The Gospel of the good news

The good news is what the gospel means but it has lost its meaning over the years for some reason

This is my attempt to reproduce what the apostles original good news was

First and foremost would have been christ is risen

Since the dawn of consciousness man has feared the unknown and far and away the greatest unknown is death and the afterlife. We watch as our loved ones pass on and rest in their graves never to see their faces or hear their voices again, and wonder if we will ever get to see them again or is this life just a a drop of rain in a ocean of time, and just part of  a process of day transitioning to night bringing about a new day but the same day never to be repeated again

But christ brings an answer to this question because he is risen, he defeated death and the grave which means the grave is not our final destination but a pit stop to an eternal reality

With this new found reality of an afterlife comes the question will I be held responsible then for this life?  The answer is yes in that in the eyes of God you are just like a  fruit with seeds that are meant to be sown in order to bear more fruit. This is at the heart and core of everything that he designed and created and we are no different.

This is not speaking about children or reproduction but about spiritual fruit but just like a physical fruit we can corrupt the seeds within us and produce nothing, our life will have been for nothing if we produce no spiritual fruit from it.

So how do we produce spiritual fruit? Well first we must become born again in order to become a spiritual being that is capable of planting and growing our spiritual seed that God gave us and we can only do this by acknowledging our creator who died for us on a cross so that we could be forgiven of the sin that has sterilized us and keeps us from producing spiritual fruit.

In a word we must allow ourselves to be redeemed.   So what does this mean to be redeemed?  In ancient times, it meant that you had failed to repay a debt and had to give your property in exchange for that debt which for those who had no property to give it meant they had to submit themselves or a child into servitude until the debt was repaid, but once the debt was repaid then you were considered redeemed from your debt and yourself or child or property was released and once again free.  In a way your spiritual redemption is similar except for the debt that you have been required to repay you never actually borrowed from a lender or spent on a product or service because it’s not a monetary debt or a one that can be seen or handled, it’s a debt that was aquired and spent by your ancestors a long long time ago and it was in the form and choice of a thing called sin.

It’s very complex and complicated this thing that we call sin but it’s really best described as a seed because once it was planted in the hearts and minds of men it grew like a weed and has not stopped growing and taking over everything that it can and will not stop until there is nothing left.

But this has never changed the fact that we are still the fruit of God and we still contain his seeds that he desires to be planted and to grow the fruit that he intended to be grown from the beggining.

So God created a way for his fruit to still be able to become fruit and not be overtaken and swallowed up by the weeds and he did this by redeeming us from sin

How did he do that? He did it in several ways but two of them are that he proved  to the world that weeds only desire to kill and destroy no matter the reason and they will not stop even if it means destroying their own creator.

And Secondly, he redeemed us by taking on our debt of sin himself and paying the debt in full by paying the price that was required for letting the seed of sin enter into our hearts and minds and corrupt and choke the fruit that God created us to be.

He did this by paying the debt of sin, which is death, but not just a regular death but rather an eternal death in other words a death that lasts for an eternity which is what each of us who have sinned had waiting for us but he took on that debt and paid it for us because he loves us and because he has life within himself, only he could die an eternal death and still become alive again because he is light and the light is life.

This world even the universe has up to this point consisted of a balance between light and dark good and evil but the time is coming when darkness will be expelled forever and those who assisted it will perish with it

This universe was meant to contain light and no darkness and for this reason the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining 1 John 2:8

The Choice Paradox

In the beginning, God created the end
He thought designed planned built and implemented all of it every single aspect of it from the very moment that he spoke the word and the heavens and the earths were created all the way to the very end when he will destroy it and create a new one
Which also means that everything you think and do right now, he already knew you were going to think and do it.
Now wait just a moment and hear me out before you slide down that rabbit hole of what ifs and what’s the point of it all then’s
First off, just because God already knows what you’re going to do does not mean that you are not in control of your choices or life
Your free will is never at stake here
For example, the Hebrews had long been in slavery to the Egyptians before he brought them out as he promised he would
This slavery was all part of God’s plan from the beginning because he warned Abraham
his people would be in bondage for 400 years, and they were.
So, did God force them to go down to Egypt?
Well no
Did he influence their choices so that they would end up in Egypt and eventually slavery? Definitely not
But he did know that the children of Abraham would be hard hearted and prone to self destruction, and that they would need to be humbled before they would be able to listen to him and understand why his way was the right way
so he made provisions for his plans to happen despite their choices
He works around people and their choices in order to implement his plan of salvation to those who will listen to his call
So what choices did Israel make that got them into Egypt in the first place
Well I am sure there were many of them that the Bible does not list because of how much paper it would take to record them but the final one is definitely when they sold their younger brother into slavery because of their jealousy
The irony here being that for selling their brother into slavery they became sold into slavery
So they made their choice when they desired to murder Joseph but instead sold him to a midianite for 20 shekels of silver
Another irony being that the man named moses who brought Israel out of Egypt was also taken in by a midianite when his people rejected him

So is it fair that their children and children’s children suffered because of their choice for 400 years
Was it fair for them to make The choice of selling Joseph?
Can we simply undo the negative outcomes of our choices because they are not fair?
Unfortunately, we can not because the reality is that we make the world in which we live in good or bad because God gave us the free will to make those choices
And those choices are constantly affecting others whether we want them to or not and whether they are fair or not
But because he loves us He continously allows us to make those choices And just like a loving father would he works around our childish irresponsible inconsiderate minds and choices so that we are aware of his presence and his loving hand in our lives even if we don’t want to see him or admit it
I will now quickly summarize what happens to the Hebrews next
after 400 years God leads the children of Israel out of Egypt and punishes the pharoh for enslaving them and making himself to be god and trusting in idols of the sun and hosts of heaven instead of the very Real God that brought fire down from heaven and great plauges that represented the very same supposed powers and attributes of each of the gods they worshiped as definitive proof that their gods where not real and not goin to save them
And if they did not humble themselves and repent and let the Israelites go, the real God would destroy them in their choice
But their pride would not let them
They chose God’s wrath instead of his mercy, and they suffered judgment because of their choice
The Israelites were led out by God into the wilderness by a whirlwind of fire that then rested on a holy mountain and spoke to the people to give them his commandments and teach them go walk in his ways
But they were afraid and did not want to communicate directly with God
They had been freed of their physical bondage but they were still slaves to their
Spiritual bondage, hard hearts, and free will
They still chose not to submit and trust in their God who had chosen them and performed all of these wonders and miracles
They bitterly resisted his instructions and Love and chose to worship idols and eventually sacrificed their own children to the many false gods of the land that God had given them
They failed to even realize or understand that these wicked people that had overtaken the promised land while they were in Egypt
Where placed there by the devil himself for the specific purpose of either destroying the Israelites, breeding them out, or polluting their religion and worship
He instructed them to completely destroy the tribes of ham that sacrificed their children under the large green trees and statues of baal and asherah or placed their children in the open arms of the idol molech while a fire in his belly slowly burnt them to death
He told them to completely wipe them out because they were evil and represented evil Their entire purpose was to destroy Israel
Many times the Israelites didnt even have to fight for themselves, God simply drove out the giants and cannanites by bees and fear

Even after all of this they slowly incorporated the worship of both God and baal into one system in order to appease all of the gods
And all of the people in the land, but that simply means they never let love truth and doing what is right become part of their understanding and choices of why it is best to choose good and not evil
To choose God and not satan the ruler of this world
But God already knew that they would do all of this.
Why? Why would God choose these people knowing that they were only going to abandon him and worship other gods anyway
There is realy only one answer that makes any sense and it is because he loves them
He is forever a father that will not abandon his children no mater how rebellious and prodigal they become, that included you and me
So he once again worked his plan of salvation around the mistakes of his children and used it for good
They made him jealous by turning to other gods so he would make them jealous by choosing other people
He used their Wickedness to reveal himself to the gentiles And in doing so a people that he did not call would choose him
Ultimately this is what it comes down to is that God wants us to choose him.
Willingly and freely choose him and he has literally moved heaven and earth to allow for us to be part of his plan from the very beggining so that all of his fruit that he planted from the beggining will grow and produce fruit like he wanted us to
This is why he chose Abraham to be the father of his chosen people because Abraham chose God over his fathers idols
And the many gods of egypt and Mesopotamia
This is why God chose Noah to be the one to save a remnant of the children of Adam because Noah chose God over the Wicked and self serving lustfull generation that ruled in his day and corrupted all of the earth
This is why God chose Moses to lead his people out of Egypt to freedom because Moses had been raised as royalty and was taught both of the many gods of egypt and the one God of Abraham and even though the many gods of egypt appeared to provide wealth and a life of ease and luxury
The one God of Abraham seemed to only provide hard labor and hunger in bondage
Moses seen their affliction and recognized the truth despite adversity and chose the God of abraham he chose the truth over a lie
But some of us are very hard headed and hard hearted and refuse to listen to the truth Those people are the new Israelite sold into slavery because of our forefather choices and paying the price for their mistakes
But every single day God has provided a way for us to be led out slavery and into his promised land of Love and fellowship with him in his Light if we will only submit to him by having faith that he knows what is best for us. Instead of continuing to think that we know what is best for ourselves
In God I trust I hope you will one day to
But we are running out of time for you to make that choice because once again
The peoples of the world are in slavery
Spiritual and material slavery and once again God already made a plan for our rescue and will lead us out of bondage and into his promised land but this time The promised land is heaven and Egypt will be utterly destroyed and all of its people punished and tormented for eternity
Don’t be one of those people
Abandon your idols and your Pharoahs
Recognize the cannanites and distractions of the wicked one in your life who’s sole purpose is to seperate you from God and leave you in a constant state of confusion
And come to the realization that the murder of the innocent is what this world will be judged and condemned for
There is nothing more innocent then a child because ” of such is the kingdom of heaven”
No matter how you justify it, it is still murder and no beter then placing the child in the burning arms of molech

There is only one God and his son Yeshua the messiah, Jesus who died in our place for the sins we all have committed
We all put him on that cross every one of our sins a nail that we drove in
But God knew from the beggining that we would would make these choices and have to be redeemed
So he made a plan from the very beggining that he himself would come down and fellowship with us and give his life for us to show how much he loves us and that if any of us is truly lost in the end it will be because of our choice not his
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 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.


We to often forget or don’t fully understand that God does not exist in time he is outside and beyond time because he created time
He has already watched all of this play out and already seen all of our sins and failures
He has already won against evil time is simply being allowed to play out
Because he loved us so much that he chose to allow us to make these choices so that he could show us in the end why we must chose him and the truth instead of removing our free will and choice and being the parent that said “no, because I said so”

Jesus said it best in Luke 10:20
Do not rejoice that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Which is another way of saying do not take pride in the fact that you are defeating them
But be exceedingly happy because it means that you had already made the right choice and won before it even happened.
This also means that if you feel the holy spirit moving in your life and convicting you of your sins then you also should rejoice because it means that you still have a choice.
You are not so lost and out of time that you are no longer his child or have his loving hand behind you at all times to help you see him
But every day you still have to make the right choice and choose him because he will not make you

Will we see them in heaven

Will our pets go to heaven with us?

Traditionally the answer is no, but I am not a Traditional person so I will give a very untraditional answer of a most definitely, and without a doubt yes they have and do go to heaven and I will follow it with a very untraditional explanation of why.

I have been a pet owner all of my life and I have never viewed or treated my pets as an object or treated them as pets.

I have always let them grow and develop into their own little unique and individual personalities and loved them for their strengths and their weaknesses just as they have loved me without conditions, and yes I can say without a doubt that my furry, finned and feathered family members have truly loved me because through my example of showing them love they have learned what love is.

The reason I know they have learned to love me and why is because I have studied the bible and many other books and developed a much deeper understanding of our relationship with God and what his original plan for us was before it got detoured into this terrible experience of separating the wheat from the chaff so to say
The good from the evil
The Abel’s from the Cain’s

In the beggining as in the book of Genesis beggining, God created man to in his image as in to have the ability to have understanding and forethought and have a desire to create and grow things and share his love with others.
God loved and cared for man and provided for him all that he needed he only asked that he in turn care for the animals and the garden.
You could say that this is a circle of Love that was meant by design for love to be shown to others who then show love to lesser beings and creatures until eventually the love is returned back to God who first gave it because God is Love and thereby the creator and first source of Love.

God because he is Love did what love does which is to not be selfish but selfless and shared his love by creating a universe capable of life and love by sharing a part of himself so that by the continual giving and returning of love the circle would not become stagnant and die but be alive with life and complete with love.

That all sounds pretty hippie I know
But part of answering the question of do animals go to heaven involves understanding that everything is part of God and his energy, spirit and love.
I don’t pretend to know or understand what part of himself he used to create us and everything we see
I only know for certain that it traces back to his spirit of love.
We are all created by a perfect creator a perfect source of the beggining of love but we are not perfect, we are quite imperfect but through experience and relationships we become better and better everyday when we allow love to pass through us and on to the next person and especially when it is to a lesser creature such as a pet.

Jesus gave us the perfect example of this in his life and eventual self sacrifice at the cross.
His life was the ultimate living example of humility and love because as the Son of God he was more important than anyone who ever lived and yet instead of becoming a king and ruler and demanding power and authority over all lesser beings, he became the servant to his own creation and showed them his example of love by taking their sickness upon himself and by doing so healing them of their infirmities, and then taking on our very sins upon himself at his execution on a cross that was the creation of the very men whom he created.
The creator himself allowed his own creation to disgrace and murder him with the ultimate example of shame and pain of his time which was to be nailed naked to a tree that men shaped into a cross for the sole purpose of displaying the punishment of a slow and painfull death for all to see and remember forever.
He could have destroyed them instantly or in the very least put them on a cross to suffer the same fate as he did but he didn’t
Instead he transformed that cross of sin and shame into the cross of
Glory and Grace an everlasting symbol and sign of the unfathomable love of God
By dying an eternal death in our place and paying the price for us that was required of sin which is death eternal.
Yep it sounds complicated
How did Jesus die an eternal death for us in our place but be resurrected again.
He actually explained it in John 10:17-18
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

Even if we do not fully understand his sacrifice for us we are expected to at least follow in his example which was to love and serve others especially those less fortunate then us, and by doing so we share the love that God freely gave to us so that they can in turn learn from it and share love with others.

Jesus gave many parables about this very subject of being humbled and the master being the servant of those who are lesser because this is a requirement of love and being selfless.
Just as God created man to be more Intelligent and capable then animals, It was man’s responsibility to care for them and to teach them love through example by serving them instead of being selfish and making them serve us.

It’s unfortunate that the opposite of God’s plan is what we have done and continue to do with the entire world and it’s creatures but we are unfortunately stuck on this path of sin and selfishness until it leads to our own demise from self destruction.

Animals unfortunately are the innocent who suffer because of our choices and the world we have created
But no matter what we do or believe we can not change the fact that all energy and mater came from God and will return to God in the end, we are powerless to change this
This includes animals both wild and pets.

But what we can change is that by sharing our life and love with animals we form a bond with them that God intended for all of his creation to share  and when we do so we allow them to become a part of our journey and experience  to completing the circle of Love that leads back to God.

The Father who is God loved the Son who is Jesus who loved us enough to save us from death by sharing his love and giving up his life as proof of that love.
They would not deny us the bond that was formed with another of his creations that we shared his love with.

So yes our pets that we truly loved unsefishly and bonded with we will see again in heaven

Hope this has helped any who were genuinely seeking and answer to this question.

There are not very many examples of scripture that pertain to animals or pets in heaven but here are a few for reference.

