THE GRACE OF GOD: JUST WHAT IS IT?

  

A key concept in the Bible is the concept of grace. Covenant theology divides existence into covenants rather than time.

The covenant in the beginning, for instance, was one of innocence — the knowledge of good alone.

Evil was an unknown concept for sin had not yet altered the states of Adamic man.  Gone unnoticed by most covenant theologians is that Adam was still the son of God and protected by the grace of God, to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21). They were covered, or fixed, by grace.

A covenant is what? In the Hebrew beriyth — a “cutting”. Hence a covenant is (in the English) “creating”. Hence, the first act of God was a covenant, “In the beginning God created, or “cut” (bara') the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). For what reason? Grace. Without revealing the reason, God “cut” (bara) His Kingdom into two: “heaven” and “earth”.

God is Existence Himself as “I AM” indicates (Exod 3:14). In a manner of speaking, God crucified Himself into two; He cut Himself for a purpose — for mankind to exist. If that was a covenant, it would have been one of generosity as the word “genesis” indicates.

The word “crucify” comes from Latin language and means to “fix” or to “fasten”.

Jesus said, “It is finished” at the crucifixion. What was finished? His coming apart; in the beginning God had been cut, and in the ending fixed, “raised (Greek, egeiro) from the dead.” Egeiro means that God was assembled (Strong 2006).

Within the first verse of the Bible is the word “et” in the Hebrew. It appears twice in that same passage and in the Hebrew is has no meaning, The Jews are blind to the letters aleph- tav (אֵת) in the Word, et.

אֵת stands between the heaven/the earth. אֵת refers to God/Jesus. אֵת is the beginning and the end (Rev 1:8), signified by the Greeks words, alpha and omega — the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Then Jesus would be the aleph - tav in the Hebrew. He, as “ET”, would be the beginning and the end.

In the beginning was only the Aleph, or El (God) and in the end on the cross, tav, where it was finished.

El is the Existence of God in Power, Elohim the generation of all things, and the letter tav completion. In the beginning the Power of God would have been cut for He made all things from Himself (El) from His Power (Elohim), and covenanted (cut) Himself into two things, heaven and earth. The sharing of God’s (El’s) power would be the grace of God and Jesus as both the heaven – earth, Spirit and Body, made Him whole again.

Since God was cut apart in the beginning, therefore when He gave up the Ghost in the ending, He was cut apart again as His Spirit separated from His divine Body.

In the beginning “ET” would have been Aleph, or El, and the letter tav — the knife of cross that cuts; hence the letter tav would have been the crucifix where God was fixed and cut apart a second time, again by grace.

It seems that the only covenant ever was by grace, or favor. In the beginning God favored Adam’s kind by grace. He looked at all the creatures and cut them into portions just as He would have the Israelites do at the annual sacrifice for sin.

The other kinds were there, but God cut the living creatures into parts — Adam’s kind from all the kinds. Adam was favored; hence a second act of grace comes from the beginning as well:

 

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” (Gen 1:26)

 

“Let us make” in that passage is simply the Hebrew word, “asa” (עָשָׂה).  The word “us” is not even in there. Literally, asa is ayin – shin – hey: ayin observation, shin biting, and hey the breath of God. God had again divided the waters from the waters — the seed from the seed — and Adam, of all the kinds, was favored by God. “Dominion” indicates that Adam was favored above all the other kinds. That too was an act of grace.

Then after God’s favored kind, Adam, failed, “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8). Grace pre-existed Noah but he was not hunting for it, albeit was freely given to him from God. Noah would have been the antitype of Adam born again. The sacred Book of Jasher indicates that Noah was born a favored kind even in the womb.

Grace seems to be when the “Seed” of God enters the flesh of a mere man. Hence, “born again” is just that. However, the seed of God is not semen, but “Living Waters” from His “Belly” (John 7:38). Hence living waters would be the Elohim from God’s sole existence, El and perhaps the “belly” in that metaphor. Grace would be the distribution of the Elohim from El.

It is critical to understand that there were not many gods but one God (El) who came apart (Elohim) to enter other things, among them mankind.

El would be the bearer of grace and Elohim His dynamic grace of virtue, or goodness. Adam would have had Elohim from El put into his body. The word, “dominion” from the Hebrew means “crumble”. A particle of Elohim would have entered Adam, and not the other creatures.

Metaphorically, Adam crumbled from Almighty God (El Shaday). The mightiness of God would be ample grace to do all things. Scientifically, grace is akin to God distributing the quantum Power from Himself and giving power to those of His kind — Adam.

The Hebrew word hen (or chen) is translated as “grace”. Its letters are חֵן — chet – nun.

The letter nun represents seed or sperm. It would have come from something — chet. Chet purveys the idea of new beginnings, or a new creation, as in, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

For grace, the chet would indicate newness and the nun a creature. Hence, grace is a transformation from an old creature to a new creature. God did that and so does the Spirit of God in Jesus — the El in Yeshua (Jesus).

Jesus sits at the right hand in the Power (Elohim) (Mat 26:24) of God (El). Elohim flows from the Person of God Jesus as “dynamos” (virtue). Therefore, the virtue leaving Jesus to make whole would have been the Elohim from El within the Person of God, Jesus. Again the “substance” of grace would be the Power of God, unseen but as real as any infinite horsepower engine.

Grace was sufficient enough in the beginning to make all things from God, El, Himself, and so it will be at the regeneration of all things: Speaking of the Tree of Life when the Garden Paradise is restored, John saw “the leaves of the Tree (of Life) were for the healing of the nations” (Rev 22:2) — therapeia ho ethnos, a “rendering of a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus” (Strong 2006). Simply put, us old creatures will be rendered new creatures by the might of God (Elohim).

Coming from the Revelation, grace is the last act of God to render some of the old creatures, new creatures, not literally from the leaves of a tree, but the Elohim of the firm Thing of God, Jesus.

Grace always emanates from God in whatever form or state that He appears. Grace is as real as God. To understand the reality of God, God manifested Himself as the divine man, Jesus. John also saw the El in Jesus transforming (Elohim) others by grace: “(Jesus) manifested forth His glory; and his disciples believed on Him” (John 2:11).

The Body of God — Jesus — emanated the glory of God to transform His disciples. Grace would be the emanation of the Glory, or Light (Elohim), of God (El). Of course, Light is ‘or in the Hebrew, but Elohim would be the Light of God shining forth. The substance of that dynamic would be the distribution of grace from God.

