COAT OF MANY COLORS ACCURSED

The previous commentary was on the “accursed thing” from Joshua 7:1. It should be obvious that the accursed thing contrasts with the “blessed thing;” the question that I tried to answer to reveal the accursed thing was to identify the blessed thing.

God gave a hint in Joshua in the passage, “I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment” (Josh 7:21) that I showed was likely the “Garment of Adam,” to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21) to obviously preserve them from the tribulations of the world and most certainly the fiery darts of the Wicked (Eph 6:16).

As such, because the Garment of Adam was “the shield of faith” that would protect Adam, that “goodly garment” was an apparel of the whole armor of God, and its “fiber” was the skin of a Lamb provided by God. That was which the New Testament reveals as Jesus Christ — “the Lamb of God” who John saw coming to cover him, “And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he (John) saith, ‘Behold the Lamb of God!’”

John and his companions followed Jesus. As such, they put on the goodly Garment of Faith. Jesus was the “Comforter” when he was with them — he was the Goodly Lamb — and afterwards the Holy Ghost would be the “Comforter” to preserve them from the fiery darts of the wicked.

Jesus blessed the “sheep” that would follow him. Sheep in the sense that they were in Christ and as such wore the Goodly Garment — the very flesh of God that was made of Goodness (Mat 19:17).

So, all along, the Garment of Adam was really the Garment of God that consisted of two “fibers:” material and Spiritual. Adam’s garment was the flesh of a dead lamb, but also interwoven with it was the Spirit of God since God sacrificed the lamb to preserve Adam until God would come in the flesh.

That Garment lasted quite some time; it remained extant, or one like it, until the days of Joshua and appears to still exist as the Holy Ghost — the “Spiritual Flesh” of Jesus. Jesus would have left His inner “Fiber” to keep those in Him from the fiery darts of the wicked.

“A goodly Babylonish garment” was seen by Joshua yet it was an “accursed thing.” Therefore, it seems that the “fiber” of the Garment was how it was used… for or against the Will of God.

It was God’s Will that Adam and Eve survive the fiery darts of the Wicked one, so the Garments were put to good use.

Since, as The Book of Jasher indicates, Ham stole it and “Babylonish Nimrod” put it to evil use to kill God, like all things of God, the Garment could be used for good or evil.

That anything that God makes can either be used in either of right or evil spirit is the knowledge of the forbidden tree. Upon entering the Promised Land, the goodly Babylonish garment became the “Accursed Thing” because Achan intended to misuse the Designer’s Intention for the thing. He would provide security and rob God of His Provision. The Garment would not be a “shield of faith” but a mere solen article of clothing which would not protect the Israelites from the fiery darts of Ai — the Canaanite “accursed ones” as was written when Canaan was born, “And He said, ‘Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren’” (Gen 9:25).

Canaan’s was of the germline of Ham, so the curse was for the generations of Ham. Canaan received the curse of the “Serpent;” to wit: “Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field” (Gen 3:14). God cursed the identity of Lucifer, the “Image” of the Serpent, and Canaan inherited that same image. The curse was inside and was genetic.

So, for a Canaanite to wear a goodly thing made it an “accursed thing” because Achan stole the Garment from the germline of the Wicked One. Because Lucifer and Canaan were cursed, then stealing the Garment was as if wearing the curse, making it Babylonish, or the “Garment of Lucifer,” that would preserve the Israelites.

What I am implying is that the color of the Thing morphs and takes on the color, according to its use. The name, Canaan, means “purple” and is used for wrong purposes makes it the spiritual “color” of the Garment. That is quite meaningful; the color, purple, is associated with royalty and that implies pompous genetics; the very attitude of Lucifer (Isa 14:12-14). Therefore, when used for evil, the spiritual “color” of the Garment was Babylonish but when used for good, its spiritual “color” would be white for purity. In other words, the Garment was both for blessings and curses, and when Achan put his faith in the garment, it became accursed. As such, its spiritual color would have changed; it would not be the Garment of God but the Garment of the devil, Nimrod.

Because the Garment of Adam was a coat of skin, then within the fiber was its color. On Adam and Noah, the Garment of Adam would be white as snow because God placed the Garment on them both. However, Achan stole the Garment and as such, Lucifer made the Garment available, and for Achan, it can be applied, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44). Achan, although a “Jew” outwardly by the genetics in his flesh, became an accursed “Canaanite” inwardly.

Over the centuries, the Garment of Adam became a “Coat of Many Colors,” to wit: “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours” (Gen 37:3).

