Bible study – Page 4 – ~Song of Mary~

Jesus is our Scapegoat and Passover Lamb

The Hebrew feasts that were commanded by God to be followed religiously in the Old Testament were, in this order:

The Passover (1st month, 14th day of the Hebrew year)
The Feast of Unleavened Bread (1st month, 15th to the 22nd day)
The Feast of Firstfruits (the first harvest, 3rd month, variable)
The Feast of Weeks (7 Sabbaths after the firstfruits, or 50 days, also called pentecost)
The Feast of Trumpets (7th month, 1st day)
The Day of Atonement (7th month, 10th day)
The Feast of Tabernacles (7th month, 15th through 22nd day)

Of these, the most important celebration, illustrated by the amount of offerings decreed, and holiness required, is the Day of Atonement, followed by the Feast of Tabernacles.

Notice all the 1’s, 3’s, 7’s, and 22’s in this calendar. God’s Realm is a circle. A circle of perfect Love.

The Day of Atonement was the only day the holiest Priest was allowed by God to go behind the veil to minister to Him. And even then, the Priest had to make a huge cloud of incense to occlude the vision of the LORD so that he would not die by seeing the LORD above the mercy seat upon the Ark of the Covenant. God disallowed the priests to go into the Holiest of Holies ‘at just any time’ after Aaron’s two sons sinned by making profane fire in the sanctuary. So the only time Priests could go into this sacred place was once per year. It was a very holy day and involved much cleansing and preparation for not only the Priest himself, but for the Tabernacle, the furnishings, and all the articles in the Holy Place.

The children of God would bring two kid goats to the Priest, and he would cast lots to see which one would be for the LORD, for the sin offering of the people; and which one would be the scapegoat, to be let go wild in the wilderness. After making a cloud of incense behind the veil, lest he die seeing the LORD’s presence, the Priest would kill the LORD’s goat and offer its blood by sprinkling it upon and before the mercy seat of the LORD. This would atone for the Holy Place for all the iniquities of the children of God. Then the Priest would lay his hands on the scapegoat’s head and confess upon it all the transgressions and sins of all the children of God in all their iniquities they had done, and send it out into the wilderness, where it would bear unto itself all their iniquities, taking them away into a solitary land.

When the story of Jesus’ life is recounted in the Gospels, the first act of his adult life we are privy to is his baptism in the River Jordan by John the Baptist when the Holy Spirit alighted upon him, and spoke, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Then he immediately was ‘led by the Spirit’ into the Wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The devil tempted him three times, and Jesus stayed faithful and true to God and His word all three times, using the Law of God to thwart the devil every time.

We could have been apprised of Jesus’ life before this point, and it would have been intensely interesting. The reason the Gospel starts here is to make it obvious to those with eyes to see that Jesus is beginning with the end of the Israelite’s holy calendar, in order to best symbolize that He was here to finish God’s work, once and for all.

Jesus going into the wilderness reminds us of the scapegoat upon which were placed the sins of God’s people, before he was sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement to provide forgiveness and redemption to all the children of God. Jesus, having cleansed himself with baptism by God’s Prophet, and having been covered by the cloud of the Holy Spirit, went out into the wilderness as a man and defeated the devil by overcoming the sins that would normally plague man. He begins his mission for God with the last feast of the Hebrew year, as if he is picking up and completing or finishing that which was incomplete before him.

Jesus was in the Wilderness 40 days and 40 nights. He is not the 2nd Adam, but the 3rd Adam, Noah being the 2nd Adam. Noah was perfect in God’s eyes and he alone, with his 3 sons, was chosen by God to perpetuate God’s people before the Great Deluge. However, Noah sinned. Jesus came and succeeded, not only as Adam, but as the embodiment of God on earth, as the literal Son of God.

