THE MENORAH

 (Continued from yesterday)

  The Menorah is a representation of the Tree of Life. As such, it also a representation of the Messiah. The number seven is God’s number, so the seven candlesticks of the Menorah can mean many different things. Of course, any and all of those things must have something to do with light from God.

  Since Jesus is the light of the world, (John 8:12) it should have something to do with Him. On the other hand, Matthew wrote about Jerusalem, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid” (Mat 5:14). Jesus Himself said,

“I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:4-5)

  “I AM” is used before the “light of the world” thus the light is the object of I AM, meaning I AM equals Light of the World. God is without name, He just IS, and in English that is I AM, in Hebrew Yehovah (JHVH), and in Greek Ego Eimi. In the Greek, “I” is implied, leaving “AM” or the “Existence.”

  The Existence is the Light of the World, and the Menorah would represent that Light or Presence.

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³ And God said, “Let there be light: and there was light.” ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Gen 1:1-5)

  Before anything God WAS, hence He was all of EXISTENCE. As such, all things come from Him.

 In the Hebrew, that Pre-existence is called “Shekhinah” which is the Presence of the EXISTENCE that we call “God.” As such, before anything, God was the Light of Existence. He was the SEVEN LAMPS somehow that represent Him.

  Jesus mentioned work in the same context as Light of the World, then He went about His work (John 9:6) “He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.”

  That blind man was Bartimaeus; the man who when he first saw the light, saw Jesus. Not only that, He saw Jesus as a tree walking! He saw the Light of the World first as the Tree of Life, if that is the true meaning of scripture. Why else would it have been written by Mark that Bartimaeus only saw Jesus, but said, “I see men; as trees walking”?

  Where was Jesus in the beginning of the world: “And they heard the voice of the LORD GOD walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden” (Gen 3:8).

  Of course, the “Tree of Life” was real, but was it a metaphysical “Tree” that could walk? Had GOD been in the midst of His creatures in Genesis 2:9 along with Lucifer in their midst as well in a metaphysical tree of knowledge?

  Adam and Eve walked to the forbidden tree, but the Tree of Life walked to them. Had Bartimaeus, given the Light of Jesus, seen Jesus as the Tree of Life and his belief is what healed him? Note that the LORD GOD, the EXISTENCE, formed man from the mist of the ground to make clay, and that the Light of this World made clay from spit to heal Bartimaeus!

  Without question, the Menorah represents the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD who goes where men go, even unto the darkness of sin to bring Light to the blind as He did for so many during His ministry.

  How long is the Light of the World to burn? Jesus said, “As long as I am in the world.” But Jesus is no longer in the world, is He not? Not so, the Comforter (the Holy Ghost) is just as much the Presence of God as the Tree of Life in the Garden, and the PRESENCE walking in the Garden.

  I believe, just as many Hebrew theologians, that Jerusalem is the “midst of the Garden of Eden” and Israel, defined by the former Kingdom of David, is the GARDEN, and it remains to this day, the fertile crescent, except for the Dead Sea that was as the Garden of God.

  Ezekiel described greater Assyria all the way to Lebanon when he compare the fall of Egypt to the fall if the Assyrian Empire: “The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty” (Ezek 31:8). Ezekiel saw the previous Kingdom of David as the Garden of Eden, and King Sargon II as the tree of beauty, or the Tree of Knowledge whose beauty Eve could not resist.

  Jerusalem would be the midst of the Garden and Jerusalem the center of the Presence of God; hence both the LORD GOD and Jerusalem are the “Light of the World” just as scripture indicates, and that the Garden of Eden was either a Garden of Metaphors or even metaphysical as implied!

  Mankind, either good or evil, would remain in the Presence of Jesus whether He be dead or alive (John 9:5). He was there in the Garden as the Voice walking in the Presence of Adam and Eve. The Word (John 1:1) was the Tree of Life walking in the Garden.

  That “Tree” was the first manifestation of Jesus, and the manifestation of Him in heavenly Paradise (Rev 22), remembering that the Tree of Life on the River of God has the Lamb of God in it. Hence, the Tree of Life represents the One LORD GOD with three substances.

  Now think of the Menorah. It is one candelabra with seven lamps. One lamp is in the midst of the others with three on each side. Obviously, the Menorah may represent one Tree with different branches. From here, one can only guess.

  Perhaps the center lamp represents the Tree of Life, and the other lamps, other trees. Trees in scripture represent things and mostly people of various types. The “trees” as antitypes in the Bible are the olive, fig, oak, cedar, shittim, and even the vine and bramble bush.