Since the Babylonians had the Garment of Adam, Joseph made for Joseph a new coat to replace it. It was a coat of many colors, and it was for the generations of Joseph (Gen 37:2).

The “accursed thing” was not a Garment of Babylon but a “Babylonish Garment.” Joseph’s coat was then Babylonish in that it was of many colors such as the Babylonians wore at that time.

Like Achan, Joseph’s brothers stole the coat from him, and its spiritual “color” changed. The revised standard version translates, “a long robe with sleeves” rather than of various colors. It can be interpreted both ways, and perhaps that adds to my hypothesis that the coats were of one color outwardly but of many colors inwardly, meaning the spiritual use of them.

Whatever happened to the coat is unclear, but one thing is clear, it was torn to make it appear that a wolf or other animal shredded the coat with Joseph in it. However, there may have remained a remnant  of it when Judah had twins by the harlot; when the midwife tied a scarlet thread around the arm of Zerah and not Pharez (Gen 38). Hence, the “coat of many colors” was perhaps scarlet, a shade of purple, all over, and its many colors were its uses.

Since the Garment of Adam had been cursed, then Jacob created a second Garment and it too became useful for nefarious purposes in that Zerah is the ancestor of Achan, who was stoned to death. That implies that the scarlet thread was perhaps used when the Accursed Coat was woven; the one stolen by Achan. Was he trying to regain his genetic birthright? Was he trying to be the “Jesus” (Joshua)? Was that the real sin of Achan? Those are good questions but depending on any coat other than the whole armor of God is fruitless against the fiery darts of the wicked!

(picture credit: "Coat of Many Colors;" 1981; Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ACCURSED THING

Scripture can be viewed from different perspectives. The preacher Sunday morning focused on the theft of royal belongings for the conquering of enemies. On the other hand, the “Accursed Thing” fascinated me. I saw the focus of the chapter, not so much on the theft, but on the misappropriation of the good things that God provides for righteous use, used for wrong things.

Joshua was the “son” of Moses, not in a genetic sense but as a spiritual “antitype.” Moses was the positive antitype of the Father, and Joshua the positive antitype of the Son. In fact, “Joshua” is the English form of Yehoshua — “Yahweh rescues” — just as is the name, Jesus. Joshua was the Name that is not to be used in vain, according to the commandment for it has intense significance.

Moses was not allowed entry into the Promised Land, at least, not until the Transfiguration of Jesus. Whether in body or spirit is unknown, but Moses was there when Jesus showed himself as God, and to the Jewish apostles standing there, they could see that Moses was no Jesus and Jesus was not Moses!

With that said, neither was Moses, God, and nor was Joshua, Jesus, but antitypes of them.

After Joshua took charge of the Israelites, no longer were they Mosaic but Yehoshua’s. Their natures had changed, not by biogenetics, but “Theogenetics” as the Father put the “Divine Impulse,” once in Moses, into Joshua. As such, that transition changed the nature of the Israelites, for only the elect would enter in, and the Hebrew people would no longer be Kenites as their “father” Cain but more like Abel who was buried there and whose “blood crieth unto Me from the ground” (Gen 4:10).

Moses was also the negative antitype of Cain as well just as his wandering path suggests, as the name Cain means “Wanderer.” Joshua was “The Word” coming back “home” to Paradise, as many believe, and as I believe as well.

Just as Cain was of the Wicked One and killed his righteous brother; Abel was of the Righteous One, and scripture implies that Abel was conceived in the womb of Eve by Divine Impulse.

With the conception of Cain, Adam knew Eve. He had yada, yada, yada with her (Gen 4:2), but even with that, it may have been farcical in the manner that David’s son, Solomon, was contrived to be the son of Bathsheba’s Hittite husband, Uriah.  

But when Abel was conceived, no mention of Adam was made; it is written only, “And she again bare his brother Abel” (Gen 4:3). Adam had no knowledge of her when Abel was conceived, and since he was “Righteous Abel” (Mat 23:35), then that implies that he was not “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) like the rest of us, as David remarked about himself.

All that to demonstrate that Joshua’s entry into Israel was a return to Paradise wherein the blood of Abel cried out for the flesh of Joshua to enter the land.

Thus far (Josh 7), the Israelites had made it past the genetic descendants of the cherubim — the Anakim and soon they would be completely cut off (Josh 11:21).

