JOHN SAW WHAT EZEKIEL SAW

The end of time was near for the Jews. The Kingdom of David was in the hands of its enemies. In 587/6 BC Nebuchadnezzar took the Judeans captive after the Israelites were captured and dispersed in 721 BC.

Ezekiel wrote his visions, it is believed, between 592-570 BC. The captivity of the Jews ended in 538 B.C. Ezekiel saw the Jewish nation restore at least 32 years before it was restored. The Lord God revealed to Ezekiel the restoration, not of Judea but Israel:

Thus, saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. (Ezek 1:17)

It might appear that Ezekiel was revealed the restoration of 538 BC except for one issue: Judea was restored. Israel was not! The Kuthites of Babylonian had populated Israel, so it was not restored. The ten tribes of Israel were lost to history.

God showed Ezekiel Israel restored to its former glory:

They shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezek 11:18-20)

They did much of that in the time of Jesus and before in the Maccabean age. They did out away abominations and such, but again, it was just Judeah (Judah). So, I submit that Ezekiel saw the coming age in the end.

Even the lost tribes of Israel began returning to Israel with the end of WWI with the Balfour Mandate that provided a national home for the Jewish people. In 1948 the mandated territory became the country of Israel. Ezekiel saw at least 2000 years into the future and beyond. The Jews have yet to walk in the statutes of the Lord; only about a quarter of Israelites citizens are worshippers of God.

Someday, God will take away their stoney hearts and they will walk in His statutes. The occasion for that was revealed to John: 

 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. (Rev 7:1-4) 

Ezekiel saw the sealing that John saw almost 600 years later. On July 13^th I wrote about the mark that Ezekiel saw. [1] The seal of God on the Jews was the mark that John saw. The two prophets saw the same seal on the same people. In the end, 144,000 Jews will be changed just as Ezekiel saw it, “I (God) will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.”

That new heart is the heart of a Christian. The number in the end is limited. However, the present number is “whosoever,” even the Jews just as Jesus said in John 3:16.

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[1] Herrin Daily Thoughts: THE MARK OF GOD THAT EZEKIEL SAW (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

THE MARK OF GOD THAT EZEKIEL SAW

Everyone is aware of the mark of the beast, but they forget that God has a mark as well. The mark of the beast is the number “666” but unknown is what the mark of God might be.

Ezekiel saw a “man” in white linen set a mark upon the foreheads of men to preserve them from perishing. Apparently, Ezekiel saw things that would be at the end of days, noting that cherubim were there with the man in white linen: 

And the Glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon He was, to the threshold of the house. And He called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. … Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. (Ezek 9:3-4,6) 

The Glory of God is the backside of God that Moses saw. The Man in white linen would be Jesus the Christ. “Fine linen” is for the righteousness of the saints (Rev 19:8). The Man in fine linen was THE Saint, Jesus. John “saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called ‘Faithful’ and ‘True,’ and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. (Rev 19:11).

John saw what Ezekiel had seen millennia before. That Man “had a name written, that no man knew, but He himself, and He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (Rev 19:12-13).

Given that, Ezekiel saw the Man that wrote upon the foreheads of the faithful write the Man’s Name called, “The Word of God.” It would not be “Logos Theos” as the Word of God means, but the One whose Name means that.

John had already provided some about Jesus:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-2,14)

Rather than “Faithful” and “True” that John would call Him after the Revelation, before, John had called Him full of “grace” and “truth.” In a sense faith is grace because the grace of Jesus is what faith is all about. The point herein is that the Man on the white horse of the apocalypse is Jesus, and it is His Name that will be written in ink on the foreheads of the people. 

Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him My new Name. (Rev 3:12) 

It appears that three things will be written on the foreheads of those “that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done: (1) the Name of God, (2) the name of the city Jerusalem, and (3) God’s new Name.

Isaiah new of that new Name: The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name” (Isa 62:2).

Obviously, Isaiah was speaking of Jesus, the Name He was called when he was circumcised, “His name was called Jesus, which was so named of the Angel before he was conceived in the womb” (Luke 2:21).

That “Angel” was The Word of God — “The Angel of the Lord” (Mat 1:20). The Angel was pre-incarnate Jesus, “The Image of God” from Genesis and the “Voice” walking in the Garden.

Now for a “sidebar:” John wrote that Jesus as the Word pre-existed existence. Just who was “Jesus” in the Old Testament? He was the Image in which Adam was made, “selem” in the Hebrew — the “shadow” or “phantom” of God. Jesus was the walking, talking “Ghost” of Yahweh.

Perhaps “The Name” that will be put on the foreheads of the righteous will be “Hashem” because the “old” name of God was just “The Name” — Hashem in Hebrew.

The Jews would expect that Name to be on foreheads, but the gentiles, to see the righteousness would expect another Name, “Iesous,” the gennao of Hashem — “The Pre-creation of Hashem (Strong 2006).

The third name would be “Ierousalem.”

Why Jerusalem (Ierousalem)? It is the “Foundation of Peace,” and that is another Name for Jesus as Prince of Peace.

Ezekiel wrote that those words would be written in perhaps in ink. We need to see what ink is in the Hebrew because ink will wear off.

The Man in linen was carrying a pot that the translators called an “inkhorn.”

The Man was to set a “mark” upon their foreheads — a “tav” in the Hebrew. The Hebrew hierglyph for the letter tav is a cross. Ink was not necessarily in the pot. It could have been the genetics of the Man in white — a pot of divine DNA for them to be “born again” (John 3:7).

The Cross of Jesus had great significance. It was a “ladder” between old and new Jerusalem, so to speak. Indeed, it was probably Jacob’s ladder that he saw as access to heaven.

Likewise, the Cross represents those who mourned for their sins like the repentant thief, and those who did not, like the other thief in the manner of the vision that Ezekiel saw.