Isaiah 11:5-7
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Revelation 19
11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 
And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.

What Is Truth

What Is Truth?

As a fellow seeker of truth I can only speak from what I have learned.
First off let me just say I am not approaching this with a religious agenda because I have no agenda or affiliation with any group of people because I have learned to not categorize myself into an existing or established school of thought about spiritual experience or knowledge.
Rather I consider myself to be an individual spirit seeking the way and path that leads to the truth that is illuminated for all to see by the light
yet is constantly veiled to the observer by the darkness that attempts to pervert and overpower both the truth and the light.
It is an unwinnable battle fueled by pride and selfishness against the ordained before time even began Victor, who is the ultimate expression of humility and love through selflessness that God chose to embody in the person who became born as a human mortal named Yeshua or Jesus.
It is in this simple yet exponentially deep and complicated choice to be born as a mortal and allow himself to be destroyed by his own creation that holds the truth and makes it available for all who seek it.
An omnipotent creator dying knowing that he can regenerate himself is not proof of anything accept that the master of all powers humbled himself to the ultimate shame and became the servant to his own creations even though they hated him. No greater example of humility and love has ever been provided as proof that pride and selfishness only leads to death and murder.
Yet man has from the dawn of time chosen to ignore this truth and set up systems of religion and good deeds, works of mans ego and hands that he believes can save his soul despite his sinfull nature.
It is a futile effort because man can not redeem himself by taking confidence in himself or his accomplishments no matter how noble they may be, he must release all hate and humiliation to the sands of time to be washed away and abandon manifest destiny, to the fathers will and not my will be done destiny.
This reality was portrayed in the aligorical text of cain and Abel.
cain thought his hard work and labor should be enough to earn redemption.
Abel knew he was powerless to redeem himself and only gave of his flock to the LORD as a sign of his repentance and future redemption.
But cain refusing to humble himself became enraged as though it was a contest and had nothing to do with the release of his heart towards pride.
He killed his brother the first of the prophets and established the cycle that man still struggles with today because they would rather the lie in order to remain selfish then the truth that requires submission.
The truth no matter how plainly it is presented, is difficult to find when one is blinded because of the veil imposed by the powers that be.
The lie is always readily available in many many forms and is easy to hear and find, it is the truth that is hard to find and requires diligent seeking, but to those who do seek it is promised they will find.



“What is truth” ?
To quote Pontius Pilot response to Jesus in John 18:38 when Jesus said that he was born so that everyone who seeks the truth would hear his voice
Pilot replied “What is truth”
To Pilot the truth involved a chaotic pantheon of gods fighting for control and power over the heavens by breeding from incest or mixing with humans.

It’s complicated
But as best as I can describe it from all of the ism’s and ist’s I have studied the truth is mirrored on earth in subtle but deep and profound ways, but the interpretation is varied depending on the observer.
As In heaven so on earth
As above so below
The ancients understood this concept and that’s why their mythos and stories are almost always based on the movement of the planets and the shapes of the stars as creatures and people entangled in epic showdowns over power and control.
It’s easy to look back at all of these ancient inscriptions and glyphs and think that they must have been on to something for them to have knowledge of the 26,000 year astrological ages
The Babylonian/Assyrian creation myths that share many themes with the bible

Or the native American oral tradition of man being saved from the enslaving serpents or dragons of inner earth by the thunderbirds in the sky that defended them with lightning and thunder when man came out of the earth and onto the surface after the great flood and ice age.

So how do we find the truth amongst all of the history and noise?
Don’t obsess about the details and keep an open mind to the larger picture and you will come to the same conclusions as me.

1. There is a creator.
2. Nothing is by accident.
3. The universe and the earth is old
4. Time was created for this experience.
5. All beings both heavenly and of earth are required to seek and find the creator through experience and relationships.
He has not made himself or his plans for the future or the history of the past known to anyone.
6. All beings both heavenly and of earth are required to be servant and teachers to lesser beings by design.
For example angels were created higher then man but must be ministers and servants to man just as man was created to have authority over animals but must learn to teach and serve them in order to help them grow.
7. This master humbled to the servant requirement got abandoned at some point over pride and selfishness, and the subsequent test and lesson has been allowed to continue because of free will.
8. The powers that began this fall because of selfishness have decided that assimilation of all others is the only way to triumph over the light, part of this plan apparently involved cross breeding between higher beings and lesser beings such as angels and women which created a new level of chaos and made sex and lust a prevailing temptation and stumbling block to all.
9. At some point man had to learn of the self evident creator, the God of love and relationships but instead chose to define him based on the chaos of nature and the stars in the sky, which lead to the babylonian style ego of let us become our own gods and rule over our fellow men.
10. The various variations of this confusion about history, mythology and religion that dictates who God is and what God desires from us, will culminate In all the world turning against each other and our own inevitable self destruction, in which the powers of darkness will capitalize on the chaos and confusion and present themselves to the world as the true gods and only require submission to their system of order by forcing the submission of others.
A parallel of the exact opposite of the true creator God who only desires the display of love by serving others.

The truth is out there and if it does not point toward Love and Light then it is of the dark and the enemy who is the serpent,dragon,cain,ham,nimrod,saul,
judas
Shadows and types
All hints to the story of the truth. keep on seeking it.

The Truth is hidden in the name of the LORD YHWH In the old testament.
Which means several things all at the same TIME.

I Am the one being
I Am self existent or I have life in myself
I exist now and have always existed
I Am the first and the last, the Aleph and the Tav.

Y. H. W. H. =Translates into
Yod. Hey. Waw. Hey = which means
Hand Behold Nail Behold

He is the hand that built the house
He is the nails that hold it together
He is the man who sacrificed his body and his life by being nailed to a tree so that through him we could be reunited with him once more.

Are You Abel

Are you Cain or are you Abel?

You can learn a mountain of things from  chapter 4 of Genesis.
But the most important things to learn from it I will briefly summarize

The wording in verses 1 and 2 of Eve conceiving and then bore Cain and then bore again Abel without a second reference to conception seems to indicate that they were twins because they were born in the same conception.

Cain the firstborn became a farmer which requires hard work and labor because of a cursed ground due to his mother and fathers actions.

Abel the younger became a herder of sheep which required no hard labor because the livestock was not cursed as the ground was, but it did require a heart and desire to protect the weak from the strong and the diligence to do it continually.

Hiding under these text when we unpack them all, we have an older prideful brother who thinks of himself wise enough to subdue the cursed ground and overpower the thorns and the thistles because he believes that his hard work and effort can overcome the curse of the ground and force fruit to grow where it would not have grown without his wisdom and effort.
By his hands alone he would produce a crop worthy as an offering of fruits to the LORD.

Where as the younger humble and simple shepherd understood that he was powerless to subdue anything, and instead put his trust and faith in God to protect him as he had protected his sheep.

Abel understood that he was powerless to redeem himself and offered to God a sacrifice of his livestock that he did no hard labor to raise and produce but instead had faith that God would provide for him the forgivness and redemption that he was incapable of providing for himself by his own effort and labor.

But Cain feeling that his work and effort justified his sacrifice and should have earned him redemption and favor over his brother created the path for him to become jealous when God was pleased with Abel’s sacrifice of faith and not his own of hard work .

All of this goes hand in hand with the age old argument of is salvation through faith or works.
Faith without works is indeed dead because it produces nothing that demonstrates the presence of faith for others to see and cause faith to grow.
For example Abel did not need to offer a sacrifice at all he could have only had faith that God would redeem him but he chose to demonstrate his faith by offering a sacrifice that was symbolic of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus in order to redeem us and save us from the eternal death that was required of sin.
But at the same time the thinking that works can save you or earn you favor with God is taking on the mind and heart of Cain which is a most dangerous thing and can only produce evil fruits from a cursed ground because it will always involve pride in one’s heart as Cains did.

Yep, its very complicated but this is the first time that this simple truth was displayed and it deserves our study and contemplation and eventual understanding to the fullest that we are capable because the end results of this error of pride in our works and ourself is displayed in the next verses of 5-8 when even after the LORD warned Cain that the spirit of evil and sin was trying to trap him and rule over him and that he must recognize it and regain control of himself and rule over sin instead, he did not heed this warning and instead let his anger and jealousy grow until he eventually plotted against and killed his brother.

Murder of the innocent is the underlying theme of the entire bible so we would do well to take this first example of it to heart because it is the event that set the stage for all of the following murders of the innocent to come and it would be a huge mistake to not attach to it the spirit of evil that was behind setting Cains heart against his brother.
This spirit of evil that was described in verse 7 as lying in wait at the door is the devil or satan himself.
Many people miss the association between the serpent and satan but Revelation 12:9 is quite clear that the serpent is the dragon and satan they are one and the same in spirit and purpose.
Just as the serpent plotted to destroy God’s plans for man by tricking man into killing himself by eating from the tree of knowledge that God warned would cause their death.
The very same serpent was responsible for causing Cain to grow prideful and angry and kill his innocent brother, because satan believed that through Abel might come Gods plan for the salvation and redemption of man.
So once again he set out to destroy man and Gods plans for him, but this time he did not embody the form of a visible serpent but as a spirit of evil, by speaking through Cain’s pride and confusion instead.

To be clear and avoid any possible confusion, the devil and his spirits can not make anyone do anything but just as he lied to Eve to convince her to eat from the tree, he can also lie to other people to convince them that they are not good, not worthy and that God doesn’t care about them.
Whether they listen to him and take his lies to heart instead of rebuking him with the words of God that burn him like fire and send him running like a beast aflame, is a choice that they make.

By choosing to listen to his pride and anger, a voice which was whispered to him by the devil himself.
And allowing the voice to grow to the point of plotting and then carrying out the murder of his brother.
It could be said that Cain just as the serpent in the garden became the embodiment of satan himself when he carried out the murder of innocent Abel.
Which would appear to be evident when the father of lies would decieve and  convince Cain to lie even to God himself when the LORD asked him where his brother was in verse 9
A lie which could not be hidden because even the blood itself cried out to him from the ground.

The death of Abel was not just the death of a single man but his life and blood carried with it every possible potential for those who would have been born from countless generations that had now been reduced to blood soaking into the ground and crying out to the LORD because of the tragedy of this loss of life never to be realized all due to the actions of one man and his pride.
The result of which is now that not only would the ground be cursed but Cain himself would be cursed from the ground. A meaning which carries much deeper implications then simply farming.

God did not punish Cain with immediate death but allowed him a chance to repent and learn from his mistake, and he set a protective mark on him so that others would not take vengeance on him.
But this very same spirit of evil was very quick to take this as something to exploit as later portrayed by Lamech who also killed a man but declared himself as being justified and beyond punishment or retaliation.
This same line of thinking no doubt led to the eventual self justification that allowed for men and their hearts to become so wicked that God destroyed them and the earth with a flood.
And again when the pharoh of Egypt enslaved the children of Israel and began to murder their infant sons by casting them into the Nile river but God destroyed pharoh with a flood.
Even the israelites themselves fell victim to this great deception of satan when they began to sacrifice their own children to the canaanite gods.

The meaning behind this one chapter of the bible that very briefly tells us of Cain and the murder of his innocent brother Abel has so many countless layers of meaning to it
But by far the most important of them is that the murder of the innocent because of the spirit of evil and pride and jealousy is exactly what was done to Jesus the son of God himself.
He was Abel and Judas was Cain
He was Abel and the priests were Cain
He was Abel and the Romans were Cain
He was Abel and we who sin and allow sin to continue to overpower our hearts and rule over us without changing and seeking forgivness from the only one who died for us so that we could be forgiven
Those all are Cain
So everyday you should ask yourself am I living my life as an Abel or am I living my life as a Cain?
Because one day will be the last day for you to decide and if you chose to be a Cain then mercy will no longer be offered to you because all of the murders of the innocent from the wrath of the father who’s innocent you murdered will be upon you without an end.

You are able to change
You are not cursed to be a Cain
You are Able to become an Abel
The choice is and was always yours and the father who loves you as he loves his own son wants you to chose him and not the devil who wants to see you suffer with him.

The Passover Seder Is Jesus

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

This is the scene of Jesus with his disciples as they celebrate the passover meal together in a solemn and expecting manner, knowing that Jesus would soon be captured and killed because he had warned them before they came to Jerusalem that it would happen.

What most Christians don’t know is that every aspect of this meal was according to the Jewish customs and traditions that had already been performed and celebrated for 1400 years before Jesus, however this passover meal is different in that the jews had faithfully repeated these rituals of washing hands breaking bread and drinking wine without ever knowing the true meaning behind them,

To them they were all simply symbolic of the passover meal in Egypt before they were freed from slavery and nothing more,  but on this passover night, Jesus who would have been the head of the house because he was the teacher with his students, it was his responsibility that each part of the passover meal be explained as it was performed so that they could reflect on the meaning behind each action and the reason they celebrate the passover when God delivered them from Egypt.

But Jesus performed and explained this meal a little bit differently and instead of washing their hands as was tradition he began to wash their feet, and this is why the action was met with shock by Peter because the master of the house would not be washing anyone’s feet

Jesus then took the traditional three pieces of Matzah bread that are seperated and folded up in one single cloth and broke the middle piece in half which was symbolic to the jews of when the LORD parted the red sea, accept Jesus did not tell this story as he broke it, instead he said these words

“Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

You have to take a moment to fully appreciate what is happening here in order to understand the significance of this moment and what he is requesting.

All of us grow old and grow up, we simply have to because life involves being responsible and taking on responsibility means we have to deal with other adults on their level in order to be accepted and taken seriously, but everyone still has those moments from their childhood that they remember fondly that when something happens or someone says something to invoke the memory of it we are instantly transported back in time to a child like state when the world wasnt complicated and filled with hard choices and adult responsibilities.    This is exactly the same emotion from childhood Every single one of these men reclining at their tables would remember and understand in their tradition of the passover meal and the meaning behind each step of it because it was celebrated every year without fail in the spring of passover week. But Jesus is telling them from now on when you break this bread and eat of it remember that the reason for it is because of me and my body, which is about to be broken for you

But that is not all, only half of that middle piece of bread is broken up and distributed to the passover guests to eat with bitter herbs

The other half is hidden for the children to find at the very end of the passover meal, which immediately brings to mind the verse spoken by Jesus in three separate instances that was meant to recall the child like mind and heart that they all experienced searching for the hidden piece of bread at the passover meal

John 7:34 You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come.”

John 13:33
Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come

Matthew 18:3.  “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

As well as in

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

So the first part of the breaking of the bread was now given a new meaning to his disciples, it represented his body which was broken in half and given to them just as the Manna was given to the children of Israel in the desert

But what about hidding the other half of the bread till the end of the passover? What did it symbolize?

There are several different outcomes of the broken Matzah bread that could take place during a traditional passover meal so the events could or would be slightly different each year.

One of them is the children could steal the bread and then require the leader of the passover meal to redeem the piece of bread in order to get it back by exchanging a small gift for it

But for the most part the middle matzah bread is broken in half and then wrapped in a cloth and hidden until the end of passover where it is then found and removed from the cloth broken up and given to everyone as a desert.

Matzah is unleavened bread so it is very similar to a cracker except the way it is rolled and cooked gives it a stripped appearance as well as pierced with small holes like a cracker.

“But He was pierced because of our transgressions, He was crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5). TLV translation

They would have understood this piece of bread to represent the passover lamb because at the time of the babylonian invasion and captivity the jews were not able to afford or properly sacrifice the passover lamb so the middle piece of bread became a substitute for the lamb.