  Perhaps the Menorah represents the seven “trees” of scripture with the olive as the Tree of Life in the middle. If so, then the Menorah would represent the kinds of men who were the immortal souls surrounding the Tree of Life in the Garden.

  The mode in the ancient days was Tabernacle worship with the Tabernacle of God in the middle with the tents of the Hebrews surrounding His Presence.

  That was typical of Garden worship, with the Tree of Life with its canopy in the middle and the surrounding trees with their canopies, or naturally made tents.

  The crucifixion was also a negative type of worship with the Tree of Life in the middle and different types of people surrounding the “Tree” to which Jesus was nailed, and it all happened right there in the middle of the “Garden”!

²⁰ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. ²¹ In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. (Exod 27:20-21)

   Olive oil is for the fuel for the Light. It represents the Presence of God. For that one reason, perhaps the olive tree was the physical Tree of Life and Jesus the metaphysical in that it was real, rooted, grounded, but walked as if a man.

  The olive tree represents life and so does the Presence of the LORD GOD. Jesus is the physical Presence of the LORD GOD and the Holy Ghost the invisible Presence. The olive oil would represent the Holy Spirit of God that emanates from Him for the Light.

  The seven Churches of Asia were assigned to keep the Light burning. They were to bring the oil and cause the Lamp to always burn. Each Church, from the Book of Revelation, brought different amounts of oil, some “oil” of which burned, some burned little, and some went out.

  The seven churches of Asia were one prominent Church surrounded by six lesser churches, one of whose fire went nearly out (Laodicia). Those Churches were antitypical as well — typical of the Church ages. In the Age of Aquarius, it is the last Church age. It is when the lampstand burns low with only Laodicia smoldering.

  I believe that the Great Reset is the process of putting on the lampstand entirely, and it corresponds with the Age of Lucifer whose “water” puts the last lamp out. If some are right, that age began on December 20, 2020. The Light is growing dimmer, and soon it will be put out.

  But the last lamp can be delayed for a time; and that depends on the Church:

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings: ¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. (Phil 2:14-15)

  Those who walk in the Light of Jesus and shined on by the Presence of the Holy Ghost remain lit among those in a dark and perverse world. Just as the few in Sodom and Gomorrah delayed the destruction of those two cities, when God has had enough, the few whose lights are still burning will be raptured out, and then the rest go the way the Sodomites went.

  Is it midnight yet? Are there enough Christians to keep the Light of Jesus burning?

  Much like the destruction of Sodom, perhaps God will rapture the few before utter destruction comes. The question is: How much tribulation will God tolerate before the rapture? In Sodom it was when there were few lights left burning?

(picture credit: Hoshana Rabbah)

THE LIGHT IS LEFT BURNING

 

  Some can never see the forest for the trees, as the saying goes, but spiritually, they cannot see Jesus for the trees. Jesus, of course, is God manifested in the flesh (John 1:1-14) but is God manifested in other ways as well. He is Emmanuel— “God with us” (Mat 1:23). Well, God was IS always with us!

  John saw the invisible God when he wrote the gospel. Matthew, Mark, and Luke saw God each in one dimension.

  Matthew, in that gospel, focuses on Jesus as a Jew and Jewish Law. That Jesus had a consecrated bloodline is imperative because his shed blood while on the Cross was fulfilment of the Law. Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). The Abrahamic Covenant had been fulfilled, but not only that, but the Adamic, Noahic, Davidic, and the Priestly Covenants. They were all fulfilled by the Covenant of Grace.

  Mark saw Jesus from another dimension; that not only is Jesus flesh but that He is Power. The most prominent idea is that Jesus loses “virtue” to heal the blood of the sick, as with the woman at the well. (Mark 5:21).

  Luke looked at Jesus from another direction: He wrote of the compassion of Jesus and communion with both His Father and man. Luke saw Jesus as the Displayer of love.

  The Book of John was written by him, but there were many contributors to his view of Jesus. John had a four-dimensional view of Jesus and put Jesus in perspective. John most certainly saw that Jesus is God With Us.

  The first chapter reveals that God had always been with them, and he was especially with God’s chosen and peculiar people — the Hebrews (Deut 14:2). The significance of that is that Christians have been chosen by God to also be his peculiar people (1 Pet 2:9).

  Gentiles were chosen because the Hebrews always failed God. Now is the time that both Jew and Gentile are failing God. Why is that so? Because the lampstand is not kept burning!

