from the perspective of Holy Scripture, and have the expectation, that just as humankind was generated in the beginning, it will be regenerated in the end. Hence, the theological concept of “regeneration” is not that Christians will return to the innocence of the womb but shall return to the innocence and perfection that God intended when He made mankind in His own image. Babies are all “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). Adam was made, not “very good” but “m? ‘od” (Hebrew) (Gen 1:31) — exceedingly excellent — not only Adam but all things wherein he existed as a living person.

“Paradise” was the existence of Adam. It was a Garden kept by God and within it all things were exceedingly excellent. If one thing was not, it was the presence of spiritual beings who had already failed God! Angels were not prototypical of mankind wherein God experimented and failed, but beings who served God and man for different purposes. As such, archangels served the better purposes of God and fallen angels as his “Testers.”

The ontological existence of angels is for the ontology of mankind. In the end, eschatologically, it turns out that Testing Angels will serve no further purpose and will be cast into Hell. Those who served the Greater Good of God will have no end. Likewise, God monitors and records the activities, thoughts, and behaviors of our kind and threshes the grain from the chaff and the grains from the grains, and winnows that which shall perish into the burning pit.

Paradise was made as a home for obedient and faithful servants for God. Indeed, Adam was assigned to “dress and keep” the Garden of Eden as an ontological receptacle for life. It was “God’s Womb” so the speak wherein God provided life, nourishment for life, and order for the continuation of life. Hid spiritual “cord” was the “silver cord” of which Solomon wrote.

Adam would need not do anything except keep the Way to the Tree of Life, which, when he failed that one task, the cherubim were assigned to do what Adam did not do! (Gen 3:24). What stood in Adam’s way? The way of the Tree of Knowledge. Out of two choices, Adam chose wrongly! He could no longer be trusted to keep the Way to Eternal Life. All that he had to do is stand under and eat of the Greatest Tree in the forest, but its majesty was dimmed by the exotic fruit along the way.

Paradise was made for mankind by God. The Law therein was one — keep the way to the Tree of Life. Adam saw the “way” to life a little differently than he should have. God provided essentials. If you are into psychology which I am not, consider Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from the lower tier toward the upper: (1) physiological, (2) safety, (3) belongingness and love, (4) esteem — high self-estimation, and (5) self-actualization, finalized by a few by a “peak experience.” Those “needs” go from basic, to psychological, to self-fulfillment.

As such, the Tree of Life fulfilled all needs, but Adam desired to fulfill them all by “himself.” God provided the basic and spiritual needs. “Psychology” is nothing more than the “study of the soul” but there was no studying required. All things were exceedingly great!

Sin turned out to be self-actualization with too high of an estimation of themselves (Adam and Eve). Even the Serpent spoke truth, “God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God” (Gen 3:5). The Way to Life was by the grace of God. The philosophy tree (psychology) stood between life and death.

The two trees have great importance. Mankind always had clear choices. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was knowledge of all things. God had not intended for His beings to have knowledge of evil, but to make them human, they must have a choice. “Look around,” God implied. “This Paradise is all yours!” However, two naïve human beings thought they saw better things. What God provided was forever, but temporal things that appealed to their flesh stood between two beings and eternal existence.

What was it they wanted? They had Paradise, but preferred Utopia. Paradise was what God planned and made just for them, but they thought that they had a better way; The Tree of Knowledge was their Utopia, but unknown to their own knowledge (i.e., stupidity) there was much to be learned from that day forward. Life was simple with only the knowledge of “good” but when evil was instituted among men, the order in the Garden became disorderly in their minds.

The two questioned the reason for their own existence. “Why me?” they asked. Evil came into their minds— “Paradise is meant for us; it belongs to us and we should rule!” They, the moment they ate, lost Paradise that God had made for them and gained (sic) a world of their own making. God knew that in advance and had prepared a place outside Paradise for unruly people. Adam and Eve were cast out of Paradise into the world (Gen 3:23) but not before God provided them a skin of safety (Gen 3:21) as a hedge for things outside Paradise.

They passed by the cherubim who had taken on their role. Think of the shame! Paradise certainly had a hedge around its entire perimeter as there remained only one Way to re-enter Paradise to follow the Way to the Tree of Life, and that was the Way of Jesus. There are no backdoors to Paradise, and the continuous thread throughout the Bible is that the work of men’s hands or the fruits of men’s knowledge is not the way to regain Paradise. The obvious things for brilliant minds to do is to deny Paradise, deny Creation, and deny God! With that outlook, ever since, man has endeavored to build a Utopia, like God did with Paradise, but without God and without the essential substances — truly excellent good things! Their material is substandard if to any standard at all!

Paradise was God creating “exceedingly excellent” and Utopia with humans creating “exceedingly evil” using the substances of their own minds. Only God Created the elements and the space for them. Man has neither the capacity nor the substance to build anything, so they build with great fantasy! For them, only they understand the process and those who credit God are nothing more than dreamers who themselves created a “God” who did what they were unable to do!

Now consider Maslow’s Pyramid and compare it to the Tower of Babel. The peak experience at Babel was for those seeking higher things to make a name for themselves (Gen 11:4). They were building “Maslow’s Pyramid” by using the materials that God provided and His knowhow. They strived to reach into the heavens. Building a tower to heaven is what Gid did with the Cross but here we have it again; mankind was dreaming about Jacob’s Ladder and thought they could build what Jacob only dreamed of.

The Tower of Babel was symbolic of the Tree of Knowledge wherein mankind was trying to regain the “Paradise” they had lost. That “great ladder” was their way to Utopia; a “Paradise” not built by the Hand of God (John 1) but the hands of men. The story of the Tower of Babel is the story of men trying to do what God did! It is the religious doctrine of socialism, and Karl Marx could as well have written the plan for the fallen bricks of that Great Tower.

Tomorrow I will continue with part 2 of 2 but first read a bout the Way to the true exceedingly excellent Paradise that Utopians fail to see (Sibylline Oracles 2:314-335):

 

 

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