So by Jesus telling the disciples that he represents this piece of Matzah bread that is broken and distributed as a meal and then hidden in a piece of cloth and brought back out, they may not have understood it in this moment when he said it but afterward during every following passover they would have immediately understood that this hidden bread that later was found  by the children represented his death and resurrection.

After eating the afikoman (the hidden matzah bread) no other food is allowed to be eaten during passover only two cups of wine at the very end of the meal one to symbolize the LORD redeeming them by the blood of the passover lamb and the last as the celebration of the passover itself and the hope and expectation of celebrating the next years passover with the Messiah who is christ Jesus.

The Redeemer

Verse excerpts from the book of Job
Chapters 4-13

1“Call now is there anyone who will answer you?
And to which of the holy ones (angels) will you turn?

9“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul .

12“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

17“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?
And that You are concerned about him?

20“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You, O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?

21“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my sin and guilt?

Job chapters 14-18

1“Man who is born of woman
Is of few days and full of trouble.
2He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

3“You also open Your eyes upon him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.

4“Who can make a clean thing out of the unclean? No one!

5“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You [in Your control],
And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].

6“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

7“For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].

8“Though its roots grow old in the earth
And its stump dies in the dry soil,

9Yet at the scent of water [the stump of the tree] will flourish
And bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.

10“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?

11“As water evaporates from the sea,
And a river drains and dries up,

12So man lies down and does not rise [again].
Until the heavens are no longer,
The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.

13“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

14“If a man dies, will he live again?
I will wait all the days of my struggle
My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.

10“They have gaped at me with their mouths,
With contempt they have struck me on the cheek;
They massed themselves together [and conspired] against me.

11“God hands me over to criminals
And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

18“O earth, do not cover my blood,
And let there be no [resting] place for my cry [where it will cease being heard].

19“Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven,
And my Advocate [who vouches and testifies for me] is on high.

20“My friends are scoffers [who ridicule];
My eye pours out tears to God.

21“Oh, that a man would mediate and plead with God [for me]

Just as a man [mediates and pleads] with his neighbor and friend.

22“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return

Job  chapters 19-32

19“All the men of my council hate me;
Those I love have turned against me.

20“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh

21“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.

22“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

23“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!

24“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!

25“For I know that my Redeemer and  Vindicator lives,

And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.

26“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],

Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

27Whom I, even I, will see for myself,

And my eyes will see Him and not another!

My heart faints within me.

28“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’

29“Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves,
For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,
So that you may know there is judgment.”

5“The spirits of the dead tremble
Underneath the waters and their inhabitants.

6“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,
And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

12“He stirred up the sea by His power,
And by His understanding He smashed [proud] Rahab.

13“By His breath the heavens are cleared;
His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent.

Job chapters 33-38
Elihu speaks

The Spirit of God has made me,

And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

5“Answer me, if you can;

Set yourselves before me, take your stand.

6“Behold, I belong to God like you;

I too was formed out of the clay.

He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction],

And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

19“Man is also disciplined with pain on his bed,

And with unceasing complaint in his bones,

21“His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,

And his bones which were not seen now stick out.

22“Then his soul draws near to the pit [of destruction],

And his life to those who bring death (the destroyers).

23“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

24Then the angel is gracious to him, and says,

‘Spare him from going down to the pit [of destruction];

I have found a ransom [a consideration, or reason for redemption, an atonement]!’

25“Let his flesh be restored and become fresher than in youth;
Let him return to the days of his youthful strength.

26“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,
So that he looks at His face with joy;
For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God–with its joys].

27“Then He shall cry out to other men,
‘I have sinned and perverted that which was right,
And it was not repaid to me!

28‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],
And my life shall see the light.’”

29 “Behold, God does all these things  twice, yes, three times, with a man,

30To bring his life back from the pit [of destruction],
That he may be enlightened with the light of the life.

5“Look to the heavens and see;

And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.

6“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?

And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

7“If you are righteous, what do you give God,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

8“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,
And your righteousness affects only a son of man.

10“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,

11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth

And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

12“The people cry out, but He does not answer
Because of the pride of evil men.

13“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

14“Even though you say that you do not see Him
Yet your case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

15“And now, because He has not [quickly] punished in His anger,

16 Job uselessly opens his mouth
And multiplies words without knowledge [drawing the worthless conclusion that the righteous have no more advantage than the wicked].

He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone

6“He does not prolong the life of the wicked,
But gives the afflicted their justice.

10“He opens their ears to instruction and discipline,
And commands that they return from evil.

11“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness and joy.

12“But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God’s destructive judgments]
And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge.

13“But the godless in heart store up anger [at the divine discipline];
They do not cry [to Him] for help when He binds them [with cords of affliction].

15“He rescues the afflicted in their affliction,
And opens their ears [so that they pay attention to His voice] in times of oppression.

17“But you [Job] were full of judgment on the wicked,
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

18“Do not let wrath entice you into scoffing;
And do not let the greatness and the extent of the ransom turn you aside.

21“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,

For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.

The Man Who Washed The LORD’s Feet

Genesis 18:3-4
My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Did Abraham know and understand the significance of these two verses when he spoke them?
Did he know that 2000 years later Jesus would return the gesture of his friend and humble servant Abraham by washing the feet of men at the passover supper before he would be hung on a tree and rest for three days

John 13:6-7
Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”
Jesus answered and said to him, 
“What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”

John 8:56
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”

Genesis 18:17   And the  Lord said,  “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing“

It’s possible that Abraham did understand that this simple offer to wash the LORD’S feet and provide a meal while they rested was ordained and meant to happen and that the symbolism of his kindness would reverberate across time and space until it’s eventual fullfilment in the last supper and the cross.

The wording of the scriptures throughout chapter 18 of Genesis seems to call attention to the parallels that would happen first in Exodus 12 with the passover Lamb, and then later in all four of the gospels in the fullfilment of the passover ritual when Jesus became the passover Lamb whose blood would cause the wrath of God to pass over us.

Exodus 12:13
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you

Genesis 18:5-6
I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by,

They said, “Do as you have said.”

So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.

Bread or cakes can not be made quickly with yeast because it would have needed hours to rise so this would have been unleavened bread that Sarah prepared and cooked for this meal in a hurry
Which is paralleled again in

Exodus 12:39 
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait

Jesus also gave a reference to this moment of Sarah making bread in

Matthew 13:33
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”


Just as the washing of the feet of the LORD by Abraham was returned in kind by the LORD washing the feet of his disciples
So to was the offering of bread by Abraham returned with the offering of the true bread given to men which is the Word of God made flesh in the man who was Jesus.

Luke 22:19
He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

John 6:48-58 
I Am the bread of life, which I shall give for the life of the world
“This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead.
He who eats this bread will live forever.”

John 6:4-13 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him

Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.  So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” Therefore they gathered  them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. 

Jesus is the same LORD who appeared to Abraham beneath the oak tree and had his feet washed and ate what would become the symbol of the passover meal of unleavened bread and passover Lamb that was sacrificed in order to spare God’s people from death and bring them out of slavery.

John 8:57-58
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”


So why is all of this symbolism of the passover in this one chapter of Genesis 18 but not the passover lamb?
After all, Abraham prepared a calf for the meal, not a lamb

It’s because Isaac, the promised son soon to be born who would later symbolically represent the sacrifice of Jesus and the passover lamb, had finally been conceived in the womb of Sarah.

Genesis 18:14
At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

“The time of life”  is meant to describe in the season of spring which later became the time of passover.

Isaac became the symbolic representation of Jesus and the passover lamb when Abraham once again obeyed a command of God that seemed like he understood its historical and symbolic significance when God asked him to bring Isaac to Mount Moriah and offer him there as a sacrifice.
Abraham never questioned or doubted this unusual command because he understood that God always has a plan and that his faith in the promise of God to make Isaac into more offspring then the stars was a part of that plan. 

Genesis 22:6  So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. 

John 19:17 And Jesus, bearing His cross, went up to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him.

When Isaac asked Abraham,
Father, where is the lamb?
Abraham replied  “My Son, God will provide for Himself the Lamb.

God stopped Abraham before he could complete his command because this was only a display of Abraham’s faith as a testament pointing to the future when Mount Moriah would later become Jerusalem where Solomon would build the temple and Jesus the Son of God would become the Lamb that God provided to be sacrificed on a tree.

The place where Jesus was hung on the tree was directly above the garden tomb of Joseph of Arimathea where Jesus was laid for three days before he rose from his rest.
Pointing once again to that 4th verse in
Genesis 18:4 when Abraham said to the LORD
Wash your feet and rest yourself under the tree.

This may all seem like inference or conjecture on my part and is simply coincidence, but let me ask a question, and then I will leave it up to you to decide what it is.

Later, in chapter 18, verses 23-33
Abraham pleads with the LORD to spare Sodom if there is at least 10 righteous people found in the city.

So why did he not ask for 4, which would have accounted for Lot his wife and 2 daughters.
Or 6, which would have added in his 2 sons in law?
why 10?

Once again, this is a symbol pointing towards the passover but not of Sodom or of Egypt because they were both destroyed, but rather the passover on the day of the death of the true passover Lamb that God provided for us all who is Jesus.
And on that day, the wrath of God was kindled towards men because they had denied his son in their hearts and instead hung him on the cross.

Matthew 27:45-54
Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, 
“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, “This Man is calling for Elijah!” Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink.

The rest said, “Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to save Him.”

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.

Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”

God could have destroyed the whole world on that day that they crucified his only son instead of accepting him into their hearts and he would have been justified in doing so.
But he didn’t for two reasons
One because he already knew that they would do this and that is why the blood of the passover Lamb became a covenant promise to the jews that when God seen the blood of the innocent lamb he would passover them.
And two, because of Abraham’s plea with God to spare them if he found at least 10 righteous in the city.
So how do we know that there were 10 righteous in the city?
Actually, there was one more than 10
There were 12 disciples. One had betrayed Jesus and then killed himself (judas)
The other had denied him three times (peter), but that didn’t stop him from being his disciple.
So there were at least 11 righteous in the city that caused God’s wrath and judgment to passover as Abraham requested.
But a day is coming when there will be no more righteous to hold back God’s wrath and the earth will be punished like Sodom and Egypt.
But then on that promised day we will all get to hear Abraham himself tell us the story of the day he washed the feet of God beneath a tree.

What’s In A Name

The book of Genesis is the beginning of man and his epic journey of falling away from God and trusting in false knowledge instead of trusting in the Almighty God who created the ability to have knowledge in the first place.

The book of Genesis also contains the plan that God put in place in order to bring man back to himself one day.  His plan was announced but not explained when he chose Abraham Isaac and Jacob to become the forefathers of his chosen people, and through his children he would again reveal himself to man and all the people of the world.

I always thought there just had to be some significance to the names of the 12 children of Jacob because Rachel and Leah would give a reason for the name that each child was given just as Adam gave to Eve “For she is the Mother of all Living”   and just as  Eve gave to Cain ” I have acquired a man” and Seth “God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel”

The late Chuck Missler went even as far as to translate the hebrew names of Adam’s children to Noah and came up with this translation

Adam -Man
Seth –Appointed
Enosh – Mortal
Kenan – Sorrow
Mahalalel – The blessed God
Jared – Shall come down
Enoch – Teaching
Methuselah – His death shall bring
Lamech – Despairing
Noah – Comfort and rest

When it is read as a sentence, it reads.  Man has appointed himself Mortal Sorrow. The blessed God shall come down and teach, but his death shall bring the despairing comfort and rest

And this makes perfect sense that God would reveal his plan for the salvation of man through even the litteral  meaning of the names given to Adam’s children

So what do the names of the 12 children of Jacob mean since they also have explanations given to them at their birth?  Well I tried to figure that out myself but when you list the translations of the names in the order of their birth they simply dont make a coherent sentence like they do in Adam to Noah.

In my research, however, I did stumble upon someone who had arranged them in the order they are given in the book of Revelation 7 and guess what, of course, it now makes perfect sense because these are the final chosen 12 tribes of Gods children listed in a different order then birth and excludes Dan and Ephraim.        

So I re arranged all of my translations of their names that I had and here is what it becomes.

1. Judah =”I will praise the Lord” 
2. Reuben = “Seen my affliction”
3. Gad = “good fortune ”
4. Asher = “I am happy”
5. Naphtali = “with great wrestling”
6. Manasseh = “has made me forget”
7. Simeon = “he who hears me”
8. Levi = “Joined to me”
9. Issachar =”given me my wages”
10.Zebulun = “a good inheritance ”
11.Joseph = “ shall add to me”
12 Rachel named him Benoni “The son of my sorrow”
13.Jacob called him Benjamin = “The Son of His right hand”

I added the two names given for Benjamin at the end because i feel that it is relevant, and that there  is a reason why it is written in the bible that he was renamed Benjamin

But if we read it all as a sentence then it says. 

I will praise the LORD
For he has seen my affliction
My reward is coming
I am happy and blessed
With great wrestlings I have wrestled and prevailed
For God has made me forget all my toil
He who hears me
Has become joined to me
God has given me my wages
And a good inheritance
He shall add to me
(Because) The son of my sorrow
Is now The Son of his right hand.
        

It’s all in the names.

Was Jesus born on the wrong side of the fence

Was Jesus born on the wrong side of the fence? 

At first glance this appears to sound like a political statement meant to stir up animosity and anger, but realy it’s not meant to be, it’s simply an observation of history repeating itself that I would like to share because the question is just as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago when Jesus was born and began to preach the coming kingdom of God.   

With all that is going on right now at the border of Israel and even the border of the US it raises the question, what century are we living in? Because it feels like humanity as a whole has not changed at all for the better, we are just as territorial and divided as the people were over 2000 years ago in the time of Jesus.

Don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying that there shouldn’t be borders or a separation of countries.  But what should have changed by now is the consideration, love, and compassion for our fellow man when it comes to securing and enforcing those borders.  Instead, we still resort to discrimination and hate and eventually violence just as they did to Jesus.

Most people know that Jesus was killed by the Roman’s because the religious leaders of the Jews compelled them to, by convincing them that he was claiming to be a king and desired to overthrow the Roman rule of the Jews. But what most people don’t know is that part of the hatred that fueled them into not listening to Jesus and conspiring to murder him was because of where he was born, or at least where they thought he was born.

Jesus was born in the little town of Bethlehem just a few miles south of Jerusalem, but his birth in that town had to be kept a secret  because it had been prophecied in Micah 5:2 that the anointed ruler of Judah and Israel would be born there.  This prophecy concerned king Herod so greatly that he had all of the children that were born there murdered just in the off chance that one of them would try to dethrone him.   So Joseph and Mary escaped to Egypt with the infant Jesus and after king Herod died they returned to Jerusalem, but because king Herods son now ruled in his place, Joseph took them to the small town of Nazareth about 60 miles north of Jerusalem.  Making the choice to move them to Nazareth would group them with a different class of people in a region known as Galilee because of the small body of water called the Sea of Galilee that was the central hub to its economy.

So why was Galilee considered a different class of people by the Jews? Well, we might have to go back a little farther in time to get the full picture.  