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12) As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (John 9:5)

  Jesus remains in the world, but He is now silent and silenced, just as in the “Four-hundred Years of Silence” between Malachi the prophet and the conception of John the Baptist.

  Before the “storm” comes the wind always gets quiet, and the apocalypse is no exception. A “wind” of hurricane proportions is coming!

  From John’s perspective on High, he saw Jesus as the Word, the LORD GOD, in the beginning. The phrase “on high” is from God’s perspective.

  Lucifer desired to ascend to the heaven and be like the Most High. (Isa 14). John saw Jesus from that perspective from which God revealed to him in both the Books of John and Revelation.

  If Jesus is the Word made flesh and was there in the beginning, where was He? Jesus was “hidden” in a tree. Adam and Eve failed to see Jesus because they saw only a tree. John also revealed so much more:

⁴ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. ⁵ And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. ⁶ Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. (1 John 3”4-6)

  Apply that now to Adam and Eve; they both sinned. The Light was lit but they looked away. They did not see Jesus nor the Serpent. They saw both trees in the middle of the Garden, but in the Tree of Life, they saw nothing, but in the Tree of Knowledge, they only saw Lucifer — the false “bringer of light.” They failed to see the Serpent in Lucifer because they were blinded by some element emitted by Lucifer. He had no light, so perhaps they were blinded by the “earth” itself; perhaps Lucifer made light with phosphorus!

  Worse yet; the two failed to see “Jesus” in the Tree of Life! Not that He was not there, but that they failed to look that Way. They walked away from the Tree of Life surely because God had dimmed the Light from it for them to make a very significant choice — Just whose light would they follow?

  Now, jump ahead to what God revealed to Moses. God revealed every detail of His Will to Moses, down to the size and content of everything. Moses saw the Image of God in the Burning Bush. That too was God Manifested as John saw Jesus (from his letter above). The Burning Bush was God With Him. Moses saw and heard the Word of pre-incarnate Jesus. He saw the Light from the Image of that Bush! That “bush” was for that time, the “Tree of Life.”

  Thousands of years passed; and Jesus encountered blind Bartimaeus, or was it the blind man who encountered Jesus? Jesus led Bartimaeus by the hand outside the city. Jesus spit on his eyes, and with that “virtue” leaving Jesus, Bartimaeus’s vision changed, “And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking” (Mark 8:24).

  Mark had seen Jesus from neither the perspective of John, nor the perspective of the blind man. Mark saw God With Them, and focused only on flesh.

  To Mark, at that time, Jesus was God in the Flesh, who was only a three-dimensional image of Yahweh. He saw God in three dimensions but only one substance. He could not comprehend at that time the Mind of God nor the Invisible attribute of God (the Holy Ghost that Luke wrote about in Luke 3:22 as the “bodily shape” of the Holy Ghost).

  Luke saw some of what John saw, but he focused on compassion. He barely noticed that the Holy Spirit of God was the shape of the flesh of Jesus. Had you noticed that yourselves or were you blinded by the motion like a dove?

  Bartimaeus was blind, but Jesus first revealed to him the ability to see beyond the physical. Had you noticed that? Jesus took Bartimaeus away from the crowd into the country. He saw nothing on the way. With just a little virtue from the water from the mouth of Jesus, the Word spoke much. He gave Bartimaeus the power to see from on High. Bartimaeus saw men; as trees walking. But only one Man was there! He saw Jesus as a Tree walking.

  God manifested something for him to see that Mark failed to notice; that Bartimaeus recognized Jesus as the Tree of Life! Had you noticed that?

  John saw it! “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him” (Rev 22:3). The Tree of Life that was in the middle of the Garden of Eden remains in the heavenly realm on High to the end. That “Tree” is the Alpha and Omega; the Beginning and the End. It holds the throne of God, and the Lamb shall be in it! The Lamb of God is Jesus (John 1:29). Jesus is in the Tree of Life just as He was in the Burning Bush! How obvious can it be but most failed to see what Bartimaeus and John saw.

  It turns out that the Tree of Life is not only the manifestation of Jesus but His “throne” as well. Of course, the “throne” of God manifested on Earth were both the Mercy Seat and the Holy Cross on Calvary.

  Can you now see the Tree of Life? Adam and Eve turned their heads from it and were ashamed. On the Cross, God put out the lights for three hours so that the spiritual blind could see the Light of Jesus. They still could not see God With Us!