Light is also called truth (1 John 1:5). Truth is reality, is it not? About God the psalmist sang, “O send out Your light and Your truth” (Psalm 43:3). God is the Light and its emanation is the truth. Jesus is the reality of God (El) and Elohim His truth.

Like Plato and Pilate, ask yourselves, “What is truth?” Jesus revealed the truth at the crucifixion; that He was El, Elohim, and the Person of God in one — Father, Holy Ghost, and Son, respectively.

Grace therefore comes from God without charge, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

Can you emanate God? No! Do you trust that God emanates Elohim to cut a new person from the old creature? Can you do that? If not, then you are not Jesus.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1)

Faith is the substance of grace, and it is the hope of reality. Hope is cognitive. So, you have faith; it is not of yourselves but from God. Faith according to Paul is that Jesus is the evidence of the unseen God, so trusting Jesus is the Way; to what? Life (the Hebrew letter chet).

Life (chet) comes from the Light of God, or truth. The repentant thief on the cross alongside Jesus encountered truth; that Jesus was (and remains so) God in the flesh. He encountered grace with that realization, so the substance of truth and grace is not works (ergo) but thoughts (katergazomai); to work out salvation how so? By cognition, considering Jesus and seeing the invisible God. Nothing else saves but coming to that realization, the same as when the thief encountered God in the flesh of a common man and realize that He could save him from Hell.

The substance of grace was that realization. Jesus showed the man His three states — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all the man had to do was nothing, but consider the truth and conform to it. Hence, the Substance of grace is surely the Thoughts of God.

 Scientifically, that is called quantum entanglement. The thief was not physically entangled, but his thoughts were from Jesus. Jesus persuaded the man that He was God in the flesh by His actions. Grace is therefore divine illumination — truth from the Mind of God. You cannot illuminate yourself, but God can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION

 The dictionary definition of the word “election” might provide some insight; the most general which is “the right, power, or privilege of making a choice” (Merriam-Webster 2025). Only God is sovereign, so He has the privilege of granting anything. Because of the influence of Calvinism in the western world, there is also a religious meaning, “predestination to eternal life” (ibid).

In search of the truth, therefore the concept of predestination must be explored.

Predestining is essentially predetermining before-hand an end result as Paul wrote:

 

(God) has chosen us (the favored) in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will… (Ephes 1:4-5)

 

Ask yourselves questions like, Who are the “us”? Paul revealed them in the first verse of that letter: “…the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephes 1:1). God favored those who were faithful, so election depends of faith.

Now for the word “saints” we will turn to the Hebrew; “O love the Lord, all you His saints for the Lord preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer” (Psalm 31:22).

A “His saints” the Hebrew word is “hasid”. The letter “hey” is the “His” in Engish, and the meaning of hasid is “His kind” that are faithful to Him.

The key word for saint is “faithful” — a “proud doer” from Psalm 31, not a proud lazy person Hence, the saints can be recognized by their deeds. It is not that deeds make them saints, but that saints must do good deeds or works.

Paul was extremely informative, patiently defining many religious terms: He wrote, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Thus a “saint” has faith evidenced by the things that he does.

God is a “kind” whose main attribute is loving-kindness. Hence, His kind are to love both Him and the all the other creatures like us that God has made — “The Greatest Commandment”. Saints are manifested, therefore, by loving-kindness. Faith operationalized would be revealed in love and kindness. Angry, hateful people are not saints regardless of their claims.

The next question is What is faith? Paul said that “faith is the substance of things hoped for.” “Substance” means both real faith and that the things hoped for are believed to be real.  What is the hope of Christians? Heaven, eternal life, the Presence of God, harmonious existence, perfect health, the lack of stress, without animosity, and so forth.

That environment is “Paradise”, not in this realm, but the realm of heaven. Since God is the Sovereign there, the citizens in His realm must be like their King, the “Big Guy” who sits on the throne in another realm.

Faith is dependent on you; what you think. Both God and the things of God must be real to you, and the paramount degree of faith is that Jesus is the Person of the invisible God.

The things hoped for must be real to you — substantive.

Paradise must be for real to you, God be for real as Jesus, and that your own soul has the real Substance of God to be His son and worthy of His Estate there. You cannot be just a pretender to God but an actual adopted son of God with Him in you.

Hence, election is not from yourself, but since God is sovereign, only God can elect. God has a plan and a future for you, according to Jeremiah (Jer 29:11). That pre-existed the creation of the world. Scripture is quite correct in predestination, but just whom did God predestine? John seemed to have known the plans of God quite well, according to John 1; and he revealed the elect that God favored even before time ever began:

…Whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life for God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life; for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:15-17)

Who are “us”, as asked before? “Whosoever” that believes in Him. God, as the true Sovereign reserves the right to establish an orderly process for fairness.

The metric for “election” is belief. That word requires examination; pisteuo in the original Greek — trust in God with confidence that Jesus is God, and that as God, He can save. Belief alone is not enough but trust and confidence are the real metrics. Therefore, election is God’s plan from the beginning and is based on who does, and who does not, have confidence in Him

The first sin was essentially trusting the word of some Beast more so than the Word of God who said, “Do not eat.”  

Adam had been favored for He had dominion over the other beasts of the field (Gen 1:26). God favored Adam and his kind (as the mem in adam represents) by putting Himself in the body of the first man. Adam was just a thing until God breathed life unto him. Adam and his kind were the original elect, and as it appears, the Elohim of God (El) filled the inner man of Adam.

(Whereas God is one (El) His Spirit is Elohim, not many, but omnipresent.)

Although God predestined Adam by putting a fragment of Himself in proto-man, sin blotted out the Elohim in him and his woman. Why so? They had more confidence in a talking Beast than in God Himself, and the Beast persuaded the woman that it was God and that she could be as well (Gen 4:1).

Albeit Adam and his kind were elected and were the original “whosoever”, they lacked confidence and lost favor of God who they once favored. They did not deny God but favored real things more so.

Apostasy (apostasia in the Greek; Heb 6:6) means “defection”. Adam’s kind, once having affection for God in whom they knew and trusted, defected from God in favor of the Beast.

Since original sin, mankind has favored the Beast to God, as John wrote, for God seemed to reveal the beginning to him as He did the ending:

 

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

 

Now, ask yourself who is “you”? in that passage. Those who believed in God but failed to trust Him (i.e., the seed of Abraham; John 8:41).