When the Israelites (or children of Jacob)  came out of egypt and arrived at the promised land, God instructed Moses and Joshua to divide up the land into 12 sections so that each tribe could have its own lot.   It didn’t take very long for arguments and disagreements to arise, and eventually, a division formed between the 12 tribes that would become two sides, a northern side known as Israel and a southern side known as Judah.    This line of territory was fiercely enforced by each side until the Babylonians came and conquered both of them around 600 bc.   When the Jews returned to their land around  520 bc, they found that the Jewish people who had not been taken into captivity had mixed with the Assyrian people and created a mixed race that they labeled Samaritans.  The Jews who took back possession of Jerusalem refused to allow the Samaritans to be part of their worship in Jerusalem, so once again, lines were drawn, and fences were created to seperate one people from another.  So the Samaritans simply created their own temple on top of Mt Gerazim in order to mimic the temple at Jerusalem and have their own place for religious sacrifice and ceremonies.

Over the next 500 years the territory would become even further defined and separated when Greece and  Alexander the great conquered the area, then followed by the Roman’s who would develop and populate the areas of their choosing by building small towns and temples to their pagan gods along the northern coast as well as at Mt Hermon and the Sea of Galille area. Which meant that anyone who chose to live there were now discriminated against by the jews in Jerusalem because they considered them to be living in pagan god towns and prospering off of a roman economy that was built around pagan worship and temples.   The Sea of Galilee became such a town because of the  fishing industry there.  Anyone from Jerusalem would have considered them to be comparable to filthy wicked sailors who only cared about making money off of the Roman’s and living a life of pleasure in a continuous drunken stupor.

Nazareth, the little town that Jesus grew up in, was about 15 miles west of the sea of Galilee, even though it was to far away to be considered part of this Roman economy around the Sea of Galilee in some ways it was looked down on even worse because it was so small of a town that it was hardly even known to exist,  and only the poor labor class lived there such as carpenters.  Nathaniel even pointed out its ridiculed status as a town in John 1:46 when he said to Phillip, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?    To make matters even worse, Nazareth was right on the northern border of Samaria which meant that from a traditional Jewish perspective of someone living in or around Jerusalem, Jesus might as well have been from both Samaria and Galilee.

So let’s try to take all of that historical information and put it into perspective.   There were three separate and segregated groups of people at that time, the traditional Jews who lived in Judea in the south and had Jerusalem as their holy place where their temple and religious leaders were.  And then above them  was the region of Samaria that consisted of the Samaritans who the jews considered to be a mixed race of people not worthy to call themselves jews or to come to Jerusalem to worship.   Above them was the region of Galilee that consisted of fishermen and the poor working class who the Jews of Jerusalem disliked because they drank and made money off of the Roman’s.

Now imagine Jesus, a man not clothed in expensive outfits like the priests in Jerusalem did, because he grew up in Nazareth, a small border town of poor people that might as well be mixed race  Samaritans, along with his group of 12 disciples most of whom were fisherman from Galilee going around preaching and healing people and telling them to repent because the kingdom of heaven is at hand.  Then Jesus and his disciples came to the temple, and Jesus began to turn over the tables of money that the priests made their living off of, and rebuke them for making Gods house a den of thieves.  This was the last straw for them, he had to go.  They immediately paid Judas to lead them to him secretly at night so that they could trap him away from the public and charge him with false charges and then have him crucified by the romans because they could not legally punish anyone with death because of the Roman rules.

They considered him to be a nobody, just a nuisance that needed to be gotten rid of, but the question then comes back to the original question that I asked.  Was Jesus born on the wrong side of the fence?  The religious leaders who were responsible for the death of Jesus knew the law and the prophecy of the Bible very well.  They knew that the Messiah would come from the lineage of David and that he would be born in Bethlehem, the birth town of David.

Jesus, as far as they knew, was not born in Bethlehem, they thought he was born in Nazareth of the region of Galilee, which meant he was a nobody, because not even a prophet had been said to come from Galilee. John 7:52
So would it have changed anything if they had known that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and was a descendant of King David.   It’s very possible that it would have, and if knowing he was possibly the Messiah because of where he was born changed how they viewed him, then it means that they did think it was ok to murder Jesus simply because he was born on the wrong side of the fence.

How sad is the truth of this reality? And why have we not learned anything from it even to this day?

The irony of it all is that Jesus himself preached to everyone without discrimination,  class or hate and told them to love everyone as if they were yourself or your family, no matter who they are or where they come from because even though turning the other cheek may get you struck again, love is the only way to get back love in return.  Hate will always only grow and be returned with more hate.

Jesus, Son of David Have Mercy on me

Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
This was the cry of Bartimaeus the blind man who sat outside the city of Jericho and begged people for food.
But when he heard the commotion of a crowd and asked what the noise was about, they answered that Jesus of Nazareth was passing through.
Because he was blind he could not chase after them or even see who Jesus was or where he was going, so he did the only thing that a blind man could do
which was to cry out
“Oh son of David have mercy on me”.  
The crowd was not happy with his distraction and causing attention to himself so they told him to be quiet but this caused him to cry out even more and even louder 
“Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me”.  
When Jesus heard him cry out, he stood still and commanded that Bartimaeus be brought to him, Jesus then asked him “What do you want Me to do for you ?
He said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” 
Then Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight.

As a young Christian, I often wondered about the small things like why Jesus didn’t just go around and say a few words and heal everyone all at once? 
Why did he seem to only pick certain people, and why did he only heal them after they cried out to him or touched him, why did he travel to them?
Why did even the Son of God have to struggle and do things the hard way when it would have been so much easier and more efficient to have everyone come to him and say a prayer or command and heal everyone all at once.
The reason is both complicated and simple  because man has chosen a path that is defined and shaped by the act of struggling

Because of sin this world has been filled with trials, tribulation and struggle, even from when Adam and Eve ate from the tree, God punished them with toil and strife by saying the ground will no longer produce for you like It did before you sinned, only through struggle will you eat and live. Jesus did not come to remove that struggle or to remove the ruler of this world who was responsible for it or at least not during his life as a mortal man.  So he also abided by the rules of this world and struggled. He worked as a carpenter in order to provide for himself and his family, which is a very labor-intensive job, and when his preaching mission began, he didn’t send people out to do his work for him or have everyone come to him, he put on his sandals and he walked all throughout the land preaching and healing.  He stepped up, rolled up his sleeves, and put in the work no matter how hard and how dirty it got.

It is through struggle that we live our lives because of sin, and it is because of struggles that we learn our lessons the hard way about how badly sin affects us and those around us.   It is the hardship, effort, struggle, and strife that defines us and makes us who we are because of where we have been and what we have been through.        If this is what makes us who we are then it only makes sense that to show to God that we are remorseful and ready to make a change in our life that it would also only be through effort and struggle.

As children, we are innocent and as impressionable as moldable clay.      We are meant to be shaped by the loving hands and example of others, but because of struggle and sin people warp and corrupt that clay that was a child and instead of shaping and developing  them into a beautiful statue that would represent a perfect picture of that childs potential they shape it into something that looks more like shrapnel from a war.  A mangled mess of protruding jagged pieces which can no longer be  determined which end is meant to be up and which is down.   Though it’s not the childs fault that they became the product of their parents and peers who molded them into a distorted image because of their struggle and strife. The blame does fall on each successive generation when a child grows up and becomes the one repeating the cycle.  It only takes one person, one generation, to break the cycle, and it must be done by the same struggle that was used to create it. 

Because we live by and are defined by our struggles in life, it takes us struggling within ourselves and understanding and acknowledging that we are the problem and refusing to continue  to be part of the problem that allows us to make an actual  change.   Jesus didn’t go around healing everybody because it would have fixed and solved nothing if they were not seeking a change in their lives with their whole heart because they were tired of the struggle against God because of sin.

Without effort, there could be no change, and without change, their could be no forgiveness of sin. 

This is what God and Jesus looked for in those who were worthy to be healed is that they were tired of the struggle and tired of sin and wanted to be healed.  Only by acknowledging their sin and seeking out God could they truly cry out with all of their heart Jesus Son of David have mercy on me. And be healed

He who has ears LET them HEAR

Jesus often spoke in parables and used stories to tell a simple message,  yet hidden inside of the simple story or parable was a deeper meaning that was meant only for those who were truly seeking the will and word of God

One of these all by itself is the simple phrase that Jesus spoke,  “he who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Like many things that Jesus and YHWH In the old testament said.   They have multiple meanings that can be applied to different levels or depths of understanding.

The simplest one here is obviously, whoever has ears, a heart and thirst for knowing God (let) him (hear). The important keywords here are let and hear.

It will take a little background to fully develop the meaning behind them though. I will try to keep it short. In the beggining God created everything to be simple and perfect, he knew full well that man would fall into the deception of satan, and just like all other evil forces that think they can win against God he created a plan to not only save man from the deception but to eventually get evil to turn on itself and destroy itself in the end Because well that’s what evil does.

The first true fall of mankind happened with Eve at the tree because the fruit of that tree was sin itself, in other words eating from that tree allowed for man to produce the fruits of sin instead of the fruits of God.

The second fall happened at the tower of babel and the idiot nimrod, the king who made himself to be a god over men and built a city and tower that symbolized man’s worthless knowledge of technology and civilization that is always geared towards the enslavement of others in order to be in control and to fuel the ego of man into thinking himself to be a god.    All of this is done under the deception of a better life for all in a city and kingdom that provides food, shelter and protection.   But the end result is always the same, the ruling class creating false idols and false gods and then believing themself to be gods until inevitably their destruction comes on themself.      It has happened over and over again with all empires throughout history and is currently happening in this one.

So the first falling away from God at the tree caused one degree of separation from God, but the falling away at the tower of babel caused another in the sense that now man had decided he would aspire to actually develop cities as a display and outlet for his ego, which caused God to divide the people into different nations and to confuse their ability to coordinate by creating different languages. This also came with a confusion about who God is and how to speak to and hear him.   Slowly, God began to reveal himself back to man through Abraham and the promised seed of the woman.     The main point here being that most people had become shut off to God and hearing him because they had become so confused with all of the other false gods and doing what was right in their own eyes.

So when Jesus said he who has ears let him hear. He was giving a command for something that had not been previously possible to now be possible. Let the confusion and veil that was placed on man at the tower of babel be lifted for those who are here to hear.      Where else have we heard this word [let] get used as a commmand?  Genesis 1:3 let there be light, let the waters separate, let the dry land appear.

It is important to understand that even though Jesus was the epitome of humbleness, he was the Son of God and carried all of his power and authority within himself but chose to refrain from using it so that his mission of living as a weak and fully mortal man could be accomplished. However, his words would not be bridled or restrained because he was the word and was sent by God to reveal to men the father through the very same word that is Jesus.   Don’t let this confuse you, when God created everything he did so with his words, he commanded them into existence, and it’s of no coincidence that the more science explores the basic principles of the universe and how it works and is held together it always comes back to minute particles and strings vibrating at very specific frequencies. Which is what a spoken word is, vibrations traveling through space and matter to reach its destination. So when Jesus said let them hear, it was a command for their hearing and understanding of Gods words to be recognized and received and it was a command with no different and with no less power then the same words that created everything we see.    but it was a command given only to those whom God had chosen to receive him.

It’s hard to understand why only some where allowed to hear and others were not but just as Jesus only spoke in parables to the crowd and when they continued to follow him asking for a sign and miracle he explained that they would have to eat his flesh and drink his blood, which only repulsed them and sent them away.  He said this only because their hearts were not seeking God and his will but only their own self-satisfaction, which is evil.  Because they were not seeking God, they did not deserve to see or hear his son, or understand that he came to open our ears and hearts to truly understand God and his heart, through his son Jesus.

Caesarea Philippi and the Cave to Hell

Caesarea Philippi is a famous location for many reasons but one of them is because Jesus visited it with his disciples, it was a small town at the southern base of Mt Hermon. Compared to other parts of Israel it would have seemed very fertile, almost magical even because of the cave, groto, and stream that flowed from the base of the mountain with lush vegetation on the ground and the snow capped mountain of Mt Hermon above. In fact it apparently did appear magical to the Roman’s when they conquered the area because they built a temple there to the half goat half man devil pan, who was associated with many different myths most of them connecting back to baal and asherah the gods of the cannanites, but the reason that Jesus visited this site during his ministry can only be summed up by what Mt Hermon represented to the Jews of that day.

A brief history of Mt Hermon. In the time of Moses and Joshua when God defeated the caananites and gave the israelites this land that was promised to their forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob.  The land that included Mt Hermon was not specifically referenced but lumped together with the names of Heshbon and Bashan. To any good bible studier that should have bells dinging in their ears because king Og was a giant of possibly 14 feet in height, Bashan was his kingdom but he was defeated immediately after king Sihon of Heshbon was also defeated. Both of these kigdoms connected with Mt Hermon.

Now take a second and let that sink in and your next thought should be a question. Why would God, after having the Israelites wander in the desert for 40 years send them to the northern most part of Israel to fight two kings one of whom is a giant at the base of a mountain? Deuteronomy 3:11 even claims that Og was the last of the true giants. The answer is because that mountain has a symbolic significance.

The book of Enoch is considered by many to be non cannonical or not part of the ancient books included in the bible, but it was read and well known to the Hebrews of Jesus day and even quoted by Jude 1:6 and 14 , and even Peter alludes to the subject matter in 1 Peter 3:19–20, and 2 Peter 2:4. So it deserves at least consideration for a historical perspective. My personal stance is that at least the first section of 1st enoch known as the book of the watchers is ancient and has in the very least an oral tradition that makes it authentic, the rest may have been altered or added later. The first 36 pages tell a story involving Mt Hermon and the fallen Angels who make a pact with one another to take human women as their wives and to share in the curse or punishment for it. This of course started the chain reaction refered to in Genesis 6 where the angels mated with women who then gave birth to Nephilim who then gave birth to giants that caused the corruption of all the earth to the point that all life had to be destroyed by the flood accept for Noah and his family.

So if we take that and apply it to what happened in Jesus’ ministry, you may find that many pieces fall into place, and many things make far more sense than they did before. For example when Jesus had come towards the end of his ministry he took his disciples to Caesarea Philippi at the base of Mt Hermon and asked them the famous question “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” So they said, “Some *say* John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, ” Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 

I personally believe that when he said “and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it” he was pointing directly at that cave and groto at the base of Mt Hermon that is associated with the pact made in the book of the watchers and even the gateway to the abyss or bottomless pit.

Now imagine for a second that the spirits of these giants who were drowned in the flood and whom Jesus had been casting out of people and sending to the abyss to join their chained parents in darkness until the end. Imagine that they are watching this scene when Jesus was proclaimed by men to be the Son of God right in front of the very same mountain that their parents and their beggining had been judged and sentenced, imagine them watching as Jesus 6 days later traveled up to the top of Mt Hermon with Peter, John and James and was transfigured before them. Would this not be a direct in your face way of proclaiming I am here to take back this mountain and confirm to you that your punishment still stands and the time for your final judgment is near.

After Jesus and his disciples left Mt Hermon it says that his face was set towards Jerusalem and he did not waste any time getting there and riding the colt that was prophecied to bring the Messiah. Only a short time later he was crucified on the cross.

It is worth mentioning that in Luke’s timeline after the transfiguration on Mt Hermon that Jesus appointed 70 disciples to heal and cast out demons. When they returned successful he was filled with joy in the spirit and said one of my favorite verses “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven”.

The Typology of Christ

People often ask the question, who is God, and why doesn’t he just reveal himself to us?   Why doesn’t he give us some kind of proof that he exists so we can believe?

It’s a good question but it’s the wrong question to ask because God does want you to know that he exists and that he loves you enough to give you ways to find him, but only if you seek him with love and try to understand why he hasn’t made it obvious and easy to prove that he is up there.

Faith is believing in something without seeing it or having proof of its existence. The reason that faith is necessary to finding God is because man joined sides with the father of evil and sin when he ate of the tree of sin, whose fruit produces useless knowledge that is not Godly and can only end in death.