God has now divinely established Jesus as the perfect combination of man and God on earth, because Jesus defeats the devil time and time again, and overcomes sin; always while giving attribution to the Father. Jesus shows us how we are supposed to live and to love in the way God intended. Sometimes he fixes the law where it was incorrectly related, and sometimes he gives us new Law. As his work becomes completed on earth, the time for his final and most perfect and holy sacrifice draws near. This final act is to offer himself as the sacrificial lamb so that all who protect their life with his blood may have the curse of death pass them over; as happened in the days when our people were slaves in Egypt, just before they were set free.

But the man who… ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. ~Numbers 9:13

This final act of Jesus sets us free of not only our captivity, but from death, if we but paint His blood upon our life. By making atonement for us with His perfect life, and allowing death to pass over us with His perfect blood, Jesus completed God’s will, drawing us into God’s divine circle once and for all.

Thank you, Jesus, for your Divine and Unique and Holy sacrifice for us~

Death and the Afterlife, Part I: My Dream

God gave me insight today in a morning dream whilst still slumbering in my bed.

Heaven

There IS an afterlife and it is not very far away from us: it is just through the veil on the ‘other side’. When you die, if you believe in God and try to do good, your body cleaves from you, and you keep all your consciousness but you have no way to communicate with this world anymore because you have no body. Like how, joined with our body here on earth, we cannot communicate with Heaven.

There is absolutely no change in the essence in our being, we simply go upward, and a little circle in heaven opens and we transcend unto God’s Realm, and are removed from here. Our earthly dead body means nothing to us.

hell

However, God showed me specifically that if we commit suicide, or do not believe in Him, or do not try to do good; our body becomes tethered or anchored into the ground of the earth, where we become stuck. We cannot ascend through into Heaven because we have chosen to be part of this world. And we become like a tree. Perhaps this is why God hates tree worship so much. We are the trunk, and our legs are rooted in the ground. It is horrible because the earthly world can regard us, but we cannot communicate with it. Nor can we communicate with Heaven. This felt like something that lasts forever in my dream. This is hell.

It is not very difficult to go to Heaven. It’s simply believing in, and loving God, and trying to do good. Jesus was in my dream, but as a silent witness to the truth of these matters.

10/02/14: God plants people here alone when they go to hell (as above), leaving them to their choice of life without Him. This state is miserable, to say the least, and the only solace they will be able to find is finally accepting the Truth of Him, and loving Him. Because no matter where we are, God, and only God, can give us peace. Their punishment therefore is hell tethered into the earth with no one able to hear them, nor understand them, but God; not even others in hell, because they chose a life without Him.

But they will see that God is real and God is Truth, and they will finally be put in a situation where they cannot and will not deny that anymore. Then when the earth is destroyed and God’s Son comes to reign in Zion, those who have turned to loving God, even from hell, will find themselves in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and live in Heaven with Him and His host. The others will be ejected into eternal damnation, the Lake of Fire.

Praise Almighty YHWH ALHYM~

“Then came Peter…

“Then came Peter to Him, and said, ‘Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?’ Jesus saith unto him, ‘I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.'” ~Matthew 18:21-22

This beautiful exhortation regarding forgiveness is made even more divine when we realize that Jesus Christ was speaking out against the ancient practice of the Tribe of the Lamechites to diabolically take revenge seventy-sevenfold, including upon the families of those who would so much as wound them; making modern day gang fighting appear almost like a daily tea.

“Then Lamech [great great great grandson of Cain] said to his wives: ‘…I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-seven fold.'” ~Genesis 4:23-24

Jesus used his short time here as rabbi teaching especially contentious subjects which had either been long standing ancient practice, as seen here, or reasserting God’s Will where it digressed from Mosaic Law, as regarding divorce. Sometimes he clarified word meanings, as when he told a story describing what a ‘neighbor’ was. Almost all of what he chose to discuss with his followers, that we can see in the pages of scripture at least, made some important new point, in direct opposition to what had been the interpreted belief or status quo of that time.