You can believe, but still be of the Wicked One, for even demons believe (Jas 2:19). Neither did God elect all the angelic kingdom, but selected only Adam’s kind, for God loved him so much that He put Himself (Elohim) into that one man to pass down to Adam’s kind.

According to John 3:16, Adam’s kind should not have perished, but they have due to their own volition. God elected all of Adam’s kind to be His people, and Him be their God, but they favored the Beast more so, and since all of Adam’s kind are more like the Beast than God, according to John, it was genetic from the original sin.

“Born again” (John 3:7) is literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). In the beginning the Most High (sovereign) God engendered Adam with Elohim — love from His own Existence (El Saday). Even now, God from above can do the same at regeneration as He did at the generation. As it turns out, God can engender anyone, anytime according to His will. God sees potential in some faithful people and others He created faithful.

Once Adam sinned, God passed the baton to Abel, not Cain, and with Abel dead, the election “baton” went to Seth (Gen 4).

When Seth’s kind (“sons of God”) failed (Gen 6:4), then God passed the baton to Noah who found grace (Gen 6:8) that was of God for free and underserved, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

From whom does faith derive? From a remnant of Elohim in us because we too are Adam’s kind. We are not totally depraved, but have the seed of God in us that must be sparked by the Light of God to create a fire in us whose flame we must keep ablaze as scripture reveals. By grace, God lights the fire, but faith is keeping the fire burning. God’s command was, “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out” (Lev 6:13). Only we can make the working sacrifice, and albeit God is the Pillar of Fire that ignites us, we are told to never let the fire go out. That takes great diligence and confidence.

Believing one time will not keep the fire burning but vigilance will… “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov 4:23).

Faith begins with persuasion. God provides the evidence, then we test it and hold onto what is good (1 Thes 5:1).

Indeed, God is sovereign and rules, but it is us who are the household of God that must obey His divine Will.

Faith is variable all the way from: the lack of faith, to a little faith, to faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, to great faith, to the faith of Abraham, to the faith of God.

That you know that you are saved “without a shadow of doubt” implies it is you that is the sovereign with the right to judge yourselves. Admittedly, I am humbled and have the hope that God saves me by grace.

What is a “shadow of a doubt”? Because we are not God, everybody at times have doubt, and if you think not, you even lie to yourselves. If there is no doubt, then why are you not moving mountains and such, or even simple things like trusting healing by faith? That is crazy talk even to most evangelicals.

However, so many today are so arrogant — God pre-ordained me, they think. They did not you, they continue. I have God in me, and you do not!

Why would God elect only those who enter the doors of a reformed church and whose doctrine is Calvin’s. That makes Calvin the pontificus maximus  — “The Lord of lords”.

I follow Christ Jesus despite Calvin’s decoherence.

It is true, Adam’s kind was predestined and elected, but that waned, not due to God, but due to them. They lost their first love, El, and fornicated with another “god” (Lucifer). Once loving God, they gradually defected from Him to the Devil, and now they have the Devil in their genetics and in dire need of rebirth, according to Jesus, who said “You must be” (John 3:7).

That is your choice, and your election belongs to you because the Sovereign God delegated it to you. A gracious God does not force anyone to do anything. His grace is not irresistible except for very few incidences.

Adam found grace when not seeking it, and so did Abel. Then Noah found grace and soon lost it like Adam before him. God did not remove grace, but people gave it up without even resisting.

Then Abraham found grace because he chose God over the idols that his father Terah had made for King Nimrod. The god/king Nimrod would never be his sovereign for he retained confidence in God withstanding the fire of Ur. Abram faced great tribulation,  and his faith saved him. Soom his faith (birthright) was passed down to Isaac, then Jacob so that the Hebrews became the elect.

The Hebrew lost trust in God while in Egypt in sin. They wandered until they died and never fully had faith in God. Moses was elected to lead them out of sin into the Holy Land. Their destination was not really the Land of Canaan but Paradise in heaven. They failed to understand God but followed Moses wherever he led them. Their faith in God was given to Moses, and again, God’s elect slid down the rabbit hole into Hell. The Jews remain the elect as well but in God’s time, no theirs.

Then after Moses, the baton of grace was passed to Joshua, and he became the “Jesus” in whom they had faith.

Soon, King David and “sons of David”, the Israelites, got the baton and Israel split in two because of the sins of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel who both lost affection for God and favored the Wicked One.

By the time of Jesus, only the Jews remained of all the elect of Adam’s kind. The God came to this world in the Person of Jesus so that all mankind could see Jesus and have faith in God, but the Jews rejected God in favor of Moses and his priests.

Then God grabbed the baton of grace back for Himself to hand off, and then those who followed Christ Jesus became the elect, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should shew forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).

Hence, over the course of human events, the elect of God changed with the onset of rejection by those who were the elect before them. With that said, God abandoned endless genealogies (Tit 3:9) and “whosoever” inherited the grace of God, despite their credentials as supposed sons of God. It was a faith thing and who God thought could endure for the long haul as James wrote:

 

Blessed is the man that endures temptation (without sinning) for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him. (Jas 1:12)

 

Blessedness is inheriting the Kingdom of God, to wit:

 

Every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Name's sake (Jesus), shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (Mat 19:29)

 

Hence, inheritance, or divine election, is an individual thing (everyone) based on whosoever abandons the things of the world for Jesus. That rings true for working faith is not cheap grace!

“Cheap grace” is essentially accepting the goodness of God without becoming His servant. It’s like the lazy servant of a king who hates the things and ways of the king but prefers a sloven life to that of royal living.

Despots make things irresistible. Despots sentence people without good cause. Despots make servants, willing or not, to endure his rule to the end. Despots limit their grace. Despots call people “totally depraved”. Despots refer to common people as “a basket of deplorables”. God, however, sees the potential in everyone. God is no Despot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall… (2 Pet 1:9-10)

 

These “ things” in the above are godly characteristics listed in the previous verses such as “godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity (2 Pet 1:7)

 

WHAT IS MAN?

 

What is man, that You should magnify him? and that You should set Your heart upon him? (Job 7:17)

 

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)

 

What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man, that You visit Him? (Psalm 8:4)

 

Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him! or the Son of Man, that You make account of Him! (Psalm 144:3)

 

So, just what is “man”? Hidden within the English, but exposed in the Hebrew, are two kinds of man. First consider the eighth psalm above.