  Tomorrow will continue with the Light of God and the importance of the Menorah that remains so long forgotten.

(picture credit: Facebook; "Seven Golden Lampstands:)

 

IMPORTANCE OF BLOOD AND DNA

 

  The Mercy Seat on the Ark of the Covenant has much significance. It is not mentioned by name except in the Old Testament, but it is a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ (Heb 9:14).

  The Mercy Seat is where the blood of animals was sacrificed for the blood of sinful men rather than them sacrificing their own blood. For many, the sacrifice of animal blood seems pagan, but Yahweh never required the blood of humans, excepting one Man who happened to be God Himself. The sacrifice of animal species was done so that the Adamic species need not be sacrificed for their sins.

  It is to be noted that sacrifices in ancient times were all domesticated beasts. The most innocent of the animals were sacrificed for the sins of mankind, and their blood would be all there was for the mutated blood of mankind.

  The Mercy Seat upon the Ark of the Covenant was kept behind the curtains of the Holy of Holies wherein only the priests could go. When Jesus was crucified and His blood was shed, the veil in the Temple was rent in two (Mat 27:41), and by the way, the rocks beneath the feet of Jesus was rent as well.

  The blood of Jesus flowed sufficiently to redeem the Adam’s kind of all the Earth, and the archaeologist, Ron Wyatt, says that it ran beneath Gordon’s Calvary onto the westward side of the Mercy Seat which had been reserved for the blood of Jesus (https://youtu.be/6AbVOdRigOA).

  God designed the Mercy Seat to cover the Law which was to be placed beneath it:

²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. ²² And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exod 25:21-22)

  God sat on the Law (the Ten Commandments). He kept the Law for the Israelites, not that He was the Law but that the blood which was sacrificed was for that time ample to cover the Law. Just think on that! Giving the most prime of the firstborn animals as an offering to God when in this day few Christians will even part with their money!  Their own sacrifice covered their sins, and God cleansed them for presenting some of “themselves” to Him.

  Since the Blood of Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, for all; once and for all (Heb 10:10), no longer was a veil required to conceal God’s mercy and man’s sins. Jesus redeemed the sins of all.

  Suppose that the intent of the Mercy Seat was to symbolically change the blood of the Israelites by a substitution of the blood of domesticated animals. Their pacific nature would be transferred to the people by the mercies of God; not that their blood necessarily changed but their nature.

  What is now known is that the DNA of both animals and men includes their natures; men are naturally men and beasts naturally beasts. God “coded” them in their DNA that way when He created them.

  The tamest of all the animals was Adam’s species (very good). God created him above the creatures to have dominion over them. After original sin, Lucifer — another kind of being — presumed dominion over the man and when Adam hearkened unto Eve, not only did the serpentine nature of Lucifer have dominion over him but the woman as well. Feminism was born that day.

  Since Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12), apparently Lucifer’s nature had overcome Eve and the blood of Cain had evil in it. Cain means “Wanderer” which points out that his genetics became dominant as he spread sin all over what was once holy.

  The Mercy Seat was to vicariously cleanse the blood of the Israelites. For one year only, it was to tame them and keep them righteous and of God. There was one exception; the first of God’s “flock” to be sacrificed. One time only in Old Testament times did God “sacrifice” human beings:

¹³ Thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord. ¹⁴ Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine… ¹⁷ For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself… ²¹ And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. (Num 8:13-14, 17, 21)

  The Mercy Seat was for the priests to make an offering to God but before that, God offered the priests to Himself. The Levites were set apart to be His. Aaron and Moses set them apart for God and God sanctified (Hebrew qadas) them. God cleansed them and made them holy, or right in His eyes.

  Aaron would wash the Levites on the outside (Num 8:15) and God would wash them on the inside, indubitably with His Holy Spirit. Aaron made the “propitiation” for them somehow. Literally, the word for atonement, kapar, is “to cover with pitch” (Strong’s Dict.).

  Somehow Aaron did to the Levites what Noah did to the Ark, only symbolically. Perhaps he anointed them with olive oil, oil from the trees of life, after they were washed.

  Something spiritually happened to the Levites on the inside; their natures changed. God made them new creatures, of course, creatures that would soon begin to degenerate.