The genes of the cherubim Gregori angels (from The Book of Enoch) had made it through the flood in the flesh of Canaan and his brothers — sons of Ham. God had made the route back into the Garden perilous, and the Israelites should have known that well, “So He drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life” (Gen 3:24). The Anakim were the fulfillment of that!

Joshua sent 3000 men up to see Ai (the Canannites of that area), but then they fled (Josh 7:4). The cursed Canaanites had scared the salvation out of the Israelites. They appeared to fear genetic sons of Canaan more so than Almighty God who had been with them for forty years!

Canaanites had the genes of giant Gregori from the days of Noah in them and were accursed.

In the days of Noah, Noah simply found grace (Gen 6:8). The Book of Jasher reveals the grace that Noah “found” was the “Garment of Adam,” according to scripture: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them” (Gen 3:21).

God clothed them with His “Flesh” to endure the world outside the paradisical Garden. God provided that same grace to Noah, but as it turns out, Ham stole the Garment of Adam, according to that sacred writing and Canaanites wore the now cursed coat.

The “Graceful Thing,” The Garment of Adam, by the time of Canaan, had become the “Accursed Thing to wit: “But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

Achan put on the Accursed Thing; what was it that was cursed? Stolen from the Canaanites were many treasures; among which was a “Babylonish garment” (Josh 7:21).

As it turns out, Babylonians ended up with the “Garment of Adam,” as The Book of Jasher reveals:

²⁴ And the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given to Cush. ²⁵ For after the death of Adam and his wife, the garments were given to Enoch, the son of Jared, and when Enoch was taken up to God, he gave them to Methuselah, his son. ²⁶ And at the death of Methuselah, Noah took them and brought them to the ark, and they were with him until he went out of the ark. ²⁷ And in their going out, Ham stole those garments from Noah his father, and he took them and hid them from his brothers. ²⁸ And when Ham begat his first born Cush, he gave him the garments in secret, and they were with Cush many days. ²⁹ And Cush also concealed them from his sons and brothers, and when Cush had begotten Nimrod, he gave him those garments through his love for him, and Nimrod grew up, and when he was twenty years old he put on those garments. ³⁰ And Nimrod became strong when he put on the garments, and God gave him might and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the Earth, yea, he was a mighty hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and he offered upon them the animals before the Lord… 45 And all nations and tongues heard of his fame, and they gathered themselves to him, and they bowed down to the earth, and they brought him offerings, and he became their lord and king, and they all dwelt with him in the city at Shinar, and Nimrod reigned in the earth over all the sons of Noah, and they were all under his power and counsel. (Jasher 7:24-30,45)

 The Garment of Adam, by the time of Nimrod, was cursed, and ended up “in the city at Shinar” — Babylon.

The now defiled “Garment of Adam” seems to be the “accursed garment” that Achan stole. It was the “Babylonish Garment” that would make the Israelites mighty hunters like Nimrod and would enable them to kill the Canaanites. Rather than God, Achan would have them depend on Nimrod — the “mighty hunter” who had even failed in his attempt to kill God.

Nimrod failed because the Garment of Adam was to cover Adam, but it was “The Word of God” that Adam and Noah had found!

Whether the Garment was actual skins or “Spiritual Flesh” is debatable, but  the “Garment of Grace” appears to have been real skins of lambs but were also coverings of the Spirit of God. Perhaps by the time of Joshua, God had removed His “Strength” from the garments because they were misappropriated for the use of evil just as all good things are!

Nimrod is the “spirit” of all false gods that can be traced from Babylon, to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece, and on to Rome. They are the same New Age “gods” of modern times. So, rather than depending on the King of kings and LORD of Lords, Achan was depending on the antitype of the Antichrist — Nimrod, whose idols were Terah’s, the father of Abram, that Abraham had destroyed.

Achan was in effect digging up the gods of Nimrod when he stole the accursed Garment of Adam; that “Babylonish Garment” — “the accursed thing”!

(picture credit: Colonial Art)

 GARMENT OF ADAM (AND EVE)

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD

 There is a question as old as time itself; did Adam have a belly button? If he did, or did not, is meaningless, but the Earth was the “child of God,” not in the sense of an organism, but as another “existence” spiraling from the Existing One — THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

The Earth represents life. It has the essentials in every respect for life to exist that in all probability does not exist elsewhere. Not only are humans the chosen and peculiar race (Deut 14:2) that were elected to exist, but the Earth is the chosen and peculiar place. There is no race without a place, and life exists only in this special place. Another question that could be asked; Does the Earth have a belly button?