The word “what” is “ma” in the Hebrew: mem – hey, meaning “What kind (or beheld from the letter hey)? David was asking two questions; (1) what is common, mortal man (enos), and (2) what is the glorious man (adam) — the son (ben).

Ben in the Hebrew is the “builder”. The builder of what? Nun: the seed, waters. or genetics of the Builder. Of course, according to John (John 1), God is the Builder and Jesus (Yeshua) His seed.

Jesus is a special man — the very Elohim of El seeded in one man (adam). In royal terms, therefore the “Son of Man” is of “The House of Adamic man”, and Adam from the “House of God”.

El owns the glorious Estate of the world — both the visible and the invisible. As Jesus was of the “House of God”, He would be the sovereign king of all things in existence.

The silly politicians that crucified Jesus didn’t care about the real Estate of God but the lower estate of Judea with Jesus as the “son of David” and rightful heir to that one throne. Jesus saying, “They know not what they do” (Luke 23:34) was an understatement for they killed the King of kings and Lord of lords of all creation (Rev 19:6).

Hence, the “Son of Man” means that Jesus had within His Adamic kind of flesh the very seed of God. Adamic flesh is a glorified covering of some sort, as the letter bet indicates.

Now consider what is man: “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45). From the Greek, the first man Adam is protos anthropos adam with adam retaining the Hebrew for “man”.

Man (“Adam”, also retained in English) was the original Adam signified by protos. The first man, Adam, was the proto man whose form was anthropoidal (anthropoidea — a suborder of higher primates). Hence, Adam “man” was a higher state than the common, mortal man, called “enos” in the Hebrew.

Adam was made “a living soul” with uprightness, or the highest state of all the primates. He was a higher state of man because Adam’s person contained elohim life within, not just any life but the very essence of God that was breathed unto him.

Sin surely degenerated Adam’s kind — the male and female — for soon after sin they noticed a change in their bodies. They would have acquired flesh like the other beasts of the field, implied by the aprons that they made to cover their sexual organs (Gen 3:7).

What is man (enos)? A lower state than Adam’s kind. Enos man was a lower state than before sin. Of what substance was original Adam remains unknown, but it was inorganic as his Name implies, “clay”, of course as a metaphor for incorruptibility.

Proto Adam’s kind would have been inorganic, but with sin became organic and mortal since carbon in all organisms will decay. Hence, before sin, Adam man was immortal and after sin, common man Enos mortal with short lifespans.

What is common man? Decadent just like feces for what they ate they would become.

What is man? Common men are organic and mortal with a short “shelf life”. What was man before the advent of mortal flesh? Immortal and of a glorious incorruptible substance — Sons of God with some elohim in him.

Returning now to Psalm 8:4, “What is man (enos), that You are mindful of him? and the Son (Ben) of Man (Adam), that You visit Him?”

Now consider mortal man, Enos (אֱנוֹשׁ; pronounce en-oshe). Like words, letters mean things in Hebrew.

David wrote only of two sub-kinds of men: adam and enos. However, Cain’s “man” was an“is” (pronounced eesh) from his “wife” mother, issa (Gen 4:1, sounds like eesha).

 Is came from issa alone for she said that she created a “man” for her “lord” instead of the Lord God.

The Beast had warned that they would become as gods, and the woman (issa) implied that she was the god (Gen 4:1). Since “is” is from the woman/wife, issa, and not the male adam (who only watched), then “is” would have been another extant being as the word means. Cain was some other form of life, and with time, Cain would die. Hence, is kind led to mortal men (enos) as well.

Eve made a name for her new kind of male — “Is” (אִישׁ).

Enos comes from the root Hebrew word, meaning weak, or sick (Strong 2006). Therefore, sin weakened original man (the “adam” from the woman) to a lower state.  Mankind was not improved but would have been degenerated. Enos would designate “degenerate” mankind in dire need of mankind improvement. Hence, born again (Gen 3:7) is animal husbandry to make mankind survive.

Now lets take a close look at “Adam” man: the root אָדָם from הָאָדָם. The first letter (on the right) is hey, meaning “breathed” or “revealed”.

The root word is el – dahlet – mem. First off the mem indicates “kind” not just one. The letter dahlet indicates the door, or way and the el the generating Power of God “El” Himself. The name “Adam” fairly well describes the ontology of God’s kind. Adam was not the man’s name but his kind and the woman was of the same kind. With that said, issa (the woman) was the vessel of elohim, the Power of God, as well and she would produce more elohim — God’s glorious kind.

Could it be that God breathed life, not just into one man, but many of Adam’s kind as the mem implies, or was the mem just the living waters of God? After all, God has almighty Power (El shaday). As it may be, intercourse between different states of anthropoids was inevitable.

How did Enos come from Is? Is would pertain to only one man, Cain, but Enos to numbers of men or “mankind.” David was questioning, what is mankind? Then he questioned what is God’s kind? referring to Jesus.

What is man, is? He was from issa, the wife of whom? Note that she was of Adam’s kind as the woman, issa. The woman (issa) was the wife (issa) of the man (adam), but she created is-man herself for her lord.

It appears that Adam was deceived as well as ignorant of procreation. Like an innocent child, he would not have understood that he was watching God’s kind die to be replaced by a new kind of existence (is). Adam’s kind did die as the penalty for eating of the forbidden tree, but another kind arose from his ashes. Some other lower state of man — a beast perhaps — would be required to supply the seed, the letter nun in enos (אֱנוֹשׁ).

Now let’s critique the meaning of the letters in enos.

Aleph is characterized by the ox, one of the many beasts of the field. The ox may represent flesh, hence common, mortal “man” would have the flesh of a beast, and that we do.

The letter nun would imply seed-bearing and that we are. The letter vav, by its shape, could imply upright man as it often does.

Finally, the letter shin with a dot to the right branch makes it pronounceable as the “sh” sound. One of the meanings of the letter shin is fire, and its use “fusion”. Hence, enos sort of spells out that a fusion of two kinds by the fiery darts of the Wicked One. The one lucky sperm that penetrates the egg of a woman issues a zinc flash for just an moment as it breaks through. Perhaps that “flash” is one dart from many fiery darts.

Hence, adam was planned and came about but Cain was generated by chance, or probability with it not planned by God.