  To this day, the DNA of Levites is different than other Jews. Not all Levites were priests. Many had duties that were secular, skillful, and even janitorial since they kept the Tabernacle and the Temples. Some of the Levites were priests who served the Lord directly, to wit:

  Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesized most recent common ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", also spelled "Cohen"). According to the traditional understanding of the Hebrew Bible, this ancestor was Aaron, the brother of Moses. (Wikipedia)

  Without going into matrilineal and patrilineal chromosomes, the latter is used to identify the most Hebrew of the Hebrews — the Israelite priests. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews to this day show a preponderance of Cohen (priestly) DNA of the Aaronic priesthood.

  Even among the dark races of Africa, “Early research suggested that the 6/6 matches found among male Lemba of Southern Africa confirmed their oral history of descent from Jews and connection to Jewish culture” (Thomas MG et al. (February 2000). "Y chromosomes traveling south: the cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba--the "Black Jews of Southern Africa"". American Journal of Human Genetics. 66 (2): 674–86).

  It seems that Cohen blood, taken from Jews surnamed “Cohen,” does indicate their Aaronic DNA. For the Lemba, Sephardic Jews, and Ashkenazi Jews; Aaron would be what geneticists call their “genetic Adam.”

  When God set the Levites apart by washing them inside, He did something to their blood that remains in their DNA to this day. The blood of God’s people is paramount!

  Lucifer in Eve changed the blood of Cain, and Lucifer in anyone will change their natures. Because all have sinned, then all, just as David, are “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). The blood of sinners has iniquity in it, and the purpose of Jesus was to return to the Mercy Seat (then the Cross) and cover the Earth with His “pitch” — His very blood.

  The blood of David would be much different than the blood of his chief kohen. The former would be mutated and the latter certainly purer. Paul wrote about the blood of Levi and Jesus:

⁹ And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. ¹⁰ For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. ¹¹ If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? (Heb 7:9-12)

   Levi was covered with “pitch,” maybe not literally but figuratively. Yahweh, perhaps, made a garment for the priests as He did for Adam and Eve in the beginning. (Gen 3:21). It turns out that indeed God did design garments for priests to signify that they were different inside; that they had grace on them bestowed at their sanctification when Yahweh set them apart. Those garments and their roles kept them kohanim until the Temple was destroyed.

  Aaron covered them on the outside to signify what God would do to them inside. God had taken sinful Hebrews and changed the blood of the Levites. By the time of the crucifixion even the Chief Priests — the chief kohanim — had mutated to be as Judas who had the Wicked One in him.

  In the beginning of Tabernacle worship, the blood of wicked Aaron was made pure in that one branch. Levi was the new “Abel” whose blood was righteous (Mat 23:35). Because kohen blood had mutated because of miscegenation and sin, the Aaronic priesthood would no longer suffice.

  Paul explained that the Levites of Aaron were made pure by God. He restored their blood, apparently to their next “Adam” and that might be to the blood of Isaac who was of God and Sarah. (See my book, The Omega Variant, for that claim.)

  Since Melchisedec was without lineage, it can be assumed that he was God manifested in the days of Noah and Abraham. Abraham paid tithes to him before Levi was ever born. Melchisedec has purer blood than the Levites, and Jesus was of the “bloodline” of Melchisedec since both identify as God.

  The “Y-chromosomal Aaron” is all about the Aaronic priesthood and science has since shown that to be true in many cases. Not explored until Wyatt is the “Y-chromosomal Melchisedec.” The test of the “Messiah’s Blood” as Wyatt called it, was 24 Chomosomes: 23 from the maternal X and only the Y from the paternal side. That blood was tested to be neither human nor beast but supra-natural!

  “Y-chromosomal Melchisedec” would be “Y-chromosomal Jesus”! Thus, since X and Y chromosomes identify gender, then the blood of angels, who are not endowed with gender in heaven would be YY-chromosomal just as I wrote in my book, The Origin of Man and the Universe.

  God created man and identified him with exclusive DNA not in the other creatures. In the beginning the DNA of Adam and Eve may have been the same since Eve was of Adam. Soon, her XX and Lucifer’s YY may have mixed, if my theory is true, and the first inhumane man, Cain, resulted.

  God came to Earth to make new creatures (2 Cor 5:17). The first step is rebirthing (John 3:7) them, changing their natures and preserving them with “pitch” (the Holy Ghost) when He atones them. When the general resurrection comes, then they shall be glorified and returned to the original state of Jesus in whose image Adam was made.

  It seems that born again is the washing and covering on the outside, and glorification the renewed flesh with the new identity (DNA) suitable for Paradise. 

(picture credit; Quora; "How many chromosomes did Jesus have?")