He rocked the ancient world and conservative Jews so much in these ways. Even though He was speaking mostly of love and compassion and forgiveness, and healed incessantly, it was impossible for the Pharisees to equate this message with God’s direct Word and Will. They were so used to assuming God’s Will by reliance on their increasingly tortuous interpretation of the Law.

Not that the Law isn’t important! It is. We are commanded by God, by Jesus, and by the Apostles to keep the Law. But not at the cost of the two greatest commandments.

Genealogy of Jesus

GOD

Adam

Seth

Enosh

Cainan

Mahalaleel

Jared

Enoch

Methuselah

Lamech

Noah

Shem

Arphaxad

Salah

Eber

Peleg

Reu

Serug

Nahor

Terah

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob

Judah

Perez

Hezron

Ram

Amminadab

Nahshon

Salma

Boaz

Obed

Jesse

David

Solomon

Rehoboam

Abijah

Asa

Jehoshaphat

Joram

Uzziah

Jotham

Ahaz

Hezekiah

Manasseh

Amon

Josiah

Jeconiah

Shealtiel

Zerubbabel

Abiud

Eliakim

Azor

Zadok

Achim

Eliud

Eleazar

Matthan

Jacob

Joseph

Jesus

Please notice how there are 10 generations from God to Noah. 10 generations from Noah to Abraham. 10 generations from Judah to David. And 27 generations from David to Jesus.

10 is a divine number in numerology, and when it manifests in scripture it means the ‘1’ GOD, and the circle ‘0’, which is the complete realm of God, as also represented throughout the Pentateuch as 22/7, or pi, 3. Notice how there are 3 groups of 10. This is not a coincidence. 10 was not used as often as some other numbers perhaps, like 40 or 12, or 22/7, but this is probably because it had even more profound sacredness attached to it, as in the 10 commandments. It is God’s number of completion representing the divine. His other number of completion regarding stuff of man or the earth is 7. Everything the Hebrews said and did was laden with meaning, many layers of meaning.

27 is a short-hand for 22/7, which is pi. It also makes the number ‘9’ in numerology, which means completion. Jesus Christ is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end of all things. He was 33 when he died, which is usually considered the last master number in numerology, the highest level of perfection one can achieve. Numerology is important because the Priestly Circle used it to conscript esoteric meaning into things that they wanted only those worthy to see, or those who had ears to hear…

Just wow.

Life [from God] Begins in the Womb, with Conception: Abortion is Another Manifestation of the Abomination of Desolation and the Great Tribulation

God changed Abram and Sarai’s names just at the time that He prepared them to conceive the heir to His everlasting covenant. He changed their names to Abraham, and Sarah. H is the letter ‘Hey’ in the Hebrew alphabet. It means the ‘outbreathing of the Holy Spirit’, and its sound is made by breathing out. We know that God breathed [Genesis 1: 2-3] all creation into being, so it is just a reaffirmation here to us in scripture that His breath going into Abram and Sarai is what made them parents.

“…God talked with him, saying: ‘As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham…Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan….'” [referring with certainty here to the future Isaac, not Ishmael, his son by Hagar]

“Then God said to Abraham, ‘As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her [again!], and she shall be a mother of nations….'” ~Genesis 17:3-5, 8, 15-16

Sarah got double blessings! God blessed her with a son, then he blessed her again by blessing her son.

As God’s breath made a baby within Sarah, it changed her to be a completed woman, represented by the letter hey at the end of the sentence, and because the letter hey at the end of a name makes it feminine. Sarai had been somewhat lacking before, lacking the completeness of womanhood due to being barren.

It is God who gives the breath of life into us to create us. And it is when that breath comes into us, that a woman and a man become parents to a living child, created from the living breath of God. It isn’t when Isaac was born that God changed Abram’s and Sarai’s name, it was at or just before conception–He knew He was going to make them conceive Isaac, therefore the conception was as good as done.

Let no man or woman say that the fetus is not living, or that life does not count until birth. This is blasphemy to God. It is His power alone to give–and take–life. Anything else is murder.