Tav is also what God would have called Himself with the “alpha and omega; the beginning and the ending.” In the end, God would be called “Tav” (The “Omega” only in the Hebrew) and His hieroglyph would be the Cross.

Likewise, when the Tav is seen, any Christian would see Jesus, would he not? The Tav on the forehead could be read many different ways: (1) The Name of God, (2) the City of God, or (3) the new Name of God — Jesus. The Hebrew Tav represents all three in Hebrew hieroglyphics.

The Jew would see God as the letter Tav and Christians would see Jesus as the letter Tav as a Cross, and the action of God would be Jacob’s ladder to Jews and the Cross to Christians.

I submit that the letter “Tav” that Ezekiel saw would be one mark for all three names.

With that said, the letters on the foreheads of the faithful will not be “666.”

I will not be looking for inks nor tattoos on foreheads for the mark will be what is written on the minds of the people. It will be who is engendered by whom.

The only one who knows that name will be ourselves. If you belong to God, you will know it, just as Ezekiel wrote. Nobody else but the “Man” in white will know the Name because it is His Name that will be written in their minds.

The mark of God:

Tav

ABOUT THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY

 As people read the book of Ezekiel, indeed since it does not objectify the abominable things, we can only imagine what they are. The worship of the Sun is obvious; the Sun was the image that they worshipped in the vision of Ezekiel.

It was not yet reality but a future event, or it could have been God revealing what was happening in the House of God that was done in secret. It could be that many people (Ezek 8) were doing abominable things in the Presence of God that He revealed to Ezekiel.

Of special consideration is the following abomination (disgusting thing): 

He put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy… Then said He unto me, “Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north.” So, I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. (Ezek 8:3,5) 

Why translators capitalized “son” is confusing. God was speaking to Ezekiel, but the Son of man was there in the form of an image of fire. That image was Jesus — the “Son of man” (Mat 8:20). However, Ezekiel was indeed the “son of Adam” since his genetics, just as mine and yours, was from Adam. It was as if God was not only speaking to Ezekiel but all of mankind. Or it could be that God was referring to what He saw the “sons of the Wicked One” doing in His abode? So, for now, we shall gloss over why God said that.

The focus is on the “image of jealousy.” Nobody knows for certain what that image signified, and neither do I, but that its location was at the inner gate that looks toward the North.

There were two north-facing gates in the walls of Jerusalem: The Flowers Gate (aka Herod’s Gate) and the Damascus Gate.

However, maybe we misunderstand the concept of north. It may not be directional at all and neither of those two gates. The Hebrew word ṣapon does mean north, but it also means “hidden” (Strong 2006). Perhaps God was showing Ezekiel a hidden gate sometime in the future. Indeed, God in the vision revealed something else to Ezekiel: 

And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said He unto me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall,” and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. (Ezek 8:7-8) 

That dig ended up revealing an inner chamber where Ezekiel saw wicked abominations (Ezek 9), such as: every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about” (Ezek 8:10).

Indeed, there were hidden things beyond the door of the court. Perhaps it was not a northern facing door but a hidden door. Is there a hidden door?

There are two hidden gates in the walls of the old city: (1) The Gate of Mercy: “This gate, in the eastern Temple-Mount wall, may be the best-known of them all. Also called the Golden Gate or the Eastern Gate, it has been blocked for centuries, and is said to be awaiting a miraculous opening when the Messiah comes and the dead are resurrected,” and (2) below the Damascus Gate to the north, “Below the 16th-century gate, archaeologists have uncovered part of the entryway built by Emperor Hadrian in the second century CE” (Israel Minister of Tourism 2024).

Hadrian’s hidden gate is both hidden and to the north. Behind Hadrian’s Gate was at one time a statue of Hadrian himself; it was a triumphal gate (see the photo below as an example).

 

Figure 1: Arch of Hadrian in Jerash, Transjordan

Perhaps in a way, God was revealing to Ezekiel where that hidden gate might someday be hidden. Hadrian indeed, when the monument was built to himself, desecrated the city of Jerusalem. The Jews would not allow graven images within the city, and Hadrian’s statue would be defiling that Holy City. In fact, the Jews would not even allow Roman banners to be placed in the city.

The other option is the “Mercy Gate” — the “Golden Gate.” In 1541 A.D. that gate was sealed. Jews believe that the Messiah will enter that specific gate to the East. Christians believe that the Messiah did enter that gate when Jesus entered Jerusalem in his Triumphal Entry.

So, there we have it; one gate was for the triumphal entry of Hadrian — a “Satan” to the Jews — and the other gate, the Triumphal Entry of Jesus.

Now consider again, what Ezekiel saw. Firstly, he would have seen the place to the north where Hadrian would enter; then he turned (Ezek 8:6), perhaps 90-degrees to the east, and saw the gate that would be hidden where Jesus would enter; and digging there, he saw all sorts of abominations.

Ezekiel saw the triumphal entry of Hadrian and that it was defiled. Then he looked toward the Mercy Gate and saw it defiled as well.

Now consider who had northerly aspirations. Isaiah, speaking about the coming mercy of the Lord wrote about his own vision:

For you (Lucifer) have said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa 14:13-14) 

The triumphal gate was for the pomp of Hadrian. I believe that the statue of Hadrian would be the “image of jealousy.” The Mercy Gate to the East was the Way Jesus came, but the hidden northern gate was the way Hadrian came for his own triumph in jealousy (envy) of Jesus. Or perhaps it was in mockery of the entry of Jesus as Lucifer is prone to do.

The mount of the congregation was a heavenly place, but the Temple Mount was inside the walls of Jerusalem. Lucifer would be like the most High God (Jesus) and enter through the hidden northern Hadrian Gate, perhaps as the wicked spirit in the “son of man,” Hadrian.