In other words, the devil and man challenged God by saying we know a better way, our own way to do things and we don’t need you telling us what is good and what is evil anymore.    God accepted this challenge, but it meant that he would no longer intervene or be a part of our choices unless it is necessary because doing so would affect the outcome of our very long lesson that we have chosen to learn the hard way.

So, in that summary, we can see that he does not give us proof of him or his actions because we have decided that we don’t need him.   In many cases, it would seem that there are far more reasons made easily available to not believe in him than their are reasons to believe,  but this is by design and on purpose to allow those who trust in usless knowledge to find exactly what they are looking for, which is a reason to not believe.

However, for those who do seek him with their heart, mind, and soul, he does find ways to reveal himself and his plan for the salvation of man to them.  One of these ways that provides proof to the believer is called typology.

What is typology?  As if there wasn’t enough biblical terminology to memorize already.    But this one is just as important as prophecy because, in a way it is prophecy, accept its prophecy without actually saying anything.  let me explain.

The bible is filled with stories that involve people, objects, and events that, by themself, seem to convey what happened and what we need to know about the story that’s being told. Yet hidden within almost all of the stories in the bible, there is a typology that links or groups other events yet to happen or to be revealed that are so closely related to each other that when they did come to pass they actually become prophecy fulfilled from the first story.

For example,  Paul conveyed in Roman’s 5:14  that Adam was a type, a foreshadowing or pre-figure of Christ in that Adam was the first man created by God, he was created to be perfect yet because of his wife Eve and the deception of the serpent, he chose to join her fate of death and ate also of the tree whose fruit is sin.  He was cast out of the garden and God’s presence because of sin and clothed with the skins of animals that represented the sacrifice that must occur in order to cover their sin.

Jesus was the second Adam, born in this world of sin, but lived a sinless life even though the same serpent tried to decieve and tempt him. He then conquered death by taking on all of our sin and dying naked on a tree so that we could be redeemed of our sin by his sacrifice and once again be in God’s presence in the Garden.

So Adam and all of these things that he and his story represented are a typology of the future actions and symbolic death of Jesus, hidden in this simple little story about Adam and a tree.

Adam was created perfect in a perfect world without sin but fell and became imperfect and created a world of sin.

Jesus was born in a world of sin but became perfect to undo the curse that Adam had created and bring man and the world back to perfection and back to God

Adam was created naked but died  clothed because of sin

Jesus died naked because he had removed our sin

Adam created sin at a tree

Jesus overcame sin at a tree

Adam created the need for sacrifice in order to cover and atone sin.

Jesus became the sacrifice in order to redeem Adam and atone for his sin once and for all.

So you see, Adam’s life and choices became a prophecy of the reversals that Jesus would perform when he came and was born as an ordinary man more than 4000 years later.      Not because Adam was not in control of his life or choices but because Jesus and God are one and the same and not bound by time like we are. They saw our future and knew what we would do and what would have to be done in order to save us from ourselves.      This was Gods plan for our salvation was for himself to become a man and die in our place for us and with us, even by our own hand.

This is typology, that all of these are linked together across long lengths of time and it is in a way definitive proof that God exists because only he could see beyond time and have the Hebrews tell these stories and write down their history for thousands of years and then not even understand or believe who Jesus was when he did come as a man to fulfill all of the typology prophecies that they had created a religion and lifestyle around.  You can not make this stuff up.

Another example of a typology is the flood and baptism.   The flood of Noah occurred as a judgment on the evil and wicked offspring of the fallen angels who had mated with human women and created wicked souless giant monsters.   Only Noah and his three sons  were perfect in their generations and had not been corrupted by the fallen anglels and the seed of the serpent.  Because the world could not continue in this state of chaos and evil and still allow for Gods plan for the salvation of man, God instructed Noah to build an ark and to put the animals and his family inside because he would destroy the earth and all of the wicked giants and chain the angels who created them in the abyss.      Noah did as he was told, and God submerged the ark with water by opening the windows of heaven and drowned all of the inhabitants of the earth.   Afterward, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and Noah and his family emerged to a cleansed earth to start over.   This story is significant enough by itself, but the typology and prophecy of it are beyond profound.

First would be the judgment on the evil offspring who would later be referred to as rephaim or the drowned giants and the fallen Angels who created them.

The typology of this would have three separate future fullfilments of the giants being drowned in the flood and the fallen angels chained in sheol. 

After the flood, the spirits of the rephaim would haunt men and possess them because their hatred for man and anything that is associated with God drives them with a relentless psychopathic desire to hurt and destroy.    This desire led to men murdering other men and the deception of men believing in the existence of false gods and idol worship whose end goal was always the sacrifice of the innocent to appease the false gods, even if it means sacrificing one’s own child.  Sound familure?   Thats because Abraham and his being asked by God to sacrifice Isaac was yet again a typology of the other false gods requiring that children be sacrificed to them, even in the very same spot that God led Abraham to sacrifice Isaac at.   The key difference being that God did not allow Abraham to go through with it because it was only a display of Abraham’s faith in God and a way for it to be recorded for the rest of history that the God of Abraham does not desire or allow his creation to sacrifice their sons, but instead Abraham prophecied that God himself would come down and provide for himself the Lamb for a sacrifice

This false god worship and sacrifice of children had finally reached its apex in the egyptians and pharoh who had believed so wholeheartedly in the  god resheph (who later became apollo to the greeks) that the pharoh himself began to believe that he was the physical imbodiment of the god and began throwing the male children of the hebrews into the nile river in order to control their population and prove authority over all other gods even the God of the Hebrews.        Moses was spared from this fate, and after living a life of ease as egyptian royalty, he was exiled to the wilderness for the murder of an egyptian.         God then revealed himself to Moses in order to bring his chosen people the Hebrews out of egypt, and he would do so by proving to  the Egyptians that he was the only true  God by punishing them with the very same plagues and miracles that they believed their pharoh and god resheph possessed.

Here is where the typology of the first flood of Noah gets fulfilled in that pharoh in his prideful rage chased the Hebrews to the coastline of the sea intending to destroy them just as the wicked giants of Noah’s day intended to destroy all of mankind.  But God once again intervened, and instead of Moses building an ark to survive the coming flood, God created an ark in the water itself by parting it in the very same shape as the hull of a ship would be.       After Moses and the last of the Hebrews touched the ground of the mountainside on the other end of the sea, God no longer restrained the waters that had been parted for his people, just as he no longer restrained the waters of the heavens that flooded the giants.  All of pharoh and his chariots of men drowned just as the children of the fallen angels had in the first flood, only Gods children were saved.

The second fulfillment of the flood typology would be the baptism of men by John the Baptist and his followers just before Jesus would begin his ministry and mission that would lead to the cross.       When we think of getting baptized, most people think of it being a commitment to God and a purification of our body by the washing away of our sins in water.    But if we are to fully interpret and understand all that the typology of it seems to present, then it is symbolic of even more than that.

When we get baptized, we are in fact, becoming a member of the small family of Noah on that giant ark that was symbolic of Jesus because he is the Ark and he is the one and only door of the ark that allows for salvation. All who enter in through him will be saved John 10:9.      Because we all have been born in sin we are part of the family of the fallen angels and their wicked offspring.  Because of this we are submerged in water and drown in our sins with them, but because we are God’s children and not the offspring of angels we are offered one last choice and lifeline that is Jesus and if we believe in him and his sacrifice for us then unlike the drowned giants and the chained angels we have the possibility to emerge from the water by stepping through his door and entering in his ark and joining the family of Noah.

As if that wasn’t enough to make the typology and  symbolism of baptism amazing, remember those spirits of the rephaim who possessed and tormented men up to Jesus’s day.   Well their time was now up once again because not only did Jesus get baptized and cast them out by sending them to the abyss to be with their chained parents, but the followers of Jesus also got baptized and because they believed in him, they also cast out demons in his name.    Once again, just as the flood of Noah they had been judged and sentenced to another form of death (confinement to the abyss) but this time not through a flood of water but by men themself being submerged and coming out alive and victorious because of Jesus.   Who as it turns out rose from the grave on the very same day that the Ark rested on the mountainside and again the very same day that the Hebrews crossed the through the parted sea to arise on the other side free from the evil and death that phoroh represented.

This brings me to the last and final typology of the flood, which has yet to be fulfilled.    We are nearing its fullfilment now because the world has become disillusioned with money, technology, and selfish pride, which is only paving the way for the apostasy that is to come.   The devil himself will come proclaiming himself to be God and the fulfillment of prophecy and provide all the proof that anyone could ask for, accept one thing, his time will be short because unlike God he is not eternal and can not tell or predict the future because he is bound by time.   Unfortunately, many will believe him though, and the earth will once again become corrupted and evil like it was in the days of Noah.  The rephaim and the angels who were bound will be released once more and will be the cause for God to come once again to judge and destroy the wicked but this time the flood will not be with water but with fire and it will be never ending for those who chose it.

Many people think they have got it all figured out and that there is no God because everything is just chance and chaos just as science proves.  And that not being able to prove that there is a  God is proof enough that there isnt one.  To those people I would like to say, now is the time to decide who’s team you are on before the great deception comes and you are given the proof you have asked for.  As much as you might firmly believe that people of faith are ignorant and that you have found all of the proof and evidence that you need to decide they are wrong and that there is no God.   Is it enough proof if you had to stand in front of him right now and explain to him why you dont believe in him or his son?   

https://www.quora.com/Is-belief-in-God-solely-based-on-faith-or-can-it-be-justified-through-reason-Is-there-any-rational-evidence-for-the-existence-of-God/answer/The-Way-134?ch=10&oid=1477743740128565&share=d8f077df&srid=3Rj2v3&target_type=answer

The Way of The Cross

Part of the amazing experience of getting saved is the simplicity of it.   All you have to do is to believe that Jesus came as the Son of God and died on his cross in order to redeem you and me from our sins and ask him for forgiveness.

Yet as simple as salvation is, sin itself is the opposite it is extremely complicated. For example, why was sin such a destructive force that the son of God had to die because of it. And why does it seem that after we get saved that sin is an even more powerful and continuous force that tries to come between us and God?

The reasons are many, but the most important of them is simply this. When Jesus died on the cross for our sins, he paid for all of those sins from the past and all sins that would ever be committed in the future. Christ will not be crucified twice, we must remember that every time that we sin.                         

A perfect example of this would be Peter and what Jesus said to him in Matthew 16:18
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I can only imagine how much of a sense of pride and purpose Peter carried around with him after Jesus told him that, can you imagine if Jesus told you that you were going to be his rock and build his church, you would probably feel like there was nothing you could do wrong. Yet only a short time later, Jesus warned Peter that he would deny him three times before the rooster crowed. Peter’s response to Jesus was. “I will not deny you, Lord, even if I have to die with you. Of course, he did deny him three times and didn’t even follow him to watch him die on the cross. why not? Was it only out of fear or shame? It was because of this verse in Matthew 10:32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. Jesus, saying this, must have replayed over and over and over again in his head.

This was such a pivotal and powerful moment that it is recorded in all four of the gospels that Peter denied being one of his disciples three times. And wept afterward and did not even believe Mary when she told him that Jesus was risen and not in the tomb. But only in Mark 16:7 it says “go, tell his disciples (and Peter) that he is going before you into Galilee, there you will see him, as he said to you” Peter had not been abandoned, he had not been left an orphan as Jesus promised his disciples he would not leave them, or abandon them. Peter had abandoned being called a disciple by denying three times that he was one, but Jesus never abandoned him. This means that just as Jesus told Peter that he would deny him three times before he died on that cross and before he paid for the sins of the world. He paid for Peters sins in advance just as he has paid for all of ours. Jesus was the Son of God because he was born just as we are in a human body and bound by the very same time and laws of nature that we are. But he was also God in that he said “ I AM ” the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. When he asked the Father in. Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”  it had already been granted before he even asked it because he and the Father are one, he only said it out loud so that all would know they had been forgiven because the Son had asked it of the Father who loves the Son. This means that Jesus was not just a man because he was there at the very beggining and he has already seen the end which means that he had already seen and known each and every one of us and each of our sins that we have and will commit, yet he loved us and chose to go to that cross and paid the price for us anyway. There is nothing we can do to redeem ourselves of sins, no amount of good deeds can undo the things that we have done or secure for us forgiveness for the sins that we will do in the future.

However we have to acknowledge and understand that he did not go to that cross for us to continue to live in sin because when we continue to sin we become the ones driving in each nail, we are the ones raising up that cross and dropping it into that post hole so that the weight of our sins can crush our savior with a sorrow and pain that we can’t even fathom. We are the ones that pierce his heart with a spear each and every time that we choose to sin, because we now know full well that he died in order that those sins could be forgiven in the eyes of God.

So how can we apply what happened to Peter to our lives and learn from his sin of denying Jesus. We are not perfect, and Jesus knew that we would never be, but he asked us to try to be perfect even as his father was. But we must understand the reality of our world in that everyday we are bombarded with choices and aggravations whose sole purpose is to weaken us and get us to sin so that we will be just like Peter was and feel abandoned and not worthy of the one who died to save us. But as flawed and weak as Peter that we are, those mistakes, and moments of weaknes that cause us to stumble and fall to the ground are not the end Because Jesus will never abandon us, they are just one more opportunity for us to prove the enemy wrong by picking up our cross and following him. The sin itself is forgivable only because of the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. But only for as long as we continue to learn from our sins and do not let them convince us to abandon him and the cross that redeemed us.

Understanding The Trinity.

John14:7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.

Is the Divine Trinity real, and if so, how can we understand it when the bible doesn’t plainly explain it.

Even the book of Isaiah hints at the complexity of the Trinity.
57:15 thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity
44:6 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.
9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


The trinity, like anything else that requires explanation about God and Jesus, can only be explained using scripture.
However, the trinity, or rather the word trinity is never used in scripture.
It is only represented in the Old Testament and New Testament by the three divine personalities of God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit.
It is never plainly referenced or explained in the bible because it is meant to be a personal revelation to an individual, but understanding it is not necessary for one’s salvation or to live a Godly life.

There are many contradictions or paradoxes in the scripture that make understanding the 3 as being one and the same God yet individual but equal very difficult. Some people in their attempt to explain or defend it end up only causing arguements and division.
This shouldn’t be how we discuss God because if we can not discuss something with an open mind and an open heart, then we are not spiritually mature enough to discuss it.
Division amongst ourselves is what the enemy desires the most, so arguing will only ever be giving him the victory.

The term, Trinity or the Triune God who is three but one can only fully be understood by combining the three separate images or aspects of the Father, Son dynamic of physical generations with the past, present, and future representations of God alongside with the body, soul, and spirit images that we are created in.
If only one of these is used, the others cause a contradiction, but if all three are combined, then the true meaning of the trinity takes shape.

So let’s break them down individually so that we can then combine them together properly.

The first being the Father, Son, and Spirit that follows the same timeline of generations as we do in that the Father came first, the son was born from the father but is a representation of the father in every way. 

In Isaiah 43:10-13  God spoke to the nation of Israel and declared to them Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. 
And besides Me there is no savior. there was no foreign god among you;
I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed, Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the Lord, “that I am God.
13 Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I work, and who will reverse it?”

In John 8:42 Jesus said
I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me

Matthew 17:5 suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”

In John 15:26 Jesus spoke of the spirit
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

And again in John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

There are 307 verses in the bible where the words God and Son are in the same verse.