The ”world” (Hebrew; tebel) is the “habitable globe” and the “Earth” (‘eres) is “the firm” substance of the world  (BLB 2021) from 1 Samuel 2:8. The “pillar” (masuq) on which the Earth sits is the LORD’s, as is written therein. The pillars extend from the throne of God to the Earth, as can be seen from that passage:

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the Earth are the Lord's, and He hath set the world upon them.

 Therein is the world, the throne of God in heaven, and the people of the world, just as scripture indicates, “for out of it (the ground — the “firm”) wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Gen 3:19).

In a metaphoric sense, therefore, the pillars are the “umbilical cord” of God that extends from His throne on heaven to the world. Thence, the world has a “belly button.”

Solomon, the wisest man to ever exist, said that ⁵ “because man goeth to his long home… ⁶ or ever the silver cord be loosed… ⁷ then shall the dust return to the Earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it” (Ecc 6:5-7).

The “silver cord” therein is literally a “pale twisted thread” (ibid). Solomon was speaking of both death and the Apocalypse when the composition of all things will change, the Earth is regenerated, and a new beginning occurs for the new creatures in Christ.

The silver cord is perhaps the pillars in question; not pillars made of stone but the chromosomes of God — the “pale twisted thread” of double-helix organic material that contains life and instructions encoded in it to retain life! JHVG (Jehovah God) is said to be in DNA. His Double-Helix is perhaps the pillars that Solomon saw as a pale twisted thread. Indeed, the word “chromosome” comes from khroma soma and means “color of the organism” (Douglas-Harper 2001-2022).

Why two cords? Why two pillars? God said that Adam was made in “in our image, after our likeness” (Gen 1:26). The Father and Son might be those “pillars” — the Father, the invisible Pillar and the Son, the visible pillar. The double-helix is one “thread” woven around the other in a sort of spiral. I believe that the DNA of man from God is the link between man and God and consequently between heaven and Earth, just as in 1 Samuel 2:8. And not to be forgotten is that the DNA may represent the interwoven Identity of the Father with the Son, and “Jacob’s Ladder” — the spiral stairway to heaven.

A renowned Jewish historian (Montefiore) described Jerusalem when the Dome of the Rock was constructed:

The Rock was the site of Adam’s paradise, Abraham’s altar, the place where David and Solomon planned their Temple later visited by Muhammad on his Night Journey. Abd al-Malik was rebuilding the Jewish Temple for the true revelation of God, Islam (as he saw it).The building has no central axis but is encircled thrice — first by the outside walls, next by the octagonal arcade and then right under the dome, bathed in sunlight, the arcade around the Rock itself” this declared that this place was the centre of the world. The dome itself was heaven, the link to God in human architecture. The golden dome and the lush decorations and gleaming white marble declared this was the new Eden, and the place for the Last Judgment when Abd al-Malik, and his Umayyad dynasty, would surrender their kingdom to God at the Hour of the Last Days. Its wealth of images — jewels, trees, fruit flowers and crowns — make it a joyful building even for Muslims — its imagery combined the sensuality of Eden with the majesty of David and Solomon. (Montefiore 2011) (parenthesis mine)

Montefiore was describing the Dome of the Rock that the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate build atop the “Rock” — The Foundation Stone at the “centre of the world” that is commonly called the “Navel of the World” by so many in the three principal religions.

The Dome of the Rock is the “Golden Bowl” that covers the Navel of the World. It was started in 691 A.D., thousands of years after Solomon’s Temple was built in the 10^th Century B.C.

Did Solomon know about the future use of that Holy Rock; that exact same place that creation started and the “firm” place that Adam had lain as the “turntable” for his molding?

Consider death and the Apocalypse of which Solomon wrote:

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. (Ecc 12:6)

 The “silver cord” has already been defined as the thread of life from the throne of God to the navel of the world, and also as the DNA in the chromosomes whose “color” comes from stain from within the world to the bodies of the organisms. So, what is the “golden bowl” that will be broken?

I think that Solomon knew all about the Dome of the Rock that was covered in gold leaf!

Before the Apocalypse, many theologians believe that another Temple would be built. Ironically, or by Divine Planning perhaps, the Dome that al-Malik built is the Last Temple.

It was not built as a Mosque, but an image of Paradise on Earth. The Rock is its pillar, and the Dome is the “firmament,” or “dome,” in some versions, that represents the cosmos above, sitting right there on the plane of the celestial axis! Al-Malik was acting as God and recreating Paradise on Earth.

What right would he have to do that? Perhaps God ordained that al-Malik would be the servant to Shem and Japheth for after the deluge it was written, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27).