Was Isaiah seeing the triumphal entry of Hadrian? Was Ezekiel seeing into the future where men dug up Hadrian’s hidden gate that was for the triumphal entry of Lucifer within Hadrian?

We can only speculate, but history and archaeology do reveal the hidden meaning somewhat.

Perhaps I did get it right; that the image of jealousy was the image of Hadrian behind the hidden wall to the north.

 

 

COAT OF MANY COLORS

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. And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. (Gen 37:3-4)

 Dolly Parton’s mother made her a coat of many colors, ostensibly because she was a religious woman who had been impressed by that. Although poor, her mother found what scrap material that she could find and sewed it together to make for her a coat. She did so because she loved her child.

The question is whether Joseph’s father did the same thing? Unknown before to me is that the translation of Genesis 37:3 has been questioned for years. Why would his brothers be so jealous of an odd coat? Had not Jacob given other things to his children? There was great significance in that coat, and years ago, it came to me in my thoughts. (Yes, that is how God speaks!)

My hypothesis was that the coat of many colors was not that at all, but a “coat of safety” and perhaps power. Furthermore, I thought that Jacob did not make the coat, but chose Joseph to wear it as his favored son.

It occurred to me that Joseph stole the birthright of his elder brothers each of whom would have owned it consecutively upon the death of another by the law of primogeniture — the state of being the firstborn, in this case, the first born of Jacob.

Now consider that the literal translation of the word “many” has been added for clarity to make the coat special. Rather than one color, the translators made it many colors. Others translate the Hebrew word pas much differently: ornamental, long-sleeved, and so forth. Note that the English is just a version, and that God did not authorize any version. King James authorized one version and so forth. So, to find the truth, the original text must be examined.

The root verb for pas means “disburse.” Pas itself means “palm to sole” (Strong 2006). Therefore, the literal translation accepted by many is a coat that extends from the sole of the foot to the palm of the hand.

(Note that I am not stretching the truth but examining the literal meaning of the God-inspired text. In the end, it must make sense and have continuity and consistency.) You shall see that it will.

“A coat of many colors” seems to have no significant meaning that would cause anyone to kill for it. It was not called a “mink stole” but just a coat that had some significant feature. That it was a coat of many colors had little significance because motifs reveal coats of that era that were colorful.

Of course, the reason for jealousy is that Jacob loved Joseph more than the other brothers. Or it could be that Joseph had a dream wherein he was the superior brother, and the others must bow to him.

Joseph was a chosen son for some reason. Was it because he was of special birth? Yes, he was the son born during the old age of Joseph. However, so were Benjamin and Levi who were younger.

Reuben would be the favored son by the law of primogeniture. His mother was not the intended wife of Jacob. His mother was Leah who became the first wife of Jacob because of Laban’s deceit. It seems that God would not honor the children of Leah nor the handmaidens more than the legitimate wife, Rachel.

The “legitimate” sons of Jacob were by his wife Rachel. The oldest was Joseph and the younger Benjamin. Levi, although the youngest of all, was born in Jacob’s old age but he was the son of Leah as well. What is revealed in the story of the coat of many colors, was sibling jealousy; and all of them desired to be the favored brother.

Making a long story short, Jacob blessed all his sons with their share of the new nation of Israel. Joseph, by then well established in Egypt, his two sons (half-tribes) got together only one share of the inheritance.

As it turned out they all were favored sons for various reasons; and each contributed something to the whole.

With that said, there was something significant about that coat. Was it that Jacob made it with his own hands that made it special? Again, let’s examine the Hebrew. Translated “made” the Hebrew word was ‘asa. It is a verb that could mean several different things. One of them of course is “made” but another meaning is “furnished.” It is uncertain whether Jacob made the coat or presented an existing coat to Joseph.

The Bible describes Jacob as such: “Jacob was a simple man, dwelling in tents.” Esau, his twin, and the legal owner of the birthright was a “cunning hunter” (Gen 25:27).

There was a problem therein: Rebecca, the mother, was told before their birth that the older son would serve the younger (Gen 25:23). She thought she should make that happen!

She fooled Isaac. “The first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau” (Gen 25:25), whereas Jacob was smooth  (Gen 27:11).

He trickery to gain for Jacob the birthright was to persuade the near blind Isaac that it was Esau who brought for him soup.

Not only was Esau hairy but so was his coat. Isaac had apparently given his eldest son a hairy coat, to wit: 

And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck… (Gen 27:15-16) 

Note that she had fresh meat to give to Isaac, but the coat pre-existed the meat. She did not make a coat to deceive Isaac, she just searched Esau’s wardrobe and borrowed the coat that was there.

Where did Esau get the hairy coat made from a she-goat’s skin? 

23 And Cush the son of Ham, the son of Noah, took a wife in those days in his old age, and she bare a son, and they called his name Nimrod, saying, At that time the sons of men again began to rebel and transgress against God, and the child grew up, and his father loved him exceedingly, for he was the son of his old age.

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.

49 And Terah the son of Nahor, prince of Nimrod's host, was in those days very great in the sight of the king and his subjects, and the king and princes loved him, and they elevated him very high. (Jasher 7) 

After many things, Abram was convinced to destroy the gods of his father, Terah. Because of Abram’s deed, “In the evening of that day in that house Abram was clothed with the spirit of God” (Jasher 11:31). I submit that Abram was clothed with the most valuable “garment” of all, but not the garment of Adam that Nimrod still had and wore into battle: 

And Esau fought a desperate fight with the two men that were with Nimrod, and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and smote them to death with his sword. And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go to the wilderness, heard the cry at a distance, and they knew the voices of those two men, and they ran to know the cause of it, when they found their king and the two men that were with him lying dead in the wilderness. And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance, he fled, and thereby escaped; and Esau took the valuable garments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's father had bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod prevailed over the whole land, and he ran and concealed them in his house. (Jasher 27:8-9) 

Rebecca apparently used the garment of Adam that had been passed down to Nimrod. The coat was bounty that was won in battle by Esau and the garment used to deceived Isaac that Jacob was the mighty hunter who had killed Nimrod and deserved the garment of Adam.