This father son relationship by itself creates a paradox because how can Jesus be God and the son of God at the same time.
Did Jesus pray to himself ?
Yet Jesus himself said in
Revelation 22:13  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the  End, the First and the Last.”

This is where Time becomes a factor. The Father and Son existed from the
very beginning, but the mortal body of the son would not be born until later in time.
In the beginning, before God created the heavens and the earth, there was no such thing as time,
Time was created for us.
God is spirit in a place that does not exist or function in time, but he created us and our world to be a part of time.
God exists and has always existed in an eternal state. We will never be able to understand this because understanding it would require being on the same intelligence level as God, which we will never be.

But thanks to the many Sci fi movies we have watched, we can imagine back to the future type scenarios involving time.
Now imagine if I had a time machine and brought both myself from the past as well as myself from the future together so that all three of us were standing in the same place at the same time.
Would they still be me?  Of course they would because they are me only separated by time, but now we are all three in the present time experiencing it together.


In this scenario of the past, present, and future, God the father would represent the beginning of time and the past because he is eternal.
Jesus would represent God among us in our present time.
The Holy Spirit would represent God from the future or the end of time.
all three have existed from the beginning, just as God has always existed, all three are one and the same God just divided by the time that we are experiencing which makes them individual yet the same.

Rev 1:8 I Am the Alpha and Omega the beggining and the End says the LORD, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Some might find all of this to confusing or even offensive,  but I would just like to restate that understanding the trinity is not a required part of faith and the truth is we will never fully understand the complexity of the trinity because we do not even understand the nature of time itself or how it works, we can only observe and speculate based on what we can see and understand.  
Part of trying to understand this requires us to ask the question of why would the trinity have anything to do with time in the first place?

God is holy and pure and man who was destined to sin can not be in his presence and see his face or he would die

In Exodus 33:20 God spoke to Moses
He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”

John 6:46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.

Yet even from the beggining before time began God purposed and shaped his plan to redeem man from sin by being among us in the flesh and even dying a mortal death for us, naked on a cross of shame and through this sacrifice and example of love he transformed that cross of sin and shame into the cross of Glory and Grace, an everlasting symbol and sign of the unfathomable love of God.
Aftwards he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell men and to draw all men to himself through his Son Jesus.

But if this was to take place, if God himself was to truly be among us, and his holy spirit indwell within us, how could we not be destroyed in the process? How could God die as a man on a cross in order to redeem us of our sins and save us from an eternal death?
I believe that this is why time was created so that there would be a separation between sinful man and the glory of God,
So that man who fell from perfection and the presence of God could be redeemed and return back to him  through a process of time.
In this separation of time, we are able to behold the reflection of the Almighty God and not be destroyed  because he never left his eternal state.
In this way, the saying of Jesus is true in  

John 5:37
And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.
And in John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Next would be the body, soul, spirit trinity.
Remember, we are created in God’s image
Genesis 1:26
God said let “US” make man in “OUR” image

This body, soul, and spirit relationship is slightly misunderstood, so let’s break down each individually so we can better understand how they relate to the trinity.
If we are created in his image and we have a body, a soul, and a spirit, then it also means that God must have similar attributes of himself.

So what is the body soul spirit?

The body is the mortal shell that you inhabit
It was originally meant to last forever as a way for our soul and spirit to be able to experience the physical realm and the spiritual all at the same time
But it became corrupted with sin by acquiring the knowledge of the choice to do evil when we ate the fruit that God told us not to.

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

The soul is the part of you that God created for you to be individual to you.
Like a fingerprint, your soul is a unique vessel that contains your personality, your desires, your memory, and your free will to be yourself.

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul

Isaiah 26:8 The desire of our soul is for Your name

Isaiah 42:1 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,My Elect One in whom My soul  delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

The spirit is the life-force given to you by God. It could be compared to breath or wind
But realy, it is something we can not truly comprehend.

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but can not tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Genesis 2:7 And 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.

Genesis 6:3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh

The spirit was given as a gift to all life from God but it is separate from and should not be confused with the Spirit of God because scripture refers to God putting his spirit on someone who already has a spirit.

To understand how the body soul and spirit is represented in the trinity, we also have to separate them individually.

The Father is the Body Soul and Spirit
We would be similar in comparison in that we have all three as well, yet all three of these parts of us are one and inseparable.
Unlike God, we can not exist or function as just a body or just a soul or just spirit.

Individually, the Son is the Body in the form of the Spirit of God becoming a physical being in the flesh.
When Jesus came, his body was no different than our body
It had to be tried, tested, and submit to the will of the spirit and soul because it was created as a vessel for the other two. It was never meant to be in charge.
However, we as humans allow our bodies to take control, and we become slaves to sin because of the desires of our flesh.
It is the body that has become corrupted by sin, not the spirit and the soul. However, if we allow the body to take control long enough, it can and will corrupt the spirit and soul as well.
Jesus, despite being tempted with all of the same things that we are tempted with, overcame the desires of the flesh because Individualy he represented the body and heart of God.
He was destined to come and be among us as a man in a body, but because of his love for us he overcame the desires of the flesh and then sacrificed his body so that we could be redeemed from sin.     It is difficult to explain the significance and difficulty of him doing this, but if you can imagine yourself being in a situation that involved you giving up your life and your body to save someone else but knowing that you would die for an eternity, his choice was no less difficult.  Yet because of his love for us and unselfish nature, he willingly walked to his death in order to save us from a death that we could not be saved from by ourselves.    We are only human and have no power to overcome death.  We could only die in our sins an eternal death, he however is God and has the power to give life to himself even while dying an eternal death for us.

John 10:17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”


The Spirit represents the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God.   It is the force that keeps everything moving and coming back to God.  It is the still small voice inside of us all that calls us to find  him and to return to him.   Without his spirit, there would be no Love, no Light, and no Life.


Now that we have defined all three attributes of the trinity
Father Son generations
Past present future
Body soul spirit

The trinity should now make a little more sense, even if you don’t agree with it being scriptural or factual.

For those who it is revealed to and want to better understand it they only have to look to the scriptures like these to form and understand the complete picture that he was trying to show us with his words, because every word is written to reveal to us his son.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

God became the word the light and the man in order to create us, illuminate us, and then redeem us. But the fascinating thing that is so hard for us to understand is that he did all of this right at the very beginning before anything was even created.
In the beginning, God created the end.  because he knew how we would fall and what he would have to do in order to get us back to him.
He became his own son in the form of the very same flesh that he  created us in and then died for us even though he seen and knew you and all of the things you would do wrong.
You may feel unworthy and unloved by God, but he saw you, loved you, and died for you even before time began.
This means that no matter how bad things seem, we must remind ourselves and others that he has already won this fight and our eternity with him, because he is the only one with the power over time.

The only paradox left to address is this
Jesus never claimed to be God or told anyone to worship him as God, yet he said “I and my father are one, anyone who has seen me has seen the father.
The reason that he did not desire to be acknowledged as God is simply because he was in a mortal body that represented the son of God but was destined to die to pay the price of eternal death for us and in our place, and as he said before his death “I am not of this world and this is not my kingdom“.
He was in a world that had been corrupted with sin and was ruled by satan until Jesus overcame him by denying the desires and fears of the flesh even to death.

John 8:23
And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

John 14:30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 

Even if he had been born in a world and body that had not fallen to sin and the ruler of it, he still would not have spoken of himself as above the father because he represented the son in a body that is supposed to be in submission to the will of the spirit and soul just as we are supposed to be.

the simple truth is this, that one day, the devil himself will also come as a man proclaiming himself to be God. This would be confusing and contradictory if Jesus had said I am God in a body, worship me, but don’t listen to the next man that claims he is God in a body.

John 5:43
I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

1 John 4:3
and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that  is worshiped, so that he sits as God   in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

The Truth is hidden in the name of the LORD YHWH In the old testament.
Which means several things all at the same TIME.

I Am the one being
I Am self existent or I have life in myself
I exist now and have always existed
I Am the first and the last, the Aleph and the Tav.

Y.        H.        W.        H.    =Translates into
Yod.   Hey.     Waw.   Hey  = which means
Hand Behold Nail    Behold

He is the hand that built the house
He is the nails that hold it together
He is the man who sacrificed his body and his life by being nailed to a tree so that through him we could be reunited with him once more.

THE  GENESIS OF THE  TRINITY

The Divine Trinity

What exactly are these three divine spirits of God that are all one, yet separate and individual, it makes no sense right, or does it?
It seems like a paradox without any answer, and the bible gives plenty of scripture to make it even more complicated
For example In the Beggining, God created the heavens and the earth.
Not 2 or three or 10 but one God
Moses re declares this in Dueteronomy 6:4
“Hear,O Israel: The Lord our God
the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
As if that wasn’t definitive enough for there being only one God with one name he even adds later in verse 15  (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you)
Wouldn’t there be a conflict if there are three distinct persons that represent God? Wouldn’t this cause confusion and be a cause for jealousy between one and the other?.
Amazingly, the answer is no, but you will have to bear with me in order to fully understand how this is possible.
First off, these are just my humble opinions.
I am by no means claiming to know anything that is beyond error, and this will be more of an advanced aproach to these questions that will involve at least a basic understanding of scripture and terminology used in the bible.
But from my studies I have come to several revelations that I would like to share and maybe it will help others understand this complex yet very important to us relationship of the Father The Son and the Holy Spirit.
I will try to be as short and to the point as I can, but this will take some background to explain fully, I promise it will be worth it.

Let’s start at the beginning again when God created the heavens and the earth. The hebrew for God is Elohim. The “im” In Hebrew is always plural as in at least more than one
Confusing, right? well, no, not if you can momentarily put yourself back in the times of Moses and look at the world through their eyes.
This might seem complicated, but it’s not because just like In today’s culture the rock stars and TV and movie personalities seem like they are larger then life beings and not normal humans like us because they are better then us.
To the israelites this is what the many pantheons of gods from Egypt to Canaan and Mesopotamia represented.
Even a conservative estimate would put somewhere around 50 gods that were very well known to the Hebrews of Moses day.
These gods like ra and isis, baal and inanna  where the rock stars of that day because even though they didn’t exist in bodily form, the people that gave life to them continually had new gods and new stories to go along with them. 
This probably seems absurd to modern minds, but really, it was no different to them than the latest Marvel movie, and actually, it was more like a cross between a Marvel movie and a football league.
Why a football league? well because not only were these gods and their stories important to each nation and race but their powers
(or lack of) where fully imbodied and represented in how strong a nation or race was or appeared to be.
In other words, if I come up with a good god story and then go to war with my neighbor and defeat them, then it means my god is real and more powerful than theirs.
This football game of gods goes all the way back to Nimrod and the tower of babel, when men abandoned seeking out the one God and began to proclaim themselves as gods and built cities and a tower in an attempt to dominate and control others.
This caused the LORD to confuse their language and leave them to their own devices. Over the next 500 years civilization exploded over the land and with it came the study observation and then worship of the heavens and nature as representing gods and their back stories along with their anger passion and complex personalities.
One of the most common myths being the story of a god dying and then coming back to life each year as the cause for summer and winter. This was known as the baals or baal cycles, (the dying gods)
So why is any of that important to understanding this trinity problem?
Well, because the Hebrews grew up in slavery under the Egyptians and the pantheon of gods that they claimed to represent. The idea of multiple gods infused into one wasn’t even a new concept to them because the Egyptians had already combined amun and ra.
So what was Moses telling them when he said that God created the heavens and the earth, yet Elohim is plural?
By using Elohim, In one word he is illustrating that when the heavens and earth were created, God was more than one being in one and had not yet separated.

This means that God during the creation was all three, the father Son and Holy Spirit in one form but afterward divided into three separate and distinct beings.
The evidence of this separation, or as I prefer to call it the divine division, is evident in verse Genesis 1:26 when
“God said let US make man in OUR own image”
As well as in 11:7 “Come, let US go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
And After Adam eats the fruit in chapter 2:22 The LORD God said “behold the man has become like one of US, to know good and evil.”

Why would one God become three?
This question is at the real heart of understanding this trinity thing of 3 being one but different and yet the same.
Without understanding the why, the how will never make sense, just like someone that can only think in a sense of time can not understand how God could have existed before time, even though God created time.
If God is a being beyond time and space, then he can move forward and backward into the past, present, and future and have full knowledge of everything that has and will transpire.
This means that he knew every possible outcome even before he began creating.
So he created the universe as one being.
In this way, the saying is true. Only one God created the universe, but knowing the eventual and inevitable outcome of sin because of free will, he also created a plan for our salvation. This plan had to involve having a separation from sin because God is perfect and sin is death and destruction and only corrupts all things.
The entire book of Genesis is a repetition of this creative attribute of God in that he divides everything in order to test and separate, such as the light from the dark, the seed of the serpent from the seed of the woman and the good from the evil.
By becoming three, it allowed for himself to be among us despite our destiny with sin, yet he remained still separated from sin.
In this way the statement is true no one at any time has seen God because God in his singular form was only ever seen by the Father Son and Holy Spirit when he divinely divided himself into three.
In this way as a divided into three, yet still one being he could be among us, his beloved creations.
This is hard to understand, but we could not see God in his singular form and live. Because we have sin in us and the light of God removes all darkness, we would be torn apart like a house in a nuclear explosion.
Man can only see God in his divided form as the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit

So if Moses was describing a multi personified God to a people that already knew or thought that there were many gods, then you have to ask yourself did he ever even try to explain this to them in the scripture?  
The answer is yes and  no.  
No,  because there wasn’t a need to directly explain it to them, somehow, they already understood it.
And yes,  because he did directly address the difference by using a new name for God  in Genesis 2:5  the YHWH God, which is translated as LORD into English.
Now, why would God need a name other than God?
And why would Moses make the following statement unless he was declaring that The LORD is also God.
Why would he even need to?
Let’s go back over what Moses said
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 

In order to understand this, We will have to take a short trip into when the this first name, YHWH, was revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:15
God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.

So what does this mean exactly?
Well, I don’t know about your definition of forever but forever means never ending to me. 
If YHWH is the name of God forever, then this raises two questions
Why does it not say in Genesis 1:1
In the Beggining YHWH God created the heavens and the earth, when God just commanded Moses to only use his YHWH or LORD name forever.

Jesus raised the second question when he said this
in John 8:56-58
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Keep in mind that Abraham was before Moses
So if Jesus was there and spoke to Abraham as is referenced in Exodus 6:2 
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.

How is it possible for Jesus to get a new name in the Book of Revelation if his name is YHWH forever?
Revelation 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.

This may seem confusing or contradictory to some but I promise they are all clues to the simple fact of and showing us how to recognize that both the father and the son are refered to by different names but where present together in all of the old testament.

Because Jesus gave us a few more contradictions that are actually clues
in John 14:20 
At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

Mark 13:32
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

John 5:20
For the father loves the son and shows Him all things that he himself does and he will show him greater works than these that you may marvel

John 3:13 
No one has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven, that is the son of man who is in heaven

John 6:44-46
No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day
It is written in the prophets they shall all be taught by God
Not that anyone has seen the father except he who is from God He has seen the father

Luke 3:22
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”


It is my belief that all of these contradictions or paradoxes are actually clues to those who are truly seeking an understanding of these things
The nature of the Father Son and Holy Spirit is both hidden and self revealing throughout the Old and New Testament, but you have to be continuously looking for them.
This is why, in my opinion, there is a continuous switching back and forth between the names  LORD and God  and occasionally Angel of the LORD in the Book of Genesis.
So if you are inspired and truly want to find the divine trinity and understand it, then stay with me, and I will try to show you the clues and hints that I believe are hidden for a reason
Just as Peter said, “the Holy Spirit sent from heaven-things which angels desire to look into “(1 Peter 1:12)

This first part will be a review of important moments in the book of Genesis and what they might reveal to us

By Genesis chapter 2:4 the Lord or YHWH gets introduced into the narrative, but again, why wouldn’t it just remain Elohim or God?
This is the question that needs to be kept in mind when reading because there appears to be a method and meaning behind its different uses or lack of that is only observed by taking note of the continual switch back and forth between YHWH or LORD and the word God or Elohim. I will list some of them for you.