What is mortal man? Sperm-bearing upright creatures with flesh of the beasts.

What is man? Somewhat upright, godly man and half beast/man lower in state — the “creeping thing” (remes) of Genesis 1:26.

Perhaps now you might want to examine all the evidence for the conclusion in my latest book, The Creeping Things of the Bible, which explains what is man that God should care for us. Perhaps we are not totally depraved as Calvinism proposes but with just enough “el” in us to make us worth improving and glorifying again. For us to be improved, “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), a fragment of God (el) must penetrate our minds for elohim to fill or souls.

“What is man that You should magnify him?” (Job 7:17). Not make him larger, but to make common man glorious as God intended; to change man from a lower state (enos) to a higher state (adam).

Jesus was the “quickening Spirit” that made proto man alive and remains the Way from a lower (enos) to a higher state (adam) of Existence (Elohim) — in Christ, the Messianic God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOW DISTANT IS HELL AND PARADISE?

 

 

THE JOURNEY TO ETERNAL LIFE, OR  NOT

 

As Jesus journeyed, He spoke of esoteric things. After speaking of mending garments, Jesus spoke of wine-making, apparently to get across the idea of something with deeper meaning when by “coincidence” (sic), He was told that the daughter of Jairius was dead. However, Jesus went about His business for quite some time before He acted.

Later, after doing several other miracles, Jesus calmly came to the girl that had suffered death, and challenged those around her:

 

Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole, and when he came into the house, He suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden, and all wept, and bewailed her: but He said, “Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.”

And they laughed Him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

And He put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, “Maid, arise”, and her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and He commanded to give her meat. (Luke 8:50-55)

 

Fore your interests, there were three accounts of that miracle: Mat 9 (shortened version), Luke 8 (above) and Mark 5 (below). There were three writers that witnessed her life restored to her.

 

And (Jesus) came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly, and when He was come in, He said unto them, “Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.”

And they laughed Him to scorn, but when He had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying; and He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, “Talitha cumi”; which is, being interpreted, “Damsel, I say unto you, arise.”

And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. (Mark 5:38-42)

 

She had been dead quite some time. In as little as two hours rigor mortis begins. If he had tarried that long, and perhaps Jesus had, the girl would have been quite dead as all life would have been gone.

What is “life”? Metabolism. Metabolism is how the body of a person sustains itself and reproduces cells. The girl was no longer alive and no longer metabolic. Only one thing could save her and that was the life sustaining force from some other life-giver. As such, Jesus gave some of His life to the girl for her to again sustain herself.

Within the same journey was the situation of the woman with the issue of the blood, wherein the life force emanating from Jesus was “virtue” (dynamos in the Greek).

Now recall the story of Adam; “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” (Gen 2:7).

Adam had been a lifeless image of clay. He was firstly formed dead, then God breathed life unto him. (Where did you think the story of Pinocchio originated?)

Adam had been rigid, literally a “firm thing” that God made metabolic. The man, Adam, had the Essence of God breathed unto Him, and Adam became a living soul. Adam was a newly formed vessel that God had made. He was the “bottle” of the story of the new wine.

In the same three accounts, Jesus spoke of wine-making, saying in one version:

 

No man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:22)

 

No man does such a thing, but God did! Jesus took the “old bottle” Jairus’ daughter and put new wine into her used vessel. Jesus would have been making the point that He was not just any man but God Himself, who put new wine into a “new bottle” (Adam). Jesus overcame the world, doing things that any other person could not do!

However, rather than focus on the impossible miracle, do so with the action surrounding that event.

They scoffed when Jesus said the girl was not dead but “asleep”. Obviously, they had closely examined her for vitality. She would have been dead, dead with the advent of rigor mortis. No wonder they laughed because she was indeed like a tree.

“Tree” in the Hebrew is ‘es (עֵץ): ayin – samekh. Ayin, characterized by the eye, means observation, or consciousness. The letter samekh, characterized by a support of some sort, represents stability. In other words, ‘es are indeed trees but other “firm” things as well. Adam was a “tree” of the Garden that God planted therein: “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed” (Gen 2:8). Hence, the Garden of the Lord was not just the taxonomy “tree”, but all firm things as opposed to phantom-like unseen things.

Adam was formed as a firm thing, and Jesus saw the young girl just as another firm thing in His Garden to make alive. To Him, the girl was just another vessel like a clay pot or a bottle that He could fill with some of Himself. Jesus took the twelve-year old “bottle” and breathed life unto her. That “life” was symbolized by the new wine.

What does new wine in it that old wine does not? Fermentation. Remember the girl was no longer metabolic? Well, fermentation is anaerobic metabolism.

Anaerobic is the absence of oxygen. Rather than breathing oxygen in her to awaken her stiff, lifeless body, the “new wine” with which Jesus replaced the lack of oxygen was His own “Breath” (nesama; נְשָׁמָה), or literally a blast of life.  

It was not air with which Jesus shocked her heart, but His Power. Like Adam, long before, Jesus shared a part of His Dynamics to her; He have her a portion of the Elohim (virtue) within Himself. Of course, the Power of Elohim is like a spirit, or wind, that would have overshadowed the girl to make her whole again.

She was not dead, dead… even as stiff as a board. She had only come apart. Jesus said, “’Maid, arise’, and her spirit came again, and she arose straightway.”

“Arise” in the Greek is egeiro, meaning “to collect ones’ faculties” (Strong 2006). She had given up her inner being as her soul had gone from her body. Jesus was commanding her soul to return to her. That would have been the “new wine” into the “old bottle” of which He spoke.

New wine has life in it, and Jesus returned her soul still a brewing back into her “bottle.” She was only twelve, and that was the age of accountability in Jewish tradition. Her collecting her faculties would have been her bat mitsva — the age of twelve for a girl’s spiritual maturity. In Jewish tradition, Jesus, as the Rabii, was merely performing a bat mitzvah, bringing her new wine into the old bottle for completion to become good wine, so to speak.

The young girl’s soul had gone somewhere outside her body, had it not? Souls go to heaven. Her soul, not yet fully grown (as with Adam), had gone to Paradise in heaven, but not fully matured, it was not God’s time.

When the young girl gathered her faculties, it was Jesus who did the gathering. Jesus stood above her with the Power of God, merely overshadowed her, and she was made whole as her invisible soul returned to be finished by the cross. The young girl had been born twelve years before, and then when Jesus came to her, she was “born again” from God above her as the Greek words indicate (John 3:7).