Who made the garment of Adam? Was it Jacob? "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them"(Gen 3:21).

 God Himself made the garment of Adam, apparently from the hide of a dead she-goat that He killed. It was surely a she-goat because it was Eve, the woman, who had sinned. God completely clothed them; that is obvious from the fact that they made for themselves aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7).

The garment of Adam was put onto Jacob as the favored son, then Jacob (aka Israel) furnished Joseph with the same garment that Adam wore. No wonder, they were jealous; it had the power to make ordinary men into great fighters. Even Nimrod became a great hunter when it was worn, but Esau overcame Nimrod because the true garment of Adam was the “spirit of God” that Esau and his twin received from the bosom of Abraham.

The garment of Adam lost its importance and it disappeared from history because it represented the Adamic Covenant. Joseph as the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would not need a coat of many colors to be powerful, for his “coat” was the Abrahamic Covenant that Abraham wore — the very Spirit of God!

Picture credit: Heroes Bible Trivia

 

THE AGONIZING SLOW DEATH OF THE CHURCH

The first few chapters of the Book of Ezekiel are prophetic about Israel (the northern kingdom) and the destruction of the Temple in Judah (the southern kingdom). Note that to punish the people, God sent other kingdoms to destroy His people who were unfaithful.

The intervals of 290 days and 40 days (one day for each year of punishment) were surely the destruction of Israel’s ten tribes and the forty days the destruction of Judah’s remaining two tribes with a long interval in between.

The Book of Ezekiel was written from about 593 to 573 B.C. according to Christianity.com. John Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim in 111-110 B.C.  Soon to follow was Herod’s Temple in 70 A.D. [1]

The Temple equates to the Christian Church. Because Jesus was to be the Temple of God, where Christ is, makes a Temple. Christians call the Temple of Christ the “Church.”

With that said, this about that: 

Jesus answered and said unto them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Then said the Jews, “Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?” But He spoke of the Temple of His body. (John 2:19-20) 

The Body of Jesus is now the “Temple.” The body of Christians is the “Christian Church.” Therefore, the Temple was the Church of Christ. The problem was that the Jews failed to see that Yahweh is the Christ, their Messiah. They failed to understand that because they could not see Jesus, Jesus did not exist. Indeed, all along, even in Temple worship, Jesus was the “Word” to whom they had allegiance when their devotion was best.

The problem is that in the days of Ezekiel the Jews failed to even heed Yahweh. There was not even one “Temple,” nor one Messiah, but two temples with two Messiah’s.

Because the Samaritans of the northern kingdom tried to get John Hyrcanus — the Jewish priest — to destroy the Temple of God in Jerusalem, Hyrcanus destroyed the temple on Mt. Gerizim.

The Samaritans were Babylonian Kuthim who were sent to Israel to replace the Jews who had been taken to Babylonia. As such, the Kuthim play-acted Judaism, and according to Josephus, they very well played the part of Jews when it was fashionable and became something else when it was unfashionable.

The Samaritans were very much like the modern Christian Church of this era. The Kuthites became whatever their governors commanded and the modern Church whatever the government propagated.

Note that right on the heels of same-sex marriage the modern era “Kuthite” Church followed suit. Methodists have united with the world and have separated from God. That is not an attack on the Methodists, but their leadership.

The religion of the ancient Samaritan’s was one of convenience; to avoid persecution they did whatever the governors wanted them to do. John Hyrcanus, they thought, would do as they asked, but he destroyed their corrupt House of God. However, to this day, the Kuthite (pagan) Temple lives in the hearts of men, just as the real Temple lives in the hearts of Jews and the true Church in the hearts of Christians.

In this century, there are no temples for either Kuthites or Jews. Their “Houses of God” lies within them wherever they assemble.

Now for the subject of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). What made the Samaritan — the Kuthite — good? He practiced his religion whereas the typical Samaritan and Jews practiced the Law. The Jews, thinking that the man was dead, would not touch him. They obeyed the Law of Moses that dead men were unclean.

The Samaritan, on the other hand, disregarded the Law and helped the man even though he looked dead.  He thought it was worthwhile to save the life of the man and took the chance that he would defile the Law.

Laws, according to Jesus, could be broken to help those in distress, even an ox: “Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?” (Luke 14:5). Obviously, the right answer was that they would break the Law for an animal, so why not help a man thought to be dead?

By the time of the good Samaritan, the Jewish religion had become more corrupted than the Kuthite religion. Even though God was with them, they still acted as if Moses was God. Moses was their leader, not their God. He was the judge who governed them by himself (Exod 2;14).

God’s Law was written on stone for perpetuity. Mosaic Law was written on biblia for his time. The Jews were still following Moses as they always did without realizing that God was leading Moses. They were obeying the Law okay but disregarding the Law-Giver.

A Jew — the priest John Hyrcanus — destroyed the Kuthite Temple rather than the Temple in Jerusalem as they had asked. Only eighty years later, the Jews destroyed their own Temple and history blamed the Romans for what the Jews had done. As Josephus wrote, the Roman general, Titus, tried to save the Temple before it was destroyed by a group consisting of Jewish thieves, zealots, and sicarii.

The building was torn down by God in 70 A.D. “What,” you say, “you just said that Jews tore down their own temple in the manner of Hyrcanus!”

God made the Assyrians and Babylonians for a purpose. They tore down the nations of Israel and Judah. Likewise, the Macedonians Empire was made to destroy the false temple at Gerizim and the Romans to tear down the retrograde Temple at the Temple Mount.