Throughout the rest of chapter two and all of three, he is referred to as only the LORD God
Except in 3:1-5 when the serpent in the garden speaks to Eve about what God said about the tree and eating of the fruit
This could be a clue that the serpent does not know of or understand the existence of the LORD God and only knows of God or at least does not acknowledge the LORD God
After Adam eats the fruit in chapter 2:22 The LORD God said “behold the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil.” Again a plural reference to the LORD God

The entire narrative of Cain and Abel in chapter 4 he is only referred to as the LORD until Eve names Seth in 4:25 “for God has appointed another seed for me”
Yet after Seths son Enosh is born men begin to call on the name of the LORD
This could be a hint that men begin to recognize the YHWH of the God head as separate and individual because obviously men already knew of and were aware of God.

Chapter 6 really starts to get interesting because not only do you have the angels or sons of God procreating with women and creating giants
But the assessment and eventual judgment of the situation appears to be done by two separate eyes and two separate descriptions

6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great
6:6 and the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth
6:7 SO THE LORD said ” I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth”
6:12 so God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt
6:13 and God said to Noah “the end of all flesh has come before me.

This almost reads as though the LORD saw the wickedness of man, and it grieved him that he had created them
So God came to confirm it and to pass judgment on it
The rest of the flood narrative switches back and forth between what the LORD said and what God said until you get to the covenant in chapter 9, where only God is referred to

Once we get to chapter 11 at the tower of babel, they again refer to themself in plural form
11:7 “Come, Let us go down and confuse their language”
But only the LORD is referred to in the confusion of languages

The common rabbinical explanation is that God often confers with his angelic hosts as if they are equals
This theory does not make sense and only raises other questions. If God doesn’t need a Son why would he need to have conference with angels?

These are merely observations I am presenting to anyone that may not have been aware of them.
Other then the reference to the spirit of God in genesis 1:2 , the scripture so far has only referred to two of the divine names.
I find it interesting that the trinity doesn’t seem to come into focus until after Adam’s death and after the flood

The symbolism of the number three and the parallels between the three first fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob is uncanny and can not be ignored.

There are three separate appearances of the LORD to Abraham where he only speaks with him and tells him about his blessings, but a covenant is not made.
The first is in Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation
I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing

The second is 12:7
To your descendants, I will give this land

The third happens only after Abraham tricks pharoh into thinking Sarah is his sister because he fears for his life but instead leaves Egypt a wealthy man because of it.
This same exchange of deception Over a wife happens three times, twice with Abraham and once with Isaac all three times they leave with wealth or land
A simular parallel happens with Jacob but instead of the Godly man doing the deceiving it is Laban deceiving Jacob over marrying Leah instead of Rachel first and deceiving Jacob by changing his wages 10 times
Jacob decieves Isaac by saying “I Am” three times when he is asked if he is Esau

The third visit from the LORD happens immediately after Abraham and Lot divide and separate ways in
Genesis 13:14-17
After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west. I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted. Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
At first these only appear as steps and stages of the soon to be covenants but I believe they are three separate individual encounters so that Abraham will be familiar with the three he is about to enter a covenant with.
We have to remember that man has abandoned God at the tower of babel and has proclaimed themselves as gods and created many idols and false gods. This is why God only slowly reveals himself back to man through Abraham in order to bring us back to God and redeem us through his son.

The full trinity takes shape when we get to Abraham and the three men standing by the tree in Genesis 18:1-6
They are treated as divine and not angels and it is my belief that it is the trinity present in seperate individuals because Abraham makes his own form of a covenant with them by offering them bread and meat which is referenced as a form of a covenant later between Jacob and Laban in Genesis 31:44
The LORD said to Abraham “I will go down and see this outcry that has come to me” but only the two men go down to sodom. The three men refer to themselves individually as being judges over Sodom and even saying to Lot leave this place we will destroy it yet later it says the Lord destroyed Sodom with Fire from the LORD.
The question must be asked why didn’t all three go down to sodom? Why does the LORD appear to Abraham Isaac and Jacob in dreams and visions while the others he appears in person? Some people claim that this is because one of them is the preincarnate christ who for symbolic reasons does not take on the form of a human body until he is born as Jesus. One more point worth mentioning here that many people get hung up on is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot offering the mob his two virgin daughters to appease the mob. If we can imagine that these two men were actually part of the trinity it puts even more into perspective that the evil men of Sodom wanted to rape them and Lot offering his daughters to them instead is not a condoning of such an act but an illustration that the men of Sodom where not just interested in or desired sex but where rather blinded with rage and an evil desire to publicly rape and humiliate the LORD that they could not be convinced otherwise until their blind animalistic rage was returned with actual blindness. Lot did not escape punishment for his part in that for all intents and purposes he was raped by his two daughters.


There are three separate covenants made with Abraham
They are for the exact same things that were previously announced, land and descendants like stars.
The only new revelation is that a child will be born from Sarah who is well advanced in years and barren.
This appears to be evidence that the revealing of the divine seed that will lead to the messiah will only be revealed gradually in order to prevent the enemy from planning or having the capability of corruption such as in as his previous attempts in the fall of adam and eve , The giants from angel offspring and the tower of babel have displayed his tactics and desperation.

I believe this is also the reason why Sarah and Rebecca who are part of the first tree of the divine seed are barren
In order to discourage any attempt to corrupt them, as well as to impression on the enemy that in like manor the son of God would be born to an elderly or barron women
Of coarse the opposite happened it was a young virgin instead.


The first covenant with Abraham happens in Genesis 15:1-21
The LORD is described as the word of the LORD who came to Abram in a vision and refers to himself as I Am your shield and great reward in the covenant of land and the warning that his decendants would be enslaved for 400 years
but that after he judges that nation they would come out with great possessions and return to the land that was promised.

I find it interesting that the term shield is used here because the star of David is also known as the shield of David, which is a double triangle that represents the trinity of God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And the trinity of man. Body, Soul, and Spirit

It should also be noted that Abram is told to offer three sets of three year old livestock but only one and one of the birds.

The second covenant is in Genesis 17:2
God reveals himself to Abram as  “I am Almighty God”
Abram falls on his face in this encounter in the covenant of circumcision and God changes his name to Abraham
This seems to be a reference both that God has changed or set Abraham’s fate and future as well as that the Almighty God is the one who can change a man’s name
This is a clue and confirmation of the Almighty God in Jesus when he renames Simon as Peter “Rock” There is one more noteworthy occurrence in this covenant, and it happens in verse 22 Then he finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. This wording (went up) is only used two times in the bible in reference to a visit from God the other is in 35:13 after Jacob built another Altar in bethel and God Almighty appeared again to re confirm the covenant and Jacob’s new name. 13: Then God “went up” from him in the place where he talked with him. This may not sound important by itself but when we get to Judges 13:16. We read a description about what this went up phrase might mean. 13 Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass we may honor You?”
And the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wonderful?”
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on— it happened as the flame “went up” toward heaven from the altar—the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord.
And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”

I believe that all of this is a reference and clue to when Jacob wrestled with the Angel and asked him his name in 32:29. But how is the Angel of the Lord capable of renaming Jacob to Israel if he is not divine?

The third covenant of Abraham is in Genesis 22:16 when Abraham is asked to sacrifice Isaac
God is the one that speaks to him and tells him what to do and where to go but it is the the Angel of the Lord that stops him and declares “by myself I have sworn says the LORD”
This appears to say that the Angel of the LORD is in fact YHWH the LORD
There are many other symbolic things about this event that I could write an entire page about but in short
It’s on the third day of Abraham traveling north that he comes to the place that God told him to sacrifice Isaac
This is the very same place where 1700 years later they would sacrifice Jesus
Abraham lays the wood for the fire on Isaac’s shoulders to carry up the hill just as Jesus would carry the wood of his cross up the very same hill to be sacrificed of his own free will. Abraham’s faith was never even rattled by this strange request from God, which is proven when he responded to Isaac’s question father where is the Lamb? Abraham’s answer that God will provide the Lamb was not a deception or avoiding the truth but his deep understanding of the righteousness of God to the extent that Abraham already knew the Lamb would be provided and his part in this moment was to simply not question the why or the how but to do as he was asked.

This is a huge stumbling block for most people because of this test in God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son but when you put it in context, then it removes all bitterness that comes from misunderstanding its purpose.
For one, this is the same place that Solomon only 500 years later would build altars and allow his wives and the people to sacrifice their children to Molech.
Because God knew this and brought Abraham and Isaac here anyway it makes this a declaration of prophecy that this is what the enemy would eventually cause to be done, the murder and sacrifice of the innocent in defiance and rebellion of God and his Son.
But what the enemy didn’t fully understand is that because God had divided himself into three and one of those was Jesus the son of God but also God. They sacrificed God on that cross and it was allowed to happen for many reasons, most importantly for our redemption from sin and the eternal death that is required from it.
But also as proof of the depth and extent of their evil hearts and wickedness that they would sacrifice and murder even God in their blind hatred and anger towards his son.

By asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac and allowing this drama to play out till the Angel of the Lord commanded him to stop it was not only a test or rather a demonstration to the enemy of Abraham’s faith but also ensured that this act would be told to their children and eventually written down and documented that God does not allow or desire Human sacrifice so that there could be no misunderstanding or confusion or excuse when the people of all nations and even worldwide would actually sacrifice their children to demons.


Isaac is also visited twice for two covenants, but why not three times
The answer is because he was part of the third covenant with the LORD and Abraham when he was to be sacrificed

Jacob also has 3 individual covenants
The first in Genesis 28:13-15 is a visit from the LORD yhwh
In a dream or vision just as with abraham in 15:1 and Isaac in 26:24. The angel of God is referred to speaking in a vision to Jacob and then saying I am the God of Bethel in 31:11-13
He is blessed with the land on where he lies, which was the same spot where Abraham met the three angels
He is also blessed with descendants like the dust of the earth
As well as protection wherever he goes simular to shield
Jacob names the place bethel “house of God”

The second time is when he is returning to his brother esau and he fears for his life so he divides his goods and wives to protect them from being destroyed and prays to God to deliver him from his brother
After he sends them in front of him in three separate companies, he spends the night alone and is visited by a man who wrestles with him all night until he blesses him and renames him Israel.
Why would Jacob desire to be blessed when the LORD had already blessed him in 28:14
Jacob names the place peniel because he saw God face to face and lived.

The third covenant happens when God tells Jacob to return to bethel and make an altar
Jacob tells his family to put away their foreign gods and purify themselves
Jacob burries the idols and jewelry beneath the oak tree in shechem
Jacob built another altar in bethel and God appeared to him as God Almighty and renames him again Israel and promises him the land which he promised Abraham and Isaac
Jacob then sets up a pillar and pours a drink offering and oil on it

Only Jacob and abraham get renamed, and they are both renamed by the Almighty God, but Jacob is renamed twice once by the Angel that he wrestled with
Why is this? Why would he be renamed twice and why would all three of the patriarchs each have three covenants where the blessings are repeated 3 times?

In all three people Abraham Isaac and Jacob, there are three divine covenants and 1 covenant of man
Jacob builds three altars and three pillars

At the end of Genesis in chapter 48:16 when Jacob blesses Joseph’s two sons he makes a verbal hint at the three fold person of God by saying “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;

The last reference is in chapter 49 but I will let you find it for yourself.


In wrapping up the Divine Trinity In Genesis
I would again like to say I am merely providing my observations for those who have not noticed them in order to aid them or spark them into doing their own study.
I am not claiming this to be definitive of anything, so please don’t be offended at my observations and opinions.
I would also like to point out to anyone who has not heard the theory or come to their own conclusions on this
That the devil, Satan, whatever his name may be, attempted to destroy God’s plan for saving man and bringing his son into the world through Adam. This is why the earth was corrupted at the time of Noah and this is why everything had to be destroyed because the redemption of man could only be allowed if only man was present not these angel halfbreed giants that had corrupted the earth.
But after the flood when the earth was reset
Man, instead of spreading over the face of the earth, as God commanded Noah and his Son to do, began to build cities and develop civilization that corrupted the personal relationship that man had with God
Instead, they focused on themselves and developing technology until they thought themselves to be gods
This of course could not be allowed to proceed at such a fast pace, so the LORD confused their language so that they would have to spread out and populate the earth. This repeated itself again in Egypt when the money failed because of the famine, what happened? The pharoh traded bread for the peoples livestock, land and everything they owned and then moved them all into his city to make them build pyramids and have complete control over every aspect of their lives. Genesis 47:21
What is significant about this is that we seem to be returning to this tower of babel.
Think about It civilization progressing to fast to the point of thinking themselves to be gods was halted and slowed down for 2000 years until Jesus was born and now 2000 years later after he died we are right back at the tower again, only this time it is a worldwide civilization and worldwide thinking they are gods all building a massive tower.
The time is here and now to wake up and seek your maker and discover Jesus because this tower they are building is about to fall.
I just hope more people wake up soon enough to get out of the way

The Light

If the first light God created in Genesis 1:3 was not the sun, moon, and stars, that was later created in Genesis 1:16 then what was that light?

Obviously any and all answers to this question would fall under the speculation category because how could anyone possibly ever know, but it is fun to wonder

Here is my wondering

Verse 1 is not a timeline but a declaration that God as in one God created the heavens and the earth, contrary to other false creation myths at the time of moses like the many baals of Canaan and babylon/babel

Verse 2 states that earth has become in a state of chaos because something has gotten out of control and caused the earth to run rampant toward self destruction just as venus and mars did at some point in history. Call it whatever you want evil, darkness, satan, sin it’s all the same thing, the opposite of light, order and perfection that God designed and intended.

So God hovers Over the face of the chaos and with his word and breath he takes back control of the water that has destroyed everything and only after he has taken back control of the chaos does he illuminate the earth with the very first

“LET THERE BE LIGHT”

Apart from the obvious spiritual representation that this first light is Jesus because he is the light and the word.

This first light would be in my opinion a uv to blueish light because it makes sense for growing purposes to have a white to infrared sun and a seperate blue to uv sun, and a moon that reflects them both

This also allows for the golden 3 number that is always symbolic of the trinity as well as the symbolism of the first light of God the second light of the Son and us made in his image like the moon that are meant to always reflect their light.

I believe that this first light is referenced in. Zechariah 14:7. It shall be one day which is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.

Isn’t that what you think of when you look at a uv light its Neither bright or dark but both

So what happened to the first light then? Well actually Isaiah and Peter give us some clues I believe

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

It makes sense to me that this first light after Adam and Eve ate of the fruit was withdrawn from our local solar system in order to make the day that God told Adam and Eve they would surely die in when they ate the fruit, delayed as in 1000 years delayed because adam lived to be 930 years old

So exactly how was this light withdrawn?

Isaiah 45:12

I have made the earth, And created man on it. I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

He literally stretched out the heavens which would make this first light that used to be a sun to us now appear as only a star.