The soul of the girl had gone to heaven in a moment and in a moment had returned. God had “blasted” her into heaven and then back in just a moment (atom in the Greek).

Just as Adam had literally been thrust out of heaven (Gen 3:24), so the girl would have been. Heaven is not a distant place, albeit it is not even in this realm.

Death is the door to heaven whenever and wherever it is anyone dies. Her body was indeed just asleep (katheudo) — at rest, awaiting the return of her other faculty. She had not die but was resurrected in an old, used vessel to await the general resurrection when she would have a new incorruptible vessel (1 Cor 15:52).

Heaven seems far, far away but it is as near as death. Unfortunately, heaven has two abodes: Hell and Paradise.

How far away is Hell? As near as death. Whenever the body is dead, dead, the soul will be thrust as if from a rocket’s engine, suddenly to be in either Hell or Paradise in an instant. There is no Purgatory to await the trip and no reprieve during the journey. Once you are dead the trip is over and there is no turning back except for possibly some of the souls that have not yet fully matured, as the story of the girl reveals.

 

 

 

 

 

ON THE CONCEPT OF TIME - Part 2 of 2

 

SENTIENCE:

 

The last commentary about time ended with the concept of Almighty God, El Saday. The English word “God” is translated from two Hebrew words: El and Elohim. Think of El as God at rest (stationary) and Elohim as God in motion; creating, or the dynamic God as the ending letter mem indicates.  

In the beginning, there was God, Elohim, creating and when the creation was accomplished and the Mighty One rested: Elohim when at rest was El. It seems that El represents the potentiality of the Mighty One and Elohim the acts of the Almighty God — the dynamics.

“On the seventh day God rested” (Gen 2:2) when everything was finished (Gen 2:1). The quoted phrase in that sentence is literally yom sebi’i yom.  Sebi’i is “seventh” in the English.

Sebi’i comes the root word, sheva meaning “complete.” Everything was completed, not on the seventh “day”, but after the seven ordinal steps, from yom to yom in the Hebrew.

The Hebrew letter yom is not necessarily either “day” or “time” but steps until completion. In the beginning, there was nothing, but in the end, there were all things. In the beginning, even before time, all things came into existence (Gen 1:1), and time (as yom or anything else) was not in that verse.

There was one divine Thing before creation — El — and during the Creation El revealed Himself as Elohim because He was no longer at rest as the letter mem implies dynamics of some sort: water, blood, genetics, particle dynamics, sound, and any other type of activity.

Hopefully you can see that El is the potential Power of God and Elohim that same Power released. They are two states of God, one at rest (static), and one dynamic.

The Hebrew word yom is generally accepted as one twenty-four day, however it is used before the Sun was ever mentioned in the Bible. The first use of the word is in the following: “God called the light ‘Day,’ and the darkness He called ‘Night’ and the evening and the morning were the first day” (Gen 1:5).

Hence light equals day. and the Hebrew word or equals yom. Since or is illumination, therefore yom is the activity of illuminating, as the ending letter mem implies.

The word “light” is spelled in the Hebrew el – waw- resh wherein the letter waw (or vav) connects the Power of God (El) to the first cause as the letter resh represents.

What is the source of El, or potential Power? The Hebrew letter yod — the first letter of yom. Yod whose sound is ya… say it, represents silent speech that John called the “Word”. It is not audible but a silent wave (i.e, Yahweh is not a sound at all, but an invisible inaudible wave since none of the letters are audible.).

The second letter of yom is waw as well to connect the work of God (Yod) to the distribution (mem) of the work.

In Newtonian physics, work is associated with time but in quantum mechanics, it is not. Called “Almighty God” is as if saying “Quantum Power”.

El Saday would be the Almighty, or the quantum, Power of God, and Elohim the distribution of that Power, as a wave of some sort.

If so, there would have been a ‘Big Bang” and a flow of the Power (Elohim) of God (Yod), but it would not be related to time; it would have been a quantum, or timeless, bang.

Quantum speed is some amount greater than the speed of light, but whatever it is, it is atomic, or as Paul wrote about a “moment” as “atom” — beyond the distribution of time, or not according to time.

Moment as an “atom” in the Greek means that there is no division of time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, centuries, millennia, or even eons. A moment would be an “aeon”.

The “a” in the Greek word “aeon” means without aging. Hence a “moment” is without any time expended. The transfiguration from earth to heaven, for instance, would be without any increment of time whatever, and it is supposed that from heaven to earth (Gen 3:24) would be the same lack of time.

God’s “moment” would be faster than a light and it is! Light has metrics whereas moments do not. Moment (atom) implies quantum physics, and the mechanics of quantum action is not associated with time. Hence, quantum computers are faster than the speed of light, even instantaneous.

Light is expressed as yom translated as “day”. However, that is not to say that the speed of light is a day at all. Light exists unseen in a dark vacuum — a flash of light that takes no time to either reveal or extinguish itself. “God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Light, according to science, is always present, even in darkness, and John knew that! Even in darkness God pre-existed all things.

How much time does it take for God to do things? “Atom” in the Greek — “indivisible cutting” (Douglas Harper 2001-2026).

In the beginning, everything was made without the expenditure of time, and now the scientist, Michio Kaku, wrote that “In the Creation, time did not exist,” and that “Time is a construct of man.”

That time is for man, was recorded by the wisest man who ever existed — King Solomon:

 

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up. (Ecc 3:1-3)

 

Therefore time (yom), is defined by activities of mankind, not the activity of God. Solomon was implying that Time is a construct of man.

Since God did all things in the Creation, therefore the Creation was all done in one moment — an aeon — as the first verse in the Bible indicates.

Time is therefore for the world: to define seasons, every purpose on Earth, birth, death, planting, harvesting, perishing, healing, to tear down, and to build up. Time is a metric for doing things on Earth. Nothing therein pertains to heaven. There is no expenditure of time either in heaven to come nor in heaven before there was earth.

All the while science and theologians are arguing about the time of creation is wasting our precious time. God just spoke; and it was! His saying was the sound “ya” and all things came about, both the visible and the invisible, even faster than anything that can be observed as “the twinkling of the eye” suggests.