Just as the Kuthites tried to get Hyrcanus to do the barbaric deed, God enlisted the most retrograde of the Jews to tear down Herod’s Temple.

Now apply that history to the modern era. This is the dawning of the Luciferin Age — Aquarius — replacing the Christian era — Pisces.

Christians, unwittingly, are tearing down the invisible “Church” one “lively stone” (1 Pet 2:5) at a time. They have pushed the Greatest Commandment to its limitations — To love God and others (Mat 22:36-40). By now, that Commandment itself has become retrograde. Modern “churches” love others more so than God. In the “Greatest Commandment” the love of God came first. In this era, loving others is paramount to loving God.

God is great and perfect. All of us are defects, and as such, imperfect. We all come short of the Glory of God (Rom 3:23), but the church is now putting the emphasis on loving others which diminishes God to second rate.

Now consider the word “love” itself. It is not an emotional feeling the way we think of it. The Greek word is “agape.” It is not emotional at all but having goodwill toward God and others. It is what we think about God and His creatures.

Should we have had goodwill for our enemy, Adolph Hitler? If so, then we would have wanted Hitler to succeed in ruling the world with cruelty. Goodwill has nothing to do with tolerance. We should have wanted Hitler to die as he did and let God judge him! Hitler’s suicide was God judging him.

If we had judged Hitler with goodwill toward him without regard to his evilness, then that would be us judging him against God who desired that he shall not murder (Exod 20:13).

We should save the Jews and any other people that are under threat of death, even on the Sabbath. We would do that for the ox or ass, so why not for the infirm and Jews?

To save the Jews and even Christians, Hitler had to succumb. The German minister, Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, had a tough decision to make; is it okay to take one life of a brute to save many lives of civil people? Christian pragmatism is that the body of Hitler was an acceptable sacrifice, and like Judas, God killed Hitler, him recognizing that the wrath of the world and of God would be upon him.

Bonnhoeffer had goodwill for the people of God before willing good for Satan personified. Sinful people are demons personified, so should we have goodwill for them?

Sgt. Alvin York used the same logic to justify warfare to save the many at the cost of the lives of a few.

The goodwill that we should have for others is that they be like God, or as the Jesus said it, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

The goodwill is in the word, “love.” His goodwill for others is that some should not perish, but some He lacks goodwill toward because they deserve to perish. He placed a contingency on loving others — that anyone who trusts Him not perish, indicating that whosoever should not perish because they all have had that opportunity.

Adolph Hitler had his opportunity. God wanted that he would never perish, even that insane murderer! What did Hitler not do? He did whatever he wanted and disregarded God in the process. He could not stand the idea that Jesus was Jewish, so he had written a Nazi Bible, one without Jews and Christ’s Jewishness.

He showed antipathy for God and the form in which God came into this world. He removed the Jewish genealogy and made Jesus no more than a Prussian Teuton.

The point therein is that you cannot have goodwill for others to the detriment of God. God destroyed even His own people because they had forsaken Him.

The modern Church has so much goodwill for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that sinners now have dominion over God and His precepts.

That diversity is even what people think is more acceptable than truth. Their own imagination takes precedence over God who is Truth and what He says is right.

Who defines DEI? Not you; not me; and not the government, nor even the Church. John 3:16 is God’s statement about DEI. It is Him that decides who is worthy of His grace.

Priests, ministers, rabbis, nor even government mandates decide who shall not perish. DEI means nothing to God, but now for many churches, their leadership sets the criteria. As for them, everyone, even murderous criminals who do not repent, are worthy of eternal life.

The church has become the judge as God’s will for us is ignored. The ecclesia has become the “almighty gods” to the detriment of Jesus who is the real judge of us all.

That is the same as it was in the days of Ezekiel and the way it is now. The destruction of the Christian Church is eminent, and by that it is meant, its organization. However, the true Church is built of real lively stones on the foundation of the prophets and apostles with Jesus as the cornerstone (Ephes 2:20).

Jesus said about Himself, “Upon this Rock (Jesus the “Cornerstone) I will build my church; and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat 16:18).

The church leadership will destroy its doctrines but for the few true Christians that remain true to the law of loving God foremost, the invisible Church will endure forever.

Right now, you are seeing our temples destroyed; not brick by brick, but precept by precept. That false “church” will fall and be replaced by the Synagogue of Satan in the end (Rev 2:9; 3:9).

 

 

 

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[1] For an explanation of the 390 and 40 years of great tribulation see https://www.bibleinsight.com/390days.html.

TONGUES TO SPEAK WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

Many twelve-steppers have a motto: that the alcoholic or addict has “made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” (Alcoholics Anonymous).

That seems noble, but I know those in the program who see themselves as “God,” and that is a contradiction of the second step: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

Addicted people are to admit that they are helpless when it comes to their addiction; that there is help with God. That is “religion” but not necessarily Christianity because so many people understand God differently. For many, He is nothing more than some Power greater than themselves; He is a God without a face.

Indeed, God is that Power — Almighty God — but few people understand the God in whom they are to trust.

Christians rattle off clichés about God: such as God is love, God is glorious, God is Almighty, God saves, God is this and God is that.

I asked a minister with a doctorate in divinity what “glorious” meant; he smiled and said, “Well, glorious.”

Another respected author and minister said, “Splendorous.” Not that splendorous is wrong but shows a lack of depth in the meaning of glorious.

What is “the Glory of God?” Let’s turn to scripture:

Moses told the Israelites, “The Lord talked with you Face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire” in the darkness of the mountain (Deut 5:4).

What had they seen? Action! The Lord God spoke with them. That is not very glorious, but the Lord went even further. Because the Israelites were afraid of the fire on the mountain, Moses stood between the fire and them, “to show you the Word of the Lord (Deut 5:5). They saw Jesus, according to the words of John (John 1:1-14).