The Dome of the Rock, just like the Tabernacles in the wilderness, is one of the “tents” of God and those of the germline of Canaan who built it — Arabs intermixed with Semites.

During the Crusades, that Muslim shrine, not a mosque, was used as a Temple by the Christians there. Ironically, the Canaanites had built a Temple, that also He did not need, for God’s purposes. That big “bowl,” before the end comes, must be broken, and broken it will be just as all the other Temples that have covered the Navel of the World along the celestial axis. The real “dome” above was the celestial sphere of which the Dome was a symbol, and the axis went from the throne of God in heaven to the world.

Perhaps on another day, the broken pitcher and the broken wheel at the cistern will be revealed to me. At the present, I have no idea, but am certain that Solomon was writing of his Temple for God’s use that al-Malik would build, right there on the Foundation Stone at the Navel of the World.

 (photo od Dome of the Rock compliments if Wikipedia)

VEGAN MAN OR CARNAL MAN?

That mankind in the Garden had no digestive system, according to the Books of Adam and Eve, is an interesting proposition. As the story goes from ancient times, an unknown writer finished the life of Adam and Eve from the time they were dismissed from the Garden Paradise until they died.

Because its date and author are unknown, those Books are called “pseudepigrapha” …but are they? They, as such, are not canon in that they are not accepted unto the body of knowledge as divinely inspired writings.

Because Adam and Eve, standing near a fig tree and used its leaves to make aprons (Gen 3:7), it is reasonable to assume that the forbidden fruit were figs.

As Adam and Eve had learned their lessons, thereafter they were afraid to eat figs because they had sensed death as they immediately became as the “old creature” upon consuming the fruit. As the story goes, God gave them a fig the size of a watermelon whose “shelf life” was without end. Because they had sinned, they carried the fig wherever they went but would not eat of it out of fear. Finally, the temptation was too great, they ate, and became sick. The reason given was because in their glorious state, they had no digestive system, and likely, I might add, no reproductive systems. Somehow God kept them alive in Paradise.

What was the Garden like? It was like Paradise in heaven. Ancient writers, as I do myself, believe that the Garden Paradise was transposed to another realm in much the same manner that Jesus was resurrected. The biblical evidence of that is much, but three are the most profound: (1) The Jordan River (Naral Ha Yarden) means “the river of the Garden, (2) the area that includes Israel to this day still retains Edenic names — The Gulf of Aden, the city of Aden, the City of Adam, and the tribe of Dan’s assigned land, Eden, and (3) that Sodom and Gomorrah were part of the “Garden of the Lord” (Gen 13:10), to wit:

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the Garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

 It was not “as the Garden of the Lord” in the Hebrew but literally the very Garden and so was Zoar in Egypt! Now, the Garden of Eden no longer exists, except possibly for one spot in the middle of the Garden — Zion — which is to include the Foundation Stone and the remnants of the Garden — the Mount of Olives wherein ancient olive trees as old, if not more so, as four-thousand years, still exist.

That the Garden is the same “Paradise” as in heaven is essential in the evidence for my premise that things in the Garden are as things in the heavenly Paradise because they are the same existence, only different in substances because they are different realms of the same place!

What is known about heavenly Paradise? It is real, only of different substances. John the Revelator provided even the size of the Great City of God.

Also known is that the Tree of Life stood in the “midst of the Garden” (Gen 2:9) and it still stands to this day in the same place:

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Rev 2:7) and In the midst of the street of it (Paradise), and on either side of the river (the Jordan), was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:2)

 The twelve manner of fruits that were to be “eaten” were not traditional fruits at all, but the twelve favorable natures of the new creatures: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and three others listed only in the Latin Vulgate version (Gal 5:22-23). Those “fruits of the Spirit” would be by Divine Impulse, in other words, the Spirit of God would imbue them unto the Christian with no eating, chewing, nor digestion!

Back in the Garden, the fruits of those trees were for eating — they were “good or food” (Gen 2:9), literally “good for meat” (BLB 2021). It is thought that the trees were good for eating but the fruit of one was good for the flesh! As John saw it in his vision, indeed the Tree of Life alone was good for the flesh; no longer would it be corrupt flesh but “good flesh” as it will have the nature of God.

My hypothesis is that the two consumed the fruit of the forbidden tree, but neither was it figs nor by eating, but by carnal knowledge. Why so? They were endowed with evil natures:

¹⁹ …Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like… (Gal 5:19-21)

 The point is made: there will be no eating in Paradise in heaven and there was no eating in the Garden Paradise. Neither will there be no consummation of the flesh in heaven: “They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage (in heaven)” (Luke 20:35).