This even makes other aspects of space make sense such as our closest star alpha centauri even when viewed from the hubble telescope only appears as an undefined blob. Because the light just now reaching us is from when it was being stretched outwards. If at any point it was sitting still it would be sharp and in focus.

It also to me partially explains why the universe appears to have exploded and is continually stretching outwards in what appears to be over billions of years of time.

It’s interesting to think that when God said my spirit shall not always strive with man yet his days shall be 120 years it could have had 3 meanings

1.

The earth would be flooded in 120 years after he said it

2.

man would begin to not live more then 120 years

3.

A jubilee year is 50 years, 50 times 120 is 6000

In other words Man shall live for 6 days of time from first light and then the Son will return to rest with him for the seventh day. Or for 1000 years

Just my thoughts

The Tree that Divided Heaven and Earth

Man who is born of woman, is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes forth like a flower and fades away. Like a shadow
Job 14:1-2


God created the universe, and all that is in it to be inhabited, he did not create them in vain. Isaiah 45:18
He spoke the words, “Let There Be” and the word became vibrations of light, matter, and energy that created all that we see when we look up into the heavens and see the milky way, the galaxies and the stars, . The heavens at night are breathtaking, the stars shine as bright as the angels because they probably are the angels in their still and resting forms. The galaxies are the breath of God swirling like the vapor of breath in the cold still air. Yet the heavens seem frozen in time, lifeless and cold, almost as if they are waiting for something.

In the beginning, God created division. The book of Genesis is a book of division. When God created the earth he separated everything so that there would be division and a difference between one and the other, so that every aspect of life and reality could be tested, tried and experienced in a spectrum of light and varying environments so that we could experience the difference between hot and cold, good and bad.
He divided the light from the dark, the waters in the sky from the waters on the earth, and the water on the earth from the dry land beneath.
The very first life he created was grass and the tree with its seed in its fruit.
In many ways, all of his other creations are no different than a tree they are simply a more complex version but still created also to bear fruit.
He then created the fish and the flying reptile and the birds of the air and commanded them to multiply and fill the earth, but he did not give them dominion of the earth.
A garden is placed in Eden, and here is the coming expectation of man, here is where all of the angels and animals will come to witness God take from the dust of the earth and put his spirit into it to form a man like his Image with his goodness and character and to be the administrator over all the earth.

With silent reverence, all watched just as they watched when Jesus was born, but there were some watching that had evil brewing in their hearts at this scene.
A dragon who lives in the sea of the sky and a flying serpent were prideful and jealous of this man that would have dominion over them, after all, they were the eldest and created first.

“How is the dominion and inheritance of the earth not rightfully ours and instead is being given to a this lesser creature, a simple-minded man, a gardener haah
He gets everything that is good without earning it,
even to eat the fruit of the trees while we can only eat of the grass.”

At first they pretended to be his friend and made him feel as though he could trust them, but then they began to manipulate him by expressing how wonderfull it is to have a mate, and then pointing out to Adam that he did not have one and how strange that was, perhaps God wanted him to be alone.
So the man became sorrowful and downtrodden.
God knowing his creation, already knew what to do and did one last final division, he divided man from himself, he took the feminine side of Adam and formed a woman with it so that individualy they would be the opposite and incomplete, but when they found each other and joined together they would compliment each other to form a whole, and become one again.
Not at all dismayed, possibly even part of their plan, the dragon and serpent continue with their schemes
“Look how he doesn’t even make Eve understand the importance of not eating from the tree. Come let us find out what she knows.”
“Did God say to you, do not eat from the tree? Asked the serpent with a smile.
Eve replied, “God said we may eat from all of the trees, but from the tree in the middle of the garden we can not eat from it, God said we can not even touch it or we will die.”
But God did not tell Eve not to touch it. She added to the word of God and distorted it.
Adam had not explained to Eve that Gods words are not to be added to or changed in any way, and by not explaining to her the word of God and its meaning and nature he allowed the serpent a weakness to exploit.
So as he climbs up the tree the serpent says to Eve why would God say that you would die, he did not say that to you but to Adam and he did not mean to death he would die, but only that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods and no longer men, your ignorance would die because you will know of the choice of good and evil just as God does.
Eve ponders this new information and possibility and because the fruit does not look like something that would kill her and because she is younger and less experienced then Adam she to would like to be wise perhaps she can be of more use to him.
As she reaches out to take a fruit from the tree, the dragon and serpent smile and revel in their accomplishment, in a mere moment they will have succeeded in their goal which was to show to God the inferiority of man and they will do so by getting man to kill himself by eating the fruit that God told him would kill him.
They became the first murderers even though they thought they were clever enough and deceitful enough to have hidden their murder in this act of man killing himself.
Eve takes fruit from the tree and admires its appearance it seems to shine with many star like drops in it and has the appearance of time itself around it, but as she takes a bite blood begins to drip from the fruit like juice because this fruit was not like other fruit, this fruit had men itself in it in the form of seeds because this tree was meant to grow men as fruit. You see, God had made everything perfect
There was no birth no death no excrement nothing vile or that would defile, everything ate grass and fruit and had no waste and future generations were to be born as fruit from this tree, but by eating from it Eve had infected it with sin and because of this, the tree could no longer function as the bearer of future generations as God had intended, from now on women would be the tree and in pain they would bear children, and in sin they would polinate their seed to grow a child and their womb would become a mobile flower.
After eve ate of the fruit her eyes were indeed opened and she did see and understand more then she had before. Suddenly the whole world before her was no longer simple and easy but complicated and filled with choices and decisions and with these choices came voices, so many voices pulling her this way and that until she felt overwhelmed with it all and thats when she finally realized, her connection with God and his spirit had been severed, she was instantly filled with anxiety and doubt, she felt immediate panic and loneliness, in fear she fled to Adam he would know what to do, “it was only a mistake the serpent tricked her yes that’s it It’s the serpents fault”, when she finds Adam not far from her she immediately begins weeping out of fear and shame.
As she tells Adam the events and shows Him the fruit still in her hand, his heart drops he knows what has transpired.
Only a short while ago his heart was filled with joy and a sense of purpose and belonging that was unshakable because the living God who had created everything was his friend and had made him a mate to spend his life with.
He could think of nothing that would add to his happiness
he was in every way possible full.
But now everything has changed, now what God has told him not to do Eve has done and she will die, there is no way around it because God can not lie.
Even if Adam were to beg for her life and even though God loved Adam enough to grant him his request, allowing Eve to live would have made what he said a lie when he said in the day that you eat from it you will die.
He feels the loss of Eve even before this event takes place, and immediately, his mind goes back to how he felt before God made Eve.
He was complete in the love of God yet alone when God was not in his presence, and seeing the other creatures with their mates being affectionate made his loneliness all the worse.
In this moment of remembering his loneliness and despair he made a decision, one that would change the course of mankind, but he did not understand to what extent and how far reaching the consequences would be.
He decided to join Eve in her fate and to eat also from the fruit. He would rather die with her than be alone again without his other half. In a way, he knew that the Love of God would triumph no matter how this turned out, but he knew that either way, death would be required of it. So he took the fruit from her hand and looked in her eyes as he also took a bite
Eve gasped at seeing Adam do this. Her knees grew weak as she began to fall like water being poured out on the ground.
A vision began to play before his eyes, the tree of life vanished from sight and Eve transformed into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its large spreading branches and beautiful green leaves that began to wither away and dry out until all the leaves had fallen off.
The branches began to crack and splinter until even they began to fall to the ground. All that was left was the trunk and two branches that formed the shape of a T.
Lightning flashed and thunder cracked and a great storm appeared out of nowhere causing a darkness to cover the garden, suddenly the tree now held a man suspended from his hands by the branches writhing in pain and a crown of thorns on his head, as Adam tried to see who the man was he fell back in shock when a flash of lightning lit up the face of the man who appeared as both his own and the fathers.
Blood begins to drip down the tree from a wound in his chest and the nails in his hands and feet, holding him firmly to the trunk.
The blood drips upon a golden box at the base of the tree,
It has the appearance of both a throne with two angels on either side and an altar with handles in the base.
As the blood drips and slowly covers the mercy seat, the storm begins to calm the lightning slows its flashes until the sun begins to shine, the blood ceases to flow when the two angels on either side of the throne suddenly become alive and fly up to the man to remove the nails out of his hands and feet and gently place him on his throne that used to be an altar.
They remove the crown of thorns, and on his head, they place a golden crown as the angels bow down and praise him for redeeming the world by giving up his life to pay the debt of death from sin.
A trickle of water begins to flow from the base of the throne that turns into a stream and then a river. The garden springs back to life, and the tree of life grows from a vine that shoots out from the back of the throne and covers the trunk where the tree of sin stood.
Adam is amazed at this vision but does not understand it
He is a creature of time and is not capable of understanding that God is a spirit outside of time because he created time.
God knew that Adam would make the choice he made to give up and sacrifice his life and partake of sin to be with Eve. Just as he knew that the dragon and serpent would become prideful and deceive Eve in order to kill man. But he allowed it to happen so that he could come down in the form of a man and give his life for Adam’s and redeem him by proving his love for him because just as Jesus said
“Greater love has no one than this:
to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

His name is Yeshua, he is the YHWH yod hey vav hey, the unspeakable name of the LORD in the bible, which literally means hand behold nail behold.  He is the Aleph and the Tav, the first and the last.  He is the light that was created by God and his Word in the very beginning because God knew that we would leave him at a tree and that at a tree he would die for us so that  we would have one more chance to go back to him but only if we choose him instead of us

His name is Jesus, and he showed the true darkness and intentions of their hearts by letting them put him to death on that cross. He then proved that he is the Son of God when he conquered death and rose from the grave the very same day that Noah’s ark rested on the mountainside. One day very soon he will return once more but this time he will not be the kind and gentle person of the Gospels but will reap the earth of what fruit of his remains and will flood the earth with fire and punish the seed of the serpent once and for all.

We can choose to ignore God and his calling for us to find him but one day in the end he will hold you in his hand to you the real you that can not hide. So now is the time for you to ask yourself

What kind of fruit are you?

The Puzzle

We are all so very unique, even our eyes, for example.
No two humans have eyeballs exactly alike
Even the two that you have are different from each other
So why do we have such a hard time coming to terms with the fact that even though God is unique, and we can’t see him with our unique eyes.
He is there, and he loves us and wants us to find him in the beauty and wonder of it all.
Why would we ever think life is just a passing thing, like a flower on the sidewalk, just a happy accident but only for a moment, only for now. And those unique eyes of yours exist purely by accident.

Or that we could just learn the basics of faith and God, the rest will just fill in the blanks on its own
That would be like saying I know water is wet
And that is all I really need to know
So you don’t need to know that you need to drink it?
And without it for more than 3 days, you will die because it makes up 60% of your body
Yet only 3% of all the water on earth is fresh water and it is in lakes, rain and underground aquifers.
That water you are drinking now. It’s the exact same water that the dinnosors drank.
Yet, we have polluted and contaminated over 30% of it to the point that it is undrinkable.
In one single drop of water, you can find up to 10 million virus cells, 1 million bacteria cells, and 1000 protozoans and algae cells
So a grand total of 11,001,000 individual things all moving around and living life in one drop of a liquid
It is the only liquid known to be able to defy gravity by going up instead of down in plants and trees
It can even be a liquid solid and gas all at the same time.
But yes, it is indeed wet, and if that is enough for you, great
But we should still at least wonder a little bit
God gave us imaginations to use them, not lose them
When I think of God, I imagine a chess player
Maybe because I love chess.
Not only do you have to be able to anticipate your opponents’ next move to win
But a really good chess player can see 10 moves ahead
And the very best chess players can see the entire game all the way to the checkmate move just based on the first move
So I can see God as a chess player, but playing a game where each one of the squares on the chess board is another individual chess game and within each of those squares within the squares is another chess board with 3 billion chess boards in each of those squares all playing at the same time and he still knows the checkmate move for each one of them based on the first moves
And that’s not even coming close to the intellect and intelligence of God

So, yeah, thinking on God’s level and understanding him
we will never come even slightly close
but what we are capable of understanding diversity and Love
Diversity because obviously he made things vastly different for a reason
And Love, because how can you not see and understand the Love behind it all
I know it gets blurred by chaos and evil sometimes but if you have ever watched a sunset on the water or listened to a bird sing or seen the wind take away a dandelion then you have seen the Love
So, if you can understand those two, then let’s just add one more in there. A puzzle piece
Do you like puzzles? I loved them as a kid.
The bigger and the more pieces, the better
Accept for the cloud ones, they were so hard
The reason you need to add the puzzle one in there is because God has hidden himself or at least the picture of himself in everything
Little bits and pieces of it here and there
The reason why he did this is because he wants you to find all of these little pieces of his puzzle picture as you go along in this life so that you will be reminded of him
And as you collect them, you will start to get a better and bigger picture of what his puzzle looks like
But here is the catch
If, after collecting any or even most of the pieces, you suddenly decide that you have enough of them
that you don’t need the rest because you can pretty much tell what the puzzle is; it’s some sort of red moon or sunset.
Then, he will no longer leave you more puzzle pieces to find
Or if you decide that it’s not worth finding the other puzzle pieces, if you have to look for them in other cultures and people that don’t seem to be working on the same puzzle as you
Then, not only will he no longer leave more puzzle pieces for you to find, but he will take away some of the pieces you already have so that your picture just looks more like a frame

Why is this?
Well, it goes back to love and diversity
He only wants you to complete the puzzle picture of him
If you maintain the love, diversity, and desire to find all of the pieces to his puzzle
And only if you keep an unprejudiced and un elitist mind about where to look and how to find them and how to recognize them when you have found them

Again, God created a huge diversity for a reason
And it’s because he likes diversity he loves when things are unique and individual and full of personality
God loves all of his children and creatures
He would not have hid himself from some of them and only shown himself to others
What kind of father would do that to his children
So when you can learn to understand, embrace, and appreciate that, then you will no longer be held back by discrimination and religion, location, or class
You will see all with the same eyes and love that God sees them with
Only then will you realize that he hid himself
his puzzle picture in everything, and everyone
The sky, the nature, the people, the water the air the fire the light they are in all of them
Every single one, he left, not a single piece out, and when you do set aside your differences and refrain from being elitist and selfish with faith and God
Then, you will see that everyone is working on the same puzzle picture
They always have been, and when you put all of the pieces together, it shows you exactly who and what God is
It’s not a sunset; it’s not a blood moon at night.
It’s nothing more and nothing less than a big giant

Please come find Jesus.
He is the missing puzzle piece you have been searching for.

Hear his words, see his heart, and feel his love for you.
And your life will be filled with happiness, purpose, and love.
Let him into your heart, and he will walk with you and cary your burdens for you. until that day when there shall be no more.

Forgive them all for it all.
There is nothing you can change
Nothing you can take back and fix
You just have to let it go
Let God take it from your heart and your mind and cleanse your soul
And ask Jesus to forgive you because he is the one that died for you
Ask him to forgive you for it all
Leave who you used to be at his cross
And he said I will remember your sin no more
Forgive yourself for who you used to be
And turn it around on them
take all of that evil, hate, and shame
That they tried to make define you and who you are
And turn it into nothing but Love
Just like Jesus did with his Cross

All of my love to all of you

I don’t know who this letter is for, but it is meant for someone
If it’s not meant for you, please give it to someone else
Until it does reach that person
The only thing that I wish to get out of it
Is for Jesus to let me watch its journey to them one day
If you get resistance or trouble from people because of this letter, remember this. People will always hate the truth more than they hate, hate, or love love.