In the case of a pregnancy causing the mother to perish, there is scripture which speaks to this, though it is different that rabbinic literature available. In this case, God allows the young to be taken, that the mother should live. It is Deuteronomy 22, verses 6 and 7: “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.”

Ancient men and women considered animals and eggs as food for themselves. They did not have the luxury we have today of going to the grocery store to restock their larder, nor the luxury to have a multivariate diet. When they happened upon a bird in a nest full of eggs it was like finding a small treasure! It would be normal for an unGodly person to greedily take as much as he could, the mother and the eggs. However, God understands that the mother’s life is more valuable, when young are still in the nest as eggs, or in the womb as a fetus. Therefore, He says to take only the young and leave the mother alone. In this way, the mother can make more young and life can continue. Otherwise, both would perish and life might not continue.

This is the way it is with abortion too. Only if the mother is in danger of perishing, shall the young be taken, so that she may live and produce more young. In every other case, it is murderous to take the young.

Interestingly, this is what will happen in the Great Tribulation; mothers and fathers will eat their own young, and all except God’s chosen ones will perish.

Abortion is therefore a manifestation of the abomination of desolation coming in the Great Tribulation, which is what many so-called ‘first world’ countries are already practicing.

The Image of God

“God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” ~Genesis 1:27

God revealed to me recently that His image is like a cell. The ‘nucleus’ of the cell is where the brightest light and purest essence resides, made up of perfect loving energy inherent with all the qualities we attribute to God.

As we die to our earthly bodies and return to Him, our life force ends up somewhere in this cellular body, and where we land has something to do with being called by Him, and the intent of our actions while here. The sons and daughters of God might end up in the nucleus whilst common man might end up on the darker and farther reaches, more distant from his throbbing warmth; and everyone else falls somewhere in between.

It occurred to me after this revelation that our entire bodies are made up of cells! So in this way we ARE made in God’s image. It isn’t that God has a head and feet and hair, it’s that the building blocks of life remain the same between God and us, and all living things. And that is the simple cell. The unit of life. All life contains carbon as well, and we know that carbon molecules, along with iron and other fundamental metals that exist here on earth also exist in space; and are probably a part of God’s image (makeup) too, a gift from Him to us. Another interesting thought is that the DNA or RNA that exists within our cells and makes us us, might also come directly from God. And it might indeed be encoded with memory, or controlled by God in real-time in some way. Kind of like an invisible lifeline from our Creator to us.

Kind of ominous, isn’t it, to think of God being invisibly in control of our very bodies and minds, of our cells.

In this context, solar systems would be living things as well, because they exhibit cellular qualities, with a central ‘nucleus’ sun, and bodies that are contained near that sun, and are a system (solar) unto themselves. This is because God, at any time, has chosen where and when to create life, as He deems, and at His will.

What is nearly impossible for us as humans to grasp is that God’s image and His essence are one and the same. We are used to separating the physical and the spiritual, but in God’s Realm, there is complete and perfect uniformity and intent.

Why did he create us? Ahh….that is the subject for another post….;)

Genesis, the Decalogue, and the Circle of Life: An Everlasting New Covenant

The Book of Genesis has become my favorite book of the Bible, by far. There is so much wisdom and truth in it. Presented in such a tantalizingly esoteric and artistic way, I am overwhelmed at discovering it all, even though in my ignorance of Hebrew I fall far short of understanding it all properly.

The very beginning of the Bible is a scientifically accurate depiction of creation as we know it. It is in line with old earth creationism, and I have discussed this in a previous post.

But it is also a summation of the cyclical nature of God creating an Eden for us, a Promised Land; how we are exposed to evil, fall away from God with increasing depravity, until He is forced to annihilate us because He is so besotted over our grievous behavior; saving those who are most holy to begin anew, making a New Covenant with us.

I want to discuss the correlation of the Genesis story with the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, which are first expressly laid out in Exodus chapter 20, when God makes a New Covenant with Moses on Mount Sinai.

We will start at the beginning:

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…and all the host of them.”