They not only heard the Word of the Lord, and that is very good, but Moses showed them the Word of the Lord. According to the John, Moses showed them pre-incarnate Jesus. With that said, God revealed His Power, to wit: “I AM the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage” (Deut 5:6).

The Lord God spoke, and the sea rose up; that is the Power of God. Do you believe that God did that or even whether it happened at all? Do you believe that God overcame the world on that occasion? If not, you would not believe that God created all things (John 1:3) let alone that Jesus was the Person of God who did those things (John 1, 14).

That is the Power of God which the addict should believe. If God has the Power to deliver the heaven and the earth for us (Gen 1:1), if you believe that, then the addict should believe that God has enough Power to deliver addicts from their addictions! Many say that, then fail!

Now consider everyone else:

The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (Rom 3:22-25)

We all are as bad as addicts. Sin is addiction! Some are addicted to drugs while others are addicted to lasciviousness and such things. Some are addicted to many things, so to overcome one addiction, requires overcoming many addictions! Only God can do that, and I have seen Him do that in certain people.

Hence, because all have sinned, we all have come short of the glory of God. We no longer are the Image of God in which Adam (mankind) was made. We are “degenerates” because we are not glorious. Sin devolved mankind’s gloriousness into depravity. Just look at us, and you will understand what God is not!

Yet some still declare, “We are all God’s children.” That would make us the “sons” and “daughters” of God in a genetic sense. However, our “father” is the Devil (John 8:44) and our attributes are different from God, and genetically, we are more like Cain than Adam, the former who was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

With that genetic disposition, even Christians promote high self-esteem without merit; We are not God, or even gods, but we believe that we are. Who is more important than you? Nobody, as you see it; you are the gods, and in a sense, all believe that they are gods of some sort and do whatever they want to do with impunity. That is inglorious yet we believe that we ourselves are walking, talking glory.

Moses, in effect, shielded the Israelites from the burning fire, so that they could see the Word that spoke to them Face to face (Deut 5:5).

With Moses standing before them, God issued the Ten Commandments, beginning with “You shall have none other gods before Me” (Deut 5:7). Literally, that they would not have any other gods with the face of God, in other words, Jesus.

However, they have broken that Commandment continually to this day. Moses became their god because he had the glory of God in himself: “The children of Israel (had seen) the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again…” (Exod 34:35).

Moses, at that time, had the glory of God within and it showed. The glory was great enough that he shielded the Israelites from his bright shing face so that they did not think that he was God. Therefore, the glory of God has something to do with a bright countenance.

The psalmist wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handywork” (Psalm 19:1). The heavens are the cosmos and the “dome” (firmament) that is above is full of firm things: stars, galaxies, planets, and such.

Paul validated that, when he wrote, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world (cosmos) are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal Power and Godhead…” (Rom 1:20).

The Glory of God is revealed in what is seen. The firmament — the picture of existence — reveals the Existence, or “Glory of God.” How is the Glory of God displayed? In the Creation. What does the Glory of God look like?

 

Figure 1: Space.com "Images from James Watt Space Telescope

 

That is one of many pictures, but wherever the space telescope peered, even greater Glory of God could be seen. The James Watt Space Telescope (JWST) was even equipped with infrared lighting, so that the unseen things (darkness) could be seen.

So, what is the “Glory of God”? Paul revealed the Light that was in Moses from the Glory of God:

That God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. (1 John 1:5-6) 

Darkness is looking at the grandeur of the heavens and denying that is God’s Glory is displayed in the Creation. Look at the photo (figure #1) again. You come short of doing that… far short. The truth is that God did what JWST revealed. Science has just begun to credit God with His glorious works, yet so many Christians still believe that what you see just happened without a cause.

Gloriousness goes further than that. The Israelites heard the Word and saw God “Face-to-face.” God has a Face, yet Muslims and Jews deny the Face of God — the man Jesus. Jesus was the Glory of God. God revealed His Glory in the form of a man.

Millennia later, God revealed His Person when “the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon (Jesus), and a Voice came from heaven, which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22).

The Glory of God came upon Jesus just as it did with Moses. Moses, in a sense, was a proxy for Jesus but not God. The Glory of God entered Jesus and “IT” took on the shape of the Man. The Glory of God was the Spirit of God in the shape of the Man, Jesus.

Many rattle-off that Jesus is the “Son of God.” If Jesus is God, and He IS, how then was He the “Son of God”?  When anyone saw Jesus, they were looking at God. The very Image of God was within Jesus just as with Adam. Therefore, Jesus was the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45) in that the Image of God was in both the man, Adam, and the Man, Jesus.

We are getting closer now to gloriousness. It is the both the Image of God and the Image of God in a person. Yahweh was not the biological father or Jesus anymore than David was, as Jesus was called the “son of David.” The word, “son” in both cases refer to the genome of David and the Genome of God.

The genetics of God was the “waters” (figuratively “semen”) from God that grew the cosmos — the “Cloud” if by day and the “Fire” if by night. When the Israelites saw the Fire by night that was the Spirit of God they saw His Glory.

God stopped for a moment in time and revealed His Power by a glorious, and dynamic image.

When Jesus was baptized, John did not do anything spectacular or even glorious. God did it! The Glory of God came unto the Person, Jesus, and with the Genome of God within the Man, those who saw Him, were seeing the Glory of God.

Jesus revealed the Glory of God on occasion whenever virtue was gone from Him. That “virtue” is the Power of God that was in Jesus. In the Greek, that “virtue” was “dynamis” — the Action and Power of God.