Time like mass, weight, work, and such is just a metric for measuring things that are observed whether invisible power or visible work. Time is nothing more than a way to define activity, or life on earth in general.

My theory is that time began with the advent of sin when Adamic man and woman began to age. Their residence in the Garden of the Lord (East) was before time just as the ancients believed.

“East” in Genesis 3:24 is qedem (קֶדֶם). The letter qof points to before time. The second letter dalet means into space, time and matter; and the mem into the motion of life in that realm.

Qedem (East) implies that Adam (both of them) would have been thrust out into the world wherein time is measured by the Sun. How long would that have taken? A moment — an aeon — without time.

That time began with the advent of sin makes sense. As soon as they were cast out, it is written, “In process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord” (Gen 4:3). Work became associated with time for the first time and that was after sin got into the blood of Adam’s kind who were born on planet Earth. Hence, time was for man to do things; it is the measure of life here on planet Earth.

Eternity is in heaven — either in Hell or in Paradise.

Eternity is netzah (נֵצַח) in the Hebrew, wherein the letter nun is uncertainty, ayin observation, and chet the separation of realms (CoPilot). Uncertainty applies to mankind as the letter nun represents. God is certain whereas we cannot be (Sorry, fundamentalist preachers). We cannot judge ourselves because only God foreknows our life in timelessness.

Now look at both Paradise and Hell, both in the realm of heaven (Luke 16).

“Torments” is repetition; that is Hell. It would be like the movie “Groundhogs Day” wherein the same awful things occur each time, implying that time does not exist in Hell.

On the other hand, apply the same reasoning to pleasure (Eden or Paradise in heaven). Suppose that a Christian experiences pleasure in Paradise continually. Just as pain in the dentist’s chair seems to never end, endless pleasure may be the same. Time is only a measure of toil (work) on Earth; and without work in Paradise, no time would pass.

Hence, time is not real but a fragment of the mind. Go into a coma and for you, time stops. Get into your mind, and all your conscious time flashes in a moment. Hence, time is in the mind of sinful men but never was on Adam’s mind because original man was without sin.

When God dished out His penalty, he told Adam, “In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return unto the ground for out of it was you taken for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return” (Gen 3:19). Sweat implies work and work in the visible realm involves time as Newton’s laws reveal. In heaven, God did all the work in no time, but on Earth, Adam would do all the work to expend time.

The penalty for Adam and his kind was work and in Newtonian Physics work is measured by forces over some amount of time.

However, in “Pleasure before time”, as “East of Eden” means, pleasure was ordinary and endless; and there was no need for time.

Time came about for Adam and his kind to measure things that were not pleasurable. As most people know, even coitus is beyond time as pleasure seems to be only for a moment, unlike pain which is endless.

Time is therefore a mental faculty (“sentience” — consciousness) to measure the things of the world.

I know that I went deeply into the concept of time, but time is of the essence for “now is the time of salvation” at any moment in your life it can begin (Rom 13:11).

ON THE CONCEPT OF TIME - Part 1 of 2

Today’s commentary is somewhat personnel, so pardon the number of “I’s” which you will see.

I was brought up a Christian, so I always believed in God. For me, it was tough to be “born again” (John 3:7) because I was already born, born again, I thought. I have always been a rigid believer in God, but not the might of God, as the case may be. My belief was as an unquestioning child, and that is not bad; or so said Jesus, “Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 18:3).

As such, none of us need not understand God but simply that He is real and has the Power to change anything that He has made.

Conversion in that passage has great significance. The Greek verb from which it comes means “strengthened” (Strong 2006), meaning that I was once weak in my belief (i.e., with no faith). Believing in God is one thing but trusting Him for eternal life was only an abstract idea. In my mind, God existed but I was master of my own domain. Hence, I believed in two gods: the real God and me as his special assistant who helped Him with me. That type of belief is arrogant.

Little children require assistance in all things they do. Most generally when the huge events come about, children get in the way. Being as a little child is succumbing to the wiser elder. For full grown children, I had not succumbed to Father God; I had gotten in His way because I thought I already knew it all. What I failed to understand was that I was not even a weak God; and that I had no part in saving myself; that it is the real God who changes things.

Conversion (strengthening) requires what? Power. Little children are weak in both mind and body. Children usually depend on those mightier than themselves. For me, I believed in God but that He was a “weakling” for it was me who controlled my destiny and that I would submit to God whenever I determined. I would turn to God for salvation at the last moment, so it was me that I was depending upon.  Time belonged to me and God was beyond time. As it turned out, perhaps that is true!

 

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa 55:8-9)

 

What I thought was not significant other than submission to God for His will to be done. God’s ways are not dependent on time. Salvation was always by Jesus even in the beginning… even before the foundation of the world (Ephes 1:4). God pre-selected Adam’s kind to be His children; He made man and put unto him part of Himself, some of His phantom-like Image (Gen 1:27).

Mankind always brings time into any discussion. Up until recently, even power was defined as time, but no longer; scientists now see power as independent of time.

In science things (particles) can take a quantum leap from one state to another. The notion of “states” is indeed scientific, but theological as well. God strengthening anyone is Him changing the states from weak to strong.

First off, what are “states”? In science, "states" primarily refer to matter; the different forms matter can take, usually solid, liquid, and gas, with plasma being a fourth natural state, among others.

In theology, there exists another state. Christians remain in the same physical and visible form, but within the state of being changes. Rather than me being the strength within me, God strengthened me. Something inwardly changed. I remained an animal, but God tamed the beast within me. I did not become a coward or a weakling, but forcefully one of those obnoxious (sic) Christians that credit God in all things! God took a child of little faith and gave me great faith, not of myself but from Him, or so it says:

 

"We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (Cor 4:7)… "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty” (Zach 4:6)

 

As such, humans are the “clay”; albeit we have life as defined by ourselves. We are “clay” to God unless He breathes life unto us as in the beginning. Any ability to change our states are not within any of us because the human body is a closed system. So, to change states scientifically, there must be power that is added to the boundary that our flesh defines. God adds the Power when strengthening us to change a non-Christian into a bold and forceful Christian.

Not by coincidence, the Hebrew letter tav — the cross —crosses the boundary condition or our flesh, representing completion in crossing over. That makes the Christian a Hebrew inwardly (Rom 2:29) because “Hebrew” means to cross-over some thing. Hebrew would be the change in states from the flesh to the spiritual waters (mem).