God is Sovereign Supreme Being

Enter Day 6 of creation, after God had created everything, creatures on the earth, and man…

Genesis 1:28: “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Commandment 2: Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

God is saying that He is above man and man is above creature, so there is NO WAY that creature can be above God. If man does not honor God’s Original Sovereignty, man will be led to commit idolatry.

Genesis 1:31 “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

Commandment 3: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

God is saying that if everything He made is indeed very good, there is no reason to ever use His name in an unholy way. God is always holy. If man commits idolatry, man will also be led to believe God is mere vanity or emptiness.

Genesis 2:2-3 “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”

Commandment 4: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all they work; but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD they God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

God is saying we should work six days, and rest on the seventh because it is a holy day. If man believes God is mere vanity or emptiness, man will not feel the need to honor God’s holiness or holy things.

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Here we have an intermission in the Genesis/commandment correlation. God creates a perfect world for us to live and dwell in with Him. But evil (which was created before man, as creatures were created before man) enters in and man becomes impure,

and falls away from God.

But God still provides for man and cares for him. Then the story proceeds…

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Genesis 4:1 “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the LORD.”

Commandment 5: Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God givith thee.

God is saying that children born to parents should honor them, not dishonor them. If man does not honor God’s holiness or holy things, he will also not honor his own parents.

Genesis 4:8 “Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him.“

Commandment 6: Thou shalt not murder.

God is saying that we should not kill those whom we hate. If a man does not honor his parents, he might also commit murder.

Genesis 4:19 “Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.”[Lamech means warrior or conqueror, and this is the first case of polygamy in the Bible]

Commandment 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

God is saying that to Him polygamy is adultery. If a man is capable of committing murder, he will also desecrate the holy sacrament of marriage.

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Here we have another intermission in the Genesis/Commandment correlation. God sees the increasing depravity of man. Man has now dishonored and murdered within his own family, and with his act of committing adultery,

his sin is starting to spill over into mankind.

Yet God still continues to give him another chance and Adam has a new son, Seth [which means ‘compensation’ in Hebrew]. Then the story proceeds…

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Genesis 6:1-2 “Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God [angels or, likely in this case, fallen angels] saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.”

Commandment 8: Thou shalt not steal.

God is saying that now matter how powerful you are, or alluring the prize, stealing is wrong. If a man commits adultery, he will also be willing to steal from others.

Genesis 6:4 “There were fallen ones on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”

Commandment 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

God is saying that the fallen angels tricked the daughters of men into thinking they were good, so that they would bear them wicked children. If man steals, he will be willing to swear falsely by his neighbor.

Genesis 6:5 “Then God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every thought of the thoughts in his heart was only evil continually.”

Commandment 10: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

God is saying that your wickedness grows until every thought in your heart is bent on evil and attaining your own glory. If man is willing to swear falsely by his neighbor, there is no end to the lengths man will go to make himself more lofty.

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Final intermission. “And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” ~Genesis 6:6

Man has fallen so far away from the beginning, so far from

God is Sovereign Supreme Being

That a rip occurs between man and God because man slips so far from God, and since man cannot exist without God, man is annihilated. However, God saves Noah and his family because Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. God floods the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. 40 is the archaic way to describe circle, because there are 400 radians in a circle. Life, exposed to evil, had come full circle.

Then the story continues…

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So, Commandment 1 stands alone and also brings us back full circle to the beginning. Commandments 2, 3, and 4 are about us and God. Commandments 5, 6, and 7 are about us and our family. And Commandments 8, 9, and 10 are about us and society. As we get further and further from God, sin is like a cancer that spreads and spreads until it has corrupted all of society. This reflects number symbology of 1/3/3/3. Which means One LORD whose realm makes a circle with 3 representing pi: a circle within a larger circle within a larger circle, representing the ripple effect of sin as it transmits from mans’ relationship with God into his family, and finally into society, 3 being coded for often in the Torah (see previous posts).