Jesus revealed the Glory of God in Himself when He made some “whole again” in the sense that they were engendered from above by God. Jesus called that action, “born again” (John 3:7). Rebirth is the beginning of glorification. It is the seed that God sows within just like with Adam that was when planted, grew: 

The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:7-8) 

Jesus did that; He was the “quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45) that breathed life unto Adam and made him a “living soul.” Adam has the Spirit of Jesus in him that made him alive. So it goes, for Christians who God begins a good work in you, beginning with the quickening Spirit — the Glory of God — that He puts into the person that is “born again” of God’s Image placed in the Christian.

Adam could either grow or not grow in the Garden. As it turns out, Adam did not grow, so he was cast out into, ostensibly, into the world (Gen 3:24).

Glorification is when the seed that God plants, grows. It grew in Jesus and the proof of that was at the transfiguration when Jesus was revealed as the Glory of God. His death glorified Jesus because He had been planted in the Earth, and the crucifixion finished the glorification.

“It is finished,” Jesus said (John 19:30). What was finished? He was not finished; He was glorified (John 7:39). It started when God breathed life unto Jesus at His baptism and glorification was finished when He died. The proof of that was that Jesus, by then, had the flesh of glorious Adam; He could walk through walls and even escape death. His flesh was glorified at the Resurrection when He was “raised from the dead” (assembled again) with the Glory of God back with Him again.

We come short of the Glory of God because we have not taken up our crosses and followed Him (mat 16:24). Glorification is when the Christian becomes like Christ — when the corruptible flesh is replaced with the incorruptible (1 Cor 15:52).

Indeed, God has begun a good work in Christians, but death in Christ finishes the glorification, just as Paul suggested, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21).

What happens at death? First things first. The soul is saved and at the general resurrection, the flesh is made incorruptible.

Glorification is resurrection when Christians are regenerated like Adam in the Image of God. Until that time, we are inglorious sinners preserved by grace until salvation occurs with glorification.

Those things that we rattle-off as if we understand them have deep meaning. However, the Word reveals the meaning as Paul wrote to Timothy.

How could we possibly understand such in depth meaning without studying the Word?

 

 

 

 

JESUS IN HIS FATHER’S BUSINESS

Brilliant people are as subject to ridicule as much as fools are. Many famous inventors were mocked because or their inventive insight. Brilliant people were often considered fools in times past; people were just too dull in mind to understand the possibilities.

Thomas Edison, one of the most enlightened people of all time, was considered, “creepy and dangerous,” according to Atlas Obscura. About Edison’s even more brilliant rival, “In his later years, Tesla was regarded as an eccentric scientist. Ridiculed by his contemporaries, his ideas frequently appeared in works of science fiction” (PBS).

Neither Edison nor Tesla were mere inventors but brilliant minds that understood science. As a child, Thomas Edison was thought of as troublesome to say the least, according to the Foundation of Economic Education, some said that Edison was “addled:” 

In 1854, Reverend G. B. Engle belittled one of his students, seven-year-old Thomas Alva Edison, as “addled.” This outraged the youngster, and he stormed out of the Port Huron, Michigan school, the first formal school he had ever attended. His mother, Nancy Edison, brought him back the next day to discuss the situation with Reverend Engle, but she became angry at his rigid ways. Everything was forced on the kids. She withdrew her son from the school where he had been for only three months and resolved to educate him at home. Although he seems to have briefly attended two more schools, nearly all his childhood learning took place at home.

 “Addled” is archaic for confused. Imagine the mind of Thomas Edison, and even Nikolai Tesla, whose minds were on deep, introspective ideas rather than gulping down the ignorance that was taught by their teachers.

For instance, bloodletting had been used to treat various illnesses since ancient Egyptian times for about 3000 years. All civilizations bled the patient nearly to death for his or her own good.

Unknown is Edison’s opinion about bloodletting, but an equally fascinating scientist, Dr. Pierre Louis in France revealed the truth. Imagine the consternation when that one man sought to end a tradition that had existed for so long! Bloodletting ended during the lifetime of both Edison and Tesla who were rival ‘idiots’ in the minds of many.

Why did the nonsensical science of bloodletting prevail for so long? Because it had always been done, even without any proof that it helped. “Bloodletting survived for so long is not an intellectual anomaly—it resulted from the dynamic interaction of social, economic, and intellectual pressures, a process that continues to determine medical practice,” according to the British Columbia Medical Journal.

Doctors bled patients because they were expected to do something.

In this day, many stood in line to take a faux vaccine that did not prevent contagion merely because science was expected to do some thing. Gullible people were even expected to wear masks that did not work because they were expected to do some thing.  The concept of “bloodletting” remains to this day, not using leeches, but requiring people to do stupid things in a “scientific comedy” that makes them feel better!

On the other hand, Jesus was the real thing. Jesus, whose DNA was of Yahweh, as “The Son of God” had supreme knowledge; even at the age of twelve He was considered brilliant by those who heard Him teach to the most knowledgeable in the Temple.

While in the city, it seems that His parents forgot about the young boy. As it turns out He was in the Temple teaching them His “Father’s Business” (Luke 2:49). The chief  priest’s vocations were to teach God’s Business, but here was a young man teaching what they should have taught. Imagine the envy of the chief priests when they heard that Jesus was teaching the people things that even they did not know. [1]

Who was likely addled there? Jesus or the chief priests?

It came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they (his parents) saw Him, they were amazed. (Luke 2:46-48)

The chief priests, as it turned out, were not amazed! They thought Jesus was a drunk and demon possessed. Whenever He taught in the synagogues many marveled, but others condemned Him; they thought that Jesus was confused. Imagine how addled they became when they heard His admirers call Him not only “The Son of David,” but “The Son of God.”

In the ending, it was the chief priests that were addled. Jesus implied that they had the greater sin but was graceful enough that He said about them, “They know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

Jesus was as much a genius as Edison and Tesla, even more so, because He had the knowledge of God in His great mind. He never thought trivial thoughts but was on a mission; He was not out to improve the world, but to create a perfect world without hatred, violence, sickness, nor even death. Silly Him, the chief priests might have thought; they could not even do that!