Conversion, from the key verse, is from little children to forceful Christians. Little children are pliable and weak while adults are firm in all their ways, even obstinate. As a youth, I stood up for God without even knowing Him! Now I came to know God because He has given me great strength to act on His behalf.

How much time did Jesus say it took to be strengthened? He never mentioned time at all. God is not limited by time and our clock — the Sun. If there were no minds to perceive it, time would go on as if it is non-existent. Just as a sound wave to be heard requires a receiver, so it is with time. Time is therefore for mankind (as well as the beasts).

In due time, Christians will be changed from one state to another, as Paul wrote:

Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed; for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor 15:51-53)

 

The first thing that must change, according to Jesus, is our minds. Like a garden, God plants a seed in the minds of sinners, and they begin to follow the Way of God, ostensibly to the harvest of which Paul wrote above.

The first change is the state of the mind. However, the last state is from corruptibility to incorruptibility; from physically dead to alive; from time to timelessness. Hence, you might now understand why it is that for mankind, everybody will go to another realm wherein time does not exist. Both Hell and Paradise exist in another realm that is eternal… where time does not exist.

How fast does God change the dead in Christ?  In a “moment”, “atom” in the Greek. A “moment”, like the atom can be cut no further. “Atom” means not cutable. Hence a moment is the smallest increment that can be perceived — now it is… now it is not; or visa-versa.

A twinkling is a measurement of time if the eye is considered. Normal twinkling for people lasts at the minimum 0.1 second. However theologically, twinkling is even beyond that — in a “moment” that cannot be measured by time.

The fastest stars do not twinkle but appear to twinkle as fast as 1000 times a second. However, the twinkling of a star is how people of this world perceive time. It is power they see with worldly interference.

The state of Christians from dead to alive will occur beyond time. Scientifically, we will be thrust from one realm to another without regard to time. One second dead bodies will be here and the next second, living bodies will be in Paradise in the realm of heaven. I can only use “seconds” to describe the instant that the Power of God changes the states of Christians.

The work of God does not depend on our thoughts but on His, for His Thoughts are not our thoughts, nor His Ways our ways, according to God (Isa 45:8).

How quick are the divine Thoughts of God? Beyond time — immeasurable, as is quantum mechanics; or to put it in scientific terms… faster than the speed of light. “Time” in science is measured by the speed of light, but a moment is even quicker than that!

Adam and Eve were once in Paradise but that was changed. First off, note that they were no longer glorious and that their mortality was not suitable to the Garden of the Lord, which was ostensibly in the realm of heaven. As such, God because of grace, put them in a suitable place for their sinful state. He removed them from beyond time into time from heaven to material earth, not places but much different realms. Their state changed from immortal to mortality. As it turned out immortality is immeasurable, but mortality is measured by the concept of time.

How quickly did the states of Adam and his wife occur?

So (God) 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)

 

First note that “east” was not just a direction in ancient times. It meant “before time” or even “beyond time” as well since the Sun comes up in the east.

The Earth’s Sun would establish time for them. Elsewhere, things were beyond time because time exists only in the solar system in which we live. The Hebrew word for “east” is qedem (קֶדֶם), with one meaning “aforetime” (Strong 2006).

The letter qof in qedem means beyond observable reality (CoPilot). The second letter dalet to which the qof points means entry into spacetime and matter (ibid). Lastly, the letter mem means motion within a material realm (ibid). If so, then Adam and his kind were once in a heavenly Paradise without either time or observable matter into time and observable material things.

(Note that does not mean that Adam’s kind were not material beings while in the Garden but material that was not observable by common men. It may be that the two did not change but only their states of being. They may have been in the same place but become blind to invisible things.) Sacred literature contests to that:

 

Then Adam cried and said, "O God, when we lived in the garden, and our hearts were lifted up, we saw the angels that sang praises in heaven, but now we can't see like we used to; no, when we entered the cave, all creation became hidden from us."

Then God the Lord said to Adam, "When you were under subjection to Me, you had a bright nature within you, and for that reason could you see things far away. But after your transgression your bright nature was withdrawn from you; and it was not left to you to see things far away, but only near at hand; after the ability of the flesh; for it is brutish."

When Adam and Eve had heard these words from God, they went their way; praising and worshipping Him with a sorrowful heart.

And God ceased to commune with them. (1 A & E 8:1-4)

 

If that is true, then Adam was not driven out of anywhere; it is just that both he and the woman could no longer see what once was observable. How long did it take for the two to change from one state to another? No time. They would have been blinded in a moment… in the twinkling of the eye. One moment they could see all things, and immediately they could only see material things observable to their new kind that Adam called “Eve.”

God did not just drive them out of His sight, or as it is written above, “God ceased to commune with them.” He would have no longer allowed them to see divine things, so they were blind to the spiritual world of God.

If He did not drive them out, what was it? Garas in the Hebrew (גָּרַשׁ). God “thrust” them out, not from their places, but from a higher state to a lower.

Once the Spirit of God had dominion, now the flesh was dominant. They could only see material things moving in time and no longer had the ability to see beyond.

“Thrust” is when a system suddenly expels mass. Thrust is because of Power measured in time, but God would have done so in a moment to defy time. Their bodies would have not been thrust anywhere but as Eve admitted, it was their bright natures. No longer Adam’s kind, with sin, they became Eve’s kind, Is in the Hebrew, from Issa (woman). “Is” are common men sometimes called “Enos.”

In one moment, Adam’s was changed unto Enos’s kind. Their locations did not change but their states. Glorious Adam would have become a lower state of man — perhaps like the “creeping thing” (Gen 1:26) over which he was once dominant. The creeping thing would have not creeped physically but would have been of a lower state of man without God in it.

Once Adam was elected before time, but in time, Enos kind would have been the elect for God to preserve.

Since the meaning of “east” has been conveyed, now apply it to the beginning.

First off, the “beginning” was before time, so before time both the heaven and earth were created. Many scientists now agree with both the intelligent creation and the absence of time involved. In other words, once the state of everything was God, and in a moment… in the twinkling of the eye, all things God made were in existence. The first verse of the Bible is not time related but a rank — the thing that God did in that one moment.

I always defended the six-day creation because that was what I was always taught. That compromised God and made Him feeble. Now, I think I see it correctly. Of course I can be wrong, but “Almighty God” is not just a saying, but His Power — Saday Elohim.

(To be continued with His Might.)