Finally, we end with Commandment 1: I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

God is saying He will bring those He deems worthy [the Chosen Ones] out of captivity, out of the bondage that we will get ourselves into [time and time again]. All He asks is that we recognize His sovereignty, honor Him, obey Him, and love Him, and if we do this, we will not continue along the slippery slope of sinfulness, where we will inevitably meet our utter destruction.

This is a perpetual covenant which He renews with us over and over.

He is full of grace. And LOVE.

Praise be to God. Amen.

The Seventh Day~

Genesis 2:2-3:

“And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”

Exodus 20:8-11:

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

Isaiah 58:13

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath [watch your step], from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and fed you with the heritage of Jacob your Father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Whether you call the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday, it matters not according to the Bible. What matters is that the things you do honor and glorify God. It’s that simple.

Ways to honor God:

Attending church or meditating on God and His word
Fellowship with other believers
Charity
Breaking bread with family and friends
Praising Him through singing and talking

Ways to dishonor God:

Fraternizing places that employ people on the Sabbath
Home remodeling
Watching television
Glorifying oneself and one’s body
Practicing profanity or sexual immorality

Shalom

~Mary

God is X’s and O’s

Woke up around 0500 and had some insights from God. I will share one with you now. God’s Realm makes up the dark matter/dark energy of the universe. Except

Where heaven is, it’s light, not dark; and where we are, it’s dark, not light.

Something happens in the universe which ‘crosses over’ at a certain point in space-time. I had no idea what until I did a brief search about it.

At the ‘event horizon’ way out in outer space (I think around 16 billion light years away) there is a place that beyond which we cannot see anything anymore and everything essentially becomes invisible to us:

“However, because of the accelerating expansion, it is projected that most galaxies will eventually cross a type of cosmological event horizon where any light they emit past that point will never be able to reach us at any time in the infinite future…As galaxies approach the point of crossing this cosmological event horizon, the light from them will become more and more redshifted, to the point where the wavelength becomes too large to detect in practice and the galaxies appear to disappear completely… One suggests that phantom energy causes divergent expansion, which would imply that the effective force of dark energy continues growing until it dominates all other forces in the universe. Under this scenario, dark energy would ultimately tear apart all gravitationally bound structures, including galaxies and solar systems, and eventually overcome the electrical and nuclear forces to tear apart atoms themselves, ending the universe in a “Big Rip“. On the other hand, dark energy might dissipate with time or even become attractive. Such uncertainties leave open the possibility that gravity might yet rule the day and lead to a universe that contracts in on itself in a “Big Crunch“. Some scenarios, such as the cyclic model, suggest this could be the case. It is also possible the universe may never have an end and continue in its present state forever (see The second law as a law of disorder).” -Wiki on ‘Dark Energy’.

It is also interesting to note that currently dark matter accounts for 26.8%, and dark energy accounts for 68.3% of the force of the universe, making a total of the ‘dark force’ of the universe a whopping 95.1%. Whereas 13.7 billion years ago, we only had 63% dark matter. As dark matter decreases, dark energy increases. Dark energy’s nature, unlike dark matter, is constant and never evolves, but is unchanging.

I induce from this that on our current course, Endtimes are coming. But there also seems to be the possibility, according to science, that God could effect whatever end He wants on us, and even reverse the Endtimes, as described at the end of the preceding quote.

I already proved that God’s Realm makes a circle O, as related in the code and prose of the Bible. But it also appears that the cross X is also a very real sign of His work and way, as related to Jesus’ crucifixion, the physical workings of man (as in how the brain and body cross over), and our universe.

I believe God is saying our actions matter. 🙂

The New Covenant Is Jesus

Originally posted on October 11, 2013

Jesus was created by God, and born under circumstances which promoted him to fulfill the prophecy of many, to become God’s divine Messiah. Messiah is the highest place on the Hierarchy of Holiness. Jesus was the Son of God. A Son of God is a man who is most holy in God’s eyes, and whom comes to deliver a specific message from God to His people, His Chosen Ones.