The people mocked Jesus: some spit on Him, He was blindfolded and beaten, they dressed Him like a king in jest — a court jester, and the chief priests themselves mocked Him for His claim to be God, “"He saved others, but He can’t save himself!” (Mark 15:31). That is after people called Jesus a ‘drunk’ and even a ‘Devil,’ while failing to realize that the real ‘Devil’ was in Judas.

The greatest mockery was that they detested Jesus just because He was Jesus; that He was “Ya(hweh) saves.”

In modern times, people who think they are God or king are called ‘schizophrenic,’ having delusions of grandeur. They thought that about Jesus too!

When Jesus returns be not surprised that the world will call Him, ‘Crazy.’ We should not be looking for a brilliant scientist to save mankind but One the general public and the media think is beside Himself.

Jesus having the power to heal the sick and cast out devils was ridiculed; the multitude were so aside themselves that they could not even eat bread! “When his friends heard of it (the healing and such), they went out to lay hold on Him: for they said that “He is beside himself.” (Mark 3:21).

What they meant was that Jesus was confused, or ‘addled,’ as some would say. Jesus was out of His mind, perhaps schizophrenic, they thought. (Tesla was thought of that same way.)

Ironically, Jesus was indeed soon ‘beside Himself’!

“Soon after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God” (Mark 16:19). He was God. He sat down on the throne of God as Himself. What they said in mockery soon became real, and now we know that neither Edison nor Tesla were addled men but brilliant minds!

This brings me to the subject at hand. We have been taught since childhood that Jesus was a ‘mere carpenter.’ That probably was derived from the translation of Mark 6:3. Jesus was not a mere carpenter but a “tekton’ in the original Greek. He was not to be mocked, but the word ‘tekton’ could mean many things. Since the English translations were introduced in the dark ages, Jesus was thought to be a carpenter for that was a prevalent trade at the time.

However, it was written that Jesus was a ‘tekton.’  That is much more than any tradesman; Jesus was an ‘artificer’ — “a skilled or artistic worker” (Merriam-Webster 2023). That was His Father’s business that He was teaching in the temple at age twelve.

What was His Father’s business? “God created the heaven and the earth:” (Gen 1:1)… “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, ‘Let there be light:’ and there was light, and God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen 1:2-4).  The Father could have been a carpenter or a mason to do those things, but God was a ‘Supreme Scientist” such as the world has never seen since!

Yahweh was the ultimate ‘Tekton,’ standing above everyone in His field. Because of envy, Lucifer was the ‘Edison’ that thought himself better than ‘Tesla’ (Isa 14:13-14).

Jesus had the genetics of His Father; and only John saw that: describing Jesus, John wrote:

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

Gen 1:1-5 was His Father’s business, and the business of Jesus was the Father’s business as related in John 1:1-5.

What were their businesses? The same business. Jesus was sharing those things with the doctors at the Temple. Jesus would have been describing how He made all things. Can you imagine how much those doctors learned from that youngster?

Some theologians say that Joseph taught Jesus, not only carpentry while they were exiled in Egypt, but also His Father’s Business. Not so! His parents were amazed at His teachings (Luke 2:48). Apparently, they listened to what their son was saying and learned astro-physics from that twelve-year-old prodigy whose intelligence was all the knowledge of all things. Jesus was not taught; He existed and did it all, and as such, depend on Jesus to do it again!

Jesus is diminished as even Christians call Him a “mere carpenter.’ He was a Tekton! A ‘technician’ is anyone that practices technology, but Jesus was not practicing; He was performing in reality how to make all things good. He is the Universal Body of Knowledge, and all other things are from that Body.

The root noun for tekton is tetk, meaning to mold, carve, and other things. (Harper 2001-2023).

That Jesus was a carpenter surely was believed because He was thought of as a carver of wooden things that were common to that era. Of course, He could have been a mason, or even a molder of iron and bronze, the two ages of the time of Jesus. However, His Father’s business was all technical things, even creating life! Jesus was not just a carpenter but the Creator; He was the “Husbandman” that His Father was because He is the Father made flesh (John 15:1). As the ‘Vine’ in that passage, Jesus’s business was an offshoot of His Father’s business.

In modern terms, Jesus was much more than a carpenter, not to diminish their artisanship; He would be called the ‘Greatest Astro-physicist’ ever; not only knowing the workings of God but doing them. Jesus is ‘The Science.’ The science is Existence and when Jesus said, “I AM THAT I AM” (Exod 3:24), that means that only He is “The Science”! Jehovah or Yahweh is The Science and so is Jesus.

Great care must be taken to consider the times in which scripture was translated. That Jesus could only carve wooden images makes Him nothing more than the father of Abraham who made images of God. Jesus Himself, as the ‘Father,’ made Himself an Image made of flesh — life — and when it was finished Jesus cut down the Image and the Father Himself left Him in phantom.

Einstein and Kaku should be mocked. They understood what God made and even credited it to God, but it is them that gets the glory. They made a name for themselves, all the while ignoring the Tekton that did it all — Jesus.

Jesus was the greatest Mind ever. His Mind was the very Mind of God, yet people think of Jesus as merely a Son of God. “Son” in that passage means genetics and that Jesus had the very DNA of Yahweh in His Person; there is no Father and Son, but both in One. The Spirit is the ‘Tekton’ that has the Power to do all things. The Spirit is the Father’s ‘Business’ and He is still in the Business of regenerating what He had made in the beginning. Jesus is still beside Himself in Paradise all the while the Spirit is the Power of the Tekton.

picture credit; "Saved Souls;" good wiki - Fandom

 

 

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[1] I am often ridiculed even by some in my church for teaching things that they had never heard before.  They may be afraid of the truth!