What was the original sin? Since Cain is of the Wicked One, the sin was coupling (marriage) in Paradise, as I conclude. In heaven, there is no need for the reproductive system, and in the Garden, neither was there a need for it because God “cloned” Himself in Adam, then Adam “cloned” himself to make Eve. They were both “images” of God who creates, not pro-create in a natural manner.

Isaiah foresaw a reconstruction of the Garden Paradise, to wit:

For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the Garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (Isa 51:3)

 “Zion” changes as parts of it is destroyed. Zion means “Israel” — and specifically in the middle of the Garden in Jerusalem. The “Zion” that Isaiah envisioned was more than a city but like Eden itself.

“Eden” is likely the “fertile crescent” extending from the Nile to the Euphrates — the Kingdom of David. Isaiah would see the Kingdom of David like the Garden of the Lord was at one time. It was not only a real Garden that existed, but some of its “fruits” were seen by Isaiah — “joy and gladness shall be found therein” and also “thanksgiving and melody” (faithfulness and self-control).

The “fertility” of the Garden was not the humus nor hard work but by Divine Impulse and the new natures of the creatures. The genetics in the Garden were not organic at all but Divine. Satan, whose number is the number of carbon, is the “organic impulse” with which all are conceived.

Isaiah was not visualizing Paradise in heaven but its future location in the Mideast where it was so long before, as Paradise (New Jerusalem) will come down to its foundation (Rev 21:2)— Old Jerusalem.

Thus, my conclusion agrees with the unknown writer’s description, but I extend it to the reproductive system as well as the digestive. But am I correct? Now consider the following passage:

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the Earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” (Gen 1:29)

 “Meat” therein is ‘acla in the Hebrew. The closest English definition is “devouring” (BLB 2021). The “herbs” are not necessarily for eating but devouring. Scripture reveals that “the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). The meat in that passage may very well be the flesh of those who devour the “herbs.”

Perhaps God was not referring to substance but natures. Perhaps “for meat” is for the organisms’ impulses, as a choice to eat or not. It is not substance at all but the nature of the Devil that they could choose or not.

As for “herb” itself, it is eseb in the Hebrew. It strictly means “to glisten” (ibid). Any further attempt to translate is by extrapolation. Because grass glistens in the sun, the translators were surely thinking of grass, and expanded it to include all vegetation, thus “herbs.”

What else glistens? Consider things unseen that corresponds to the nature of mankind. The first thing that comes to mind are chromosomes — the vessels that contain the identity of the fleshes, and by that, it is meant their coded identity of God in them — their God-given substance, their DNA, which ironically has JHVG in its interstices.

It would not necessarily be herbs that would be their food but that they would be divinely endowed with a nature not requiring substance for food. Their ”manna” from God would be His Divine Impulses wherein grace would preserve them and not organic substances at all!

God would provide the “manna,” and like the Israelites much later, each one could either choose or not to choose to eat. (Remember from scripture that the manna glistened in the sun. In other words, the “herbs” of the Garden were surely God’s care from heaven.

At Sodom, the people chose flesh to consume, perhaps by the mouth. The homosexuals would endeavor to “eat the flesh” of humans, so to speak, and it rained “brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven” (Gen 19:24). As such, the Sodomites “ate” death because they had natures worse than even the beasts.

Instead of manna, it rained death when it rained brimstone, or sulfur. What is the main characteristic of sulfur? “Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow, crystalline solid at room temperature” (Wikipedia 2001-2022) but at high temperatures it is fire. In other words, it glistens and as such the chromosomes in the flesh would glisten as they expire. God did that, them given a choice of what they put into their fleshes.

Now, almost everyone will put anything in their fleshes; from inks, to drugs, to piercings, to genetic altering “vaccines” that change the contents of the chromosomes.

God was not a “microbiologist” but he was biographical in that He formed the bodies of mankind with His nature Divinely Impulsed unto His creatures.

“Born again” is that “Impulse” that is contained in God’s “Seed” which grows only in those in Christ — in those who wear the Spiritual “Garment of God” that Adam wore until his death.

Hence, it is not so much food that Adam and Eve consumed, if they ate at all, but the nature of the beast that became theirs. As such, Cain was the firstborn in iniquity and of the Devil. He had evil somehow impulsed in his genetic code and it remains in all his germline to this day.

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