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, many prophesied about the coming Messiah. This is one of my favorite prophecies in the Book of Jeremiah:

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“That I will raise to David

a Branch of righteousness;

A King shall reign and prosper,

And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

In his days Judah will be saved,

And Israel will dwell safely;

Now this is his name by which he will be called:

The Lord Our Righteousness” ~Jeremiah 23:5-6

The main mission of Jesus was to be the perfect sacrificial lamb to make atonement for our sins, and the sins of the whole world, for all future time. He knew he was destined to die for the sins of the world, probably from a young age. I suspect he studied with scribes and holy men at Wadi Qumran, in a private settlement on top of the mountains overlooking the Dead Sea. This is also where the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and other scrolls were found, as they had apparently been carefully hidden in a dry, remote cave, and safely preserved for thousands of years. Jesus knew his Old Testament well, and quoted it often, as evidenced by the Gospels. He also knew the Law well, and some of my most favorite verses are when he retorts back to the devil’s temptations by directly quoting God’s Law. He was obviously a good Jew.

But he also came to give us a fresh message of who God was, and to clean things up, as a true Prophet. His original Beatitudes and Lord’s Prayer; his counter argument to Moses’ divorce decree; his miraculous healing in God’s name; his cleansing of the temple; and his admonition to men that God’s love was unconditional, and therefore common and good man must not judge his neighbor and stone him to death; were all things that were new and fresh.

Many think incorrectly that the Last Supper scenario illustrated in the Book of John, whereby Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, means something about the master serving the slave, or some other contrived message. It did not mean that. Jesus, knowing the Law well, was performing a necessary cleansing ritual to make his disciples Priests, as outlined in Leviticus (see my post on Laws for God’s People for more details). He removed his clothes (part of the ritual) and said to Peter, when Peter questioned him as to why Jesus was washing his feet,

“What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this…If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.” ~John 13:7,8

Because being clean is very important in God’s Law. Priests must undergo a ritualistic ceremony where they are cleansed, brought into the sanctuary, and atonement is made for them. Then they are deemed worthy to serve God as Priests. The next part of the ritual is to kill the sacrificial beast, bleed it, and sprinkle its blood on the altar (because it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul), burn the fat and part of the animal on the altar for a sweet aroma to the LORD, and finally to eat of part of the meat of the animal, and to enjoy drink offerings, and bread offerings. Jesus knew in a matter of days he was going to become that sacrificial beast, so he was making them worthy by making them Priests in this priestly ceremony of cleansing. And he would follow it up with symbolically having them eat his body as bread, and drink his blood as wine: the Last Supper or the Priestly Ritual:

“This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me…This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.” ~Luke 22:19,20

In this way he was fulfilling all the Law. He would fulfill the Prophets once he died and ascended into heaven. Thus, he uttered,

“It is finished.” ~John 19:30

His disciples are now Priests, because Jesus made them Priests. They will become Apostles once they set out and start preaching God’s message, and the gospel of Christ.

Another place in Jeremiah that prophesied about Jesus unmistakably is entitled “A New Covenant” (Jeremiah 31:31):

“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah–not according to the covenant

that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand

to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband

to them,” says the LORD. ”But this is the covenant that I will make with the house if Israel

after those days,” says the LORD: ”I will put My Law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God,

and they shall be My people….

For they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the

greatest of them,” says the LORD. ”For I will

forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” ~Jeremiah 31:31-34

Jesus is the New Covenant, to us from God. He died for our sins, once and for all. We only need to invoke his name and the memory of his passion and sacrifice for us, with a contrite heart, to be redeemed unto God. Jesus is NOT God. But he is the embodiment of the holiest state man can attain on earth; he is our primary Messiah. He is the way for the whole world to know about God. And God wants this, for Christianity to spread God’s Divine Message and Love, so that every living soul knows God.

Thank You, LORD God for this sacred gift of your beloved Son. Amen.

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